Tony Maietta:
Hello. I'm film historian Tony Maietta.

Brad Shreve:
And I'm Brad Shreve, who's just a guy who likes movies.

Tony Maietta:
We discuss movies and television from Hollywood's golden age. We go behind the scenes and share our opinions too.

Brad Shreve:
And of course, being the average guy, my opinions are the ones that matter.

Tony Maietta:
As does your self delusion. Welcome to going Hollywood.

Tony Maietta:
Oh, my God, Brad, I owe you an apology. I forgot what movie we're talking about this week. I totally. It totally, totally blanked on me. What are we talking about?

Brad Shreve:
We are talking about a bunch of movies today.

Tony Maietta:
We are.

Brad Shreve:
We are.

Tony Maietta:
Explain yourself.

Brad Shreve:
We are talking about movies that people have requested that we do on our show.

Tony Maietta:
Oh, of course. Of course. It's our bottle episode.

Brad Shreve:
Yes, exactly.

Tony Maietta:
That's a test for anyone who didn't listen to our episode last week on Friends when I talked about a bottle episode. A bottle episode usually means a show where you're trying to save money, but we have no money to save. So we just thought we would give some of this wonderful love back that we've been getting thus far this year from all of you and also talk about some of these reviews and these requests.

Brad Shreve:
Yeah, we're gonna go over some reviews and some nice comments, but mostly we're gonna focus on requests that people had for shows.

Tony Maietta:
Yeah.

Brad Shreve:
Or movies. Movies and TV shows. And we got our first voicemail recording.

Tony Maietta:
Wow. I know. That was amazing. That was somebody actually.

Brad Shreve:
That was amazing.

Tony Maietta:
Somebody actually did it.

Brad Shreve:
Yes. And just a reminder, if you wanna send us a message, we have our email address, which. Tony, what is it? I always get it wrong.

Tony Maietta:
GoingHollywoodPodmail.com okay, and then also in the

Brad Shreve:
show notes, it says text or leave a voicemail. You click on that, you can either send us a text and you can leave a voicemail. And Donovan. Thank you, Donovan. He sent us an email address, but later he went and did the voicemail and elaborated more and offered more suggestions. So I think I should play Donovan.

Tony Maietta:
Oh, that'd be great. I would love to hear it. Yes, please. Play it. Play it.

Brad Shreve:
Not playing the entire thing. It was. You have limited time. So he did call back several times because he had a lot of requests. He's saying a lot of praise and thank you for the praise, Donovan. But in the interest of speed, I took out most of the praise. But we do have the requests, so here is Donovan. Hi, Tony And Brad.

Brad Shreve:
Well, I love your show. I listen to it all the time and I listen to episodes over and over again. I must say, I'm very jealous, Tony,

Tony Maietta:
that you got to interview Lucy Arnaz.

Brad Shreve:
I bet that was a blast. You should make it a tradition to do at least one Lucy episode per season. And also, Brad, I just gotta tell you, I need more Maurice. Please put Maurice on more. He needs to be on more

Tony Maietta:
Maurice.

Brad Shreve:
Okay, if you missed the women episode, Maurice is my husband. He's the one that suggested it and we had him on. It was a lot of fun. I had to put his request on there because it gave us our Lucy moment for this episode.

Tony Maietta:
Oh, well, there you go. Thank you for that. Thank you for that. I appreciate it. We might have another Lucy moment coming up, so I might have one for you, too. Yeah.

Brad Shreve:
And I didn't list all of his requests, and I'm going to just do a few of them. He did request Kate Hepburn's lion in Winter, though. He acknowledged we've done quite a bit of that Kate. But I can never get enough Kate. He suggested a couple of I Love Lucy episodes, including Tallulah Bankhead, these Old Broads. Mame.

Tony Maietta:
Which second time.

Brad Shreve:
What do you think, Tony?

Tony Maietta:
It's happening, people.

Brad Shreve:
Actually, it's the third time. It's the third time, and we've discussed it reluctantly. You guys, when we're going to do Mame, Another one that we've talked about, Sunset Boulevard and one we discussed not long ago on Golden Pond and some others as well. Those are some highlights that he talked about.

Tony Maietta:
Yeah. Well, he asked for. He also asked for nine to five. He asked for the long, long trailer, which I actually would love to do the long, long trailer, but there's. That's another Lucy. And he also asked about these old broads, which I would love to do. These old broads. Do you.

Tony Maietta:
I don't know if you have access to it, Brad. In Spain. We'll have to look into it. We'll have to look into that because that would be a lot of fun.

Brad Shreve:
It depends on how well my VPN works.

Tony Maietta:
Yeah. I don't know what that means. That was a lot.

Brad Shreve:
It works with most companies, but some filter out VPNs, so I should be able to.

Tony Maietta:
I understood two words in that sentence, quick and easy.

Brad Shreve:
A vpn. I can tell the system anywhere. I went to. I'm in the world. And so if it's not available in Spain, it'll think I'm in the United States.

Tony Maietta:
Oh.

Brad Shreve:
Doesn't always work, but usually does.

Tony Maietta:
The Tallulah Bankhead episode of the Lucy Dessi Comedy Hour was actually something we were gonna talk about last year when Todd was on. When Todd Purdom was on.

Brad Shreve:
Yep.

Tony Maietta:
And we talked about Dessie, but unfortunately, it's not available anywhere. I mean, I have it because, big surprise, I have the blu Ray, the DVDs, but I don't think Brad had it. So that's why we couldn't talk about the Tallulah Bankhead episode. But all the rest of those Love, love, love. We're going to hit some of those, right?

Brad Shreve:
Yes, absolutely. And as far as the Tallulah Bankhead episode, I probably can find it.

Tony Maietta:
You know why I thought about long long trailer was because Megan sent us, wrote a lovely review and sent us a request and said she would love to hear us talk about long long trailer. And also I love this pre code film, Red Headed Woman. Now I wanted to do another pre code film this season. I was thinking about Queen Christina, which we might do. But I would also love to do Red Headed Woman. It's with Jean, Gene Harlow, Brad, and it's. It's a fun, fun movie. So thank you, Megan.

Tony Maietta:
I. We appreciate that. I love those suggestions.

Brad Shreve:
I love doing pre code films. Maurice last night played me a clip from a Mae west movie. I wish I could remember it was funny as hell. And I said, damn the code because it was a pre quote film.

Tony Maietta:
Oh, that would be fun. That would be fun to do a Mae West.

Brad Shreve:
It would be fun to do a Mae West.

Tony Maietta:
Yeah. Yeah.

Brad Shreve:
We also heard from Ellen in Toronto, Ontario. I believe this was a text message. Greetings from your BFF in Toronto. Just wanted to say I love this podcast. This week's podcast. She's talking about that girl. She's listened to it twice. You know, Tony, we have had more than a few people say they like listening to our episodes over and over,

Tony Maietta:
which you mean it's.

Brad Shreve:
Y' all are crazy, but we love it.

Tony Maietta:
It's not just me that listens to them over and over and over again. But they don't give you notes when they do that.

Brad Shreve:
No, they don't.

Tony Maietta:
They give you notes when they listen to it again. I'll go back to past episodes and then give Brad notes about them.

Brad Shreve:
Yes, yes. And I've been podcasting for so long, I go back and listen to them long after they've been played. But what she said is she listened to that girl twice afar. And she said, it's twoo. It's twoo. She said, sorry, I had to put that in. That was my laugh yesterday. And that was fun.

Brad Shreve:
But she said, and I love this because we have talked about this, doing a Rod Serling podcast and I mentioned doing Twilight Zone and that's a biggie. I would love to do Twilight Zones.

Tony Maietta:
Yeah, we should. We should do a Twilight Zone. We definitely should do a Twilight Zone. I'm down for that. Absolutely. Absolutely.

Brad Shreve:
And she added, thanks for great podcast, especially the always interesting background information.

Tony Maietta:
Oh, thank you. Because sometimes I wonder, am I the only person who's interested in this? Am I the only one that cares that Courtney Cox came in to read for Rachel originally? I don't know. Anyway, I find it fascinating. So thank you for that verification, Alan. I appreciate that. Now I read one and I think I said before I just recently realized that people could leave reviews on Spotify. I didn't realize that. And we got a very nice review from Sean o' Neill about the Coal Miner's Daughter episode.

Tony Maietta:
And he said, you guys have been killing it. Totally disagree about the ending, though. It's perfect. It was in 1980 and it brought us right up to the present. Her very public nervous breakdown in 1976 was a big deal and affected change in her life. The film ends with them together, very much unchanged by fame. It's a good ending. So I love the fact that.

Tony Maietta:
Well, thank you, Sean. I love the fact that you expressed your opinion about that. And we also, you know, as Brad and I said in the episode, I can't think of a better ending. I just feel like the ending is they were still alive and living their lives. That was the only ending you could really have.

Brad Shreve:
You know, they could have done a fictional. Showing them old.

Tony Maietta:
Why the hell would you do that?

Brad Shreve:
I appreciate the input as well. As far as a disagreement, Always love him. Occasionally we get some that aren't very nice, but they're always welcome. Always welcome.

Tony Maietta:
And I do want to say, though I do want to say also in that we. Someone else reached out to us, well, reached out to me about the Coal Miner's Daughter episode. And it was our very own friend of the pod, Mr. Del Shores. Ah, listeners, if you haven't listened, Del joined us on our trip to Bountiful episode and Dell told me and I'm like, now you tell me this. Now a warning. Now you tell me this. He mentioned that he knew Tom Rickman near the end of his life who wrote the screenplay for Coal Miner's Daughter.

Tony Maietta:
And he confessed he wasn't crazy about the ending either, but that was all they could do. So I think that's kind of interesting that he wasn't. He wasn't crazy about the ending either, but he was Oscar nominated. So I guess he got over it. But that's interesting. It's a debate. That's what we're doing here, a debate about film, which I love.

Brad Shreve:
Absolutely. I want to read one that came in. I think it was recently. It was Nicole. She sent us a message on Facebook. And folks, Toni and I have neglected our social media. We used to post a lot about movies and tv. And we kind of.

Brad Shreve:
We haven't done it in a while.

Tony Maietta:
Okay, wait.

Brad Shreve:
But we do go back and check the messages.

Tony Maietta:
Let's correct that you've neglected it.

Brad Shreve:
Cause that was correct.

Tony Maietta:
You said you were going to do.

Brad Shreve:
Yes, yes. Tony does the playlist, and I'm supposed to do the social media. And I blew it. I blew it when I moved and I never went back and did it. So I will take the credit that I did it wrong. So anyway, Nicole, I have to read it because it was funny. She said was wondering if next year, Tony. And she put in parentheses, since you're the deciding factor on all things Laugh out Loud.

Brad Shreve:
She knows you well.

Tony Maietta:
Who blabbed? Who blabbed? I did.

Brad Shreve:
Yes, you did. Occasionally he lets me get one in. She wants a Kathleen Turner movie. And she talked about Body Heat, which living now, where it's extremely humid. Body Heat has actually come to mind a few times. And she says her favorite. Please don't laugh. Peggy sue got married.

Brad Shreve:
She said she loves the show and loves the banter.

Tony Maietta:
I have another comment from our friend Nicole Maddox, who commented on the Mildred Pierce episode that we recently did. And she said, great episode. I wanted it to be longer, Nicole. I feel you. I always want them to be longer. I must say. And this is the best part. I must say you guys are the best old Hollywood podcasters out there, which.

Tony Maietta:
Wow, that's. That's fantastic. Thank you, Nicole. I don't have to get paid. That's fantastic. She loves my info. She loves Brad's honest reactions. She also loved our episode last year on the more the Merrier.

Tony Maietta:
So she requested Destry Rides Again and A Foreign Affair, which are both Marlena Dietrich films. I would love to do Destry Rides Again. I think that's a fan. I love A Foreign Affair too, but Destry is a lot of fun because it's Jimmy Stewart and Marlene Dietrich and it's Western. It's Dietrich in the West. It's a lot of fun. So thank you, Nicole. That is going to be something that we're definitely going to think about.

Brad Shreve:
I don't have our brainstorming list out, but I think that may be on it.

Tony Maietta:
Well, you know what, then? It's coming up soon.

Brad Shreve:
I think you probably put it on there. We do keep a brainstorming list. 90%. We don't have time for. But we do have one.

Tony Maietta:
Yeah.

Brad Shreve:
Got one from Tina in Naperville. She sent an email. She said, thank you, Brad and Tony, for a great podcast. Each week, you force me to pull out old movies I haven't seen in a long time. And she suggests one of my favorite directors, Moore Hitchcock. She would like to see vertigo from 1958. Strangers on a train in 1961 or 51. I'm sorry, 61.

Brad Shreve:
51.

Tony Maietta:
51.

Brad Shreve:
And one that doesn't get as much of attention as others is lifeboat from 1944.

Tony Maietta:
That's interesting. That's interesting.

Brad Shreve:
Not many people can do a film where everybody's just sitting on a small boat.

Tony Maietta:
We should do another Hitchcock. We haven't done Hitchcock since we did Rope in our first year. So that would be. That would be really cool. Wow. I like that, Tina. Thank you very much. In Naperville, Illinois, you know, I used to live in Chicago, and I worked in Lombard and Naperville is.

Tony Maietta:
Is right there. So I know exactly. I have a friend who lives in Naperville. So that's so funny that she's from Naperville. A lot of people are from Naperville. That's so funny.

Brad Shreve:
My brother lived in Naperville, and I went up to his wedding.

Tony Maietta:
See what I mean?

Brad Shreve:
Let's just say I'm glad I didn't get arrested. It was a pretty wild party.

Tony Maietta:
Why? I was thinking, what the hell were you doing in Naperville?

Brad Shreve:
It was a wedding reception. The end of wedding receptions.

Tony Maietta:
Oh, cool, cool. Well, I saw one from dawn 3323 that was on the Women episode, and he said, the Women is one of my favorite films. You hit all the points. I agree the fashion show wasn't necessary, but I still enjoyed all the beautiful numbers. He means costumes by Adrian. And he suggested dinner at 8, Sunset Boulevard and All About Eve. You know, the usual suspects, which I have no problem doing any of those. We were going to do Dinner at Eight last year, but we did Grand Hotel instead.

Tony Maietta:
So we'll see. That's great. Those are great suggestions.

Brad Shreve:
Did we do Sunset Boulevard?

Tony Maietta:
How do you not remember the. No, we never did Sunset Boulevard.

Brad Shreve:
Okay. Because we have talked about Sunset Boulevard many times. We're gonna bump it up the list a little bit. We'll see how it goes.

Tony Maietta:
Yeah, we've referenced it. We've referenced it. I think that the reason that we haven't done films like Sunset Boulevard and All About Eve and Some Like It Hot is because I don't want to say everybody does them, but they're just. They're the usual suspects. And what I like to do is occasionally throw one out there that maybe is unique. Or you haven't, you know, you haven't thought about. Like last year when we did Lucy in London, I was like, well, there's an interesting one. No one probably talks about Lucy in London.

Tony Maietta:
But that being said, these are classics and we need to do them. So we will. We'll do them. We'll do them.

Brad Shreve:
Absolutely. I have another one. It's from. I love his name, Roger the Rager.

Tony Maietta:
Oh, that's a good. That's a good one.

Brad Shreve:
Send an email. He said, I recently found your podcast and have been going through your past episodes. Thank you. Whether I agree with your opinions or not, you're always entertaining. And he has some suggestions. And obviously Roger is a sci fi fan and we have talked about we should do some sci fi. I don't think we've done a one.

Tony Maietta:
No, I don't think we have.

Brad Shreve:
And naturally we talked about the biggie is 2001. But we haven't said we're necessarily going to do it. But he of course put the Star wars films.

Tony Maietta:
Yeah.

Brad Shreve:
2001, Space Odyssey, the Day the Earth Stood still and forbidden planet from 19. What is that? 1956. So definitely some classics there.

Tony Maietta:
That is very cool. That's very cool. We talked about doing 2001.

Brad Shreve:
Yeah.

Tony Maietta:
So that might be. We See, the thing is, we've talked about so many of these.

Brad Shreve:
Yeah.

Tony Maietta:
To do. So we're on the same wavelength, people. We're on the same wavelength.

Brad Shreve:
Yes, we are. And we definitely. We talked about. We definitely want to do a sci fi. And we said probably 2001 only because that's the one everybody immediately thinks of. But I liked some of the other options he gave and there are some others as well.

Tony Maietta:
Well, we did Valley of the Dolls. Doesn't that qualify as a sci fi movie? No.

Brad Shreve:
It should.

Tony Maietta:
Okay, I want to read an email we got. I actually got this email through my website, so I just. And he sent it to me. So I appreciate it. And it's from a listener, Stephen Farah. And he said, tony, love you. And Brad, it's like getting Lost with Friends. I love that.

Tony Maietta:
You are really great. Your style is so entertaining and informative, but also fun. I share your love for classic film and tv. I just viewed Something's Gotta Give, and you were right. It was sad as Marilyn was phenomenal. And then he went on to talk about. And I've gotten this. I've gotten a couple of these.

Tony Maietta:
He's retiring and he wants to know how he could maybe make his appreciation for film deeper and what programs I would recommend or I've had people ask me how do you become a film historian? How do you become a. And I want to say, you know, I didn't set out to become a film historian. It just. I love movies, I love tv.

Brad Shreve:
Passion.

Tony Maietta:
That's a passion. And I just watched everything I could, read everything I could, started to. This was back when there were blogs, started writing what I could. So, I mean, there are so many great film schools, if you're really that. If you're really, really serious. But I always recommend to people, especially with YouTube now, just watch everything you can. Not on YouTube, I meant watch everything you can that's available. Read everything you can.

Tony Maietta:
If you love it, it's a passion. It doesn't seem like a choreograph. That's just, you know, when I'm not doing this, I'm most likely watching a movie or watching an old TV show. I mean, it's just what I do. So I love the fact that you're passionate about it. And that's what I would say. I would say just do as much as you can. Read, watch, write.

Tony Maietta:
That's it. But thank you, Stephen.

Brad Shreve:
Excellent. And actually, one thing you will find on YouTube, and it is legal, because they're over 100 years old, are a lot of the old silent films that you probably can't find anywhere else. So if you want to check out some silent films, if you've been averse to silent films and you're like, no, no, no, no, no. Sometimes they can only be found on YouTube and they are legal because they're past the copyright stage. Yeah, way past.

Tony Maietta:
For God's sake, don't break any laws watching a film. It reminds me of the old FBI warnings on videotapes. It's like, oh, my God, please, the FBI is going to show up at my door. What does this mean?

Brad Shreve:
There was also a really nice message from Elaine on Facebook, and I want to read part of hers because she said something we talked about before we ever started this podcast. And we said, we don't want to do it.

Tony Maietta:
Oh.

Brad Shreve:
Because we just said we're going to jump right into the subject. She said praises. You don't laugh or giggle over personal stuff to demonstrate your show is fun and that you have personalities. Very professional and enjoyable.

Tony Maietta:
Oh, that's nice. We don't laugh and giggle over our own personal stuff or over personal stuff.

Brad Shreve:
Some of these podcasts, they start and they talk for. In fact, I'm gonna name one. Well, no, I won't, because you may know the actors.

Tony Maietta:
Don't do it.

Brad Shreve:
Okay. But anyway, it's A great show when they finally start the show. But the first 30 minutes are them talking about their personal lives and half the time you don't know who they're talking about and they're laughing and being silly and. And a lot of times shows will divert into doing that even in the middle of the show. And we touch on those things, but we don't stay there.

Tony Maietta:
Let me just say I have so much information that I spew out. There is not time for personal anecdotes. It's so funny, listeners. So here's a little peek. So I sent Brad. What show was it? What was it we did? It was just not before. What was the one we did before Bruce was on? I can't remember which one it was. Was it.

Tony Maietta:
Was it Marilyn? I can't remember what it was. Anyway, anyway, I shared my notes with Brad.

Brad Shreve:
Oh, yes.

Tony Maietta:
And he was.

Brad Shreve:
He normally doesn't share his notes with me.

Tony Maietta:
I don't share my notes with Brad. And he was mortified. I think it was Maltese Falcon. That was the one we did before Bruce. And he was. Was mortified and he was just like freaking out. I'm like, brad, Brad, Brad, Brad. I believe me, I'm not going to say all those things, but I like, I'm just a person who over prepares.

Tony Maietta:
So if I, you know, like our For Our Friends episode, I think I had 15 pages of notes and I didn't get to half the stuff I wanted to talk about. I wanted to talk about their salaries and how they all came together and demanded the same salary and how they all made a million dollars. I mean, all this stuff. And I didn't get to it because there just wasn't time. So I do try to be picky and choosy. So I can't imagine talking about what's going on in our personal lives. There would be no time.

Brad Shreve:
I mean, nobody wants to hear it anyway.

Tony Maietta:
Nobody. Who cares? You know, I'm not.

Brad Shreve:
Yeah, who cares?

Tony Maietta:
I really don't care what's going on.

Brad Shreve:
I told Tony all about my new trainer, Pablo. And you know, that's something we do before, though.

Tony Maietta:
Yeah, People really don't need to hear about Pablo.

Brad Shreve:
Oh, they don't though they may want to. And I don't know what show that was because it's weird that. Because as we've said, we don't discuss these at all beforehand. We try not to share our opinions with each other or it was the Mel.

Tony Maietta:
It was the Maltese Falcon. It was a Maltese Falcon.

Brad Shreve:
It was. And I don't know why you did that? Because usually you would never send me your notes or I won't. There was a reason why you did it.

Tony Maietta:
Yeah, I don't remember.

Brad Shreve:
I did. Tony sent me these notes and I'm like, oh, good Lord. How are you going to talk about all that? There's no way. Tony so scared him. He is always prepared. I will tell you that.

Tony Maietta:
He got very, very scared. He got very, very scared.

Brad Shreve:
I am glad you are the film historian.

Tony Maietta:
Well, yeah.

Brad Shreve:
So now that we've gone off on our tangent again, we have one more. This came to our email, is from Will Cortland, and he says, okay, I'm trying your email. Love the podcast. Well, it worked well, because we're reading it right now.

Tony Maietta:
It worked. Worked.

Brad Shreve:
And he says, I'm trying your email. Love the podcast. Been listening to it for a while. I particularly like the variety of movies you discuss. I loved the Harold Lloyd episode this year.

Tony Maietta:
Ooh, Ooh. Love that.

Brad Shreve:
Tony, I loved your interviews on The Lucy show DVDs, particularly the one with Carol Cook.

Tony Maietta:
Aw.

Brad Shreve:
Would you guys consider doing one of her movies? Maybe the incredible Mr. Limpet?

Tony Maietta:
That would be kind of fun.

Brad Shreve:
That would be fun.

Tony Maietta:
It's more of a Don Knotts movie, but Carol's in it. Oh, that's.

Brad Shreve:
That's why I giggle.

Tony Maietta:
The late, great Ms. Carol Cook. God, we miss her. She was so. She was so. She was such a hoot. She was just. The woman was a party, you know? That's so funny.

Tony Maietta:
That interview is one of my favorites, too. Just a quick story about that interview. So anyway, the woman could say hello and put you in hysterics. And I'm clearly holding it in during the interview. I'm trying not to laugh, but she told this story, I had heard it before, where she tells a story about being mistaken for Lucy in the thrifty Drugstore. I think it was on Sunset Boulevard. Two little old ladies thinking she was Lucy. Lucy had been dead for quite a few years when they did this.

Tony Maietta:
The way Carol tells the story and tells every story is so hysterically funny. And so she. I heard her tell it before, and I wanted her to tell it on the interview. And I asked our producer, Tom, please don't cut it, because it's such a great story. And the thing is, people don't see. Is that. So Carol's there telling the story to me, but on the other side of the camera, there are studio executives and our producers and the makeup people. So she's playing to an audience when we're doing that.

Tony Maietta:
And she's playing to the camera too, but she told the story. And I have to say that it was just. I was trying so hard not to laugh, even though I'd heard the story a million times. When you're in front of her, it's like it's very difficult not to laugh. And I peed a little bit. I was holding myself so tight and I felt, boop. And I was like, oh, dear. So if you ever watch that interview again, know at the very end, I'm like, did I just do something?

Brad Shreve:
I hope it wasn't a wide shot.

Tony Maietta:
No. And it was just a little boop. That's all.

Brad Shreve:
Just a little boop.

Tony Maietta:
And I was like, oh, wow. Because I was trying not to laugh and I was holding everything so tightly that. Yeah, it was just. It was such an incredible, incredible interview. So thank you for that, Will. I appreciate you mentioning that. I love doing those.

Brad Shreve:
So we're going to share some of our brainstorming ideas and we aren't going to necessarily get to all of these. In fact, we'd like some of your feedback and you can let us know if you think some of them are a good idea. I'm going to bring the first one only up because we talked to it with Bruce about doing this and that is our Guilty Pleasures.

Tony Maietta:
We're doing it. We're in the middle. We're doing it right. We're doing it right now. Do you want us to continue? We've already started it, but we could. Yes. Would you like us to continue the series of Guilty Pleasures? And I want to say it's not going to be like a straight run where, you know, when we say series, it doesn't mean one after the other after the other. We'll.

Tony Maietta:
We'll sprinkle them throughout the season. But. Yes. Are you asking people, would they like us to continue doing those?

Brad Shreve:
Yeah. Yeah. And we don't do them in a row because it may not be everybody's cup of tea and we don't want to lose them for a month, but we definitely want to sprinkle them in. So we're trying to make everybody happy, which is not always easy to do.

Tony Maietta:
That's the definition of insanity, is trying to make everybody happy. But no, we got. I want to say we got such amazing feedback. Thank you, everybody. From our Best Actress series. So that's why we thought, let's do another one. What should we do? Maybe Guilty Pleasures. Maybe movies that are kind of bad, but we love them.

Tony Maietta:
Or movies that were not great box office hits, but we love them anyway. That kind of thing.

Brad Shreve:
And then also we kind of do this almost with every episode. But Oscar losers that are kind of, we think are a miscarriage of justice.

Tony Maietta:
Ooh, that sounds so serious, Brad. A miscarriage of justice series. I like that. So you're asking the people what do they think about that?

Brad Shreve:
If they have suggestions for ones that they think we can do on those.

Tony Maietta:
That's a good idea. I love that. I love that.

Brad Shreve:
Also, underrated films and overrated films. Citizen Kane.

Tony Maietta:
He's always bagging on Citizen Kane. He's always throwing Citizen Kane. What is it with you throwing shade to Orson Welles?

Brad Shreve:
I never said Citizen Kane is a bad movie in any way. It just ain't number one. And it's time and time and time again being shown as number one.

Tony Maietta:
I know, I know.

Brad Shreve:
We also have things like we could do. We haven't done a best actor series. We haven't done best directors series. Those are some other options. We'd like you to think of those. Let us know if you think any of those are a good idea. And if there are films that you think would fall under those series, let us know.

Tony Maietta:
You've always talked about it and I've always avoided it or shot you down that you would like to do movies that aren't good. Bad movies. Not necessarily, but not bad. Movies we love like we're doing right now. You wanted to just do some movies which are terrible. And I'm like, I can't imagine losing two hours of my life to watch a movie that's terrible. But would anyone like us to do that? And if so, send some suggestions, because I can't think of any.

Brad Shreve:
No, no, no, no. I have never said, let's do movies that are terrible. That's more along the lines of when I was talking about overrated films.

Tony Maietta:
Movies I don't like. Was that it? Movies that I maybe didn't like?

Brad Shreve:
Yeah, movies that were overrated you didn't like or I didn't like? Cause you're really picky. You're like, I wasn't real wild about that. Even though it may be a classic, you've avoided them. But there are shows that do bad films, and that's not us. We're not gonna do that.

Tony Maietta:
No, no, no.

Brad Shreve:
You misunderstood what I said. I think they're fun. I think they're fun, but it's not one I'm interested in doing myself. And I know you aren't.

Tony Maietta:
No, no. And I'm also not interested in talking about TV shows, which I don't love. Like, we will never do an episode on Three's Company. I'm telling you right now, it's just not going to happen. No shade to John Ritter, as I said before, a brilliant physical comic actor. But I will never do an episode on Three's Company. I just won't. There you go.

Tony Maietta:
Just putting it out there.

Brad Shreve:
Along those lines, I do want to say, if you are interested in hearing podcasts about bad movies, I do have a suggestion.

Tony Maietta:
Why? Why do you keep bringing up bad movies?

Brad Shreve:
Okay. Because you don't even have to watch the movies. It is such a good podcast. It's so funny. It is hosted by Paul Scheer. Who? And Jason. I can't remember Jason's last name. Unfortunately.

Brad Shreve:
They're actors that you would probably know by face. They're both character actors and they do a lot of writing, so they're behind the scenes. And then Paul's wife is June Diane Rayfield, which, if you've watched Grace and Frankie, she plays Jane Fonda's oldest daughter, who I absolutely adore. Oh, I love her adoring that show. Those three host a show called how did this Get Made? They go over really bad movies that how did this Get Made? Is what it comes down to. And they do some that you've heard of, such as Face off, which I've always wondered how that got made. And then they do some that you are so obscure you it's unlikely you've seen them. And it doesn't matter whether you've seen it or not.

Brad Shreve:
They're so funny. It's just fun to hear them describe the film. So anyway, that's a little aside that I'm giving. I like to occasionally toss out other podcasts.

Tony Maietta:
That's nice. It's good to support. It's good to support. I know what I wanted to ask people. What do you think about when we have guests now? I mean, obviously when we get, you know, we have guests like Bruce Valanch and Dale Shores this year so far, and we've had guests on, you know, we've had guests throughout. What do you think about that? Do you like it when you bring somebody on? I think so. I think people get tired of hearing you and me all the time. Well, probably me all the time talking so much.

Tony Maietta:
And it's nice to have another voice in there. I happen to like that. And Brad and I are always talking about that. Like, what do you. Do you think we should have a guest on? Do you think we should not have a guest on? I like it. And that'd be interesting to hear what people's reactions are. Maybe it just depends on who the guest is. You know, obviously when we have guests like Bruce and Dell and my friend Randy Schmidt who was on last year for the Karen Carpenter story.

Tony Maietta:
Yeah, that's fantastic. But I'm just curious about other guests. Just, you know, civilians maybe. That's an interesting thing. I've thought about that too. Like Maurice, you know, Maurice is not in the film industry, but people love that episode we did with Maurice. And we're gonna do another one. Maurice is coming back, people.

Tony Maietta:
So what do you think about that? That's another thing that maybe tell us about.

Brad Shreve:
And we get a lot of guest requests. Tony doesn't know how many we get because for some reason they always go to my personal website, I don't know why, and send it on a comment form. Tony didn't even know this. I get several a week and I don't always mention Tony because some of them have written. So the most obscure books, maybe one chapter is going to be on Hollywood. You know, these publishers are always trying to push the show, so I get it. I get it.

Tony Maietta:
Yeah.

Brad Shreve:
Oh, you know, we get so many requests that we could actually have a guest every week. So we're not going to do that. But let us know if you'd like more.

Tony Maietta:
Yeah. Did you just want to do this with people emailing us, texting us, or d. What do you want to do with this?

Brad Shreve:
You can email us or text us. I think the easiest ways to reach us in general, in general are the texting or voicemail us or sending it to goinghollywoodpodmail.com but what we'd really like you to do is down below in the show notes there is a link to a survey, and we've got a survey there. And we'd love to hear from you. Please do that. Ask you some of the questions that we've asked here and see what you think.

Tony Maietta:
That sounds like a good idea because

Brad Shreve:
we hear from a good many of you, we'd like to hear from more. And we figured this is a good way to do it.

Tony Maietta:
Yes. And as we always say, so very appreciative to everybody for reaching out to us for their comments, for their reviews, for following us. It's so gratifying. It's so gratifying. I'm doing your job, Brad. What you. What you usually do, asking people to tell their friends and, you know, send us emails and review. It's.

Tony Maietta:
It's great. It's great. So that's why we wanted to do this little bottle air quotes episode to thank you. And because, you know, this is also a relaxed Tony episode because I don't have 12 pages of notes that I'm trying to fit in in 50 minutes. So that's. That's also fun, too.

Brad Shreve:
This has been fun, and we love hearing from you all, so we'd love to hear more. And next week, we'll be back to our regularly scheduled programming.

Tony Maietta:
Regular scheduled programming. That's true. Well, Brad, I think this was a very short episode, but we needed it because I think our last episode was what, how long was Friends? Oh, my God. But it's okay, you know, that's okay. I love that show. And this is good. This was just like, as I said, our way of catching up and telling everybody. We.

Tony Maietta:
We really appreciate you being there on the other side of this microphone. So I guess there's only one thing left to say, Brad. But I don't want to say it. So let's not say goodbye. Let's say, how you doing? No, I wanted to do that last week, but I forgot.

Brad Shreve:
That's a week late.

Tony Maietta:
I know. So let's not say goodbye. Let's just say au revoir.

Brad Shreve:
No, let's say goodbye.

Tony Maietta:
Goodbye, everybody.