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The Idiot Box · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: The Idiot Box. It's one more thing.
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  Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty. One more thing.
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  Speaker 1: I've watched so much television in my life. Lots and
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  Speaker 1: lots of television. I don't watch any anymore. Almost none.
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  Speaker 1: And haven't for quite a few years since I had kids.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I'll come back to it someday
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  Speaker 1: or not. There's more good TV now than there's ever been.
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  Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that.
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  Speaker 3: The quality. You got everything archived. I mean, it's like music.
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  Speaker 3: Do you want to listen to a great new band? Great.
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  Speaker 3: You want to hear a Hendrix live track? You want
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  Speaker 3: to hear Louis Armstrong? And so, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. My youngest and I are going through Seinfeld season
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  Speaker 1: by season. My oldest and I are going through The
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  Speaker 1: Sopranos season by season. And there's just so much good
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  Speaker 1: stuff out there that I haven't gotten to yet. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I ever will. But the Emmys
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  Speaker 1: were last night. They still do the Emmy Awards. Are
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  Speaker 1: they on television?
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  Speaker 3: Are they aired? They aired on NBC, and then you
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  Speaker 3: could stream it live on Peacock. Of course.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, we got a couple of the speeches. The big
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  Speaker 1: winner was Widow's Bay, which I had never even heard
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  Speaker 1: the name of. They call it a comedy.
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  Speaker 3: It's about a man who recently lost his wife, finding
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  Speaker 3: his way back to joy and love through the affection
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  Speaker 3: of his golden retriever and his new bakery.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was a guy who lost his wife
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  Speaker 1: who keeps his boat safe. and a little inlet protected
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  Speaker 1: from the wind and waves. Widow's Bay.
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  Speaker 3: No, you're thinking of something else.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. What is it about, Katie? Brief version? It won
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  Speaker 1: the most Emmys any comedy's ever won.
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  Speaker 3: It's not a freaking comedy.
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  Speaker 4: It's not.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what? On the actual cover image that
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  Speaker 1: was released before the show came out, it says drama, horror,
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  Speaker 1: and mystery across the bottom. Comedy is not even mentioned in.
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  Speaker 1: So is there some politicking that happens where you think
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  Speaker 1: it's more likely we win awards if we call this
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  Speaker 1: a comedy and who's to tell us it's not? Is
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  Speaker 1: that what's going on there? If we compete in the
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  Speaker 1: drama category, it'll be harder to win?
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  Speaker 3: I have no idea. That's an interesting question.
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  Speaker 1: Winning those awards is huge. Huge, huge, huge, huge, huge.
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  Speaker 1: To the likelihood me or lots of like just random
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  Speaker 1: regular people, you hear it won best this, I'll at
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  Speaker 1: least give that a look.
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  Speaker 3: It's actually a Stephen King-esque story that does have elements
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  Speaker 3: of quirkiness and humor to it where you've got a
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  Speaker 3: well-meaning mayor who's trying to turn his crappy little island
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  Speaker 3: into the next Martha's Vineyard, but there's an evil spirit.
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  Speaker 3: It's cursed.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds funny.
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  Speaker 3: And he's trying to convince people, hey, hey, it's not cursed.
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  Speaker 3: Everything's fine.
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  Speaker 1: Well, like Emmy nominated or Emmy winner is such a draw.
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  Speaker 1: So I really like tires because I'm that kind of guy.
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  Speaker 1: The comedy. Now that's a comedy. There's no doubt they're
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  Speaker 1: going for laughs. But it says Emmy nominated. And I thought, cool.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder what they won for, because I think it's really,
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  Speaker 1: really good. They got nominated for lighting in one episode.
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  Speaker 1: So that's their Emmy nominated comedy. I don't know that
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  Speaker 1: you should get to call yourself that for that.
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  Speaker 3: I've watched several episodes and I could certainly see the characters.
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  Speaker 1: It was well lit.
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  Speaker 3: It was daytime. It looked brighter than the nighttime scenes,
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  Speaker 3: but it doesn't strike me as particularly well lit.
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  Speaker 1: So first we're going to hear from, and the skipper too,
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  Speaker 1: Vince Gilligan. he won his first writing Emmy. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if he brings, talks about that here. This has
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  Speaker 1: got to be one of those, they feel bad that
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  Speaker 1: he's never won one, they got to give him one, right?
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  Speaker 1: For whatever his current show is. Because he is the
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  Speaker 1: guy behind Breaking Bad, one of the most popular, critically
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  Speaker 1: acclaimed shows ever made in the history of looking at
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  Speaker 1: things on video, followed by Better Call Saul. He never
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  Speaker 1: won a writing Emmy?
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Is that even possible? Anyway, here he is.
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  Speaker 3: It's so weird.
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  Speaker 4: A world in which everybody gets along. It's so sci-fi.
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  Speaker 4: But think about it. There's nothing weirder than our current reality.
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  Speaker 4: These past 10 years, you can't write this stuff. I
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  Speaker 4: submit to you that a real world in which people
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  Speaker 4: get along is just as believable as what we've got now.
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  Speaker 3: And achievable.
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  Speaker 4: We will never agree on everything, but we can show
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  Speaker 4: respect to one another, maybe even kindness. And we can
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  Speaker 4: stop listening to a relative few who tell us that
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  Speaker 4: that is for suckers and who get their power from
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  Speaker 4: dividing us. My two cents. And I do want to
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  Speaker 4: thank Apple TV, Sony Pictures Television, and the magnificent Ray Sehorne.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. I love that. I love that. If in
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  Speaker 1: his mind, he's not only picturing one side, which I
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  Speaker 1: don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm taking them at face value. I hope so. Seem
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  Speaker 3: to be calling out both sides. Now the people cheering
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  Speaker 3: in the audience, they're thinking, yes, those evil conservatives need
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  Speaker 3: to stop being so evil.
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  Speaker 1: Then we could all come together.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly. If you just would agree with everything we think,
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  Speaker 3: we could get along.
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  Speaker 1: One of the funniest people who's ever lived is comedian
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  Speaker 1: John Mulaney, and he was the host of the Emmys.
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  Speaker 1: I might have watched a little of if I had
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  Speaker 1: known that, but here's some of him doing something.
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  Speaker 2: Since the creation of television, men have been historically unrepresented.
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  Speaker 2: For the first three years TV existed, there were no
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  Speaker 2: men on it. It was just beauty contests and children
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  Speaker 2: talking to hand puppets until the early 60s, until a
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  Speaker 2: man walked out and said, enough, my name is Fonzie
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  Speaker 2: and the president's been shot. But let's talk about these
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  Speaker 2: bros tonight, these sweat hogs. Some of the men in
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  Speaker 2: this category do method acting, and some do regular, less
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  Speaker 2: annoying acting. But no matter what, when these fellas hit
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  Speaker 2: their mark, they know all their lines. Why? Because they
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  Speaker 2: started looking at their sides earlier that morning. These men,
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  Speaker 2: excuse me, these men give it all in every single take,
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  Speaker 2: unless the coverage is on the other actor and then
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  Speaker 2: they might bounce early, but that's okay. And they can
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  Speaker 2: play anything, these nominees, not just doctors. They can play
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  Speaker 2: a cop or an FBI agent or a secret agent,
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  Speaker 2: and then that's it, no other examples. I believe it
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  Speaker 2: was DJ Khaled who said, real men don't go down
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  Speaker 2: on their wives, but... But these nominees know that that
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  Speaker 2: is BS. They know there's often less pressure on them
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  Speaker 2: if they do that first.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. What the hell? Oh, that's funny.
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  Speaker 3: Took an unfortunate turn there.
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  Speaker 1: He really is one of the funniest people ever. His
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  Speaker 1: delivery on things.
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  Speaker 3: No other examples. Exactly. there's a horse in the hospital. Right.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: He, when he talks about television and movie shows a lot,
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  Speaker 1: like I really liked the, like I'll give an example.
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  Speaker 1: I really liked the sound of music because I was
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  Speaker 1: not good at sports. Reminds me of one other thing
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  Speaker 1: as maybe going to bring to the air. I saw,
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  Speaker 1: why do I have a mental blank on this guy?
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  Speaker 1: He was can in the Barbie movie. That's Ryan Gosling?
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  Speaker 3: Is that his name?
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  Speaker 1: I get him mixed up with another.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds right-ish. I don't know actors.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, there's nobody on this show that knows off the
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  Speaker 1: top of their head who Ken was in the Ken
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  Speaker 1: and Barbie movie. That's interesting. We'll go with that. We
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  Speaker 1: are not a pop culture show. Ryan Gosling. Ryan Gosling. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I think he's really good, and he is hilarious, and
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  Speaker 1: every time he hosts Saturday Night Live, it's a must-see.
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  Speaker 1: But I saw an interview with him the other day
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  Speaker 1: about becoming a movie star, TV star, and he was
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  Speaker 1: talking about when you're up and coming. I thought it
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  Speaker 1: was really interesting about Because he, like most people, went
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  Speaker 1: there and took a long, long, long time to catch on.
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  Speaker 1: But he said, you drive clear across town for an
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  Speaker 1: hour and a half in traffic, park a half a
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  Speaker 1: mile away, go in and see a giant room full
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  Speaker 1: of people who look exactly like you. And then you
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  Speaker 1: wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and
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  Speaker 1: wait and know that they've already picked the person because
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  Speaker 1: you saw one famous person that's going to get the part.
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  Speaker 1: but you think I better go in there and do
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  Speaker 1: it anyway. And you go in and in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of your crying scene, the person that's watching you making
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  Speaker 1: the decisions gets a phone call. So you have to stop.
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  Speaker 1: And then they take their phone call and then they
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  Speaker 1: come back and say, pick up where you left off.
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  Speaker 1: And then you try to get back into it again.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, you didn't get the park and you
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  Speaker 1: go back out to your car and you got a
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  Speaker 1: ticket because it's LA and you got your parking ticket
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  Speaker 1: and you drive two and a half hours to another
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  Speaker 1: place to do it again. That's what it's like to
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  Speaker 1: try to make it in Hollywood. And I thought that
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  Speaker 1: was so good. Ah, Especially that you go, because he
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  Speaker 1: is breathtakingly, you know, perfectly attractive. He's like an AI
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  Speaker 1: creation of good looking. You walk into a room full
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  Speaker 1: of people that look exactly like you do. But that's
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  Speaker 1: shocking the first time it happens to you when you're
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  Speaker 1: a man or a woman. Your whole life, you've been
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  Speaker 1: the best looking person in every room you've ever been in.
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  Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden, wait a second, there's a
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  Speaker 1: hundred people here that look exactly like me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. Just listening to that, I feel... A lot
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  Speaker 3: of us have had experiences like that, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. Yeah, just hearing it, never mind living it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, how many people would give up after doing that, like, twice?
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  Speaker 1: I thought that was a good little, you know, bitty through,
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  Speaker 1: and then you walk all the way out to your car,
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  Speaker 1: and you got a parking ticket under the windshield, whatever. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: after the humiliating experience of nobody giving a crap.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's a lottery ticket, but to get in the lottery...
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  Speaker 3: You have to, you know, try to outshine them. If
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  Speaker 3: you can't outshine them, outwork them. If you can't outwork them,
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  Speaker 3: outlast them, and then get crazy lucky. That was one
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  Speaker 3: of the reasons I gave up on the music business,
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  Speaker 3: that lack of talent. I saw a couple of bands
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  Speaker 3: get major label deals, then get dropped for the most
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  Speaker 3: idiotic of reasons. And it just went ker-bluey. And they're
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  Speaker 3: standing there looking around like, what the hell just happened?
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  Speaker 3: And I thought, no freaking way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was friends with the guys that got— That
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  Speaker 1: and the lack of talent, yes. I was friends with
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  Speaker 1: the guys that got booked by a major label, and
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  Speaker 1: then the music changed. They got booked while music was
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  Speaker 1: a certain thing. Like the next Nirvana Pearl Jam that
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  Speaker 1: hit in, I don't know, 94, 95. They're like, nah,
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  Speaker 1: we're done with that. We're moving on to something else.
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  Speaker 3: Wait.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, we want kind of a Weezer sign. But
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  Speaker 1: that's not what we do.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, you're done. Back when we decided that we were
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  Speaker 3: going to do what we wanted to do no matter
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  Speaker 3: what any executive or consultant told us to do, which
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  Speaker 3: made us so many friends. I remember we talked about music.
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  Speaker 3: I can't remember what band it was. It might have
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  Speaker 3: been some of the guys in REM or something. We're
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  Speaker 3: talking about how if you try to figure out what's
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  Speaker 3: popular and become that band, 19 times out of 20,
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  Speaker 3: you'll be too late. And just as you're getting known
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  Speaker 3: as a hair metal band, hair metal's out. And you've
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  Speaker 3: wasted all that time. So you might as well just
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  Speaker 3: do what you want to do and hope the world
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  Speaker 3: comes around to you or people decide they like you
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  Speaker 3: or whatever. The chasing what's hot thing, it just does
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  Speaker 3: not work, usually. Well, I guess that's it.