9 episodes
Magnificent Jerk Apple TV+
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- Society & Culture
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4.8 • 22 Ratings
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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 Reynolds, and Ice-T.
Magnificent Jerk is an Apple Original podcast, produced by Pineapple Street Studios. Listen and follow on Apple Podcasts.
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The Screenplay
Maya goes to visit her dying grandmother. While there, she’s given a box that sends her on a mission to discover her family’s biggest secrets and their connection to Rob Lowe, Burt Reynolds, and Ice-T.
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沙塵 (saa cen)
Growing up in Oakland’s Chinatown, Galen Yuen was known for getting into trouble. But was he capable of murder? Maya ventures into her uncle’s past to learn the truth about a violent gang war and how it influenced his Hollywood screenplay.
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Choo Choo Cherry
A recording reveals the crime that would ultimately put Galen in jail. But how bad did things need to get before it was time for him to make a change? Fiction becomes reality when Maya discovers the real-life love interest from his screenplay.
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Lowlife No. 1
Maya traces Galen’s surprising move to Hollywood to become an actor. And she learns that his greatest asset in this new world is his past.
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Bratislava
Deep in Slovakia, a ragtag team of filmmakers do their best to create a high-octane action film. Maya finally learns how her uncle’s story was whitewashed.
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Chasing the Dream
Galen takes the helm as a director in a final bid for success. Maya revisits his other scripts and realizes what he was trying to say all along.
Magnificent Jerk is an Apple Original podcast, produced by Pineapple Street Studios. Follow and listen on Apple Podcasts.
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Customer Reviews
Unique and powerful
It’s not the twists and turns that make this so riveting (although it’s a story that’s so remarkable you wouldn’t believe it if it were told as fiction), it’s the care and love that clearly went into every moment. Major respect to the writer and host, who made each episode with such thoughtful choices of narration, interviews, editing and music. Wonderful stuff. Thanks for sharing.
Amazing
You wouldn’t believe this story unless you knew it was actually true! Addictive listening.
Gripping & Intrigueing
A really great story that just sounds a bit implausible at times but so what. Unbelievably thoughtful and eloquent contributions from some of the protagonists unearthed to contribute to a varied set of voices, sounds and storytelling techniques that all come together rather well. A binge listen!