"Woody Harrelson"

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Speaker 1 Jason, you look beautiful today. You look really smiley, and you're wearing a nice colored shirt.
That must mean that you're going to the office.

Speaker 1 Is that it? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I got a bunch of work to do today. Yeah, at the office.
You do? Yeah. Where you got like a driver off the T?

Speaker 1 No, I don't take a drive. I just self-drive.
I don't drive myself to work.

Speaker 1 Oh, man.

Speaker 1 You don't have a self-driving car. Here's the thing.
Last night was really fun. We all hung out.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we did. And Will was dabbing like crazy with the dab moves.
And then Jason

Speaker 1 Googles dab because he didn't quite get it. Wait, no, hang on.
Yeah. Don't forget.
Jason held this phone up and said, hey, Siri, what does dab mean?

Speaker 1 Well, I want to know, is it an acronym? Is it... My phone just answered.
My phone just answered. It was so.

Speaker 1 And then what came up? One's father. And I said, oh, she thought I said dad.
Yeah. And then I said dab and nothing.
She didn't even, she ignored me. No.

Speaker 1 And had you gotten sick and you'd never seen someone dab before? No, no, I've seen the dab, but I want to know what, you tell me, what does dab me? I don't know. Don't get in my face about it.

Speaker 1 I don't know what it is. Well, what's the history of the dab? Or maybe Tracy knows.
Tracy might. Well, Tracy knows.
She lives in Wisconsin. She would know what Dab is.
Dab Capital of the World.

Speaker 1 And then Jay, and then Jay went on a little

Speaker 1 side thing where he was like, should I wear overalls?

Speaker 1 You want to know why overalls aren't aren't popular anymore. Yeah, I wore them a lot when I was 12, 13, 14, 15.
I mean,

Speaker 1 that was fashion back then. And now, like, there's, you know, like the Beastie Boys have like the boiler suits, you know, those little onesies or like prison, prison onesies.
I'd like to wear that.

Speaker 1 I'd like to just zip into something and just get out the door. Because it's easy.
Yeah. But so what are you waiting for? Just bring them back.
You'll be the one to bring them back.

Speaker 1 I don't think I have that kind of, I don't have that kind of style status where I can just, you know, make something happen. Jason's nervous that he'd be judged,

Speaker 1 if if we can be honest. He wouldn't want to be judged in that way.
Not so much that I just don't want to be distracted by people yelling at me, saying, hey, loser, get off the street.

Speaker 1 Nobody's going to hear that. You don't have to wear overalls here.
You don't have to pay attention to what you're doing.

Speaker 1 You could give two fucks what you're doing. Listen, let me say this.

Speaker 1 I suggested that I want to go back to wearing overalls with no shirt, sort of Dexi's Midnight Runner style. I can't do that.
I don't want to do that. Why?

Speaker 1 And then just dance around on a street corner.

Speaker 1 Come on, Eileen.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Get ready for this. Will's got new earphones on, headphones, whatever they're called.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. You don't have your big things on.

Speaker 1 Did you pay for those? What do you think? I bet you didn't.

Speaker 1 I can't confirm or deny anything right now. But it looks like they might be molded for your ears because you're a professional voiceover artist.

Speaker 1 What do you think about them? They're pretty good, right? Yeah, they are pretty good. And they keep the things away from your hair.
Well, here's the thing. If you really want to know,

Speaker 1 so cans, what you guys are wearing, and what I usually use and have worn for years, and everybody does it, it's very traditional like this.

Speaker 1 As you know, you wear them. They're fine to wear for a little while if you're recording.
If I'm doing some spots for GMC, which is a superior vehicle, especially the new GMC Sear AT4X. Okay, yeah.

Speaker 1 GMC Sear. Wait, wait, wait, wait.

Speaker 1 What's the new catchphrase you've got? It's sophisticated but strong, something like that? Well, it's about.

Speaker 1 Speaking of sophisticated and strong, let's get to our guest because he's waiting. Wow.
He's waiting. Wait, hang on.
Don't cut off Will with his great story about the progression of the guest.

Speaker 1 The hot is my point. No, that's enough.
We got it. Sean, let's hear the guest.
Okay. Jesus Christ.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Fuck. Okay, guys.
I'm super excited. This person.

Speaker 1 My mom, by the way, you like bring up a subject and I agree with it. And then you're like, why are you just talking about that stupid thing?

Speaker 1 You brought it up.

Speaker 1 You fall into our body. My mom humiliated me the other day with that about sweaters.

Speaker 1 Anyway, sorry, go ahead. Here we go.
This person today. One more time.

Speaker 1 He's an amazing human being, an incredible actor, one of the best actors of our lifetime. Truly, everybody loves this guy.
I've had the immense pleasure of working him many times over the years.

Speaker 1 He's won an Emmy. He's been nominated for three Academy Awards.
And he doesn't know it, but I watch him every single night on reruns of Cheers. It's Woody Harrelson.
Woody.

Speaker 1 Hello. Oh,

Speaker 1 boy.

Speaker 1 Woody.

Speaker 1 What's up, gentlemen? Woody.

Speaker 1 How long? Did you enjoy waiting that long?

Speaker 2 I didn't really enjoy that. I didn't even want to come on.

Speaker 2 I was trying to keep myself from laughing, but I was laughing.

Speaker 1 He took a quick nap.

Speaker 1 How did Sean beat me and Will to getting you on this show? I know.

Speaker 2 We worked together back in the day.

Speaker 1 Because me, me and Woody are tight. You know,

Speaker 1 you are surprisingly tight with a lot of folks, Sean.

Speaker 1 No. Sean knows everybody.

Speaker 1 What did you and Sean work on together? We worked on Cheers.

Speaker 1 I was at Will and Grace. I'm sorry.
Will and Grace. Worked on Will and Grace.
And then we did that live sitcom together where he played Archie Bunker and I played The Neighbor. Oh, no way.

Speaker 1 Okay, well, why didn't we let him answer that? I asked Woody.

Speaker 1 He's the guest. Sorry, sorry.
Well, just in case you didn't remember.

Speaker 1 Ditto?

Speaker 1 Well, also, also, Woody, I was at a party at your house years and years ago where I made out with Alicia Silverstone. And

Speaker 1 she's one of the sweetest people. She knew I was gay.
It was like, no big deal. But we were just being silly.
But that's what I remember of that party. Wait, what? Yeah, hang on.
Yeah, sorry, Woody.

Speaker 1 We'll be to you in one second.

Speaker 1 Sean, walk me through, walk me through what that, what that negotiation was like. Hey, Elise.
Oh, we were children. We were children.
How old is that?

Speaker 1 Like early 20s. Okay.
And you said to her, and not that she needed to hear it, that you are gay, but that you've forgotten what it's like to kiss a girl's mouth. And

Speaker 1 you asked her, would you like to kiss a gay man's mouth? Let's get, let's.

Speaker 1 change it

Speaker 1 we we were just we were being silly we were we we

Speaker 1 were drinking we were young we were drinking and it was woody harrelson's house and it was fun it was a party wow um what do

Speaker 1 where do we find you today you look like you're at a you're in a beach community uh no i'm in uh

Speaker 1 winnipeg it's a beautiful day in winnipeg here comes the canadian what wait a second wait a second wait a second woody my whole family both sides of my family are from winnipeg really yeah Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 2 Is there anyone you want me to look up?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yes.

Speaker 1 Quick. What are their names, Will? Wait, Woody, ask them what their names are.

Speaker 2 Yeah, what are their names?

Speaker 1 Yeah, he has no idea. Well, that's not true.
I got my cousin Sally and my cousin Joni and lots of people. You're making all this stuff in China.
My great aunt. No, no, no.
Go visit my great aunt.

Speaker 1 What's her name?

Speaker 1 N-E-N.

Speaker 1 N-E-M? No, we're not doing

Speaker 1 Wizard of Oz Poles here.

Speaker 1 What are you doing in Winnipeg?

Speaker 2 I'm doing this movie called Champions with Bobby Fairley's directing.

Speaker 1 Oh, great. Yeah.
Now,

Speaker 1 is it one of his

Speaker 1 newer films that are more dramatic in tone, or are we back to Seamen in the Hare?

Speaker 1 That was the original timer. It didn't clear.
Someone had it already. So they went with something about Mary.

Speaker 2 This is a comedy.

Speaker 1 This is a comedy. Oh, good.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Are you all done with

Speaker 1 Justin Thoreau? Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah, we finished that. Six months we did that.

Speaker 1 Good lord.

Speaker 1 Wow. That was crazy.
Because of COVID stuff? Is that why it took so long, or was it a bunch of episodes?

Speaker 2 Well, there was a couple of shutdowns, actually.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Was that due to Thoreau's lack of sleeves? Did that enter into it? Was that part of the

Speaker 1 where they had to shut it down? Did the sleeve local come over and shut you down? Listener, this we're talking about a Watergate, a Watergate show that Woody did with Justin for HBO, I think.

Speaker 1 It should be pretty funny. Yeah.

Speaker 2 White House Plumbers.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I'm very looking forward to that.

Speaker 2 Oh, it's going to be great.

Speaker 2 I got to say, Justin really knocked it out of the park.

Speaker 1 Must have been a pretty small park.

Speaker 1 Dog park.

Speaker 1 A dog park. Wait, wait, wait, wait, Woody, let me ask you this.
I've always wanted to know this about,

Speaker 1 first of all, great to see you, man. I'm so happy you're here.
and

Speaker 1 yeah i wanted to get you on this thing so bad too and then um so you started your first big thing was cheers obviously you came on uh

Speaker 1 after

Speaker 1 coach

Speaker 1 i forget the actor's name he was really terrific yeah nicholas calasanto

Speaker 1 Yeah, Nicholas Calasanto. But you came in and it was like big shoes to fill.
And you came in, Woody, man, and you were shot out of a bunch of people. It was a great episode.

Speaker 1 It felt like you had been on the show forever. You drilled it.
You were great. I loved you on the show.
I mean, there's so many, I still to this day do Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, K-E-L-L-Y.

Speaker 1 I mean, I fucking love it. How did...

Speaker 1 Cheers come about? How did it come into your orbit? How did you audition for what? Yeah. What was that experience like? Sorry to go way back, but we have to go back.
We have to.

Speaker 1 And just to tag on to that, Woody, before you answer that, I didn't know this until I was researching some of the stuff that you're from Hanover.

Speaker 1 So Will's question about how did it start and how did you get it? And also the Hanover Woody, obviously, they took your name and they took your hometown too. Was that your idea, their idea?

Speaker 2 Well, the character was already called Woody Boyd, but and the character was from Indiana. I'm not from there, but I went to college at Hanover, so I did ask him to use that.

Speaker 2 But, you know, to answer your question, I was

Speaker 2 a little break from this show I was doing, or I was an understudy

Speaker 2 in this Neil Simon Biloxi Blues. And so I got a little break to go do a movie with Goldie Horn.
And then as I was wrapping up, they fired the two guys I was understudying.

Speaker 2 So I was going to get to go on stage, which is that was my dream. I was 23.

Speaker 2 Anyway, this buddy of mine, Leo Jeter in L.A., I run into him.

Speaker 2 And, you know, my agent hadn't said anything, but he says, you know, there's this part on this show called Cheers that you should look into.

Speaker 2 And I was like, well, he says the guy's from Indiana. He's named Woody.

Speaker 1 I'm like, wow. That's so crazy.
And had you seen the show before? Wait, wait, no way. Really? And the agent commissioned 10% for how many years?

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah, for doing

Speaker 2 Italy. But yeah, no, but anyway, so I was at the time, I was really into this idea.
I'll just do theater. I will not be, you know, doing television.

Speaker 2 But then I watched it and I was like, oh man, this is

Speaker 1 pretty good.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah. And was it a hit? I knew it took a while to become a hit, but was it a hit when you joined it?

Speaker 1 Well, it had been on for three years, it was a hit, but it did, it then it kept going, you know, kept uh when you did the thing, the Archie Bunker thing, was it nice to get back into that into that rhythm, into that schedule again, into that, uh, the sitcom stuff and with Jimmy Burroughs and all that?

Speaker 1 Did it bring back a bunch of memories? Isn't that fun?

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah, that was really cool. I, I, to get into work with Jimmy, you know, Sean, I mean, fuck, That was awesome.
But I was a little scared, you know, just, you know,

Speaker 2 Archie Bunker, you know.

Speaker 1 Oh, you are so great. You are so great.
Oh, thanks. You were so good.

Speaker 1 Perfect. You're never bad.
You're never bad. And, you know, like,

Speaker 1 I think the public and maybe the industry probably thought they've had you pegged and pigeonholed probably five or six times. And

Speaker 1 inevitably, your next job is like, wait, he's in what? And he's playing what character? And then you watch it and you're like, Jesus, I never knew Woody had that side.

Speaker 1 I mean, there's just nothing you can't do. It truly.
And I remember seeing you, to Jason's point, you pop up here and there in your career.

Speaker 1 And when I saw you, Natural Born Killers, I was like, wait, that's Woody Harrelson from Cheers and Natural Born Killers. And that was one of the best performances I'd ever seen.

Speaker 1 You just, it was incredible. Everything, like Jason just said, everything you do is amazing.
I mean, keep going. I mean, out of the furnace, it's just like crazy good.
Just on and on and on.

Speaker 1 So tell me about Natural Born Killers and what it was like working with Oliver Stone, because I'm sure you have some insane moments or stories.

Speaker 2 Well, there were some insane moments for sure. But no, I liked working with him.
He can be a little...

Speaker 2 You guys ever hung out with him?

Speaker 1 You must have. Never.
No, never.

Speaker 2 You know, he tries to stir shit up all the time.

Speaker 1 Really?

Speaker 2 But like, I'll give you an example.

Speaker 2 Like, one time there's this scene where there's like, there's all these windows outside of this pharmacy that are, these cops have me trapped inside this pharmacy, and they're gonna, so all the windows get blown out from them shooting at me in the pharmacy, and I'm supposed to run and do whatever.

Speaker 2 And so there's huge, giant windows,

Speaker 2 and it's all three of these mega windows getting blown out. And Oliver comes to me just before the take and goes,

Speaker 2 This is an hour and a half reset.

Speaker 1 Don't fuck it up.

Speaker 2 Rolling.

Speaker 1 Thanks for the pet dog.

Speaker 1 Oh, geez. But you nailed it.
Nailed it.

Speaker 1 You know, Woody, I mean, about that, that whole sort of that, that discipline toggle switch, I think everyone has got to hit, you know, when you're, when you're, when you're doing stuff,

Speaker 1 you, you come across as someone who just kind of, you know, is real casual about a lot of things in life.

Speaker 1 You don't get hung up on a lot of stressful stuff, but there's got to be a side of you that knows how to flick that switch and just be an assassin when you need to, whether it be just discipline on preparing for work or at the moment, hitting the switch and delivering.

Speaker 1 Is there a side to you that is a side that you don't really show a lot of us, but is sort of your private sort of secret weapon where you can really get small and execute?

Speaker 1 No. No, it's all casual.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 Jason, what you need to know, Jason, is that guys like Woody and me, it just comes to us organically.

Speaker 1 But we just fucking, we don't think about it. We don't think.

Speaker 1 We're not premeditated, dude, like you. Woody and I are just operating on a different plane.
Oh my God, bro. I'm so sorry.
I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 And Will, by the way, I've seen you in... quite a number of things.

Speaker 2 And then I'm like watching the morning show and then you pop up in the morning show.

Speaker 1 He's got a high overhead.

Speaker 2 You're doing everything. You got a lot of overhead.

Speaker 1 I'm just trying to make people question what they think about me. You know what I mean? Like, I just want to keep them guessing.

Speaker 1 Woody, I'm doing it on a smaller scale than you've been doing, and now I'm ready to take it to the next level. Well, we're guessing, and we will be right back.

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Speaker 1 and now back to the show woody and i have uh that i i can barely remember so i know woody you you probably can't remember because you're are you are you are you older than i am i'm 52.

Speaker 2 how old are you yes i'm older than you dude remember when i met you you were like 17.

Speaker 1 right we've got some history so yeah woody and i i think did we first meet doing the uh doing the car race well no i i i think i met you but before that you know because I was

Speaker 2 over hanging out with Mike and Paramount.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I might have met you before that, but that's where we really, you know, started to get to know each other.

Speaker 1 Was in that. Yeah.
So Justine and I do this car race, this celebrity car race, Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach that Woody was in as well. And

Speaker 1 how'd you do it?

Speaker 1 I did well. You won.
I think I won that. You won that.
Yeah. Yeah.
So we were training.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 they didn't test for cocaine back then? It wasn't? No, Will.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 we're training at

Speaker 1 Willow Springs, and Woody and I are driving the same color car. And Woody, Woody drops a couple of wheels over into the dirt on a real high-speed turn.

Speaker 1 So he skids across the track and does like 14 cartwheels, and his car is ripped apart, like the whole back end, whole back half was ripped off, and it's upside down, and it's resting

Speaker 1 in the

Speaker 1 little on the side of the track. And all of us cars come driving by it because, you know, he's ahead of us, and he's upside down.
There's smoke everywhere.

Speaker 1 And you can see him hanging upside down in his driver's chair, hanging from his five-point harness because the whole back half of the car had been ripped off. And he's in the same color car as I.

Speaker 1 And Justine thinks it's me. So she pulls over her car.
She's all, she's freaked out. She's screaming and crying.
And then I come driving up. I'm like, oh my God, who is that? Is that Woody?

Speaker 1 And she's like, oh, my God, you're alive. Oh, my God.
It's Woody. So we all go and try to help him and get out and all that stuff.
That was that.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that was a real, that was a scary moment and i remember you only broke a little a little bone in your hand is that right yeah i broke uh two bones in my hand and uh a couple of teeth got uh no cracked but yeah pretty lucky because uh everybody

Speaker 2 saw it said they thought it was a fatality because i did i from well you know it's one of those where i looked at my uh speedometer which you should i shouldn't have done

Speaker 2 remember turn nine there jason yeah it's flat out and you could go flat out on turn nine and i looked down at my speedometer and said 105

Speaker 2 and then oh my god when i looked back up i just gone think just a little bit off the track and then of course i overcompensated which caused the car to skid for a moment and then whoosh just launched and um

Speaker 2 but 40 feet before it landed because the guys went and looked at the headlights taillights and everything did six and a half endos

Speaker 1 uh after after that and uh yeah it god i i did the whole white light thing really it was incredible and and and did that did that keep you from racing no it didn't no that was just training we went on and did the race like a few weeks later and then he crushed

Speaker 1 the race of course well do you still race woody it's all the coke

Speaker 2 No, I don't.

Speaker 2 I got over it after that.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God. I was shortly behind you.
Oh, and then Woody and I picked up our dangerous escapades at probably, what was it, a year later in New York City.

Speaker 1 We were hanging out late, late, late at night, walking around the streets with a couple of buddies of mine, all banged up.

Speaker 1 And you know all those piles of trash, all the trash bags that get put out on the sidewalk? They just, they're like create these big, large lumps of trash bags, like 20 of them.

Speaker 1 I thought it'd be fun to do like a diving contest into these trash bags, like a flip contest. Do you remember that, Woody? Am I remembering this correctly?

Speaker 1 We do like flips and cartwheels into it and land into the bags. Yeah, yeah,

Speaker 2 you were wild, dude. You were actually wild.

Speaker 1 I lost my privileges shortly after that.

Speaker 2 But you got it together.

Speaker 1 But we made it. We made it.
We're still making a living. Yeah, we're still.
Good for us. We're okay.

Speaker 1 So, what do you

Speaker 1 it seems to me like you're one of those guys who

Speaker 1 just doesn't stop working. I mean, you're, by the way, you're in you're in solo, which is one of my favorite movies ever, the Star Wars movie Solo.
Thank you.

Speaker 2 to you seem to constantly work never ever stop do you love that do you wish like oh god I need a break it doesn't seem like you ever take a break because you still love it well you know that's a good question because like I haven't been home since April imagine not being home since April Wow and you would think that I love nothing more than to work but honestly I'm a I'm a very lazy hippie who somehow just got himself in this predicament.

Speaker 2 And once I get through this, you know, once I make it to christmas i'm taking some time off for sure and then where's home nowadays is it costa rica no i i i moved from costa i live in maui okay oh that's great yeah all right

Speaker 1 oh that's awesome um i do have i do have a question from from a listener a listener in new york city named justin t

Speaker 1 you may or may not have worked with

Speaker 1 he i was chatting with him uh he has a question for you uh you're this is quite this is literally i didn't know that we were taking questions from listeners.

Speaker 1 It's from a random listener named Justin T. Oh, my.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 he wants to know: you're well known for your love and abuse. This is his words, not mine.

Speaker 1 You're well known for your love and abuse of marijuana and other mind-altering substances. Has work ever gotten in the way of your drug problem?

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 wait. And follow-up question: Has your drug problem ever suffered as a result of your work?

Speaker 1 thank you caller

Speaker 2 justin t that's a very uh insightful question uh

Speaker 1 as a matter of fact uh it does sometimes get in the way because like i'll i'll wake up i want to wake and bake i'll be like i can't wake and bake i can't fucking wake and bake gotta wait till lunch yeah thanks for asking that I can't believe that he had time to ask that write that question down just because you know he's usually just avoiding paparazzi That's his number one job.

Speaker 1 So, the fact that he had the time to write that down, God bless.

Speaker 1 No, but seriously, have you, Woody, have you ever worked totally stoned like in a cheers or anything where you're in a scene? You're like, I don't know where I am. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 I was doing cheers, and you know, we'd been doing it for a while.

Speaker 2 So, I don't know, several years. And

Speaker 2 then

Speaker 2 I thought we were done, and I went up and I I was smoking a joint with George Went.

Speaker 2 And I hear over the intercom, Woody, come down for your monologue and scene C.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, oh, uh-oh, oops.

Speaker 2 And I go down and it's like, first take, disaster, second take, worse. You know, takes me 10 takes.
And Jimmy's like, Woody, everything?

Speaker 1 Okay. Yeah, everything's fine, Jimmy.
Everything's fine.

Speaker 1 Let's just try it again.

Speaker 2 You know, so it would have been one simple, you know, it just just took like 10 fucking takes. It was a disaster.

Speaker 2 So I learned that I can't, you know, all the things that you just take for granted just kind of go out the window. I mean, you probably, Will and Jason, I'm sure, have done cocaine while filming.

Speaker 2 And, you know, it just doesn't work.

Speaker 1 Jason? It's not fun.

Speaker 1 I did it once, and I spent my whole time trying to not look like I was all beaked up. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I remember we asked, remember we asked Seth Rogan last last year, we were like, man, do you ever, Sean, you asked him, like, do you ever, you know, have you ever gotten high before you work?

Speaker 1 And he's like, I've never not worked high.

Speaker 1 That's crazy. I know.
Is that right? Yes. Yeah.

Speaker 2 He said, that's what he said. I heard Chris Walken would get high before doing Shakespeare in the park.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God.

Speaker 2 How do you, if you get lost, how do you start improvising an iambic contaminant?

Speaker 1 Like, how's that work? Wow.

Speaker 1 Wow. That's crazy.
How do you get that back? But I guess the old guys, they used to, all those old Shakespeare actors, those guys used to booze it up.

Speaker 1 Like over, you know, on the other side there in the UK, those guys used to all get hammered. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 But I feel like that might be different than weed. Like weed would, for me, it would be tough to remember my lines.
I'd get too distracted probably.

Speaker 1 I don't know. It's more about just like going home and powering down for me.
What about a gummy, Jason? Could you do it on a gummy?

Speaker 1 I might be able to, just because, you know, it goes into the blood system a little bit slower. It doesn't punch you in the neck like a big fat hit off a doobie or a bomb, you know?

Speaker 1 Woody, I think the last time I saw you, this is a great,

Speaker 1 not much of a name drop, but the last time I saw you was at your birthday at Bono's place in the south of France. Is that true? Yeah, dude.

Speaker 2 I was so psyched to see you. You know, I love arrested development.
I fucking love that show.

Speaker 1 Love it.

Speaker 2 And Sean's never seen it.

Speaker 1 Thank you, Woody.

Speaker 2 Sean is not. Sean, you got to watch it.
It's really good.

Speaker 1 What's it called?

Speaker 1 It's a group called Arrested Development. It's

Speaker 1 a hip-hop band out of Atlanta.

Speaker 2 And that moment you had where you come in the window to break up with

Speaker 2 your teenage girlfriend is.

Speaker 1 With Ann.

Speaker 2 And then the next morning it cuts to you're sitting there eating your eggs.

Speaker 2 And she says, so what was it you wanted to talk to me about? And you're like,

Speaker 1 well,

Speaker 2 what

Speaker 1 is it?

Speaker 1 And then you get into that,

Speaker 2 $35.

Speaker 1 I do it all the time, by the way.

Speaker 2 And people have no idea what I'm doing.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, I have to then explain. This is actually.
$3,500 suit.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 What was confusing about that scene was that I come out and I'm wearing her. I'm wearing her nightgown and she's wearing my shirt from the night before.
So we realized as we were rolling,

Speaker 1 I was kind of, I knew that Mitch was going to get what I was trying to do so that I started to

Speaker 1 downgrade how much her thing was worth. And then I started to upgrade what she was wearing because she was wearing my shirt.

Speaker 1 So it was like such a fucking like, and then Mitch was like, I can't believe this is happening, but it was so funny to me that I'm like, should the guy, and I start sort of complimenting how much hers is worth.

Speaker 1 Anyway, so Woody, so we're at Bono's place and and this big birthday party for Woody and his and his wife's there and his daughter comes in, surprises him and a bunch of people are there.

Speaker 1 It's really beautiful night.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 Woody's like, oh man,

Speaker 1 and he started, we start laughing about that scene. He's like, and he was doing the scene to me.
And then dinner was served and Bono comes over and he's like, and he kept going, guys, dinner's served.

Speaker 1 And Woody's. Woody's on the ground doing the scene.
And finally, he got a little bit pissed. And he was like, and he was like, hey, Woody, well, you guys can do it over there at the table.

Speaker 1 And we're like, all right, man.

Speaker 1 We're doing scenes from Arrested Development, Bonno.

Speaker 1 It really, to me,

Speaker 2 it's maybe the greatest comedic moment ever in television.

Speaker 1 I

Speaker 1 love it. That's nice.

Speaker 2 I still watch it and just, I tear up laughing. I love it.
And I know you were going through a hard time that day because you told me. So it's amazing you were able to do that.

Speaker 1 Oh, Will, what happened? I was having a, that was one of the worst days of my life. That's true.
I did tell you that that night. It was a very, I was going through a lot of stuff personally.

Speaker 1 You couldn't find the moose for your hair? No.

Speaker 1 Because it was moose back then, right? All the death. And moose.
Which was death.

Speaker 1 L'Oreal spritz.

Speaker 1 God damn it. It was fun times.

Speaker 1 Woody,

Speaker 1 speaking of lines you quote and stuff, like I said at the beginning when you popped on here that I'm obsessed with cheers. I've seen every episode so many times.

Speaker 1 And what you achieved, we touched on this a little bit before. You achieved what a lot of actors in TV don't do, which is kind of cultivate a massive, gigantic film career afterwards.

Speaker 1 What did that kind of happen to you? Did you seek it out? Like,

Speaker 1 how did that transition happen for you?

Speaker 2 Well, I mean, I guess we're all seeking it out, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 2 So, but you know, it really was: I got to do Doc Hollywood with Mike,

Speaker 2 Michael Fox, and then that did well.

Speaker 2 And then it was lucky that I played basketball.

Speaker 2 You know, my agent told me later, you know, all those times I was trying to get you and you were down playing hoops down in Santa Monica or whatever, you know, paid off because of white men can't jump.

Speaker 2 And Ron Shelton, who actually,

Speaker 2 I call it, I guess it was. Bush War I at the time was going on and he had heard me, you know, protest it.

Speaker 2 I said something like, The war on terrorism is terrorism, which upset a lot of people and caused me to lose,

Speaker 2 you know, lucrative other things that were going on. It didn't matter, but Ron Shelton very much liked it, was glad I did that.

Speaker 1 Scott Weller's doppelganger, Ron Shelton, by the way. Oh, yeah? Yeah.
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Separated at birth. Yeah.
Wow. Yeah.
Here we go. Who knows? Sorry.

Speaker 1 Scott Weller is a buddy of ours who lives in the South Bay. He's a handyman.
He's got a great handyman business business opening up. Great handyman.

Speaker 1 Listen, if something's broken and you need it fixed, you call Scott Bay. You're in the South Bay.
Yeah, you're in the South Bay around Manhattan Beach and something breaks.

Speaker 1 You call Scott Weller and his handyman business through home hardware.

Speaker 2 Let me write that down. So, Scott Weller,

Speaker 1 if I'm in. There's a number at the bottom of your screen.

Speaker 1 South Bay, California.

Speaker 1 All right, so there's Ron Shelton. He puts in white men can't jump.
That is hugely successful.

Speaker 1 And then on from there, right? Yeah. I mean, it hasn't stopped.
That's great.

Speaker 1 Has there been a slow period that was not by design? Has it slowed down for you?

Speaker 2 It was

Speaker 2 after People versus Larry Flint,

Speaker 1 things

Speaker 2 kind of,

Speaker 2 because that was disappointing to Sony,

Speaker 2 even though a lot of people maybe watched it after, you know, but at the time they didn't. And also, it was really...

Speaker 2 Gloria Steinem had gone on a, went from one place to another, all over the country, telling people not to see it. This is a pre op-ed,

Speaker 2 which was devastating.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 anyway, so people would tell me, look, I'd like to watch it, but my wife won't let me see it. And so that was a real.

Speaker 1 Isn't that weird?

Speaker 2 Things kind of went down after that. And that was also when I decided, oh, I'm going to just stop working for a while.
So I did for five years.

Speaker 1 Weren't you nominated for that?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. You were nominated for an Oscar, and things went down after that.
Wait, wait, wait. Hang on a second.

Speaker 1 So for five years, what are five years, you basically?

Speaker 2 Yeah, from like around 97 to 02, other than I did one thing,

Speaker 2 which I'm glad I did

Speaker 2 for Ron Howard, Ed TV, you know, with

Speaker 2 which is where I got to know Matthew.

Speaker 3 That's great.

Speaker 2 And then I did one other little thing.

Speaker 2 Other than that, yeah, I didn't work. Oh, and I did theater.
I was like, I want to get in touch with my roots, you know. So, like, from around 97 to 2002,

Speaker 2 yeah, I didn't do anything. And probably, you know, the phone wasn't ringing off the wall or anything during that time.

Speaker 2 And then when I started, when I came back to work again, I was like, you know, I'm not expecting a ticker tape parade or anything, but I think there'd be, you know,

Speaker 2 there was nothing. It was completely, I was completely forgotten.
And I was just trying desperately to get anything. And anyway, it was a slow.

Speaker 1 What was the first big thing that restarted it?

Speaker 2 Well, I did this movie

Speaker 2 after the sunset of Pierce Brazen, Samuel Hayek, Brett Ratner.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 even though it didn't do that well, I think it started, you know, just kicking things off. You know how it goes, guys.
You know.

Speaker 1 Yeah, uh, it's up and down. Yeah, well, I'm sure, but you know, it's great, Woody's.
I bet that people like love to take credit of going, like, that they rediscovered you.

Speaker 1 Like, yeah, you know, Woody, yeah, Woody be really great. Like, you haven't changed.
You've been great since you started.

Speaker 1 And it's like, everything else takes, you know, it's so funny, perspective is fucking crazy because you do that, People versus Larry Flint. And as Sean said, you were awesome.

Speaker 1 Obviously, you were nominated. You were awesome.
My recollection seeing that film in the theater was how great it was and how great you you were.

Speaker 1 And if you were to ask me, like, well, if you were to say, like, what, you know,

Speaker 1 you know, how is Woody Harrell? Oh, he's great, man. Yeah.
He just did that, People versus Larry Flynn. He was incredible.
He was nominated.

Speaker 1 He's a great actor and he's so good and he's so diverse and he can do kind of anything.

Speaker 1 And when the reality of your perspective is totally different, it's so fucking crazy and it's so subjective, right? I mean, that's bizarre. It's gig to gig still.
Yeah. Yeah.
Always. Yeah.
Always.

Speaker 1 It's crazy. Always.
Jason's about to take five years off. He didn't know it.
Yeah. Oh, no.
Yeah. Yeah.
Shit. Yeah.
I just talked to Showbiz. They said you're taking five years off.
Damn it.

Speaker 1 Was that an alert that you got? Or

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Speaker 1 And now, back to the show. Let me switch for a second into, I know that you've...

Speaker 1 You've got some

Speaker 1 beliefs and some passions in sort of like a lot of sort of our environmental stuff and I do as well and and if you're like me sometimes you get a little bit frustrated with the slow pace of things how do you manage your your happiness or lack of based on the progression or lack of on sort of tackling some of these things that are really kind of existential we don't want to get into politics too much we don't like to on this show that much but I'm just wondering if you got a tip for me.

Speaker 1 Is it about not watching the news or not reading the paper to see the slow pace of things? Or is it the opposite? How do you manage your frustration?

Speaker 2 Well, I mean, I do feel like

Speaker 2 the world's kind of going to hell in a handbasket. And

Speaker 2 I feel like sometimes,

Speaker 2 you know, with the global warming and the you see the effect of it even here, where it's unnaturally warm, although it's fucking freezing balls here. For them, it's unnaturally warm.

Speaker 2 And,

Speaker 2 you know, you see it everywhere. You see the signs of it.
It's not a mystery that the

Speaker 2 global warming is having a devastating impact. And all these predictions that were made, you know, 30 years ago, 40 years ago, are coming true.
And then, you know,

Speaker 2 people say, well, you know,

Speaker 2 well, things are moving for well, I I don't know. I mean, it seems like the big oil companies and all the giant freaking, you know, industries that have raped Mother Earth on a daily basis for

Speaker 2 forever. Yeah, it seems like they just keep doing business as usual.
And I don't see changes happening.

Speaker 1 So, how do you manage your frustration with that?

Speaker 2 I don't know. It really, I think about it every day.

Speaker 2 I really.

Speaker 1 But I was going to say, Jason, I was going to say one of the things, and Woody, you can speak to this.

Speaker 1 I remember when we did Semi-Pro 10, 12 years ago with Will Farrell, and you had your bus, which I think you still have, that you use as your trailer.

Speaker 1 And what he's got, this bus that runs on vegetable oil.

Speaker 2 Biodiesel.

Speaker 1 Biodiesel. It's got like a cork floor.
It's got all this stuff. It's like renewable.
You've been doing it. You've been kind of walking the walk for a long time.
And it's like, yeah,

Speaker 1 the thing that you can do is everybody could do it if everybody thought like that more.

Speaker 1 It's about changing, once again, changing our perception, changing how we approach stuff, right?

Speaker 2 Yeah, I mean, I think it really has to do with

Speaker 2 fee how we feed ourselves,

Speaker 2 you know,

Speaker 2 how we feed ourselves planetarily, you know, what our fuel is, and also what our personal fuel is, I think is also incredibly important.

Speaker 1 What would they say? And I was watching on the news the other day that

Speaker 1 growing cows for food is two-thirds of the of the world's pollution. Is that right? What it takes to to farm cows? Is that right? Or is it one-third? Something like that? I think

Speaker 2 it's a huge thing.

Speaker 2 The methane generated from cows.

Speaker 1 And what is that?

Speaker 1 Like from their poop? Is that the methane?

Speaker 2 Yeah, I think it's from just their...

Speaker 1 Really? Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Meanwhile, throw it on your flowers, and it's okay.

Speaker 1 Cow crap is killing our planet. Is that right? It's their farts.
It's the farts.

Speaker 1 Cow farts. The farts.

Speaker 1 You know, farting, there was a time when farting was really funny. Yeah, no, now it's killing us.
It's killing us. Now it's killing us.
Woody, what type of stuff are you eating nowadays? Are you full?

Speaker 1 Are you a full vegan?

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah. Well, I've been a vegan for since 1990, January 1.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 2 I'm mostly raw. I try to eat mostly raw.
You know, you got to like a salad if you're eating mostly raw.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I love salads.

Speaker 2 I just, you know, I want to eat as clean as possible,

Speaker 2 you know, to compensate for my other

Speaker 1 issues. Pollutions.
Uh-huh. Now, how, do you find it difficult to get raw, clean food as you travel around the world? I mean, I imagine it's got to be a lot easier in the major cities.

Speaker 1 But when you're on location in different parts, you have to bring food with you, or you have like a cook or something like that.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I have a chef here

Speaker 2 named Mish Cole. She's great.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Uh-huh.

Speaker 2 But yeah, I know, I know. It's a little bit of a privileged lifestyle, guys.
I guess it is.

Speaker 1 No, no, but I have

Speaker 1 difficulty.

Speaker 1 You have to apologize to us. Yeah, I know.

Speaker 2 You're the privileged, of course. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I know. Now, Woody, let me ask you this.

Speaker 1 Now, when you do go city to city, how do you get your weed? Do you have connects in every city? That's what I need to know. It's legal everywhere, isn't it? Most places it's legal.

Speaker 2 You know,

Speaker 2 look, I mean, I used to carry it with me, which was a stupid move.

Speaker 1 But,

Speaker 2 and then I realized at one point, oh my God, it's everywhere.

Speaker 1 Now,

Speaker 1 is it legal up in Canada? Yeah, it's legal. Oh, there you go.
So, you just go down to the store. You just pick up some milk and do that.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I remember when you had me, you gave me a taste of your spirulina or something like that. Yeah, that stuff's good.
Dang, I almost fucking threw up.

Speaker 1 No, that's C algae. It gives you nice energy.
It's good for you. It's really good.
You mix it up with stuff. Woody, before I forget, Freak Brothers.

Speaker 1 It's a new cartoon you're in with John Goodman, Tiffany Haddish. Well, isn't it? Pete Davidson is in it.
Fucking that's crazy. It looks great.
You and John Goodman, perfect.

Speaker 1 I love that because you guys are both. What cartoon is that? What's it on? It's called Freak Brothers.
What is it on Tubi, right?

Speaker 2 Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's on Tubi. Tubi.

Speaker 1 Do I have Tubi?

Speaker 1 Hey, can we get that as an audiobite, guys? Rob, just peg that. Just remember that.
Do I have Tubi?

Speaker 1 This is Tabi. That's their tagline.
Do I need to go on Hypochondria Actor to figure out if I've got Tubi or not?

Speaker 1 I want to get this on a clip so I can be like Fred on Howard Stern where I can just keep clicking. Do I have Tubi?

Speaker 1 How does one get Tubi? Oh my God, keep going.

Speaker 2 You're asking me.

Speaker 1 Yeah, man. You're the one who's...
He doesn't know. What do you send Tubi with a question mark on the app?

Speaker 1 What do you get an app for? But I don't know.

Speaker 2 Just ask one of your assistants to download it for you.

Speaker 1 Yeah, man.

Speaker 1 Wait, Woody, go back. I want to talk about Matthew McConaughey.
I didn't know you guys were so close. You guys are good buds, right? You and Matthew? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Speaking of you and Matthew, are you aware of

Speaker 1 what you have done for this industry with what you guys did with True Detective

Speaker 1 in making the

Speaker 1 limited series a cool thing? Yeah.

Speaker 1 The television space for like when two big shot film actors like you guys come on and like I would equate it to when Fincher did House of Cards on Netflix, the combination of those two things, I think, will, it's just expanding.

Speaker 1 so much more, so many more places for everyone to work. Well, it made it feel okay and not like, because there used to always be that thing of like, it wasn't cool to do.
And then you guys came in.

Speaker 1 I did film, I don't do TV.

Speaker 1 Unapologetically, you guys fucking kill it. God, I love that.
What do you when you and Matthew and that thing was so good? Oh, you guys did such a great job. Yeah, fuck, it was so fucking good.

Speaker 1 And then it's just like, made it okay for everybody to do that. Like, that was huge.
Did you love doing that project? Yeah.

Speaker 2 I mean, you know, there were times

Speaker 2 I would get kind of angry with Matthew you know one of my best buddies so it felt weird but he was in character and that fucking character just made me want to fucking slap him I was

Speaker 2 so good you know but he'd stay in character and you know not after work but while we were at work you know it wasn't like hey buddy

Speaker 2 you know none of that

Speaker 1 so that was a little but anyway it turned out good yeah did you have a sense while you were doing it how good it was and what the style of it was? Or did Carrie Fukunaga sort of not really was it?

Speaker 1 Was it not that clear? You had to really watch a lot of playback to get a sense of it, or could you tell while you were shooting it?

Speaker 2 I mean, I thought it was going to be good, but you know, it's rare you find a thing like hit the zeitgeist like that. That's extreme.
I mean, you have it already.

Speaker 2 You know, you got Ozark, you got the arrested development.

Speaker 1 You know, you're Mr.

Speaker 2 Zeitgeist, Jason. But for the rest of us, it's a very, it's a very great.

Speaker 2 So, yeah, it was wild. I had no idea that it would be, you know, that kind of thing.
And I thought it did turn out really good.

Speaker 1 So good. Yeah, fantastic.
You were so great in that. So good.

Speaker 1 What about, I want to know, because these guys hate this, but I'm a huge, huge, huge Star Wars freak. And when you were in solo, I was like, oh, my God, that's so cool.
And

Speaker 1 were you a fan of it before? Or were you just like,

Speaker 1 what is pretty close to our to today's new harrison ford i i i would i would anoint you the new harrison right if you were going to cast on solo today i'd put what he's a big thing to say that's a big thing to say yeah yeah sorry go ahead wow thank you do i have to be

Speaker 1 it's from that guy that's where your compliment came from no i want to know i want to know if you were a fan of the star wars franchise or were you kind of a fan and not and just was like, oh, I could learn to like this or whatever.

Speaker 2 No, I was kind of a fan. You know, I wasn't like a mega fan because these fans out here of the Star Wars stuff, I mean, those guys are pretty serious.

Speaker 2 So I would be, I don't think it's a fair to call myself that kind of fan. But I, you know, I liked it, of course.

Speaker 1 Wasn't there a director swap in the middle there? And you had to redo a bunch of stuff with Ron. Ron Howard.
Yeah, that was a long, long shoot, I'll bet.

Speaker 2 It was. It was like maybe

Speaker 2 nine, ten months total by the time we were done. Yeah, at least nine months retooling it.

Speaker 1 How did you like living in England that long?

Speaker 2 Yeah, and I'd been there on a project just before, so I was in London for a year.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 2 Which, you know, I like London, but that was a year.

Speaker 1 What do you did that thing?

Speaker 1 Didn't you do a live TV thing? Was that the thing you were doing?

Speaker 2 That's what I did before, yeah.

Speaker 1 It was cool. What was that deal?

Speaker 2 Yeah, it was,

Speaker 2 it's called Lost in London. I wrote it and directed it.
And

Speaker 1 yeah,

Speaker 2 it went live in the theaters, which was cool. That had never happened.

Speaker 1 Oh, wow.

Speaker 1 I remember that. Yeah.
How did you like doing that? Was it more stress than it was worth, or was it super exciting?

Speaker 2 Well, yeah, you know, it was like theater, but like on a, you know, on another. uh scale with 500 extras and 500 crew and uh

Speaker 2 you know

Speaker 2 it was it was wild the stress nearly nearly killed me I gotta say I don't know when I've ever been that fucking stressed all kinds of shit the sound would

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 2 the the the the the we did a run-through the night before the video goes out for 45 minutes the the feed I mean it's like so this was basically a live movie that you were beaming into movie theaters is that yeah yeah

Speaker 1 Wow. Where did that idea come from? That sounds like

Speaker 1 total, like a, like a, masochistic.

Speaker 2 It was masochistic. Well, I had already decided I wanted to do it in a one-er, you know, so it was a single camera.
And

Speaker 2 I'd already decided. And then someone else mentioned, a buddy of mine, Tom Kartsotis, mentioned, hey, why don't you just beam it right into a theater while you, what?

Speaker 2 That's a crazy idea. And then started finding out, you know, went to different people to see if it could be done.
And everybody was like, well, no, it can't be done.

Speaker 2 And then finally someone said, yes.

Speaker 1 So on. Did that kill

Speaker 1 the desire to direct anything else after that? Or did you go on and direct other stuff?

Speaker 2 Well, I would like to direct something else, but I don't want to do it in a one or live.

Speaker 1 I'd rather have multiple tapes.

Speaker 2 There's a million things I would have done different, honestly.

Speaker 1 But it turned out pretty good. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And Owen Wilson's in it, and Willie Nelson.

Speaker 1 It was good. I'd love to see that.
I love that. I know.
How cool is that?

Speaker 2 I think you can find it on Tubi or something.

Speaker 1 But Jason, do you have Tubi?

Speaker 1 Do I have Tubi?

Speaker 1 Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 Woody, we've taken a lot of your time today. I really appreciate you being here.
And I know you're stuck in Winnipeg working, so please take some rest.

Speaker 1 We're going to go to the Winnipeg to all our friends in Winnipeg. We love you.
We support you, especially my family. Woody, I'm going to send you some people you got to go see.

Speaker 2 Yeah, Sam and Teacher is going to love that.

Speaker 1 Oh, great. Obligate him to a couple of at-home dinners.

Speaker 1 Do they cook raw? I mean, come on, Will.

Speaker 1 Do they cook raw?

Speaker 1 You got to uncook it. Well, I'd sure love to see you in person when you're done up there in Canada.
And maybe while you're switching planes down here on your way to Maui, just let us know.

Speaker 1 We'll meet you down at LAX. I would love that.
Woody, come to town and come to hang out with us, man. Come on, Woody.

Speaker 1 i would love it i do you guys ever hang out with each other or it just always last night always just last night no last night every night and wednesday night and thursday night we every night these are the only people we see live no it fit right in come on

Speaker 2 come on in man oh well this has really been a pleasure i gotta say you know i hate doing interviews but this was a fun one thank you so much guys for making it so fun i can't remember one question we asked you i know but wow i'm glad you did it we we we love you woody you're the best yeah i love you pal thanks well love you too man sean love you brother jason what a pleasure love you pal and guys uh see you next time see you at la see you next time wood okay buddy all right okay pal bye buddy see you pal

Speaker 1 i love woody who doesn't he's the best

Speaker 1 dude i know

Speaker 1 it's terrible that he lives all the way out there in maui

Speaker 1 I didn't know he lived there. Should we pitch in and get in and get him a small studio apartment in Los Angeles so he could spend more time in L.A.
more time with us?

Speaker 1 Yeah, we'll get him a place like in North Hollywood, just like a nice little unassuming, so it won't cost us. It's 500 square feet.
Let's go. By the way, let's get wise.
Let's go visit him in Maui.

Speaker 1 Oh, we do smarter. That sounds better.
And we'll go.

Speaker 1 I do feel like

Speaker 1 we should be seeing more of him, and we never do.

Speaker 1 We see him on the big screen on the TV and the big screen, and Tubi, don't forget. Oh, my God, do you, yeah, do I, Tubi? Do you have to? I would love to Tubi.
I know you would.

Speaker 1 If there's not enough snow out there to by the way, this is turned into an ad for Tubi. They should be so lucky.

Speaker 1 What is it? But how would you pronounce?

Speaker 1 How do you pronounce that I on the? Oh, that's quick. Let's get right to it.

Speaker 1 Do you not want to? Are you done? You don't want to talk about it? He was your guest. I think.
Well, it's not, it's not spelt T-U-B-E, right?

Speaker 1 It's spelt. If you were to say it like it's spelt, Sean, what would it sound like? To buy by you.

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