Introducing Magnificent Jerk

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4.1 • 1.2K 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.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Dan Tabersky.
0:02.0	I'm here back in the feed to tell you about a new Apple original podcast that was produced
0:06.0	by my colleagues at Pineapple Street Studios.
0:08.7	The show is called Magnificent Jerk, and the story begins when writer Maya Lynn Shugerman
0:13.9	finds a box of screenplays that it turns out were written mysteriously by her late uncle,
0:20.4	and that leads to some digging to find out more.
0:23.7	Maya discovers that he was a leader of a Chinese gang, and that he went to jail.
0:28.4	And best of all, she discovers that he funnels all his crazy life stuff into a screenplay
0:33.0	that was turned into a 1990s Hollywood action movie starring Roblo.
0:37.5	Wanna know more?
0:39.2	Here's a little peek at the truly wild story of Magnificent Jerk.
0:45.1	There are those movies that are so bad they're good, and then there are those movies that
0:49.7	are just hard to watch bad.
0:52.6	This story starts with one of those.
0:56.6	You know my friend here, Mr. Crazy Six?
0:59.0	Crazy Six?
1:00.0	And you're crazy?
1:01.0	A little bit.
1:02.8	Crazy Six is a low budget action thriller from the 90s, about an addict who's trapped
1:08.2	in a world of crime, and it stars a bunch of actors that do not sound like they belong
1:13.4	together.
1:14.4	There's Bert Reynolds as a cop, Iced Tea plays a drug dealer, and the hero of the film
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