WEBVTT - Catching up with Friends: Aasif Mandvi 

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<v Speaker 1>Hi, I'm Kristin Davis, and I want to know, are

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<v Speaker 1>you a Charlotte? You guys us of Mandvi's here. I

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<v Speaker 1>should have said that right away. It's very exciting. We're

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<v Speaker 1>totally there's no action, no action.

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<v Speaker 2>It's weird, right, it is weird.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you just start, you're just rolling and no one

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<v Speaker 1>says anything. I'm here, he's here, and you guys, he's

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<v Speaker 1>here because he's on my motherboard myself, which probably you

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<v Speaker 1>all know. And we're going to discuss it. But also

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<v Speaker 1>we have some other things that we have to catch

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<v Speaker 1>up because number one, he went to Cynthia's birthday party,

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<v Speaker 1>which I miss, which I'm really sad about. So we

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<v Speaker 1>were catching up about that, but then I was hearing

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<v Speaker 1>about the fact that number one, you're on Broadway, which

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<v Speaker 1>is insane. And tell me again about it, because it's incredible.

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<v Speaker 1>Your cast is incredible.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's uh, well, we're doing Fallen Angels and it's

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<v Speaker 2>on Broadway. We just opened Amazing and it's Kelly O'Hara,

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<v Speaker 2>Rose Bern. They're hilarious together, Tracy Chimo, Christo Fitzgerald, Mark Consuela, Amazing.

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<v Speaker 2>It's such a brilliant, wonderful cast. That I get to

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<v Speaker 2>work with, and uh, and it's no coward and so

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<v Speaker 2>it's all the British farce, so super fun and it's

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<v Speaker 2>all like hell, and I never get to do that.

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<v Speaker 2>You know. I grew up in England and so I

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<v Speaker 2>know that. Yeah, I grew up in England, So I

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<v Speaker 2>grew up watching all of those British sitcoms and those

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<v Speaker 2>sort of like Hello Vica and all that kind of thing,

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<v Speaker 2>and uh, but I never get to yeah, exactly, at

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<v Speaker 2>least like that was the you know, the original downto Abe, right,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, and so I never get to play those

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<v Speaker 2>parts like like that upper class British satirized that war.

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<v Speaker 2>So it's really fun.

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<v Speaker 1>And we were also saying that you should really be

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<v Speaker 1>on Gilded Age.

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<v Speaker 2>I should be if they listen to this podcast, I

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<v Speaker 2>want to know, right, hopefully someone will.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I also would die to be on Gilded Age,

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<v Speaker 1>but I don't think I'm going to get to be

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<v Speaker 1>because Cynthia is there and once one of us.

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<v Speaker 2>Is there, right, Yeah, it's weird if you both that

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<v Speaker 2>and then if you have scenes together, that's really weird.

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<v Speaker 1>It's totally strange. But sometimes in my mind because of

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<v Speaker 1>the wigs in the costume maybe maybebeyeh, but then probably no.

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<v Speaker 1>So I just like watch it with such envy, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>such envy, and like there was a time that her

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<v Speaker 1>character had this King Kevlar Charles dog, which I used

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<v Speaker 1>to have in the show. Like this is killing me

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<v Speaker 1>in so many ways because also Cynthia is not really

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<v Speaker 1>a dog person, right, and she had to have one

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<v Speaker 1>whole episode was about if her dog ran across the

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<v Speaker 1>street and she had to take to the fainting cari,

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<v Speaker 1>which is like, this is so surreal and bizarre.

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<v Speaker 2>But whatever.

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<v Speaker 1>I think the dog survived, but we haven't seen it lately,

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<v Speaker 1>which is interesting.

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<v Speaker 2>That's interesting what you say, which is that like if

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<v Speaker 2>you're on a hit show with a group of actors

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<v Speaker 2>like like you guys were, then you can never be

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<v Speaker 2>on another show with any of them ever again.

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<v Speaker 1>Well see that's why we keep coming back. Yeah, because

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<v Speaker 1>we want to work together, but we can't do it

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<v Speaker 1>in any other way.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's it's crazy.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, exactly, exactly exactly. But what about you and the

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<v Speaker 1>Daily Show people?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh we yeah, we don't. We don't like each other anyway,

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<v Speaker 2>so it doesn't really we don't want to work together,

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<v Speaker 2>and it's like the last thing I want to do

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<v Speaker 2>with those guys. No, No, I mean we would, I would,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, it's not I think I think that has

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<v Speaker 2>been Uh it might be weird. I don't know. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>trying to think like if I, well, they also they

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<v Speaker 2>come like John Oliver and and and Sam. I just

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<v Speaker 2>did Sam's podcast actually, and that was great because we

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<v Speaker 2>had like a reunion thing, you know. Yeah, but I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know if like if I was to do a show,

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<v Speaker 2>maybe it might be fine. I don't know, like something

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<v Speaker 2>like Jason or something like that.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that'd be so good.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>The thing that I love about your career is that

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<v Speaker 1>for me, that's how I.

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<v Speaker 2>Came to know you because tell me because I.

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<v Speaker 1>Couldn't tell you because also you're on so many things

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<v Speaker 1>now because we didn't talk about the show yet or

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<v Speaker 1>the next thing you're about to tell me that I

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<v Speaker 1>said to wait. But like I knew you originally as

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<v Speaker 1>a personality or whatever you would call it, all right,

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<v Speaker 1>but now I feel like you've really fully transitioned into

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<v Speaker 1>like a fantastic acting career.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Well, what's weird about my career in a way

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<v Speaker 2>is that I always started as an actor. Like, I

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<v Speaker 2>never was a comedian or stand up in that way.

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<v Speaker 2>I never So me getting on the Daily Show was

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<v Speaker 2>a bit of an anomaly in my career because I

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<v Speaker 2>was doing like I went to school, drama school and

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<v Speaker 2>got it and was doing theater Broadway, and I was

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<v Speaker 2>doing all you know every actor in New York does,

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<v Speaker 2>Like I was doing like Law and Order, and I

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<v Speaker 2>did Sex in the City and you know, all those

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<v Speaker 2>little things. And so I was always just like a

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<v Speaker 2>working sort of jobbing actor, right, and then I got

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<v Speaker 2>this just an audition for the day.

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<v Speaker 1>Just a regular audition.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, they just call and say, come down, an audition

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<v Speaker 2>for the Daily Show. And it was originally a one off.

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<v Speaker 3>Wow.

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<v Speaker 2>And so I went in and did this and I

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<v Speaker 2>just literally just walked an audition with John Stewart and

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<v Speaker 2>got the job that day to be on the show

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<v Speaker 2>that night. Right, And anyway, so I do the show. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>I watched the show, and you know, I was a fan.

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<v Speaker 2>I was like, oh, this is great. I didn't know

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<v Speaker 2>what I was doing. I just came down. I was like,

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<v Speaker 2>I was a little snooty about it. I've told this

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<v Speaker 2>story before, Like I was a little like because John

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<v Speaker 2>said to me when I walked in for the audition,

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<v Speaker 2>He said, have you ever performed in front of a

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<v Speaker 2>live audience before? Because you know, the show tapes in

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<v Speaker 2>front of a live audience. And I was like, I've

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<v Speaker 2>been on Broadway and he was like, oh, okay, So anyway,

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<v Speaker 2>so I do the thing. It's on that night and

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<v Speaker 2>I was the first non Caucasian correspondent on the Daily Show.

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<v Speaker 2>They so there was a whole It was twenty six,

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<v Speaker 2>got it, And there was a whole article in the

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<v Speaker 2>La Times the next day about how there was this

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<v Speaker 2>brown guy on the Daily Show and it was like

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<v Speaker 2>and they had me like reporting from the Middle East,

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<v Speaker 2>and you know, sadly that that story could apply today,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, and so but anyway, but the point is that,

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<v Speaker 2>like I did it, it was a one off, and

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<v Speaker 2>then John just liked me, and so he said, do

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<v Speaker 2>you want to come back? And so my we sort

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<v Speaker 2>of auditioned trial process was that he just kept calling

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<v Speaker 2>me back and doing one offs for about three or

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<v Speaker 2>four months. And I was shooting a TV show in

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<v Speaker 2>La at the time called Jericho with Skeet Ulrich and

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<v Speaker 2>a whole bunch of wonderful actors on that, and and

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<v Speaker 2>so I was going back and forth and and it

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<v Speaker 2>was like I was living the dream at the time

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<v Speaker 2>because I was like, I got to I'm doing this show.

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<v Speaker 2>And then they called me in for the Daily Show

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<v Speaker 2>every now, every couple of weeks wherever. They're just coming

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<v Speaker 2>to do us a bit on the show. And then

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<v Speaker 2>after about three or four months of that, John said,

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<v Speaker 2>we want to offer you a contract amazing to be

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<v Speaker 2>a regular correspondent.

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<v Speaker 1>Did it hurt your acting career Daily Show?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, no, it helps amazing.

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<v Speaker 1>No.

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<v Speaker 2>You know how this works if you are in a show,

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<v Speaker 2>on a show that is part of the zeitgeist. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>And what I've realized about this business is that, sadly,

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<v Speaker 2>it doesn't matter how many people watch your show. It

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<v Speaker 2>matters who watches your show. And The Daily Show did

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<v Speaker 2>not have a huge audience, but in terms of like yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>like it wasn't like getting like American Idol.

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<v Speaker 1>Numbers, but it had a huge impact.

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<v Speaker 2>But it was being watched by all the people in

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<v Speaker 2>Hollywood and New York, all the urban center. Yeah. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>and so it actually helped me amazing.

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<v Speaker 1>That's great. Yeah, you know, so let's talk about the

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<v Speaker 1>Miniature Wife because I just saw a big I love it.

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<v Speaker 1>Elizabeth Banks, Yeah, she's in great. Okay, you confused For

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<v Speaker 1>a second, I was like, is this the race?

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<v Speaker 2>No, No, that's I gave you a blank stare, which

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<v Speaker 2>made you go, am I.

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<v Speaker 1>Right, because I saw a big billboard. I'm a little

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<v Speaker 1>behind it, so hard to keep up right with the things.

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<v Speaker 1>But I was very excited because on my Instagram I

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<v Speaker 1>saw that it is I think the most watched show

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<v Speaker 1>of like last week maybe.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, it was number one on Peacock. Wow.

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<v Speaker 1>And it's on Peacock, which is amazing. Okay, great, and

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<v Speaker 1>what is it?

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<v Speaker 2>What is it?

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<v Speaker 1>Super confused?

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<v Speaker 2>So it's literally about a guy who miniaturizes his wife.

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<v Speaker 2>It's not a metaphor. It's about Matthew McFadden. People know

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<v Speaker 2>the amazing accession and incredible lots of other things. Incredible

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<v Speaker 2>mister Darcy, you know and all that. And so he

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<v Speaker 2>plays a scientist who has come up with a formula

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<v Speaker 2>or a way to miniaturize crops so that they can

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<v Speaker 2>miniaturize them to combat climate change. And so you can

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<v Speaker 2>grow a whole field of corn on a tabletop. Wow, right, amazing.

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<v Speaker 1>All but can you eat the corn?

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<v Speaker 2>The point is what he hasn't quite figured out yet

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<v Speaker 2>yet is how to reanimate the corn so it's back

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<v Speaker 2>to normal size. Okay. Okay, so he hasn't figured out

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<v Speaker 2>the B side of the equation, okay. And anyway, he

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<v Speaker 2>and his wife, Elizabeth Banks have a very very dysfunctional,

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<v Speaker 2>uh an unfulfilling marriage, which is they're very volatile together.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's say, Okay, anyway, her helps. Does it help that

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<v Speaker 1>she gets miniaturized? Well, it helps narratively, okay, gives this

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<v Speaker 1>story believer, So.

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<v Speaker 2>It doesn't help their marriage at all. So she accidentally

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<v Speaker 2>gets they get into a big argument. She doesn't know

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<v Speaker 2>what he's doing because he's being very secretive about it, and.

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<v Speaker 1>She get on purpose.

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<v Speaker 2>No, she it's accidentally on purpose kind of thing. And

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<v Speaker 2>so that's a big sort of like question like does

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<v Speaker 2>is it an accident? You know, I mean fascinating Its

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<v Speaker 2>interesting in the it's not completely clear, like maybe both

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<v Speaker 2>Maybe it's a bit of an accident and sort of

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<v Speaker 2>kind of almost accidentally on purpose.

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<v Speaker 1>So I feel like Matthew mcfadd is very good at

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<v Speaker 1>things like that.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Yeah, so it's like he he's like anyway, she

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<v Speaker 2>basically not to give it all away because I want

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<v Speaker 2>people to watch it. But she gets miniaturized and now

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<v Speaker 2>she's living in the dollhouse. He's trying to take care

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<v Speaker 2>of her. He hasn't told her what on earth that,

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<v Speaker 2>but he miniaturizes everything so it looks like she's living

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<v Speaker 2>in their house. So she feels she has her laptop

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<v Speaker 2>and she has her like you know, it's crazy. And

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<v Speaker 2>Elizabeth spent the whole time like working with giant, like

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<v Speaker 2>you know her, she's kisses and.

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<v Speaker 1>It was by herself, well by herself.

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<v Speaker 2>And then Matthew was is giant, so it's like it's

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<v Speaker 2>like he's a huge. And so he's talking on the

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<v Speaker 2>green when they shot it, he was talking. She's not

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<v Speaker 2>there obviously because she's miniaturized. So they were in separate rooms,

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<v Speaker 2>I guess, you know, because he's talking to a cardboard

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<v Speaker 2>cutout against the green screen.

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<v Speaker 1>Are you your full size?

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<v Speaker 2>I'm my full size? And actually, weirdly when we got there,

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<v Speaker 2>the rest of the cat there was one day we

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<v Speaker 2>got there because Matthew had spent the first like month

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<v Speaker 2>just just working by himself on a green screen, and

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<v Speaker 2>then we got there and it was so funny because

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<v Speaker 2>he was he was so funny because he was like,

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<v Speaker 2>oh my god, this is so great. I get to

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<v Speaker 2>work with actual actors and this feels like a real show. Now,

0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:21.800
<v Speaker 2>he was like, I really was just sitting in a

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<v Speaker 2>room in a green screen for like a month, just

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<v Speaker 2>talking to a cardboard cutout of Elizabeth Banks and so,

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<v Speaker 2>and then she was doing her own version of that.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh my god and so. But it's really it's a

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<v Speaker 2>very clever, fun story that goes where you don't expect

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<v Speaker 2>it to go. Okay, it does. It does have like

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<v Speaker 2>a lot of twists and turns.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, now I'm very excited to see it's kind of fun.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I'm really I when you know, when you're making

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<v Speaker 2>something and you're like, oh, this is going to be

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<v Speaker 2>this is fun, Like this is just like I would

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<v Speaker 2>watch this show. Cool.

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<v Speaker 1>So let's use that as a segue to sex and

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<v Speaker 1>the See. So I did not realized that you did

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<v Speaker 1>this before The Daily Show because in my mind, time

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<v Speaker 1>does not really exist. Yeah, right, you're what I'm saying,

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<v Speaker 1>like like they everything is right condensed whatever. Yeah, So

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<v Speaker 1>you're an actor. You're in New York. Yeah, you're doing

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<v Speaker 1>Broadway and auditioning and Jenal Order and whatnot, and you

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<v Speaker 1>come in you audition for us.

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<v Speaker 2>I think it was an audition. It must have been. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>I wasn't getting offers back, okay, okay, so I was

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<v Speaker 2>probably it.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I came in an audition, like what was yours?

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<v Speaker 2>I was like, Oh, it's Sex and the City. I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>I was aware of the show. I didn't watch it

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<v Speaker 2>all the time, but I watched it, and uh, you

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<v Speaker 2>know this was what it was. It It was like,

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<v Speaker 2>I think it's season four.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, so it's like two thousand and.

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<v Speaker 2>One, two thousand and one.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, wow for nine to eleven.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, before nine to eleven. And so you guys in.

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<v Speaker 1>July fifteenth, two thousand and one.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh wow, So you guys were giant at that point.

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<v Speaker 1>No.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean I mean, like I'll I'll tell you what

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<v Speaker 2>I mean. Like like it was. It was a giant show.

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<v Speaker 2>It was a big show. And I come in, I

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<v Speaker 2>auditioned for it. We shoot it. It's great. We do

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<v Speaker 2>it at this place called Texa. The real doesn't exist anymore,

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<v Speaker 2>you know.

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<v Speaker 1>We we we had the writers on yesterday and we

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<v Speaker 1>all had a moment of silence for Texter. So you

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<v Speaker 1>were really there.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, you had the writers on.

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<v Speaker 1>We had Julian Juli, Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>And yeah. So the weird thing is that like when

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<v Speaker 2>I did it my take, I hadn't never been to

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<v Speaker 2>textav That was the first time. There was the beginning

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<v Speaker 2>of the thing. Now you just go to the Apple

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<v Speaker 2>Store to the Genius Bar. Right back then it was

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<v Speaker 2>like if you had a Mac, this is where you went,

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<v Speaker 2>right and and it's so funny, like I just watched

0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:45.920
<v Speaker 2>the show the other night and it's like he's got

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<v Speaker 2>the old Mac. You know, it's like that old like

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<v Speaker 2>the price.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't even think that young young.

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<v Speaker 2>People will be like, yeah, what is that?

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<v Speaker 1>But he's so proud yea.

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<v Speaker 2>And so anyways, so that was that was TEXTA. So

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<v Speaker 2>I played it and we shot it at the real

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<v Speaker 2>text Amazing and the real people that work there were there,

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<v Speaker 2>so like the people in the background and the extras

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<v Speaker 2>and stuff that you see are really the people that

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<v Speaker 2>work a TEXTA. And so when I was shooting it,

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<v Speaker 2>I played it because comedically him being very dismissive and

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<v Speaker 2>sort of like a little bit snooty with her like

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<v Speaker 2>did you back up your work? Like you know that

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<v Speaker 2>kind of like it was funnier yeah than if I

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<v Speaker 2>was like really nice and very helpful.

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<v Speaker 1>Also, I thought it was very accurate.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, the thing was that the people who work at

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<v Speaker 2>Texts have got really mad at they were like watching

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<v Speaker 2>us and they were like, why is he doing it

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<v Speaker 2>like that? Like we're because they were like, this is

0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:48.840
<v Speaker 2>we are very nice and we're very helpful and we

0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:53.080
<v Speaker 2>helped people were not jerks and this guy's pretending like

0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:55.400
<v Speaker 2>we're all acting like we're all jerks. And of course

0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:59.080
<v Speaker 2>comedically for the show it was better. Yes, So they

0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:02.800
<v Speaker 2>were not happy with the portrayal. Who knew of how

0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:07.920
<v Speaker 2>they were portrayed. And then afterwards I heard that when

0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:09.920
<v Speaker 2>you got so when you went to Texas, you went

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<v Speaker 2>up in the elevator and you got off and there

0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:13.000
<v Speaker 2>was a little lobby area and then you went in.

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<v Speaker 2>So in the lobby area there was a after the

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<v Speaker 2>show aired, there was a picture of my face and

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<v Speaker 2>a huge circle and an X through my face and

0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:31.960
<v Speaker 2>it said, we are not this guy. Fine, so when

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<v Speaker 2>you got out the elevator to go to Texas, you

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<v Speaker 2>just saw a picture of me from Sex and City

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<v Speaker 2>and was like, we are not this guy.

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<v Speaker 1>Crazy. Now, obviously much time has passed since this Texerve

0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:57.760
<v Speaker 1>doesn't exist anymore. Which is kind of said, but like

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<v Speaker 1>to me, I thought you were kind of nice compared

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<v Speaker 1>to some experiences I've had.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean I think yeah. I mean, look, who

0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:11.920
<v Speaker 2>knows how realistic their impression of themselves because in the.

0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:14.280
<v Speaker 1>Beginning we were all very very clueless. I mean I'm

0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:18.160
<v Speaker 1>still very very clueless, right, but like you know, they

0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:20.480
<v Speaker 1>are literally like, what do you mean you didn't back

0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:20.800
<v Speaker 1>it up?

0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.960
<v Speaker 2>Like you know, I mean, yeah, well, now it's funny

0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:26.480
<v Speaker 2>because like now everything's on the cloud, and even the

0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:28.880
<v Speaker 2>idea backing up is now like now, I mean, now

0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:30.800
<v Speaker 2>you just put it on it. I mean yes, hopefully,

0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:32.600
<v Speaker 2>but you put it on the cloud and it's all

0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:35.320
<v Speaker 2>just kind of there. And and now if your computer crashes,

0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:38.959
<v Speaker 2>you know, you can pretty much retrieve everything.

0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:42.639
<v Speaker 1>Like so much anxiety about it. I know. I just

0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:45.440
<v Speaker 1>recently had to go to the Apple store. I made

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<v Speaker 1>an appointment. It's such a long story that I won't

0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:49.879
<v Speaker 1>get into all the details. I took my daughter. It

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<v Speaker 1>was relating to my daughter's first laptop that she got

0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:55.359
<v Speaker 1>during COVID died. You know when it dies and like

0:17:55.400 --> 0:18:00.440
<v Speaker 1>the screen goes halfway there's that thing, right, But I mean,

0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:02.280
<v Speaker 1>I have the cloud and she's signed into it. But

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<v Speaker 1>that's it. There's no backing up. She's fourteen years old, right,

0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:08.439
<v Speaker 1>So we go down there. I have an appointment and everything.

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<v Speaker 1>We go down there and there's this lady who's like

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<v Speaker 1>the wrangler, like at the door, right, and I'm like,

0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:14.800
<v Speaker 1>we have an appointment. No, no, She goes, well, what's

0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:16.800
<v Speaker 1>the problem and I said, oh, look the you know,

0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:19.639
<v Speaker 1>her laptop. She was like, no, no, you need to

0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:21.480
<v Speaker 1>go home that this is on the cloud. You're you're

0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:23.360
<v Speaker 1>going to deal with it at home. I'm like, no, no, no,

0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:25.400
<v Speaker 1>I have an appointment. She was like, no, no, you're

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<v Speaker 1>gonna You're going to go home. You're going to call

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<v Speaker 1>Apple Sport.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like, but.

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<v Speaker 1>What what I'm here? Like, what what do you mean?

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<v Speaker 2>It was you apport? So she sent us away.

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<v Speaker 1>It was devastating. My daughter was devastated, right because she

0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:40.720
<v Speaker 1>is the thing.

0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:41.080
<v Speaker 2>Right.

0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:45.040
<v Speaker 1>So then it's our nearby mall, right or nearby Apple store.

0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:46.600
<v Speaker 1>So then I was like, dem we're going to try again.

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<v Speaker 1>We're going to try again. We're going to go back.

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<v Speaker 1>So I go back and I'm like, please, it's a

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<v Speaker 1>different person. I'm like, hopefully that lady won't be there

0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:56.959
<v Speaker 1>and it ends up being this. Really, I make an appointment, right,

0:18:57.040 --> 0:18:59.720
<v Speaker 1>I make an appointment. I'm like, please, we can't figure

0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:02.679
<v Speaker 1>it out at home. They send us away. We tried everything.

0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:06.479
<v Speaker 1>Please let us please let us say. They were like,

0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:08.480
<v Speaker 1>what do you mean they sent you away?

0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:08.800
<v Speaker 2>Oh?

0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:11.399
<v Speaker 1>No, I know, and they were like you're Charlotte, and

0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:13.760
<v Speaker 1>I'm like I am. Sometimes it's super.

0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:15.399
<v Speaker 2>You know.

0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:18.040
<v Speaker 1>I was like, thank god, people like Charlotte. Yeah yeah,

0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:21.480
<v Speaker 1>yahk you thank you God. So they helped us and

0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:23.720
<v Speaker 1>we got it done. But I mean, it's a totally

0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:24.479
<v Speaker 1>different world.

0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:28.920
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean, I'm getting anxiety just listening to you

0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:30.600
<v Speaker 2>right now. I'm like, I need to go home and

0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:33.440
<v Speaker 2>make sure everything is on the cloud, I know, because

0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:35.119
<v Speaker 2>because if it's not, then you.

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<v Speaker 1>I did also, and then we're going to move on.

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<v Speaker 1>But I did also just recently see something on Instagram.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know if it was because we've been watching

0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:45.119
<v Speaker 1>my motherboard myself, right, because you know your phone hears you.

0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:48.480
<v Speaker 1>This lady said, I thought everything was backed up on

0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:50.520
<v Speaker 1>the cloud, and so I thought I would clean out

0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:53.560
<v Speaker 1>my photos. So I did, and it erased all the

0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:56.600
<v Speaker 1>photos because your cloud is synced to your phone.

0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:01.520
<v Speaker 2>Wait, she erased her photos on her.

0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:05.199
<v Speaker 1>Phone and it went away from her cloud. This is

0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:06.879
<v Speaker 1>what the lady on Instagram said.

0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:07.720
<v Speaker 2>That's so crazy.

0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:11.720
<v Speaker 1>Isn't that upsetting? Maybe someone professional could help us on

0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:12.120
<v Speaker 1>the inst.

0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:14.359
<v Speaker 2>I'm going to have a word with chat GPT about

0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:16.639
<v Speaker 2>this and find out if this is I'm.

0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:19.280
<v Speaker 1>Afraid of GPTC. You do that and let me know

0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:22.000
<v Speaker 1>what it says, okay, because I'm scared and I don't

0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:23.840
<v Speaker 1>want it on my phone. I'm scared.

0:20:23.920 --> 0:20:28.040
<v Speaker 2>I know, I know I should that. It's not the

0:20:28.080 --> 0:20:31.679
<v Speaker 2>politics of it is not good, but I do. I

0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:34.320
<v Speaker 2>have used it and I do use it. Sometimes it helpful.

0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:39.240
<v Speaker 2>It does give you information okay that you need sometimes

0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:42.320
<v Speaker 2>to like not have to be on hold on some

0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:45.000
<v Speaker 2>you know, yes, yes, you know what I found. It's

0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:48.320
<v Speaker 2>really helpful. Is like sometimes when you're like, if you

0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:52.040
<v Speaker 2>need like medical advice, like ins like you can just

0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:54.040
<v Speaker 2>ask and then it'll say like these are the questions

0:20:54.080 --> 0:20:55.840
<v Speaker 2>that you should ask you doctor. I like that. I

0:20:55.960 --> 0:20:58.440
<v Speaker 2>like that. I like that because sometimes you don't need

0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:01.439
<v Speaker 2>to do that. You can like that. I like that.

0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:04.520
<v Speaker 1>I'm very neurotic. Medical might be helpful.

0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:06.880
<v Speaker 2>And my doctor and I was like, I'm like, look

0:21:06.880 --> 0:21:09.399
<v Speaker 2>what about this, And my doctor's like, you've been on

0:21:12.160 --> 0:21:12.719
<v Speaker 2>that's funny.

0:21:12.800 --> 0:21:15.119
<v Speaker 1>The thing that scares me is when people are like

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<v Speaker 1>I told GPT my dreams in life and asked it

0:21:21.720 --> 0:21:23.800
<v Speaker 1>what I should do in the next five years, and

0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:25.720
<v Speaker 1>I was like, are you insane?

0:21:26.400 --> 0:21:31.639
<v Speaker 2>Like yeah, yeah, coming to like we don't want you

0:21:31.720 --> 0:21:33.040
<v Speaker 2>can't go to it as a therapist.

0:21:33.280 --> 0:21:33.600
<v Speaker 1>Nice.

0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:35.800
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, although people, I'm sure people.

0:21:35.680 --> 0:21:39.760
<v Speaker 1>There definitely, I mean in depth, I'm scared. I'm so scared.

0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:41.119
<v Speaker 1>I'm so scared, and I just don't want it to

0:21:41.160 --> 0:21:45.440
<v Speaker 1>take our jobs. Obviously. Yes, very scary. Okay, so take

0:21:45.520 --> 0:21:47.960
<v Speaker 1>us back again. I want. I love to hear people's

0:21:48.119 --> 0:21:50.720
<v Speaker 1>feelings and thoughts. So you're on the show, you're at

0:21:50.720 --> 0:21:52.600
<v Speaker 1>the real text. Ser if they're upset with you, they

0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:55.600
<v Speaker 1>put this picture, which is super mortifying. You're with Sarah

0:21:55.640 --> 0:21:58.040
<v Speaker 1>and John Corbett's there. You guys shoot? Did you shoot

0:21:58.119 --> 0:21:59.720
<v Speaker 1>all night? Was it cuckoo crazy?

0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:02.400
<v Speaker 2>Not all night? It was like it was I assumed

0:22:02.400 --> 0:22:03.960
<v Speaker 2>to remember it was. It was actually I think it

0:22:04.000 --> 0:22:06.119
<v Speaker 2>was in the daytime, like okay, and we shot it

0:22:06.160 --> 0:22:08.800
<v Speaker 2>and it was great. I mean, they were really nice.

0:22:08.840 --> 0:22:13.120
<v Speaker 2>I'd never met either of them before and they were

0:22:14.000 --> 0:22:17.879
<v Speaker 2>you know, really sweet and really and what I was

0:22:17.880 --> 0:22:19.400
<v Speaker 2>going to say is that it was it was so

0:22:19.480 --> 0:22:25.520
<v Speaker 2>interesting because at that time I watched Sex and the

0:22:25.520 --> 0:22:29.480
<v Speaker 2>City occasionally whatever, like, but it was it was obviously

0:22:29.520 --> 0:22:33.880
<v Speaker 2>like a huge show among women, and women watched it

0:22:34.680 --> 0:22:37.159
<v Speaker 2>all the time. I mean they were following you guys,

0:22:37.280 --> 0:22:41.080
<v Speaker 2>you know, and yes, and the day after it aired,

0:22:42.920 --> 0:22:48.879
<v Speaker 2>I walked down the street and females, women were literally like,

0:22:48.960 --> 0:22:53.000
<v Speaker 2>oh my god, it's well it was great because it

0:22:53.040 --> 0:22:55.560
<v Speaker 2>never happened to me my whole life. Women never turned

0:22:55.560 --> 0:22:58.000
<v Speaker 2>their heads that way, you know when I walked down

0:22:58.000 --> 0:22:59.960
<v Speaker 2>the street. So you know, I'm not you know, John Corn,

0:23:00.240 --> 0:23:00.520
<v Speaker 2>so you.

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<v Speaker 1>Know what I mean.

0:23:00.920 --> 0:23:03.959
<v Speaker 2>Like, so no, but it was you know what I mean.

0:23:04.000 --> 0:23:06.000
<v Speaker 2>So it was like it was like and I wasn't

0:23:06.040 --> 0:23:09.480
<v Speaker 2>even I wasn't even like famous or anything, you know

0:23:09.520 --> 0:23:11.840
<v Speaker 2>what I mean. So I was just like a guy

0:23:11.880 --> 0:23:14.600
<v Speaker 2>who like did a couple of scenes on the Stagia.

0:23:15.080 --> 0:23:18.520
<v Speaker 2>And it was so weird because that was my first

0:23:18.520 --> 0:23:20.960
<v Speaker 2>moment of like, oh, this show is like because I'd

0:23:21.000 --> 0:23:22.879
<v Speaker 2>done Law and Order and all that stuff, you know,

0:23:23.000 --> 0:23:26.520
<v Speaker 2>and all the all the New York shows, but there

0:23:26.600 --> 0:23:31.400
<v Speaker 2>was something about Sex and the City at that point yeah, yeah, yeah,

0:23:31.440 --> 0:23:33.840
<v Speaker 2>and you must you know, but like for me, it

0:23:33.920 --> 0:23:35.320
<v Speaker 2>was like I was just like this actor who was

0:23:35.359 --> 0:23:37.560
<v Speaker 2>like on the show. And then literally the next day,

0:23:37.720 --> 0:23:40.800
<v Speaker 2>I remember walking down the street on the Upper West

0:23:40.800 --> 0:23:43.080
<v Speaker 2>Side and people and and and women were just like,

0:23:43.359 --> 0:23:46.240
<v Speaker 2>people would stop, that's the guy.

0:23:46.320 --> 0:23:49.160
<v Speaker 1>And it was just because it was it was great.

0:23:49.480 --> 0:23:51.600
<v Speaker 2>I mean, you know, look as an actor, I'm like,

0:23:51.720 --> 0:23:54.520
<v Speaker 2>oh my god, I'm famous.

0:23:54.560 --> 0:23:59.880
<v Speaker 1>Now that's the joy you know of having a success

0:24:00.080 --> 0:24:02.160
<v Speaker 1>that you get to share it, you know, and bring

0:24:02.600 --> 0:24:03.040
<v Speaker 1>people on.

0:24:03.200 --> 0:24:05.040
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so it was it was great, and you know,

0:24:05.080 --> 0:24:07.239
<v Speaker 2>and so like it was a little taste of that.

0:24:07.320 --> 0:24:09.280
<v Speaker 2>And then and then when I got on The Daily Show,

0:24:09.320 --> 0:24:10.840
<v Speaker 2>there was a whole other level.

0:24:11.080 --> 0:24:15.320
<v Speaker 1>And also you were yourself on the Daily Show theoretically technically.

0:24:14.960 --> 0:24:17.879
<v Speaker 2>Yes, yes, yeah, I mean it was like it was

0:24:17.920 --> 0:24:21.400
<v Speaker 2>a character who you know, the guy on the Daily

0:24:21.440 --> 0:24:24.560
<v Speaker 2>Show is much smarter than me and has a lot

0:24:24.560 --> 0:24:27.480
<v Speaker 2>of really funny writers that you know, write for him.

0:24:27.560 --> 0:24:32.520
<v Speaker 2>But but it was it was essentially a version of me.

0:24:33.440 --> 0:24:38.240
<v Speaker 2>And what was interesting about that was that people and

0:24:38.800 --> 0:24:40.600
<v Speaker 2>you know, maybe we all experienced this in some ways

0:24:40.600 --> 0:24:43.600
<v Speaker 2>as actors, where people think you're the character. Yes, So

0:24:45.160 --> 0:24:48.000
<v Speaker 2>like when I would go to things. People would want

0:24:48.080 --> 0:24:51.920
<v Speaker 2>me to be the snarky guy on the Daily Show,

0:24:51.960 --> 0:24:54.040
<v Speaker 2>you know, like they'd be like, well aren't you Oh.

0:24:54.119 --> 0:24:57.360
<v Speaker 2>They would say things to me to provoke a snarky

0:24:57.400 --> 0:24:59.800
<v Speaker 2>reaction because they were like wanting to engage. It was

0:25:00.080 --> 0:25:03.240
<v Speaker 2>like a there were fans, but they kind of wanted

0:25:03.240 --> 0:25:09.920
<v Speaker 2>to Well it's it's funny because I so different things,

0:25:10.359 --> 0:25:13.479
<v Speaker 2>you know, Like like like one one night, I was

0:25:14.160 --> 0:25:16.080
<v Speaker 2>coming home from a party and it was very late,

0:25:16.119 --> 0:25:19.480
<v Speaker 2>it was like two in the morning or whatever, and uh,

0:25:20.000 --> 0:25:21.879
<v Speaker 2>I went into this is not this is I'm not

0:25:21.920 --> 0:25:24.200
<v Speaker 2>proud of this, but I went into like a deli

0:25:24.880 --> 0:25:27.199
<v Speaker 2>and got like you know that sushi stuff that you

0:25:27.240 --> 0:25:28.720
<v Speaker 2>get it's like in the deli.

0:25:28.520 --> 0:25:30.080
<v Speaker 1>Like it's not that's questionable.

0:25:30.240 --> 0:25:32.960
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, probably not a great idea. But it was late

0:25:33.000 --> 0:25:35.040
<v Speaker 2>at night, I was I was starving, and I like

0:25:35.119 --> 0:25:37.200
<v Speaker 2>got and I got and I'm standing in line at

0:25:37.200 --> 0:25:40.119
<v Speaker 2>this like deli to get the sushi, like and the

0:25:40.160 --> 0:25:42.000
<v Speaker 2>woman in front of me turns around and she's like,

0:25:42.800 --> 0:25:44.840
<v Speaker 2>probably not a great idea to get that right now,

0:25:44.880 --> 0:25:47.359
<v Speaker 2>you know, And I was so taken aback because I

0:25:47.400 --> 0:25:49.639
<v Speaker 2>was like, I was like, you don't know my life

0:25:49.760 --> 0:25:54.159
<v Speaker 2>like but then I realized, like, oh, she recognized me

0:25:55.040 --> 0:25:58.080
<v Speaker 2>from the show. I didn't realize that because I was

0:25:58.160 --> 0:26:01.919
<v Speaker 2>just like and she being she's trying to engage with me.

0:26:01.960 --> 0:26:03.399
<v Speaker 2>So people didn't do that or like I went to

0:26:03.440 --> 0:26:06.840
<v Speaker 2>a party of the Republican National Convention once and there

0:26:06.880 --> 0:26:08.800
<v Speaker 2>was a woman there at the party and she was

0:26:08.880 --> 0:26:10.680
<v Speaker 2>just like talking to me and then she's like say

0:26:10.720 --> 0:26:12.639
<v Speaker 2>something snarky, like you know what I mean, like, and

0:26:12.680 --> 0:26:15.160
<v Speaker 2>it was like, like we So there was a little

0:26:15.160 --> 0:26:18.240
<v Speaker 2>bit of that where yeah, people fought I was that

0:26:18.359 --> 0:26:20.760
<v Speaker 2>guy and I was going to have all these quips

0:26:20.800 --> 0:26:21.400
<v Speaker 2>and things.

0:26:21.160 --> 0:26:24.440
<v Speaker 1>And understandably because the way the Daily Show presented you guys,

0:26:24.440 --> 0:26:27.560
<v Speaker 1>you had your names, you weren't obviously playing a character.

0:26:27.960 --> 0:26:29.720
<v Speaker 1>Yet there was a.

0:26:29.640 --> 0:26:32.400
<v Speaker 2>Heightened Yeah, there was a heightened yeah. Yeah.

0:26:33.040 --> 0:26:34.560
<v Speaker 1>Did that dissipate.

0:26:35.040 --> 0:26:35.720
<v Speaker 2>After the show?

0:26:35.840 --> 0:26:39.720
<v Speaker 1>Yeah yeah, yeah, Okay, that's good. I mean that seems

0:26:39.720 --> 0:26:40.600
<v Speaker 1>like some pressure to me.

0:26:40.800 --> 0:26:42.719
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, no, it was. It was, you know, like

0:26:43.440 --> 0:26:46.320
<v Speaker 2>when I was on the show, it was very prevalent

0:26:46.359 --> 0:26:50.040
<v Speaker 2>because it was because also like we were on the show,

0:26:50.280 --> 0:26:53.840
<v Speaker 2>like that time when I was on with Jason and

0:26:53.920 --> 0:26:57.919
<v Speaker 2>Sam and Wyatt and John Oliver and all those guys. Uh,

0:26:59.160 --> 0:27:02.119
<v Speaker 2>we were. It was every night people watched it. It

0:27:02.160 --> 0:27:04.639
<v Speaker 2>wasn't like watch it every night, right, It wasn't like

0:27:04.680 --> 0:27:06.600
<v Speaker 2>now where people sort of just watch it on YouTube

0:27:07.400 --> 0:27:10.920
<v Speaker 2>or whatever every time. Yeah, but it was it was

0:27:11.320 --> 0:27:14.960
<v Speaker 2>you know, people eleven thirty every every day it was on.

0:27:15.160 --> 0:27:19.679
<v Speaker 1>And yeah, I mean, as we do now, I know.

0:27:20.119 --> 0:27:24.639
<v Speaker 2>And so what happened was that people really like it

0:27:24.680 --> 0:27:26.800
<v Speaker 2>was it was like, oh, you're you're the guy, you

0:27:26.800 --> 0:27:29.480
<v Speaker 2>know the Yeah, we're watching it in real time and

0:27:29.520 --> 0:27:32.959
<v Speaker 2>we were. We were. So there was that feeling of

0:27:33.040 --> 0:27:37.040
<v Speaker 2>like we were there in people's lives and talking about

0:27:37.080 --> 0:27:40.879
<v Speaker 2>stuff that they wanted to talk about, you know. And

0:27:40.920 --> 0:27:44.440
<v Speaker 2>I think for me, especially like being like I said,

0:27:44.480 --> 0:27:48.520
<v Speaker 2>like the first non Caucasian correspondent, the first Muslim correspondent,

0:27:48.560 --> 0:27:52.520
<v Speaker 2>the brown correspond I did not realize there was this

0:27:52.760 --> 0:27:58.439
<v Speaker 2>huge sense of like from within my own community, like

0:27:58.480 --> 0:28:01.200
<v Speaker 2>people going like, oh my god, like like nobody has

0:28:01.240 --> 0:28:06.960
<v Speaker 2>been on TV talking about that important thing. But from

0:28:07.000 --> 0:28:09.880
<v Speaker 2>the position of I always thought of that like as

0:28:09.960 --> 0:28:12.160
<v Speaker 2>like I had this unique position on the show, which

0:28:12.240 --> 0:28:14.199
<v Speaker 2>was like I was an insider and an outsider at

0:28:14.240 --> 0:28:17.200
<v Speaker 2>the same time, so I could stand on the fence

0:28:17.840 --> 0:28:21.280
<v Speaker 2>and be and talk about America as an American but

0:28:21.320 --> 0:28:24.480
<v Speaker 2>also as an immigrant and as somebody who like like

0:28:24.640 --> 0:28:28.040
<v Speaker 2>lived in both of those worlds. And it was really like,

0:28:28.400 --> 0:28:31.040
<v Speaker 2>you know, especially when we talked about like the Middle

0:28:31.040 --> 0:28:34.960
<v Speaker 2>East or like foreign stuff or whatever world politics, people

0:28:35.160 --> 0:28:37.199
<v Speaker 2>would come up to me like and they'd be like,

0:28:38.000 --> 0:28:40.840
<v Speaker 2>nobody is talking, like like, it's amazing that you have

0:28:41.560 --> 0:28:44.720
<v Speaker 2>that you're on talking about, And it wasn't. It wasn't me,

0:28:44.960 --> 0:28:49.360
<v Speaker 2>it was it was the position that I was representing people,

0:28:49.600 --> 0:28:53.840
<v Speaker 2>you know, and so that was really satisfying. It was

0:28:53.880 --> 0:28:57.520
<v Speaker 2>really satisfying to think that, like, oh, there was a

0:28:58.280 --> 0:29:01.920
<v Speaker 2>person who looked like me talk about the things that

0:29:02.080 --> 0:29:05.200
<v Speaker 2>so many people out there wanted us to talk about

0:29:05.280 --> 0:29:08.800
<v Speaker 2>and to satirize and to criticize. You know. It was

0:29:08.840 --> 0:29:10.880
<v Speaker 2>like two thousand and six I started on the other show,

0:29:10.880 --> 0:29:13.640
<v Speaker 2>so we were in Iraq at that time. America was

0:29:14.280 --> 0:29:18.320
<v Speaker 2>and the Bush administration. It was all of that stuff

0:29:18.360 --> 0:29:21.200
<v Speaker 2>going on, so it was a lot of it was

0:29:21.360 --> 0:29:24.240
<v Speaker 2>very tense, you know what I mean. It was that

0:29:24.320 --> 0:29:32.000
<v Speaker 2>post nine to eleven decade, which which which was really fraught.

0:29:32.200 --> 0:29:36.240
<v Speaker 1>I remember, yeah, I remember, I mean, it's it's I'm

0:29:36.240 --> 0:29:37.840
<v Speaker 1>not going to go into now very much. But it's

0:29:37.840 --> 0:29:40.600
<v Speaker 1>interesting because when we look at now that seemed kind

0:29:40.640 --> 0:29:43.520
<v Speaker 1>of tame, I know, which is so crazy, But did

0:29:43.560 --> 0:29:46.680
<v Speaker 1>it feel for you to be in that position? It's

0:29:46.720 --> 0:29:48.960
<v Speaker 1>great that people would would say to you, like it's

0:29:48.960 --> 0:29:51.840
<v Speaker 1>amazing that you're there, But did it also feel scary

0:29:51.920 --> 0:29:53.840
<v Speaker 1>and like pressure if you were out in the world,

0:29:53.840 --> 0:29:56.120
<v Speaker 1>if people would people disagree with you and want to

0:29:56.120 --> 0:29:57.240
<v Speaker 1>engage in that way?

0:29:58.160 --> 0:30:02.880
<v Speaker 2>I mean, noth I I don't think it's so funny

0:30:02.920 --> 0:30:09.440
<v Speaker 2>how people loved the show even when they didn't agree

0:30:09.520 --> 0:30:12.640
<v Speaker 2>with it. It was weird, like when we went. One

0:30:12.680 --> 0:30:15.280
<v Speaker 2>of the most like eye opening things for me was

0:30:15.360 --> 0:30:17.080
<v Speaker 2>when we went to the because we would go to

0:30:17.080 --> 0:30:20.680
<v Speaker 2>the conventions and so we go to the Democratic National

0:30:20.680 --> 0:30:23.560
<v Speaker 2>Convention and we were like the Beatles. It was like

0:30:23.640 --> 0:30:26.720
<v Speaker 2>it was like, I mean, when we went to the

0:30:26.840 --> 0:30:29.240
<v Speaker 2>DNC in two thousand and eight, the year that Obama

0:30:29.880 --> 0:30:31.760
<v Speaker 2>was on the ticket, it was the nominee, it was

0:30:32.040 --> 0:30:36.560
<v Speaker 2>you know, it was literally like we could not walk.

0:30:37.280 --> 0:30:40.560
<v Speaker 2>We were it was the fan because that was our base,

0:30:41.320 --> 0:30:46.320
<v Speaker 2>that was our those were our fans. DC Democrats, Wow,

0:30:47.040 --> 0:30:49.840
<v Speaker 2>you know, idea and it was like all those people

0:30:49.880 --> 0:30:54.800
<v Speaker 2>in journalism, all the journalists, all the Washington folks. They

0:30:54.800 --> 0:30:57.400
<v Speaker 2>were watching The Daily Show, of course all the time.

0:30:59.200 --> 0:31:01.320
<v Speaker 2>Then we went to the Publican national convention and it

0:31:01.400 --> 0:31:02.520
<v Speaker 2>was all very different.

0:31:02.960 --> 0:31:03.120
<v Speaker 1>You know.

0:31:03.160 --> 0:31:05.920
<v Speaker 2>The Democrats was the Democrat Ask convention was like a

0:31:06.000 --> 0:31:09.520
<v Speaker 2>keg party, you know, and everyone was just like yeah,

0:31:10.240 --> 0:31:12.360
<v Speaker 2>you know, like like I'm drinking out of the keg

0:31:12.360 --> 0:31:14.719
<v Speaker 2>and half aways over here, and you know, it's like

0:31:15.000 --> 0:31:16.600
<v Speaker 2>and it was like and then you go to the

0:31:16.600 --> 0:31:19.920
<v Speaker 2>Republican convention. It was like ice sculptures and everyone was

0:31:19.960 --> 0:31:23.360
<v Speaker 2>like and it was like a you know, a debutante

0:31:23.440 --> 0:31:27.680
<v Speaker 2>ball and uh. But we went to the parties. I remember,

0:31:27.840 --> 0:31:31.760
<v Speaker 2>like people were still fans. It was the show. They

0:31:31.800 --> 0:31:33.600
<v Speaker 2>were like, we watch you guys all the time, but

0:31:33.800 --> 0:31:36.120
<v Speaker 2>I know we don't agree with you, but we watch you,

0:31:36.120 --> 0:31:47.920
<v Speaker 2>you know. And so it was like kind of crazy.

0:31:48.880 --> 0:31:50.520
<v Speaker 1>All right, let's talk about the show for a minute.

0:31:50.560 --> 0:31:55.520
<v Speaker 1>Because since you are a straight guy, okay, I want

0:31:55.560 --> 0:31:58.320
<v Speaker 1>to ask you a question. I don't know how you're

0:31:58.360 --> 0:31:58.640
<v Speaker 1>going to.

0:31:58.600 --> 0:32:00.760
<v Speaker 2>Make you assumptions, but all right, I mean.

0:32:00.640 --> 0:32:04.080
<v Speaker 1>You mentioned your Wife's the only reason I'm saying that, right.

0:32:04.160 --> 0:32:07.120
<v Speaker 1>I would never make it a full assumption without clues.

0:32:08.720 --> 0:32:11.120
<v Speaker 1>I don't have that many straight guys on and.

0:32:11.080 --> 0:32:12.800
<v Speaker 2>I love interesting.

0:32:12.960 --> 0:32:15.400
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean if there are actors from the show

0:32:15.440 --> 0:32:17.080
<v Speaker 1>and I can convince them to be on, like right now,

0:32:17.080 --> 0:32:19.320
<v Speaker 1>I can't convince Corbett's beyond and I can't convince I

0:32:19.400 --> 0:32:20.880
<v Speaker 1>can work to be on. So if you run into them,

0:32:20.880 --> 0:32:23.840
<v Speaker 1>please put in word. Okay, I've tried really hard. They

0:32:23.880 --> 0:32:28.040
<v Speaker 1>have their issues. Whatever I can work, doesn't want to

0:32:28.080 --> 0:32:32.479
<v Speaker 1>watch his work or talk about it. Corbett's a complicated being,

0:32:32.600 --> 0:32:37.680
<v Speaker 1>but whatever, I'm still trying to get them. I am

0:32:37.720 --> 0:32:41.040
<v Speaker 1>so curious, Like when you watch this show as someone

0:32:41.080 --> 0:32:43.240
<v Speaker 1>who's happily married, I'm just going to make that assumption.

0:32:43.720 --> 0:32:46.680
<v Speaker 1>What do you think about Aiden and Carrie, because I'd

0:32:46.680 --> 0:32:49.160
<v Speaker 1>love to hear straight men's perspectives.

0:32:49.400 --> 0:32:59.560
<v Speaker 2>Oh that's so interesting. You know, give me a second here,

0:32:59.560 --> 0:33:03.520
<v Speaker 2>because I thought about this before, but you know, I

0:33:03.960 --> 0:33:10.720
<v Speaker 2>found that So when when the show was on, and

0:33:10.720 --> 0:33:15.080
<v Speaker 2>and and and and my female friends were watching it,

0:33:18.040 --> 0:33:22.240
<v Speaker 2>they all loved Aiden. They all loved Aiden got it

0:33:22.880 --> 0:33:28.040
<v Speaker 2>not big, but they understood why she was like attracted

0:33:29.000 --> 0:33:35.200
<v Speaker 2>too big, and you know that is kind of Aiden was,

0:33:36.640 --> 0:33:39.400
<v Speaker 2>you know, the guy who was dependable and reliable and

0:33:39.440 --> 0:33:44.560
<v Speaker 2>all that stuff. And there were so many times in

0:33:44.600 --> 0:33:48.360
<v Speaker 2>my life, like I've you know, over the years, all

0:33:48.480 --> 0:33:52.280
<v Speaker 2>through my single years, Like the conversation that I would

0:33:52.280 --> 0:33:54.360
<v Speaker 2>have was funny because the conversation I had a lot

0:33:54.400 --> 0:33:57.200
<v Speaker 2>of fem I've always had a lot of female friends,

0:33:57.440 --> 0:34:01.240
<v Speaker 2>and and the conversations I would have with them when

0:34:01.240 --> 0:34:04.400
<v Speaker 2>they were going through relationships were always like kind of

0:34:04.560 --> 0:34:08.560
<v Speaker 2>like that, like there was a guy who was just

0:34:08.920 --> 0:34:11.920
<v Speaker 2>reliable and stable and blah blah blah, and then there

0:34:11.960 --> 0:34:14.200
<v Speaker 2>was this other person who like was on a motorcycle

0:34:14.800 --> 0:34:20.000
<v Speaker 2>and I do and they would like end up like

0:34:20.200 --> 0:34:24.080
<v Speaker 2>sabotaging the you know. I mean, I have a friend

0:34:24.080 --> 0:34:27.600
<v Speaker 2>who was always she was always like I can't find

0:34:27.640 --> 0:34:30.000
<v Speaker 2>a guy in LA, Like there's no you know, like

0:34:30.000 --> 0:34:31.920
<v Speaker 2>like that guy. And I was like, no, you need

0:34:31.960 --> 0:34:34.080
<v Speaker 2>you know what, you need to go to Kansas. You

0:34:34.120 --> 0:34:36.759
<v Speaker 2>need to go to like Oklahoma, right because the guy

0:34:36.800 --> 0:34:39.000
<v Speaker 2>that you want is not in.

0:34:40.640 --> 0:34:42.879
<v Speaker 1>Because only certain people go to LA just like certain

0:34:42.920 --> 0:34:44.240
<v Speaker 1>people come to New York, right.

0:34:44.239 --> 0:34:46.160
<v Speaker 2>Right, you know, like you need to go and find

0:34:46.160 --> 0:34:49.920
<v Speaker 2>a guy who like, you know, is working a real

0:34:50.120 --> 0:34:55.480
<v Speaker 2>regular job and like has the thing. And it's just no,

0:34:55.560 --> 0:34:57.920
<v Speaker 2>she didn't, but she actually ended up she actually ended

0:34:57.960 --> 0:35:00.440
<v Speaker 2>up finding a really great guy, but it was all

0:35:00.480 --> 0:35:04.800
<v Speaker 2>it all worked, but that conversation. So I think Aiden

0:35:04.920 --> 0:35:08.880
<v Speaker 2>was always represented that guy who was like the salt

0:35:08.920 --> 0:35:13.279
<v Speaker 2>of the earth, like just good guy, always trying to

0:35:13.320 --> 0:35:16.839
<v Speaker 2>do but but sometimes a little clueless, like in a

0:35:16.880 --> 0:35:17.719
<v Speaker 2>guy way.

0:35:17.800 --> 0:35:21.120
<v Speaker 1>You know, like he doesn't understand that she doesn't want

0:35:21.120 --> 0:35:22.720
<v Speaker 1>a brand new laptop right.

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<v Speaker 2>Right, yes, like exactly right. And we've all been there

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<v Speaker 2>all like even you know, every guy has been there

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<v Speaker 2>where it's like I don't what is it that you want?

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<v Speaker 2>Like because I'm trying to give you the thing that

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<v Speaker 2>you want, but it seems like I can't. Everything I'm

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<v Speaker 2>doing is disappointing you. So what is it that that

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<v Speaker 2>I need to do? And And that conversation also I've

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<v Speaker 2>had with a lot of my male friends, which is

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<v Speaker 2>like I'm I'm I don't know, I'm trying, like I

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<v Speaker 2>feel like i'm but somehow like she's just not happy

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<v Speaker 2>with and and and I think it's like, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>it comes down to like sort of we operate differently

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<v Speaker 2>in terms of what we what we need sometimes, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>like like the traditional sort of model of it is

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<v Speaker 2>that men are always trying to fix the problem and

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<v Speaker 2>women want us to just listen, and you know, and

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<v Speaker 2>and that and that, and those traditional sort of male

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<v Speaker 2>female roles are talked about a lot. But but I'm

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<v Speaker 2>but we also flip. We we're not We're not all

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<v Speaker 2>just in one category. You know. There are times when

0:36:35.760 --> 0:36:39.400
<v Speaker 2>my wife and I where you know, my wife is

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<v Speaker 2>a very sort of accomplished person who like has done

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<v Speaker 2>a lot of things and run organizations and and has

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<v Speaker 2>been like you know, and she's a she went to

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<v Speaker 2>law school and you know, I mean all that stuff,

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<v Speaker 2>so so, and I'm like a creative person, right and

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<v Speaker 2>so sometimes like I will just circle the drain in

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<v Speaker 2>terms of my pross. It depends because some of it

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<v Speaker 2>has to do with just who you are. And if

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<v Speaker 2>one partner is like I just need to process through

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<v Speaker 2>this thing and like I'm having these feelings about all

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<v Speaker 2>this stuff, and the other one is like, well, let

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<v Speaker 2>me let me give you the answer, and you're like,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't want the answer. I want to be able to, like,

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<v Speaker 2>have you listen to me process it. And sometimes that

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<v Speaker 2>takes skill on both sides because we're speaking different languages sometimes,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, or sometimes she wants me to just listen

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<v Speaker 2>to her and not and not try to solve it

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<v Speaker 2>or judge it or you know what I mean, Like

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<v Speaker 2>she just wants me to be like this thing and

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<v Speaker 2>she's you know, kind of just talking out loud and

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<v Speaker 2>we yeah, you know, so I don't know. Relationships. The

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<v Speaker 2>relationships are not easy. They're not easy. They take work

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<v Speaker 2>every single day. I found it too much easy you're

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<v Speaker 2>to be a dad than it is to be a husband.

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<v Speaker 1>Wow, that's amazing. Yeah, that's so interesting.

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<v Speaker 2>Because when you're a dad, it's like you know exactly

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<v Speaker 2>what you have to do. You just have to like

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<v Speaker 2>take care of this person. I mean, I'm not saying

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<v Speaker 2>it's easy, like it's a it's a cake walk. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>just saying it's clear. It's more clear. It's more clear.

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<v Speaker 2>My kid is young right now, maybe it'll.

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<v Speaker 1>Get it is going to complicated.

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<v Speaker 2>How old he's six got it's and I and I

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<v Speaker 2>recognize that right now is like the best dad time.

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<v Speaker 2>It's awesome.

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<v Speaker 3>My my objectives are very clear, like I just keep

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<v Speaker 3>him from walking into traffic, you know what I mean,

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<v Speaker 3>Like like I do whatever activities I got, you know, like,

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<v Speaker 3>and his needs are very clear.

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<v Speaker 2>And as he gets older, that's going to.

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<v Speaker 1>The team is the you know, there's a pretty big

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<v Speaker 1>shift over My son.

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<v Speaker 2>Who's six, has already discovered the whatever. He's already doing that,

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<v Speaker 2>and it's so I'm like, I can't imagine what he's

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<v Speaker 2>going to do. Get ready, He's already like whatever, dad, whatever.

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<v Speaker 1>People tell me. I have a fourteen year old girl

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<v Speaker 1>and an eight year old boy, and people keep telling

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<v Speaker 1>me that it's harder with girls in teen and that

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<v Speaker 1>the boys are going to be easy in teen, and

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<v Speaker 1>I'm like, I pray to God that that is true,

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<v Speaker 1>because my daughter's doing great.

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<v Speaker 2>Right.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, there's a big shift and you have to

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<v Speaker 1>you know, like adjust in your mind right that like, Okay,

0:39:29.120 --> 0:39:31.480
<v Speaker 1>this is that thing where they need space and get

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<v Speaker 1>back off and kind of what you were talking about

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<v Speaker 1>before too, because I do want to fix the things,

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<v Speaker 1>you know what I'm saying, But you're getting to the

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<v Speaker 1>point where they have to navigate the friendships and the

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<v Speaker 1>things themselves.

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<v Speaker 2>Right.

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<v Speaker 1>You can't just I want to be like I'm going

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<v Speaker 1>to call that person's mom. Yeah, I know, I know,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm the instinct is there right, right, But you have

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<v Speaker 1>to be like, no, I'm going to listen. You want

0:39:51.320 --> 0:39:53.920
<v Speaker 1>to be like Okay, how did you feel, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>like that right, like like calm, I'm super calm. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>not going to get like emotionally involved, do you do you?

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<v Speaker 2>Because I know like like my son, you know, like

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<v Speaker 2>now that he's in kindergarten, it's like he's going through

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<v Speaker 2>like like they're all sort of the social things and

0:40:11.880 --> 0:40:12.520
<v Speaker 2>kids are.

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<v Speaker 1>Being me yes or yes, we hear about this.

0:40:15.520 --> 0:40:19.000
<v Speaker 2>Yes, some teasing going on, even a little bit of

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<v Speaker 2>bullying happening.

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<v Speaker 1>Let me ask you a question because my eight year

0:40:22.880 --> 0:40:25.680
<v Speaker 1>old boy also talks about bullying. And I'm like, tell

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<v Speaker 1>me what happened, and then he tells me what happened.

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<v Speaker 1>In my head, I'm like, see that is not bullying,

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<v Speaker 1>like we know, real bullying.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah no. I mean

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<v Speaker 2>but you know, like there is the kind of way

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<v Speaker 2>in which you start to realize that like clicks form

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<v Speaker 2>and yeah, you know what I mean, and and like

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<v Speaker 2>some kids and and and and my son is is

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<v Speaker 2>I think he's like a sensitive, creative kid like I was,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, and and and so he's hyper reactive and

0:40:54.960 --> 0:40:57.120
<v Speaker 2>like what happens is that like the you know, the

0:40:57.239 --> 0:41:00.399
<v Speaker 2>kids you know, and so, but you get I think

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<v Speaker 2>the difference is that because it's your child, you get

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<v Speaker 2>like emotionally invested in a way where you're like, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>going to call their parents and you can't do it,

0:41:10.640 --> 0:41:13.440
<v Speaker 2>or I'm going to tell that kid, you know, like

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<v Speaker 2>like I see the kid at school and I'm just

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<v Speaker 2>like that little kid.

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<v Speaker 1>I know there's still kids I'm mad at from when

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<v Speaker 1>Gemma was six, do you know what I mean? And

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<v Speaker 1>I know their parents and I have to just go

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna I'm going to hold it in. I'm not

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<v Speaker 1>going to say anything about something that happened on the

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<v Speaker 1>playground ten years ago.

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<v Speaker 2>It's hard, and sometimes it's like their parents are really nice,

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<v Speaker 2>their parents are so sweet, yes, and their kid is

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<v Speaker 2>a nightmare, and you're just like You're like, like, your

0:41:37.000 --> 0:41:40.040
<v Speaker 2>kid is like making my kid's life miserable.

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<v Speaker 1>So it's so difficult. It's so difficult. I know, you guys,

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<v Speaker 1>this is so much fun that we're going to have

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<v Speaker 1>to have a part two, so join us later in

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<v Speaker 1>the week on are You a Charlotte