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🗓️ 11 October 2022
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Brian gets to catch up with the legendary Linda Purl, whose acting, music, and baking credits are vast, but you might know as Pam’s mom on The Office. She talks about growing up in Japan, her two roles on Happy Days, and starting a new business in the bread industry.
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1:30.5 | So he talked like a... he had... the Lingo was a rough and ready truck driver, right? |
1:36.6 | Not so much in today's Japanese, but at that time, the differentiation between classes and sexes and age and all that was very different. |
1:46.2 | So for me, for instance, as a five-year-old girl, the appropriate way for me to refer to myself would be what actually won in? |
1:54.7 | And the Tanaka-san would have said, vocal us out. |
1:58.4 | So I talked... I learned largely from Tanaka-san, I talked like a foul mouth middle-aged truck driver, raised a lot of eyebrows. |
2:08.4 | I'm Linda Pearl. I'm thrilled to be on Brian's show. I'm an actress and a mom and a singer. I like to say not necessarily in that order. |
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