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Speaker 1: One or two point seven Kiss FM. It's Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: with you. Thanks for having a son this morning. Going

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Speaker 1: to bring in Jake Jillenhall here. Hey, hey there you are.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, no worry. I've been like I've been like, I've

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Speaker 2: been sitting here and I'm like, wait, how does this work?

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Speaker 1: No, no problem? Are you mobile?

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Speaker 2: I am?

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Speaker 3: I am sitting in a car, so let me just

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Speaker 3: turn off the air.

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Speaker 1: So you guys are you Are you actually driving yourself somewhere?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, No, it's weird. I'm I'm on my way to work.

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Speaker 2: I'm at work, but I'm sitting in the car.

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Speaker 1: This is this is perfect because this is how we

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Speaker 1: like to think of people listening to the show. So, Jake,

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Speaker 1: you're playing the role of a listener right now, which

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Speaker 1: is a role you've never taken on before. I think,

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Speaker 1: Jake Jillenholl with us.

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Speaker 2: It's a pleasure to be here.

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Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for coming on. We were just talking about

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Speaker 1: you earlier, and you know, with the roles that you

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Speaker 1: take on. Sysney actually said something very funny, which was,

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Speaker 1: I don't even know if I find know who Jake

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Speaker 1: Gillenhall is, because every time he takes on a role

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Speaker 1: it's like so mental and physical, you know exactly, Like

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Speaker 1: that's a compliment.

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Speaker 2: That is a couple and thank you. That's sweet.

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Speaker 3: I mean I think that's the role of the actor,

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Speaker 3: isn't it.

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Speaker 2: I mean in a way.

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Speaker 1: So who are you you would like to get to

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Speaker 1: know Jake?

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Speaker 2: I am.

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Speaker 3: I'm an actor and I play different roles, but as

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Speaker 3: a person, my name is Jake Gillenhall and I've been

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Speaker 3: doing it for a while.

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Speaker 1: And do you is this true? Then? Do you bake

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Speaker 1: sourdough bread? Is that something that Jake Gillenhall does?

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Speaker 3: Yes, I have been known to bake sourdough bread, which

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Speaker 3: is not a common occurrence amongst those of us who

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Speaker 3: have been through this period of time. I think sourdough

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Speaker 3: bread baking has become popular, but I have continued.

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Speaker 1: Through the fermented foods are a whole category of love

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Speaker 1: for me.

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Speaker 3: Oh yes, the smell, you know, the early stages of

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Speaker 3: the smelling of a of a starter. There's nothing like it.

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Speaker 1: So Jake is here, Guy Richie's the Covenant in theaters

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Speaker 1: and thinking about this role and other roles that we

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Speaker 1: were talking about a second ago, that you take on.

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Speaker 1: These are these are not things where I would imagine

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Speaker 1: you just kind of you show up and you do

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Speaker 1: seems very physically and mentally demanding for this role and

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Speaker 1: a lot of the roles that you're well known for.

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Speaker 1: Before you jump into something like this, what goes through

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Speaker 1: your mind? Is there like a is there a last

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Speaker 3: You know, it's funny, this movie was a blast to make,

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Speaker 3: so you know, I there are moments where I'm being

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Speaker 3: But you know, I shot that basically just you know,

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Speaker 2: But like we know, guy Ritchie who directed the movie, he.

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Speaker 3: Barbecues every day, so he has a barbecue on set

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Speaker 3: and so basically like we and we only had sixty

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Speaker 2: We didn't have a full written script.

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Speaker 3: So he would write as the days went on and

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Speaker 3: we would all eat in the morning, like he'd make

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Speaker 1: So you're playing Army Sergeant John Kinley and there's there's

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Speaker 3: I mean, yes, that's a perfectly put Yes there is

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Speaker 3: off screen when we finished, there was a lot of fun.

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Speaker 3: I mean, guy Richie's you know, the guy Richie. We

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Speaker 2: I mean, there are moments that you you know, something's

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Speaker 2: very emotional. Yeah, but generally yes, it should be fun.

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Speaker 1: But tell us about this guy, because he's carrying a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I play. His name is John Kinley.

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Speaker 3: He's a special Operations sergeant and his group is soldiers

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Speaker 3: is tasked with finding munitions in Afghanistan and they struggle

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Speaker 2: So he goes back and he.

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Speaker 3: He goes through the journey of saving Ahmed, his interpreter

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Speaker 3: that all the interpreters were.

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Speaker 1: Promised, right, and the promise, you know, not fulfilled. And

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we have an ethos. I think of no one

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Speaker 3: what are you here? You're here to translate? And he says,

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Speaker 3: I think it's it's about interpreting behavior, cultural behavior and

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Speaker 2: You know, my good friend is a marine.

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Speaker 3: He thought in Fallujah and his interpreter he says, he

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Speaker 3: And you know, I think there's this exchange between cultures.

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Speaker 3: And that's what this movie is about, is the shared

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Speaker 1: Guy Richie's The Covenant in theaters. Now, go see it, right,

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Speaker 1: go see it on the VICTI.

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Speaker 2: It's also really entertaining. I mean it is like an

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean we like to call it an action parable

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Speaker 3: because it's not like this like heavy.

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Speaker 2: It's pretty.

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Speaker 3: It's emotional because I think it leaves you feeling like

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Speaker 2: I believe like as Americans, you know, we are we're.

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Speaker 3: and I think that is oftentimes reluctant heroes, but heroes nonetheless,

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Speaker 3: you know. And it's a movie that reminds you of

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Speaker 2: And at the same time, you know you'll pay for

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Speaker 2: your seat, but you'll only need the.

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Speaker 1: Well, thanks for calling, man, I know you said you're

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Speaker 1: on your way to work. Are you doing another film? Now?

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Speaker 2: I'm doing a show.

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Speaker 3: I'm doing this Apple series called Presumed Innocent, which is

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Speaker 3: we're doing it right now.

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Speaker 2: So I turn off my the I turn off the

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Speaker 1: So yeah, listening now, Thanks for calling, buddy, have a

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Speaker 1: great day at work.

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Speaker 3: Bye.

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Speaker 2: A nice guy.

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Speaker 1: Now I feel like I know him. I'm in love

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Speaker 1: with him, I know, you know what I mean. Like

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Speaker 1: that's that kind of yeah right, so down to earth,

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Speaker 1: so down to earth. He also just seems like happy,

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Speaker 1: Those people, just like I liked hearing how He's like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: But like, if something happens emotionally, I can't just like

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Speaker 1: Ryan's roses. I'm like beat for two hours all right,

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Speaker 1: so I gotta see that at the theater right now.

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Speaker 1: Of course you're talking about baking sour dough bread. It's

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna put honey on it. That's I'm gonna put

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Speaker 1: on it, fresh un money. Yeah, that's it. Well I

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Speaker 1: could no, that's it right now, it's I'm gonna put

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Speaker 1: on it. George Lopez is gonna be playing at the

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Speaker 1: Greek this summer. Tickets and neck