W. Kamau Bell 👀

Life is Short with Justin Long

Wondery

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

4.8 • 9.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

W. Kamau Bell (We Need To Talk About Cosby) and Justin talk about his doc series on the tarnished legacy of Bill Cosby and how to handle the creative work of problematic (but influential) people. Plus, they touch on the impact of the Chris Rock slap at the Oscars.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members. You can listen to Life is Short. Add free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:13.2	I did some pretty dumb things in my 20s, my 30s, you know the
0:18.4	impetuousness of youth. But it's funny. They said 20s and 30s and now 40s just because you're your 40s. You don't do dumb anymore. No, I'm
0:26.3	grown up a mature, but I was one such unhealthy choice in my youth. I was messing around and I fell basically. I took a dumb fall.
0:35.4	I took one of those falls that like I can't believe I did that. I put myself in that situation and I hit my head
0:40.7	hard enough that I felt like I should go to the doctor and I went to the hospital and it was
0:45.4	kind of late at night. They checked me out. They said that it's like cushion and everything was fine.
0:49.7	I didn't bother to call anyone to tell them about it because I didn't want to worry anyone. Certainly not are
0:54.9	easily worried and quite anxious mother.
0:57.4	The next day the phone was ringing. As I picked it up, I was watching TV. I was watching CNN and I saw that on the bottom
1:05.2	it said actor Justin Long was in a car accident. Wow. And slowest news day ever.
1:12.6	No, I know and it sort of involved a car, but it was bad. I mean it was really was not it wasn't a moving car. No, no, I was on anyway.
1:21.3	My mother was calling. It was my mother calling. She had called but I said I was like I was just looking at my phone.
1:25.6	I said like three missed calls. What is she calling? It must be some kind of emergency. It all hit me at the same time and she
1:31.0	Oh my god. You know, of course she's panicked and I said no, no, no, no, right away. I open the phone call trying to calm her down
1:37.4	and I successfully did but it took a while. Well, I'm glad you're okay. I'm glad he survived into your 40s and I had no lasting effect on me.
1:44.7	What are we doing? podcast
1:46.7	life could be a dream life could be a dream. Oh
1:55.3	You're listening to life is short. I am your slightly regretful host Justin Long.
2:08.6	And with me as always is who is also with me that night that fateful night.
2:13.0	You helped me to take me to the hospital. It was very nice. I did.
2:15.6	I did. And I helped discourage you from doing the dumb thing that you were doing.
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