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Is That Something You Might Be Interested In

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Is That Something You Might Be Interested In

Doug Ellin

Tv & Film

4.8815 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Doug eats an edible and forgets to hit the record button. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I am so upset.

0:07.3

I just did a 25-minute rant.

0:10.3

I'm not saying it would have changed the world, but it was good.

0:14.1

But I took an edible, and I didn't hit record.

0:17.2

And I just, it's not often that that happens.

0:22.0

And, you know, you think about the times in your career where mistakes have happened and what effect they may have had on you.

0:29.0

And this is, by the way, has nothing to do with what I was talking about, which maybe I'll get to what I was talking about after this.

0:36.4

But I took an edible, so about 25 minutes ago.

0:39.0

So it'll kick in during this speech, rant, whatever this is.

0:43.2

But it just made me think about mistakes that happened that I didn't record this.

0:47.3

Because when I was at AFI, the American Film Institute, I did a movie that was basically a satire of the school, which I'm not sure if I've talked about this on podcast or not before, but pretty interesting because my class was like Darren Aronofsky, who went on to do Requiem for a dream and a wrestler and a million other things.

1:10.9

And Scott Silver, who wrote 8 Mile and the Joker and Mark Waters, he did Mean Girls,

1:15.1

and Todd Field, who's the little children.

1:17.2

We had some really, like, incredibly talented people in this class.

1:21.5

And I made, like, a satire of the school, which, by the way, I won't get into all the details,

1:25.2

but it went incredibly well. Everybody loved it, except the head of the school that didn't show up for my screening.

1:30.5

I guess he had gotten word about it and was offended and whatever.

1:33.7

So what can you do?

1:35.2

But it went great, and people really liked it.

1:37.1

But it was called the bit player, and I was actually playing the lead in this thing which I did

1:46.3

and I had David Schwimmer in it and I had David Lashor from Blossom and 902 and O

1:51.1

and a bunch of other things as well and I wanted to the player if you haven't seen it

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