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Life is Short with Justin Long

Mark-Paul Gosselaar 🤞

Life is Short with Justin Long

Wondery

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

4.89.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Mark-Paul Gosselaar (Found, Saved By The Bell) and Justin talk about his iconic Zack Morris character in Saved By the Bell, how he avoided being typecast, and they clear up a silly little rumor about competing for the same roles. 

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0:00.0

I'm guessing most high schools and most high school experiences include the guy who's just cool and nice. He's cool to everyone

0:16.8

likes him. The captain of the football team or he plays football, but he's not exclusive to just hanging out with football players he kind of knows everybody

0:25.2

for me that guy was it was named Brendan Panda

0:28.3

Brendan was handsome he was the captain was the quarterback but he also was nice he was nice capped, he was the quarterback, but he also was nice, he was nice to everybody, he wasn't like a bully, he was kind of like the guy that every boy in school wanted to be like.

0:40.3

And I saw him recently, a couple years ago. We were at a Bill Burr concert and a friend of mine from high school

0:46.8

Emilio Savone who is kind of like the if you've seen Fast Times at Richmond High

0:51.3

He was like the Mike de Moan character and

0:54.0

and Emilio said, hey, he had somebody with him, he had some people, he said, he said, look who's here.

1:00.7

And lo and behold, it was Brendan Panda. It was the coolest guy in our school and he

1:07.4

you know he was very stick it continues to be nice and continues to be handsome.

1:14.3

So I happened to be there too and I saw the dynamic you guys had and he was giving you quite a bit of status and he seemed really excited to be seeing you,

1:25.2

somebody he hadn't seen in many years and except in movies and TV shows I'm sure,

1:30.8

and he seemed excited to see you so it seemed like a bit of a

1:35.1

role reversal I have to make this clear Brendan didn't have like eager sick of

1:40.3

fancy energy it was just different than it was in high school.

1:43.4

He was respectful. Though in high school he was respectful so I don't know.

1:47.0

So then this isn't a story.

1:48.2

I guess not. Well, so this is a story about a nice guy from high school who's still nice as a middle

1:55.1

age man. This is this has become this has gone from a potential story to now an

2:01.3

extended shout out so Brendan I hope you're listening. I'm sure he's listening because like I said before he worships you. He idolizes you.

2:10.0

He is not true. He is so nervous around you. This is not true. But maybe somebody from high school

2:15.2

is listening and they'll send it to him, you know, if he's not a regular listener and they'll say,

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