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00:00a whole bunch of people here give slain a round of applause please actor rapper all around good

00:05guy i think still everyday listener of the show but i don't know we haven't spoken in a while i'm

00:09a regular listener okay regular listener i'm pretty busy nowadays so i don't always get to

00:13listen to the radio all right well we are we're courtney is um obsessed with the town so we should

00:20probably get that out of the way no obsessed doesn't even begin santo and i watch the town

00:24at least three times a week and he texts me like slain's coming on the show today i'm like yeah

00:29we are constantly 551 bunk hill street come by anytime that is it's the most quotable movie of

00:35all time it's a piece of art i'll only give me your first names oh so good i mean is that is that the

00:42film that you get asked about the most absolutely yeah yeah i mean i get recognized from the town in

00:47like russia i've had people in germany like scream across the street yeah yeah yeah um it is uh and

00:54uh i mean you might get asked about the joker although uh people are probably asking for their

00:59money back yeah joker 2 definitely uh didn't get as well received as we'd hoped but yeah i'm still

01:08proud to be in it man i thought i thought it was i think five ten years from now people are going to

01:12look at it a different way you do i do because i think you know it's a 200 million dollar art film

01:18and people wanted an action movie you know they want a superhero movie and it's i heard you guys

01:24talking on the show earlier about liam hendrix and all that yeah and to me that's what the movie's

01:28about it's about rage in america and how we kind of put these mentally ill people on a pedestal and

01:35we're rooting for the worst outcome like we want the joker to blow up gotham yeah and i think this movie

01:41didn't deliver on that instead of turning the mirror on the audience so i think people don't like that

01:46people don't like to yeah we want to see batman we want that element of the joker you know the

01:51introduction of where's batman because the joker character you know is like the arch uh enemy of

01:58batman and when there's kind of like no real batman i'm like what are we doing here you know it's like

02:03a musical but i think um i think todd phillips to his credit the guy has balls like to do that when i

02:09so i went and saw that movie at venice it was in the venice film festival and i had another one there

02:14called king ivory and when i saw him he's like you ready and i was like yeah man he's like

02:20we'll see how it goes you know like yeah it's uh it doesn't cater to the audience so he knew that

02:26it was it was an artistic swing and i respect him for it yeah but you feel like in five ten years

02:31people will look back and say that movie meant something i do because it was it's definitely it's

02:37a statement movie yeah artistic statement i love that statement you just made that we put mentally

02:41ill people on a pedestal and we celebrate the demise of success like it used to be when i don't

02:46know how old you are probably around the same age growing up it was american idol like everybody wanted

02:51to be a celebrity because they wanted to achieve something and then at a certain point in the mid

02:552010s i don't know the exact reason i don't know the exact day we were we celebrated victims yeah and

03:01got angry at success well it was reality tv right it was like the onslaught of reality tv and then social

03:08media where everybody's a reality show on social media everybody has this platform so i think you

03:13know getting back to what you were saying earlier in the show people feel empowered to reach out to

03:18anybody and just be nasty anonymously right and uh you know you're talking about a mental health crisis

03:25the that was something that i struggled with what liam hendrix was and this is early in my career like

03:31and i remember p i used to track people down and chin check them

03:34you know and then you realize like once it becomes too big you can't chin check everybody

03:40you can't track everybody down it's not good for your own well-being and um what i started realizing

03:45is people experience the world the way they feel about themselves so when someone's saying like

03:51i hope you die they're really saying that about themselves so like if someone's saying you suck

03:56basically put the i in front of it they're really saying i suck and that took the power out of it

04:01for me yeah yeah that's really good you know that's a great way to put it um you brought up

04:05king ivory um i don't know when that when does that film come out that comes out in the fall so

04:10that was a small indie movie we did it's with ben faust and melissa leo a lot of great actors it's

04:14about fentanyl in america and we shot it for three million dollars it ended up getting into the

04:19bennis film festival and it just got major distribution so it comes out in the fall and

04:23i think 1500 screens yeah um and that explores kind of uh the opiate epidemic yeah and from from

04:31the cartel stage to the people selling it and i play a cop who's the i play the main character james

04:37badgerdale's partner and his son gets addicted to family so it's uh you know there's several stories

04:44kind of yeah colliding and i know wiggy wants to talk about running man um and so that i i'm i have

04:52an issue sometimes on the remakes yeah um but tell me why i should be happy that this film is being

04:59well i was just talking to wiggy off air about it a little bit and it's not really a remake of

05:04the original movie i think that let you down yeah yeah a little bit okay yeah i think it's more based

05:09on it's actually a book written by stephen king he wrote it under a pen name and uh it's a

05:14it's a more updated spin on it but i think it's going to be great it is i went out to london and

05:19you know i was fortunate enough to be part of a just you know a small part of a cool cast yeah

05:24josh brolin's amazing so you know i think you know when him in a movie he's a such a great actor

05:29so i'll watch it just for that two words glenn powell yeah yeah he's a really nice guy really really

05:36yeah most of my stuff was with glenn and uh you know just cool cat i'm a role player man yeah

05:42i go to movies i'm a role player i just get in where i fit in and try to bring my a game to the

05:48smaller roles but it's so uh it's so difficult i never could act but the just think of the cast in

05:54the town and the brilliance you know whether it's john ham or ben affleck i mean it's this

06:00unbelievable collection of oscar-winning great actors and you were able to in your role distinguish

06:08yourself in a way that is so all the memorables i'll take a pinch driving out of there like a

06:14movie that had so many memorable moments with some of the best actors of all time you had the ability

06:19to use your role and stand out i just think it's such a unique thing and a unique skill that you

06:25possess well thank you man thank you i mean you know i think you just try to bring the truth to

06:31whatever that character is and i and i had the advantage like when ben cast me in gone baby gone

06:36it was really just playing like people that i grew up around so it was easy it was it it was an

06:40easy introduction of film and then the town was kind of also a follow-up to that and uh you know

06:46that was my acting school i never went to acting school i never studied to be an actor or anything

06:51like that and ben actually told me if you ever go to acting school i'll never hire you again

06:56what was the most fun movie that you've ever been in probably the town because i was on it for 13 weeks

07:01we had to shoot out we were shooting machine guns in the park yeah i grew up i worked at fenway as a

07:06teenager so but you know i sold sports bars in the audience you know in the crowd and uh sort of walk

07:12in there with the machine gun that was pretty cool if you could if you could only do one would you

07:17prefer to rap or to act well i'm 47 now so i think acts but you got you got new music coming right i do i do

07:26uh i always say like i i do music because i have to it's a coping mechanism it's how i kind of

07:33it's how i navigate through my own mental health issues and all that and see clarity in my life

07:38um but acting is fun yeah you know like i i love acting i love flying out to go shoot a movie and

07:45just posting up and this is part of that this is probably 20 plus years ago because i'm old but

07:51but were you we had house of pain at the burren in somerville uh in advance of the show that dana

08:03white did yeah we did it at uh at the roxy at the time it's the yeah it's the royale now you remember

08:10that yeah how long was that it was a blast it was like that's 2009 yeah got it a long time ago so so

08:17slain i i wanted to ask about like the music element of it being from boston there are a lot

08:26a lot of amazing emcees there are but boston never gets that's it's master of ceremonies

08:33curtis yeah it's mainstream recognition right and when you start to think of like you know some of

08:39the old school artists or even some of the new school artists i remember the edo g and the bulldogs

08:44obviously benzino almighty are so and then we have a little poopy and then you have acrobatic yeah

08:50um i shout out to ak i know he does a sports wrap up yeah i saw you comment on it last week or the

08:56week before you well that that the remake he did over my mind playing tricks on me was yeah it was

09:00crazy and then you got like the the newer younger generation you got guys like millie smoke

09:06eight zip right but it's you know because we're just gonna list artists between no no no because as

09:11as i go other places right i always want to represent especially in the music like you know

09:17these artists are from boston but for whatever reason we never got that mainstream recognition

09:23and and and i know people are gonna go well what about gangsta even though guru was from boston i feel

09:28like because dj premieres from new york it almost felt like maybe it was more of a new york group i think

09:34we got we had our big superstars in r&b we had bobby brown new edition and bbd and all that and then i

09:40think the model of the music business also changed so we have a lot of independent artists right do

09:45very well right and it almost doesn't make sense to sign a major label deal if you have a following

09:51and you're right you're taking in the lion's share of your income yeah why are you gonna go sign with

09:55a major label that's gonna take 90 of everything you make and do you and do you also feel too smart

10:00for that right and do you feel like the difference also is because i always get into arguments with cats

10:06from down south to the boston mcs are way more lyrical when they spit rhymes and a lot of like

10:14some of these radio plays they just want the catchy hook that they can play in the club is that also

10:19part of yeah i think that's true but i also think that we built we built the the whole uh scene up over

10:27here over the years and paved the way for now like millie's to really start to have right he's getting

10:33towards mainstream success and so is bia and cousin stiz we're starting to get some of these successful

10:38artists that have cultivated their careers and and and kind of blown up independently right and then i

10:45think you'll see guys like millies and stiz and these guys eventually you know sign a bigger deal that

10:51will bring them to the next level but you got to do it the smart way right leverage yeah you know may is

10:56mental health month and i know that um that's something that you're really interested in um

11:02when it comes to helping people i am yeah so i just opened up an outpatient program called gram rising

11:08behavioral health uh that was something that i'm it's i'm very passionate about helping people i like

11:16curtis i've heard you talk in the show about being in recovery i've been sober 11 years awesome i had uh

11:22the opportunity to you know to help a lot of people in my early recovery and and kind of see

11:27what resources were available and try to find resources for people and that led me ultimately

11:32to saying you know what i think i could open up a better resource and i opened up a place called

11:36charles river recovery which is a detox it's an inpatient facility about 20 minutes from downtown boston

11:42on the waltham western line and now that's been open for three years and uh just opened up this other

11:48program which really focuses more on anxiety and depression and so that's that what that's what

11:54was really interesting to me is you're focusing there on not as much the the substance abuse part

12:02of it but just the general mental health situation and anxiety which is crazy and people who are or or

12:10crazy out of control with people and um the the issues that people are facing when it comes to just kind

12:16of dealing with everyday stress i think you know it's really breaking the stigma around all of it

12:23right like i think we've done a lot of work with substance use and breaking the stigma we have we all

12:28have people that we love that are alcoholics and and addicts some in recovery some still out sick and

12:33suffering but mental health people tend to think about like those people the people with mental health

12:38problems i think everyone in this room has had a mental health crisis at some point in their lives

12:44and that's what this program focuses on it could be somebody who's dealing with divorce or losing

12:49somebody really close to them or custody issues like that's a lot of the people we see are working

12:54people we have a nighttime program people go to work and then come in and it's kind of like therapy

12:59on steroids you know like a lot of people want to go see a one-on-one therapist but that's like once

13:04a month if you're going through something really hard a program like this can be super beneficial and i feel

13:09like one thing you know pandemic really screwed a lot of crap up i had a weekly meeting that was

13:14the same people for like four years on one day a week but the the in-person detox which is just to

13:22get you so you live and you can wean off of alcohol because if you drink all the time and stop drinking

13:26you could die um and then the behavioral the mental health component it's like people get out of the

13:33detox and they're sober unable to numb things that they want to numb and they're dealing with all the

13:39ramifications of their actions for the first time without the thing they use to soften the blow of

13:44their life and i feel like we just have so under like when you understand the problem as nobody wakes up

13:53like i did at 3 a.m pouring gin into a vitamin zero water bottle to go to work

13:59because that's fun it's the worst embarrassing emasculating thing to do in the world to start

14:04drinking at three in the morning for before you go to work you have to treat the cause there is a

14:10reason you are doing this there's a reason you're shooting up there's a reason you're doing whatever

14:16and it's not just that you want to get high or you want to get drunk the part that is important about

14:21the group and the daily thing from my perspective is that when it was really bad for me i drank by myself

14:27and so to find a community it's a connection it gives you something to look forward to that you're

14:31not alone and you can actually have things that are better now than they were when you think back

14:36to the days of your drinking or whatever the source the system the uh substance you were yeah you hit

14:41it right on the head i mean you take you take the the alcohol away from you haven't solved my problem

14:46my problem is just beginning right now i have my solution to my problems which is the alcohol that's

14:50what gets me through right so now i need a new solution it's also interesting when it comes to the mental

14:55health aspect and i'm so happy that you're focusing on that because just like having an

14:59addiction like it doesn't discriminate we talk about it a lot on this show i'm somebody who's

15:03super anxious i'm medicated for it and it i've i've had everything in my life given to me i know that

15:09i'm very lucky but it it's a it's a brain chemistry thing that i can't figure out and so i overthink

15:16everything i'm an overthinker but there are so many people who feel like i have everything in my life that

15:20i would want why do i feel this way and they feel a shame that comes along with it so destigmatizing

15:25it for anybody no matter what you're going through is so important because people can get help yeah

15:30people think mental health and they think it's like the guy who has 19 personalities and he's talking to

15:35the wall or the the dog that doesn't exist and jackson you're talking about that and and that's not the

15:42case i mean you know we all have our stuff that we struggle with well listen it's awesome that you're

15:47doing it how to yeah keep it up man how do people get information on it um uh grand rising

15:53behavioralhealth.com okay awesome thank you um running man comes out comes out november king

16:00ivory comes out in september okay and uh and i have a new album called the new state of grace

16:05with static selector that comes out in september as well all right awesome staying busy man

16:11let's get a town too thanks for that oh yeah it's funny i i back in the day i was

16:16hanging with gronk one time and he says uh oh slain like they should make a town too i said yeah

16:22i died in the first one yeah oh good point oh they're not gonna i mean to be fair gronk wanted

16:28a titanic too so ben affleck's character is still alive so you know you never know they're coming out

16:33with a heat too so anything is possible nowadays i mean it is joe missoula's favorite film if i

16:38remember correctly i need a sequel to that yes it is all right slain thank you thank you uh it's uh

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