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Garrett Morris Dana is first season SNL standout. You might not remember him because you're just a young pup, but
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>> Garrett Morris was I was very excited to have Garrett on because >> to have his perspective
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of being in that whirlwind of the first season. >> Yeah, that first five years is sort of
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the story of SNL. He was he just came to play. He was full of t energy and fun >> laughing
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>> and I don't know if it's okay to say so so it's like that or whatever. So I
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think he might have smoked marijuana for a bit until he >> but he was really really funny and full
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of a lot of >> yeah happy to be there um like talking and those are the best guests because
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they come ready to play and they just want to screw around and >> we did learn a lot but we also learned a
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lot that's all we want to do. >> Him and Chvy did some things together.
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Chvy wrote for him and yeah >> he did the interpretive guy was yelling if you remember that from the 70s but
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impaired newscaster. Yeah. >> But it's really fun interview with with Garrett. I would listen to this.
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>> Here he is. Garrett Morris. >> Garrett, you uh my last name is Spade.
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>> You already screwed it up by having exconvict on your show. Okay. >> Whoa. Let's get down to it.
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>> Yeah. >> Did you serve time? That's it's my only question.
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>> I'm not lying. I'm not lying. I actually spent a year and a half at what is known
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as Great Meadows Correctional Facilities. I was a teacher. >> Oh, I was at the Tim Meadows
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Correctional Facility. Uh, no, Garrett, you were a teacher in there. You, too. >> Uh, go ahead. Go ahead, Garrett. Let's
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hear about that. >> Anyway, I I in like 196869, I was a school teacher. I taught at PS71
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over on the east side and I also taught um they had a program for teaching convicts and I was a part of it. They
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gave us a um a folkswagen, right? >> Folks, you guys say it's really folks
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vag. Anyway, and I didn't know I was driving along the drug drug um thing and I used
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to get c called on all the time by the cops. Okay. >> Wait, wait. You were running drugs in
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the Volkswagen and then you got pulled over. >> And you were also teaching kids
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and running drugs. I don't get >> I was teaching those murderers drama.
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>> Oh, okay. >> Yes. >> You have quite a resume. I looked it up.
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>> Oh my god. It's it's it's vast. >> You know, Garrett, I have to tell
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Garrett something just so we we have some common ground here. Uh Garrett, I was in Arizona, you know, running the
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harsh streets of Scottsdale. And when I was about, you know, 18, 19, I was trying to flirt with this girl, leaving
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a SAPE party at Arizona State. >> And I got pulled over immediately and they cuffed me and said, "You have to go
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to jail." I don't think Dana I didn't tell you this. Uh so I go I go to jail
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and I say hey any reason for the jail you know uh I I didn't even ask uh cuz I
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just felt I'm pretty guilty about a lot of things and they said yeah you've
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gotten too many tickets speeding tickets and we have a warrant for arrest and I realized they didn't. So a couple hours
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in I go can I see those? And they showed me copies and it was my brother's signature saying he was me because he
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got pulled over so much he would have had to go to jail. She goes, "No, no, I
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don't have my license. I'm David." And so then he signed them all and then he
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still didn't pay him. And then I spent the night in the clink and I had to have
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another comedian come bail me out. >> Oh wow. >> Chevy Chase bailed you out.
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>> You still brother? >> I still speak with my brother unfortunately. But he know I'm such a
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[ __ ] I I would never really give him any trouble about it and I didn't. >> Is he out Is he out of jail?
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>> No, I was the one out. He never went. I had to do the time for him. >> I I had three older brothers that would
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stuff pan uh stolen items down my pants cuz I was nine and they were 11, 12, 13,
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and they were all juvenile delinquents. We fought, we smoked, we stole, but they
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would stuff them down my pants cuz I look so little and so innocent and I'd walk out. But yeah, I I stole a lot of
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stuff when I was nine. I'm just putting it out there right now. I would I stole
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10 yo-yos in one day. >> I've had I've had three weekends in the tank myself. Okay.
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>> See, we're all not soft. We're all from the [ __ ] streets. Let's Let's get
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that out of the way. Yeah. Got it. >> You know, so I I'm not innocent at all.
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But one time it was because a traffic cop broke the law and use a slim gym right to go into my car and he looked
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under the mat in the front seat and found a bag of marijuana which is illegal cop. Okay.
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>> Yeah. >> Anyway, I go to the empire to get my car and I see about four or five cops
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standing around my car. I'm not stupid. So I wait, right? and they wait and about 30 minutes. Guess what? I say,
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"Okay, let's go get my car." So, I go to the car and I don't go in and they come
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and they say, "Open this back door." I said, "No, I'm not opening it."
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>> Oh my god. >> They open it, right? And then I was doing my karate thing, right? So, I had
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a ye in the back. >> Yeah. >> And they said, "Open that bag." I said,
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"No, sir." They opened it and they had put the grass in the bag. >> Oh my god.
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>> They all framed and Yeah. They handcuffed me. But anyway, I go I go downtown and I'm I'm I'm being booked.
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And sure enough, there was a cop there who was him. He says to me, "See John
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Yanuki." Now, way back there, John Yani was a very progressive Italian uh lawyer
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who was hooked up, right? He was helping out. Sure enough, I went over there. John, figure out what it was about. He
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said, "This see me Monday. A coming Monday, John whispers something in the judge's ear and the judge says, "Garrett
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Morris." I raised my hand, said, "Get out of here. I don't want to see you."
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And he >> All right. >> He whispered, "You were framed." Right.
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That's crazy. >> Well, the c the lawyer probably told him how the cop got the grave.
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>> Yeah. No body cams back then. >> Yeah. How you been doing, man? How you
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been doing? >> I'm doing good. Me me and Dana have been uh having fun. Look at my hair looks
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good today. You know film something this week. >> Are you Are you and Dana an item?
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>> Oh, an item. >> An item. >> I just Are you breaking a story?
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>> Listen, Garrett. What happens on Flying the Wall stays and fly on the wall? Am I
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cancelled now? That's that can't do anymore. We'll >> I'm leading the cancel. Yeah. Dana and I
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are old buddies and we sort of emerge in the same person over time. >> I must say you do look like you came
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from the same mama. You do? >> Yeah. >> Same tribe. Irish. Irish. Scottish.
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Norwegian. >> Yeah. >> What's your tribe? German. >> Really?
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>> I'm Scottish Norwegian. >> Yeah. >> Well, I'm pan Cambodian, Nigerian, West
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Africa. And by the way, ancestry.com says I have a little bit of Finnish in me. Can you believe that?
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>> That's interesting. It's down deep. Yeah. I can't prize. By the way, tomorrow's my birthday.
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>> Tomorrow's your birthday. I read that your birthday's coming up. Is it the
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first? Is that what it is? >> Tomorrow. So, February 1st. Yes. >> Okay. We'll delete this because this is
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going to be airing in 2027. >> Uh, no, we don't we don't know when.
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>> No, we're >> All right. What's your secret? I have to ask. What are you What are you drinking?
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Is that >> this here is green tea? Okay, >> that's it. That's the
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>> active glucco tea. It helps to reduce your glucose um count. So >> blood sugar stuff.
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>> Yeah. Yeah. I I have a I'm type two diabetes. >> Your energy uh doesn't match your birth
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certificate. It's huge. I mean, you're just like on fire. You're just
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energetic. >> I I can't tell you on here, man. This is recorded by cops. Okay.
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Okay. >> Yeah, they're always monitoring this. >> I will say, Garrett, you are um you have
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sort of a uh very bright uh light and energy about you and a fun thing about you. And I see why in comedy you do well
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because you always bring it. You're very vocal. You got a strong voice. You just
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have a fun vibe. And I think that's >> positive. Yeah. >> People want to work with you.
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>> So when it comes to comedy, this is what I say. I am an actor who was in a comedy
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show many many years ago and I have been suffering ever since. >> Now why have you been suffering? So are
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we? >> BECAUSE EVERYWHERE I GO PEOPLE want me to be funny and as my ex-wife would tell
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you well she used to tell me all the time in word you ain't funny. >> Fill in the blanks. I got it.
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>> Yeah. Yeah. Uh, well, I think you're funny. And uh, you know, a lot of people
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have a funny vibe about them. Like people say the when I date girls, I go, "What do you look for?" And I go, "I
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like a girl that's funny, but I don't mean she needs to be Robin Williams."
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Some girls just have like a charm and fun thing about them and that's funny to
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me and it's a lightness and fun. They don't have to be like, you know, Henny
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Youngman yada. So, I like that. I go, I'll take care of that part. >> Take my leg.
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>> Exactly. But by the way, Dana Garrett has worked with Prior and all these huge, huge
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stars, which I look over and I can't believe how cool it is. >> I got to work with Richard Prior, but I
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want to hear your story first. Don't want up them yet. >> I have a a nice Richard story.
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>> I have a great Richard Prior story. Okay, >> I want to hear yours.
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>> When Richard and I were coat fiends, >> that's the title. Dana's story doesn't
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start like that. Right. >> But Richard brought his own group because he had heard that I was Lauren.
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>> Nobody had heard about me except people on East Coast. >> So Richard brought his own writers.
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>> Nobody knew. I got this job which 75 was a pretty good job for a black guy to
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get. They're thinking I'm Lawren Lauren uh help me. >> Lauren Michaels.
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>> Lauren Michaels. Lawn Michaels in word. Can I say one of the things? Lawn
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>> like you were his main man. You can you can say anything you want as far as I'm
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concerned. >> Thought that was going on that Richard had gotten that Lord had gotten some
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guys who knew. Well, at the time I got to Saturday Night Live. I'd already been
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in New York for like 17 years. I had written two plays. >> Two plays. Yeah, I read that.
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>> I've been at least 15 off Broadway and Broadway shows. Uh, and so I had paid my
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dues, right? And they didn't know that. So when Richard came, he brought his own
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group >> and he didn't use me and I was really hurt by that because until this day,
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Richard is my favorite monologueist of all time. Right. Yeah. >> And at that time I was really very hurt
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because I wanted to work for him. So he did the show, didn't use me, but later
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on when I went to California, he was doing a movie called Critical Condition, and I got a call from my agent saying,
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"Richard Prior wants you to be in the show, be in the movie, and he never said
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anything." I assume that was his way of saying, "Hey, >> you know, I'm sorry." or something like,
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"I like you." Yeah, >> that was that was >> very sweet, sensitive.
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>> Well, you know, a lot of hosts do that. I mean, a lot of hosts still bring in
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writers just because they get scared like maybe Paul Mooney was with Richard. I don't know who he was with
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>> back. He was a force of nature. Paul Mooney, I used to do stand up with him
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in the late 70s and I would go, why is this guy in this little club? I mean, he was so charismatic and so good-looking
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and so funny. It was like just everything. >> I love Mooney. I'm sure he was behind
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Richard doing what he did because he was rich. >> But he to this day I see because much of
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what Richard did was Paul Mooney, >> right? >> And the thing Okay, go ahead. I what do
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you think you know when you the idea of a manologist you know I I think of that more voiceorientated but I think that
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with Richard from what when I first saw him on the Ed Sullivan show he mimed for
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two minutes a guy reaching under his underarm to see if he had bo and it was like just a silent movie you know so
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Richard had that capacity to paint a picture >> instantly and he could do just a
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straight monologue so I don't know >> he could tell stories like >> yeah and play all the
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Yeah, you could talk when you talk about Mudbone, you wouldn't be laughing for
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like two, three minutes >> till he got to the punch line. >> Yeah. >> But you was so engaged in Mudbone till
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this time till this day again. How did you say the word? I said monologue. You say it again.
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>> A monologist. >> Anyway, I sometimes I have trouble with English.
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>> I knew I want to tell my Richard Prior little story here. >> Tell me kind of. So, I'm working at the
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Holiday as a waiter. >> Yeah. And it was near the Circle Star Theater up near San Francisco. Richard's
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headlining there. So Richard's in the restaurant. So I got to go serve Richard
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and I was really nervous. So I I brought him a a a Denver omelette. Okay. And then later on I came back and I I uh
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took the plate and he looked up at me and said, quote, "Whoever made that omelette can suck my dick."
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And I never knew if it was a positive or negative review. >> 12 years later, I'm in a movie with
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Richard Prior, which I'll tell you about. We're at lunch, and I just wanted
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to know what he meant that day, but I didn't want to bring it up. He probably
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probably wouldn't remember. So, I look at him. I take a bite of my cheeseburger, and I said, "This cheese
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uh this uh this cheeseburger is really, really, really uh good." And he goes,
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"Wow, well, you must want to suck somebody's dick." No, I can't. I got the
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headline. He got I got it wrong. >> He that he uses that suck dick metaphor
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a lot. Guess what he >> Oh, okay. So, it wasn't just me. Yeah. >> One of the funniest jokes I ever heard
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was when he said, "This [ __ ] was so fine I want to suck her daddy's dick."
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>> I like that one. Yeah. I just want to say I just had a root canal and a crown put in and I'm kind of
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spaced out. So the end of the joke went like this, you know. >> Okay, do it again.
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>> Um he goes, um um I like Wait a minute. I'm so I'm so stone from the dentist.
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>> The punch line. The punch line. >> You do it again. >> I said
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no. I can't I really can't remember. >> I think you said this cheeseburger can
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suck my dick. Did you? >> No. No. It was Yeah. with it was a reverse that I I got the the information
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by setting a trap, you know. Oh, and I I I will get to it before this podcast's
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over, but I am so high right now. >> I mean, I'm I'm just like I'm very
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>> What kind of What kind of marijuana? >> Marijuana? No, it was dental stuff.
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>> Okay. Okay. >> But if I if I do smoke marijuana, my brand is my brand is Sledgehammer.
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That's my brand of cannabis. >> Oh. Thank God. >> Your brand of cannabis is what?
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>> Sledgehammer. >> Sledgehammer >> from the Peter Gabriel collection.
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>> Yeah, I like that name. It sounds cool. >> Shovel to the face. >> No, I will be smoking a joint. Okay.
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>> Hey, Garrett, I have a question for you. You can smoke a joint right now while I
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ask you if you want. >> Um, now Garrett, when you >> Okay, bring me a joint.
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>> Oh, boy. Uh, uh, so when you come on SNL, it must be like the dirty dozen. So
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you guys all get together. You don't you probably don't know each other, right?
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>> And then you are thrown together and you're sort of like, "Okay, let's see
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what works, what doesn't work." And you were Oh, you were a writer. You were a
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writer at the beginning, right? >> Yes, I was. Yes. >> Okay. So, you weren't on I don't think
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you were on camera till later. I think that was a a decision that was made later. Correct.
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>> I actually was on camera the first show of this. Let me tell Can I >> Yeah.
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>> You're in the middle of a story. I don't want to cut you off. >> No way. It's about you. About you.
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>> I was a playwright, right? So, I brought Lauren my play. He read it and liked it
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because there's a couple funny things in it. He hired me. I didn't know that just
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because you write a play that's about two hours doesn't mean you can write 30
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minutes, 30 seconds. >> Yeah. A little tiny sketch. Yeah, for sure. >> It took me about four or five months to
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realize I couldn't do it. And and I was feeling really pissed off myself till
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finally I realized I had an idea because in my play, the Black Panther group that
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I have is called the Young Lions makes a joke about how when they're collecting
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money at fundraising, they want to raise a lot of money when they have white guilty white liberals in the audience.
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>> I love them. >> Right. So I have to tell that idea. I'm going to call his name to Schiller. Who
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do you remember? >> Oh, Tom Schiller. Oh, Tommy Schill. Yeah. >> Right.
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Goes over to uh the studio and tells it to another guy whose name I will not call.
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>> That guy then writes it down as his idea. >> Whoa. Wait a minute.
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>> Right. when I come over it's written down and he's not even giving me credit
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for even contributing. Right. So anyway anyway what happened now I don't am I
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tell I'll tell you the whole story. Anyway >> yeah anyway what happened was it became
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a thing called a white guilt relief fund. >> Yes. I remember the sketch >> right.
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>> Yeah. >> And I don't know I when I start off to help me because I'm I'm 85. I may be on
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track. >> You would ask white people for donations out of guilt and make them an honorary
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negro. You'd send them a plaque or >> right. Anyway, that was the only thing that I did that
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I thought was worthwhile. And this guy who at that time was a second in command to and beats. Right
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>> now, here's what happened was I was so mad. I was so angry about that. Yeah.
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>> Took me a couple of weeks to stew over that. And I was going to make a serious
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mistake. I was going to come in this particular day and let him know what's for. And even if it meant physically
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confronting him, I was going to do that. Although I knew he was a wrestling champ.
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>> Now you think I know who it is. >> Wrestling champ from Harvard. I knew
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>> I think I know who it is. >> I didn't care. I didn't care. I said if
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I'll get a couple of licks in >> Yeah. after he whips my ass, he's still
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going to remember me, right? Yeah. >> So, I get off to the elevator and somebody's there says, "Garrett, Lauren
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wants to see you in the green room." I go to the green room and sure enough,
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John and Gilda and Jane had told Lauren Michaels, "Look, you've got got Garrett
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bringing in black actors. He's one himself and here's a movie he's done."
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Then we're looking at [ __ ] High. >> Oh, [ __ ] High, >> right? So Lon looked at [ __ ] High. He
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auditioned me with Gilda and I was totally counter punched because Gilda is like Gilda was to this day that her she
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how she improvised. You didn't even know she's doing it, right? >> And I counter punched throughout that.
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It was our setup was I was a taxi driver from JFK with her as my my uh passenger
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and I was cheating the hell out of her all the way. Right. And so anyway, that's how I became a member of the
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group. So I was there the first the first time we did it from the beginning. But I didn't start off that way. No.
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>> Wow. But how about you turn your anger and you had to switch gears and >> I I look I I look I'm a Buddhist so I
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don't believe in necessarily in a personal god but somebody really was in the works who stopped that because I was
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going to make a serious serious mistake. Listen, Franken Franken's got some ground game, too.
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>> Would you have go-to moves, Garrett? I mean, how as a fighter, would you do the
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kind of, hey, let's be friends and then headbutt or would you work the body or
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what would be your kind of go-to moves? >> I would have gone to the sus first
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because that would have brought him down, >> then I would have kicked him in the
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chin. Boom. He's going to get up mad as hell and do some kind of a hold and break my neck. Okay.
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>> But, okay. Look, if you're short like I am and don't weigh much, you got to go
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for what you know. >> Yeah, you got to get away. You You hit fast and then you move. But be scrappy.
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>> There was no way to get one in. >> There was no way I could have won that
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fight. >> Yeah. No, I know the dude and he would he's very tough when he gets in the
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ground game. I would say >> I listen I got mad at him too, but I didn't I I didn't think of fighting
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>> decision. Hey, before we go on, can I just do the Richard Prior joke? We can
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cut it out, but it really bugged me. We need it. We need it. >> All right. I'm so sorry about the
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dentist, but here it is. I waited. I'll set it up real fast. When gave Rich Prior a Denver omelet at the holiday in.
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I brought got the ta the plate up and he said, "Whoever made that omelette can
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suck my dick." 12 years later, true story, in a movie, wanted to know what he meant by suck my dick. Was it
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positive or negative? I'm having lunch with him. I take a I take a bite of the
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cheeseburger. I look at Richard and I say, "Well, whoever made this cheeseburger can suck my dick." And
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Richard said, "You must love that cheeseburger." That's how you do it. Boom. Dana,
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>> I'm making Garrett happy. That's what I love. I never knew I would say suck my
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dick on this podcast. Now I've said it seven times. That's a mic drop. >> Reminds me, ladies and gentlemen, what
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do you have >> if you have a potato with a penis? >> Excuse me? Uh, a patinis.
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>> That's a Yeah, >> you have a dictator, stupid. >> Oh my god.
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>> Why do you have to add the stupid part? >> Yeah, stupid. >> It's just It's a pretty good joke.
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>> No, cuz you didn't know what it was. Stupid. >> Stupid. I like the stupid at the end.
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Was hilarious. That could have been a guy character. So So you were part of that original lexicon. I mean, who was
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your hangout friend of the cast? These are just basic SNL questions. >> Who' you gravitate to?
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>> Was it Gilda or just everybody or did you have people >> Gilda, Jane, uh, and Chevy? Uh, but I
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didn't do what I should have done because I should have also after the show. After the show at the first couple
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of years, it was you go downtown to this bar. I think of Willie. >> Oh, yeah. You have the party.
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>> Yeah. That's equal to that golf game that people talk about where you form
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alliances, right? So, I didn't do that. So, I really had a lot of people not
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liking me, thinking I was stuck up and all that. >> Well, yeah. Why didn't you go? I'm now I
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want to know >> because I even to this day am introvert working against that. All right. I've
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really gotten over it to a lot lot large extent. But also, I had at that time, >> okay, do you want to really know the
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real truth? >> Go ahead. >> I would have had probably a couple of girls at home waiting with some cocaine
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so we can do what we're going to do. >> So, it was either the girls in the
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cocaine or having Lauren tell his story about how we met. I think it >> Well, listen, that's a tough one, Dana,
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because his story sounds great, like all that fun stuff, but then you look back and you realize you've got such huge
00:24:49
talented cool people that you get to cuz I was going to say, Garrett, did you have an official afterparty? It sounds
00:24:55
like you didn't, but we had Dana was on and then I was on with him for a while
00:24:59
and we had they would walk around with a ticket, a secret, you know, during the show. Remember this, Dana? and they'd
00:25:04
hand you it and you put it in your wardrobe or something and you go, "Here's where the party is. Don't tell
00:25:08
anyone." And it was during the live show. So you go, "Okay." And then after
00:25:11
the show, you'd go straight there, but they didn't want everyone to find out
00:25:14
about it. And so we'd have a designated spot every Saturday and we'd go there.
00:25:20
Sort of the same thing. You just go there and get all [ __ ] up with everybody. >> But you see, I'm sure that the reason
00:25:25
why that didn't happen to me is because at first I set up not going in the first
00:25:29
place, >> right? So when that started happening, people probably said, "Well, you know,
00:25:34
[ __ ] him." You know, he doesn't Well, you had some responsibilities. But I
00:25:38
remember when I first got on SNL, Lauren was telling me about, you know, Chvy and
00:25:42
Danny and everybody and Garrett. He said, "Garrett, you only do that again.
00:25:45
Do that again." >> Chevy and Danny and, you know, Eddie and all the people and Paul, you know, you
00:25:52
could never get Garrett to the party unless you brought some cocaine and some hookers.
00:25:56
>> I go, "Really?" >> Right. I'm sure. >> Right. I'm sure that
00:26:00
>> I'm sure they would have said that and they would have been correct.
00:26:03
>> It's good bait. >> Well, the thing about it was coming in '
00:26:06
86, you guys were bad asses. Like to me, that original cast, you guys were Oh, a
00:26:13
little Oh, a little bit of a Okay, let's Little Powerflower. Let's >> Oh, you're going to blow your nose.
00:26:18
Powerfly. >> Yeah. a little gentleman joined us um been on Saturday Night Live from the original Cash Young
00:26:27
man named uh Garrett Morris. Can we come? But we thought of you guys as badass pirates. You would fight. There
00:26:33
were drugs, you know, Chevy and and Bill Murray would fight and Blue She was like
00:26:38
a badass. And then we got in and people were having like Amstill lights. We'd
00:26:42
have a Bud Light at the party with me and Phil and just look around. >> Yeah. We didn't party as we didn't
00:26:46
belong. Well, can I say something about John? >> Yeah. >> John, when he and I were both into the cocaine
00:26:56
thing. >> Yeah. >> He already talked to me unless he needed cocaine.
00:27:01
>> And I get a knock on the door. >> Hey, buddy. >> Come in and I put my, you know, tin foil
00:27:08
down there. And you know what he would do? >> Do 10 of them. >> By the time he got through, I had none
00:27:14
left. So he would just go in, get a straw on his nose, go down on the desk. You were about to snort the coke and he
00:27:21
would snort all of it. >> Oh my god. He would leave a little bit at a little bit at the end. God.
00:27:27
>> Oh, nice guy. >> A brilliantly talented man, but boy, >> I had mineral water and Norah Dun would
00:27:34
come in and JUST CHUG IT. >> I'M KIDDING. NO, but what was it about like I tried cocaine. I've talked about
00:27:42
it. I just like you're say you're you're fighting being introverted like when I
00:27:46
did cocaine within 30 seconds I was very sad. I I just made me it made me very anxious and very paranoid. I only tried
00:27:56
it twice and I one time I did some cocaine drove to the comedy club and I couldn't go in the club because I knew
00:28:03
they all hated me in there and then I just drove back home. So, how how did it But I knew people that cocaine spoke to
00:28:10
them, that eventually they had it in a little thing and they just sniff it all day.
00:28:14
>> Yeah. >> Um, so what what did it do to you? I mean, did you >> Coca Cocaine uh did the opposite to me.
00:28:21
It livened me up. >> Yeah. >> Mhm. >> Uh >> Oh. Because you were an introvert, so it
00:28:25
kind of opened you up a little. >> But then you need more cocaine, right? You're losing the high. You got to get
00:28:29
more, right? >> That's the trouble. >> That's the trouble because the thing
00:28:32
that first high, you never get it again, Dana. Uh, you never get it again, David.
00:28:37
Okay. >> Yeah. >> After that, you're striving to get that first high.
00:28:42
>> So, even if you're on for like 35 years, which I was, >> 35 years.
00:28:47
>> Yeah. You definitely you get never get that again. Then you start smoking it,
00:28:52
>> right? And you get that >> and then smoking it, you're coming down.
00:28:57
So, you keep coming down. You never get that first high again. Okay. >> So, doesn't make you stop chasing it. I
00:29:03
was there. I did it for a while. Well, Lynn Bias is one for Do you remember Lyn Bias?
00:29:07
>> Oh, yeah. What a mess. Yeah. >> And he when that happened to him, I
00:29:11
started thinking, Garrett, you're way older than this guy. You're way older.
00:29:15
And you know, something's going, you know, you're lucky that didn't that
00:29:19
didn't happen to you. >> You know, Garrett, I was I was in it during Lenbias. Lenbias, for the for the
00:29:24
listeners, is a basketball player that got recruited by the Celtics, I think. Yes.
00:29:29
>> And I think he died >> after draft night or something from doing too much cocaine. I think before
00:29:34
he played and that was the first time I think I knew you could die from just doing straight cocaine. Like I had heard
00:29:40
that. >> Excuse me. Excuse me. >> Oh, he's he dropped his joint. His house
00:29:44
is on fire. >> No, he's actually >> Oh. Oh. Is it okay to say that we think
00:29:49
our friend Garrett Morris uh is enjoying some fine cannabis? >> Sativa. Sativa.
00:29:55
>> Sativa. >> Oh. Oh. So that's like what does that do? It evens your energy out or what?
00:30:01
It's a T is a kind of marijuana that lets you stay awake. >> Oh, it's upper. Okay.
00:30:06
>> Yeah, it's an upper. Uh if you get hybrid, it's in between. If you get
00:30:11
indica, you're going to go to sleep. >> So, a lot of times when I'm working,
00:30:15
I'll either do it without folking or with this, you know. >> Well, I worked with Scatman Kurthers
00:30:22
once in Rockefeller Center. Yeah. >> I envy you. Okay. >> Oh. Yeah, those cat man,
00:30:29
>> angel from heaven, sweetest guy. >> Oh, wow. >> And always was he'd go in the bathroom
00:30:35
and you'd hear him and he he'd be smoking weed, you know. And uh >> so one night, it was the one anniversary
00:30:42
of John Lennin's uh death. And my brother was visiting the show. It was a sitcom with Mickey Rooney, another crazy
00:30:48
man. And Scatman gave us a joint. He rolled it in front of us and he had both ends were closed off. He did it without
00:30:55
even looking, you know. And so then we tried it and it was terrible. It was really weak. So the next break I brought
00:31:03
back some Colombian pot from Santa Cruz. Purple hair. >> I did. And the next day in the elevator,
00:31:10
now Scatman was from the 30s when it was elicit. He in the elevator people around. He says to me, quote, "The music
00:31:16
was good. Might I get a pound of your weed?" So after the show was over, my brother and I got a huge bag of
00:31:25
pot, grocery bag of pot, drove it down to Van Ice where Scatman lived. Brought him the pot, played banjo, kept in touch
00:31:33
with him. No, his guitar. He had a ukulele. Ste going strong. >> We've never met like a a character like
00:31:41
Scatman, you know. You see that man there? He said he points to the janitor. He goes, "That man's an artist. That man
00:31:48
is an artist." You know, he was just taking us all these different places. But what a
00:31:53
>> he did. He was in Blues Brothers, Dana. And that's the only reason I knew who he
00:31:56
was. I was young and I saw I think he was in Blues Brothers. He sang Manny the Moocher. Is that what I'm thinking?
00:32:01
>> Did you see? >> I know was in it, right? >> Yeah. >> He was in He was in The Shining.
00:32:06
>> Oh, I don't Oh, yeah. Oh, that was him, Jack. >> Jack Nicholson.
00:32:10
>> You know what? I have never seen that. >> It's scary. I love my man, but I hate um
00:32:18
>> scary movies. >> Yeah, I hate scary movies. >> Yeah, so do I, dude. I'm with you.
00:32:22
>> I can't. >> Well, you said that Jack brought in a suitcase of pot into London.
00:32:26
>> Yeah, by pot you mean cocaine. >> No, this was cannabis. And he goes and
00:32:32
they go and Jack goes, I'm not going to sell it. It's just for my personal use.
00:32:38
>> And they let him through. >> Really? >> Yeah. >> Cuz he's a monster. Uh, shoot. I uh I
00:32:45
have another thing. Did you have any favorite sketches back then, Garrett, when you were there that first year?
00:32:50
>> Uh, the uh Colossal uh president. >> What was that? >> Colossal President.
00:32:56
>> Yeah. There was this uh thing at the 12 mile island or something like that.
00:33:01
>> Mhm. >> Where the uh nuclear thing? >> Oh, four mile island.
00:33:04
>> Three mile. Three mile. >> Three mile. I knew it was >> 5k. Yeah.
00:33:09
>> Everybody's big. Uh, and I I'm the uh wife of um the president and he's big
00:33:16
and I'm big, you know. Um, another one that was my favorite, not for any other
00:33:21
reason, but I really think about it as a way in which somebody didn't get the
00:33:25
message. It was with um uh OJ Simp. >> Oh. >> Where he was a mandingo who goes around
00:33:33
all raping all the uh black slaves, female slaves. And at the end I'm supposed to kiss. We're supposed to
00:33:41
kiss. >> I don't want to kiss him. David >> a sketch. >> Simon is to kiss. YOU KNOW LIKE THIS TO
00:33:49
KISS HIM AND HE BACKS AWAY AS IF I REALLY want to. >> Ah, you were just acting right. You do.
00:33:56
>> Oh man. >> Another one is uh something that Alan Swell did. Uh the um um um baseball um
00:34:04
>> very very good. >> Chico Chico baseball been very very good for me. Yeah,
00:34:08
>> actually Chico is really um Brian Doll Murray's original concept which he and
00:34:16
his brother came up with. Then u Allan enlarged on it, right? So we would do a piece like that all the time and also I
00:34:25
can't uh throw out um something that uh Chevy came up with for me which is hard
00:34:30
to hear. >> Yeah. Which became kind of a >> a runner. Are you sure? >> Yeah. And Bell's a big writer there.
00:34:38
Yeah, he was good, right? >> Oh, I think he I love him. I love Swbell. >> Yeah. Yeah, he's great.
00:34:48
>> But Garrett, now when you did um in the beginning, Oh, first of all, now that
00:34:52
that one uh I don't know when Prior hosted or what year was when they that sketch with Chevy. I think it must have
00:34:57
been the first year. Wasn't Chevy only one year? >> Yeah, >> Chevy. No, Chevy came in after a year
00:35:03
and a half. Oh, no. I thought he left. I'm sorry. No was in after. You're right. He was in
00:35:11
like a year. Right. And then Bill Murray came in. Right. >> Right. And >> and Chevy blew up. What was that like
00:35:18
when one cast member was like, wasn't he on the cover of Time or something? I
00:35:21
mean, it just went. >> Was he on the cover of Time? I didn't know. >> Or Newsweek. I mean, I know that Chvy
00:35:26
just got so much >> I say right on. He with Fletch. That was the name of Fletch.
00:35:31
>> Yeah. He did a lot of movies. Yeah. I thought, however, he waited he should
00:35:36
have waited a little longer. >> Of I I agree. He wishes he'd never left.
00:35:40
He He wishes he'd stayed at least five years, >> right? Just like the guy who was on that
00:35:45
uh cop show uh who later on did a CSI. >> David Caruso. >> Yeah, he left too soon.
00:35:52
>> You know, that happens. And I get I sort of get it, but Chvy was a tall greatl
00:35:57
looking guy and he's a and he was really good in comedy and then he was a movie
00:36:00
star. Like I don't even know what that would be like. But to leave when you know it's the best show, it's the
00:36:06
coolest show. Like you guys I know Chvy blew up, but all you guys were huge the Beatles. I mean every
00:36:12
>> Rebel I mean there just was nothing like it. I mean I was in college and when it
00:36:16
when it came on and I saw all you guys >> made me feel old fellas. Okay. >> When I was old all the time you were
00:36:24
what how old were you when >> I was being born in the hospital and it was on TV and I was like this looks
00:36:29
pretty funny. Oh my god. >> I was born in 1988, but I >> when when I when I got into Saturday
00:36:39
Night Live, I had been in New York about 17 years, right? And you were 38. >> When I was asked to join uh Saturday
00:36:47
Night Live, uh all those other excuse [ __ ] had just got out of high school and
00:36:54
college. I was about 10 years away from a AA RP. Okay. He didn't you you did not
00:37:00
look older than anyone. You didn't stand out as like >> Phil Hartman I think was 38.
00:37:04
>> I was 39 years old. >> Oh yeah. >> Yeah. >> Now Garrett this uh Dana I just want to
00:37:10
ask him which I everyone might know this but Chevy does there's some sketches
00:37:15
people remember you know and one of them is Chevy interviewing Richard Prior when
00:37:18
he was there for a job. And who and who wrote that? >> Huh? >> Who who wrote that one?
00:37:24
>> I think Chevy and Richard together. >> Oh cool. Yeah, that >> Yeah,
00:37:29
>> that's like I mean when you look back on what you guys did comedically
00:37:35
>> classic that's a classic >> and then what you could what we call it
00:37:39
now sounds what we can get away with now you know it's just very different at the
00:37:45
time even at the time it was incendiary but now it would be like go to a test pattern right just get cancelled
00:37:52
>> I mean Lauren did he did at the right time cuz in about 10 is we got into what
00:37:58
we into now, right? Which is where >> which is a softening. >> Yeah. You I mean with all due respect to
00:38:05
the brilliant cast that Saturday life had always had, you can't really write
00:38:10
for them the way they wrote for us uh then. I mean, you know, and I I hate that. I hate that.
00:38:18
>> It's a real It's a Rubik's cube. You got to really you really have to cleverly
00:38:22
get clever stuff in because you can't it's almost like you're pulling from the
00:38:26
same eight jokes that everyone's allowed to use now, right? >> And that won't make people mad. But you
00:38:30
guys, I think the first five I think you're on for five years that at least the standards and practices didn't even
00:38:37
know what to say no to. They were like, "This is so ridiculous." Like they had
00:38:41
to learn and go, "Oh, wait, wait. We don't like that. We're getting a lot of
00:38:43
complaints about that. We have to stop that." But it was like playing whack-a-ole because every week you think
00:38:48
of a new way to offend people and that was the greatest part of it. >> Well, no, no one cared initially and
00:38:53
then the show became a smash. At what point? I mean, two years in you guys just blew up. But initially probably
00:38:59
they didn't. No one's watching. >> We had a lot of people who who were we
00:39:03
thought were progressive. Okay. Look, in my opinion, the true progressive. >> Yeah.
00:39:09
>> Without any sign of racism whatsoever. But I thought, >> so he's like, so he's like me.
00:39:15
>> I thought, for instance, that Michael O'Donn would be the same way. Michael
00:39:22
O'Donnell, with all due respect, was an absolute racist [ __ ] >> You got to add [ __ ] to that
00:39:30
because it just thought show there was a skit that was going to have a black doctor, right? Have a do,
00:39:39
not a black doctor. And I wasn't in it at all. So I said, "Hey, Michael, why
00:39:43
don't we have the doctor be black?" You know what he tells me? Well, Gary, uh,
00:39:48
the audience might be thrown by a black doctor. Now, this is 1975, right? And I'm from New Orleans, where from the
00:39:56
time I was 12 years old, I was surrounded not only by hordes of black medical doctors, but black PhDs as well.
00:40:06
And I'm wondering how a guy whose name is associated with National Lampoon doesn't [ __ ] know this.
00:40:13
>> Did he not see Guess Who's Coming to Dinner with Sydney Poier, which I saw in
00:40:18
the theater at age eight? And I it infected me the rest of my life. And I got to do a lot of benefits with Cedar
00:40:25
uh Sydney Poier. And uh >> he's he's another real gentleman. Sorry,
00:40:29
I'm still a little high slurring, but >> Well, that's tough cuz yeah, you're
00:40:32
lighting the show. You say, "Hey, can I get thrown into a sketch?" and he said,
00:40:35
"No, this one's not right for you." And it's like, "Oh boy,
00:40:38
>> you can't be a black doctor. What are you talking about?" You know, we're
00:40:41
talking about 558. I remember being almost how you walk by a person just walk by and you
00:40:50
I'm on 72nd Street and he's coming towards me and I from like a half a block away. I say that's [ __ ] Sydney
00:40:56
Quartier, right? >> And just pass him like that. And to this day, I remember
00:41:03
that day, you know. Oh yeah, he was so eloquent. I remember I did a bunch of benefits for Cedar Sinai and he was
00:41:09
always there and then one time I got off stage and I was walking to the audience,
00:41:13
he stopped me and I was able to do my Yeah. And he he gave me some praise and I did my I said they call me Mr. Tibs
00:41:22
from the >> and he laughed so hard. It was Rod Stiger, I think. But yeah, for me there
00:41:28
were so many brilliant uh movies in the 60s and 70s and just a lot of my heroes were black. I mean, just Jimmyi Hendris.
00:41:35
My brother came in 1966. He came home. He was 13. He said, "I just saw the best
00:41:39
guitar player in the world." I said, "What's his name?" He goes, "Jimmy
00:41:42
Hendris." But we didn't, we weren't, we were kind of progressive in our own way
00:41:46
back then because we just wanted to see Jimmy. We didn't think, you know, and I
00:41:51
went to the first integrated a very, very well integrated high school with busing in 1969. So,
00:41:57
>> talking about Jimmyi Hendricks, you know what he did when he came back from
00:42:00
England where he had already become famous? He got on the corner of 125th Street and 7th 7th Avenue and played the
00:42:08
guitar for like 18 hours or so >> just to introduce people to him. >> Oh my.
00:42:16
>> He was really something else. He was >> No. Like Neil Young has said about him,
00:42:19
no one's ever played the guitar like Jimmyi Hendris. >> Did Jimmyi Hendrickx was never he did he
00:42:24
die before Esnell or he's somebody they would have on? >> He was one of those caught up in with
00:42:28
you know >> Yeah, he died. He was like 27, right? 27. 27. Yeah. 27. Um, you know, Janice
00:42:35
Joplin around the same age. >> Oh, man. >> Kurt. >> I hate it when she I hate it when that
00:42:40
happened to Janice. I I loved her ass, man. I mean, you know what I mean? >> Yeah.
00:42:46
>> Well, again, you know, there are there's just certain talents like Janice's
00:42:50
singing and there's a word I use a lot, supernatural. >> WELL, I MEAN, THAT SCREAMING, the
00:42:57
intensity of it was just crazy. WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, ESPECIALLY COMING out of a
00:43:02
white woman. Okay. >> Sure. >> Damn. >> Yeah. She has such a talent and then it
00:43:08
almost like they burn out quickly because it's so much talent and so that voice was so cool and everything and you
00:43:15
you hope it's around forever. But >> yeah. Yeah. Well, it's also just the
00:43:19
accidental playing with fire, you know, Jim Morrison. Once you start playing with opioids and mixing that stuff in,
00:43:26
uh, you know, of course, you know, John Belushi, you know, it's it wasn't
00:43:31
intentional. Uh, but you're playing with fire. It's it's just >> matter of fact, that's another thing
00:43:35
that started me to straighten up. >> Yeah. John's death. >> Was John during when you were on SNL?
00:43:42
When was it? I can't He was 33. >> Like 83, I think. Right. It was after
00:43:45
SNL when he he died. And the thing is John and I didn't really hang. >> Only when he needed cocaine did he?
00:43:52
>> Yeah. Right. Yeah. Sure. >> Yes. So what how did that affect you?
00:43:55
That did that get you off cocaine or you just started to slow down or what happened?
00:43:59
>> Slow down and by the time I came here here I was it's not something you could
00:44:06
just stop. U but by 2005 uh I went to AA alcohol anonymous. >> Yeah. and they do something that
00:44:17
accessories you, they will call your ass, okay? >> And they will sponsor you over and over.
00:44:23
And so through that, I really uh I've succeeded in getting rid of it. Okay? >> Much different with cigarettes, which I
00:44:32
still am struggling with. But uh I'm glad that it's 2005. It's been not 2022.
00:44:41
>> Yeah. Here we are >> off since that what 17 years 16. Yeah. Yeah.
00:44:45
>> Well, the body has a remarkable healing apparatus on once you give it a break,
00:44:49
you know. So, >> you're did do you have a lot of people who lived a long time in your family
00:44:54
tree? >> Matter of fact, my grandfather lived in '92. >> Okay. >> So, so you got someity there.
00:45:01
>> My grandmother got I'm sure got cancer when she was in her 50s. >> Pass. My mother lived to 80
00:45:09
>> but uh she didn't take care of herself. Okay. So there's a couple, you know,
00:45:14
either I'm gonna look at my grandfather and, you know, stay for a minute. >> How do you deal with stress? Are you
00:45:21
really Buddhist? Are you really zen? Are you are you relaxed in your brain all the time, guys?
00:45:26
>> All the respect. I know you guys hear Buddhism and you think Zen Zen not is
00:45:32
not is only one part of Buddhist. There are 300, right? >> Over 300,000 Buddhists worldwide. And
00:45:39
two of them are like me. They chant which is not the same thing as the Zen Buddhist. Okay.
00:45:47
>> Right. So you chant, >> they meditate. >> No, it's [ __ ] it up.
00:45:59
>> Let me hear it. which means dedicated to the mystic law of cause and effect which means you don't believe in
00:46:09
a personal god but you do regard the law as being in the place that most other religions place god it is the most
00:46:18
sacred right >> well I I did transcendental meditation and my m mantra is >> do I I'm a TM practitioner too
00:46:27
>> yeah my my mantra dominite which I found out later was Native American for drop
00:46:31
your shorts. We don't have much time. >> Are you telling people your mantra?
00:46:35
>> No, I was kidding. I'm just joking. I would never tell you my mantra.
00:46:38
>> I like Yeah, don't tell him. >> My mantra is Garrett. Garrett, listen.
00:46:45
>> Garrett, after SNL, first of all, there's too many cool people there. You
00:46:48
had you had Danny Akroyd, who we did I did two movies with, three actually. Great guy. Uh
00:46:53
>> beautiful guy. Yes, >> he was beautiful dude. seem like uh did did you hang with anyone after the the
00:46:59
following years me you stay in touch or just see him when you see him kind of thing?
00:47:03
>> So I saw him when I saw him um when Jane was out here doing two rock pieces dog
00:47:07
on the phone. >> Oh that's right. Jane was on a second rock from the sun third rock from the
00:47:13
sun. Right. >> And now I had big quadrant relationship with Lorraine >> because her daughter Hannah who is very
00:47:21
very talented. Did you see her in hacks? Oh, hacks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. >> He is a dynamite actor and also a very
00:47:30
fine comedian. She did my show >> uh last year. >> Yeah. >> Garrett, you who was your headwriter
00:47:37
when you started? Was it Anne Beats? >> Anne Beats was. Yes, >> she was. See, they had a girl headwriter
00:47:43
back then, which is probably >> Yeah. Right. That was unusual. >> More rare than a black doctor.
00:47:46
>> And that other guy we talked we didn't mention that was the uh assistant
00:47:51
headwriter. I know who you're talking about. >> And look, I was very sorry about what
00:47:58
happened to him because I think that I'm not going to call their names. They
00:48:04
backed him up when that thing happened. >> They should have backed him up and not
00:48:08
let him go the way he did. >> Uh was a lot of politics. I know what you're talking about. A lot of politics.
00:48:14
>> What he did was not He didn't have to leave because of that. Yeah, I tend to
00:48:20
agree. >> It was a purge that had to happen, but it it some people got swept up into it
00:48:25
that maybe in a more reasonable time would have Yeah. >> Yeah. He's done been treated like that
00:48:30
at all. >> Yeah, I agree. >> Yeah. >> Geez. I wonder if I'm canled right now.
00:48:34
Do you think we could be cancelled? >> Cancelled because you agreed. >> We said suck my dick. I said Sydney Pier
00:48:40
black man. >> First of all, he says with all due respect to us and then he says with all
00:48:44
due respect, [ __ ] other people. So it really did lost a little bit. a white [ __ ] from from Mor. So,
00:48:50
I'm I'm just happy the rest of the day. Like my day is a home run now cuz Do you
00:48:55
have any kids? >> I've got two sons and they're in show business. >> Mother every day.
00:49:01
>> Oh, you are a [ __ ] >> Yeah, I guess so. I mean, he got you on a technicality. D
00:49:09
>> [ __ ] is just a great word because of the rhythm of it. [ __ ] >> You know, it's a great word. I mean do
00:49:16
gosh darn it that's not doesn't get >> in my community gentlemen we
00:49:20
>> you say it better >> he's a bad [ __ ] meaning you Dana meaning a great guy
00:49:27
>> yeah I like that >> I say of like oh Rachel Maddo I say she's a bad [ __ ] right
00:49:34
>> rather than a [ __ ] >> RIGHT SHE'S A BAD [ __ ] YOU although I
00:49:38
don't look in the news anymore because it depresses me >> no no no it's it's to it's designed to
00:49:44
get us all angry Agree. >> When I was Rachel all the time and what's the other lady? Um Joy Reed,
00:49:52
>> you know. >> Joy Reed. Yeah. >> Yeah. You know, I remember I remember
00:49:57
you know. >> Yeah. >> Brian. Yeah. So Williams was my thing until >> until the news just started bringing me
00:50:06
down. >> Yeah. Before I uh before I uh we let you go, >> bust me out.
00:50:16
>> Do you still sing? Dana said you're a good singer. >> I used to sing high seas. Now I sing low
00:50:22
seas. I sing the blues now. I don't sing uh you know. >> Oh, you doing any Albert King or who you
00:50:29
singing? >> Muddy Waters and stuff like that. >> Muddy Waters. >> Yes.
00:50:33
>> My favorite blues singer is Muddy Waters. >> Oh, I loved Albert King. Blues
00:50:38
>> King was great. Albert King was great. >> That baby. That baby in its baby head, a
00:50:42
baby bed all fussing up. He's got the blues. He got the good oldfashioned country blues. Remember Albert? Wasn't
00:50:49
he magic? And of course, Muddy Waters. I mean, you know, he's that's another guy
00:50:52
just >> Yes. >> Lay it honest. Don't be shy. But you sang with the Harry Belly Harry
00:51:00
Bellafonte singer. I was with him for like nine years as a my first job in the was as a singer arranger with uh
00:51:10
>> Yeah, that's amazing. >> The Bellafante Singers >> the Bellafante Singers.
00:51:16
>> Yeah, there's a 12 member group that he managed, right? He s periodically but
00:51:22
they used to sang without him. So we >> Who sang that thing? You put the lime in
00:51:26
the coconut, you put a >> That was Harry. Okay, >> that was Harry Bellfani.
00:51:32
>> Yeah. >> And then it became a commercial too for some product. >> Home.
00:51:42
>> What about seven up? >> You have that raspy blues now. You can you can get laid with that.
00:51:47
>> 85. That's all day. >> 85. Still alive. 86. 87. You're in heaven. 88. Don't be late.
00:51:56
89. Won't you be mine? 90. Holy heaven, honey. >> Was this your SNL audition? That was a
00:52:03
good one. >> I know. >> I've had dinner with him. >> Uh, well, Garrett, thank you for coming
00:52:13
on. >> This has been a delight. You're so much fun. I feel happier hanging out with you
00:52:18
for this hour. >> Thank you so much, fellas, for even thinking about this old guy.
00:52:23
>> Yeah, you're good, dude. And it's, you know, we all got a job because of you
00:52:27
and the squad up there. Oh my god. I'm Lauren and everyone I just want to say
00:52:31
100 episodes on Jamie Fox here on the Martin show talented men. Okay. >> Thank you.
00:52:38
>> Extremely talented. And that's how you got your [ __ ] job. >> We do the best we can. You're terrific.
00:52:43
You're tremendous. Excuse me. Many people are who's better than Garen Morris. Nobody listen. Many people are
00:52:49
saying never better. Nobody's ever done it like him. Come on. Let's get real,
00:52:53
folks. No joke. I'm not kidding around. Garren Morris. Here's the deal. Come on.
00:52:58
We can do better. We will do better. >> You got Trump and Biden at the end.
00:53:03
>> I love your impression, by the way. >> I love your man. I love >> Thank you, brother.
00:53:08
>> Can we hang out sometime? Can you my >> You got my number. >> All right, Garrett. Miss you, bud.
00:53:15
>> No, let me thank you guys for this. I appreciate it. >> We really I just really enjoyed this. I
00:53:20
know I'm a little I'm a little fuzzy and my words aren't coming out as well as
00:53:24
they normally do, but because of the dental work, but I got the prior joke out. I completed it and that made my
00:53:30
day. >> It was a three-parter. >> Yeah. >> Now, I'm going to pack myself an ice,
00:53:34
get a B12 shot, and get a crack a Coors Light. >> We don't want to end the show with the
00:53:40
words suck my dick. Okay. >> No. No. What would be the substitution? Um, so, uh, instead of saying, "Suck my
00:53:49
dick." >> Yes. >> You kind of say, "How about a hand job, dear?" I guess that's a little more
00:53:54
benign, maybe not so, uh, dramatic. >> I got one. Good night, [ __ ] Hey guys, if you're loving this podcast,
00:54:05
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