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Fitzdog Radio

Eric Roth - Episode 1051

Fitzdog Radio

Greg Fitzsimmons

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.74.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Oscar winning writer of Forrest Gump, A Star is Born, Dune and Killers of the Flower Moon somehow agreed to come on my podcast! Had a great long talk in his home and looked at where creativity comes from.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Fitzdog Radio. What a show today.

0:13.5

A guy who may be the most accomplished, I don't know,

0:17.9

I've had Jed Apetow on,

0:20.3

but this guy is up there in terms of the most accomplished

0:24.8

human beings I've had on the show Eric Roth who's been nominated for six Academy Awards as a writer. He's won one for Forrest Gump and just an amazing great guy talked to him a few weeks ago at his house and we just kept going we couldn't stop I had to stop because I didn't want to take his time. I feel

0:45.1

very self-conscious once I go past an hour with somebody who I know has got a lot going on.

0:51.6

I mean, Jesus Christ, when I've got, you know

0:55.0

Jimmy Pardo on we can cut a record we can cut a record we can go for a few hours

1:00.0

neither one of us is going anywhere. I'm kidding, Jimmy. I'm kidding.

1:06.0

Stayed up late last night. We started binging the John Bon Jovi

1:10.0

uh, docu series. I don't know if you've seen that,

1:14.0

but it's like, you know, it reminds me the old VH1

1:17.0

behind the music episodes where you get to see the band

1:21.0

start out, he's 16 16 he's playing on fucking

1:25.0

on the Jersey shore at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park

1:31.0

and he's doing Bruce Springsteen covers and who comes on stage and sings with him?

1:36.1

The Juice, Bruce Springsteen.

1:40.0

And was he the juice?

1:45.0

What did they call Bruce Springsteen?

1:47.0

Maybe the juice. Anyway, he comes up on saying,

1:49.0

just a crazy magical beginning where he's this good-looking guy who pulls together a bunch of

1:55.9

ragtag players and they become the biggest selling rock band in the world and

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