Anna Faris

‘Scary Movie’ star Anna Faris is this week’s diner, much to Ed and James’s delight. But someone else hijacks her booking… ‘Scary Movie’ is in cinemas June 5. Book your tickets now. Follow Anna on Instagram @annafaris annafaris Watch the video version of this episode on the Off Menu YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@offmenupodcast on Thu 28 May. Off Menu is now on YouTube: @offmenupodcast https://www.youtube.com/@offmenupodcast Follow Off Menu on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/offmenuofficial and TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@offmenuofficial: @offmenuofficial. And go to our website www.offmenupodcast.co.uk https://www.offmenupodcast.co.uk/ for a list of restaurants recommended on the show. Off Menu is a comedy podcast hosted by Ed Gamble and James Acaster. Produced, recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive https://www.plosive.co.uk/. Video production by Ben Williams and Megan McCarthy for Plosive https://www.plosive.co.uk/. Artwork by Paul Gilbey https://www.instagram.com/pushgilbey/ (photography and design). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  Welcome to the Off Menu podcast, taking the salmon of conversation, slicing it with the sharp knife of humour, and putting it on a platter of friendship with all that fake grass. Sashimi.

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  That's Ed Gamble. My name is James Acaster. Together we own a dream restaurant. Every single week we invite in a guest and ask them their favourite ever star and main course dessert, side dish and drink, not in that order. And this week our guest is...

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  Arna Faris. Very excited to have Arna on, James. Of course we are.

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  One of the goats.

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  One of the goats.

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  One of my favourite comedy actors of all time.

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  We love Scary Movie.

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  We were teenagers when the Scary Movie movies came out.

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  And we weren't even friends then.

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  We weren't even friends, but our laughter was joining in the atmosphere as we laughed in Wimbledon and Kettering respectively.

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  And the universe knew that we'd one day be friends.

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  We'd one day be friends because our laughter had mixed up with all. Everyone else was laughing at Scary Movie. All our laughter was swirling together in the atmosphere. And now here we are, we get to meet Arna Faris.

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  Yeah, pretty cool.

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  Huge moment.

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  Huge moment for both of us. And another huge moment, James. There's a new Scary Movie coming out.

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  There is on...

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  Fitter June.

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  Basically, everyone's come back for it.

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  Yeah.

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  Marlon Wayans is at the helm. You've got Anthony Anderson's in it. Gina Hall's in it.

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  Yeah.

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  Like, all the big players.

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  Yeah.

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  It's very exciting.

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  Huge. I'm very excited, James. We should go to the cinema to see it.

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  Yeah, let's go to the cinema and see it, just like we used to.

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  Yeah.

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  When our laughter mixed in the atmosphere.

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  Yeah.

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  Very excited about having Anna Faris on the podcast, but if Anna says the secret ingredient, an ingredient which we deem to be unacceptable, we will be forced to kick her out of the dream restaurant, not that we want to.

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  No.

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  And this week, the secret ingredient is Malteser bunnies. The House Bunny was a film that Anna did.

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  The eyes and the nipples of the face.

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  And so we've gone bunny themed and gone for Malteser bunnies, which are very nice, but hopefully she won't choose it because very UK centric.

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  Very UK centric. We love Malteser bunnies, of course.

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  Of course we do.

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  Uh, but, um.

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  We've just had Easter, by the way.

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  We've just had Easter.

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  This is being recorded.

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  It's just been Easter. I didn't have much chocies, though.

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  Oh, it's a shame.

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  My mum bought me a little bag of lint eggs.

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  Oh, yeah.

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  Which are very nice.

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  So Amy and Ed bought my partner.

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  Hmm.

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  Because of my partner's birthday recently.

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  Yeah.

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  A Terry's chocolate orange.

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  Yes.

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  Because our cat's called Terry.

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  Yeah.

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  But my partner doesn't like choc- orange chocolate, which she told Amy to her face.

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  Yeah.

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  And, uh, so I was given the chocolate orange.

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  That's nice.

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  On the way home.

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  They're not Easter, though, are they?

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  But on the way home.

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  It's Christmas.

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  Uh, went past a shop and I did a double take. Cause they had a, I had not seen this before. I'm really into Sour Patch Kids these days, as I think I discussed with John Mulaney on our podcast.

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  Yeah.

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  And they had some cola flavoured Sour Patch Kids. I was like, I've not seen.

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  You made that, you made that noise.

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  Yeah. I've not seen cola flavoured Sour Patch before, so I grabbed that.

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  Yeah.

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  Went home, I sat in front of, I think I was watching, um.

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  On the floor like a little boy.

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  Watching Atlanta. I started getting, I'd get a segment, just a single segment of the Terry's chocolate orange.

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  Yeah.

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  And I put two.

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  Yeah.

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  Sour Patch Colas on them and eat it like a canapé.

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  Hmm.

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  And it was delicious.

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  Yeah.

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  You wouldn't think it would work, but I might start like a restaurant just to have this as a little petty thought.

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  It's really, I think it's fascinating for the listener and the viewer to know that you live this.

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  I live this.

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  It's not a joke.

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  I live this, it's not a joke. I live this.

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  Yeah, he lives this.

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  I think I was watching Atlanta.

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  That's not the key part of the story is what I'd say.

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  Huh?

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  That's not the key part of the story.

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  And don't forget, you can watch this on YouTube. And also don't forget that I'm on tour next year. Fresh Hell, Ed Gamble, Fresh Hell, edgamble.co.uk for tickets.

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  Yes, please.

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  It's shaping up to be another absolute humdinger of a show.

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  But let's get on with the episode.

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  This is the off-menu menu of Arna Faris.

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  Welcome, Arna, to the dream restaurant.

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  Thank you.

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  Welcome, Arna Faris, to Dream Restaurant, where we spend the evening of our time.

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  Wow. Where's the table?

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  What are you imagining? If you walk into your dream restaurant, what are you imagining?

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  Oh, gosh, a hammock. I'm wondering if, I don't know, I am delighted by robots so far in life. We'll see how, you know, the future.

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  Yeah, sure.

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  You know what I mean.

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  How they are now is pretty cool, right?

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  They're ridiculous.

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  Yeah.

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  But I'm just, if dream restaurant, hammock and robots.

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  Yeah.

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  So.

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  Do you have a favourite?

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  Let's talk about the food.

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  A favourite robot currently?

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  No, no.

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  No, it's not, it's not that you're like, I'm particularly charmed by that one.

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  No.

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  No.

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  Do you have the robot?

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  I wish, we're gonna, I wish I had a wittier answer for it.

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  No, no.

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  No, you've got to be honest.

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  Yeah, I don't know.

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  Do you have the robot vacuum at home?

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  No.

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  No, Roomba.

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  I'd like the idea of it, though.

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  Yeah, I like the idea of it, but then I feel a bit sorry for them when you see videos of them and they can't get up stairs. And they're like desperate to get up the stairs.

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  Yes.

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  They really want to get up the stairs, but they can't get up the stairs.

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  Yeah, they must think about it a lot, like what's up there.

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  Yeah.

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  We're like taking on the frustration of a robot. Oh, boy, guys.

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  This is gonna be bad. We are gonna be banging our heads.

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  Yeah.

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  Just like that Roomba.

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  Yeah.

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  Yeah, yeah.

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  That'll be us soon.

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  Can I ask you guys a question that I was thinking about?

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  Yes.

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  This is sort of a takeover, so please take it back whenever, you know what I'm saying. But do you think podcasting has changed how you communicate with your partners?

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  Or with people in general.

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  Interesting. I don't think so necessarily. I don't think my wife would accept me interviewing her in a podcast style.

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  She's very disengaged from a lot of my work in a very healthy way.

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  Oh, that's great.

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  Like, we would just have like a normal life. And, you know, she'll come to my shows now and again, but she'll come to the big show at the end of a tour and be like, well done, congratulations. But she's not constantly engaged in what I'm doing, which I think is which is pretty healthy.

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  I think that's.

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  Sure, you know, she doesn't really know much of Ed's career.

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  She's not a fan.

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  Right.

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  You know, she's a fan of me as a person. Yeah, yeah, absolutely humble. Yeah.

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  Yeah, but the question was, does it change how you communicate with your partner? It wasn't, does your partner like you?

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  No, but but that is also the same question.

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  The more broad question is, do you find yourself having unexpected moments of truth? Of articulating emotions or feelings a little bit more openly in or have there been moments that have taken you by surprise?

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  No, I think if anything, on this podcast, I'm not, you know, I'm just messing around talking about food, pretending to be a genie, pretending to burst out of a lamp. I'm probably more honest and open with my partner than I am on the podcast.

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  You'd hope so.

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  Yeah.

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  Yeah, I think this podcast, I would never categorize it as necessarily open and vulnerable all of the time.

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  Although you can be if you want.

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  Cut out like the last 10 minutes.

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  No, because we're also guided by the guests.

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  This is when the comedic actress like is annoyingly like serious, you know?

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  Listen, this is a great, I don't know if it's been conveyed to you, but this is a great honor for us to have you on the podcast. We've been very excited about this for a long time.

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  Thank you.

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  My catchphrase on the group chat has been, I love Anna Faris every single time we're talking about getting you on.

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  We've been very excited.

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  You're huge to us.

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  That means a lot to me.

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  So you can be as honest as you like.

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  Yep.

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  Because we know how funny you are.

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  Thank you.

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  So like, uh, we, you know, we grew up with, well, grew up when we were teenagers, we're going to watch the original scary movies, scary movie two. In Katrin, where I'm from is a little small town. There wasn't many moments where everyone like really crammed in the screen and properly laughed for a whole movie.

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  Ah.

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  And me and my friends went to see those films multiple times with, uh, everyone laughing. It's a pretty, pretty special stuff. So it's a big deal for us to be doing this pod with you and you're doing another scary movie film, which is massive.

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  Thank you. And I love it that your memory is like the, a group experience. And one of the, this coming back under these circumstances with the Wayans brothers, the way this is all, all culminated has been such like a, a wonderful storm for me, just in a way that I really didn't imagine ever happening. And reconciling, I had never done comedy when I was cast. I was never known as a comedic person at all. I, I desperately wanted the world to take me seriously.

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  You know, I, I leaned into, uh, emotion. I leaned into, to feeling. And I enjoyed performing, but it always felt pretty intimate. Anyway, I was never a funny person. And my very first audition was for Scary Movie and I got the part.

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  Oh, wow.

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  And then it became a huge thing and it became absolutely defining of the next 26 years of my life. And I always felt that, um, you know, LA didn't, I didn't understand kind of who I was. I never felt strong comedically. At least in those early years. And I, I couldn't even get auditions for dramatic work and I, um, so.

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  For this movie to come back around with the Wayans Brothers. Cause I never got to thank them. I never got to after I I wasn't even sure what happened. I still I'm not all that clear. But their franchise was taken away from them. And I didn't see them. I was under contract for three. And then I did four on my own. But I didn't talk to them. My last conversation was with Keenan briefly in two thousand and two. I I so after in my early twenties being like naive and confused.

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  And thrilled like there I remember having a great time, but it was dizzying. The whole experience I was a like a foreign exchange student. I was a stranger in a strange land, did not know what was going on at all. And now getting to realize that when people see me, they think of that time in the theater in the small town with their friends and family or whatever, laughing, laughing hard. And when they see me at the mall or whatever, at the grocery store, gas station, I recognize now that people like light up because they think about some things dumb that I did.

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  And it is, it brings me so much joy and I'm so grateful for it. So, uh, thank you. You know what I mean? Like that's how and then to do this movie like this. I always thought that if I did another scary movie, I would feel like I was doing it for the mortgage. You know, that I that I would feel the attitude in the industry felt like making comedies is easy.

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  Right.

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  And kind of anybody could do it. It's that it's like a.

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  Which we know is a crazy point of view because.

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  Yeah, it's hard.

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  It's it's hard.

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  At least if.

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  It's hard to make good ones, certainly.

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  Yeah, yeah.

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  And it's it's it's mad to me that you're saying you didn't feel comedically confident when you first started doing them because it's you seem so natural at it.

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  Yes.

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  Thank you. I think I've just finally.

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  So in Scary Movie Two, I asked Keenan. I I had the courage, because I was just quiet. I was just like, keep your head down, don't get fired. You know, I really was, and everyone was larger than life. And everything was larger than life. And I was just hanging on. I just felt like lay low, like that you're a soldier. Something's crazy is happening in your life. I so I finally had the courage one day to ask Keenan why he cast me. Which is a it's an indulgent question to ask and a silly one, kind of like.

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  I think on the during the sequel, it's fine, though. I think you can ask it when.

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  Yeah, but I I just worshipped that man and I still do. I have I I owe him everything. And but he said in that moment, he said, he looked at me and he grinned. And he said, because you had no idea what you were doing. And that rattled around in my head for a while. And I feel like doing this project has made me feel like I'm starting to understand. Like what what he meant.

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  This latest one.

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  Yeah, it felt great to be on set and to be like, oh, I'm good.

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  Yeah.

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  It felt great. It felt it felt so good. I hadn't I hadn't really associated that feeling with this franchise.

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  Yeah, yeah.

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  And getting to act with Regina and getting to thank and work with Sean and Marlon. And getting to thank Keenan and tell him that I loved him and I'm so grateful for everything. And I can't believe that he picked me, you know? That meant the world to me. This whole thing, talking with you guys, you guys letting me tell this story. It just has been incredible.

• 14:58Speaker 05

  There must have been so many times over the years where you've been because like there's been such a which is why it's such a great time to make this movie now is because there's been such an explosion of horror films again. And people watching them, there must have been times over the years where you've been watching these big horror films and thinking we could do a funny twist on this scene or you don't think about that.

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  No, I didn't think I would return to the franchise.

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  Right, yeah.

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  They didn't ask, I mean, I did, but I didn't like. I really, that's why I felt like if I were to return, I would feel bad. A little bit about it, because I knew I would be compromising something fundamental in me. And I'm also not really a huge fan of horror movies.

• 15:43Speaker 06

  I could have just gotten with that answer.

• 15:46Speaker 06

  No, but I also think, this is a little bit of a sidetrack, but it is sort of related that Marlon said something, he articulated it so well, which the idea that studio, he said something on set. He says, you know, studios, they always think that it's about the movie that you're spoofing. It's never about the movie that you're spoofing. We could be spoofing anything. He said it so well, which I think, and it is like a large idea because it's not exactly true. It is about the movies that we're spoofing. It is about what's current, what's exciting, what people are really enjoying. And so there is that tension and he knows that very well.

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  But the also the other truth is giving, I guess, giving us a little more credit, which is the idea that we've created, I'm hesitant to call Cindy Campbell nuanced.

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  Because I'm not sure that's quite right, but we've created characters that feel, that we've been able to put our imprint on, you know, so that wasn't, I really rambled, didn't I?

• 16:56Speaker 05

  No.

• 16:56Speaker 06

  I think you were gonna maybe ask me like what movies we were spoofing and if I enjoyed it.

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  No, no, no, no.

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  That's my journey.

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  Let's get into your dream meal proper now.

• 17:10Speaker 06

  Oh, yeah. Oh, shoot, a hammock and robots? Why did I choose that?

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  Look, you're in, you're in the hammock.

• 17:16Speaker 06

  Wait, wait, wait. Let's do something.

• 17:19Speaker 05

  You don't want the robots?

• 17:20Speaker 06

  Let's do, yeah, let's abandon it, can we?

• 17:22Speaker 05

  Yeah. Yes.

• 17:23Speaker 06

  Could we do Italian coast?

• 17:27Speaker 05

  Yeah, sure, of course.

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  Could we do?

• 17:31Speaker 06

  I don't know, Amalfi?

• 17:34Speaker 04

  We can do Amalfi.

• 17:35Speaker 06

  Okay, let me guess.

• 17:36Speaker 04

  I think it's a shame to lose the robots, but.

• 17:38Speaker 06

  Oh, you do?

• 17:39Speaker 04

  Well, no, but it's up to your dream meal, but.

• 17:41Speaker 05

  Yeah, don't let him sway you.

• 17:42Speaker 04

  Just to let you know, when I'm imagining it, I'm imagining a beautiful restaurant on the Amalfi Coast, but occasionally a robot, you just hear a robot go past.

• 17:49Speaker 06

  Wow, a robot that can like climb those like.

• 17:52Speaker 04

  Yeah, actually.

• 17:53Speaker 06

  Sixteenth century stone stairs.

• 17:55Speaker 04

  Now, it sounds like one of those scary army robots that you see.

• 17:58Speaker 06

  Yeah, I know. Okay.

• 17:59Speaker 04

  We don't want that.

• 18:00Speaker 06

  I think we should choose Elaine. Do we do hammocks and robot?

• 18:04Speaker 04

  It's up to you, Anna.

• 18:05Speaker 06

  I can go back. I really can mentally.

• 18:07Speaker 04

  Let's do Amalfi Coast.

• 18:08Speaker 05

  Amalfi, I think.

• 18:08Speaker 04

  I think that's where you want the restaurant to be, isn't it?

• 18:10Speaker 06

  I know, but you guys have partners. I'm married. I.

• 18:16Speaker 05

  I don't know why that's relevant.

• 18:18Speaker 06

  Oh, it totally is. We're on the Amalfi Coast. Podcasting.

• 18:22Speaker 04

  Yeah, that's beautiful. The Amalfi Coast's beautiful.

• 18:25Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 18:25Speaker 06

  Are we doing Amalfi?

• 18:26Speaker 05

  I think you've got to. That's where, I can tell that's where your heart is.

• 18:29Speaker 06

  Okay, then maybe I'll be a character since this doesn't feel exactly like me. Shall I be obnoxious?

• 18:37Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah, go as obnoxious as you can. Who's the character in yet? Do you reckon?

• 18:43Speaker 06

  Um.

• 18:44Speaker 05

  What's her background?

• 18:45Speaker 04

  This is amazing, by the way, because we just saw some acting happen live. Because Anna completely changed her posture when she decided.

• 18:50Speaker 05

  Completely. Something changed in your eyes.

• 18:53Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 18:54Speaker 06

  Um.

• 19:00Speaker 06

  Bethany, but maybe Bethany's too evocative. I'm breaking for a second. I'm trying to think of a name.

• 19:05Speaker 04

  You're free to break.

• 19:06Speaker 05

  This is your process.

• 19:07Speaker 06

  Do you guys have a good, um, you know what? Let's do, let's, let's just do Sarah.

• 19:17Speaker 06

  Sarah.

• 19:18Speaker 05

  That's the character's name?

• 19:19Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 19:20Speaker 04

  Yeah. And is it spelt like Sarah, but it's pronounced Sarah?

• 19:25Speaker 06

  It's spelt like Sarah.

• 19:27Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 19:30Speaker 06

  Hold on.

• 19:31Speaker 05

  Yep. You've got some sunglasses.

• 19:36Speaker 06

  Oh, it's so beautiful here, you guys.

• 19:39Speaker 05

  On the Amalfi Coast.

• 19:42Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 19:44Speaker 06

  Where is the waiter?

• 19:46Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 19:46Speaker 04

  He's right, he's right.

• 19:48Speaker 05

  Hello, Sarah.

• 19:49Speaker 06

  I'm gonna get the bungalow.

• 19:52Speaker 04

  Well, hang on, Sarah, because we've not got to that bit yet.

• 19:54Speaker 06

  Oh, I was just telling you guys.

• 19:56Speaker 05

  Yeah, chatting to you before the meal.

• 19:58Speaker 04

  Sorry, Sarah.

• 19:59Speaker 06

  Yeah, no, that's.

• 20:00Speaker 05

  Yeah, it's the kind of chat you have before the meal.

• 20:02Speaker 06

  I don't wanna correct you though.

• 20:03Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 20:03Speaker 06

  But it is Sarah.

• 20:04Speaker 04

  Sarah, Sarah, Sarah.

• 20:06Speaker 05

  And do you usually like to have chat, like before the waiter comes around, chats with your friends about like, what are you gonna have and what, what are we thinking? You know?

• 20:16Speaker 06

  Do you mean, do I ask my friends what they're gonna order? Sometimes.

• 20:23Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 20:23Speaker 06

  I don't.

• 20:24Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah.

• 20:25Speaker 06

  Have you had conversation before?

• 20:29Speaker 06

  Oh, my God.

• 20:30Speaker 05

  Yeah, good point.

• 20:31Speaker 04

  Sorry about him, Sarah.

• 20:33Speaker 05

  Sorry, Sarah.

• 20:35Speaker 05

  On the way to, would you like still or spark the mortar?

• 20:38Speaker 06

  Oh, maybe both.

• 20:40Speaker 05

  Both.

• 20:41Speaker 06

  Wait, where is it from?

• 20:42Speaker 05

  Oh, that's a good question that I've never been asked.

• 20:47Speaker 06

  Fine. Yeah, no, never mind. It's fine.

• 20:49Speaker 05

  Yeah. It's fine, both.

• 20:51Speaker 06

  It's fine. Yeah, thank you.

• 20:54Speaker 05

  Mixed together or in separate vessels?

• 20:58Speaker 06

  Separate, separate vessels.

• 21:01Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 21:01Speaker 06

  Yeah. Is your dishwasher broken? Yes, separate vessels, please. You guys want separate vessels, right?

• 21:09Speaker 04

  Us and the friends?

• 21:10Speaker 06

  Do you want separate vessels?

• 21:11Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 21:12Speaker 05

  You're a dining partner for this.

• 21:14Speaker 04

  Turns out me and Sarah are having dinner or lunch. What are we having? Are we having lunch? Is it lunch? It's lunch. Yeah, yeah, it's lunch.

• 21:21Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 21:21Speaker 04

  It's nice, long time.

• 21:22Speaker 05

  And how do you know your friend here, if I may ask, is the waiter? How, how, how, who's this?

• 21:28Speaker 06

  You're the waiter?

• 21:29Speaker 05

  I'm the waiter, yeah, yeah.

• 21:30Speaker 06

  And you're sitting down?

• 21:32Speaker 05

  Well.

• 21:33Speaker 06

  I mean, I like a family style restaurant.

• 21:36Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 21:36Speaker 06

  On this beautiful Saturday, I didn't realize a table for three was happening.

• 21:42Speaker 04

  He's a genie as well.

• 21:43Speaker 05

  So, well, just that's gonna get complicated.

• 21:46Speaker 04

  Okay, sorry.

• 21:46Speaker 06

  No, but it literally is a really interesting story.

• 21:49Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 21:49Speaker 06

  We met at Cannes.

• 21:51Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah?

• 21:52Speaker 04

  Met at Cannes.

• 21:52Speaker 06

  Yeah, like three years ago. And now we're just like catching up.

• 21:57Speaker 05

  Yeah. And what's his name?

• 21:59Speaker 06

  Tom.

• 22:00Speaker 05

  Tom.

• 22:01Speaker 06

  Behringer.

• 22:02Speaker 05

  Behringer.

• 22:03Speaker 04

  I'm from Cannes.

• 22:04Speaker 05

  Does Tom work in the film industry?

• 22:07Speaker 06

  Am I like being set up? This is our waiter, right? Like, I don't get this. Are there cameras?

• 22:18Speaker 06

  Tom? What the fuck is happening?

• 22:20Speaker 04

  I don't know, I'm so sorry, Sarah. He's really got ideas above his station, this guy.

• 22:25Speaker 05

  Just asking if he works in the

• 22:27Speaker 04

  Why are you trying to find out what I do?

• 22:29Speaker 06

  I know. Are you concerned about our relationship?

• 22:32Speaker 04

  You, we know what you do.

• 22:34Speaker 06

  We're secure. We're secure.

• 22:36Speaker 04

  We're happy.

• 22:36Speaker 06

  We want vongole.

• 22:38Speaker 04

  We're getting vongole. Okay?

• 22:43Speaker 05

  It still doesn't spark the water.

• 22:45Speaker 04

  Don't be concerned with what I do. Be concerned with what you do, which is a waiter.

• 22:49Speaker 06

  Maybe this is one of those restaurants that are like so family that they hire like the cousin who's never experienced

• 22:58Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 22:58Speaker 06

  life before.

• 22:59Speaker 05

  You two talk, what are you talking about?

• 23:01Speaker 04

  What do you?

• 23:02Speaker 05

  You guys?

• 23:03Speaker 06

  Did they tell you to come sit down here?

• 23:07Speaker 05

  Well, I said, I've got to find out what you want to eat.

• 23:09Speaker 06

  Yes, the vongole.

• 23:14Speaker 04

  Popadums or bread? Popadums or bread, Anna Faris? Oh, no, sorry, Sarah. Sarah? Popadums or bread? Maybe Tom Barangue. I think he's saying popadums or bread. I think this is the first choice in this restaurant is popadums or bread.

• 23:27Speaker 06

  Popadums?

• 23:28Speaker 04

  Hmm.

• 23:30Speaker 04

  I don't know how you feel about the choice between popadums or bread. But I think this waiter would like to know that.

• 23:35Speaker 06

  Um, I think I'll do pane.

• 23:39Speaker 06

  Bread, bread.

• 23:40Speaker 05

  Bread.

• 23:41Speaker 04

  Bread, that's bread, James.

• 23:43Speaker 06

  Tom?

• 23:44Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 23:44Speaker 06

  So how are the kids?

• 23:46Speaker 04

  They're good. Well, there's so many of them now.

• 23:48Speaker 06

  I know.

• 23:50Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 23:50Speaker 06

  Oh, my gosh, you guys just can't stop. I meant to make it to Angelica's baby shower. But I couldn't. I'm so sorry. But I did send that little, um, Moncler baby jacket.

• 24:03Speaker 04

  Yes, thank you.

• 24:03Speaker 06

  Did you get it?

• 24:04Speaker 04

  Thank you for sending that.

• 24:04Speaker 06

  Did you get it?

• 24:05Speaker 04

  Yeah, it doesn't fit her because she's gigantic.

• 24:08Speaker 05

  Hmm.

• 24:08Speaker 06

  Angelica? It wasn't for Angelica.

• 24:10Speaker 04

  Oh.

• 24:11Speaker 06

  It was for Rosie, your baby.

• 24:12Speaker 04

  No, that makes more sense.

• 24:13Speaker 06

  Yeah. You need to go home more, Tom.

• 24:17Speaker 04

  I know, but you know, I'm here on the Amalfi Coast.

• 24:20Speaker 06

  I know.

• 24:21Speaker 04

  With my friend Sarah, who I met in Cannes.

• 24:23Speaker 06

  It was literally so nice.

• 24:27Speaker 06

  It was so beautiful.

• 24:28Speaker 04

  It's lovely.

• 24:28Speaker 05

  Do you have any, um, parenting tips for Tom? So, uh.

• 24:33Speaker 04

  Parenting tips.

• 24:35Speaker 06

  I know what he said. I just keep believe he's back.

• 24:39Speaker 04

  I still.

• 24:43Speaker 06

  Why does he have parenting tips?

• 24:46Speaker 05

  Well, it might be eyes for Tom because Tom's got so many kids.

• 24:48Speaker 04

  I think he wants to know what source of bread we want. Do you have a bread preference, Sarah?

• 24:53Speaker 05

  Of course, you won't say it's called mom.

• 24:56Speaker 04

  What?

• 24:57Speaker 06

  Does he know?

• 25:00Speaker 06

  Does he? Why does he have?

• 25:03Speaker 04

  Oh, he's.

• 25:05Speaker 06

  Does he know that I never wanted kids?

• 25:12Speaker 05

  You're the series mom.

• 25:14Speaker 06

  Um, parenting tips. Okay. Let's see if I can come up with a parenting tip. I don't know. Don't abandon your kids.

• 25:28Speaker 04

  Yeah, that's a good tip.

• 25:29Speaker 05

  That's a pretty good tip, I guess.

• 25:31Speaker 04

  Yeah, Tom would never do that.

• 25:33Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah.

• 25:33Speaker 04

  You should write a book.

• 25:36Speaker 04

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• 25:45Speaker 05

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• 25:50Speaker 04

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• 26:10Speaker 05

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• 26:42Speaker 05

  I'm gonna spill stuff everywhere. Is that gonna ruin the Cozy furniture?

• 26:45Speaker 04

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• 26:57Speaker 05

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• 27:44Speaker 00

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• 27:47Speaker 01

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• 27:49Speaker 00

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• 27:52Speaker 02

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• 28:01Speaker 00

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• 28:18Speaker 05

  Well, I have to ask for your dream starter, you see.

• 28:21Speaker 04

  We don't know what sort of bread, though.

• 28:22Speaker 05

  Oh, God.

• 28:24Speaker 06

  Oh, no, I just like your daily bread or whatever.

• 28:28Speaker 05

  Oh, like Jesus. Like Jesus would hand out?

• 28:34Speaker 05

  The Lord.

• 28:35Speaker 04

  He's, I think this waiter's quite religious.

• 28:37Speaker 05

  Day our daily bread. Well, I heard daily bread on the podcast before.

• 28:40Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 28:41Speaker 05

  Very religious, very Christian.

• 28:44Speaker 06

  I do get a lot of guilt when I'm in Italy.

• 28:48Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 28:49Speaker 06

  I mean, it's just guilt everywhere.

• 28:51Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 28:52Speaker 06

  Don't you think? Don't you feel guilty here?

• 28:54Speaker 04

  You feel guilty to be here?

• 28:56Speaker 06

  Oh, I always feel guilty.

• 28:59Speaker 04

  What? Why do you feel so guilty?

• 29:02Speaker 06

  I don't know. Don't you? It's only human.

• 29:05Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 29:05Speaker 04

  No, I mean, no. No, I give a lot to the world. Tom Berenger gives a lot to the world.

• 29:10Speaker 05

  What do you give?

• 29:10Speaker 06

  Oh, you do?

• 29:11Speaker 04

  Well, I've got, I've got 11 kids, so, you know, I'm putting a lot of.

• 29:15Speaker 05

  It's taking away from the world.

• 29:16Speaker 04

  No, it's not taking away from the world. I'm putting some great.

• 29:18Speaker 06

  What's your name again?

• 29:19Speaker 05

  The waiter.

• 29:22Speaker 06

  Waiter, you've got to have a name. Luigi?

• 29:26Speaker 05

  Well.

• 29:27Speaker 06

  Dominic.

• 29:27Speaker 05

  It's the guy who popped the CEO. I mean, uh, yeah, Dominic. Dominic, yeah.

• 29:32Speaker 04

  We can't be sa- Luigi as a name is not now the guy who popped the CEO, right? He's still Mario's brother.

• 29:38Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah.

• 29:38Speaker 06

  I don't really agree with Tom. I think that's a super narcissistic view.

• 29:42Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah. It's very narcissistic.

• 29:44Speaker 04

  Having 11 kids, yeah.

• 29:46Speaker 06

  I mean, just thinking that that's being generous, you know?

• 29:49Speaker 05

  Hmm. It's kind of weird, isn't it?

• 29:51Speaker 06

  But I pay my taxes mostly. Oh, my gosh. Do you want to go? Do you and Angelica and maybe like three or four of the kids? Yeah, I hope so. Is anything, has anything changed? Okay. So do you guys want to go? There's a yacht that we can use for like four days.

• 30:16Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 30:16Speaker 06

  In the Med.

• 30:17Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 30:17Speaker 06

  Next spring.

• 30:19Speaker 04

  We'd love that. Can the kids come?

• 30:21Speaker 06

  Four. Like, I think there's, because there aren't that many, like, staterooms.

• 30:25Speaker 04

  Hmm.

• 30:26Speaker 06

  I gotta check.

• 30:27Speaker 04

  So four kids can come out of the 11?

• 30:29Speaker 06

  I think that's about right.

• 30:30Speaker 04

  Yeah. Do you want to pick your favourites quickly and I'll bring those with me?

• 30:33Speaker 05

  Your fav?

• 30:34Speaker 04

  The favourites are my kids.

• 30:35Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 30:36Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 30:36Speaker 06

  I mean, listen, they're good kids. They are like, but.

• 30:41Speaker 06

  Um, I think I'm being really generous. The only thing, though, Tom, you should know this, I think, is that you have to provide the cash tip.

• 30:50Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 30:50Speaker 06

  Which it does get a little pricey.

• 30:54Speaker 04

  Well, how, how much?

• 30:55Speaker 06

  Thirty grand or something.

• 30:56Speaker 04

  Thirty grand cash tip?

• 30:57Speaker 06

  It has to be in cash.

• 30:58Speaker 04

  I don't really.

• 30:59Speaker 06

  You have to present it at the end.

• 31:01Speaker 04

  Yeah, I've seen, I've seen blowed up.

• 31:03Speaker 05

  The captain.

• 31:04Speaker 04

  I don't really agree with tipping culture.

• 31:05Speaker 05

  Ooh.

• 31:07Speaker 06

  Oh, do elaborate.

• 31:13Speaker 04

  Just think if, if these people on the yacht are being paid properly, which I'm assuming is your job, then they wouldn't need a tip at the end, right?

• 31:21Speaker 06

  No, it's a present. It's a gift.

• 31:22Speaker 04

  Oh, it's a gift?

• 31:23Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 31:23Speaker 04

  Okay. Okay, well, I'll bring.

• 31:26Speaker 06

  I was gifted.

• 31:27Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 31:27Speaker 06

  The four days on the yacht.

• 31:29Speaker 04

  Yeah. So do you want to split the tip then? Half and half if you're?

• 31:32Speaker 06

  I don't know if I can.

• 31:34Speaker 04

  Hmm.

• 31:36Speaker 04

  Okay, I'll, I'll bring the tip.

• 31:37Speaker 06

  You still didn't, really?

• 31:38Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 31:39Speaker 06

  So tell me more about this tipping culture thing. As an American, it is like second nature.

• 31:45Speaker 04

  I just think if people are being paid properly, you wouldn't need to tip, you wouldn't need to tip them.

• 31:49Speaker 06

  I would agree with that.

• 31:50Speaker 04

  I also think that the tipping's out of control.

• 31:53Speaker 06

  Agreed.

• 31:54Speaker 04

  I think when the, when you're buying a coffee and the baseline is twenty percent, I think that's too much.

• 32:01Speaker 06

  Well, you know, I used to be married to that, to Roman.

• 32:05Speaker 04

  Roman? I remember Roman, yeah.

• 32:07Speaker 06

  He was an oligarch.

• 32:09Speaker 05

  I was an oligarch.

• 32:10Speaker 06

  Was.

• 32:11Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 32:12Speaker 06

  So I know about, like, it has kind of gotten out of control.

• 32:16Speaker 05

  Hmm.

• 32:17Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 32:17Speaker 06

  Like, the oligarchy in general.

• 32:19Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 32:20Speaker 04

  Yeah, that was gonna say, that has gotten out of control.

• 32:23Speaker 06

  It's just, hmm, you know.

• 32:27Speaker 05

  But what would you like as your starter?

• 32:31Speaker 06

  Just the vongole.

• 32:32Speaker 05

  As the starter?

• 32:35Speaker 06

  Just the vongole. Starter and finito. Okay?

• 32:41Speaker 05

  The whole meal is just the vongole? You don't want dessert or anything later on?

• 32:45Speaker 06

  Maybe a sorbet?

• 32:47Speaker 05

  Hmm. Yeah, vongole, sorbet. So the whole menu rhymes?

• 32:51Speaker 04

  A, this is always gonna end with an A, all of the dishes.

• 32:55Speaker 06

  So a vongole and a sorbet?

• 33:00Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah. But the Von Gelay is like, you don't want a starter, you're skipping the starter.

• 33:06Speaker 06

  This lunch is gonna be all about honoring a bi-valve.

• 33:14Speaker 04

  We've got to honor the bi-valve, do you understand?

• 33:16Speaker 05

  Yeah, we, I haven't met anyone, I haven't had anyone in this restaurant before who wants to honor a bi-valve, which is great.

• 33:22Speaker 06

  I just want you to go into the kitchen and get me my Von Gelay.

• 33:29Speaker 04

  This is how people should be reacting to the genie waiter, by the way, because he hangs around for so long.

• 33:34Speaker 05

  Hey, Tom.

• 33:38Speaker 04

  Sorry, Tom, Tom's a bit of an asshole.

• 33:41Speaker 06

  Sarah's a real jerk.

• 33:43Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 33:44Speaker 05

  No, I like Sarah.

• 33:45Speaker 06

  A little bit.

• 33:46Speaker 05

  I'm on Sarah's side.

• 33:47Speaker 04

  But I like Sarah, though.

• 33:49Speaker 06

  You do?

• 33:49Speaker 04

  Yeah, I like Sarah.

• 33:50Speaker 06

  I don't know.

• 33:51Speaker 04

  You slipped into that character very easily.

• 33:55Speaker 06

  She's lurking.

• 33:56Speaker 04

  She's the, yeah, she's somewhere, she's not far.

• 33:59Speaker 06

  You know, when I first moved to Los Angeles, I met a specific type of person that I hadn't encountered before. And I, I really wanted to develop a character around this person, which I loosely described as the self-describer. I'd never met a culture, I'd never met people where they had neatly framed themselves, which I think now with social media and dating apps is a little more common. But at the time, you know, you're meeting people telling, that are saying to you, oh, I'm just a really spiritual person, or I'm, I'm just really creative. Or you're like, the self-description in the fad culture was new to me.

• 34:46Speaker 06

  And I thought it was an interesting idea.

• 34:52Speaker 04

  Because often the self-describers show no evidence of being the thing they're self-describing as.

• 34:57Speaker 06

  That is what I found.

• 34:58Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 34:59Speaker 06

  That there was a lot of like, who, who are you telling this story to?

• 35:02Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 35:03Speaker 05

  Was that a bit of an inspiration for your character in Lost in Translation?

• 35:07Speaker 06

  Hmm, that character was, I did do some improv, but on the page it read hysterically to me. Like, I really felt like I saw her. I saw how obnoxious, how intrusive, how, what a space, like, invader she was.

• 35:29Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 35:30Speaker 06

  Maybe I've become.

• 35:34Speaker 06

  I didn't know here at my perfect, my perfect meal that I'd be doing a lot of self-examination.

• 35:41Speaker 05

  That's what we like. We like to put our guests on edge. That character's hilarious, especially when you do the martial arts in it for the photographers.

• 35:48Speaker 06

  Thanks.

• 35:49Speaker 05

  Makes me laugh out loud.

• 35:50Speaker 06

  It was so, so fun. I was very scared. It was early on when I was auditioning for that role. I was in a room about this size with Sophia and she's, and I'm singing, "Nobody Does It Better", like I'm doing this karaoke scene, and the door handle starts jiggling and in walks Warren Beatty. And this is like out of body, you know? Like, I stopped singing because what else are you gonna do? And I'm, I'm clocking both of them as they're greeting each other.

• 36:33Speaker 06

  And they hugged and Warren said, "How you doing?", without even looking at me, like I'm over here. I'm like, I should excuse myself. This is now inappropriate. Like, how do I get to the door? I have to walk through them. And Warren said, "How are your parents doing, Sophie?" And she said, "Oh, good. They're in Thailand. Dad's opening up a hotel."

• 37:02Speaker 06

  And she said, "How's Annette?" And he said, "Oh, good", you know, "Annette's hunting and fishing with the boys up in Montana." And I'm just like...

• 37:15Speaker 06

  Is my car gonna start? How do I get out of here? What do I do? Well, this is highly inappropriate. I'm like, and I remember it so vividly because I was so terrified. That's why I just, I remembered the dialogue. Montana, Thailand, like taking it all in. And Sofia said, um, this is that actress from Scary Movie. And I was, Lee was like, hi. And he looked over at me like, oh, there's someone else in the room.

• 37:50Speaker 06

  And said, um, ah, that was pretty fucking funny.

• 37:56Speaker 04

  Amazing.

• 37:57Speaker 06

  And I, to this day, I'd like to think he said you were pretty fucking funny. But I think it was that.

• 38:08Speaker 04

  You're still part of the compliment, you know?

• 38:10Speaker 05

  Still take it.

• 38:11Speaker 06

  I felt, um, then I didn't get the role though for like another six months.

• 38:15Speaker 04

  Wow.

• 38:15Speaker 06

  I thought it was gone. I, I think they had offered it to a bigger name. I don't know who. And, uh, like got turned down or something. So for me, it was like, can you be in Tokyo next week? And so I was also terrified. And I thought I'm being too loud for this movie. Everybody's acting was down here. I didn't quite know, I didn't trust that the explosive performance is kind of what like was good for the movie. At the time, everyone was tired. It was the final week of shooting in Tokyo.

• 38:57Speaker 06

  So I'm coming in with an ex, like it's all new, you know? Like Sofia, Bill, Scarlett, I, I don't know what is going on. I'm getting yelled at in Japanese. Oh God, you know? But I just remember thinking at the time, this is probably, it's a character. It's the kind of person that I've now met in Los Angeles that has a very innate, terrifying core of confidence.

• 39:28Speaker 06

  That's confounding.

• 39:29Speaker 05

  Yeah, well, it plays so well against them because everyone else is like having literally like a midlife crisis, a quarter life crisis. They don't know who they are. They don't know what they want to do. You know, they are just, you know, very withdrawn and not really speaking about how they feel all the time or whatever. So like your character coming in and just like.

• 39:51Speaker 06

  Just an asshole.

• 39:52Speaker 05

  Not caring about, but also like, you know.

• 39:54Speaker 06

  Such a jerk, not taking in any.

• 39:57Speaker 05

  Not self-conscious at all, not self-aware.

• 40:00Speaker 06

  Doesn't need to observe.

• 40:01Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah, is, is, is great because it's the perfect like foil for everyone, like coming in and just like, yeah, just being the opposite of everyone else is perfect.

• 40:12Speaker 06

  There's a delicious delight in being able to play those kinds of characters too. It is like a childish event for me, you know?

• 40:20Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 40:21Speaker 06

  I get to be a brat.

• 40:23Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 40:23Speaker 04

  Yeah, that must be so much fun.

• 40:25Speaker 06

  Yeah, it is.

• 40:26Speaker 04

  Especially when everyone else is just underplaying everything so much and you just get to come in and sort of trample.

• 40:32Speaker 06

  Well, I wish I had felt that way. It was more like, I'm too big.

• 40:36Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 40:37Speaker 06

  I'm too big. I'm, wait a minute, they're all down here. I should be down here too, at least a little bit, you know? But so I wish that I had had a little bit more confidence at that time as a performer, as an actor. I was hard on myself.

• 40:55Speaker 05

  Tell me what you love about Von Gallet.

• 40:59Speaker 06

  Well, you know, I love a bivalve. I've already talked about that in anything that clings to rocks.

• 41:05Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 41:06Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 41:06Speaker 06

  Oh, yeah.

• 41:08Speaker 05

  There's something that as an, as an actor, as a performer, do you relate to that feeling of clinging on to a rock?

• 41:14Speaker 06

  I think we all long to just be able to take things in. And then spit them back out, you know, it's a goal.

• 41:23Speaker 05

  That's, that's, that's acting.

• 41:25Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 41:25Speaker 05

  In a way. You're just taking everything in from the world around you.

• 41:29Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 41:30Speaker 05

  And then you're spitting it out onto the screen.

• 41:32Speaker 06

  At the other end.

• 41:33Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 41:33Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 41:34Speaker 04

  It's a horrible way of describing acting, actually.

• 41:37Speaker 05

  Or beautiful.

• 41:38Speaker 06

  Listen, maybe it's.

• 41:39Speaker 04

  It's spitting.

• 41:39Speaker 06

  Maybe, maybe once we realise that we're bivalves, you know. We're not that complex.

• 41:47Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 41:47Speaker 06

  And I don't think we'll be better for it. Actually.

• 41:52Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 41:53Speaker 06

  I think.

• 41:53Speaker 04

  You went on a real journey and you heard that, actually.

• 41:55Speaker 06

  As I get older, I do think we should celebrate ourselves.

• 42:00Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 42:01Speaker 06

  So I am, um, I, I really appreciate the no tipping idea.

• 42:08Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 42:09Speaker 06

  I do think.

• 42:09Speaker 04

  Oh, that was Tom Barringer.

• 42:11Speaker 05

  What?

• 42:12Speaker 06

  Oh, oh, it's, oh.

• 42:13Speaker 05

  You're Tom again.

• 42:14Speaker 04

  That was, no, that was Tom who doesn't like tipping.

• 42:16Speaker 06

  Oh.

• 42:17Speaker 04

  I actually quite like tipping when I go to America.

• 42:20Speaker 05

  That's how good of an actor Ed is.

• 42:22Speaker 06

  That was good.

• 42:22Speaker 04

  I just felt, I, I feel engaged in the society when I'm tipping and I feel like you're, you're helping people.

• 42:30Speaker 05

  Oh, interesting.

• 42:31Speaker 04

  I don't, you know, here in the UK, tipping is for good service. So you give a big tip if you think it was really good service. There'll be like included stuff on the bill. But in the US, I quite like, I quite like the tipping culture.

• 42:44Speaker 06

  I, I, um, it's so ingrained in me, you know, that I, I, it's important to me.

• 42:51Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 42:52Speaker 06

  I, I like tipping as much as often as I can. I am definitely, I like to have a lot of cash on me. So a lot of cash.

• 43:03Speaker 05

  What if you, uh, if you think that, um.

• 43:05Speaker 06

  A whole lot of cash. Oh no, Sarah.

• 43:09Speaker 04

  Sarah's bad.

• 43:10Speaker 05

  Sarah has a lot of cash on her all the time.

• 43:13Speaker 04

  Sarah's great because you can, if you accidentally say something that you regret saying, you can just blame it on Sarah.

• 43:18Speaker 06

  Turns out like the whole gig of comedy, uh, you can get, you're off the hook for everything.

• 43:26Speaker 05

  Um, earlier you were giving Tom, what?

• 43:28Speaker 04

  Tom Waringer.

• 43:29Speaker 05

  You, yeah, you didn't wanna give Tom advice on parenting, even though you yourself have been a surrogate.

• 43:35Speaker 06

  Well, I think that Sarah really couldn't get over, uh, the intrusive waiter.

• 43:40Speaker 04

  Yeah, that felt like it was really, it was play, playing on Sarah's mind, wasn't it?

• 43:45Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 43:46Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 43:47Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 43:47Speaker 06

  Eye line, I mean, we should be here, you know?

• 43:52Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 43:52Speaker 05

  Also, I'm gonna, I'm gonna admit, when, when you pointed it out, I was like, why am I still here?

• 43:57Speaker 04

  Well, I've always said this about this podcast, that it's the waiter, the waiter takes the order for so long. Oh, so important, but within the format of the podcast, the waiter is taking the order for, you know, over an hour sometimes. Imagine if you went to a restaurant and you had to talk through all of your choices with the waiter for so long. Genie or not, you know?

• 44:19Speaker 05

  Genie or not.

• 44:20Speaker 06

  Have you waited tables, either of you?

• 44:22Speaker 04

  I've done, I've worked in part, in a pub where it was like some, some waiting tables on, on Christmas Day.

• 44:28Speaker 05

  Hmm.

• 44:29Speaker 04

  Christmas Day was table service.

• 44:30Speaker 05

  Also, I just got it wrong, because you weren't a surrogate in France.

• 44:33Speaker 06

  Uh, yes, I was.

• 44:34Speaker 05

  You were?

• 44:35Speaker 06

  No, I was, I was already pregnant, so it wasn't a surrogate, I was a, they adopted.

• 44:41Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 44:42Speaker 06

  Baby.

• 44:42Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 44:43Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 44:44Speaker 05

  So I got, I got it wrong and I felt like I should clear that up.

• 44:47Speaker 06

  That's very kind and generous of you.

• 44:49Speaker 05

  Because I'd get destroyed.

• 44:50Speaker 06

  Thank you.

• 44:52Speaker 05

  I don't wanna get destroyed.

• 44:53Speaker 06

  I appreciate that. I don't know if I would have clocked it, to be honest.

• 44:56Speaker 05

  The listeners would have.

• 44:58Speaker 06

  The listeners would have.

• 44:59Speaker 05

  I'd be destroyed.

• 44:59Speaker 06

  Yep.

• 45:00Speaker 05

  I'd be destroyed.

• 45:01Speaker 06

  Mm hmm.

• 45:01Speaker 05

  What was it like coming into something like that?

• 45:03Speaker 06

  Terrifying.

• 45:05Speaker 04

  For the, it was the final season, right, as well?

• 45:07Speaker 06

  Final season and, um, they were very emotional and they were all lovely to me.

• 45:14Speaker 05

  Mm hmm.

• 45:14Speaker 06

  I was scared. I was, it was. I just didn't, I was never attention consuming in those environments. I don't ever, I remember just still feeling like, oh boy, I'm not in comedy. Even though I had been, I think at least a decade, well, you know what? I don't know what the timeline is, but they were very emotional. They were doing group hugs on the floor. And more than once, I was like, only a few feet away from them. And the only one, a few feet away from them. So there were a couple of times that it would be, they would be like, come on.

• 45:54Speaker 06

  And I knew, like, I don't need to, like, I haven't, I know, like, but we were about to rehearse again. Or like, and that awkward feeling of, oh, you guys really don't need to include me. It feels actually very inappropriate if to be included.

• 46:13Speaker 04

  Didn't Paul Rudd muscle in on a group hug or something?

• 46:17Speaker 06

  Oh, really?

• 46:18Speaker 05

  He went over to them and said-

• 46:19Speaker 06

  He had the same story, because he was also-

• 46:21Speaker 05

  Guys, do you believe this crazy journey was what you said to them? Yeah, in the same kind of season.

• 46:28Speaker 06

  That's great.

• 46:29Speaker 04

  Which is basically two opposite reactions to the same feeling, right?

• 46:32Speaker 06

  Yes.

• 46:32Speaker 04

  You were thinking, I better stand back and just let them do this. And Paul Rudd was like, this is gonna be funny, but yeah, if I ruin this moment for them.

• 46:41Speaker 06

  That is awesome.

• 46:45Speaker 00

  State Fair food is getting smaller and pricier.

• 46:48Speaker 01

  We'll have room for fried cookies.

• 46:50Speaker 00

  Okay, you'd never overspend on food. What's your deal?

• 46:53Speaker 02

  What's his deal? He went to Metro and got $450 in value on the new Samsung Galaxy 837 5G for free. And no activation fees.

• 47:01Speaker 00

  Free phone? Oh, sign me up.

• 47:04Speaker 02

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• 47:23Speaker 05

  I'm gonna bring you over a drink as the waiter.

• 47:24Speaker 04

  Can I just clarify, I need to clarify something.

• 47:26Speaker 05

  Listen, I think it's been very clear by Sarah.

• 47:28Speaker 06

  I'm logical too.

• 47:29Speaker 05

  There's no starter, there's no starter.

• 47:31Speaker 04

  No, but that was Sarah.

• 47:32Speaker 06

  All about the vongole.

• 47:33Speaker 04

  That was Sarah, but is Anna also about the vongole?

• 47:37Speaker 05

  Sometimes you can tell.

• 47:38Speaker 04

  So Sarah wanted vongole, but does Anna want a dream starter and a different main? Or is Anna just having vongole?

• 47:47Speaker 05

  I think sometimes you sense when the character is speaking more truth than even the person could in their own right.

• 47:55Speaker 04

  Okay, well, is it spaghetti vongole then, or just the clams themselves?

• 48:00Speaker 06

  I'd like a hand-rolled pasta, you know.

• 48:03Speaker 04

  Lovely, yeah.

• 48:05Speaker 06

  What do they call the ones, it's like the priest's neckties?

• 48:09Speaker 04

  Strozzapretti.

• 48:10Speaker 06

  Thank you.

• 48:11Speaker 05

  Wow, this guy always surprises me.

• 48:13Speaker 06

  Tom is finally good.

• 48:15Speaker 04

  Yeah, that was Tom who said that.

• 48:16Speaker 05

  That was Tom.

• 48:18Speaker 04

  Absolutely, Tom.

• 48:19Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 48:20Speaker 06

  Maybe a beautiful bruschetta with fine ripe and tomatoes, that kind of thing.

• 48:25Speaker 05

  Lovely.

• 48:30Speaker 04

  What sort of drink are you having with this, your dream drink?

• 48:33Speaker 06

  Oh, maybe a beautiful white wine, like, you know, something appropriate in the area.

• 48:42Speaker 04

  We can, I'm sure we can sort something appropriate.

• 48:43Speaker 06

  There's beautiful lemons, let's do lemons all around, like.

• 48:47Speaker 05

  You'd like lemons?

• 48:48Speaker 06

  Well, one time, I have not dated that much in my life, but I was out on a date in college. And I don't know what was wrong with me, but I, we were at a bar and I took from the basket. I was like, working in a bar, you would have hated this kind of drunk college student. I was like, for like, just a little weird, you know? I took this lemon, this small lemon, and I ate the whole thing in front of my date, like I was mad at him.

• 49:21Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 49:21Speaker 06

  Like, watch me. I was vomiting for a long time.

• 49:28Speaker 06

  So maybe we don't go with lemon.

• 49:30Speaker 05

  So you were drunk?

• 49:31Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 49:32Speaker 06

  Oh, yeah, I didn't know.

• 49:33Speaker 05

  Yeah. So you were like, this will be funny?

• 49:35Speaker 06

  I thought it would be daring.

• 49:37Speaker 05

  Sure.

• 49:37Speaker 04

  It's definitely daring.

• 49:39Speaker 05

  Yeah, it is impressive. He'll remember me. I'm the, I'm the one who ate the lemon.

• 49:42Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 49:42Speaker 05

  Like, make an impression on this guy.

• 49:44Speaker 06

  Would, would you have ever been drawn to that kind of person?

• 49:48Speaker 04

  I, I, I, I, yes.

• 49:51Speaker 06

  Really?

• 49:51Speaker 05

  Fully depends.

• 49:52Speaker 04

  Genuinely.

• 49:52Speaker 05

  He would have loved it.

• 49:53Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 49:54Speaker 06

  Really?

• 49:54Speaker 04

  Yeah, one hundred percent.

• 49:56Speaker 06

  Oh, that's nice to hear.

• 49:57Speaker 05

  Yeah, Slipknot, bands like that. So he would love it if someone ate a lemon and puged all over the place.

• 50:03Speaker 04

  Also, that's the sort of thing my wife would have done on our first date.

• 50:06Speaker 05

  Yeah, she's funny.

• 50:08Speaker 06

  I like that.

• 50:09Speaker 04

  Yeah, she's a crazy lady. I'm pretty sure she set fire to a newspaper on our first date.

• 50:13Speaker 06

  Oh, I love that. There you go.

• 50:15Speaker 04

  Yeah, and I thought that was hilarious. So.

• 50:17Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 50:17Speaker 04

  You know, eating the lemon.

• 50:18Speaker 06

  She liked you.

• 50:19Speaker 04

  For sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's how you know when she likes someone.

• 50:22Speaker 06

  But I didn't like this guy very much.

• 50:25Speaker 05

  No.

• 50:25Speaker 06

  No.

• 50:26Speaker 05

  You said you didn't like, you were angry at him, like.

• 50:29Speaker 06

  I think, well, I was angry at men, I think.

• 50:31Speaker 05

  Yeah. And why not? That's fair enough.

• 50:34Speaker 06

  I have an older brother.

• 50:35Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 50:36Speaker 06

  But I also really struggled with the idea of feeling attractive, like the feminist in me. I grew up as, my identity was the short kid, like that, oh yeah, the short kid over there. And the fact that I pronounced my name Anna instead of Anna, which my parents did to me, it really gives, I think, a false uptight impression of who I am. It's been an unfortunate journey, but I prefer Anna over Anna because it sounds a little softer.

• 51:10Speaker 05

  Mm hmm.

• 51:12Speaker 06

  You know, like a long-haired rabbit or something.

• 51:14Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 51:15Speaker 06

  Anna.

• 51:16Speaker 04

  How did you feel when Frozen came out?

• 51:19Speaker 06

  Much better.

• 51:19Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 51:20Speaker 06

  Oh, yeah, yeah, because people understood.

• 51:22Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 51:22Speaker 06

  At least, you know, seven and, seven and under.

• 51:25Speaker 04

  Yeah, the newest generation.

• 51:27Speaker 05

  Completely now.

• 51:28Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, they identify with that. That's good.

• 51:30Speaker 06

  Yeah, yeah, I got completely off track, didn't I?

• 51:34Speaker 04

  Well, we, we, well.

• 51:35Speaker 06

  I don't even remember where we were going.

• 51:36Speaker 04

  But given we started on you eating a whole lemon.

• 51:38Speaker 05

  He hated men at the time.

• 51:39Speaker 06

  Oh, yeah.

• 51:41Speaker 04

  Thank you, Jane.

• 51:41Speaker 06

  So I think when I finally started feeling attractive, like when, um, I didn't know how to absorb that.

• 51:49Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 51:49Speaker 06

  I was like, please look at me, don't look at me, please look at me, don't look at me.

• 51:55Speaker 05

  And then I know how to deal with this, I'm gonna eat a whole lemon in front of him.

• 51:58Speaker 06

  Yeah, yeah.

• 52:00Speaker 05

  And that'll, we'll see who likes me then.

• 52:02Speaker 06

  That's right, it's a short game.

• 52:04Speaker 04

  Yeah. Imagine that guy going to the movie theatre.

• 52:09Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 52:09Speaker 04

  Scary movies on, he's like, that's that crazy lemon lady.

• 52:13Speaker 05

  Well, he'd think, now it makes sense.

• 52:15Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 52:16Speaker 06

  Maybe.

• 52:16Speaker 05

  She's funny, I just didn't get the joke at the time.

• 52:18Speaker 06

  Yeah, I didn't either.

• 52:20Speaker 05

  That was on me.

• 52:20Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 52:22Speaker 05

  You know, he's probably going away, looking at himself.

• 52:24Speaker 04

  He'll be gutted, that guy.

• 52:26Speaker 05

  Yeah, that guy'll be gutted, I bet he's got a pathetic life now.

• 52:31Speaker 05

  You know?

• 52:32Speaker 04

  Can't eat lemons anymore.

• 52:33Speaker 05

  Can't eat lemons.

• 52:35Speaker 06

  I, maybe he dodged a bullet, though.

• 52:37Speaker 05

  Yeah?

• 52:38Speaker 06

  Well, I, you know, I don't know.

• 52:42Speaker 04

  It's very rare, it's very rare someone says that about themselves on a date.

• 52:46Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 52:47Speaker 04

  Normally, it's like, oh, I dodged a bullet there. No one really ever says, they dodged a bullet.

• 52:51Speaker 05

  They dodged a bullet there.

• 52:52Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 52:53Speaker 06

  I think that's, you know, I am really impressed with how like millennials are speaking about, they're articulating things that I was never taught to, or, or it just felt inappropriate or a waste of time. But I don't, I'm against the idea of broad, of Anglo-Saxon categorization. We can get into that on our next podcast.

• 53:20Speaker 04

  We can speak about it on this one.

• 53:21Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 53:23Speaker 06

  Well, there's a bit to say and.

• 53:28Speaker 06

  But I do appreciate, um, labeling ideas of that it helps us all feel less insane.

• 53:36Speaker 05

  Uh huh.

• 53:37Speaker 06

  You know, and I think I had a lot of learning and growing to do. And I still do, I think.

• 53:46Speaker 05

  But you're saying like, if you could go back in time now to the night of the lemon, uh, with everything that you know now.

• 53:52Speaker 06

  Wow.

• 53:54Speaker 05

  With everything you know now, the vocabulary that the internet has given you.

• 53:58Speaker 04

  Are you gonna eat the lemon?

• 53:59Speaker 05

  Would you still eat the lemon?

• 54:02Speaker 06

  If I was getting paid.

• 54:06Speaker 06

  No, I, yeah, I hope so.

• 54:09Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 54:09Speaker 06

  I hope so.

• 54:10Speaker 05

  I think it's cool.

• 54:11Speaker 04

  Yeah, I think it's a cool thing today.

• 54:12Speaker 06

  You got, you gotta, you have to respect the, you gotta respect the road you've been on a bit.

• 54:18Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 54:19Speaker 06

  I sound like L A has infiltrated, don't I?

• 54:22Speaker 05

  Like a, like, you gotta respect the road you've been on.

• 54:25Speaker 06

  Like, I say things like journey and like healing and karma.

• 54:31Speaker 04

  But that's nice if it helps, you know?

• 54:33Speaker 05

  Yeah, cause where, where did you move from? Where, where, where?

• 54:35Speaker 06

  I grew up north of Seattle. I was born in Baltimore, Maryland, but we moved to Seattle when I was six years old.

• 54:41Speaker 05

  Right, right.

• 54:41Speaker 06

  And, uh, and then I went to school, uh, in Seattle at University of Washington.

• 54:47Speaker 05

  You have to go back to Seattle much?

• 54:48Speaker 06

  Yeah, my family's still there.

• 54:51Speaker 05

  Molly Moons?

• 54:52Speaker 06

  What did you say?

• 54:53Speaker 05

  Molly Moons.

• 54:53Speaker 06

  Molly Moons.

• 54:55Speaker 05

  Yeah, ice cream place.

• 54:56Speaker 06

  Yeah, but I think, I think it came into origin after I left.

• 55:02Speaker 04

  He's obsessed with Molly Moons, this guy.

• 55:03Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 55:04Speaker 05

  Absolutely dynamite.

• 55:05Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 55:05Speaker 05

  Brilliant ice cream.

• 55:06Speaker 06

  Change.

• 55:07Speaker 05

  They do a cobbler ice cream.

• 55:08Speaker 06

  Much. It's like, if you grew up in a place that's now viewed as really hip and cool, but at the time, did not feel that way. Like, I get legit, undeserved legitimacy from growing up in the Northwest and I get annoyed every time I go back because it's such an awesome place to be.

• 55:30Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 55:33Speaker 06

  It has great ice cream now.

• 55:34Speaker 04

  And I had a great Malaysian meal in Seattle, actually.

• 55:38Speaker 06

  It's a beautiful place.

• 55:39Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 55:40Speaker 06

  Just gorgeous. And I, at the time, I couldn't wait to leave. I wanted my world to be bigger. I wanted to move to London. And, uh, now I can't wait to go back. It's, I don't know, age, I guess.

• 55:55Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 55:56Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 55:57Speaker 06

  But it's also L A and, and my career has felt like nothing's settling, nothing. If home is a feeling of content, uh, settlement in your, in your gut and homesickness, the feeling of almost nausea, that dull pain, um, is its opposite. Well, I, like, Washington, Seattle area does have that, that contentment feeling. It has been a career that, like, you have to. You have to prioritize it above all things, which is tough. That's a tough compromise. I'm on my third and final marriage, you know?

• 56:41Speaker 06

  Like, it's, it requires hustling. You're your own small business, so.

• 56:48Speaker 04

  Is this advice to Tom?

• 56:50Speaker 06

  It's a lot of advice. Oh, where are my glasses?

• 56:56Speaker 06

  So you have to be an entrepreneur.

• 56:58Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 56:58Speaker 06

  You have to find your own brand and you have to advocate for that. You have to be like, these are my principles.

• 57:07Speaker 04

  Thank you so much, Sarah.

• 57:08Speaker 06

  Stand by them. And Luigi or Dominic, if you ever wanted to open up your own restaurant.

• 57:15Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 57:17Speaker 06

  Vongole, vongole, vongole.

• 57:20Speaker 06

  Then I would suggest like returning to school for a minute. Getting, you know, just like educate yourself, small business wives. That's what I would recommend.

• 57:32Speaker 05

  Oh, so I should study small business? I shouldn't study like, okay.

• 57:35Speaker 04

  And maybe understand more how to be a waiter.

• 57:37Speaker 06

  Brand yourself.

• 57:38Speaker 04

  You're still here.

• 57:39Speaker 06

  Think about who you are and what makes you different.

• 57:42Speaker 04

  Yeah, well, I know what makes him different as a waiter. He doesn't, he doesn't leave the fucking table.

• 57:46Speaker 06

  I know.

• 57:48Speaker 06

  I know.

• 57:49Speaker 04

  Crazy.

• 57:49Speaker 06

  I get, you're right, though. How do you capitalize on that? How is your brand like immovable annoyance? Like, what, what is that?

• 57:59Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 58:00Speaker 05

  I, I thought it was charming. I thought, I thought.

• 58:03Speaker 06

  You have grown on me.

• 58:04Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 58:05Speaker 06

  You really have.

• 58:06Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 58:06Speaker 06

  Like, literally.

• 58:07Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah.

• 58:08Speaker 06

  You're special. There is something special, weird, but special.

• 58:13Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah.

• 58:13Speaker 04

  I'm hungry. I'm so fucking hungry. I'm hu- I'm so hungry.

• 58:16Speaker 06

  Tom's hungry.

• 58:17Speaker 05

  Come on, Tom.

• 58:18Speaker 04

  I'm so hungry.

• 58:18Speaker 05

  Well, you're not tipping anyway. I don't care about serving you.

• 58:21Speaker 06

  What do you want, Tom?

• 58:23Speaker 04

  I want vongole.

• 58:26Speaker 06

  Just vongole?

• 58:27Speaker 04

  Well, it's all in my head now. All I want is vongole and then sorbet.

• 58:30Speaker 06

  Just vongole?

• 58:31Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah.

• 58:31Speaker 04

  Just vongole?

• 58:32Speaker 06

  Just vongole.

• 58:33Speaker 04

  Just pure vongole.

• 58:34Speaker 06

  That is so weird.

• 58:36Speaker 04

  We both want vongole.

• 58:38Speaker 06

  I actually, I don't know if I want vongole anymore.

• 58:43Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 58:44Speaker 06

  I kinda want something with zucchini, or like, maybe chingale, you know, wild boar?

• 58:51Speaker 05

  Oh, wow.

• 58:52Speaker 06

  Do you have anything like that?

• 58:54Speaker 05

  Yeah, I can like, um, stuff a wild boar with a bunch of, um, I guess you would call it zucchini. I'd call it courgette personally.

• 59:00Speaker 06

  I don't want you to go to any trouble though.

• 59:02Speaker 05

  I'll do it.

• 59:03Speaker 06

  You sure?

• 59:04Speaker 05

  Yeah, I'll get a.

• 59:04Speaker 04

  We don't want you to go to any trouble.

• 59:07Speaker 06

  I don't even think wild boar, like, I don't think they're in, like, they're not local. I don't think they're local here. So.

• 59:15Speaker 05

  Yeah, it's not local.

• 59:16Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 59:17Speaker 05

  It's the Amalfi Coast.

• 59:18Speaker 06

  The Amalfi Coast, yeah.

• 59:21Speaker 05

  Come trotting out the water, getting people.

• 59:23Speaker 06

  Maybe like pesci vongole?

• 59:26Speaker 04

  Pesci vongole.

• 59:27Speaker 05

  What's pesci vongole? Like, Joe Pesci?

• 59:30Speaker 06

  Fish and vongole?

• 59:32Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 59:36Speaker 04

  But then, but then we keep ordering and you're still here. I don't, I don't know what.

• 59:39Speaker 05

  Well, it keeps changing. You know, I wanna make sure I definitely get the order right.

• 59:42Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 59:43Speaker 06

  What a strange guy.

• 59:51Speaker 06

  This is so weird, Tom.

• 59:54Speaker 04

  I don't know. I don't, I'm sorry I recommended this place. I don't know what's going on here.

• 59:58Speaker 06

  Well, I'm charmed.

• 1:00:00Speaker 04

  That's good you're charmed. Um, this guy's getting on my nerves still.

• 1:00:04Speaker 05

  Okay, well, I'll read your menu back to you.

• 1:00:06Speaker 04

  Do we, are we having dessert? Are we ordering dessert?

• 1:00:09Speaker 05

  Sorbet, wasn't it?

• 1:00:10Speaker 06

  Yes, sorbet.

• 1:00:11Speaker 05

  Lemon.

• 1:00:11Speaker 06

  Sorbet.

• 1:00:12Speaker 04

  Sorbet.

• 1:00:13Speaker 05

  Lemon sorbetty?

• 1:00:14Speaker 06

  Pesci, pesci sorbet.

• 1:00:17Speaker 05

  Fish?

• 1:00:17Speaker 04

  Fish sorbet.

• 1:00:18Speaker 05

  Fish sorbet.

• 1:00:19Speaker 06

  No, no, no, pesci like peach.

• 1:00:22Speaker 05

  Oh.

• 1:00:22Speaker 06

  Pesci maybe? Tom, you speak Italian.

• 1:00:26Speaker 04

  See?

• 1:00:27Speaker 05

  Go on.

• 1:00:28Speaker 06

  I would like fish and vongole.

• 1:00:31Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:00:31Speaker 04

  Peach.

• 1:00:32Speaker 06

  And peach.

• 1:00:33Speaker 04

  Sorbet.

• 1:00:33Speaker 06

  Sorbet.

• 1:00:34Speaker 05

  I don't want, what?

• 1:00:35Speaker 04

  Pesci sorbet, sorbetty.

• 1:00:37Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:00:37Speaker 06

  He's not ever.

• 1:00:38Speaker 04

  Grazie mille.

• 1:00:40Speaker 06

  Okay.

• 1:00:41Speaker 05

  Grazie mille.

• 1:00:41Speaker 06

  Ten euros if he actually gets up and comes to the queue. This is not happening.

• 1:00:48Speaker 05

  I'm just gonna read your menu back to you.

• 1:00:50Speaker 04

  Why? Bring us the food, man.

• 1:00:52Speaker 05

  Huh?

• 1:00:52Speaker 04

  Why are you reading the menu?

• 1:00:53Speaker 05

  Make sure I got it right.

• 1:00:54Speaker 04

  Why are you reading the menu back to us? You've not brought us the food.

• 1:00:58Speaker 05

  You want still unsparked in water?

• 1:00:59Speaker 06

  Oh my god.

• 1:01:01Speaker 05

  You would, you would like daily bread?

• 1:01:03Speaker 06

  Just different vessels.

• 1:01:05Speaker 04

  Different vessels.

• 1:01:06Speaker 05

  Daily bread and, yeah.

• 1:01:07Speaker 04

  No.

• 1:01:07Speaker 05

  Still unsparked in water and different vessels.

• 1:01:09Speaker 04

  Different vessels.

• 1:01:09Speaker 05

  You want daily bread. Starter.

• 1:01:12Speaker 06

  Guilt free bread.

• 1:01:14Speaker 05

  Guilt free.

• 1:01:15Speaker 06

  Please.

• 1:01:16Speaker 05

  I think we.

• 1:01:16Speaker 06

  There's enough guilt around here.

• 1:01:18Speaker 05

  Hmm. I think we landed on bruschetta with vine ripened tomatoes for your starter.

• 1:01:23Speaker 06

  Tom?

• 1:01:24Speaker 04

  Yes?

• 1:01:25Speaker 06

  Do you think that hell is that bad?

• 1:01:31Speaker 04

  It can't be any worse than this.

• 1:01:32Speaker 05

  Main, you wanted hand rolled strozzata prete.

• 1:01:36Speaker 06

  I just don't wanna.

• 1:01:37Speaker 05

  Uh.

• 1:01:37Speaker 06

  I don't know.

• 1:01:38Speaker 05

  Von Gley and fish. Uh, drink a beautiful white wine, something appropriate in the area. And dessert, a peach sorbetty.

• 1:01:47Speaker 06

  Yes.

• 1:01:48Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 1:01:49Speaker 05

  Sound good?

• 1:01:50Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:01:51Speaker 05

  Sounds nice?

• 1:01:52Speaker 04

  Who's pay, who's paying?

• 1:01:54Speaker 06

  Oh, Tom.

• 1:01:55Speaker 04

  I'm paying, I'm paying.

• 1:01:57Speaker 05

  You gotta pay and you gotta tip.

• 1:01:58Speaker 04

  And I gotta tip. I gotta tip and I'm tipping on the yacht as well.

• 1:02:02Speaker 05

  Yes, you're, you're paying thirty grand on the yacht to the captain.

• 1:02:04Speaker 06

  Finance.

• 1:02:09Speaker 04

  Well, Sarah and indeed, Anna, thank you so much for coming to the dream restaurant. You've been a delight.

• 1:02:16Speaker 05

  Thank you.

• 1:02:16Speaker 06

  Thank you so much, you guys. Like, I s- I had so much fun.

• 1:02:22Speaker 04

  Good. We loved having you. Thank you so much.

• 1:02:25Speaker 06

  Thank you. Thank you. Good to, can I?

• 1:02:27Speaker 05

  Yeah, wave at the camera. So is, any final messages for people watching?

• 1:02:32Speaker 06

  I just had the time of my life. Thank you guys so much. And I appreciate your listening and watching.

• 1:02:46Speaker 04

  There we are, James, Arna Faris. My head's spinning. I don't know about you. We had two guests on the episode.

• 1:02:51Speaker 05

  Sarah, what, three guests? Tom Berenger was on it.

• 1:02:54Speaker 04

  Tom Berenger, of course.

• 1:02:56Speaker 05

  What a guy.

• 1:02:57Speaker 04

  I, I had, the Tom Berenger thing sprung on me a little bit.

• 1:03:00Speaker 05

  Really?

• 1:03:01Speaker 04

  So I felt like I could have gotten more, more into a character, but also I felt like I was having to marshal the episode slightly.

• 1:03:07Speaker 05

  Yeah, cause.

• 1:03:08Speaker 04

  Cause I didn't.

• 1:03:09Speaker 05

  I was getting boxed out a lot.

• 1:03:10Speaker 04

  You were getting boxed out and I felt like I needed to, I didn't know whether Sarah was giving her menu.

• 1:03:16Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:03:16Speaker 04

  And then Arna was going to give her genuine menu.

• 1:03:19Speaker 05

  Sure.

• 1:03:20Speaker 04

  It turns out Von Gley is a, is an interest of both of theirs.

• 1:03:24Speaker 05

  Yeah, but it's slightly different types of Von Gley.

• 1:03:26Speaker 04

  Fully be Tom Berenger because I would have, later on I maybe got, you know, quite aggressive with the waiter. But that was Tom, by the way.

• 1:03:34Speaker 05

  Nice. Good.

• 1:03:35Speaker 04

  But I, I just want, I wish I'd got more into character because I think maybe shown Arna that I could get deep into character and improvise so I could be in a project with her.

• 1:03:45Speaker 05

  The next Scary Movie.

• 1:03:46Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:03:47Speaker 05

  To be in the next Scary Movie film.

• 1:03:48Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:03:49Speaker 05

  That would have been good, but you blew it. Uh, so that's a shame.

• 1:03:52Speaker 04

  I didn't blow it. It was quite, quite good.

• 1:03:54Speaker 05

  Yeah, I guess you were very convincing that you were against tipping culture and then it's revealed that actually you as Ed Gamble.

• 1:03:59Speaker 04

  Quite like tipping.

• 1:04:00Speaker 05

  Quite like it.

• 1:04:01Speaker 04

  Looking forward to tipping when I'm in America.

• 1:04:02Speaker 05

  So that, that, that was good.

• 1:04:03Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:04:03Speaker 05

  Um, I think, you know, the listeners can safely categorize this episode in, you know, one of the ones where we lost control of our podcast.

• 1:04:10Speaker 04

  100% and we knew that was going to happen.

• 1:04:13Speaker 05

  Yeah. So that's, you know, that will join the Dan Aykroyd, Robert De Niro.

• 1:04:18Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:04:18Speaker 05

  Arna Faris.

• 1:04:19Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 1:04:19Speaker 05

  We've lost control.

• 1:04:20Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:04:21Speaker 05

  And, uh, hopefully everyone enjoyed the ride as much as we did.

• 1:04:25Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:04:25Speaker 05

  So I, I loved it.

• 1:04:27Speaker 04

  Crazy times. Don't forget Scary Movie is out on Friday, the 5th of June. Go and see it in cinemas.

• 1:04:33Speaker 05

  Absolutely. Go and see Fresh Hell, which is Ed Gamble's tour show. Uh, edgamble.co.uk for tickets.

• 1:04:40Speaker 04

  Lovely.

• 1:04:41Speaker 05

  Yeah, pretty good.

• 1:04:42Speaker 04

  And are you still on tour, James?

• 1:04:44Speaker 05

  No. Well, yes, actually. By the time this is out, I am on tour. Uh, at the time of recording, there is still a few tickets left. So I guess jamesacassett.com. Just go on there, see if. See if there's any tickets to my show left. I hope there isn't.

• 1:04:58Speaker 04

  And I would say if you're listening to this, go and watch it on YouTube for the full character experience.

• 1:05:02Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah, for this, because you didn't, if you just listened to it, you wouldn't have seen Sarah put the sunglasses on.

• 1:05:09Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 1:05:10Speaker 05

  And that's when the character of Sarah really comes to life.

• 1:05:13Speaker 04

  Body change when she went into character.

• 1:05:15Speaker 05

  Everything changes. And, you know, Tom Berenger.

• 1:05:19Speaker 04

  No, Tom Berenger was very much the same.

• 1:05:22Speaker 05

  There's a really different aura.

• 1:05:24Speaker 04

  Really took on the body position and aura of a stressed podcast host.

• 1:05:30Speaker 05

  Yeah, it's very different. It's very good. I like Tom Berenger and Sarah. It was a pleasure to meet both of them.

• 1:05:36Speaker 04

  Yeah, I wonder if, the way Anna came up with the name Tom Berenger suggests that Tom Berenger is a real name of someone.

• 1:05:43Speaker 05

  It sounded like it was the real person.

• 1:05:44Speaker 04

  Yeah, that she knows.

• 1:05:45Speaker 05

  Maybe she's phoning now on the way home and going, Tom, I need to make sure you're okay with something.

• 1:05:50Speaker 04

  Tom, you're a character on a podcast now.

• 1:05:52Speaker 05

  Yeah, just so you know, you don't.

• 1:05:53Speaker 04

  And he doesn't like tipping. And that's his main character. That's his main character trait.

• 1:05:57Speaker 05

  Yeah. Well, Tom Berenger, if you are listening, you want to come on the podcast and defend yourself.

• 1:06:02Speaker 04

  But you have to come in character as a gamble.

• 1:06:05Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:06:05Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:06:05Speaker 05

  That's the deal.

• 1:06:06Speaker 04

  That's the deal.

• 1:06:07Speaker 05

  Oh, of course, Anna didn't say Malteser bunny. Huh?

• 1:06:14Speaker 04

  How's he gonna put that in?

• 1:06:15Speaker 05

  What do you mean? He can deal with that.

• 1:06:17Speaker 04

  Okay, I don't think it. Oh, and of course, Anna did not say Malteser bunny, James.

• 1:06:24Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah, which is good. Good to know.

• 1:06:26Speaker 04

  You've got a couple of options there, Ben.

• 1:06:27Speaker 05

  Yeah, well, he's gonna use both of them. So, good to know that you didn't choose the bunny.

• 1:06:33Speaker 04

  Yeah. I don't know why Tom was eating with Sarah.

• 1:06:36Speaker 05

  No, no, I don't think they got on. No. But, but it was, it was nice to see them together. It was nice to have the secret ingredient not mentioned and therefore.

• 1:06:46Speaker 04

  By either guest.

• 1:06:47Speaker 05

  By either guest.

• 1:06:48Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:06:49Speaker 05

  And we did the whole menu, more or less, no starter.

• 1:06:51Speaker 04

  Yeah, no starter.

• 1:06:52Speaker 05

  Normally you'd kick off about that, but you were Tom Berenger, so you couldn't.

• 1:06:55Speaker 04

  Couldn't, couldn't do that.

• 1:06:56Speaker 05

  Yeah. What a, what an experience.

• 1:06:59Speaker 04

  Hmm.

• 1:07:00Speaker 05

  What an experience. We lost control and now we're off to regain control of our lives, I guess, once we've finished recording this.

• 1:07:06Speaker 04

  I don't think I ever will.

• 1:07:07Speaker 05

  I don't think, I don't think you can.

• 1:07:10Speaker 04

  Bye.

• 1:07:11Speaker 05

  Oh, goodbye.

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• 1:07:30Speaker 01

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