Hank Azaria Talks Conan, Walken, Pitt, and Springsteen

30:29Dana Carvey:What's the do you want to give us the title of it? Hank, I think it's called Listen Never Mind. which is what my mother used to say to me all the time listen never mind she's saying listen never mind yes no she said that's funny well she was the most dismissive person i ever knew and she had a dismissive catchphrase which was listen never listen oh never mind it's not worth it well it's like uh mama i'm really hungry listen never mind there's people starving but they also didn't make any sense like mama i think i might uh twisted my ankle listen never mind it's almost yom kippur which doesn't make any sense but i like young people starving you're like do i have to join them can i eat and then they're still starving exactly you're gonna play a lot of different characters in the play or yeah it's what it's it's really like a life story it's like a lot of the origins of the voices this was that guy and that was that person and and you know stuff like i was i you know i do a young young al pacino impression you know godfather al dog that's good yeah i'm dying here everybody's coming down on me here that i love it i was doing a play in west hollywood when i got the simpsons audition i was playing a drug dealer the one that voice so i auditioned for mo the bartender with this voice and they want they said can you make it gravelly we like the and so to me gravelly is bruce springsteen I've been imitating since I was 15 years old.

32:02That's fantastic. If you take Young, I'll put you on one end. And Bruce Springsteen in the other, and you mix them. Right in the middle there, that's Motor Bartender. He's a mash up there. So it's a lot of that kind of relaying little origins of voices like that. People love that stuff. Kids do enjoy that.

32:24Dana Carvey:In the early days of when Trump came out, I was on. on some talk show and i said it's really it's regis philman and brando coming together you know anyway you're ready for this and then i don't tell you so well anyway you gotta you know i mean you can see how those two together i showed my 16 year old son the godfather for the first time so i've been working on my rito carlioni impression oh good it's good for disciplining you've won. His name's Halsey. Halvathorin, come over here. Me and Dana were just talking about Brando in the field at the end when he, like, the kid's playing. When he dies.

33:06Dana Carvey:With the teeth. And you're like, we were just saying, I don't even know if they knew what they were doing. That Tay Coppola's like, do whatever you want on this one, you know. And in your mind, is Brando the greatest film actor or or you have another favorite good one well he was so all over the place you know there were some that were just baffling i mean vito corleone is definitely one of the best ever and he was to me like in streetcar and and on the waterfront he was way ahead of his time um so it was jimmy stewart actually in my opinion like his performance in its wonderful life was breathtakingly realistic in an era when they all sounded like this.

33:54They all sounded like, you know, that's right.

33:56Dana Carvey:Oh, and the darkness before his nervous breakdown with the with you, it was saying, well, why do I have to have all these kids? I mean, the movie is way heavier than people think. And the theme of the movie is so evergreen. I mean, just it was a flop to nobody. It was so ahead of his time. Nobody liked it when it came out. Capricorn, they called it. Yeah. yeah yeah yeah yeah well it's a wonderful life you're talking about yeah yeah bombed basically yeah yeah just get it out of here then they sold that movie out of my theater i think it only really had its life by the time it became public domain i think tvs or where everyone could just see i think they yeah they're burning it off at christmas or something maybe i heard this too and then everyone got into it yeah you know the grinch never worked again after that one all right whatever oh you mean the border call off no just the grinch the grinch there's been a lot of grinches let's play i like those old timey actors as bill hater calls them um but i do a bit about the world's first sociopath that people know they had mental problems in ancient times and i do i'm just using peter lorre and no one has busted me on it, you know?

35:13Dana Carvey:Just they go, where's Steve? I don't know. What's that hand coming out of the ground? It's Steve. I killed him. Am I weird? I don't know, but you got to stop that. So anyway, it's just you can use those characters and no one really has them. Oh, yeah, let me hear it. I did Boris Korloff. I was in Ben Ben Stiller movie. Now I get the museum tour. Oh, yeah, where you were. The evil fatter that was, as a joke, I just went, should I do Boris Korloff? He was the original mummy. And Ben cracked up and said, no, you have to do that. He's like, really? So, yeah. Yes, Peter Lorre, you can do this for sure.

35:57Professor Frank is just a naughty professor. The Jerry Lewis version, of course. Yeah, they're so old that nobody, I think their original voice is not. I know.

36:07Dana Carvey:that's that's a really great use of your your gift you know lou the cop is stallone is that yeah lou the cop would so a bad stallone you know and a little toed down stallone yeah yeah it's very nasally there why not you and you do people like that like boris karloff is it kind of informed like what was in that guy's brain that somehow he decided to talk like that because it's almost feminine or bizarre wings back then like waters where is who is that person just talking i mean i think that's just the way he talks i really do it's very compelling yeah a lot of those guys are very distinct i mean they were laurie and carloff i'm big fans of both them they were unbelievable actors they were just oh yeah talk about you know free to be themselves on camera they were just like and they they brought a lot of you know reality and grit to these weird old-fashioned things yeah i mean there's it's it it's sort of i don't know if it's a trope at this point but doing for young impressionists doing modern movie stars i i just make a joke that i i do a timothy chalamet but i just go what's up man you know i'm not doing it at all but uh there was a cavalcade you know between john wayne and kirk douglas and all those old movie stars they just had really weird voices who do we have we have the same amount of who's today that's got a very interesting who's cary grant well who's the guy that talks like this yeah yeah i don't have one we don't carey grant was great with that well i don't believe in my day i used to do uh eric roberts oh yeah that's a good one fucking greenwich village man They cut off my fucking thumb, Charlie.

38:01Fucking dumb. I used to do Mickey Rourke, too. I used to like to do Mickey Rourke.

38:08Dana Carvey:Oh, really? I know what you're doing, Counselor, but don't do it. It's from Body Heat? Yeah, Body Heat. Body Heat. You know, Pulp of Greenwich for the Diner. Great movie. Yeah. Let me do it. I'd do it for you, Counselor. And then this thing, he kept using it in all his movies, right? But now Mickey sounds like Why do old actors End up sounding like this What is this You know like Pacino was like this And now Al sounds like this What is that Maybe they're projecting a fainter voice I have a theory that As the testosterone goes down And they're older gentlemen They make their voice super alpha You know Hey I'm 97 seven.

38:53Dana Carvey:How are you doing? You know, it's like, I guess that's the right ass. Exactly. I hope it doesn't happen to me. That's all. Here's another thing I want to ask you about. Does it seem like most actors get more theatrical movie stars like Al Pacino, which I, I love Scarface. I'm possessed by it actually as a, as an operatic movie. Watch your car. I don't mind, you know, all that stuff. Um, And then Christopher Walken, also, if you see him in the Woody Allen movie and where he kind of made a character out of him, those are sort of recent times, big, big time, big voice actors. I don't know. I mean, Daniel, Jeff Goldblum, sort of similar.

39:38Yeah. Some of them do. I mean, some of them get more subtle. You asked me, I mean, Daniel Day-Lewis is amazing. I personally think Robert Downey Jr. is maybe the American genius of our time. I mean, I know he's Iron Man and everything, and that's what we think of him as now. I know. There's nothing the guy can't do, really. Yeah, he's freaky good. But yeah, Chris Walker, I don't know, he's amazing. Some of these guys just really, Shatner, they realize that they're sort of bigger than life, and they lean into it. Like Nicholson sort of did the same thing later in his career. Once people pick up on it, they almost turn into that more.

40:17They turn into the impression more.

40:19Dana Carvey:Yeah. Well, the rhythm of what Christopher Walken did is just so effective. I don't know, waiting for the wood. I mean, it's like it's a brilliant song. I look at him as musically just brilliant. Talks in haikus. Which he is gifted that way. He comes from musical theater. I really wonder. I worked with him once. I wanted to ask him but I never got the nerve do you plan this shit or is it just what comes out you know what I mean yeah or does everyone expect this is how we're hiring you we want you to sound like this because it's so was he improvising you mean or just doing the rhythm of that voice in such a I mean I didn't work with him much but he pretty much stuck to the script it was kind of a little different each time But just that delivery, I wondered if he planned it out.

41:17Although, did you see him in Severance?

41:20Dana Carvey:Yes. Yeah. He was very small. Very small. Yeah. Yeah. He can do whatever he wants. Yeah. I love him. I did. He was in Wayne's World 2, and that was kind of a thrill at the time. I'm dressed as Garth. And then he would come up, and his first line was Garth. And the way he would say it was so like he was going to kill me. Garth. long long pause you know so i i decided to do luke costello and then mike and i both went you know one of the that thing of fear but goth it's like a it's got three syllables that kills me he says he sounds like him to me in the brief times like that it's not like only when he's on camera he he was asking me if i ever worked with an actor dog and uh oh yeah remember he caught me off guard but but he was doing pauses it was an odd question and then he continued to ask questions and i was like this is great and i wish this was shot everything he's saying is funny he does he is really he does have that rhythm in real life yeah he asked you did you ever work with an actor dog well the funny part was a lot of stuff we were waiting for a scene and we were in the dark and there's about four characters in there waiting for action and they're like holding and uh there's a pause and he's in the dark and then he goes david i can't really do him he goes hey did you ever work with an actor dog and i go uh we don't call it i go i have there is that's the funniest part i go there is one in this movie in some other scenes and he goes he goes they're good they they really they know what to do they're well trained i go yeah and then he paused and he goes hey have you ever worked with an actor cat and i go an actor cat i go no i don't i mean and then we're all kind of giggling going is he serious i don't i don't think so because he goes he goes they're no good because you tell them what to do and they don't do it but if you yell or something to an actor cat they jump but that's that's every cat would do that He'll go into the details.

43:46And I go, yeah. And then he goes, ever work with an active mouse? No. And I go, I don't think there are that many. She's making it up. I did Mousetrap. Remember Mousetrap? Oh, yeah. Nathan Lane? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And who was the other guy in that? It wasn't Broderick, was it? Matthew Broderick. No. So he goes, you tell a mouse to go up, take a beat, and go to the right, and they do it. They're smart. He thinks they're smarter than cats, which they maybe are. And then once he's getting into how smart the actor mouses are, then they go rolling. And then we never, never came up again.

44:29Dana Carvey:Did you ever work with Anthony Hopkins? He's another character. I never did. But I know people who collect Nathan Lane stories. It was Lee Evans, by the way. Oh, that's. Oh, yeah. Mouse Hunt. with nathan lane um mouse trap yeah uh oh yeah i just forgot what did you nathan lane stories oh i just uh anthony hopkins is also no i never oh he's on yeah he's got to go up there reads the script 200 times does no research nothing reads it he said 200 times he has the entire script memorized he had a polaroid this is in the early 90s of his character and he'd take it out of his pocket it was kind of crumpled up polaroid shot of himself and they're going speed and he would just put it up against his face look at it and then put it on his face and go and then put it back in and then he would be the character so he's got his own way that's like Hannibal Lecter like I know there was a little bit of uh that Dennis Hopper movie what was that blue velvet yeah um yeah there's people who collect chris walken stories you know yeah like you know that actor titus welliver uh i just played that great detective series um sounds like a fake books anyway he does an unbelievably good walk-in impression and uh apparently like when he and grace jones were shooting that bond movie where they played like villains together you know you had like Grace Jones had like blonde hair and yeah they're shooting like in the Swiss Alps or something and he and Grace Jones walked into some you know local little tavern or whatever and you can imagine and he had like white hair I think and she had and so the locals all kind of turned around and stared at them as you might imagine and apparently Chris Walken broke the ice with coleslaw for everyone there's no story you could say where you'd have to say which one is real and which one is a fake walking story no it's yeah indistinguishable also i think titus just happened to him personally he was doing some film with him and it was their day off no it this is i got this from the person though this wasn't like a secondhand story and they're they're shooting somewhere and it's the day off and chris is uh they're walking somewhere and chris is like waiting he's in the river like he's in a creek or something just standing in water you know like a pool or i don't know where he was but it was odd and they said hey chris are are you okay because he was just standing in there yeah And apparently he went, today, I am an alligator.

47:28Today I'm an alligator.

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49:46Some of the most uncomfortable moments of my life have been spent like that, like in between takes with legendary actors or like, we just run out of small talk after like two or three days. And then, you know, like Gene Hackman, for example. Oh, wow. Oh, is that a bird cage? Yeah. Oh, that's right. Bird cage. Gene Hackman.

50:08Dana Carvey:That incredible move. Perfect movie. You were great in that. Thank you very much. Mike Nichols. Amazing. But yeah, Gene Hackman. and um you know he just doesn't suffer fools really which you turn into around i get very like wound up around oh yeah people i admire you know i would he's intimidating he's a big he's one of my favorites he is amazing and he was very nice and then but he just doesn't once the small talk was done he just didn't feel the need uh you know but you're not like how did you're Like you just said with Chris, but you're there together for many minutes, like waiting for action or whatever you're doing.

50:48By the way, this is a world of no phone. So it's not like people go back to their phones. It's like sitting in silence. And sometimes you just got to let them just sit there.

50:58Dana Carvey:Well, you're just thinking, what could you say to Gene Hackman at that moment in time that he would sit up and go, yeah, and start, you know, like turn them on basically, like get them really excited. I did a movie called The Ultimate of This. I did a movie called Mystery Alaska. It was this hockey movie. Burt Reynolds was in it, okay? And I had one scene with Burt. And Burt Reynolds absolutely had like an old-fashioned movie star freak out meltdown. Like just screaming at the top of his life. Really? Yeah. Why? Or just tell the story. he uh oh my it was oh it was the weekend he was nominated for boogie nights okay oh boogie nights yeah shooting in the in the canadian rockies near calgary in like the middle of the middle of nowhere and we had to get shoot him out so that he'd get back to la and do press for the Oscars that week.

52:04And so we rehearse the scene a little bit. And Bert also had one of those old actor voices at that point. He says to the director, which was Jay Roach.

52:18Dana Carvey:Oh, Austin Powers. Yes. If you like, I can stand up on this line. Jay says, yeah, maybe. That just might save you a shot. Because that That fuck over there said it's going to be a long fucking night. It's pointing at a producer who I guess it said it's going to be a long night. Oh, because Burt just made a suggestion kind of? No. I think just because we were night shooting. Oh, okay. And I guess Burt was feeling codependent because we had to shoot him out by midnight to get on a helicopter to go to the Oscars. Yeah. And he literally, he like flipped out on the guy. Just absolutely flipped up. Sure.

52:55Burt's a scary.

52:56Dana Carvey:That was pretty intense what you just did. Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you. No, no. I mean, use that the next time you're in a movie. I go, do what you did on Flying the Wall. Well, thanks for Roy London. I didn't commit, but I can relay it. Yes, it was terrifying. But the point is, he flips out. We calm him down. And we're waiting. They're setting up the lights and we couldn't go anywhere because it was a snowstorm and we're in this set and all of us were together, the crew and the cast, the producers, everyone. And I sat there for 20 minutes and Bert sits next to me because we're waiting to shoot.

53:25And I racked my brain for like, what do you possibly say to somebody?

53:31Dana Carvey:yes okay i want to know david what would you say then we're going to find out what happened david what would you say in that moment it's like a game show i'd say who do you think the cardinals are going to pick in the draft i would say you know bert that guy over there you're right fuck that guy that's what i would have done that that prince was talking shit to me earlier too bert yeah so what happened i thought i've been dismissed many things like that and i'm sitting there literally just i i can't get him to walk away because i'm terrified to make him angry i don't know what to do and finally he broke the silence i swear to god this is true leaned into me very quietly and he said i uh i never told sally i loved her whoa i said what wow i should uh i should i said oh you mean you're talking about sally field aren't you wow because they were like famously yeah a couple yeah but like 25 years before that right so why he chose that moment to break that silence with that statement i will never know it felt like you know sometimes when people have ptsd or redundant things they need to get out you were like fresh meat you were someone to tell and obviously he intuited that you were a very decent person right right so that would be a very positive spin on that story i'm trying to be positive i think it's nice here's what i would have said as a backup look i i i don't i don't mean to fan out but your your performance and deliverance is one of the greatest things ever put on film anyway i gotta get can i get something at catering would that work Vanity play Yes that would have actually worked They have Chili Cup Or some other more obscure movie Maybe you know but yeah Sharky's Machine Sharky's Machine Smokey and the Bandit 2 with Gleason With Jackie Gleason There's a famous story about Apparently James L.

55:38Brooks offered Burt Reynolds The Nicholson role in terms Of endearment that's what i read too and he turned it down to do like stroke erase or something i don't understand that they might have been still upset about that that might have contributed to the what wait last thing i know we got to get going but sharky's machine they cut off his hand cut off his thumb am i crazy when i was a kid i think it's pinky because was he it was he a loan shark or a fixer or something he was a cop he was a cop oh he's a cop and he's getting too close to like the mom i've seen yeah i got too close to the heat yes and it turns out one of his fellow cops betrayed him and they like they got him and and uh they need to know where he's falling in love with who is that gorgeous actress rachel ward and she's this prostitute who knows too much and he's got her stash somewhere and they need to know where and they start chopping off his fingers by the joint you know you know it's funny this is a side story but these beautiful well-known actresses almost every movie they're like and this scene you're just gonna be completely naked and they're like okay rolling and it's like you know what i mean it just at some point just stopped but for a while there i was like is everyone just going along with this i guess I think it was you couldn't really fight it.

57:03Some actresses drew the line, but yeah, back then it was sort of standard. You ever do a scene where you had to be naked with someone? A sex scene or whatever? It's one of the weirdest things ever. It's one of the grossest for them.

57:20Dana Carvey:I did this thing with Kelly Lynch, and she had a nudity clause, so it couldn't be her nude. so you had to be the well i i mean they didn't your cause that you had to be didn't show any my money money parts but no but at one point we're doing this scene and it's like a porno it's like a porn like okay now you know they like the director like yells oh so now kiss down her body okay now like he'll direct you like how to you know nuts what foreplay to engage crazy yeah really so then they call cut and you're doing that with with telly and she goes out and they bring they They bring in this, this body double.

57:59Oh, oh, oh, wow. And they say, hi, this is, uh, this is Jennifer. Hi, nice to meet you. And the robe off, she's naked and she gets in bed and, and then do the stuff that now they can show the nudity. Like, okay. So kiss down her body. Okay. Okay. Go back now. Kiss back up. And now like, okay. Fondle her brass snap. And so, and you do that for a take like cut great we got it and and she's gone and you never see her again i'm sure that there are prostitutes and johns who had much more of an exchange did you find yourself hanging out

58:36Dana Carvey:you know for the close-up so like okay it's the moment of he's in he's just he's penetrated you and and you want her reaction you could tell the the size of the member but he's like do you know what i'm saying so you can be there go no honey i'm bigger than that so can you react more yeah it's gonna be it's gonna be quite a thing so could you get a little bigger in your close-up or the director it's whatever he's into he's like now kiss up her elbow and kind of chew it a little bit i'm like well it was kind of like that you know it's like okay that's how you do that but the funny thing is the movie i'm watching let's say i watch that movie i think it's kelly lynch so she's not really saving anything it's like oh those are boobs they don't show her face but i guess those are her boobs i don't know totally i mean yeah but you know yeah i miss the old i miss the old-fashioned movies where the woman would pound the guy's chest you're an impossible beast and then they'd make out yeah then it's that's for possible beast that's what i like dana i like those we've never I brought up that subject of reaction shots on simulated sex before.

59:45Dana Carvey:That's a first. Yeah, that's a good area. I just wanted to break ground here. No, no, I brought up the thing of you being on set going. I need a little bit of a reaction, please. Dana, do you need to ask anything other than. Well, I would just do this real quick because I. You're very interesting to talk to. And this is an impossible thing to ask people. But in no particular order. Top five movies all time. No particular order. It's the same one, two, three, four, five. We've talked, like, you know, it's a very boring list. Godfather one and two. Yeah. Goodfellas for sure, which I like to think of as Godfather three.

1:00:22I replace the actual Godfather three. Yeah. Okay. Those are all. It's a Wonderful Life absolutely is in my top five.

1:00:30Dana Carvey:Okay. You can go to 10 if you've got so many. I don't know. Those are really huge on my list. Ones that I just like long time when I've, I appreciate Jaws a lot. Yeah, it's a great film. I appreciate Alien a lot. Yeah. I love, I love probably the time I saw it. I was 14 when I saw 2001 A Space Odyssey. I love Planet of the Apes. Boom. I love Redford in the seventies. I love, I love all the president's men. All the president's men is definitely in my top 10 at least. We've seen it recently. my wife and I hadn't seen it in a few years and holy shit does it hold up totally it's more relevant than then it's so brilliant and relevant everything um three days of the condor butch casting Sundance kid um oh the sting I would put way up there the Redford Newman Newman got more subtle as he went along as an older actor but Redford was always we haven't had a blue eyed wasp held back movie star that well we just watched the horse whisperer the other night you know and uh he just had a he had he's this movie star i don't know i mean they never gave him an acting award but he's and he was he not when he was behind all the movies sydney pollock and he were collaborating and finally he does ordinary people so anyway he's an interesting god rest his soul character no i i my i did quiz show for him oh that's right yeah my first big movie that i got and thanks to Roy London and I just ran into John Turturro who was in that as well just the other night another great great actor he's incredible but yeah but they don't make him like Redford and Newman anymore or Burt Reynolds I used to love Charles Brunson too oh yeah that guy was awesome in the modern era who are you are you a Christopher Nolan or Tarantino or both?

1:02:35Dana Carvey:Who's your favorite director or do you like, who's the guy who did Sideways and Descendants? Oh, Alex. The director. Yeah. Is it Alex? No. Alexander Payne? Oh, Alex. Yeah, it is Alex. Amazing. Yeah. Nolan at his best. I'm a comic book geek and so I love what he did. Well, the reboot, that first reboot with Christopher Bale. Oh my god But when Christopher Nolan gets To plays with time too much It drives me crazy I can't handle it Well that's what I saw Dunkirk I felt the same way I liked it But then I saw it a few years later There was a reissue And I kind of knew what was happening In terms of that so then I Fell in love with the movie All those time jumps that you're not sure There was Inception and then there was Tenet Right?

1:03:31Dana Carvey:yeah those get very yeah those are they get meta on themselves to a point where like you can't yeah i don't get what i anymore inception i like tenant was a challenge but i do like once upon a time in hollywood a lot well i you know tarantino at his best is pretty i loved once but and i had I saw it 11 times. I had no clue. I knew nothing about it when I saw it. Yeah. And so I'm thinking, you know, this is heading towards, you know, Sharon Tate disaster. And my mind was so blown by that, like, alternate ending of like, I just, what a great use of a movie star like Brad Pitt to just like erase history like that and save the day.

1:04:18Dana Carvey:I remember your white little face. and you were on a horsey I'm as real as a hot dog that whole movie Leo was so great in that too don't cry in front of the Mexicans he's incredible too I always want to dislike Leo DiCaprio and then I see him like I gotta give it up he's just great he's not good he's great he doesn't make sense good looking has it all then he's yeah yeah that's true anyway well we kept you a little longer but i i love i love talking about movies and everything me too feel feel good about yourself i i read that you would be it would have been a therapist maybe if you oh yeah i was all set to go back to grad school for psychology and then i've got the simpsons basically so i still have it so that's that run once you've talked about it just it's it's incomprehensible that it's lasted this long and stayed at this quality.

1:05:20Dana Carvey:And you're the 89 all the way through. It's extraordinary. Yeah, I took over the crown from, there was a ceremony last year where I was dubbed luckiest man in show business. I took the crown away from Alan Thicke, who had proceeded. Really? Yeah. Alan Thicke. Well, that's, yeah, I don't know. Yeah, that whole thing, yeah, but you're brilliant at it. So, I mean, it's not like they could take, let's get an actor and have him do a funny voice. You know, it's a lot. I can probably do it, but that's a whole other story. I know we have AI on after you. I'm a digital copy of Dana Carvey's right now. So we joke, but yeah, you know, the test put the hand in front of the face.

1:06:04You ever heard that? No. They show them on Zooms. These people that are fake interviewing for things. Really? Put your hands in front of your face. And he goes, why would I have to do that? You just put your hand in front of your face and they can't go like that. I don't know why. and they talk about it and they won't do it and they go thank you that's all if they can't do it so that means that's terrifying they don't want to show that's not weird yeah they're finding these little glitches yeah well soon they'll fix that too yeah that's it that's an easy i can fix

1:06:34Dana Carvey:this is still baby ai this is infant ai yeah just wait eight more months it'll be a mature okay not scare us no it's really true i don't i'm not i think it's really cool i read this thing where like and the odds are better than i thought you know the shit that can go wrong is intense of course and but there's only like a 20 chance of that it's like 80 likely that it will all be fine and just yeah that's a little too high for me yeah i thought it was more coin flip yeah um um well yeah but when you think about like would you get on a plane if i said listen you got 80 chance of landing so you're not going to cry yeah i get on a plane thinking i have a one percent chance so i mean i'm not i don't like fine where's all the fixing cancer and everything ai come on now let's go well they're going to give us fusion energy unlimited clean energy and they're going to cure all these diseases cancer and parkinson's and all that let's just hope it does that in the first few weeks when it doesn't see us as the disease well that every science fiction movie we had in 2001 the ai turns on the humans the only problem with the earth are humans is we've seen it in you know isaac isemov and all these science fiction books and everything no so we named hal so i take it really personally based on how the computer no no it's despite Despite that, I just like the name.

1:08:00I love Hal Ashby and Hal Holbrook. Oh, okay. I like both of them. We're looking for an age name. That's cool.

1:08:07Dana Carvey:Yeah. All right, thanks. Hal. All right, thank you, fellas.

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