"Is This Thing On" Is The Most Relatable Movie You’ll Hate To Watch

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Hello? Hello? Is this thing on? Can you hear

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me? Is this thing on? Hello? Oh, and that's the

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energy we're riding with today because we're

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looking at Is This Thing On? A project that feels

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like a collision of titans. Laura Dern, Will

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Arnett, and Bradley Cooper helming this thing

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and directing it. I'm excited about Is This Thing

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On? Yes. This is Parallel Frequencies. I am Just

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Blaine. That is Coco. And you are the freaks.

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What's up over there, Coco? How are you today?

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Doing all right. I'm doing all right. I was doing

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burn boot camp this morning, getting my workout

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on. And today I hit 50 camps. And the burn boot

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camp culture is you get to cheer for people when

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they get to 50 and they get to sign a giant 50

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on the wall. I think it's a little sad how excited

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I was about this. Maybe my life wasn't that interesting

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because I was like, today's my 50. Today's my

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50. I think I'm excited for you. Show us them

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guns. Let's see. Are you looking chiseled? Oh,

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my God. Not really. Now that I see that camera,

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I'm like, no, I don't know if you can tell. But

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today was arm day. I see some tone. I see some

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tone up there. Yeah. Looking good. Looking good.

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Well, you did a whole lot more than me. You know

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what I did? I watched about two hours of Boy

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Meets World after our episode. I know. You didn't

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even have to do it for research because we already

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recorded that episode yesterday. I realized that

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right behind me I had, look at these collector's

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editions. I've got a Topanga and a Quidditch.

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I know, and I didn't realize. These things are

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so old, they got dirt on top of them. But they're

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unopened. There's a Corey Boy Meets World. And

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there's Topanga right there. But I keep them.

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I forget I keep them right here. My Funko Pop.

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And these are my special ones right here. This

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one right here, though. I really love this one.

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And this is going to get off on a side tangent.

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But this is me. This is a one -of -one. A dad

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-dad. My kids and Lindsey made this for me. And

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that's me. This guy. He's got a microphone in

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his hand, an award in his other hand, which I've

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never won an award, and a Siamese cat. That's

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fortune -telling right there. Like, when we get

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best podcast. Yeah. You know who has the best

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podcast? Who's that? Well, I wish I was about

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to say me. I was thinking, what would my little

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pop figure have? You know, like a witch's broom

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or something? Yeah. Paintbrush? I'm not sure.

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But one of the top podcasts, like... uh you know

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gets all the awards is smartless will arnett

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jason bateman and uh sean hayes who are all buddies

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in real life they started this podcast i think

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before the pandemic i think it goes way back

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but uh it's one of my favorites it's one that

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i it's on my lineup of get ready in the morning

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funny podcast i listen to you to brighten my

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mood and um that's how i found out about our

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movie today are you doing Cocos Trailer Park

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now? We're just going to start putting out new

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podcasts and talking about... We like to shine

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a light on and highlight on Trailer Park Thursdays

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the kind of lesser known, maybe podcasts, the

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ones that are just the average folks like myself

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who start a podcast and try to put our content

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in the world, but I don't think Smartless needs

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my help at all. I think they're doing just fine.

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But it is one of my favorites, so I just had

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to... Had to give a shout -out there because,

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you know, if Jason Bateman wants to contact me

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and say, thanks for the shout -out on your podcast,

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I would be thrilled. Or come on ours. Come talk

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to us. We need to get some more guests on here.

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Yeah, yeah. We'll have to work on that. Yeah,

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and we just haven't tried, really. We haven't

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really tried. We asked one person to come on

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with us, James Ward Burkett, the director of

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Coherence, and he said yes, and he did it. And

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we haven't asked anybody else, so we'll have

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to start asking some people. Yeah. To hop on

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a show. We're going to win an award. I'm just

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going to put that out there. I'm very confident.

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Either Practically Magic, Parallel Frequencies,

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or one of the Live the Wave media. Exactly. I

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don't care who it is. I just want my name to

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be attached to the award somehow. I guess I do

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have a couple awards if you look at it like that.

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I've got a couple of hosts that I've worked with

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who have Marconi Awards, which is the highest

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award in radio. I don't have one, but they do.

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So I help them. Elevate up. I'm putting it out

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there right now. We are going to win an award

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or get nominated or have somebody ask us or something.

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Yeah. I'm working on my acceptance speech. I'll

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work on it in the car and in the shower and when

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I'm getting ready. Yeah. I like that. Maybe I'll

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start working on mine too. But today is Feature

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Friday. And you turned me on to this movie. Is

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this thing on? And I don't think I'd heard of

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it. I think it was one that just kind of slipped

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under the radar. Perfect for Feature Friday.

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It's kind of like a little, you know, tucked

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away movie. Didn't get a big release, right?

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Like big blockbuster release. And this movie

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is, it's polished, but it's not. It's gritty,

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it's dirty, it's real. And I'm watching this

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thing and I'm like, holy crap, this is real life.

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This is what people really go through. This is

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how it is. There's two people in this movie,

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Tess Novak, Laura Dern. and Will Arnett, Alex

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Novak. And they started off by saying, should

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we call it? Sure, yeah. It's not fighting. And

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what they're talking about is their marriage.

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Yeah. And it's just like that. Yep, we should

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call it. And then you get to see what I consider

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two people who are too busy to get a divorce.

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And that's real life. They couldn't slow down

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enough to even be split up. That's crazy. Yeah,

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and it's clear that this isn't... like you said

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it's so subtle it's so it's so kind of um not

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explosive it's not this i think that's probably

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more common i don't know i don't know about you

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know going through divorces but i know that like

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when my marriage has hit some rocky patches here

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and there like i always tell people i've been

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through three marriages in my lifetime and they're

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all the same person yeah yeah that's average

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right that's that's common but to go through

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like these patches there's When you really love

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the other person, you're really loyal, you're

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really committed, it is hard to have this moment

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of, like, is this when we call it? Like, is this

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it? Because I don't feel like it is. And you

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kind of feel that push and pull in these characters.

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You know, they really still do love each other,

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and they really can't see their lives without

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each other, but they're also like, I think we've

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got to call it. I think this is it. This movie

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hurt. It hurts to watch. Like, when you see...

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will arnett alex novak when you see him with

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his two sons and then you find out that they're

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sleeping in his bed because it's the most comfortable

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and he's sleeping on the couch he's still sacrificing

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and we never really find out like they don't

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fight they're not like doing the yelling at each

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other and this and that we never really get too

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deep into what caused all this yeah well and

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It's only when they kind of start to rekindle

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passion for each other to have the sort of post

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-separation affair. Yeah. Again, I don't know

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what other couples go through when they go through

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separations. And I wonder how common it is to

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kind of go through a, like, we can't quite let

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each other go. There's still that passion there.

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Or being separated somehow rekindles the passion

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because then it's a little bit like recording

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each other. And there's that going on. But it

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was when that happened that they started to fight

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it out. They start kind of hashing out their

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history a little bit more. And you see them kind

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of talk about things that are, I think, really

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relatable to everybody in the audience watching,

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which is at what point did we make it the other

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person's responsibility to make us happy? And

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then at what point in a marriage when it's just

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kind of it's easier to just kind of live your

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life than to keep. trying to get to know the

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other person through all the changes and transformations

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that two people can have in a lifetime you know

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you think you know that person because you met

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them and married them but we become new people

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every year every day every 10 years you know

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whatever the cycles are Are we still doing the

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work or making the effort to know that person

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that we're married to? I love that you say that

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you've been married. You've been in three marriages

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all to the same person because it's true. Like

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that's we change. And if you don't change with

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your mate as they change, then something's off

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and something's amiss. I have been married before

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and divorced. And that was so long ago. Let's

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just say that if. me and her were to meet today,

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we probably no, no attraction, probably nothing.

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You know, it's like, oh, I'm a different person

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now. She's a different person. That was a different

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life. We didn't grow together. So I can see that.

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Do you ever feel like these multi hyphenated

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Hollywood setups, you know, how it's got Arnett

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hyphen Dern hyphen Cooper. Do you ever feel like

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the ones with these big names and stuff? It's

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either going to be a masterpiece or a very, public

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therapy session and because i'm leaning towards

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the latter and i mean that in the best possible

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way bradley cooper has a knack for finding the

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broken and beautiful people and put it on the

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screen like this yeah he's directing will arnett

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and laura dern broken people you could you could

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say it either way right Absolutely. Beauty in

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the brokenness of these characters, you know,

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these flaws and these conflicts and these not

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just relationship conflicts, but like inner conflict.

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Yes. Like Alex Novak, Will Arnett's character

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going through as he's discovering himself through

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stand up comedy, through going to open something

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he probably never would have done when he was

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married and with his wife. You know, like he

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would never tried stand up comedy, this character.

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But he's like. whoa, what is this? What am I

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feeling? What am I discovering about myself?

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I'm getting on stage and having like therapy

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on stage. That's what it was. Yeah, that's what

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it was. And I've been in that position of where

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Alex was, that feeling like you're going through

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a divorce. His name gets called and he's like,

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fuck it, man. I'll do it. I've been there where

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it's like you got nothing to lose. What's the

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worst that happened? You get up there and. people

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boo you and tell you they don't like you and

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you get off set. Like, you're not making me feel

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any different than I already was. So who cares?

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Right. I mean, it's like right now he's going

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through this really, you know, big life event

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that's changing everything he thinks he knows

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about himself, about life, about what he thought

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happiness was going to be, all these things.

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So you're right. Like, the biggest fear that

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a comic might have getting up on stage and trying

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to be funny and to be, you know, a successful

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comic is, I want to make people laugh. I don't

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want to bomb. But he's like, I don't care if

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I bomb. You know? Like, who cares about that?

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My marriage is over. Like, that's so much bigger.

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Yeah. And I love it. I love it. I love the fact

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that, you know, he takes this. Takes it on. Like,

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that's a huge challenge for your name to get

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called and go up to an open mic for something

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that you really just came into the bar to get

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a drink. You know, like that's, it takes a lot

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to do that. He didn't want to pay the cover charge.

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Yeah, he didn't want to pay the cover charge.

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Bradley Cooper directing Will Arnett and Laura

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Dern feels like putting a shot of espresso into

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a glass of wine and then shaking it up. It shouldn't

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work. But you can't stop looking at it. We can't

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stop paying attention to what they're doing on

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the screen. And I mean, the title itself is this

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thing on as a universal cry of the misunderstood.

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Think about how many times you hear that, whether

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you're podcasting in our basement here or a movie

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star on set. We're all just asking if the connection

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is real. That's what is this thing on really

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means. Is the connection real? Am I connected?

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Do you hear me? Is this thing on? I feel that

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every single day with three boys chasing them

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around all day and my husband and everybody having

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their own self -interest. They all have an objective

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in their mind of what's going on and what they

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need to get done and how they are pursuing happiness.

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you know comes to be the theme at the end is

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like how how individually are we pursuing what's

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right for us and meeting our needs but then we're

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like connected in this family unit i'm constantly

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chasing my kids around being like is this thing

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on is anybody listening what about me is what

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i find myself saying a lot they don't pay attention

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to they need something you ever notice that that's

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a whole other topic but yeah Eye on the prize.

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What can I get out of this situation? And that,

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you know, that's hard. Relationships are hard,

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whether it's a spouse, your children, just trying

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to navigate all of that. I absolutely loved getting

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to watch this movie after I listened to, I mentioned

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Smart List because that's what I found out about

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the movie. Will Arnett is one of the hosts of

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Smartless and Sean Hayes actually has a small

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part in this movie too, which I loved. He's fantastic

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too. But they had Laura Dern on as a guest. So

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the conversation of how the two of them worked

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with Bradley Cooper and how they connected during

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the filming of this. And to hear them talk about

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how intimate it was, it really was exactly like

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what you described. It's like these actors were

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getting to go through a therapeutic experience

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through these characters because there was a

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deeper level of intimacy between Will Arnett

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and Laura Dern. They have like this newfound

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deep connection with each other. It's not romantic.

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It's still a working relationship, you know,

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the two actors working together. To play these

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parts together, it's just incredible to see how

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that interwove into it. Yeah, and I love that

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Will Arnett, he's the king of the lovable jerk

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with a soul made of glass. Like, we know him

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for the voice, the swagger, the arrested development

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ego. But Bradley Cooper strips all that away

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and still shows you another side of Will Arnett

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that I'm not used to. And we also get to see

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the seedy underbelly of the comedy world. Yeah.

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And that's real. These people doing these open

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mics and going from one to the next to the next

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in a big city, that's real. I've worked with

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some comedians before. One of our buddies is

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one, still is, Ben Brown. And, yeah, this is

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a hustle on top of a hustle already. There's

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so much going on in this movie. That just makes

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it feel so real. It really does hit. It sticks

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with you. And that's all a credit to Bradley

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Cooper, if you ask me. Laura Dern, by the way,

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in the news, she's joining the cast of The White

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Lotus. Oh, that's a great fit. There you go.

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So I wanted to mention that. Laura Dern. She's

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not incredible. Was it Big Little Lies that she

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did with Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon?

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Oh, my gosh. Her playing that character was so

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next level. Just next level. I read the book

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before I watched that TV series, and she just

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hit the nail on the head. Oh, she's incredible.

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Absolutely incredible. And let's talk about the

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scene with Peyton Manning. Walk us through that

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scene and what you were thinking, Coco. That

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was interesting. I was watching it again with

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my husband. You guys have to remember, we're

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not sports people, okay? But you know Peyton

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Manning. You know who he is. I did. My husband

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was like... what is that, Brent Favre? I was

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like, no, that's Peyton Manning. Even I know

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who that is. No, yeah, playing a character, you

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know, and getting to talk to Laura Dern's character,

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Tess, about, and she plays this Olympic volleyball

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athlete, and that, you know, really kind of becomes

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a real central part of her character of, like,

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finding a new identity and she talks about in

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the fight that they have about how she's like

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you never saw me past the olympic athlete you

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know i retired from that and then i tried to

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and then there was all the years we were trying

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to conceive and trying to raise kids and be a

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mom and how hard that was for me to leave that

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identity behind and figure out who i was after

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that and she felt like he is the husband abandoned

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her through that and now she's stepping into

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a role of I think I'm going to get back into

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it, but I'm going to be coaching now. And that's

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a different. What is that going to be like? And

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so Peyton Manning plays a character, Laird, who

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is a friend of theirs that knows both of them,

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Alex and Tess. But they have dinner as kind of

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a business meeting, supposedly. She finds out

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he's now single and he finds out she's now single.

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And, you know, maybe there's a little bit of

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a date spark going on there right at the end.

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But I think it was interesting that scene because.

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It gave Tessa's character an opportunity. She

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was asking questions about, like, what's it going

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to feel like to be back in the sport but not

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as an athlete? And he lets her know it's going

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to be hard. Like, that's a different identity

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that you have to take on. But you're going to

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love it, too. Like, it's going to be this whole

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other opening for you to, you know, discover

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who you are in this new setting. And I just think

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that that was really an important scene. It was

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the catalyst to her and him going to the bar

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that ends up being the same place that Alex is

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doing his stand -up. So that's how the cat gets

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out of the bag and she finds out what he's been

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doing this all along. But it was interesting

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to see Peyton Manning in sort of a, like, you

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know, it's a lot like his natural self, but adjacent.

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Yeah. His athletic character. I've always loved

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Peyton Manning. Listen, I've got a crazy story.

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I went to University of Tennessee and my roommate,

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his older brother, was roommates with Peyton

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in Knoxville. And Peyton gave him a pair of his

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shoes and signed them. And we had them up on

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our mantle in our college dorm room. And when

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the alcohol would get to flow in a little too

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much, those shoes would usually end up on my

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feet or somebody else's feet in the house. And

00:19:17.230 --> 00:19:19.670
our roommate would get so pissed off. But, yeah,

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I've always loved Peyton. I have always loved

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Peyton. And rest in peace, Keenan Lucky. That

00:19:25.730 --> 00:19:27.809
was the guy's name. He died of COVID a couple

00:19:27.809 --> 00:19:31.849
years ago. Hard battle. But, yeah, that was a

00:19:31.849 --> 00:19:33.890
crazy story. Let's talk about the cinematography

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because there's a lot of this, like, and this

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is what made it gritty was these close -ups.

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It's almost Giallo style, like, you know, an

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Argento movie from back in the 70s or something.

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It's something like that. That's Bradley Cooper.

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He's obsessed with the cost of being a creator.

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Think about A Star is Born or Maestro. He is

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great at dragging. I don't want to say dragging,

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but this movie is a hard watch. He's dragging

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the viewer in and making you watch this. Yeah,

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making you really face it. It was really symbolic,

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I think, of taking a good hard look. Yes. At

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yourself. You know, like, sometimes it's not

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pretty. Sometimes it's real close. That's kind

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of what it felt like to me with all the close

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-ups. Because you're like, yeah, I love watching

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Will Arnett on screen doing his thing. No problem.

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Laura Dern, sure. Yeah, all that. It's great.

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But it does get a little uncomfortable when you're,

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like, that close. Like, the camera is just circling

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around. I'm just... I'm also thinking about how

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that must have been like for the actors to act.

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You think that the camera was close where they

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just had to kind of like look past it? Not for

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these professionals, not for a Laura Dern, Will

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Arnett, Bradley Cooper. I don't think so. And

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that's probably why this movie was so well acted

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is because they were able to ignore. Yeah. The

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cameras and the set and whatever was going on.

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They just passed it to a whole room of people

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or whatever. And this camera is circling real

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close. And a lot of this was not on a set. Exactly.

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But a lot of this was not even on a set. You

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know, they're in the streets. They're in the

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comedy club. They're in New York City. So that

00:21:25.369 --> 00:21:27.490
gives it some more realistic vibe, too. And the

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close -up cameras, I don't think it bothered

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any of them. Bradley Cooper's character balls.

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Let's talk about him before we get out of here.

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Let's do. I think, and this is going to be way

00:21:40.779 --> 00:21:43.519
out there, but I think Balls needs his own movie.

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We need to see more of this character. I thought

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he was great. We all know a person in our, if

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not immediate circle, past circle of ours, that

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we had a Balls in our life. Am I right? Did you

00:21:54.819 --> 00:21:57.079
have a Balls, Coco? A couple of them? I think

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there were several. I look back at college days

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when I was first married and all the group of

00:22:02.299 --> 00:22:06.200
friends that we had back home. And, you know,

00:22:06.220 --> 00:22:07.759
we've stayed in touch a little bit here and there,

00:22:07.839 --> 00:22:09.980
but sometimes I look back at the way that we

00:22:09.980 --> 00:22:14.200
were back then and I go, ugh. Ugh. Yeah. You

00:22:14.200 --> 00:22:17.299
know, you can love him and also be like, what

00:22:17.299 --> 00:22:23.359
an idiot. Just a little bit difficult to be around

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sometimes because, I mean, Ball shows a character

00:22:25.539 --> 00:22:30.740
that's, like, a little self -obsessed. You know,

00:22:30.779 --> 00:22:33.900
one of those guys who... Maybe he used to wear

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his sunglasses upside down on the back of his

00:22:35.619 --> 00:22:38.299
head. You know what I'm talking about. Yeah,

00:22:38.319 --> 00:22:41.099
you got me concerned over here now thinking that

00:22:41.099 --> 00:22:45.200
maybe I was the guy. Very possible. It's very

00:22:45.200 --> 00:22:47.980
possible it could have been. Yeah, but I love

00:22:47.980 --> 00:22:51.119
that this movie. Yeah, this movie seems to be

00:22:51.119 --> 00:22:54.759
about the performance of life. And that's going

00:22:54.759 --> 00:22:56.940
back to the, I think they ignored the cameras.

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I think they were just living. They knew their

00:23:00.299 --> 00:23:01.640
roles, they knew their characters, they knew

00:23:01.640 --> 00:23:03.299
who they were supposed to be, and they weren't

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Will Arnett, Laura Dern, Bradley Cooper. They

00:23:05.740 --> 00:23:09.559
were these people on screen. Now, was a little

00:23:09.559 --> 00:23:13.480
bit of them, the real them, coming out? Probably.

00:23:14.220 --> 00:23:16.680
Probably. And I think that the title is this

00:23:16.680 --> 00:23:18.880
thing, you know, Bradley Cooper's poking fun.

00:23:19.200 --> 00:23:22.380
At the very industry, he's dominating. It's meta,

00:23:22.460 --> 00:23:26.480
maybe a bit rebellious, but that's exactly the

00:23:26.480 --> 00:23:28.539
kind of frequency we like to stay on right here.

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We don't even know what this movie was. Was it

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a comedy, a tragedy, a tromedy? Don't know. I

00:23:34.049 --> 00:23:37.509
feel like the era that we've gotten into in the

00:23:37.509 --> 00:23:41.990
past decade, probably, is less and less separation

00:23:41.990 --> 00:23:45.210
of genres. I mean, you've got like the horror

00:23:45.210 --> 00:23:48.690
comedies, the horror dramas. You've got, you

00:23:48.690 --> 00:23:52.549
know, this is like a dark comedy. Like it's dramatic.

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It's very deep. It goes down to some really real

00:23:56.329 --> 00:24:00.960
human. inner workings and psychological thought

00:24:00.960 --> 00:24:04.220
processes, and then you have moments that just

00:24:04.220 --> 00:24:07.279
make you laugh out loud. Sean Hayes and his husband

00:24:07.279 --> 00:24:12.680
in the cast, when they're all at Oyster Bay in

00:24:12.680 --> 00:24:15.759
the friend group, and midnight, it's like 2 a

00:24:15.759 --> 00:24:17.900
.m., and they're in the kitchen getting ice cream

00:24:17.900 --> 00:24:21.059
out and trying to wake everybody up. I remember

00:24:21.059 --> 00:24:23.519
them joking about that on Smartless, and Will

00:24:23.519 --> 00:24:26.299
Arnett says to Sean Hayes, well, that's just

00:24:26.299 --> 00:24:29.380
your real self. That wasn't playing a character.

00:24:29.480 --> 00:24:31.599
You just do that. Eat ice cream at midnight.

00:24:31.839 --> 00:24:34.460
Yeah. What's your final thoughts on Is This Thing

00:24:34.460 --> 00:24:38.559
On? If you haven't watched it, please do because

00:24:38.559 --> 00:24:42.859
it's fantastic. It's a fantastic, like, to me,

00:24:42.920 --> 00:24:44.960
if I was to take a visual of what this movie

00:24:44.960 --> 00:24:47.839
is, it's kind of like a spider web. Yeah. Like,

00:24:47.839 --> 00:24:50.819
you know, here is, like, the basic plot and the

00:24:50.819 --> 00:24:53.619
basic characters, but there's this interconnectedness

00:24:53.619 --> 00:24:58.539
of... past, present, and future of friend groups

00:24:58.539 --> 00:25:01.940
and relationships and familial relationships,

00:25:02.359 --> 00:25:05.440
you know, the spouse, the kids, all of that.

00:25:05.720 --> 00:25:09.759
There's, like, not just the conflict that's happening

00:25:09.759 --> 00:25:12.880
between the characters, but also each character,

00:25:12.940 --> 00:25:16.599
even, like, Christine and Balls, their marriage

00:25:16.599 --> 00:25:18.220
and what's going on with them. You have these

00:25:18.220 --> 00:25:20.940
moments where you see the inner workings of their

00:25:20.940 --> 00:25:24.380
conflict, too. Really, it's not about their conflict

00:25:24.380 --> 00:25:26.680
with someone else, but what are they dealing

00:25:26.680 --> 00:25:29.740
with internally, too? Yeah. We've all got that

00:25:29.740 --> 00:25:32.220
going on. That's why it's so realistic. That's

00:25:32.220 --> 00:25:34.920
why it's so real. We watch this movie and we

00:25:34.920 --> 00:25:39.799
go, oh, this is us. This is all of us. I think

00:25:39.799 --> 00:25:42.220
that's why it hits. I think that's why it hits.

00:25:42.220 --> 00:25:47.900
It's because in real life, we're all on all the

00:25:47.900 --> 00:25:50.640
time. Social media, work calls, family dinners.

00:25:51.319 --> 00:25:54.779
always checking if our mic is working, if our

00:25:54.779 --> 00:25:58.180
persona is landing. That's why this movie resonates.

00:25:58.359 --> 00:25:59.819
It's not about the famous people. It's about

00:25:59.819 --> 00:26:05.900
the exhaustion of being seen, perceived. Seriously,

00:26:05.940 --> 00:26:09.259
think about that. How much of your day is spent

00:26:09.259 --> 00:26:14.640
making sure this thing, the thing is on? Yeah.

00:26:16.259 --> 00:26:19.250
That's scary. That's sad. A lot of energy. Go

00:26:19.250 --> 00:26:21.430
watch this movie if I haven't seen it already.

00:26:22.890 --> 00:26:26.250
I thought it was incredible. You know what time

00:26:26.250 --> 00:26:28.869
it is now, though? It's Freaky Friday also. And

00:26:28.869 --> 00:26:30.990
this one's going to be real short today because...

00:26:30.990 --> 00:26:33.589
We got into it. We got a lot of comments and

00:26:33.589 --> 00:26:35.529
they're all about one thing. And it was the F1

00:26:35.529 --> 00:26:40.289
Brad Pitt getting in the car. And everybody came

00:26:40.289 --> 00:26:42.589
at me. No, he didn't. No, he didn't. Get your

00:26:42.589 --> 00:26:45.470
facts right. Get this right. He was in an F2

00:26:45.470 --> 00:26:48.579
car. He wasn't in the F1. He didn't race in real

00:26:48.579 --> 00:26:51.000
race. I don't care. Look, he was in a race car,

00:26:51.119 --> 00:26:54.240
okay? Brad Pitt got into a race car and drove

00:26:54.240 --> 00:26:57.420
a race car. I don't care what kind it was. Okay.

00:26:57.519 --> 00:26:59.779
And he did it, and that's more than most people

00:26:59.779 --> 00:27:02.759
have done. So there's our Freaky Friday for the

00:27:02.759 --> 00:27:05.559
day. Brad Pitt got into a race car. I've cleared

00:27:05.559 --> 00:27:08.319
up. I've made amends. I hope that's good for

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the freaks out there. It's good enough for me.

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Good enough for you, Coco? Good enough for me.

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Yeah. I'm just playing. She's Coco. You're the

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freaks, and this is Parallel Frequencies. We'll

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see you on the other side.