Pop the Trunk Episode 23: Bronx Bombers (Jaÿ-Z’s Record Breaking Yankee Stadium Residency)
In Loving Memory of Kristine Barlam aka “Krissy”.
before diving into the main event, Billy has some explaining to do after coming back from a three-day meditation retreat. Then, the guys jump into Jay-Z's record-breaking Yankee Stadium residency, the surprise guests, an old beef finally squashed, and what it means for hip-hop's legacy artists getting their touring moment. plus: Michael Bay movies, crying at Armageddon, and whether Wu-Tang can still sell out anywhere.
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Jermall Charlo has fought twice since 2021.
Stephen Fulton three times since 2023.
You can’t develop professional habits if you aren’t consistently working on your profession.
Common sense.
This has always been one of the biggest of many flaws in the modern boxing model.
In nearly every small town in America, there’s a shop that has sold hoagies and beer for 40 years. They do not do social media, owner barely knows how to work a computer, no website but they are still going strong. These will disappear soon as the boomer generation fades
6 months removed, with another mediocre performance behind him, I still don’t know how Josh Kelly beat Bakhram Murtazaliev. all sizzle, no steak. Boots is somewhere salivating at the prospect of that unification fight getting made. It’ll be his easiest win at 54. Kelly is FOOD for Boots. #boxing #JoshuaPrenga
If boxing had real oversight, it would suspend Stephen Fulton for a year or so. Or better yet, it wouldn't have allowed this enabling the past few years to even have gotten to this point... #boxing
The police lineup in The Usual Suspects was originally meant to be played completely straight. Instead, the cast kept cracking jokes and making each other laugh, leaving 26-year-old director Bryan Singer struggling to keep control of the set.
According to Gabriel Byrne, it all started when Stephen Baldwin improvised the line, “Give me the fucking keys, you fucking cocksucker, motherfucker,” in a wild, manic fashion.
Byrne said, “When he did that, we all cracked up because it was just so funny.”
But that was just the beginning. According to Benicio del Toro:
“All I remember is that someone farted. And no one knew, no one knew who was the guilty party.”
However Kevin Pollak remembered things quite differently:
“The now Academy Award-winning Benicio del Toro farted like 12 takes in a row. And we could not stop laughing. Even when he stopped, finally. It wasn’t the words, really, that were emoting from this now Academy Award-winning actor, as much as it was the gas that was escaping from his ass.”
Kevin Spacey:
“That just literally opened the floodgates. And then Steven went, and I went, and we all laughed. And then we tried to control ourselves, and then we cut, and then we started again, and it happened again, and it happened all morning.”
Benicio del Toro:
“I think Gabriel is the one who gave you this feeling that he was the most serious of them all. When he cracked up, I knew we were, like, in trouble—cause if he’s cracking up, I’m not gonna be able to stop…”
Kevin Spacey:
“So at lunch, Bryan was very frustrated, and he was—I would say—even a little angry. And so there was a meeting that was called of all of us, and Bryan really chewed us out. He chewed us out quite seriously, that we were really fucking up his movie and that we better pull our act together.”
Kevin Pollak:
“And that was like telling children not to laugh in church. And so we went back to work after lunch and proceeded to laugh even harder, if not more uncontrollably—and felt bad about it, but couldn’t help ourselves.”
Kevin Spacey:
“I don’t think he ever got a take where we weren’t in hysterics.
And then Bryan did a brilliant thing, which is that he took it and he used it. He took our hilarity and our unrelenting unprofessionalism that day, and he incorporated it into the film.”
Stephen Baldwin:
“I said, ‘But you can’t use that in the movie.’ I said, ‘Because we weren’t, you know, we weren’t performing.’
And he said to me—and I’ll never forget Bryan saying this to me—he said, ‘Yeah, but, you know, in that moment of humor between these guys, we see a certain humanity.
‘We see that they’re just people and they’re friends. There’s a bonding that actually is transpiring between them in that moment.’”
Kevin Pollak:
“And to Bryan’s credit, when he got into editing, he realized that by them laughing, and by allowing himself to stray from what was originally intended, it showed an instant camaraderie. And it’s another way to say ‘fuck you’ to the cops.”
Ben Affleck's mother Chris Affleck passed today. I was unaware of her longstanding activism for Palestine. Now his disgust and revulsion at genocidal Zionist Bill Maher and Sam Harris's deranged racist Islamophobic rants makes perfect sense. RIP, you raised a good son.