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The Iced Coffee Hour

Graham Stephan/Jack Selby

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.6 • 679 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2024

⏱️ 97 minutes

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0:00.0	That's good.
0:10.3	I read a line that you could eat.
0:12.7	I'm my favorite snack now.
0:14.9	Why do you think the show is so successful?
0:17.1	What about it?
0:17.9	Do you think people resonate with it?
0:19.1	Between us having a real friendship, it is a pretty good reimagining of the genre. The fact that we are not necessarily having a laugh at other people's expense, but our own, that idea was born out of that concept. So what is this, the punishment for saying no to a punishment? There is none. You can't say no.
0:35.7	Oh my fucking God. And we do elaborate stuff too,
0:40.6	but sometimes the hardest stuff is the most simple.
0:43.4	Do people lose it at you?
0:44.9	Our goal is never to make anyone feel stupid or angry.
0:48.7	Sometimes it's a byproduct.
0:51.0	They say if you can make a woman laugh,
0:53.2	then you can make her fall in love.
0:54.8	Is that true?
0:59.3	All right, Sel, thank you so much for coming on, the iced coffee hour.
1:02.4	It is an honor to have you on the show.
1:04.5	Oh, that's so nice of you guys.
1:06.0	Thank you.
1:06.3	It's an honor to be here.
1:07.1	Thank you for coming to New York.
1:09.1	We're both huge fans.
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