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Classic Moment: Joe Cote · Billy & Lisa in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: We've got a segment we affectionately call on the billion
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  Speaker 1: lead some morning show when Malden kids hit it big
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  Speaker 1: and joke is now, is it Joe Cody? I was
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  Speaker 1: gonna say, if it's Cody, you've got to change it
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  Speaker 1: to kot because you're a big time author.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Oh, Joe Cotay is coming in. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So Joe, you wrote a short First of all, you
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  Speaker 1: were a school teacher in Dartmouth, mass Right, yes, And
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  Speaker 1: what do you teach there?
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  Speaker 3: So I am an esp in English classes and I
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  Speaker 3: do some academic support for some special classes.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, but you're from Malden.
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  Speaker 4: I am from Allen.
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  Speaker 3: Went to the Malden School System MHS two thousand and eight.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: Justin went to school in Malden. But it was in
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  Speaker 1: a garage. I don't know if you know that story.
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  Speaker 4: Oh no, yeah, I've been in there.
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  Speaker 2: Oh really, you've probably been there teaching. He was there
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  Speaker 2: as Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: But we all do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Look where he is now, his dream job.
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  Speaker 4: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So Joe you a short story. Now when did you
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  Speaker 1: write the short story?
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  Speaker 4: It was the end of twenty twenty, during all the
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  Speaker 4: COVID stuff. If you remember that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh so, like all the other superstars that exploded during COVID,
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  Speaker 1: you're one of those superstars.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Wow, okay, so what is the story about?
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  Speaker 2: Quickly?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so this drifter woman she sees a photo of
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  Speaker 3: a long missing girl. She looks the family up and
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  Speaker 3: sees that they have a lot of money. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 3: she thinks I could be that girl, and so she
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  Speaker 3: goes to the house with the intent to rob them,
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  Speaker 3: and it goes really well, nothing bad happens.
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  Speaker 5: Wait, so is she pretending to be the long lost daughter?
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  Speaker 4: Yes? So good like that?
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  Speaker 5: And you intrigued and you posted this on Reddit.
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  Speaker 1: I did, Wow, have you signed up for Lisa's book
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  Speaker 1: Club yet?
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: No, I want to hear about that.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think we need to have you.
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  Speaker 4: Oh I love that. Yeah, my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well everybody's gonna hear about it. Because here's the deal,
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  Speaker 1: this short story of yours. Somehow, actress Sidney Sweeney got
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  Speaker 1: a hold of it.
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  Speaker 2: Now, how did that happen?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so about a year ago, it was like four
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  Speaker 3: years after I wrote this story, I got a message
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  Speaker 3: on Reddit from a man claiming to be a Hollywood producer,
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  Speaker 3: and I ignored him.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't think it was real, right, and he messaged
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  Speaker 4: me again.
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  Speaker 3: I rejected him, and he said, listen, man, you're gonna
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  Speaker 3: want to get on the phone with me, And so
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  Speaker 3: we got on a zoom call.
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  Speaker 4: I saw that he was real, And now here we are.
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  Speaker 1: And he represents Sidney Sweeney.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, I think I'm not sure on
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  Speaker 3: the production side of it, but I think I would
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  Speaker 3: imagine it just got sent out and she read it
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  Speaker 3: and enjoyed it and agreed to be attached to it.
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  Speaker 1: Now we're talking about the same Sydney Sweeney from Euphoria and.
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  Speaker 2: From The White Lotus.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I mean, I hope.
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  Speaker 2: So who is now your pal? Well matter?
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  Speaker 4: No, no, I would love to though. She's phenomenal.
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  Speaker 1: But this gets better because the person writing the movie
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  Speaker 1: is the same person who wrote Forrest Gump.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, oh my no surreal. Yeah, pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Movie and another big movie.
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  Speaker 3: Right star is born one. Yeah, there's a whole bunch
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  Speaker 3: I know. So all these articles that my friends and
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  Speaker 3: family are sending me. Obviously there's there's my stupid face
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  Speaker 3: next to Sydney, which is awesome. But yeah, the Eric
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  Speaker 3: Roth thing is equally as exciting. He's incredible.
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  Speaker 1: So now do your students think you're the coolest thing
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  Speaker 1: on earth now?
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  Speaker 2: Because I mean, you know, young people love Sydney Swing,
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  Speaker 2: I mean euphoria. You kidding me?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's been wild walking down the hallways now.
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  Speaker 3: You don't think they thought I was cool before?
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  Speaker 4: Really?
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  Speaker 1: The first thing I thought when you walked in just
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  Speaker 1: oozing school?
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  Speaker 2: Cool this guy?
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  Speaker 4: No, it's been fun walking on the hallways.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, last week I heard a group of kids say, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: that's the guy like just say hello, I'm.
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  Speaker 4: Still your teacher. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So are you invited back to Malden to like speak
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  Speaker 1: now to the classes or Oh?
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  Speaker 3: No, I haven't spoken anyone to anyone yet from Malten,
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  Speaker 3: but I would Yeah, I would love to. My time
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  Speaker 3: in MHS was phenomenal.
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  Speaker 5: Have they given you a timeline? Like when will this
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  Speaker 5: movie come out? Do you think?
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  Speaker 4: No? I don't know. Probably a couple of years, I
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  Speaker 4: don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Now do you do you even have to go
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  Speaker 1: to the ATM anymore?
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  Speaker 3: Listen, I'm still living on a teacher's budget.
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  Speaker 4: But I love how this.
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  Speaker 5: Like will inspire kids like who you're teaching to just write,
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  Speaker 5: keep writing because you never know what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: So I just spoke to We have a podcast at
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  Speaker 3: Dartmouth High and I was just telling the kids, and
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  Speaker 3: I know it's it sounds so obvious and so silly,
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  Speaker 3: but it's true.
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  Speaker 4: You just have to write, just keep going forward.
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  Speaker 3: It's so easy to look at that paragraph you have
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  Speaker 3: and hate it and keep going. Get a hundred pages
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  Speaker 3: of crap down and then we can figure it out
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  Speaker 3: from there. And then don't be afraid to share it
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  Speaker 3: anything you're creating, Just get it out.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the fact is, I mean, you mentioned this happened
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  Speaker 1: for you during COVID and the pandemic, but the fact
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  Speaker 1: is the pandemic also got a lot of people reading
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  Speaker 1: that hadn't been reading for a long time.
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  Speaker 3: The amount of luck that I had on this right,
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  Speaker 3: Like the timing was perfect. If you go onto that
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  Speaker 3: form where I posted on Reddit, there's just so there
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  Speaker 3: were so many stories. So the fact that mine had
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  Speaker 3: gained some traction enough to be at there, it's on
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  Speaker 3: like the I think it's currently the top most liked
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  Speaker 3: post all time on that particular forum. Really, but like
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  Speaker 3: you said, I think it's just caught some traction and
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  Speaker 3: that's how my now manager saw it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, do you have any other short stories floating around?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, uh, oh, we're already working on the next one.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure you are.
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  Speaker 3: They so they bought the script, right, and are you
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  Speaker 3: executive producing the movie? I am yeah, you have final
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  Speaker 3: say no, I don't know about that.
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  Speaker 2: So they can mess around with your script if they want.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, and I am totally fine with that.
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  Speaker 5: Do you get a cut if the movie does well?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, Joe, you're our friend people.
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  Speaker 5: He's a good deal.
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  Speaker 2: I grew up in these cameras. Does that count?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? I mean really, I've been listening to you since
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  Speaker 4: I was a kid. So we're good.
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  Speaker 2: Oh oh, well, thank you for that. Thank you for that.
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  Speaker 1: Don't feel the need to throw anything my way. I'm
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  Speaker 1: happy to have done it. But that is great. So
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  Speaker 1: you're already pushing a couple of video of the short stories.
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  Speaker 2: Let me ask you this.
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  Speaker 1: If it weren't Sydney Sweeney, who would you have played
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  Speaker 1: the port?
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  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, man, what a question. My beautiful girlfriend
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  Speaker 3: over there in the next room.
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  Speaker 4: Me, No, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, I would have been so happy if this was
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  Speaker 3: some bad TV movie, you know what I mean, Just
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  Speaker 3: the fact that anyone is even interested at all.
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  Speaker 4: I would have been so happy for that. So the
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  Speaker 4: fact that that it is where it is is it's
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  Speaker 4: just well surreal.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I can look back to so many years ago,
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  Speaker 1: the first time we had Ben Mazerik in the show,
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  Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden Ben. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: Ben Mezrick has a book that hasn't been made into
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  Speaker 1: a movie.
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  Speaker 2: So you're the next Ben.
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  Speaker 4: That's the goal we are.
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  Speaker 3: We're hoping that, like I said, obviously I have another
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  Speaker 3: story in the works where we're gonna keep this going.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm hoping that one day I am the one
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  Speaker 3: who's adapting the stories.
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  Speaker 2: But you got an advance.
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  Speaker 4: It's coming.
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  Speaker 1: What's the first thing you're going to do for yourself?
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  Speaker 1: That's what people always say, do something for yourself. So
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  Speaker 1: what's the first thing this Malden kid teaching at Dartmouth
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  Speaker 1: High School is going to do?
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  Speaker 2: For looking through the windows? Are you thinking ring No,