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Speaker 1: What do we even do? What are we even doing?

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Speaker 2: Hey?

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Speaker 1: Everyone, what are we even doing? The podcast where I

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Speaker 1: sit down with creatives from all fields actors, musicians, writers, comedians, answers, dancers,

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Speaker 1: lest we forget very important and we talk about how

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Speaker 1: they use social media, what their creative process is. We

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Speaker 1: get weird together in a good way. And I want

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Speaker 1: to welcome a very special guest actor, musician, comedian, dancer, dancer.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, I've seen him dance.

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Speaker 2: Thank you dancer.

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Speaker 1: Yes, you are our very own b John Say. I

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Speaker 1: think I'm pronouncing that correctly social media handle. Please welcome

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Speaker 1: John Early to the podcast, to our vast studio here.

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Speaker 2: Kyle, you have no idea how exciting this is for me.

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Speaker 1: I'm thrilled.

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Speaker 2: This is such a thrill you are.

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Speaker 1: The creative flow that comes out of you is because

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Speaker 1: you're so present. When I've watched your work, you have

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Speaker 1: the ability to stand in front of an audience and

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Speaker 1: you're relaxed and you it's not like you have to

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Speaker 1: wait for the next thing, but you allow the next

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Speaker 1: thing to come and it just keeps coming out like

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Speaker 1: this and you just keep going with it. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's a tremendous skill thank you. Yeah, I mean it

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Speaker 1: just feels good. Would tell me you tell me how this?

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Speaker 1: How did John Realley start? How did he begin? Was

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Speaker 1: there a moment you said this is what I want

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Speaker 2: You know, I should have that prepared. It's like, no,

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Speaker 2: can talk about it. I'm trying to really think what

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Speaker 2: it was, because I think I do remember this moment

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Speaker 2: of seeing Cherio Terry Oh doing the Spartan cheerleader Charitarian

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Speaker 2: wolf fare yeah yeah, and being in my kitchen on

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Speaker 2: the little kitchen TV and being like uh huh and

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Speaker 2: just really being like, yeah, yes, that's what I wanted.

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Speaker 1: You was full on. Yeah, the SNLS get that they together, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: oh my god.

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Speaker 2: That was just like right to the heart for me.

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Speaker 2: And and that was that was probably it. But you know,

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Speaker 2: both my parents not to just immediately go to the

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Speaker 2: bio and and exploit like the let's go.

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Speaker 1: Because I'm curious about your your parents both both Presbyterian ministers.

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Speaker 2: Or former former Presbyterian ministers.

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Speaker 1: Disgrace Man always Presbyterian minister.

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Speaker 2: The only reason I bring it up is because I

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Speaker 2: do think they I did watch them hold a room,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know they were teaching moments. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: come from a Presbyterian background. Yeah, yeah, we went to

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Speaker 1: we went to Westminster Presbyterian Church where that was.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, my dad was the head pastor at Westminster in National.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, that wasn't nearby, was up in Washington State.

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Speaker 1: It's cool how your parents are part of kind of

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Speaker 1: you bring them into your world to your act. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: how is that? How have they responded?

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Speaker 2: They're such good?

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Speaker 1: Have they been supportive? I should just say, yeah, they've

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Speaker 2: You, very very supportive, you know, all the way through.

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Speaker 2: Even as the stuff I've done has gotten more and

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Speaker 2: more vile, you know, they're they've They've still hang in there, cheered.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know. It's like it's a it's

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Speaker 2: bizarre with the with the in the special when I

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Speaker 2: put the spotlight on them, that's I'm saying stuff in

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Speaker 2: It's so funny. It's like I feel totally safe doing

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Speaker 2: it in that environment. And also I know that they

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Speaker 2: completely understand the joke, and like if they didn't, if

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Speaker 2: it actually felt like torture, I wouldn't do it, not

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Speaker 2: even out of some like you know righteous place. I

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Speaker 2: just I I don't like you know, I am Presbyterian

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Speaker 2: at the end of the day, and I like people

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Speaker 2: to feel comfortable.

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Speaker 1: Like my audience, I'm the same way. Yeah, I know

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Speaker 1: exactly what you feel when you're on stage to say

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Speaker 1: that is it you? Is it a character? Is it

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Speaker 2: How do you?

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Speaker 1: Because I always feel like I need a kid, a

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Speaker 2: Always need something. But over the years it's gotten more

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Speaker 2: I mean, I say, to me, it's like the least

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Speaker 2: alienating thing I've ever done. That stand up special available

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Speaker 2: it's completely incoherent and confusing and and but but I

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Speaker 2: don't know it's But so the persona that I do now,

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Speaker 2: I would say, is I give myself. I think of

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Speaker 2: like's it helps me be like kind of like dumb

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Speaker 2: through my ideas in a way that hopefully doesn't feel

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Speaker 2: like pretentious. My idea is so embarrassing. They're not ideas, yeah, no, no,

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Speaker 1: No, but there you but you use the space in

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Speaker 1: It must be a thrill. The closest that could I

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Speaker 1: really yeah yeah, but I think it's you sort of

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Speaker 2: Yes, and there's actually you know, I mean it's easy

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Speaker 2: have it all. You know, you you're getting paid the most,

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Speaker 2: you're your front, you know. But like, but everyone prefers

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Speaker 2: the side, the weird one. Everyone prefers the character actress.

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Speaker 1: You're leading man, trapped in character.

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Speaker 2: Body might dream.

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Speaker 1: Tell me, tell me, tell me, but.

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Speaker 2: My dream is relevant. So I had a dream the

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Speaker 2: other night that I was doing an experimental production of Carousel.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, Rogers and Hammerston's one that's a very dark one,

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Speaker 2: and I was the lead.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, big, yeah.

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Speaker 1: We did that in college as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we did play.

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Speaker 1: I was of course, you know. It was one of

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Speaker 1: went to you dub University of Washington, but they had

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Speaker 1: go out seek our fortune and repertory theaterland. Wow, suddenly

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Speaker 1: movies got in the way. So but that's kind of

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Speaker 1: where I was initially headed. Owing to New York and

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Speaker 1: I said I'm going to audition. I could sing, and

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Speaker 1: I did all edit everything, and then I just went

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Speaker 2: And what was the first thing. I'm sorry, this is

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Speaker 1: Ultimately the first sort of real musical thing I did.

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Speaker 1: Anything goes Oh my god. But I had one line. Look,

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Speaker 1: it's Reno Sweeney and her four angels.

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Speaker 2: So you were you dancing.

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Speaker 1: I was dancing. I was a sailor in the background.

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Speaker 1: They were like, you know, that was my deal. And

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Speaker 1: guy that went on to play Curly. In fact, you

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Speaker 1: It's Senoreenie and her four yeah. Yeah, And I'd be like, no,

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Speaker 1: it's not no, it's not no, it's not yeah, oh no, no,

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Speaker 2: I had to work.

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Speaker 1: Against this terrible You must have had something similar. You've

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Speaker 2: There was no hardship.

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Speaker 1: No from Nashville to New York. No hardship, lay, there.

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Speaker 2: Was nothing, no obstruction.

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Speaker 1: I just knew you were Like, were you like I

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Speaker 2: Yes? I was. I mean, you're ready when I first

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so what was that? They just went there for

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Speaker 2: He we had a really sweet trip where we went

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Speaker 2: like fourteen? Wait what we saw Beauty in the Beast

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Speaker 1: Did they have did your parents sort of go I

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Were they aware of kind of where

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Speaker 2: Yes, definitely, it's really nice. I don't know what makes

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Speaker 2: but I guess I don't know. I was very serious

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's nice to hear. My parents were similar.

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Speaker 2: They loved me. Right, let's just get that right, that's

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Speaker 2: rats rat. But yes, we saw Tony Brexton wool and

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Speaker 2: Those are my first Broadway shows.

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Speaker 2: And then and we went to SNL. Okay, we went

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Speaker 2: to SNL and saw Lucy Lawless hostess.

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Speaker 1: Okay, wait no, wait wait because special I wasn't fourteen,

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Speaker 1: God no, but that's a tough that's a you know,

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Speaker 1: that's late and that's New York and that's really I mean.

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Speaker 1: And I was as an insiders.

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Speaker 2: He he, my dad pulled some strings. I don't know what.

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Speaker 2: He did something with the lord he you know. Yes,

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Speaker 2: I got in as an eleven year old. And and

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Speaker 2: actually what happened when I was in, When we were

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Speaker 2: in line, this girl came up to me and she

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Speaker 2: was probably like eighteen at the time, and she was like, oh,

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Speaker 2: it's sixteen, Like sixteen is the cut off. Like she

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Speaker 2: was like, he's not going to get in, like this

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Speaker 2: is a ranch. She didn't work there.

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Speaker 1: She was just decided to offer her advice.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I started weeping. Yes, and my dad was like,

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Speaker 2: it's so, I have tickets. They know, it's fine, you know,

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Speaker 2: like whatever, but I was so scared. Yeah, I was

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Speaker 2: like you heard her, Oh my god, we're never going

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Speaker 2: to get in. Yeah, but we got in and it

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Speaker 2: was like it was so it was Lucy Lawson. Elliott

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Speaker 2: Smith was the musical guest.

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Speaker 1: Oh I love Elliott Smith said he was so talented.

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Speaker 2: Maybe. No, You're exactly right, and this is why you

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Speaker 1: That's why I'm a podcast. Yes, yes, we should. Should

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Speaker 1: I know you even waiting all day for this.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, it's so related. Like, not long after I

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Speaker 1: Me yes, and which is can I say shot for shots?

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Speaker 1: Probably responded to your passion.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I was very I was like, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: It's yeah, but it's amazing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know Showgirls really was my kind of like

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Speaker 1: This was not show that it's not you know, I

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, Kyle, something was just so explosively funny

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Speaker 2: genius like dance comedy troupe thing and and we just

439
00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:08,560
Speaker 2: like rented a studio in Brooklyn and like pulled up

440
00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:12,400
Speaker 2: the clip and we just learned it. We just learned it,

441
00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:15,520
Speaker 2: and like we matched the camera work, and you know,

442
00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:18,520
Speaker 2: we we The guy who directed Drew Tobia, he got

443
00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:21,919
Speaker 2: his his high school theater teacher in Jersey to like

444
00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:24,720
Speaker 2: she her like she did as an assignment for her class,

445
00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:26,520
Speaker 2: like let's make the stage look like the stage and

446
00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:29,280
Speaker 2: show Girls, And so they hung the lights in a

447
00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:32,000
Speaker 2: somewhat similar way as best they could, you know, and

448
00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:33,879
Speaker 2: we just went to Jersey and shot this thing in

449
00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:36,800
Speaker 2: one day and it was like one day. Yeah, yeah,

450
00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:39,639
Speaker 2: I love that video so much. I don't know it

451
00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:42,760
Speaker 2: like it holds like it the key to like me

452
00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:44,280
Speaker 2: or something that that video.

453
00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:47,280
Speaker 1: You know, it's beautiful, no, because it's you're fully commit

454
00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:50,679
Speaker 1: there's no winking, you're fully committed. Yeah, you dance up

455
00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:54,359
Speaker 1: a storm, which is amazing. And and the shot for shot, yeah,

456
00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:56,119
Speaker 1: it matches, and I love it when they when you

457
00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:58,359
Speaker 1: do both. We ran both together. I mean there's the

458
00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:00,680
Speaker 1: top and bottom and it is identical down to the

459
00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:05,000
Speaker 1: lip sync. It was like a long term TikTok or

460
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Speaker 1: something long form TikTok. But it was really well done.

461
00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:10,000
Speaker 2: Thank you. Yeah, I'm very proud of it.

462
00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:12,719
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that's that's pretty special. You need to go

463
00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:13,960
Speaker 1: down and do more scenes.

464
00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:16,320
Speaker 2: Well, that's that's the thing is, like I did make

465
00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:21,040
Speaker 2: a movie recently that like actually came from that impulse

466
00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:23,560
Speaker 2: to just do the full length show girls. You know.

467
00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:25,800
Speaker 2: It's like I've always been like, well in a world

468
00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:28,960
Speaker 2: where I'm for some reason given billions of dollars, you know,

469
00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:31,040
Speaker 2: like where there's a film industry that would do that, yeah,

470
00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:34,080
Speaker 2: doesn't exist. Like but like and then I was like, well,

471
00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:37,080
Speaker 2: I could do something like that. I could do something

472
00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:39,440
Speaker 2: that's like in essence like that. So I did write

473
00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:42,440
Speaker 2: a movie for myself where I play the lead girl.

474
00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:45,840
Speaker 2: I play in a Maddie yes and like and she.

475
00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:48,560
Speaker 2: It's very different on a plot level. But there is

476
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Speaker 2: a character named zach Is based on your character character

477
00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:57,760
Speaker 2: great with the weird hair he doesn't have. I mean,

478
00:22:57,880 --> 00:22:59,520
Speaker 2: thank god, no one can ever have that hair.

479
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Speaker 1: No. I don't know what I was thinking when I

480
00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:02,160
Speaker 1: had made that choice.

481
00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:03,600
Speaker 2: It was just like genius.

482
00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:07,480
Speaker 1: Well, I kept thinking, he's a wolf in sheep's clothing,

483
00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:11,400
Speaker 1: so we're going to hide a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

484
00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:15,000
Speaker 1: dumb idea. I don't know, John, is.

485
00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:19,880
Speaker 2: That your idea? It was so already we're learning there

486
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:22,320
Speaker 2: is huge there you go, Well that was so yeah.

487
00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:24,719
Speaker 2: So I made a movie where I'm like basically like

488
00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:27,400
Speaker 2: I created a character where I could like do that

489
00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:30,160
Speaker 2: thing just like a kind of and we did lots

490
00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:32,479
Speaker 2: of like blocking and camera movement where I where it's

491
00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:35,480
Speaker 2: like long shots where it's like we're like overtaking each

492
00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:39,280
Speaker 2: other and like and spinning around each other, you know,

493
00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:42,160
Speaker 2: like me and Kate. It's me Kate plays my best friend.

494
00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:44,800
Speaker 2: She's like the Molly character and show Girls like and

495
00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,040
Speaker 2: it's just us kind of like you know, it's like

496
00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:51,119
Speaker 2: it's like overly blocked. There's like too much movement, you know,

497
00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:57,760
Speaker 2: it's like whoa, I love, I love you know.

498
00:23:58,240 --> 00:23:59,719
Speaker 1: And that was like manic.

499
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,960
Speaker 2: Okay, it's so impeccably done show Girls and we kind

500
00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:06,400
Speaker 2: of pulled it off, you know. I would say one

501
00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:09,560
Speaker 2: four hundredth of the budget of show Girls. I'm really

502
00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:10,000
Speaker 2: proud of it.

503
00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:12,280
Speaker 1: Yes, it's good. It's this Wait a minute, can I

504
00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:12,560
Speaker 1: see this?

505
00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:14,240
Speaker 2: Is this what I can send you a link?

506
00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:15,160
Speaker 1: Is this was just a tip?

507
00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:16,080
Speaker 2: It was that tip?

508
00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:16,879
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and it's.

509
00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:18,679
Speaker 2: Magnolia is distributing it.

510
00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:19,000
Speaker 1: Okay.

511
00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:19,520
Speaker 2: I don't know when.

512
00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:21,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, send me a link. I'd love to see it.

513
00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:22,920
Speaker 1: I know our crew would, if you're if that's.

514
00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:25,080
Speaker 2: Okay, Oh, I'm sending you a link. I almost sent

515
00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:26,879
Speaker 2: it to you before this, and I was like, calm

516
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:32,040
Speaker 2: down because I was like, I think you'll appreciate its connection. Yeah. Wait, okay,

517
00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:33,520
Speaker 2: So you came up with the hair.

518
00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:35,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I came up with the hair, and then

519
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:37,840
Speaker 1: we go in in the morning and we were shooting

520
00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:41,080
Speaker 1: south like Tahoe there at a at a proper show house,

521
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:43,720
Speaker 1: you know. And I remember we had to get out

522
00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:46,639
Speaker 1: it by a certain date because Carrot Top was coming

523
00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:51,399
Speaker 1: into perform. No, yes, I'm sorry to do that. I

524
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,639
Speaker 1: know it was. It was crazy anyway, So we go

525
00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:54,919
Speaker 1: in the morning. I go in the morning and I

526
00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:56,720
Speaker 1: see him and my make up. You know, he'd give

527
00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:58,880
Speaker 1: me it. He's he was like, he just said, we're

528
00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:02,520
Speaker 1: going to give you a ten. I was like, okay, okay, yeah,

529
00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:04,840
Speaker 1: I'm in Vegas, I can have it. And then little

530
00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:08,200
Speaker 1: eye Shadow was like sure. He said yeah, yeah, because.

531
00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:12,240
Speaker 2: You know shout and yes it's yeah.

532
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:14,399
Speaker 1: I was like okay. And then and just if you

533
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:16,440
Speaker 1: look at it, kind of like he looks made up.

534
00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:19,280
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, no, you have like a like an eminem

535
00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:20,560
Speaker 2: like a candy shell.

536
00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:23,399
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah yeah. And I'm like okay, and he was

537
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:25,200
Speaker 1: just so happy with him. So then I felt bad.

538
00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 2: I said, well, okay, but it's but it's this is

539
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,359
Speaker 2: the thing I love about Paul Verhoven is this like

540
00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:35,680
Speaker 2: he it's like this pornographic American And at that time,

541
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:40,399
Speaker 2: the ninth like the weird nineties, like ken thing, you know,

542
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:42,960
Speaker 2: there was like a weird now he was on with

543
00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:45,600
Speaker 2: he was on, He really was tapped into some sort

544
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:48,880
Speaker 2: of perverse thing. And I feel like the makeup. Your

545
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:50,600
Speaker 2: makeup is like a perfect.

546
00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:53,199
Speaker 1: Example of that. The thing is my I was, you know,

547
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 1: I would pop in and do a scene and pop

548
00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:58,160
Speaker 1: back out again, and it was I like to ski.

549
00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:00,720
Speaker 1: And it happened to be a really great snow year.

550
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:02,840
Speaker 1: So I would sneak off and ski all the time

551
00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 1: when I wasn't working, which I wasn't supposed to do

552
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 1: because you sign a writer and you say you will

553
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:09,200
Speaker 1: not do any of these dangerous yeah, And I was like, whoop,

554
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:11,320
Speaker 1: But the snow is so good. I couldn't help it.

555
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:13,200
Speaker 1: So I just skied and and I would come back

556
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:14,760
Speaker 1: and I would, you know, I'd watch rehearsal. I said,

557
00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:17,080
Speaker 1: it looks great, you know, that looks like a real show,

558
00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:18,560
Speaker 1: you know, the whole thing, you know, and then we

559
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:20,800
Speaker 1: do this. I do my scenes with Elizabeth went fine,

560
00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:22,480
Speaker 1: you know, and I was like, it's gonna be good.

561
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:23,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then I.

562
00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 1: Saw it and then I was like that's not what

563
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:26,359
Speaker 1: I expect.

564
00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:30,119
Speaker 2: Yeah.

565
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:33,359
Speaker 1: Eternity is wonderful. Thank you, yes, thank you, And you

566
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:34,440
Speaker 1: are wonderful.

567
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,359
Speaker 2: In it, well, thank you, it's special.

568
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:38,840
Speaker 1: I was really Yeah, I was really because it's a

569
00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:41,000
Speaker 1: we kind of know what's going to come, but it

570
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:44,440
Speaker 1: keeps shifting. It pulls the rug out from underneath you.

571
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:46,480
Speaker 2: You knew who she was gonna end up with. I

572
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:49,440
Speaker 2: had a feeling, and she had to act a kind

573
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:54,320
Speaker 2: of like metaphysical psychological concept. It's like her working through

574
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:58,040
Speaker 2: something kind of like metaphysical yes, which is like a

575
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:00,560
Speaker 2: strange thing to have to act, and like every scene

576
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:03,560
Speaker 2: she had to be like wait, so I'm dead right.

577
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,679
Speaker 2: I really was very impressed with her ability to hold

578
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:10,479
Speaker 2: that in her head. I agree, And she and the

579
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:13,159
Speaker 2: movie are kind of trying to bring us back to

580
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:18,200
Speaker 2: a kind of like, you know, an intelligent, warm comedy,

581
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:22,679
Speaker 2: thoughtful like like in the you know Peggy Suk Got

582
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:23,360
Speaker 2: Married or you know.

583
00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:25,159
Speaker 1: These that's a little bit of a throwback.

584
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:27,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with you, and she I think she

585
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 2: just does it with such grace and yeah, I mean,

586
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:32,439
Speaker 2: you know, she reminds me like her like crying in

587
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:34,680
Speaker 2: the movie reminds me like Holly Hunter and broadcast news

588
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:38,280
Speaker 2: or something, you know, like the weeping, and it feels

589
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 2: both like totally real and also it's funny. Yes, it's

590
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 2: it's employd comedically, but it's like she's playing it totally real.

591
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:48,879
Speaker 1: And you know, your relationship with the divine is just

592
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,800
Speaker 1: I mean that's really did you have you worked together before?

593
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:54,440
Speaker 1: Did you just meet and you were like, hey, let's

594
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 1: here we go.

595
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:57,639
Speaker 2: No, I met her on set. She is so good

596
00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:00,160
Speaker 2: and I think we're good contrast because.

597
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 1: She is so easy.

598
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 2: She like can't fake a moment. You know, it's just

599
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:10,439
Speaker 2: like so effortless. It's just she's just in like a

600
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 2: kind of flow state. And then I'd like, ha, I'm.

601
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:17,679
Speaker 1: Like, people should watch this because the visuals, John, your

602
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:20,399
Speaker 1: visuals are fantastic. You know what it is. You know,

603
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:23,479
Speaker 1: it's it's letting me know, it's giving me further back,

604
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:29,200
Speaker 1: it's giving bugs, Bunny Roadrunner crazy. Thank you because it's

605
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 1: also my go to Yeah that's in terms of comedy,

606
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:35,040
Speaker 1: Looney Tunes is that's just nothing better. So it's giving

607
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:37,600
Speaker 1: looney tunes. You got to see this people, but yes,

608
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:43,040
Speaker 1: crazy but perfectly modulated. Yeah, you're yes, yes, because you

609
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:45,240
Speaker 1: you could see there's there's you know, there's there's manic

610
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 1: in there, but you control it really beautifully and you

611
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 1: care so much and you know the right way, the

612
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:54,240
Speaker 1: way for you, the way you like things to go. Yes,

613
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 1: you can't help, but sort of you know, nudge in

614
00:28:58,040 --> 00:28:58,600
Speaker 1: that direction.

615
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, they're their own personal whoever these afterlife

616
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:05,920
Speaker 2: coordinators are, whatever they went through to choose that path,

617
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 2: like they are, they can't help, but have their own bias,

618
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 2: you know, for their client or whatever. Like. But that

619
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 2: was the day before because it's like it's a very

620
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:19,719
Speaker 2: what's so pleasurable about it is like it is like

621
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 2: it has like a light touch and there's like something

622
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 2: there's kind of a fantasy quality to it. And I

623
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 2: was like, you know, and also what I was being

624
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,920
Speaker 2: asked to do was actually quite simple, Like I didn't

625
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:33,640
Speaker 2: have to do what Elizabeth Lizzy, I call it Lizzy

626
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 2: right yeah, in my phone away. But I didn't have

627
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 2: to do what she had to do. I just had

628
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 2: to like hold a clipboard and like make.

629
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 1: Faces more than that because the tone and the tone

630
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 1: that you bring into it is really really specific and and.

631
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you. But I was like I was beforehand,

632
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 2: like the day I was like mourning up, mourning up.

633
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:55,040
Speaker 2: I was like in my hotel, like I was like

634
00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:55,320
Speaker 2: I have.

635
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 1: To think of the backstory who is this guy?

636
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 2: Because I was just like I knew what they wanted

637
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:03,120
Speaker 2: from me, and I was like, Okay, here we go.

638
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:06,120
Speaker 2: I'm you know, and then and then I was like,

639
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 2: oh no. I was like I felt that the movie

640
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,560
Speaker 2: was kind of asking me. Actually, They're like, you know,

641
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 2: it's asking some deep questions. You know, it's it's a

642
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:16,880
Speaker 2: it's a lighthearted, sweet movie, but it is actually asking

643
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:19,440
Speaker 2: some deep questions. And so I was like, I was like,

644
00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 2: well I should I should really think about who this

645
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 2: person is and why he chose instead of going into

646
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 2: an eternity, why he chose to stay and help people.

647
00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:33,240
Speaker 2: And I like, in alone in my hotel, improvised the

648
00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 2: most like Lars Vauntreer like sedistict, like it was just

649
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 2: flowing out of me. I was like, and then he died.

650
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,400
Speaker 2: Like it was like I'm not even gonna say it

651
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 2: because it's so upsetting what I came up with, like,

652
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,120
Speaker 2: and I was like, I was like weeping in my

653
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 2: hotel or like with just like it was like a

654
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 2: really perverse, embittered, like backstory. And I was like, I

655
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 2: was like, this is so strange. I just did this.

656
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 2: And then I kind of went on set with my

657
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 2: little backstory. Yeah, and then of course like the second thing,

658
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 2: and I was like, okay, good and no, just to

659
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 2: really let that be there. Yeah, here we go, here

660
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 2: we go, and they're like action. I was like, hello,

661
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:13,480
Speaker 2: my Mary.

662
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, but I love that you but

663
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 1: I love that you pride it. I mean it's like

664
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 1: a ballast almost to the ship. Right, it's like this

665
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 1: heavy thing. Don't even have to get into it. But

666
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 1: you realize we can't. We look at him and we

667
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 1: can see that that that's not coming out. Yeah, he's

668
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 1: not going to allow.

669
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 2: It exactly exactly. And that's the very kind of.

670
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:38,640
Speaker 1: And and well, yeah, won't come out it tight up.

671
00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 2: Yeah.

672
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 1: It is a Loony Tunes in the best possible way.

673
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was so funny. I was like scrolling through

674
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 2: my phone the other day and I realized that Miles

675
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:52,000
Speaker 2: hosted SNL. Yes, and I was like, is this a

676
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:55,640
Speaker 2: huge movie? I was like wait what? I was like,

677
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 2: what move? Am I in a huge movie?

678
00:31:58,280 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: I think it's possible.

679
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,960
Speaker 2: He's great too, He's so good they I mean they

680
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 2: are movie stars in a crazy way. Like I never

681
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 2: work with like men, right, I don't. I just literally don't.

682
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:14,280
Speaker 2: I'm just never across from like except for right now,

683
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:17,479
Speaker 2: like like gorgeous movie stars, you know. And I was like,

684
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:20,520
Speaker 2: but we were like when we were doing the scene

685
00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 2: where they're like fighting, we like have to go into

686
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 2: a hotel tel room because they've just realized that they're

687
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,120
Speaker 2: like kind of fighting for her, you know. And I

688
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 2: was like, it was the first day and I was

689
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 2: like across from both of them, and I felt like

690
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 2: a like a eighty year old woman in the supermarket,

691
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 2: like getting a little maga a little like red Book

692
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 2: magazine right with the two like a Southern living magazine

693
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 2: or the two of them on the cover. I was like,

694
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 2: I was like, Oh this is They're both so appealing

695
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,320
Speaker 2: and too much. And I was like, Oh my god,

696
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 2: I think this movie is major.

697
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 1: Up next, we're going to play a game. How about that.

698
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 1: We're back with a segment that I designed with my

699
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:07,320
Speaker 1: friends just for John called who even is that. It's

700
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 1: an ode to your incredible ability to create characters, an

701
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 1: ode I'll have you know. I'm going to prompt you

702
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 1: various accessories and articles of clothing for you to basic

703
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 1: character around for one short, a short, one minute improv

704
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:23,480
Speaker 1: scene Okay, so you'll see who I am as we

705
00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 1: go forward. Okay, without further ado, I am the Mayor

706
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 1: of Portland, and you're a local funeral director wearing this. Yes,

707
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 1: so John has got a beautiful black mink stoleul I

708
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:42,160
Speaker 1: guess and it's fake. Yes, don't come for him real?

709
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:46,040
Speaker 1: And this is is it a lorgnett? Don't know what

710
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:48,120
Speaker 1: this is right in front of your face, sort of

711
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 1: a netting in front of your hat. And I've got

712
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 1: a kind of a beanie breathless and shirt that says

713
00:33:55,920 --> 00:34:00,840
Speaker 1: keep Portland Weird, which is so appropriate. Listen, I I've

714
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 1: been noticing the cemeteries in Portland.

715
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 2: There haven't been.

716
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:06,720
Speaker 1: A lot of a lot of activity there, and I'm

717
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 1: just wondering how business is. If I can help you

718
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:09,520
Speaker 1: in any way.

719
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 2: Business is just fine.

720
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, So I get a sense that you you're

721
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 1: not really interested in talking about what's been happening in.

722
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 2: Business is fine, and that's the last time I'll say it.

723
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:28,239
Speaker 1: Okay, I understand I'm feeling a little bit like a

724
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:31,279
Speaker 1: fish out of water here, only because it's you know,

725
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:35,040
Speaker 1: it's come to my attention that there have actually been

726
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 1: and I don't know how to put this, But people

727
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 1: have gone missing from your establishment. People have died and

728
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 1: they've gone to your establishment and they are no longer there.

729
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:47,280
Speaker 1: When the funeral happens, the caskets are empty, and I don't.

730
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:48,240
Speaker 2: Know baskets.

731
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 1: Well as a funeral director. I feel like, are you

732
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:55,000
Speaker 1: aware of what might be happening in the back room?

733
00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 1: Are cadavers disappearing?

734
00:34:56,800 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 2: Is this I have to love, Yes, disappearing. I hesitate

735
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:07,320
Speaker 2: to even address these allegations and give them any credence.

736
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 1: So you're not willing to to have an invest one

737
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:14,400
Speaker 1: to have an investigation. We would we would like to

738
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:15,719
Speaker 1: come down and see exactly what's beending.

739
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:18,799
Speaker 2: There is absolutely no need to have an investigation. We

740
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:22,400
Speaker 2: can we can chat in the front room, fantastic, but

741
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:26,440
Speaker 2: we'll leave it there because purely for sanitation reasons.

742
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 1: Well that makes complete sense to me, because I am

743
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 1: all about keeping Portland clean. Yes and weird, Yes, I see,

744
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:41,040
Speaker 1: I see. I am a pie loving detective and I

745
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:46,439
Speaker 1: am interrogating my suspect who was wearing this. So I

746
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:51,799
Speaker 1: suspect that you've been spending some time in the islands. Yeah,

747
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:58,440
Speaker 1: I can tell by the smell the flowers and you've

748
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 1: been spending some time in the sun. I feel like

749
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 1: you are guilty of the crime of surfing under an alias.

750
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:10,240
Speaker 1: I feel like we are getting close. Let me examine

751
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:13,920
Speaker 1: you closer. Yes, from my eyeglass, I can see that

752
00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 1: the tan that you're wearing is actually a spray on tan.

753
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 1: Now I'm looking at your outfit and I realize because

754
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:24,080
Speaker 1: I'm hard of seeing. Is that a thing that's called

755
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:28,400
Speaker 1: being blind? That the shirt is actually not real and

756
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 1: the flowers on the shirt are fake? What is the

757
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:37,240
Speaker 1: perfume that you're wearing because it smells like, vaguely like coconut?

758
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:39,359
Speaker 2: Am I sunscreen? Oh?

759
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:43,759
Speaker 1: It's sunscreen? So you're actually so yeah? Yeah, so I

760
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 1: cannt yet. I see you've been working out. Your abs

761
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:47,359
Speaker 1: are very prevalent.

762
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:49,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is hugely me.

763
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 1: Well, we need to get back to some pie. All right.

764
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:58,439
Speaker 1: That's good coffee shop just down the street. Let's good.

765
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 1: I'm an entertainment director a casino and you're one of

766
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 1: my dancers. Yeah. So John's got a fantastic blonde, kind

767
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 1: of a barber eating maybe and then now a white

768
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:12,440
Speaker 1: dark yeah, dark roots. It's grown out a little bit,

769
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:16,880
Speaker 1: and I've got the chain with the money symbol on

770
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:19,560
Speaker 1: it and the dark glasses. But I'm missing one of

771
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 1: the one of the ear pieces.

772
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:22,560
Speaker 2: Have to hold them up with Oh no, and I

773
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 2: have a This is fake? What I remind Yes, yes, it's.

774
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 1: Not those for viewers watching, this is all fake. Yeah,

775
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:33,759
Speaker 1: me and John, we were both fake. I don't understand you.

776
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 1: You didn't dance this afternoon for the evening performance or

777
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 1: what was your thinking? Do? I? Oh, I can see

778
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 1: what's happening.

779
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:43,399
Speaker 2: What do you mean? Well?

780
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: I think I think you you've taken something and I

781
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 1: don't know exactly what's happened.

782
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 2: Now you can you can test my piss.

783
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:55,840
Speaker 1: I see, you can test my ship, all right, miss

784
00:37:56,440 --> 00:38:00,000
Speaker 1: miss Cecilia. I am sorry, but that language is very,

785
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:01,840
Speaker 1: very very upsettling.

786
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 2: Do you have a cup?

787
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 1: Do I have? Yes? I do, in fact, but right

788
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 1: now I'm drinking coffee out of it, and that's all

789
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 1: I want to drink out of it.

790
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 2: Oh, come on, what's the big deal of this has

791
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:17,719
Speaker 2: been happening time and time again, Miss Cecilia.

792
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 1: This is not allowed in the casino. You know that.

793
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 1: I know that, but the patrons know that.

794
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:25,879
Speaker 2: Okay, what do you want?

795
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:27,759
Speaker 1: I just want you to show up to work with

796
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:30,319
Speaker 1: a good attitude and a new para.

797
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:33,560
Speaker 2: Good attitude. You would have a very good attitude. I

798
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:34,280
Speaker 2: have good tits.

799
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 1: You have the best tits in the business. That's why

800
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:41,719
Speaker 1: we hired you. I'm just saying, how I'm sorry.

801
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 2: To remove these for safety reason.

802
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 1: That's right, there's an electrical shock coming from these. You

803
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 1: are divine, my dear.

804
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 2: Thank you.

805
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 1: I want only the very best for you.

806
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:53,799
Speaker 2: Thank you, me too, Yes, very good.

807
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:58,279
Speaker 1: So you please put on your TUTU do it for.

808
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:01,399
Speaker 2: Only if you'll watch.

809
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:05,719
Speaker 1: It would be my pleasure to do it for daddy.

810
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 2: This is too much.

811
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:10,280
Speaker 1: Wow.

812
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 2: Okay that we're gonna shake those three off real quick.

813
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 1: Take off those characters. Yeah, that was much fun. Thank

814
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 1: you for playing along.

815
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:18,040
Speaker 2: Thank you.

816
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:20,520
Speaker 1: What is what's happening? What's next? What have you got

817
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:20,920
Speaker 1: coming up?

818
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 2: Tell me? I'm working on a player rehearsing play with

819
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 2: uh while Sean wrote it. Okay, it's called what We

820
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:29,800
Speaker 2: Did Before Moth Days and Andre Gregory is directing it.

821
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, from my dinner with Andre. Yeah, the

822
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 1: two very famous people. Oh my god, this is amazing.

823
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 1: Is it in New York?

824
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 2: It's in New York and we're doing it in the

825
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:41,279
Speaker 2: winter and spring of twenty twenty six.

826
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 1: Okay, rehearsals now, yes.

827
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 2: And we've been rehearsing for like a year and a half.

828
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:47,800
Speaker 1: Okay.

829
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 2: It's like very slow.

830
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,799
Speaker 1: Cooked writing as you go or how does that?

831
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:54,759
Speaker 2: No, it's been very I mean he's making little adjustments

832
00:39:54,800 --> 00:40:00,360
Speaker 2: here and there, but like it's it arrived very secret Colet.

833
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:01,400
Speaker 2: It's shocking.

834
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:02,960
Speaker 1: I am so excited.

835
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:08,239
Speaker 2: No, no, they're not in it. So Wally's not in it.

836
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:12,920
Speaker 2: Andrea is just directing. But it's me Hope Tavis.

837
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 1: I just work with Hope. Yes, yes, we just worked

838
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:19,960
Speaker 1: on you deserve each other. You deserve each other in

839
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:22,239
Speaker 1: my head, Hope's absolutely delight.

840
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 2: I love Hope Davis and Maria Dizzia okay, and Maria

841
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:31,000
Speaker 2: is like a theater god. And Josh Hamilton. Yes, and

842
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:32,799
Speaker 2: it's just everyone is.

843
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 1: So good, super pro. I mean, this is this is

844
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 1: going to be very cool.

845
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:39,399
Speaker 2: It's it's the coolest thing I've ever done. Yeah, it's

846
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 2: it's it's just a dream. And the writing is like,

847
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:44,600
Speaker 2: talk about our town? Do we talk about our town?

848
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:46,920
Speaker 1: We did not? We did not I've ever done it?

849
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:48,320
Speaker 2: Okay, well I did it in high school.

850
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 1: That was young one.

851
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:53,919
Speaker 2: I've played mister Webb. I wasn't good once again. I

852
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:55,799
Speaker 2: was like, they were like, why don't you play the

853
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:59,719
Speaker 2: like the Father where I was like, okay, Also, where

854
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:01,600
Speaker 2: would you put me? Like if they were smart, they

855
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:03,960
Speaker 2: would have cast me as alcoholic Courus the.

856
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:07,759
Speaker 1: Choir director that that genius. Yeah you could have.

857
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, but but it's it's it's very like I do

858
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:13,960
Speaker 2: think that he has written like a great American play

859
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 2: Okay in the vein of our town. It's like very

860
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 2: very very special. Okay, and you'll have to come see it.

861
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 2: I'm sorry you go to New York all the time.

862
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:25,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, ok yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll come.

863
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:26,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then we'll go out after it.

864
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:29,280
Speaker 1: Fun and of course we'll go out after it. Please

865
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:32,880
Speaker 1: get us wine, talk about the shoe. Please be my pleasure.

866
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:34,480
Speaker 1: It's been so lovely to have you on.

867
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:35,320
Speaker 2: Thank you.

868
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:39,480
Speaker 1: You are quite an amazing person. Oh my go amusing actor, comedian.

869
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:40,560
Speaker 1: I mean need to do everything.

870
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:42,440
Speaker 2: I'm going to say this, and you're welcome to cut this.

871
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:45,799
Speaker 2: We should do a part two where you and I

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Speaker 2: watch Girls together together like no one's there when we

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Speaker 2: watch it, so you can have whatever.

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Speaker 1: I'd be like see I was gone this whole time,

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Speaker 1: I was skiing, right, I have no idea what was

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Speaker 1: happening in the scene.

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Speaker 2: But then and then I come on the pod and

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Speaker 2: we just us how you feel about.

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Speaker 1: It now, okay?

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Speaker 2: And you maybe have more stories than whatever.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I definitely, And I'll.

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Speaker 2: Be more prepared with my questions because I realized I

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Speaker 2: kind of blew maybe the biggest opportunity of my life here.

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Speaker 1: Not at all, okay, not at all. Your friends now

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Speaker 1: we are friends, Now we are house. Yeah, it's been great.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, thank you, and honor.

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Speaker 1: Oh, bless your heart, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Oh.

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Speaker 3: What Are We Even Doing is a production of iHeartMedia

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Speaker 3: and the Elvis Duran podcast Network, hosted by me Kyle

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Speaker 3: McLachlin and created and produced by Full Picture productionists Yay,

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Speaker 3: featuring music by Yata and artwork by Danica Robinson. For

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Speaker 3: more information about the podcast, please visit our Instagram and

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Speaker 3: TikTok at wawed with Kyle. Please rate, review, and subscribe

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Speaker 3: or anywhere you get your podcasts.

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