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I'm just here I'm just here with you

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hey what's going on everybody from first

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week Feast I'm Sean Evans and you're

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watching hot ones it's the show with hot

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questions and even hotter wings and

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today we're joined by Rami Youssef he's

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a Golden Globe award-winning actor

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writer and comedian best known for his

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lead ball and Romney Emmy nominated

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Peabody award-winning comedy series

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currently in its third season on Hulu

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he's also the co-creator of Mo and

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acclaimed comedy drama which is now

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streaming on Netflix Rama Yusuf welcome

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to the show thanks for having me how are

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you around spicy food before we get

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started I grew up with a lot of hot

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sauce like it was a thing and I think

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actually when I was a kid I would have

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better at this because I didn't have

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taste buds like I think my dad just

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always put hot sauce on everything and I

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was just down and then I think I stepped

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away from it for a bit and so I'm

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somewhere in the middle now so we're

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getting right back into the game today

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yeah this is yeah in a way my childhood

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all right well let's relive it are you

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ready to get started let's do it

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okay right here

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oh yeah

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that's really good hits yeah really good

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so Rami tells the story of a Muslim

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American struggling to balance his faith

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with the everyday Temptations of Being

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Human which on the show can range from

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porn and drugs to dating and family and

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making Mo and Rami I'm curious what

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stood out in comparing and contrasting

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notes on the Arab American Experience in

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New Jersey versus Houston

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my favorite thing about getting to make

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Mo was this idea of what does it look

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like to have a guy who doesn't have his

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papers you know this this whole idea of

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people who work under the table was

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really interesting to us and we wanted

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to kind of figure out that's a totally

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different experience than a kid like

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Rami who is a citizen he's kind of

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dealing with his higher self and lower

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self and in a way he's almost privileged

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even though his family has given up a

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lot for the Immigrant experience

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compared to Mo in his show you know you

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you see that there there are different

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challenges and I think we were really

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excited to set something in the South

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too to show how diverse it is there

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I like these better than the drumsticks

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yeah the German state it feels Messier

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this thing kind of yeah split the bone

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easier like I like to well with the bone

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like that yeah I see that's a little bit

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of a pro move on the way that's somebody

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who's been around and then you kind of

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can you split it there

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look at that no the Rami technique

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that's nice

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so shows like Rami Dave Curb Your

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Enthusiasm they often portray the

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protagonists as obnoxious and

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self-absorbed even though they're

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semi-autobiographical stories how do you

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think about the likability factor when

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creating a character like Rami for TV

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I think it would be so crazy to make a

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character named after myself and he's

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just this amazing guy that doesn't make

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any mistakes there's something about

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that felt really off I like the idea

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that I'm making something that is almost

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it's kind of like my nightmare of who I

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can become or who I might have been you

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know in a different circumstance uh

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without a passion without love uh so

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he's definitely in that space for me

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which is a lot more fun to play too and

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talking about Larry David's TV

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contributions what did you mean by even

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if your favorite player isn't Michael

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Jordan the game is influenced by Michael

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a great quote I said that

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I was like oh [ __ ] yeah I remember I

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remember saying that it it's in you know

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I think so much of the format whether

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it's Seinfeld or curb I think every

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modern TV writer is influenced by it and

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so even if you're trying to do something

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super subversive you're still you know

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that that's kind of part of what's

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happening in comedy right now is is what

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he he put forward and yeah so I'm just

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I'm a huge fan of his and and Michael

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like here's the thing I am a LeBron guy

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but but when it comes to when it comes

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to Comedy no definitely Larry David yeah

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when you see the game the game

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influenced by Michael Jordan yes yes big

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you put Tom Holland in the hospital I

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heard you know what that's maybe news to

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me but it wouldn't surprise me that

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wouldn't surprise me given what he went

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through that day

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seems like a good man he is a good guy

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he's a good dude I'm sorry if we did

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stand up do you have any sort of guiding

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ethics when it comes to dealing with

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hecklers and then do you remember the

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first time you got really savagely

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heckled

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watching a comedian take down a person

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in the audience and uh well yeah of

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course like we should be able to take

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them down there's a reason we have the

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mic like yeah the comedian's funnier

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than the audience member yes obviously

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out like why they're they're being so

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loud I remember being in Jacksonville

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Florida one this was my first real

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Muslim and this woman was just like oh

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we don't do that here loud from the back

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she's like we don't do that here and I

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was like oh okay you're making it sound

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like it's just uh like we don't have

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vegan food like it's not it wasn't like

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it wasn't even hateful it was just kind

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of like oh we don't the air is like not

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conducive to Muslim life form

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and what it felt like

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which was a funnier pre-famed job being

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a camp counselor working at the Apple

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was you just met all these different

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kinds of people and I didn't know how to

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fix the computers but I know how to sell

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them and I and I think there's something

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about there's something about selling a

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a computer to somebody who isn't sure if

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they should pay for it that's very

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similar to pitching a show I think I

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probably learned everything I did about

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pitching shows trying to get people to

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buy like the pimped out MacBook Pro

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nice this is great

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so he mentioned in your intro but it

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Bears repeating that you really are a

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man of many hats I mean literally but

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also metaphorically you know you not

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only star in the show but also serve as

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a writer serve as a producer serve as a

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showrunner sometimes even a director is

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there a scene that you most regret had

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to be altered or scrubbed simply because

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the production ran out of money

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um there's always like a better solution

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tiger into a scene

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and um we had this scene where yeah we

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wanted this kind of Rich emirati dude to

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have a tiger and then production said it

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was too expensive but then they said it

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was unethical but they said it was too

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expensive first yeah and then all this

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and then we can't afford it and I'm like

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oh but it's been in the script and

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they're like actually it's really

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unethical and I was like okay and then I

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read about it and it is unethical so

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then we started talking about CGI and a

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for that but then it kind of turned into

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a better storyline where we were trying

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to think of something wild outside of

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this tiger bit uh and then we got Mia

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Khalifa would not like to do the same

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thing the tiger was going to do was just

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like a totally different storyline uh

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that fit into something and that ended

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up being one of I think my favorite

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episodes we did yeah foreign

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there we go I hook a second bite

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clocked it yeah all right Romney we have

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explain that Graham we're gonna do a

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deep dive on our guest Instagram pull

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over here on the Monitor and you just

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tell us the bigger story yeah all right

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first things first

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so you and I are similar in that our

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dads didn't really understand what we

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were doing with our lives until we were

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on The Late Show if we asked your

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parents what would they say has been the

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highlight of your career so far I I

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think they yeah they were really happy

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that I did Colbert just because they

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knew him yeah right and so I had been

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working as a comedian as an actor doing

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things but when they saw me with him

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they were like oh wow like I don't know

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they thought he was gonna like take care

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of me or like keep sending me checks

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and they didn't they were just like oh

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he knows Colbert like he'll you know

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he'll he'll just be able to call him

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that that was a big that was a really

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big one for them and then this is from

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your directorial debut at 10 years old

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who or to what do you credit with your

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fascination with filmmaking at a young

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age and then do you have a home movie

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that you look back on and think that was

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really my best work

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yeah I was I was very obsessed with with

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making my own uh I was trying to make an

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End one mixtape here I really because I

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thought but you kind of subverted it a

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little bit you know like that bag of

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like missing the shots all the time

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that's kind of like a good gag for a 10

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year old it was it was yeah it was

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um I think I I was like all right I'll

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make it funny until I get my growth

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spurt that was my whole thing because I

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remember reading about Michael Jordan

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like he grew six inches you know his

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between his like sophomore and junior

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year yeah and so I thought that was

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gonna happen to me and so I thought

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until then I'll just be funny then I'll

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get the growth spurt then I'll play in

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the league

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and here we are I but the thing is my

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getting quartzite seats so it's like

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basketball like that that's been the

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best part of the whole thing I

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understand what you're saying 100 like I

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really think that my only goal in all of

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this is to just infiltrate the teams

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that I grew up with

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I saw you announcing like a draft pick

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too yeah yeah I did I did uh I did the

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Chicago Bears second round pick shout

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out Jaquan brisker defensive back Penn

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State actually having a great year but

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that's the only reason I do any of this

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really

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just to do that shout out

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yeah it's very exciting

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[Music]

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kind of a step up here yeah

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oh yeah

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six kind of comes out of nowhere

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you know I'll say when we put together

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this you know it's kind of complicated

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putting together the lineup right

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because you gotta get there you know

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that's why people are tuning in yeah but

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you can't

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totally smoke people out like in the

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first half you know so then what I find

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ends up happening in the back half is it

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really is like exponentially yeah going

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up and up with each sauce but I think

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this is the first one that really no I

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know we were just talking about my

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childhood and then six is like yeah it's

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a big jump big jump

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okay

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so pitch stories fascinate me for one

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because they can make or break a project

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but two just because they're good

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old-fashioned Show Business closed-door

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Affairs thinking back on when you first

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started pitching Romney to now what

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would you say are the biggest lessons

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you've learned about the art of the

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Hollywood cell

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I think they want to hear that there's a

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way in for everybody yeah so it's like

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those things are are the reason why I

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kind of yeah Zone in on them is because

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it it does feel like you could get a

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different

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culture and you could get a different

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experience in but it's also everybody's

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experience and I think that's what what

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everyone's looking for they want it to

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be super specific and they want it to be

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the broadest thing on earth and those

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things totally clash and I think most

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shows that don't work or that you watch

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that you don't like you're like oh yeah

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well that it's because the ask was

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impossible like they wanted it to be for

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everybody but also different

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um so it's a tough thing to look for

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it's a tough thing to deliver but I

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think the right people in the right

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stories you can kind of you can find it

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okay

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[Music]

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and then this one kind of sweet up front

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but then

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wow yeah

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yeah it's all right it's too crazy it's

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like the more the time goes on it gets

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worse it's like everything's really

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tingling you know and who knows how

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these things are all working together

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against you with it at this point you

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know like what what what had this active

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ingredient or whatever to create this

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cumulative effect to this thing that

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we're going yeah it's like the opposite

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of momentum yes it's getting uh

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ah more resistance more resistance but

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still we endure yeah we march on

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I kind of don't want to use the milk

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yeah I know I'm trying to be strategic

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about the milk okay because I feel like

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I don't want to get um

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this is crazy this is so hot I don't

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want to get used to the milk I kind of

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want right like when you get it it'll be

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like like you've been wandering the

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desert for days and days and days and

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then you find like an oasis or something

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like you want that milk to hit like that

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the milk like going in the milk now

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would feel like uh like breaking into my

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retirement too early you're right yeah

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where I'm like I gotta save that for

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when it gets real bad like I think I

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could just let me let me wait it out

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look at you with a hot sauce analogy too

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here it's like now turning into this um

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yeah well the thing in the in the desert

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inspired me I was like I was like Wow

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Let's Build on this if we make this

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poetic it'll hurt less and maybe that's

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what all poetry is just not feel pain

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that's what they've been writing about

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and that's why it's short because

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they're they're in pain four lines

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that's all I can do because everything

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hurts

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what goes through your head when you get

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listed on gq's list of the most stylish

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funny men alongside Jonah Hill and Seth

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Rogen like when you see that kind of

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press does that make you feel good or is

390
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it just put more pressure on you every

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time you leave the house uh when they

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say most stylish funny men I'm like yeah

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that yeah because you're like in the

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yeah I mean where's the competition yeah

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come on

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comedians yeah if it's I'll wait for

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what is most stylish men yeah

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okay but if you're gonna put that funny

399
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asterisk I better be on the [ __ ]

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cover that's how I feel

401
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I gave that one a smell yeah that one

402
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usually I wouldn't recommend that's the

403
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smell because then it gets into your

404
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head and I really wish I didn't do that

405
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actually I know everyone told me to not

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touch my eyes but no one told me to not

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smell I think we might have to add that

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you know has a line item don't touch

409
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your eyes don't because I actually don't

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I feel what I smell already

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mm-hmm

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okay

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[Music]

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right

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people does anyone enjoy eating this or

416
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was it just made for this no no just you

417
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know this it's like you're supposed to

418
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enjoy food ah

419
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and we're back yeah we're back

420
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there we go so you once said I probably

421
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have just as hard of a time defending

422
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New Jersey as I do defending Muslims so

423
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on that note what I want to do is Bounce

424
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a few Garden State Hallmarks off of you

425
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just to see if you can craft defense and

426
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these most bizarre of circumstances

427
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sound good

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yeah

429
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Wawa

430
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wow is Iconic Wawa is amazing it's like

431
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a gas station store but it's really it's

432
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a culture it means I think it means a

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lot to a lot of people

434
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um

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great logo

436
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adorable stop there

437
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you know you get all you need yeah Joe

438
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Budden

439
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Joe Budden I'm a fan I'm a fan and I

440
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think you just got a Joe Budden you just

441
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gotta sit with his work it doesn't hit

442
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you all at once I think it's it's waves

443
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it's kind of like the kind of kind of

444
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like this Jon Bon Jovi oh my God legend

445
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legend uh Bon Jovi I I would listen to

446
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him as a kid I walk up and down the

447
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block just like

448
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emotional

449
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good good man I think

450
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excuse me I kind of wanted to burp yeah

451
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Joe had you know yeah but I suppressed

452
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it

453
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I actually feel okay for a moment yeah

454
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like I have like uh

455
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there's like a quiet

456
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calmness yeah you know like sometimes

457
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you can get like a little light-headed

458
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off of it a little bit yeah

459
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Transcendent experience the hot ones

460
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Gauntlet each and every time every time

461
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right every time

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[Music]

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I'm kind of not feeling a lot right now

464
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I'm just here

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I'm just here with you

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whoa

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that headlight I'm sorry no that was it

468
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was kind of like oh my God I wish I

469
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didn't do that I kicked it all up to the

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yeah

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it sounded like

472
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there might have been something coming

473
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with that one

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see once stolen Romney executive

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producer drag Carmichael I want to make

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something where God isn't cheesy what

477
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tropes or cliches bother you the most

478
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about the way that religion is depicted

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on screen

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um

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yeah it always feels like there's he's

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like

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big gates in Heaven

484
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or uh

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or like um

486
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like a man in the sky you know God's man

487
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in the sky you know and I you know I

488
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love Morgan Freeman but like I I wanted

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to make something that feels like that

490
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rattling guilt that's inside you that

491
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kind of follows you and then also that

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feeling of hope you know that even

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though there's a dead end there could be

494
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something more

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I think like now this is that's what's

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getting me through In This Moment is

497
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that hope that there could be you know

498
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that there will be later

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like I'll make it to level 10 because of

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God you know yeah that's that's why I'm

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that's the only thing that's kind of

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getting me through right now because I

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definitely feel

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this isn't good oh

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Living on a Prayer

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I have never understood like that is if

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we were directing this

508
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we've been on a Prayer right now needle

509
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drop this is the score of what's

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Happening Now

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[Music]

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I'm gonna do it I don't want to give up

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on tradition

514
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but just be careful

515
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there's no stopper on this bottle I put

516
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so much more than a dab I know I'm gonna

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do it there we go wow digging our own

518
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Graves here on this you see how much is

519
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on this yeah that's a significant yeah

520
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cheers

521
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cheers thank you

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[Music]

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so to close things out what I want to do

524
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is hit you with a quote that is just so

525
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quintessentially in New Jersey some of

526
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the most important conversations I've

527
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had in my life have been at a diner

528
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counter that's what you do if you're

529
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from Jersey you make a decision at a

530
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diner at three in the morning what is

531
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Your Love Letter to Jersey diner culture

532
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like why is it important to you

533
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you know there's something about

534
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something that's that's open all night

535
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where you can go and just get a hot meal

536
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like a warm

537
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uh meal not this

538
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and they're there and and there are

539
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people who there was this guy George at

540
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the Candlewick Diner

541
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I talked about every I talked about him

542
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before I you know before I dropped out

543
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of college I talked to George I go to

544
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that Diner Booth my buddy Mohammed

545
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just talk about everything we were going

546
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to do was in that Booth 3 A.M I think I

547
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decided I was gonna get married in a

548
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diner Booth I'm pretty sure I was there

549
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late night and I was like yeah talking

550
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it out with my buddy I'm like yeah this

551
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is this is what I'm gonna do it's uh

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it's kind of like a Pew in a church but

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with food

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beautifully said and look at you Robbie

555
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taking on the wings of death living to

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tell the tale and now there's nothing

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left to do but to roll out the red

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carpet for you this camera this camera

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this camera let the people know what you

560
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have going on in your life

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uh Romney Season Three is out right now

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on Hulu

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um

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start there and then yeah and then you

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can just um

566
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they'll get it you'll get it you get it

567
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you get

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you get what's happening

569
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you just type my name in the I mean this

570
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it's getting so bad it's so bad right

571
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now

572
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but you made it thank you

573
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wow

574
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well there's a lot of sauce on that tend

575
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that you took

576
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how'd it feel to relive your childhood

577
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I'm I feel like my dad prepped me for

578
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this oh yeah I do yeah I feel I feel

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like he put me through it and got me

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here

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wow

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foreign

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[Applause]

584
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hey what's going on hot ones fans thank

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you so much for watching today's episode

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and I have an important announcement to

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all the mini spice Lords out there and

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the fringes of spiced them say hello to

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