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i grew up a wwf fan. you're from the wwe. >> e. >> anthony: is there any beef between wwf and wwe?y, junkyard dog, andre the giant -- >> john morocco, the iron chic, all those guys. all we did is get the "f" out. [ laughter ] >> anthony: is that what happened? >> yeah, we spent a lot of money on market research to add a bottom thing to the "f" for an "e." >> anthony: it's the same thing? >> same thing. >> anthony: everybody at home, wwe is the wwf. [ applause ] >> wwf is the wwe. [ cheers and applause ] >> anthony: okay. now there are a lot of rats in this movie. how many rats are in this movie, margot? well, we have a couple of he good actors. we have a rat by the name of jaws who we worked with a lot. then a rat by the name of chris pratt -- [ laughter ] named after my friend, chris pratt, of course. they were our main acting rats. they played sebastian the rat in the movie. then we have about 300,000 animated rats. >> i had a pet rat when we did the first movie, so cool, i'm good with this. >> anthony: i'm glad you brought that up. you have had a pet rat, it seems your pet rat h
i grew up a wwf fan. you're from the wwe. >> e. >> anthony: is there any beef between wwf and wwe?y, junkyard dog, andre the giant -- >> john morocco, the iron chic, all those guys. all we did is get the "f" out. [ laughter ] >> anthony: is that what happened? >> yeah, we spent a lot of money on market research to add a bottom thing to the "f" for an "e." >> anthony: it's the same thing? >> same thing. >> anthony:...
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the day that he left us, still got teary eyed when he would talk about how you took care of him at a wwfstory and just tears would just well in his eyes, so, i still want to thank you for sharing that moment with my father, man, and my family, that really meant a lot to us. so thank you. [ cheers and applause ] >> you know -- i want to -- let me just say this, anthony, first of all, you're welcome, and, you know, you get lucky if, in our business, or in life, if you have friends who you can count on with your hand, especially, though, in our business, because it's such a transient business, you're in and you're out in terms of hollywood. but we've known each other for almost 20 years, you've always been a great guy, you've always been a great friend and when my dad passed away last year, you called me and you told me what i was going to be feeling and you offered your brotherhood and i love you for that, so thank you. >> anthony: thank you, brother, thank you, man. [ cheers and applause ] you and emily blunt have some great chemistry in this film. was that strictly acting on her part? or
the day that he left us, still got teary eyed when he would talk about how you took care of him at a wwfstory and just tears would just well in his eyes, so, i still want to thank you for sharing that moment with my father, man, and my family, that really meant a lot to us. so thank you. [ cheers and applause ] >> you know -- i want to -- let me just say this, anthony, first of all, you're welcome, and, you know, you get lucky if, in our business, or in life, if you have friends who you...
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wwf at the time.ter and bring you back to -- [ laughter ] i bring you back to life the priest >> both very good. >> uh, what did you wear >> jimmy: uh, here's -- well, i made it out of cardboard, like poster board like, the little -- the priest's, uh -- the thing. >> the collar. >> jimmy: the collar but i didn't actually have a a full on uniform. but if i did, it would be that and a robe but then when i got in the ring, i would take the robe off and i would have just the collar and maybe two little things almost like a little chippendale's down there [ laughter ] >> play out music? >> jimmy: i was thinking cathedral organ. [ laughter ] like full on church lady >> yeah. >> jimmy: like -- yeah and people would go announce that the priest is here. and i would come out with incense. [ laughter ] doing the thing, and i think that people would be totally into it. uh -- the priest >> was this something you shared with your friends i assume you watched wrestling with friends your age. is this -- >> jimmy: i d
wwf at the time.ter and bring you back to -- [ laughter ] i bring you back to life the priest >> both very good. >> uh, what did you wear >> jimmy: uh, here's -- well, i made it out of cardboard, like poster board like, the little -- the priest's, uh -- the thing. >> the collar. >> jimmy: the collar but i didn't actually have a a full on uniform. but if i did, it would be that and a robe but then when i got in the ring, i would take the robe off and i would have...
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jordan at the olympics on the brink of becoming michael jordan, magic and byrd, martina navratilova, the wwfre's something symbolic about that. you have the karate kid, something to do between gigs, got to go to california, ride around gocarts. nobody thought it would be the movie, 37 years ago we would be talking about. it is symbolic of that summer. at the time in 1984, didn't seem like a transformative summer. you mention all that packed into the 90 day interval four decades later. it was a pivotal, pivotal summer. >> i remember the olympics. i was nine years old. it was a big deal they were in los angeles, the boycott from the soviets. looking back now, how important were the games? >> they were tremendously important as a business model. you're right. this was the height of cold war, reagan mid '80s, soviets weren't coming. all got free food from mcdonald's. when americans medalled, we got burgers, fries, cokes. it opened bidding and competitive sponsorships. we have olympics in tokyo yes, because of simone biles and commercial interests, l.a. games spat off the surplus, profit. $250 bi
jordan at the olympics on the brink of becoming michael jordan, magic and byrd, martina navratilova, the wwfre's something symbolic about that. you have the karate kid, something to do between gigs, got to go to california, ride around gocarts. nobody thought it would be the movie, 37 years ago we would be talking about. it is symbolic of that summer. at the time in 1984, didn't seem like a transformative summer. you mention all that packed into the 90 day interval four decades later. it was a...
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lancaster: if you look at data provided by wwf, global witness, and eia, you find that not only are we going into a record-breaki year of land defenders murdered to protect their forest and environment, the u.s. economy is depressed by about $1 million due to illegal logging imports, and illegal logging is the third-largest trans-national crime. goddard: a tree, in fact, is more complex than we know. it has more chromosomes than we have. it can easily be a victim because it may be illegal to take that species, depending on what genus and species it is or where it's located. lancaster: trees can be poached just as any sort of traditional wildlife can be poached. if you can't identify it, you can't protect it, and so our goal is really to develop a database that can be used, hopefully one day, by anybody in the world in order to do this sort of identification to help them fight illegal logging. huff: a lot of cases we've had, it's very difficult to prove that wood was obtained illegally once it gets processed in a mill or once it's removed from the national forest. basically, we have a s
lancaster: if you look at data provided by wwf, global witness, and eia, you find that not only are we going into a record-breaki year of land defenders murdered to protect their forest and environment, the u.s. economy is depressed by about $1 million due to illegal logging imports, and illegal logging is the third-largest trans-national crime. goddard: a tree, in fact, is more complex than we know. it has more chromosomes than we have. it can easily be a victim because it may be illegal to...