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Welcome to the Summit Series with Ari Melburgh, and we are excited about this one. We talk to people at the top of their fields, and today we are joined by Tony Golden Globe

Sag Award nominee and Emmy-winning actor.

Jeff Daniels, who you know from so many things, an incredible range from the stage to the screen,

the breakthrough character that a lot of people around the newsroom know, of course, Will McAvoy,

the physical comedy of Dumb and Dumber with Jim Carrey.

And he also has a new audio memoir and multiple installments reflecting on his life work.

Season two of Alive and Well Enough produced with his son, Ben Daniels, is available on Audible now. Jeff Daniels, thanks for being here.

Pleasure to be here. It's really great. I'm excited. We're going to get into everything,

but let's start with the memoir. This is something you, A, decided you want to do, and be with your son.

Why? Well, I didn't want to do it. No. My agent called a couple of years ago, and he said,

you know, you're the only actor in Hollywood who doesn't have a podcast. All right, yeah. I said,

is that a problem? He goes, well, I mean, you could, I said, okay, look, I'll do it if I can kind

of do a one-man show. And the platform that Audible Originals gives me is I can act, I can write, I can act, I play music,

so I've got songs from 40, 50 years ago, which is really kind of a musical diary.

I can make up, I can do anything I want. And so it allows me to do everything

that I do in one place. And so that was attractive to me. And season one was kind of, well,

I hope it flies, and it did. So here's season two. Well, you talk about writing. I mean, you've written a ton of

plays. We'll get into that. So you see this as true, but still tapping your theatrical or fictional

abilities. Yeah, I embellish a little bit, but that's where the fun is. And I also make it

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