Introducing Magnificent Jerk

Unhappy Hour with Matt Bellassai

Pineapple Street Studios

News, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

On the last day of her grandmother’s life, journalist Maya Lin Sugarman finds a box of forgotten screenplays that sets her on a journey to uncover the truth about their author: her late uncle, Galen. She discovers that he was a leader of a Chinese gang, that he went to jail, and, in a final twist, that he poured his life story into a screenplay that was turned into a ’90s Hollywood action movie…starring Rob Lowe, Burt Rynolds, and Ice-T. Magnificent Jerk is an Apple Original podcast, produced by Pineapple Street Studios. Listen and follow on Apple Podcasts. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Maya Lynn Sugarman. I'm the host of Magnificent Jerk, a new show from Pineapple Street Studios.
0:07.0	I'm excited to tell you all about it.
0:10.0	The story started when I found a box of forgotten screenplays,
0:14.0	written by my late uncle, Galen Yuan.
0:17.0	What was crazy was that Galen had buried all sorts of secrets about his past and my family in these movie scripts.
0:25.0	I discovered that he was the leader of a Chinese gang, that he went to jail for attempted extortion,
0:31.0	and in a final twist, that one of his screenplays was the true story of his life.
0:36.0	And it actually got made into a 1990s Hollywood action movie starring Rob Lowe.
0:42.0	It's called Magnificent Jerk, and I'd love for you to check it out.
0:47.0	I'm going to play you the trailer right now.
0:55.0	There are those movies that are so bad they're good.
0:58.0	And then there are those movies that are just hard to watch bad.
1:02.0	This story starts with one of those.
1:06.0	You know my friend here, Mr. Crazy Six?
1:09.0	Crazy Six? And you're crazy?
1:11.0	A little bit.
1:13.0	Crazy Six is a low budget action thriller from the 90s, about an addict who's trapped in a world of crime.
1:20.0	And it stars a bunch of actors that do not sound like they belong together.
1:24.0	There's Bert Reynolds as a cop, Iced Tea plays a drug dealer, and the hero of the film,
1:30.0	is a strong out Rob Lowe in a fake mustache.
1:34.0	I want to stop smoking rock real bad.
1:38.0	The thing is, that character is supposed to be my uncle.
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