Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, it's Bruce.
Speaker 2: Thanks for pulling up a chair for another bonus episode
Speaker 2: of Table for Two.
Speaker 3: I recently sat down for a wonderful lunch with Ted Surrandos.
Speaker 3: Ted is the co CEO of Netflix and the husband
Speaker 3: of another Table for Two guests, Nicole Avonte. I'm excited
Speaker 3: for you to hear our full episode next week, but
Speaker 3: for today, I hope you enjoy this fun lightning round.
Speaker 4: Now we're gonna do a little speed round. Okay, okay,
Speaker 4: this is what we do, a little quick round. I
Speaker 4: don't want to overthink about it, but start with your
Speaker 4: favorite author of your favorite book.
Speaker 5: So when I get to read, and I think it's
Speaker 5: a real luxury to get to read something that isn't
Speaker 5: a script. I really love. The two things out love
Speaker 5: more than anything are history and comedy. Mostly everbiography is
Speaker 5: all the LBJ biographies. I've read all of them, Doris
Speaker 5: Karns or Robert Kara's incredible books and there those are
Speaker 5: some of my favorite because a their history there and
Speaker 5: they're also LBJ is a great leadership story. So I
Speaker 5: always read through his kind of role modelings around things.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, those Robert Kara books are it's a summer
Speaker 5: to do a whole all of the time.
Speaker 4: Does it do you just fall into it or does
Speaker 4: it take you? Like by chapter twenty you went to
Speaker 4: it like the first two hundred pages, Like, that's my problem.
Speaker 5: If it's somebody I really admire all in, if it's
Speaker 5: somebody I'm really like, really I'm in and getting tough
Speaker 5: through the slow parts, you know, all lot of things. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Walter Isaacson, who writes great biographers as well, a bunch
Speaker 5: of great ones. But for me, the Ben Franklin one
Speaker 5: is the most mpelling and interesting read. I'm sitting on
Speaker 5: my nightstand right now is the autobiography of Sergeant Schreiver.
Speaker 5: It's called Sarge, a guy who accomplished more in a
Speaker 5: couple of years than most presidents ever did. And he
Speaker 5: was not a president. He created the Peace Corps and
Speaker 5: he is like all this is like in six months
Speaker 5: that are still happening today in this country. And he's
Speaker 5: just a huge inspiration and he was a The book
Speaker 5: is daunting, it's very long, but it's really fascinating and
Speaker 5: I just I read it in bites.
Speaker 4: And bites, I mean, just to sort of say the
Speaker 4: different kind of man sitting at the Stable.
Speaker 2: Mine is Shelley Winters and.
Speaker 5: Chaer and where comedy were comedy and biography meets. For me,
Speaker 5: it was Woody Allen's biography Apropos of Nothing, maybe one
Speaker 5: of the best biographies ever, autobiography ever written. And Steve Martin,
Speaker 5: Steve was standing born, standing up, really great.
Speaker 2: So now okay, right, I mean also like it's a
Speaker 2: speed round. Yeah, it always happened, violated speed.
Speaker 4: And on the show I did with Jeff Go and
Speaker 4: it was like, I like to read a book, ye yeah, yea,
Speaker 4: yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: Favorite color blue beach or snow vacation beach.
Speaker 5: Favorite song U ever, my go to karaoke song is
Speaker 5: That's Life by Frank Sinacho's must be.
Speaker 2: There, You Go, Best Wisdom important to you.
Speaker 5: Early on in Netflix, I had made a goofy decision
Speaker 5: and read told me when I kind of tried to
Speaker 5: shuck the blame to somebody else, and he said to me,
Speaker 5: you're not allowed to let me drive us off a cliff.
Speaker 5: So it was that you own your responsible for the
Speaker 5: things that you're responsible for, and just you and Netta's
Speaker 5: stuck with me.
Speaker 2: That's good. The other can I do?
Speaker 5: To Ron Eisenberg, who was the CEO of et D,
Speaker 5: who was a CPA and a lawyer, so you could
Speaker 5: never win an argument with this guy. But he was
Speaker 5: a supervisionary too, and he told me one day we
Speaker 5: were walking in and he said, I was dressed casually
Speaker 5: going into work, and it was a pretty casual industry,
Speaker 5: and he goes, you should dress like you just might
Speaker 5: have to talk to a lawyer every day. You should
Speaker 5: dress like you just might have talked to a lawyer.
Speaker 2: I thought that was good advice. Movie most influenced you?
Speaker 5: Probably, Actually the most influenced would be probably After Hours,
Speaker 5: Smart and Scorsese's movie. I say that's most influential because,
Speaker 5: as I recall, it's the first time I remember watching
Speaker 5: a movie realizing it wasn't just big TV there really
Speaker 5: recognizing the art form of movies. It was probably After Hours.
Speaker 2: We just watched it. It's a crazy movie. It's really good.
Speaker 2: Pet Peeve.
Speaker 5: Oh, I was gonna say being late, but it's my
Speaker 5: own pet peeve. Like I I, I'm often late, and
Speaker 5: it's my.
Speaker 2: Own sunrise or sunset?
Speaker 5: Sunset?
Speaker 2: What keeps you up at night?
Speaker 5: I sleep pretty good now, honestly excitement?
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, yeah, that's great excitement for tomorrow. What brings
Speaker 2: you joy my kids?
Speaker 5: Nicole cooking?
Speaker 2: What movie did you and Nicole bond over? What was
Speaker 2: your first movie that you bonded over?
Speaker 5: M Yeah, this is a weird answer, but it's It
Speaker 5: was a documentary series called I on the Prize that
Speaker 5: we talked about on our first date, which led us
Speaker 5: down to some very crazy conversations for a first date
Speaker 5: to talk about civil rights and history. But it's we
Speaker 5: had both seen it and fallen in love with it
Speaker 5: when it was on PBS, and we talked about it forever.
Speaker 5: There are other movies that we love together.
Speaker 2: That's the one that was the one.
Speaker 5: Nicole loves the movie Marty, and I think she thinks
Speaker 5: I think it's I'm pretty sure it's her favorite movie
Speaker 5: of all time. I'm sure it is, actually, and we
Speaker 5: it was very hard to find for a long time,
Speaker 5: so that the other thing we spent a lot of
Speaker 5: time in early on about a round the movie was
Speaker 5: trying to find Marty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like no one younger than us would know that.
Speaker 4: Thirty year we should do I'm going to do a
Speaker 4: podcast that's like in the vein of the newly Wood game.
Speaker 2: The two of you here I say, have to whip
Speaker 2: open the cards.
Speaker 5: That'll be cursing and get that episode that'll be cursing.
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