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Alphabet Boyse is a new podcast series
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that goes inside undercover investigations. In
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the first season, we're diving into an FBI
0:07
investigation of the twenty twenty protest.
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It involves a cigar smoking mystery man
0:12
who drives silver
0:13
hearse. And inside his hearse, we like a lot
0:15
of guns. But are federal agents catching
0:17
bad guys or creating
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them? He was just waiting for me to set the
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date, the time, and then for sure he was
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trying to get it to happen.
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Listen to Alphabet Boys on the iHeartRadio app.
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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get podcast.
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Whist up y'all. I'm Guillermo Diaz,
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and I played Hawk on scandal. And I'm
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Katie Loews, AKK A Quinn Perkins,
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and we're the hosts of unpacking the
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toolbox. The Scanlon rewatch podcast
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where we're talking about all the best moments
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of the
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show. With
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guests like Tony Goldwyn who always
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amped up the fire as President Fitzgerald
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Grant. Grab your scandal swag.
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Your dupe and join us
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on unpacking the toolbox every
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Thursday. Listen
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to unpacking the toolbox on the iHeartRadio app
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Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to
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podcasts. Did you
1:02
know Lance Bass is a Russian trained
1:04
astronaut? That he went through
1:06
training in a secret facility outside
1:08
Moscow, hoping to become the
1:10
youngest person to go to space? Well,
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I ought to know because I'm
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Lance Bass. And I'm hosting
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a new podcast that tells my crazy story
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and an even crazier story about
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a Russian astronaut who found himself stuck
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in space. With no countries
1:26
to bring him down. With the Soviet
1:29
Union collapsing around him, he
1:31
orbited the earth for three hundred and thirteen
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days that changed the world.
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Listen to the last Soviet on the iHeartRadio
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app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever
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Hi. I'm Vanessa Bayer, and this is my brother,
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Jonah. We're
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two siblings who love to talk about our childhood
1:48
and nostalgia and how shaped us into the people
1:50
we are today.
1:51
Who are pretty excited for this week's
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episode if I do say so myself.
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Yes. We are so excited for this
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week's episode of our podcast. How did we get
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weird, incredible guests, Wil
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Farrell, the head of big money players
2:03
network with iHeartMedia, legendary
2:06
comedian, actor, This was such
2:08
a fun episode to record. Oh my god.
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We just had so much fun. Will and
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I got to talk about our days at SNL. We
2:15
talked about ScoobyDo
2:16
Doo. We talked about how Monopoly money absolutely
2:18
rocks. Yes. And we also played
2:20
a really fun game with Will called
2:22
Change dot org where we kind of reviewed some
2:24
petitions on change dot
2:26
org. We got Will's take on if he should
2:28
be the new Batman. We
2:29
think if we all
2:30
agreed,
2:30
he should do
2:31
a high against take on, you
2:33
know, other very, very important issues
2:35
facing society today. So it was great
2:37
to have Will kind of weigh in on that stuff.
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He talked about going to school with the guys
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from racing against machine. You know, if you enjoy
2:44
it, we're gonna play teaser
2:45
here. And
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you can
2:46
check out other episodes of the podcast
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which include Weirdle Yankovic, Amy
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Schumer, Taren
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Killam, Lisa Loeb, Jewel.
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Come on. You gotta check it out, please.
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It's just a podcast hanging out with our friends,
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talking about cartoons, talking about
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snacks, talking about all those nostalgic topics
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with just a lot of really talented and hilarious
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people. Check out this clip of this incredible
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podcast this week with Will Farrell. If
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you like this, go over to how did we get weird
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and
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subscribe. We release new episodes every
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single Monday. Check out me and my
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big brother, Jonah, every Monday.
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And how did we get weird on the big money
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players
3:21
network? If you like to have a blast, which
3:23
we know you do and you gotta do. That's
3:26
true.
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So, well, you grew up in Irvine.
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Yes. Irvine, California.
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Irvine, California. Which
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is Southern California. Yes.
3:34
Yes. And there are a lot of But I
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like that you said it just alone as
3:37
if the world would
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know. Do you think most people
3:41
might not know? Yeah. I guess people It's kind of
3:43
a small. Yeah. know? know that some
3:46
people, like, Rage against machines, Actel Roke over
3:48
from there. Was that and it seems like around the same year
3:50
as you was that did you know those guys when you were
3:52
in high
3:52
school?
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So so here's a crazy another crazy
3:55
SNL story.
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Sorry, Jonah. No, please. My first
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year on the show, so ninety five, ninety
4:00
six season. And
4:02
Tim and Zach, who I went to high school, Tim
4:04
Comerford, who was in my class,
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Zach was a year below us. Okay.
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Tim had been playing in bands and the setting the other,
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and then Next, I know they're part
4:13
of this ban that everyone's talking about called
4:15
rage against the machine and we're on the same
4:17
show together. Wow. And
4:20
it was like our it was in that first half
4:22
of the season. So within the first nine
4:24
shows, and we were laughing
4:26
going like, how crazy is this? We're
4:28
on SNL. Used for you guys
4:30
from Irvine. That's
4:31
unbelievable. Very cool. Did you ever
4:33
see Zach's ban before that inside? I'm a music
4:36
journalist. This
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is like, like,
4:37
he had to ban inside out. No. Did you ever saw
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Okay.
4:39
No. But I think Tim was part I
4:41
did watch Tim perform with
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a band called Crystal Pistle. Okay.
4:46
I haven't heard of them, but I'll have to check that out. Yeah.
4:48
Which I believe is reference to a
4:50
penis. I don't
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know.
4:53
I feel like that's maybe something that you
4:55
cooked out. Oh, I'm just kidding. That's now
4:58
molasses out of the conversation. Yeah.
5:00
He was just playing in and I didn't even
5:03
know Zach was into music. Really?
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I just don't remember Zach. As like a skateboarder
5:08
guy and we'd pick up basketball. Yeah.
5:10
And then next I know he's this amazing
5:12
lead singer. And then full
5:14
circle, Tom Morello, has
5:16
become a friend through our kid's school. Wow.
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So
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Oh my gosh. That's crazy. Okay. That's
5:21
incredible. Crazy. Wow.
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Wow. Yeah.
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Well, we are, again,
5:27
like so and so
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you
5:31
guys feeling about the new setup here? Again,
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this is only our second podcast.
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I'm used to
5:34
doing this
5:35
in a room in my house. Yeah.
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Yeah. So this
5:37
is a little more involved, but it feels good.
5:39
For our listeners, they've set up two luxurious
5:42
couches. Yes.
5:43
Yes.
5:44
I'm on more of a love seat. Yeah. You guys
5:46
are on a full couch.
5:47
But of the same
5:49
With some throw pillows, some throws
5:50
-- Yeah. -- we're just
5:51
hanging. So
5:52
we're just hanging. Yeah. Yeah. Super chill.
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I kind of a chill kind of
5:56
kind of, like, friends in a
5:59
Friends in a in a office. Office. Yeah.
6:02
And
6:02
then abandoned
6:03
office. Yes. Yeah. It couches
6:05
in it
6:05
Yeah.
6:05
-- in it.
6:06
And some equipment -- And some recording. -- audio equipment.
6:08
Just just pretend it's not it.
6:10
Know, I don't even see it. Or
6:12
Well, look. Here's
6:14
how it's gonna be. Here's another
6:16
commercial. Every video. No. Keep it going.
6:19
Keep it going. So
6:20
we've
6:21
asked you to bring in a topic today.
6:23
You
6:23
you never I think it'd be several. Yeah.
6:26
And the one that we picked -- Right.
6:28
Is Scooby Doo? Yes.
6:30
Okay. To kinda talk about the kinda riff
6:32
on. Yeah. Okay. So
6:34
-- Okay. -- what is scooby
6:36
doo. I'm about to rhyme here, mean to
6:38
you. You know
6:40
how about Yeah. That was I did
6:42
not see that coming. It's
6:46
thrown me. I
6:49
huge Saturday morning cartoon
6:51
-- Yeah. -- chunky kid. Right.
6:53
And Scooby do I just
6:56
between
6:57
the solving of the mysteries -- Yes. -- which
6:59
were super scary,
7:01
Yes. In
7:02
my brain at that time. And the suspension
7:04
of disbelief every week
7:06
--
7:07
Yes. --
7:07
that maybe they weren't gonna solve it.
7:09
Yeah. But they
7:10
still did. Yeah. But somehow,
7:12
like, I kept coming back for more. And
7:14
just the camaraderie? Yeah.
7:16
Fred's ascot.
7:18
Right. Right.
7:20
He wore an ascot, scarf.
7:22
Yeah. And you liked that. I
7:23
loved his style. Look. Yeah. Think
7:25
I had a crush on Velma
7:26
Velma Velma. Velma. Yes. And
7:29
then just, you know, Shaggy I
7:31
don't know so much about Shaggy was weird to
7:33
me. Yeah. Like, why he was allowed to
7:35
hang around. Yeah. He didn't know. He needed
7:37
to catch up. Skill set was. His best
7:39
friend was a
7:40
dog. Yeah. And but
7:42
but, you know, okay.
7:44
Yeah.
7:44
That's cool of them. They do all the hard
7:46
work.
7:47
Yeah. But,
7:48
yeah, I just love it it was just
7:50
my favorite cartoon. Yeah. Yeah.
7:53
And what was And
7:53
the mystery machine, which was their van,
7:56
they traveled
7:56
around there.
7:57
Right. Right. Right. Right. Which I
7:59
drove a van in high school that
8:01
was similar to the
8:03
mystery machine. My dad had a
8:06
chevy van that I
8:08
would sometimes use as my car to drive
8:10
to high school. Which had you guys won't know
8:12
what this it was a manual transmission, but it's called
8:14
three on a tree. It's just three
8:16
gears. Oh. But it's up here.
8:18
Okay. Because you have a class shift too. You
8:20
got the clutch on that, but you're shifting. He
8:22
just hauled his music equipment
8:24
around. And it was a windowless van.
8:27
This doesn't sound
8:28
good. No.
8:28
But the mystery machine, I don't think, had windows
8:31
either. Was it really cool that when you would
8:33
drive that van to work? Because I remember being in
8:35
high school and kids who had cars like
8:37
that. It was like, we were all like, we gotta get in
8:39
that car.
8:40
It was cool because it was kinda beat
8:42
up
8:42
-- Yeah. --
8:42
and a little bit little bit
8:44
vintage y. I hung out with a group of friends
8:47
who'd like doing weird
8:48
stuff. So --
8:48
Okay. -- we celebrated the nonconformist
8:51
kind of thing. And while all these young
8:54
Irvine Suburban kids had brand new
8:56
cars, I had this beat up -- Yeah. --
8:58
equipment van that became cool. Right.
9:00
Banana yellow,
9:01
bright yellow. Yeah. So there was a kid
9:03
in your grade Jonah who had, like, a big yellow
9:05
truck.
9:06
Yep. Truck. And it was, like, the coolest
9:09
thing. Like, I grew up cutting your moly
9:11
in near Shake
9:12
Shack -- Right. -- and we both did. And
9:16
and there were a lot of kids who had these really nice
9:18
cars, but I feel like that yellow --
9:20
Yeah. -- truck was like I had
9:21
a lot of bumper stickers on my car. Like, is
9:24
covered with banned. We actually would sneak
9:26
bumper stickers on each other's cars.
9:28
Wow. It's a mess. Okay. Like,
9:31
I would come out and there'd just be a US marines
9:33
bumper sticker
9:35
on the back of the other car hydro,
9:37
which was a beat up. V w bug. And
9:39
-- Okay.
9:39
--
9:40
yeah. They got me. So
9:42
we'd have bumped yesterday. Funny. Yeah.
9:44
Jona drove a Jetta
9:46
and it was, like, we would drive in
9:49
to
9:49
school, and he would be like blasting no effects
9:51
and stuff.
9:52
And That's not music. You know, crazy light.
9:54
FELTS, but I felt so cool.
9:56
Believe it or not, I wasn't very punk in
9:59
high school. That's hard to
10:00
believe. Jono. Yeah.
10:02
Jono. And so I'd come in like so studious
10:04
and all my and but
10:05
we'd be blasting like, you know And you
10:07
got little street cred. Yeah. And I feel
10:09
like I guess I'm getting out of my brother's part. I was
10:12
probably sometimes annoyed because we were late, but,
10:14
like, I was I was, like,
10:16
so, like I felt like it was such a cool
10:18
way to show up to school. You
10:20
know, like --
10:21
Yeah. -- whatever. I guess I'm just listening
10:23
to this punk music. I'm
10:25
That but scoop back to Doo.
10:27
ShashMegan
10:28
Music. They always have a music montage. Oh,
10:30
yeah. Because there's a question. Yeah.
10:32
But I always thought that was so cool.
10:34
Yeah.
10:35
Do you remember, like, being a
10:37
kid on Saturday mornings and watching it?
10:39
Or it like, do you have a memory of
10:41
what that I just knew I was, like, early
10:43
riser -- Yeah. -- I would get and there
10:45
was just kind of a lineup between,
10:47
like, scooby Doo, Sigman
10:49
and the Sea Monster -- Okay. --
10:51
and Johnny
10:52
Quest.
10:53
Johnny Quest --
10:53
Yes. -- was a big Saturday morning. Gotcha. --
10:56
here's where I was also a weird My
10:58
younger brother though still wouldn't wake up
11:00
before I
11:00
would. Okay. And I love playing monopoly.
11:03
Okay. By
11:04
myself, because the whole house was
11:07
still sleeping? Yeah. And
11:09
so I would set up the board at play. And
11:11
then when it wasn't my turn, I'd sneak
11:13
into my mom's room and I would
11:15
move her
11:16
piece. I'd set up for two players. Okay.
11:19
I would be, you know, the dog or the I
11:21
guess, the car or the shoe whatever. I'd move
11:23
around the board. And then was the other person
11:25
sorta, I roll for them. They'd land on and so
11:27
I'd go into my mom's or, like, mom. Yes
11:30
or no. On Park Place. So
11:33
she'd be like what? Just say yes
11:35
or no. She's like,
11:37
no. Okay. Which
11:39
means she didn't wanna buy it? Right.
11:42
I do whole rounds of playing around
11:44
this -- Yeah. -- until everyone finally woke
11:46
up.
11:47
Like a patient kid. That's
11:48
okay. Patience. Yeah.
11:50
Yeah. Did you find, like, having that
11:52
money? I we played kind of a lot of monopoly
11:54
in our house. Sure. And I remember just,
11:57
like, the feeling of having a lot of
11:59
that money just truly
12:02
made me feel rich
12:03
and, like, I
12:04
just it
12:04
was hard for me to, like, give up that money.
12:07
I have a money story too. I have too money
12:09
stories. Right? So,
12:10
yes, I can totally identify with that. And I always
12:13
felt like we were running out of five hundred five hundred
12:15
dollar bills. Yeah. There's
12:16
plenty of hundreds, but the five hundreds would
12:18
go through quickly.
12:19
I feel like okay. Maybe there are less -- Yeah.
12:21
-- there was a neighborhood across the
12:23
street from the apartment complex I grew up in
12:25
was damper drugs. And I was
12:27
walking through the toy section one day, you could
12:30
buy refills of monopoly money.
12:32
I never heard of that. Wow.
12:34
Let's just say, it's the only
12:36
time I've ever shoplifted. I took a
12:38
stack of five hundreds. I
12:42
stole fake money, and I put it in my pocket.
12:44
I walked out really stiffly.
12:47
I'm sure if there was a camera. I'd be like the worst
12:49
kid actor in the time of the walk. Very
12:52
I'm just I'm
12:54
walking out of the drugstore. No
12:56
no need to look over here and then I ran
12:58
home and I stole monopoly
13:00
money. To add to our games, we had plenty
13:03
of five hundreds.
13:05
Oh my god. And you still remember
13:07
it. You still, of course,
13:08
I still remember. What a big
13:11
yeah.
13:11
And then I brought I didn't realize
13:13
we're gonna be talking about money, but
13:15
This is the other story? This is the other story.
13:17
I brought my favorite Christmas present that
13:20
I got this from my wife. It's
13:22
a little attache case
13:26
Guess what it's filled with?
13:29
Tiny stacks of money. Everyone
13:33
here in the room,
13:35
that's like ten grand at least.
13:37
She got this right.
13:39
That's such a great Yeah. And
13:41
you keep it on your person and I I just
13:43
thought maybe we'll talk about this today. Maybe
13:46
there's be a good reason for me to show up. You
13:48
knew
13:48
money. You guys? Yeah.
13:49
You knew you're meeting with the mayor's money might come up.
13:52
And then and
13:55
then that relates to S and L. So
13:58
because when I met Lauren, because
14:00
I'd read a story about how
14:02
Adam Sandler did something where
14:04
he just pretended to hump
14:06
a chair or something and was signed
14:08
on the spot.
14:09
Okay. Okay. And
14:10
I remember reading that going, you know what?
14:12
He didn't worry about pleasantries or he just
14:14
was, like, funny right away
14:16
when they sign him and that's the way to do
14:18
it. Yeah. And
14:18
so thought if And I knew I had to
14:20
meet Lauren for my second audition.
14:22
Right. She was a meeting before you. And
14:24
I thought, I'm gonna walk in with a briefcase.
14:27
I'm gonna fill it full of fake
14:30
counterfeit money. And as he's talking
14:32
to me, I'm just gonna go like, Lauren, we
14:34
can all talk. Till the
14:36
cows come home. But we
14:38
all know there's only one thing that really
14:40
talks in its hard gold cash. And I was
14:42
gonna open it up and set it on his desk.
14:45
And then I was gonna like, so I'm gonna walk out of this
14:47
room. And no
14:50
one needs to know. You can take that money or you don't
14:52
have to, whatever. And you
14:54
can decide whether I should be on the show or not.
14:57
So I walked into the room
14:59
and Steve Higgins had just been hired as
15:02
a producer. With a brief With a brief
15:04
What Canadian walks into a room with a briefcase,
15:07
a leather briefcase. It wasn't even a cool
15:09
looking one. And I walk in, I
15:11
can tell the vibe is not for joking
15:13
around. It was super
15:15
serious. And I was like,
15:17
oh my god. I got so freaked
15:19
out. And I never got to my
15:21
bit. So I'm just holding on my briefcase.
15:24
Did he ask you what it was for? Funny
15:26
thing ever. A weird shy,
15:28
quiet. Got it. It's supposed to be funny.
15:31
Like, I'm supposed to be humping
15:33
a chair. My my inspiration was, like, go hump
15:35
a chair. Do something active. And
15:37
I'm just like, uh-huh. Well,
15:40
I was thinking about doing this character, but I wouldn't do
15:42
that. Oh, okay. Finally,
15:45
after twenty minutes, Higgins goes, Nice
15:48
briefcase. I'm like, yeah. Thanks.
15:51
There's like, anything else you wanna ask
15:53
me? I'm like, nope. I walked out and
15:55
he and he never knew. I told him later
15:57
what and he thought it was so
15:59
funny, but I couldn't pull the trigger on the bit.
16:01
So, anyway, Alphabet
16:04
Boyse is a new podcast series that goes
16:06
inside undercover investigations. In
16:08
the first season, we're diving into an FBI
16:10
investigation of the twenty twenty protest.
16:13
It involves a cigar smoking mystery man
16:16
who drives a silver
16:16
hearse. And inside his hearse, we like a lot of
16:19
goods. But our federal agents catching bad
16:21
guys were creating
16:22
them. He was just waiting for me to set the
16:24
date, the time, and then for sure he was
16:26
trying to get it to happen. Listen to
16:28
Alphabet Boys on the iHeartRadio app, Apple
16:30
Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
16:33
Did you know Lance Bass is a Russian
16:35
trained astronaut? That he went
16:37
through training in a secret facility outside
16:40
Moscow, hoping to become the
16:42
youngest person to go to space. Well,
16:45
I ought to know because I'm
16:47
Lance Bass. And I'm hosting a
16:49
new podcast that tells my crazy story
16:51
and an even crazier story about
16:54
a Russian astronaut who found himself stuck
16:56
in space. With no countries
16:58
to bring him down. With the Soviet
17:00
Union collapsing around him, he orbited
17:03
the earth for hundred and thirteen days
17:05
that changed the world. Listen
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moments. We would be in like a hundred and
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ten degrees in a wool coat.
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Yeah. I mean, the shitting that was going on
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in my pencil skirts, I deserve all
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the acting awards people.
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