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Life is Short with Justin Long

Jesse Eisenberg #️⃣

Life is Short with Justin Long

Wondery

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

4.89.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Jesse Eisenberg (The Art of Self Defense, The Social Network) talks with Justin about the antiquated notion of “winning” in professional basketball, and how he has no desire to relax.


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0:00.0

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0:12.5

I was in New Orleans about 12 years ago with my friend Rob and we read a restaurant with our at the time girlfriends and

0:20.5

In walks the Detroit Pistons who at the time were ruling the NBA their best player and Wallace was a monster

0:27.8

If you went on to win the defensive player of the year on our way out Ben Wallace's wife stopped me and she said this is Ben Wallace and

0:35.3

He loves Jeepers creepers and I turned to Ben who was right next to her

0:39.4

He was drinking soup and just kind of staring at me and I said, oh, thank you so much for big fans of yours and you know good luck this year

0:45.8

We're rooting for you and he didn't say anything and I turned back to his wife and she said he doesn't like the part where you go down the tunnel

0:52.8

And there's a part in Jeepers creepers where I go in and as there is in every horror movie where you go and investigate the noise that and bad things happen

0:59.8

And I said, oh, well, that's what you got to do and you know it's a horror movie and he finally dropped the spoon and he goes,

1:06.8

I mentioned it going down there and I got so nervous that I started blaming it on other people

1:11.8

I said, well, you know, the writers wrote that and the director told me to and he just wouldn't accept that. He was angry with me for the choice that my character made.

1:21.8

If you ever had any chance of making the NBA that dream died that night. Yeah, I stopped even trying.

1:27.8

Life could be a dream, life could be a dream.

1:35.8

Your listening to The Life is Short, I'm your host, Star of Jeepers Creepers, Justin.

1:40.8

We get it. You're in Jeepers Creepers. That's a really good movie though, all kidding aside.

1:49.8

Yeah, I think the first half is good. And you have such feathery beautiful hair in it.

1:54.8

It's a little hard to watch. My voice sounds, I saw it recently. My voice is really different.

1:59.8

It's much higher, I feel like I was forcing things, and I don't want to get into that.

2:04.8

That still is a movie that I often hear people bring up with you.

2:07.8

To this day? Oh my God, it's like 20 years ago. Do you know?

2:11.8

I mean, this is going to be braggie, but Barack Obama's right hand man.

2:16.8

Barack Obama's veterinarian. No, Obama's right hand man, this guy Reggie Love.

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