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Jay Shetty + James Austin Johnson · Billy & Lisa in the Morning

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Speaker 1: All right, here we go. Good morning everybody, welcome back
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Speaker 1: to the show, Happy Monday and all that good stuff.
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Speaker 1: I'm justin and yes, I have a pair of jingle
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Speaker 1: Ball tickets right now in my hand. The show is
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Speaker 1: a keyword and the keyword will be perfect. How's that.
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Speaker 1: In the meantime, Lisa, you're sitting on a study. You
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Speaker 1: love to find these studies, and they're always good because
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Speaker 1: they generate such good conversation in thought, What do you got?
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Speaker 2: This one actually is really interesting. It says a third
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Speaker 2: of Americans admit a partner's messiness makes them less attractive. So,
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Speaker 2: whether it's dirty socks or towels laying all over the floor,
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Speaker 2: thirty seven percent of partner's messiness made them feel less
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Speaker 2: attracted to them, and then sixty one percent admitted that
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Speaker 2: clutter causes tension in their relationship.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I got to tell you.
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Speaker 4: When I first moved on to campus at Merrimack College,
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Speaker 4: my biggest fear was having a roommate who I didn't
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Speaker 4: know and have never met, and it turns out he
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Speaker 4: was from Canada and a complete slob.
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Speaker 3: I would clean up after him.
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Speaker 2: Well, you're very OCD, so I can totally see that happening.
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Speaker 2: I always look at someone's car.
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Speaker 1: You can tell a lot of by all a person
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Speaker 1: by how clean their car is on the inside.
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Speaker 2: Yes, very much so.
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Speaker 1: Yep.
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Speaker 2: It's harder I think with families, like with young kids
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Speaker 2: and stuff like that to keep a car like, you know,
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Speaker 2: really really really clean.
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Speaker 1: But that is a good thing.
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Speaker 3: I actually agree with this list. Oh yeah, it would
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Speaker 3: be a deal breaking for me.
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Speaker 1: I have a friend who went on a first date
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Speaker 1: with a girl that he was into, you know, physically
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Speaker 1: attracted to her.
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Speaker 5: Nice.
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Speaker 1: They had a good connection. They went on a date,
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Speaker 1: she offered to pick him up, she came, he got
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Speaker 1: in the car, they went to dinner, she dropped him off,
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Speaker 1: and he never spoke to her again because her car
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Speaker 1: was so dirty on the inside. Oh yeah, there was stuff.
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Speaker 1: There was ash on the floor, like.
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Speaker 3: Mashed clambelly French.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: He looked down in between the seats. He could see
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Speaker 1: all the food that fell. O. God, no, which is
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Speaker 1: tough to get out. But for me, my wife when
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Speaker 1: we moved in together, kind of changed me. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a clean but like I'm a dude.
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Speaker 1: So I lived by myself, so I wasn't the cleanest.
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Speaker 7: You know.
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Speaker 1: I was a little messy. And my wife is very
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Speaker 1: clean and she got me in order pretty fast. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know, the clutter and all that. See, I loved
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Speaker 1: the years when I lived alone. All due respect to
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Speaker 1: my wife, I'm even happier now, but living alone, I
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Speaker 1: didn't have to worry about anything.
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Speaker 3: Everything was constantly well you're you're a freak.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're so neat.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm talking about all over the marina.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you like you have cleaners come and then you
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Speaker 2: clean after they leave.
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Speaker 1: I cleaned before they get there too. No, am I
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Speaker 1: being judged. One of my favorite Billy stories happened this summer.
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Speaker 1: We went to Peetown. We sailed down on Billy's boat.
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Speaker 1: It was fantastic, three couples. You know, I'm starving. It's
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Speaker 1: a two hour journey to pee Town. We get off
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Speaker 1: and my wife, I say to my wife, you know
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Speaker 1: when I go.
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Speaker 3: Eat, now, I'm stop.
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Speaker 1: My wife goes, I'm starving, to We docked there, right, Lisa,
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Speaker 1: And I'm like, let's go, and they're like, no, we
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Speaker 1: can't leave yet. Bill has to wash down the boat
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Speaker 1: with a hose, okay, And there's Billy. Then he comes
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Speaker 1: and gets me and makes me drag all these hoses
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Speaker 1: up to help them, and there he is hosing down.
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Speaker 1: Hold on, ready for at least the clean boat.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Here's the thing about boating, though, it's just a giant
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Speaker 4: flex Okay, especially.
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Speaker 3: You go into a visiting marina.
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Speaker 4: You want to make sure, you know, everything looks good, shiny,
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Speaker 4: but you want to get the salt off to it,
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Speaker 4: you know what I mean, No freak with it.
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Speaker 3: I'm a freak.
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Speaker 1: I wanted the lobster role. I just landed. It was
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Speaker 1: my cheap week vacation and you're hosing it down.
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Speaker 2: Well, I was on the boat, I don't know, maybe
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Speaker 2: like a year ago, and you know, we were all
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Speaker 2: like eating, and Billy like we were all sitting at
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Speaker 2: like the little bar are still area, and you were
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Speaker 2: cleaning up before anyone had stopped eating their lunch. Like
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Speaker 2: you had the spray bottle out with a napkin and
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Speaker 2: you were like spraying around all of our plates.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was really weird.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's my wife, Michelle's pet peeve.
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Speaker 4: Like she'll be having a lunch, yeah, and I'll come
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Speaker 4: walking over and I'll spray the.
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Speaker 3: Counter and she'll lift up her a dish. I'm like, god,
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Speaker 3: what are you doing? Like like chemicals. I'm like, right,
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Speaker 3: I don't know. There was a spot on the counter.
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Speaker 1: And imagine he wanted my wife and I to sleep
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Speaker 1: on his boat, and why don't you sleep on the boat?
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Speaker 1: How about no ware, no god business.
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Speaker 8: That's a story about the friend who went on the
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Speaker 8: day and the car was mess and he never called
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Speaker 8: them again. Makes me think of that episode of Friends
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Speaker 8: where Ross went out with Rebecca Romaine and you went
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Speaker 8: back to her apartment and it was so disgusting and
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Speaker 8: put his hand in like putting or something while they
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Speaker 8: were making out, and it was.
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Speaker 5: A rat and a bag of chips.
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Speaker 3: What's up?
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Speaker 2: And we're back with a Villy and Lisa in the morning.
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Speaker 2: I'm not really a morning person, but if I got
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Speaker 2: to wake up early, might as well get a good
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Speaker 2: laugh on Kiss went Away?
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Speaker 9: All right?
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Speaker 1: So the iHeartRadio app boasts many podcasts. You can find
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Speaker 1: this podcast of this show right here the billion Lisa
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Speaker 1: show on there. It's easy to search Billy and Lisa
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Speaker 1: in the Morning, but another podcast that is super popular.
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Speaker 1: He even had Cardi b on recently. Is Jay Shetty?
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Speaker 1: What a resume this guy has and we have him
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Speaker 1: on the phone right now. Who's excited?
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Speaker 3: Jay Shetty, Good to have you on the show. This
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Speaker 3: is so cool.
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Speaker 4: Global best selling author, award winning podcast host, chief Purpose
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Speaker 4: officer of Calm, purpose driven entrepreneur, fifty million followers, and
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Speaker 4: you finally made it to the Billy and Lisa Morning Show.
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Speaker 3: This officially puts you over the top.
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Speaker 6: Jay, I'm so great to meet you, boss.
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Speaker 9: Thanks for having me.
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Speaker 2: Well, we're happy you're coming to Boston. So what can
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Speaker 2: people expect, you know, with your on Purpose tour when
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Speaker 2: you come to the Box Center, you're saying there's going
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Speaker 2: to be some surprise guests.
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Speaker 9: Yes, I'm so excited. I'm going to be bringing my
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Speaker 9: podcast for a live in person experience. I'll be interviewing
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Speaker 9: a very special guest for the audience. We'll be doing
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Speaker 9: a Q and A session so people can ask me
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Speaker 9: questions the audience questions. I'll be leading us all in
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Speaker 9: the meditation and so it's going to be a truly
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Speaker 9: memorable evening and I can't wait for people to come out.
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Speaker 3: Can you tell us who these surprise people might be?
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Speaker 9: Jay, It might be coming out shortly, we may It's
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Speaker 9: definitely someone who's known for being in Boston.
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Speaker 6: Let's say that.
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Speaker 3: Ah.
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Speaker 4: But then again, if you told us it wouldn't be
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Speaker 4: a surprise guest anymore.
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Speaker 1: What did Jake?
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Speaker 6: Exactly?
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Speaker 3: Exactly?
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Speaker 9: But I promise it'll be worth it.
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Speaker 4: I got to tell you, Jay, there's so many people
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Speaker 4: I've told over the past week that Lisa and I
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Speaker 4: were going to be talking to Jay Sheddy.
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Speaker 3: They were overwhelmed.
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Speaker 4: Their immediate reaction was, oh, my god, I love him
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Speaker 4: so much.
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Speaker 9: Oh I love that. That makes me so happy, and
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Speaker 9: send my love to them.
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Speaker 3: Please, I shall, I shall.
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Speaker 4: Now I'm looking at a long list of other major
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Speaker 4: celebrities that you've had on, everybody from Kobe Brian to
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Speaker 4: j Lo will Smith, Solena Gomez and Benni Blanco.
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Speaker 3: I thought was a wonderful, wonderful interview.
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Speaker 9: Jay, Oh, thank you so much. Yeah, they're the best.
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Speaker 9: It was incredible to have such a beautiful conversation with
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Speaker 9: both of them, and it was amazing to see people
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Speaker 9: all over the internet talk about positive masculinity and healthy love,
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Speaker 9: and I think it's made everyone hopeful to find real
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Speaker 9: love again, which is beautiful.
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Speaker 2: Jay, You've been producing content for like ten years, You've
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Speaker 2: been helping people navigate this crazy world that we live in.
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Speaker 2: Why do you think people are craving all of these
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Speaker 2: types of conversations.
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Speaker 9: I think lives, just if we're honest's got harder for everyone.
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Speaker 6: It's difficult.
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Speaker 9: It's challenging, whether that be work, whether it be outside
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Speaker 9: of work, whether it be family. I think people have
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Speaker 9: more stress in their lives. People are busier, they have
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Speaker 9: less help, and so I think it's a time when
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Speaker 9: people are really seeking and I think also at the
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Speaker 9: same time, there's a great appetite for wanting to build
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Speaker 9: habits and improve their lives and improve their sleep and
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Speaker 9: improve the quality of their relationships, which, by the way,
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Speaker 9: I believe are all good things, because if we make
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Speaker 9: a difference when things are easy and things are a
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Speaker 9: bit better for us, then things become better for us
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Speaker 9: in the long term. So I think it's amazing that
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Speaker 9: people opening up to all of these ideas, whether it's
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Speaker 9: through podcast, books, live events, and everything else.
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Speaker 4: Jay, let me ask you this. These are crazy times
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Speaker 4: right now. We keep hearing the word seeing the word anxiety.
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Speaker 4: People are very anxious. They're very nervous between inflation and
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Speaker 4: tariffs and the cost of things for your house, for
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Speaker 4: your home, for your family. If we were in a
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Speaker 4: session right now and we were telling you we were anxious,
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Speaker 4: we were freaked out, what would you tell us?
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Speaker 6: The first thing I'd say is that's normal.
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Speaker 9: And that's natural.
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Speaker 5: It's not a weakness.
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Speaker 9: It's normal right now to feel anxiety. It's natural to
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Speaker 9: feel anxiety, and I think we need to stop feeling
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Speaker 9: like there's something wrong with us. If we feel it,
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Speaker 9: we almost think there's some glitch, or there's some mistake
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Speaker 9: we made, or that it's not meant to happen. I
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Speaker 9: think that's what's meant to happen. If things are uncertain,
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Speaker 9: we will feel anxiety. What I would say is that
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Speaker 9: in times of uncertainty, we often look for certainty to
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Speaker 9: feel stable. But instead of looking for certainty, we should
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Speaker 9: look for service. Look for opportunities to help someone else,
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Speaker 9: look for opportunities to make someone else's day. Sometimes you'll
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Speaker 9: relieve your anxiety quicker by trying to help someone else
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Speaker 9: than you will by trying to solve your own And
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Speaker 9: so I think we will find a lot more meaning
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Speaker 9: and a lot more connection if we help others more
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Speaker 9: than even trying to solve our own anxiety.
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Speaker 2: I know that you talk a lot about the practice
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Speaker 2: of meditation, and I keep telling Billy that he needs
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Speaker 2: to meditate, But why should we all be doing it?
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Speaker 6: Well, I think it's because of what we just spoke about.
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Speaker 9: There's such a newfound, you know, origination of stress through
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Speaker 9: so many things, whether it's you wake up in the
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Speaker 9: morning and you spill your coffee, or you know, you
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Speaker 9: get to work and you're already fifteen minutes late because
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Speaker 9: of the traffic, or you get to a meeting and
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Speaker 9: you realize there's a task that's been incomplete. I think
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Speaker 9: there's so many moments in the day that creates trust.
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Speaker 9: So what we need is a practice that helps us
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Speaker 9: balance that out. We need a practice to bring us
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Speaker 9: back into feeling centered, and meditation does just that. So
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Speaker 9: what I often recommend to people is, if you're feeling stressed,
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Speaker 9: you're feeling like you're out of alignment today, breed out
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Speaker 9: for longer than you breathe in, so breathe in for
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Speaker 9: accounterfeit all, and breed out for more than four If
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Speaker 9: you exhale for longer than you in hell, it relaxes
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Speaker 9: your body and mind. Again, when your breath gets shallow
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Speaker 9: and your breath gets quicker, you want to deepen it
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Speaker 9: and slow it down.
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Speaker 3: That's what I've been doing wrong. I'm breathing in the
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Speaker 3: wrong direction.
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Speaker 1: You're a shallow breather, Jay.
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Speaker 4: If you don't mind, I want to read a couple
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Speaker 4: of your quotes and have you elaborate on you. If
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Speaker 4: you don't mind, I love this one. The longer you
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Speaker 4: stay on the wrong train, the more expensive it is
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Speaker 4: to get home.
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Speaker 3: Please elaborate.
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Speaker 9: Yes, I shared that the the day. It's not one
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Speaker 9: of mine.
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Speaker 6: It's someone that I.
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Speaker 9: Shared earlier this week.
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Speaker 5: But no, I love that quote.
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Speaker 9: It's I think for so many of us, we feel
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Speaker 9: we maybe got on the wrong job, or for so
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Speaker 9: many of us, we feel we got into the wrong relationship.
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Speaker 9: And I think a lot of us are scared of
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Speaker 9: leaving something that feels bad because we're scared of the unknown.
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Speaker 9: But the reality is, if we stay on that train
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Speaker 9: for too long, if we stay in that relationship for
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Speaker 9: too long, with that job for too long, it actually
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Speaker 9: becomes harder to find our way back. So it's never
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Speaker 9: too late to quit. It's never too late to pause,
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Speaker 9: it's never too late to stop. It's important to do
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Speaker 9: that as soon as you feel you can. So I
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Speaker 9: try to encourage people to not put this pressure on
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Speaker 9: themselves to push something or force something to work if
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Speaker 9: it's not serving them.
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Speaker 3: Do you have a favorite book?
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Speaker 2: I know you have two books out, but do you
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Speaker 2: have a favorite book that you always go back to?
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Speaker 9: Oh that's a great question. One of my favorite books
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Speaker 9: of all time is probably Thinking Fast and Slow by
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Speaker 9: Daniel Kahman. It's a brilliant, brilliant book really breaks down
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Speaker 9: how the mind works, how the mind tricks us, how
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Speaker 9: our thoughts work. I love that book.
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Speaker 4: Jay, you spent three years as among you were meditating
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Speaker 4: eight hours a day, and then you realize there are
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Speaker 4: a lot of similarities between that world and the digital world.
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Speaker 9: How so well I found the connection between what I
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Speaker 9: was learning and I was thinking, Wow, this would really
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Speaker 9: help people that I grew up with, and you know,
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Speaker 9: my generation and then every generation.
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Speaker 6: That's now living in the digital world.
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Speaker 9: I find that if you're living in a constant digital
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Speaker 9: landscape with a screen in front of you. Having practices
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Speaker 9: and habits that allow you to detox and disconnect or
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Speaker 9: even more important. And so I'm grateful that I've now
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Speaker 9: been able to feed.
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Speaker 6: The fruits of that labor, because you know, just around.
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Speaker 9: Ten years ago is just an idea, and now I've
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Speaker 9: seen the impact of it.
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Speaker 5: It gives me even.
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Speaker 6: More confidence that these tools.
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Speaker 9: That are thousands of years old are actually so practical
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Speaker 9: and impactful.
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Speaker 3: You're not still meditating eight hours a day, are you, Jay?
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Speaker 5: Not even close? Not even close.
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Speaker 9: It's nowhere near. I don't think I could. I don't
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Speaker 9: think I could hack that with my with my schedule,
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Speaker 9: but I do go back to the monastery every January
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Speaker 9: with my wife to do that. So we do go
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Speaker 9: back and start our year there, which is one of
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Speaker 9: our favorite things to do.
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Speaker 2: Every time your name comes up, Jay, everyone says, oh,
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Speaker 2: my God, I love him so much. But they also say, God,
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Speaker 2: he has the most beautiful blue eyes I've ever seen.
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Speaker 3: Do you hear how many times a day.
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Speaker 1: Do you hear that?
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Speaker 9: I hear it often. I'm very grateful for it, But
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Speaker 9: I can't take any credit for them, because I didn't
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Speaker 9: do anything for them. So it's it's one of those.
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Speaker 6: Cats twenty two situations where yeah, it's like what.
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Speaker 9: Do you do when you didn't earn them or take
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Speaker 9: credit for them? So yeah, I'm grateful.
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Speaker 3: So they're not contacts.
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Speaker 9: Definitely, definitely, No.
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Speaker 3: I am kidding Day.
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Speaker 4: I know you're I know you're coming to Boston.
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Speaker 3: Have you been here much?
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Speaker 6: Yes?
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Speaker 2: I have.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I actually performed at the Fine Theater I believe
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Speaker 9: two years ago as well, so I've been before. I've
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Speaker 9: toured it before. I've always loved coming to Boston and
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Speaker 9: excited to be there again soon.
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Speaker 2: So how can people find you? You're here May fifteenth?
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Speaker 2: Where should they go to get tickets?
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Speaker 9: Yes, I'll be at the Wine Stats in May fifteenth.
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Speaker 9: Head to Jay sheetty dot Me Forward slash Tour for tickets.
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Speaker 9: It's Jay Shetty dot Me Forward slash Tour and the.
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Speaker 4: Wayne Center Wayne Theater rather is a beautiful venue. As
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Speaker 4: you know, you've done it before, which is why you're
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Speaker 4: coming back and doing it again.
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Speaker 3: Jay.
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Speaker 4: We can't thank you enough for giving us the time.
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Speaker 4: I know you're really busy.
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Speaker 3: Oh my god.
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Speaker 4: Fifteenth, can you give up a few of your followers
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Speaker 4: and send them our way fifty million, Jay.
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Speaker 9: I love it. I love it. You guys are the best.
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Speaker 6: No, and I can't wait to see you in the show.
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Speaker 2: From the Planet Fitness Kiss one O eight Studios, We're
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Speaker 2: back with Billy and Lisa in the morning.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back everybody, Final Hour Billy and Lisa Show on
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Speaker 1: a Monday morning. Thanks for rocking with us. As always.
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Speaker 1: If you watch SNL which just premiered last week, President Trump,
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Speaker 1: the guy who does the impersonation is is James Austin Johnson.
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Speaker 1: He actually was in Gloucester recently and checked in with
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Speaker 1: us before the show because well it was his first
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Speaker 1: time here. We had to get him ready for his
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Speaker 1: big show. By the way, this guy his impressions unbelievable.
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Speaker 4: That's right, it's me hot Jack Trump.
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Speaker 3: They finally got the body right. He rose from the
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Speaker 3: dead on the third day. I would have.
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Speaker 5: Done it fast.
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Speaker 3: They possibly do. I'll elect anyone I started that.
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Speaker 4: Oh, thank you.
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Speaker 3: It's me, Hi, I'm the problem. It's me the good morning.
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Speaker 5: James, you got it, baby? What's up?
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Speaker 7: Everybody?
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Speaker 5: How you doing well?
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Speaker 4: I gotta tell you, James, I really was hoping you'd
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Speaker 4: be in the studio live doing Trump this morning.
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Speaker 7: Well, I'm in Princeton Junction train platform right now. I'm
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Speaker 7: trying to get on a train to get up there
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Speaker 7: to Boston. I did a show at Princeton last night
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Speaker 7: entertained the children of America. You know what I mean.
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Speaker 7: I mean they're about to have all their funding cut.
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Speaker 7: I mean, these these universities. You know, we really got
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Speaker 7: to these Princeton kids. They come from meager background, rough neighborhoods,
16:01
Speaker 7: and I'm there to provide a service that could all
16:04
Speaker 7: go away. You know any moment life is short.
16:06
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what we love about you, James. You're always
16:09
Speaker 4: giving back.
16:11
Speaker 7: I'm a big you know, I'm comedy. It's you know,
16:14
Speaker 7: it goes comedy and volunteering and not necessarily in that order.
16:18
Speaker 4: I gotta tell you, James, the place you're performing is
16:21
Speaker 4: in Glocester, beautiful town. But the Cut is a fairly
16:23
Speaker 4: new place. It's a very cool room. I think you're
16:25
Speaker 4: gonna love it.
16:26
Speaker 9: Oh.
16:26
Speaker 7: I can't wait to perform, you know, I do. I do.
16:29
Speaker 7: I've been doing comedy all summer and I you know,
16:33
Speaker 7: I feel rested. I feel ready, not tan. I'm pretty pale,
16:37
Speaker 7: but I think that's gonna be fair. You know, it's
16:39
Speaker 7: gonna be part for the course for Gloucester, I think.
16:42
Speaker 3: And James, since we have you, I got to ask,
16:46
Speaker 3: what the hell is going on with Saturday Night Live?
16:49
Speaker 3: Why is everybody leaving?
16:51
Speaker 5: Oh?
16:52
Speaker 7: You know, I think we had the big SNL fifty
16:55
Speaker 7: celebration and there are a lot of people, you know,
16:59
Speaker 7: staying on for that. And what's happening now is the
17:03
Speaker 7: same thing that happens at the beginning of every season.
17:06
Speaker 7: You know, there is just a molting period where you know,
17:09
Speaker 7: how birds, you know, they pecked themselves to death, growing
17:12
Speaker 7: new feathers. Things we're doing, we're slipping out of our
17:15
Speaker 7: little snake skin. We're becoming something new and fresh. We're
17:18
Speaker 7: getting the youth of America on the showy. You know
17:23
Speaker 7: what's great about season fifty one, People like James Austin
17:27
Speaker 7: Johnson are just hitting their stride.
17:32
Speaker 1: He wasn't going.
17:33
Speaker 5: Anywhere I go.
17:34
Speaker 7: Yeah, so it'll be interesting.
17:36
Speaker 5: You know.
17:37
Speaker 7: I can't wait to get out there on that first
17:39
Speaker 7: show and do it to them.
17:41
Speaker 3: You know, now, I haven't heard I heard a rumor.
17:44
Speaker 3: I don't know if this is fact. Colin Joe's Michael
17:46
Speaker 3: ja are they leaving of the weekend update.
17:49
Speaker 7: Oh man, I am the last to hear about anything.
17:52
Speaker 7: I'm the one with a three year old and you know,
17:55
Speaker 7: stuff to do in the morning, so that nobody tells
17:58
Speaker 7: me anything. I can't stay laid at any hot Hollywood
18:02
Speaker 7: parties finding out the hot goss because I gotta I
18:05
Speaker 7: gotta help with potty training.
18:07
Speaker 5: So and you're asking the wrong guy.
18:08
Speaker 7: You need you need to get Marcello Hernandez on, somebody
18:12
Speaker 7: who stays up past one a m.
18:14
Speaker 4: Yeah, and don't forget you're also giving back to those
18:16
Speaker 4: poor kids in Princeton.
18:18
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm a I'm a man of the community. I'm
18:21
Speaker 7: a man of the people. I don't I don't got
18:22
Speaker 7: time to worry about Chay's contract. You're asking the wrong guy.
18:26
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, so the hell with everybody else. Okay, but
18:29
Speaker 4: let me ask you this, what is the process for
18:32
Speaker 4: getting on Saturday Night Live.
18:34
Speaker 3: I've always wanted to know that.
18:37
Speaker 7: Oh, it seems like it's every It's it's different for everybody.
18:39
Speaker 7: I went to stand up route, but a lot of people,
18:41
Speaker 7: you know, they learn improv and and you know, finally,
18:45
Speaker 7: I mean, this is probably the best way. And Brian
18:48
Speaker 7: Lorne Michaels. I know Will Ferrell famously, you know, walked
18:52
Speaker 7: up to the building with a briefcase full of money.
18:55
Speaker 7: So you know, I you know, there's it could happen
18:58
Speaker 7: for anybody. You know what I mean, you to be funny,
19:01
Speaker 7: but you know I would I would suggest stalking. I
19:04
Speaker 7: would suggest identity seft. It's Mission impossible type scenario where
19:10
Speaker 7: you repel down from the top of thirty Rock and
19:14
Speaker 7: his office.
19:15
Speaker 5: So, you know, there's lots of there's lots of paths.
19:17
Speaker 4: Now is it is it hard to become friends with
19:20
Speaker 4: fellow cast members?
19:22
Speaker 7: Oh not at all. We're all like, we're all comedians.
19:25
Speaker 7: A lot of us have met each other on the
19:26
Speaker 7: way up. Yeah, and uh so. But there's definitely you
19:31
Speaker 7: you eventually meet people that become, you know, best friends.
19:35
Speaker 7: You know, Andrewis Mukes and I share an office and
19:38
Speaker 7: I gave us gave a speech at Yeah he's great,
19:42
Speaker 7: he's the maybe the best comedy writer alive. But I
19:45
Speaker 7: gave a speech at his wedding. I roasted him pretty hard.
19:48
Speaker 7: I said that, uh he's uh you want to hear
19:51
Speaker 7: on my roast jokes from his uh we uh yeah, yeah,
19:54
Speaker 7: I said Andrew's tall and handsome, but you wouldn't know
19:57
Speaker 7: it because he has the posture of the alien from America. Dad.
20:02
Speaker 7: You know what is it with tall guys? How they're
20:04
Speaker 7: so afraid of being tall They've got to flouch all
20:08
Speaker 7: over and accentuate their paunchy little bellies. You know, if
20:11
Speaker 7: I was this is I'm done doing comedy now I'm
20:14
Speaker 7: just talking.
20:15
Speaker 1: We're just having a conversation.
20:16
Speaker 5: Now.
20:16
Speaker 1: You know what's crazy? When I hear James talk in
20:18
Speaker 1: his regular voice, I kind of hear Trump.
20:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, how did you trump?
20:23
Speaker 7: All of these guys? By the way, excuse me? Can
20:25
Speaker 7: I finish?
20:26
Speaker 3: Please?
20:26
Speaker 7: Because there's too many tall guys and they don't stand up.
20:31
Speaker 7: None of them are standing up, and too many people
20:34
Speaker 7: are tall. Chris Pine is too tall, Okay, he should
20:37
Speaker 7: be Paul Rudd, he should be five to nine ball
20:40
Speaker 7: Rudd lovely short, not too tall five nine.
20:44
Speaker 5: Yeah, we love Paul aunt Man.
20:47
Speaker 3: Short of that you've ever seen in your life?
20:50
Speaker 9: Man?
20:50
Speaker 7: You know, I would have done Uncle Man. I would
20:52
Speaker 7: have I would have changed it. But that's good for him.
20:55
Speaker 7: I would do Uncle We do Uncle Man, not aunt Man.
20:58
Speaker 4: We're talking to James Austinson, who by the way is
21:01
Speaker 4: President Trump on Saturday Night Live and is going to
21:04
Speaker 4: be in the Gloucester tonight at the COT seven o'clock show.
21:07
Speaker 4: And by the way, you can go to the exec
21:09
Speaker 4: go to the Cuttonlive dot com. So, James, I want
21:11
Speaker 4: to give you a little tip about Glocester, okay, and
21:13
Speaker 4: maybe a little material. Every year they have a legendary
21:17
Speaker 4: event called the Greasy Pole.
21:19
Speaker 3: It's okay, biggest weekend.
21:22
Speaker 4: Of the year in the town of Gloucester. I'll just
21:25
Speaker 4: leave you with greasy Pole.
21:27
Speaker 3: I'm sure you can work on that pole. A greasy pole.
21:30
Speaker 7: They got a greasy polena. We're gonna be looking into that.
21:34
Speaker 7: We're gonna do something about that shorty. We're gonna be
21:36
Speaker 7: looking into that nasty situation.
21:39
Speaker 3: James, before I let you go, you're in the Bob
21:41
Speaker 3: Dylan movie. Who are you playing it?
21:44
Speaker 9: Yeah?
21:45
Speaker 7: I snuff right in there. I'm like a guy in
21:47
Speaker 7: the folk scene. I'm just one of those guys that goes, wow,
21:50
Speaker 7: can he really sing? Oh my gosh. You know music biopics,
21:53
Speaker 7: you got to have that one guy who's like got
21:55
Speaker 7: his arms folded and then Bob starts telling and then
22:00
Speaker 7: you know, the arms unfold and they go, whoa is
22:02
Speaker 7: this music? I'm that guy?
22:04
Speaker 4: All right, ladies and gentlemen, we're talking about James Austin Johnson.
22:07
Speaker 4: And yeah, he's going to be at the Cut in
22:09
Speaker 4: the Gloucester tonight again. If you want to take it, guys,
22:11
Speaker 4: you gotta go. Thanks so much, James, Welcome to Boston when.
22:14
Speaker 3: You get here.
22:15
Speaker 7: Thank you so much. Great talking with y'all. See me
22:17
Speaker 7: at the Cut, Glocester.
22:19
Speaker 1: It's amazing how he goes in and out of it,
22:20
Speaker 1: so cool like that.
22:23
Speaker 2: And we're back with Villy and Lisa in the morning.
22:26
Speaker 1: Okay, that'll just about do it for the Villy and
22:28
Speaker 1: Lisa Show on this Monday morning. Thank you so much
22:30
Speaker 1: for listening. A reminder your next shot has sold out
22:33
Speaker 1: jingle Ball tickets starring at Sharon by the Way, coming
22:35
Speaker 1: up twelve to ten with McCabe, then again at three
22:38
Speaker 1: ten with the v Bros And Gianna. So we always
22:41
Speaker 1: talk about Lisa's book club is such a big event,
22:44
Speaker 1: always sells out. She has a good one coming up
22:47
Speaker 1: with Jeff Benedict, who's a sports author. He wrote a
22:50
Speaker 1: book on Tiger Woods. He also wrote the book that
22:54
Speaker 1: the Patriots Apple TV series was based on he's done
22:57
Speaker 1: her book club before and he's doing it again again.
23:00
Speaker 1: We had him on the first time. What are the
23:02
Speaker 1: highlights of this year? If you ask me, Jeff Benedict,
23:05
Speaker 1: this guy can write.
23:07
Speaker 4: Hey, Jeff, you there, I am good morning. So Jennifer,
23:11
Speaker 4: I got to make a point here if you don't mind. Okay,
23:13
Speaker 4: I know New York Times Bestseller, Emmy Award winner, Right,
23:18
Speaker 4: I'm not mistaken, right, keep going, hundreds of stories and essays.
23:25
Speaker 4: And you did Lebron James, you did Tiger Woods, obviously
23:28
Speaker 4: the Dynasty.
23:30
Speaker 3: But you know what, Jeff, you haven't.
23:33
Speaker 4: Done Lisa Dunovan's book Club yet.
23:36
Speaker 3: Welcome to the.
23:36
Speaker 2: Octagon back Day, the Mother of All book Club.
23:42
Speaker 5: I was waiting for the punchline. Now you got it.
23:44
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, thank you so much Jeff for doing this.
23:47
Speaker 4: Lisa's doing a fabulous show with the book club, and
23:50
Speaker 4: I think you're really really going.
23:51
Speaker 10: To enjoy the experience. I can't wait, really looking forward
23:55
Speaker 10: to it. I think it's tremendous and it's great just
24:00
Speaker 10: because it's right the heart of Boston, so it was
24:02
Speaker 10: a New Englander.
24:03
Speaker 5: I'm looking forward to it.
24:04
Speaker 2: The link is up, Registrations are rolling in. I'm told
24:08
Speaker 2: so we're going to fill this thing up in the
24:09
Speaker 2: next hour or two, it will be sold out. But
24:11
Speaker 2: I mean, Jeff, we as a group here, we would
24:14
Speaker 2: come in and watch the docuseries The Dynasty on Apple TV,
24:18
Speaker 2: and then we would come in and just talk about it, right, Yeah.
24:22
Speaker 4: Because there were so many parts that just gave us
24:25
Speaker 4: so many questions and I got a lot of chills
24:28
Speaker 4: during the docu series justin you want to play a
24:30
Speaker 4: clip from the Brady Revenge Tour that season.
24:35
Speaker 3: It was like a song from Taylor Swift. He was like,
24:40
Speaker 3: look what you made me do? It was a year.
24:48
Speaker 1: Tamal Baby said that for a long time in that
24:51
Speaker 1: POLM for.
24:52
Speaker 6: Us, anyway.
24:56
Speaker 3: I can kill first.
25:00
Speaker 1: Touchdown.
25:01
Speaker 4: This dude is on another level to begin with, I'm
25:05
Speaker 4: kid a Celebrady right now.
25:11
Speaker 3: You can tell he was angry in your life. The
25:15
Speaker 3: King is back here you goes watch you get pissed
25:18
Speaker 3: off and go, Jeff, do you still get the chills
25:23
Speaker 3: when you watch.
25:24
Speaker 1: Or hear some of this?
25:26
Speaker 5: Yeah?
25:26
Speaker 6: Actually I do.
25:27
Speaker 10: I mean one of the things that for me at
25:29
Speaker 10: least that was really satisfying and fun about making the
25:33
Speaker 10: documentary that was different than the book is that we
25:36
Speaker 10: got to use music like we use Taylor Swift, The
25:39
Speaker 10: Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Freddie Mercury as a way to
25:43
Speaker 10: really bring emotion and power to some of the scenes
25:47
Speaker 10: in the film. That it's obviously a very different medium
25:50
Speaker 10: than the book. The book will always be probably the
25:52
Speaker 10: thing I love the most because I spent a few
25:56
Speaker 10: years with the Patriots team writing that book while was
26:00
Speaker 10: in his final two seasons in New England. By the
26:02
Speaker 10: time we made the documentary, Tom was gone and things
26:07
Speaker 10: were different, But it was just an opportunity to do
26:09
Speaker 10: something on television that you can't do.
26:11
Speaker 5: On the page.
26:13
Speaker 2: One of the things that we talked about a lot
26:15
Speaker 2: when we were watching it was that it seemed like
26:18
Speaker 2: it was a little harsh on Belichick.
26:21
Speaker 3: Would you agree with that?
26:23
Speaker 5: Not really?
26:24
Speaker 10: I mean I think I actually thought we were pretty
26:27
Speaker 10: soft on Bill, you know. I think what's jarring for
26:32
Speaker 10: people though, and the reason I understand why some people
26:35
Speaker 10: think that, and that's a feeling that's actually pretty limited
26:38
Speaker 10: to New England and particularly like hardcore Pats fans, but
26:43
Speaker 10: is that you're seeing Bill on television in an environment
26:47
Speaker 10: that you never see him in before. Bill doesn't really
26:49
Speaker 10: do interviews, He does press conferences, and he kind of
26:53
Speaker 10: has a stick that he does in a press conference.
26:55
Speaker 10: In this situation, he was in a very foreign environment.
26:58
Speaker 10: He's sitting in an interview chain being asked questions that
27:02
Speaker 10: he's really never had to deal with before, and so
27:06
Speaker 10: he looks very stiff, he looks uncomfortable, and the fact
27:09
Speaker 10: is he was stiff and uncomfortable in that environment. But
27:13
Speaker 10: I think if you look at the series in its totality,
27:16
Speaker 10: what you do see is you see who Bill is.
27:19
Speaker 10: He was a very tough, taciturned successful football coach who
27:24
Speaker 10: had a huge part in why the Patriots were so
27:27
Speaker 10: dominant for twenty years. And then you contrast that with Tom,
27:31
Speaker 10: who's kind of the other half of that equation, and
27:34
Speaker 10: their personalities are very different. But the way they came together,
27:38
Speaker 10: it's pretty remarkable what they achieved.
27:40
Speaker 5: But I mean, look, you're seeing Bill as Bill in
27:43
Speaker 5: the series.
27:45
Speaker 4: So did you get calls or email or text from
27:49
Speaker 4: Bill or from Robert or from Tom the first time
27:52
Speaker 4: they saw the docu series?
27:55
Speaker 5: No, no, no, I mean I would never.
27:58
Speaker 9: I mean.
28:00
Speaker 5: I definitely heard a lot.
28:02
Speaker 10: Well, you know, look, you get to know people as
28:05
Speaker 10: I was in this thing for five or six years, right,
28:08
Speaker 10: I mean I worked on these two things back to back.
28:11
Speaker 10: I went from the book to the series, So like
28:14
Speaker 10: five or six years of my life was invested in
28:16
Speaker 10: telling the dynasty story in two different mediums. And you
28:19
Speaker 10: get to know people pretty well and the organization well.
28:23
Speaker 10: And I feel like I know that organization really well
28:26
Speaker 10: and the people who are in it and have a
28:29
Speaker 10: tremendous amount of respect for everything that was done there,
28:33
Speaker 10: starting with the crafts and how they built it and
28:36
Speaker 10: sustained it over that twenty years. It's a remarkable run.
28:40
Speaker 10: By the way, no team is going to catch them.
28:42
Speaker 10: The Chiefs, in my opinion, at least, had very little
28:45
Speaker 10: chance of ever replicating what the Patriots did.
28:48
Speaker 4: Now, the Aaron Hernandez chapter must have been a difficult
28:53
Speaker 4: for you to navigate.
28:56
Speaker 10: I mean as a storyteller, it really wasn't that hard.
29:00
Speaker 10: Look a ton has been written and said about that case.
29:02
Speaker 10: And the nice thing is I wasn't writing a book
29:05
Speaker 10: about Aaron Hernandez, nor would I want to. It's a
29:08
Speaker 10: pretty depressing subject. However, if you're going to write a
29:12
Speaker 10: definitive history of the Patriots dynasty over a twenty year period.
29:15
Speaker 10: You can't just kind of skip over that like it
29:17
Speaker 10: didn't happen. It's a part of the dynasty that actually
29:22
Speaker 10: happens right in the middle of the two Super Bowl runs,
29:25
Speaker 10: the first run in the early two thousands and then.
29:28
Speaker 5: The back end run in the late twenty teens.
29:31
Speaker 10: Hernand sits right in the middle of that, And that's
29:33
Speaker 10: kind of a little bit of a dark spot. And so,
29:37
Speaker 10: I mean, I covered it in the book over like
29:39
Speaker 10: a couple of chapters. In the series, we dealt with
29:43
Speaker 10: that whole thing within one episode.
29:46
Speaker 4: I can't even imagine the relationship between you and the
29:50
Speaker 4: videographers and the editors taking your story, putting it to film,
29:53
Speaker 4: putting it to pictures. It just seems like such a
29:57
Speaker 4: complicated process.
30:01
Speaker 3: That's why it took over five years.