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Simply Too Tall to Succeed? · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: The big redhead from Harvard. It's one more thing I'm strong,
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  Speaker 1: and one.
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  Speaker 2: More It's funny. I don't have any feeling of being
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  Speaker 2: impressed when I hear Harvard.
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  Speaker 1: I'm annoyed at this point in my life. Well, I
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  Speaker 1: think I've always been annoyed, although it might have been
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of jealousy. Now it's just annoyed the
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  Speaker 1: more we learn about it, their ideology, how a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people get in. I've known enough people that went
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  Speaker 1: to Harvard now to not be impressed. So the average
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  Speaker 1: grade is an A now whatever. Anyway, Conan O'Brien went
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  Speaker 1: to Harvard and was involved in the National lampoon there
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  Speaker 1: and then went on to write for The Simpsons and
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  Speaker 1: Saturday Night Live and have his own show. And even
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  Speaker 1: with all that success, I think he's more successful now
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  Speaker 1: at age sixty than he's ever been in his career.
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  Speaker 1: He just sold his podcast Delli Out to Serious XM
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  Speaker 1: for one hundred and fifty million dollars and he's got
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  Speaker 1: millions of people that tune into his various works now,
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  Speaker 1: so good for him. Funny guy, creative guy. An interesting
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  Speaker 1: thing about his personality that I heard in an interview,
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  Speaker 1: I want to bring up. But first, let's hear a
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  Speaker 1: clip of him on The Tonight Show last night with
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Fallon, first time he'd been back to the Tonight
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  Speaker 1: Show since he got it taken away from him back
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  Speaker 1: in the day.
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  Speaker 3: This really nice young guy in a white shirt in
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  Speaker 3: a baseball cap starts chatting with me, and he's saying,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Cone and I love the podcast, and.
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  Speaker 1: Also I really love the old late night clips.
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  Speaker 3: I watch him all the time, and you know, I
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  Speaker 3: also really like the stuff you did with the Simpsons.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm like, he's so nice. Yeah, I'm saying, thank
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  Speaker 3: you so much. Then we both go through the TSA thing.
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  Speaker 3: He goes through. I go through. I collect all my stuff,
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  Speaker 3: you know the way you're kind of distracted. I put
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  Speaker 3: my belt on, get my shoes back on. I turn around,
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  Speaker 3: see the guy white shirt hat, and I go, you
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  Speaker 3: know what, let's do selfie. Come on, come Oure'll do
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  Speaker 3: a selfie. And the guy goes, okay, let's go your knucklehead,
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  Speaker 3: and I get I'm like in a headlock. Yeah, And
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  Speaker 3: he does a selfie and just as he's taking it,
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  Speaker 3: I look, my guy's over there. This is just a
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  Speaker 3: guy who's also wearing a white shirt in a baseball cap,
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  Speaker 3: which is pretty.
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  Speaker 1: Eff in common.
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  Speaker 3: So rewind that story now and see it from his
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  Speaker 3: point of view. He's waiting for his wife to come through.
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  Speaker 3: Connor O'Brien comes through and it's like, hey, beget it,
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  Speaker 3: tell me.
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  Speaker 1: I have talking about And I.
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  Speaker 3: Told the guy I feel so, but you can delete it,
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  Speaker 3: and he was looked like he was on the fence
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  Speaker 3: about deleting it. I felt terrible, but I love moments
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  Speaker 3: like that where I'm go right back down to whatever
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  Speaker 3: you think you've achieved in life. There's a guy who
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  Speaker 3: thinks I met Connor O'Brian. He's just an insane a hole.
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  Speaker 3: That would be confusing. You're standing there, go to Brian
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  Speaker 3: all of a sudden shows up.
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  Speaker 1: Let's let selfie, what what?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, that's a great story, oh Lord, and well told God.
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  Speaker 1: Conan O'Brien flying commercial and taking off his belt and shoes.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, when was that or does he still do that?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I wonder he doesn't even do the TSA PreCheck.
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  Speaker 2: It's not that expensive, man, So.
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  Speaker 1: One thing, did you so? Conan O'Brien's probably really closer
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  Speaker 1: to your era Katie as being the big late night
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  Speaker 1: king in ours. Yeah, oh yeah, huge. I love him.
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  Speaker 4: I think he's hysterically funny.
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  Speaker 1: He is, he is a funny, funny guy. Well, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I love watching his stuff where he goes out in
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  Speaker 4: the public and just messes with people. He's got a
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  Speaker 4: great series on YouTube where I think if you just
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  Speaker 4: type in Conan, he has his own channel and it's
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  Speaker 4: just all this stuff of him with like Kevin Hart
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  Speaker 4: having the intern drive and just completely screwing with her
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  Speaker 4: the whole time.
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  Speaker 2: It's just wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And uh what another ConA of thing is, Oh
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  Speaker 1: I heard Adam Sandler on a different podcast talking about
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  Speaker 1: how when Conan So, Conan was a writer there and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of those big stars from Sarah and Liver
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  Speaker 1: are there, and then when Conan got his own show,
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  Speaker 1: they were all so excited for him because they all
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  Speaker 1: liked him, and Adam Sandler and David Spadeen, Chris Farline
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  Speaker 1: all those people went over to somebody's house to watch
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  Speaker 1: his first show because they were all so excited that
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  Speaker 1: he was getting his big shot to be a big deal.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, I needed to turn out to be a
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  Speaker 1: big deal. Like I've mentioned a few times, he just
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  Speaker 1: sold his podcast for one hundred and fifty million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Too serious, after all his success, so good for him.
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  Speaker 1: But even with all that, he was on some buddy
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  Speaker 1: else's show and talking about how and I think this
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  Speaker 1: is true for a lot of people. How no matter
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  Speaker 1: what has happened in his life, he's still the same
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  Speaker 1: guy who was in high school. When in high school
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  Speaker 1: he was a very awkward, not very well liked, weirdo
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  Speaker 1: with not very many friends. And he said he's still that,
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  Speaker 1: he still sees himself that way. He's still always uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 1: He just he said he doesn't at this point, he's
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  Speaker 1: sixty years old. He doesn't expect anything will ever change that.
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  Speaker 1: So no level of crowds, cheering, money, success, anything has
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  Speaker 1: changed who he was in high school. And even without
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  Speaker 1: the crowd's money and everything like that, I feel the
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  Speaker 1: same way too. So why is who we were in
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  Speaker 1: high school baked into who we are for the rest
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  Speaker 1: of our lives. Whose cruel trick was that?
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  Speaker 2: I guess back when I would have been a cave boy,
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  Speaker 2: it just didn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: Life was so completely different for the.
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  Speaker 2: First ninety nine point nine nine nine nine nine percent
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  Speaker 2: of mankind's existence. It was, you know, all right, look,
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  Speaker 2: you're you're of breeding age, you're of fighting age. You're
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  Speaker 2: tracking down a mastadon and putting a spirit of age.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get this done.
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  Speaker 1: When you're going to be dead by age twenty four
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  Speaker 1: most likely. Yeah, yeah, so it didn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're searching for yourself at age forty eight as
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  Speaker 2: a cave man.
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  Speaker 1: Well that's a rarity.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't know who I am.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen it work both ways too. I've known a
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  Speaker 1: few people that were big deals in high school and
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  Speaker 1: adult life has not worked out for them that well,
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  Speaker 1: but they still see themselves as the big deal, and
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  Speaker 1: it just it's kind of weird to be around, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, don't I look that great for you? But okay,
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  Speaker 1: good for you? Well, I still got the nose in
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  Speaker 1: the air. Congrats looking good.
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  Speaker 4: But it makes it hard to feel bad for them, though.
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  Speaker 1: Right right, right, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't Yeah, I suppose so, I don't recall
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  Speaker 2: running into anybody who really answered to that description recently,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, I don't know. I think I would pity
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  Speaker 2: them all the more. But again, I haven't brushed up
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  Speaker 2: against them, So I don't know. But getting back to
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  Speaker 2: the whole caveman thing, so I guess, you know, typical
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  Speaker 2: if you're going to have like a midnight a midlife crisis,
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  Speaker 2: or you know what am I doing? Why am I
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  Speaker 2: doing this? Is this how I want to spend the
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  Speaker 2: rest of my life and be like at age seventeen
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  Speaker 2: as a caveman, right right, all of this eating meat and.
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  Speaker 1: Sitting around a fire. And I wonder if that's the
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  Speaker 1: biggest problem, If that's the biggest problem modern humans have,
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  Speaker 1: is our brains and consciousness just was not designed to
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  Speaker 1: go past like hardly past age twenty breed, win a battle,
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  Speaker 1: die next right, right, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I'd imagine if there were scientists fifty thousand years ago,
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  Speaker 2: if you were to say to them, what do you
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  Speaker 2: suppose happens to the brain around age eighty? They would say,
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  Speaker 2: what the hell are you talking about?
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  Speaker 1: Why do you care? Right? Yeah? Are you going to
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  Speaker 1: become disillusioned with life at age forty five? Forty five?
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  Speaker 1: Who do you know is forty five? Says the caveman,
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  Speaker 1: right yeah, yeah?
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  Speaker 2: And if they are, so, what if you'll excuse me,
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  Speaker 2: there's a tiger chewing on my leg.
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  Speaker 1: But if you have imposter syndrome, I would say, if
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  Speaker 1: Conan O'Brien still has imposter syndrome, you ain't getting rid
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  Speaker 1: of yours either, no matter what you achieved. That's what
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  Speaker 1: I learned.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, you know, I became aware that. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I suppose I can go ahead and say it. My daughter,
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  Speaker 2: like so many of us, has a bit of that.
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  Speaker 2: And we were touring in law school the other day
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  Speaker 2: and the two fabulous young women who were taking us
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  Speaker 2: around on the tour admitted to flaming imposters syndrome. And
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  Speaker 2: they were so sweet. They said, everybody has it. Everybody
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  Speaker 2: has it, don't worry about it. You can do this,
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  Speaker 2: You'll be fine. And it was great, and I think
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  Speaker 2: more people need to know that. I tried to teach
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  Speaker 2: my kids that, you know that feeling your big successful
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  Speaker 2: dad has it every day every day.
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  Speaker 1: Don't worry about it.
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  Speaker 2: Fake it till you make it seriously. But it's hard
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  Speaker 2: to convince people. They think, oh, you're just saying that
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  Speaker 2: to make me feel better, right.
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  Speaker 1: I remember an interview I saw with Paul Begala. He
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  Speaker 1: is one of the people that got Bill Clinton elected president,
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  Speaker 1: and he was talking about what was like to be
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  Speaker 1: at the White House and walk in there every single day,
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  Speaker 1: and he said, if you don't walk into the White
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  Speaker 1: House every day with imposter syndrome, there's something seriously wrong
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  Speaker 1: with you, because everybody feels like I can't believe I'm here?
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  Speaker 1: Why am I here? Of all people? Me right right?
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  Speaker 2: I am not good enough for this, I am not
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  Speaker 2: important enough for this. I see the ghost of you know,
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  Speaker 2: Thomas Jefferson standing there in the corner. Hi, Tom, did
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  Speaker 2: you see the game last night?
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  Speaker 1: So I bet again kind of get in to the
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  Speaker 1: other side of it. I feel like I have known
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  Speaker 1: some people who don't seem like they've ever had any
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  Speaker 1: self doubt one second in their lives. And are they
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  Speaker 1: just pulling it off really well or are they actually
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  Speaker 1: not ever have any self doubt? I think those.
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  Speaker 2: People probably exist, Katie, your opinion, I just think don't
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  Speaker 2: think there are many.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like, if you hm, I feel like they're
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  Speaker 4: probably just hiding it. Well, it's like a natural, a
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  Speaker 4: natural thing for someone to feel.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I would guess eighty percent of the
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  Speaker 2: people you perceive are that way are faking it, And
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  Speaker 2: maybe twenty percent of those people actually have whatever genetic
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  Speaker 2: gift it is to be you know, super comfortable and
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  Speaker 2: no impostor syndrome. I you know, it's I didn't really
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  Speaker 2: have it until I became an adult, and I get.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't your money either, But it's
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  Speaker 1: part partially because I hadn't achieved anything. So what would
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  Speaker 1: I be an impostor about? I was just gonna say.
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  Speaker 2: As I kept running into things that were increasingly difficult,
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  Speaker 2: I would think, oh boy, I could I could really
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  Speaker 2: fail at this. Does anybody around here realize I could
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  Speaker 2: completely fail at this?
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  Speaker 1: I still katiecause I wear a suit to work most days.
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  Speaker 1: I still like walking down the street in a suit.
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  Speaker 1: Feel like people can look at me and say, what
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  Speaker 1: was that guy to wearing a suit for? He's not
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  Speaker 1: a suit guy? Who are you trying to? Kids?
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  Speaker 4: Go out knowing a thing about you?
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  Speaker 1: Right? You just could tell by looking at me that's
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  Speaker 1: not a guy who wears a suit kind to act
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  Speaker 1: as that.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, you think he borrowed that suit or star or something.
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  Speaker 2: Let's trying to impress Look at the dipshit in the
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  Speaker 2: suit trying the kid right exactly?
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  Speaker 1: That's what I think.
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  Speaker 5: You guys want to hear something else about Conan as
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  Speaker 5: far as you're really tall, and he had some you know,
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  Speaker 5: Harold just played the clip for you one go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, spinning up on this desk. I was almost as
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  Speaker 1: tall as you are. You're very tall, yes, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: a freak. Yeah, it's not good.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a kind of height and many people have said
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  Speaker 3: that it's gonna that would hurt your career to be
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  Speaker 3: that tall. I was told that there were over the
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  Speaker 3: years guests that might not want to come on, especially
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  Speaker 3: male actors that are smaller. No, I was self conscious
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  Speaker 3: about that. I didn't want to as you know, if
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  Speaker 3: you're the host, you want to make sure that everyone's comfortable. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and I didn't want to be this big muppet's puppet
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  Speaker 3: dangling over everybody, so I was constantly crouching.
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  Speaker 1: That's interesting. I'm more interested from the side of there
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  Speaker 1: are actors who wouldn't go on a show because you'd
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  Speaker 1: be shorter than the host really.
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  Speaker 2: Or well because you would look really really short.
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  Speaker 1: Uh huh. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: There have been a bunch of movies stars like that
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  Speaker 2: through there is Tom Cruise.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad I don't have to live my life thinking
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  Speaker 1: about that.
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  Speaker 2: Humphrey Bogart was tiny, which I hadn't realized until you know,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he was long gone, but.
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  Speaker 1: I just saw his So we were at the Warner
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  Speaker 1: Brothers tour. My son and I took in Burbank and
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  Speaker 1: they have the outfitty war in Casablanca. It's like, what
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  Speaker 1: is he a pigmy? Was he a fifth grader? And
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  Speaker 1: who could fit in that?
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  Speaker 4: He's only he was only five to eight?
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  Speaker 1: Oh was even that tall? You mess up on a
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  Speaker 1: tiny five eight. He had these tiny little shoes and pants.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, oh yeah, he probably had a twenty five
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  Speaker 2: inch waist, as guys did at the time. But wow, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of it is love sings with Ingrid Bergmann
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  Speaker 2: other leading ladies. He was literally standing on a box.
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  Speaker 1: Not sexy.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, that's amazing because his work, he just looks taller.
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  Speaker 4: You just make that assumption.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, O'Brien look up at him, and everybody knows
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  Speaker 1: why I never went on Conan. That's right.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, just some things that you could look at on YouTube.
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  Speaker 5: Conan Staring contest with Andy Richter, that's a good one.
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  Speaker 5: Conan drives a ups truck kind of you remember that
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  Speaker 5: was a funny one. He goes on a route with
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  Speaker 5: the UPS driver. It's hilarious. He also visits a winery
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  Speaker 5: to see how wine.
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  Speaker 1: Is made, and I love that one as well. So okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'll do stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Excellent tips, thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I guess that's it.