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Speaker 1: One O two point seven Kiss FM Los Angeles. Let's

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Speaker 1: get him on. We were talking about him earlier, excited

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Speaker 1: to have him join us. John Krasinski is with this.

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Speaker 2: Jo Hey, guys, how you doing.

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Speaker 1: We're great, we are super and we were just saying, really,

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Speaker 1: I think wonderful things because I was I just said

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Speaker 1: that I don't. We've never traveled together, we've never lived together,

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Speaker 1: we've never taken a road trip together.

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Speaker 3: But for me, you just should.

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Speaker 2: We should road trip together.

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Speaker 3: I'm ready, I'm down.

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Speaker 1: But for me, you're just you're You're You're a guy

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Speaker 1: that checks all of the boxes when it comes to

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Speaker 1: what we think you are and who you are. And

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Speaker 1: I think that we're just we are we saying like

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Speaker 1: he's just the fully checked box guy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, like literally every single box check check checked. Smart, funny,

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Speaker 4: family man, very tall.

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Speaker 5: Oh my god, guys, we got to hang out more

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Speaker 5: on us. This is really good.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so don't let us down because we think the

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Speaker 3: world of view.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, oh wow, thank you guys.

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Speaker 1: I was in a gym and this was a while ago,

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Speaker 1: and you had just worked out and some of the

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Speaker 1: staff was just buzzing about, you know, how hard you

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Speaker 1: work out and I said, well, what's he like in

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Speaker 1: the wild? And they said, he's the nicest guy ever,

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Speaker 1: And so I checked another box.

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Speaker 5: Wow, that's really nice. I thought that story was going

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Speaker 5: I walked in. You had just worked out and I

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Speaker 5: could still smell it, and that was going to be.

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Speaker 2: A horror piece for me.

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Speaker 3: Nope, So all right, let's get to it. John Krasinski.

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Speaker 1: When I heard you were and he's done everything on this,

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Speaker 1: I mean, he really worn't every hat. He wrote it,

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Speaker 1: directed it, stars in it with friends of his. Two

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Speaker 1: we're talking about if. When I heard about the concept,

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Speaker 1: I saw a billboard I think for it here in

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles, and I smiled because I remembered, I feel

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Speaker 1: like you wrote this for me. I know you didn't,

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Speaker 1: but I remembered when I was a kid having my

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Speaker 1: imaginary friend that lived in a wall in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Speaker 5: No way, what was what was the name?

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Speaker 3: It was?

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Speaker 1: It was a spin off of El Moe and it

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Speaker 1: was a little emo. It was emo, so you know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know it's not the cutest, but I was thinking about.

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Speaker 5: A hole in the wall. I was worried that you

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Speaker 5: had stuffed them in a wall, and I was like

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Speaker 5: he has a lot to say to you.

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Speaker 1: No, And I literally I remember my neighbor across the street, Todd.

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Speaker 1: He had an imaginary friend too, and we'd pulled them

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Speaker 1: in our palms. I mean, it's this crazy thing about now,

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Speaker 1: but we'd hold these two things in our palms and

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Speaker 1: do voices and talk about them and then go talk

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Speaker 1: them away every night.

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Speaker 5: Oh my god.

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Speaker 2: But so guess what I did? Write it for you? Ryan?

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Speaker 3: Come on, but I do. I'm curious. I just want

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Speaker 3: to know.

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Speaker 1: And I have so much respect for all the different

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Speaker 1: moving parts when you put together something like this. But

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Speaker 1: give us a little backstory about how you did it,

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Speaker 1: why you did it, and all that.

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Speaker 5: I wrote a movie for my kids. I've wanted to

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Speaker 5: write a movie for my kids for so long, and

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Speaker 5: I had no idea what I was going to do.

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Speaker 5: And I would just spend hours standing in a doorway

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Speaker 5: watching my.

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Speaker 2: Two girls disappear into this magical.

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Speaker 5: World that we as parents are not invited into, and

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Speaker 5: I just watched them be so joyful and joyous but

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Speaker 5: also so authentic. They were just so uniquely themselves in

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Speaker 5: this place. And I thought that would be a really

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Speaker 5: amazing world to write about. And then it was actually

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Speaker 5: the pandemic when I started to see my kids lights

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Speaker 5: start to go out a little bit and they started

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Speaker 5: playing fewer and fewer imaginary games. And I just turned

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Speaker 5: to Emily and I said, oh my god, this is

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Speaker 5: what growing up is. This is the definition of growing up.

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Speaker 5: And when they asked me, Daddy, are we going to

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Speaker 5: be okay? I said yes, And I'm going to write

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Speaker 5: a movie about it because you need to know that

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Speaker 5: that magical world you created you can go back to

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Speaker 5: you any time and you've always got someone who will

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Speaker 5: watch your back. And that's where it came from.

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Speaker 3: Is that true? So it's a fun thing.

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Speaker 1: I love that you did it so organically because it

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Speaker 1: was something that you were experiencing with I John, were

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Speaker 1: there are there things in There are things in the

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Speaker 1: movie that were specifically thoughts of your kids too, or

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Speaker 1: derived from some of your kids.

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Speaker 2: Do.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, there are two. First of all, two of the

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Speaker 5: imaginary friends in the movie are my kids imaginary friends.

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Speaker 5: So there's a pink alligator played by Maya Rudolph called

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Speaker 5: Ali that is my daughter Violet's imagining friend. And then

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Speaker 5: my daughter Hazel's imaginary friend is the marshmallow that on

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Speaker 5: fire because she is a hugely empathetic kid. And one

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Speaker 5: time we were making s'mores and her marshmallow caught on fire.

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Speaker 5: You do, and she was emotionally destroyed and I went.

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Speaker 2: Oh, no, no, don't worry about it. That's what he does.

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Speaker 2: He lights himself on fire, he puts himself out.

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Speaker 5: She went really and I said, oh yeah, And that

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Speaker 5: became her imaginary friends.

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Speaker 1: If is in theaters now debuted at number one at

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Speaker 1: the box office.

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Speaker 3: Keep up the good stuff, man, it's so great to

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Speaker 3: connect with you.

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Speaker 5: Oh man, thank you guys. It's so great to talk

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Speaker 5: to you again. Right, it's been done a long time.

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Speaker 1: I know.

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Speaker 3: I look forward to seeing you and say hello to

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Speaker 3: Emily for me too.

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Speaker 2: I will.

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Speaker 5: Thanks guys, thanks so much.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: There fully delivered everything we wanted and expected. I just

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Speaker 1: loved that he could create a franchise because his kids

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Speaker 1: had a marshmallow that was on fire.

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Speaker 4: I know, isn't that so and awsome?

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Speaker 3: The fact that it came to.

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Speaker 4: Him during the pandemic, Like that's how long these things

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Speaker 4: take to come to fruition?

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Speaker 1: And I think what he also, I mean, this probably

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Speaker 1: struck a lot of parents. He saw the light dim

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Speaker 1: a little bit with his kids because of it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and didn't want that to go out. We got to

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Speaker 1: keep moving. Thank you, John, You've made our day this morning.

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Speaker 1: Can you picture yourself at the Hollywood Bowl next month

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Speaker 1: with let's see Noah Khan on stage? Who are you

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Speaker 1: going to take manifested? And if you want to win

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Speaker 1: stand by