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Life is Short with Justin Long

Stephen Root 👍

Life is Short with Justin Long

Wondery

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

4.89.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2021

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Stephen Root (Barry) talks to Justin about his iconic role in Office Space, his work as a character actor, and they reminisce about their time working on the movie Dodgeball


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0:00.0

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0:12.5

About a decade ago now, wow, time flies. I was doing the Apple commercials with John Hodgman who played the PC.

0:19.8

Friend of the show. A very good friend. Friend of mine and the show.

0:22.8

It was the Get a Mac campaign. And one of our favorite things to do in between what they call setups when they're setting up the camera

0:29.2

in a little industry term. We used to love to entertain ourselves. And one of the bits we would do was we do fake commercials for other things.

0:38.2

So like whatever you were holding or eating, but his favorite product, the product we would do most often because it was what he was drinking most of the time.

0:47.2

It was like John's one request that he would request this product to be. He was like J-Lo.

0:52.2

Yeah. Yeah. What did she request? Didn't, doesn't she need like lilac mist in the air?

0:58.2

I don't know. She's all these demands. Or am I thinking of Mariah Carey?

1:01.2

Oh, I think Mariah Carey. I have a feeling that that's...

1:04.2

I confused I can't.

1:05.2

Yeah, you have diva confusion.

1:07.2

I think J-Lo from... I think has a reputation for being that way.

1:13.2

But I think she's really like... I met her briefly. She seemed really down to earth.

1:17.2

Wow, sorry. I know you're defensive.

1:19.2

I'm defensive. Well, I'm because I'm a J-Lo myself.

1:21.2

Oh, that's why. But defensive of all J-Lo's.

1:24.2

Don't spread that shit about you. What happened to this story?

1:26.2

Anyway, I knew. Oh, sorry. Right. I was telling the story.

1:29.2

I don't know. Let's get into the story now.

1:31.2

Life could be a dream. Life could be a dream.

1:35.2

Ooh, dude, dude, dude, dude, shippu.

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