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After I read the script, I thought this
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guy is either go, this is going to be
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his last year working as a principal or
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he's going to commit suicide at the end
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of the school year. Hey guys, I'm doing
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my book and I need somebody to I need
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you guys to um if you'd be willing to
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write a blur for my book. And then
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Sandler goes, "Yeah, I'll do it." And
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then he goes, "Thanks. I don't need
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anybody else's." My next thing I want to
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be on a show like Wings. Remember that
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show?
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>> Yeah.
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>> On NBC. It was on NBC. It was on for
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like maybe seven, eight years. Nobody
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ever watched it.
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>> Guess what, David? Tim Meadows came and
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uh for a a second helping of uh our the
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magic of Fly on the Wasp. Double dipping
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a return guest. We backed by popular
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demand. I love Tim Meadows. I'll just
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say, you know, we don't have that many
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people return, which we need more
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because
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>> we got video now and uh we have some
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things we forgot to ask these people and
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go over,
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>> but we talked a lot. We we had a lot of
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laughs with Tim. What a good dude.
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>> He's actually doing a uh a half hour
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single camera show, which he he's
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incredible in. I watched an episode DMV
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about a Department of Motor Vehicles.
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It's on CBS and Paramount Plus. So, we
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just want to make sure you're aware of
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that with our friend Tim Meadows. And by
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the way, during this particular episode,
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we had a little technical issue. So, we
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strip from one thing called Streamyard.
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I know for your nerds, take notes. And
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we go to Zoom, so it might not be quite
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as crisp, but we'll still both look
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incredible. And our hair will look
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great.
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>> Don't adjust your cameras at home. It's
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doing fine. But, uh, yeah, Tim, here he
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is. Great guy. A lot of laughs. Uh, from
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the old school Tim Meadows.
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>> Tim Meadows.
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Did the show start without me?
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>> Yeah.
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>> Yeah, we were killing it.
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>> You're doing great.
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>> Oh, thanks.
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>> You're killing it, man.
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>> Mhm.
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>> So, I'm wearing this.
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>> Oh, what do you Why you hiding your
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hair? You hate your haircut.
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>> Well, I was a little I just not used to
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it right now, so I'm just going with the
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hat. Are you all right with that?
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>> That's fine with me. We can all do hats
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if you want. No, Timmy. In full
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disclosure, I brought a hat to wear and
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then I thought this isn't that bad. I'm
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gonna just rough it.
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>> No, you look good. But let's let's all
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do hats.
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>> No, I'm scared. Let's see if What do you
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got?
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>> Oh, you got a cool one loaded. Oh, yeah.
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He knew.
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>> No, my hair is um all [ __ ] up, man. I
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haven't I haven't combed or or cut my
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hair in about I don't know maybe a month
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or four weeks or something like that.
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>> Okay. Have you been out of that room
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with in the last month?
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>> Timmy
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where your head's at, man.
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>> Do you ever do a movie
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>> and they go figure out that gray? We can
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figure that out.
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>> Need to get weed.
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>> And you go, "What does that mean?" They
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go, "We can take care of it." And you
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go, "What are we taking care of?" You
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go. No, it's just Do you want it?
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They've said that to me.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Mhm.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Have you ever bought cookie?
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>> I kind of salt and pepper.
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>> Yeah. You know, it looks it looks it
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looks cool. You're doing whatever you're
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doing. Keep going.
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>> It's always worked for Timmy in a
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jealous quiet rage as I speak.
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>> Well, thank you, David. But I do I do
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I do remember when they used to ask me
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to put gray in my hair.
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>> Oh, I like that better. Yeah. Yeah. Now
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they asked me to take it out.
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>> Can you just shave that out?
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>> Timmy, I've told this before, but I'm
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going to tell you that I I read a movie
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uh about a married guy and his wife and
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they said it's pretty funny. And then
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>> anyway, all these high jinks, but she's
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got a crazy father-in-law. And I read it
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and I read the whole thing. I go, "It's
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pretty funny. It's not that funny of a
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part, but who would be the
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father-in-law?" They go, "You." I go,
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"Oh, oh, wait. I'm not the kid getting
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married. They're like, "That guy's like
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35." Wait a sec. I swear to God. I go,
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wait, am I reading these movies about
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these grandpas? What the [ __ ]
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>> So horrifying. I go, I'll read it again.
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I didn't pay attention. I'll read it
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again.
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>> Yeah.
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>> I don't know if you've seen Land Man,
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but Sam Elliot's on that show.
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>> And uh I I I read for that part,
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>> but Sam got it. That's where I'm at now.
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>> That's how old you are? Yeah. Um, he's
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exactly 100, I think.
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>> Uh, I Well, first of all, I can't
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believe that you had to read for a show.
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>> Yeah, Danny was doing a lot of cold
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reads.
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>> Ah, I don't know. I mean, I I missed
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out. I didn't do bench warmers.
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>> I didn't avoid bench warmers.
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>> I read for your part in in Mean Girls. I
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read for the principal.
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>> Oh, well, I'm I'm glad you didn't get
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it. Yeah.
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>> His arm wasn't broken, though. Yeah, but
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that Yeah, that movie like saved my
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career for I was worried for a little
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bit till Mean Girls.
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>> God damn. Mean Girls has a spin-off and
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>> Oh, from Ladies Man to you went into No
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Man's Land and then you
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>> Yeah.
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>> Yes. I went from Ladies Man, which was
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like number four at the box office.
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Nobody was happy with that. Then I did
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Richard Show,
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>> which was on NBC and got cancelled after
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eight episodes. all the time.
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>> And then after that, I was on a [ __ ]
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life raft in Atlantic Ocean. Like
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>> I saw that show.
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>> I'm on somebody to say to me.
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>> Well, the thing is if you're in a shitty
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show or a shitty movie, all of a sudden
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they think that you produced it, wrote
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it, directed it, you did the score.
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>> Well, but you you get a little stink on
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you. I've done it. I I got out of Lost
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and Found jail. That took four years of
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being on Just Shoot Me to get another
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swing. I was in movie jail for a while.
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>> Yeah. You didn't have to when when they
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when they told you about Just Shoot Me,
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was that the easiest pitch for you to
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say yes to? It's like uh a model
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magazine. Yes.
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>> No, it was it was leaving SNL and you
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would get probably one shot at maybe
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doing the Jeff Richards show. He was on
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SNL or the David Spade show. And they
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said, "You could do that or you could do
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join an ensemble that was already picked
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up." And I said, "Oh, I'd rather go be
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the fifth wheel on a show that might
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work." And uh
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>> it still wasn't guaranteed, but it was
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it just wound up being better.
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>> Yeah. It's so fun watching it because I
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see it now occasionally and I'll sit and
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watch the whole episode. Uh because I
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worked with George also on the
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Goldbergs. All right.
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>> So, it's it's so cool. I mean, it's just
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weird. I mean, watching it now cuz he
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was like my age, I think,
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>> playing like this super old guy. Yeah.
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>> Yeah. Yeah.
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>> Yeah. You know,
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>> life is kind of fast, isn't it?
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>> That's so That's so true because Wendy
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Alec,
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>> who we all have a crush on and she's so
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smart and funny on Just Shoot Me,
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>> and I always thought she was about 40
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and I think she was 55 on the show. I
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was like, "What? I don't even know any
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155." And I was like, "She's so together
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and so greatl looking." And I I've seen
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her recently. She's exactly the same.
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She's just sharp, fast, funny.
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>> That's someone you hire and you get 100%
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of what you want.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Yeah.
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>> It's It's always fun. I don't know. like
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um I've been in the position now like
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where I worked with people including
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both of you, but like when you work with
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somebody that really impresses you and
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you just go like, "Holy cow, that person
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is amazing." You know, like I worked I
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did this show during the 50th
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anniversary actually uh on Broadway and
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in this show was uh Lynn Manuel Miranda.
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>> Yep. from
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>> um and David Cross and um Anna Bell. I
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got forgot the other woman's name. I'll
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look it up. But they were great. And it
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was just like watching those guys like
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do the
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play show every night was just like, "Oh
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my god, these are real Broadway actors,
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you know? I got to like really try to
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like
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>> Oh, you were in it with them and you had
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you get to see every night the process
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every night how they nail it and you go
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>> Exactly. And I hadn't done something
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like that since Second City where but we
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wrote that stuff, you know, but this was
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like we were doing I'm trying to find
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the like play bill from it and now I'm
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just looking at my my room. I usually
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have my Broadway stuff right in front of
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me,
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>> you know. Behind you looks like Lauren's
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office with the uh lineup for the show.
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>> Yeah. show is 5 hours long.
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>> Uh we're going to present 6,000 sketches
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think of like it's all all all a matter
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of numbers.
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>> That's our new tactic.
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>> I don't think I've seen many plays,
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Timmy, but uh I think Chris Rock was
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saying that uh he goes, "It's it it's
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hard." I go, "Could you picture?" So you
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memorize the whole script. I don't know
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because I don't do that on sitcoms and
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stuff.
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>> Even movies, it's a scene a day. And
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even that's hard for me. And so you
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memorize whole thing. He goes, "But you
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get it down by blocking and by running
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it and then it just starts coming to
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you."
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>> And I'm like, and he goes, "Some nights
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then it just gets boring."
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>> Yeah. Yeah.
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>> You got to keep it alive.
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>> Yeah. And that's where like going, you
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know, from doing standup or whatever, is
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like you learn how, you know, you you
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figure, you know, oh, I got this has got
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to be fresh. I got to make this like
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>> it's just happening and we're all in
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this moment right now.
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>> Um, but yeah, just being around so long
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now is so
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I really do. And
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I love watching other people work now.
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Like before I used to be more
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competitive of like I want to be as good
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as that person or I want to like hold my
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share of the thing or you know
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>> but now when I approach it when I'm
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working with people I just like I I
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really enjoy watching other actors now
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which is kind of weird because I I I I
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know there's there's been a change.
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>> It's some growing up. Yeah, for sure. I
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I I
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>> always be jealous and [ __ ] angry like
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why is that [ __ ] so good?
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>> Well, we came out of a tough situation
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where everyone around us was good at
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SNL. We got [ __ ] Dane over there and
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we got
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>> Yeah, exactly. Like
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>> Mike and Chris and everybody and so
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you're there. Conan's funny and he's a
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writer and everyone everywhere you turn
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Odin Kirk is a writer and he's funnier
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than me. I'm like god damn. And Lauren's
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kind of funny when he talks. He just he
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doesn't talk much. When he does you go
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he's funny.
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So then you get out and you get places
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where you go, "Oh, I'm suddenly
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realizing both. Someone's good or
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someone is bringing nothing."
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>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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>> Yeah. I've seen people like cold reads
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where they go, you're like, "Oh, man."
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Because you can tell it a table read
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even though it's just kind of thrown
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together. You can spot some game.
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>> Yeah. But yeah, it is weird. super weird
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to see somebody that you, you know,
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thought was good, but actually they they
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have to work at it. They have their own
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method and then they get good.
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>> They get good by the time you shoot.
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Yeah.
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>> Yes. Yeah. Like
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>> that's respectable. You're you're on uh
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is DMV, which is your show on CBS, is
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DMV. That's shot. It's not a sitcom.
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It's a multi
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>> DMV. It is a sitcom. What are you
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>> Is it a sitcom?
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>> No. Yes, it's a single cam.
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>> Single cam sitcom.
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>> Single cam.
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>> Single cam sitcom.
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>> I'm from the old school
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>> of what?
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>> Four cams.
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>> And where was this school?
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>> Well, CBS Radford, which has gone
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bankrupt. Tim, what's happening?
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CBS Radford Dana is where we shot Just
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Shoot Me.
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>> And did you know that, Tim? Mhm.
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Tim is frozen. Or maybe we're frozen.
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>> Tim's choking as well.
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>> You know, David, um, you know, sometimes
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you want a little pickme up, right? Oh,
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yeah. You especially, right?
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>> But you also want something that
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actually tastes good. Do you know where
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I'm going?
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>> Yeah.
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>> Comment.
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>> You're going to talk about the new
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Fruity Rainbow Shop.
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>> That's exactly where I was going. That's
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right.
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>> Fruity Rainbow. What a great name and a
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great taste. It's a great name. Great
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taste.
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>> That was your nickname and I
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>> Yeah, that that's why I was captain the
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football team. These things are straight
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up fruity candy vibes. They are bright,
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bold, and honestly kind of nostalgic,
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you know, but with a tasty caffeine kick
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that gets you moving.
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>> Oh yeah, it does. Caffeine got a serious
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flavor upgrade. Fiber Energy's shots now
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come in 17 flavors. Did you hear me? 17.
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>> Mhm.
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>> Which is kind of wild when you think
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about it, but the fruity rainbow launch
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really leans into that sweet candy
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flavored chaos in the best way possible.
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>> I love that.
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>> Uh it's all packed into that classic
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tiny 2 oz bottle.
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>> Mhm.
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>> Big seasonal flavor. Uh super portable,
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easy to throw in your bag, car, sock,
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gym pocket, whatever.
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>> No giant cans, no sugar overload. It's
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zero sugar. Zero.
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>> It's a treat that's totally sweet tooth
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approved. You get the fun. You don't get
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the crash. If you're like me and love
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the idea of your caffeine tasting as
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good as it works. Yeah.
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>> This is your sign.
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>> That's right.
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>> Get candy flavored chaos with Fruity
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Where were we Tim?
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>> Where were we? Should we talk about DMV
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and and then we can go back to
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reminiscing?
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>> Oh, that's what I was asking you. DMV is
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your show and you were saying it's a
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sitcom but it's single camera which is
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confusing to me because I haven't done
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one. Um
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>> Oh, and I
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>> which is like a film kind of.
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>> Yeah, it's shot like a movie though,
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right?
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>> A little
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>> Yeah, it's shot like a movie. And I feel
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like I'm talking about grandma right
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now. Yeah, this is how it works.
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Grandma,
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>> what happened?
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>> He's never heard of you on my TV.
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>> Yes. And then we shoot it to your house
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>> in the airwaves.
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>> And when you watch it and something
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seems kind of different, you find
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yourself laughing,
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>> right?
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>> You know, David,
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>> but no, it is it's a single camera,
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>> right?
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>> Tell us about it.
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>> Well, we shoot it's um we shoot it in
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Montreal. It's about
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>> these people that work at the DMV
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>> and uh it's uh created by Dana Klene and
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it's based on like a a short story about
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some employees who are super unhappy
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>> working at the DMV.
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>> That could be every employee.
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>> I've had horrible times at DMV. I think
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it's a great idea for a show.
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>> Yeah.
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>> No, it is. It's like uh I had to go to
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DMV recently too and like cuz I had to
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renew my license and um
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>> Mhm.
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>> and uh to my plates cuz I got a new car.
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Um but they uh the people in the DMV
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watched the show and they knew
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>> you know
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>> they were like
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>> she one of this woman one woman goes
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we're not that bad are we? And I was
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like no you know we're just exaggerating
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it to you know make
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>> a comedic effect.
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>> Yeah. We make you all look horrible just
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for our own enjoyment.
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>> It's so true though. What is your
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character in it?
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>> My character is his name is Greg and uh
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he's a very unhappy
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uh former teacher who works at the DMV
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and is just b he's a driving instructor
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and uh this is another uh role where I'm
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the oldest guy on the show.
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>> Oh, really?
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>> Yeah. And so like there's old jokes.
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They make jokes about me being dead and
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sleeping at work. And uh yeah, it's and
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I'm I'm just like, wait, I I do yoga
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every day. I'm very healthy. I feel like
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>> Yeah.
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>> Younger than I look, I think. I don't
00:16:22
know.
00:16:22
>> You look young. Yeah, you look good.
00:16:24
>> I think you look young. If you if you
00:16:26
don't want to go snowy on the chin, then
00:16:28
you know, I'm carding you. But if you're
00:16:29
going to go snow downtown Yeah. you I
00:16:32
can't help you there, bro.
00:16:34
>> What does that mean? You can help him.
00:16:35
>> I think scruff that's white. So snowy.
00:16:40
>> What's snowy downtown mean?
00:16:41
>> Well, I don't know about that part. That
00:16:44
was not intended for this podcast.
00:16:47
>> That was a little confusing.
00:16:48
>> Yeah, I don't know. That got a little uh
00:16:50
>> um
00:16:51
>> Well, I'm still salt and pepper
00:16:52
everywhere basically. So,
00:16:54
>> okay. Everywhere.
00:16:56
>> Welcome to TMI, the show that tells you
00:17:00
things you kind of don't want to know.
00:17:02
How much salt and how much pepper? We'll
00:17:05
be right back.
00:17:06
>> My [ __ ] salt is taking over the
00:17:08
pepper. That's the problem. It's a
00:17:11
[ __ ] coup. Also, DMV is really two
00:17:14
three letters everyone knows. That's
00:17:16
good for a show. Like immediately I know
00:17:18
what it is. Immediately I know it's kind
00:17:21
of a funny area because
00:17:23
>> there should have been a show at this
00:17:24
point about it because everyone talks
00:17:26
about it. Everyone complains about it
00:17:28
and so you're all set up.
00:17:31
>> Yeah. And it is also it's based in North
00:17:34
Hollywood.
00:17:35
>> So that's our
00:17:37
that's our you know like our our grounds
00:17:40
and stuff, you know.
00:17:41
>> Yeah. Not where you work from.
00:17:43
>> Um
00:17:44
>> if they're treating you like the senior
00:17:46
citizen and stuff. I mean are they are
00:17:48
they allowing Tim Meadows to fully
00:17:52
inform what you're doing on the show?
00:17:54
Like hey guys, maybe I should say this
00:17:56
or I'm gonna do this and like you can't
00:17:58
question him. He's Tim Meadows. [ __ ] He
00:18:01
He knew Chris Farley. Shut up.
00:18:05
>> Well, actually, it's combination.
00:18:07
>> Yeah,
00:18:08
>> they've I mean, it's also a job I have
00:18:10
to say. They've been very uh they listen
00:18:14
to what I think about the you know, the
00:18:16
writing and my character stuff.
00:18:18
>> I know. And um but
00:18:21
>> that's not always the case. Yeah.
00:18:23
>> Exactly. It's not. And yeah, I go into
00:18:26
jobs sort of knowing that like oh I'm
00:18:28
not they don't they just want me to
00:18:29
learn my lines and do the you know
00:18:31
>> for sure character not because it's you
00:18:33
just because in general if people at
00:18:36
home don't know it's kind of you're
00:18:38
hired and you're hired hand and then if
00:18:40
by chance they let you add lib or say
00:18:43
let's do another one and you know do
00:18:44
whatever you want that's a gift so they
00:18:46
don't have to do that. Yeah. And when
00:18:48
they ever tell me do whatever you want,
00:18:50
I do that take just in gibberish. I just
00:18:54
>> I just do it exactly the same and they
00:18:56
go, "Oh, that was fun." Okay. Um
00:19:00
>> do
00:19:01
>> you have a brand in a way, Tim? I mean,
00:19:03
do you feel you're that Oh, let's get
00:19:06
Tim Meadows for this, you know,
00:19:09
>> either playing offkilter characters or a
00:19:12
little bit angry or just sort of
00:19:14
asymmetrical like the Peacemaker with
00:19:17
the blind blindness which is has a cult
00:19:20
following that character, doesn't it? It
00:19:22
kind of blew up.
00:19:24
>> Um, so weird.
00:19:26
>> Yeah. Um, but yeah, I mean I kind of
00:19:29
feel like it sort of goes back and forth
00:19:33
between like people casting me like
00:19:36
James Gun casting me because he said he
00:19:38
couldn't find the actor to do that part
00:19:41
and then he said like he wanted me but
00:19:44
he didn't know if he could get me or
00:19:46
whatever. But um and that character was
00:19:49
like is written
00:19:51
like it's a it's a unlikable guy that
00:19:54
they wanted a likable actor to play, you
00:19:57
know, and so I've had that before where
00:19:58
it's like this is unlikable, but we
00:20:00
think you can do it.
00:20:02
>> Um like I played the I played a cannibal
00:20:04
child killing cannibal on Brooklyn 999
00:20:09
>> and what's unlikable about that? Yeah.
00:20:12
Go ahead. you know, it's it's horrible
00:20:14
profession, but they uh and you know,
00:20:17
Samberg when they called me to do that,
00:20:20
>> he was like, "Yeah, we need somebody
00:20:21
that's really likable." We just thought
00:20:23
like, you know, you're everybody likes
00:20:26
you and so it'll be a really
00:20:28
>> No, people won't hate the character. You
00:20:30
know,
00:20:31
>> they'll give you a gimme on that. Give
00:20:33
you a mulligan on the cannibalizing
00:20:36
children.
00:20:38
>> He's fun at parties.
00:20:40
That's a rule you only want to do once
00:20:42
though.
00:20:43
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. Then you get
00:20:44
tight cast. That's funny because you
00:20:46
know the sitcom like I think you call it
00:20:48
a sitcom but going back to grandma here.
00:20:51
Uh
00:20:53
>> I would I was thinking about doing a
00:20:55
sitcom or thinking about of ideas for
00:20:57
them and I think God are they doing
00:20:59
regular for camera? Have you even heard
00:21:02
of that? Is are they not doing those?
00:21:03
Have you not heard that? I haven't done
00:21:06
one of those, I swear, in probably 15
00:21:11
years.
00:21:12
>> Jesus. Okay, we'll say five.
00:21:16
>> 20 years, David. That's how long.
00:21:18
>> Okay, we'll say three years. Okay. So,
00:21:21
uh,
00:21:21
>> no, but I haven't like everyone I've
00:21:23
done is and I think even when I I've
00:21:26
done like I did the Bill Ingvar show
00:21:29
which was TBS and we did that for like
00:21:32
two or three years
00:21:34
>> and that was done in front of a live
00:21:36
audience. I I personally don't like
00:21:38
doing I hate those shows. Not you know
00:21:40
not
00:21:41
>> the live audience is hard.
00:21:43
>> Yes. where you work all week learning
00:21:45
the show and then you do it for the
00:21:47
audience on Friday or whatever and I
00:21:51
just found it not it never felt
00:21:53
satisfying like comedically or
00:21:56
creatively I don't know.
00:21:57
>> Well, the problem is some of the youth
00:22:00
prisoners in the audience if they don't
00:22:02
uh that are bust in if they don't laugh
00:22:04
they change the whole script for them
00:22:06
>> and you're like this we all like this
00:22:08
all week let's let's play for the people
00:22:10
at home. Uh that that is a hard part.
00:22:13
Now you get a hot crowd. It's fun. It's
00:22:15
something different. It's it's exciting.
00:22:17
I think um How I Met Your Mother was a
00:22:19
hybrid. So they'd have a crowd on a few
00:22:21
days and then they'd shoot single camera
00:22:23
on a few days.
00:22:25
>> So I guess sitcom really means situation
00:22:28
comedy. So you're DMV can be that cuz
00:22:31
that's what that is. But uh I think it's
00:22:34
just probably all single camera. Can I
00:22:35
make an observation about
00:22:38
>> I think that you're able to like in a
00:22:40
real situation
00:22:42
>> you're playing you can play dead pan.
00:22:44
You can say the craziest do the craziest
00:22:46
[ __ ] and you don't push it at all. And I
00:22:48
think that people see you
00:22:50
>> and they're already kind of laughing
00:22:51
even if it's sort of serious.
00:22:53
>> Yeah. They know something funny.
00:22:55
>> Signal I'm being funny now. It's very
00:22:57
very cool.
00:22:59
>> Uh well thank you Dana.
00:23:00
>> It's one of your skill sets.
00:23:02
>> Well Mean Girls is kind of like that.
00:23:03
You were just trying to keep the peace
00:23:04
or something. It's just funny the
00:23:06
situations you get overwhelmed and [ __ ]
00:23:08
>> Yeah. Well, that mean girls. That's like
00:23:10
one of the first times I went into an
00:23:12
acting role thinking like, you know,
00:23:14
okay, I'm going to think about this
00:23:15
character and I'm going to like and I
00:23:18
just thought that after I read the
00:23:19
script, I thought this guy is either go
00:23:21
this is going to be his last year
00:23:23
working as a principal or he's going to
00:23:25
commit suicide school year. And so
00:23:28
that's what I played like the whole
00:23:30
time. I was like, "This guy hates being
00:23:33
here." But Tina's character was sort of
00:23:35
like the his bright light because he was
00:23:37
in love with her but he didn't know how
00:23:38
to say it or whatever, you know.
00:23:41
>> But yeah, that character was like
00:23:43
>> another hilarious one to be in there
00:23:45
with. So there was a Mean Girls sequel
00:23:47
and then a musical.
00:23:50
>> Mhm.
00:23:50
>> And then a coloring book
00:23:56
>> monetization
00:23:57
>> [ __ ] Oh, by the way,
00:23:59
>> I get nothing from the coloring book. By
00:24:01
the way,
00:24:01
>> Heather was just saying that the uh when
00:24:05
you were on the uh not grown-ups tour,
00:24:08
whatever it was called, that tour,
00:24:09
Sandler's tour where we were here on the
00:24:11
text chain.
00:24:12
>> Uhhuh.
00:24:13
>> Cuz she's on it, too. And she's like,
00:24:15
"Remember Tim was couldn't get off the
00:24:17
text chain." I thought that was funny.
00:24:20
>> It would be two in the morning and I'd
00:24:22
be It'd be like, "We're going for
00:24:24
stakes." Like waking up like, "What is
00:24:26
this?" You guys being like, you know,
00:24:29
>> the phone ringing. It's like, "Yeah,
00:24:30
we're Boise and Tim's trying to sleep
00:24:32
and it's like, "Who wants scallop
00:24:34
potatoes?" And everyone put in your
00:24:36
order. It's like, "Ding, ding, ding."
00:24:39
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And he's like, "How
00:24:40
the [ __ ] do I get off this text?" We're
00:24:42
like, "Is this Tim?"
00:24:45
>> And then I I took myself off and then
00:24:48
somebody put me back on.
00:24:52
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's so funny cuz
00:24:54
there's about 20 people on it and you're
00:24:56
like, it's all day it's going off. like
00:24:58
where's my bags? It's just insanity. And
00:25:02
then and if you you can know cuz Dana we
00:25:04
jump on for a few days and jump off and
00:25:06
you're realizing I don't know how to get
00:25:08
off this thing and it's just blowing my
00:25:10
battery up
00:25:11
>> and and also it's also very funny too
00:25:13
and you sort of don't I sort of don't
00:25:15
want it to end even though you know
00:25:17
everybody's going back to their lives.
00:25:18
>> Uh we had another good one going after
00:25:21
Sandler's uh that thing in DC.
00:25:24
>> Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. the Mark Twain
00:25:26
>> Mark Twain Awards and that one had like
00:25:28
Stiller and Conan on it
00:25:32
>> and that was really fun too and then at
00:25:34
a certain point it was like okay we got
00:25:35
to all move on with our lives or
00:25:37
whatever.
00:25:38
>> Dude, every time Schwartzson puts
00:25:39
something on I hit a thumbs down
00:25:41
immediately. It's so [ __ ]
00:25:43
humiliating.
00:25:45
I'm looking for hahas on that thing.
00:25:47
>> Yeah, same.
00:25:48
>> I'm thirsty, man. I want some [ __ ]
00:25:50
>> Is this a thing? Do you guys ever done
00:25:52
it? You do haha. No matter what the
00:25:54
person is saying, even if it's serious
00:25:55
information, just keep going. Haha.
00:25:57
Haha. I mean, what is the shtick of
00:26:00
group texting things to because it is
00:26:02
kind of becomes a little competitive,
00:26:04
doesn't it? In a weird way.
00:26:06
>> Horrible.
00:26:06
>> Yeah.
00:26:07
>> And then you're like exhausted from
00:26:08
trying to keep up. I mean,
00:26:10
>> yeah, it gets mean, too. But like
00:26:14
>> gets mean.
00:26:15
>> It does. It gets mean, but like in a
00:26:18
good-hearted way. like things you
00:26:19
wouldn't say to somebody's face, you
00:26:20
sort of put it in the text and
00:26:22
>> it's funny. Yeah. Mindful
00:26:25
>> Sandler just insults everybody's which
00:26:28
is funny.
00:26:28
>> Which is fine. Yeah.
00:26:31
>> Sometimes they'll say tough crowd for
00:26:33
you guys.
00:26:38
>> No, if Dana if mine sit there and get
00:26:40
stale, I I pop a haha on it and then no
00:26:43
one really knows where it came from.
00:26:44
They're like, "Oh, I guess that was
00:26:45
funny." And then I'm like, "That was
00:26:47
me." I'm trying to get it going.
00:26:49
>> You press send and then you see someone
00:26:51
doing your idea better than you just
00:26:53
wrote, you know?
00:26:54
>> Oh, yeah. And you're like, ah.
00:26:55
>> And then you can't take it back and then
00:26:57
you're sitting out there like, I don't
00:26:59
know. It's very stressful. That's the
00:27:00
That's your next show, Text Chain after
00:27:03
DMV's seven-year run.
00:27:05
>> Tim Meadows in Text Chain.
00:27:08
>> It could be called Group Chat or Text
00:27:10
Chain. And it's like a a horror movie.
00:27:13
But
00:27:15
>> remember you had co and they called it
00:27:17
froid.
00:27:18
>> You called it froid because you were had
00:27:20
an afro on. You sent a picture of an
00:27:22
afro. I got fro.
00:27:25
>> My hair got so long it's been
00:27:27
ridiculous. Um I remember Norm, God rest
00:27:32
his soul,
00:27:34
>> uh on that text chain one time. He goes,
00:27:36
"Uh, hey guys, uh, I'm doing my book and
00:27:39
I need somebody to I need you guys to um
00:27:42
if you'd be willing to write a blurb for
00:27:44
my book." And then Sandler goes, "Yeah,
00:27:47
I'll do it." And then he goes, "Thanks.
00:27:48
I don't need anybody else's
00:27:52
>> out of 20 people."
00:27:53
>> Yeah. He just wanted Adam.
00:27:55
>> Yeah. That's hysterical.
00:27:57
>> I got Adam. That's good.
00:27:58
>> Hey, I'm good. That's all right.
00:28:01
>> That's all right.
00:28:03
I like, by the way, in in to change
00:28:08
gears when he does the Farley song, he
00:28:12
says last time he saw him, was it Tim
00:28:14
Meta's wedding? Is that what he says?
00:28:15
Wedding party.
00:28:16
>> Yeah. Yeah.
00:28:17
>> Is that the last time you saw Chris,
00:28:18
too?
00:28:20
>> No. The last time I saw him, I think was
00:28:23
when he hosted
00:28:25
>> Oh, you were there?
00:28:26
>> I was there. Yeah. But I kind of felt
00:28:28
like I saw him again in Chicago. Um
00:28:32
>> cuz hosting was toward the end. Very
00:28:34
close.
00:28:35
>> Yeah. Yeah, it was very close. Um but
00:28:38
yeah, I think that was the last time I
00:28:39
sort of but I I know we talked after
00:28:42
that though for sure. We had like a deep
00:28:45
one.
00:28:46
>> You know, I was almost going to go off
00:28:47
for that hosting, but I thought it was
00:28:49
getting to the point where it was sort
00:28:51
of spinning out a bit and I think you
00:28:52
probably knew when you were there like,
00:28:53
"Oh, did you even talk to him a lot?" It
00:28:55
just like it got it got his own worlds
00:28:58
that sort of.
00:28:59
>> Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you know, uh you
00:29:02
could when he was out there, there was
00:29:06
just that look in his eyes and there was
00:29:09
just this wildness to him
00:29:11
>> and also like
00:29:12
>> Yeah.
00:29:12
>> Yeah. And also kind of like asking you
00:29:15
to forgive him too at the same time. You
00:29:18
know, he wanted your pity, but he also
00:29:20
knew cuz he knew,
00:29:23
>> you know, I Yeah. He just knew I was mad
00:29:25
at him that week and I was not I wasn't
00:29:27
happy with him.
00:29:29
>> And then we just tried to have fun on
00:29:33
the show, you know, cuz he does what he
00:29:36
like to do, which is try to make you
00:29:37
laugh on camera.
00:29:38
>> Sure.
00:29:39
>> Um
00:29:40
>> so we ended up having fun, but it
00:29:42
wasn't, you know, it wasn't the kind of
00:29:44
fun that like it wasn't lasting because
00:29:46
it was just in hindsight really sad.
00:29:49
>> It was worrying.
00:29:51
>> Yes. Yeah.
00:29:52
>> So, I saw when I would see old sketches
00:29:55
from that one,
00:29:57
>> like he's on a uh worst idea ever. Put
00:30:00
him on a spin cycle or something.
00:30:02
>> Yeah. Yeah. It was a Matt Foley, I
00:30:05
think.
00:30:06
>> Try to yell those lines while he's
00:30:08
trying to
00:30:10
>> just so too much energy. Too much.
00:30:12
>> Yeah, it was crazy. And there was
00:30:15
another scene that we did and it was
00:30:17
like almost like the big baby um
00:30:20
businessman that he but he was a b he
00:30:22
was a big baby. He was like you know him
00:30:24
but he was in diaper and
00:30:26
>> whatever and it was like a um you know
00:30:29
like a my povic show or whatever.
00:30:32
>> Mhm.
00:30:33
>> And um I was the doctor who who was
00:30:36
describing his problems and stuff
00:30:39
>> and so he was all over me on that sketch
00:30:41
and just like you know
00:30:42
>> Oh yeah. pushing me and stuff trying.
00:30:44
>> Especially on air, I'm sure he's trying
00:30:46
to like cover your mouth, not let you
00:30:48
talk.
00:30:48
>> Yeah.
00:30:51
>> Not letting your lines.
00:30:52
>> Yeah.
00:30:53
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:30:54
>> That was the fun part. But when I saw
00:30:56
him, you could just see cuz you know him
00:30:57
so well. Like
00:30:58
>> you see in one second when he comes out,
00:31:00
you're like, "Oh no. Oh no." Like and
00:31:02
what's he going to do? And the problem
00:31:04
is everyone else hypes it up. Like if
00:31:06
you're not if the to the casual person
00:31:10
that hangs out like even when he was in
00:31:12
rehab like if we're walking down
00:31:14
Columbus and you walk by an outdoor
00:31:16
place like hey guys come have a drink
00:31:18
with us and he's like all right and he
00:31:20
climbs over the fence I like no no no
00:31:23
because even if he's in rehab they want
00:31:24
to be the ones to drink with him.
00:31:26
>> Yeah. I remember at being at dinner and
00:31:29
I think it was the weekend at I got
00:31:31
married. Uh it was me and Sandler like
00:31:34
at the steakhouse and with Farley and
00:31:37
they kept sending drinks over and at one
00:31:41
point we told the waiter don't bring any
00:31:43
more alcohol. If somebody orders a drink
00:31:45
for them just bring a ginger ale or Coke
00:31:48
or something and just lightly tap it
00:31:51
with some alcohol and give it to them or
00:31:53
or just give it to us, you know. But
00:31:55
they but the waiter goes I can't people
00:31:57
keep making me bring it you know and so
00:32:02
that was the problem like but the thing
00:32:04
is that people didn't have to deal with
00:32:06
him you know what I mean
00:32:07
>> you didn't have to you didn't have to be
00:32:09
with him when he was wasted
00:32:12
>> after that you
00:32:14
trying to get him to like calm down or
00:32:17
to not
00:32:17
>> get to his apartment
00:32:19
>> yes yeah but yeah it was a hard it was a
00:32:23
hard part and just Yeah. And during that
00:32:26
point, it was almost like I don't know
00:32:28
what to do, you know? I I I threatened
00:32:30
to like not be friends and to lose my
00:32:33
communication with them, but that
00:32:34
didn't,
00:32:35
>> you know.
00:32:36
>> Yeah. That's the part people don't
00:32:37
understand when they think, "Oh, would
00:32:39
you guys argue at times?" I'm like,
00:32:40
well, if you don't know the real
00:32:42
situation, you don't know the levels of
00:32:44
it goes in so many waves of like you you
00:32:46
care about someone so much that you you
00:32:49
do fight because you you run out of
00:32:51
weapons to say, "Will you lose me? Will
00:32:55
you help if you know that we're going to
00:32:57
be g, you know, but nothing really
00:32:59
works."
00:33:00
>> Yeah. Yeah.
00:33:02
>> And so you see him on the show and you
00:33:03
go, "Oh my god, I see it. I see it."
00:33:06
>> Yeah. But uh No, dude. I do. I I miss
00:33:10
him, you know. Of course, you know, you
00:33:12
know what it is.
00:33:12
>> Freaking I was in Chicago and uh doing a
00:33:15
gig two weeks ago and my hotel was right
00:33:18
across from Hancock and I was like
00:33:21
I was like, "Oh my god, is that where it
00:33:22
is right there?" Cuz I don't go to
00:33:23
Chicago that much. You guys are all from
00:33:25
there. But I was like, "Oh, it's such a
00:33:27
weird vibe to just see it." And I walk
00:33:29
by it and I'm like, "Ah."
00:33:31
>> Uh what's it called? The Hancock
00:33:33
building.
00:33:34
>> Hancock building. Yeah.
00:33:35
>> Yeah. Um
00:33:37
>> anyway anyway we can keep going but
00:33:39
>> I mean on a positive note it's like I
00:33:42
was talking to someone the other day
00:33:43
about just you know where is the next
00:33:46
Chris Farley and
00:33:48
>> the alchemy of Chris Farley as you know
00:33:50
the liabil all of it you know the
00:33:52
physicality and everything just boy
00:33:55
really hard and I think we interviewed
00:33:57
someone who's going to try to play Chris
00:33:58
Farley in a movie or is there a Chris
00:34:00
Farley
00:34:02
>> and that's a that's a tall order for
00:34:04
anybody because He's kind of I mean we
00:34:06
have data now. It's been a while and
00:34:08
he's he he was and is singularity at
00:34:12
this point. Never seen
00:34:14
>> a force like that. And
00:34:16
>> you see that the one I mean
00:34:18
>> the the Foley guy I mean it's just it's
00:34:21
a tornado. I don't even know what it is.
00:34:23
It's so
00:34:24
>> well
00:34:25
>> it's so fantastic what he's
00:34:28
>> when we did when we did Matt Foley at
00:34:30
Second City
00:34:31
>> Mhm. Far when Farley left to go to SNL,
00:34:35
we still had the sketch in our running
00:34:37
order and like other actors who filled
00:34:40
in for Farley tried to do it
00:34:43
>> and could not do it. They could not do
00:34:46
it.
00:34:46
>> Uh, and I saw, you know,
00:34:49
>> there's a guy named Mitch Rouse and Ian
00:34:51
Gomez, this other actor who's pretty
00:34:54
well, but Ian tried everything. He came
00:34:57
in as like a guy in a [ __ ] bow tie
00:35:00
and a suit and he did I wrote a speech
00:35:03
and it's called go for it and he tried
00:35:05
to do Farley and it nobody could do that
00:35:09
character and we just took it out of the
00:35:11
show even though it killed every night
00:35:12
when Farley was doing it you know.
00:35:14
>> Yeah it was hard
00:35:16
>> you wonder like that's the part that's
00:35:18
the funniest. I mean I'm in one of those
00:35:20
sketches or I'm in a couple. I'm just
00:35:22
watching him like the audience. So I
00:35:24
there's not much going on. And then you
00:35:26
set up something goes, is that Bill
00:35:29
Shakespeare? I can't see too good.
00:35:32
>> If he just kept pulling up his pants and
00:35:35
adjusting them just that
00:35:36
>> that's enough.
00:35:37
>> I mean, he's he gets down like he's a
00:35:39
lineman or something doing the Super
00:35:41
Bowl and there's so many moves, subtle
00:35:44
moves within his broadness. There's a
00:35:47
lot of little tricky things. But I like
00:35:49
when Phil Harman kept getting written
00:35:51
different ways to bring him out. Uh we
00:35:53
and he's very casual. We hired a
00:35:55
motivational speaker. He's down in the
00:35:57
basement eating coffee beans for the
00:35:59
last 40 minutes.
00:36:01
>> You had to explain some reason why he
00:36:03
shot out of a [ __ ] cannon.
00:36:05
>> I'm just hearing Phil's voice right now
00:36:08
cuz Phil was also so great at playing
00:36:11
the regular straight guy with a little
00:36:13
bit of satire. Well, he's over, you
00:36:16
know. Uh, I also I was telling Oden Kirk
00:36:19
not too long ago that I had seen that
00:36:22
sketch. We did it in SNL, I mean the
00:36:24
Second City for a year. Saw it on in in
00:36:27
um, you know, on on Saturday Night Live.
00:36:29
And I the thing that I always I made me
00:36:32
laugh, but I always missed that he had
00:36:35
the speech was entitled Go for It. And
00:36:38
that just made me laugh
00:36:41
that he actually had a speech and it was
00:36:44
had a title.
00:36:47
Go for it.
00:36:48
>> I told Kirk I was like I seen seen it
00:36:51
for years and that and I it just hit me
00:36:53
one day that that was how funny that
00:36:55
was, you know.
00:36:56
>> Yeah. Could other comedians have done
00:36:59
the dam, you know, van down by the
00:37:02
river, but not trying to do him. Like if
00:37:05
love did it, you'll end up in a van down
00:37:08
by the river, but it doesn't have the
00:37:10
same flow, but
00:37:11
>> I guess it's just there all for us to
00:37:14
>> tough to do Matt Foliage.
00:37:17
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00:37:23
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00:37:25
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>> You know, your work with Molly on DMV.
00:38:57
She was on SNL, right?
00:38:59
>> Yes, she was on SNL.
00:39:00
>> Yeah, cuz she's good. I mean, Lauren, I
00:39:02
remember said she gives me waves of uh
00:39:06
Colors of Chris when she's out there,
00:39:08
which is a [ __ ] high high compliment,
00:39:10
obviously. So, it must be good to have
00:39:12
her on the show.
00:39:14
>> It is. And I have to say that I I
00:39:17
definitely get that what Lauren is
00:39:19
saying. Definitely. And she does.
00:39:22
>> The thing I love about Molly,
00:39:25
and I don't mean to say, is that they
00:39:29
really
00:39:31
approach the lines differently every
00:39:33
time we do a take.
00:39:35
>> Yeah.
00:39:35
>> Um Yeah. They never do the same thing.
00:39:38
And I've told Molly to like don't let
00:39:43
anybody tell you, don't let anybody
00:39:47
clamp you down. Like always do the crazy
00:39:50
ideas that you have because she's so
00:39:53
different from everybody
00:39:58
that I just I want to see her. I want to
00:40:00
I'm a fan, you know? I'm a fan.
00:40:02
>> It makes it fun to watch. And you have
00:40:04
to have something that's fun to watch
00:40:05
because everyone can read the lines, but
00:40:07
you're like they they don't even know it
00:40:09
till they see it. So
00:40:11
>> if you throw in a take on the last one
00:40:13
and you do something interesting, the
00:40:14
smart people go, "Well, let's put that
00:40:16
in. We need something to hook people
00:40:18
in." Like we want to watch
00:40:21
>> Molly and go, "Oh, I know something
00:40:23
different will be happening here." Or,
00:40:25
you know, that's what slowly it takes.
00:40:27
You know,
00:40:28
>> the enemy of comedy sometimes is being
00:40:30
stale. And that's why we all tried to
00:40:32
like hold something for the air show.
00:40:34
>> And when you're doing a take in a show
00:40:36
like that, um, and you're going to do
00:40:39
something new, then you are discovering
00:40:42
it in real time. And there's a magic to
00:40:44
that.
00:40:45
>> I'm glad that she's getting to do that.
00:40:47
They are getting to do that.
00:40:49
>> Yes. And I I I feel like like you asking
00:40:52
me like my thing what I do and I think
00:40:54
that's part of what I do is like when I
00:40:58
get a job and they say you know
00:41:01
I save my improv and my ideas for when
00:41:06
they're like comfortable with what we
00:41:08
already got.
00:41:09
>> Yeah.
00:41:09
>> And then I I'll I'll do things. But I
00:41:12
don't like I used to ask but I don't ask
00:41:14
anymore. I just do it now. like, you
00:41:17
know,
00:41:17
>> I just go forget it cuz either they're
00:41:19
going to take it or they're not going to
00:41:20
take it and
00:41:22
>> I not to my own horn, but I know I'm
00:41:25
good and I'm also a writer, so I know I
00:41:28
kind of know what I'm doing,
00:41:30
>> I would say. So,
00:41:31
>> and people people at home don't know
00:41:33
that uh people at home that when you
00:41:36
you're always the other to be an actor
00:41:39
is they're always in a hurry. So,
00:41:42
they're always trying to make the day
00:41:43
try. So, it's not really like a
00:41:46
playground where like we can be here all
00:41:48
day doing whatever you want unless it's
00:41:49
some big budget. But most things you do,
00:41:53
especially like on TV are like one, two,
00:41:55
three takes, move it on. And it's hard
00:41:57
to say, can we do one more? And
00:41:59
everyone's like, "What?" Like, "We got
00:42:01
to go. We got the lighting." And you go,
00:42:02
"Just real quick." So, it it's it's
00:42:06
easier to not do it.
00:42:08
>> Yes.
00:42:08
>> And so, you try to get it in and then
00:42:10
then you and just go, I got to get
00:42:12
something in here. that's somewhat
00:42:14
different or memorable because
00:42:16
repetition kills us comedians. Like same
00:42:19
thing verbatim over and over. You just
00:42:20
start going h
00:42:22
>> Yeah. Cuz you do like you lose the
00:42:24
spontaneity and it's easier like doing
00:42:26
standup or whatever because it's your
00:42:28
ideas and your words and stuff,
00:42:30
>> you know, but like when it's somebody
00:42:32
else's
00:42:33
>> and you got to try to make it
00:42:35
spontaneous like, you know, 10 times in
00:42:37
a row
00:42:39
>> and you don't have a lot of faith in it
00:42:41
anyways.
00:42:42
Yeah,
00:42:44
>> you know, it can
00:42:46
>> it can be a little bit difficult. You
00:42:48
know what I'm saying?
00:42:48
>> I mean, I think standup really teaches
00:42:50
rhythm and the musicality of things. And
00:42:53
sometimes
00:42:54
>> you'll get something from a writer and
00:42:57
it's a it's a it's a pretty good joke,
00:42:59
but in your head you're going, "Oh,
00:43:00
there's just two extra words here
00:43:03
>> or that little too fat." you kind of
00:43:06
intuitive from so much standup and
00:43:09
getting the immediate laugh, you're
00:43:10
like, "Oh, what we need to do is just
00:43:12
cut that, you know." Yeah.
00:43:14
>> It's hard to have to do it and try to
00:43:16
save theirs without correcting. I'm just
00:43:18
>> It's hard to explain like uh I'm telling
00:43:21
you this should be tighter just by even
00:43:24
this extra. We don't need this extra
00:43:25
sentence. And they're like, "No, no,
00:43:26
we'll just do it that." I'm like, I'm
00:43:28
scared it'll be in there. Then it looks
00:43:30
stupid.
00:43:31
>> Thorn is Yeah, that's we are the ones.
00:43:34
The bullets will be coming at you. You
00:43:36
know,
00:43:36
>> we're the front line. The writers can
00:43:38
either be celebrating or got looking
00:43:40
down like I never liked it. I fed him
00:43:44
that [ __ ]
00:43:45
>> I I always The word is what do they call
00:43:49
it? Chuffa or something?
00:43:51
>> Oh yeah. Chuff. Yeah.
00:43:52
>> Yeah. It's just like no, this is just
00:43:54
chuffa. This is mean meandering
00:43:56
meaningless words that you put in here
00:43:58
because you need to get five pages in
00:44:00
this scene.
00:44:01
>> Yeah, this will be the first thing cut.
00:44:04
>> Yes.
00:44:05
>> In editing it'll be like we don't we
00:44:07
don't need that. Some editor will be
00:44:08
smart and go
00:44:09
>> get forward forward. Don't need that.
00:44:11
Don't need that. That's a sentence we
00:44:12
need. That's what we need.
00:44:13
>> Get down to the bare bones. But you're
00:44:15
right. Sometimes it's just filler. Like
00:44:18
>> the word of the day, at least I've heard
00:44:20
it a lot recently, is slop. It's made a
00:44:23
It's made a comeback. How was the show
00:44:26
slop? You know,
00:44:27
>> so many shows that are just slop. But
00:44:30
>> you know, Timmy, I was doing my standup
00:44:31
the other night. Sorry, Dana. And
00:44:33
>> no, no, like what Dana is saying is
00:44:35
>> I was trying new stuff.
00:44:38
>> And I as I'm saying it, I'm like, I
00:44:40
don't need that part. This is too wordy.
00:44:43
It's just I get to it and I go, some of
00:44:45
that's funny idea. It's too long. And
00:44:48
then I we type it out and then I circle
00:44:50
it and go, I don't need this whole set.
00:44:52
Okay, I just need this part. And then
00:44:54
you can see it. So so many times of
00:44:56
doing that helps because then you get on
00:44:59
a set, but it's other people's words and
00:45:02
they're precious with it. Obviously,
00:45:04
>> it's delicate to say, "Hey, some of this
00:45:06
is kind of dog shit." Chuff a slop.
00:45:10
>> Chuff slop. We got a new a new phrase.
00:45:12
>> Chuff a slop from Nabiscoco.
00:45:14
>> Yeah. On the next podcast. I think
00:45:16
Carson's only advice for standups was uh
00:45:19
get to the joke. Yeah,
00:45:21
>> that's what he would say. Get to the
00:45:22
joke because they tend to fall in love
00:45:24
with stuff like that. I feel like we
00:45:26
should do a little bit of promotion on
00:45:28
your show basically because that's
00:45:30
probably why you're here. It's on CBS.
00:45:34
It's you're you're on right now. What
00:45:36
night? What time?
00:45:37
>> It's uh Mondays uh 8:00 I think they
00:45:41
moved us to they they should have 8:30
00:45:44
8:00. We had a they recently gave us a
00:45:46
whole evening where they played DMV for
00:45:48
like 2 hours or something.
00:45:50
>> Uh but it's CBS. It's um I think we're
00:45:54
taking a break and then we're coming
00:45:55
back after the Olympics is over.
00:45:58
>> Um
00:45:58
>> how many episodes have you done so far?
00:46:01
>> We did we did 20. We shot 20.
00:46:03
>> And of how many?
00:46:05
>> Yeah, that's in modern times.
00:46:07
>> CBS is probably the best spot to be.
00:46:12
Yeah, I'm pretty
00:46:13
>> I feel like all those shows just do
00:46:15
well. They just feel like they know what
00:46:17
they're doing.
00:46:18
>> Yeah. I always I always say I want to be
00:46:19
on a show. My next thing I want to be on
00:46:21
a show like Wings. Remember that show?
00:46:23
>> Yeah.
00:46:23
>> On NBC. It was on NBC. It was on for
00:46:26
like maybe seven, eight years. Nobody
00:46:29
ever watched it.
00:46:32
>> It's one of those you go, "What was that
00:46:33
about again?" I think it was all filmed
00:46:35
at a [ __ ] local airport. And
00:46:37
>> yeah, but it's like I w It was on for
00:46:40
seven years. They're having an
00:46:40
anniversary episode this year. You know,
00:46:42
it's just like what? But no, those guys
00:46:45
are they all have had great careers. If
00:46:48
you look back, that show had a great
00:46:50
cast,
00:46:51
>> but I'm just like, I want one of those
00:46:52
where like no pressure, the network
00:46:54
loves you, put you on that autopilot.
00:46:57
>> Yeah.
00:46:58
>> Yeah. It's great to be on a show that's
00:47:00
it's that's a hit enough that you know,
00:47:02
okay, season 3's we're we're going with
00:47:04
all the episodes are stacked. We have
00:47:06
our So for this one, the idea is you're
00:47:08
going to get to 22 and then
00:47:11
>> or stop at 20 air
00:47:14
>> after the Super Bowl and it'll go all
00:47:16
the way to May. Okay.
00:47:18
>> Yeah. And then we will hopefully get
00:47:20
picked up for another season.
00:47:23
>> Uh yeah.
00:47:24
>> And u but yeah, it's been busy. I I
00:47:27
don't know. I
00:47:28
>> You're always busy since SNL to me.
00:47:29
>> You've always you've got your a lot of
00:47:32
shows. You've been on a lot of movies.
00:47:34
You've done a lot in the mountain.
00:47:36
>> No wonder this is white. How many things
00:47:38
you've been on?
00:47:40
>> Stress.
00:47:41
>> Yeah. I don't
00:47:42
>> Well,
00:47:44
I I was just going to say I just have a
00:47:46
thing about not working. I don't know
00:47:48
about you, but yeah. At a certain point,
00:47:49
I just go, "Okay, I got to I should be
00:47:51
doing something cuz I'm just
00:47:52
>> Yeah, of course.
00:47:53
>> I I like being creative." And
00:47:55
>> and also stand up. You should uh tout
00:47:57
your standup right now. Oh man, you have
00:47:59
a website, you know, that people can go
00:48:02
and look at all the dates you're doing
00:48:03
and stuff like that.
00:48:04
>> Yes. Tim Meadows Comedy Tour. I'm
00:48:07
>> I'm uh there's dates online and on
00:48:10
Instagram and stuff. Great.
00:48:11
>> Um and yeah, I'm going to do some shows
00:48:13
with Colin actually in Chicago.
00:48:15
>> Colin Quinn.
00:48:16
>> Oh, good. Colin
00:48:17
>> DQ.
00:48:18
>> Great. Oh, yeah.
00:48:20
>> Colin Quinn, one of the most looked up
00:48:22
to comics. So fun. Fun to hang out with,
00:48:24
too.
00:48:25
>> Yeah, he's great. And I'm trying
00:48:27
>> trying new stuff, too. So, he's gonna I
00:48:30
gonna like make him watch my
00:48:32
>> he'll help. He's good at that.
00:48:34
>> Yeah.
00:48:35
>> Well, thanks Timmy. It's nice to see
00:48:36
you.
00:48:36
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00:48:42
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Fogerty, Evan Cox, Mora Curran, Melissa
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Wester, Hillary Shuff, Eric Donnelly,
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Colin Gainner, Shan Cherry, Kurt
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Courtourtney, and Lauren Vieiraa. Reach
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out with us any questions to be asked
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and answered on the show. You can email
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us at fly onthealla.com.
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That's audacy.com.
