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[Assistant] Both men were held without bail, Mark Smitch at the Niagara Regional Detention Center and Del Millard at the Hamilton Wentworth Detention Center.


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[Assistant] So, the discovery that Dell, a wealthy and supposedly successful, I don't really know about that.


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[Assistant] The discovery that he orchestrated the murder of Tim Bosma was a complete shock to the public, but not really a shock to investigators who were starting to notice a little bit of a pattern of tragedy in Del's life. Uh oh. Six months before Tim Bosma went missing, Del's father, Wayne Millard, supposedly took his own life in late November.


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[Assistant] Everybody at Millard Air was told that Wayne had died of a brain aneurysm actually, when in fact he had shot himself in the head or supposedly had.


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[Assistant] Wayne Millard's death wasn't exactly suspicious. He was the CEO of a major company. He was under a large deal of stress. Of course, it's plausible and fully within the realm of possibility. But at the same time, this wasn't the first unusual tragedy that Dell had experienced.


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[Assistant] His former girlfriend, 23-year-old Laura Babcock, went missing in Toronto. Oh, mhm.


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[Assistant] Like Wayne Millard's death, Laura Babcock's disappearance received really little attention from the police or even the press at all when it happened in late June of 2012.


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[Assistant] Laura came from a stable middle class family. She was really well liked by her friends, her co-workers.


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[Assistant] And just one year before she was killed, she had graduated with a degree in English and Drama from the University of Toronto. She had everything going for her.


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[Assistant] One year after graduation, things had taken a downward turn for Laura. I don't know if she like got caught up in the wrong crowd or what happened, but she had a quote unquote mental health crisis and she started mixing recreational drugs with her psychiatric medication, which is never a good idea.


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[Assistant] It was only exacerbating her symptoms to the point where her parents unfortunately had to ask her to leave their home and find somewhere else to go.


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[Assistant] Because of the circumstances, the Toronto police just assumed that when she was reported missing that she'd simply run away or wandered off somewhere and she'd eventually turn up. You know, little attention.


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[Assistant] In both cases, police accepted the obvious, and in my opinion, the most convenient explanations. Yeah.


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[Assistant] To those people, the death of somebody so future-oriented came as a shock, which that can happen. I was gonna say it can absolutely happen. But in this case, they just had a gut feeling that


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[Assistant] Her ex-boyfriend Sean Lerner had a reason to believe that she didn't just run away.


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[Assistant] Meaning he was the last person to have any communication with her.


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[Assistant] So Lerner, her ex, took this information and took the bill to the Toronto police, but they brushed him off and quote unquote accused him of playing CSI.


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[Assistant] No, like he's actually bringing an actual piece of evidence to you. He had, he literally has the information of the last person she spoke with at least on the phone. Like that's pertinent. Of course it is.


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[Assistant] Like, I didn't realize that was gonna happen. So when he realized he wasn't gonna get anywhere with police, he took things into his own hands and actually went to confront Del Millard himself. Ooh, that's dangerous. In late July of 2012.


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[Assistant] Del told him, yeah, I've been talking to Laura, but I don't know where she is and I haven't seen her or heard from her since I spoke to her last. And Lerner really couldn't do much. I don't believe him. No.


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[Assistant] So now, in the wake of both arrests for the murder of Tim Bosma, investigators in Toronto, with assistance from Kavanaugh's team in Hamilton and the OPP, begin to dig deeper into Dell's relationships with his father and Laura Babcock.


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[Assistant] At first, family and friends believed that Wayne was depressed and that his work stress led him to commit this suicide. The day after he died, Del Millard told the press that his father, quote, carried some great sadness with him throughout life that I never knew. He never wanted to share that with me.


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[Assistant] But whatever sympathy he showed at the time appeared to have been an act.


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[Assistant] Your whole life has been set up for you. You are the idiot here. Yeah. I hate this guy. Seriously. On the night of Wayne Millard's death, Dell told the authorities that he had been at Mark's house.


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[Assistant] When the new detectives who are now investigating him attempted to confirm this alibi in June of 2013,


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[Assistant] Cell phone records showed that yes, he had been at Mark's house that night.


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[Assistant] But he had traveled to his father's house in the early morning hours, and interviews with his friends and acquaintances gave them even more to go off of. Detectives learned that in the weeks before his father's death, Dell illegally purchased a .32 caliber Smith & Wesson revolver from his friend Matthew.


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[Assistant] That was the exact caliber and exact model used in the quote unquote suicide. Oh, come on.


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[Assistant] My god. Uh huh. So police believed that he murdered his father, quote, to protect his inheritance, which was being used to fund a new aviation business and to keep him from having to inherit said business.


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[Assistant] In the case of Laura Babcock, investigators learned that she and several of her other female friends had been engaging in escort services through an online escort site, including Del Millard's then-girlfriend Christina.


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[Assistant] Dell and Laura had briefly dated in 2008, and they remained friends after the breakup. So in the spring of 2012, after Laura had been kicked out of her parents' house, she was actually temporarily staying with Dell and Christina.


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[Assistant] But tensions arose when she began spending alone time with Del.


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[Assistant] And that time eventually led to a sexual relationship with each other.


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[Assistant] Not surprisingly, Christina was fucking pissed and demanded that Del end the relationship and cut off all contact with Laura.


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[Assistant] Investigators made three separate searches of the farm where they'd previously discovered Tim Bosma's remains. They did a more than thorough search of this property each time.


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[Assistant] And they theorized that Dell and Mark had spent months planning how to get rid of Laura Babcock, excuse me.


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[Assistant] And on July 3rd or 4th investigators believe they killed her, wrapped her body in a blue tarp and loaded it into Wayne Millard's minivan. Jesus Christ. And drove it to the farm where they disposed of her remains in the commercial incinerator that Del had purchased on July 5th. That is so fucked up.


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[Assistant] And February of 2016 and each man pled not guilty to the charge of murdering Tim Bosma.


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[Assistant] Almost three years had passed since they'd been arrested, and in that time, investigators had collected a huge amount of damning evidence of guilt, including the remains found in the incinerator, the truck which was found at Del's mother's house, and a significant number of texts and other communications


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[Assistant] So Mark's lawyers were pointing the finger at Del's lawyer, or at Del, excuse me, and Del's lawyers were doing the same to Mark. Yeah, of course.


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[Assistant] While the authorities had spent the previous year chasing down every single lead in the case, Dell and his defense team had been


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[Assistant] Not so subtly pleading their case through the media. Press interviews, statements, jailhouse interviews, he did several while in jail.


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[Assistant] I don't buy expensive clothes. I'm a bargain hunter. I have one Hugo Boss suit.


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[Assistant] Everyone loves Costco, you moron. Everyone bow down to the humble king. Like, I only have one Hugo Boss suit. I shop at Costco. I'm a bargain hunter. Okay.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you're still a fucking cold blooded murderer asshole and you'll never enjoy a Costco free sample again, so how do you like those apples? So fuck you. How do you like those cut up corn dogs? Wow.


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[Assistant] According to Dell, any evidence of his leading a lavish lifestyle was actually him just trying to live up to the image that people expected of him. People expected so much of him, Elena, and he just had to live up to that.


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[Assistant] And he said if he was guilty of anything, it was for picking up strays like Mark Smitch, the quote, petty criminal who dragged him into this tragedy.


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[Assistant] Shut the fuck up. You're equally as responsible. Good try. Mark's defense team, like I just said, was equally ready and placed all the blame on Dell.


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[Assistant] They claimed that he was the quote master manipulator, which I believe, and the quote psychopathic rich friend, which I also believe. Yeah, I was gonna say. And they said he had enticed Mark Smitch with empty promises and then ultimately took him quote on a test drive he never could have imagined.


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[Assistant] I do think that Dell was the master manipulator and I do think he was the psychotic rich friend. But I also know that Mark Smich was an adult who was capable of making his own decisions and made the wrong fucking choice. Exactly.


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[Assistant] The press could not resist the sensational story of this playboy heir turned murderer and Mark Smitch's narrative of a petty criminal turned accomplice in a homicide.


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[Assistant] It was more so that they were interested in Del's story and a little bit less in Mark's story because


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[Assistant] Del's story sold papers. Yeah. Mark Spitch's story, nobody really cared a lot about it. Mark is a petty criminal, so it just kinda floats away. But Del is supposed to be this like heir of this.


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[Assistant] So in one interview after another, Dell had no trouble demonstrating his intelligence and his sharpness when it came to speaking.


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[Assistant] This did make him a potential asset to his own case, unfortunately, especially if he was put on the witness stand. And while Mark Smitch couldn't compare to him in terms of public speaking or self-confidence, he'd actually undergone a pretty considerable


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[Assistant] Physical transformation during his three years in jail. And his defense team, I think they did this strategically, and they were hoping that it would work in his favor.


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[Assistant] He wasn't the scrawny, poorly dressed, meek drug dealer who had basically like muttered his plea during the arraignment. Now Mark had grown out his hair to a more like conventional style.


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[Assistant] He appeared more respectable and his lawyers hoped more sympathetic and believable. I think this was all like a Casey Anthony. You know, they tried to make her look like a sweet, solving mama. They buttoned her all up, they brushed her hair back. Yea, and she was looking so believable. Unfortunately that worked.


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[Assistant] Dungy, I believe is how you say it, he worked really hard to establish his client as the unwilling pawn in Dell's psychotic plan. He aggressively questioned Dell's friends and associates to the point where the judge, Justice Goodman, interrupted to say, I think Mr. Dungy we can lower the tenor with respect to the witnesses. Wow.


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[Assistant] Well, at the same time, Del Millard's defense lawyer Raven Pillay had petitioned the court to exclude a considerable amount of evidence that they said would bias the jury against the client, and he was unfortunately successful in doing so.


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[Assistant] The evidence included a large number of communications between Dell and different friends that implicated him in drug use. Which it's like, we all know he did drugs, he's a spoiled rich kid. And just pretty much other things like that.


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[Assistant] Palay, the defense attorney, pretty much ignored the claims that his client was a psychotic narcissist and instead argued that it made no sense for Dell to develop an elaborate plan to steal a truck. He could have just gone out and bought one.


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[Assistant] And he also argued that it was Mark Smitch who needed money and he intended to steal and sell the truck, but he said something unplanned happened and went wrong and Mark Smitch produced the gun that killed Tim Basma. He said it was all Mark.


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[Assistant] Wouldn't somebody who committed murder try to cover up their involvement rather than leave it out in the open where anybody could find it? That's a bold move.


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[Assistant] What?! If I was on the jury, I would just literally sit there and like raise my hand and just say, WHAT?!


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[Assistant] Don't do that to the jury. I'm always just astounded by that. I'm like, how do you talk for that long? An entire day? I feel like you're at that point going on like too long. But you know, I'm like, that's amazing to me. I mean, yeah, it's absolutely amazing. Like badass.


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[Assistant] So the jury deliberated, deliberated, that's always another hard word for me to say, for four days and they, they were actually sequestered at this point. Oh wow. So they came from that to deliver their verdict.


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[Assistant] Both men requested to be sentenced immediately rather than wait for a hearing, of course. Neither Mark or Dell made a statement during the sentencing, and Justice Goodman told both of them, despite their quote, incomprehensible and unimaginable act,


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[Assistant] The Bosma family was pleased with the verdict, but they felt that the pro- and they felt that the prosecutions


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[Assistant] Theoretical explanation of Tim's final hours did answer a lot of their questions that had been lingering, and they'd been struggling at this point for years. And they said, quote, the weight just went off of our shoulders.


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[Assistant] The public on the other hand, which like I'm not as concerned about as long as his family's happy, I'm happy, but they were left to question what turned Del Millard and Mark Smitch to turn into thrill killers. Especially where both of them maintained their innocence. Which clearly they were not. An incinerator was found on this property.


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[Assistant] Now in February of 27, the disastrous duo went on trial again for the murder of Laura Babcock, both represented by their same lawyers that they had been in the Tim Bosma case.


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[Assistant] The defense argued that, for all anybody knew, Laura Babcock was still alive, and any suggestion of violence having been committed against her was nothing more than the boasting of adolescent drug users. Wow.


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[Assistant] Like, she could still be alive, my client just said he killed her. Yeah. To boast. Like, come on.


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[Assistant] Justice Michael Code, who was the one to preside over the trial, called Del Millard quote, profoundly immoral and dangerous, and he said his accomplice quote, enthusiastically participated in the murder of their supposed friend.


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[Assistant] The courtroom literally erupted in cheers when the justice sentenced both to life in prison. Good. With the eligibility for parole in 50 years. My god.


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[Assistant] In the fall of 2017, Dell went on trial again, this time alone, and for the murder of his father, Wayne Millard. In September of that year, he was convicted of first degree murder. Good.


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[Assistant] Justice Maureen Forstel, I wanna say, presided over the case and handed down Millard's third consecutive life sentence, meaning any chance at parole was just not gonna happen for at least 75 years. So he would be like, I don't even know.


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[Assistant] Millard's lawyer, er, yea, Millard's lawyer called the sentence, unduly harsh.


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[Assistant] Okay, well he killed someone though. And Dell said that it was unreasonable and unconstitutional. Can you explain how, sir? The judge disagreed. Thank you.


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[Assistant] But in May of 2022, the Supreme Court in Canada overturned the 2011 provision which allowed justices the power to sentence individuals to consecutive sentences. Come on. I know.


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[Assistant] Which meant that both Millard and Smitch would actually get the potential opportunity for parole way earlier than anybody expected. That's bullshit. And people were fucking pissed, right Feliso?


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[Assistant] Now because of this ruling, when my daughter is 27, she will be asked to carry on the fight I thought I already fought for her. That's fucked up. That is fucked up. That's really fucked up. And it's smart for her to put it that way. Yeah, absolutely. Cause that'll make people really see. And think about it. Think twice. Fucking A.


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[Assistant] Tim Bosma could still be alive if they had actually done due diligence in both of those cases. But unfortunately no member of the Toronto Police Service has ever been held accountable for those failures.


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[Assistant] Damn. And that is the case of Del Millard and Mark Smitch, two of the worlds. Holy shit. Just stains. I was literally just gonna say stains on the world. Like cross out your ambition tattoo, you fucking troll. Truly stains on the world. How, the Tim Bosma.


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[Assistant] Case just destroys me. So senseless. And the thing is, none of us will ever know what happened in that truck and why they ended his life.


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[Assistant] All your mind is gonna do is come up with your own worst things. Exactly. And to leave them in that position makes these two men even more fucking insufferable than they already were. And it was like a 42 on the Richter scale. That's horrible and so fucking senseless. I hate them. I hate them so much. This case infuriated me. That's awful. Awful.


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[Assistant] Damn. I know, this was a heavy one. Yeah, it really is.


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[Assistant] What? That's nasty shit. Tofu. And what kind of yellow mustard is this?


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[Assistant] Oh no. I feel like you just said yellow mustard. Yea, no that's...


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[Assistant] Organic flour? What has flour not organic in the first place? I don't even know what flour is made out of. What is it? What is flour? What you be cooking? What you be cooking at home for real? Hmm. The last thing I cook.


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[Assistant] We're gonna do these. I forgot to tell you to get lime and, uhm, It's okay. We're just gonna rinse them off.


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[Assistant] For real now, but I'm not, nah. Nah. Girl.


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[Assistant] I was thinking about Thailand, but Thailand don't look like super, super, super. It's a lot to do.


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[Assistant] What you, you just make your, you sit your ass at home and make them kids, them kids tofu.


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[Assistant] I make my, I got one son, I make him all type of shit. Anything he want.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I've been making him all types of stuff. Smugly chicken, spaghetti, greens, catfish. He allergic to shrimp.


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[Assistant] Mm-hmm. You know, see, all you need to do is really just clean it off. We ain't got no, uhm, I usually clean it with, uhm,


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[Assistant] With lemon and, uh, vinegar, but we ain't got that, but it's fine, cause we just gonna rinse it off.


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[Assistant] Girl, they slippery, Bobby. You gotta get in here. Okay, now we gonna pat them dry. Oh, we gotta, we need to start our oil. Okay. Bobby, you know what's crazy? No.


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[Assistant] With that one big titty and one little titty. With concrete.


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[Assistant] Just like, you ain't got no oil at home, you just using the air fryer and all that. You don't have an air fryer? I do, but I don't really like to use it like that. I don't like to use either.


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[Assistant] We're gonna make this with me right now. We're about to do this. Okay, so, oh shit, did you get the egg? It's in the fridge. Okay.


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[Assistant] Now see, I was going to tell you to get some sloppy mama, but I know they ain't got that here. I'm for a 100% fact. You can only get that at Walmart. Or on Amazon. I'ma send you some.


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[Assistant] So I was like, I'll leave now. I followed you for like a long time. Actually, this is why girls are so funny.


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[Assistant] You Mexican or what? White. For real? Mhm. Who Mexican? Your mom or your dad? My mom.


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[Assistant] And then you gonna tell her, see you have a good day. That was nice.


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[Assistant] Mmhm. And we're gonna do an egg, so obviously we got the sazoon.


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[Assistant] You know what though, but I don't eat red meat. Or pork.


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[Assistant] Not even no salt and pepper. Like we lyin'. That's a nasty shit.


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[Assistant] Your mama knows she wrong. So you gotta season up the flour.


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[Assistant] I have. Yes, you could be me off that right there.


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[Assistant] I'll take you a couple shots today. I'll make shots. Yea, a shot. Are you going to make a drink?


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[Assistant] That's so cute. I don't, I don't do drinks. I take shots.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, so when they was like, yeaah, that white girl trying to chill Marcos up, I was like, bitch, that white girl been doing that.


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[Assistant] I got them done in Chicago. I was like 19. I had no business getting my tits done.


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[Assistant] And then, I got him done. The second, third, and fourth time was all the same doctor, I think. Yeah. Well, the second time, I was pregnant when I got my tities done. And I was only three weeks pregnant.


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[Assistant] So then I was like, damn, I'ma keep the baby, then my city's gonna be on the floor. So I kept the baby, and then my city was on the floor, so I went and got him lifted up.


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[Assistant] Come on, Bobby, be fair now. I'ma actually drink this cause this is so good.


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[Assistant] It wasn't that bad. Alright, you ready?


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[Assistant] So, I'ma tell you the truth. Okay. So like, first, I was already like, lit in Chicago, right? Cause I'm from Chicago.


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[Assistant] I had, uh, started like a little hair business and I used to bartend and like waitress and all that and then I started


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[Assistant] You don't give me like, kneading buttons. Really? That's good. You give me like, chill. Do you always like this?


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[Assistant] But you gotta taste it, because that fire is up too high. Sometimes when it's up too high, you can't have it like that.


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[Assistant] I do, I saw him, he needs to do an interview too. I need, uh, a rapper.


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[Assistant] I like it on, like my, it's omelets in the morning. Like not on chicken.


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[Assistant] That girl got a man by me for real, he don't play that.


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[Assistant] I'ma play the song that he about to drop that I was doing the twerking to.


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[Assistant] Oh shit, hold on. I'm gonna get in that mode for you, baby. Okay. Why cut it off?


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[Assistant] So do you go to like majority like black people clubs or white people clubs? Cause it is the difference.


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[Assistant] So, who the nanny now? Your baby daddy? No, my nanny. Oh, that girl got money now, then that's plucking right. Uh, huh, Bobby? My mama.


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[Assistant] Bobby, you gotta suck it. Like, get in there. Put the whole thing in your mouth. Take it off like an oyster. Go ahead, try it.


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[Assistant] It's, it's alright. It's like, okay. What would you use? You gotta use like cast iron skillet or something.


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[Assistant] I'ma get you one, I'm finna set you up. You saw makeup.


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[Assistant] Probably. My mom ain't really got no lips. You think that facelift picture? She ain't really had none. But I'm sending her to camp. Y'all could go together.


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[Assistant] Bobby, getting married at 19 and all that, for what? Are you religious?


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[Assistant] And you actually look really good on this couch. I was like, I should have worn lavender.


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[Assistant] Yes, thank you. You know what, I'm gonna play this back for my kids.


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[Assistant] They just, you know, they think I look like a mom, which by the way, you're a mom and you are fire. So I'm going to talk to you.


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[Assistant] Actually, I only have one teen. The other one's twelve. She's not there yet.


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[Assistant] In a weird way, I felt older when I had the little, when they were little, cause you, you're always worried about whether they were going to.


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[Assistant] It's not a phase. It's gonna last a while. Yeah.


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[Assistant] And stare at me without putting your fingers in my eyes or my mouth


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[Assistant] Yeaah. What flavor is that?


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[Assistant] It's kinda, it's not a flavor, you shouldn't eat it, but it's like, uhm, it's like a sweet, vanilla-y, sweet cream. I think that's what we call it.


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[Assistant] You know, not stinging their eyes but then also really lathers up and really works also for adults and detanglers that actually detangle the hair.


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[Assistant] Well, sometimes I feel like it's better if you're here, you can put together your own basket.


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[Assistant] I, sometimes if I'm running out of stuff, yeaah.


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[Assistant] I could. Well you have this podcast, so this is your jump off.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I grew up in like Laverne and San Dimas, Claremont area.


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[Assistant] And I got to buy my grandparents' house for my parents.


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[Assistant] We had a tough time with money growing up, so like it was, it definitely felt really like good that I could, could do that. Uhm, and keep my grandparents house and the family.


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[Assistant] I, uh, I just wanted to see if he would come through because I had never really done that before either.


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[Assistant] I mean, he talked to me about things that she definitely wouldn't know.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, it's, it's uhm, I think, I hope it's more comforting and less scary for you.


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[Assistant] Did your, did your parents feel like you were as poor as you feel like you were growing


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[Assistant] Yeah, my parents did the best they could and they provided the best they could and it was stressful.


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[Assistant] I think, I think for me what I, what I try to say with my parents cause my dad would actually drive us across the border and show like, like,


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[Assistant] Wow. It was really fun. They had like the drive, the car service.


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[Assistant] Uhm. You know he was the only one that was planned.


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[Assistant] She's out of business. She's not just closed, she's out of business. She's bankrupt.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I would kind of be sister-wife-ish without the same husband.


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[Assistant] Thank you. And then, uhm, in the morning.


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[Assistant] I have Hydrogel, which is another moisturizer that we have that like instantly just like gets, gets her together in the morning.


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[Assistant] Can I do this? Can I do this? Can I do that? I'm just allergic to so many chemicals and so many fragrances.


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[Assistant] So it's like I ask, can I do all of these things and not have any of those weird chemicals?


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[Assistant] This is my home office, and then I have like a regular


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[Assistant] Yeah, or I have, I have a corner in my closet that I also work out of.


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[Assistant] I think that you would really like him.


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[Assistant] They only just like to give me a hard time.


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[Assistant] I, I, I mean, okay, I didn't color my eye. Probably like a orange-y blonde from like Sun Inn.


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[Assistant] Wild sprays and lacquers and everything. But uhm, yeah, I was doing too much too young.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, that's me. I also, I drove, so I was like...


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[Assistant] It's too aggressive. Right here.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so does my husband. I electrocute them. It hurts me so.


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[Assistant] I don't think you only need to interview people.


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[Assistant] With you. With you. Definitely not. And we're gonna get tattoos on the plane. I think it's, I think it's cool and I love that you're a mom.


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[Assistant] Thank you. I think that that's cool. And to be out with all of that and be your full self. So it's cool.


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[Assistant] Do you want to just say something right now that is sure to get people to click it?


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[Assistant] It needs to be like, oh my god, they're gonna talk about that in the episode.


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[Assistant] No, it'll come naturally if you don't try. I just thought we could really get a lot of views if you tried. We can see what happens. I was looking you up on my way here. Why are you so funny?


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[Assistant] You look like you're 12, but you're like, yeah, you could be pushing like 15 maybe.


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[Assistant] Hey guys, it's Bobby here, obviously. Uhm, I'm so, so sorry to interrupt your beautiful whatever it is you guys were just watching.


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[Assistant] But I have to do a quick ad because this episode was sponsored by SeatGeeks.


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[Assistant] I love SeatGeek, you guys know this, this is now the third time I've told you that I love SeatGeek, and it remains true.


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[Assistant] But I am looking right now for Chance the Rapper tickets and I want you guys to go on SeatGeek and look too. But this time when you look, I need you to use code Bobby. That's Bobby in all caps. Capital B. Capital O. Capital B. Capital B. Capital I. All caps.


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[Assistant] That's gonna get you a discount. It's gonna get you 20% off, not 20% off. I think I say that every single time I've done this ad, but what I meant is $20 off.


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[Assistant] Uh, you're gonna get $20 off when you buy a transfer ticket, and you might end up sitting by me. Probably not, but you could.


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[Assistant] Cheaper, red, more expensive. Again, you can do whatever you want. I am not in control of your finances, but I, I personally do look around where it's green. And you should do that too.


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[Assistant] I think that I've done the full minute now, so I'm gonna end this, and you can get back to watching Mr. Charlie Puth and I talk about how he loves his dog, I'm pretty sure is what we talked about.


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[Assistant] When I was researching, I lied by the way, I didn't do the research. Okay. You have people that do it. I called my sister-in-law. The show's getting bigger.


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[Assistant] I was like, yeah, I could've, but then I just called my sister-in-law, cause I was like, oh, she'll probably know who he is. Uh, she was like, oh yeah, I've seen him on Sesame Street.


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[Assistant] I can sit on the floor. Do you just come in here and play on your pianos?


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[Assistant] If they're able to call it chicken and solid for like 10 cents, do you really think they're- It's like a chicken.


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[Assistant] I feel like you're just making this up. What happens to you when you have a lemon?


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[Assistant] Oh. Do you write other people's songs or just your own? I do.


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[Assistant] No, I just don't like a lot of sound happening and my house is very loud with my kids all the time, so... I get it. You add music to that and then I want to run away.


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[Assistant] Maybe if you're singing, then they're entertained, but what if you don't want to sing? You want to just like, wash your face in peace.


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[Assistant] That doesn't mean you relate to me. That just means, just cause I wanna listen, it's not like I'm putting you on to relate.


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[Assistant] You're welcome. What was it like going to college? Were you in a fra-


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[Assistant] Well no, I don't want to say it because in case you're right, but I just want, I just, I don't think that's how you say it.


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[Assistant] I've never heard anybody say prestigious. Am I crazy right now?


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[Assistant] Do you refer to them as their full name every time you refer to them?


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[Assistant] Until my power went off. Did you feel the earthquake? No, I'm not. You're over here. I'm that way. Far away from it. No earthquake where I was.


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[Assistant] Yeah, because I'm scared of the world ending. The world's not gonna end. It could. And I need to make sure that I'm gonna survive for at least like two or three days if it gets to that point.


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[Assistant] Wow. What restraint you showed right there.


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[Assistant] That wasn't relaxed. That would stress me out to hear. Play something relaxing.


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[Assistant] Okay. It's like realistically, how often are you going to New Jersey?


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[Assistant] I gotta think about that. You didn't think about it a lot with your dog. He might not like that.


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[Assistant] I bet you if you just called him up right now and you're like, Billy, he'd come, but then he said Charlie and he's just like, dammit.


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[Assistant] Oh you do? Is that an actual one? Like the owners who had him previously like coughed that up?


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[Assistant] Probably similar to how it made you feel when you also went viral and Alan called you up and brought you on her show I think or something like that.


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[Assistant] Then your assistant is going to say, mm, I think that these three are the ones.


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[Assistant] I sit on an uncomfortable couch, the next time you're, are you trying to make yourself comfortable?


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[Assistant] So anything isn't that bad for them? What if that stunts their growth? Too much water?


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[Assistant] Thank you for that. Do you have any questions for me before we leave?


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[Assistant] Alright, Charlie, that's- Thank you guys so much for watching. This is Charlie Puth. It's kind of a funny last name. Have a good day, Charlie.


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[Assistant] Why haven't you set those boundaries leading up to this interview? You changing now?


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[Assistant] We're doing very well this year. What? What? Who?


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[Assistant] Look in my eyes right now and tell me, did you or did you not create Sarah B? In my eyes. In my eyes.


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[Assistant] My name is Alexandra French. I'm a makeup artist. I'm here today because Davis thinks Bobby is too plain. Uhm, and since I worked on Euphoria, they thought I could help, but I don't really know who she is. Uhm, I met her today and yeah, I, I, I get it. I see it.


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[Assistant] Close the gaps. We'll do it sir. This goddamn fog won't lift anytime soon. So you can forget about air cover. Your first battalion just pulled out a foy. Crouts on their tail. Tanks, artillery got no backup. There's a lot of shit heading this way.


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[Assistant] Well, thank you. You're very kind. And let me say that in representing Easy Company, what we did try to do is also represent the 82nd Airborne and the Big Red One and the Red Ball Express, the guys who fought in North Africa and Italy and Peleliu and anybody that voluntarily goes


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[Assistant] Okay, you don't like meet up with an old lady and ask her for her whatever she uses? No.


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[Assistant] Okay, that's much further than I thought. It's gonna be fun. Do you have friends that are gonna check in with you?


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[Assistant] That's wow. When I was a toddler you played basketball.


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[Assistant] Hunting? In Riverside? Yep, wild boar. Never heard of such a thing.


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[Assistant] Uhm, a coyote ate my dog when I was younger.


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[Assistant] You are? Yes. Okay. Let's have them meet next time you're in LA.


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[Assistant] They would like to meet you. They're, they're a little bit smaller than you, not by much though.


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[Assistant] So they're, yeaah, they're, they're about that. My daughter is projected to be 8 feet tall.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm not, not 21. Those days are behind me. I'm a mother. I've got children. I'm old.


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[Assistant] Alright guys, this episode of the Really Good Podcast is bankrolled by Cash App. You know it, you use it, you love it, I use it, I love it, but today I want to share with you guys something that you may have never heard of before. The pink card.


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[Assistant] The pink card has something called offers, which gets you instant discounts on things like groceries, podcasting, equipment, so you guys can follow after me. There are no minimum balance requirements and no monthly fees.


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[Assistant] This card is fully customizable so you can do whatever you want to it to personalize it, you can draw on it, whatever shows your personality best.


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[Assistant] Look at mine. It says my name. Because I love myself.


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[Assistant] Actually guys, I was thinking about it and I'm going to allow you to do this while you're watching my podcast. So while you're finishing it up, go ahead and get your phone out.


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[Assistant] And order your pink card now. Have a great day. Now, back to your show. Order your pink card with Cashop.


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[Assistant] Can you turn it off, please? I don't like cameras on me.


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[Assistant] That's a bad angle, I like the camera to come from the front if they're gonna find me. Okay, I'll do it like that then. Thank you. Hi.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, he's my agent. He's not with you. You get the good looking team.


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[Assistant] I don't know. He just takes money from me. He just takes money from me. I don't know anything about him.


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[Assistant] You don't. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. You have seven people here. Yes.


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[Assistant] But she said that after this, I can go to your show with her. But I just met her like five minutes ago.


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[Assistant] This is like a whole job. Let's do it. Okay, and then in exchange you're gonna let me fly your plane to LA? Deal. I flew first class for the first time. You did? Yea. It was really fun.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's not good. They're not nice back there. But if you sit in the front of the plane, they're nice to you. And then you don't have to follow the rules either.


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[Assistant] Oh god, this is intimidating. Oh my god, what is happening?


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[Assistant] I wouldn't have gotten- How are you doing that? Is there something in there?


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[Assistant] Why does he use one? I don't think maybe you know what I'm talking about.


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[Assistant] You have a lot of interesting people who work for you. He was milking a cat.


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[Assistant] He works for you, ha ha ha. He's an industry plant.


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[Assistant] I'll tell them, you can know their real names off the record. Yes ma'am. It's Richard and Concrete.


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[Assistant] Who's this Logan guy? Just after he milks his ca-cat, he goes and- Oh, okay, okay.


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[Assistant] I hope more people come to your shows so that you can afford more mayo on your...


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[Assistant] Dad. Okay. And, and you, you like doing this and you make money doing it?


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[Assistant] That's how I started with the podcast, I Lost Money. But now I make money.


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[Assistant] I don't listen to much music, but I'll listen to it. What does it say it's by when I look it up?


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[Assistant] I know you're doing that. Okay, well, what size shoe do you wear?


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[Assistant] That's not true. No, your PR person who you refuse to say is your PR person said that you have to be out of here by 245.


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[Assistant] Okay. Thank you. I appreciate. I know your time is valuable.


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[Assistant] I can't think of any questions right now, so gonna have a little bit of time to think.


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[Assistant] There's still room in there for improvement.


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[Assistant] Okay, well, that's false. It can input this in there then.


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[Assistant] I don't have millions of dollars. I was just offering to like buy you a meal or something.


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[Assistant] The police are coming right now to get you for talking about this.


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[Assistant] How did she even get that from that?


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[Assistant] I thought this was maybe the point. 7, 8, 9, 10, 3.3. Okay, well, I strongly advise you to never do that again.


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[Assistant] One dollar, you should sell something. Like your smart car.


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[Assistant] You should ask him for some so you can stop driving a smart car.


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[Assistant] Haha. I was really clever. What are you doing? Are you a mime?


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[Assistant] Thank you for coming today to do that. It was such an honor to have this conversation with you. I feel like I really got to know a lot about you.


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[Assistant] Okay. Well, thank you. I've tried to end the podcast like six times now.


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[Assistant] They're tired of squeezing into my little tiny car, so. Oh, that's stupid. Don't send them that.


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[Assistant] I thought you were talking about a big one. They're too small for that. They're babies.


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[Assistant] That's not perfect, they wouldn't, that's, that's not.


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[Assistant] Okay, thank you for coming today, uh, have a great flight wherever you're flying to, goodbye.


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[Assistant] Okay, I have a feeling I'm not. Uhm, all the construction that's happening here, uh, is it possible for them to go louder, or is this as loud as they could possibly be?


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[Assistant] Uhm, this is gonna sound a little corny at first, uh, and then I'll zoom in but I'm just a guy. I'm a guy doing his thing.


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[Assistant] Like uhm, a lot of people, uh, a lot of people try to define themselves by what they want to project their values are. You know, like I'm a basketball player or I'm a pottery guy. But I'm just a guy that like loves to laugh and like is really close with his family and just, I just want to just


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[Assistant] This is gonna sound so corny. It really is. It does. I just wanna love and be loved and laugh and just be merry, you know?


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[Assistant] I'm not ashamed of my past, and part of what makes me who I am is...


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[Assistant] Do you know the Rascal Flat song, God Bless the Broken Road, Who Led Me Straight to You? Uh huh. Can I hear you sing it?


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[Assistant] Every long lost dream led me to where you- The way your eyes are looking, it seems like you're not listening.


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[Assistant] I think that all of our, all of our life is, is, look at it, if you look at them as wins or losses, you're trying to set and define yourself with expectations as opposed to just, this is the road. This is the road that leads us where we're supposed to be.


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[Assistant] It's spread across, uh, different, different, uh, liquidable assets, stocks and investments and such. But in my bank account, I have probably four and a half million. And then I have $500,000 in Apple. I was just thinking about something funny I did the other day.


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[Assistant] No. Well, it depends on how you define it, and like love and experiences.


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[Assistant] I think we're middle class. I grew up upper middle class and then my dad lost his job or I guess quit or whatever it is when I was 12 and then we kind of transitioned from upper middle class to middle class and I think we've been there. At least they are.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but now they live in, you know, they ride the, do you eat steak? How do you like your steak cooked? Uhm, are you talking about my question? Are you complimenting my question?


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[Assistant] So some people like it, some people will do like in between, like if you don't want a medium rare, uh, and a medium well, you could do medium rare plus. So I feel like my parents are middle class plus now. Like not quite upper middle class.


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[Assistant] I have one, I drive probably five. Like other people's cars, sometimes I drive their cars.


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[Assistant] If you end up finding out what my car is and saying it on here, I will be very upset, so make sure you bleep it, please.


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[Assistant] Will you bleep that before you send it to her please? Will you mark that? Do you have the time stamp? Because I don't think she would take that out. Thank you.


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[Assistant] Yes, you got me. Where were you born? I was, I don't like admitting it, but I was born in Orange County. I'm boring my arms tired. That's a little...


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[Assistant] I don't, that's, this is, this is like, uh, I don't talk that much about my personal life on podcasts with people who I don't yet trust.


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[Assistant] Two reasons. One, you don't trust me. Every time you ask me a question, you say you don't believe it. And two, you have uhm,


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[Assistant] An energy that is just like very confrontational. And I, it makes me not trust your intention. So with that, I don't, I don't quite trust you. No.


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[Assistant] When does this come out, do you know? I say that because I, I don't know if what I'm working on now will still be going then, you know, but like I've done


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[Assistant] Different, mostly comedies, one drama, award winning.


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[Assistant] A few awards actually. You don't know about awards?


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[Assistant] Really? Not even world's best mom? Like somebody gave you like a badge?


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[Assistant] Cause you make up your mind instead of assuming that you might be wrong.


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[Assistant] You know, Mark Twain says being wrong isn't a problem, but knowing you're right when it just ain't so is.


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[Assistant] Did you think that I didn't play basketball until I turned 18? Just the last few months maybe?


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[Assistant] I'm gonna try something different here. Uhm, I'm feeling myself being a little defensive because of you telling me how much you don't believe me in some of the judgemental, uhm, questions you were asking me and I think, I think that that's not your fault, that's on me and, and I was responding defensively and I'm gonna, I'm gonna try to do this a little bit different for the, for the rest of this.


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[Assistant] I'm sorry that I got defensive. And...


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[Assistant] I'm sorry that, I don't know if I'm doing this right, I'm, I am sorry that you're, that you're being an asshole.


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[Assistant] It depends on how you define successful. Every week I get to get to know somebody and connect with them and make new friends. I do make money. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I try, I try to not like, like you're coming in and, uh,


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[Assistant] You know, there's a, there's a, a dance you could have when you're asking people personal questions and bringing up things like how much money they have or their ex-girlfriends or their new girlfriends or their family and, and uhm,


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[Assistant] You kind of would want to dip your toe in, feel, first make sure that you make the other person a little bit more comfortable before you kind of ask those kinds of questions. Okay. And then if you don't believe them,


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[Assistant] Unless you're trying to interrogate them, maybe ask more questions around it. You know what I mean? Uhm.


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[Assistant] Sure, uh, should I like pretend like this is a, yeah, well, so we'll sit into it. Um, would you do it? That just helps me out. Could you sit into it?


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[Assistant] That sucks. It's really tough. I assume you didn't know him? That sucks. How long have you been podcasting?


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[Assistant] Oh, so you're new. What made you want to ask somebody that you don't know instead of maybe opening up with people that you do know a little bit?


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[Assistant] No, I don't mean to make fun of you. I just think, I just think that you'd be surprised if you opened up like the possibility of who you know as opposed to just maybe close friends and family. But there's a lot of people in your life that would be interested in supporting you and helping you.


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[Assistant] See, there would be a great opportunity, like when you have your friends on, and you're asking them questions about people in their life, her husband, her parents.


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[Assistant] Like all the money. It's about, you know, connecting with people and that you could use that as an opportunity to meet those people. We'll be right back after a word from our sponsors.


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[Assistant] Do a commercial for my podcast on your podcast? And then pay you for that?


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[Assistant] I mean you even told me this podcast, as of the time of recording, doesn't even exist yet.


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[Assistant] I think that uhm, I think that you need a lot of grit.


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[Assistant] Grit? Is this a funny word? It's funny cause like, grit. I don't know what grit means outside of saying somebody needs to have it.


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[Assistant] Same with elbow grease. I don't know what elbow grease means. But if you were to say you gotta give it a little elbow grease, a little grit, I'd be like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I gotta like, and then you would kind of project whatever it is you think you need to do it. You know what I mean? Like, what do you think grit means in like, in this for you for podcasting? Like if you were to give it more grit, what would that look like?


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[Assistant] You're literally pumping milk while you're driving here, spending money to rent the space. I think you're working hard. But Mark Cuban often says it's not about working hard, it's about working smart.


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[Assistant] To use the time that you have making this stuff efficiently. And I don't know you well enough to know if that's something you're doing or not. You know, like, uh,


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[Assistant] I know you said that you make a lot of clips. That's nice. Because then people will see those clips and be like, I really want to watch this podcast. And then they'll look it up and they'll see there is no podcast. So I don't know if that's working the smartest.


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[Assistant] But it's also like, maybe, do you know the movie District 9?


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[Assistant] Uhm, I remember when that movie came out, there were billboards, and you didn't know it was a movie. It was just, it just said, it was like Aliens, and then the District 9.


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[Assistant] Now looking at it now is like, oh, I get that cause I've seen that kind of marketing since. That was the first time I ever saw it. I was like, what is this? Don't you want people to know what this thing is? That was their plan. Getting people to question stuff. So it's kind of like maybe what you're doing. That's what I'm doing. Yeah. So when, by the time it finally comes out, they're like, I've been waiting for this. So you might have something.


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[Assistant] So I made it at home. Had I known how late you would be, I would have probably stopped and picked up a better coffee. But, I made this at home.


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[Assistant] Have you seen Sister Act 2 Back in the Habit? No. Do you know Whoopi Goldberg?


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[Assistant] There's only one girl, I don't remember if she said girl at the beginning or at the end. Uhm, and then, uh, uh, and that's what she was saying. And then she was like, uh, and then Lauren Hill's character brought up something about the icecapades, cause when Whoopi's character, Sister Mary Clarence,


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[Assistant] Van Cattier, whatever, uh, she's like, and don't you mock the icecapades, they were very cool. And it's like, that's another cool thing I like, where it's like, people will judge you for the things you like, but what's cooler than doing what you love, you know?


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[Assistant] Yeah, so if you wake up and all you could think about is acting. Podcasting. Then you should be an actor girl. That's all I can think about. Oh.


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[Assistant] So does having a big podcast is less about the size of your audience and more about how much money you make? Really asking. So if you could find a way to have a podcast to a hundred thousand people, uhm, but make


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[Assistant] 8 million a year versus a podcast that is to 4 million people and make 6 million a year. What would you prefer?


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[Assistant] They saw it. Unless you do some creative editing, they're gonna see what you said.


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[Assistant] I said what I said. Who is that? I've heard that before.


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[Assistant] And then, uh, I went to the page and I saw that you were offering $300 to people helping, which I think is great.


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[Assistant] It's tough. Booking is, is one of the hardest parts of podcasting. Uhm, I'm like, yeah, let's, let's do that. Good for you. Good for this person who tagged me. Uhm, I didn't know if I would end up meeting you.


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[Assistant] Aren't you doing, you said you actually were in town doing another podcast and you, and you messaged me and I didn't see it. And then you messaged me again and you said hey bumping this up, is there any way, in fact I'll pull it up.


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[Assistant] Any chance you're near Orange County? I guess that's where you told us from. I didn't see it. And then bumping my last message.


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[Assistant] Right, so you were asking me to do it, I just, cause I saw another clip of yours where you were calling the girl out saying I don't want you here and it seems like that's a move of yours.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it is. It's what you've been doing indirectly from the beginning. It's you've been trying to establish high status and you don't do that by offering high status quality traits. You do that by actually just lowering the other persons. And what I was going to say about Eleanor Roosevelt is nobody can make you feel inferior without your own consent.


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[Assistant] And I think that's why things have been a little rocky because you're not elevating yourself, which should be step one, but instead you're trying to elevate the person across from you.


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[Assistant] I don't know what the point is you saying that, but I often think about how I will never understand what it's like to create life and that is something that I'm envious of. I think it's incredible what women could do. I think women are...


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[Assistant] Do you want to talk about how my grandparents died? Is that some more questions that you have brought up?


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[Assistant] My cousin, it's his birthday. Dinner tonight.


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[Assistant] I told you, I just, I'm in a big, I just, You know, I, I, I scheduled around this.


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[Assistant] People ask me to do podcasts and


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[Assistant] And I, I limit doing them because I, I do them so much. My, my own. And it's just, it's exhausting. And it takes a lot.


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[Assistant] But I committed to this, so it was a fun thing on Instagram, like, hey, do you want to do this? I'm like, yeah, I'll do it. And then when you reach out, I'm like, yeah, I'm not gonna, not sure, let's do it.


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[Assistant] I had expectations, and that was my mistake. I came in thinking that this would be a fun thing, and I wouldn't be judged from the beginning, and uhm, I didn't realize, I didn't realize that I didn't realize that this might be uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, a lot of the stuff you looked up isn't true. You know that, right? No. You don't know that? That stuff that you find on the internet is not fact-checked.


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[Assistant] Well, nothing is my age, my, where I'm from, uhm, how much money I have, none of that is true.


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[Assistant] Again, it's how you define it, I love my friends, I love my family, I'm happy.


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[Assistant] And that's the stuff, like I get you're being playful, but like that's the judgmental stuff that, that bleeds through you. To assume that I'm embarrassed because of what? Because I'm, I'm renting? Because I can't afford to own a home? Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and that's fine. I don't, I don't feel bad about that, but...


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[Assistant] Is that what you said to your baby's daddy before you got impregnated?


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[Assistant] Uhm, make sure you check out my website and check out my socials.


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[Assistant] We're not the real men of Easy Company. Our lives were never in danger. There were no bullets flying past us. But the blessing we had of being able to represent them bonded us, the cast and the actors.


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[Assistant] In a way that is as close as we could ever feel to being those guys.


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[Assistant] No. I like your jeans though, the little rips.


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[Assistant] You kinda said Bach. What's that? Like Maybach? That was kinda Maybach-ish.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I have all my kids on the back of my leg, their faces.


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[Assistant] I apologize. I don't accept your apology the same way you didn't accept mine.


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[Assistant] You gonna hit, you gonna put the water down and hit, hit a little. You want a shot?


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[Assistant] You gon' say no to my shot? It's kind of rude, that's rude.


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[Assistant] Nah, with a water? Yeah, I'll take a shot of water. Nah, we ain't doing that. Well, I call it Don Juan, I call it Don Juan.


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[Assistant] You didn't take a drink. Are you lying to the people? Because I watched you take a drink.


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[Assistant] They had to show me who Bobby was. I thought they was talking about Bobby Boucher.


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[Assistant] The water, the water boy? Cause you like water, so it matched. It matched a little bit.


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[Assistant] I was, I had to go TikTok search. I couldn't Google you. Google's not there yet. You're not there yet. But you'll be there. But you're on TikTok.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, when you cook, like, you like your meat like pink, like when you cook like a steak or something.


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[Assistant] Why not? I don't know what you're doing. It's not a gang sign, it's nothing, it's family.


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[Assistant] Tripper, see? You need to get into fashion and you'll know what that means. Are you into fashion?


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[Assistant] There's not no application bro, it's an interview. You want me to speak Spanish?


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[Assistant] Oh, another judgmental thing. What makes you more, what makes you think you're just- You just said you don't know how to speak Spanish. I didn't say that. It's like you really want to sound like you- I said I didn't want to. And then you just think you're better than me, don't you?


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[Assistant] So I just call you Bobby? Mhm. I put the bouche at the end.


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[Assistant] You ever seen that? You should see that. I know you ain't seen that shit. Snow in the Bluff.


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[Assistant] Snow in the blood. Wrong word that I'm telling you. From now on, new name. Snow in the blood.


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[Assistant] See the jacket is thin, see what I'm saying, it's thin cut leather, see what I'm saying. So why did I do that? Because you're not going to do it. That's the reason why I get dressed. I dress the way that you won't dress because you don't get it, you don't get the language, you don't get, you know what I'm saying? So this is my style. You have yours, right?


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[Assistant] No, I'm really fly though, and it's like, you don't get it.


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[Assistant] I'm not being mean, I'm not being mean, it's just you don't get it. So I'm very passionate about the people that don't get it because they need to get it because they dress like you and then they be lost.


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[Assistant] No, like why would you go 2000s tank with the open button up?


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[Assistant] Definitely would put a little moisturizer down there. And then I would definitely have...


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[Assistant] I wouldn't, I wouldn't go tan with tank, with the tan shoe, just cause that's the obvious. So, it's a little hot outside and you talked about heat right, like with my boots, you have on long jeans.


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[Assistant] With, uh, tank and then another long sleeve shirt. You try to roll it up for heat purposes, right?


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[Assistant] See the thing is, is it's the cut of the outfit.


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[Assistant] You making sound mean, I'm just saying like, I wanna be different. You making me feel like it's a bad thing to be different.


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[Assistant] There you go mentioning teams. The last time you said something about a team was Cap.


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[Assistant] Cause I'm listening to you. I'm an artist. And then I go your way.


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[Assistant] You're welcome. Happy birthday. Happy birthday, real shit though. Happy birthday. Another day, another dollar.


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[Assistant] Anytime you talk about money, you'll never notice everybody dies of question.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I have businesses. I don't have an income.


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[Assistant] Music, film, art. Because art's a business, yeaah.


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[Assistant] You were just skipping school to just go to the crib and lay in the bed or was there any like, extracurricular activities going on?


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[Assistant] Nah, I ain't bully people, that's kinda lame. But it is though, as you know.


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[Assistant] I knew how to dress. I'm a fly guy. You know what I'm saying? And everybody just knew, like, he coming through. Yeaah. It's just like, not cappy to like, we can go back and check the yearbook, best dress.


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[Assistant] It's kind of like, I'm trying to figure out like, why am I even like, you don't even know what nothing is.


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[Assistant] What do you see your end go? Like, what are you trying to do with your career? Like, what's the biggest thing you, where you wanna be at?


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[Assistant] That's just really wealthy, like, like, at doing what?


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[Assistant] That sucks for an actor, like the actor, like the actor answer of a movie, your favorite movie, you wanna be an actor, kinda sucks bro. Just putting that out there.


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[Assistant] You're gonna make a lot of people wrong. You might want to clean that up, man. You know, that fan base is kinda big. And you tell me you don't know Diana. You don't know who Michael Jackson is?


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[Assistant] It's all good, everybody gonna like everything. I don't like your voice.


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[Assistant] You sound like you're getting just a little excitement. Matter of fact, you wanna hit the, uhm, the shot.


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[Assistant] What's the difference between this amount of, uh,


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[Assistant] Wine, right? Versus this amount.


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[Assistant] Oh, cause you're like this high class person. You got two daughters, a special guy gave you two girls for a reason. That's kinda dope. Thank you. Back to back.


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[Assistant] Yeah, verse is kinda lit though, it's kinda lit, I mean. You like roller coasters?


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[Assistant] I swear, you wanna go? Yeaah. I'm dead ass. I'll go. I'm dead ass though.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you can't just go by yourself the first time.


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[Assistant] I'm like on some daredevil shit, I ain't gonna lie. Yea, I would've did that shit. But I seen the effects so I ain't doing it. Like I always wanted to go to the moon. You would do that?


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[Assistant] I don't think on the moon, but I do think it's A man's turn.


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[Assistant] I was saying some shit that said it's capital, we even went to the mall. I don't know what to believe no more.


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[Assistant] For real man, she's kind of... And then I always heard like, oh.


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[Assistant] $500,000, I mean, I'll just take them all. Now, you see how the Titanic shit really happened, it really happened.


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[Assistant] That's proof that that happened. We don't really have a proof that somebody bought them tickets. Like everybody, it's a lot of people that supposedly bought them own tickets, so why they ain't went, right?


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[Assistant] I ain't gonna lie, you is right though. You right, right. When I do see something on TikTok or online, and I do go to the comments and they kind of tell you what is going on.


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[Assistant] I mean, I said socials, I mean yeaah yeaah. I read like, safe answers if I see something like


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[Assistant] I'm perpetrating. Why you gotta put me on the spot? I'm trying to make it look good for the people, bro.


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[Assistant] Cap. So what color is your teeth? Like normal.


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[Assistant] You know like the gray faded, it's not white, it's like kinda gray. No. It's kinda like...


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[Assistant] You kinda like, you've talked about TikTok like 12 times on this motherfucker. Oh yeaah. You're fucked up by TikTok.


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[Assistant] I'm not making fun of you. Yeaah, you are. I'm giving you advice. All your references come from-


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[Assistant] I definitely ask. See, I don't do interviews. You're special.


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[Assistant] You should be serious, like, that's a good, that's a good, like, your voice, no dead ass, no playing shit. You should hit Apple and be like, yo, it's 2023.


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[Assistant] It's time for the new Siri voice cause you could apply for that shit and they gonna give it to you. And that's gonna be more money. I'm really giving you game. You can't get this game away though. But I'm giving you game now.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he is. In spirit. You think his family wanna hear you say that shit? He invented Apple. Why the fuck who else I'ma shout out?


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[Assistant] You shouldn't apply though, I'm just putting you down. That'll be a big ass check, they gonna pay you millions of dollars.


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[Assistant] Fuck with her pimping. She got the voice. The tone. She's on. She better catch it before it's too late. In a minute she gonna be charging 25 million a interview. Tell her.


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[Assistant] You ain't got no seasoning, man. You like a plain piece of chicken just on the thing. You pull it off and then you serve the dish. You need some motherfucking seasoning, man.


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[Assistant] Damn, I'm trying to get you to play. You lost in the sauce. You ain't shaking my hand. We finna get you to 25 million. You know what I'm sayin'?


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[Assistant] She is the greatest interviewer in 2023. She's the wave.


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[Assistant] You understand that handshake, don't you? That's a professional one.


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[Assistant] Hey, you got some bony ass hands. If you punch somebody, listen, if you punch somebody, go like this real quick to the camera. Show them the knuckles. I bet you got a mean right there. I'm talking about a mean one. Show them.


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[Assistant] That's a good reputation, man. Don't play with sus, man. She cool and shit, but she'll knock your ass out. It's sus. Tell her, sus.


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[Assistant] Fuck with my pun of them though. When you wanna drop some shit, fuck with shawty. She haven't drip. She haven't. You know what I mean? 25 million. Her interview. Two years.


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[Assistant] You gotta meet me halfway. See, that's what's wrong with y'all. Y'all always want us to go the extra mile. See?


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[Assistant] I ain't done talking, see the show don't stop till I stop. Cause I am the show. You see what I'm saying? I'm the show. The show stopper.


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[Assistant] It don't stop till I end. They gonna keep watching this motherfucker long as the boy on the lens. She can walk off and I'm still gonna do my thing. I'm Michael not Jermaine.


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[Assistant] I was in California at the time, got a call from my agent that there was an audition coming up. It was based on a book by Steven Ambrose called Band of Brothers. I had known Steven Ambrose but I didn't know the book.


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[Assistant] I went to Barnes and Noble. I found it on the shelf. I opened it up and I read it in its entirety. Right there in the bookshop. You're that kind of a gent. I've never done that before, but I did it that time. I read the whole book standing and by the time I had gotten to the end of it,


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[Assistant] I said something really bad's gonna happen if I don't get this part. I was so hooked in. I had no idea who I would be auditioning for because I think at the time


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[Assistant] We were reading what turned out to be Colin Hanks' role. They were just blind sides that they were giving us. Lieutenant Henry Jones. That's right.


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[Assistant] I didn't say much. Angela Terry, her partner, casting director, was reading with me and we read the sides and went well and then Meg spoke and she said, Frank, some of these guys are going to be dead end kids from like the Bronx and Philly. Do you think you could do something like that? And I said, uh, I don't know, Meg, uh, maybe.


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[Assistant] Shoes on to you. It went great and that began this multi-month, maybe about four or five times that I came in for these readings.


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[Assistant] Every line was sacred. This is all I had to kind of book this job. And in character as Bill, I said, what the hell are you doing, you moron? What are you doing? You know, and it pulled him out of it. And then he realized he had jumped and he came back. We finished the scene and he leaned back in his chair and he said, Frank John Hughes, you made my day.


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[Assistant] I just said God, I hope he's not just saying that to make people feel good. He should know the power that we're all hanging.


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[Assistant] On every word that he's saying, looking for any clue of how well we did. At that point, I made this joke. They had pictures up of all the men on the walls, research material, and I saw Bill. I meant to say this to be funny, but I said, you know, Bill Garnier gave his leg to serve his country and I'd give both mine to serve this project.


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[Assistant] God damn it. You thought you'd just creep them out completely? Completely. It did not come out funny. I was just so excited. And I left and I was really concerned and my agents called me. They said they loved you and there'll be another audition.


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[Assistant] That's exactly it, Raj. I thought all the roles would be narrowed down to maybe one or two guys. So I expected there'd be five roles. It wasn't. It was all the roles. All the roles had tons of guys. I mean, it must've been narrowed down, but I walked into this place in Santa Monica and there was hundreds of guys there. I just thought, oh man.


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[Assistant] Maybe some footage of Bill Garnier, which turned out to be the stuff that was at the beginning of each episode. There was a little bit of that raw footage. Just a little bit. And his phone number.


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[Assistant] I got that number, I called him the night before the audition. It rings, it rings. Yowja! He picks up. This is how he answers the phone.


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[Assistant] That's me. I said, my name is Frank John Hughes. I'm gonna audition to play you tomorrow at a final audition. Well kid, I gotta tell you right now, they already got the guy.


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[Assistant] Okay, but you know, I got an audition tomorrow, so I'm gonna go to it anyway. Uh, even if they've cast it. How demoralizing was that? It stopped my brain. I didn't know how to handle that. I just knew, you got an audition tomorrow, go to the audition. So,


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[Assistant] That all played out. We got done and I went to Meg Lieberman at the end of it. I said goodbye to her and I said, Meg, I just want to thank you. You've been so beautiful during this whole process. Thank you so much. She grabbed me and she said, Frank, I know who they should cast and I know who they want to cast. I just hope everyone involved has the guts to cast the people they want to cast.


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[Assistant] And I left, and I got in my car, and Raj, as you can imagine, everyone in my life was calling to find out how'd the audition go, how'd the audition go.


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[Assistant] And I called my dad, I told him it went well, and another call came in while I was still in the parking lot. And it was my agent, and he said, you got it.


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[Assistant] Raj, I gotta tell ya, I had a drive from Santa Monica back to the valley and I don't remember the drive. When I got to my house and got in the driveway, I got out and like checked the grill for hair and blood. I didn't know if I had run over people because I literally had an out of body experience driving home.


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[Assistant] He wasn't an imposter. I was told by Hanks and Spielberg that I had to come to a hotel in Century City that they were going to read a guy that they really loved for Babe Heffron.


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[Assistant] And since he was my best friend, they wanted to see us together.


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[Assistant] There's a guy standing there. God damn it, it's a friend of mine. It's the great actor Nick Sandow.


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[Assistant] He said, I met him. I said, how did you meet him? He said, I got his phone number. I drove down to South Philly from Brooklyn. I went down there and I met him. I took him out. I took him to dinner and I took him out for drinks. He's the greatest guy in the world. I said, son of a bitch, you're the guy.


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[Assistant] It was so personal. You took this really huge global conflict and boiled it down to something so personal.


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[Assistant] This revenge tale. And it's why he was called Wild Bill. He did things that other people might not have done because he told me many times, I never thought I'd last a day. I was going to kill as many people as I could before I got killed. He had that kind of reckless abandon at first. It was squishing a bug. It was just squishing a bug.


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[Assistant] Who was gentle and loving and kind and always had a kind word and funny, but there were times.


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[Assistant] Where something would happen, his eyes would go black.


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[Assistant] Especially because it was the greatest generation. They weren't guys that sat around and talked about it. And you know what? Raj, he was a fearless man.


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[Assistant] And that began six hours a day, basically seven days a week of him telling me everything and this bonding experience where he became like my grandfather. He held back nothing. He was fearless. He had such a joy for living. Playing Bill made me a better man. Being in character as him made me a better man. He never complained.


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[Assistant] He was one of the funniest men I know. In that little period between getting cast and going over there, I was doing all this research, so I got an entrenchment tool. I started digging foxholes in my backyard.


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[Assistant] And he said, kid, what are you doing? I was a staff sergeant. We had people dig my foxholes for me. Stop digging foxholes. Which was not only funny but was valuable. It was valuable to know on a research level. Somehow major winners found out about this.


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[Assistant] I went to my mailbox one day. I'd never met him. And I opened this letter and it was this incredible letter that hangs in my office now about Dick Winters hearing that I was digging foxholes in my backyard. He wrote and said, this spirit of doing this is what's going to make a band of brothers special and I honor you for this. And it was really a beautiful and thoughtful thing for him to do.


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[Assistant] After I was cast, I got Captain Dale Dye's phone number. And if you, Raj, ever want to go to war on film, you want to go with Dale. Dale is the best in the business. He is a genius at recreating war on film, top to bottom. He's a historian. It's just incredible. I got his phone number, so I call him out of the blue.


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[Assistant] He doesn't know me and I say, Mr. Dai, I'm Frank John Hughes. I'm going to be playing Bill Garnier. And I just wanted to know, is there anything I can do to train to be ready for bootcamp? And he says,


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[Assistant] I can't do Dale's voice. A lot of guys do a great Dale die, I don't. But he said...


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[Assistant] Well I'm gonna tell you this, Hughes. A commanding officer never gives away his plan. I'll tell you this. I'm gonna put you through one nasty fuckin' sausage grinder and you're gonna come out one fine fuckin' soldier and he hung up on me.


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[Assistant] But I feel like, ugh, you know what? Now he's gunning for me. Now I'm on his radar. That was a dumb move. I shouldn't have called him.


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[Assistant] All my great uncles had been in World War II, so I had grown up hearing those stories. My father was in Vietnam, so I had heard those stories and then Bill just gave me everything and there was no detail too small that I wasn't


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[Assistant] Fascinated by. So I was in a very lucky position. I had access to people and to build in ways that other men did not. Their vets were dead. So anything I had, I just shared with everyone because everyone was equally as intense about knowing every little thing about the men they played.


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[Assistant] For the year. And, you know, look, I'm from the Bronx. When you meet someone, I immediately give you a nickname.


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[Assistant] Perko and Luz and Bull and Lip for Donny's character.


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[Assistant] It was just such an honor to be in a group of guys who all were hitting it so hard and knew what they had to do and did it. It changed all of our lives. An actor is such a selfish pursuit in so many ways. You're going after these goals and what bootcamp changed was it made you care about everyone else more than yourself.


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[Assistant] But you would do that. You would put the other guy first. And that carried all the way through production and in the last 20 years of our lives. It's why we're brothers now. It's why Mike and I throw reunions every year and why we have them every year. We're family. It changed our lives forever. Our lives and our careers.


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[Assistant] During that episode. It wasn't like they didn't want to know these guys. Of course they did.


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[Assistant] That's right, but let me tell you, Curry He was a son of a bitch. It's a mountain that you run up for 20 minutes and then you run down for another 30 minutes and then back up. It's constantly up and down. You never feel like you're getting to the top of it. So it was grueling. It was a hundred degree heat. And when we got to the top, Raj, major winners came up to me.


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[Assistant] And he said, Frank, you've left part of yourself on this mountain.


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[Assistant] And I want you to go home with part of this mountain. And Raj, I swear to you, he took about seven minutes to walk around the rocks. Cause the whole thing is just rocks. It's not a smooth path. And he picked up this rock and handed it to me. And it's one of my prized possessions. It's on my desk.


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[Assistant] To me, the thing that impresses me the most is all the breath that comes out of our mouth.


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[Assistant] You don't want to be the reason why we gotta go again. Ah shit. So and so, you don't want to be that guy. So there's a certain tension. And then if you're in the right space mentally as an actor,


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[Assistant] Remotely come close to what real combat is. Ever. That's impossible.


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[Assistant] But this was as close as you were going to get to doing it on film. And you would surrender to that.


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[Assistant] But I'm telling you Rod, when they yelled action, you were not acting. You were just soldiering. I still to this day don't know where the lines come from. When these combat scenes, when you're seeing people yell, I have no idea. Cause I don't ever remember running lines. Someone posted a picture online once of a couple of us running lines and I never remembered.


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[Assistant] Clearing the house, something that Bill had told me really stuck with me. He said that once they were clearing houses, you take your positions, you kick open the door, you throw the grenade in, it explodes, you go in and you clear the rest of it.


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[Assistant] He said one time he had kicked open the door and something made him stop. He didn't want to throw the grenade in. And when he stuck his head in, it was a Dutch family.


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[Assistant] Just crouched down. They had thought all the Dutch had left. This family was still hiding there. And he would have killed them. And he said it made me think of, who else did we kill accidentally? You know, it's such a messy business. I had that in my mind a lot when we were clearing houses.


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[Assistant] A great justice. He was very close with the Randleman family. He had a beautiful relationship with them. Mike's just brilliant and that's his episode and you're right, Mike can put a cigar in his mouth and make it seem like a limb. It doesn't seem like it's a prop in any way. You just can't imagine


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[Assistant] When Mike shows back up at the end of that, and I come up and greet him with the other


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[Assistant] I had talked to Bill, and Bill gave me that line, I don't know whether to slap you or kiss you or salute you.


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[Assistant] The writing was so brilliant on this. And it's all in there. And like I said, I just added, I don't know whether to slap you, kiss you, salute you, but it really sums up Bill. There's a sense of humor. There's a heart.


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[Assistant] And there's a toughness. That was Bill. And a deep, deep love. Deep love. These guys, they were all like married couples. And this bond between Bill and Babe, Babe and Bill were just inseparable. We'll never know what that kind of bonding relationship is like.


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[Assistant] So we grab the bags and we go out and when I get out there, Bill is propped up against the wall. Pure Humphrey Bogart.


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[Assistant] Hat at a jaunty angle, smoke in a palm mall. Hello sweetheart, he's flirting with all the women that are going by.


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[Assistant] And women just adored him. He was so charming. And I said, this guy's gonna be a handful. This guy's gonna be hard to keep up with.


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[Assistant] I was so cognizant of the fact that many of the guys who I love so much as brothers that were doing this, their vets were dead. So this was the first time they were getting to touch the source. Raj, you have to remember, I have to introduce them to, I only know the character names of these people.


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[Assistant] I'll never forget one of the most powerful moments I had on the whole project was when Babe and Bill came that first day and I was introducing him to Richard Spate, who played Warren Skip Muck. And I said, Babe, this is Muck. Muck, this is Babe.


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[Assistant] And babe got this look on his face and he walked up and he put out his hand to Richard Spade and he said, damn kid, I was there when you got it.


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[Assistant] My hair still stands up. I will never forget that. It was at that moment I really, these were not character names. These were their best friend whose names we were playing. We were ghosts.


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[Assistant] That reminder never went away and it lived in all of them. I was very conscious of that because we were shooting a scene where we were attacking these German half tracks. We shoot and then they come out and then we shoot the Germans as they're on fire.


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[Assistant] And it was at that moment that I realized there could be a post-traumatic stress element. I know it was many years later, but that never goes away. I said to Bill, are you guys okay being here for this?


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[Assistant] And Bill said, Oh, absolutely, I'm fine. And then they started the scene and while it was going, I was right beside Bill and he was so whispering to himself, but you could hear him. He was going, get him.


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[Assistant] Tom showed us some of the footage of the Normandy drop, which was the first time I had seen any footage from Band of Brothers. They sat on a couch. Tom put on some tape for Bill and babe to watch of us flying over to Normandy. A lot of the stuff in the plane.


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[Assistant] They were just gripped watching it. I looked at Tom and we both had tears coming down our face. It was so powerful to watch that footage with them and see them so moved by it. And Tom put his hand on my shoulder. He just said, this is why we do it, Frank. This is why we do it for them.


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[Assistant] All right. And I say to Bill Garnier, I said, all right, you know what? I'm going to go up and try to take a little cat nap, get a half hour in before we have to get to the airport. And he goes, okay.


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[Assistant] Alright. I say, alright guys, I'll see you in about two hours. As I walk away, I hear Bill stay in a stage whisper that I am meant to hear. I told you he couldn't stay out with us. I said, son of a bitch. I turned around. I said, two more.


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[Assistant] Drank everyone under the table every single night and it was the same thing. I had an early call the next morning one night after five nights of drinking with them. I'm leaving.


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[Assistant] And I said, I gotta go. I have to shoot in two hours. And Bill says, I fought the fucking Germans on no sleep.


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[Assistant] At the hotel that we had taken over in France, after like a week of being there, like five days in, the staff that was working the bar left and told everyone, serve yourself. I've never seen people drink like this. They couldn't believe it. They just set up shop and these guys just


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[Assistant] Hanging out in bars as soldiers. Twin tea again. And I gotta tell you this, they drank all night. Never once, not once, did I see any of them ever drunk.


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[Assistant] On my better days, I complained less. He never complained. He didn't bitch. He took care of what needed to be taken care of. He had a great sense of humour. He brought a level of selflessness.