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Jessica Williams reveals How She Got on 'The Daily Show' And New TV Special 'Entergalactic'
Oct 5, 2022
Jessica Williams talks about coming up as a comedian and the new TV Special 'Intergalactic' with Kid Cudi.
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Jessica Williams reveals How She Got on 'The Daily Show' And New TV Special 'Entergalactic'
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big round of applause for that trailer
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right there yeah
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to prepare for premiering on Netflix
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this Friday September 30th
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had the beat sway
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back in about 2012 I believe it was I
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was watching The Daily Show and I saw
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this magnetic electrifying intelligent
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eloquent uh stunning individual Grace to
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screen with so much comedic timing I had
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to know who this person was I thought
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she did an incredible an incredible job
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and as far as um just in general and
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then I got a chance to see her I used to
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watch girls I used to come to work and
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tell y'all watch Girl nobody else was
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watching girls they didn't understand
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why somebody like me would watch girls
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but I used to hang out in Williamsburg
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back in my MTV days that's where
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everybody hung out that's what they
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thought was hip
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if you were from the West Coast you
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would know it or maybe you went to Cal
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State Long Beach or something I did I
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didn't graduate from there though I left
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I left to move here to do The Daily Show
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right there I love it well kind of I was
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like
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oh my gosh wait please do that again you
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want to do that again yeah okay I'm
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gonna say I'm gonna say um you left they
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I left to go do The Daily Show but they
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made me finish my finals
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hello
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and then I gotta see on all my finals
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because I didn't give a [ __ ]
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I got that
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we saw her on um HBO with two dope
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queens and my gosh I was like they went
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from the theater to the TVs and we've
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seen Center in movies and you know done
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film and done so many different things I
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just want to say I'm proud of you I've
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been trying to get you on the show for
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years I told you that outside and the
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pandemic happened and I forgot about you
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and I appreciate that you know what
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there's plenty of the [ __ ] to worry
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about there's many everything like in
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the day today
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it's like yeah you gotta deal with that
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you gotta deal with that especially he
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was talking about the ancient days of
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Williamsburg with Kobe that's like a lot
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more serious you get it I get it it's a
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problem well she's here to promote
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Intergalactic welcome Jessica Williams
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to the show
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thank you so much thanks for having me
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no of course I appreciate it it just
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seemed like an honor a great time when
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did the comedy become well you seem like
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you are you might have been funny as a
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kid yeah and then people around you said
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girl you crazy yeah right well no I was
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just kind of a really introverted and
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bookish when I was a kid I grew up in La
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well in the South Bay in Torrance the
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guitar general area but I just read a
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lot of books and um I was yeah I but I
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was really witty I my grandma was a
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really she had a great sense of humor
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she was really crass she would babysit
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me she lived in the valley and we would
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watch Saturday Night Live SNL she would
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let me watch just like anything I wanted
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um and so I think I got a lot of that
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from her so were you allowed to curse as
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a kid hell no oh my gosh my parents were
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they're they're religious it was I don't
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know like I don't were you guys allowed
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to curse him like with your black
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parents like that to me is like the most
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foreign like so that seems crazy to me
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absolutely I was telling Sway and Tracy
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the other day I saw a young girl about
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19 tell her mother to shut up in the
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grocery store and I had the whole 360
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and I just stared in the cashier like
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looked at me like shut up wow that's
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violence like on site yeah well I think
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growing up my mom she was always like
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your words have power your words have
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meaning and like so when you say
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something she didn't even like the word
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shut up like and even in passing she'll
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be like say cayete which is like well
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okay but that's that's Spanish that's
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Spanish and she's like okay but you know
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but it's like your your words your words
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have meaning and so that that to me I
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don't know shut up is Harsh on the
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spirit yes
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whatever you're saying like shut it down
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that seems like oh there is that what
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did the mom say was she like she looked
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hurt but the sad part I was telling um
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swaying Tracy she looked like she heard
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it before and the sister was like dude
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chill out like the sister said that uh
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but it was the mother looked broken she
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looked broken I was like it's a lot
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going on there I have a broken mother
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she still gotta feed him I mean at the
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end of the day
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gotta dress them up and give them a roof
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over their head teach them words shut up
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would have got you put out you couldn't
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understand if you if you said my mother
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called us if you said huh or what oh no
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what no what no what you couldn't say
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wow huh crazy no talk back in general
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huh yeah yeah huh what did you say huh
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they would say if you could hunt you
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could hear oh yeah you can hear yeah you
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hurt me what you could get your ass wet
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oh my gosh what is crazy because you
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know what just they want you to I think
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the same Jessica means come down to
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wherever I am yeah
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and you go that means I need to go to
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where you are and we need to have a
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face-to-face conversation the ha and the
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what is outsourcing a little bit it's
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pushing out it's pushing off the
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inevitable you know you're kind of going
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what like they gonna yell back that they
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need you to go find a remote yo this is
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so interesting because the reason why I
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asked you that is because what I'm
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noticing now on social is that parents
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will make
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they'll allow their kids to say some
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alternative language because they're
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funny and they can record it and go
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viral off of it so now I'm wondering if
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we're gonna have a lot of children who
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weren't disciplined to grow up to be out
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of control adults not everybody well
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sometimes well sometimes I get worried
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like sometimes I watch kids shows yeah
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I'll catch it and I'll be like there's a
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lot of hijinks and like getting over on
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parents you know what I mean there's a
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lot of getting over on parents culture
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but I'm a little I don't know I'm 33 now
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so you know things are changing right no
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no do you know
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no sweat I don't have any kids are you a
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rich auntie uh yeah I'm I'm a cool
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Auntie you know what I mean I'm like the
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my goal is to piss my older sister off
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my sister is like four kids now which I
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can't even believe she just started she
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started she didn't stop really happy for
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her but I am the Auntie like with no you
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know real habits you know I'm like yeah
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whatever you want like I want to get
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them off the schedule when they come
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visit me yes so I can send them back and
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piss my older sister oh my God what
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happened here why do they want to be up
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till 4am oh why did you why are they
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expecting a bounce house when they get
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back look I just want to deposit that
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you've become your grandmother that's
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right yeah I want to get him I just want
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to get them to I want them to feel as an
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auntie I want them to feel like they can
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come to my house and anything is
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possible like they can be who they want
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to be as you know within reason don't
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don't what me you know what I'm saying
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let's go back to the what don't don't
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act wow however they can I want them to
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feel like they can talk to me about
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stuff and then I'll just buy them goofy
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[ __ ] and I'm gonna get them like little
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Vans like little checkerboards yeah they
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don't love that yeah yeah yeah yeah and
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then they go home yeah
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and then when they start when I get them
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off the schedule then they they act wild
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I give them too much candy and I go okay
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now it's time to go home I'm gonna meet
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your mom at the Costco in between her
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house and mine we're gonna drop you off
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in the parking lot do an exchange like a
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drug deal y'all be mean people halfway
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to watch kids you do that no yeah you
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pick them up out the parking lot my
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daughter it's the media spot yeah
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because you don't want to go all the way
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to the house
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my brother my step brother he was a Del
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Taco baby so every other weekend I don't
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talk what does that mean well we would
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just take him to Del Taco the meeting
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spot was that a Del Taco halfway between
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LA and Corona so we would just drop the
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little dude off with his mom at Del Taco
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I know
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that's what you did it I mean I was just
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tagging along man you gotta love it
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you sound like sorry Jessica you sound
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like you are like always down for like a
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fun adventure and it's making me think
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about the conversation that we had
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yesterday with Kim Coles Kim Coles was
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talking about her process and how she
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went from doing stand-up to In Living
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Color and she said that
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um someone saw her she had this crazy
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audition process one you had to make up
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characters you had to do all the things
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and it was crazy by the time she hit
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that stage how was your like process
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going from like stand up to television
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felt like when was that break well it's
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never really a stand-up I think what was
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interesting about
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um two dope Queens is like we were just
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talking we would have General loose
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talking points and I got you would just
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stand up and talk to each other what I
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do like
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um is I started as an actor I started as
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a kid actor
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um I did the show on Nickelodeon like
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when I was like 50 15 or 16. right okay
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and then try it out for my high school's
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improv team and then just started doing
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that so I discovered I would say I'm
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more an actor with a comedic bench but
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okay you know but but not necessarily
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stand up stand up
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um and but what I like about the process
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is the risk like I like when things are
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live I like not necessarily having a
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plan and actually I find that as I'm
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trying to develop my craft as an actor
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more that what I like between action and
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cut is
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um just being a fully a fully inhabited
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character but not knowing how the lines
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are going to come out yeah but knowing
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the lines enough but then when they say
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action I can just go and I don't know if
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I'm going to say oh the sky is blue or
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if I'm gonna go oh the sky is blue like
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am I gonna have an epiphany yeah and so
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to me it's the point of it when I find
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joy in my job is in the spontaneity and
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what's going to happen you know it's
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dope and responding to who I'm with yeah
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like I love talking to you guys this
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feels it's like very warm in here not
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thank you not temperature wise but you
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know it feels like you're listening to
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me I'm listening to you you guys are all
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you guys have the gift of all being
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really responsive and I think that's why
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this show is great and I think like
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that's what it's like when you work with
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people that are good because you're all
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just present it's about being present
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being present yeah that's the same well
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we say that because it reminded me we
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were very complimentary to Kim as well
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to you she's she's incredible she's
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incredible she's one of the greatest one
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of the greatest and more than a comedian
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we were saying to her is that we respect
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her as an actor the same with you you
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have a great comedic timing oh thank you
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beautiful and you just seem like you
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like to have fun so it's great and
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congratulations on everything I
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appreciate that thank you I love that
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you love spontaneity too
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because we right now let's just do the
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mystery sack we have a segment that's
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called the mystery sack we have no idea
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what's in it okay okay Heather break it
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down to you okay
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all right so you have to dig and sway
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sack go ahead
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put your hands into sway's sacks
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it sways mystery sack sack unshade 45. I
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know that was coming right no you know
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what it was that was some low ass
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hanging fruit and y'all said you know
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what not only are we gonna say it three
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times we also produced a sound effect
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intro for it you ought to be ashamed of
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yourselves but look at God look at God
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look at God look at where we are look at
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where we are look at that progress yeah
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so the second is Goldie and sparkly
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you're gonna dig in pull out one
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question at a time read it out loud and
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you have to answer honestly okay get a
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close-up on that Drew
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if you if you had to redesign any social
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media app which would you choose and
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what would you change oh my gosh all the
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government websites they're awful all
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the like TSA DMV CDC CDC it's like just
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get
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oh you're right I don't know
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I needed it honestly I've been holding
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this I've been holding this [ __ ] the
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devil is a liar I've been holding it you
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got all these Millennials not working
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get some Millennials on there to make a
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clickable website
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when the button
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is it clicking like you really have to
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dig into the mouse and you're like why
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is it like this I just want to get a new
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ID I want to get a real ID I'm weak
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because Jessica read that question
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exactly
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and I thank you okay but social media
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app would I choose and what would I
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change if I had to redesign it
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because
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you know what Pinterest because lately I
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feel like Pinterest is that social media
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yeah yeah yeah Pinterest has been trying
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to sell me [ __ ] lately so sometimes I'll
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be like how do I paint stripes on my
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wall and then they'll just like won't
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give me results they'll give me like
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they'll try and sell me some [ __ ] on
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Wayfair I'm like I didn't ask you for
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that right I asked you for DIY ideas
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that I could think about doing and never
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do yeah
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number two okay I learned a lot about
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myself
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sorry I'll take one can't wait to see
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this next question no okay the remix if
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you had to advise President Biden what
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would you want him to do
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if I had to advise President Biden what
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would I want him to do
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um
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handle the student loan stuff yeah
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just do it okay okay
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I just wanted like I want it cleared and
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then like I don't want to hear about it
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and then we just need to like get on to
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the next thing like I'm done with it
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like I'm done with items probably yeah I
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should I don't know that's worse when
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you don't graduate right yeah yeah it's
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like it's like and you still got student
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loans yeah it's just like okay like
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let's just like handle it all right
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it's the last one okay I actually really
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need to like call fast
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was something incredible and annoying
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about the podcast game today
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incredible
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um oh it's just the
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um there's a podcast for everything and
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you can really find your wheelhouse with
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podcasting in a way and what's also
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great
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um having done my podcast is it's really
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intimate this this job on radio and and
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and and in podcasting you're in
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someone's ear and so I feel really lucky
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because in my life that means I get to
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go places and a lot of women feel like
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they know me which feels great and so
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usually I'll get a free drink they'll be
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okay or they'll be like I listen to a
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podcast or it got me through a crazy
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time like you can reach far and wide and
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not charge people a ton of money for
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that okay and then what's really
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annoying low-key is when people just
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want you to be on their podcast and they
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don't ask you how you are like they
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don't care about you and they just want
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to be like come do my podcast and they
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like angle hard at it and you're like
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well I don't even know if if we have a
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relationship or if your podcast is the
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kind of podcast I would want to do but
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they'll like just do my podcast and it's
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like this sort of everyone's got one but
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then they just assume that you'll just
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do theirs without trying to get to know
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you first or knowing anything about it
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so that's pretty annoying so how are you
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doing today good oh my God don't try
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it's too late I don't reach into your
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sack
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about three times already about three
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times a day so who gives a [ __ ]
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who gives a [ __ ] hey man I'll tell you
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man I'm so happy I know I'm coming back
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immediately
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come on I would love to have you back
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anytime you don't even have to have
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anything I know it's just time
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anytime Jessica Williams give her up
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thank you everybody
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Intergalactic make sure you guys see
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this premiering this Friday yes on
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Netflix you're doing a you're doing an
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incredible job even with fantastic beats
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and where to find them all these you're
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doing a variety of platforms and you're
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showing uh um a lot of diversity in your
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talent which I can appreciate I
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appreciate it you're more than what I
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even expect it all right congratulations
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on your success Jessica Williams
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