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Speaker 1: right now, this is Eyes up Here, and you're watching

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Speaker 1: and listening to a brandow episode of Eyes up Here,

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Speaker 1: It didn't know by now. My name is Chad, and

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Speaker 1: every single week I'm joined here by of course, call

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Speaker 1: me her hair Marcia, Marcia Marsha. I'm losing my hair,

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Speaker 1: so I'm trying to I'm so sorry. When we last

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Speaker 1: I hope it's uh, it was a one time thing

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Speaker 1: don't know what the hell's going you know, Hey, I

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Speaker 1: know it. Well, I'll tell you this. When we last

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Speaker 1: That's what you do when you're a stay at hoo mom.

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Speaker 1: what I say. All right, Well, our guest has joined

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Speaker 1: the park. Are ready to Yeah, let me introduce him.

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Speaker 1: His name is ned roll Sma. I hope I said

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Speaker 1: that right, roll Sma and I met him through the

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Speaker 1: Look at that face, he's so cute. Got him on

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Speaker 1: the screen. How are you? I'm doing good? Thank you

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Speaker 1: but no week, don't worry about it. That was last week.

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Speaker 1: This is a new week. We're fine, ned I before

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Speaker 1: when I have guests. One. Now, you have a big beard,

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Speaker 1: but the picture of you had no beard. You have

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Speaker 1: the cutest dimples. Much for your dimples, what are you

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Speaker 1: covering or up there? Oh wow, that's hilarious. So you're

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Speaker 1: now in the club with my mom, who also hates

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Speaker 1: the beard. No, I don't the beard. I love beards.

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Speaker 1: I love guys with facial here, but your dimples. I

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Speaker 1: Even as pre pandemic, it looked much about But you know,

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Speaker 1: But I when I looked you up, I said, look

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Speaker 1: was putting over your your your cute dimples. So here's

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Speaker 1: how we met, How I met Ned. That's a new show.

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Speaker 1: It's a spinoff from Mother Now. Yeah, how about that.

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Speaker 1: And Shane doesn't introduce me to dead. But nedd is

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Speaker 1: I didn't put it over. I handed it right back

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Speaker 1: It made the bit even better. But that whole, that

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Speaker 1: But yeah, so then it turns out to franchise is

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Speaker 1: And then you know then of course I'm hanging behind

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Speaker 1: and I was also mister cooler. I had the cooler stocked.

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Speaker 1: and so we're like, who's this Mark behind the table

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Speaker 1: Call security? Oh shit, he is security. Yeah, nobody's gonna

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Speaker 1: And like I always say, I agree with Rick Rude.

426
00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:34,600
Speaker 1: I think we should have crapped all over Pittsburgh if

427
00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:37,760
Speaker 1: you're a healer or a heel everywhere. But Shane saw

428
00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:39,760
Speaker 1: it differently, and I think that's the only time him

429
00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:43,960
Speaker 1: and I didn't really get on the same page with something,

430
00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:48,720
Speaker 1: you know. But every time we walked out, whether it

431
00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:52,080
Speaker 1: was in Manaka or I don't know wherever we were,

432
00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:55,320
Speaker 1: Beaver County, wherever Moon, I don't know where we were,

433
00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:59,280
Speaker 1: they loved us. And I don't think we could have

434
00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:01,560
Speaker 1: did any wrong in Pittsburgh, you know. And I keep

435
00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,000
Speaker 1: telling him we have to go to Pittsburgh for signing now,

436
00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:06,399
Speaker 1: because it's been we haven't been there together since d

437
00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:08,640
Speaker 1: c W. And I think fans would love to see

438
00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:12,480
Speaker 1: us there. So promoters, if you're listening, if anybody wants

439
00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:15,919
Speaker 1: to book Shane and I and you got built insecurity

440
00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:18,280
Speaker 1: there too. Yeah, we'll take you, Ned, and it'll be

441
00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:21,719
Speaker 1: it'll be a wonderful time. But enough about wrestling. I

442
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:26,520
Speaker 1: want to know about you and your acting career. After

443
00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:28,359
Speaker 1: I met Ned, I said, you have one of the

444
00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:34,919
Speaker 1: most sultry, distinguished voices I've ever heard. He was he

445
00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:40,800
Speaker 1: was viewing nonsense, but it sounds like music at one, Yeah,

446
00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:45,840
Speaker 1: but it's but it was so eloquent. You can you

447
00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:48,720
Speaker 1: can read the phone book, and you have you have

448
00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:51,960
Speaker 1: a very nice, pleasant voice. And I told you that

449
00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:54,560
Speaker 1: and I asked, I asked you one of the things,

450
00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:56,520
Speaker 1: do you do voiceovers? You said, well, yes, I do,

451
00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:59,440
Speaker 1: And I was like that voice How did you get

452
00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:04,159
Speaker 1: into the world of acting? It honestly goes all the

453
00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:05,560
Speaker 1: way back to when I was a little kid. I

454
00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:10,119
Speaker 1: was kind of a precocious kid and a performer kid.

455
00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:13,199
Speaker 1: I was always in you know, school plays and productions,

456
00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:17,200
Speaker 1: community theater type stuff, church plays and productions. And then

457
00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:19,520
Speaker 1: I was also a choir boy when I was a kid,

458
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:21,880
Speaker 1: So I did church choir, I would sing, I did

459
00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:27,040
Speaker 1: competition choir honestly all the way up until my voice

460
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:31,040
Speaker 1: went from a nice tenor, like a pop music tenor,

461
00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:34,800
Speaker 1: to a base and you know, and then the singing

462
00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:38,679
Speaker 1: career kind of, you know, was put on the back burner.

463
00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:41,200
Speaker 1: But no, so I was sort of always into performing

464
00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:45,399
Speaker 1: arts as a little kid, but so as a teenager,

465
00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:48,720
Speaker 1: being in you know, high school musicals and community theater

466
00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:52,400
Speaker 1: and stuff. That also kind of coincided with an extreme

467
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:57,119
Speaker 1: growth spurt that then all of a sudden, you know,

468
00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:02,400
Speaker 1: my basketball career and being a college athlete and then

469
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:05,359
Speaker 1: a professional athlete sort of took the sort of the

470
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:10,640
Speaker 1: front priority. But you know, but always in the back

471
00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:13,280
Speaker 1: of my mind, though, and always I thought professionally or

472
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:15,399
Speaker 1: sort of the long term career was going to be

473
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:19,600
Speaker 1: something in performing arts or broadcasting. So I grew up

474
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:22,359
Speaker 1: at the tail and like I'm the baby of the family,

475
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:24,320
Speaker 1: but I still grew up at the tail end where

476
00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:27,680
Speaker 1: we didn't have cable. You had four channels every night

477
00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:29,720
Speaker 1: in our household, we have the nightly news on it.

478
00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:32,080
Speaker 1: So I grew up with Dan rather grew up with

479
00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:35,080
Speaker 1: Peter Jennings and Brokaw and those guys, right, So I

480
00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 1: idolize those guys. I always felt like I just always thought, oh,

481
00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:41,119
Speaker 1: I want to be a newsman, you know, I wanted

482
00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:46,480
Speaker 1: to be on sixty minutes or something. And so my

483
00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:50,719
Speaker 1: educational track while I was pursuing basketball was in broadcast journalism.

484
00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:54,280
Speaker 1: So I'm a classically trained broadcast journalist. I learned the

485
00:25:54,320 --> 00:26:01,760
Speaker 1: old school way of journalism, storytelling, news, development, news, and

486
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:05,800
Speaker 1: then again also was always doing performing stuff, you know,

487
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:09,560
Speaker 1: the theatrical and dramatic stuff. But so it's always sort

488
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:12,640
Speaker 1: of been there. And then you think in terms of okay, well,

489
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:14,760
Speaker 1: where are you going to apply that trade, where are

490
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:16,480
Speaker 1: you going to do that? It's either New York or

491
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:19,080
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, right, So everybody kind of moves to the

492
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 1: coasts for me. So I earned a Division one basketball scholarship.

493
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:29,119
Speaker 1: I went through college playing basketball. I had two different stops.

494
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:31,480
Speaker 1: I played two years at Iona College, which is in

495
00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:35,359
Speaker 1: New Rochelle, New York. I transferred from Iona, played one

496
00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:39,040
Speaker 1: season of JUCO ball in Manaca at the Golden Dome.

497
00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:43,680
Speaker 1: That was our home arena. And so that was ninety

498
00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:46,639
Speaker 1: nine two thousand, which they were still around that time,

499
00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:50,320
Speaker 1: still doing shows occasionally there and stuff and but so

500
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:54,199
Speaker 1: and then I transferred and finished at Tennessee Martin. In

501
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,520
Speaker 1: two thousand and two, I was drafted into the NBA's

502
00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:59,280
Speaker 1: developmental League they called the G League now, but so

503
00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:02,560
Speaker 1: I was at development egue guy. I played in the

504
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 1: NBA Summer League for a few summers, and that was

505
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:09,920
Speaker 1: at Cal State Long Beach. Every July, the NBA the

506
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 1: Lakers would host the West Coast Summer League at Cal

507
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:15,240
Speaker 1: State Long Beach. And I got, you know, familiar with

508
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:17,120
Speaker 1: the West Coast, a little bit familiar with the lay

509
00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:19,960
Speaker 1: of the land, and you know, I kind of fell

510
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:21,720
Speaker 1: in love with so Cal too, Like how can you

511
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:24,639
Speaker 1: not with the palm trees and the warm air and

512
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 1: the beach and the whole thing. Like I'm a so

513
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 1: Cal guy, an Orange County guy, hot rod guy, like

514
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:33,439
Speaker 1: I love that so Cal culture and so, but my

515
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 1: playing career I started to sort of run into some

516
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:39,520
Speaker 1: dead ends or closed doors. You know, the team that

517
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:42,119
Speaker 1: I was on would get you know, would fold, or

518
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:44,480
Speaker 1: I would get cut or released and have to come

519
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:47,200
Speaker 1: home and try the next thing. And at the same time,

520
00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 1: like I started booking gigs in commercials and pretending to

521
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:55,359
Speaker 1: play basketball more than I was getting real gigs to

522
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:57,760
Speaker 1: actually play, and so I you know, at that time

523
00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:03,240
Speaker 1: that was about like two thousand and four five. Well, yeah,

524
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 1: and and my basketball experience too, you know. So I

525
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:09,360
Speaker 1: ended up doing like you know, the player Kevin Durant

526
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 1: from Think Now. Yeah, he's one of the NBA's best players.

527
00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:16,359
Speaker 1: I was in his first Nike commercial. He had his

528
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:18,160
Speaker 1: first shoe come out, and they did a whole rap

529
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:21,639
Speaker 1: music video and stuff. Uh and so like things like that,

530
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:24,959
Speaker 1: opportunities like that where they're doing these basketball scenes. And

531
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:27,480
Speaker 1: for a couple of years there, I got steady work

532
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:32,640
Speaker 1: Southwest Airlines, Taco Bell, Coca Cola, Nike foot Locker, all

533
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:36,880
Speaker 1: these silly commercials mostly the character I played was victim

534
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:41,560
Speaker 1: number two getting dunked on by the celebrity seven seven

535
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 1: foot white guy underneath the basket, you know, getting dumped

536
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,480
Speaker 1: on by the celebrity. And so I'm in a lot

537
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 1: of I'm in a lot of commercials like that where

538
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 1: the hero gets to I'm putting him over and uh

539
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 1: so I did you know? Did it? Steady dyed to that?

540
00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,280
Speaker 1: And so you were a jobber in commercials? Is where

541
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 1: you're trying. That's right, that's right. Yeah, I was enhancement talent.

542
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 1: There you go and jerked many a curtain in my

543
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:12,920
Speaker 1: day of Yeah, many how many guys seven ft told

544
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 1: him that though, well, that's right, that's right. But like

545
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 1: I said, I play a I have a special set

546
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 1: of skills and I can look great and getting bashed

547
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 1: on so so and you know, so then another an

548
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:29,240
Speaker 1: opportunity came up in two thousand and five, Like I said,

549
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 1: I'd made the move to the West Coast and was

550
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:33,520
Speaker 1: sort of chasing the business and sort of orbiting around there.

551
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,280
Speaker 1: And then I had an opportunity to audition for a

552
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:40,000
Speaker 1: freshman sitcom that at the time was was brand new.

553
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 1: I read for a character that was supposed to be

554
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 1: the you know, they were this Minnesota corn corn fed,

555
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 1: middle American big family and the character of Marshall Erickson

556
00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 1: in the show played by Jason Siegel, the actor who

557
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 1: he's six foot four. The joke was that when he

558
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 1: came home to see his family, like he was the

559
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:05,280
Speaker 1: runt of the litter, he was the little guy and

560
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 1: picked the pick on little brother, and so they cast

561
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 1: a family of giants essentially. So the character, the dad character,

562
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 1: the Ericson father was played by an actor named Bill Fogerbach,

563
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:22,240
Speaker 1: who played Dauber on Coach. He's six foot seven himself.

564
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 1: He also does the voice of Patrick the Starfish on SpongeBob. Yeah,

565
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:32,120
Speaker 1: so he's a big guy. I do too, he's tall.

566
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 1: Then the Ericson mom was Susie Plaxon. She's six foot three.

567
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 1: Oh so, yes, yeah, barefoot six foot three. She's done

568
00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 1: a lot of she was in the Star Trek universe.

569
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 1: She had a recurring character, I want to say, on

570
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,360
Speaker 1: Next Generation, and so she does a lot of the

571
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 1: comic cons and the Star Trek stuff. But so Mama

572
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 1: Erickson was six foot three, then myself at seven feet

573
00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:00,240
Speaker 1: as Marcus Erickson, and then we have another brother two,

574
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 1: who was like six six sixty seven himself, So they

575
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 1: had this whole family of giants. And then Jason Siegel

576
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:09,200
Speaker 1: and at six four and then his wife or girlfriend

577
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 1: at the time, fiance, Lily, played by Alison Hannigan, who's

578
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 1: five foot three maybe yuh yes, I remember her being

579
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 1: very tiny next to him. Yeah, And so it made

580
00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:21,040
Speaker 1: for good humor. But so when the opportunity to read

581
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:22,920
Speaker 1: for that part came down the line again, they were

582
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 1: looking for somebody to make Jason Siegle look small, like

583
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:29,120
Speaker 1: the run to the family, and I think, you know,

584
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 1: Jason and I bear enough of a resemblance that we

585
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 1: could pass for family, and so that helped me. And

586
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 1: so they the audition came out and it was at Fox,

587
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 1: and so I walk on the lot at Fox. And

588
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,680
Speaker 1: you know that when you're the auditioning game and the

589
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 1: trying to get in television and movies and everything like that,

590
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,720
Speaker 1: it's it's essentially like walking into the gas station and

591
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 1: getting a scratcher and scratching off a million dollar ticket.

592
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 1: Like it's the odds are like that. It's super competitive.

593
00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 1: Everybody wants to do that, you know, So it's just

594
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 1: like that when you go to audition for these things,

595
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 1: even for a seven foot tall character, there's a line

596
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 1: out the door and around the corner of dudes trying

597
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 1: to get this role right. And so but so I'm

598
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 1: walking onto the lot at Fox and I'm going into

599
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:18,400
Speaker 1: the the rooms, the casting offices, and as I'm walking

600
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 1: up to the door, these two ladies are walking in

601
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:24,120
Speaker 1: the building with me, and you know, they're like, you know, younger,

602
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,600
Speaker 1: younger ladies and good looking girls and the whole thing.

603
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:28,920
Speaker 1: So I'm like, you know, I stepped aside and held

604
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:31,040
Speaker 1: the door for them, and like, you know, it was

605
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 1: very gentlemanly but also flirting and you know, just you know,

606
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:38,720
Speaker 1: I don't know why, it's just I'm like, you know,

607
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 1: you're just walking in. I'm like, okay, here are these ladies.

608
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 1: I'll hold the door for them. And we made a

609
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,960
Speaker 1: little joke and we you know, had a moment, right.

610
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 1: So then I go in the waiting room. Like I said,

611
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 1: there's a line around the door of every big dude

612
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 1: in Hollywood has at this stupid reading, right, And so

613
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:54,520
Speaker 1: you know, they call you in the room. They're like, ned,

614
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 1: come on in. I step in the room and I'm

615
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 1: auditioning for the two women, I held the door. That's

616
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:04,560
Speaker 1: that's freaking corny. Get good. My mom always says that, yeah, so,

617
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 1: but also like it's it. You know, I got a

618
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 1: little bit of an edge perhaps over the other guys

619
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 1: there because I had a moment that they didn't get

620
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 1: with the casting people. So you know, the like you

621
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 1: read one line and it's a throwaway line. It was

622
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 1: something like, you know, the scene was at a Thanksgiving dinner,

623
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:24,320
Speaker 1: and the bit was that I asked Lily. I said, Lily,

624
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 1: will you pass the corn? And she takes a plate

625
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:30,480
Speaker 1: of baby corn and passes it out of frame to

626
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 1: me that you know, or that it was giant corn

627
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 1: for her, and she passes it to me in a

628
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,240
Speaker 1: baby corn on the plate. But the line was Lily,

629
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:41,360
Speaker 1: will you please pass the corn? And so I go, Lily,

630
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,640
Speaker 1: will you please pass the corn? And these two ladies

631
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:46,480
Speaker 1: like cracked up laughing like they were watching you know,

632
00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 1: spaceballs or placing saddles or something. You know why, because

633
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:55,600
Speaker 1: in their mind they said whole, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's

634
00:33:55,600 --> 00:34:00,560
Speaker 1: a family. When you say corn, everybody, yeah, core hole.

635
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 1: So it's a funny joke. I'm thinking of the scene

636
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 1: from the show. Yeah, yeah, so the audition, that's why

637
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 1: they popped. Yes, can let me just serve in for

638
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:17,720
Speaker 1: a second. So as a as a as a watcher

639
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 1: of the show and knowing that episode, the Thanksgiving episode

640
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:23,840
Speaker 1: was always a big deal, and this was the first season,

641
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:25,600
Speaker 1: so it was you know, we didn't know it was

642
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:27,799
Speaker 1: going to be that running joke that it would be.

643
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 1: The reveal of the family is the best part of

644
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:35,880
Speaker 1: that episode because, like Ned said, he's this huge guy

645
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 1: in New York City among everybody else, but when he

646
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:41,879
Speaker 1: goes into his house in Minnesota, he's the run and

647
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,600
Speaker 1: he's getting picked on by Ned and the other brother.

648
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:47,719
Speaker 1: It's the funniest freaking reveal they could have possibly had.

649
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 1: I love that. Yeah, I agree, I agree completely, And

650
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:53,759
Speaker 1: that was you know, they played it up so you know,

651
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 1: like when I first come in, when they Marshall and

652
00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 1: Lily come to the door and the family comes in,

653
00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:01,720
Speaker 1: like I, I lead the way through into the kitchen,

654
00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:03,759
Speaker 1: I have to duck real low. The doorway was like

655
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,040
Speaker 1: six ' five, you know, so I had to duck

656
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,960
Speaker 1: really exaggerated duck under the doorway and everything, and that

657
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 1: cut everybody up. And there's also a bit in that

658
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 1: exchange where the Ericsson's created the ultra dangerous game called

659
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:23,320
Speaker 1: basque ice ball, which was a mashup of ice hockey, basketball, lacrosse,

660
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,879
Speaker 1: and just good old fashioned whaling on each other. And

661
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:30,200
Speaker 1: so you know, there's a back and forth with Lily

662
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:32,880
Speaker 1: about oh, you know, honey, it's really not a sport

663
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:35,080
Speaker 1: for a girl, and she goes, well, that's funny because

664
00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:37,560
Speaker 1: your brother throws like a girl. And she chucks the

665
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 1: ball at me, and Marcus chucks the ball back at

666
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 1: her and hits her right in the face. I think

667
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:46,279
Speaker 1: you got the role because you were nice to the

668
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:49,319
Speaker 1: ladies in the elevator. Is that what you're trying to

669
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:52,799
Speaker 1: tell us? Well, I mean, I'd like to think I

670
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 1: got the role because I'm the greatest seven foot tall

671
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 1: actor that there ever was, and I like, you know,

672
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:05,239
Speaker 1: Sir Lawrence Olivier and al Pacino. No, but probably I

673
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 1: would say that the happenstance and the moment that I

674
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:12,319
Speaker 1: got where, you know, because again every guy in the

675
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 1: line for this audition read that one line, like you

676
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 1: you're just going there for long. They wouldn't hire you

677
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:21,839
Speaker 1: because you were charming in the elevator. I wouldn't know.

678
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:24,800
Speaker 1: But it's like, but but I got an extra thirty

679
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 1: seconds to vibe with them, like I got, I got,

680
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:31,360
Speaker 1: I got thirty ninety seconds of their time that the

681
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:33,400
Speaker 1: other people didn't get, where I was able to just

682
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 1: show personality. I was able to show my voice. You

683
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 1: could how much can you get out of the line?

684
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:45,759
Speaker 1: Say that again? Don't sell yourself short, because no, to me,

685
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 1: you're saying, you're basically telling me that if you didn't

686
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:53,399
Speaker 1: have that moment in the elevator, everybody says the same line,

687
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:56,279
Speaker 1: you might have not got that job. Could be could

688
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 1: be you know, it may have been the difference between

689
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:01,319
Speaker 1: me just being another face in the crowd and being

690
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:04,279
Speaker 1: somebody that they vibed with. Right, But I'm saying, if

691
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 1: you sucked with your deliverance of the line, I wouldn't

692
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 1: have had a chance of a little bit of credit.

693
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 1: Well thank you. I well listen, I'll let you put

694
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 1: me over and I'll I mean, maybe it did it.

695
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:17,799
Speaker 1: I'll play it humble. I mean, it could have stilled

696
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:20,280
Speaker 1: his cologne or something, you know, like they're just something

697
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:22,799
Speaker 1: that made him stand out. No, I'm just saying, if

698
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:24,840
Speaker 1: I'm in the elevator, I might say, oh way, I

699
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 1: want an endearing guy, but when he comes in the room,

700
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 1: if he the deliverance sucked, I wouldn't hired you. That's true, Yeah,

701
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:37,719
Speaker 1: thank you. You've got to put yourself over Okay, well so,

702
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:40,719
Speaker 1: but anyway, so back to the basketball scene, right and

703
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 1: hitting her in the face of the ball. So the

704
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:47,360
Speaker 1: scene is great. They filmed it in two pieces, so

705
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 1: obviously she chucks the ball at me and I catch it,

706
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 1: react and then throw the ball back, and that's I'm

707
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 1: in a single, or actually it's not a single. I'm

708
00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 1: aware with the other brother and the person playing my wife.

709
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 1: And there was a prop guy who stood off camera,

710
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 1: and I gave him a good hard chest pass basketball

711
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:09,399
Speaker 1: pass right to really throw the ball. And then of course,

712
00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 1: then they switched the camera and they had a a

713
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 1: basketball pillow that was totally just a pillow that was

714
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:21,040
Speaker 1: airbrushed so perfectly. You gotta love Hollywood movie magic. They

715
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 1: airbrushed this thing and looked exactly like the ball. And

716
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:26,799
Speaker 1: so then they laid out the big matt, you know,

717
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:30,200
Speaker 1: the cushiony matt for her, and she took the pillow ball.

718
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:32,440
Speaker 1: Then somebody threw from just off camera just threw the

719
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 1: pillow at her face and then she you know, reacts,

720
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:39,240
Speaker 1: takes the bump onto onto the mat, which was great.

721
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:43,360
Speaker 1: And so you know, again, like you had mentioned, Chad

722
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 1: that that show at the time purchased, that was only

723
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:48,360
Speaker 1: nine episodes into their first season, so it wasn't a

724
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:50,759
Speaker 1: huge hit. It was just starting to get steam. But

725
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:55,240
Speaker 1: what they had was you had Doogie Howser in the cast,

726
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:57,720
Speaker 1: and you had the chick from American Pie that everybody

727
00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 1: loved with the flute and and so that for me,

728
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:04,439
Speaker 1: like when I when I got the reading for the part,

729
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:06,399
Speaker 1: I said, I called my sister on the phone because

730
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,320
Speaker 1: I had already seen the first five episodes on CBS,

731
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 1: so I was a fan of the show. And I

732
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:14,719
Speaker 1: remember talking to my sister here in Pittsburgh telling her,

733
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:16,759
Speaker 1: oh man, you know, have you watched this show with

734
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 1: Dougie Howser and the chick from American Pie. It's really funny,

735
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 1: and you know she so we were both fans. And

736
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:25,960
Speaker 1: then I got the call to go read and eventually

737
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:29,359
Speaker 1: got the part, and so it sort of picked up

738
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:32,440
Speaker 1: steam after that. But the one thing I'm very proud

739
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:34,760
Speaker 1: of as a former basketball player and a guy who

740
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,479
Speaker 1: was a you know, collegiate basketball player and a pro.

741
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:41,799
Speaker 1: They used that scene after season one into season two,

742
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:45,879
Speaker 1: CBS took that scene of me throwing the ball off

743
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:48,160
Speaker 1: of her face and they used it in the promos

744
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:51,400
Speaker 1: for the NCAA tournament for March Madness, And so I

745
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 1: geeked out. I marked out for that big time, like

746
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:57,480
Speaker 1: you know, like on all the games, on the National

747
00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:00,840
Speaker 1: Championship Game, the final four, CBS was on promos for

748
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 1: their shows and they were showing me chuck the ball

749
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 1: off of Alison Hannigan's face, and so I was like,

750
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:10,279
Speaker 1: super that just geeked me out for the matt to

751
00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 1: be a part of March Madness. Right. But so the

752
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:17,320
Speaker 1: character Marcus Harrickson kind of you know picked up a

753
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:20,560
Speaker 1: little bit of Steme. The writers kind of liked me.

754
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 1: And here's another thing about you know, sort of one

755
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:26,360
Speaker 1: on one moments when you're on the set or something.

756
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:29,440
Speaker 1: You know, we'd be at the craft services table or

757
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:31,520
Speaker 1: we'd be in the makeup chair or whatever for like

758
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 1: this first episode, and I always made a point to

759
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 1: like chit chat or talk it up with the writers

760
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:39,799
Speaker 1: and the creators of the show. And I think through

761
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:43,400
Speaker 1: some of those conversations like they maybe we we vibed

762
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:46,640
Speaker 1: and they picked up on maybe some comedic timing and

763
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:49,920
Speaker 1: maybe that they're like, okay, well they started writing me material.

764
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,680
Speaker 1: They started writing bits and jokes and things that were

765
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 1: sort of for me and my character that in that

766
00:40:57,160 --> 00:41:00,399
Speaker 1: universe in How I Met Your Mother the Hemium Verse, uh,

767
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:05,600
Speaker 1: that that character sort of developed into something and and

768
00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:08,160
Speaker 1: then it really just is one of some of the

769
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:10,799
Speaker 1: most special memories I have and and really one of

770
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:12,600
Speaker 1: the best jobs I've ever had. Like I mean, I

771
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:14,359
Speaker 1: look at all the jobs I've had in my life

772
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 1: of different things you can do to earn a buck.

773
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:19,319
Speaker 1: My time on How I Met Your Mother was like

774
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:22,480
Speaker 1: a dream. It really was. And that was low key

775
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:29,040
Speaker 1: politicking without politicking. Yeah, I just think, yeah, you're you're networking,

776
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:32,320
Speaker 1: You're you know, you're you're just getting to know people

777
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:34,840
Speaker 1: and stuff and trying to fill the space. But also,

778
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:38,200
Speaker 1: I mean there is some you're playing the angle a

779
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 1: little bit, just trying to forget about me over here.

780
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:42,320
Speaker 1: You know, I know, I'm not I don't want to

781
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:46,239
Speaker 1: be a wallflower, which sometimes I will default to that,

782
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:48,880
Speaker 1: and so you sort of have to push yourself out

783
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 1: of comfort zones and being like you know, quiet or

784
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:56,680
Speaker 1: just you know, so you were Yeah, but it sounds

785
00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 1: to me like you were doing it because you're you're

786
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:01,720
Speaker 1: a nice guy with a good per personality. You weren't

787
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:04,320
Speaker 1: doing it to throw people under the bus and try

788
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 1: to take somebody else's scenes away from them. You know

789
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:09,799
Speaker 1: what I mean. It's natural coming out of here. Yeah,

790
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:15,000
Speaker 1: you can say that it's good, but oh, I'm sorry, Chad,

791
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:16,759
Speaker 1: I stepped on you say other day. It's a reason

792
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:21,120
Speaker 1: we remember Marcus and not the other brother. That's it

793
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:25,520
Speaker 1: did help. It's mayor stand out. Yeah I would say that,

794
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 1: and yeah, there was. You know, being being seven feet

795
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:34,719
Speaker 1: sometimes has its advantages. It's not great on an airplane,

796
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:39,520
Speaker 1: it's not. It's not great on a submarine. Not great

797
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:43,040
Speaker 1: in a yeah it's not. It's not great in a Prius,

798
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:46,360
Speaker 1: but sometimes it has its advantages. You don't drive a

799
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 1: smart car, is what you're telling us. You know. No,

800
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:52,400
Speaker 1: And here's a crazy thing about me. It's I don't

801
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:55,719
Speaker 1: own a car. I haven't owned a car in twenty years. Wow,

802
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:59,840
Speaker 1: So I uh, you know, so went to college and

803
00:42:59,920 --> 00:43:02,040
Speaker 1: I own a New York and the New York metro area.

804
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:04,440
Speaker 1: You know there's nowhere to park. You ride the subway,

805
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:07,279
Speaker 1: you ride the train. That's the deal, okay. And then

806
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 1: you know try like through the basketball thing. You know,

807
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 1: you go overseas to Europe, you're over there for weeks

808
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:15,000
Speaker 1: or a month at a time, come back. And so

809
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:18,880
Speaker 1: I never I always kept tried to keep all my

810
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 1: loose ends tied up so that I had freedom to

811
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 1: make moves when the phone would ring. And so then

812
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:25,239
Speaker 1: it just put it off. Never had a car. Then

813
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 1: when I moved to California again, you can't you can't

814
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:32,400
Speaker 1: park it anywhere. And a lot of places in California

815
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 1: you're driving around doing laps looking for parking or it's expensive.

816
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:40,000
Speaker 1: And also, like I sort of bought into the green

817
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:42,400
Speaker 1: thing a little bit, which I can tell you about,

818
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:46,160
Speaker 1: Like I kind of, you know, bought into the whole sustainability,

819
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:48,759
Speaker 1: eco friendly thing a little bit, and so that was

820
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:50,239
Speaker 1: a part of it as well. I did a lot

821
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:54,080
Speaker 1: of walking, biking and taking public transit in California. But

822
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:57,400
Speaker 1: you know, Cali is like the car capital of our

823
00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:00,280
Speaker 1: country outside of Detroit, where you know that they're repuation,

824
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:02,839
Speaker 1: but I mean Calli is like car country. It's the

825
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:06,400
Speaker 1: car capital of the world, the freeway system, everybody drives.

826
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:08,759
Speaker 1: It's very annoying. It's just a part of it, right,

827
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:11,879
Speaker 1: And so people would tell me all the time, they say,

828
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 1: you can't live in California and not have a car.

829
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:16,799
Speaker 1: And I said, for every person that says that to me,

830
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:18,920
Speaker 1: I'm adding a year on the back end, and I'm

831
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:21,960
Speaker 1: not having a car out here because you know, like you,

832
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:24,880
Speaker 1: I would prove you wrong. I could do it, and

833
00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 1: I did it for a long time. And so you know,

834
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:29,320
Speaker 1: right now, as I'm here in PA and kind of

835
00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:31,839
Speaker 1: handle some family things, I drive my mom's car a lot.

836
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:34,320
Speaker 1: She has a Chevy Tracks. She has a Chevy Tracks,

837
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:37,879
Speaker 1: which is one of the smaller you know, Chevys. It's

838
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:40,280
Speaker 1: not an suv. It's like a crossover, but it's small.

839
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:44,200
Speaker 1: So you have to put the chair like it's ridiculous.

840
00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:48,200
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. It's completely unsafe. Uh it's you know, it's

841
00:44:48,239 --> 00:44:50,680
Speaker 1: like not you're not supposed to drive like that, right

842
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:54,880
Speaker 1: lay yeah, yeah, yeah, So I got the backseat way back.

843
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:56,799
Speaker 1: And so my friends will give me a hard time

844
00:44:56,840 --> 00:44:59,359
Speaker 1: because they're like, when you drive up, we can see

845
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 1: your knee in the window. Yeah, knee is bent up

846
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:06,799
Speaker 1: where you can see the out the window. And then

847
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:08,799
Speaker 1: the other funny thing is that I, like you said,

848
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:10,920
Speaker 1: I've got the seat lean back so much that when

849
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 1: I make a left, I look out the back window,

850
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:19,120
Speaker 1: which is terribly unsafe because you're like right, You're right

851
00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:22,400
Speaker 1: in that side impact zone. So god forbid if I

852
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:24,400
Speaker 1: took a t bone, if somebody t bone me or

853
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:26,200
Speaker 1: hit me from the side, I'm gonna get messed up.

854
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:29,880
Speaker 1: And my knees are so messed up in the dash

855
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:32,360
Speaker 1: and don't fit. If I get in a front collision

856
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:34,440
Speaker 1: or something, I'm gonna get messed up. You need like

857
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:37,319
Speaker 1: a horse and buggy where you're fruit, and you could

858
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 1: just well, I've already got the amish beard I should.

859
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:45,120
Speaker 1: I could hit the horse gallop, and I think it

860
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:48,399
Speaker 1: would be brilliant. But I'm also, you know, like I said,

861
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:51,279
Speaker 1: north of three hundred and fifty pounds, so that would

862
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 1: be messed up with you having set looking dude, No,

863
00:45:55,880 --> 00:46:02,920
Speaker 1: it's look at you. Big show that was backstage you

864
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:06,879
Speaker 1: see at ae w's premiere or their show they do

865
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:11,760
Speaker 1: the Friday night show on TBS. Yeah, they dynam on TNT,

866
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:16,600
Speaker 1: and so we duck backstage at ae W and we're

867
00:46:16,719 --> 00:46:21,920
Speaker 1: meeting with everybody, and so I told Big Show. You know,

868
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 1: people people yell Big Show at me all the time,

869
00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:27,400
Speaker 1: Like I'll be in the grocery store or I'll be

870
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 1: somewhere and people are like, hey, Big Show. Just put

871
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:33,000
Speaker 1: your arm up and be like hey, yeah, that's yeah.

872
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:35,480
Speaker 1: And so I told him that. I said, dude, people

873
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:37,799
Speaker 1: shout Big Show at me almost probably as much as

874
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:41,160
Speaker 1: they do it to you. He was like, sorry, like

875
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 1: it's okay, but it's okay. But you look at us

876
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:46,200
Speaker 1: in that picture like we're two goofs. Like look at

877
00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:48,359
Speaker 1: that picture, like we look like two goofs, the two

878
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:51,040
Speaker 1: of us. When he just put that picture up really quickly,

879
00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:52,960
Speaker 1: I just looked at your eyes. I thought it was

880
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:55,560
Speaker 1: Brian Danielson at first, but then I said, no, he's

881
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:58,560
Speaker 1: too large. Yeah, I didn't expect you to be backstage

882
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 1: with show. And then I was like they And then

883
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 1: Shane told me that you guys had gone to the

884
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:08,320
Speaker 1: show together, So yes, makes sense. So the quick backstory

885
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:11,400
Speaker 1: on that is that that ae W show happened the

886
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:15,320
Speaker 1: weekend that Dominic Denuci passed away, which, for you wrestling

887
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:19,640
Speaker 1: fans know that Dominic trained Shane Douglas and Cody Michaels

888
00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:25,040
Speaker 1: and and Brian Hildebrandt and McK foley, and so Dominic

889
00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:28,239
Speaker 1: was a legend in the business and a legend in Pittsburgh.

890
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:32,480
Speaker 1: And he yeah, he passed away that weekend. And so

891
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:36,800
Speaker 1: I so I knew that the wrestling show was in talent.

892
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 1: I had planned ongoing. I know that Shane didn't. You know,

893
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:43,360
Speaker 1: that's not something that he would do. And so I

894
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:46,280
Speaker 1: went to the Wednesday night show, the live taping on TNT,

895
00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:49,759
Speaker 1: and I was backstage hanging with guys, you know, some

896
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:52,120
Speaker 1: of the other guys in the promotion of friendly with them,

897
00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 1: Badass Billy gunn uh you know, friendly with some of

898
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:57,520
Speaker 1: the other performers they are there now. And so just

899
00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:01,040
Speaker 1: sort of hob nob in backstage and I said to Taz,

900
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:03,920
Speaker 1: I said, hey, man, I was like, you know, who

901
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:06,160
Speaker 1: would really love to be here? And He's like, who's that?

902
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:08,640
Speaker 1: And I'm like, franchise Shane Douglas. He's like, he ain't

903
00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:11,800
Speaker 1: goven here, he ain't govern here. And I was like, well,

904
00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:13,600
Speaker 1: you know, it would be it would be a nice thing.

905
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:18,239
Speaker 1: And so then when when Shane called me and told

906
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:23,200
Speaker 1: me about Dominic, the next day that I think it

907
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:26,839
Speaker 1: was that Thursday. Like I thought to myself, you know, okay,

908
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:30,480
Speaker 1: so we have a pro wrestling show on national television

909
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:34,520
Speaker 1: in the city of Pittsburgh, coinciding with Dominick's passing. I

910
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 1: was like, it would be we would be remiss if

911
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:42,640
Speaker 1: we didn't honor Dominic and honor like the roots of

912
00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 1: professional wrestling and especially Pittsburgh Professional wrestling, like the name

913
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:51,799
Speaker 1: Dominic Denucci needed to be spoken and honored that weekend, right.

914
00:48:52,239 --> 00:48:55,360
Speaker 1: And of course the dudes at AW, I mean the Vets,

915
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:59,560
Speaker 1: Aren Tully, Jake the Snake, Roberts, Big Show, Mark Henry

916
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:03,319
Speaker 1: said some beautiful things. All the ECW guys like they

917
00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:06,000
Speaker 1: all recognize, but like Tony Kahan, like he don't know

918
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:09,760
Speaker 1: anything about Dominic Danucci, you know. And some of the fans,

919
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 1: the AW fans that may be newer to pro wrestling

920
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:15,000
Speaker 1: or newer to the scene, then maybe right over their head, right,

921
00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:18,600
Speaker 1: And so I thought, I told Shane, I go, look,

922
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:22,520
Speaker 1: there's a pro wrestling show in Pittsburgh, and Dominic Danucci

923
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:25,120
Speaker 1: just passed. We need to go. And I also thought

924
00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:27,840
Speaker 1: that Troy and I'll call him Troy in this moment

925
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:31,880
Speaker 1: because it means something like Troy needed that, he needed

926
00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:35,640
Speaker 1: the love and he just lost his mentor who was

927
00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:37,560
Speaker 1: like a father to him or like it. You know,

928
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:40,560
Speaker 1: he just he loved Dominic and I did too. But

929
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:43,799
Speaker 1: I love Troy. He's such a good dude. And I thought,

930
00:49:43,880 --> 00:49:46,279
Speaker 1: you know, he's got to be hurting, he's got to

931
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:49,359
Speaker 1: be mourning, he's got to be bummed out. And there's

932
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:51,440
Speaker 1: a wrestling show in town, and it's all the boys

933
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:54,120
Speaker 1: he knows and all the boys that love him, and like,

934
00:49:54,239 --> 00:49:56,600
Speaker 1: he wouldn't do that for himself, Like he wouldn't show

935
00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:58,560
Speaker 1: up there and be like, hey, you know, hey guys

936
00:49:58,640 --> 00:50:01,520
Speaker 1: or whatever. But so he I dragged him along and

937
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 1: it was a beautiful thing, man, to see the outpouring

938
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:09,000
Speaker 1: of affection for Shane Douglas, who you know, good, bad,

939
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:11,360
Speaker 1: are indifferent is a heat seeking missile in his business

940
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:15,319
Speaker 1: to this day. And like I mean, he you know,

941
00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:16,959
Speaker 1: god bless. I mean, I'm not talking out of school

942
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:18,759
Speaker 1: because I'll tell him this later on. Like he's a

943
00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:22,520
Speaker 1: polarizing character. He you know, people people love him, people

944
00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:26,080
Speaker 1: hate him, and all things in between, and and like,

945
00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:29,840
Speaker 1: but he deserved, you know, he deserved love and affection

946
00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:33,319
Speaker 1: and outpouring and like, so so we walk in that

947
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:36,360
Speaker 1: Friday night for the new show. It is the season premiere,

948
00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:39,600
Speaker 1: the premiere of the show on TVs, and the first

949
00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:42,760
Speaker 1: faces we see is Arn Anderson and his son, Billy

950
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:48,200
Speaker 1: Gunn and his son Taz and his son and like

951
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:50,680
Speaker 1: and then it just started and it was a parade

952
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:56,800
Speaker 1: of every single person like kissing the ring of the franchise, honestly,

953
00:50:57,320 --> 00:50:59,520
Speaker 1: which he deserved, that he needed and it was awesome.

954
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:03,560
Speaker 1: But like I said, Tommy Dreamer, Jerry Lynn, and so,

955
00:51:04,239 --> 00:51:07,200
Speaker 1: uh there's a picture that then made the way around

956
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:16,120
Speaker 1: that Jeff Jones organized the picture. Yeah, I'm not that good.

957
00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:18,960
Speaker 1: I'll try. We'll find it and and again we can

958
00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:21,960
Speaker 1: we can insert it later. But it's sort of like

959
00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:27,440
Speaker 1: an impromptu hardcore reunion Jerry Lynn, uh, gosh, Dean Malenko,

960
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:33,920
Speaker 1: Shane Douglas, Taz Dreamer, everybody in, Jeff Jones and and

961
00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:37,239
Speaker 1: that that was so cool and like not orchestrated at

962
00:51:37,239 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 1: all and just happened. And but yeah, so I said

963
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:45,319
Speaker 1: Mark Henry, Mark Henry, like I flagged him down. He's

964
00:51:45,360 --> 00:51:47,040
Speaker 1: walking by backstage. I don't know if he saw us

965
00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:48,680
Speaker 1: or whatever. And I was like hey, you know big man,

966
00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:51,200
Speaker 1: come and say hi, and he he walked right over.

967
00:51:51,239 --> 00:51:55,200
Speaker 1: I say, you remember this character it is. Yeah, there's

968
00:51:55,239 --> 00:51:58,279
Speaker 1: another one too, because Malenko, Dean Malenko was there. He's

969
00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:00,760
Speaker 1: he was in it. There's another picture that was bigger,

970
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:02,520
Speaker 1: that had more of him in it. But yeah, that's

971
00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:06,440
Speaker 1: the the one that got around Twitter. Yeah, yeah, yeah

972
00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:12,239
Speaker 1: that But so AnyWho, Mark Henry actually, you know when

973
00:52:12,239 --> 00:52:14,480
Speaker 1: I told him, I said, hey, man, just to freshen

974
00:52:14,560 --> 00:52:16,719
Speaker 1: his memory, I said, you remember franchise Shame Douglas. He's like,

975
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:19,399
Speaker 1: of course, I said, his mentor, Dominic Denucci died. He goes,

976
00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:22,440
Speaker 1: I know, and he just said the most beautiful things

977
00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:25,920
Speaker 1: to Troy. He like he got tears in his eyes

978
00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:28,560
Speaker 1: Mark Henry, and I was like, man, what a sweetheart,

979
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:31,920
Speaker 1: you know, what a wonderful guy, and and like so

980
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:33,840
Speaker 1: that was one of that that's such a great memory

981
00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:35,799
Speaker 1: for me, and I know it is for Troy. He'll

982
00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:39,360
Speaker 1: he'll he'll know sell it. You know. He actually told me,

983
00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:42,560
Speaker 1: he told me when when you took him to it,

984
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:45,319
Speaker 1: and he's he's mentioned it once or twice afterwards, and

985
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:47,239
Speaker 1: he was like, you know, he goes. I was just

986
00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:50,759
Speaker 1: sitting around sulking, and it was great for Ned to

987
00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:53,399
Speaker 1: come and grab me and take me there and get

988
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:57,239
Speaker 1: me out of, you know, my isolation because it's just

989
00:52:57,280 --> 00:53:00,360
Speaker 1: you and your thoughts. Yeah, we needed that. You were

990
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:02,399
Speaker 1: a very good friend to him that night. You're you're

991
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:05,080
Speaker 1: a great friend to him always, but he really needed

992
00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:07,279
Speaker 1: you that day and you came through. So I think

993
00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:10,680
Speaker 1: we're doing that for him. And there's there's more. There's

994
00:53:10,719 --> 00:53:12,880
Speaker 1: a ton of good stories even from that night. And

995
00:53:12,920 --> 00:53:14,960
Speaker 1: then for me too as a fan. I don't you

996
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:17,120
Speaker 1: know what I mean to like bore everybody here, but

997
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:20,720
Speaker 1: you're all wrestling fans too, sure, but so you're sitting

998
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:25,040
Speaker 1: for me as a fan again growing up watching Shane Douglas,

999
00:53:25,080 --> 00:53:27,400
Speaker 1: the young up and comer who then became the franchise,

1000
00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:31,000
Speaker 1: the fucking franchise and is a goddamn legend. He and

1001
00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:33,280
Speaker 1: I up in the rafters right of course, the Triple

1002
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:36,319
Speaker 1: Threat and the whole deal. Man. Uh he you know,

1003
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:38,600
Speaker 1: he was like breaking down matches and we were like

1004
00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:41,840
Speaker 1: talking shop really and like you know, I'm just soaking

1005
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:44,839
Speaker 1: it in, like you know, he's look at this, look

1006
00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:46,640
Speaker 1: at that, Look how they're doing this. And we're talking

1007
00:53:46,680 --> 00:53:51,319
Speaker 1: about things and no one around, nobody saw us. We're

1008
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:53,480
Speaker 1: up and all the way almost up in the balcony,

1009
00:53:53,560 --> 00:53:55,239
Speaker 1: just the two of us, and he's like breaking it

1010
00:53:55,239 --> 00:53:57,279
Speaker 1: all down. That that was a that was a fun

1011
00:53:57,320 --> 00:54:01,920
Speaker 1: thing too, to talk shop and to sort of bend

1012
00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:05,680
Speaker 1: the ear of a legend while this while the show

1013
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:07,960
Speaker 1: was going on. And that was a big show too.

1014
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:09,600
Speaker 1: There was a few things that happened in it so

1015
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:12,680
Speaker 1: that like all everybody was there, all of their their

1016
00:54:12,680 --> 00:54:15,560
Speaker 1: whole roster almost was there, all of their road agents

1017
00:54:15,560 --> 00:54:21,520
Speaker 1: were there, and it's like a who's who, and you know,

1018
00:54:21,560 --> 00:54:23,880
Speaker 1: we we had such a good time. I've got a

1019
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:26,120
Speaker 1: million stories from then, and but we you know, we could.

1020
00:54:26,160 --> 00:54:27,879
Speaker 1: I could talk to you guys all day. I love

1021
00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:29,680
Speaker 1: being a part of the show. Thank you. Except I

1022
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:33,239
Speaker 1: still contend Tony Khan is afraid of Shane. So is

1023
00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:36,839
Speaker 1: that right? I think Shane all the time, I said,

1024
00:54:36,880 --> 00:54:38,960
Speaker 1: I think Tony is afraid of your character and what

1025
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:41,440
Speaker 1: you did in the ring, so it'll could keep his distance.

1026
00:54:41,920 --> 00:54:45,319
Speaker 1: I could see that. I mean, uh, you know, like physically,

1027
00:54:45,560 --> 00:54:47,720
Speaker 1: I mean, Tony Khan should be afraid of his own shadow.

1028
00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:49,839
Speaker 1: I mean he's he's tiny, Like I gotta put Tony

1029
00:54:49,880 --> 00:54:53,480
Speaker 1: Kahan in my expressed from Chad and Ned or not

1030
00:54:53,520 --> 00:54:59,200
Speaker 1: the music. Yeah, Hey, Tony Khan called me because I

1031
00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:01,000
Speaker 1: you know, I'll come the work in a second. So

1032
00:55:01,040 --> 00:55:03,600
Speaker 1: I'm not saying, yeah, you know, we're all available for

1033
00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:06,839
Speaker 1: bookings here, so I'm not trying to bury anybody. But

1034
00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:12,440
Speaker 1: no physically though, Tony is you know, he's not intimidating anyone,

1035
00:55:13,120 --> 00:55:17,000
Speaker 1: but the Yeah, I understand what you're saying though. And

1036
00:55:17,040 --> 00:55:19,640
Speaker 1: it's like we said, the franchise Shane Douglas, a franchise

1037
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:25,239
Speaker 1: character is is a wild card? Is a wild card?

1038
00:55:25,840 --> 00:55:28,840
Speaker 1: That weekend that you guys were in New York, Shane

1039
00:55:28,880 --> 00:55:32,359
Speaker 1: called me on a Friday night and you guys were

1040
00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:35,359
Speaker 1: driving and he asked all these questions and I'm going

1041
00:55:35,360 --> 00:55:38,239
Speaker 1: off about this, this and this, and then he says something.

1042
00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:40,160
Speaker 1: He goes, yeah, my buddy Ned right here, and I'm like,

1043
00:55:40,280 --> 00:55:42,680
Speaker 1: I've been saying all this shit for like the last

1044
00:55:42,719 --> 00:55:45,160
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. I had no idea anybody else was in

1045
00:55:45,200 --> 00:55:47,200
Speaker 1: the damn car. So it's just kind of funny. But he's, yeah,

1046
00:55:47,200 --> 00:55:50,320
Speaker 1: he's been talking about you for years and now cool.

1047
00:55:50,520 --> 00:55:54,640
Speaker 1: He thinks very highly of you too, so wow. Yeah,

1048
00:55:54,680 --> 00:55:59,800
Speaker 1: and I'm sure some other event that we are all together,

1049
00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:02,719
Speaker 1: you will be there as well. So I look forward

1050
00:56:02,760 --> 00:56:06,920
Speaker 1: to seeing you again in person. If anybody wants to

1051
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:09,600
Speaker 1: find you, do you want to let the fans know

1052
00:56:09,640 --> 00:56:12,320
Speaker 1: how to how to get into you? Know, I I

1053
00:56:12,560 --> 00:56:17,320
Speaker 1: would rather they didn't find you, don't find me. No,

1054
00:56:17,520 --> 00:56:19,759
Speaker 1: I tweeted out your info a minute ago, but I

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Speaker 1: could tell you I found them in two seconds. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm old school when it comes to that. Like you'll see,

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00:56:26,880 --> 00:56:29,399
Speaker 1: a lot of my social media stuff is outdated. I

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00:56:29,480 --> 00:56:31,600
Speaker 1: stopped again. I don't want to jump on the go

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00:56:31,600 --> 00:56:33,399
Speaker 1: down the rabbit hole because I know we're tight for time.

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Speaker 1: But like I I don't know. I got offended by

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00:56:36,040 --> 00:56:37,640
Speaker 1: a lot of the stuff that has gone on with

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00:56:37,680 --> 00:56:42,040
Speaker 1: social media, and not only the toxicity and some of

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00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:44,320
Speaker 1: the other bullshit that goes on on there, but also

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Speaker 1: I'm not into the censorship kind of that was going

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00:56:47,760 --> 00:56:50,279
Speaker 1: on with Facebook and and some of these things. Like

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Speaker 1: I was turned off by all that to where anymore,

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Speaker 1: Like I just kind of don't participate and I call

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Speaker 1: you know, I call Twitter, like Twitter on the shitter.

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Speaker 1: If you if you find me on Twitter and you

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00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:03,920
Speaker 1: see me doing anything liking to commenting on things. I'm

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00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:10,000
Speaker 1: taking a ship and the next one. But I always

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00:57:10,080 --> 00:57:12,560
Speaker 1: wash my hands and always wipe down the screen with

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00:57:12,640 --> 00:57:16,560
Speaker 1: a fantasizing way. But but no, I honestly I feel

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00:57:16,640 --> 00:57:19,520
Speaker 1: like that's about all Twitter is worse because once you're

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00:57:19,560 --> 00:57:22,680
Speaker 1: off the shit or you probably shouldn't dedicate too much

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Speaker 1: of your life to it. I understand the trappings professionally,

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00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:27,400
Speaker 1: and we're all trying to promote ourselves, and so you

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00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:29,680
Speaker 1: get caught in the web of like, well, I kind

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Speaker 1: of have to because you know, I need to reach

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00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:36,640
Speaker 1: people and communicate and promote, and that's okay. But as

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Speaker 1: far as me, you like my personal life and everything,

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00:57:39,360 --> 00:57:41,240
Speaker 1: I don't mess around like that. But but I would

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00:57:41,240 --> 00:57:45,720
Speaker 1: say I would encourage everybody to look, look my I'm

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00:57:45,760 --> 00:57:49,240
Speaker 1: seven feet is my Twitter handle. It is all written out,

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00:57:49,560 --> 00:57:52,000
Speaker 1: so I have I had a Twitter profile that I

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00:57:52,080 --> 00:57:54,080
Speaker 1: used to tweet all the wacky stuff people would say

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Speaker 1: to me, the crazy questions, the wild interactions in the

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Speaker 1: grocery store, at the ballgame or whatever that really happen

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00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:04,080
Speaker 1: from the time I leave the house until I come home.

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Speaker 1: Almost every human interaction I have outside of my close

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00:58:08,160 --> 00:58:10,920
Speaker 1: loved ones that are over It involves how tall I am,

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00:58:10,960 --> 00:58:12,600
Speaker 1: How tall are you? How tall are you? How tall

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00:58:12,680 --> 00:58:14,720
Speaker 1: you I'm seven feet, I'm seven feet. I'm seven feet

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Speaker 1: all day long. So my Twitter handle I'm seven feet.

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00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:20,160
Speaker 1: The Instagram handle the same. A lot of people. The

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00:58:20,240 --> 00:58:23,360
Speaker 1: Instagram because it's photo based. What people will stop me

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00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:24,760
Speaker 1: and say, can I take a picture with you? And

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00:58:24,800 --> 00:58:27,600
Speaker 1: I'm like why, why? Why do you want a picture

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Speaker 1: with me? Okay? Or how I make your mother family,

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00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:31,439
Speaker 1: which is rare most of the time, it's like people

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00:58:31,440 --> 00:58:34,200
Speaker 1: want to roast me or you know, show their friends

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00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:37,080
Speaker 1: look at this freak I ran into in the in

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Speaker 1: the grocery school. Delightful, and I don't say that. They're

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Speaker 1: saying that there you take a picture of you, like

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00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:49,280
Speaker 1: like I'm a goddamn dancing bear at the circus. But so, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm seven feet on Twitter, I'm seven feet on Instagram.

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00:58:52,520 --> 00:58:54,800
Speaker 1: And then you know, how I met your mother is

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00:58:55,280 --> 00:58:58,680
Speaker 1: in the reruns. I often they're on Hulu, and I

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00:58:58,680 --> 00:59:01,680
Speaker 1: think they'll they'll come up on TV, sometimes on different channels,

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00:59:01,680 --> 00:59:03,640
Speaker 1: but you know, I direct people to Hulu to find

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00:59:03,680 --> 00:59:08,000
Speaker 1: the reruns, and you know, for my friends and family,

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Speaker 1: I always joke with them I'm like, listen, when you're

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00:59:09,600 --> 00:59:11,480
Speaker 1: going to sleep at night, just put it on Hulu,

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00:59:11,520 --> 00:59:13,320
Speaker 1: grab one of my episodes and just play in the

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00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:15,680
Speaker 1: background when you're going to sleep, because I'll hit the residual.

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00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:18,720
Speaker 1: There you go. We need to do that. Absolutely, go

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00:59:18,760 --> 00:59:20,280
Speaker 1: watch it. Just put them on in the background. You

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00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:23,000
Speaker 1: don't even have to watch it, just let it play.

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Speaker 1: That is right. Well, and you and I are now

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00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:28,800
Speaker 1: best friends and we know how to get in touch

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00:59:28,840 --> 00:59:31,480
Speaker 1: with each other. So I'm so happy about that. Yeah,

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00:59:31,680 --> 00:59:37,400
Speaker 1: And fifteen, sixteen, seventeen year old me is also so

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Speaker 1: happy about that because, like I said, when you when

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Speaker 1: you hit the scene that was right, you premiered like

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Speaker 1: ninety four, ninety five, right, I started in ninety three

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Speaker 1: at their training restaurant school, and then all of ninety

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Speaker 1: four I did house shows. Ninety five is when I

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Speaker 1: got on television. Yep. So that was thirteen fourteen, fifteen

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Speaker 1: year old wide eyed ned mad to help you go through.

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Speaker 1: Sexy Friend sauntered down the aisle, and so thank you

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Speaker 1: for thanks for the memories. You are greatly welcome, and

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01:00:10,200 --> 01:00:13,320
Speaker 1: like I said, I'm sure to find you down the

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Speaker 1: road somewhere. Would you know. I'm happy to have done

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Speaker 1: this with you guys. Thanks for sharing the time with me,

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01:00:18,360 --> 01:00:20,880
Speaker 1: and you know, best of luck going forward with the

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Speaker 1: show and the appearances. And you've you've got a friend.

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Speaker 1: Well have you got for tell more stories and shoot

1138
01:00:27,160 --> 01:00:30,040
Speaker 1: the ship again. I've got many more. And but you've

1139
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Speaker 1: got a friend in me, a seven foot three and

1140
01:00:32,080 --> 01:00:34,360
Speaker 1: seventy pound friends. So if anybody ever gives you a

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01:00:34,400 --> 01:00:38,160
Speaker 1: hard time, I'm there for you, wonderful. If you ever

1142
01:00:38,240 --> 01:00:40,360
Speaker 1: need anything off the top shelf, you need me to

1143
01:00:40,440 --> 01:00:44,000
Speaker 1: dust off the top of the fridge. Those are like

1144
01:00:44,040 --> 01:00:46,160
Speaker 1: my zones, you know when I come in the house,

1145
01:00:46,240 --> 01:00:48,120
Speaker 1: like you got to have you got to have the

1146
01:00:48,160 --> 01:00:51,400
Speaker 1: tops of your your furniture set like a lot of people.

1147
01:00:52,520 --> 01:00:55,240
Speaker 1: I just have a lot of people don't dust out there.

1148
01:00:55,360 --> 01:00:57,320
Speaker 1: You know, I get invited into someone's home or you

1149
01:00:57,360 --> 01:00:59,240
Speaker 1: walk in the kitchen and I'm seeing things on top

1150
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Speaker 1: of the fridge. Perfect, perfect of mind, delightful. Thank you

1151
01:01:05,080 --> 01:01:07,600
Speaker 1: so much for coming on, and everybody go watch how

1152
01:01:07,640 --> 01:01:09,360
Speaker 1: I met your mother. Soon that can make some coin

1153
01:01:09,680 --> 01:01:12,040
Speaker 1: and we will we will speak again soon, I'm sure.

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Speaker 1: But have a great day, and thank you so much

1155
01:01:13,760 --> 01:01:22,360
Speaker 1: for love you guys very much. Is He's the man

1156
01:01:23,760 --> 01:01:26,640
Speaker 1: a day. Yeah, he likes to talk, but it's it

1157
01:01:26,800 --> 01:01:31,080
Speaker 1: was compelling what he said. And again it was so

1158
01:01:31,360 --> 01:01:34,600
Speaker 1: it was right place, right time with that show when

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Speaker 1: when Dominic died, because you know, Shane was in kind

1160
01:01:37,480 --> 01:01:40,800
Speaker 1: of a dark place and Ned flew in like a

1161
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Speaker 1: superhero and picked him up and took him on his way.

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01:01:43,960 --> 01:01:46,640
Speaker 1: So it was perfect timing. But it was shocking because

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Speaker 1: you know, I never expected him to even be because

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01:01:49,600 --> 01:01:51,080
Speaker 1: we would always joke to out, you're going to show

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01:01:51,120 --> 01:01:52,800
Speaker 1: up tonight, You're coming through the crowd, or I'm not

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01:01:52,840 --> 01:01:56,440
Speaker 1: going anywhere near that arena. But Dominic died on a Thursday.

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Speaker 1: That show was live on Friday, and he yeah, really

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Speaker 1: helped them a lot. That was good friend. Okay, So

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Speaker 1: on Patreon, So this week on Patreon, we are going

1170
01:02:10,160 --> 01:02:14,280
Speaker 1: to check out you and I are are always fans

1171
01:02:14,320 --> 01:02:18,960
Speaker 1: of old television and having a TV show personality on

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01:02:19,120 --> 01:02:22,240
Speaker 1: this week helps. We're going to look at TV reboots

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01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:25,960
Speaker 1: that stink. Okay, like come on, like they did not

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01:02:26,120 --> 01:02:28,280
Speaker 1: need to be spun off. Remember, Oh and the other

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01:02:28,280 --> 01:02:29,880
Speaker 1: thing too. The reason I went with this is because

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01:02:29,920 --> 01:02:32,919
Speaker 1: I said if Eyes up Here had a spinoff series,

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Speaker 1: it would start the Sandman right, So that's why I

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Speaker 1: thought TV reboots and spinoffs that stink. We are going

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01:02:40,360 --> 01:02:43,120
Speaker 1: to check out more from the gathering. We watched the speech.

1180
01:02:43,120 --> 01:02:46,800
Speaker 1: We're going to check out the convention and then kind

1181
01:02:46,800 --> 01:02:49,360
Speaker 1: of in the watch along category. I thought this was interesting.

1182
01:02:50,160 --> 01:02:54,040
Speaker 1: So Wrestling with Regret is another one of these YouTube series, right,

1183
01:02:55,040 --> 01:02:58,000
Speaker 1: But this guy, it's it's not like a countdown or

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Speaker 1: this or that. This guy it's about a ten minute

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01:03:00,760 --> 01:03:05,560
Speaker 1: retrospective of WEW. But he is not very nice to

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Speaker 1: w No, he's not nice. Okay, that's why I you

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01:03:11,000 --> 01:03:13,160
Speaker 1: know what this is interesting. Let's let's see what this

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01:03:13,280 --> 01:03:16,440
Speaker 1: is all about. I have not watched it, so I

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01:03:16,600 --> 01:03:18,360
Speaker 1: just I want to preface so I don't know what

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Speaker 1: he says about you. If he says anything about you.

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01:03:21,080 --> 01:03:24,120
Speaker 1: What I just saw he's a hater and he's talking

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Speaker 1: about we W all right, can't wait to do that one. Well,

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Speaker 1: where can people find you? At chatty and be on

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Speaker 1: Twitter at ib exclusives on Instagram. I am at e

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Speaker 1: c W dver freteen across the board and with that,

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Speaker 1: that is a rap