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[Assistant] I know, I know, and congratulations to them, but if it hits about 6 o'clock, I'm out.


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[Assistant] I mean if she's already willing to lie about where he was.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, that all makes sense. I can't imagine John is sitting there.


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[Assistant] Can't blame her at all, but the fact that they just gloss over it is inexcusable.


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[Assistant] Maybe like a child is waking up I need to attend to or-


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[Assistant] I can't handle the pregnant, I can't handle the sexual violence.


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[Assistant] I mean at this point I can only imagine the only people coming into his home are potential victims. He's not like...


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[Assistant] Where's the family members of these people? Are these people being reported missing?


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[Assistant] But he said he didn't get to 12. So there isn't like three.


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[Assistant] Yeah, people who just didn't want to go back to his house to perform the acts. And he was like, okay, I guess I'm doing this here. And then he needed to bring something.


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[Assistant] They didn't blame it on like a fire or something like that. It's just this particular evidence from this particular case is gone.


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[Assistant] But more than likely with this guy, it feels like he needed that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, John Christie does not seem like the type of guy that's like...


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[Assistant] Amazing. We kind of just like do a listener tales or something, huh? We just had a, we had to go deep, go big or go home.


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[Assistant] I need to jump in. I don't want to know what the temperature is of the pool. I just, let's find out.


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[Assistant] Is it for? It's for who it's for. Do you got tattoos? I do. What is that? That's my kids.


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[Assistant] So this week's episode, uh, let me just give you a little backstory because I think that would be a good idea. I DM Rainn Wilson and I say, Hey, uh, will you come on my podcast? And he ignored it.


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[Assistant] And, and then I sent him another message and I said, hello. And, uh, he didn't reply to that either. Instead, he accepted the messages so that I could see that it was seen. And then he watched my story just to really, really make me know that he did not want to be on my podcast.


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[Assistant] And then I was like, maybe he just doesn't do interviews or and I, I tried to make up a lot of excuses. Anyway, fast forward. I continued to annoy him and annoy him and annoy him until finally.


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[Assistant] He responded. But I was very shocked to find out that not only were we gonna do it, we were gonna do it in the most Dwight place ever. A pig farm. Anyway, I put on my best pig farm outfit and I, uh,


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[Assistant] Got out there. Yeah, it was a great episode and I'm excited for you guys to watch it.


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[Assistant] Wasn't very good, but we can work on that later. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. I am a huge advocate of getting your mental health checked and, and I think that it is so important to make sure you're good in here so you can be good everywhere.


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[Assistant] And that is why I partnered with BetterHelp. To get started, all you do is fill out a very quick questionnaire that will help BetterHelp get to know you so they can help


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[Assistant] Pair you with a therapist who is perfect for you. There are lots of therapists to choose from with better help.


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[Assistant] So, you can find the therapist that meets your needs and you're welcome to try new therapists until you find the one that you like the best. In most cases, you will be matched with a therapist within 48 hours. To get 10% off of your first month of therapy, go to betterhelp.com slash Bobby Althoff.


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[Assistant] And, uh, let's get back to our interview with Rainn Wilson. Don't forget, that's betterhelp.com slash bobbyeltoff. I look forward to seeing your comments about your new therapist.


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[Assistant] Speaking of product placement, this is not product placement. It just happens to be my favorite drink that I happened to carve out some cups of water for us. Okay. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Uh, we're gonna paint portraits of each other today. You good with that? That's fine. Have you ever painted before?


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[Assistant] I'm a little scared, I'm not gonna lie to you, Dwight. Oh god, sorry. Here it comes.


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[Assistant] Red, orange, uhm, sorta. I don't see orange. Or purple. Do you know, like, color theory? Do you know how to make other colors?


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[Assistant] I don't know either. I'm just gonna start by drawing your face.


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[Assistant] No one's, they all look a little bit like they're unsure if they should answer that. But I don't think that they've seen one. I think this is the first time people are really getting to know you.


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[Assistant] If that's what you're trying to do Dwight, I'm sorry for calling you that. It's just what happens naturally. I'm trying not to though.


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[Assistant] I don't know. That's what my hair looks like to you? You said yours was gonna be better than mine.


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[Assistant] How much further will you go? Are you thinking like Mexico?


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[Assistant] A lot of people think that I get all of my guests with my agent, but that's not true. Because I just DM'd you a bunch of times and you kept ignoring me.


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[Assistant] And then you kept ignoring me and then you kept ignoring me.


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[Assistant] I was gonna ask really quickly, are you insecure about having a grey beard?


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[Assistant] There we go then. Okay, you're gonna do the- I'll do the- I'll make you- I won't do your imperfections. Don't draw that zit on my face when you draw me. Don't look so close either.


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[Assistant] Blue and green equals blue, probably. Hazel is green and brown.


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[Assistant] What do you mean? It doesn't do anything for me. That's true, I ask myself that too. It doesn't help me either.


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[Assistant] I think that there's more to life than just uhm, getting by.


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[Assistant] What made you start with uhm, my like hair and eyes? Like, are you just gonna color in my face after?


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[Assistant] I had never in a million years thought that when I was going to interview I'd be at a pig farm.


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[Assistant] I don't know that I've heard this as like a thing. I don't know if that's like something you can do though.


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[Assistant] It's beautiful everything. Do you consider yourself to be beautiful?


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[Assistant] That's really gross. Uhm, for how many years have you been a dad?


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[Assistant] I do, I was looking for more things from Rainn Wilson and now I know there's like a lot of things I'm missing out on.


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[Assistant] Are you gonna frame this, like, in your house? I guess you don't have to frame it cause it's like, it's canvas. Are you gonna hang this up?


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[Assistant] Do you want me to m- Oh no, I already gave you teeth. Okay, I can't make you doing that. Wait, smile? Do you have good teeth?


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[Assistant] This feels like you're really, uhm, trauma dumping on me again.


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[Assistant] Or I would say such a thing. I've heard, I'm not going to lie that I've heard people say that.


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[Assistant] Like a lot of people were very excited for me to do this interview because they were like, the office and I was like, that's a lot for a show. But it didn't, it didn't do...


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[Assistant] Do you usually label your fans by how much they watch it? I do.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I'm a medium office fan. No, I would say that I'm like a, no I'm not, you're a medium is probably, maybe even light.


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[Assistant] Yes, NBC is the office. Do you still get paid for like every episode that gets watched or whatever?


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I ask people about their income. And then they say, I don't want to answer that, that's too personal.


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[Assistant] Uhm, me too actually, I'm not gonna lie to you. It's really good. Uhm, okay, anyway, so now that we can talk about that.


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[Assistant] Okay, well that's not what I was expecting. I wanna be Pam.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so pretty. How did you even get that role?


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's nowhere to go but down from there. Kind of. A little bit. I'm sorry.


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[Assistant] Thank you for that. I bet you there's like, directors watching this.


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[Assistant] That's so rude. Directors do watch this, and if you're a director watching this...


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[Assistant] Okay, so you want me to call Mark Cuban? Yes, please. But I want you to just answer.


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[Assistant] Like I want you to be like, like I'm gonna say, I don't know if he's gonna answer, I've never called him before. I wonder if I have his number saved. Okay. I hope he answers. But you promise you're gonna be not weird.


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[Assistant] Okay. Alright, Rain, here you go. You're, you're being recorded, Mark.


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[Assistant] Uhm, thank you Mark. Uh, you can also still take me on a private jet or plane or whatever you have. I don't know what the difference is, but you can still take me if you want and I will watch the Mavericks.


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[Assistant] I just threw that out there for the first time and I was wondering what he would say.


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[Assistant] That's, that's crazy. Hi Steve, it's Bobby Althoff here. Uhm, I'm your biggest fan.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, how do you know him? Oh my god, he was on The Office.


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[Assistant] You're not gonna answer that. I completely forgot about that. That's crazy.


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[Assistant] I swear on my life, I swear on my children's lives that it did not connect until right now that he was on the office. Yeah. I was not thinking of the office for him.


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[Assistant] That's true. I think we should have told him that. Maybe no one's ever told him that. Do you like, have anybody else that you want me to call?


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[Assistant] All the time, I don't know what you mean, what's the saddest I've ever been. I'm always sad.


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[Assistant] I'm actually on, uhm, new medication.


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[Assistant] No, it's amazing. I love it. I hate... Before I was always so like, stressed out. Okay. And now I'm just like, mellow.


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[Assistant] I'm on Zoloft. Okay, yeah. Yeah, it's a good one. Nice. Just makes me like, feel nothing.


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[Assistant] Hi kitties! I'm Zoloft! That's not what I think of when I think of Zoloft.


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[Assistant] Thank you so much, cause I, I love Alani news so much that I kind of was sad that I was using this as a...


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[Assistant] Okay, let me just draw the little piggy guy right now. And then, uhm, Amy is my favorite pig.


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[Assistant] I love you. So don't feel like that.


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[Assistant] That was really cool that I just did that. How do you eat it? Do you just take a bite?


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[Assistant] I'm gonna eat it. If I die, give my children some money.


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[Assistant] You're done? Yep. Alright, reveal it to the camera at the count of three.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, I forgot to write your name. Okay, well whose is better?


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[Assistant] It doesn't look like me at all. She looks really ugly, but uhm, I do like it.


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[Assistant] Oh god. This is the best moment of my entire life. Oh no, now I'm scared. I hope he doesn't answer me this time.


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[Assistant] Just say, I was just kidding, please do the very good podcast. Yeah?


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[Assistant] Uh, I'm uh, I'm Grayson, I'm Bobby's agent. I uh, flew in from New York to come help today and now I'm a football player.


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[Assistant] Start like this. Just shrug your shoulders. Wanna do it with me? Then punch.


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[Assistant] Karen Tan. One of the most action-packed instalments of the entire series. If episode 2 opened our eyes to the mortal danger Easy Company is exposed to in France.


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[Assistant] Episode 3 delves into the mental traumas they suffered.


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[Assistant] It does say through the terra-filled blue eyes of Private Albert Blythe, whom the men first discover staring into the sky on June 8th, 1944, D-Day plus two.


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[Assistant] Within 10 minutes of that meeting, our men plummet into battle, tasked with taking the town of Carinthane, France. The only place where the allied armour from Utah and Omaha beaches can link up and head inland.


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[Assistant] To full frontal assault, right into the teeth of the German machine guns.


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[Assistant] Which is really the central theme at the heart of Caron X. Woven throughout the episode from the Battle of Bloody Gulch, where Private Blythe does ultimately raise at M1 after some encouragement from Lieutenant Winters.


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[Assistant] All the way back to England. A place of respite. Where Easy Company has returned. Only to find out, they won't be staying long.


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[Assistant] My first guest today is a man who is a legend to the Band of Brothers cast and a cult hero to all who love the series. You may recognise him from his role as Colonel Sink.


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[Assistant] But in real life, he was a decorated Marine himself, a man who survived 31 major combat operations during three tours in Vietnam. He was shot three times in 22 years of service.


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[Assistant] And retired from military life to found Warriors, Inc. A warfare consultant to the entertainment industry. Establishing himself as the world's leading expert on making actors appear as close to true soldiers as is humanly possible. And making television battles resemble the real thing.


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[Assistant] So he will have had his hands full during the creation of episode 3, Karen Tan. It's magnificent to welcome a gent whom the Atlantic called the man who brought war to Hollywood.


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[Assistant] It's a joy and an honour to speak to such a legend, Captain Di. But first question up top.


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[Assistant] Can we just explain simply to our audience what you do on films and shows like Band of Brothers? Would it be true to say actors are meant to be chameleons who can adapt to any surrounding, but when it comes to impersonating a soldier?


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[Assistant] It's you who's needed to make that impersonational


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[Assistant] We're gonna delve into your methodology in a moment, but I want to first relive your pathway to this unique yet transformative role in Hollywood.


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[Assistant] I used to go and watch Where Eagles Dare, The Guns of Navarone, The Dirty Dozen with my grandfather who served in Tobruk. And when we'd leave the cinema, I'd always say, is that what war's like grandfather? And he'd be like, no.


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[Assistant] In the military, you made a professional pivot. You became a combat correspondent, switching from someone whose job it is to carry a rifle and kill an enemy to someone who documents all war, from its banalities to its atrocities, more than that.


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[Assistant] You spend years almost beginning to hone your sense of narrative and storytelling.


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[Assistant] 1985, you left the service and moved to LA, thinking you could take the skills you'd learn as a combat correspondent and apply them to the art of making movies. You've said, as a Vietnam veteran,


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[Assistant] The thing that really drove you was that you were bristling at the constant Hollywood portrayal of Vietnam's psycho vet as villain in movie after movie after movie. Was that really the first motivator to fix that?


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[Assistant] You wanted to make sure that never again would Rambo shoot a rocket-propelled grenade out of a helicopter.


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[Assistant] Even for you, Captain Dye, that would be a mission of no return. But you'd heard...


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[Assistant] For all that's followed, you worked again with Stone on Born on the 4th of July. That led to saving Private Ryan, which led to Band of Brothers. And you've said...


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[Assistant] I believe sincerely that the reason that war stories keep getting made into films is because you can run the gamut of human emotions. And I'm fascinated. You're a man of authenticity.


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[Assistant] But in becoming a Hollywood storyteller, how did you have to tune down or recalibrate your own knowledge of war and move away at times from verisimilitude in the name of Hollywood's dramatic arc?


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[Assistant] You've said the death scenes are what trouble you the most because Hollywood requires dramatic deaths for their lead characters. You even have names for them. The Funky Chicken, The Screaming Mama. Can you just describe one?


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[Assistant] That conversation really leads us to your methodology, that authenticity, that attempt to capture human truth from combat on film. And first of all, what's the secret of taking in your words?


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[Assistant] Bonafide warrior American fighting man.


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[Assistant] I wear their ass out through PT, digging their own holes, sleeping two hours a day. They get two meals a day. I love this line. They get two meals a day, unless they piss me off. Your conclusion is you want to make them blank slates and bootcamp break soldiers down.


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[Assistant] But Captain Dai, when I read your work, I have to keep reminding myself these are Hollywood bloody actors, as you say, full of self-importance. They think about chewing up the scenery, about stealing scenes, about the number of lines, the allure of the spotlight. Do any of them push back? They must do.


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[Assistant] Because you also promised them, and a number of them have talked about how this happened through your process, you promised them you are going to hit walls and breaking through those walls will change your life. There is something powerful at the individual level.


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[Assistant] You said the actors who could have been the most natural soldiers are the ones who listen more than they talk.


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[Assistant] One gent who was clearly listening, Matthew Settle, Lieutenant Ronald Spears, he came to you I believe shortly before shooting began and told you he was having a crisis of confidence as an actor.


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[Assistant] And your advice to him, he told us two words.


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[Assistant] I'll hear Matthew's version of that story, Captain Dye, coming up a little later in this very podcast.


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[Assistant] But the other transformative moment for so many of these actors was when they met the real heroes that they were depicting. You're a military man. These heroes are military men. What did you see happen in those encounters? Can you take us there and describe what happens in those moments?


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[Assistant] What about Dick Winters and your encounters with him?


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[Assistant] Is ensuring each scene feels authentic. And episode 3, Kerentan, is one of the most action-packed of the series, filled with firefights, tank battles, storming of villages.


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[Assistant] How's your role in episodes like this different than some of the more subtle, quieter Band of Brothers episodes?


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[Assistant] How about in post-production and editing? What insight are you giving in those situations as the story is being pieced together?


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[Assistant] This is why the authenticity to which you've given the second phase of your career is, to me, so crucial. You grew up.


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[Assistant] A message that has never been more poignant perhaps than in our time. And it's a recurring message in the body of work you've done. Last question for you Captain Dai.


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[Assistant] The storytelling that you have your fingerprints all over, starting with Platoon, Born in the Fourth of July, Saving Private Ryan, Bandit Brothers, these.


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[Assistant] These are some of the most definitive devices that have explained war to generations of Americans, and you, Captain Dai, have played such a major part in that. Are you aware of the significance of your life's work?


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[Assistant] Oh Captain Dyke, thank you for your service, and thank you for your storytelling.


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[Assistant] Because it clearly resonated. Here to talk with us now is the man who played one of the most lionized, enigmatic characters in the entire Band of Brothers series, Captain Spears.


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[Assistant] A complex gent in Stephen Ambrose's words, an officer with a mythical reputation.


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[Assistant] He became the last commander of Easy Company. Actually led them longer than the Great Dick Winters himself. The two were two very different leaders. Spears, both fearless and feared. A truly intimidating figure. Let's just say.


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[Assistant] He was the kind of guy you should never accept a cigarette off. It's a joy to welcome the man who brought the man and the myth alive, Mr. Matthew Settle. Hi Rog, thank you for having me, it's great


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[Assistant] Band of Brothers began casting in the early days of your career. You've been working in TV movies, just gotten your first feature, the magnificent I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.


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[Assistant] When you heard about Hanks and Spielberg's miniseries, and I know you originally read for the part of Winters and Nixon, I believe you stayed up all night before the audition working on your character. Tell us what happened when you walked into that room.


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[Assistant] How did you go about preparing for it? Because in an interview you once said, having grown up in North Carolina, you were in your family and in your church around so many people who had reverence for war, for heroism, for selflessness.


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[Assistant] Was Spears. And Spears was still alive. He'd retired from a long and successful army career. Ultimately became a Lieutenant Colonel. Settled in California. And then Montana. But he didn't sit with Steven Ambrose for the book. And you didn't meet with him ahead of filming. Why was that?


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[Assistant] Ambrose's book claimed that Spear's wife in England left him because her first husband, this is complicated, whom they thought had been killed in action, was actually still alive. But in a later letter to Major Winters,


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[Assistant] Spears explained that she wasn't a widow and had never been married before. She just didn't want to leave her own family in England and move to America with him.


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[Assistant] And that obviously takes us to Bootcamp, the fabled pre-production experience in which most of the cast were put through their paces to prepare for the rigours and mindset of the shooter head. You really developed a sense of the Spears character in Bootcamp.


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[Assistant] The other person who gave you a true sense of the character was Dale Dye. Can you take us into those conversations? The trainer who eventually ended up playing Sink in the series Band of Brothers. What did he teach it?


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[Assistant] So in the words of the great Dale Dye as he told you, you were not an actor weenie anymore. And I believe you still have a hernia from the atomic sit-ups, is that true? I think it's pretty healed by now.


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[Assistant] Because Spears was originally in Dog Company and didn't join easy until after the chaos of the drop in Normandy. So you were not in episode 1, curry. And you took the opportunity


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[Assistant] When you look at Spears, how you portray him, he had a mysterious, scary quality. He's almost a spectral figure, Matthew, throughout the series. He just seems to keep appearing out of nowhere.


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[Assistant] There was a great interview on the podcast History Hacks and you said, Rick Gomez, who plays Luz, can tell a joke.


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[Assistant] I mean, I assume this was take after take, attack after attack.


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[Assistant] Did your adrenaline burn off? And it became exhausting? Or was it just full on mania every time?


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[Assistant] This is an episode that's filled with machine guns, with explosions, with action. But your scenes are often the quietest. And yet somehow, always the most intense, more than any shootout. None more than your night time encounter with Blythe.


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[Assistant] Can you give us an inner sense of how you thought through how to deliver it with such incredible art?


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[Assistant] That's incredible, because Spears, I mean, he comes across as a character where less is more, far more.


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[Assistant] He's an incredible leader in the crucible of pressure. And in this show, there's Dick Winters, who's depicted as a hero. At the other end of the spectrum, there's David Schwimmer's Herbert Sobel.


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[Assistant] How would you describe Spears leadership because it's somewhere


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[Assistant] You talk about mystery. I mean, he was truly a larger life figure for the Man of Easy Company. You know, there were rumours that he shot one of his own sergeants between the eyes for getting drunk.


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[Assistant] There was the gunning down of the German prisoners after D-Day. And in episode three, we got Muck, Pencarla and Malarkey reliving that story. Clearly not for the first time.


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[Assistant] What was it like when you shot that Rushomon sequence where you're filmed using your tommy gun to side down the German POWs? That shot of the survivor with a cigarette burning through his fingers, one of the most haunting of the entire series. Was it tense on set that day?


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[Assistant] In between takes, did everyone just chat and laugh and smoke and hang out or was there, was there a heaviness on set?


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[Assistant] Spears' bravery, which borders on insanity, is on display again in episode 7. After relieving Lieutenant Norman Dyke during the assault on the town of Foy, Spears realises it's down to him to link up with iCompany, which is on the other side of town.


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[Assistant] And Ronald Spears, being Ronald Spears, decides to make an exposed sprint into the open, as narrated by the great Donnie Wahlberg.


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[Assistant] Tom Hanks told us there were some concerns about putting the run between the lines in the show because people wouldn't believe it despite the fact it actually happened.


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[Assistant] How did you understand why Spears did what he did? A number of historians have wondered whether he actually had a death wish.


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[Assistant] When you finish shooting Band of Brothers, at the wrap, you and Ian Bailey who played Webster, you burn your boots. Can you take us there? What did that feel like? Was it relief? Was it joy?


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[Assistant] You eventually met Spears himself after the shoot at the premiere in Normandy. And an amazing fact from Hanks, apparently the real Spears would only agree to go to the series premiere after Winters called him up and convinced him that he wouldn't be arrested for war crimes.


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[Assistant] You sat next to him and winters during the screening. Can you take us there and tell us what you witnessed?


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[Assistant] You're blown past this story, but this is somewhat incredible. When you were on an impromptu road trip.


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[Assistant] With some of the cast and you guys took a diversion just so you could drop off at his house and knock on his door, right?


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[Assistant] You've said that as you become a man, you wake up to realities you are not aware of as a youth and he was a man with a definite, a definite awareness of those things. And that will...


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[Assistant] This show, 20 years old now. You know, I have to say...


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[Assistant] You have barely aged, Matthew Settle. You have obviously gone on to save her a long and joyous career, and I'd love to read the interview where you said even in the height of your fame as ruthless on Gossip Girl,


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[Assistant] You've still got a ton of guys coming up to you and saying, What Spears doing on Gossip Girl? You've said Band of Brothers is quote, the shining star of your career without a doubt. Why is that?


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[Assistant] What's the lesson that you've taken out of life by living as and playing Captain Spears?


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[Assistant] Matthew Settle, thank you for talking with us and thank you for bringing such a remarkable, complicated American back to life and honoring his legacy.


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[Assistant] There's more, much more to come. Next podcast, we talk episode four.


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[Assistant] The actor who played the one and only wild Bill Garnier, a man with whom he formed a deep relationship in real life and spent


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[Assistant] Live show. Tickets are available now at HardRockHotelAtlanticCity.com or you can go to the link in our bio on our at pod important Instagram page.


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[Assistant] You're frickin' tickets now because you know they're gonna sell out. Come and rage with us in Atlantic City, baby!


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[Assistant] I feel like people don't really rep it. I feel like they kind of are like Atlantic City.


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[Assistant] Does Atlantic City kinda has like a Reno vibe or what? Cause there's kinda like...


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[Assistant] Yeah, you got the sound machine. I like a little, you keep it on like a what?


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[Assistant] Adam, that reminds me, the one time we went to Catalina and we were like sleeping on the boat, you played fucking the loudest like water noises. So it sounded like the boat was taking on water.


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[Assistant] I'm not gonna interrupt whatever you and Chloe are doing.


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[Assistant] That waitress at Rainforest Cafe didn't give me the correct change.


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[Assistant] That's a good little question right there.


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[Assistant] Is that the one where he's got the rope in it like he's calling the bats?


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[Assistant] And then number 8 and 9 is 50 shades darker and 50 shades free.


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[Assistant] I came up with the best fix like 10 years later or however long it's been. We should've just in the credits had the little dog walking


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[Assistant] Alright, so, I need you to give a brief summary of who you are. I don't really know a lot about you.


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[Assistant] Hey guys, I have to tell you, have you tried ZOA Energy? ZOA Energy, it's a, it's a better for you energy. It's, uh, got great taste, it has electrolytes, BNC vitamins, and zero sugar.


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[Assistant] You know, it's made with caffeine from green tea, green coffee, and it provides a balanced energy with no


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[Assistant] Available on Amazon and at a store near you like 7-Eleven, Costco, and more.


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[Assistant] It's out. What happened? Where the hell are you going? They came out of nowhere. They slaughtered us.


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[Assistant] Hi guys, welcome to the Really Good Podcast with your host, Bobby Althoff.


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[Assistant] Uh, today, this is a little different of an introduction because my videographer that I found by the trashcan actually forgot to press record for the first three minutes of my interview. I'm working on replacing him right now, but I'm just gonna introduce my guest. Uhm, his name is Mark Cuban. You may have heard of him. He is on, uhm, Shark Tank and he has some money on his bank account.


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[Assistant] Uh, right now I have like $20,000 in debt.


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[Assistant] Uhm, because I wanted to have full ownership of it myself, so.


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[Assistant] Thank you. Uhm, I believe in my podcast, so I just, I'm, I'm trying my best. I've had some, a few guests, some D-list celebrities, but you're the first big guest I've had.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I think you're lucky. If you move anywhere else, it's gonna be pretty gross, but we did find a Swiffer. I appreciate that. Yeah, you're welcome. Uhm, I, I have an interesting fact for you.


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[Assistant] Are you being serious or are you just saying this because there's cameras?


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[Assistant] Oh, that's nice of you to do that to them. Uhm, I will not want to be around you if you don't take the lactose pills.


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[Assistant] Okay, uh, I stopped because I thought it stopped existing. Why'd you think that? Well, I don't know. It's been a long time. I used to watch it before I had kids.


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[Assistant] Well I know I'm not planning on using the whole $20,000 to buy you clothes, I'm planning on using like maybe a few dollars of it to get you the clothes.


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[Assistant] Okay, uhm, I just wanted like, I just think that you should give me $20,000.


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[Assistant] Hey guys, I want to take a quick second to thank SeatGeek for sponsoring this episode. I know you guys are all shocked to be hearing this. Somebody sponsored my podcast finally. But I knew that I had to work with SeatGeek after I did an episode with Drake because I heard that he does concerts or tours and I'm really excited to go see him perform.


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[Assistant] Uhm, when I was looking online for the tickets, I just made sure that I went to the green dot, not the red dot, because green means cheap.


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[Assistant] Uh, SeatGeek is the number one ticketing app and they have over 28 million downloads. And I guess, I guess that's pretty good. So, uh, definitely go check them out and use code Bobby, B-O-B-B-I, all caps, emphasis on the I, not a Y at the end. Um, and you will get $20 off.


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[Assistant] Which is really cool. So you can get $20 off and just click the link in the description and you can watch any concerts, sports, whatever, whatever you wanna go do. Thank you. Do you wanna take me to a game? Sure.


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[Assistant] Even at 40, you could still, if I'm 40 you could still be my grandpa, so.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's cool. Uh, maybe you should host a big birthday party for all of the people with July 31st birthdays.


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[Assistant] That's amazing. When did you stop being poor?


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[Assistant] Okay, you have, do you own rubies a little bit, a little bit of it?


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[Assistant] And gifting it to me, so then, and we're gonna all celebrate our birthday on the yacht.


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[Assistant] Okay, so you're gonna, I'm number two on the charts right now. Are you trying to be number three?


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[Assistant] Sounds like they're good kids. I feel like if they weren't good kids, you would just be like, oh yeah, no, they're, they're going to be okay.


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[Assistant] That's all? I thought you were gonna keep going til like 15. Wow.


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[Assistant] That's a good start. We do, and I think that is a good start. Your name is Mark Cuban. That's not my name, so nobody will get confused. Well, this is true. Yeah, so that's good. We have two different names with the same birthday.


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[Assistant] Is that serious? What's the last four of your, uhm, checking account?


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[Assistant] Okay. I hope one day that I have a bunch of accounts too. What do you do with your free time now? Just play with your kids?


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[Assistant] Okay, uh, what's the incentive for me?


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I don't think this is acting. Unless you're acting like you like me.


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[Assistant] Thank you. I would like to return them, so just don't let them break. Or you can give me five dollars, since you won't give me twenty thousand. I'll take five.


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[Assistant] Oh my goodness. That's, I'm sure that really hurt you. Financially. Yeaah. I don't know if you'll recover.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it just keeps adding. I, I do feel hopeful though that it'll eventually will stop going in that direction and I'll start to gain money.


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[Assistant] Oh, it depends on how much the money is. I might. I could. I love makeup.


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[Assistant] I don't really like that. No. I don't want to be called grandma. No. I won't let her call me that though.


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[Assistant] Yeah, a little bit. I think all old guys look similar though, so.


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[Assistant] You haven't counted? You don't just have little meetings where all the billionaires get together and- No.


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[Assistant] You don't have, there's nothing. Do you talk to other billionaires?


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[Assistant] That's, that's wild. I don't think I would do my own laundry if I had that much money.


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[Assistant] You're not scared, like someone's gonna come up to you and you're by yourself. You don't have security.


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[Assistant] That's, uhm, shocking. That's very shocking.


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[Assistant] Wait, do you, so you don't, you don't fly like economy? No.


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[Assistant] Okay, well you have something that Drake doesn't, he doesn't know what a non-stop flight is, cause he's, he's, he's poor compared to you though, so.


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[Assistant] Oh, that's amazing. I go there too, but I do what the poor people do and we, uh, wait in line for the... I know that sucks. ...Spear Airlines. I know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I would love to not do that. So I'm excited. Do you think that I have to go to New York next week? Can I use your plane? No. Okay. I just thought I'd shoot my shot. It doesn't hurt to ask. Yeah. You could have said yes. You still can. You can, you can say yes.


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[Assistant] Okay, that's true. Now I feel like you're being mean. But maybe you could let me. Why?


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[Assistant] Yeah, so let's, let's, let's just... Someday. Let me take your plane with me to New York. Someday. Do you want to see me on Superior Airlines?


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[Assistant] That's not how it works. You don't just go on planes with no one on it.


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[Assistant] Okay, that makes more sense. I thought, yeaah. I was like, you wouldn't choose that for yourself. No one would choose that for themselves. It still sucks. Do you have bed on your plane?


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[Assistant] No, that's not. He didn't help. He helped with your episode. He hasn't helped with anything else.


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[Assistant] Well, I manifested, I manifested where I am at today.


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[Assistant] I wasn't though, you started adopting me and like I think the first thing you said to me was that I look like I was 40 years old.


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[Assistant] I would almost bet my life that your kids are fine.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. And you work out. You work out though. A lot.


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[Assistant] Uhm, whatever is handed to me. Not like, like from strangers. I don't drink drinks from strangers.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I don't know, it's been a minute.


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[Assistant] I have little kids, yea. I mostly just play with them every day of my life. It's pretty boring. Really? Yea.


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[Assistant] Peppa pig, yeaah. Peppa pigs are our jam. I don't really get to do anything fun of her because I just hang out with my kids every day of my life.


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[Assistant] My second daughter is the same, but my first daughter is never gonna ever become a one person. She could just sew herself to me. She would sew herself to me. Fun.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I would have to hide that every time. So I got the back of their heads on me so that I could just have them, you know, cause they're like little sisters.


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[Assistant] They're fun, just like right all over. I have my kids draw some on me too.


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[Assistant] Don't look at your kids like that. You're trying to intimidate them. You can do it, guys. I said so. What is that? What is that face?


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[Assistant] But you could just help way easier. You could give me a billion dollars right now and it probably wouldn't even affect you.


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[Assistant] Hmm, fine, five million dollars, we'll go small.


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[Assistant] All the way. I can make you say whatever I want you to say.


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[Assistant] And, and with that said, I'm out. No. And with that, was, what do you say on Trick Tank?


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[Assistant] Those reasons I'm out. Yeah, okay, let's start over. And for those reasons, I'm out, Mark. Actually, can you say that to end it?


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[Assistant] I wish we did this right underneath the H of the Hollywood sign.


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[Assistant] Come on, everything's good for fodder, we've learned this. Yeah, dude.


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[Assistant] And Adam, Adam listened to through the walls years of abuse. His mom used to beat the shit out of his dad.


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[Assistant] I feel like I do. I feel like I do forget about stuff like that. Like trauma? What's trauma?


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[Assistant] That was, hey, that was an era. It's gone now. I believe it's a coffee bean and tea leaf. Uhm. Thanks Obama.


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[Assistant] Have you guys washed, cause like the new clothes or whatever you wanna like wash them before you just put them right on them? I remember washing the clothes before the baby arrived and holding up what is the absolute smallest size of a shirt and I was like.


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[Assistant] And then the OBGYN comes out and he's like, oh, this is my husband, the guy who works at the parking lot. And you go...


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[Assistant] Adam, the less you, the less, the fewer details you include, the fewer people are gonna show up at, at your wife's.


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[Assistant] But you know what's cool? When the due date comes and goes and then you start getting real like, well, what are we doing here? And the doctor's like, uh, intercourse. Uh, that's always a fun way to induce labor. And you're like.


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[Assistant] There's a place in the valley. By the way, I love that this is what the pod is today. Ladies, turn it up!


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[Assistant] It's gross, it's a mess, it sucks, it's hard, it's not beautiful. I-I-I'm not even...


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[Assistant] Alright. Just, who are you, boy? Just be yourself for one second, please. Just take the wig off.


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[Assistant] You think Martha Stewart was making some like bomb ass jankum, like she's got her own recipe type shit?


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[Assistant] Kyle goes off stage for the guitar, walks out strumming as he does. They don't hear anything. He knows they don't hear anything.


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[Assistant] Probably, it was a rented guitar that the battery died.


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[Assistant] And we rolled with it. It made for a great fodder. It was the fond fodder. Uhm, but what's not gonna happen with the jankum is exciting news to me.


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[Assistant] We could do slapbox. I mean after I do jank him I might need that.


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[Assistant] It might catch a nostril, bring the nose with it.


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[Assistant] I will give Kyle a little credit because he's got the, he's got the hands. The hardware is there. Oh yeah. And also the core, the pickleball kind of core motion.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah. That might help. That might help. I'm not interested in that.


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[Assistant] I do kind of hate when they do the hot fly rounds when they're like, uh, do you want a little half grilled cheese? And you're like, nah.


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[Assistant] And it's really good food, hopefully. Sometimes, on some sets, the food is insane. It's bomb, sometimes.


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[Assistant] Uh, I heard a cool move that a producer told me. He was like, oh, I know a producer who...


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[Assistant] We'll hire a shitty caterer and let that ride for like the first two weeks and then like make kind of an announcement where he's like, you guys, I know the catering is bad. I cut them loose. And then he hires, he plans to do this. Then he gets a bomb caterer and everybody loves the guy.


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[Assistant] We had Kyle on, and now it's better. And we had Kyle on to fire him so that people appreciate this better.


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[Assistant] Uh, the, when he was like, trimmed to fat. Yes, I meant, uh.


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[Assistant] Wait, wait, what is the monster truck? Pussy. Is that like a pussy that could take a monster truck?


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[Assistant] You're owning your sexuality. But doesn't what's her name say, come park your truck in this little garage? And you're like, okay, a little garage, that's cute.


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[Assistant] Well, that's old. Yeah. How long ago was WAP, dude? Come park that Mack truck in his little garage. But now they're saying, yeah, that's old. Bring whatever you got. Yeah. It's say big or small, but this pussy, it's a monster.


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[Assistant] And I'm like, what is this shit they're doing? And I was like, just stop for a second. Imagine you're 10 years old and this is like Madonna and you've never seen anything like it before. Pretty cool. She's just doing something pretty cool. But like I'm old, I'm jaded and I'm like, who does she think this is fucking cool?


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[Assistant] But the, because there was a stage, like a Broadway Mean Girls, that is a musical, right? And is this that? That. Except film?


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[Assistant] We're playing the craziest game of fucking telephone with art right now, where it's like, it was a movie, then it was a stage musical that now is into a new movie.


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[Assistant] And for the first time ever. Adam, we'd love to have you on to do the jankum.


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[Assistant] When like Adam Driver or whoever it is has to be like seriously introducing the musical artist, I laugh so hard because they're like, ladies and gentlemen, once again, Moby. And they're like, chill.


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[Assistant] Like it's a blessing or some shit, you're like, dude, it's, it's just a musical performance.


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[Assistant] I have my, my fucking DVR collection. I watched this new one. It's okay. You could watch it. Yeah, it's fine. I don't. And this is the first time in a long time. First time in a long time.


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[Assistant] But do you guys ever catch yourself when you're watching it late and it's just like the title card of like the host being kind of goofy or not having like a cool photo and it says like SNL and it's dead silent for those 10 seconds and you just look at it and you're like


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[Assistant] Ladies and gentlemen, Nickelback. And you think SNL every time it makes me laugh. Uhm, no but it's silent and it's kind of like, am I crazy?


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[Assistant] Special. Special. It's silent for a reason. Like usually there'd be some sort of interstitial.


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[Assistant] Cannot stop. But I do, I was watching it and it hit me and I was like, every time I watch this show and I sit through one of these 10 second photograph interstitials without any sound, I like go to this place where I'm like,


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[Assistant] A moment of zen. This show's an institution. This is to be cherished. Once again, ladies and gentlemen.


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[Assistant] If they, if they like, should we hear the band? He goes, no, no music, just a picture.


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[Assistant] And people go, oh, it'll be weird. It'll be really quiet. I know.


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[Assistant] Please don't turn the channel. And you're like, woah, hey. You get it right where it's at. I'm at home like.


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[Assistant] Hey Emma, so, they're gonna play Adam's silent 10 second picture here, and it's just fuckin' like, don't turn the channel!


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[Assistant] And he's like, now shut up and move so I can put this refrigerator in here by myself.


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[Assistant] Okay. I think we met at Mars the other day. A barista? No, no, no, like a kid, another kid named Mars. Oh, that's cool. Uhm, well, when we were on tour, some dude rolled up to me when we went to that, uhm, speakeasy bar, and he, he and his dudes all rolled up, uh, flying V, uh, Mighty Duck style towards me. And he, and they were like, all like...


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[Assistant] But it's so fu- when you have a weird name, or I should say ethnically different, I don't fucking know, uh, it's crazy when you meet somebody out in the wild and you're like, what's up?


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[Assistant] Like Kevin is like a big name for people our age. Like there's a lot of Kevins. We all know a few Kevins. There's a lot of Kevins. Yeah. Ain't no Kevins under 20.


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[Assistant] There was a very funny name joke on the show, Mr. Mayor, which I don't know if it's, I don't think it's still on. Uh, but it was a pretty funny show. And Bobby Moynihan from SNL fame was very, very, very funny on this show. And obviously he's like 40 or something like that. And his name was Jaden.


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[Assistant] That's funny. They're like, uh, and Jayden, come on in here. And he's like, yeah, what's up? And you're just like, every time they say Jayden, you laugh hard because you know it's impossible that his name could be Jayden.


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[Assistant] I'm not going to say sneaky old because I don't want that to come off as an insult or whatever because age ain't nothing but a number and age is beautiful.


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[Assistant] Uhm, speaking of being old and people being let down, and maybe I've talked about this already, but like, when we did the, uhm, the Bieber roast. Oh, Adam, you weren't there, right? No, I, yeah, I was off doing something. Yeah, he did, I forgot you were not a Belieber at that point in your life. Yeah, it's too bad.


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[Assistant] And I was like, yeah. And he goes, whoa. Oh God. Wait, how old are you? And I w I think I was probably 35.


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[Assistant] And I, or get away from me pervert. I think I was 35 and had just had my first kid. I think that's no, that can't be right. And I was 32 then. Um, and I go, I'm 32 and his face, he, he, it was like, I had died.


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[Assistant] Pete Davidson for his birthday or some shit. And Emma was like, did you see when he saw, when you said how old you were? And I was like, let's just keep walking. Let's just keep walking.


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[Assistant] And by the way, this is not a slide on Justin Bieber. No, he rocks. I actually think he's perfect. I think he's perfect.


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[Assistant] That happens, you blink your eyes and somehow you've transported to outside the club and two giant men are standing in front of you and you're like, I don't even understand what just happened. That was just a joke. Jesus.


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[Assistant] But that doesn't mean he can't hit a club. He just has to drink sideways.


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[Assistant] It'd be cool if he was the fourth guy on the podcast and he kind of just listened and he was like the barometer for like when we're actually funny or not.


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[Assistant] You know, cause I'm not. Cause I'm a fucking idiot. Really?


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[Assistant] They're good friends, I assume they gave you the same number?


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[Assistant] Okay, we are brothers in phone numbers. What?


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[Assistant] No, but I think you knew what the word was, but you didn't. I don't think you did use it. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Uh, wait, I, can I, wait, wait, real quick, real quick, I just, and this, and this might be a nice way to end it, but uhm, Blake, we're not buzzing off anymore?


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[Assistant] So uhm, I, I am abstained. Is there a fun play on words we got here? Buzz off was a real good time. Zoa.


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[Assistant] The Last Patrol, the episode in which Captain Winters tells a lie and a pivotal installment in the series in that it marks the beginning of the end.


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[Assistant] As the real life Dick Winters insinuates himself during the interviews at play at the top of the show.


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[Assistant] The episode begins February 9th, 1945 in Hagenau, France, and it's narrated by aspiring writer and Harvard-educated private first-class David Webster.


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[Assistant] Played by Ian Bailey, who returns from four months in hospital after being wounded during Operation Market Garden.


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[Assistant] The derision the men display towards Webster for his absence in that hellscape baston is matched only by their dismissiveness towards replacements.


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[Assistant] Like First Lieutenant Henry Jones, played by the babyface Colin Hanks.


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[Assistant] It's that patrol, a daring night time raid in which 15 men are dispatched across the river with the goal of taking German prisoners for intelligence purposes.


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[Assistant] That gives Private Webster and Lieutenant Jones the chance to prove themselves. And despite the mission's chaos.


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[Assistant] Prisoner is captured, enough for Colonel Sink to double down and want to go again. But Major Winters, seeing what the war has done to his men who've been hollowed out by what they saw and experienced in Baston and characteristically turns a blind eye to the chain of command.


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[Assistant] And instructs him to rest up and simply report they were unable to secure any prisoners on this supposed mission. A decision that allows the men of Easy Company to believe in something that must have seemed so unbelievable in the blood and terror filled months that have led to this moment.


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[Assistant] My guest today is the red-haired wonder who brought Oregon native Donald Malarkey to life. Yes, that Luger obsessive technical sergeant.


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[Assistant] Who served more consecutive time on the frontlines than any other member of Easy Company, earning a bronze star and the French Legion of Honor medal in the process. Malarkey's character arc from an ebullient spark plug who joyrides his motorcycle around the English countryside.


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[Assistant] So the broken de facto platoon leader at Hagenau is one of the most nuanced and heartbreaking in the entire series. It's a joy to welcome the gent who portrayed it all with such death skill, Mr. Scott Grimes.


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[Assistant] It's a joy to have you on Scott because your career started early and wonderfully out of Draco, Massachusetts. You became a 1980s child star playing in Who's the Boss and built that into a movie and television career. I love


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[Assistant] How you once described your style as a character actor, you said 30 years ago, a character actor was someone you didn't know their name, Hollywood's writing roles for characters now, and they're knocking it out of the park. I'm proud of it. I'm a character actor. I'll be the redheaded best friend in anything you want me to be.


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[Assistant] You and Damien Lewis, we can do it all. Gingy Avengers assemble. And so your Band of Brothers journey began. I want to go back to that beginning because you were in the Magnificent Party of Five playing Wilma Corkill.


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[Assistant] And Party of Five's casting director only happened to be the legendary Meg Lieberman. My Lord, Meg did it all. She did war mini-series. She did teen dramas. Did she have malarkey in mind for you from the office?


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[Assistant] But you took your shot because you looked at the character Malarkey, you're like, this is a guy that is prone to love a song. Tell us what you did, Scott. It's magnificent. So thanks.


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[Assistant] That was the only note that Tom Hanks had for him on episode 2.


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[Assistant] How do you understand that they chose you? Because as you noted, shortly after they gave you the part, you look nothing like the real Malarkey. In your own words, he's blonde and blue-eyed and gorgeous.


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[Assistant] They said they loved you because you were friendly and funny and that was like the core of the portrayal, even though quote, you were a ginger that looked nothing like him.


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[Assistant] The real malarkey was still alive when you were preparing to play the character, but you found it hard to engage with him. You reached out to him a couple of times via phone, I believe three or four times. Tell us what happened.


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[Assistant] You know, I'm fascinated by the layers of this story. This is a man who had returned to Oregon, become an insurance and real estate agent. He was a very private man. Even to his family, they said he rarely spoke of his war experiences. And for you, every time you, for at least a year, try to speak to him, you get emotional.


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[Assistant] You actually came to believe or understand that emotion was because he was alive and that some of his best friends like Skip Muck who had been killed at the Battle of the Bulge had died right in front of him. It is that guilt of surviving.


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[Assistant] You know, even though he was still broken by his experiences, he did begin to open up to you. I'm fascinated. What was the main lesson, Scott, that you took from your conversations?


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[Assistant] There was a true decency to Malarkey as well. I'd seen when Malarkey pays for the laundry of the men that didn't make it back after D-Day.


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[Assistant] Captain's proud of me. Let's talk about Bootcamp, the infamous Band of Brothers pre-production trial by fire that so many of the actors went through. We've talked a lot to the cast.


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[Assistant] About the impact of that experience, their bonding, their portrayals. But you've said something fascinating though Scott. I've heard you talk about how as an actor, you prepared physically to get into the best shape of your life. Just to be able to quote, fake kicking ass.


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[Assistant] You've said that you could prepare physically for bootcamp, but not mentally. Because when you got there, it was quote, the dreariest and rainiest year in England's history. And that rain helped us get into the depression of it all.


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[Assistant] We've heard that a number of the American actors were shocked to arrive and find out that there were tons of British actors faking American accents, taking parts from American talent. And at first, a number found it hard to take.


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[Assistant] There was another element of Bootcamp that set a tone. You've said there, and during the actual production, Hanks and Spielberg's modus at times was to make the cast so fractious, so miserable, so tired, so angry with the gruelling conditions that it would encourage anger and suffering to come through in your portrayals.


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[Assistant] Collective misery, that's what wins the Emmys. And Captain Dale Dye, the show's military advisor, he also told us that behind the scenes they really did try and engender an anger between the original cast and the actors who were playing the replacements.


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[Assistant] If I could re-pivot into episode 8, The Last Patrol, can I just say, big picture,


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[Assistant] Everyone in the cast seems utterly shattered throughout this episode, even the replacements who just arrived. How was it behind the scenes at this time? You know, deeper into the Band of Brothers production, were you all just exhausted, beat up, mentally and physically ground down?


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[Assistant] Because the episode is all about combat fatigue. Scott, no one appears to be suffering more than malarkey at this point. What did Hera make up duty in? Because they did die out the ginger.


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[Assistant] Malachy's weathered experience is in stark contrast to fresh faced, newly arrived First Lieutenant Henry Jones, played by Colin Hanks.


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[Assistant] Straight out of West Point Military Academy, keen-eyed, bushy-tailed, eager to see action, the kind of gunko naivete that gets kicked out of you instantly on the field of battle.


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[Assistant] How did the producers introduce him behind the scenes to you? I'd love to know when you first met. You know, we see one of the newcomer actors, they encourage you to ice.


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[Assistant] There's that incredible scene where Bill Keane dies carrying a sack of potatoes from one room to another almost by chance, which triggers Webster's meditation on the role of coincidence and fate in war.


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[Assistant] Easy Company then huddle around the dead Bill Keane for a moment, and you, Malarkey, that scene, you look on with no emotion, you just tell James Moallie, this is a man who's seen so much death, death


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[Assistant] It's incredible to witness, you know, these early scenes, particularly when Malaki thinks he's gonna lead the patrol, even though he is utterly broken inside. And I will say that kind of leadership is just a different level of courage and I can ever even fathom, never mind aspire to.


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[Assistant] And that scene of you in the shower under the steaming spigot, only a few seconds long. But my god, Scott, you say so much, just inside of you, there's such a darkness that can never be scrubbed clean. What was that scene like to shoot?


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[Assistant] I loved once you asked about it, you said you used the water, that first touch of water, and you let your mind think about the weight of the darkness surging front of mind for malarkey after repressing it for so long.


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[Assistant] Even though the patrol was a relative success, when Colonel Sink orders a second one, Winters lies like everyone else. He's over the needless death and destruction. Yea, it was a massive step for him in episode 8 to take as a leader to admit to his men that he's not following orders. How do you understand it?


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[Assistant] Scott, you finally met the real Malarkey in person for the first time. I believe at the Hollywood Bowl at one of the premieres. What was it like meeting the man himself? Were you nervous?


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[Assistant] He was some kind of hero. And when war broke out, he was at college at the time at the University of Oregon. Pearl Harbor occurred and he attempted to immediately enlist but was rejected by both the Marines and the Army Air Corps because of dental issues.


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[Assistant] But once drafted, he volunteered for the paratroopers, which was a bold thing to do, like so many of the men of Easy Company. His first time in a plane.


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[Assistant] There's also an incredible humility to the man. I believe that one of the only things you objected to in the script for Band of Brothers was the ninth episode. Easy Company encountered the Kaufering concentration camp.


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[Assistant] And he was upset that you were in the scenes. He said I wasn't there. And he was ticked off that he was in those scenes.


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[Assistant] Because he didn't want to take any credit for something other men did.


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[Assistant] He went on to carve out a Korean, Portland, Oregon.


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[Assistant] In insurance and real estate, he self-described us for a long time a walking shell. But he did manage to live to the age of 96 passing away in September 2017. One of the last of easy company to pass on.


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[Assistant] But his family admitted he never lost the feeling of being haunted by his memories of combat, the friends he lost along the way. But they did admit.


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[Assistant] That the release of Band of Brothers, your performance was cathartic for him, helped him come to terms at last with the emotional scars of the battle.


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[Assistant] About this show, about these roles, about what you've done through your portrayal. Not just for the massive audience that Band of Brothers has found, but in your case for the very war hero you've portrayed. Is that what makes this such a singular experience?


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[Assistant] I'm going to close with an incredible quote from Malarkey himself because he ended up writing his own memoir which I encourage every listener to track down. It was released 49 years after Camp Tekoa and Malarkey wrote


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[Assistant] So this was the beginning of the most momentous experience of my life as a member of Easy Company.


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[Assistant] There's not a day that's passed since that I do not thank Adolf Hitler for allowing me to be associated with the most talented and inspiring group of men.


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[Assistant] Thanks to you and thank you for your portrayal and bringing Donald Malarkey to life.


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[Assistant] For the series emotional gut punch and a sobering reminder of why we fight.


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[Assistant] We will hear from Ross McCall, the actor whose portrayal of technician fifth grade Joseph Leibgott carries so much of that emotional weight. And we'll welcome back Why We Fight's writer, the mighty John Orloff, to contextualize the episode's legacy.


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[Assistant] Make sure to subscribe to HBO's official Band of Brothers podcast wherever you get your podcasts. And please rate, review and share. And a reminder, as if you needed one, that you can watch The Last Patrol and every episode of Band of Brothers on HBO Max right now. Until next time.


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[Assistant] Texas had me scared when I was smoking weed. It's like I slept upside down in my closet, but I slept.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you put some art up, Blake. Looks good, dude.


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[Assistant] We love Skinner. We love Skinner. Shout out, baby. We love him. We love him. Oakland's finest.


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[Assistant] What are these ideas that come out on air? Like, expectations? What's going on here?


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[Assistant] Wait, do fans get to decide or do we get to decide? I feel like we should decide this first.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they like, they do the legwork and then we, uh, the veto power. Veto power! Yeah!


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[Assistant] Well, cause I, cause I reached out to Blazer, uh,


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[Assistant] Because, oh, the Kat Williams interview? Oh man, yeah, yeah, let's- Oh, okay, we're back to some-


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[Assistant] Dude, I have not seen the whole thing, I've been trying to, but it's, it's really long.


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[Assistant] He had an agenda. Yeah. And then what, like the last two hours are just...


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[Assistant] I do think it's an interesting, uhm, I do think it's an interesting kind of like,


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[Assistant] Uh, what's the word here? Just like looking at the way things pan out. So it's like, yeah, if you're Kevin Hart, you're a super nice guy.


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[Assistant] And fight fourteen year olds. And so what's, what's more, what's better, what's cooler? Being Kevin Hart and having a thousand watches and being a... That's pretty cool.


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[Assistant] Decent. Sure. Yeah, it's cool. They- Well, it's subjective. This is subjective. Yeah. But no one's gonna remember your watches, player.


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[Assistant] Like, I'll say this, does Kevin, here's what I'll say. Does Kevin Hart ever want Cat Williams to open up for him? I'm sure Cat Williams would let anybody open up for him because Cat knows Cat's gonna be scratching it.


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[Assistant] I'm not, I'm not denying that but I think what he's, what I'm, what I'm stressing


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[Assistant] Right, but what I'm stressing is, I would argue he's more professional about the one thing he cares about, which is the creation itself. Like, doing the stand-up. Like, he's putting in the legwork and making it happen, whereas you watch some other stand-up specials and you're like, this doesn't seem super tight.


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[Assistant] They were, they were ma, they were, they were masters though, right? They were masters.


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[Assistant] But that is so dope. That's like, that- Yea, I think he realized, I don't want to play the game of like, having to do all the press and that kind of stuff. I don't think he's cut out for it. Sorry, Kyle.


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[Assistant] No, no, I was just saying the same thing basically that that's like going above and beyond for the craft of that show that he's doing where he's being recognized as a master for what he wants to do. He doesn't give a fuck about he's the master of promoting. That's just, uh, he doesn't care. You know who he reminded me of?


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[Assistant] I mean, you're right, maybe you should talk to Cab, like, maybe you should bend this a little bit. Maybe you should.


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[Assistant] If Blake just walked up and said one sentence to the cat, I envision him looking at you for just a moment to let you know that was not okay to approach him.


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[Assistant] And he's a private guy, like you don't- people- He's an odd duck. You don't know- people don't know that he had all these adopted kids and stuff. But he does. And you're like-


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[Assistant] See, I don't know about, I don't know about all the, all the


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[Assistant] I feel like he was trying to say that all that shit was fucking bullshit.


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[Assistant] I feel like that's a stance, I feel like that's a stance I would take too.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I mean, I get it, dude. If he's like, obviously he's the guy who gets hot. When you have a bad day. Yeah, he gets too hot. He can't even handle his own thoughts, man. He's gotta fucking go, dude. I get that.


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[Assistant] I know our deep, uh, roots, our relationship and where that stemmed from. I'm just trying to be empathetic to the guy right now, you know what I mean.


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[Assistant] What you telling me that right now when I'm in Toronto, chill as fuck, I get it, but right after I've drawn a line, like, I don't know that I would see that in that moment, you know?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I read, I read the transcript because that's just how I digest.


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[Assistant] Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. One other thing about Kat that I don't know if you guys knew this, but... Circumcised. Dude, my main takeaway is dude used to go by Kat in the Hat.


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[Assistant] I will say, when he goes, when he's like, uh, when he was saying like Chris Tucker was getting nicknamed by Michael Jackson, he's like, you ever let another person give you a nickname?


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[Assistant] He was cat in the hat until he got a cease and desist from Disney. That's like, that's what he says. And then he had to change his name to Cat Williams. That's a multiverse right there, like... Katherine Williams.


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[Assistant] That's what I was thinking too, and that's where I'm like, hold on a second. That's a Warner Brothers property, I believe.


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[Assistant] How many pounds have you guys lost each? I'm sitting pretty much the same.


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[Assistant] You know what I did do after, after tour? Some beef muscle dog.


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[Assistant] I stopped it. Here, let's, okay, so tell me about life without caffeine in two seconds or less.


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[Assistant] It's cool, but it's because, no, it's because I was leaning on it so hard and then the day after Christmas I fucking fainted. I fainted hard. I went down really fucking hard, dude. He is risen.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think it was due to dehydration, cause on that day I was like, well I've had, I was going to get a double espresso. Okay. And before that I was like, well I've already had four fucking cups of coffee and I don't remember having water. And so I, so I was like, alright.


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[Assistant] It dehydrates you, so I was like- That sucks. Oh, that's cause you diarrhea.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I leaned so hard on that shit on the tour that I was like, well, I gotta, I gotta put this in check. My body, I, I collapsed in front of my family and my, my children are like, we're in


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[Assistant] Dude, it sucked so bad. Dude, my, my five year old started crying. My wife, my wife went into protector mode and then my two year old was laughing hysterically. What does that mean? She started beating your kids away? Wait, what does that mean?


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[Assistant] No, like just like picking me up and trying to take me to the bed. Are you okay? Like really concerned?


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[Assistant] I like that. Oh no, I dug it. I dug it. I dug it. That's cool.


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[Assistant] Because I know you, what have you replaced caffeine with?


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[Assistant] Tea. It's just tea, dude. I have, and I still, I'm doing like... Sorry, tea has caffeine, right? No, no, not like herbal teas. Herbal teas doesn't have caffeine at all.


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[Assistant] That is strange, I mean I hadn't had a Red Bull in fucking, like, five or ten years and on the tour I was sippin' em during the shows.


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[Assistant] Yeah, now I'm like all up on, I'm like, I got a nutritionist, I'm like going, I'm going deep, dude. Spaghettios. This dude's blood type is Chef Boyardee.


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[Assistant] If I go first, well I just know it. It was Chicago. That was just very cool for me to, uh, finally meet my parents.


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[Assistant] Uh, there were other highlights, but just like, uh, in that context of like, back home, sweet home Chicago, that was it for me. Yeah, that was, that was, that was up the ante. And you guys going to my folks place and us getting some Buffalo Joes, that was, that was really special. That was dope. So dope. I loved it.


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[Assistant] Dude, there's no way I could've, I was like, no way, I can't do another flight.


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[Assistant] Another stitch? Fuckin' chicken, chicken rope?


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[Assistant] Oh wow, so, so it's saying like, producer Anna just dropped in, it's not like, they're not even taking out the whole hip, they're just replacing the damaged parts with like, ceramic, like fucking coffee cups, dude. Oh shit. That's, that's what I'm saying, that's what I thought. Like it's, they coat it up.


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[Assistant] Ayy, the diesel train. Wait, on a real- on a real-


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[Assistant] Wait, just to circle back. They went in and found...


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[Assistant] Yeah, something's pinched. That's very true. Something's pinched. No, it's, it's a little, it's actually a little tiny breath mint that you pinch. It's an impingement. Okay. You have a little bit of bad breath. Oh, like a smint. No point.


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[Assistant] No points. It's like a smint, huh? What's up, me?


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[Assistant] It's obviously some kind of an obstruction of sorts. Uhm. Oh, good answer. Good answer.


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[Assistant] Give me my go juice. Here he goes again. Dude, that was sick. Go ahead.


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[Assistant] I think, too, I think my favorite performance might have been San Antonio. I really liked- Oh!


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[Assistant] Yeah, the deep rain and it was like, but also there was Columbus, uh, some.


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[Assistant] I think we had, I think I had the recliner at that show and I really loved that. It was such a comfy show. That was nice.


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[Assistant] No, but she just did the... Yea, dude, it's out of control. She just did the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I think she just got inducted. Or at least she performed at the thing that was on TV the other night.


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[Assistant] Yes, yes, I think it was. It was in like the Freemason spot. Yeah.


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[Assistant] In the form of a spray. It was a spray. It was like binocca. Yeah, and you just went...


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[Assistant] It was, it kicked in a little late for me, like.


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[Assistant] No, I was able to sleep. Blake, you were able to sleep, right? Yeah.


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[Assistant] I just remembered that, yea, the next morning I went and played pickleball and that shit fuckin' looked cool, dude. Like, I saw the angles. I saw the matrix.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Right now we are. This is a phone in. But what's his, what's his metric? Why did he, as an audience member, think that we were phoning it in?


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[Assistant] Dude, I saw a person standing in the aisle.


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[Assistant] Great, Adam, great word, by the way. I mean, a lot of it. Unbelievable. I mean, dude, Kansas City out of control, Omaha? Very courteous.


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[Assistant] And, uh, Kansas City, debauchery. Debauchery. They were out of their minds. People got fucked up in the audience.


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[Assistant] Dude, I thought he was gonna, I thought he was gonna fucking kick your ass, bro.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. No, I caught it in my mouth though, but technically that is the face. That's true.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that was the only show where I was like, I think we're not gonna be alone on stage by the end of this. Yeah. Right. Right.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but this picture's from like fucking... Mike's at Pike's? Matt's at Pike's? 15, 20 years ago.


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[Assistant] Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I was like, dude, I was just there a few weeks ago. That's crazy. Like standing right there. That's awesome. That's just weird. It was just like a fucking weird thing. Yeah, I would say that's weird.


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[Assistant] Yeah, man, the LSD rocks, bro.


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[Assistant] Texas had me scared. Texas had me scared when I was smoking weed behind- after the- Texas had me scared. There were a couple places where I'm like, where am I? Is this- That was the LSD. It finally kicked in. You were fine, Cal.


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[Assistant] Oh, Waco Surf was awesome, dude. Yep. Oh, yeah. Waco. I mean, that was a very, that was a highlight. That was fucking sick. I'm not even a good surfer.


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[Assistant] They were shredding. I know, I wish we would have had a playlist. I think it would have been cool. They turned up the waves to 11. I think one of those guys was either a pro or a semi-pro and then those were like his homies and they were just... It was crazy. They were absolutely gnar with it.


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[Assistant] Look at that boy's hand grenade right there. He's got a hand grenade and a water balloon.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I called you like three times from the lobby, dude. Like I had to wake your ass up. It sounds like Blake's tone got real for a sec.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we took care of you, bro. We had your back. Don't yell at us. Alright, man?


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[Assistant] You paid for the coffee, you did. You like to pay for things, and I think that's cool about you, bro.


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[Assistant] Is that how you make up for stuff? You, you buy, you buy your apologies? I buy things, yea. I like that. It's a love language.


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[Assistant] I have no memory of this. I'm not trying to sound like a simpleton, but the bread was off the chain.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, I remember. Oh yeaah, the bread.


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[Assistant] Okay, top three, top three worst cities. Go. That's a tough one. Well, I just like that Dallas didn't


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[Assistant] To be fair, I definitely hit like a speaker full on and it exploded.


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[Assistant] Yeah, dude, I'm not mad at it. I'm not mad at LSTU.


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[Assistant] Or shrooms. There were shrooms everywhere. That was pretty cool. Portland was full of shrooms. That was great.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we gotta reach out to your brother Kyle. Cause he's got my weed.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Well, the bro's pretty smart. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. I bet he's a popular guy these days.


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[Assistant] Uh huh. I know that, I know that he's got a freezer full of mushrooms, dude. That bro is, he's, he's going. Cool.


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[Assistant] And that's a, that's a family, that's what our family says.


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[Assistant] Okay. Maybe. Oh shit, dude. Okay, there's ways to catch up. I've been getting after it lately, but maybe. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I dig it. Damn dog. Oh yea dude. Okay, that's a cool bet bro.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I'm like, uuuh. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I don't really want to dive in super hard. I just like to dabble. I like to fuckin' microdeuce.


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[Assistant] No, I just do the little trips. I just do the little, little baby trips. That's it. Just kind of live my life on mushrooms. You know what I mean? Pizza, pizza. Which I like it.


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[Assistant] Try the pool with your children. And then you faint.


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[Assistant] That would be a great thing to get super fucking high and just eat the bones. Yeah dude, I dare you to eat the bones.


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[Assistant] Can I ask you a question? I'm about to have a child in a month. What makes that actually bet? What makes doing it at Catalina outstanding?


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[Assistant] You know, the weird thing, I've never done shrooms.


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[Assistant] I've never done shrooms, buffalo wings? I've never done shrooms, but it's mostly, this is how like, of a child I am. Cause I just don't like the taste of mushrooms.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but they got them in gummies. Like when we came back on the train from San Diego, that's when I was just like popping them cause I was hungry.


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[Assistant] I don't even like, uh, what's the fancy mushroom that you get on like pasta? Shiitake? No, no, no, like uh, uh, truffle? Truffle, like truffle's gross to me. I don't like truffle mush- I don't like truffle either, I'm not a fan of truffle. People went overboard with the truffle in the truffle era.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's too much, but. But you're not, you're, these things, these, these gummies don't even taste like mushrooms, dude.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you're, we're past all of that shit. I'm sure your brother has mine.


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[Assistant] Just bags on bags. Well, they're fucking legal up here. I think they're legal, or they're close to legal up here in Toronto.


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[Assistant] Oh, I forgot. Well, cause you know how like weed was like semi-legal for a little bit? I think it's in that era. I don't-


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[Assistant] So you are gonna vote, Blake? You are? Like that's the plan?


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[Assistant] I was watching after Kat, I was like, I gotta watch some Sinbad.


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[Assistant] I think Durz, I'm gonna default to Durz on this one. I can neither confirm nor deny. I remember there was a scare. No, I do not think


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[Assistant] He was. He was. He did a great job on Sonny. Yup. They got him. I remember when he was on there, I was like...


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[Assistant] Bankruptcy. Sure. I thought that was chapter 11.


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[Assistant] No, he was chapter 7, dude. What's chapter 7? I thought-


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[Assistant] Right, right, okay. There's a whole book with chapters, I guess, on bankruptcy.


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[Assistant] Vote and pay your taxes. I like this new pod. Yea, no, this is good. 2024.


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[Assistant] Brought to you by Turbo Tax. Zero points, pay your taxes.


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[Assistant] More like the down, am I right? I'm jonesing for some dow. How you like me dow? Uh, guys. I'm gonna suck my maz-naz dick. Oh shit, your dick, your dick is nazed.


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[Assistant] I just heard a new one and I gotta take a piss. So if you want to go through the board, I'm going to go take a piss.


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[Assistant] I was watching this fucking commercial where this lady, she's like really good about like fitting things into spaces and she pulls up to a guy in the parking lot who's trying to like fit a TV in his car and she goes


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[Assistant] And if you hated listening to the pod while we were doing it live, we're back here in house. It's different.


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[Assistant] I think New York exhausted me. I was doing all the press and shit during the day. That's true. You had to get your Godzilla on. Yeah. Hey, keep watching Monarch. We got one more episode on. Yeah, baby.


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[Assistant] Just a rope around your shoulder, you're hotter. You look better. This is automatic.


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[Assistant] Zoa Energy, our favorite better for you energy drink, has launched a new campaign. Have you seen it? It's packing lots of BDE. BIG. DWANE. ENERGY.


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[Assistant] And at a store near you like 7-Eleven, Costco, and more. For more info, go to zoaenergy.com. That's Z-O-A energy.


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[Assistant] Myself, Blake and Anders are hitting the Hard Rock Casino Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City to bring TII Nation another live show. Is it the last one ever?


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[Assistant] I don't know. Possibly. Tickets are available now at hardrockhotelatlanticcity.com or you can go to the link in our bio on our at pot important Instagram page. Get your tickets now because they gonna sell out. Come party with us in Atlantic City.


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[Assistant] They should also come on our podcast. It's weird that they haven't reached out. It's honestly weird.


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[Assistant] They should come on our podcast. That would go viral. That's the, uh, the, what, the second or the third and fourth guests. The first were my dad and my child who just read.


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[Assistant] You know you're doing it with the opposite hand? Am I? No, no, no, he was right.


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[Assistant] Am I opposite? It's left hand to your head. Oh, I was right hand to the head.


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[Assistant] So some- one of us has flipped, I derz, I think it's you. I think it's you.


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[Assistant] No, cause my dimple is on my left side. In this left hand. This is my left hand.


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[Assistant] Dude, starting off hot, hot, hot, hot. Wooo! I'm just getting juice. Uh, so I am, I am one month into having a child, so... Fatherhood! Fatherhood. Yeah, dude, one month. Uh, I feel... Over it? Are you over it? Finish him.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you're done? So far I'm not, I'm not over it yet. I'm not over it yet. Oh.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I do, I really enjoy it, dude. It's nice, what's nice about it is like, I'm like an away dad, a working dad, so I'm leaving the house. Oh, that's cool.


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[Assistant] Sure. Yeah, stay away dads. And I'm, I'm right now, I'm a stay away dad because I'm having meetings and stuff up in LA, so I have to drive up there, I have doctor's appointments, that kind of thing. So for the past like four or five days, uh, I've gone up to LA to do shit. That's cool.


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[Assistant] I know, and dude, and I'm like, for my back is all fucked up and my hips and everything, you know, you know all my ailments, yeah, yeah, uh, so I added another, another specialist dude. What? Another one. And Chloe's like, very cool, another one? So another appointment.


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[Assistant] Cause I'm doing all this stuff. But it's not because I dislike hanging with the child. I do really love him. I love him.


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[Assistant] No, no, no. No, it's nice to, uh, I will say it's nice to be away for a minute and then come back and realize you just had this, like, dope little baby to hang out with. It's really fun. Yeah, it's fun. Aw man, I love this for you, Adam. It's really great. Yeah, isn't it fun? I mean, you know, Blake, you got a two-year-old at home. It's not, like, that far off, you know?