Hour 1: 85 Out of 100 (feat. Jerry Bruckheimer)
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This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stukas Podcast.

Draft Kings, Cuervo, and myself are going to be teaming up for the Ultimate Street Race Party at Joy District, 112 West Hubbard Street, this Saturday, July 5th, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Come through for drinks, racing vibes, and giveaways. I am sad to report that this may seem to be the final Chicago Street Race. NASCAR has done a really good job getting people excited for a traditional return back to Chicagoland motor speedway. Your traditional...

mile and a half oval that's getting people excited but i love the festive atmosphere it doesn't actually feel like a nascar race it feels like part music festival part nascar race over there so if this is the last hoorah in beautiful downtown chicago with an incredible skyline i will be there rocking it with nascar draft kings and cuervo chicago during the summer is lovely didn't you get married or didn't you get proposed in yeah trump tower didn't see that one coming

I believe that as part of our 4th of July celebration, best of, we're off tomorrow. I believe we're playing all our Trump interviews to celebrate America. Hosted by Jeremy. Gosh, I remember that. I remember when you guys used to have him on the local show.

Yeah. That was Pablo Torre finds out his first show was him re-airing some of our Trump interviews in a way that embarrassed me. He loved us. He really did. He said we had the best show in America. I listen a lot. I listen a lot. You guys do a great job. He was a great radio guest back in the day. Jerry Bruckheimer is going to join us here in a second. He's the biggest Hollywood producer, correct? Spielberg?

Harvey Weinstein? F1 is the number one movie in America. I did see it. It's giant. It's just big. It's not surprising that it would be big if it's Jerry Bruckheimer and F1, but it just looks expensive. Is it realistic? Yeah, I mean, it looks expensive. It's obviously realistic. They had the cooperation of F1. My movies have to be realistic.

One of the things that I wanted to talk about with you guys, we will have all the baseball you want in hour two or all the baseball you don't want in hour two when we do pitch clock and Jason Benetti in the second hour. We're also going to open up the club for the weekend. But before I go any further, I should say that perhaps the greatest catch in Major League history was Alvarez.

absolutely the result of a clumsy Kevin Mitchell who should have been playing left field with a chainsaw instead of a glove. Like he was a terrible outfielder. And what happens here though, defies all reason and physics where if I say to you, do you believe that you could catch a fly ball with your bare hand?

Yes or no. Now, he should have put up his glove and caught the ball if he were somebody who was a good defensive outfielder. But instead, he didn't put up his glove. He totally misplaced it. No, he just, but he caught the ball with his bare hand. And I just don't.

think that any of us could catch a fly ball with our bare hand do you think if i gave put her on the pole at lebitard show if i gave you 100 chances to catch a fly ball could you catch one with your bare hand i'm sad to report i well i'm proud to report i'd do that more often than not i'm going yes a hundred times i'm really good at catching things with one hand yeah

I went to the Miami Open. Coco Gauff saw my daughter hit a tennis ball right to her. I had a champagne flute in one hand, full extension, cash. Everybody around me oohed and aahed. I'm like, I do this routinely. You got to go much shorter than 100 times. Like, if I give you two times. Everyone oohed and aahed. Everyone did. I am...

Like, low-key. Did they hem and haw also? Low-key Alita catching things with one hand. Guys, this wasn't even a fly ball. It was more like a line drive. No. No, this looks lazy. It was in foul territory, too, so not a risk-reward. It's deep.

Like, this is not a shit. Like, this is a lot. This is by the home run wall. I just like that he got to a point where it's like, yeah, this isn't even worth me trying with the glove anymore. I'm just going straight for the bare hand. That's how bad I've always been. Give me 100 chances at that. I'd say 85. Yeah. I pulled down. 85. 85. I pulled down. 85.

Get a jugs machine or something like that because I think what we're going to be concerned about is your ability to hit it consistently to this spot. But if it's in that spot and I'm tracking it the same way Mitchell is, yeah. From that distance? Yeah. If I'm 10 feet away, I think you could catch a bunch of baseballs. I'm more likely to catch that with my bare hand than I am with a glove. Kevin Mitchell is 300 feet. He's 100 yards. He's a football field away from where that ball was hit. Again, you totally misread that. Yeah.

Agreed. It was a clumsy, poorly played ball, but also the greatest catch in Major League history. And warning track. I feel like if I was out there trying to catch a fly ball, even just with my glove. The change in terrain is tricky. Yeah, the warning track. I'd be so scared. Like, once I start to feel the warning track under me, I'm like, oh my god, I'm going to run to the wall. Appropriately named. Greatest catch ever is Gary Matthews Jr. Kevin?

Do you think they had other names for the warning track? They're like, what do we call this thing? It's a great name. You're absolutely right. I have never considered before now two things that have come up in the show, which is think about the time period when baseball's people got together and said, you know how the umpire needs to tell the official scorer that the game's under protest? What did he mean? Just do a pantomime pee with your hand. I don't know what you're saying. Protests.

- P.O. protest, okay, thank you. - It's one of my favorite things in all of sports. - Even Coco Gauff gave me a little salute after I pulled that thing down. - Is that so? - 85 out of 100, huh? - 85 out of 100, I swear to God.

I'm really good at that. One of the more impressive things I've seen Boog Shambi do is catch a screaming fly ball with his bare hand, but it's also because he has something that's an oven mitt for a right hand. It's a much larger hand than the normal human hand, which is what feels like what Kevin Mitchell has. Brother, I got massive hands. Massive. You're stretching out those hands right now. Well, that's part of it. Remember, we did the Johnny Bench Challenge, right?

We did this on the show back in the Clevelander days, and they said only Johnny Bench could have like seven baseballs in their hand. I matched it. Johnny Bench even commented saying my form or something wasn't the exact same, but he was lying. Go ahead and get, please, the video of Johnny Bench holding, I believe it was, seven baseballs in a hand. I also am tempted to send you out to Jeremy right now to see if we could get you to test this. I don't believe you'd catch a one.

I also think another thing that I would like to do is, as a show, one of the things that I would like to do is one day try to see if any of us could catch a punt. Because I believe we would all drop a punt. I think it's much harder than we think it is. 100 chances? Yeah.

Well, I think you've got a better chance of catching a punt. Put it on the poll at Labotard Show. Which do you have better odds on, catching an NFL punt or catching a fly ball with your hands? Tony, 100 times is too many. You've got to say, like, out of two times.

I got what you're doing with the math. I'm saying that after two times, we will have two drops and we will have to have more chances because I think you guys are underestimating how hard it would be to catch with your bare hand. He's running. It's not even just a pop-up or a fly ball. He's in full sprint. Like, it's not even. You guys are making it. I guess I'm making it sound like you're just stationing yourself under a fly ball. Positioning yourself under a fly ball. No, he just said catch, of

Pop-up, fair-handed. Not on the run, 300 feet, warning track, major league player. This was kind of a lazy fly foul ball. In 1972. And what was the score in the game? Was there any pressure in that moment? No pressure, but it wasn't 1972. Kevin Mitchell played in the 90s.

Played in the late 80s. I'm going to find you a photo. We put up the Johnny Bench thing. I replicated this, too. So I'm going to find this. I'm like a dog with a bone. He did question your form on this because you didn't hold the seven baseballs as well as Johnny Bench did. Can we put up on the screen, please, some Carmelo Anthony tweets, his reaction to Damian Lillard being waved by the buck?

Carmelo Anthony with three exclamation points and all capital letters says no loyalty in sports. That's got 100,302 likes. We've got business per usual. We got an SMH as well. Carmelo Anthony from over a couple of minutes was really upset about Damian Lillard being waived and no loyalty in sports. It's one of the dumbest takes I've seen in a long time from an athlete. It really is.

I mean, no loyalty in sports. Damian Lillard, if the Bucks would have sat down Damian Lillard before this transaction and said, Damian, if you could have anything you want right now from us as your employer, okay, if you could have anything you want, what would it be? Would his answer not be, give me all of my money and allow me to do whatever I want?

No loyalty! What is Carmelo talking about? Do you think that Damian Lillard texts Carmelo, hey, I'm good. This is good. I'm happy about this. I just, I don't know. No loyalty in sports. I'm going to tell you something. The Bucs, with the way they treated Damian Lillard, they're the most loyal employer in the history of sports. Here's all of your money.

do whatever you want. Well, I believe what Carmelo is doing, as we often do, as many of us do, no one more than Greg Cody, is he's looking at this through his own prism on where loyalty fell apart for him or where he would have liked to have possibly been with one team his entire career. So he might not be actually saying that of the Bucs. He may be delivering that to the idea that Lillard's career is ending this way, where he doesn't get to continue to

allow to blossom the relationship that Luca had with Dallas or that he had with Portland. Well, I feel like he's a little bit late to that party then. I mean, Lillard was traded two years ago and, you know, of his own wanting. It's ridiculous to me.

Mike, this is not the photo I am seeing of you holding seven baseballs. You're holding them differently than... You're holding them like you would hold sort of a pizza dough when you're making it. You're sort of using gravity and physics to...

to allow the balls to lean against your wrist and whatnot, as opposed to Johnny bench, who was just holding the seven balls and could turn it upside down and be still holding the seven balls in his hand. It feels like a semantics argument, but I think you're giving voice to what Johnny bench himself said that I have to hold it up. And I'm just genuinely confused by it because there I am clear as day. You're holding it up. I would say you're holding it sideways. He's essentially holding it facing down, like palming a basketball. That's what he's doing. I I'm,

I couldn't do what you're doing here. Hey, Johnny, I did this live on television. All right? I did this live in front of people. I have a still image from God knows when, and I'm supposed to just take your word for it. How do I know those balls didn't just fall right out of your hand? Johnny Bench, you're the liar. You can't do what I did. All right, since we're calling people liars, anyone want to go after Bronny? Oh, this, I mean...

I'm not going to call him a liar. All right. That's not nice. But I'm going to straight up tell you, he's not telling the truth. What do you say? I mean, let's play the sound for Zaslo and let's get him agitated by just playing the brawny sound. When you've talked about team stuff.

I'm going to stand Van out. There is no way...

Bronny James, they're at home for dinner. It's the biggest story in sports right now. Is LeBron going to get traded from the Lakers? And Bronny's just sitting at the dinner table eating his Brussels sprouts? He doesn't say, yo, dad, what's going on? Are you going to play for the Lakers? Oh, by the way, who am I going to play for next year? Am I going to be traded with you? What are we thinking as a family? No, I'm just going about my business. We don't really talk about that kind of stuff. No, we don't really talk about it much.

You think he lives at home? Yeah, definitely. Really? Yeah, why not? I mean, because he's an NBA player. I feel like he probably would want to go out on his own, have his own place. Nah, I think he lives at home. You get meals, laundry, you don't have to pay rent. When he went to USC, did he live at home?

I don't know. 'Cause I wonder, like, is he like, that he went away to college and now it's like, "Oh, I guess I have to move back into mom and dad's house." You're not calling him a liar though? 'Cause it sounds like you're calling him a liar. I'm not calling him a liar, but I will say, definitely not telling the truth. Well, wait a minute. Has your child ever confronted you about work situations at the dinner table? If it was the biggest story in sports media, probably would ask, would probably be curious,

You know, dad's a free agent. He's being courted by a bunch of different media entities for millions of dollars. Hey, might have to move. Might have to go live somewhere else. My son's friends ask him at school, hey, what's your dad going to do? I don't want to talk about that kind of stuff.

If LeBron leaves and Bronny is living at home, does he now have to find a new home? Like, do you think they sell the house and like, Bronny, now you're on your own? Or do you think they say like, okay, you can live at home? I don't think Bronny's living at home. I don't think he's still... I know he is. Stan Van In on that. I know, but... The free meals. I'm Stan Van Out on the idea that Bronny's living at home. You don't think he's living at home? I don't think so. You think he goes down from like, you know...

the James Manor and he's like in a one, one on a rookie deal. No, I think he often goes back home and sleeps there too, but he lives somewhere else. I, in a one, one on a rookie deal. You keep doing that, but I don't know. Yeah. I don't know why you think he's living off the D league salary. Um,

He's making, he got a multi-million dollar deal as a second round pick. Yeah, but you don't know if there's going to be another deal. You don't want to blow that all on, you know, indulgences now. And Bronny's home with his family is definitely so much nicer than whatever place he would be in by himself. That's what I'm wondering. Is there like a Bronny wing that he has? I'm sure wherever Bronny lays his head to rest is luxurious. But he's not looking for an update on his or his father's future.

That part seems ridiculous, right? The Lakers got DeAndre Ayton for two years after he was bought out, and that is just to do alley-oop dunks from Luka. I would assume, I'm assuming that the rest of you assume that...

Rich Paul coming out after LeBron James again opted in, $50-plus million, has a no trade, can control everything about his future. It felt to me like Rich Paul's statement to ESPN was also, and be aware that we might ask for a trade very soon into the season because Luke is the future and we are obviously not the future because LeBron's the oldest player in the league. And now, since that's been like a week ago, a few days, whatever it was,

We can admit it feels like something weird is going on around the Lakers. Well, the part that's weird is that they're both on the same team together. One of them is 25 and the other is 40. They did just get sold to the Lakers. Yes, and they got sold for $10 billion. What does that make the Cowboys worth, incidentally? If the Lakers are worth $10 billion, what the hell are the Cowboys worth? I don't know, but isn't it crazy that Jay Moore is the most successful comedian ever?

I have a way to close this loop for those who are wondering. So in 2024, Sports Illustrated wrote an article that said, Bronny still lives in LeBron James' massive LA compound as Lakers. Of course. Okay, I stand corrected. Can't wait to talk myself into, you've got to be able to trade Highsmith for LeBron. You've got to. Oh, wait, hold on. Update here. Bronny James finally departs $39 million family property as Lakers rookie fulfills LeBron's ultimate rule. So?

So I don't stand corrected. What's his ultimate rule? I don't know. These headlines are like very... Shoes off. It seems as though... This was five months ago. The shoes are on the stand van outside of the house.

Can we put up back on the screen here, Johnny Bench and Mike Ryan, and see if they're doing the same thing? Do we believe those two people are doing the same thing? The answer is no, but I'm still impressed with what Mike's doing. Thank you. Can that be said? Yes, that's a sufficient answer. Also, we have less doubt about the...

of mine, given that I was live on the air and this is a grainy black and white photo. Source, just take my word for it, bro. I do believe, though, there's a bit of cheating going on at least a little bit with Johnny Bench here because is that a middle finger? Is that a finger in the middle of the baseballs that is in there? I know Mike seems to have a bit of a digit in there. How's that cheating?

Well, because it seems like I don't even know how he's holding that top baseball. Look at the top baseball and look where his top finger is. How is he even doing that? So he's holding it straight up, and that top one, I think, is just balanced on top of the other baseballs.

You look at the two images. The way that I'm doing it seems to be the more difficult of the two paths. I don't believe I can endorse what you're presently alleging. I'm not holding it straight up where one of the baseballs can just rest up top just willy-nilly like that. I'm holding it in an angle that I actually have to grip it. Can you reenact this if you had to? Give me seven baseballs. Let's try. Well, I want to for at some point this summer, I want you to catch punts and try and catch a baseball hand with your hands. Two tries.

For the punt or for the fly ball? I'd catch a punt like nobody's business. Okay, again with nobody's business. I still don't understand that expression. I'm making my business. I'd like Metal Arts. I'd like to see that. I'd like Metal Arts business to become testing whether people can catch things with a bare hand or not. Because I don't believe that you guys are properly respecting how hard it is to do basic athletic things in professional sports. I don't think you're respecting me.

I'm a six foot three, 210 pound dude with huge digits. Wow. You do not look in this photo. Like I don't have huge digits? Like you are doing what Johnny Bench is doing. You're right. I'm doing something better. He's got a ball resting atop of six baseballs. I'm out there holding it up on live television for the world to see. Yeah.

Billy, since you got in there with that, yeah, can you tell me why it is the other day that you... You and I have been locked in. We both said cobbler at the exact same time. Cobbler, yeah. That was off air, I think. Yeah, it was. But we're dialed. I'm glad that you guys have found this chemistry. We're bringing it today, Dan. I know what a lot of people in the audience are thinking because the thought did cross some of our minds. They said, you know what? Matt Albrecht's hired so many people. So many people.

How lucky are we that we got most of the originals the day before the 4th of July while all of the new people seemingly giving themselves an extended vacation and all the people that we hired for, you know, relief are really the ones getting all the rest while we're in here working. That's what the fans are saying. Say, you know what, fans? We're here for you. And I'm here to support Mike today. And we're locked in. Mike has ping pong balls here that he can hold. I just thought...

I just caught three simultaneously, one hand only. Let's just throw things at Mike and see if he can catch them. Three wiffle balls. All right, so in the interim, while you guys are doing this, you guys can do it for the last five minutes, but in the interim, Chris Cody, can you please put together quickly a list for me, a top five list of injuries that happened during otherwise happy things, the way that Red Panda just got hurt. She's out. Spoiler alert. Well, she's got a broken wrist. It's reported that she fell down.

Billy, are you done now tossing him things? I was hoping we would do that for five minutes. No, you had questions. It felt like it was a distraction. I could go without hearing from you again until after the holidays. I could be totally fine with that. Oh, my God. They're throwing scissors. See that? See, he can catch. This guy can catch. Can you give me top five things?

things, injuries that have happened during happy things, Chris Cody. Number five, Dan, is Bill Gramatica celebrating a made kick, game-winning kick, and injuring his leg. That's a good one. You think that you have four better than that? That...

That is the moment that I associate with the grammaticas. A first quarter injuring for your team the fact they no longer have a kicker because you clearly tore your knee as a grammatica. Being too happy. That's in the first quarter. Again, the Cardinals lost their kicker for the rest of the game. And that was their thing. Both of them. They got so excited over any made kick. Number four. Number four, Red Panda. Red Panda.

What happened to her? Celebrating, nice halftime show, and she fell, and she broke her wrist. I don't know if she broke her wrist. She hurt her wrist. I think she broke her wrist. It was a re-aggravating of a previous wrist injury. She went out on a wheelchair after hurting her wrist, which was a little odd. Oh, that's from high up. That was a brutal fall. So that's number four. Number three.

Kendri Morales. Ah, Kendri. Snapping his leg. I need my phone. That's where the list is. Is that stepping on home plate? He just threw your phone. He was celebrating game-winning home run, jumped at home plate. His team around him, like, snapped his leg out for a year. I don't think he was ever the same after that. Really sad. Yeah.

Anybody else? Number two. I'm sorry. These guys are distracting me. I know they are. While you guys are busy distracting Chris here before the July 4th holiday, can you guys do me the favor of getting for me the video of how the Mariners celebrated their victory yesterday? Because they have a dorky celebration where five or six of their guys sort of line dance together while do-si-do-ing. He caught a phone. Yeah, a rotary phone, no less. Landline. Where did we get that?

a rotary phone. He called a landline. I mean, do people even know what... Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. I can't believe... Throw it. I dare you. Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. Do you know what a rotary phone is? Yes or no? If I handed that phone to my younger son, he'd have no idea what's going on. Number two. Tony Finau snapping his ankle at the

Masters par 3. He hits a hole in one, the family day par 3 thing, and he starts running down the whole thing, like celebrating crowd going wild, and he hits like a slope, and he dislocates his ankle. Was he running down the fairway? It was like the fairway, but it ended up being a little hill, so on the down slope, he turned his ankle, and he like popped up, and everyone's like, what's happening? And he literally pops his ankle back into place, and then like just limps the rest of the way. It was really sad.

Because it was such a happy time. Family day at the Masters. Part three, my favorite event at the Masters. Number one, accompanied by some sound here. Jonathan Pierre-Paul. JPP. Celebrating Fourth of July with fireworks. He lost fingers. Giants owner John Mara, who also today said he doesn't know how many fingers JPP has.

Does anybody still know how many fingers JPP has? Because he played for a long time with a bit of a glove or a cast in order to disguise what he had done with an explosive. Who's Jonathan Pierre-Paul? Jason Pierre-Paul, sorry. His brother, my bad.

Jason Pierre-Paul. His brother's name is Jonathan Pierre-Paul. Do you guys know how many fingers? What's the answer to the question? What's your best guess? I'm going to guess three and a half. What is your best guess on how many fingers Jason Pierre-Paul has? I would guess eight and a half. Thank you. Thank you for that mathematical clarification. I was doing one hand. Did he guess one finger on each hand? No.

I'm seeing here, AI tells me he has nine fingers. He lost a portion of his index finger and some of his middle. So if you combine, he has two halves. That does make a hole. Two halves make a hole. Chat GPT won't tell you that.

Two. You know what? It's hard to say. How am I going to say it? No, but you surprised me. He has seven and two halves? No. Eight and two halves. You surprised me because I believe as a riddle, if we told people someone has nine fingers, they're not going two halves on two of the fingers. I'll bet Jonathan Pierre-Paul is all ten.

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instant relief and then that first sip brother does that first sip that is a top five sequence of events that you can possibly go through i'm just serenity now when i just imagine that first sip of miller light just thinking about it's making me happy dude the sun is out it's nice you have your friends showing up you got your family there you just had your first sip of miller light and you know what you're happy

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Don Levitard. Oh, boy, it's Captain Slappy. Stugatz. Is this Chum Bucket? This is the Don Levitard Show with the Stugatz. This man right here is responsible for saving the movies, saving the movie theaters. It is not Tom Cruise. It's Mr. Blockbuster. He's done Top Gun. He's done Bad Boys, Beverly Hills Cop. He's got the number one movie in America and everywhere right now, F1.

What was the second title, Jerry Bruckheimer, with us that you guys were going to go with that wasn't F1 as the title to this movie? Because it's very simple. It's Brad Pitt, F1, that's the way to do it. Was there any other secondary choice for what this movie was going to be named other than just F1? Always F1. Never anything else. But because Le Mans, all the other great movies about racing were about the sport itself. And F1 is a phenomenal sport all around the world.

You know, we're F1 the movie. If there's a sequel, is it F2 or is it F1-2? Then is there confusion that it's F12? Like, what do we do here, Jerry? Let's get lucky and hope they want a sequel. That's the key. The key is to get the audience to come and show up. And so far, they've been showing up in droves, so we're really lucky. And you're unsurprised by that, correct? Because this movie is big and loud. You knew it was going to be successful, correct? Correct.

We knew it was going to be successful after we had the previews. Any producer or somebody who works on a movie says they have a big hit before it comes out, they're lying. Nobody knows. The audience is much smarter than we are. And they'll tell us if they want to go see it or not. And so far, they're lining up to see it. And that's great, because it's a terrific movie. It's emotional. It's funny. It's everything we go to the movies for. It's exciting. Brad Pitt's a movie star. He's great in the movie.

Javier Bardem, Damson Idris, who's going to be a big star off of this movie. It's real. Brad and Damson trained for four months to be able to drive these cars. They started in an open wheel car, then a road car, then they went to an F4 car, then an F3 and F2, and then they got an R car, which is...

They were doing over 180 miles an hour on the straights, breaking it down into 50. When you watch the movie and you see them in the car, it's actually them driving. The other thing, Apple, who financed the movie, took two of their iPhone cameras

cameras and enhanced it so you could do IMAX and put it in two cars in every race, in the actual F1 races. So some of those point of views, they're going 220 miles an hour. But that's, we know how to do that really well. But it's the emotional story that gets you. And that's why women love the movie.

It's funny. And you want that kind of experience. It's exciting. It really envelops you. It's really something you've got to see in a theater. And the bigger the screen, the better. Would you be kind enough to give us all the times and the names of movies that you've tried to get Brad Pitt to do for you that he has refused to do for you before this one?

I think this is the first one, to be honest with you. He's one of those working actors. He's always busy. And we have this thing where when we have a script, we want to make it, we want to make it. And so we go after actors who are actually available. But this is the first time that he's said yes. What has he said no to of yours? He hasn't. We haven't given him anything else. So this is it. Okay, so you...

You hadn't been trying to work with Brad Pitt before this? We'd love to have, but he just was never available when we needed him. I mean, he's one of those actors who actually works. He goes from one movie to the next, which is great. We want those kind of actors. Some actors take time off in between movies, and those are the actors we can attach quickly. This movie is impossible to make without F1's assistance, correct? Literally impossible. You cannot make it. Correct. Correct. So it took us a year.

to get F1 and all the teams to come and join us. And F1 is a really interesting sport. There are 10 teams, two drivers to each team. And it's the only sport where your teammate is your competitor because every driver wants to be the number one

driver on their team and that makes drama for us and that's what we based the story on but the other teams didn't realize that so Red Bull Mercedes built our car and Red Bull and Mercedes were having this real duel in the season we were filming and Red Bull was for sure going to be the villain in their minds that took a year to get them to calm down and say not true it's between our two drivers and

And we had a screening in Monaco about three or four weeks ago and showed it to all the drivers. And they were very excited about it. They said it's the first time they've seen a movie where it actually--

You actually feel how it looks when you're in a car like that. You did Days of Thunder 35 years ago. Can you explain to us the differences between the cars then and the cars now, the differences between making that movie and making this one? Well, it's the technology that's changed so much. We had 15 camera positions on our car. We used four at a time. The cameras are tiny now. We had everything...

hidden in the car. All you had was basically the lens in the car and around the car. So that's changed. We had a camera that remotely panned, which we couldn't do years ago. We put antennas all around the track and the camera pans from our driver to the car passing him or him passing another car. That makes it even more immersive and exciting. Jerry, when one of your movies is done, it's wrapped.

How do you watch it for the first time? What's that process like for you? It's sitting on pins and needles. You're scared to death. You have no idea what you're going to see. And usually you're terribly depressed because the movies are usually way too long. And it doesn't have a point of view. It takes, you know, months to hone it down and get it to something that you're really proud of. Can you confirm that a Days of Thunder sequel is in the works?

It is in the works. We are talking to various writers and talking to Tom and McHugh, who works with Tom, and we're also working on another Top Gun, which is actually being written right now.

Okay, so you've got two Tom Cruise projects that are as solid as can be? Well, nothing's solid in our business until it's in the theaters. So you hope you get there. Now, you're not talking about Tom Cruise with Brad Pitt in a Days of Thunder sequel, right? It's just Tom Cruise. Correct.

Correct. That would be wild if we could do that, but that would be really difficult to get those deals done. What else can you tell us about a Days of Thunder sequel that would get people excited?

Not yet. I mean, we're a little bit of ways to get you really excited. All I know is Tom can't wait to get in that car again. And he sees all the technology that we used in F1 and that even amps his excitement. Do you have an obsession of some sort with speed or racing? On the screen, yes, but not personally. I'm not a very good driver myself, so I have to rely on other people. You know, people...

They asked me, Jerry, did you get in that car? I said, are you kidding me? They mold the seat to your body. An F2 driver...

It takes a week to figure out how to drive an F1 car. That's how complicated they are. It's a sequel. Why is it that you are someone who likes the idea of speed on the big screen? I think it excites people. I think people love it. It's exhilarating. It's something that we all love. Most guys like fast cars. I can't wait for audiences to see this movie because it's something that's

Makes you feel better when you walk out of the theater. It's a great ride. Are you old school like Scorsese and you say, it is not a film unless I see it in a movie theater. A film is not something that is streamed. Look, I love making movies for theaters because I think it's great. We all have kitchens in our homes, but we all like to go out to eat.

because you want to experience something good. But I do both. We do streaming movies and we do big theatrical movies. Some movies really don't deserve to be or shouldn't be in a theater. It's better to have them on a small screen at home. This has to be on a big screen.

It does. And that's why we made it with Apple. They guaranteed us it would be in the theaters as long as people were showing up. It's going to be there. And so far, they, you know, we're the number one movie in the world right now. Jerry, how long did it take to make Top Gun Maverick from like the start of conversation? Hey, we have an idea. Maybe there's a start of a script out there to actually finishing the project. Well, it's 35 years since we since the first ones who weren't very good at it.

but i think finally when we really locked in and had a story and joe kaczynski who directed top gun maverick and also directed f1 kind of came in with a really good idea for a story and from that point on i think it was about three years what is the most wrong jerry bruckheimer has ever been about what he thought a movie was going to be versus what it ended up being i'll tell you what i always expect the worst and hope for the best

So I'm never really wrong because if they don't work, you know, that's what I thought. But fortunately for me, I've had a lot of pictures that have worked.

How much tinkering do you do after a movie is allegedly complete? Because Top Gun, for example, is supposed to come out in 2020. Then because of COVID, it didn't come out for like two years later. So did you leave it as it was for those two years? Or did you say, you know what? I can adjust this. I can adjust that. And it just kind of drove you crazy with just tinkering over those years. No, it was about a year. We finished the movie and we put it on the shelf for a year. Nobody touched it.

We knew we had a really good movie. We tested it. It tested really high. And we

We're just waiting for the pandemic to get away from us. How did you come upon this life principle of I'm going to expect the worst every single time, therefore I won't be disappointed? I love it. I think that you never know. Like I said, you never know what you got. You really don't. When an audience looks at it, and I've been shocked too. I've done movies where audiences go nuts and nobody shows up. So you don't know. I've made movies where...

We tested the movie and there were four people in the audience left. And then we worked on it for a year and became a hit. You just don't know. You just got to keep working them and beating them until you get something you feel is going to be something audiences want to sit through. So take us through the shock of one of these times then. Name one of the movies where you just were despondent about this is simply not going to work. And then all of a sudden it's in theaters and you're like, I can't believe it. This is so much better than I thought. Let me think.

Dangerous Minds with Michelle Pfeiffer. We made that movie and I'm telling you, we previewed it and there was nobody left in the theater. And we worked on it for a year, made some big changes, found this song by Coolio, Gangster's Paradise, and put it everywhere in the movie. And that just amped it up.

And it became a sizable hit. Have you ever had the reverse happen? Have you ever dared to be positive and have giant expectations and then you're despondent because it's a big mountain of poop? No, I'll tell you, there are movies that we've made that have tested really highly, but

but don't find an audience, but they'll find an audience on streaming. We did a movie with Daisy Ridley, Young Woman in the Sea, which tested really high, and we put it out in some theaters and people weren't interested in watching a movie about the first American to swim the English Channel, or the first woman to swim the English Channel.

but on streaming it's very successful in 2009 you produced a movie called g-force and for those who don't remember the premise is a specially trained squad of guinea pigs is dispatched to stop a diabolical billionaire from taking over the world that's good what were the expectations for that it was a kids movie and the expectations weren't as high as when you make a movie like f1 or days of thunder so it did it did well for what it was and it's it's a success for disney because it's

Kids watch it, they'll keep watching it forever. - Is there a director that Jerry Bruckheimer would be willing to admit publicly, "That person's work and talent is something that I envy"? - Well, I think most of the people that I work with, I mean, Chris Nolan, Scorsese, there's so many, Spielberg, there's so many great directors

that you would love to work with. But again, they're busy all the time too. So it's hard to wrangle them. Joe Kaczynski, we're very fortunate because he did an amazing job on Top Gun. And then he comes back and makes a big hit movie out of F1. So that's, it was his idea. It was his story. And he really, what brought it together is once he had the idea, he had met

Lewis Hamilton because Lewis wanted to be in Top Gun. And when Joe met with him, Joe said, well, we need you for three months. And Lewis said, hey, I got a day job. I can't do that. So he joined us to produce the movie. So when we had Lewis,

Joe went to Brad and Brad said yes because of the team we had. We had a good story with the same writer, Aaron Kruger, who did Top Gun. And then we had Lewis Hamilton to make sure we were honest and could make a really serious racing movie that wouldn't embarrass the sport or embarrass him. And look at it, the kind of technology and the things that we did that Lewis was involved in, I'll give you an example.

When we were in Silverstone, we're going into turn five, right? And he's watching what we're filming. And he said, wait a second, the sound's wrong. You're in gear three. I'd be in gear two. So we make changes. He said, in turn five, you can't pass on turn five. If you do, you'll have an accident. We used that. We had an accident on turn five. I mean, all those little things,

we tried to be honest to the sport, but you know what? It's not a documentary. So what the things that Brad does in the movie, a driver might do over two or three seasons. We'll do it in one race. What did Lewis, what did Lewis Hamilton want to do in Top Gun? I guess he wanted to be one of the pilots. Wow. Jerry, which one of your films for pleasure have you seen the most?

You know what? Once they're in the theaters, I never look at them again. Out of the theaters, I never look at them again. And I'll tell you why. Because I look at them and I say, oh, we should have changed this. We should have changed that. And you can't change them. So once they're... What I love doing is, like, I'll go tonight or tomorrow to the theater and stand back there and watch the audience really enjoy it. That's what I really love. That's my satisfaction. Obviously, I've made enough money. But it's...

entertaining audiences getting into emote watch them applaud watch them laugh see tears in their eyes I've won if if we get that and we're getting this on an f1 it's it's a family movie it's for everybody when you do that do you buy a ticket or you tell like the ticket taker hey I'm Jerry Bruckheimer yeah that's what I do I go in and say I just want to stand in the back I'm not going to take a seat but do you say I'm Jerry Bruckheimer or do you pay for a ticket

I don't pay for it. Wow. Power move. What do you, what do you, I should from now on, I should support the industry, Jerry, you're billionaire. If, uh, if I ask you, and I know this isn't fair, but you have to pick one that you regard one movie, not your favorite, but that you regard as the source of your greatest pride. And that answer can take you anywhere. Are you able to do that? Are you able to summon just one? Yeah, it's always the next one.

It's a good answer. You're insatiable. Does that get in the way of joy? Look, I enjoy everything that we do. Some of them don't work and I enjoy them too. Maybe an audience doesn't like them, but I love them. I love the process. I love making movies. I love entertaining audiences. And

And that's why I do it. I do it for the thrill of watching people line up and have a blast doing what we do. Take them away from the world we're living in and, you know, give them two hours or two and a half hours of real joy. You know, I'm in the transportation business. I transport you to another place, another time. And in F1, we're giving you an inside look into a world that you'll never be a part of or maybe never be a part of. It's a

it's a process movie we you know we did that with csi and television we we've done it i did it with black clock down i i do it a lot i love those kind of movies i also like making sports movies

where I did Remember the Titans and Glory Road. People that should be remembered that won't be remembered unless we make a film about them. And I mean, they thanked me after it. Same thing with Black Hawk Down. All those 18 soldiers, their parents came up to me and said, thank you so much for making this movie. My sons will never be forgotten.

I loved Remember the Titans. That ending was ridiculous. No way that state champion coach is going to get fooled by that play at the end, Jerry. That play's not going to fool him for 80 yards. You may feel like you've already answered this question. We've got less than a minute left, but what do you love most about

making movies it may be what you're talking about the joy of others and what is the most frustrating thing in the industry about making movies right now the fact that we can't shoot as many movies in this country as we'd like to because you know we get such great tax credits elsewhere much rather stay in the states obviously we couldn't do that with f1 because we traveled to to 10 different tracks around the world but we got to do it twice which was great i feel like you need to go ahead and clear your throat you fought through it you powered through and i'm proud of you it

It was very strong. Great job, Eddie. And you love most about the movies. 30 seconds are left, so we get you out on time. The thing that you love most? Watching an audience enjoy what we do. That's it. Jerry, we enjoyed doing this with you. Thank you for the time. F1, the movie, another number one movie here and all around the world. Thank you, Jerry, for being on with us. Appreciate it. Thank you for having me, really.

Thank you, Jerry. Billy, you tried to bother Jerry with that. I would never. I don't want to bother Jerry. You don't want to bother Jerry. I don't want to bother Jerry. No one wants to bother Jerry. Listen, Jerry, I didn't ask her about Kangaroo Jack. Okay? You could. It was a hit.

I enjoyed it. I loved it. Rotten Tomatoes had another thing. I also have a bone to pick with Jerry. He's got to go. I have a bone to pick with Jerry. He's responsible for all of these great moments and joys in my life, but also I applied for Amazing Race and they said no, and it crushed me because it was the day after my award. You can always come back.

You know what? I'm going to tell them next interview that Jerry said that I'm in. What do you think? You know what? It might have been the person you were going to go do it with. Well, she's my wife. I hope it's not that. She's a day after we got married, Jerry, between our wedding and our honeymoon. We said, you know what? We need to make time for amazing race here and audition. He's got to go. He's got to go. You rejected our love, Jerry. You rejected my love.

We make mistakes all the time. I accept your apology. He is the rejecter of love. He is Jerry Bruckheimer, and he has officially apologized to Billy Gill. Thank you, Jerry. Thanks, Billy. Thanks, guys. Appreciate it. F2. Good question. FU.

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