My Vintage Movie Theater Owner - Judy Kim

Summary

Tosh Show: My Vintage Movie Theater Owner – Judy Kim
Release date: July 21, 2026
Host: Daniel Tosh | Guest: Judy Kim (Owner, Gardena Cinema)

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Daniel Tosh welcomes Judy Kim, the owner of Gardena Cinema—the last classic, family-owned, single-screen movie theater in Los Angeles. Through a candid, comedic, and often heartfelt conversation, Tosh and Judy explore the challenges and triumphs of running a historic cinema, the immigrant experience, familial obligations, small business survival, and the evolving landscape of movie-going.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Judy’s Background & Early Life

• First-Generation Immigrant Experience:
  Judy describes growing up as the child of Korean immigrants. "It's like having a day job and a night job. You go to school all day as an American kid, then come home and you’re living a Korean lifestyle," she recalls. (18:06)
• Translating for Parents:
  Since age 3, Judy often acted as an interpreter for her parents, reflecting the typical challenges faced by immigrant families.
• Work Ethic:
  Judy acknowledges inheriting her father’s tireless work habits: "I've always had more than one job too." (19:26)
• Humor on Cultural Gaps:
  Tosh jokes about real estate ambitions: "How is Sears doing?" after Judy’s father mentions his dream to buy Sears. (18:58)

Gardena Cinema’s Family Journey

• Acquisition of Theater:
  Judy's parents made an offer for the theater in 1975 and closed in 1976. Property and parking lot were acquired in phases over ensuing decades.
• Early Work at the Cinema:
  Judy’s first job was at age four, cleaning ashtrays with a slotted spoon. She notes, "Back in the days when you could smoke inside the movie theaters. Do you remember those days?" (21:14)
• Personal Sacrifice & Responsibility:
  Judy left California for college and lived in D.C. but returned at her parents' request: "I'm a filial daughter. I never rebelled against my parents. It’s just the path of least resistance." (22:00)

Surviving Hard Times

• Family Hardship:
  Judy shares that the family lost their house and car to foreclosure and repossession after being conned twice. "We moved into the theater... it was the last thing we still had." (24:08)
• Negotiating with Banks:
  A vivid anecdote covers how the family negotiated with banks to keep the theater afloat, sometimes having to deliver $10,000 in cash on short notice. (24:54)

The Evolving Business of Movie Theaters

• Shifting Movie Strategies:
  • From first-run mainstream movies to specialty programming and themed nights, adjusting to what draws crowds.
  • "We learned in 1995, let’s just show like Disney and anything PG-13 or lower. The few R-rated movies we played were like 'Heat'." (32:50, 00:28)
• Survival Tactics in the 70s/80s:
  Many single-screen theaters survived by showing either porn or Spanish-language films. Judy’s family chose the latter, running sex comedies in Spanish: "People thought we were a porn theater..." (34:32–35:12)
• COVID-19 Pivot:
  Judy describes converting their hard-won parking lot into a makeshift drive-in during the pandemic, battling technical hurdles with inflatable screens. (26:35–27:14)
• Volunteers Keeping the Cinema Alive:
  The modern iteration of Gardena Cinema is community-run: "I have almost 100 volunteers now... but that doesn’t seem like a sustainable business plan." (35:24–35:45)
  • Volunteers help in all aspects, but scheduling is a challenge due to turnover and lack of obligation.

Notable Community & Industry Figures

• Sean Baker Connection:
  Baker (director and Oscar-winner) became involved after learning about the theater’s financial struggles and donating money to cover property taxes. Judy honors him annually with a "Sean Baker Weekend":
  "I call it Sean Baker Weekend. And we just celebrated the third annual." (44:09)
• Indie and Local Artists Support:
  Judy talks about showing local indie productions (including a film by the band Inner Wave) and organizing community-centric events. (30:15)

Cinema Logistics & Personal Anecdotes

• Behind the Scenes:
  Judy juggles every job: ticketing, concessions, technical issues, cleaning, and handling volunteers.
• Ticket Prices & Events:
  Standard movie ticket is $12, while punk band or special event nights can run $40–$60. (38:07–38:25)
• Popcorn and Movie Snacks:
  Despite being voted "Best Old School Movie Theater Popcorn," Judy demystifies the hype: "No real butter. Popcorn's popcorn." (38:35–38:56)
• Policies:
  • Outside food: "Hide it. Don’t let me see it." (39:20)
  • Cleaning up: Asks patrons to clean up after themselves. (39:47)
  • Cell phones: Strictly no phones when the movie starts; lights down means phones off. (40:00)

Love, Obligation, and the Future

• Sense of Duty vs. Passion:
  "It’s about 50/50 right now," Judy says regarding running the theater out of love versus obligation. (40:30)
• Exit Strategy & Cultural Promises:
  Her mother made her promise not to sell below a specific (high) price—Judy feels bound to honor it, acknowledging the weight of this cultural/familial obligation. (41:03–41:59)
• Will Single-Screen Theaters Survive?:
  Tosh asks: "Will movie theaters still exist in 50 years?"
  Judy: "Definitely." (54:17)

Daniel Tosh’s Signature Humor

• Regular comedic detours: comparing volunteers to Scientology’s free labor, proposing quirky business ideas (unannounced pee breaks, split-screen movies for parents and kids), and humorous self-deprecation regarding his own shirts and movie-watching habits.
• Clips of banter about "The Whale" movie, and ongoing inside jokes about wardrobe and podcast set life.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "It’s like having a day job and a night job. You go in during the day, you’re going to school... then you go home and you’re speaking in Korean, living a Korean lifestyle in the US."
  – Judy (18:06)

• "Back in the days when you could smoke inside the movie theaters. Do you remember those days?"
  – Judy (21:14)

• "I’m a filial daughter. I never rebelled against my parents. It’s just the path of least resistance."
  – Judy (22:00)

• "I'm not the greatest, but I am quite filial."
  – Judy on her sense of obligation (23:34)

• "We lost our home to foreclosure. We lost our car to repossession. I mean, anything and everything that could possibly happen happened to us."
  – Judy (23:54)

• "I have almost 100 volunteers now... That doesn’t seem like a sustainable business plan."
  – Daniel Tosh (35:24)

• "Popcorn’s popcorn."
  – Judy (38:56)

• "How do you make money? When you’re only picking one movie, it’s a different ballgame..."
  – Daniel Tosh (32:07)

• "The problem with volunteers is that they come when they’re available. So their convenience might not necessarily be my convenience, but I have to be OK with that."
  – Judy (36:14)

• "It’s about 50/50 right now."
  – Judy, on the balance between love and obligation (40:30)

• "My mom made me promise a number [to sell the theater], that I might not be able to get...that's why I'm still here."
  – Judy (40:49)

• "Will movie theaters still exist in 50 years?"
  – Daniel Tosh
  "Definitely."
  – Judy (54:17)

• "Popcorn’s popcorn. Right."
  – Judy (38:56)

• "I would like a random unannounced pee break during a movie. Boom, lights up, 45 seconds, everyone can race to the bathroom."
  – Daniel Tosh (47:24)

• "You’re already non-profit. You’ve got your church."
  – Daniel Tosh, comparing Judy’s operation to a cult-like following (49:28)

• "Long live indie cinema."
  – Back of Judy’s Gardena Cinema merch T-shirt (53:29)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Gardena Cinema’s Early History and Family Hardship .......... [21:07] – [25:55]
• Industry Changes & Movie Selection ................................. [26:05] – [33:16]
• Popcorn, Concessions, and Theater Policies .................. [38:07] – [40:22]
• Volunteers & Community Involvement ............................ [35:24] – [36:14]
• Relationship with Sean Baker ............................................. [42:48] – [44:30]
• Modern Challenges, Grants, and Sustainability ............ [48:21] – [54:17]
• Judy’s Philosophy: Love vs. Duty .................................. [40:30] – [41:59]

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Summary Takeaways

• Judy Kim runs Gardena Cinema on a mix of community love, deep family responsibility, and pure perseverance—the last survivor of a dying breed of single-screen, family-owned theaters.
• Her operation’s heart is powered by volunteers and community support rather than any traditional business model.
• Judy’s personal story, industry insights, and resilience offer a rare look at the intersection of immigrant culture, indie cinema, and LA history—with ample doses of Daniel Tosh’s irreverent humor tying it all together.

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For more, follow Gardena Cinema on Instagram for volunteering and event info, and be on the lookout for specialty screenings, including Tosh’s favorite, Rad; and the yearly Sean Baker Weekend.

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End of summary.

Transcript

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[Daniel Tosh]

do family movies do better?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

They do. We learned in 1995, like, hey, let's just show, like, Disney and anything PG13 or lower. The few R rated movies that I could remember that we played were like Heat. I remember showing Heat.

[Unknown Guest (brief interjection)]

Oh, that's a good.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

That's a good one, right?

[Daniel Tosh]

Oh, it's a good movie.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Yeah.

[Daniel Tosh]

Posh show. Posh show. Posh show for show. Hello and welcome to another episode of Tosh Show. I'm your host, Daniel Tosh. With me, as always, is Eddie Gosling. Eddie, how are you doing?

[Eddie Gosling]

Pretty good there, Daniel, how are you?

[Daniel Tosh]

I'm doing well.

[Eddie Gosling]

I like these new voices we're doing.

[Daniel Tosh]

Not a new voice, Ed.

[Eddie Gosling]

Professional.

[Daniel Tosh]

Very professional. I've never been offered a lot of voiceover work.

[John]

Did a cartoon.

[Daniel Tosh]

What's that?

[John]

I said, you were in a cartoon.

[Daniel Tosh]

I was in one. I said, I haven't been offered a lot.

[Eddie Gosling]

Make the show.

[Daniel Tosh]

And by the way, just so you a little, Little Brickleberry history. When I came aboard that show, my one condition was that I would not voice a character. And then when we sold the show to Comedy Central, they're like, well, we're only going to do it if you voice a show. And I will like. And I said, I'll do the bear. And they're like. And they're like, the bear doesn't talk. And I'm like, I know. And then they're like, well, now the bear talks.

[Eddie Gosling]

Ah, they got you.

[Daniel Tosh]

I want people at home to know before they start commenting that I hate this shirt that I'm wearing. Okay? Carrie, she picks out some wardrobe for me to wear on the pod. And she'll pick out 20 or so looks, and she puts them on a rack, she steams them, and they're ready to go. Sometimes there's some instructions like, hey, where have you a T shirt under this? Yeah, whatever. And once I get through 18 of them, I call her and say, hey, I only have two looks left. Let's. You got to come back in and put some more clothes in here?

[Eddie Gosling]

Yep.

[Daniel Tosh]

But this is. This is number. This is number 20.

[Eddie Gosling]

Yeah.

[Daniel Tosh]

This is the last one I've. I've begrudgingly was like, oh, I hope I don't ever have to wear it. And today was the day I had to put it on.

[Eddie Gosling]

It looks odd, but. How's it feel?

[Daniel Tosh]

No, it feels horrible. It's shiny. It feels plasticky. I don't. It doesn't breathe. I could definitely see some chafing happening on my nips. No, it's not good. It's not good. The patches are like, they're really sewn on. They're thick and bulbous. It's just a bad shirt. Well, I can't wait to give it away.

[Eddie Gosling]

Oh, yeah.

[Daniel Tosh]

This doesn't usually make it to the re. Gifting. This is something that I try to pawn off. As soon as we say we're done, I try to get Dylan to put it on because he's usually tipsy. He's like, it looks good as awesome.

[Eddie Gosling]

Bad. You got it on backwards.

[John]

Little long.

[Daniel Tosh]

Speaking along movies, right. You know, too long. I have developed a hack lately when it comes to watching movies because I watch too much sports and I don't watch my sports until the family is asleep at night. So now movies has become impossible for me to catch up on. Oh, have you seen this? I'm like, I've never seen it. So what I started doing is I watched the trailer to a movie because I find trailers to be kind of entertaining.

[Eddie Gosling]

Yeah.

[Daniel Tosh]

You know, especially if you. If you've got like an extended trailer on Apple TV and you get like a two and a half minute trailer. And then I just go online and I have. Then I look up how the movie ended.

[Eddie Gosling]

So you kind of get the whole movie then.

[Daniel Tosh]

Right. So I, I know everything that happened. I got the joy of, oh, that was good. And then sometimes when I'm satisfied with how it ended, I'm like, I wish I would have watched that movie in its entirety. I bet you that was probably good. But what's done is done. Yeah, it's the. The information is in my head. I know what happened.

[Eddie Gosling]

You got to feel how it shot with the director and everything.

[Daniel Tosh]

This was. This stems really from my frustration with like M. Night Shyamalan esque movies. Those trailers are so captivating. And you're just like, oh, that. I have to know how that ends, you know? But it's never worth it when you're watching it. You're like, oh, good God, who cares where the village is located? So that's where that's where this came about. But now it's. I find it to be a foolproof system. I go to the theaters. I just sit in the beginning part for the trailers. And then I look up how they ended in the lobby while everybody's watching the movie.

[Eddie Gosling]

That's great. I didn't know you're actually going to.

[Daniel Tosh]

No, no, I still give the movies the money. Yeah, you gotta support the cinema. But I'm getting to watch eight movies for the price of one ticket.

[Eddie Gosling]

And you're out.

[Daniel Tosh]

I do wanna say what movie I just watched in its entirety. And it's three years past it being the movie that people talked about.

[Eddie Gosling]

Right.

[Daniel Tosh]

I watched the Whale with. What's his name? From Encino Man.

[Eddie Gosling]

Brendan Fraser.

[Daniel Tosh]

No. Pauly Shore. Oh, guys, stepping on my joke so quickly. No, with that Brendan Fraser. And it was. It was. It was good. I thought it was a good movie. It was depressing. The thing that I was confused about with, like, so his lover who had killed himself and toward the end was, like, having a starvation diet because it was torn between his gay lust and the church. The guilt of the church, by the way. Spoiler alert. But what was frustrating about the movie, and then Brendan's like, well, I'm gonna do the opposite. I'm just going to eat everything. Because my lover didn't eat. But it was almost how he ate. Like, I understand being morbidly obese, but, like, you don't have to, like, stack three slices of pizza on top of each other like Cookie Monster. You don't start eating like that.

[Eddie Gosling]

Yeah, you can have one slice at a time.

[Daniel Tosh]

You can have one slice at a time and just eat a nice large or two larges or whatever you want.

[Eddie Gosling]

Just longer it goes.

[John]

Longer large.

[Daniel Tosh]

I just. I just felt like the way they were, like, making the food go down was a bit like. It looked like those mukbang videos. Like, okay, all right. We're just throwing food at her face. At this point. I thought that his daughter was amazing. Like, just the. The hatred that I felt for how she was talking to him. Oh, I just like, oh, you bitch. You know? Of course she was going through trauma and she was abandoned by her father. But that was the ridiculous part of it. You. You just can't. You just can't create a scenario for me where I'm going to abandon my daughter at 7, who I still love. And the one fault that everyone says about me is that I just see the good in everyone and I'm not going to have any visitation or relationship with My daughter. He's a writer. He's a professor for. You're not going to just write a thousand letters a week to your daughter so that she knows that, yes, you do in fact, have unconditional love for her forever. No matter what you go through. That's not going to. That part of it bothered me. You just. And I get it, the story needed that to happen, but I didn't. I don't believe it. I don't believe that the character that he became and was still, you know, doing all these things. I don't believe that he wouldn't force a relationship with his daughter who lived in this shitty town that he still lived in. Did you watch that movie, John?

[John]

Yeah, I watched it.

[Daniel Tosh]

How is he. How is he not gonna have a relationship with that daughter?

[John]

I tell you the truth, I can't really remember it.

[Daniel Tosh]

Oh, you can't remember it? It's too long. It doesn't matter. Spoiler alert. He dies at the end. Or does he? Because the last scene, we just see him floating in the air. I think they could be setting up a sequel where he is the largest superhero that we've ever seen. So when they called the movie the Whale, that was a double entendre, because it was about the book report Moby Dick that his daughter wrote, but also that he was large, like a whale.

[Eddie Gosling]

That's why he eats so many pieces at once.

[Daniel Tosh]

I mean, there were some other things that were frustrating, but it was a

[John]

triple entendre because you're going to cry in it. You're going to wail.

[Daniel Tosh]

That's spelled different, though, of course, but it's okay. Don't. Don't come at me with that stuff, John. I know how to spell some words.

[Eddie Gosling]

Don't come at me.

[Daniel Tosh]

The Whale. So I am looking forward to the sequel to the Whale, which will be coming out soon.

[Eddie Gosling]

The Whale two.

[Daniel Tosh]

The Whale, too.

[Eddie Gosling]

Just say, too.

[Daniel Tosh]

Okay. Why did I watch the Whale?

[John]

Yes.

[Daniel Tosh]

Okay. This is the real reason. Because I was on tour and none of our apps or the satellite worked once we left the country and we were in Canada on the bus, and I'm stuck in the bus. So I ended up just being able to watch what was ever on this Samsung hard drive. The TV kind of had, like, five things that you could watch from.

[John]

What were the other ones?

[Daniel Tosh]

The other movies? Yeah, the Godfather. Still haven't seen it? No, I have no idea what the other ones were. I just remember going, all right, I'll just start this.

[Eddie Gosling]

I, like, just came out. I'm watching the Whale right now. I was like, what?

[Daniel Tosh]

So I'm watching it on some free version of whatever the brand of TV is that's pre programmed in there. And then on top of this, it has commercials every 10 minutes. And the volume that the commercials came out was so much louder than what the depressing whale was set at. And so it's just, it was hard for me to stay emotionally riveted. But also I was watching it over the course of, you know, a few days on the road, in between shows, etc.

[John]

The way it was intended to be.

[Daniel Tosh]

The whale was, is not, was not intended to be watched in between stand up performances.

[Eddie Gosling]

No, it's not at all.

[Daniel Tosh]

A lot of people put on like a headset and they get into a good groove, like maybe something upbeat. I like to have the most depressing movie ever penned, you know, on some free Samsung device.

[Eddie Gosling]

You're like, when you were like, I'm gonna go finish the whale, I was like, oh my God, you're still watching the whale.

[Daniel Tosh]

Yeah. It took a while, but I got through it and I enjoyed it. Sometimes I feel like I could be the whale and I'll tell you what I mean. Yeah, I get up slowly. Like he does, like sometimes, like for me to get out of a chair, I'm just like, oh, oh. Like it's just so much work. I'm like doing this so that. And I could easily never leave my home again. Like, if you could give me. There's parts of his life that seemed appealing to me.

[Eddie Gosling]

Okay.

[Daniel Tosh]

But when he was jerking off in the beginning to the gay pornography, he wasn't jerking off into anything. So that, that load just like just went into one of the folds, right? Or just on the floor because his poor, his poor ex lover's sister who kind of comes over and changes his bedding because he's just always sweating and stuff and sitting on the couch. Like, there's no, like, oh, hey, don't touch that right now. I just jizzed all over it.

[Eddie Gosling]

Forgot about that part.

[Daniel Tosh]

Oh, I didn't. That part, that part.

[Eddie Gosling]

You've seen it.

[Daniel Tosh]

That part was. That part's fresh.

[John]

And a Kia commercial came on right afterwards.

[Daniel Tosh]

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[Kiana]

Huh?

[Daniel Tosh]

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[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Hi.

[Daniel Tosh]

Hi Judy. Thanks for being here.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Thank you for having me.

[Daniel Tosh]

Judy, do you believe in ghosts?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

No. Yeah,

[Daniel Tosh]

You have to answer the question honestly. Judy, do you believe in ghosts?

[Kiana]

Nah.

[Daniel Tosh]

Good for you. You were born in Southern California. What was it like growing up as a first generation Back then I was

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

an interpreter since I was like 3 years old. Yeah, that's what it's like being a child of immigrant parents who don't speak English very well. So you basically are dragged everywhere and asked to explain everything in both languages.

[Daniel Tosh]

So what was it like growing up with Korean immigrant parents?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

It's like having a day job and a night job. Like you go in, I felt like Clark Kent. Like you go in during the day, you're going to school, you're, you know, you're talking to your friends in English and you know, eating, you know, sandwiches and you know, not eating your green beans and all of these like kid things that you did at school. And then you go home and you're speaking in Korean, you're eating Korean food, you're living, you know, a Korean lifestyle in the US like in our household. Like I live by the rules of my parents who by the way, were frozen in time because they brought their culture in 1971 from South Korea. My parents remember it as a war torn country, as a third world country that they left and came to the US because my dad had dreams of buying Sears.

[Daniel Tosh]

That's what he wanted to do, buy Sears. But why did he think that was something that he would want to do or excel at? How is Sears doing?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

I told him he could buy Sears. Now.

[Eddie Gosling]

Now it's attainable.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

It's attainable. It's totally attainable.

[Daniel Tosh]

Where did you move to in Southern California?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

They went wherever my dad could get a job.

[Daniel Tosh]

Okay.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

And my dad always had more than one job at any one point in his life.

[John]

Oh, man.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

That's the story of my life too. I've always had more than one job too.

[Daniel Tosh]

Do you love working so hard?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

No, I don't. I always say I really want to relax, but I really don't know how to relax.

[Daniel Tosh]

Yeah, but maybe if given the opportunity, wouldn't you like to try?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

I'd like to try Gardena.

[Daniel Tosh]

Do you consider it South Bay?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

I do.

[Daniel Tosh]

Okay.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

I know. It's weird, right?

[Daniel Tosh]

I don't. I don't.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

You don't consider South Bay? Why?

[Daniel Tosh]

I don't consider Torrance South Bay.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

You don't?

[Daniel Tosh]

Nope.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Oh, Torrance would be very angry with you.

[Daniel Tosh]

Bring it. Torrance.

[Unknown Guest (brief interjection)]

Okay.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

I literally. I mean, like, Gardena is five miles east of.

[Daniel Tosh]

I know where it is. I spent. Do you know how much time I spent in Gardena?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

No.

[Daniel Tosh]

Hostler Casino.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Oh, did you go to Lady Luck, which used to be Normandy Casino, by the way.

[Daniel Tosh]

No, I just. I. I just went to Larry's. Larry Flint.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Okay, you only went to Larry's. You gotta go check out the other ones. No, I didn't.

[Daniel Tosh]

I don't do any of them anymore. This is back in my, like, bad, dark times.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Bad dark times. I remember being.

[Daniel Tosh]

Being in. Being in the Hustler Cuisine on Christmas Day and like, a shooting happened out in the front and then everybody's grabbing their chips. And I'm like, I don't want to leave now just because somebody got shot in the front.

[Eddie Gosling]

I'm on a heater.

[Daniel Tosh]

I was so mad. I would get so excited because the donut cart lady would come around at 6am in the morning to give us free donuts for gambling all night long. It was depressing.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

But, you know, I remember going to Hustler Casino when it first opened.

[Daniel Tosh]

Oh, yeah.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

We had this big public hearing. It was a big deal, right? Because, I mean, like, you know, there were people in the community that were like, oh, no, we don't want Hustler Communion Casino to come in.

[Daniel Tosh]

They thought the. Everybody's being naked and debauchery. You know what Hustler's known for?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Exactly. What Hustler's known for.

[Daniel Tosh]

When did your parents buy the movie theater?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

19. Well, they made the offer in 75. They closed escrow in 76.

[Daniel Tosh]

You worked your entire life at that theater?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Yeah, pretty much. My first job was a four year old. They gave me a slotted spoon and they told me that I had to fish out all the cigarette butts out of the ashtrays. Back in the days when you can smoke inside the movie theaters. Do you remember those days?

[Daniel Tosh]

I mean, I do. I remember on a plane, a smoking section.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Yeah. Oh my God, it was so cool. Crazy.

[Daniel Tosh]

You worked there up until college in 19, you left in 91. 90.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Graduated high school 1990, college was 94. And then I moved to D.C. and I lived in D.C. until 95. And then my parents were like, you need to come back to LA.

[Daniel Tosh]

Did you come back immediately then in 95 to help your parents when they, when they told you to?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Yeah.

[Daniel Tosh]

Or did you say, this is not my calling, guys, this was your thing?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

No, I did.

[Daniel Tosh]

I'm gonna get to the root of some of this.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

I'm a filial daughter.

[Daniel Tosh]

You are.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

And I never rebelled against my par. It's just the path of least resistance.

[Daniel Tosh]

Were your parents passionate about the cinema?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

My mom was. My dad was an angry Asian man who was trying to make my mom happy.

[Daniel Tosh]

And did that work?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

It might have worked for a little bit and then it wears off.

[Daniel Tosh]

Do you know what your parents paid for the cinema?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

My dad paid a certain amount for just the business only.

[Daniel Tosh]

Okay.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

I want to say it was like, I don't know, fifty thousand, a hundred thousand dollars. Somewhere in that range. Years later, like in 1980, 82, my dad finally bought the theater property and that was probably about half a million dollars.

[Daniel Tosh]

And then the parking lot too.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

No, we never owned that parking lot until 20, 19, 18, around there. So I went to law school to become an attorney.

[Daniel Tosh]

Because your parents had been swindled?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Yeah, yeah. They got totally conned by two different times. Right. And two different people. And, you know, this is what happens when you're in financial hardship. You are prime target for scammers.

[Daniel Tosh]

Oh, yeah.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Because you're just financially desperate.

[Daniel Tosh]

You know, you're looking for a lifeline.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Yeah, you're looking for a lifeline. So what I noticed about you went

[Daniel Tosh]

and said, I'm going to go get a law degree just so I can handle this and make sure that nobody's taking advantage of you guys. I mean, you might be, you know, I'm speaking in grandiose terms here, the greatest daughter ever created.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

I am not the greatest, but I am quite filial.

[Daniel Tosh]

All right, so you got this law degree did you seek vengeance on the people that tried to.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

In my mind, I sought vengeance, and I succeeded. Someday I will make a movie about it.

[Daniel Tosh]

They basically just conned your parents out of money, right?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Yeah, pretty much. And they really made my life miserable. We lost our home to foreclosure. We lost our car to repossession. I mean, anything and everything that could possibly happen happened to us.

[Daniel Tosh]

And where'd you guys move?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

We moved into the theater. Cause that was the last thing that we still had. And we almost lost the theater. It was really crazy because I said to my dad, maybe we should go to the bank and ask them, like, if we could do something to keep the theater. And he was like, well, you set it up. And I said, okay. So I literally am calling the bank. I'd like to make an appointment, you know, because you guys have filed this notice of default, and I'd like to resolve the problem. And so I think the bank at the time was in on Wilshire or Santa Monica. And we drove out, met with the vp and she basically says to me, okay, I've reviewed your file. I've listened to you, and what I'd like to do is have you bring me $10,000 by Wednesday.

[Daniel Tosh]

Okay?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

This was like, next week, right?

[Daniel Tosh]

In a duffel bag, in a parking

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

lot, in a cashier's jack. So we were like, okay, we. We could do that. So we did that. We went back home. We're like, okay, we bought ourselves a week, right? So we're going to, like, get $10,000 and give it to her. Then, like, the foreclosure is going to stop, right? No, we went to her Wednesday, gave her the money, and she said, oh, great, Now I want you to bring me another 10,000 next week. And we were like, we just gave you all our money. Like, you want us to bring more money that we don't have? Like, oh, my God, this is crazy. Is this the game we're supposed to play? So, like, literally every week, she would be like, oh, bring me this much. Bring me that much, you know? And then eventually it got to, like, a reasonable amount. And then we got back on track. So now we're out of foreclosure. We just have to make our monthly payment. And we could breathe a sigh of relief, except for the fact that, like, in the course of doing that, we ignored every other bill that we had. So, like, we were so behind on all our other bills.

[Daniel Tosh]

When do you think on the books? You know, factor in inflation or whatever you want. When was the Most successful run for this particular movie theater?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

I would say probably like 78.

[Daniel Tosh]

Okay. So one year after they bought it. That was the best two years. And it's steadily gone down for 50 years since then.

[John]

Yeah.

[Daniel Tosh]

Has it always just been one theater?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

It has.

[Daniel Tosh]

And it's huge.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

It's huge.

[Daniel Tosh]

How many seats?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

800, according to the fire department.

[Daniel Tosh]

Okay. Did you guys do a drive in during COVID We did.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

This is really incredible because, like, I went to law school to work to get that parking lot that's adjacent to the cinema. And I literally, on close of escrow, I told my parents, I said, I have accomplished my life's mission and now I can die peacefully.

[Daniel Tosh]

Oh, man.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Yeah. Isn't that crazy? And then literally, I was gonna say

[Daniel Tosh]

sad, but you can say crazy.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

And so then I. Then 2020 happens and theaters are closing. It's like so crazy. And then a friend of mine contacts me and says, hey, I got a great idea. You want to try it? I'm like, sure. And we first started off with like a blow up screen. Yeah, you remember those blow up screens?

[Daniel Tosh]

No, I had one. I gave it away on the show.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Oh my God, it is so annoying because the little wind that blows it shakes the screen, it, you know, distorts the picture. And me as like a picture person, I'm like, oh, that's not the right, you know, aspect ratio. And you know, it's blurry. We need to clear it up, fix the lens.

[Daniel Tosh]

You know, you do have a good eye for all this stuff.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Well, I do try. I pay attention.

[Daniel Tosh]

But you don't watch movies.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

No. Well, I do watch movies if I can. That's the problem. I find it to be a luxury, you know, all you people that get to watch fool don't see you people. Come on. You know, you get to watch movies. It's a luxury.

[Daniel Tosh]

Have you seen the movie E.T.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

yes.

[Daniel Tosh]

Have you seen Titanic?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Yeah.

[Daniel Tosh]

Star Wars?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Yes.

[Daniel Tosh]

Jurassic Park?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Yes.

[Daniel Tosh]

Back to the Future?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Yes.

[Daniel Tosh]

Have you seen rad?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

No, but I will actually, because I plan on showing it at Cardina Cinema.

[Daniel Tosh]

You're going to show Rad? Yeah, it's my all time favorite movie.

[Kiana]

No way.

[Daniel Tosh]

They did a re release of it last year for the first time ever. It never made it to like DVD and there's like weird illegal copies, but I have a few of those. But now you're gonna play Rad next year when?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

We haven't figured that out yet. I'm working on it, but that's. And I'm working with this organization.

[Daniel Tosh]

Do you know Who? I'm get to come to it.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Who?

[Daniel Tosh]

The star of it. Bill Allen.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

No way.

[Daniel Tosh]

Yep. He's gonna come the lead.

[Eddie Gosling]

There you go.

[Daniel Tosh]

Now we gotta get Lori Loughlin too.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Oh, my God, really?

[Daniel Tosh]

Yeah, we gotta get them both. Well, Bill will do it. Bill's a yes.

[Unknown Guest (brief interjection)]

Bill's yes.

[Daniel Tosh]

Lori's gonna be trickier. All right, so you have seen. I didn't know if you were like somebody that just had because I knew that you don't really watch a lot of movies.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

I don't watch a lot of movies now because I'm working so much and, you know, I don't really feel like I have the luxury of setting aside an hour and a half to like watch a full length feature movie. But when I was a kid and I didn't have adult obligations, which was never.

[Eddie Gosling]

Which.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Yeah.

[Daniel Tosh]

I had left, child labor laws were not a thing in a Korean household of Los Angeles.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Yeah, yeah.

[Daniel Tosh]

You worked like a full time timer as a child.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

I literally, I. I don't know if you know this. I used to be a prosecutor. Like after I became an attorney, I went to go work for the county of Los Angeles as a prosecutor. I was not a very good one. I was terrible. I feel like I'd be like, I'd be like, oh, he's got family, his church pastors here. He's got support. Let's give him probation, you know? You know, and my boss would be like, what the heck, you need to throw him in jail. I'm like, no, he's got family. His family's. As you can see, I'm very family oriented. Yeah. So I would literally work from like 8am until like 6, 7, 8, 9pm as a prosecutor. And then I'd literally leave the office and go to the cinema and start my cinema job. And then I'd be going home at like midnight 1am and then I'd get up at like 6, 7 to go work at my prosecutor job again.

[Daniel Tosh]

You stopped doing first runs. You kind of do specialty events, themed nights. What's the last one that sold out?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

We've sold out a few things. I mean, like in March, we showed the world premiere of this indie movie called See youe When I Get Back. And it was made by these guys in a band called Inner Wave. And they're a local band, they're from Gardena. And I was so proud of them and I was so happy. And they wanted to premiere their movie at Gardena Cinema.

[Daniel Tosh]

Okay.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

So when we sell out, I sell 700 tickets because 50 of the seats are upstairs in our balcony. And I don't open the balcony up to the public.

[Daniel Tosh]

That balcony used to be known as a what section?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Crying room.

[Daniel Tosh]

Crying room. Guys, at first I thought you're going to say that there was. You're going to say something like a segregated section, but. Well, it was never that.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

No, it was segregated if you're a baby.

[Daniel Tosh]

If you're. Yeah, which is. Which is fine. I think we can all agree it's okay to segregate babies.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Yeah, we should have crying rooms even today.

[Daniel Tosh]

But in the crying rooms, there's. There's different crying rooms for different races of babies, correct?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

No, not at Guardian Cinema.

[Daniel Tosh]

Okay, that's good.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Which used to be park Theater in 1946. But even back then it was not segregated.

[Daniel Tosh]

Your theater's on Crenshaw Boulevard. Does that scare away the white folks?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

I think it does. I have talked to some of my regulars who have said. And they're from Torrance, and they have said to me, yeah, I tried to bring my neighbor's kids, but the parents wouldn't let them go because it's in grand shot. It's on grand shot.

[Daniel Tosh]

That's how I used to feel when I used to live off of like Inglewood Avenue. Just because it said Inglewood. I was like, oh, my friends be like, where do you live? I'm like, that's none of your business. You know, Ingle a couple rap songs and everything gets. Gets a bad name. How do you make money? Break it down. When you were playing first run movies, which you were doing up until what

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

year we did first run? 1995. All the way through 2023.

[Daniel Tosh]

Okay. So when you're doing first run movies, are you having to research to make sure? Because when you're only picking one movie, it's a different ball game than a lot of others. Like the AMC people.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Yeah. That's why they do what are called trade screenings. And so they'll show the movie. Usually about a week or two before the release. They invite movie theater owners and managers to come watch the movie. Problem is, is we're like a family run business and if one person disappears, it kind of impacts the running of the business. So nobody ever went to go see these movies in the trade screenings. And I probably should have, but, like, that probably would have helped not pick some of the dogs that we did do.

[Daniel Tosh]

Family movies do better.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

They do. We learned in 1995, like, hey, let's just show like Disney and anything PG13 or lower. Like, no R rated movies unless there's Nothing else showing that's family friendly.

[Daniel Tosh]

Okay.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

And it had to have, like an artistic value to it. So, like, the few R rated movies that I could remember that we played were like Heat. I remember showing Heat.

[Unknown Guest (brief interjection)]

Oh, that's a good.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

That's a good one, right?

[Daniel Tosh]

It's a good movie.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Yeah.

[Daniel Tosh]

What is that cost that you have to pay from the studio to rent their movie, to play it or license it? I really don't know what I'm talking about, but is that what it's called?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Yeah, it is. It's called licensing. You rent the print.

[Daniel Tosh]

You rent it, you rent the print. What's it cost?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

And, and, and when you rent it, it's. It's a complicated formula. That is percentage of the ticket sales versus a minimum guarantee offset and calculated with a house expense.

[Daniel Tosh]

Oh, my gosh.

[Kiana]

Yeah.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

So there's like. It's a very complicated thing.

[Daniel Tosh]

What if the movie's a dog? Do they have any. Is it like, you get. This movie sucks.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Yeah.

[Daniel Tosh]

No one came to see this. They don't care.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

They don't care. They want you to hold the movie according to the terms of the agreement.

[Daniel Tosh]

Have you ever considered going all the way to pornography and is 800 seats? Would that be the world's largest adult cinema?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Oh, man, I don't know if that would be the worst.

[Daniel Tosh]

I don't know if I'd want, you know what I'd fight for? I'd fight for the crying room.

[Eddie Gosling]

Yeah. You want to be kind of separate.

[Daniel Tosh]

Well, you don't want. Certainly you don't want to be front row with 700 people behind you in an adult film.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

So I'm gonna tell you something. In the 70s, that was like the heyday of adult film theaters. The reason why all these, like, single screen, standalone theaters, they were all struggling. They were going downhill, Right? And it was because the local malls were getting developed. You know, you had the multiplexes. That was the big, you know, new theater. So what do they do to survive? They did one of two things. They showed porn or they showed Spanish movies.

[Kiana]

Ah.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

And what did we do?

[Daniel Tosh]

Spanish.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

We did Spanish.

[Daniel Tosh]

Spanish porn.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Spanish porn. Soft porn. People thought we were a porn theater because we did a lot of sex comedies that were in Spanish.

[Daniel Tosh]

And now you've been running this theater by yourself.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Well, not by myself. I have almost 100 volunteers now.

[Daniel Tosh]

Okay, you have 100 people that volunteer that do not. This is not a paid gig for them. They are helping out of the goodness of the community and you and the theater to keep this afloat. And Keep it running. And that's incredible. But that doesn't seem like a sustainable business plan.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

No. So we'll. We'll figure that out. I mean, like, you know, I'm. I'm evolving. I mean, literally, like, from year to year. I'm not the same business that I was last year.

[Daniel Tosh]

So there are times. I know you have volunteers that help you, but a lot of times you do every single aspect of this by yourself.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

I do.

[Kiana]

Yeah.

[Daniel Tosh]

Like, so you're ripping tickets.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Yeah, I used to.

[Daniel Tosh]

You're getting soda?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Yeah.

[Daniel Tosh]

The amount of volunteers, is there turnover? Is it just people in the community helping out whenever they can?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

It's turnover.

[Daniel Tosh]

Okay.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

That's the problem with volunteers, is that they come when they're available. So their convenience might not necessarily be my convenience, but I have to be okay with that.

[Daniel Tosh]

Do you put a schedule out?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

I do.

[Daniel Tosh]

Okay. And they just ignore it?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

No, they do not ignore it.

[Daniel Tosh]

You're like, hey, that's cute, but we're not getting paid. So you know what?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Exactly.

[Daniel Tosh]

That double that you put me on is just not going to fly.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Right.

[Daniel Tosh]

So people can just go to the theater and find a way to, like, sign up to help.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

So, typically, I like to do everything on Instagram.

[Daniel Tosh]

How many movies do you do a night? Would you do two or three?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Depends on what day of the weekend.

[Daniel Tosh]

Saturday.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

I could do the same movie three or four times a day, or I could do, like, one movie in the afternoon, and then maybe I might have a punk band and a movie in the evening. So, like, I could play two, three different movies in a single day.

[Daniel Tosh]

Okay.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

There was one weekend where I played 10 different movies. It was, like, really a crazy weekend. Yeah. I was like, I'll never do that again.

[Daniel Tosh]

Is that. Is that more work for you?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Oh, yeah, absolutely. Because I have to, you know, make sure that the movies are all put and ready on my server, on my projector. I have to test them to make sure that they work. Each of them has a different sound level that I have to adjust to, and then I adjust according to the number of people that arrive. So, like, let's say I have it set to 10 people in the audience, and 50 people show up. Now I gotta pump up the volume because everybody absorbs sound waves, so I need to increase the sound. Yeah, it is. Yes.

[Daniel Tosh]

I mean, I believe you.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

There's a science to it all.

[Daniel Tosh]

No, I. All right, but why is it. Do you run the movie when there's only 10 people? Do you ever say, guys, there's only three people here? And it's the 800 seat venue. We're not playing the movie?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

No, I never do that. Although if only one shows up, I will offer them two free tickets to come back another time. And they often take that. They'll take that because then they can watch two movies. Right?

[Daniel Tosh]

How much is a ticket to your theater today?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

$12. For just a movie? If it. There's no special event or no, like, added value to the event to. I have very famous rock bands, punk bands come and play, and those can be anywhere from 40 to 60 dollars.

[Daniel Tosh]

Let's talk about this popcorn that was voted best old school movie theater popcorn in the city by eater. First of all, is that a coveted title to get?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

I don't know if it's coveted, but it's pretty cool.

[Daniel Tosh]

Is there something special about it?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

No.

[Daniel Tosh]

Do you use in real butter?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

No, I don't use real butter. Are you kidding me?

[Daniel Tosh]

No, I have no idea. Well, what does it taste just like everybody else's popcorn? I never, I never can taste. People are like, oh, this popcorn's amazing. I'm like, yeah, it tastes just like every other popcorn I've ever had.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

That's how I feel. No, I'm just like, popcorn's popcorn. Right.

[Daniel Tosh]

How many different candies are you carrying there?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Oh, there's probably about 20 or 30 candies that we have in our display.

[Daniel Tosh]

No alcohol?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

No alcohol. Because that was the norm for movie theaters. And now, like, I realize everybody, all

[Daniel Tosh]

the theaters have alcohol by getting that license is a pain in the ass. What about people sneaking in stuff? What do you do to deter it? Or do you just turn a blind eye?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Back in the days, in the early days, like 90s and you know, before the 2000s, yeah, we were like, oh, no, you can't bring any outside food. We were like, really strict about it. But now I'm like, ah, you know, hide it. Don't let me see it. I really don't want to know that you brought in outside food. But for the most part, I'm like, you're gonna get hungry and you're gonna get thirsty. So, like, they'll buy something.

[Daniel Tosh]

What about cleaning up after yourself? Where do you stand on this at a movie theater? Are we supposed to take all of our trash at the end of the movie?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

It would be helpful. Yeah. For me, I'd say yes.

[Daniel Tosh]

What about cell phone use? Where do you stand on it?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

My thing is, as long as the movie's not on, take all the pictures you want and, you know, take videos, do whatever you want. But as soon as the lights go down. And I purposely. I purposely show trailers and previews with the lights half on, letting people know that the movie's not started yet. When the lights go dark and it's completely pitch black inside, that's when the movie starts.

[Kiana]

Okay.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

That's when you put away your phone and silence it.

[Daniel Tosh]

How much of this is a labor of love for you versus a sense of obligation?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

It's about 5050 right now.

[Daniel Tosh]

I knew you were going to be honest. Yeah, it's about 5050.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

I feel like.

[Daniel Tosh]

Is there a number that you walk away from it?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Absolutely. My mom made me promise.

[Daniel Tosh]

Your mom made you promise a number that. That you might not be able to get.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

I know, but that's why I'm still here. Work in the theater.

[Daniel Tosh]

Okay, but you. But you.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

I think she did that on purpose.

[Daniel Tosh]

You can't. You're not going to hold that line, are you?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

I am. I'm going to try to honor it as best I can.

[Daniel Tosh]

Oh, my goodness. This is such a. This is such a cultural thing.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

I know, right?

[Daniel Tosh]

My mom would tell me, don't sell it unless you get $10 million. And I would say, okay, Mom, I love. Now that's that 8.5 deal.

[Eddie Gosling]

Moved it for 2.1.

[Daniel Tosh]

Listen, I hope you run it as long as it makes you happy and fulfilled. And then I hope. The day that you let it go, I hope you make a fortune.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Aw, thank you.

[Daniel Tosh]

I hope you make a. But if you don't, I don't think you should hold on just because of some promise that you made. Break your promise. Which has worse fans? The Star wars and sci fi nerds? Horror film buffs or the foreign film snobs?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Oh, my God. You're asking me to, like, rank my fans?

[Daniel Tosh]

Nope. I just want you to pick the one that's the worst.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

There's no worse. They all have good Star Wars.

[Daniel Tosh]

Star wars, sci fi nerds. They're not the worst horror film buffs. Probably not. The worst foreign film snobs. That gets my vote as the worst foreign film snobs.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

You said it, not me.

[Daniel Tosh]

Okay, what about Rocky Horror? You a fan of them? Those fans?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

I am. I love Rocky Horror and I love watching Rocky Horror. I just don't want to trash my theaters. I don't show it. That's the problem.

[Daniel Tosh]

Talk about your relationship with Sean Baker. And did you think Honora was a porno?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

No, I didn't think Honora was a porno.

[Daniel Tosh]

I mean, it's. It was close. It was teetering. The line, if you ask me, I've seen porn.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

That's not porn.

[Daniel Tosh]

Oh, all right. How did you guys. How did your paths cross?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

I have a friend who's a filmmaker. She's been following me in my journey of whether or not I'm gonna keep the theater or, you know, sell the theater. Anyway, she's friends with Sean Baker. And I didn't know this at the time, and so during that time period, I was having these monthly meetings with my volunteers, and I was inviting people to come. And then one day, she was having a conversation with Sean Baker, which, by the way, this is way before Anora. So, like, no, you know, like, the last movie he had made was Red Rocket, right? So he came to one of the meetings, she invited him, and he showed up and he sat in on the. You know, listened to me. And that particular meeting, I was talking about property taxes because property taxes were coming due in December. And I was telling them, I don't have enough money to pay the property. I don't know what I'm gonna do, but we gotta figure out a way to, like, raise the money so that I could pay my property tax bill. And so later, he reaches out to me and he says, you know, I have a little bit of money still. I'd really like to donate it to you to pay the property taxes. And I was, like, really touched by this person wanting to pay me money for this to keep the doors open. I said, you know, I don't have. I'm not a non profit.

[Eddie Gosling]

I don't.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

I'm not able to give you a tax deduction for your donation. But what I could do is I will celebrate your films every year. And that's what I do. I. I celebrate. I take one weekend every year in February, and I call it Shawn Baker Weekend. And we just celebrated the third annual Shawn Baker Weekend.

[Daniel Tosh]

Oh, wow.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

And can you believe it? Like, who knew back then. This is before Anora. Who knew back then that he would end up winning the Academy Award, Right?

[Daniel Tosh]

I mean, there's a chance you could have looked at some of his work and said, respectfully, you need this money more than I do.

[John]

You will never run.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

You have to make your film on an iPhone.

[Daniel Tosh]

I mean, I'm. I'm not. Listen, I'm not the cinephile that others are.

[John]

I am.

[Daniel Tosh]

Explain the nonprofit aspect of this.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

When Sean Baker offered to donate money, I realized I need to have a vehicle to, like, provide a tax deduction for people who want to donate. And at the end of 2024, I realized, oh, look, we just raised $2,000, and I didn't ask a single person to give money. I just posted signs up in the venue. And so then in 2025, we raised 1500. No, 20,000. So I thought, hey, why don't I just keep adding zeros every year? Right? We're at 15 already because we had a flooding, and people donated a lot of money due to the flooding.

[Daniel Tosh]

Oh.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

So that was really helpful.

[Daniel Tosh]

You know what? You could do the flex seal. I don't know if you've ever looked into flex seal.

[Eddie Gosling]

It's good.

[Daniel Tosh]

It's.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Is it?

[Daniel Tosh]

Well, even in a rainstorm, you can wrap a pipe up and it instantly stops. Good as new, actually. I think they actually say in the commercial that it's just a temporary fix, but you can also make a boat out of your front door with the front door of a screen door.

[Eddie Gosling]

Yeah, Screen door. You spray it down. Now you got a bottom viewer.

[John]

Yeah.

[Daniel Tosh]

Flexi. You might want to look into flexi.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Yeah, I will.

[Daniel Tosh]

We should brainstorm some of our ideas and give them to her. Just so that.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Absolutely. I am open to ideas.

[Daniel Tosh]

Mine is cell. Mine is sell.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Yours is sell.

[Daniel Tosh]

Yeah, just sell.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Oh, get rid of it. Retire. You're talking about early retirement. Oh, you're. You're on Team Dad. Because that's what my dad said.

[Daniel Tosh]

Me and dad are. Me and dad are aligned. But. But. But getting. By the way, do you sell merch? Do you sell the merch? Okay, because that seems like. That seems kind of hipster cool.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Yeah.

[Daniel Tosh]

To have, you know, the old guardian of cinema shirt on that. You know what I'd like? Here's what I'd like in a theater. This isn't gonna make you any money. I would like. Who's ever in charge of playing the theater, which in this case is always you. I want just randomly in a slow spot in the movie. It's unannounced, and you just all of a sudden, boom. Movie pauses, lights go up, and then you just go 45 seconds. And every, you know, it's first come, first serve. You get to race to pee. You get to race to pee, and you come back, and it starts back. I would really like that at a theater. Just one unannounced pause. And because if it's announced, then people are gonna be timing it and they're gonna go, but if it's unannounced, you don't know when it's coming. Then boom, it's paused. 45 seconds, everybody gets to go pee.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

It's like in an announced intermission.

[Daniel Tosh]

That's what I want. I just wanna. I just want a pee break.

[Eddie Gosling]

What about like a split screen? Now you got two theater movies showing at the same time. Subtitles. Just pick some kind of music that fits both.

[Daniel Tosh]

Oh, there you go.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Wait.

[Daniel Tosh]

In the same auditorium, two movies at once, split screen. You know, we change. We have.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Okay, which one has the soundtrack?

[Eddie Gosling]

I just said you just pick some soundtrack.

[Daniel Tosh]

I'm gonna. And this is what I'm go on Eddie's idea. Ready for this? We put the. The movie that we want. The. The family friendly movie. Then in a one third smaller side, the sport game of choice that's going on. No sound for the sports. Parents. Dad.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Dad's happy.

[Daniel Tosh]

We get to watch this game. Kid gets to watch whatever fucking parents died. Sad children's movie.

[John]

Is there any grant writing you could do to like, since it's a historic original theater, like right to the state?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Yeah, I don't know about the state. I don't think this. The government's gonna help, but I think there are very wealthy foundations that give away money if you do the things that move their mission forward. When you establish a nonprofit, you have to have a mission statement, which is the reason why you're even existing. So for the Gardena Cinema and the Friends of Gardena Cinema, our mission is to promote the Gardena Cinema as a gathering venue to show movies and exhibit art and to create memories.

[Daniel Tosh]

What about pledging your allegiance to L. Ron Hubbard? Do you think that could help business?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Ah, I don't think so, but it might get Tom Cruise to come visit. I don't know.

[Eddie Gosling]

I mean, make a little Scientology.

[Daniel Tosh]

I feel like they always have some prime real estate. I don't know what's going on behind the doors, but the front of their places always look like they got some stuff going on.

[Eddie Gosling]

Come see a movie. Take a stress test.

[Daniel Tosh]

What's that?

[John]

I said they're using free labor.

[Daniel Tosh]

Yeah, well, me too. You're kind of like a modern day L. Ron Hubbard.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

I am?

[Daniel Tosh]

This is great.

[Eddie Gosling]

Become a religion.

[Daniel Tosh]

You're already non profit.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

You've got your church.

[Daniel Tosh]

I think I would follow her. Let's do it.

[John]

Church of Cinematology.

[Daniel Tosh]

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[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

We might have to do it.

[Daniel Tosh]

Henry Winkler's in it.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Oh, my God, I love the Fonz.

[Daniel Tosh]

Let me tell you something. The guy couldn't be sweeter. Now, I don't know this firsthand, but my wife went to support Sam on set. Henry's there. Henry starts talking to my wife. My wife says, oh, I've got two kids. He's like, I write children's books. Give me your address. And then he's mailing my wife children's books signed by Henry Winkler.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Oh, my gosh, that is so sweet.

[Daniel Tosh]

I mean, the. The salt of the earth. And when people talk about LA in a negative tone, I'm like, you haven't met Henry Winkler, right? Everybody's on. The show gets a gift. It's just stuff I find in my house that I don't want. Okay. Okay.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

That's funny.

[Daniel Tosh]

Yep. This I don't. Okay. I don't eat these, but they've been in there. They're probably stale. You'll like them.

[Eddie Gosling]

Okay. Okay.

[Daniel Tosh]

You get two of these mugs. These are Tosh show original mugs. They were. They were handmade by Carrie, who's my stylist, but also does ceramics. I don't like them. I've never used them. They're not good.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Thank you.

[Daniel Tosh]

We'll put these on the floor. Please. I don't want them.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Okay.

[Daniel Tosh]

I found a stack of old DVDs of my old special.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Oh, my God.

[Daniel Tosh]

But here you have to give these, Give these away free to people that donate. That donate to the theater.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

That donate.

[Daniel Tosh]

Yeah, you give away. I'll sign all those. Get that on the floor. These all have to go on the floor.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

These are awesome. Okay. Okay.

[Daniel Tosh]

They're super awesome. This is a company that, that we sponsored. They're an amazing company. I think I haven't used it, but it's you. Can you do everything by yourself? This. In case you ever have any infestation of pest. This is a way to do it all. It's like commercial grade. But you don't hire somebody. You just do it yourself.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Oh, fantastic.

[Daniel Tosh]

Yeah, just have one of your volunteers that you're not fond of.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

All natural stuff.

[Daniel Tosh]

I have no idea. No, of course.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Oh, look. Ants, spiders, cockroaches, beetles, centipedes, plus many more.

[Daniel Tosh]

Okay. You're gonna love that.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Fantastic. I'm gonna love it. I got a gift for you too.

[John]

What?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Yeah, this. You gotta put this on the floor.

[Daniel Tosh]

Oh, that's a nice bag.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

This is our T shirt. Here we go.

[Daniel Tosh]

Oh, look at this shirt.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

There we go. That's the cinema. The marquee.

[Daniel Tosh]

The last family run single screen theater in Los Angeles. That was basically what I said in the intro.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Yeah, exactly. And then on the back it says,

[Daniel Tosh]

long live indie cinema. You know what? But how come I like your shirt so much more?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

What, the one that I'm wearing?

[Daniel Tosh]

Yep.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Oh, this was a limited edition neon anora collab.

[Daniel Tosh]

Oh, it is anora.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Yeah, it's anora. Yeah.

[Daniel Tosh]

This is beautiful. But that one's. I mean, I kind of like that one too.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

I'll get you one of these.

[Daniel Tosh]

Well, we'll see.

[Eddie Gosling]

Jersey swap.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Jersey swap.

[Daniel Tosh]

You like this shirt?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Not so much.

[Daniel Tosh]

I don't like it either. I don't like this shirt either. Okay. And I'll happily give you this shirt. It's not. And it's not breathable.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Oh, it's not just make you sweaty?

[Daniel Tosh]

Yeah. It feels gross. Oh, yeah. I don't like the way it feels against my nipples either.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Oh, really?

[Daniel Tosh]

It's like plasticky.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Maybe you need a bra.

[Daniel Tosh]

No.

[John]

Well, maybe you need a bra.

[Daniel Tosh]

Will movie theaters still exist in 50 years?

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Definitely. Why? Why do you look at me that way as if question?

[Daniel Tosh]

No, I have no idea. Because you never like, you know, I, I, I. If you would have told me in, you know, the 80s that one day people are just gonna watch all their movies on phones, I'd be like, that's absurd. So, yeah. Judy, thank you for being on the show. I look forward to Coming to your theater for the next 15 to 20 years, or unless you get your magic number and then you just walk out.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Thank you.

[Daniel Tosh]

Thank you, thank you. I want to thank Judy. Shortly after she left minutes ago, Pete comes in real quick, is what he does right? When guests finish, we're still having some pleasantries. I'm telling them what a great job they did, and they're like, I don't know. He's like, you gotta sign the release. You gotta sign this legal paper that says we can air this. He gets in there, he's like, we don't need your address. And then she says, hey, do you mind if I take a picture? And I'm like, I'd love to take a picture with you. But then I realized that she's talking. I go, yes, of course. And she takes out her phone and takes a photo of the legal document that she just signed. And I could have just, you know, saved myself the embarrassment, but I didn't. I said, oh, I thought you wanted to take a photo with me, right? And so I said, of course. Like that. But I didn't know that you. You wanted just a photo of the legal document, which makes sense. And. And. And she's like, no, I want a photo with you too. I go, no, you don't have to do that. And she goes, I want a photo with all of you. And I'm like, okay, you certainly don't have to do that. Then she insists on getting a photo with all of us. And I'm like, well, who's gonna take it? She's like, I'll just use the timer. I go, then you have to find a place to put it. She goes, I'll put it on your fan. I go, my fan? It's a. The Dyson fan. It's rounded at the top. That's not a surface. You can set the. She's like, it'll balance. And I'm like, judy, it's not gonna balance. It's gonna take so long. And she's like, I want a photo with everybody. And I want to. And I go. And so I take. I'm taking a photo of her doing it. She goes, three seconds isn't enough time for me to get back into the photo. So we do, like 15 photos, guys.

[Eddie Gosling]

She kept extending this.

[Daniel Tosh]

Oh, I could. I think I need five to 10 seconds to get back into frame. I'm like, okay. Photo actually turned out fine, but it was just a process that was maddening. I was taking a photo of her take. Setting this up, trying to Take a photo.

[Eddie Gosling]

She's like, maybe the shutter sound should be on. So. I know.

[Daniel Tosh]

You know what I thought about, though? Sean Baker. She held out 15k and she's all in for life on him.

[John]

Yeah.

[Daniel Tosh]

Just imagine if I sent her 17K.

[Eddie Gosling]

Yeah.

[John]

Yeah.

[Eddie Gosling]

You've got a theater in Gardenia at your exposure.

[Daniel Tosh]

I don't really want them to broadcast my podcast in Gardena because that's only one click, even if 800 people were watching. You know what I'm saying?

[Eddie Gosling]

Yeah, I do.

[Daniel Tosh]

That's the problem. Well, I'm glad she got that photo. Time for our plugs. We have the tossshowstore.com. that's where you can get merchandise. Toss show related. Okay. There's not a lot on there, but it's not a lot with the podcast.

[Eddie Gosling]

You know, what do you. Yeah, so we've got some shirts.

[Daniel Tosh]

I mean, what do you. You want a car cover?

[Eddie Gosling]

Leather jacket?

[Daniel Tosh]

Seems nuts. Seems nuts that we would sell car covers.

[Eddie Gosling]

Let's do it.

[Daniel Tosh]

Toss show. Car covers. You're just asking for your car to get fucking egged. Well, we could do umbrellas.

[Eddie Gosling]

That's not a bad idea, you know, or awnings.

[Daniel Tosh]

I'm real into coverings right now. Patreon.com tossshow just in case you didn't get your fill right.

[Eddie Gosling]

You want a little more?

[Daniel Tosh]

You can pay monthly or yearly. But guess what?

[Eddie Gosling]

What?

[Daniel Tosh]

I'm thinking about introducing an hourly boom. Okay.

[Eddie Gosling]

Industry disruptor.

[Daniel Tosh]

My first farewell tour. October dates on sale now. Guys, if you were wondering if there were ever a chance to see me perform in three different cities in Georgia that weren't Atlanta, this may be your only opportunity.

[Eddie Gosling]

This is it, guys.

[Daniel Tosh]

All right. Hit the music. There we go. Whoa. Nothing like a. A summertime knockoff. It's time for they Love Me, they Love Me Not. First up, what are we gonna do, Ed?

[Eddie Gosling]

We're gonna do they Love Me. Let's hear it from Donna Webster, 4310.

[Daniel Tosh]

Donna, here we go.

[Eddie Gosling]

You make us laugh. Thank you. And we hope you live a good, long life.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Nice.

[Eddie Gosling]

Super nice.

[Daniel Tosh]

They want me to live a good, long life because it's important. You have the word good in there.

[Eddie Gosling]

Yeah.

[Daniel Tosh]

Because a long life, right?

[Eddie Gosling]

A bad long life is horrible.

[Daniel Tosh]

But that's nice, Donna. Thank you for reaching out. Now, what do we got? Now for they Love Me Not.

[Eddie Gosling]

Love me not from, say, 10 saidzo56. He doesn't give a shit about the fish. He's fine. Letting it live a miserable life floating around in its own waste. He could have let it be taken care of properly, but that would upset his child for a couple of hours.

[Daniel Tosh]

Okay. I love it. See this. This was on the episode where I was discussing my son's goldfish that my wife resurrected from the dead. I'm not saying it's the second coming, but I'm not saying it's not.

[Eddie Gosling]

It's amazing.

[Daniel Tosh]

Okay? It very well could be. You don't know that he's not coming back as a goldfish. Anyway, I learned, and again, this is on me, that goldfish need a very large tank, 30 to 50 gallon. I learned from a lot of the people online that they create a lot of waste. Goldfish create a lot of waste. So the filters work extra time. Okay. But this guy. What's his name again?

[Eddie Gosling]

Seitan. Sedzo56.

[Daniel Tosh]

Okay. He went back and forth a few times with someone and was. Was trying to pretend like he knew what was going on. I told the story. Now I want you guys to know I have an update. Okay? An immediate update. I know this episode was a while ago, but this. My son did the right thing. We brought him to this house that had this beautiful pond, and my son released him. And the owner of this house, who we don't know, was very sweet to my boy as he was releasing his pet and knowing that he was doing the right thing. And they said that we were allowed to come back and visit whenever we want. Since then, how many times have we come back? Twice. Twice. Have we spotted him? I don't know. It's hard. I think we spot him. We have video releasing them. I've seen him. He looks big. He looks healthy. He's doing well.

[Judy (Gardena Cinema owner)]

Oh, yeah, there he is. He looks good.

[Daniel Tosh]

And then my wife. I wasn't going to be a part of this. I'm like, you got us into this mess. She went with him. And they bought a beta fish that can survive in the size aquarium that we have. Gets fed once per day, three times a week. So not creating the waste and everything seems to be on the oven. So I just want this person that was so positive, they knew what I was gonna do to go themselves. You. You piece of. You don't think I know how to really parent? I say things, I get the rise. I. I know what I'm doing comedically. But don't start acting like you have the answers. You have no insight into my world. And guess what? I'm wonderful. Oh, I'm wonderful.

[Eddie Gosling]

Love it.

[Daniel Tosh]

I. My son was sad, and he's still sad when he talks about it. And we. We used it as. As something real to learn from and grow from. And I took some responsibility. I mean, I. I kind of forced it on my wife that she. It was her fault for letting you have something that was going to outgrow what we could provide for. But he did it. He did the right thing. He loves animals. So shut the fuck up. All right? See you next week.

[Unknown Guest (brief interjection)]

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