Is this happening?

Yeah, say something loud and something soft so our engineer, Bill, can tell us if it sounds

good.

Loudly I'll say, I love you, Bill.

Softly I'll say, sometimes I have to work hard to maintain that love.

Yeah.

All right, let's say welcome to Speak Easy.

And here's the part where I introduce myself.

I'm Rico.

And I'm Brendan.

And this is Speak Easy.

And for those who haven't heard one, this is when we play you some stuff that we didn't put on a regular radio show.

You know, interviews, outtakes, stuff that you haven't heard before.

And we talk about it off the cuff,

a.k.a. speak easily about it. The DPD basement tapes. Yeah. It's kind of like Dylan, but with more

mollifluous voices. But better than Dylan. Tons. More insightful. It's...

Yep. Much more brief. Yes. To that end, let's get right to our first clip, which comes from Ellie Kemper, who was such a

wonderful guest and was featured a few weeks back.

She's the comedian, of course.

And I spoke with her for like 30 minutes.

She was wonderful and had so many fun things to say.

It was hard to choose what to include on our radio show.

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