WEBVTT - INTERVIEW: Jeremy Piven

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<v Speaker 1>This is smallsy surgery. Are we ready to go with

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<v Speaker 1>Tonight's guest? Yes?

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<v Speaker 2>Apparently the we've been told this is the most rigold

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<v Speaker 2>thing that could possibly We've been told that we have

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<v Speaker 2>to call him and that we isn't lined up.

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<v Speaker 1>They're whole, They're a whold. Okay, let me just okay.

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<v Speaker 2>So we've apparently connected to his hotel room and we're

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<v Speaker 2>on hold waiting for Okay, So Tonight's guest famous as

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<v Speaker 2>are Regold, twenty six Emmy nominations, fourteen Gold nominations, the

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<v Speaker 2>most iconic two thousands TV series of all time, Entourage,

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<v Speaker 2>Jeremy Piven. This is his hold music. So did they

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<v Speaker 2>tell us how long we'd be waiting for the book?

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<v Speaker 2>Hopefully he's ready.

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<v Speaker 1>You know this feels very ore Regold.

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<v Speaker 2>If I hope he answers the phone with you got

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<v Speaker 2>gold like that would be iconic.

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<v Speaker 1>You know what I should do while we're waiting.

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<v Speaker 2>He's in New Zealand apparently at the moment doing a

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<v Speaker 2>stand up shows. He's going to be here from this

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<v Speaker 2>weekend kicking off his stand up shows. He's playing the

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<v Speaker 2>Sydney Brisbane Perth, meloln and Adelaide. I really am patting

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<v Speaker 2>here teg Dainty dot com for Jeremy Piven live in Australia.

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<v Speaker 1>Do I keep Maybe we'll just.

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<v Speaker 2>Play the let's just fade this down, Let's play his

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<v Speaker 2>opener and let's see if he answers the firing, and

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<v Speaker 2>let's listen to you with Jeremy Vinous.

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<v Speaker 3>Years ago, I did a show called Angurache. Could you

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<v Speaker 3>imagine if we tried to reboot that today in this climates.

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<v Speaker 1>Too, Jeremy Purpan, I'd rive the sample.

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<v Speaker 3>It contains the names of EAD agents. Anyone catches you,

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<v Speaker 3>you eat it, COMPRENDI not if you understand what I'm saying,

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<v Speaker 3>you can't just not.

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<v Speaker 1>He's on his way to Australia. Please welcome to the show,

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<v Speaker 1>Jeremy Piven. How are you? Thank you?

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<v Speaker 2>This is very arigold for me to be connected to

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<v Speaker 2>you in your hotel. Are you are we interrupted anything?

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<v Speaker 2>Or you good to chat because I know you're travel No.

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<v Speaker 3>No, I was. I was sitting staring at the phone

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<v Speaker 3>doing absolutely nothing, and now we are on and everything

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<v Speaker 3>is great in the world.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, fantastic.

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<v Speaker 2>That's great to hear because I just was like, oh,

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<v Speaker 2>maybe he's partying in the hotel room and we've interrupted,

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<v Speaker 2>and I wouldn't have wanted to interrupt your what day

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<v Speaker 2>is it? Whatever day of the week it is plans. Hey,

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<v Speaker 2>great to talk to you. And you're on your way

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<v Speaker 2>to Australia with the with the whole stand up comedy

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<v Speaker 2>shows that I am. You're going to be here this weekend,

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<v Speaker 2>playing literally every every capital city around the country. What

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<v Speaker 2>is your what's your favorite thing to riff on at

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<v Speaker 2>the moment. There's so much material in the world.

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<v Speaker 1>What do you what do you? What do you love?

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<v Speaker 2>And the chance to pop off on stage about it

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<v Speaker 2>at the moment.

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, that's the great thing about stand up is

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<v Speaker 3>is you know anything that's happening in the moments you

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<v Speaker 3>can I mean I literally just touchdown in New Zealand,

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<v Speaker 3>so a lot of my stuff is you know, based

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<v Speaker 3>you know in the fact that I live in the

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<v Speaker 3>States and well you know everything that we're going through,

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<v Speaker 3>but you know, things can happen to me on the

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<v Speaker 3>way to the theater. You know, I just flipped and

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<v Speaker 3>fall and go, my god, I'm getting old. This is

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<v Speaker 3>how you know you're getting older. You could look at

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<v Speaker 3>a woman in a short skirt and I would think, Wow,

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<v Speaker 3>she's hot, and now I look at her and I go,

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<v Speaker 3>I wonder if she's.

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<v Speaker 2>Cold, you could you could have a fall at the

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<v Speaker 2>airport and hurt your hip. Like that's all real possibilities, right, Well.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that's that's not as funny as what I just said.

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<v Speaker 3>But yeah, yeah, there you go, brother. I think we

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<v Speaker 3>should you and actually take this on the road.

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<v Speaker 1>I have to.

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<v Speaker 2>I have to ask, like, what's your what's your opinion

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<v Speaker 2>on crowd work?

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<v Speaker 1>Do people heckle you at your shows?

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<v Speaker 2>Because the clips on TikTok you are very funny, and

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<v Speaker 2>obviously you lean into like what people know you for

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<v Speaker 2>and an actor and being in Hollywood, But do people

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<v Speaker 2>heckle you at your shows?

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<v Speaker 1>Do you encourage that or?

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<v Speaker 2>Because I think in the stand up circuit, some people

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<v Speaker 2>are like it's okay to be heckled. Other people are like,

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<v Speaker 2>fucking shut up. This is my show, don't take me

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<v Speaker 2>off my path.

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<v Speaker 3>That's the great thing about stand up is that you know,

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<v Speaker 3>at any moment someone could do. That's what makes the

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<v Speaker 3>show unique. I will say though, that in the States

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<v Speaker 3>people do it a lot more and it says a

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<v Speaker 3>lot about a culture. You know, you can learn a

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<v Speaker 3>lot about a culture. Like you know, when you're watching

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<v Speaker 3>like sports and you have you know, people being interviewed

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<v Speaker 3>and then you see the fans in the background that

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<v Speaker 3>they're either like, you know, they're very well behaved or

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<v Speaker 3>people are like lifting their shirt up and desperately trying

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<v Speaker 3>to get on camera. You know, when I've been in Australia,

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<v Speaker 3>people they're smart, they're present, they get the joke, but

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<v Speaker 3>you've got to earn their last So I'm not just

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<v Speaker 3>saying that because I'm here, but Australia, I was in

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<v Speaker 3>Melbourne and Sydney last time, were two of my favorite

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<v Speaker 3>places in the world to play, and mostly because they

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<v Speaker 3>loved me and they thought I was really funny, which

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<v Speaker 3>means they have really good taste, you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, I feel like you're flirting with us, and

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<v Speaker 2>I'm on board that we do think you're very funny

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<v Speaker 2>and we do enjoy you a lot. You've got because

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<v Speaker 2>not only you've got two things, you got the stand

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<v Speaker 2>up show, but then also you made a movie here too, right,

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<v Speaker 2>I made.

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<v Speaker 3>A couple movies, one of them Primitive War. Luke Sparks,

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<v Speaker 3>who's a guy who lives out there not too far

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<v Speaker 3>from the Gold Coast where we shopped this film last

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<v Speaker 3>time I was here. Our film was going to be

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<v Speaker 3>released the twenty first of August. The trailer has been

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<v Speaker 3>blowing up. We just were a few days ago at

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<v Speaker 3>Comic Con, first Australian independent film to ever go to

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<v Speaker 3>Comic CON's huge and it went incredibly well. We were

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<v Speaker 3>totally sold out, and there are other, you know, big

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<v Speaker 3>movies that weren't sold out so well. I feel like

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<v Speaker 3>we're onto something.

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<v Speaker 1>That's so great, that's so great. You know.

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<v Speaker 2>Obviously obviously the character you made famous being like a

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<v Speaker 2>you know, Ari Gold, and then since Entourage, since then,

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<v Speaker 2>there's been a bunch of shows that have sort of

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<v Speaker 2>tried to do a sort of like a peek behind

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<v Speaker 2>the curtain of how the you know, the sausage is made.

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<v Speaker 2>But recently seth Rogen did this series called The Studio.

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<v Speaker 2>And now that you've also now that you've made movies

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<v Speaker 2>as well as TV series, I was curious to know

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<v Speaker 2>how much of the movie making experience was How close

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<v Speaker 2>was it to sort of like that series. As an actor,

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<v Speaker 2>how close is it to you know, dealing with studio

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<v Speaker 2>execs and the egos and you know, the people who

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<v Speaker 2>trying to involve themselves in all of it.

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<v Speaker 3>I know that when we were doing Entourage, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>we had a lot of people working on the you know,

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<v Speaker 3>the rating and the producing that were immersed in Hollywood.

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<v Speaker 3>So and one of them to this day was his

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<v Speaker 3>Mark Wahlberg's manager. So in a weird way, we have

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<v Speaker 3>like a drama tour on set with us at all times.

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<v Speaker 3>So what you're seeing was pretty authentic. Yeah, to the

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<v Speaker 3>backstage life of Hollywood. And yeah, you know we if

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<v Speaker 3>we didn't get it right, we would have heard about it.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah's true, that's true.

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<v Speaker 2>You made a funny joke that I saw on TikTok

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<v Speaker 2>about you saying like they would never make Entourage now

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<v Speaker 2>because it's like five I don't want to I don't

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<v Speaker 2>want to do your gear, but there's like five straight

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<v Speaker 2>white guys on a billboard and it just wouldn't be made.

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<v Speaker 2>Do you do you worry about cancel culture in in

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<v Speaker 2>your stand up because like people can take those clips

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<v Speaker 2>out of context, or are you like I've been doing

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<v Speaker 2>this for so long, I could give a shit, you know.

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<v Speaker 3>I think when you start, like there's this great quote

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<v Speaker 3>about people that do the high wire, you know and

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<v Speaker 3>they I mean, that's such an insane even thing to

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<v Speaker 3>do with your life. And the moment they start thinking

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<v Speaker 3>about anything other than just being in the moment, they

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<v Speaker 3>they tend to fall. And I think, I think we

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<v Speaker 3>stand up. You know, you're up there and you're conncion

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<v Speaker 3>with the audience and you're having a great time, and

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<v Speaker 3>you're making them laugh, and you're not getting in your

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<v Speaker 3>own way or second guessing yourself. Otherwise it's just not

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<v Speaker 3>going to be the best version of what it can be.

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<v Speaker 3>I think we've been through a lot in the past

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<v Speaker 3>four or five years, and I think that you know,

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<v Speaker 3>we've seen the extreme version of people being triggered, taking offense,

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<v Speaker 3>leading with feelings, and I think we're coming back to

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<v Speaker 3>some semblance of normalacy, which which we listen. The number

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<v Speaker 3>one in the States, number one viewed piece of content

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<v Speaker 3>on Netflix was the Roast of Tom Brady, which was

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<v Speaker 3>really launchy and fun and wild and and I think,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, there are businesses out there and they don't

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<v Speaker 3>want to fail, and so they have to look at

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<v Speaker 3>what's selling, and what's selling is if we had a

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<v Speaker 3>rule of my house growing up, my mom would say,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, you can say whatever you want, as long

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<v Speaker 3>as it's funny. And I think if it's funny, that

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<v Speaker 3>means you have some insight into a truth about something

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<v Speaker 3>that we can all share. So I think if you

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<v Speaker 3>start thinking about, wow, is this going to offend someone?

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<v Speaker 3>Because I'm not racist. I you know, I grew up

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<v Speaker 3>in an integrated culture, you know, so it's not like

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<v Speaker 3>I live in fear of like, wow, I'll be uncovered

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<v Speaker 3>as some you know, something that would. I really have

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<v Speaker 3>nothing to fear and love making people laugh like that.

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<v Speaker 1>And I like that answer. I like that answer, So I.

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<v Speaker 3>Think that's a really great place to be. You know,

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<v Speaker 3>we all need to laugh now more than ever with

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<v Speaker 3>everything going on. You know, it's like, you know, you

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<v Speaker 3>can get angry, but anger is like a punishment you

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<v Speaker 3>give yourself for something someone else did, kind of like

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<v Speaker 3>burning your tesla. Oh yeah, good night everyone, Thank you

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<v Speaker 3>for coming.

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<v Speaker 1>I know I love that.

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<v Speaker 2>I never would understand it. Yeah, I saw exactly what

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<v Speaker 2>you did. Then I saw exactly what you did. Then

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<v Speaker 2>you're gonna be here. Shows kicking off this weekend. TG

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<v Speaker 2>dainty dot com for tickets. Final question for you, are

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<v Speaker 2>they treating you like a rockstar in New Zealand. What's

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<v Speaker 2>the hotel like? Are they rolling out the red carpet

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<v Speaker 2>or do they lock up the booze in the mini bar?

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<v Speaker 1>What's the story there?

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<v Speaker 3>You know, I know that this is a very civil conversation.

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<v Speaker 3>You were expecting ari gold, But yeah, no, no, no, I'll

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<v Speaker 3>break out the ri gold when it when it comes

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<v Speaker 3>time to get up on that stage.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm just checking that you're staying in a nice hotel

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<v Speaker 2>and they've they've given you a pillow menu because you

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<v Speaker 2>deserve it. And I don't like a hotel that doesn't

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<v Speaker 2>have a variety of pillow options in the room.

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<v Speaker 1>If you know what I'm saying.

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<v Speaker 3>There is a plateau of pillows. And because I'm in

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<v Speaker 3>New Zealand, I actually have a sheep in bed with me.

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<v Speaker 2>Apparently everyone off the plane gets one, so I'm glad

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<v Speaker 2>that they have continued that tradition. You sir, are going

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<v Speaker 2>to be here live in Australia over the weekend. Pleasure

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<v Speaker 2>to have you on the show. Now, enjoy the rest

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<v Speaker 2>of your night in New Zealand.

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<v Speaker 3>All right, thank you, buddy, I'll see you too.

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