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Life is Short with Justin Long

Life Is Short Re-Run: Jesse Eisenberg #️⃣

Life is Short with Justin Long

Wondery

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

4.89.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 77 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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Transcript

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0:00.0

I was in New Orleans about 12 years ago with my friend Rob and we were at a restaurant with our at the time girlfriends and in walks the Detroit Pistons who at the time

0:16.4

were ruling the NBA their best player Ben Wallace was a monster he went on to

0:21.2

win the defensive player of the year. On our way out, Ben Wallace's wife stopped me and she said,

0:26.7

this is Ben Wallace and he loves cheaper creepers. And I turned to Ben who was right next to her. He was drinking soup and just kind of staring at me and I said oh

0:35.4

Thank you so much. We're big fans of yours and you know good luck this year. 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

0:46.0

And there's a part in Jeepers where I go in and but as there isn't every horror movie where you go and investigate the noise that and bad things happen and I said oh well that's what you

0:54.8

got to do and you know it's a horror movie and he finally dropped the spoon and he goes

1:00.0

no man you shouldn't have gone down there and I got so nervous that I started blaming it on other people.

1:05.0

I said, well, you know, the writers wrote that and the director told me to it.

1:08.6

And he just wouldn't accept that.

1:10.9

He was angry with me for the choice that my character made.

1:14.8

If you ever had any chance of making the NBA, that dream died that night.

1:19.4

Yeah, I stopped even trying.

1:20.8

Life could be a dream.

1:23.0

Life could be a dream.

1:25.0

Doo, do ch-doo ch-doo ch-shaboo.

1:28.0

You're listening to Life is Short.

1:29.0

I'm your host, Star-Up Sheapers, Creepers,

1:31.0

Justin Long. Your Host, Star Up Sheper Screapers, Justin. Life could be a dream, sweetheart.

1:34.4

Do, do, do, do chaboo.

1:39.6

We get it, you're in Geeper Screper's.

1:41.4

That's a really good movie though, all kidding aside.

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