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Speaker 1: One of two point seven Kiss FM, LA's number one

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Speaker 1: hit music station, Ryan Seacrest and we are being we

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Speaker 1: were talking about it earlier. I'm very excited to have

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Speaker 1: him on. James Marsden joining us once again. James welcome.

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Speaker 1: How are you my friend?

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Speaker 2: Turn my hat around? Week up to this?

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Speaker 3: I like it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, me too.

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Speaker 1: Hey, James Marsden, what if people say when you're out

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Speaker 1: in the wild, what if people most recognize you from.

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Speaker 3: Out in the wild. Let's see what It's a mixture,

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Speaker 3: it's a whole hodgepodge of stuff. What would it be?

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Speaker 3: I think usually it's the most recent project, like when

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Speaker 3: Sonic comes out with Sonic Jerry Duty.

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Speaker 2: Jerry Uty.

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Speaker 3: I've never seen it. I've never seen such an escalation

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Speaker 2: Uh, like so fast.

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Speaker 3: It came out the first weekend and I was in

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Speaker 3: New York and the next Saturday, after the Friday had opened.

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Speaker 3: I think it felt like every other person under thirty

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Speaker 3: was stopping me. Right, you're watching Jerry Duty. It's great.

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Speaker 3: So right now, it's definitely that show. But you know,

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Speaker 3: for the longest time, it's probably X men or or

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Speaker 3: Enchanted or twenty seven Dresses something.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad you did.

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Speaker 3: It's everything.

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Speaker 2: It's everything. People they sit and watch me on the weekend.

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Speaker 1: Hey, so, but I'm glad you did Jerry Duty because

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Speaker 1: Dead to me it is like all those things and

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Speaker 1: then dead to me. Dead to me, dead is one

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Speaker 1: of my favorites. But let's talk about Jerry Duty. And

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Speaker 1: I'm saying this to people listening. If you've not heard

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Speaker 1: about if you've seen it, you know, if you've not

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Speaker 1: seen it, stay with me on this because this is

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Speaker 1: not just James Marsden on plugging a show that he's doing.

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Speaker 2: That's not what this is.

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Speaker 1: This is us going wow, what a great choice, what

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Speaker 1: a clever concept. And that's why people are kind of

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Speaker 1: upsets with it. How do you explain because a friend

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Speaker 1: of mine said, well, you know who's on? All my

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Speaker 1: friends ask who's on the show. The next day and

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Speaker 1: friend of mine said, who's on? I said, well, James

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Speaker 1: mars Oh, how do you? And I was trying to

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Speaker 1: explain Jury Duty. How do you explain the concept? I

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Speaker 1: was like, it's the office meets the right.

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Speaker 3: So they I mean still struggle to find a sort

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Speaker 3: of one liner way of saying this. But the show

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Speaker 3: is basically a kind of a high wire act where

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Speaker 3: it's essentially over three weeks, we we're serving jury duty.

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Speaker 3: But me, I'm I'm gonna actor playing myself a sort

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Speaker 3: of heightened you know, sensations of myself. Yes, how much

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Speaker 3: of you are?

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Speaker 2: Is it really you?

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Speaker 3: Oh? It's like now. And so it's basically the Truman

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Speaker 3: Show meets the Office, right, So we're serving jury duty.

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Speaker 3: It's all fake. It's a fake. It's it's an abandoned

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Speaker 3: courthouse that we took over. It's all actors, improvisational actors

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Speaker 3: who were selected who are super talented actors but relatively unknown.

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Speaker 3: So this and then one guy who thinks the whole

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Speaker 3: thing is real. So they've selected a guy we're gonna

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Speaker 3: put him through. There's eight scripts. There's no dialogue, but

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Speaker 3: there's beats in the scripts that we push surrounding this

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Speaker 1: So trying to move along with those beats, trying to

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Speaker 1: move it along right exactly.

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Speaker 3: But there's the wild card is this young man who

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Speaker 3: doesn't know the whole thing is fake. So we can't

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Speaker 3: pop that reality bubble. We have to like present it

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Speaker 3: to him as if it's really happening. Now he thinks

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Speaker 3: d up on public broadcast or something. So he knows

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Speaker 3: that there's cameras around, but they're also hidden cameras as well.

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Speaker 3: And the whole thing to me, the reason I got

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Speaker 3: Office I'm huge fans of, and then David Bernard, who

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Speaker 3: we're not doing a prank show. We're not going to

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Speaker 3: turn the screws to this guy. We're going to surround

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Speaker 3: him with a bunch of kind of eccentric weirdos and

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Speaker 3: all of these written, very funny, written circumstances and see

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Speaker 3: We wanted to turn left and he wanted to turn right.

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Speaker 3: We'd have to turn right with God and so you're

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Speaker 3: in this courtroom for eight hours a day, in character

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Speaker 2: And so I've not seen the conclusion and don't.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you would give it because I'm halfway through the series. Okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, don't give it away. But this is so

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Speaker 1: we're talking to James Marsden. It's called Jury Duty.

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Speaker 3: It's so he dies different.

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Speaker 1: It's so different, it's it's really worth checking out. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna this is Tanya here, her boyfriend she met on Hinges,

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Speaker 1: named Robbie. They've been dating a long time. James, he's

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Speaker 1: gonna propose soon, we expect.

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Speaker 2: And he is a.

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Speaker 1: Lawyer, right, and he watches the show and we secretively

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Speaker 1: put a microphone near him as he was watching the show.

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Speaker 2: And here is his react. I mean it was after

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Speaker 2: ten minutes of him like hysterically laughing.

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Speaker 3: You're going to say that was after ten gummies, zero

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Speaker 3: gummies were had.

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Speaker 2: That was all I have never I'm not even kidding.

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Speaker 2: I've never seen him react of a TV of a

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Speaker 2: TV show the way that he reacts to Jury Do Do.

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Speaker 2: We watch it every night and we are like crying laughing.

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Speaker 2: It is the most brilliant.

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Speaker 3: TV I've seen in a very long time, like I

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Speaker 2: It's so good.

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Speaker 3: That's very nice, very nice you to say. Listen. I

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Speaker 3: I'd never done anything like it before. I was a

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Speaker 3: but but I also knew that, you know, you're you're

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Speaker 3: just you know, I would do that for free. It's

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Speaker 3: just like sounded like such a fun gig to do.

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Speaker 3: And then it was just, oh, man, how do we

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Speaker 3: how do we navigate the real man element of because

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Speaker 3: you want the comedy to be there, but you can't

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Speaker 3: You know, there were there were moments where he started

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Speaker 2: Not catch on, you can't, Yeah, right you could. He's like,

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Speaker 2: wait a minute, it seems yeah.

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Speaker 3: And then in those moments, the director Samansky, would would

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Speaker 3: then drive back to the court and have like a

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Speaker 3: talk about what we all saw that day every day

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Speaker 3: and we do in the morning too before the court,

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Speaker 3: and he said, okay, today he started to get suspicious. Tomorrow,

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Speaker 3: get ready for six hours of just boring court.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Great, it seems now real and mundane.

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Speaker 3: Right exactly, we called it feeding the reality bank, which

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Speaker 3: is like you have to feed that early. There's right

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Speaker 3: to make sure that he's like, this can't be a

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Speaker 2: A reasonable doubt, right, he had the.

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Speaker 3: Right exactly. You know, you can cut all that out,

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Speaker 3: the boring stuff out later and just use the good stuff.

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Speaker 1: James Marsden here. Make sure you check out Dr Duty

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Speaker 1: Amazon freeby or Prime Video. And I did hear him

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Speaker 1: say to those of you at Amazon he would do.

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Speaker 2: It for free. So next season he is pro bono

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Speaker 2: on the series.

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Speaker 1: And BigMan here doing it for the love of the crafty.

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Speaker 1: Thanks bro, great to see you, man, congrats.

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Speaker 3: Great always bye guy bye, congrats, thank you.

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Speaker 1: You know when you know someone from their work and

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Speaker 1: then they do a project that makes you like them

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Speaker 1: for them, this is not for me for him, yeah right,

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Speaker 1: this is not for me for him, because he was

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Speaker 1: like always so good and just good looking and good

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Speaker 1: and good looking and good looking. Okay, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: like he's good at what he does, but I don't

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Speaker 1: know him, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, I didn't know him. Now him and he's got

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Speaker 2: all those things and he's.

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Speaker 1: Cool and he's really cool, all right.

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Speaker 2: Disneyland tickets next,