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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you should know

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Speaker 1: from House Stuff Works dot Com? Hey, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh. That's Chuck coming to you from

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Speaker 1: Studio one A. Yes, deep within the bowels of How

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Speaker 1: Stuff Works corporate headquarters, my spokesman. Boys. Yeah, that's a

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Speaker 1: pretty good Chuck, Chuck, do your best. Monk like a

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Speaker 1: Franciscan monk. Chant. I don't care now, I know what

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Speaker 1: you're talking about. You're talking about Monk the TV show. Yes,

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Speaker 1: one of my favorites, is it? Yeah? I love it?

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Speaker 1: You watch it? You don't? Yes, I do know it's good.

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Speaker 1: I watched Monk. Because let me go ahead and set

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Speaker 1: this up. I have in a very very off hand way,

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Speaker 1: no Monk, let's hear it, Chuck, I don't. I don't

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Speaker 1: Tony shalub the actor, the great, great actor, Tony shalub Um.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not just saying that because i've met him.

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Speaker 1: I really a big fan of his work with the

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Speaker 1: Coen Brothers especially. Yeah, he's pretty good in their films.

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Speaker 1: They know how to direct that guy. Yeah. I met

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Speaker 1: Tony through a friend of mine who was a director

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Speaker 1: and uh, who had worked with Tony, and Tony's a

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Speaker 1: really good guy. Took a shine at my friend Jim

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Speaker 1: And uh, Tony has read one of my screenplays, was

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Speaker 1: kind enough to do that. And you went to Monk's wedding, No,

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Speaker 1: I went to. My Frink was there. But when I

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Speaker 1: but there was a lot of you know, periphery family there,

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Speaker 1: you know, what's Monk doing here? But he's over there,

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Speaker 1: let's just see him. He's right there. Yeah, he's an

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Speaker 1: online registered minister. So I sort of have met Tony

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Speaker 1: a few times. He's a very nice guy. We were

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Speaker 1: we got way sidetracked here, Oh we did. We did

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Speaker 1: um And actually if we had O c D that

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Speaker 1: Monk O c D. That's what we're talking about. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's where Monk came from. So basically, um, let's let's

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Speaker 1: I think most people probably realize that, yeah, which seems

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Speaker 1: have said, you can identify. Well. I've often say I

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Speaker 1: But I do have a lot of really weird, quirky

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Speaker 1: quirky habits. Boy. Really yeah, wow, I never really told

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Speaker 1: Apparently it doesn't matter how your O c D manifest.

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Speaker 1: A restaurant is a nightmarish, hellish place. Uh, there's just

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