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Life is Short with Justin Long

Jake Johnson 👍

Life is Short with Justin Long

Wondery

Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Comedy

4.89.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Jake Johnson (New Girl, Stumptown) tells Justin about the wild experience he had filming an action movie with Tom Cruise and he reminisces about the hilarious performances that Justin delivered on New Girl.


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0:00.0

Hey, Prime members. You can listen to Life is Short. Add free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.

0:07.2

Greetings out there in podcast land. You're listening to yet another podcast. This one is brought to you by Bud Light Seltzer.

0:15.2

We used to talk about him all the time. Finally, they just said, okay, we'll sponsor your show.

0:20.0

As long as you don't do an annoying intro with an annoying old-timey voice. It's a deal, I said. Here's the show.

0:30.4

In the summer of 2005, I went to Chicago, Illinois to shoot a movie called The Breakup. One point we were doing a scene tons of people around. Most of whom were extras, but there were a lot of passerby's and...

0:44.0

I was in trouble with that. I never know if it's passerby or passerby's. I think it's passerby. It just sounds weird. There are a lot of passerby's. The point of the story is that I was wearing a...

1:00.0

It was the end of the movie. The original ending, they shot another ending. But the original ending, John Michael Higgins, who is part of an archapella group and called the tone rangers.

1:08.0

He and his group are dressed as tacky looking ghost cowboys with sequins and like sparkles and stuff. I emerge from their group dressed as Tonto from the lone ranger.

1:20.0

As they are dressed in tacky version of cowboy outfit, I am dressed in tacky version of the Native American outfit. Very offensive.

1:28.0

I remember waiting in between while they were setting up. I remember saying my friend John Tassani, I kind of commented that they were recognizing me.

1:36.0

There are all these people who were taking photos and as they were passing by and pointing at me. He said, yeah, Or it might have something to do with the fact that you were wearing a loin cloth and a feather in your hair.

1:48.0

I was practically naked except for this little skimpy offensive Native American outfit. You were lucky you didn't shoot that last year. You would have been cancelled.

1:56.0

Oh yeah. Quickly.

2:06.0

You're listening to Life is Short. I am your par more woke host just in long.

2:12.0

Life could be a dream sweetheart to do to do to Chappoo.

2:18.0

With me is always in the process of waking up. I'm a stir. Yeah, you're stirring.

2:26.0

Christian, we're coming to learn that like, you know, we just didn't grow up with certain sensitivities that we that are important now.

2:35.0

Yes. The way the Native Americans were treated at the dawn of this country.

2:41.0

Oh my gosh. I was really disgusting and terrible. Yeah. Read Barry My Heart of Wounded New. And you'll know.

2:47.0

But at the time, yeah, it just weren't sensitive to it. And this was out that I was wearing, that I totally forgot I was wearing.

2:53.0

But it was a different time. It was a different time.

2:57.0

It was a different time. And the point was that we were making fun of the appropriation of it.

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