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🗓️ 2 May 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey, this is the moment, I'm Brian Coppelman, I really have people on a second time, but |
0:09.0 | Lewis Black is his stature's only grown in my mind, a total, always been a legend, one |
0:14.4 | of our smartest comedians and commentators on what the fuck is going on in the world. |
0:21.8 | And Lewis, you know what's so great is like so much of the special, the subtext, there's |
0:27.4 | lots of subtext running through the new special is tragically I need you coming up May |
0:31.2 | second. So there's lots of subtext running through it, I'm going to ask you about lots |
0:34.8 | of it. But one thing is that we feel like we as a culture don't even bother making |
0:40.2 | the minimum fucking effort. And we get it. It's like some believable. Yeah, we don't want |
0:46.8 | it even make the smallest. And so you get rewarded. Now one gets rewarded for making the |
0:52.0 | minimal effort because I've seen this with people in the pack. I watched the whole fucking |
0:56.4 | special before having you on, man, because I did the minimum you're supposed to do, which |
1:01.8 | is, and I, I think that will separate me from 80% of the people you end up talking to |
1:07.3 | on the promo tour. Well, it's also amazing on the promo tour or what you do now when |
1:13.3 | you do interviews a lot of the time, especially radio, some, and what's left of newspapers |
1:20.1 | is that they, they haven't even read the Wikipedia page. You know, and it's kind of like |
1:28.5 | after, you know, it's, I've been doing it 40 years, 30, 40 years, and they go, and when |
1:35.7 | did you decide to get into comedy? It's, and why did you decide? It's like, seriously, |
1:40.8 | guys, I'm not, you know, it's, I get it when I'm, when I'm 40, but now I love the one |
1:47.9 | where, because I get interviewed when the next season of my show is coming on or whatever |
1:53.4 | the thing is, and my pet peeve is when they'd say, and I can imagine to you, why don't you |
1:57.3 | introduce yourself? |
1:59.3 | Do that, they've never done that to me, they, they're not, that's a foul, you know, tell |
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