Sunday Uncensored: Robert Davi & Alex Marlow Member Podcast: Robert Davi Tells Crazy Hollywood Stories And How Pablo Escobar Gave Him Emeralds
Tim & Co join the one and only Robert Davi (Goonies, My Son Hunter) and journalist, Alex Marlow, for a spicy bonus segment usually only available on Timcast.com.
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For those that aren't familiar, this basically means that all the rooms are connected to each other in a row.
So it's like you walk in the living room and there's a bedroom, which is basically a hallway, and then a bedroom, which is basically a hallway, and then maybe a back room.
I was studying with Stella Adler, great acting coach at her school, taking my voice lessons from Samuel Margulies and Dan Farrow from Juilliard, and working at a fruit and vegetable stand at 110th and Broadway.
17th and Broadway, 110th and Broadway. Now I got fired from Fiorello's and I was
making my nut, paying for everything that I had to do, working three days a
week as a waiter.
I went in one night, the guy says, you're fired.
I go, what?
He goes, I've got to let you go.
I go, why?
He goes, you didn't hand in all your checks.
No, he said, you didn't hand in all your checks the other night.
And I then go to... One night, Harry, on my trailer door, you know, a little two-banger, not a big trailer at that time.
He goes, the old man wants to take us to dinner.
I go, okay. He says, yeah, all right. So I go over, get in the car.
In the car is Jilly Rizzo, who was Frank's right-hand guy, like his brother.
Another gentleman who was the...
was a very interesting guy in New York City, okay.
And then Martin Gables and myself and Frank Sinatra.
So we go, and I'm thinking we're going to go to Patsy's Pizzeria at 117th and Broadway or Patsy's at West 54th Street, two of the great places we would go to.
And when I did the Bond film, he was very close to Cubby Broccoli.
Cubby Broccoli produced all the Bond films.
And I used to have lunch with Cubby Broccoli, Frank Sinatra, or dinner, and a guy named Sidney Korshak.
Sidney Korshak was the most powerful man in Hollywood.
He was a lawyer.
And any problem in the world in film, Sidney Korshak could take care of it.
Any studio would get... The legendary story of the Godfather is when they wanted Al Pacino.
Francis Ford Coppola wanted Al Pacino to show you who Sidney Korshak was.
They, uh, Bob Evans, who was the head of Paramount, called a guy named Jim Aubrey, who was called the Smiling Cobra, who I did a TV series for years later, but he was the head of MGM.
He had to call him up because Pacino was signed to a picture that MGM had.
They wanted to have Pacino released from this picture.
So they call him up, Evans calls him up, he says, uh, Jim, I, you got this actor, Al Pacino, I'd like to, Francis Watts, he used him for The Godfather.
You got him for this little film, but our book is number one in the world, it's like, Your film will be worth much more money if you let him do The Godfather first, then the guy goes F you and hangs up the phone.
If you break the law, the government is manipulative.
These guys, so I always felt that, you know, I mean, it's interesting, you know, you don't want to, nobody wants crime and anything else, but there was a certain order, you know, there was a Sicilian, and I'm not denigrating, I mean, there was a code of, there was an actual book written in Sicilian
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A coat of ethics and honor that these old time guys had.
Now what they did is when the young guys came in and they started veering into drugs, that then became another thing.
Because You know, I met Pablo Escobar.
Oh yeah, how'd that go?
Yeah, when I did the Bond film.
I'm in the Amazon rainforest.
When I filmed in the favelas and I filmed in the Amazon rainforest with the Yanomami Indians, it was the first ecology film with a Finnish film director, Mika Kautismäki.
And we went to Manaus, Boa Vista, Tepicang, and we're in Manaus, which is where the rubber barons built this huge Hotel Trapical.
I mean opulent, unbelievable.
And the Bond film had just come out.
It was getting a lot of attention all over the world and Brazil especially as well.
I felt, you know, you gotta realize, I'll tell you the other story to this,
because there's a certain point where celebrity feels, invincible, it's stupid.
It's a dumb feeling.
It's very dangerous, but it's a dumb feeling.
And I experienced that, so I understand it.
So what happens is, they drive me to a place.
We're in the little dirt road and trees and jungle and all of a sudden this dirt, this tree thing goes like this.
It opens up and then there's another long dirt road and we go and now I'm getting a little nervous and then there's a clearing and guys that is watching and we go and I figure okay and they told me yes Mr. Escobar would like to meet you.
Now, you had heard about me from Beverly Hills because when I did the research, the guy that designed his home in Medellin was a guy that I was researching with.
I was asking questions.
Hence, loyalty is more important to me than money and some other things like that.
So now, I meet Escobar, broken English.
He goes, I like the film.
Very good.
Loyalty is more important to the man.
And this and that.
And the other thing goes, you know, I tell you a little bit about my personality, which would have been interesting in the film.
He says, when I was younger, I wanted to buy a discotheque, Medellin.
I had money, and they wouldn't sell it to me, so I offered them more money.
offered them more money, they wouldn't sell it to me. So what I did is I built the exact
same place across the street and didn't charge for drinks or entrance. I put them out of business.
He goes, that was one interesting idea of personality. He goes, and then I had a house
and I knew this, the Pasafino horses, the You know what those are?
They're the horses that have the gate where the left side, rear, and front go at the same time.
So when they're in the mountains, there's no jiggling, okay?
So he goes, he says, what's interesting, nice colors.
In my house, we would play Lulu, which is like the, I guess, blackjack or card game.
We'd drink aguardiente.
He goes, and then we hear, And we put the cars down, we pick up a drink, and we watch the gate of the Passo Finors coming through the house.
It's interesting.
I mean, and then he gives me a little bag and we talked a little more about stuff.
And I had to tell my friend who knew this story, who was a Special Forces guy, another thing, he says, you've got to tell him this story, that you met Escobar.
Lauren, I got an idea for you because I've been following Robert around for a couple of days and doing tons of publicity and he has a thousand of these stories.
I've heard him tell 400 stories over the last three days and I've only heard him repeat himself once.
There was one time.
There was one time.
But that's it.
Just following Robert around.
We walked into a Nancy O'Dell with a really hot bar and he walks up to the maitre d and he just comes in says two cappuccinos please and it is like there's no cappuccino this is a place where you go for a martini or something like that you're not you're getting a cappuccino here they produce a cappuccino just magically it's like he's got this way with people it's the voice it's the vibe yeah it's the
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Yeah, I had not experienced, thank God, any of that.
It could have been happening behind my back.
I did experience... You know what bothered me about the Me Too movement a bit?
And a certain thing, the culture of Hollywood, that in the eighties You could be, and I was never a druggie, I've had family members that had problems but I was never myself, but you could take a date to a club like the Roxbury they had on Sunset Boulevard or another club and you could be there with her and another girl could come over and the girl could say,
And, you know, for some reason a girl goes, I'll be right back.
And the girl would go, and you would, the girl would go, there would be somebody that had quaaludes that would be giving, the culture was quaaludes, so when you hear about 20 or 40 years later, he drugged me, he did this to me, he did that to me, all of this other stuff, it's kind of... They knew.
There was kind of, some of them did, I'm not saying all of them, but it was an absolute thing that was happening there that the drugs and the and and and it's unfortunate and look at I have six
No, no, no.
I've got a 3-year-old, 21-year-old, 31-year-old, 32-year-old, and 15 and 17 step-daughters.
This is big though, and Tim, I know this comes up in your show a lot because your audience skews younger.
I feel like people, we're almost exactly the same age, that our age and younger, I don't see anyone who's a big success who didn't take what they wanted, who didn't go out there, carve their own path, didn't take no for an answer.
I literally can't think of anything I can think of anything in my life that I'm doing that I didn't just take on my own and and of course you got to get people to buy in and believe in you eventually but it's the it does start with why wait let me bring the resume now this is this is my destiny I'm going to see that it is so and I know there are people in the audience who are thinking about that and is just If this conversation gives you that push to go do something you want to do.
I mean, it's so big.
It's just such a big concept that is lost because you're not learning this in school.
No one's telling you to take what you want in school.
They're telling you to play by the rules, wait for the establishment to tap you in the shoulder, and it doesn't come.
When I was younger, there was a lot of, I don't know what to do, someone's supposed to tell me what to do, and then at a certain point, it wasn't about, someone needs to tell me what to do, I don't know what to do, it was, you're in my way, I'm trying to do something.
But it wasn't like, there was a point where I decided, you know what, I'm gonna take, it was like, I'm a young kid.
I'm skating.
I'm playing music.
And I'm like, I have no idea what's going on, what I'm supposed to do.
And then as I got older, I pursued the things I cared about.
I knew what I was talking about.
And then when it came to things, I was just like, I'm going to go do this.
You're in my way if you don't want.
So like I worked for nonprofits and I'd say, here's what we got to do.
I worked for one within my first week.
I was like on probation for fundraising, you know, trying to sign people up and I sucked.
And then I actually got the job because I had my friend come and pretend to sign up so that I could get in.
And then, but that was it.
I was like, I'm getting this job.
So I need to get three signups in three days.
And on the last day, with like an hour left, I was like, I'm getting this job.
And I called my friends like, hey, show up and sign up for me.
And I'll tell them I did it.
And then signed my front up, got the job.
And a week later, I was the best in the office, signing up like eight people a day.
And then I said I figured it out. It took me about a week.
You wanted people who could naturally do it Well, I figured it out in a week
Here's how to make it better and they said we don't care what you have to say do your job and I said
I'm gonna quit and go work for an office. I went next door after after a month of working there
I went to another company and I said, here's what I'm doing per day
Will you hire me and give me a promotion?
And they said, absolutely.
We're going to steal one of the best people from a rival fundraising non-profit.
And all you want to do, of course we want you in the position.
We want you to train people.
I go to them.
Then after working there, I just decided I'm going to do my own thing with my friends because then we don't got to worry about the middleman.
And then I ended up moving to LA, went to another non-profit and said, I want to be a director.
I want to run the office.
And here's what I want.
I always tell my friends this, but some people just don't have it.
It's not trying to be mean to them, but I tell my friends, I'm like, if you really want it, after you get your job, start looking for another job.
Never stop looking for what it is you want to do.
Because I was like, you need to understand this.
This is what I tell my friends.
When I started working for Vice, people were all excited.
Like, oh man, you're so lucky.
Vice is the best.
And I said, I don't work for Vice.
Vice works for me.
And then when I wasn't getting what I want, I went to the CEO and I said, you promised me this, this, and this.
I'm here.
I'm waiting.
And I'm not going to sit around and wait forever.
Am I going to get what I asked for?
And then he was like, Shane's a cool dude.
He was like, you're right.
We're going to get it done.
A week goes by, I get a little bit, my salary goes up, they give me more things that I'm asking for, and then I'm like, this is good, but I said three things.
So then a month goes by and I go back and I said, you got me this, you kinda got me that, we're still missing this.
And they were like, we're gonna work on it, it takes time, I understand.
And I'm like, and I do too, I know it's business.
And then finally, once I got poached by ABC News and they offered me substantially more money and everything, I went to them and said, I quit.
And they were like, what?
And then they were like, no, no, no, no, no, no.
We're not done yet.
And I was like, yes, we are.
I've come to you three times now telling you what I wanted.
You didn't get it for me.
I quit.
I'm done.
And then one of the C-suite guys is on the phone with me and he's like, Tim, this is not over.
I always had a friend tell me, doing the reading is a superpower.
And it's gotten so bad today that when I apply that, he's like, any show you go on, doesn't matter where, if you just read the article that you've been asked to read by the news program, nine out of ten times you'll blow the other person out of the water that you're debating.
Because there's a good chance they never even touched it.
Yeah, the bad news is the powers that be are not giving young people the tools.
They're not telling them the secrets.
But the good news is if you listen to a show like this or if you're paying attention to people who've made it and you're following Lauren online or Robert, then you are going to be so far ahead of everyone else because You now have the tools.
We're giving you guys the answers right now.
But you do have to deliver the goods, Tim.
You're a huge ball of energy.
You can't come in and demand stuff if you didn't do anything.
You've got to do the tasks at hand.
And then, if your bosses don't answer the call, then doors will open up for you.
Because I know I hire tons of young people.
Anyone who is hungry.
Anyone who comes in thinking, I'm going to make my mark.