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Speaker 1: I Am all In. Oh, Let's kiss you.
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Speaker 2: I Am all In with Scott Patterson, an iHeartRadio podcast.
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Speaker 1: All Right, Hey, everybody, Scott Patterson one on one interview
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Speaker 1: I Am all In podcast I Heart Radio one eleven Productions.
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Speaker 1: We are talking today to Mitch silpa who played Terrence
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Speaker 1: for two episodes in two thousand and three and two
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Speaker 1: thousand and four. He was Paris's life coach. She first
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Speaker 1: appeared season four episode two, Laurelized First Date, The Laurelized
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Speaker 1: First Date, Yale, and his last appearance was season five,
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Speaker 1: episode ten. But not as cute as Pushkin, Terrence's Paris
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Speaker 1: Galer's life coach of the summer four Paris begins Yale,
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Speaker 1: she strives to be a better person with the help
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Speaker 1: of Terrence. Terrence is a very zen and personality and
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Speaker 1: is able to calm paar Us down using very strange techniques.
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Speaker 1: In reality, Terrence comes off as a very nosy person
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Speaker 1: who wants to control every aspect of her decision making process.
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Speaker 1: He intrudes upon her relationship with Doyle as well as
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Speaker 1: her everyday activities, and drives Paris' roommates crazy. Mitch Silpah
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Speaker 1: is an American writer actor and director who starred in
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Speaker 1: NBC's The Rerun Show, and He has appearances this show
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Speaker 1: such as Brothers, Sisters, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Desperate Housewives, Gilmore,
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Speaker 1: Girls On with Her, One on One, Kitchen Confidential, Reno,
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Speaker 1: nine to One One, Joey, and Two Broke Girls. For
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Speaker 1: the On the big screen, he made appearances as the
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Speaker 1: notable character Steve in the twenty eleven comedy film Bridesmaids.
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Speaker 1: He also appeared in Spy, The Heat, The Way Out,
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Speaker 1: Happy Time, Murders, Welcome to Me, Unforgettable, and The Boss.
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Speaker 1: He created, wrote, and produced with Jim Cashman, the Fox
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Speaker 1: pilot Amy's Brother, starring Michael Uri and Annie Mamulo. Silpa
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Speaker 1: Sorry Silpa also has been nominated for a Writer's Guild
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Speaker 1: of America Award for his work on Saturday Night Live.
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Speaker 1: Mitch also is known for his impersonation of magician David
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Speaker 1: Blaine in the famous six part YouTube series David Blaine
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Speaker 1: Street Magic two thousand and six. The series was vastly
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Speaker 1: popular for the first video had over forty one million views,
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Speaker 1: with the next two getting around sixteen million. Let's talk
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Speaker 1: to Mitch Silpa. Hey, Mitch, how you doing? How you doing.
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Speaker 1: Good to meet you.
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Speaker 2: Good to meet you too.
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Speaker 1: Well, thanks for coming on. We appreciate the time, of course.
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Speaker 1: How'd you get your start in this career?
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Speaker 2: Oh god, I god, that's a really great question.
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Speaker 3: Like I always wanted to be an actor, but like
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Speaker 3: I didn't start like studying like until my twenties, and
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Speaker 3: then I went to I went, you know, I went
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Speaker 3: to an acting class in Hollywood, and then I went
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Speaker 3: to grad school at UCLA and got my MFA and
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Speaker 3: theater and then, you know, for like seven years after
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Speaker 3: my graduations, I worked at a hotel and did like
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Speaker 3: little plays, and then I found the Groundlings oh in
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Speaker 3: LA and started taking classes there and kind of worked
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Speaker 3: my way up there, and then I made it into
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Speaker 3: the main company and then that kind of opened up
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Speaker 3: a lot of doors from me.
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Speaker 1: Oh sure. So if the people listening don't know what
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Speaker 1: Groundlings is, it's it's an extremely sophisticated improv group. And
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Speaker 1: what they did and Melissa McCarthy comes out of the
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Speaker 1: ground Rings, and a lot of our great comedic actors
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Speaker 1: and a lot of the great comedic roles that you
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Speaker 1: see in film in the last twenty thirty years came
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Speaker 1: out of Groundings or Second City brilliant, brilliant comedic actors
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Speaker 1: who are steeped in improv. There's steeped in writing their
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Speaker 1: own characters and creating their own characters. And Groundlings as
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Speaker 1: a really in depth and rigorous program.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's intense.
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Speaker 1: It's very very intense, and anybody that does well there
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Speaker 1: and comes out of there. And I remember as a
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Speaker 1: cast we went to see Melissa in her Groundlings performance
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Speaker 1: one night.
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Speaker 3: I wonder if you came, because Melissa and I were
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Speaker 3: in it at the same time, and we were actually
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Speaker 3: before you get into the main company, you have to
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Speaker 3: go up through all their levels, but right before the
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Speaker 3: main company is a Sunday company, and she was like
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Speaker 3: six months ahead of me, and so she was she
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Speaker 3: got in the main company six months before me and
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Speaker 3: then but we were in a lot of main shows together,
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Speaker 3: and she was actually got Gilmore Girls while we were
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Speaker 3: in Sunday Company. She was like one of the first
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Speaker 3: people that are like, oh my god, she's on a
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Speaker 3: TV show, like Melissa's on a TV show.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, so yeah, I think I do think it
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Speaker 1: was a Sunday actually, and it was. We had a
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Speaker 1: wonderful time. We laughed, so hard our stops. It was.
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Speaker 1: It was such a special performance that she gave. She
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Speaker 1: did three or four different characters. It was just absolutely brilliant.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Melissa was always somebody who was just kind of
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Speaker 3: on fire on stage.
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Speaker 1: Like she's just like great, she's uncommonly gifted. Yeah, she
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Speaker 1: really is. Just she can do anything. It's just weird.
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Speaker 1: It's kind of like.
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Speaker 3: And she's such a good actress too. I mean, right,
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Speaker 3: yeah that movie. Can you ever forgive me?
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Speaker 2: She was so good in that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, she could win multiple Oscars, just in dramatic category. Yeah, no,
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Speaker 1: one of the I always said, because people would always
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Speaker 1: ask me, who do you think is going to be
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Speaker 1: the breakout are of Gilmour, And I always said Melissa
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Speaker 1: because of her ability to well, she was just she
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Speaker 1: just had this, you know, this warmth and she was
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Speaker 1: just great with everybody and this just awesome talent. And
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Speaker 1: once I saw on the groundlings, I went, I don't
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Speaker 1: know that I've I mean, she's as gifted as anybody
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Speaker 1: I've ever seen in the history of film. Like, she's
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Speaker 1: absolutely amazing. It's no accident that she's had the career
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Speaker 1: that she's had. It was inevitable, so so tell us
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Speaker 1: about the opportunities that opened up for you during Groundlings
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Speaker 1: or after Groundlings. How did it help.
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Speaker 2: Well, the Groundings was well in a lot of ways.
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Speaker 3: It's like it's just like personally, like as you mentioned,
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Speaker 3: the training there is so rigorous and I learned so
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Speaker 3: much because I mean, improv kind of helps you with
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Speaker 3: like everything, I mean, even like life stuff. It helps
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Speaker 3: you have nothing else to like listen, you know, or
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Speaker 3: make positive choices.
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Speaker 2: I mean those are like you know, improv rules.
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Speaker 3: But so I grew a lot from that, and also
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Speaker 3: the opportunity to write for myself and produce my own material,
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Speaker 3: like you know, helped me figure out that.
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Speaker 2: Oh I also love writing.
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Speaker 3: And my writing partner and I who came from the Groundings,
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Speaker 3: we had sold to shows after we you know, became
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Speaker 3: alumni and we're just you know, the training at the
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Speaker 3: Grounding is you know, just having to having the limited
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Speaker 3: amount of time to write and produce sketches and put
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Speaker 3: it up that week and not keep anything too precious
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Speaker 3: and just having to do it teaches you a lot
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Speaker 3: to just do it because I mean, if you're writing,
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Speaker 3: you can you can overthink something and then you know,
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Speaker 3: become paralyzed and not write anything. So just a lesson
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Speaker 3: of like just do it, just crank it out and
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Speaker 3: do it, and if it sucks, that's fine.
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Speaker 2: I mean you really learn.
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Speaker 3: At first it hurts a lot when you put up
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Speaker 3: a sketch and it tanks, or an improv just tanks.
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Speaker 3: But then you get used to that and it's like, yeah,
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Speaker 3: most things don't work, you know, like and then you
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Speaker 3: you're just trying to find a few gems that do.
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Speaker 3: And that's a you know, a big lesson. And then
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Speaker 3: and just being seen there opened up, like me getting
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Speaker 3: jobs and the people I worked with, I mean, because
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Speaker 3: like when Kristin Wig, who also came up with me,
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Speaker 3: you know, when she eventually got Saturday Night Live and
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Speaker 3: she blew up and then she got to do Bride'smaids.
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Speaker 3: She i mean offered me a part in that movie,
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Speaker 3: which was the flight attendant in that movie.
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Speaker 2: And that was the first time I had ever been.
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Speaker 3: Offered anything in anything, and I could I'm like, I'm
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Speaker 3: being offered.
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Speaker 2: But it also that came from her.
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Speaker 3: But Paul fig and jud Appatol had known a little
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Speaker 3: bit of my work because of the Groundlings and because
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Speaker 3: of like a video that Mikey Day and Michael Nton
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Speaker 3: and I did that were these David Blaine parodies that
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Speaker 3: they were aware of. So when when my name came up,
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Speaker 3: they're like, oh, yeah, that guy, we can let him do.
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Speaker 2: The flight attendant.
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Speaker 3: But from my point of view, it was like, I
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Speaker 3: can't believe I'm being offered something.
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Speaker 2: I don't have to audition for this.
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Speaker 1: By the way, after I'm done here, I'm going to
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Speaker 1: go look at those YouTube videos. So you in personal
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Speaker 1: da Blain thing.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it happened like right when YouTube was starting, and Mikey,
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Speaker 3: Mikey and Day and Michael Naughton wrote these sketches and
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Speaker 3: cast me as David Blaine.
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Speaker 2: We did it on stage. He goes, hey, you want
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Speaker 2: to shoot this in the back alley and put it
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Speaker 2: on this new thing called YouTube, and then it just.
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Speaker 1: Like blew up. That's fantastic. H So let's talk a
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Speaker 1: little bit about Gilmore. How did how did you get
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Speaker 1: to roll Terrence?
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Speaker 3: I auditioned and it was like I hadn't had an
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Speaker 3: I mean, everybody at the kind of the groundling say
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Speaker 3: it felt like had gotten an audition, and I was like,
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Speaker 3: I'm not getting an audition for Gilmore.
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Speaker 2: Girls, and then I finally.
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Speaker 3: Got one and I love the show and it was
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Speaker 3: for Terrence the part that I got, and I was
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Speaker 3: like really nervous, and I just wanted to do a
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Speaker 3: good job and I didn't want to like have it
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Speaker 3: get back to Melissa and like, I got a lovel
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Speaker 3: and I I remember I walked in, I did it,
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Speaker 3: and I just remember people laughed and then I got it,
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Speaker 3: and I still remember when I got it.
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Speaker 2: I was like, oh my god, I got it, and
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Speaker 2: uh my agent.
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Speaker 3: Goes, oh yeah, casting has a note They're like, don't
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Speaker 3: go too big. I'm like, oh did I go. I'm
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Speaker 3: like okay, I'm like, did I go too big? But
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Speaker 3: they're like, yeah, no, just it's it's a very grounded show.
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Speaker 3: But you know, they liked that you did a character,
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Speaker 3: but don't go too big. So I'm like, all right,
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Speaker 3: don't go too big. But I mean that was basically it.
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Speaker 3: I auditioned and I got it, and uh, you know,
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Speaker 3: and I knew that Lauren and Alexis had seen the
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Speaker 3: Groundling shows and you know, so I knew that they
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Speaker 3: kind of knew me. So it's still nervous, but it
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Speaker 3: was everyone was lovely, like it was such a lovely set.
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Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Yeah. You could do your best work there.
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Speaker 1: You feel very supportive, very lots of notes, lots of help.
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Speaker 1: You know, you can't take anything personally. They're just you know,
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Speaker 1: they're just trying to have the best show they possibly can.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, And it was also I knew going into it
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Speaker 3: just from Melissa that how we couldn't change like a
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Speaker 3: word of dialogue, like it's not the it's a you know,
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Speaker 3: like so I knew.
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Speaker 2: And luckily I had no speeches like everybody else did.
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Speaker 2: I just had like lines, so it wasn't as hard.
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Speaker 1: What do you remember about your scenes with Paris with Liza,
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Speaker 1: Oh my god.
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Speaker 3: First of all, I mean I never knew her before.
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Speaker 3: I thought she was delightful, Like I just thought she
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Speaker 3: was so funny and great and just very sweet. My
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Speaker 3: biggest memory is, and I was thinking about this, was
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Speaker 3: I did two episodes. In the second episode I did,
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Speaker 3: there was a scene with Paris with Paris and Rory
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Speaker 3: and Alexis had it either a cold or something was
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Speaker 3: going on. She lost her voice during the scene, like
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Speaker 3: during rehearsing it, and we had to like go home
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Speaker 3: and come and then they needed me to come back
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Speaker 3: the following week to shoot it, and I just remember, oh,
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Speaker 3: I got extra money.
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Speaker 2: They have to pay me to come back.
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Speaker 3: So that was a memory, Like I remember she lost
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Speaker 3: her voice, but yeah, no, I I think that Liza
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Speaker 3: was just she's just so lovely, like really fun and
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Speaker 3: like funny.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, those are fun scenes. Those are really fun scenes.
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Speaker 1: Great concept to a life coach at that age. That's
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Speaker 1: that's fantastic. So you've been in.
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Speaker 2: And also a terrible life coach. Like things I'm saying
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Speaker 2: are like so bad.
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Speaker 1: So you've been in several Melissa McCarthy projects, The Heat Spy, Bridesmaid's,
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Speaker 1: The Boss tell us about that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, she and Ben also produced.
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Speaker 3: We're one of the producers on a pilot that my
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Speaker 3: friend Jim Cashman and I wrote for our first pilot.
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Speaker 2: They wrote that.
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Speaker 3: We sold to Warner Brothers and Fox bought it and
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Speaker 3: we got it made. But they were they were producers
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Speaker 3: on that show too, So we've worked with them anyway.
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Speaker 3: I mean they're they're friends, you know. Uh yeah, work
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Speaker 3: with them many times.
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Speaker 2: Well, sorry, you had.
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Speaker 1: A question there, no no, what happened to God's Favorite Idiot?
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Speaker 1: Is it still on? Is it? Is it still in production.
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Speaker 2: No, I I don't know. I mean I had nothing
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Speaker 2: to do with that too, but it did airr and.
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Speaker 1: It was great. It was just it was fantastic.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if it was just was it just
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Speaker 3: I mean it was just the one season or is
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Speaker 3: it coming back for I don't I really don't.
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Speaker 2: Have any information about it. Find out what you I'll try,
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Speaker 2: I'll get back to you.
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Speaker 1: I gotta know we want more of those episodes.
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Speaker 2: Sure.
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Speaker 1: So what's been your favorite movie that you that you
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Speaker 1: worked on with them? Melissa?
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Speaker 3: Oh god, uh, well, like Bride's Maids was so much fun.
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Speaker 3: But also Spy was a blast too because I got
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Speaker 3: to go to Amsterdam for like three weeks and work
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Speaker 3: maybe four fun days. But it was that was so
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Speaker 3: much fun because Melissa and I got to have a
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Speaker 3: fight scene and like I got to like float like
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Speaker 3: when they you know, they put you.
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Speaker 2: On wires, and that was it was a blast.
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Speaker 3: And it was also Paul figue Is. I've been in
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Speaker 3: three of his movies.
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Speaker 2: He's just like an angel man. He's such a gentleman and.
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Speaker 3: Like a joy to work for everywhere, and it's always
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Speaker 3: funny to have a fight scene with Melissa.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean, tell us what that's like going
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Speaker 1: through the rehearsal process with her, you guys, tell us
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Speaker 1: about it, tell.
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Speaker 4: Us about it.
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Speaker 3: Well, it was not. It was surprisingly not a ton
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Speaker 3: of choreography. It was it was literally I don't even
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Speaker 3: remember us having that much like fight choreography.
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Speaker 2: We were just like battling each other, like shaking each other.
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Speaker 3: I mean, there's so much trust between us and the
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Speaker 3: plane shaking. It was just things were flying and she'd
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Speaker 3: get pushed down. It was not like a ton of
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Speaker 3: fight choreography. I think I had more of lessons about
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Speaker 3: how to hold the gun than I did.
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Speaker 2: Like, our heart.
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Speaker 3: Scene was pretty loose. It wasn't really I mean, we
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Speaker 3: could have easily gotten heart, but we didn't. We knew
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Speaker 3: each other so well that it just felt like silly fun.
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Speaker 1: Right right. All right, So they a lot of people
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Speaker 1: recognize you as a flight attendant and Bridesmaids Steve or
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Speaker 1: Stove or Stove as Christian Week calls you in the
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Speaker 1: movie Bridesmaids. Uh, tell us what it was like filming
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Speaker 1: that scene with Kristen Week.
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Speaker 3: Well, it was like it was I worked three days
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Speaker 3: in that movie and just to step on that set
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Speaker 3: felt like I mean that airplane scene was filled with.
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Speaker 2: So many groundlings.
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Speaker 3: It was like Kristen and Melissa and Ben Falcone and
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Speaker 3: Wendy McClinton Covey and Maya Rudolph and I mean in
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Speaker 3: Annie Mamelo, who wrote the movie, is that.
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Speaker 2: We're all groundings. So it really it didn't.
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Speaker 3: It felt like someone like wrote a growling sketch, but
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Speaker 3: someone gave us like a huge budget and they're like
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Speaker 3: Annie and Christen are like, we wrote this air this
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Speaker 3: airplane sketch, and you're the flight attendant.
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Speaker 2: But it was a blast.
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Speaker 3: It was like we got to shoot the scene. We
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Speaker 3: would do the scene like scripted the first take, and
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Speaker 3: then after that it was, you know, we would do
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Speaker 3: the scene, but it was so we could say whatever.
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Speaker 3: There was one take. I remember Paul figue led us.
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Speaker 3: What felt like he let us go on for like
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Speaker 3: nine or ten minutes. It was such a long time
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Speaker 3: until I think I broke but and I don't even
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Speaker 3: remember if anything it got in that the scene, but
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Speaker 3: it was it was just so much fun and you know,
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Speaker 3: and like you know, that movie was just a joy.
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Speaker 1: How many takes did you do of that scene? Because
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Speaker 1: the comedy in there was incredible.
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean there's different.
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Speaker 3: I don't know how many now because it's been a while,
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Speaker 3: but you know, and it's all broken up. And I
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Speaker 3: learned that shooting on this the airplane that we shot on,
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Speaker 3: it was a real airplane that they dismantled. And the
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Speaker 3: trivia is it was the same airplane that was that
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Speaker 3: was airplane that they used on airplane And so when
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Speaker 3: we were shooting that scene, it's one of my favorite
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Speaker 3: comedies of all time. And I told Kristen when we
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Speaker 3: were shooting, I go, you know, that means this movie
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Speaker 3: is going to be a huge like as a joke,
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Speaker 3: and then it.
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Speaker 2: Really did turn out. But yeah, I learned that shooting
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Speaker 2: on an airplane, said, it's not easy because when you turn.
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Speaker 3: The camera around, you they literally have to take the
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Speaker 3: chairs out and like then put them back in. It
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Speaker 3: takes a long time to turn the camera around. But yeah,
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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't remember how many takes. I do
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Speaker 3: remember there was one take I think I picked I know,
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Speaker 3: I remember I picked Kristin up. I actually picked her
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Speaker 3: up and put her back to her pet her backer's seat.
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Speaker 3: And when I was driving home that night, I'm like
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Speaker 3: I literally just picked up the star of the movie
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Speaker 3: and even think about it.
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Speaker 2: But uh, yeah it was.
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Speaker 1: Were you able to give little suggestions that that popped
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Speaker 1: into your mind your comment?
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Speaker 3: No, I was too nervous to do that, but they'd
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Speaker 3: let me.
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Speaker 2: Say pretty much whatever.
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Speaker 3: And Kristen was always like saying something different every time
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Speaker 3: she would exit, Like I do remember the take that
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Speaker 3: got in when she said the line about its civil
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Speaker 3: rights it's the nineties.
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Speaker 2: That was like the first time she said.
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Speaker 3: That, and I thought that was just like, what what
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Speaker 3: here in the wrong decade?
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Speaker 2: I think I said, like like, oh, that got in.
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Speaker 2: But it was just a joy. I mean like it
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Speaker 2: was like making a movie with friends.
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Speaker 1: Oh man, that that just sounds.
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Speaker 2: Like a dream situation.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but good on Paul fig for forgetting all of
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Speaker 1: those Groundlings people together. You know, that's that's actually kind
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Speaker 1: of a Ellian idea. You go to see the Groundlings
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Speaker 1: and you know, I'm gonna cast all these people. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was very cool.
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Speaker 3: And there's and the movie itself is like peppered with
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Speaker 3: a lot of it throughout the Groundlings throughout the movie too.
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Speaker 3: So it's also Kristin really like, you know, her first
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Speaker 3: big movie and she's like, you know, populating it with
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Speaker 3: a lot of the people she came up with it.
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Speaker 2: It was very cool of her too.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's great, all right. So we touched on this
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Speaker 1: a little earlier about the David Blaine YouTube videos that
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Speaker 1: you did. Street Magic has over forty one million views
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Speaker 1: on YouTube.
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Speaker 2: Crazy.
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Speaker 1: How did the idea for these videos come about?
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Speaker 3: Well, it was I'd love to take credit for it,
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Speaker 3: but I mean I could take a credit for one
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Speaker 3: thing in it. But it was mikey Day and Michael
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Speaker 3: Naughton wrote the sketch and you know, for a main
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Speaker 3: show at the Growndings, and we I think Wednesday nights
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Speaker 3: are pitch nights when we're writing new sketches. And they
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Speaker 3: wrote the sketch and they're like, we wrote the sketch
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Speaker 3: and we want you to play David Blaine. And I
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Speaker 3: knew nothing about him and care just remember him saying
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Speaker 3: he's just really chill. And then we did it and
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Speaker 3: put it up and then I'm like, was that okay?
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Speaker 3: He goes, yeah, that's perfect. And then that uh Friday,
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Speaker 3: the show, the scene got in and we did it
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Speaker 3: in front of an audience and this Tim Brennan, who's
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Speaker 3: in the Grounding. There was a cameraman on stage who
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Speaker 3: would get my reactions, but they're the only thing I'll.
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Speaker 2: Take credit for that sketch. Was when they're freaking out
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Speaker 2: over I turned to this.
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Speaker 3: This is a long time they were freaking out, So
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Speaker 3: I turned and looked at the guy who was holding
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Speaker 3: the camera and just started like making these like intense
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Speaker 3: faces and.
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Speaker 2: Then that got laughs. So then that now became part
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Speaker 2: of the sketch.
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Speaker 3: And now that's all on the videos with me, just
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Speaker 3: like I'll do the magic and then just like look
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Speaker 3: at the camera and just like.
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Speaker 2: That magician sort of like douchebag thing that they do.
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Speaker 2: Like isn't that cool?
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Speaker 1: Right? All right? So I know what I'm doing with
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Speaker 1: the rest of my afternoon. Ye watch us. So what
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Speaker 1: are you working on now? Tell us about what you're doing.
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Speaker 3: Well, I my friend Drew DROGHI and I who also
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Speaker 3: met the Groundlings. We do a two person show that
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Speaker 3: we've done a few times at a theater called the
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Speaker 3: Dynasty Typewriter in LA and we're going to we're doing
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Speaker 3: it in New York on I wrote the Sunday, June eighteenth,
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Speaker 3: at seven o'clock at a place called the Green Room
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Speaker 3: forty two and it's almost full, so it's very cool.
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Speaker 2: But it's a show.
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Speaker 3: It's called It's Mitch and Drew and we've never felt younger.
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Speaker 3: But it's like an hour sketch, very all very like queer.
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Speaker 2: Sketches.
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Speaker 3: Perfect for Pride Month that's coming up. And also I
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Speaker 3: recur on a show that's called All Rise that is
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Speaker 3: start on CBS, got canceled now it's on own and
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Speaker 3: they had a third season, so the second half of
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Speaker 3: season three is coming back, but I don't know when.
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Speaker 1: Excellent you're busy guy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well right now, nothing other than that.
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Speaker 1: Because of the strike, you know, uh yeah, SAgs get
23:03
Speaker 1: in a real power position right now, aren't they to
23:05
Speaker 1: get what they want? Because if they if SAG goes
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Speaker 1: on strike, the whole business shuts down. You know. It's
23:13
Speaker 1: it's been decades since SAG's had this much power.
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Speaker 2: Very interesting.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope it works out too, But I think
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Speaker 1: SAG's in a very good position to get what they want.
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Speaker 2: Fingers Cross and Riders killed, I hope.
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Speaker 1: Too, Yes, for sure. Okay, so we're gonna do a
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Speaker 1: little thing called rapid Fire. Doesn't mean you have to
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Speaker 1: go to real fast because I think we're all recovered
23:40
Speaker 1: from being on Gilmore set having you go fast, fast,
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Speaker 1: fast Fast for the only note you get fast, go fast?
23:44
Speaker 1: Can you go faster? Uh? How do you like your coffee?
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Speaker 2: Black? Just black and hot?
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Speaker 1: Gotcha? Are you team Logan, Team Jass or team Dean?
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Speaker 2: Oh? I don't none?
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Speaker 4: Is that fair?
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Speaker 2: Can I say none?
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Speaker 1: You can say no? I can't think you were the first.
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Speaker 1: This is the most unique answer on this question. I
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Speaker 1: love it. Is there a boyfriend a coupling for Rory
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Speaker 1: that you find appropriate?
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Speaker 2: I don't terrible that.
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Speaker 1: I don't know and I don't know. No, I don't
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Speaker 1: want you to agonize it.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna come back parents my character.
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Speaker 1: Okay, that's the twist.
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Speaker 2: You know, we never knew they actually dated.
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Speaker 1: Why didn't we go there? Who's your favorite Gilmore Girls couple?
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Speaker 1: Luke and laurelied Zaane, Zaye and Lack. I always say
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Speaker 1: that Laurele, I thank you. See you don't even let
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Speaker 1: me get it.
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Speaker 2: There's nothing that thank you.
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Speaker 1: I just went through a whole spiel. You don't need
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Speaker 1: to on the on the podcast about I'm sick of
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Speaker 1: being lumped in with Christopher. What team are you Team
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Speaker 1: Luke or Team Christopher? I was like, it's not a competition.
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Speaker 1: What's wrong with you? Why am I being lumped in
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Speaker 1: your team?
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Speaker 2: Laurel?
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Speaker 1: I are your team Nicole? I mean nobody asked that questions? Anyway,
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Speaker 1: here we go. I'm on a rant again. What would
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Speaker 1: you order at Luke's diner?
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Speaker 4: Oh?
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Speaker 2: The first thing that came to my mind? I don't
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Speaker 2: even know if he had it at Patty Mountain.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's easy.
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Speaker 2: Or a girl cheese, I like, always love a girl
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Speaker 2: cheese at a diner.
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Speaker 1: Luke has that?
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Speaker 2: Did you have fried chicken?
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Speaker 1: I think he? Of course he did, Okay, and it
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Speaker 1: was fantastic.
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Speaker 2: I bet it was.
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Speaker 1: Look, You're welcome anytime, don't worry.
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Speaker 4: Thank you?
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Speaker 1: Jackson or tailor for town selectmen?
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Speaker 2: Um Jackson?
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Speaker 1: Would you rather listen to hep Alien or The Troubadour's
25:51
Speaker 1: cover songs?
25:54
Speaker 2: The Troubadour's cover songs?
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Speaker 1: Harvard or Yale? Yale?
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Speaker 2: Because I you know why?
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Speaker 3: When I auditioned for grad schools, they did not take me,
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Speaker 3: but I remember they were very nice.
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Speaker 1: What's Rory's bigger mistake? Crashing the car her boyfriend built
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Speaker 1: for her or sleeping with her ex who is married?
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Speaker 2: Oh, sleeping with their ex is married? Big mistake, mistake?
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Speaker 1: Who from Gilmore? Would you not want to be stuck
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Speaker 1: on a desert island with?
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Speaker 3: Probably Oh I'm blake and uh Lorelei's mother.
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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah makes sense. Something that might be a lot.
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Speaker 2: That might be a lot.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm thinking, you know, she could be advantageous in
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Speaker 1: several scenarios though.
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Speaker 2: That's absolutely true, you know what I mean? An Actually
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Speaker 2: she could be a good conversationalist too.
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Speaker 1: Yeah she could be Yeah, uh, she'd be a little pedantic,
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Speaker 1: but you know, yeah, uh something in your life. You
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Speaker 1: are all in on.
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Speaker 4: My dog.
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Speaker 1: Tell us about your dog.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my dog's awesome. His name is Arthur.
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Speaker 3: He is a I thought he was mostly a terrier mix,
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Speaker 3: but he I found out after getting tested he's mostly Chiuala,
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Speaker 3: which I had no idea.
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Speaker 2: He had him over.
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Speaker 3: Ten years and he's super sweet, barely makes a noise
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Speaker 3: and is very smart.
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Speaker 2: He's great.
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Speaker 1: That's that's fantastic. It's been a pleasure, Mitch, pleasure. We
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Speaker 1: know you have a heart out. You're a busy guy,
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Speaker 1: but thanks for talking to us. It was it was
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Speaker 1: my pleasures guy, and I hope you come back. We
27:52
Speaker 1: have probably more to discuss.
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Speaker 2: Uh just two episodes, yeah, did we Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Well, my wen, we'll just have to discuss the other
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Speaker 1: episode right in minute detail.
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Speaker 2: We'll go very slow.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, my friend.
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Speaker 2: Thank you very much.
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Speaker 1: Scott, all the best and take care of good luck
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Speaker 1: with everything and go see go see Mitches show yes
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Speaker 1: June eighteenth, New York City.
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Speaker 2: The Green Room forty two, whatever their website is.
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Speaker 1: Tickets are going fast, so you gotta make your move now,
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Speaker 1: all right, all right, my friends, all the best, All right, take.
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Speaker 4: Care you too.
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