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Speaker 1: Look the podcast playground. Well, I'm buzznight. I'm the host

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Speaker 1: of the Taking a Walk podcast series and today a

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Speaker 1: real bonus. I'm so excited. Our special guest is Taran

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Speaker 1: kill Him, actor, comedian, writer known for his great work

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Speaker 1: on The Amanda Show, How I Met Your Mother, Mad TV,

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Speaker 1: New Girl, and this great run on this little show

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Speaker 1: called Saturday Night Live. And he's the new host of

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Speaker 1: the NFL Pylon Wednesday nights, seven pm Eastern Time on

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Speaker 1: Amazon Prime Video, the night before Amazon's Thursday night football game. Tarrn, Welcome,

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Speaker 1: good morning, Thank you for having me. My condolences on

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Speaker 1: the loss of your La Rams, Tarran. It really was

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Speaker 1: like it really was horrific, wasn't it. Like it's just

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Speaker 1: like fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice,

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Speaker 1: shame on me again, I get, but fool me fourteen times,

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Speaker 1: or however many times. The San Francisco forty nine ers

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Speaker 1: have beaten us heartily, like we're swimming in shame. That's

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Speaker 1: a vivid picture, by the way, So how drowning there?

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Speaker 1: How did you pull off this scheme of being a

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Speaker 1: fanboy and getting paid for it. It's nonsense, right, It's

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Speaker 1: truly nonsense like watching football and the screaming my head

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Speaker 1: off if you check my Instagram page, like that's what

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Speaker 1: I'd be doing anyway. I mean, I've never manifested a

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Speaker 1: job more specifically than NFL Pylon. Yeah, it's amazing. I

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Speaker 1: feel so grateful. I didn't even I wasn't involved in

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Speaker 1: sort of the the kind of creation of it that was,

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Speaker 1: that was these two guys. It was our executive it

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Speaker 1: at Prime Spoon, but then Chris Pease and Jason Weber

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Speaker 1: were the two sort of showrunner executive producers. But I

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Speaker 1: think what had happened is that they were very aware

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Speaker 1: of my mania when it comes to all things NFL

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Speaker 1: and football, that they thought it'd be a good fit

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Speaker 1: as a host for the NFL's first official comedy show.

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Speaker 1: And so far, so good. We've got three episodes out.

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Speaker 1: It's maybe the most fun job I've ever had. And yeah,

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Speaker 1: and we get to we have access to all of

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Speaker 1: NFL Film's archives, not just from this season, everything they've

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Speaker 1: ever filmed, which is insane. Did you ever play football

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Speaker 1: seriously in your life? I played flag football in middle school.

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Speaker 1: I grew up loving the sport, and then my mom

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Speaker 1: before I could even conceive of like wanting to strap

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Speaker 1: on pathses like oh, hi, by the way, you will

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Speaker 1: never ever ever in your life play contact football. And

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Speaker 1: I was like, Mom, fine, I'll go into comedy. So

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Speaker 1: you know it's I find it amazing. I don't think

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Speaker 1: a lot of people know this. I mean, you're so

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Speaker 1: accomplished in your craft of acting and comedy. You played

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Speaker 1: King George the Third and the Broadway production of Hamilton.

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Speaker 1: My question is, how would King George the Third be

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Speaker 1: as an NFL coach? Ha ha he he would want

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Speaker 1: things done his way, you know what I mean. It's

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Speaker 1: I think if you, I think if you didn't sort of,

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Speaker 1: you know, fulfill your role, he would probably send in

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Speaker 1: the Tories. It wouldn't be it wouldn't be a disappointing

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Speaker 1: you know, pep talk in the locker room. There'd just

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Speaker 1: be a line of red coats, the firing squad and

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Speaker 1: like you'll three up, picked six, goodbye convert. How would

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Speaker 1: your old boss, Lauren Michaels be as an NFL coach? Oh?

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Speaker 1: I think, honestly, probably pretty great. You know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: He keeps, he keeps just striving for for positive feedback.

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Speaker 1: But he'll every now and then he'll drop a weird

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Speaker 1: metaphor that kind of makes sense, but he leaves it

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Speaker 1: up to you to really figure out. You know, you're

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Speaker 1: no Tom Brady. People love when you throw, but how

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Speaker 1: long can that last? You have to you have to

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Speaker 1: be able to love yourself without the ball before you

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Speaker 1: make it to that next level. What Okay, I think

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Speaker 1: that makes sense. Now, don't you think that some teams

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Speaker 1: in the NFL need a version of a coach like

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Speaker 1: Matt Foley? Yeah? Probably, Yeah, I motivation speaker, but you're

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Speaker 1: always you're always trying to do the right thing. You know,

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Speaker 1: he's screaming in your face, and you know he's hyping

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Speaker 1: you up. But basically, you just want to play good

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Speaker 1: because his life's not doing that great. Now, when you

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Speaker 1: watch Bill Belichick at press conferences, do you ever want

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Speaker 1: to just drag words out of his mouth? Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: isn't it the best? He the best? How do we

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Speaker 1: play the game today? Not great? One hundred percent, he's

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Speaker 1: but you know, he's one of the best ever, right,

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Speaker 1: so he kind of can't argue with his methods. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, going back to Lauren, that's something that he

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Speaker 1: says early on He's like, a boring interview is a

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Speaker 1: successful interview. And I think again trying to trying to

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Speaker 1: you're not saying the wrong thing or embarrassing yourself, it's

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Speaker 1: a success. And I think nobody's better at that Bill Belichick. Now,

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Speaker 1: within Saturday Night Live, you had the opportunity for those

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Speaker 1: dress rehearsals right before, you know, the live show kind

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Speaker 1: of as a way to see things that work don't work,

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Speaker 1: that sort of thing. How do you percolate ideas for

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Speaker 1: the new show. I mean, it's a great question because

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Speaker 1: there there is a lovely similarity in that, you know,

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Speaker 1: we are creating content Monday Tuesday, filming it Wednesday morning,

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Speaker 1: and it's up online that afternoon. So there is there

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Speaker 1: is overlap, certainly with SNL and with the NFL Pilon.

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Speaker 1: You know, the nice thing about the NFL Pilon is

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Speaker 1: that it is such a focused show, like we are

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Speaker 1: covering this week in the NFL. So you know, you

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Speaker 1: do your best, you sort of hype up the stories

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Speaker 1: that speak to you, but then you kind of give

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Speaker 1: yourself a break too, because one, there's only so many

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Speaker 1: hours the day you can't cover everything, but two. As

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Speaker 1: soon as the episode goes up Thursday night, football on

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Speaker 1: Prime is happening the very next night, and you know

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Speaker 1: there's gonna be a whole new week of content. Right.

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Speaker 1: So we're three episodes in, We're honing and sculpting and

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Speaker 1: shaping and figuring things out. Because in comedy, as much

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Speaker 1: as it's about the subject matter, it's also about the

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Speaker 1: collaboration and the tone of the people you're making it with, right,

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Speaker 1: So that's it's it's really fun. It really is one

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Speaker 1: of the most fun jobs I've ever had, and I'm

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Speaker 1: really proud of of how quickly it's come together already. Well,

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Speaker 1: and lastly, Taren, will it be an Antonio Brown free zone?

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Speaker 1: You know that? Wow? That is you must have been

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Speaker 1: listening in on our writer's room. I think with Antonio

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Speaker 1: Brown there are there are more serious issues going on,

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Speaker 1: you know. In in my opinion, I don't think that

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Speaker 1: this is just I don't think this is just a

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Speaker 1: boisterous individual. I think individual who could really help, you know,

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Speaker 1: who could benefit from some counseling and real help. So

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Speaker 1: it's it's how much do you want to fuel that fire?

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean? And how much how much

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Speaker 1: fuel does that fire even need to begin with. So

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Speaker 1: I think if there's a I think if there's a clever,

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Speaker 1: fresh take, then then certainly there's nothing out of bounds.

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, sometimes it's better to just

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Speaker 1: look away. Yeah. Well, but Taran Killum, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for being on taking a walk, congrats on the

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Speaker 1: NFL pile on Wednesday night, seven pm Eastern Time, Amazon

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Speaker 1: Prime Video. I'm a big fan of your work and

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you coming on, but thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you making the time. Thanks Teren