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A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

#286: Watchman Writer Cord Jefferson

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

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4.8817 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2019

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Today on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, for Day 2 of the #12DaysOfPodcasts, we went to Los Angeles to sit down with two-time 2019 WGA Award nominee, writer for Succession, The Good Place and of course Watchmen, where he co-wrote Episode 6, This Extraordinary Being, Cord Jefferson for a wide-ranging and personal conversation!

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0:00.0

Hey Jeff. Hey Eric. How are you? I'm pretty good. How are you? Doing well, thank you. This is

0:03.8

day two of our fourth annual 12 days of podcasts. The never-ending telethon. That is our holiday gift to you.

0:11.5

Yeah, we wanted to do something for anybody who's traveling. Anybody who is working,

0:15.5

if you're the one person working during the holidays. Anybody who is just trying to avoid your

0:19.8

family while you're at home all under one roof.

0:23.1

This is when we flood the market.

0:24.6

We give you guys 12 episodes in 12 days.

0:27.1

And if you've been rocking for us for a while, welcome back.

0:30.6

If you're new, we want to say, hey, we do a podcast that is almost 300 episodes in that has never never been about grabbing headlines no

0:41.0

it's not about selling our guests out if they say something that oh you know could be seen as like

0:48.0

towing a line we never wanted to be something that does a disservice to the person who sits between us and shares

0:55.5

their life story. And given that, I'm sure some of you have shown up today because you saw

1:02.9

the news that Cord Jefferson made. Yeah, there's like there there there is the headline that

1:07.4

came from this interview. And and by the way, that was never our intention. We never, we never, we never wanted to make a bigger moment out of the fact that came from this interview. And by the way, that was never our intention.

1:11.1

We never, we never wanted to make a bigger moment out of the fact that Cord Jefferson does not believe in dinosaurs.

1:17.6

I mean, it's just a big deal.

1:18.7

Like, Cord Jefferson would come over here and like spend some time with us.

1:22.4

For sure.

1:22.9

For us to exploit this headline for personal gain, like for clout?

1:27.6

Never.

1:28.6

That'd be pathetic.

1:29.6

Like if we were to sit here and talk about how two-time 2019 WGA Award nominee, writer

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