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[Assistant] These men, they were most certainly heroes, Damien. What does this mean to you? How do you process this story?


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[Assistant] Do you think Band of Brothers and the reception, the immense reception it received changed Winter's sense of his own self, his own legacy?


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[Assistant] And it's so incredibly important. More important than ever. Sadly, Dick Winters is no longer with us. Almost all the men of Easy Company have now passed on. There's just one remaining. He's 99.


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[Assistant] Damien, you're an actor who has achieved so much in your career. You've been on hit show after hit show. You are revered in every way.


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[Assistant] But did the fact that Band of Brothers honours these men, men who when the world was staring over a cliff into the abyss and pulled it back, men who you got to know personally, does that make you feel different about this show, this role, to all your other roles and successes?


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[Assistant] Last question for you, Damon. You said playing Dick Winters was life-changing.


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[Assistant] You know, apart from the ability to control operational maneuvers using just your hands, which you do magnificently throughout the entire series, what did the experience of bringing Dick Winters to the screen teach you about life?


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[Assistant] Damien Lewis, thank you for your generosity of spirit and for preserving the memory that great American Richard Winters, for your portrayal in Band of Brothers.


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[Assistant] With Damien Lewis, a gent tasked with portraying Major Richard Winters, a man who is...


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[Assistant] One of America's legitimately great war heroes. And what a fitting way.


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[Assistant] To finish HBO's Band of Brothers podcast, it is a project that from the very beginning, it's been a dream of all of ours. It's been a great privilege to produce alongside Jonathan Williamson. Both of us will never take this opportunity for granted. As Tom Hanks told the cast before they embarked on their journey,


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[Assistant] It's more than a television show. It's, it's a social document.


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[Assistant] We were so courageous, so selfless, they thought not of themselves, but that soldier in the foxhole next to him. And in that spirit, we want to end this podcast with the same words that end the television series itself. Words.


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


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[Assistant] Go check this out, guys. This is a really crazy video, and they really went there. When you drink Zoa energy drinks, it gives you big Dwayne energy. The swag.


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[Assistant] Danny Garcia, one of Zoa's co-founders, she's got some serious Big Duane energy. Zoa's energy is powered by great taste, electrolytes, BNC, vitamins, zero sugar,


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


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


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


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[Assistant] You gonna tackle all those? That's crazy, dude.


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[Assistant] Damn, man. Damn, son. That's a- look at all the different colored pills, dude. They look delicious. Oh, and, oh my god, you should- I will say the baclofen gets stuck in your throat sometimes and then you're- every once in a while you're like- Talk about it. The what gets stuck in the back of your throat?


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[Assistant] You call it the black elephant, huh? The black elephant gets stuck in the back. We just found out that, uhm, that-


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[Assistant] We, collective, the three of us. The us, the three best friends. Just found out that I have been, I somehow had like a filter on my zoom. Somehow, right. Dude, I swear to god I never did it. Why would I do, why would I do that? Hot, hot, hot, hot!


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[Assistant] Yeah, people are like, and then I took a meeting the other day, like, with an important person, and he was like, or, so, he stopped the meeting and goes, I'm so sorry.


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[Assistant] Are you wearing a full face of makeup? Dude! It's legit the exact scene from uh, Mrs. Doubtfire where he's like, are you wearing lipstick? And he says,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know. You guys must just think I'm kind of a hot boy. And then we also found out that... Kind of. Kind of. Admittedly. That last episode, you guys were like, you're flipped. Your, your mirrors flipped. That's not how your face is supposed to look. You flipped it for real.


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[Assistant] And so I somehow, it was mirrored and it was flipped the opposite way. And now I'm like, I feel...


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[Assistant] Dude, I, I, I have a little story, I, uh, you know my, all my ailments, so I got a new physical therapist, like a massage guy, and he does like body work, and he, he came, he came very highly recommended from my


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[Assistant] He's got me upright. And he's like, any music you want. But at the time, I didn't know that it was, it just was like,


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[Assistant] Paralyze you, right? Yeah. Well, yeah, probably.


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[Assistant] And, uh. It ain't my fault. Best case scenario is his legs start shaking. He's a big guy, right? So if he wanted to, he could hold me down and I couldn't, I would never get up. Right? So.


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[Assistant] And I'm like, okay. And then he- You ever see a grown man naked? He gets in there, dude. He goes, uh, I'm gonna have to go under the hood. He slides his hand up, under my nutsack. So now his- his-


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[Assistant] Knuckles? My nutsack is resting on his knuckles.


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[Assistant] He was, and he said a lot of technical jar. And did you say go with God?


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[Assistant] So basically he like, to draw the story out more, Blake.


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[Assistant] Alright, fair, fair, fair. One, two, skip a few. So to start, to start for the first ten minutes of this, he just jiggles your body. He just, just jiggles you. And you're like, you're wiggled. But then I would say maybe five or ten minutes after that, before he does a few other little things,


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[Assistant] So I'm getting a lot of friction on my d- Oh, the thread- the thread count? The- not high? Yeah, the thread count was like 100, you know? It was some basic target. Oh, Jesus.


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[Assistant] But that's fine. That's like off brand toilet paper. But that being said, I was, I was getting a lot of friction there. So my dick was...


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[Assistant] He's not looking you in the eyes. He's not like looking down like sneaking a peek, but he's my first time meeting the guy. Like I just met him and 15 minutes later here we are.


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[Assistant] Your dick? My dick, cause he's like shaking my leg and he's right there and it just keeps like- Are you- do you have like a- like a one leg- are you on your stomach? I'm on my back and I'm face up. You're on your back.


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[Assistant] And he's under the covers. He's, he's flesh on flesh. And he, am I too is rich.


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[Assistant] Uh, I did, yes, after, uh, to get in deep, but when he's just jiggling my leg when the dick is flapping back and forth, that's when I keep whacking him in the wrist and I'm like, on the wrist? You can't go back.


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[Assistant] No, I do, do, do, do, do, I have to tell you, I have to tell you, so. Okay, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead.


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[Assistant] And it was the best feeling. I'm hurting a little bit today, but like because I went to physical therapy and like did all my exercises again, I think I tightened it back up, but he was, it was like,


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[Assistant] And he, and it just felt fucking fantastic. And I'm like, this is the, the. Did you drop right into jazz splits?


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[Assistant] Back to business as usual. Back to back. And, uh, it was, it truly was the most, so now I'm gonna go all the time now. And I'm like, whatever, whatever I have to do to, uh, to, to feel better because I haven't felt good in like well over a year, you know? So, uhm. Here's my quiet, go ahead, yes, of course, Blake, go ahead.


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[Assistant] Are you coming back for like a fiend over there or what? I think it's gonna be. He was like...


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[Assistant] He told me, he was like, you're in bad shape, you know, and he could tell, and he was like, you're in really bad shape, you probably need to, uh, come like three times a week.


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[Assistant] It's just geography. It's just, uh, you know, where it's like, he's like, it's just where it's at on your, on your body.


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[Assistant] I'm the weatherman, I'ma make it rain. Yeah, your cock is, your cock is, no, my cock is cubo, man. You can't go there, you can't travel there.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that would be, that'd be weird. But then also, like, what is, what, what them hands do, because... What that wrist do? What them hands do though, because...


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[Assistant] You, you know, you could easily finger my ass. Yeah, you could easily finger my ass.


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[Assistant] And Chloe was like, I don't care if this guy goes home and like furiously masturbates to this, if he helps you.


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[Assistant] Fine. I don't either. Yeah, so I'm like, alright, good. That's fine. I'm talking about- That's him.


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[Assistant] Old school? Call me old school. Yeaah, so has my titan right back up.


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[Assistant] That's what, that's Blake's defense. He bumps and grinds. He's banging bodies down low. Whatever it takes to get the win. I'm just saying. To me, that's fair game. Fair enough, fair enough.


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[Assistant] Nooo. No. You're on a roll, man. Yeah. Yeah, you really are. You're freakin'. Yeah. I've been bringing some heat. Yeah. I will admit. I dodged a bullet, sort of. I thought I- Oh, literally?


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[Assistant] Oh, I saw you're on crutches. And by the way, dude, the fact that you have supreme


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[Assistant] Branded crutches. They gotta be ativas. They're ativas.


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[Assistant] Okay. So what, if you sold those crutches, they would be like $25,000 or something stupid, right? They're just stickers. It's not actually supreme, uh, crutches.


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[Assistant] Sick. Your skaters have, yeaah. The brand, like, they just release everything. They're like, this is, remember when they sold the brick for like thousands of dollars and it was just a supreme branded brick?


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[Assistant] Spend, uh, we'll give them a healthy salary. And then they'll. Unless you win and double it. And then we'll never be invited back, which is fine. We doubled up. Yeah. They're like, that's it.


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[Assistant] A lot, dude, uh, who was it, uh, Bruno Mars owes like 50 million dollars. Ton, yes, at uh. Literally 50 million dollars at whatever casino he. I think MGM or something. Was this on?


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[Assistant] Oh my god. Oh my god. Dude, he's- I like- I like him. Fucking talent. I feel like I'd wanna kick it with him.


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[Assistant] A tiny little fairy dust of a man. Yeah. Yeah, he's a smaller gentleman, for sure. Yeah.


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[Assistant] That's why I keep my small crew, uh-huh. Come here, little guy. Get over here. Yeah, no, he always like...


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[Assistant] 50 million, imagine running a $50 million tab up and how awesome that would be.


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[Assistant] How much does he make from there? I guess his, I guess his deal from MGM is 90 million a year.


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[Assistant] Why don't we just not pay him? Pay him. That's not how Vegas works. I think, I mean they have to, I think they are.


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[Assistant] I think they are doing so, they're like withholding, uh, but he like, I think when they give him the 90 million, they give him the 90 million and then he has to put on the whole show, right? I think that's how it would work.


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[Assistant] So he owes the 50 million bucks, but like the 40 other million goes for all of his dancers and all the things and everything.


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[Assistant] Net worth. Yeah. Oh yeah. That's a big hit.


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[Assistant] Yeah, see, and that's, that's the attitude that we're gonna have in Atlantic City on the 19th.


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[Assistant] Dude, the fact that we're going the 19th and we didn't get 420 because they have a band or something, like what band?


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[Assistant] Who's the band? Who is it? Wh- Is it Cherry Poppin' Daddies? It's gotta be, right? Who the hell is it? Squirrel Nut Zippers. No, it has to be like a white reggae. Oh, it's Cy- Cypress Hill? So, is it really- is it really- Uh, slightly stupid? It's Cypress Hill with supplies.


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[Assistant] Dude, that's like a lineup. Dude, we might stick around. Cypress Hill. Be real, be real, like we DM each other. He's like kind of the homie. Wait, be honest. Be real.


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[Assistant] Oh, nothing. He just wants to smoke. He's like, yo, homie, you ever, and let's get together. I think he wants me to do his podcast where they sit in the car and get super duper high. Got it.


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[Assistant] But I mean we've been talking, we've been DMing like, over the past like, couple years. Woah.


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[Assistant] So I, I, and I've never, I was like, I wanna do it when I'm promoting something that I should be smoking weed for. Like a, like a, if we were to do a cool movie where we're smoking weed, I would do that. You know? Right. Uhm, but, you know, I might just fuckin' do it.


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[Assistant] We will be so high that we'll be high for days. I mean for days.


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[Assistant] I don't know what you, you just said a lot of words that I don't know any of those.


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[Assistant] Yeah. This is how B from Blake hit me with the- hit me with the Souls of Mischief. Well, I'll give you- I can give you frickin'...


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[Assistant] 15 hot seconds. Yeah, please, I would love 15 hot seconds. That's- That's what he's- That's what he's asking for.


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[Assistant] Yeah, this is Dirtz, dude. Walking around with his, with his collars popped. He's wearing, he's wearing two- With my braided belt. Yeah, he's wearing khakis with a polo like tucked into it. Just listen to this on his Walkman. Here's another one here. This one's kinda


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[Assistant] Well, was 8 Mile then not your favorite movie? Where's my snare?


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[Assistant] Uhm, Groot. I met, uh, what, is she in the movie? That little mousy girl, Tara something? Is that her name?


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[Assistant] And she's in 8 Mile, right? I don't know. I don't know who you're talking about.


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[Assistant] And then Taryn Manning's kinda next to me, you know, in the L-shape bar style, and then her guy that she was with. And the guy was like saying, oh, it's a comedian. And then she's like, oh, you're a comedian. Uh, and then she goes,


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[Assistant] I can tell, and she was maining it as a compliment, she goes, yeah, I can tell you have a funny face.


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[Assistant] I don't think I was that drunk, but I was, I was like, a little taken aback by it, cause I'm like, well, I don't know if that's... Did you do this? Exactly.


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[Assistant] I go, uh. How dare you, uh? But I guess I do. You know, I kinda do. So, you know, it's fair. Yeah, you kinda do this.


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[Assistant] I think I have a little bit of a funny face, you know, kinda comedy face. It's expressive. It's expressive. Yeah, very expressive. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I think they're, they're deep dude, they're, I got some deep wrinkles.


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[Assistant] What, to do Botox? Cause it goes away, right? Yeah, I guess it does go away, but I don't know, but you see, I mean it's a needle, but you see people that do it, they look insane.


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[Assistant] I watched Good, Goodfellas the other day, and just thinking about what an R.I.P., cause he was a legend, but Ray Laota. But, go in on him. Ray Laota. Yeah, a little bit.


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[Assistant] Ray Liotta, uh, was such a fucking cool looking guy. I'm like, he looked like such a stud in that movie. Sure. Yeah, beautiful eyes, beautiful eyes. And then, I think he did too much shit to his face, is what I think happened towards the end.


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[Assistant] I think that's what is happening to my face. I think my face is starting to melt.


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[Assistant] But then if they don't have lipstick on, they just look, they like have a tattoo, basically? No, it's a Honda Ridgeline. I got one of those.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm a little offended that people think I'm like over here wearing, like I get ready for the podcast. Like I'm not wearing makeup. Funny face, yeah.


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[Assistant] I guess people thought I'm really handsome. And then, uh, and then now they're like, he has to wear makeup to maintain. Basically I'm Ray Liotta.


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[Assistant] I was saying dude, uh, you know how we always make Isaac wear, uh, show us, show us sweet pink nips? You know? Those pink pink nips? Uhm.


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[Assistant] Okay. And we have Isaac either pierce his ear, which I also think is very funny, or, hang on.


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[Assistant] We pierce his neck. Mmhm. Punk rock, getting radical. Right? Cause I think that's- Okay.


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[Assistant] And I feel like if there's enough, if we put enough pressure, he's gonna do some, like. Isaac, that's punk rock, dude. Whether, whether it's an, like, and also, I think an ear, I think Isaac with an earring, what had set it off is I had another meeting, I'm taking all these meetings because I'm about to leave for Charleston, you know, so.


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[Assistant] Uh, I had this other meeting and this executive


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[Assistant] He had a earring. And he was a boss. He was like the boss. And he's like a cool guy.


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[Assistant] A hoop earring. And I'm like, you don't see that. And he had to be, he's, you know, he's in his fifties. And I'm like, was it Dion Sanders?


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[Assistant] I feel like Isaac would wield more power. Cause this guy was a power player. He can buy in the room, you know? He was a big time executive. He's Bruno Mars. High up.


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[Assistant] Uh, at a, at a studio, he can buy in the room. You know, you have an idea, he's signing checks.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah. That's hard. That's a good feeling. You immediately go get a hoop earring. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Diane, come on in here. I think that's a really good idea. Claire, Claire's, I think that's a fun thing to do and also a thing that Isaac will not want to do, but with peer pressure,


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[Assistant] Prime. Oh yeaah. They're ready. Todd, he could also get multiple earrings. He could get like a dangly earring. You know, like Todd. Dude, he could do a lot of things. He's in bands, it's cool. Also, but, but just circle back to Isaac, cause Todd would want to do it. You know, I don't know if he would want to, but he would, he'd be down.


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[Assistant] Oh my god. Are we guaranteeing it? Cause he might not, but I do think with enough pressure. I think we can get it done. I think we can guarantee an ear. The nipple, I'm not sure. His wife might leave him.


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[Assistant] Okay. That's pretty cool. A gallery. BYOP.


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[Assistant] That's kinda cool. Yeah, I'm not mad at it.


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[Assistant] So we're kind of, we're ditching the Botox, the onstage Botox. No, we're doing that too! I don't know if we're doing-


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[Assistant] I'm very, I'm very wrinkly and I should be the one to do it, uh, but I just don't want to, I actively don't want to


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[Assistant] I don't, I don't think you will. But it goes away, it would be a bit. Yeaah, I don't think you will. It's like, remember when, like- But it goes away after months and I'm about to start shooting and I don't want to start shooting and be like-


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[Assistant] Okay, well then, hey, then I'm, yeah, Blake really, yeah, Blake does it, yeah, yeah, yeah, Blake does it for sure.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's where I want it done. Dude, it's fine. Anyone can jab you and put shit in your face. It's easy, baby.


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[Assistant] Todd scouted it and there is still a rainforest cafe there, so.


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[Assistant] I will say, I am, like, if we don't go to rainforest, I know, I know we're in and out, and there's not a lot of time, right? We're really in and out.


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[Assistant] Here we go. I, I remember when I first moved to California, I was like 18, I was 18 years old, and we went to one. I, I, I can't remember where.


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[Assistant] And I was fucking blown away. I was like, this has to be, this is such a production. This is like, Oh, it's, it's mind blowing. You know, showbiz pizza or Chuck E. Cheese as an adult.


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[Assistant] Uh, it was, it was sick. Yeah, they got all kinds of good stuff. They take you around the world. Dude, the website is sparse. It's complicated.


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[Assistant] Okay, I've got it. I've got it pulled up. This is... Oh, they got, they got chicken quesadillas, dude. They got beef lava nachos. Get em'. They got Amazon, Amazon bruschetta. Ders, here you are. Korean fried chicken lettuce wraps. Now we're talking.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think it's still there, uh, but also, uh-huh.


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[Assistant] No, everywhere you'd go is like, you want bruschetta? It's like, nah. Adam, do you even know what fell out means? But the Amazon, is it where you would get bruschetta? Like, that's, it's very-


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[Assistant] Is that like Jamaican Jerk lasagna? They got anaconda pasta. Get em. Pasta yeaah. Dude, I'm ready. I already have diarrhea. I'm not mad at you.


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[Assistant] Just reading this menu I already have. I'm not mad. I'm not mad at it. I think that'd be worth the trip. And also, what is the amusement park that's right there? I guess it's like Steel Park or whatever.


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[Assistant] Todd was saying that it is like legendary amusement park, the Steel Pier, and it's a legendary amusement park. I feel like we have to go there, win a giant, win with Be Real.


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[Assistant] Together, with our powers together, we're the biggest stuffed animal and have that sit where Kyle should be sitting and then...


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[Assistant] And he will add exactly what Kyle added to the live shows. Absolutely nothing.


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[Assistant] Which, dude, I love. I love drama, dude. Kevin Dillon. Kevin Dillon. Okay, I love that.


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[Assistant] Uh, that the parade was happening, so, you know, couldn't pull it off, but man, how fun was that weekend, god damn.


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[Assistant] Uh, no, I think it's a once in a lifetime sort of, sort of thing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but you don't love, I have a deep appreciation and love of New Orleans, but you don't love New Orleans in that way. I think you've only been a couple times, it's not really for you.


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[Assistant] It is, it is a fun place because everyone thinks every, like, person


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[Assistant] Thinks, like, people, kids go there, like, with rich families, and go there to be like, fuck you mom and dad, I'm homeless now. And then they just play a fucking...


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[Assistant] You know, they just tap dance and like play a bucket.


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[Assistant] And, and they think they're talented, but they suck. You know?


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[Assistant] Uh, it's, it's, it's a lot of that. And then there's obviously super great musicians and really, really talented people just around the corner. But then you walk past some guy being like, scooby-dee-bop-a-doo-booby-dee-bee-dee-bop-a-doo-booby-dee. And you're like, yeah, that's, I could do that. I also can do that.


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[Assistant] And also, uh, we did it the best way you can do it. We went to the best restaurants, we had the best service. Right, you're getting carted around. Yea, we, we like all wore tuxedos and had like a big ball, which was really fun. Usually when you're in New Orleans. Right.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, we murdered a ton. Yeaah, now we have suits. Yeaah, dude, just straight to the head.


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[Assistant] I never, I never said anything like that.


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[Assistant] This is, this is my, uh, my diddy, uh, allegations. They're gonna come out. Yeah. This is it. Diddy? Yes, he did.


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[Assistant] I don't really know what it's about yet. I don't think anyone really knows what it's about yet, but, uh,


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[Assistant] The big- the big takeaway was... Not at this time. Maybe by the time this airs, they might. Not at this- at this juncture. They might. We might know. But right as of this airing... We might regret this. We might not have any clue as to what he did. The big takeaway for me was how fucking gigantic his house was.


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[Assistant] When they're doing like the helicopter, like they're around his house and they see the, the, uh, you know, the agent storming his home, I'm like,


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[Assistant] That's a huge bitch. It was. Yes. Uh, his house is absolutely absurd. Like imagine you forget your keys. Oh, that's a problem. And you've just walked through the other side, like you're all the way to the other side and you have to walk like four acres to get back to, and you're just in the middle of the city.


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[Assistant] I told you guys about the time that he, that I was working out, and his son, when I was working out at that gym, Unbreakable, and his son was in there, and his son's kinda yoked. He was lifting, dude.


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[Assistant] And he's not wearing a shirt, but he's wearing a full length chinchilla coat. Like a mink coat or whatever, or like a fur coat. Oh my goodness.


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[Assistant] Who wears that? Same with- If you wear chinchilla, you are sex trafficking at least a little bit. You're dabbling. You're dressed as a villain that you like have to defeat at the end of the movie and he's in his giant home. This dude is dressed like two fakes.


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[Assistant] No, I mean, I don't, I don't know what it is exactly, cause when I think of it, I think of like,


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[Assistant] Women in cages and super sad, but could it also be... It can actually be a good life.


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[Assistant] He like has buses of like hookers and just brings them in.


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[Assistant] To perform the act is under 18 years of age.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's a lot of bad stuff. Some words, I don't really know what they mean. A few of those words.


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[Assistant] I've said, I said it a few, you're like, here's my patron. Yeah, I enjoy him. Yeah. I think that's what it means in this term.


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[Assistant] I've said it a few times and as I'm saying it, I'm like, I don't really know.


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[Assistant] What I'm saying right now. Provision? Harboring? Harboring. Is that on water? So harboring is like, you have a hotel room? Oh, see I see the word harbor, I think. Boats. Boats, yea. You think you're harboring in a... Yea, like maybe there's some kind of ship involved.


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[Assistant] Right. This is actually really important. That's crazy. Yeah, so I feel like if, if this is what it is, like transportation is, is one of the main things. Harboring, putting them like in a hotel, transportation, provision. Is that like feeding it? What is provision? Sounds like a lot of work, dude. I'm not into this.


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[Assistant] You're going to jail now. You're going to prison. You might be a sex trafficker. Isn't that what provisions are? Like food? That's what I thought. Provision is like feeding them. Uh, yeaah, some of these things I feel like are good things. I won't say like provision and like harboring and provision and transportation.


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[Assistant] Okay, provision is the act of providing or supplying something for use.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so that could be, it could be something, it could be like, hey, here's the butt plug, you gotta, you have to wear it, or whatever, you know, it could be. Oh, right, right.


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[Assistant] Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure. It doesn't, it's not like here's the buffet.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it turns out like every movie from the 80s, uh, they were all sex traffickers. Is sex traffickers, yeah. In Decent Proposal.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're playing basketball. When boys get older, they like to hang out with pretty girls, and there's a bunch of girls around, and then it's too late. I already said it. Okay, yeah. Alright, you went right there. I might pause that for like, at least three or four years. Yeah, just think about it. At least three or four years, yeah. No.


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[Assistant] And then the crazy part is, is like he's obviously gonna go to jail, right? Cause he fled the country. Did he?


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[Assistant] Some Caribbean island that doesn't, uh, you know, what do they call that when you send export or extradite? Extradite, yea.


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[Assistant] Ooh, I got that right. Uh, I mean that's, that's wild. I feel like, uh...


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[Assistant] I-I mean, it seems like he just up and dipped, because it was the day, he was flying the day that...


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[Assistant] Uh, that he, that the police or whoever raided his house, his homes.


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[Assistant] And so the rumor, according to Anna, said that he was tipped off.


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[Assistant] And homeland, homeland security. Homeland security? This is what they do now? They're like off of terrorists?


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[Assistant] It's just, it's just assumption. Yeah, it says, it says the man who's gonna get his nipples pierced. Yeah, Isaac is gonna get them nips pierced. By the time we're in Atlantic City, we'll have


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[Assistant] Coursing him. Sex trafficking, yea. Cause I guess nipples are like a sexual thing, you know? So.


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[Assistant] It can be. For me, it's just a way a mother and not a father, I learned out, I learned that- Very quickly. Fathers cannot, cannot feed their children milk. Uh, that's another thing. And it's not sexual.


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[Assistant] So his plane was, the aircraft is on the ground in Antigua.


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[Assistant] Just a name, dude. Antigua. That sounds like a fuckin' sick island. Just listen to it. Yeah, Antigua.


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[Assistant] You look in there. I never got a free trip to Antigua. I get like a blanket. I get like a blanket and some coasters and shit.


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[Assistant] And I wish that I knew more, but I'm a fucking idiot, and I don't know, and I'm learning. Okay? I'm learning. And that's, that's...


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[Assistant] Well, that is crazy. I mean, I mean, I would have thought that there was like hundreds of Rainforest Cafes, but there was only ever 45. So, we're saying- Yeah, that seems good to me. Huh. We're saying, Rainforest Cafes, like everyone knows what Rainforest Cafes is. I feel like if you- 45, you could have missed Rainforest.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, so please, please, CII Nation, donate to the Rainforest Cafe. Cause we get so much from the Rainforest Cafe. Food.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I could do it for you. Oh, dude, I'm telling you, I have a guy, he is great, he really helped me. It was wild. It just was off-putting, at first, to have a man's fingers so close to my asshole. Sure. And I'm guessing they're beefy digits. They're big digits, yeah. He's a big man. Yeah. Does he trim his fingers?


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[Assistant] No, I didn't say that. It's science. I would love, I would love if you guys would come down here and, uh, I'd love if you guys would- Watch you get the procedure done? No, come and get, get your, uh, taint plucked. Just like me.


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[Assistant] Dude, dude, I was, I was, in fact, in fact, I paid for it. So yeah, it's not trafficking if you're the one who pays for it.


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[Assistant] Isaac may or may not, and we definitely hope may, you'll have to see, get his nipples and or very cool earring pierced.


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[Assistant] You don't have to watch. You don't have to watch.


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[Assistant] Yeah, just give em your info. Just, just sign up, just subscribe.


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[Assistant] Subscribe to the This Is Important YouTube. And, and we, I want a goddamn plaque on this wall, TI. I'm a little disappointed in the nation. Come on. We want a plaque, please. Come on. Come on now. Come on now. Come on now, and that was another episode of...


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[Assistant] Took away sickness, cancer, you name it.


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[Assistant] When you drink Zoa energy drinks, it gives you big Dwayne energy, the swag, the confidence, and energy to help you con-


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[Assistant] From Green Tea and Green Coffee, available on Amazon and at a store near you, like 7-Eleven, Costco and more. For more info, go to zoaenergy.com. That's Z-O-A, energy.com.


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[Assistant] Not fucking all the prisoners. So I'm a soft, pudgy, fat, ugly piece of shit right now.


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[Assistant] Whoa, so much. So much to chit chat. I don't know.


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[Assistant] Fuck up a zoa? No, never. I can never slam a zoa.


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[Assistant] Dude, that's the thing about Zoa is you can't slam them too fast unless there's some sort of legal thing saying that you can, in which case...


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[Assistant] We uh, we're starting the podcast now.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I had, uh, tonsil, I had my tonsils taken out. Oh, I got it.


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[Assistant] Cause you used to get like, I used to get, uh, tonsillitis or whatever? No, what is it, strep throat all the time. Yeah. Oh, sick. That's what- Yeah.


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[Assistant] And that was, and that was gross. And that was gross, but it's- They're called tonsil stones. They're called tonsil stones.


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[Assistant] Alright, and producers for this YouTube, uh, for the YouTube, uh, bit, please show a little video of what the fuck Blake is talking about. No, don't, oooh. No, please do. I don't know what you're saying.


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[Assistant] And you always have mints. I noticed that you always have a mint. You're always chewing a gum. I chew gum. Maybe, uh...


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[Assistant] Maybe you have these often and you're trying to conceal, is that what's happening?


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[Assistant] Okay, so there's sho- uh, Todd just sent a video of these stones. My god, dude, I'm gonna- Yeah, I told you. Fucking VOM, bro. I told you, it looks like maggots coming out of the back of your mouth. Oh, it really does. It's disgusting. And you've had this.


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[Assistant] I was, I was all up in your business, on your 40th, giving you hugs, giving you little noogies, you know.


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[Assistant] Explain, explain to us, uh, the, the throwdown, uhm, because it was at this sick bar. Are we saying the name of the bar?


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[Assistant] We're blowing up the spot of the bar. I mean, you tagged it on Instagram.


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[Assistant] I remember going to that bar back in the day when it was in Van Nuys, and we thought it was like from the movie Carlitos Way.


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[Assistant] I was like, yea, it's Carlitos Way. I wonder if they filmed it here or something. I have no idea.


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[Assistant] And then it's just a guy named Carlito. Yep. Just a guy named Carlito.


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[Assistant] Regular dude came up and was like, hey, this is my, this is my way. My name is Carlito. I was blown away.


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[Assistant] And then there was like a sick, uh, taco spot in the parking lot. Cactus tacos. Hello. That we really fucked up. Uh, that was great.


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[Assistant] No, I go- I go again- I went- I went street taco. Yeah, how was it? Really good, dude. And by the way-


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[Assistant] It's a stank. It's got a stank on him. Does it? Oh yeaah. Because I, uh, I was, the taco sort of disintegrated, you know, how they do sometimes with the tortilla.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know what happened. I think it was an extra juicy batch and it just disintegrated and so I was like eating it with my fingers and my fingers reeked of


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[Assistant] Of carne asada for two days, dude. You like it. And I would get, I would just kept giving little whiffs of carne asada and I'm like, ooh, that's a spicy dude. Yeah. I love, I love my baby do a little suckle on the finger just to get a hit of the good stuff, dude. Wait a minute. Just to get a hit of the good stuff. Start spreading the news.


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[Assistant] Oh yeah, that, I just, I guess I dropped a little news there on him. I didn't even mean to. Yeah, wait a minute, hold on. Uh-oh. Yeah, uh-oh, cats out there.


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[Assistant] Bo has arrived, baby! Wooo! And, dude, my favorite part is, uh, asking everybody, uh, you know, and I think I said this on a previous podcast of things that to make fun of him for with his name, Bo. Boner, dude. Yeah, the little Boner is here, so. Wow, dude! Are we allowed to? He's fuckin' cool.


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[Assistant] And, uh, and if you don't have, like if he'll get real saucy, if you're holding him and you don't have a titty to suck on,


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[Assistant] I mean, my god, dude. I mean, as far as babies go, he's, uh, really dope. He's really, really cool.


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[Assistant] Uh, my favorite ever. So I've held about, I want to say maybe five babies, and out of those five babies,


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[Assistant] She's like, dude. She's like, quit. We haven't even posted, we didn't even post about it.


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[Assistant] What happens is when you have a child, you no longer give a shit about posting on the internet. It like, I stopped caring about...


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[Assistant] That's gonna come back and then I'll finally get my TikTok off the fucking ground.


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[Assistant] I wanna go to your page to see what diapers to buy.


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[Assistant] I, yeaah, I don't know if that was before or like the first time I said my parent's cycle is, uh,


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[Assistant] Is Chloe and Bo here, or where are they in the house? And I go, Chloe and Bo are on the couch, and then I was like-


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, I mean, what sucks is like, you know, I have to go, I have to leave the house and go do stuff, you know, throughout the day. That sucks. It does suck. And, uh, and then I come home and Chloe's just spent like a good like five, six hours with the baby, just sucking on her beautiful tits.


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[Assistant] Yeah, welcome to fatherhood. And then I could, I can immediately tell like,


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[Assistant] He doesn't fuck with me anymore. Like it'll take like a few hours of me rocking him and putting him on my knees like I do and doing little jiggles and wiggles and then he'll come back around and be like, alright, okay, this guy's not too bad.


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[Assistant] You look like you're doing great.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's going great. Super easy. Uh, uhm, you know, super easy.


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[Assistant] I don't get it, I don't get why anyone complains about it cause it's a piece of freaking cake. Until it is.


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[Assistant] It's not. It seems like a- I've watched Mike Rowe, and uh, The Hardest Job. Those are, well those aren't hard jobs, those are dirty. Specifically dirty. But they're also very hard. Some of them. Have you seen somebody- Some of them.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, but the way, the way people like hype, they try to scare you off, like, when Chloe's like,


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[Assistant] Nine months pregnant and we're gonna be due any day. People like try to scare you off of having the child. They're like, yeah, they're like, dude, do you think you could? Oh my God, get, get ready. Oh, you think you think, you know, you have no idea. And you're like,


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[Assistant] Well, because, because in your, you know, in your regular life, you're not the sexiest guy, you're not. Sure, sure, sure, sure. A hot piece of ass just walking down the street, but if you're a prison warden, you know. Yeah.


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[Assistant] That's right. Well dude, all I know is the, the girl that I used to work with at the service deli, and when I worked for the pavilion supermarket, uh, and I worked in the service deli.


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[Assistant] The girl who worked with me, she had an enormous ass.


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[Assistant] She then left, and last I checked, she's a warden of a prison, and I'm not making this up. I swear to god. Her mom, or her mom or her dad, I can't remember, was a, was like the warden, and then she followed in his or her footsteps and then became the warden. An enormous ass, dude. Okay. So.


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[Assistant] It might be that, and then Parenthood. Like that, being a warden, because you're fucking all the prisoners, and then Parenthood. And maybe a few others before that, but Parenthood may be the top two. Yeah, the windmill cleaner, which is really tough.


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[Assistant] I'm loving it, baby. It feels good. Yeah, so, uh, parenthood is, uh, so far pretty easy. Yeah.


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[Assistant] At this stage, the child is just kind of like a worm, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just, you gotta feed him all the time.


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[Assistant] By, like, if you gained two pounds and you came out, you were only like seven pounds, six pounds, and then you gained two, three pounds, that's half your fucking body weight! Yeah, it's crazy, right? That's huge, dude! Yeah.


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[Assistant] I mean it's wild, you look at photos from day one and then now we're two weeks into it and you're like, this is a different, who swapped out the babies and gave us this beefy little boy? You know what's a trip?


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[Assistant] Right. Aliens. So wait, so when I showed you guys the photos of my baby and you guys were like, wow, what a little cutie, hey, little handsome guy. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Just saying. You were lying. I think mine was an auto reply that I had.


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[Assistant] It looks like you now at 40. It looks like you now.


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[Assistant] Would be so much nicer to each other. I feel like we would just really be. Oh yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's what I think. I think, I think it'd be like, oh wow, yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's exactly what it would be. Yes. Well, it's very cool for you to come out now that you're out. And we're, and we're talking, and we're talking about Blake now, right?


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[Assistant] Dude, and what's cool is you can't deny it because then you're super homophobic and that's what you can't be, dude.


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[Assistant] I feel like, I promise you that shirt exists. I don't even understand the shirt. Explain the shirt. Like, buy, B-U-Y. B-U-Y. Oh, buy. Okay. Buy. Bisexual. I purchase. Yep.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know why. I'm gonna Google it. You were saying B-U-Y and in my head it was B-Y-E. Like, goodbye.


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[Assistant] Well, that's cause I'm a fucking idiot.


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[Assistant] I'm too bi- I'm bisexual. You buy me a beer, I get sexual.


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[Assistant] Dude, that's a weird one, cause you see those videos every once in a while, like the one way to get, get your girl, you know, I don't know, whatever, like get her going, and then it's just like him like bringing her eggs in bed or whatever, and I'm like, nothing,


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[Assistant] I don't, I, food does not get me horny even a little bit.


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[Assistant] Like, you know what I mean? If my girl gave me a pizza, I wouldn't be like, the time is now.


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[Assistant] Here's your fud sickle, baby. Let me give you that fud sickle.


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[Assistant] My dad had like that hat or something or he had something that said that. Yeah. It's not a bald spot, it's a solar panel for a sex machine.


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[Assistant] That shit's kinda hard. I get- I mean, I guess. Yeah. I guess.


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[Assistant] I feel like that's still around. I feel like if you also. But that's not like. I feel like people. Sexual. It was like everything was an aphrodisiac and you, if you, it was like oysters and strawberries and cool water cologne and if, and if you, those three. You're just describing your


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[Assistant] They're delicious. Yeah, they're okay. There's nothing wrong with them. You're the one defending them. I'm not ordering them. I'm not being like, we gotta get the chocolate covered strawberries. Mmm, I like them.


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[Assistant] Sure, those are delicious, but I would say that's way not sexy. That's not sexy at all.


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[Assistant] Are they, I mean, they're still around, but are they as still, I remember in the Omaha mall? Woooo boy!


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[Assistant] Well, then you're not getting any apple. Then by the time you get to the apple, you've already had, you know, 18,000 calories of chocolate nuts and berries and marshmallows. And then you get to an apple and you're like, this tastes fucking disgusting.


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[Assistant] And you go peanuts, not almonds? Not like chopped up almonds? It's peanuts. It is peanuts.


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[Assistant] I'll take almonds, I'll do almonds. That sounds not as good to me.


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[Assistant] Is that what you think? Yeah, almonds are just like. Let's see, what I want to do is caramel and then dip it in whey protein powder. Would you? Vanilla whey protein powder.


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[Assistant] Damn. My doctor told me that I do have to, I have to slow, slow way down on, uh, my pre-workout.


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[Assistant] I gotta drink, uh, my natural energy drink, ZOA. ZOA, right. I'm not gonna stop that. He's like, actually, that's better, that's good for you. Keep that up. I'm not gonna stop that.


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[Assistant] And I can, I can have some coffee. I just can't have the normal six to eight cups of coffee that I would have every day. And as well as energy drinks, as well as the pre-workout. So.


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[Assistant] No, they do think that part of the fasciculations that I'm having, which are a term for like the spasms, uh,


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[Assistant] I've since, for like the last like three weeks, cut out caffeine. Like I have three things of caffeine, usually two cups of coffee and like a soda in the afternoon or whatever.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but isn't it, uh, wasn't it like kinda dope and like you guys looked at me like, is he?


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[Assistant] Like a superhero, the amount of caffeine he drinks, and like, how much energy he possesses. Uh, wasn't that like, kind of inspiring? Cause I was doing it to inspire you guys. Yeaah, no, I feel- I was doing it to inspire you. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Would Zoa come, would Zoa come a-knockin'? I dunno.


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[Assistant] Well essentially I'm so fucked up right now that I haven't worked out in like two months. So I have not worked out in two months. I'm a soft, pudgy, fat, ugly piece of shit right now.


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[Assistant] Work out. Right. Uh, and I am doing like two cups of coffee and then like a soda or some shit.


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[Assistant] And that's about it, and that's it. Good, good, good. Keep that up.


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[Assistant] What, what are, you're miming something? I can't see. It looks like a Z in a circle. Z-O-A. Zoa.


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[Assistant] And we're back, I'm glad you're drinking ZOA. Well, you know if I am gonna reach for an energy drink, it's gonna be an energy drink with clean ingredients and, uh, green coffee beans, green coffee, uh huh, whatever, um, ZOA energy. Anything by the rock. Yeah, green caffeine.


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[Assistant] It's that big D energy. Big Dwayne energy. Big D energy, that is right. If I am gonna reach for an energy drink, and in fact I do miss


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[Assistant] I do miss an afternoon go go. That's one thing that I, I like an afternoon. Pick me up.


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[Assistant] Not on tour. It's okay, I'm just chilling with the baby and he doesn't, in fact, if I was up and moving too much,


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[Assistant] He'd be a little bummed at that. He'd be like, yo, sit your ass down, dude. Sit the fuck down, old man.


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[Assistant] Sit down and watch Rocky Balboa again. You know, I've been watching a lot of movies that, uh, that I was like, does this deserve a rewatch? And then I watch it and I'm like, it didn't. That's, that's where I'm at. Uh. What's an example? Rocky Balboa. Rocky Balboa. Yeah, I just watched that the other day. I was like, I sat up late with the, it was like,


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[Assistant] Drunk as fuck at Blake's birthday party. Fucking party in my face off.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's, it's A-okay. I'm sure it'll be different once he's like running around kicking shit. That's gonna be a much different vibe. Oh, much different.


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[Assistant] Yeah, let's play Quietly Watch Rocky Balboa.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I laid up and just watched Rocky Balboa on my phone. He enjoyed the sounds of the grunts. On the phone? On the phone? That is gangster. Yeah, I watch everything on my phone. Do you like balance the phone across as well?


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, you just, you just stick it in there, yeah. That's cool.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we, he's in like the, the spare, the spare room with the, uh, uh, the spare room with, we have, Kyle got it for me because I got him one when he had a kid. What is the name of that? The snoo. Oh dude. Oh yeah, yeah.


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[Assistant] I know, Kyle was saying that, the snoo head, but I mean, you're just, just at night time. Do you keep him in this thing all day?


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[Assistant] Wait, so you can't leave him just overnight? I mean, I mean obviously we're getting him every couple hours to feed him again and to burp him and to do all that stuff.


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[Assistant] Dude, I cannot wait until to take him. This is your father, the, the baucus. Dude, to take him. You know, he's born, he's born in February. He's a little Mardi Gras baby, little bull of God.


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[Assistant] I know. Take him to New Orleans. Whoo! Take him to Commander's Palace. Was the city of New Orleans hitting you up? Like, where are you, Bacchus? Where are you at? Yeah, I was getting some of that. It was... Were they summoning the king?


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[Assistant] No, no it's not, but like, a lot of people do go back and like, they want to see the previous kings there as well to support.


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[Assistant] Yeah. And, uh, do you remember when Nick Cage was at the restaurant with us? He was at Commander's Palace and they were like, Nick Cage is gonna come up and say hello from one, uh, past king to another. And then I'm like, huh, cool, Nick Cage, that'll be fucking awesome. And then like 15 minutes later, they're like, he doesn't want to.


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[Assistant] He had to take a piss. He chose to eat his entire meal and not do the one thing that we wanted him to do, but that's fine.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah. Yeaah, Anthony Mackie. He's the shit. He's a great baucus. Yep. Yes, he's an ambassador. I'm excited for him to, and you know, Chloe's family, she saw his family, her mom still lives in, uh, Louisiana, so.


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[Assistant] I feel like he's gonna really get the New Orleans experience from a very young age, man. That'll be cool. Gonna do all the little, there's like little kid parades where like it's only tiny children.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, you, you just love getting your cute, your cute on. Oh.


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[Assistant] Wait, at what age do we Halloween? There's a question I had yesterday.


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[Assistant] Okay. Do you Halloween? He's not gonna even be one years old. Right. Do you Halloween pre-one?


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[Assistant] I got Grogu on deck. Yeah. Dude, I, where I live, all my neighbors are legitimately 96 years old. So...


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[Assistant] Well for sure, I mean I want to, but I'm like, is this, is this weird?


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[Assistant] But you are, and I like that about you. You know, you throw us curveballs. Your personality throws us curveballs, and I like that. We like that about you.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you can't throw. You're not a very good baseball player, correct? Is that? I'm basketball. Yeah.


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[Assistant] He's not bad. I mean, he's not great at basketball, but you're not. You should be better. You're tall. You should be better. Well, yeah, for sure. For your size, you should be pretty dominant. You should definitely be better than us, but yeah.


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[Assistant] Well that's why Dyrus thinks he can beat you now. Is because he is cardiovascular. Yeaah, but still.


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[Assistant] I would put my money on, on Blake. Thank you, thank you Adam. Thank you. Only because he actively used to play a lot of basketball.


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[Assistant] I like that. Hey, I like it. And on the next live show, we're bringing out two hoops, and you guys are gonna battle... Battle Royale. I was gonna say to the death.


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[Assistant] That was, that was a nice lunchtime.


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[Assistant] It's a good game to play when you're at lunch and you just ate a big lunch and then you quickly go out and it's 115 degrees in the deep.


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[Assistant] In a total cement parking lot. A black asphalt. Yea, just asphalt and, uh,


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[Assistant] Yeah, and everyone is just sopping wet to come back in the room and work for another four hours. Perfect game. Yeah. Perfect game to do that.


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[Assistant] Oh yea, you know Kyle knows about double entendres, you know he does. Come on, come on man, that's why it's called Knockout.


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[Assistant] Yeah, those people, they're bitches. Those people are bitches. We don't fuck with them. And then you know what?


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[Assistant] I think- Yea, you don't play- you don't play with them. You just make the shot and they're- you knock them out. Yea, you just- you tap it out, you know? Of course. You want them to go do a little jog, but, you know, you don't kick it to-


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[Assistant] I mean, I don't know, and I'm sincerely asking this, is it green? You're just a 40 year old dad wondering how


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[Assistant] Because you said, okay, you said I'm in agreeance and I was like, oh, that's a word now.


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[Assistant] Well no, I'm saying ugrance. I think it's ugrance.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't think agreeance is a- Is egregious a word? Egregious is a word. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Can you spell- could- could either- could either of you spell agregious? Agreeance is a rare noun.


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[Assistant] Okay. An actor's state of a green. Agreeance. Okay, cool.


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[Assistant] Hey Blake, see? Yea, I love that. I know, I know my shit.


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[Assistant] Uh, so Ders, are you, as far as real sports, not swimming, uh, I'm talking, uh,


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[Assistant] Like American, popular American sports, baseball, basketball. Batman. Are you good at any of those?


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[Assistant] I'm not, I can't throw, I mean I could throw a football. No one would be like, that man cannot throw a football. But I'm never, I'm never proud.


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[Assistant] When I throw a football, no one's ever like, woah, fucking tight. Look at that tight spiral.


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[Assistant] Made a lot of sense to be your standard, yes. Yes, absolutely.


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[Assistant] Nah, I thought he didn't play for the Dolphins and then got like, cut.


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[Assistant] Bill, Gil, Bill. Yeah, now we're givin' it to him. Super Jack.


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[Assistant] Dude, I did that commercial, the Amazon commercial and the Amazon NFL commercial with Ryan Fitzpatrick, ex-quarterback for like 15 years and the bit was just, he's pelting me with footballs and I was like, okay, so


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[Assistant] How are we going to do this? And they're like, he's just going to throw footballs at you. And I'm like, great.


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[Assistant] They're like, and then you get hit, and so it's just me just eating shit on pavement. For like, just like 25 pastas in a row. And the bit is like-


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[Assistant] I was battin' him away like a fuckin' ninja. If I, uh, like I coulda like broke my fuckin' face. Or my hand. Right. Essentially. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he was like, I'm, I'm like, are you taking some off? He's like, absolutely. I'm 15 feet away from you. I'm taking a lot off. I'm like, my God.


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[Assistant] It's not like a world record, it's a record for the com now.


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[Assistant] Cool, it's just watching dudes like- Yea, it's very cool. Yea, like- You know what we should do? We should do Old Man Combine. And we get every- Dadbine. Yea, the Dadbine. I love that. And we just have to see how fast we can run with our babies strapped to us.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and like the weird training that no one really does unless they're like an athlete where they're just like jumping and


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[Assistant] Twitching. The fast twitch muscles. Fast twitching.


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[Assistant] I'm, I'm under. I'm like 197. That is incredible. Yeaah. I'm such a fat fucking piece of shit. I'm 205 pounds. 187. My god.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's just called frostbite. Just frostbite your sides. Yeah, they frostbite your nutsack off. That's where I hold all my weight. Agreance. Yeah, just, just try.


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[Assistant] Uh, cryolipolysis is what it's called when you freeze off your fat. Cryolipolysis. How would you fucking say that?


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[Assistant] Cryo- I mean I see lipo in there. Cryo-lipo-liposis. Cryo-liposis. Cryo-liposis. That is, that is- Cryo-lipolysis. Cryo-lipolysis.


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[Assistant] Sure. Hey, whatever. And, and I'm down to do it. I'm down to do it. Yeah, absolutely. Just to see. Any take backs? Any apologies? What's going on?


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[Assistant] How do we not have a plaque? We need- How do- We don't have enough plaques.


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[Assistant] Yeah, just- Wait, tell your parents? Everyone that listens is under- Yeah, your parents? Tell your aunt- Your grandpa? Your naked grandma?


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[Assistant] By the way, my neighbor, one of my neighbors who's like, I don't know, he's probably like 70 or something, in his 60s or 70s. He said he does not seem like the type of guy that would watch or listen to our episodes. He was like, hey, I uh, actually uh, would listen to some of your podcasts the other day. And he was like, got me gigglin'.


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[Assistant] Well, tell that guy to subscribe to the YouTube, okay? Yeah, I'll tell him, yeah. When I see him out, uh, by the trash cans. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Alright, uh, thank you guys for tuning in to the Really Good Podcast. My name is Bobbi Althoff and today I have Funny Marco. Uh, is that, is that your real name?


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[Assistant] Yeah. Should I not believe you? Oh do- oh my god. Did you get that when you found out you were coming here? It's a tribute to me.


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[Assistant] I don't really watch scary movies, what happens to white people.


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[Assistant] Oh. I don't really think we should talk about race.


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[Assistant] You just made it that a little bit. If you see the white people in my comments, they're gonna come for me if you keep this conversation is getting a little tricky.


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[Assistant] I agree. I couldn't agree more with you. I think that the zoo is a horrible place. Do you believe in Sea World?


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[Assistant] I believe in a Creeks. Do you hear my daughter crying in the background?


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[Assistant] I am sorry that I wasted your time today.


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[Assistant] And I sent him a message. And I said, well it's kind of embarrassing not to tell you.


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[Assistant] Yes? Do you support your cousin?


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[Assistant] Give him, give him more. So he stops taking other people's and he just takes yours.


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[Assistant] I've said that's never happened here before. You're not in the hood. So tell me how much is in your bank account.


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[Assistant] I will spend that 500 before I ever trap you.


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[Assistant] That's a question for people outside of the US, not for me.


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[Assistant] I know, I just said, I think Snoop Dogg, I answered your question. Thank you. Uhm, my dad did work on Snoop Dogg's house.


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[Assistant] I'm not gonna call him. Text him.


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[Assistant] Okay, I'm just- I don't- All I know is that my dad has his doors.


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[Assistant] Why are we arguing on how poor I was? I wasn't like-


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[Assistant] Because he was working on a house next door to Snoop Dogg and then Snoop Dogg asked my dad.


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[Assistant] I'll start just asking you guys all questions. Be weird.


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[Assistant] Hola, cómo estás? Yo estás muy bien, ¿y tú?


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[Assistant] And then I added that to my story, I didn't think you'd reply, and you replied.


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[Assistant] So I sent it to her and then you called me that weekend and you said I'm going to fly down here this weekend. And then you just stopped replying to me.


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[Assistant] Cause it's not typical to have teeth that white. That's unusually white. Do you get them whiteened?


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[Assistant] Better not be yes after all of this you've just said. Do you whiten your teeth? Do you whiten your teeth? Do you whiten your teeth? Why are you not answering me?


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[Assistant] Okay, uhm, let me just keep messaging him because I gave the scroll $300 and I don't have a lot of money, so I need to give him a present.


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[Assistant] And I hope that this episode brings me back the amount of money I invested into it.


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[Assistant] Welcome back to HBO's official Band of Brothers podcast. This is Roger Bennett. I say flash, you say thunder. Episode 9, Why We Fight.


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[Assistant] An installment that contains not a single shot of gunfire, yet is viewed by many.


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[Assistant] To be the single most powerful episode of the entire series. Tom Hanks called Why We Fight a tone poem, and it consists of two interlocking halves, storylines that at first seem jarringly different, only to connect them in the final scenes with an awesome gut-wrenching tremor. The war is winding down.


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[Assistant] Easy company have entered Germany. We discover them first at rest, overlooking a broken city, Tarlum, in ruins, piles of rubble, being slowly picked over by weary aged German civilians.


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[Assistant] A relative respite for a unit that has endured the horrors of Normandy, Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge.


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[Assistant] All of this sudden downtime has given Easy Company time to think.


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[Assistant] Too much time to think, perhaps, and ponder, why is it that they've done what they've done? Given of themselves, sacrificed, lost their friends in the process, and they're asking themselves, in the delicate words of Private First Class Webster, to a column of surrendered German soldiers,


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[Assistant] This episode delivers a sobering answer then, as Easy Company rolls into Landsberg, which sets up a devastating climax. The final 20 minutes are essentially a mini movie, as on patrol, the men walk to a forest on the edge of town, and in silence, they see smoke.


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[Assistant] Winters and Nixon drive out to meet the men and encounter what we now know as Kalfa Ring IV, a labor camp, part of the Dachau complex, filled with the surviving, emaciated and still imprisoned Jews, Poles and Gypsies behind its lock gates.


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[Assistant] In scenes shot with handheld cameras, which reinforce the sense of shock and reality, we see what the men see.


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[Assistant] Broken bodies, barely holding onto a flicker of life and humanity.


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[Assistant] Corpse-like characters who swarm a bewildered and for a moment defeated Winters.


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[Assistant] Why We Fight remains one of the most harrowing pieces of television I've ever encountered.


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[Assistant] An intensely powerful experience for viewers, no matter whether it's their first time or their fiftieth time watching this penultimate episode of Band of Brothers. An episode that concludes in the way it began. With the men once again amidst the rubble of that broken German town. Beethoven is playing.


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[Assistant] And Nixon delivers the most seismic news.


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[Assistant] My guest today is the man who played Joseph Leibgott, a Liberator who begins the episode dreaming of settling down


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[Assistant] Or in his words, finding a nice, well-endowed Jewish girl, and a house with lots of bedrooms for all the little Leibgotts he's planning on making, and by the end, is emotionally reeling as we experience the true horrors behind the German war machine through his words, through his eyes.


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[Assistant] So it's a joy to welcome the man who played technician 5th grade Joseph D. Leibgott Jr. of Easy Company, it's Mr. Ross McCall.


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[Assistant] You are worthy of one. You played one of the most singular roles in one of the most singular moments in the most singular television series, which we will talk about and the real Joseph Lee got in a moment. But he was born in Detroit, Michigan.


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[Assistant] You were born in the shipbuilding town of Port Glasgow, Scotland.


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[Assistant] In many ways it is. You started acting professionally when you were 11 and one of your first roles.


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[Assistant] The young Freddie Mercury in Queen's video for the miracle.


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[Assistant] I've got to say, it's a magnificent performance. 11 year old you, leather pants, biker cap and the signature bottomless mic. You proceeded to carve out a singular role in English TV and movies and theatre. Your role was really just playing Americans.


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[Assistant] But the accent came from young Russ McCall.


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[Assistant] That just wills things to happen. It is so unbelievably inspiring, your story. Dream big dreams, listeners. How did it happen? The Band of Brothers story. Take us back.


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[Assistant] Belatedly, you're making the late entrance into the party. Very dramatic.


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[Assistant] Now my mind is genuinely processing. But it's last words to you, Tom Hanks, in that audition work.


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[Assistant] When it comes to English-American accents, you, Ross, were essentially the LeBron of your generation. You were the GOAT.


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[Assistant] So, did you ever ask yourself, why is Band of Brothers signing up so many British actors to play American roles? Why don't they just hire, you know, American actors to play American roles? How do you understand that?


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[Assistant] What was that mesh of cultures like at the beginning? Was there suspicion between the American actors and the English guys faking American accents like, those English guys over here taking our jobs?


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[Assistant] Had to speak convincing German for this role. Did you speak German at all before the ship?


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[Assistant] The gorgeous tonally perfect German, you essentially learn that all syllable by syllable.


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[Assistant] To get down to, what, about £130 for the league cup.


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[Assistant] You joked that before Band of Brothers, the only running you did was to get a pack of heaters.


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[Assistant] You and Dale Dye. The Decorated Marine.


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[Assistant] Who acted as an advisor to the show and whipped you all into shape. You're actually one of the few actors who had the confidence to take the piss out of him.


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[Assistant] Let's talk some Leibgott. What a character. A first generation American whose parents had immigrated to Michigan from Austro-Hungary. A number of actors.


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[Assistant] In the Band of Brothers pantheon had the real living men to spend time with to build character. Or dossiers and diaries and just mountains of photographs. Leibgott had sadly passed in 1992. You didn't have that much to go on.


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[Assistant] Because the veterans didn't want to talk about purely their own experiences, you're able to tap into their willingness to...


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[Assistant] Talk about anything but themselves to build a portrait of Leibgott.


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[Assistant] There's that remarkable scene in Crossroads where Winter's hands over 11 German prisoners to be taken back to the battalion command post. Come on, Kraut Boys.


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[Assistant] The other thing that's slightly confusing is whether Leibgot, who is by all accounts a complex character,


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[Assistant] ...was even Jewish in the first place. Some think he was a Catholic who was mistaken as a Jew by his comrades who looked at his name and just thought that it was Yiddish.


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[Assistant] Incredibly popular. But the show is filmed chronologically largely.


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[Assistant] And Leibgott, for much of it, was an ensemble player. How much anticipation did you have ahead of this shoot for episode 9, knowing that you were poised to deliver the whole time the series emotional gut punch?


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[Assistant] Episode 9, the big theme is Easy Company's first contact with actual Germans coming face to face with German society. And the first half of the episode shows these encounters.


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[Assistant] But the second half of the episode flips out on the head and I want to talk about it because it's also...


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[Assistant] The part of the show where you step up and deliver so many of the emotional exclamation points. That scene setting up the second half. Easy company emerging from a forest. We see their shock on patrol. We don't know what the men are looking at.


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[Assistant] But they all, one after another, just drop their rifles in sheer horror, forcing the audience to ask, what could be so terrifying a sight that they had to stop dead in their tracks?


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[Assistant] The guard towers, the banks of barbed wire, the thick mud, the ash. As a viewer, you engage with that in horror.


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[Assistant] And it's hard to believe this was actually a set built from scratch.


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[Assistant] In Hatfield Hertfordshire, because the detail of the work was incredible how accurate it was.


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[Assistant] It's a hard question to ask, but I watch this.


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[Assistant] And I've gotta say, the concentration camp prisoners, the extras, are so real, skeletal, physically.


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[Assistant] The teeth, skulls, the level of emaciation. How was it achieved?


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[Assistant] Is your translation as Winters desperately tries to fathom what on earth could have happened here. Ross, the way you deliver those lines in German.


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[Assistant] The set itself was truly difficult to spend time on. The magnitude of those events, the importance of this specific episode. This was not just a day shoot. You guys were on this set for how long? Six, seven days?


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[Assistant] What does this episode, Ross, what does it mean to you?


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[Assistant] We're all in awe of Leibgott, particularly after this episode, and you once said...


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[Assistant] And I love this Ross. I had grown with Joe Liebgott. He had become part of me. How did the experience change you as a person of playing Liebgott episode 9?


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[Assistant] Ross McCall, thank you for honouring the memory of Joe Leibgott and sharing your journey with us. It's been magnificent.


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[Assistant] We wanted to get some additional insight into those devastating final scenes which Ross just spoke about. So who better to speak to?


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[Assistant] And the gentleman who wrote Why We Fight, a human being you might remember from this very podcast. He joined us to talk episode two, Day of Days, which he also wrote. It's an honor to welcome back the one and only Mr. John Orloff.


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[Assistant] Why thank you. John, we remember talking to you back in episode two, your story.


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[Assistant] How you join Band of Brothers as a relatively raw screenwriter to write about the liberation of a concentration camp.


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[Assistant] In an episode which is, really for me, the emotional core of the whole series. A massive, sprawling prestige series. How did you approach that task mentally?


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[Assistant] Band of Brothers was the Urtex, the heart of the Band of Brothers production. But, well he goes into detail.


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[Assistant] On almost every step of Easy Company's journey, on the liberation of the Khorfarin concentration camp, there's just a paragraph for you to go on.


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[Assistant] These men could talk about some of the most diabolical


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[Assistant] Human experiences that could be imagined, but this, this even for them, was one step beyond.


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[Assistant] That was that none of the men could talk about it, but Dick Winters could. I mean, he was a religious man. What was it about him that empowered him to see the importance of the task at hand?


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[Assistant] What else did you turn to as a writer? What texts did you use? What books did you use? What did you use to piece this episode together?


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[Assistant] And the facts were hazy, the men of Easy Company you interviewed.


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[Assistant] I actually believe they were liberators and talk about it. Yeah. As if they were, but it turns out they were there a day or so later after the camp had been liberated.


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[Assistant] Handles the scene to have an incredible, sober, and manipulative tone, which is incredible.


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[Assistant] Because I believe he actually lost family members in such camps during the war.


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[Assistant] It's bad behavior. Spears, stealing, pretty much anything he can get his hands on. Nixon breaking and entering, French soldiers executing German soldiers, and then the concentration camp. And the American soldiers had spent the last leg of the war.


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[Assistant] There's this idea in the first half of the episode that any of these guys could have just as easily been a German soldier if they'd been born differently, and the script intentionally scrambles the divide between good


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[Assistant] An evil, and then you get to Landsberg and all of a sudden that kind of hypothetical moral agnosticism just vanishes. Is that how you set the script up?


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[Assistant] The men of easy company have to decide which side of the divide they're on.


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[Assistant] And in that second, they jump from wherever they were and they're all in different places. They jump right back to the viewer's side.


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[Assistant] The legacy of episode 9 is remarkable. And you've talked about how...


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[Assistant] When you choose to watch Schindler's List, you intentionally know what you're about to expose yourself to in terms of the subject matter.


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[Assistant] But when you watch Band of Brothers Episode 9, the audience have no idea that they're gonna learn about the Holocaust when they tune in as such.


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[Assistant] I imagine a lot of people have learned about the Holocaust for the first time through this episode.


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[Assistant] That National Holocaust Museum anecdote that you just told me. How do you feel when you hear that? Because that is some incredible legacy.


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[Assistant] John, one of my favourite parts of the Band of Brothers book is when Stephen Ambrose notes


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[Assistant] Was the whole of the episode actually in that diary entry?


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[Assistant] John, Band of Brothers has become a cultural phenomenon. It is so much bigger now, even than it was when it came out. How do you understand that trajectory?


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[Assistant] John Orloff, thank you for your work preserving the legacy of Easy Company and thank you for sharing your story of it with us today.


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[Assistant] What a privilege to talk to two of the gents who helped create what remains some 20 years later. One of the most emotionally powerful episodes of television I've ever seen. And coming up next time, we hear from the man who played the centrifugal force of Band of Brothers.


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[Assistant] Damien Lewis, who talks about how a Shakespearean-trained, private-school-educated, well-heeled Englishman was cast to play one of America's greatest war heroes.


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[Assistant] Make sure to subscribe to HBO's official Band of Brothers podcast wherever you get your podcasts. Please rate, review, share, spread the word. And a last reminder.


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[Assistant] As if you needed one, you can watch the magnificent Why We Fight and every episode of Band of Brothers on HBO Max right now. Until next time.


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[Assistant] Welcome back to the HBO official Band of Brothers podcast. This is Roger Bennett. You say flash, I say thunder.


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[Assistant] One hour, nine minutes of combat, death and trauma.


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[Assistant] Which is basically a mini movie in its own right, set in that frozen hellscape that was the Ardennes forest during the Battle of the Bulge, January 1945, where Easy Company are surrounded both by Germans


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[Assistant] And physical and psychological horrors to which no man was immune.


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[Assistant] Yep, I say this told from the vantage point of First Sergeant Carwood Lipton.


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[Assistant] Played by Donnie Wahlberg, a West Virginian from a hardscrabble background who dedicated his entire being to maintaining the men's morale, both covering for the Inept Company XO Norman Dyke and filling the enormous vacuum his lack of leadership creates.


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[Assistant] An incompetence best captured by that poet warrior, Bill Garnier.


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[Assistant] The scenes unfold in graphic detail with almost no respite. Muck and Pankala are eviscerated by a shell. Hubler mistakenly shooting and killing himself with a Luger. And both Joe Toy and Garnier having their legs blown off. An anguish inducing sight that's an agony for the men.


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[Assistant] The episode's climax is the attack on Foy itself, a set piece which sees the unravelling of Dyche at some cost.


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[Assistant] Amidst the myriad of gut punches, chaos and horror, The Breaking Point continues to explore Banda Brothers core themes. The arbitrariness of death, which continues to hang over the company at all times.


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[Assistant] The psychological trauma of war and what it means to be a true leader, which Lieutenant Spears explains to Sergeant Lipton is something he doesn't have to look for to find out.


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[Assistant] My guest today is that consistent, nurturing, low-key, ever-dependable member of Easy Company who emerges as a strong, empathetic leader during the Battle of the Bulge. The character, Sergeant Lipton.


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[Assistant] ...is played by a gent who emerged from Dorchester, Massachusetts as a pop star before unleashing dramatic skills that proved...


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[Assistant] You can say more with a single look than most actors can do with a three page soliloquy.


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[Assistant] It's a joy to welcome, a man for whom every day is abs day. It's Mr. Donnie Wahlberg.


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[Assistant] Oh, Donnie, it is great to have you. I do want to touch upon your career. Obviously Donnie, you broke through with the boy band New Kids on the Block in 1988. But after New Kids broke up in 1994,


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[Assistant] You moved into movies and television and you've said of that time, I always had a belief there was something better out there for me. And you found a role in the Sixth Sense, Vincent Grey, and then your agent got a call about Tom Hanks doing a second World War show. They then send you the script, which you read, loved.


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[Assistant] Blown away. Although you said you instantly leaned to Lipton. Absolutely. They wanted you originally to play Spears.


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[Assistant] I mean, nothing says I am committing to this part more than you leaping across one of Hank's club seats. But Hank saw something different.


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[Assistant] I don't know what it was, I don't know if you know what it was, but then he had you read for Carlwood Lipton.


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[Assistant] You returned for a second audition. It was a much bigger affair. There was a hundred plus guys there. In my mind, I imagine it a bit like the first day at Currahee, but for actors. And you went in to read a three page call with Lipton Seed.


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[Assistant] With, I love this, Rick Schroeder. There reading for winters, my god, that would have been a very different


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[Assistant] Spielberg said at one moment in this audition, he said to you,


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[Assistant] And Hanks said, eyebrow raised. I guess you nailed it kid. And when I picture that, it's like Hanks playing Hanks and I love it. But Donny, you've worked with De Niro, with Pacino, but you've said that audition was the single greatest moment of your career.


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[Assistant] You landed the Lipton role and you immediately set about preparing for it. You reach out to the real life Carwood Lipton, who along with Dick Winters have been one of the chief sources for Stephen Ambrose as he wrote Band of Brothers.


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[Assistant] Can you tell us about your first encounter with a man? Because you've said it was very intimidating.


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[Assistant] He was a remarkable man, Corwin Lipton, humble origins, tough Huntington, West Virginia roots. And he actually tells his early life story in this episode, in a foxhole, waiting for the enemy to attack.


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[Assistant] A recipient of two bronze stars, three purple hearts, post-war,


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[Assistant] He went on to become a successful entrepreneur in glass and plastics. He was actually the man Carwood, who suggested Ambrose use Band of Brothers from Shakespeare's Henry V. You got to know the man. I mean, he sounds incredible all around, like an intellect, an entrepreneur, a war hero, a family man. What was he like in real life?


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[Assistant] But to each other. You would call him every day, before every scene, so that you could really try and get the performance of Lipton as close to the real man.


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[Assistant] This story plays right into what makes this series so great. Hanks and Spielberg simple directive to honor the men's memory, their truth, rather than serve the script and you.


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[Assistant] I'm sure the Spears of the New Kids on the Block says, Donnie, I guess you were the leader of New Kids on the Block all the time. It's an incredible thing to read about the series. The shooting experience, you've said it was like we were in the army, we were not at war, but we were in the army. I mean, you would march down to the set three miles from your tent.


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[Assistant] You did carry that offset. They all called you Lipton during the shoot, right?


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[Assistant] Lipton has a study of leadership, Donnie. Covering for Dyke at the beginning. I'm fascinated by Lipton. At first he tries to be sympathetic to Foxhole Norman. Tells his men,


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[Assistant] Your character has two things. Incredible empathy and incredible belief in his fellow men. He has them on the outside, but on the inside he admits he doesn't always feel so confident. But ultimately, it's his job to protect his men.


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[Assistant] You've got Spears' model of leadership, which was, as you say, superhuman. You have Winters, who is a follow me kind of guy. Lipton's style of leadership, very, very different. He's the one who treats the men like humans rather than just soldiers.


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[Assistant] The action in this episode is harrowing. It takes place...


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[Assistant] In the different foxholes, there are the shattering scenes of Garnier and Toys Wounds both lost a leg, a moment that destroys Buck Compton.


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[Assistant] Lipton doesn't break down. And we know this from his narration, that he was savagely affected by all he did, all he saw. But he didn't break. And you got to know Lipton. How do you understand it? What about him? Enabled him to persevere.


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[Assistant] At the end of the episode, the hero shot Lipton is leaving Foy. It's burning.


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[Assistant] Tell us the story of how you were walking up that hill and director David Frankel suggested you take off the helmet.


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[Assistant] Swagger a little bit. He's like, this is your moment. Own it.


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[Assistant] The final scene of the episode. Stunning set piece. Lipton and Easy Company taking a rare breather in a convent in Rochamp. First night they spent indoors in over a month.


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[Assistant] You hover over the scene almost like a living dead man. Your narration, Donny, is delivered like a man who's dead on his feet. Flat, affectless, you sound like a man who's given his all. Where did you tape the video? How soon after the shoot? What was it like to get back into that headspace?


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[Assistant] He got to see the Bandar Brother series come out. What feedback did he give you on the finished product?


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[Assistant] This stoic leader, this deeply respected human being, who for me,


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[Assistant] Symbolises American courage at its finest.


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[Assistant] You developed what you've described as more than a professional relationship. It became, in your words, one about life and children and wisdom. What did knowing Colwood Lipton teach you?


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[Assistant] It's been 20 years now since Band of Brothers was released.


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[Assistant] How do you look back on the creation of the series and it's enduring legacy?


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[Assistant] Donnie Wohlberg, thank you for your generosity of time. And I'll just say it is as much of an honor for us to listen to you tell those stories as it was for you to hear Carwood Lipton stories. Thank you and courage.


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[Assistant] Coming up next on HBO's official Band of Brothers podcast, we head to Haganau for The Last Patrol, where the harrowing effects of The Breaking Point bleed through.