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Go to Academy.com to shop for your Victorinox Swiss Army knife. This is the outside podcast. I've decided I have to tell you a story that I don't want to tell you. It's just embarrassing. A little bit funny ha ha embarrassing, but also deep scar,

notice the ways this has shaped your adult life embarrassing. I was, I think, a junior in college, just getting into journalism. In fact, currently taking the first

journalism class I had ever taken. And writing for the school's understaffed, but arguably overachieving newspaper.

I went to Occidental College in Pasadena, California.

It's small, like 1500 students. if you've heard of it. It's probably because Obama went there

But you have almost certainly seen it in the background of a movie or TV show

Harvard has its ridiculous endowment.

Occidental has Hollywood filming location fees.

And because of its proximity to Hollywood,

we'd sometimes get minor and major celebrities showing up on campus.

Michael Sarah, Frankie Muniz, Ben Affleck.

So one day, a flyer goes up that Zach Braff is going to be a guest and a philosophy class and anyone

who is interested is welcome to come.

This is Zach Braff at the peak of his fame. Scrubs is in its goofy prime. I think Gardens date had come out the summer before. So people were interested. I get dispatched to write an article for the newspaper about it. I go to the classroom on the date and time, and it's

packed. Part of the reason it's packed is because it's zak Braff. The other reason it's packed is because they booked a normal sized classroom, something for like 30 people. Not a big lecture hall.

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