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[Assistant] So some of the stories printed, they reported that, and of course they go after Virginia immediately. They're saying she's a well-known party girl, and this night was really not anything out of the ordinary for her. They referred to her as an amateur call girl.


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[Assistant] Essentially murdered, so. But other stories started getting darker and taking those little rumors and blowing them up. And again, I would skip forward. If you don't want to hear this, I'm going to give you like 45 seconds.


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[Assistant] This rumor that he had taken a piece of ice eventually just grew into this wildly different rumor that claimed a Coca Cola can or a wine or champagne bottle had been used. Oh my god.


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[Assistant] Absolutely horrific. Holy shit. Now whatever happened, the police knew that they were going to need to pay Roscoe Arbuckle a visit, and they did.


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[Assistant] He was arrested on September 10th. Now some sources claim that he actually turned himself in.


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[Assistant] But at the same time, he still had supporters like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. They both gave interviews and they tried to clear his name.


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[Assistant] They said that Maude Delmont was a known liar and that she had been involved in her fair share of scandals, which were scandals designed to take men down, take rich men down. Okay. So it did make sense to some people that that may have been the case here.


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[Assistant] But at the end of the day, it was messy as fuck. Oh, and it only gets messier. Oh boy. So at the end of the day, as we know, it's the police and the jury who are, who he's gonna have to convince.


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[Assistant] So he has a very different story to tell the police than the one that they've gotten from Maude and different party goers. He, and he, the problem here too is that he tells multiple stories throughout the course of this entire investigation and trial, multiple trials.


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[Assistant] He first told them that he noticed Virginia at the party and he said that she was acting hysterical. And he knew that she had a few drinks so he chalked it up to...


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[Assistant] He said that he'd actually never been alone with her, and that he and some of the other partygoers carried her into one of the neighboring rooms, they placed her in that chilled tub, and then when nothing worked they called the doctor.


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[Assistant] Now he made it a point to emphasize that he had never been alone in a room with her.


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[Assistant] The charge was actually, the charge of murder was reduced to manslaughter because they didn't think they were going to have enough physical evidence, because they really didn't, to make the legal teams confident that they'd reach the verdict they wanted to in a murder trial. And if they want to get them at all, they gotta go for that lower one just to get them.


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[Assistant] Now this sucks, because it changes a few he-pieces of his fate and the time he's gonna serve. Because number one, now he could get out on bail. Whereas before, at this time, if you were facing murder charges, there was no bail. So he did get out on bail once the charges were reduced.


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[Assistant] Now secondly, instead of facing an absolute mandatory sentence of death at this time, like you would have in a murder case, since it was reduced to manslaughter, he would be facing, if convicted, 10 years maximum. Wow. Like for killing a woman. For her brutal death. Rape and murder. Wow.


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[Assistant] So the first of three trials ended on December 4th with the jury unable to come up with any agreement. Ten of them believed that he was innocent, but two could not decide.


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[Assistant] So a mistrial was declared and the next jury heard the evidence all over again. Strangely enough, the second trial ended up being completely different than the first, with nine jurors convinced that Roscoe had been responsible for Virginia's death and three this time convinced of his innocence. So it totally flipped.


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[Assistant] This time he went with a completely different story, excuse me, and he also let his lawyers really kind of go into Virginia and, you know,


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[Assistant] Painter is not a responsible partygoer, to put it lightly.


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[Assistant] So, he lets them lay into her and pain her completely terribly, to be honest. So in this version of events, and again, he has that new story, he tells the jury this time that he finds Virginia laying on the bathroom floor, moaning, vomiting, and calling out in pain.


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[Assistant] Now he said again that she's clinging at her stomach, so he grabs her a glass of water and then carries her on the bed to make her more comfortable.


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[Assistant] Now it's interesting that he would bring that like specific quote up because originally, Maude told the police that he had threatened to throw Virginia out the window. And actually, multiple other witnesses agreed that they heard the same thing where it was at Virginia's expense.


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[Assistant] Dr. Strange also testified that there were quote, no signs that the girl had been attacked in any way.


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[Assistant] But with that being said, they also testified that there was bruising to Virginia's legs and to her upper arms. In fact, the bruising to her upper arm looked like it had been made from quote, the deep impression of fingers.


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[Assistant] Interesting. This doctor needs to pick Elaine because it's like you say that she looks like she hasn't been attacked, but then you say it looks like she has deep impressions in her arms, which means like somebody probably would have been holding her down.


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[Assistant] Stated to the jury that he'd seen both Virginia and Roscoe's fingerprints on the door handle of the hotel that, in that specific room.


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[Assistant] It was like she tried to grasp it during an escape and he had stopped her with his much bigger hand, leaving both prints behind.


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[Assistant] Do you, do you get that picture? Yea, I definitely get that. I'm just like, how the hell could you tell that?


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[Assistant] Yeah. Like who would that go? So it wasn't the original trial that he testified that in the first two, in the third trial retracted his original testimony and said, mm, I think those might've been faked. Those fingerprints.


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[Assistant] And by the way, a maid testified that she had cleaned that door handle anyway, so there wouldn't have been fingerprints on it. Alright. So that might have just been like, he said, she said. Yeah. Kinda seems it. Oh, the 1920s. Oh my.


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[Assistant] Now then, almost every witness who had testified against Roscoe in the first or second trial saying that Virginia told them he'd hurt her or raped her, they just disappeared off the grid in the third trial.


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[Assistant] Huh, nobody could track them down and the ones who were tracked retracted their original statements.


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[Assistant] He's getting desperate. Take care of people here. Yes, absolutely. But at the same time, it was then discovered that four of the prosecution's witnesses had some secrets of their own.


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[Assistant] One of them who was supposed to be testifying about Virginia's character, uh, turned out to be a very close friend of Roscoe's, so their testimony about Virginia was voided.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, what is going on here? Another woman who testified negatively about Virginia, uh, like in her supposed party girl ways, she said that Virginia came to her hotel quite frequently and had a habit of getting drunk and ripping her clothes off.


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[Assistant] Uhm, turns out there was literally no record of Virginia ever being at that hotel. Huh. Whatsoever.


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[Assistant] Now on the same token, there were witnesses on the prosecution, and I think I actually flipped that. I was gonna say, so that was defense. Sorry, yes, that was defense. On the same token, there were witnesses that the prosecution used in the first trial and second trial who came out in the third trial and said that they had been forced by the prosecution to give false testimony. Huh. This whole thing is


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[Assistant] She apparently had a bit of a secret life that coincided with her alter ego, Madam Black.


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[Assistant] Madam Black would go out and find young attractive women to take to parties that were always being thrown by these like annoying ass rich dudes.


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[Assistant] So it's like a scam. Damn. Now on top of that, she had also been reported for, um, extortion and fraud in the past. Oh damn. And it was also found out that she was in a bigamist marriage.


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[Assistant] Uhm, actually what that means is that she married one man without divorcing from her last husband, so technically she had two husbands, and that was a big no-no back then. Oh yeaah. So both of these discoveries absolutely tore her character apart.


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[Assistant] It turns out that she had sent notes to two of her friends right before Virginia died, like as she was actively dying. Apparently they were sent about two days before on September 7th and Maude wrote to these people, we have Roscoe Arbuckle in a hole here to make some money out of him. Oh, yup.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so finally on April 12th, 1922, it was time for this third jury to deliver their verdict in this manslaughter case. They only took five minutes to deliberate.


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[Assistant] And when they came back and read their verdict, they had found Roscoe Arbuckle


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[Assistant] He was manly throughout the case and told a straightforward story, no he didn't, which we all believe. We wish him success and hope that the American people will take the judgment of 14 men and women that Roscoe Arbuckle is entirely innocent and free from all blame.


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[Assistant] There were still people out there, like a good amount of people, it seems like the majority, who believed that he was responsible for Virginia's death in some way, and that he'd gotten away with murder. Yeah, I mean, that's tough. So, for a long, long time, nobody wanted to work with him, and he was actually barred from working on any set


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[Assistant] So since he couldn't get acting work, he started looking again more into directing. Cause like I said, he liked that too. And he started directing under the name William Goodrich. Now he, somebody he had mentored again.


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[Assistant] One of these big stars that maybe you've heard of, Buster Keaton. Oh yea, that guy. We mentioned him before. We did. That's where the name William Goodrich came from. Buster Keaton had suggested, like while Roscoe was still recovering from this blow to his career, that he use a name Will Be Good.


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[Assistant] So he was like, I think it's not a time to joke and instead I'll do William Goodrich.


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[Assistant] Okay, so yeah, that's how that evolved. Now in 1932, 11 years after Virginia's death, Roscoe finally got an opportunity to be back on the big screen. Samuel Sacks, who was working with Warner Brothers, actually signed Roscoe on to appear in a short film called Hey Pop.


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[Assistant] Now after that, so he's in that, after that he actually acted in six more shots, uh, shorts, excuse me, and everybody seemed to be responding pretty well to them. It's like, it really is one of those things and it's so horrific that this happens.


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[Assistant] But I think it's one of those things where the news just like over the years goes away because other things happen that people become more invested in. And then like Virginia Rapay is forgotten.


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[Assistant] Which would be 13 million dollars today. So he signed that real quick, obviously, because he was like, I don't need my career to be in Jeopardy again. And he goes out to celebrate with his friends. I said he signed it on June 28th. Uh, I don't know if he said the date. He did. He goes out and hangs with his friends after that. He apparently told them, this is the best night of my life. And that night,


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[Assistant] Of ever. Not of ever, but it's really fuckin' bleak. But that's really bleak. Yeah.


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[Assistant] If you listen to the show, like if you have for a while, you know that like I'm really into like karma and the universe. And like when I read that, that he signed this contract, said it, who knows if he really said it's the best night of my life. I feel like that was kind of added in over the years. I'm sure he said it at some point. But then he dies the next day or like that night.


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[Assistant] That's really karma. That, to me, that screams like, ooh, big karma vibes. That's rough. That's like the, that's a karma like dad punching you in the face.


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[Assistant] That is the case of Virginia Rapay and Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle. Damn, I had no idea. Neither did I.


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[Assistant] And these are just like houses. Like estates. That's wild.


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[Assistant] It was a night like any other. We ate some dinner. We chatted for a bit about work.


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[Assistant] Everything seemed normal and then, suddenly, I was gone.


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[Assistant] Uhm, since the last time we've spoken, I have gone up a few levels. I am currently on 2503 and


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[Assistant] K-k-k-k-killing it. I have the most beautiful fiends. I have the most fun with all the challenges where like I get extra golden keys and stuff to unlock even more fiends.


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[Assistant] It's kinda like watching your kid get good at a sport, except I don't have kids. Uhm, with offline play, you never ever have to be stranded without fun even if you lose your internet connection. You're going up to like,


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[Assistant] Like imagine you go on one date with someone and you're like, well, we're betrothed. Imagine one dance.


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[Assistant] Like, you do like such a big class joke, like nobody's gonna notice that.


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[Assistant] I feel like I think justice is served here. It's like I just got like a picture in my head of ever after, like spoiler alert ahead, so like don't listen if you don't want that. But when, when she becomes queen and then they're like, will anybody speak for you? And then Drew Barrymore goes, I'll speak for you.


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[Assistant] Alright guys, welcome to the Really Good Podcast. Uh, today I am in- live in studio.


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[Assistant] Uhm, this is live, you're watching live, it's not edited. Uh, with... Shimmy Kimmel.


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[Assistant] So you were told 2 o'clock too. What time were you told? I was told it started at 1.30. It is now 2.30.


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[Assistant] I was told it was two every day until this morning when I was driving here.


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[Assistant] I'm like, yeaah, guess what, I'm gonna be there 20 minutes early and they're like,


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[Assistant] It starts in two minutes and I was like, oh my god, what? It starts at 1.30 and they were like, yes, we thought we told you. And then they were like, okay, we're going to go let them know. And we were like, oh, don't worry. He's going to be a little bit late. But it turns out I was like an hour early because you were really late.


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[Assistant] The more you know, Chanel for men, I don't use...


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[Assistant] If you're watching this and you want boy Chanel, you can't get it. Unless you want to pay $70 for one day of makeup.


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[Assistant] Is that how you prefer it? What do you look like without makeup on?


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[Assistant] I thought maybe you were one of those people who like put it on before she wakes up.


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[Assistant] Oh, let me name exactly the address that she works at. Uhm, 1367, uh, Beverly Jones Street.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Well anyway, my face looked horrible. The comment section like, ate me alive.


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[Assistant] Oh, you have a ring, I see that now. I feel like people are really getting to know you.


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[Assistant] Okay. Uh, well, thank you so much for that.


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[Assistant] No, I would never do that because this is going to look so stupid. Because I can't sit still.


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[Assistant] So is that what you would consider yourself to this day?


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[Assistant] Yeah, let me know. Yeah. You know what? What I'll do is I'll watch it.


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[Assistant] Before we edit this interview, and then I'll like insert a clip of me watching it and see if I laugh.


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[Assistant] So I apologize to all my guests I've had before for not being friendly. I'm trying.


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[Assistant] By the way, I feel like since I said that they should offer me a brand deal. No? Maybe? You feel like that?


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[Assistant] I'm not gonna come if you go. I'm just gonna stay home. Watch it.


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[Assistant] I find it personally, personally when I, like, you're facing me right now.


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[Assistant] I'm facing that way in my, is it called peripheral vision?


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[Assistant] Oh, you're almost done? Yeah. Should we make this the formal announcement?


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[Assistant] You know what? I think that we should do, like, you know when brands change their name over time?


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[Assistant] It's not, it's literally crossed out and I was like, I think they're like knocking off Aunt Jemima, like it looks like, I was like, this doesn't look like it, I think this is a store brand and then I found out it's like the new...


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[Assistant] Yes, it would say with the same formula as it or something like, no, please, nobody fact-check me. Yeah. Anyway, what I'm, the point of this-


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[Assistant] So it's really confusing because I don't feel like they made like an announcement or anything. They just kind of like, look, it looks exactly the same. Bring it here, sister.


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[Assistant] The point of me saying this, Jimmy, was that when we rebrand you,


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[Assistant] We have people, and people make up a band, they can like...


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[Assistant] Not the guest. In front of the... Okay. And then what do I say?


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[Assistant] My god, guys, thank you so much for coming. Yeah, stop clapping. Uhm, and on today's current climate in the world, we have a lot of stuff happening. Can you talk about just like the climate?


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[Assistant] Okay, that's like my sister. That's what I will make my sister.


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[Assistant] Okay, we're getting distracted. Uhm, so today I have a great guest. Is that what you do? No.


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[Assistant] Uhm, okay guys, so, what is happening in today's climate?


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[Assistant] Uhm, an up and coming podcaster named Bobby Althoff. I don't know if you guys have heard of her. Obviously you have. She's everywhere. She's on everybody's For You pages. Uhm, they all love her. She has no one who hates her. Uhm, she's really good at what she does.


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[Assistant] You stay there. And, uh, she got invited to go on the Jimmy Kimmel show.


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[Assistant] Okay, guys, I'm not talking about Bobby Altaf, just Google who's the best podcaster in the world and whoever comes up is who I'm talking about.


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[Assistant] Anyway, they're whispering again, so I feel like I should...


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[Assistant] Alright guys, and now we have Jimmy Kimmel live or not live.


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[Assistant] The year is 2063. Okay? Oh god, it's 24 right now, okay. The year is 2064.


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[Assistant] Or something on Netflix? I don't know. Truly don't know that part. Haven't got to that part yet. But let me just continue painting this picture. Uh, you come in. In a wheelchair, probably. Are you live still?


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[Assistant] Okay, and I bring you back and it's full circle, okay? This is gonna happen, by the way.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so when you bring me on your show, we're gonna have a clip.


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[Assistant] I'll be like, hey, when am I coming on? Right. And then eventually you're gonna say,


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[Assistant] I think this is what I'm picturing. I'm getting a little, this is not my, I'm getting ahead of myself, but what I'm picturing is I sneak in here.


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[Assistant] You have a guest and I like, shh, I take over his spot.


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[Assistant] And I'd probably get a lot of hate if I just like knocked someone out. Cause that's part of my plan right now.


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[Assistant] Okay, well uhm, let me end on what I was talking about before I got off track. We're gonna play all these clips.


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[Assistant] And you're gonna come onto my show and it's gonna be like this full circle moment and then the next day you're gonna die.


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[Assistant] I feel like this has been so long, it started like 2.30, it's 20 minutes later.


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[Assistant] Okay, the people who quit working for me banned. They both have quit today.


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[Assistant] We've got, the band, okay, I now present to you guys, the band, the, huh?


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[Assistant] No, you're the band who quit for me today. Okay, the Quit For Bobby Band, and you guys are performing one of their greatest hits. It's gonna be Emmy nominated. And, go ahead, I guess, right?


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[Assistant] Actually, cause if you just saw my last episode, which I know you didn't, uhm, she told me I could clap on beat.


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[Assistant] Got less than her for sure. Barely, but less. Cause she can't, she can't clap and she has no upper lip.


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[Assistant] Okay guys, now announcing, er, now denouncing.


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[Assistant] Okay, Jimmy Kimmel, everybody will be right back with my no-lip sister and her no-employment, uh, friend. Goodbye, guys. Thank you. That was great. Thank you for coming.


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[Assistant] So I'm going to let you flip them, Bobby.


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[Assistant] I said to my team, I said, can I drive an hour and a half away from where I live to see Bobby?


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[Assistant] You've never seen me on television before? Never once.


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[Assistant] No, it's literally impossible. Identical twins must be born together. At the exact same time.


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[Assistant] I went to elementary school, middle school, high school, and then I went to an Ivy League college.


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[Assistant] You better get your sissy to check your stats, dude. That's pretty high. I don't want you pushing out nonsense on the web.


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[Assistant] So here you go, so, so uhm, here you go. So take, take the golf club.


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[Assistant] Okay, and then put one hand here on top. Okay, how about this, take your hands like this, put the club between your crotch there, yeaah. And then, and then put your pinky, interlock it with your pointer. Pinky and inter, see it?


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[Assistant] Come on, 18 years of school. This one here, bam. And then just do that underneath here. So it's interlocked underneath your club, and then you pull them together.


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[Assistant] Go like this, and then it's gonna go interlocked here. Your pinky's gonna interlock with your top finger.


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[Assistant] There you go, right there, just like that. Okay, so hold it like that, right? And then now, now, exactly.


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[Assistant] Yeah, just, just back and through. Exact, that looks great. Perfect.


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[Assistant] Uh, I think my, I think my mail assistant I pay...


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[Assistant] I think my male assistant I'd pay 10 grand a month. My female assistant I'd pay her 70% of that, whatever that would be.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. But I don't make the rules. Yeah, I know. I'm just doing what the press says.


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[Assistant] And that's, I don't know if that's a compliment or I don't mean it in a mean way, but you would not be a good, if you came out on stage and I was at a strip club, I'm booing and I'm leaving. Boo! And I'm packing up.


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[Assistant] Love strip clubs, love strippers. I'm pro sex work, I believe that people need to do whatever they want to do. You don't like strip clubs?


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[Assistant] Well, my daddy is a guy that lives in Cuba. And he, he's my bad boy daddy.


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[Assistant] Or, or poppy as we say it. That's Spanish. I don't know if you spoke Spanish.


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[Assistant] We don't have any kids, but this is crazy. Sometimes he'll bring us a kid and we'll like have a baby for a week. I'm enjoying this a lot. I thought, I thought, are we going to get on? Are we going to get along? Yeah, answer is yeah. Are we getting along?


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[Assistant] Yeaah. See, I just could feel she was cool. And you're chill, or whatever, but-


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[Assistant] To going to sushi with people. I can have it alone, but I can't have it with other people.


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[Assistant] Yeah, today we just got the doctor's call, didn't we? What did he say? The doctor said, say it with me. Andrew.


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[Assistant] What do you put on your pizza? That's gonna be a big determinant of whether or not we could actually get pizza.


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[Assistant] Bobby, look at me. That's disgusting. You don't want to go with Pep?


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[Assistant] Old school pa- even a marguerite. I would do it just in old school.


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[Assistant] Oh you, okay, so you're gonna mock me and call me Ed because I have red hair. Okay.


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[Assistant] But now that I'm up close and purse, that.


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[Assistant] No, because, so, so, everyone I see in a grocery store is rich? Is that what you're saying?


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[Assistant] I love going places. In fact, I, eating alone holds for playing.


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[Assistant] You're not gonna be an asshole then, you're, you're one now. I think you'll fix yourself by then. You're not, I'm...


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[Assistant] No, I mean, sometimes I think I should fix- I have these pimple scars on this side, I think about fixing those, but then I think... character.


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[Assistant] You don't like my bushes? You don't like my bushes?


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[Assistant] Oh, someone sounds jealous. Cause your shit looks thin.


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[Assistant] I can tell. Who does your eyebrows?


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[Assistant] Sorry, yeah. My dad built a boat and disappeared a long time ago. Set out at sea on a voyage for a whiskey.


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[Assistant] Over the sea hills, through the tumultuous terrain.


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[Assistant] No, you're actually very, very good. You're- For me it goes, Oprah?


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[Assistant] Everybody from Chicago knows who, everybody from Chicago. It's kind of a thing.


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[Assistant] I'm in a movie that comes out next month and if that does well, I'll be okay.


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[Assistant] Featuring John Cena and Zac Efron and myself and Jermaine Fowler. Zac Efron? What's that you say?


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[Assistant] Three best friends, they have to make up a fake friend their whole life as their alibi. And then they get older, they have to hire a real one.


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[Assistant] This is a real story. This is a movie called Ricky's to Nicky. Comes out March 7th on Prime Video. Me, John Cena, Zac Efron, Jermaine Fowler.


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[Assistant] Me, Zac Efron, and Jermaine Fowler are best friends. We have to make up an alibi when we're kids for some of the mistakes that we make. Then we get older and our wives and girlfriends want to meet this alibi that we've been blaming everything on. And we hire John Cena to play our alibi. It's directed by Pete Fairley, who directed


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[Assistant] Okay. I'll call Amazon. I'll call Bezos. He's an old bud.


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[Assistant] Shows your tax bracket. We don't have numbers. But we're reachable.


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[Assistant] Waves that are open to those who are able to access them.


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[Assistant] I don't have musky duskies anymore, he changed it. After, when he went to Austin, we stopped speaking.


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[Assistant] Zonk is a dinner game that people play at wealthy dinners. You've never taken a helicopter and played Zonk with anybody?


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[Assistant] I bet you have baby blood in your car right now. Are you Lizard? Raise your arms up to the sky real fast.


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[Assistant] Okay, nice try. This is how they get us. Let me see your tongue. Stick your tongue out real fast.


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[Assistant] You just daily putting tape over your mouth. Every day. Just every morning, a different colored tape. Right over your mouth.


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[Assistant] I'd pay for that. Fully closed. Outside.


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[Assistant] You're not fat. You're a nice person, and it's been a pleasure meeting you.


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[Assistant] You should change your Twitter handle to BobbyFatAss.


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[Assistant] You said she has a redheaded boyfriend. So clearly you're not gonna go eww to a redheaded guy.


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[Assistant] I'm on your team now, I see it, this is disgusting. This is disgusting.


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[Assistant] I don't hate you, no. Hate's such a strong word, that's crazy. I don't hate you. You to me are


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[Assistant] It's a scorecard, that's how you keep score on the golf course. So you write your little number of how many strokes that you got. I genuinely think you probably weigh, cause I've taken into account everything, your teeth.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know, but you've got so much mascara on, you've gooped it on there, that's gotta be a couple pounds.


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[Assistant] That looks like spider legs with arthritis. There's bumps all over them.


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[Assistant] You wanna go get something to eat? You gotta be hungry, this has been an hour. What do they gotta feed you, every like 20 minutes?


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[Assistant] I knew you were coming to the driving range because I heard you, uuuh, when you were walking over, uuuh.


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[Assistant] That's the first time somebody's done that, like saying my name to me.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I wouldn't say a lot of money, it's a t-shirt. How much?


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[Assistant] Special specs on it, like you don't have to like.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I guess I could get a cheaper team to do my clothes.


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[Assistant] Only because you mentioned me like walking into a room doing it, so of course I pictured that in my mind, but.


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[Assistant] Relaxing. I mean, we're in a sauna right now.


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[Assistant] I don't know, cause actually I don't like canned tuna, but I, I did do like a diet where I ate a lot of tuna.


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[Assistant] No, it was a thing that I started in college and, uh, you know, can tune is very cheap. I also used to eat bananas, like four bananas a day, uh, cause they only cost a quarter each and, uh, don't do that though. It makes you constipated.


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[Assistant] But I used to eat four bananas and a canned tuna and like that was like the bulk of my diet.


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[Assistant] Cause I do intermittent fasting. So some days I don't eat at all. So like I don't eat on Fridays.


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[Assistant] I was, I liked this one because I'm dark skinned and


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[Assistant] Being dark skinned, you know, some of my tattoos don't show and it's my biggest pet peeve when people are like, what's that? I hate that.


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[Assistant] It's cause the way the light is shining on it, you probably, it was a glare.


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[Assistant] But like, it's not nice to go up to somebody and look at their tattoo and be like, oh, what's that?


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[Assistant] No, no, no. I can see what it is. It's just, it looks like...


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[Assistant] It looks like, it looks like you had it since before you had your kids. And you're like, this is what my kids are gonna look like.


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[Assistant] It was funny because you were like...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I started really young, so yeaah, you gotta, you gotta get to it.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's called a podcast because that's where it lives, like in the podcast world, but it's not like me interviewing people.


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[Assistant] And uh, I haven't put out an album for a very long time.


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[Assistant] Thank you, thank you. You're welcome. So for the people that are worried about the album.


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[Assistant] So, for my son, I wanted to create an album that was


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I teamed up with the creators of Twilight and some amazing actors and actresses.


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[Assistant] Uh, to create this podcast that is, uh, a romantic thriller. And then my music is the backdrop for that.


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[Assistant] I want you to act like there are some robbers that just came within a restaurant and you were just having


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[Assistant] I'm also going to take the footage that you give me when you act, when you try to act and I'm going to say


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[Assistant] As soon as you do your monologue.


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[Assistant] What's the criteria though? Is it just looks or is it like the complete package? Looks. Looks.


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[Assistant] I personally think like six is an average. When you talk about-


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[Assistant] No, I thought I was responding. I was thinking it.


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[Assistant] Your videos are like really, uh, interesting.


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[Assistant] You coerced me into singing my name and didn't even do the monologue.


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[Assistant] Especially like the ending while you're- the screen. Ah.


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[Assistant] No, I was just getting really relaxed. Finally, I felt like you started to open up.


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[Assistant] No, uhm, uh, business wise, I mean, like, for me, I love creating things from nothing, so.


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[Assistant] Just like making music, just like, uhm, uh, building houses. I love just building houses.


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[Assistant] Well, it's my idea. Okay. Things are like my idea.


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[Assistant] But, but you have to like, have the ideas.


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[Assistant] It's a, it's a entire, it's a lot of car washes.


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[Assistant] Uhm, because we need car washes. Uhm, but. That's so random. It's like a subscription model, so you have to like pay a membership to go.


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[Assistant] Yeah, eventually we hope to be in Los Angeles.


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[Assistant] Here, watch this. Are we rolling? Good. So the, uh, the pigs love these brandless cereal puffs.


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[Assistant] They're very busy and happy right now. HEY!


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[Assistant] Not a house painter, no, like a painting painter.


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[Assistant] They're kinda prehistoric. They're like furry dinosaurs.


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[Assistant] He lived with a little old lady who died, and she lived in her house.


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[Assistant] Probably she died and probably he feasted on her corpse.


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[Assistant] Probably. That, that has been known to happen. Dogs will do that. Cats will do that too. It's pretty macabre, but that's science.


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[Assistant] And the other one was found prancing around, uh, an orchard in the San Fernando Valley. So.


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[Assistant] And then, uhm, we got an email and said, hey, there's this cute little pig that was found in an orchard and her name is Amy.


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[Assistant] Uh, I know that I did that in like second grade, but I forgot all my colored theory.


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[Assistant] Don't you think I'm a little played out? You know what I mean? Like, I've done a lot of interviews over the years.


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[Assistant] Usually an interview starts with like a question or something like that. That's what I was going to do.


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[Assistant] They were very artsy hippies and they lived in a houseboat in Seattle in the late 60s. I was a hippie child.


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[Assistant] My dad's name was Robert George Wilson. So he liked the idea of having like a more strange, more memorable name.


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[Assistant] And I got, it was strange and uhm, and people, I love that Amy's eating the Cheerios off the cameraman's shoe. Uhm, I got made fun of a lot, I got beat up a lot, I got,


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[Assistant] Uhm, it was pretty shitty to grow up with the name Rain because there's that saying, Rain, rain, go away, come again another day. So that greeted me kind of every, every day going to school. Uhm, that was no fun. What is, is your first name Robert?


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[Assistant] But it's the full net. Is it Bobby on your birth certificate? Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Okay, are we getting into gender theory right now?


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[Assistant] Sometimes I hear from people on social media and they've named their kids Rain. I gotta say that's a little bit flattering.


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[Assistant] Uh, Rain Pryor, but uhm, Richard Pryor's daughter, but only one end.


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[Assistant] You have a flesh-colored blob so far. It's your face.


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[Assistant] Hi, I'm Rainn Wilson and welcome to the Really Good Podcast.


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[Assistant] The soulless hellhole of Los Angeles, so we moved out to, uh,


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[Assistant] This, uh, small town outside of LA and we wanted some space for our pigs.


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[Assistant] We had em, uh, in a suburban LA, and so now we're out in small town California. So we're moving ever further.


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[Assistant] If it was up to me, it would be Mexico or Oregon. Yeaah, someplace pretty far away.


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[Assistant] She's literally pig shit is happening. This is the first ever podcast show replete with pig shit.


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[Assistant] I, I don't remember the whole Instagram story, but I do know at a certain point, uhm,


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[Assistant] I had never heard of you before and then you were DMing and then I was like, oh.


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[Assistant] She's actually really funny, and I saw your interview with Bobby Lee, who I love.


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[Assistant] I don't, this doesn't, this doesn't help me. I mean how does doing this interview like help me? What do you mean? It doesn't do anything for me. That's true.


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[Assistant] I don't need like more social media followers or a bigger name or something like that. I'm just trying to, I'm just trying to get by in this crazy world. You have tiny ears.


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[Assistant] I don't know how to do this. I mean, I know how to draw, but I don't know how to paint very well. So I'm kind of figuring it out as I go, but I think


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[Assistant] Owning these pigs, I feel a twinge of guilt every time. Just a twinge? Just a twinge. I have, I will be honest, I have eaten bacon while having owned pigs. I have done that before.


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[Assistant] Very infrequently and I feel really guilty about it. So.


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[Assistant] I have eyelashes. You're insulting me. Did you say that to Jessica Alba?


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[Assistant] Uhm, that's a complicated question.


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[Assistant] I think that every human being is beautiful because we all have sparks of, uh, of divine goodness in us. I think my body is ungainly and corpulent. You're using like a lot of words that I've never heard.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm doughy. I'm doughy, and you know what that word means, right?


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[Assistant] Uh, more like Snorty, because Amy is the cuter, is the sweet little cute pig, and female, kind of like your human mother.


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[Assistant] It's hard, I'm not gonna lie, it was hard to raise a teenager during the COVID years. That was, that was a challenge.


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[Assistant] We got through, I have a good, he's a good kid. He's a nice and good human.


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[Assistant] Things shoot all over now, like you, you do acting and they, uh.


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[Assistant] I am still acting occasionally. What are you in?


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[Assistant] I'm in this show called Lessons in Chemistry with Brie Larson on the Apple TV+.


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[Assistant] And, there's a movie coming out this year called Code 3.


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[Assistant] It is. That's a Gen X thing. But babe is gender neutral. You could call a guy or a...


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[Assistant] It's okay. My body's consistently let me down over my life.


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[Assistant] Did you, did it like get you through COVID and help you heal your mental health issues?


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[Assistant] There are people that say that, including Billie Eilish, that they wake up in the morning and it's on their phone.


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[Assistant] They're showering, it's on their phone. They're pooping, they're having their cup of coffee, it's on their phone. They're in the car, it's on their phone.


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[Assistant] They, on work at their lunch break, they're watching episodes, they're coming home, they're watching more, and then it like gets them through the day.


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[Assistant] That's good. So you have a healthy relationship. I do. To NBC, it's the office.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we get, uh, residuals, uh, through the union, through the Screen Actors Guild. Okay.


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[Assistant] And they go, they go up and down, but now we've negotiated, cause of this strike, a better deal, and uhm, yeaah, make a pretty healthy income from office residuals. And then also sometimes I do like,


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[Assistant] Shows where I'll like sign autographs and sometimes collectors will come by and have like a bunch of Dwight bobbleheads for me to sign and stuff like that. There's lots of different ways that I make money off of being Dwight, so I'm very grateful. And it paid for this beautiful little pig, pig paradise.


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[Assistant] That's crazy. Why would you not talk about Dwight? I have no idea.


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[Assistant] Uh, the bitchy girl from corporate that comes in to fire someone but then gets humiliated and leaves in a huff.


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[Assistant] I was a theater actor and then I was doing some TV and film and I was on this show called Six Feet Under.


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[Assistant] That kind of like, people are like, oh, this is an interesting and weird actor. Yeah. And that kind of put me on the map. So, it was right on the heels of that that I got the office.


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[Assistant] The office was nine years. Nine really wonderful, blissful, amazing years.


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[Assistant] I think it's 19 year old girls in Omaha who have weird senses of humor but want an occasional beauty tip.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he would know, he would know me. Cause they all have like kids and grandkids that watch The Office.


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[Assistant] Bobby said, uh, that she wasn't sure if you would know who I was.


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[Assistant] I don't know. Hey, are you quitting Shark Tank?


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[Assistant] I love, we're both on reruns together and congrats on your incredible deal selling your majority stake of the Dallas Mavericks.


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[Assistant] I read all about it, that was pretty astonishing.


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[Assistant] Honestly, I would love to, but I hate your team and I wouldn't, I wouldn't come to a Dallas game if you, if you paid me. If you flew me on your private jet and paid me $10,000, I would go see the Dallas Mavericks play.


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[Assistant] I hope we can meet some day and high five. Bobby, anything before I let Mark go?


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[Assistant] Okay, she wants to say hi to you. Thanks for answering your phone. That was very nice.


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[Assistant] And I hope to meet you and high five you and hug you and I'm on a trauma dump on you, okay?


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[Assistant] Steve, you can't really hear that, but there's this girl named Bob who has a podcast. She has a lot of TikTok fans that are 19 and live in Omaha.


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[Assistant] And, uh, sorry to put you on the spot. We were just calling you. She just called, uh, Mark Cuban and I was calling you. I hope you're well. I don't know if you're in Massachusetts right now or what you're up to, but you know, I love you and...


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[Assistant] Uh, if you ever call back, tell me how you feel about Bobby Alshoff. Okay.


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[Assistant] That's like the stupidest dad joke.


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[Assistant] I don't know, man. Honestly, I have no idea.


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[Assistant] He seems like a good and cool guy, and he seems like someone who could run for president and win, actually. That's true.


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[Assistant] Uh, no. I think we should have a conversation. You don't like uncomfortable human emotion. What's the saddest you've ever been?


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[Assistant] So it has, I've been on meds before and this is helpful.


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[Assistant] Lexapro for years, and then, uh, Welbutrin as well, and kind of meddling with those, and then, and then I went off them.


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[Assistant] No, that's alright, I'm kind of sensitive to caffeine, it would probably make my brain explode. Do you have any other questions?


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[Assistant] These are Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs. That's their breed and they're black.


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[Assistant] Uhm, they're not really edible, I've heard. The Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs are not really edible.


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[Assistant] I can't say anything right. How are your children? Are you sweet to your children?


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[Assistant] You're like, Mommy, look, the pig's sprawled out. It's not sprawled out, idiot. Is that how you talk to your children?


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[Assistant] Are you trying to provoke me or are you trying to get more people to comment and say why are you so mean to your guests?


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[Assistant] No, I think you look great here. I think you're gonna be very happy with this.


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[Assistant] I, uh, I only submit pictures of my thighs. It's just my thighs. No genitalia.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of thigh fetishists out there, love middle-aged men with meaty thighs. So rainwilsonthighs.com.


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[Assistant] Yeah, sometimes you do like, uh, like fan events sometimes, and they can be kind of a pain, cause they're a lot of work, cause I wanna like, greet every fan and say hi, I love you, thanks for watching the show.


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[Assistant] But then if you're doing that to a thousand people in a day, it can be, it can be a drag.


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[Assistant] You have a lot of fans, but would they, would they pay money for like a signed Bobby Altenheimer's headshot? I don't know.


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[Assistant] I have no idea. I don't think so, but you never know.


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[Assistant] Do you want to have like a, you want to go back to the competition and see who won the painting contest and have people write in and vote about who's painting is better?


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[Assistant] Uhm, no. There's one other thing I wanna do.


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[Assistant] Uhm, well, I think mine is better because that looks like an Oompa Loompa. Like a homeless Oompa Loompa.


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[Assistant] I like the pig, that's very sweet. I'm gonna hang this up though.


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[Assistant] Don't do Bobby Althoff's podcast ever.


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[Assistant] I'm Chase, I'm Bobby's trainer. Honestly, I don't know why the hell I'm here.


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[Assistant] Yep, no petroleum and crawfish festival this side.


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[Assistant] Well, I hadn't been graduated that long. And this was out in the provinces. It was lovely theatre actually. I was employed by a director friend, I suppose. He directed me in a production when I was at drama school.


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[Assistant] It's a place where you have coach loads of normally.


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[Assistant] Do theater, very light entertainment really was what it was. And yeah, I was part of that and thoroughly enjoyed it. But the problem was when Band of Brothers came along.


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[Assistant] I still had a bit of a run to go, so there was a bit of a battle going on, and I think


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[Assistant] We're like the great Meg Lieberman. The casting powerhouse, Meg Lieberman. The casting powerhouse, dearest Meg. It was a case of, look, don't...


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[Assistant] F this up. I suppose it was a bit of a bitter taste. The director and I were on good terms, but I think even he felt let down.


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[Assistant] Row came pretty early. I didn't start with that. I think it was a Spears speech to blithe. You've got to accept the fact that you're already dead, which is a-


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[Assistant] Pretty heavy beginner, and then I think it really was triage out who they thought might match up with other roles. Roe was always a consistent, so whoever I was getting along the way, Roe was always in that bag to do.


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[Assistant] And then it got to a point where you get a feeling as an actor, you get a feeling that you're getting close to stuff. And then of course the Athenaeum, the hotel, this is the big Tom Hanks, castaway mode, meeting a few more bodies in there.


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[Assistant] I didn't recognise him so that probably helped. It was a really nice conversation and he put me at ease. By that time it was Doc Rowe all the way and we were in the middle of one run through.


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[Assistant] He had a satchel bag, he very casually gave it to me


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[Assistant] To be a medics bag and I took it and without dropping a beat continued on with the scene rummaging around in this thing. I guess for him and the rest of them just to see if I could work with a prop, see if I could think on my feet and not bump into furniture and things and I never did, fortunately.


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[Assistant] It's known in the industry, you know, Brits are cheap. If I remember rightly, Scott Grimes, malarkey, he had a good buddy that was very much in the running for road.


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[Assistant] It was always Ro for me. I just love the idea of somebody trying to save lives in a theatre of war. There was a purity about it. And I also like that juxtaposition of somebody that isn't a soldier who's aiming to take lives.


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[Assistant] He's saving lives, but at the same time, probably seeing more blood and...


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[Assistant] God knows what than any of them, very visceral and raw and emotional. It's just seemed to me you could train.


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[Assistant] All you wanted, but it just seems so sort of just random. Things were going off all over the place, you know, and he's just getting to wherever he's got to go to. Just having that mental fortitude to do the job, to finish that one and go straight to the next one. There's no stopping it.


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[Assistant] It was the relentlessness of it I found fascinating. That's some sort of guardian angel stuff. The psychological mindset of all that appealed to me. I was always interested. I don't think it's definitively known how and why Eugene became the medic.


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[Assistant] Doc Pepping, who was 101st, he said that he filled out a questionnaire. On the questionnaire it said, do you think you could kill a man? And he said no. So he got made a medic.


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[Assistant] What are you selling? That was a no go and I can't blame her. HBO were really great at providing production materials to go and explore lots of different leads and Ralph Spina, the assistant medic, sent me packages of


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[Assistant] newspaper articles, pictures of themselves, and also a little on what the job was about, which I thought was just incredible to get that kind of information, and of the period, which was very specific.


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[Assistant] Yes, and I think Dale himself had been helped and assisted by a medic in his time in his service. The idea of you protect the medic, the medic protects you and that carried over into bootcamp. We were all his sons in many ways and he was very protective, but


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[Assistant] I was really spoiled. Indoor classes going through capillary bleeding, venous bleeding, arterial bleeding, the rest of the fellas were out in the rain doing some kind of drill and we were having coffee, you know.


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[Assistant] It wasn't a bad deal, you know, yea, it wasn't a bad deal. And I remember a particular drill they had was like war games as a kid. They were all doing what they were trained to do with their weapons. I remember Dale saying to me, your job is to go out, if anybody gets hit, you can go and check how they are, tag them back into the game. But if you remember war games as a kid, nobody would admit to getting hit. So I'm just running around.


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[Assistant] Completely participated most of the time with the other things, but I was getting my education in terms of using the sulfur, using the morphine, the whole procedure and do it quickly as fast as I could.


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[Assistant] My job after a day's activity, this is after Chow and we're back in the barracks that we all had in different platoons.


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[Assistant] I'd have to go around before I could settle and check everybody out. Corcoran boots, they're difficult early on, you know, so I was with second skins trying to treat people's feet. I remember one guy had a rash somewhere. I just threw him a cream. You take care of that.


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[Assistant] And frozen peas for any brews, you know, all that stuff got to a point where people were coming to me. They were told to, but at the same time we did try and get really immersed into it. And I remember Nixon came to me, Ron came to me one day with a fish bone stuck in his throat.


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[Assistant] And I could see it with this flashlight, you know, this torch, and I assembled some kind of Frankenstein device, all sterilized. I want to go on record now.


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[Assistant] That's a very good, yeah, BA. It was definitely that.


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[Assistant] Oh my gosh. Yeah, that's true. I could've killed him. English Mr. T. But I didn't even think about it. I just-


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[Assistant] Well, Nixon's in trouble, gotta get it. Had this trigger with tweezer things on the end.


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[Assistant] And I was getting it. I got hold of that thing a number of times just to loosen it up. He's gagging all over everywhere, but we loosened it.


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[Assistant] We made it! We got it out! Success! Thank god! Proof is Ron is still alive, just by the sound of things. A fabulous career. Just imagine if I had ended it all. All that work we would have lost.


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[Assistant] Compton had a rifle, an M1 that split his lip or brow all over the place. They played a trick on me initially because they told me you've got to get down there. He's in the mess hall. He's a mess. I'm like, what am I going to do? What am I going to do? This was to Dale and Dale's like, you know, you're the dark, dark.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there was that. I was thinking, okay, I don't know what I'm going to go into. It sounds awful. For a second there, I thought, I'm in this, I've come this far.


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[Assistant] Eventually they said, no, no, no, it's okay, but let's play a trick on Neil. And so Neil's in on the table and I walk in and he's looked to me as I'm approaching.


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[Assistant] He was just petrified and I think he had a few choice words about me getting out of there.


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[Assistant] Not at that point, I don't think. My wife's from Arkansas, so it's not too far. And her uncle...


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[Assistant] Is in Louisiana. So subsequently I've been down there a lot.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was so thick and it was English and French all at once.


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[Assistant] And I'm like, well, this is an interesting challenge. You know, I like in general doing accent. I do the most of my stuff is accent work and dialect work. And I love American stuff and their different regionalizations. And so it was all good for me. It was all part of the toolkit and it's something to grab onto as a character's stepping stone.


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[Assistant] And it was a good thing, I suppose, that best stone was a little way down the line. I could ease it in.


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[Assistant] Get used to it. Be around every day, but just still try and hone.


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[Assistant] What I was going to do, I suppose. And then there was a meeting with Tom at some point. I went into his office and we set something that I felt like would be.


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[Assistant] A good place, not too jarring. The tape that I got with the 1940s, I think it would have been a little too harsh, a little too fast. I just wanted, well I wanted the big easy. I wanted a little bit more of that bayou sound.


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[Assistant] And not too cartoony, you know, I think that Cajuns have probably been given a bit of a raw deal, being the butt of many jokes and cartoony sounds. I just wanted something that would give an essence and something that I could really go into the character with. Is it an accurate interpretation? I'm not so sure, but with something a bit more resonant, a bit more soothing, which I wanted also to try and put across, but I enjoyed doing it.


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[Assistant] Stories like that were great to be able to get even further into him.


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[Assistant] I always felt like there's a spiritualism in the way that he's depicted here and I looked at him as slightly different on the edge of it, but he's very much part of it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I like the idea of this guy that needs to be calm in the face of chaos. I really wanted that essence of him.


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[Assistant] Being very grounded, strong, but vulnerable, empathetic, for sure.


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[Assistant] Was there in the writing and I, most of those still moments throughout the show by any of the.


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[Assistant] Actors in it are really powerful, aren't they? And I just felt for him as a character, he only speaks when he needs to, only moves when he needs to, and there's a lot going on in his head.


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[Assistant] Well let me just say, I mean, I enjoyed pulling rank on uh, Welsh and Winters. Let's get that down. That was a good night.


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[Assistant] I may have been in and out on the episodes before, but it was one of those things, you know, I was there every day, more or less. I remember I moved, I was on my friend's couch, guy playing tipper, Bart Ruspily, a friend of mine. I was on his couch for most of that first bit of it. And then I decided to move very close to the studio. I just wanted to live, breathe.


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[Assistant] We talk about some ideas that would seem to be very closed off and then he would bring the technical people in and we'd go through certain things again, but everything was there to produce the best work that you could possibly produce at that time. Everything about the production.


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[Assistant] This is the best thing about it, as well as employing unknowns, because that was probably the best thing for me, you know. It was just how well you were looked after. Everything was in place to do the best possible job you could.


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[Assistant] You assemble that kind of group of actors that were really, really helpful and camaraderie. There was nobody that was just


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[Assistant] You know, actors can get funny, but I just felt that there was a complete awareness of what we were doing historically and what we owed to families and


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[Assistant] To history, just being there as an actor trying to do their best work, you know, is really, really supportive. And to feel relaxed is so important for an actor to feel.


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[Assistant] Relaxed and confident and calm about everything going on. Obviously you have nerves and you try and channel those nerves, but everything about that time coming to Bastogne was just made for an actor to go in and not worry, just do it.


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[Assistant] The only thing that would give it away really, cause there's a panorama, all you could see was trees and snow and foggy mist, but it was the echo of the weapons. The echo gave it away that you're actually kind of endorsed.


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[Assistant] And also the heat, the heat was a fact that there's no getting away from it. I mean, incredible.


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[Assistant] People often ask, what was the hardest bit? And I'd say probably that. It's okay sort of putting a little Rudolph on the edge of your nose, but you've got to do a little bit more than that to portray horrific conditions. And do you remember one of the chief, um, directing note from David, whatever we were doing was to keep the cold.


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[Assistant] Because that was probably, I've been to South Africa and worked in middle of the summer, but that was the hottest place I've ever shot on. We were in an aircraft hangar.


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[Assistant] We were under studio lights and I was running around in these kind of woolen shirts. Every scene that we did, every take that we did, I would have to be fanned down because I was completely sweating. And so David would come in every now and then and remind me.


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[Assistant] Get boots or patch somebody up and it just seemed like a never ending carousel of lost hope.


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[Assistant] And not only that, they were going in a thousand pieces it seemed, but even better than that was the fact that they had the ability to put them all back together and go, and go again. These people.


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[Assistant] True legends in the field, but it was an amazing thing to do. You know, I always had a trajectory to run. Obviously David would always say, you're going to go here. We're going to go there. We're going to end up fixing pen Carla or something.


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[Assistant] But do whatever you need to do to get there. We'll just follow you. There are runs. I don't plan to fall. I'm rolling around. I'm sort of tripping up stuff. I mean, you just, you let it be what it's gonna be on route.


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[Assistant] And the camera just follows you, but when you're in the midst of all of that stuff and all that chaos, that's what you're doing. You're ducking behind stuff. It's flying in your face. It's going everywhere. The sound is incredible. I wouldn't have the audacity and the disrespect to say it's anything like the real thing, but it does a job for you as an actor to get into the, to the role and try and get to them in.


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[Assistant] Situation provided by the production to create something.


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[Assistant] We were using that as a device to provide us distance on a friend and...


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[Assistant] For me, it was always at the beginning of the day, you know, we'd look at the Bible, I suppose, that particular episode, David and I, and we would look about where we were in the story, one of those talks. And again,


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[Assistant] Before any scene, where's Ro in this story? Those are constructive conversations to have. Whatever scene we were doing, be it at a foxhole or we're going to a church right now, to be able to play that authentically as possible.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I visited a grave of an Augusta Chiwi, don't forget.


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[Assistant] Who was very much in reality on a par in terms of her authority. And Augusta lived until she was 90 plus and continued to serve. I met her son Augusta. I was with Doc Rose grandson. We went to unveil a memorial for Renee and Augusta.


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[Assistant] I had a few different Renes in mind and he had a tape and he showed me one day, he said,


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[Assistant] Can you imagine coming into that much machismo, Rog?


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[Assistant] The common bond was what they were doing together, two empathetic people, very spiritually endowed. She and I got together with the script because I felt when we were doing our bits that it would be nice to connect a little bit more through the French as the theme for both of us. Lucy, very kindly, we got together and she translated a few of the English.


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[Assistant] I can speak Pidgin French, so I needed her. We got that together. There was something in all of that. There was an early conversation with David again about how far we took that. We could have probably gone further with it. None of us wanted that really. We actually preferred it for the audience to project and to not push that and then end that whole relationship prematurely.


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[Assistant] It was what could have been, I suppose, and you let the audience make up their minds on that.


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[Assistant] It is, it's one of my favorite lines. Yeah, it speaks to the tragedy, the hopelessness and the helplessness of the situation, doesn't it? That's probably my favorite scene. His name was Tim that lost his life in the crypt, in a sticky bloody mess all afternoon. Bless him. And I just love that moment, that one little window.


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[Assistant] The nurse and the medic are together talking about it all and that connection unspoken and otherwise.


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[Assistant] He was getting hit and so I just kind of launched over the top of him on route and that was just something that was just kicking in. The atmosphere of the place with everything going on, you just got into it.


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[Assistant] When I put up my arms there, that's cause I'm genuinely feeling the tremendous heat coming off that explosion and I'm quite a way away. And then getting into the rubble and shooting the chief, the little headscarf, it was an emotional moment and one I definitely am proud of.


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[Assistant] I think through that loss, there's a moment of gathering yourself again. It's almost like a reset button that he manages to activate.


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[Assistant] And now obviously that medic brings him out of a moment. It puts him on course again to getting back.


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[Assistant] A change man, like you say, reincarnation almost, in that way that it comes again, there's a resurgence. Somebody that can get to work again and not only get to work, but use the very scarf.


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[Assistant] To bandage up Bae, because in his mind, this is what Renee wanted, and this is the best way to honour her.


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[Assistant] I think it's either two things, he carries that and he takes that home, or he uses it for a greater purpose, if you like.


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[Assistant] Yeah, again, I love telling him what for. When Roe has to tell some people to just get there together. I love that, Rog. You know, it's uh, those moments are good.


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[Assistant] And it was a great departure. I mean, we have time to see the shelling, the heavy shellacking, I suppose, in the next episode. I really liked the slight diversion on the first part of the bulge. And yet, just to show.


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[Assistant] The horrific Groundhog Day existence of the medic and what everybody was going through.


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[Assistant] It really needed that. If you think about just how long


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[Assistant] They were in those kind of situations. It needed to be seen. I'm glad there wasn't a glamorous end to the whole thing. This was the point.


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[Assistant] Letters from people that have served, there are medics, they are inspired by the show to become a medic. Chris Langlois, who is Doc Rose's grandson, and I'll name check him here, he said that one of the best things in Bastogne at 75th, when I was with him, just through me, that I gave him his grandfather, because he never spoke about it, what he did.


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[Assistant] So that idea of giving him his grandfather, it doesn't get any better than that, you know.


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[Assistant] That is the one. Just shows you the power of...


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[Assistant] Drama and how it can affect people. I know it sounds completely surreal and odd because, you know, obviously it doesn't even work out as a logistical timeframe, but you would think that we were the ones who did the real stuff. I've had to remind a few people there.


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[Assistant] We are just the pretenders and we're nowhere near the real deal. You know, ultimately they realise, but it's just that kind of infatuation.


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[Assistant] That is flattering, but it's uncomfortable at the same time because it is all about the real man at the end of the day and what they did. And it was just about us honoring them as best as we could.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, I think the show is a great exploration of what men and women do in war, but then what that, what war does to a person. The lessons from doing it and playing somebody like that and taking it into my own life, I just try and...


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[Assistant] Be a good person. Have empathy. I have two daughters. Try and be good for them and honour the freedom they gave, I suppose, in the best possible ways. When you watch your own performance, what do you see? I think it was difficult early on. It's difficult for most.


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[Assistant] Actors I think early on, I'm not unique in saying that. I put some distance between the show and watching it for a few years, but then there are moments in that that I look at now that I can watch it as a story actually. If you're an actor, you know, you're going to be looking at certain things and whether you could have done


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[Assistant] More, you know, it aired not too long after 9 11. It sort of went under the radar for obvious reasons. I think the show, it took a good few years of obviously repeating and all of a sudden this groundswell, this momentum emerged whereby we're talking about the 20 year anniversary, but in the last 10 years, it's been more of a thing.


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[Assistant] I've been invited to non-profit and charity foundations and you get a sense of, I mean, Europe's always, mainland Europe especially has always had that affinity with, especially the American side of things. You know, I've been to American cemeteries all over the place. I've seen the way the Dutch treat the graves.


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[Assistant] And adopt the graves, adopt the soldiers, you know, there's a real revelry that I think a lot of people in America, unless they've been.


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[Assistant] They won't understand, you know, it is absolutely phenomenal. The subject matter is always, always an interesting one for people. It's our history. It's our humanity. We're dealing with real people and we're dealing with ordinary people doing extraordinary things, which is always.


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[Assistant] Something to watch because it could be any one of us thrust into that situation. How do people deal with that? There's a lot in there for a lot of people, but I think the connection to history is so vital and it's a great gateway, Band of Brothers, which I've found and seen over the years.


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[Assistant] For especially younger generations to get into the history to start to look up the real easy company. And that's how you're going to keep the remembrance going. Cause obviously sadly we're losing so many vets now.


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[Assistant] What does it mean to you? Just echoed the man as far as I was concerned. It's a selfless...


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[Assistant] You know, thinking of others before you is no bad thing in life, is it? For him...


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[Assistant] Taking a moment, that spiritual moment, to check back in.


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[Assistant] To his beliefs and to sort of gain a strength to carry on and do what he was going to do. It was a confirmation, a validation of he was in the doing the right thing and he had his faith. He was going to carry on regardless.


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[Assistant] Points. Yes. The final instalment of Band of Brothers. The men of Easy Company have run Karahi.


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[Assistant] Liberated Eindhoven survived that hellscape of Bastogne and fought their way through France into Germany. We now find them in Austria where Dick Winters and Lewis Nixon finally broached a topic they never dared even ask themselves during the battle to liberate Europe.


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[Assistant] The downtime means this is an episode featuring bored men with access to too many lethal weapons, too much alcohol and excess free time, a dangerous, dangerous cocktail.


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[Assistant] That combined with the threat of redeployment to the Pacific theatre for those without the requisite points to go home, means there's a dark cloud hanging over the sunny Austrian countryside.


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[Assistant] A weight that is lifted in a final glorious set piece when Major Winters interrupts that company baseball game to break news that will force the men of easy company to begin to confront an entirely new challenge.


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[Assistant] In addition to providing the closure that we all craved, Points teaches us perhaps the most indelible lesson of the entire series.


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[Assistant] My guest today is probably the only old Etonian in that school's vaunted 581 year history ever to have played a bona fide all-American war hero.


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[Assistant] Major Richard Dickwinters, the commanding officer of Easy Company, a man who dropped behind enemy lines on D-Day, armed only with a knife.


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[Assistant] And then employing a leadership style defined by the two words


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[Assistant] Survived Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge before ending the war with the capture of Hitler's eagle's nest at Berchtesgaden, Germany.


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[Assistant] My guest is the centrifugal force of the entire Band of Brothers series playing Winters in an astonishing performance in which so much was conveyed with tremendous economy in terms of both word and emotion. It's an incredible joy to welcome Mr. Damian Lewis.


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[Assistant] If ever a man deserves one, it's you, Damien. First big question, hard hitter first. At the top of the episode, we meet you, in your swimmies, where Nixon has trapped you down.


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[Assistant] You then dive head first into an Austrian lake. How bloody cold was that water because you dived, Damien. It was a 10.0.


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[Assistant] It's a glamorous life showbiz daemon, but let's go back to the beginning. You're casting. You're a 29 year old bloke when you first pursued a role.


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[Assistant] In Band of Brothers, a man with a solid resume, a British television mini-series mainstay. He had a steady flow of television, stage work. When you began that journey to winters, you described yourself as just another pale Englishman doing multiple auditions in a damp basement in Soho.


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[Assistant] Were you always reading for Dick Winters and when did you realise the producers were serious about you?


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[Assistant] And you were asked how you prepared the accent of winters, an American accent for these auditions. And I loved your answer. You said, my cultural heritage, if you like, is so pervaded by American pop culture. I grew up on Kojak and Colombo and Starsky and Hutch. Also our family.


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[Assistant] I love it though, you did it, you had an inner sense of an American identity to tap into from multiple sources.


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[Assistant] Flights, hotels, limos, you find yourself in Spielberg's office in Hollywood. I need to know, what was that like for you? Was it out of body? Or were you just like laughing at the whole thing because it was so different to the London theatre scene? Because I believe you tried to warm the room up with a joke and it got off to a bit of a slow start.


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[Assistant] I mean it is fascinating that you were in that room with Hanks with Spielberg talking about football in an audition room covered in photos of the real Dick Winters. An actor who was the spitting image of the real Dick Winters had just exited. He looked like Dick Winters. You don't.


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[Assistant] What do you think they saw in you that gave you the edge? How do you understand it? You, a fine, upstanding English public school boy playing a blue collar American hero.


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[Assistant] I do think there's a sense of old-fashionedness that you bring to the role that ultimately


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[Assistant] Defined it, but I love the story that when Hanks announced in a room he was going to give you the part, he said, this is so Hanks, you're going to be the first ever redheaded film star, which to me is a bit Rupert Grint erasure.


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[Assistant] They modelled it on the Canadian actor who didn't get the part, David. But when you met him, he was out on his farm in Pennsylvania. He'd made a small fortune post-war building an entrepreneurial chicken feed business.


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[Assistant] You know, you've said this technical, procedural way he told this story without sensationalizing or anecdotalizing, all very operational detail.


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[Assistant] Does it tell you a lot about his generation? It's almost as if they were taught that it's weak to express emotion.


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[Assistant] There was actually something about war that Dick Winters was really pre-built for. Tom Hanks has told us he had one big problem with his ultimate character arc. The screenwriters made him a man who grew into the role. You know, he jumped with a degree of fear. He learned by doing. He grew into leadership because television needs character arc human development.


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[Assistant] I'd love to know this. When you got to know Dick, did you feel similar to him?


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[Assistant] You channeled all this information into your portrayal of Winters, which you've said you attempted to pull off by channeling the classic on-screen acting approach of Steve McQueen and Gary Cooper, people who achieved a lot.


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[Assistant] By doing a little. These are your words. If you set up an intensity and a stillness, you only have to show a flicker of a smile. You've also cited your other acting hero, Robert De Niro, and his listening, which gives him his mercurial quality.


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[Assistant] God that's incredible, an incredible approach to life, never mind acting, just simplicity stripping the part away.


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[Assistant] Let's talk about winters in episode 10, because it's central theme. Just how difficult it is to transition from being ready for war to being ready for peace. You know, being soldiers who have no enemy to fight anymore. The drinking, the looting, the summary execution of former SS officers throughout it all.


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[Assistant] We grapple with Winter's decision of continuing his service in the Pacific. Colonel Sink offers him a commission. Will he do it or will he work his way back to that peace and the little farm he dreamed of at the end of day of days? Or possibly even working at Nix and Nitrate. What do you think went through Winter's mind as he was torn between war and duty and peace and family?


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[Assistant] You talk about the darkness. And the men of Easy Company had seen and done terrible things. Ambrose wrote in his book, in three years the men had seen more, endured more, contributed more than most men can see or endure or contribute in a lifetime. Some of that.


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[Assistant] Is, is captured in the scene where Winter says goodbye to Shifty Powers who's shipping out.


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[Assistant] Possibly the most touching scene for me, Winters overseeing the German army surrender. The German general who addresses his troops is Wolf Karla who played Dietrich in Raiders of the Lost Ark and he talks about


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[Assistant] Words that Winters feels, I believe, about Easy Company but could never say. He articulates the bond between his men.


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[Assistant] They found in combat the closest brotherhood they ever knew. They found selflessness. They found they could love the other guy in their foxhole more than themselves. They found that in war. Men who love life would give.


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[Assistant] Their lives for them. And that was embodied nowhere greater than in a relationship between Winters and Nixon, that double acting band of brothers, Ron Livingston.


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[Assistant] So fantastic in his portrayal. How do you understand the essence of their relationship? Were they brothers? Were they rivals? Or were they just the greatest of friends?


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[Assistant] At the beginning of the episode, you hold up a photograph of the two of you, Winters and Nixon, you and Ron Livingston as new recruits. And I've got to say, you both look a decade younger at Tekoa, still bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.


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[Assistant] What do you think these two men, what do you think Easy Company learned in this journey?


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[Assistant] That bond is reinforced in the last set piece of the series, the baseball game. So joyous and relaxed, your voice over telling us what the men of easy became.


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[Assistant] Lipton and Johnny Martin made real money. But the overarching realization is the rest of the men, they became male men. Construction workers, handymen, cab drivers, and it is incredible to me. Incredible. The core of this story, a show about some of the most remarkable Americans who ever lived.


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[Assistant] And they were truly everyman heroes, Damien. They lived, you know, so-called average lives after the war. And most did not, as shifty powers hinted.


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[Assistant] Ever tell their story, in a way. Band of brothers told their story for them.


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[Assistant] At the very end of the episode, we have one last round of talking head interviews with the real soldiers of EZ.


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[Assistant] It's a truly transcendent experience, because we're finally able to put faces to names. To be reminded that Bill Garnier, Carwood Lipton, John Martin, Dick Winters, they were real men. And Winters tells that story of a letter he received from Mike Rainey, whose grandson asked him the question,


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[Assistant] Grandpa, were you a hero in the war? Grandpa said no, I served in a company of heroes. These men