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25:17Like those two things are the most important. I've worked with Todd and he is very good at getting paid. At getting paid. Him and, him and. Yeah. Todd, you haven't done it yet. Him and. Yeah. Yeah. Like, don't get fucked over by these clubs. And yeah, I learned stuff from everyone. And so, yeah, I feel like I have a it was the best entry into this, you know, business for me, somebody who's already an adult, you know, and super focused because that right in that time I missed I started missing like a lot of shit with my kids, like as entertainers do. And so I was very focused because I was like, this has to be worth it, you know?

25:50Yeah. So you didn't it's you weren't thinking about Abbott Elementary. You weren't thinking about the character of Ava. This was something that came to you and you didn't even jump at it. right no I so we I got that audition during the pandemic I always thought so I hadn't really thought about acting my whole goal at that time was I want to be Chris Rock I had just come off my last tour was with touring with Chris and I was like this is amazing you know and so I was like this is my goal and so I would get auditions from our agents and I would just kind of fuck around with them like especially if I thought it was stupid or whatever I wasn't ever like pressed to get on screen.

26:28I was like, if it happens, it will. And then I always thought one of my friends would get a show and bring me over like Adam Sandler does or whatever. So when I got that script, I really liked it, which is rare, you know, to read a pilot and like, oh shit, this is amazing. And so I remember I wrote Quinta on Twitter and I was just like, your pilot is so good. I know how hard that is to do. I've been trying to write one myself and failing. And she was like, thanks. I said, I think I'm going to audition for Ava. And she said, I didn't know you act. And I was like, I don't know if I do, but I don't know.

26:59I'll try. I love how honest you are. You're not talking. You're not selling yourself or talking your way into it. You're saying, oh, I have no idea. I was really just trying to compliment. I was really impressed. I was like, I'm laughing out loud. I could totally see this. And I remember telling my agent, like, even if I don't get this, this is going to go. It's going to go with or without me. And it was in the middle of the pandemic. So I wasn't I thought we were going to die. I wasn't really trying to do much of anything. Truly. so I had the audition like in my hands for like six weeks and the deadline passed I kept asking for extensions and I just I didn't have the motivation I was depressed I was depressed and then finally my agent was like are you sure like I really think you know I was like fine I had to like pull out all the I couldn't find my ring lights I had my son like holding a floor lamp towards me you know for lighting.

27:55And then I just, yeah, I sent in the self-tape and then I got a call back. So yeah, that's how it happened. And then I did four subsequent like Zoom auditions. The highest compliment you can pay someone is, I cannot imagine that character being someone else. Thank you. In any alternate universe, you're still playing that part. Thank you. I mean, that's how I feel. That's how I feel like it's meant to be. Because again, I waited so long, everyone had already auditioned. It kind of worked out for me in that they were still looking for the person. It was like, oh, this latecomer. And then I found out Quinta, once I did my initial, she just kept sending me up.

28:29They were like, well, can we get a name? Who else do you have? She was like, it's this person. It's this. So she kept, so it kind of worked out that I waited. And yeah, I do totally feel like it's meant to be, which is how I like everything in my life to work. Well, I don't want to chase anything. Yeah, but that's the thing too, is that I feel like you probably, after all these experiences you've had, Not just as a stand-up, but all these experiences you had just trying to make your way in the world. That all, none of that's wasted. That all goes into your ability to look at this character and say, here's what I would do with this.

29:06Yeah. Because. And also, what's the word? Is it empathize? I don't know if it's empathize. But yeah, she's a hustler at the end of the day. Like, that's really what I took out of her ethos. Like, she has same thing like me. Multiple businesses going, even though she's a principal. Why does she own a party bus? Do we know? She has a thriving TikTok shop. You know, she has a rotating closet in hers. You know, she's doing everything. Also, when she unveils the sign that she spent thousands of dollars for a public school that's very much in need of funding. You spent it on a sign that you're on.

29:50Inspiring? Yeah. It's really what I was trying to do. That's the word I wrote down right here. That's what she was trying to do. Thank you. Thank you. Because I don't know anything about - Because what is a thousand dollars when you need millions is how I - But you know, I think empathize is the right word because you're saying these characters don't work if you also don't like them. And the fact is, if you just looked at the character of Ava on paper, I don't know that You would see anything that you would like, but your portrayal of her, I see a lot of qualities. She is fearless. She completely believes her own bullshit.

30:28My favorite characters in comedy are deluded, egotistical. It's to me, it's - That's the entertainment industry, baby. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It is. It's delusional. People that, I mean, to me, it goes back to Peter Stellar's Clouseau or Don Knotts as Barney Fife. People that don't have the skills, they don't really have any of the backing that they need. They completely believe in themselves 100 percent. I think that's the difference between me and her. Like she has like almost unearned confidence. Yes. And I think my just the coming up in stand up. It's in Hawaii. I mean, them shows I did in the Midwest were horrible.

31:10You know, I'm doing like BFWs with like like a full house of white men just staring at me with their arms crossed. So nothing once I got to Hollywood and acting is scary anymore. And I also had the backing of the grace. I've had Chris Rock tell me, yo, you the real deal. So these are the things that are giving me the confidence to do this character, which is my first role. Yeah, it's kind of unbelievable. But it makes sense to me because early on, I always insisted. What I had was my mind. and I thought, okay, I can develop these other things, but I want to be in control. I don't want to go around and say, I'm a blank slate, someone please cast me.

31:53I knew that I had to form this Conan thing. I kind of knew what it was and I just kept doubling down on it. And I think your story is very inspirational to me because I see you finding yourself and you get to - If you make me cry, swear to God. Again, I'm going to give the credit to the tie stick you brought.

32:26Not only are you going to cry, I'm going to cry and vomit blood. Just smoke ties. Again, do you need me to put it? No, I love it. All right. It is the - I can't tell when you're being - No, but - He's usually not serious. I know. I've never said a serious thing in my life. So that's what I mean, him being, I love it. It didn't mean anything. No, no, no.

32:51Excuse me, just one minute. No, but you took control. I think that has informed everything you've done is you deciding, no, I'm not going to chase anything. I'm going to develop. I mean, what I would think was my worst nightmare was to be, quote unquote, trapped in a character. you know like you're saying you developed your own thing so and i'm and as many stand-ups are it's like i'm a thing unto myself like i am me you know that yeah so then to come to this play this character who's become her own thing really like fucked my head up for the first couple seasons and now i'm like i have to come back to i like this person i think she's interesting how did screw you up a little bit people saying that i'm that person i see that type of thing which i've now intellectualized as oh that's how well i'm doing that people think that i am you mean So people meeting you and thinking you're a deluded, egotistical narcissist.

33:46Yeah, yeah. I get that too. Yeah. You're like that Conan guy. No, that's my character. But also having to like realize, having to realize that they admire it. Like, yeah, we're saying it as like a negative. And they're like, I love that you're this deluded, narcissistic. Also, I always think comedy writers, I know in my career, when I was on The Simpsons, I only wanted to write for Mr. Burns. I only wanted to write - The villain. The villain. It was so much fun that they had to tell me, you can't pitch another Mr. Burns story. All your ideas are about Mr. Burns because he can be infinitely evil.

34:30He can have vast amounts of money. He can have robots in the basement. It's this whole world. and it's the same thing with Ava where she can... Anything. She's almost a cartoon. Yeah. You can come up with all kinds of stuff for her. The hello sign that she aims towards herself. I love it. And I did that to make myself laugh. Quinta was like, leave it. Right, because someone tried to change it. Someone tried to say like... I did it like, ha, isn't that funny? Like it's facing me and then I was like, all right, let me put it back. She was like, no, put it back. That's hilarious. You know, so it's like, yeah no greeting for the outsiders it's you saying hello to myself and explaining who you are yeah yeah it's such a little touch i love it and i love that it's stuck and people yeah yeah but that becomes catnip for writers because it's i think one of the reasons your character just sort of took on its a life of its own is there's no end to it people can have a lot of fun saying oh wait i just thought of something that ava could be doing i mean people watching the show i'm that So that goes back to me being like, oh, no, I'm stuck in this character.

35:35I'm really not because she can do anything. She can do anything. I think more than any of the other characters who are very like, they are their, you know, ethos in their character. Ava can switch up at any time and it won't be a surprise. Were you happy? You're waiting for the switch up, you know? Were you happy when your former boyfriend was revealed to be a... Oh, Iguodala?

36:00is that what you're talking about yeah yeah was i happy you know i mean it's just so hot yeah um quince actually ran that by me um what do you think about this guy and i liked that he was married uh because i was like oh less uh instance for sexual harassment and i was like oh a family man who's also a tall attractive ballplayer who wouldn't want that in their lore that's her lore that she only dates athletes. Which you can keep adding to. Yeah. I mean, she founded the roots. I don't know if you've heard. I forgot about it. And like, no one believed that you knew Questlove and then you showed up.

36:36I don't know how many times I got to bring it to these motherfuckers. That's what I like about her. She's like, she says things and then it turns out to be true. Turns out to be true. That reminds me so much of, I grew up in Boston and Red Sox, of course, are everything. And the star of Pitcher was this guy, Louis Tiant. And we had this, I got to be careful here so I don't get anyone in trouble. I had a teacher who will go unnamed who was just a character and was always spinning stories about hanging out with Fidel Castro in Cuba and escaping Cuba and being shot at and swimming across the ocean to get to America.

37:12you just thought nothing he's saying is true. And he used to talk about how his good friend was Louis Tion, who was the biggest star in Boston. We thought, bullshit, you know, whatever, man. And one day we're all having class. We're on the first floor, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting. And a hand is wrapping on the window and it's wearing a giant pennant ring. No. And we look over and it's Louis Tion banging on this teacher's window. And he goes like, hey guys, I got to go outside and talk to El Tiente and goes outside. And suddenly I realized he he is friends with Castro. Everything else is true.

37:50Everything is true. But it's the same thing. And now he's a teacher. And it's just like, yeah, I'm like this character. Another reason I was mad about the character being characterized with this character is like, I'm like, this is the least interesting thing about me. You know, it's playing this part. So I had to get over that. Yeah. And realize that that means I'm doing a good job. Yeah. that comedian ego. Do you like the part now? You're very well known. It's a hit show. Your character really pops. Do you like being recognized and how do you handle that? Because you're not someone who was three years old saying, I've got to be recognized.

38:29That wasn't you. So how do you do it? Again, I had a very rough first couple of seasons just wrapping my head around all of this, you know? And because you said, it wasn't anything I ever like actively pursued. And then comedians are like, especially standups, we're like contrary loners. You know what I mean? And then to have people think that I'm this character, which I know comes with a performance. Like that's how we're different in that she wants to be famous. And so people approach me as like, this must be great for you that I'm recognizing you because that's what you want because you're that character.

39:06So that was hard for me. And so now I've gotten better because I just stay in the house. What a healthy approach. I saw a therapist and the therapist said, don't leave the house. Everything's better. No, it's been wild. I do have, yeah, therapists, I have two now. They just talk to each other now. Yeah, like, oh, what's going on with this, bro? Yeah. And then I don't want to feel, because then people take that as ungrateful because people think that that's what they want or you want or you wanted fame. I'm like, I just wanted money and to have fun and not to have to perform every time I leave the house, which it does feel like a performance.

39:53Like even when people I'm glad that I'm a villain that people like to see. That's one thing, you know. So everybody's approaching me with like happiness and joy. But that's still like so much energy output for me when I'm just trying to go get some dog food or something. I hope you have a dog. That's all I gotta say. All the actresses. That shit is good. Have you tried it? All the actresses are on a dog food diet now. If that gets out and everyone's eating dog food, it works! Osepic who? Yeah. Are you on dog food? Are you on dog food? All your nutrients? Found Alpo in your garbage can. Do you?

40:38I mean, how do you deal with her? You've been doing that forever. I mean, I know. I know. We ran into each other because I was running up on you. Like, you know, so I, how do you feel about it? I was like, that's going to O 'Brien. I'm very happy that you came running up on me. That didn't happen a lot before I got famous. Women weren't running up on me. And so I say yes to fame. uh well i have two good witnesses here that will tell you because they're with me all the time sona and david and they see me out in the real world and i learned a long time ago there's two types there's um someone like a steve martin who i think is just absolutely brilliant uh comedian legend icon i mean he's up there in the mount rushmore of funny people and he's very reserved and quiet and kind of shy out in public.

41:30And I think a lot of his career has been people not understanding. That crazy guy with the arrow through his head, I saw him, I'll go up to him and I'll give him that energy. Do something wacky. Yeah. Now. Exactly. And it's like they're coming across a very shy art history professor and they're confused. What a jerk. Yeah. And then there are people like, myself who are me all the time to the point where it's probably an illness. I mean, I'm just right off of it. I just like to try and I do the same stuff with the waiter or the person who's selling me the insole for my shoe. I'll do the same thing for them that I would do with you here.

42:21It's no difference. I mean, it depends. For me, if I'm with someone that I think that I feel safe with, I love it. I love talking to people. I'm a comedian. I want to know what's your deal. What do you do? How do you? And I always say that's what this experience has taken from me is talking to strangers, really, because what I'm looking for now is people who don't recognize me. And then I'll have a conversation with them. And I'm like, I leave so energized because I do like people. and then right before I step away, they'll be like, by the way, I love you on the, and I'm like, oh no, did I tell that person where I live?

42:55You know, because that's how I talk to them. I'm like, yeah, I just moved to, where did you eat? I love this restaurant and we'll have a great thing and I'll be like, wow, made a new friend and they're like, I think I already know you. That's what I don't like. And I've also noticed that I will also be more open. Now I'm going to tell people how to fucking approach me, but if they come up and they're like, I love the show. I'm like, thank you so much. I'll do the whole thing, but I'm I'm wary of it. But if they say I've been following you since stand up, I know you're a Netflix special. Then I feel like, oh, you know me.

43:27They know you. And then I'm like, what's up, homie? You know what I mean? So it just depends. I came to your fake restaurant. Exactly. Exactly. So it's I'm working on it. I smoked some of your cigars. Hey, I saw your titties in the 90s. What? What's up, old friend?

43:52me and stern that's where i know you that's where i know you the year is 20 2008 me and my friend stern and here you come cigars and titties i'm like yeah you know the real janelle what's up friends how is your family reacted to all oh my god well my mom just came around because she's Did she love it? My mom is very shy. I am also, and I didn't realize this, I am also kind of surprisingly shy. Yeah. And so my mom is very shy. And so she, for the first couple seasons, wasn't even telling anyone. And then she said, I put a picture of you on my desk and people keep stopping by. Like, what is it? And she's like, that's my daughter.

44:36And they're like, what? She's been, you know, your daughter this whole time or whatever. So now she's kind of leaning in. and also I'm trying to get her used to the fact that I have money and that she can accept things from me that's been a big deal and that she can have nice things that's something I had to work through like oh I can have I have money so it's been so many things all at once my kids don't watch the show they're cool I think that's good I think it's good yeah you know my older son says it's weird to see me like that yeah he's like what is that voice you're doing and who is that but he's like wow you're like i took him just recently to like a talk i did at a at a college and just him seeing how people react to me which people cry with me and i'm always like i'm not mj like it's it's cool i'm just a lady but people cry and like shaking my son was like what the fuck like yeah you're famous and i was like yeah yeah this shit is wild and that was just a couple weeks ago and that's like the first real conversation we've had about because I try to tell them, but it's not to your my mom, too.

45:44We I took her to New York. We went to Broadway. People are chasing us. My mom, she's so tiny with her little legs running and she was so anxious. She's just like, what the fuck? Like they don't. It's been crazy for all of us. But yeah, again, I I just stay in the house. Yeah, she's a hologram right now. I'm beaming in. We we assembled the studio in your house. I'm like, oh, why do celebrities live in the mountains? I know now. You know, it's so nice to see someone's work from afar, just see their work and admire them and then meet them. Conan O 'Brien just said that. No, no, but what I'm saying is admire them and then meet them.

46:27And they're just who you would want them to be, which is you are yourself. I am. You are yourself and there's no changing that. And so many people would have been warped, bent, twisted. stretch by this experience. I wish I could lean in, though. I wish I could be like, yes! I don't know. That's what Ava would do. Yeah. I'd be out as her. But you know what? I'm leaving so much money on the table. I know. I can perform as her. Welcome to the Ava extravagance. I could probably have a fucking Vegas show. All kind of shit. There's still time. Don't say no to it. Later on, maybe. Don't say no to it.

46:59Yeah, yeah. You know, there's always time for that. Yeah. And in fact, it's not time for that right now. It's time for you, you know, to see this character through. Now, some people are speculating because your character got fired. Facts. For a couple hours. Yeah. At most. You would all panic when that happened. I didn't think you would be. I was like, oh, I'll go back on the road. I wonder what Chris is doing. Like, I was like, I was like, I mean, that's the benefit of having multiple skills. Like, and I mean, I've, I've quit jobs for, for any reason before. Or again, I'm always on the hustle.

47:37I'm like, okay, well, if you think that's the best thing for the show, for me to be off of it, I agree with you, Quinta. You're a fucking genius. Thank you so much for the opportunity. She's like, no, you'll be back the next episode. I was like, oh, I don't even get some days off.

47:53Can't your character be in a coma? Can't Ava be in a coma and you still get paid just as much? How many days? Can I go to Mexico? Like, what's going on? No, I was back the next episode. But that was very thrilling for me because people still come up to me now. So that happened last season, months ago. And people still come up to me now like, let me know when you're back on the show so I can start watching again. And I'm like, dude, I was on the next episode. People were like, I don't watch it anymore. They fired you. Why would they do that? So that was like gratifying for me. Like, oh, wow. I'm a thing.

48:22Yeah. Yes, you are a thing. Thank you. Absolute delight. Thank you, Conan. To get to meet you, get to know you. I think I told you when I met you, I wanted to do time on your show and then I was too precious about my little five minute set and then all of a sudden you weren't there anymore. Well, here we are. This is, I mean, who knows what I was going to say back then. Yeah, exactly. My dad is dead. Killing, look at me crushing. See, still got it. Still got it. I'm sorry. It's just such a funny line. My dad is dead. It just kills every time. That was probably my set back then. Yeah. No, it's just, you know, So one of the things that makes me really happy, this has been a real gift to me, is this podcast format, which was invented by people long before me.

49:08And I just came along and it fits me like a glove because what I really want to do - Love your travel series as well. Oh, thank you so much. You're the best at talking to people. Anyway, I love you. Thank you so much. But what I love to do is, in the old days, it would have been you. Yeah, it would have been you doing your set and me coming over and thanking you and us standing together for a second. Walking from the desk. and shaking my head. Yeah. And then goodnight. We'll be right back. Janelle James, everybody. Ba-na-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. Credits. This, to me, is more meaningful. Thank you.

49:39Because we really get to talk about some stuff. I mean, how many listeners you got on this? We got a lot. Okay, great. I don't do numbers, but... I'll be the judge of meaningful numbers. I know. I'm sorry. I refuse to be here today. It's okay. I was doing a bit like, how meaningful is it? We shall see. Could quantify it. Will my followers. No. A lot. We have a lot of people listening and they're all the greatest people ever. Yeah. You are your fan base. I always say that. Yeah. Janelle, you are just a delight. And I do hope you come back sometime. Anytime. And I hope we are friends for real because that would be, seriously, that'd be a nice thing for me.

50:24You would up my friend game. I feel like I let everybody says that. and then I'm in your backyard and you're like how'd you get here no you don't I really don't have a lot of friends and I'd be so happy to I'll come to your house and I'll hang out I just got a pool what's that I just got a pool what's the shape of the pool is it kidney shaped nope it is oh is it kidney shaped it's bulbous it's more squash shaped is it kidney the mind wanders I'm here for your bulbous pool Janelle welcome is what I will say. Oh my God. The way you just invited yourself over. I'm going to ring your bell. Here for bulbous pool.

51:02Who is that? I don't know. I can't see, but I think it's Conan O 'Brien. I'm going to say, here's your incense. Please cleanse yourself before you enter and let's have a great time. Thank you so much for being here. I appreciate it. Thank you. I mean, I've had the, this was so great. Oh, great. And easy. Love it. We all win. And my close, you guys, you know what? I'm going to go home and my wife's going to say, who are you cheating on? Catholic nun.

51:28you smell like parsimmon

51:42let's do a review the reviewers i like it i like to keep my finger on the pulse of what the podcasting listeners believe feel that's right this is where we go to apple podcasts and we take a five-star review. Okay. Not hard to find. Hey. It's nice. Okay. So you're weeding out all the no-star reviews. Yeah. I don't think you can give no-stars. You have to do one. I'll find a way. To your own podcast? Yes. I'm going to load up our comment section with no-star reviews. All right. And we read it and we review it or if there's a question we'll answer it. Yep. This is from Annalise0912. The title is Best Podcast Ever.

52:23Wow. Wow. Yeah. I listened to this all day at school. I have absolutely no idea what's going on in any of my classes, but I'm sure I'll figure it out. The bad thing about listening to this at school, though, is that I can't laugh out loud. And believe me, I really want to. Seriously, if you look over at me while I'm listening, you would see tears streaming down my face, me quivering and shaking with laughter, and my face as red as a tomato. I'll often at times have to go to the bathroom, and I'll sit there and just laugh. I'm sure everyone thinks I'm a big creep, but I could care less because Conan is so funny.

52:56Also, Sona and Matt, pure gold. I'm only 16 years old, so I love getting to know guests that I've never heard of. I think that y 'all should make a Team Coco iPhone app. You can have full episodes of all Conan shows, not just the clips like YouTube, remotes, podcasts, and anything Team Coco related. My screen time would be off the charts if y 'all do that. Anyways, love the podcast and love Conan. First of all, I love Annalise0912. and thank you so much. What a great comment. And I, I mean, Adam, you can get involved in this. Why aren't we an app? Why aren't we an app? I think the main ask I heard out of that is that she wants the full episodes.

53:37And my guess is that this review was written before we started releasing full episodes. So we're doing what she wants. And you don't have to go to an app. You go to YouTube where everyone has access to. This was a year ago. Yeah. So I think it's - So now she's 17 and despises us. Oh, no. And that's how far back I had to go to find a five-star review. The part of my brain that determines what's of quality developed in the last year. No, it's really nice. I mean, I usually push aside compliments, but we just have to take this. It's so nice. Are you worried, though, that she's in high school and she's listening to this during class?

54:15You know, no. because I remember in high school learning nothing that was of use to me. And I'm just, come on. When was the last time you used any of your math skills, Sona? You still walk around with an abacus. Graduated in high school. Exactly. I know, I know. I used to write disco rules on all the tables I sat on. Did you really? I don't know why. But disco didn't rule when you were in high school. I think it was just me being like silly and ironic and I would just be like, disco rules because I didn't think it ruled. But I also, maybe I did go through a bit of a disco phase. It's a fun genre.

54:51I like disco. But I think that what I'm excited about is she's young. Yeah. I know. Young people, I really want them to like me. Really? Do you guys ever feel that way? Or is it just me? He does, for sure. Like, I change. I want young people to assist me. Help me up if I fall in. Guide me to the part of the iPhone that I can use, you know? I mean, that's I'm mostly looking to young people for I actually I will say this. This is honest. I love the enthusiasm of young people. I really do like that. And when when young people are happy, I'm happy. It's a weird. I don't know if that's weird to say, but I am.

55:31I think that because I tried to think I was hip for a while. And then now I've completely lost touch with 16 year olds where I don't know what they're interested in. And I think that when they like something that I'm involved in, it makes me feel good. Yeah. Yeah. Why not? I like this. I like this very much. And I have to say, when I'm cruising around, not cruising. What? Were you cruising? There was a time in the late 70s, early 80s when I was cruising. It was after the Al Pacino movie Cruising came out. And I didn't understand what it was about. Don't even know what that movie is. I just thought it meant having a nice walk.

56:04Did he cruise? Yes, he certainly did. He's an undercover cop that went in underground. in the gay scene to solve a murder. Oh, cruising like that. Yeah, I didn't know what it was. So I wore the same outfit that Al Pacino wore in cruising, which was all leather and a leather cap. And I would go and I would yell, I'm cruising around and I'd walk around. I didn't know what it meant. But boy, certain people were very friendly to me. But anyway, that's neither here nor there. What's important is just walking around. A lot of young people say they enjoy this silliness. So that's nice. I wonder what our youngest listener is that finds it on their own, not that their parents listen.

56:41That would be in utero, I think. You think so? Yeah, there are obstetricians that say you should be, there's a way you can just put the podcast up to your belly and a child as it's forming, a fetus can be listening to this nonsense. Can you imagine that? If a child is formed with only this as its influence? Yeah, it comes out and it's just, it wants to immediately buy all the products we mentioned in the ads. Oh man, that's dark. What qualities does it take from us? I think it's loud. It's needy. I don't think that's my one quality. Well, we're talking dominant qualities. I know. What is your dominant quality?

57:18That I must dominate. Oh, what are you going to dominate? That's true. This conversation. And then... You can say it. I don't want to say nerdiness. I knew you were going to. But you knew that then. Why did you make me say it? You knew. Why didn't you just say it? I'm not going to take your idea and do it for you. When a baby's born wearing a straw boater.

57:43And wearing a t-shirt that says Whittier Rocks. I'm more worried about the mother's birth process with a straw boater on that baby's head. It gets slightly knocked askew. After that, it's fine. Is it a boy or a girl? I don't know, but it's wearing a straw boater.

58:02And it wants to get to the Rose Bowl, swap meet immediately. That does come up a lot. I've literally never once been to the Rose Bowl flea market. You've never been? Even I've been. But you sit just outside the Rose Bowl and wish you could go in. They won't let me in. Yeah. You're blacklisted because they're too scared? I've been to the Pasadena City College one, though. It's pretty good. That one's really good, too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was escorted out. He's not allowed back to the Rose Bowl anymore. Why? He shoplifted a loot. You know what? that's not true because I'm going there this weekend to see Oasis motherfuckers me too you are Saturday yes me too what are you doing are you coming no I do like Oasis though I love those Gallagher those Gallagher fellas it's a different Gallagher than the one you're thinking of with the sledgehammer it's Peter Gallagher Peter Gallagher no I honestly thought that Peter Gallagher was one of the Gallagher brothers because he's got the eyebrows yeah he does you know and And they won't tour with him because they really hate him.

59:06Yeah, they just thought his work on the OC was inferior. Shout out to Peter Gallagher. Love you, man. All right, what's that? Enough nonsense. Knock it off, you eight balls. Come on. All right. Hey, a shout out to Annalise0912. Very much appreciate your encouragement and just try and study some, just some, okay? All right. I look forward to you being my surgeon. Take care.

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