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Speaker 1: Am I the a hole for publicly humiliating myself in

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Speaker 2: Lord Michaels, Yes, do better.

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Speaker 1: This comes from Jesse Klein. She says one of my

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Speaker 1: happiest memories as a kid around nine years old was

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Speaker 3: It's funny you have to convince your parents to like,

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Speaker 3: it's not like a dog.

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Speaker 4: No, you're let you get ready t it Scott roaches

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Speaker 2: Maybe that's why.

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Speaker 1: Then, Yeah, that's pretty weird, though mainly so that I

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Speaker 1: can stay up and watch Saturday Night Live. That's kind

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Speaker 1: of cute. Yeah, So there I was. There was just

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Speaker 1: was watching a black and white TV that I found

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Speaker 4: Just need to reframe that mind exactly black and white.

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Speaker 4: It's we have to do that because it was really

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Speaker 3: Go and I'm just excluded, it's okay, okay, and.

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Speaker 2: The same.

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Speaker 1: So one of the highlights from when I was ten

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Speaker 1: from when I was ten years old because I was ten.

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Speaker 1: But one of the highlights was that my best friend's

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Speaker 1: remember that before the show started, I had to go

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Speaker 1: and I took fifteen paper towels.

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Speaker 2: And I put them in my pocket.

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Speaker 3: Was she sweaty, No, that's just what you do. That's

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Speaker 5: That's what you do.

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Speaker 2: I've never own Bill Murray by making him sneeze. One

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Speaker 4: I don't think I've never I don't think I've ever

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Speaker 2: Well, you don't know how to live. Maybe you're environmentally conscious.

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Speaker 1: I am to bring them home and put them in

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Speaker 5: These are the things that you keep for the rest

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Speaker 4: This is what matters fifteen paper towels.

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Speaker 2: But anyway, on that visit, the host was Tom.

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Speaker 1: Hanks, I know that is and the musical guest was Aerosmith.

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Speaker 5: Oh my god.

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Speaker 1: So it was awesome, crazy, and just when the night

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Speaker 5: These kids on the.

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Speaker 2: Do we know how old ten ten? Dude?

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Speaker 3: If you're going to S and L and then going

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Speaker 1: York Highlight the greatest, greatest downhill from there actually you've

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Speaker 1: just peaked dead ten? How does that feel? I remember

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Speaker 1: was like, I feel famous. It's just like Justine Bateman

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Speaker 2: I don't know who that is. I don't know either.

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Speaker 2: You know who Justin Bateman is?

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Speaker 5: I know who that other Bateman?

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Speaker 4: There's a chance it could be Jason Bateman. If Justine

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Speaker 4: Bateman doesn't exist. Oh, just Teine Bateman does exist.

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Speaker 3: There you go, and she is known Forley Dies.

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Speaker 5: That's a show, right, No it is?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so the most famous woman in the world at

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Speaker 1: the time to be okay, to cut to two thousand nine.

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Speaker 1: I am grown up and I have achieved, largely because

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 1: I've been working in LA for three years and I'm

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Speaker 2: Anymore.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, I'm back in New York and I need

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Speaker 5: Oh my god, how many paper towels she can take?

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Speaker 1: She can take all the paper down A whoa. And

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Speaker 5: On the paper towels.

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Speaker 1: And it's really hard to write anything comedy at Starbucks

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Speaker 5: Excuse me, excuse me. I have a little thing for you.

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Speaker 4: Starbucks came on when I was in New York. It's

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Speaker 4: really yeah, you just started playing. I was like, but

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Speaker 4: everyone else was just like and I was like, that's

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Speaker 1: If you're wondering, did you really seemit a sketch that

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Speaker 1: And I was like, all right, well, I'm not going

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Speaker 5: He wants to talk about the jockstrap for dogs.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he wants to invest, and I invest. Let me

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Speaker 1: tidbit from the interview I had with him, which is,

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Speaker 2: Inscene.

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Speaker 3: Oh you need to get over at Yeah, come on,

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Speaker 5: Everyone else wants me to sit in John's chair.

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Speaker 4: Everyone wants everyone to sit where they're supposed to be

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Speaker 2: I have sat for the last three years. It's true,

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Speaker 5: I've changed seats every day.

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Speaker 2: Well that's that's true. That's that's what you do.

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Speaker 5: How dare you I'm riding.

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Speaker 1: And I was not prepared for what working at SNL entailed.

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Speaker 1: So I'll give you a brief picture of how the

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Speaker 1: table read, which is this epic marathon affair in which

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Speaker 1: Lauren and the whole cast and all the writers and

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Speaker 1: And afterward Lauren goes off with the supervising director and

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Speaker 1: My first table read at Saturday Night Live bombs so bad.

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Speaker 2: It's so stressful.

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Speaker 1: Like, first of all, I'm never seeing my friends anymore

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Speaker 1: On rare occasions when I see them, they say things

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, for real restaurant you want me crying? My

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Speaker 1: a Geen Brahm, And basically he has given a weekly

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Speaker 5: Riley, look this up, this up Gen Braun.

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Speaker 1: people started to laugh, and like they're really laughing, like

444
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Speaker 1: rolling hard laughter, and Lauren is laughing. And if you

445
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Speaker 1: want to picture what it's like to make Lauren laugh,

446
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Speaker 1: picture yourself having spicy sleep with Lauren and he's laughing.

447
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Speaker 2: Nice got it, And.

448
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Speaker 1: Then when it airs, it kind of hit and becomes

449
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Speaker 1: a trending topic on Twitter. People want a Brownie husband,

450
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Speaker 1: We should totally watch it. And it was the first

451
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Speaker 1: moment in my whole SNL experience where I was like,

452
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Speaker 1: this is what I thought it would be like when

453
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Speaker 1: I was a kid. So the season ends. The other

454
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Speaker 1: SNL tradition is that they don't tell you until the

455
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Speaker 1: end of the summer if you're hired back for the fall. Oh,

456
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Speaker 1: so you have months to stew But I found out.

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Speaker 1: But I found myself worrying less about whether or not

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Speaker 1: they would want me back, and I was worrying more

459
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Speaker 1: about what if they do want me back, because I

460
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Speaker 1: was worried about going to a place that it made

461
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Speaker 1: me feel so crazy. But on the other hand, nothing

462
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Speaker 1: felt crazier than the idea of leaving this job that

463
00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:50,879
Speaker 1: every comedy person wants and that I wanted since I

464
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Speaker 1: was ten.

465
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Speaker 2: And I started to.

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Speaker 1: Think about what I would miss, and I thought, oh,

467
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Speaker 1: I'll miss that approval, almost the approval of the audience

468
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Speaker 1: laughing and Lauren laughing. But then I remembered that, ironically,

469
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Speaker 1: the sketch that got me. The most approval was the

470
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Speaker 1: one I wrote at a crummy Starbucks by myself before

471
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Speaker 1: I even thought I was worthy of getting the job.

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Speaker 2: And when I did get the job, I didn't.

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Speaker 1: Have the glamorous experience that I imagine I would have when

474
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Speaker 1: I was ten and I was watching that show on

475
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Speaker 1: a black and white TV.

476
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Speaker 2: But I actually had a.

477
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Speaker 1: Much more important experience because what I learned was to

478
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Speaker 1: be brave. SNL taught me that you can't be afraid

479
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Speaker 1: to just put something out into the world that's yours

480
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Speaker 1: and to do something that you believe in, and that's

481
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Speaker 1: totally different. So when SNL finally called my agent, they

482
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Speaker 1: said they wanted to be back, and I said, respectfully, no, whoa,

483
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Speaker 1: And then I took my laptop back to Starbucks and

484
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Speaker 1: that's when I started to write something new.

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Speaker 2: Oh I love that.

486
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Speaker 5: Well, you made me laugh.

487
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you made me laugh. And op got the dream

488
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Speaker 1: job and realized maybe it wasn't the dream.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Like, dude, when you when you get the thing and

491
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Speaker 3: you're like, actually, this isn't the thing, and then.

492
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Speaker 2: Being willing to and sometimes you can only know when

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Speaker 2: you get it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like that's almost always it's almost all

495
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Speaker 3: the case. Yeah, you don't, You really don't. You don't

496
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Speaker 3: really know what it's like until you're there.

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Speaker 2: You try it. I don't know if we can put

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Speaker 2: brownie husband in the actual watch it. We can get

499
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Speaker 2: watching reactions. We can watch it.

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Speaker 3: Yes, you can watch us react to it silently.

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Speaker 2: I can't hear it.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, it's pretty good. Yeah, I dude, I

503
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Speaker 3: want to brownie that large like.

504
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Speaker 5: Calories.

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Speaker 2: They have to make that, because if they did, that's insane.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Probably, but you know what I want almost as much

508
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Speaker 1: as a brownie husband.

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Speaker 2: My Okay, what's your okay? Story time?

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Speaker 5: Okay, So this is.

511
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Speaker 4: About me doing something over and over and not getting

512
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Speaker 4: it right. So when I was in my senior year

513
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Speaker 4: of high school, I was in the musical was the

514
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Speaker 4: last musical I was doing, and I was one of

515
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Speaker 4: the leads, not the lead, but I was one of

516
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Speaker 4: the leads, the comedic lead, if you will curtains. Yeah,

517
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Speaker 4: and so in the process of rehearsals and stuff, there

518
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Speaker 4: was this one line that I it was like supposed

519
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Speaker 4: to be a joke and I was supposed.

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Speaker 5: To laugh a certain way.

521
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Speaker 4: It's supposed to be like a loud like ha but

522
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Speaker 4: that kind of laugh, and so I did it in

523
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Speaker 4: rehearsal and my director was like, no, no, like that's

524
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Speaker 4: not right. You're not doing it right, Sofia, and so

525
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Speaker 4: I was like oh okay, and so I tried to

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Speaker 4: do it again.

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Speaker 5: She's like no, no, that's not right.

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Speaker 2: And so I can't tell you, like no, it's not

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Speaker 2: like is that her? Yeah, she kind of.

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Speaker 4: Does it and I'm like okay, and she goes, no,

531
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Speaker 4: that's not it, and so I do it a couple more times.

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Speaker 4: She's like, let's just move on. I'm like okay, And

533
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Speaker 4: so I go home and.

534
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Speaker 5: I'm like practicing this laugh.

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Speaker 4: I'm like ha ha ha, and I get so in

536
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Speaker 4: my head that I'm like do I even know how

537
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Speaker 4: to laugh?

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Speaker 2: I don't think so.

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Speaker 5: And so then I go into.

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Speaker 4: Rehearsal next day and I'm like I practice. She's like great, great, Sophia,

541
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Speaker 4: and I do it and she's like.

542
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Speaker 2: It feels too practice now, you know.

543
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Speaker 4: She's like it's still not right, and I'm like wow.

544
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Speaker 4: And so I'm literally like every day after rehearsal, I'm

545
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Speaker 4: practicing this laugh.

546
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Speaker 5: I'm like going crazy.

547
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Speaker 4: There's one at one point when I go home and

548
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Speaker 4: I talk to our dad and I'm crying and I'm like.

549
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Speaker 5: I can't get this laugh.

550
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Speaker 4: And so he's laughing at me. He's like, ah, I'm like,

551
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Speaker 4: I'm like hyperventilam me. And I go back in and

552
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Speaker 4: she's like, it's not right. Literally, it goes on and on,

553
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Speaker 4: and then my we had a dual cast, and my

554
00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:50,920
Speaker 4: dual cast she's doing it perfectly, she's laughing.

555
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Speaker 2: I'm like right, and I'm like, ah, I will kidd you.

556
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Speaker 5: And finally of like I'm trying.

557
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Speaker 4: So I go to my director. I'm like, I'm trying

558
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Speaker 4: so hard, and it's not like. She goes, We're just

559
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Speaker 4: gonna take it out, and so we take out this

560
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Speaker 4: one laugh. And it demoralizes me so much that I

561
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Speaker 4: literally for years, like we would be in things and

562
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Speaker 4: I would tell people like in I can't laugh, I

563
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Speaker 4: can't laugh. I can't laugh, and they'd be like, what

564
00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:20,960
Speaker 4: do you mean. I'm like, I can't do it, and

565
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Speaker 4: so laugh for us.

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Speaker 2: I can't. You just did it like a hundred times.

567
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Speaker 5: I know, I know, but I.

568
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Speaker 4: Could do it on the spot, but yeah, and so

569
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Speaker 4: literally it would just it was so demoralizing, and now

570
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Speaker 4: I think I can laugh.

571
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Speaker 1: But if in the comments, if you want to make

572
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Speaker 1: Sophia feel better, maybe comment that you like her laugh?

573
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Speaker 5: Do you like my laugh?

574
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Speaker 4: No, it was it was a very specific type of

575
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Speaker 4: laugh that I had to do.

576
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it was like that.

577
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Speaker 4: But it was so funny because in the actual performance,

578
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Speaker 4: because I wasn't doing it, I don't know, there was

579
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Speaker 4: just like a weird silence.

580
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Speaker 5: Literally, it was like, and.

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Speaker 3: What if you had the other person since you just

582
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Speaker 3: like lip synct and the person in the background, is it.

583
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,520
Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought everyone else should have laughed around me.

584
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:07,479
Speaker 5: But I don't know.

585
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Speaker 2: I know what I love more than Sophia's fake laughs.

586
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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: This next story also, if you haven't already subscribed, did

588
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Speaker 2: it subscribe? What are you doing? Ribe?

589
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Speaker 3: Am I the a hill for running away from my

590
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Speaker 3: mom because she was too overbearing?

591
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Speaker 2: I think run far, run wide.

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Speaker 5: Run, fast, run, ear.

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Speaker 2: Run, forest run.

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Speaker 3: This comes from Caroline Connolly, who says I have always

595
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Speaker 3: been a little afraid of my mother. She was born

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Speaker 3: in Cuba when Fidel Castro was in power, and immigrated

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Speaker 3: to United States at the age of five. At the

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Speaker 3: age of fifteen, she was accepted into college. Let's go fifteen,

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Speaker 3: We're smart that's crazy smarty pants McGhee, And at the

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Speaker 3: age of twenty one, she graduated law school.

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Speaker 2: Who is who are you?

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Speaker 1: Why?

603
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:11,520
Speaker 2: Tell us fail yourself because you kid has questions?

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Speaker 5: Thank you.

605
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Speaker 3: By the time she was my age now, she had

606
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Speaker 3: three kids and worked full time as a lawyer. In contrast,

607
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Speaker 3: I have a medium sized dog.

608
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Speaker 4: Hey, you're crushing it with Your dog's probably super fit.

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Speaker 2: That dog is pampered or fat because of how pampered

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Speaker 2: it is.

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Speaker 3: I love how hell somebody is like the dog's fit.

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Speaker 5: That dog is pretty super muscular.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, giving me a dog show. Oh that's what I

614
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Speaker 2: was looking for now.

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Speaker 3: My mom was not the kind of mom who volunteered

616
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Speaker 3: at our school bake sales. Doesn't have time, doesn't have time.

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Speaker 5: Big fans you.

618
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Speaker 2: Were, but she didn't have the time for this.

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Speaker 3: She was the mom who forced my school to create

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Speaker 3: an entirely new Spanish curriculum just for me because she

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Speaker 3: didn't think anyone in our small Massachusetts town could properly.

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Speaker 2: Roll They're ares?

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Speaker 3: Wait did she teach that? Did she teach it to

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Speaker 3: so she? Maybe maybe she created she It sounds like

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Speaker 3: she created the.

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Speaker 2: ULM passed it down. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but like do you create a curriculum for people

628
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Speaker 1: rolling ours? Because I don't think if you handed that

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Speaker 1: curriculum to someone who couldn't roll their rs, they would

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Speaker 1: be able to roll their rs.

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Speaker 4: You're making some good I don't know. I feel like

632
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Speaker 4: she knew what she was doing. She seems pretty smart.

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Speaker 2: She's a lawyer.

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Speaker 3: Did you graduate college teams help my sister help my

635
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Speaker 3: daughter roll her ours?

636
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Speaker 2: Or yours? Sued?

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Speaker 3: And when my oldest sister wrote a particularly dark personal

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Speaker 3: essay that prompted a teacher to call a meeting with

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Speaker 3: the dean of students, my mother blamed the teacher for

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Speaker 3: making the class read ethan from.

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Speaker 2: Who that is?

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Speaker 5: Who is that?

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Speaker 2: Who's ethan from? We're from?

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Speaker 1: Riley reads I'm going from because that's an e Ethan Frome.

645
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Speaker 2: Could be French broom, broom, room on my broom.

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Speaker 5: The most famous, what's the famous book?

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Speaker 2: What's this? What's his greatest hit? Oh, novel? Horror fiction,

648
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 2: fantasy fiction?

649
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 5: What's his greatest hit? Riley?

650
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:29,640
Speaker 2: What's his greatest hit? Riley? Riley? What's his greatest hit? Riley?

651
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 2: What's his greatest hit? Greatest greatest.

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Speaker 3: He's got like those like uh, decades of Ethan from

653
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Speaker 3: if you're piled into the greatest hits like Killing My Step,

654
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Speaker 3: the horror film That's the Nation Wonder.

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Speaker 2: I think it was a book. It is a book.

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Speaker 5: Wow, I know Edith Wharton.

657
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Speaker 4: Actually, yeah, what's the greatest hit of you? I know?

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Speaker 2: Yey now.

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Speaker 4: Edith Wharton E d I T H or H.

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Speaker 2: Age of Innocence.

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Speaker 5: I have read that. Yeah, yeah, I read that high school. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: It's basically about this girl who gets pregnant and from

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Speaker 4: a spoiler alert spoiler alert if you haven't read Age

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Speaker 4: of Innocence yet, stop watching.

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Speaker 2: Don't not watch it right now.

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Speaker 4: One minute she basically she is pregnant from this priest,

667
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Speaker 4: but no one knows about this, and so they all

668
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 4: the whole town would almost like a social pariah, and everyone's.

669
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 2: It's it's basically like Scarlet Letter.

670
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 4: Oh you know what, I am thinking of the Scarlet

671
00:30:58,640 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 4: but I have read the Age of It is.

672
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 2: I just can't, like, you don't know what the agent.

673
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 2: I just have no idea what it's about.

674
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 3: But you know what I want to know about and love.

675
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 2: There we go focuses on New York stubborn society.

676
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 4: Okay, I do recall that is the age of and

677
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 4: I still have read it. I have also read the

678
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:36,240
Speaker 4: Scarlet Letter. Sure, uh spoilers Uh anyway, ethan Frome.

679
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:42,840
Speaker 3: My mother blamed the teacher for making the class ethan Frome,

680
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 3: which she said would depress anyone. And at home, her

681
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:50,560
Speaker 3: parenting tactics were unique to her Cuban upbringing, so sleepovers

682
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:54,240
Speaker 3: were considered dangerous activities and therefore were strictly prohibited.

683
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,719
Speaker 2: Dude, I swear our mom's Cuban.

684
00:31:58,760 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 5: She didn't prohibit sleepover.

685
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 2: She did for me. I'm good a sleepovers in high school.

686
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 5: No, it can't be true.

687
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 2: It is true.

688
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:07,800
Speaker 1: She wouldn't let me have sleepovers with any of my

689
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 1: high school friends.

690
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 5: You know why, sleepers the time?

691
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 1: I know, because your friends weren't cool. You know why,

692
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:16,400
Speaker 1: I'm kidding, kidding.

693
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 3: About the time you tell them about the time you

694
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 3: like took that one guy's door frame down.

695
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 2: That was later when he was in college.

696
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:25,200
Speaker 3: That was in college.

697
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:28,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, that in college. Yeah? Nope, dude, No, you can't

698
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 2: blame her.

699
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 5: Then, there's no way that our parents did not allow you.

700
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 1: It's because my my friends were like more rambunctious than

701
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 1: your friends, or at least there was perceived rambunctiousness. The

702
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 1: perception of the perception of rambunction need our house.

703
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 5: They were, Oh, so you were allowed of sleepovers.

704
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 1: Well, I have a sleepover with you every day.

705
00:32:57,480 --> 00:32:59,320
Speaker 2: That's basically like you're just sleeping at the.

706
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 3: Well.

707
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 2: Write a whole new story at the time of the

708
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 2: man anyways, Okay.

709
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 3: In her mind it was like, why would I give

710
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 3: my child away to another family?

711
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 2: That was the perception of the sleepovers.

712
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 3: I guess if Jessica's parents want to neglect her, that's fine, dang,

713
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 3: she can sleep at hour morally superior home for the night.

714
00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:26,840
Speaker 3: We will teach her Spanish. Yeah, mom's out here teaching, yes,

715
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:31,320
Speaker 3: rubbing vegemite on toast, serving it up Bobby.

716
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:33,880
Speaker 2: Bobby put that trip on it.

717
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:38,480
Speaker 3: And she would often punish us in Spanish with phrases

718
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:45,360
Speaker 3: like kianes unmi quit quods unmikaso, which means.

719
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 2: Do you want me to slap you? Oh? Fair, yeah,

720
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:53,560
Speaker 2: that's right at least his consent.

721
00:33:53,960 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 1: I guess saying go again, what Katris k.

722
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 2: Get us?

723
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 5: And that is not spelled correctly. I had to do

724
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:13,239
Speaker 5: it phonetically.

725
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:17,360
Speaker 1: Because I put that away later.

726
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 2: Chill, chill.

727
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:28,400
Speaker 3: Or kids, Uh Kidston, which which also means do you

728
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:28,799
Speaker 3: want to miss?

729
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:32,680
Speaker 2: Do you have a variety? We have choices, we have options.

730
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:34,759
Speaker 3: And by the time I was in high school, I

731
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:37,680
Speaker 3: could not stand my mother and all of her rules.

732
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,760
Speaker 3: I thought she was pushy and overbearing, and she thought

733
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:43,840
Speaker 3: I was difficult and disobedient and we were both frankly

734
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 3: thrilled when I finally.

735
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:46,600
Speaker 2: Left for college.

736
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 5: That's not true.

737
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 2: I think mom was initially thrilled.

738
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:53,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then you were more dangerous.

739
00:34:55,880 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 3: How is this to become like a sneak diss on's mom.

740
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 2: No, I'm not missing really, I'm just saying what was

741
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:07,439
Speaker 2: I love my mom is great?

742
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:11,319
Speaker 3: Some could say facts painting someone in a negative light

743
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:13,719
Speaker 3: is going to be considered as it's not a negative light,

744
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:18,799
Speaker 3: it's simply a light. It's like, it's like, anyways, let's

745
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 3: get back to Opie's mom. And then I spent the

746
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 3: next decade working all around the country, and I kind

747
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 3: of loved the freedom from family that came with that.

748
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:29,000
Speaker 3: But just before I turned thirty, I moved back to

749
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 3: the area for a job, and the timing proved serendipitous

750
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:35,319
Speaker 3: when I got a call from my doctor that there

751
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:35,960
Speaker 3: was a concern.

752
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:36,919
Speaker 2: Oh no.

753
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 3: A recent biopsy of my skin found melanoma. And while

754
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 3: it was caught early enough and removed, my lymph nodes

755
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 3: were enlarged and my doctor was worried the cancer may spread.

756
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:53,240
Speaker 2: Oh that is tragic. I mean, that's that that shakes

757
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 2: you a million.

758
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 3: I was admittedly shaken up, and I thought of all

759
00:35:57,719 --> 00:36:00,399
Speaker 3: the times my mother ordered me to put on Sun's

760
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:03,360
Speaker 3: how she warned me that while Cubans have incredible skin,

761
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:11,239
Speaker 3: I am also half Irish. And so when I called

762
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:15,240
Speaker 3: my parents to tell them, I braced myself for a lecture. Dude,

763
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 3: if you're bracing yourself for a lecture when you.

764
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:21,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have cancer. Yeah, dude, you should have been

765
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:23,800
Speaker 2: wearing sunscreen. We'll see, we'll see.

766
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:28,960
Speaker 3: And my mom let out this big sigh that I

767
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:32,279
Speaker 3: heard so many times in high school. But all she

768
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:36,279
Speaker 3: said was, I will call you right back. Okay, he's

769
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 3: a lawyer, that's true. I'm suinging your cancer now. My

770
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:45,880
Speaker 3: mom had always cultivated close friendships with a group of

771
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 3: women who were all from somewhere else Spain, Columbia, Pakistan.

772
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:52,839
Speaker 3: I think in our largely white community, that is where

773
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 3: she really felt most at home and within minutes the

774
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:58,920
Speaker 3: friend from Pakistan, a doctor had booked me an ultrasound

775
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 3: and scheduled in a point meant for me to review

776
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:05,160
Speaker 3: the results with her later that day. Wow, so she's awesome.

777
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 3: I mean, that's pretty that's pretty incredible. Like this is

778
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 3: when you need mama bear.

779
00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:12,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is when you need your like fifteen year

780
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:16,920
Speaker 4: old's college.

781
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:19,920
Speaker 2: Graduate lawyer, lawyer doctor on the case.

782
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 3: And when I arrived at the hospital, I turned into

783
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:25,440
Speaker 3: the waiting room and the first person I saw was

784
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 3: my mother already there waiting for me. And also have

785
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 3: they not spoken since allge.

786
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:35,960
Speaker 1: She's spoken, but they haven't like been as close since then.

787
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:37,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, that's my understanding.

788
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:40,719
Speaker 3: As soon as the nurse called out my name, I

789
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:43,080
Speaker 3: remember she jumped up and charged for it, as if

790
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:45,560
Speaker 3: there was no question she would be accompanying her adult

791
00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 3: daughter into the room.

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00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:52,239
Speaker 2: Oh that's cute. And the news, the news was good.

793
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 5: Let's god.

794
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 2: There was no sign of a problem.

795
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 3: The lift nodes were in large, but my doctor said

796
00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:00,879
Speaker 3: that could be due to something as simple as shaving.

797
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:03,920
Speaker 2: In the bikini area, which I had recently. Where I

798
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:06,320
Speaker 2: thought your lymph nodes were here, I thought they were here.

799
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:12,239
Speaker 1: Is that No, I think it's just probably multiple lymph No, Riley,

800
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 1: where are your lymph nodes?

801
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:13,880
Speaker 3: Really?

802
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 2: Your lymph everywhere?

803
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:17,319
Speaker 1: Oh?

804
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 3: God, bacage following in love.

805
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:26,640
Speaker 2: Oh we got hella?

806
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:32,800
Speaker 3: So many lymph fo five, six, seven, eight areas?

807
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 2: Show me, show me? Okay, so we got you would

808
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 2: click on that one, Riley, I'm just the mostorian lymph

809
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:42,400
Speaker 2: lymph No, I think lymph node is one word? What

810
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:45,759
Speaker 2: do you want to order that one? Yeah?

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Speaker 5: There we go on one.

812
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 2: I thought these were your lymph nodes right here?

813
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 5: They are. Look, she got lypt nodes over here. But

814
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:55,800
Speaker 5: maybe it's like an olymphic system.

815
00:38:56,080 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, is that like their lymph nodes here? It's like

816
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 2: all over So if you took out a lympho, what

817
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:06,920
Speaker 2: would happen? Damn the lymptoes everywhere? Okay, so that is

818
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:10,520
Speaker 2: a lymph No, let's freaking go the armpit, right? Yeah?

819
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Speaker 3: I think we were all right? Yeah, all right, anyway, hooray.

820
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:19,640
Speaker 3: I felt this huge sense of relief wash over me.

821
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 3: I was okay, and my mom was there, which was

822
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:26,840
Speaker 3: actually really comforting because I am still a little afraid

823
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:30,239
Speaker 3: of her. She's also still my mom. And just as

824
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 3: I was about to respond to my doctor. My mom

825
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 3: looked at me in the eyes and said, I can't believe.

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Speaker 2: And that's love's.

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00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, what a sweet ending. I'm glad that she doesn't.

828
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:54,080
Speaker 2: That end great. Yeah. Yeah. Is Opie's mom the a

829
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Speaker 2: hole though?

830
00:39:56,760 --> 00:40:02,759
Speaker 3: No, like all in, yes, but she had some you know,

831
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 3: little Rumpson bumps, thumbs in the road bumps bumps. That's right,

832
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:12,960
Speaker 3: but don't we all but don't because we're human. That's true,

833
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 3: but uh, I think it's a rap. So if you

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