Kal Penn 👊🍆💦
Life is Short with Justin Long
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4.7 • 9.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2022
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
Kal Penn (Harold & Kumar, House) shares some hilarious stories from his childhood and how he confronted racism in Hollywood. Plus, he walks us through how he got a job with the Obama administration and graces us with an outstanding Bernie Sanders impression.
Kal’s book You Can’t Be Serious is available everywhere.
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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. |
| 0:12.9 | Little disclaimer for parents whose kids might be listening. I'm talking to you Amelia and Bodie. |
| 0:18.7 | There's gonna be a little bit of drug talk. |
| 0:21.3 | Taking drugs and the effects that drugs have on certain people. You love a good disclaimer. |
| 0:25.7 | Yeah, sure do. Well, I think it's helpful and I think it's respectful. I respect the kids. So we are really stone ones. |
| 0:33.6 | We were really stone Christian. I were on a trip. We were driving up the Eastern seaboard and I think we were in North |
| 0:40.9 | Carat. Doesn't matter where we were. We were in a small southern town and at a hotel we were desperate for some snacks and we didn't come prepared. |
| 0:49.4 | No, and we weren't responsible stoneers and we the vending machine they had there was the least |
| 0:55.8 | Stonery options. It was like the worst. Yeah, who is like double mint gum. Yeah, Dessani like a lot like savers a lot of water options. |
| 1:04.4 | Like no good stone or treat. Yeah. |
| 1:07.5 | Like banana chips. |
| 1:10.9 | And so we went to the front desk and we asked like desperate where is there a place to eat? Is there anything any food |
| 1:17.0 | Options in the area at night. So so he was like no man nothing's open. Sorry. Yeah. And of course we didn't want to drive too far and |
| 1:24.5 | We were stone. |
| 1:26.0 | And so we're stoned and stuck stuck and he said yeah, we were like that's too bad and we were kind of hemming and hawing and the lobby just like not knowing what to do. |
| 1:34.5 | We were we couldn't go back up to our room without food and and almost as an afterthought the guy behind the counter he said well |
| 1:42.3 | I mean all we really have here these fresh baked chocolate chip cookies and he like he gestured over and there were individually |
| 1:50.8 | wrapped thick big warm like steam delicately rising from the case and we were like |
| 1:58.4 | I would love to have witnessed our reaction from his point of view. It was a happy ending. Yeah it was and here's a happy beginning. |
| 2:07.8 | Life could be a dream. Life could be a dream. |
| 2:11.8 | Do do do do do do do do do do do. Listening to life is short. I am your now satisfied. Host just a long life could be a dream sweetheart. |
| 2:22.8 | Do do do do do do do. |
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