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EXPLAINING CHRIS WITASKE TO CHRIS WITASKE: Talking 'The Bear' with the legend

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BRUNCH

Tv & Film

4.5603 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Chris Witaske makes his long-awaited return to the show to discuss his work on The Bear, shining in Progressive commercials and all things Chicago. Also, there's a Twitter account documenting outrageous Beach Boys moments.


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(0:00) Intro

(9:31) Crazy-ass Beach Boys moments

(26:13) Chris Witaske joins the show

(44:22) Witaske on commercials

(1:03:55) Mission Impossible initial thoughts


Transcript

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0:00.0

Just let me tell you how to do your job, man.

0:01.9

I don't know why it's the fucking difficult about this.

0:04.9

Right.

0:05.3

Hit it, boys.

0:23.8

Real treat for everybody today.

0:25.4

We got Wattaski back.

0:26.7

Chris Wittaski.

0:27.1

It is,

0:27.7

it's what?

0:28.7

Like probably like five,

0:31.0

six years since we had them on.

0:33.0

When did the Belko experiment come out? The Belko experiment,

0:34.1

I would guess,

0:34.8

is 2017. Maybe, I would guess, is 2017.

0:40.1

Maybe, let's see, the Belko experiment, 2016.

0:46.0

2016.

0:46.6

So it's been seven years since we had Chris Watasky on the podcast.

0:50.8

The fact that we've even done the podcast for seven years is fucking disgusting.

0:54.2

I know. Everything has just been going on for a million years, though. I was even looking

0:58.0

up, uh, because I, we talked to him about how Jeremy Allen White is like the Chicago guy, even

1:04.6

though he's from Brooklyn. And he's been the Chicago guy since, I think, like, 2011 or something.

1:11.8

Shameless has been on.

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