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Hi, and welcome to the Origins Podcast. I'm your host, Lawrence Krause. This week's episode is

incredibly exciting for me because we had the chance to spend two hours with one of the

world's most interesting artists, film directors, writers, and of course humorous in the last century.

Woody Allen. We were extremely fortunate that Woody Allen agreed to sit with us

for a long time to discuss his views on the world, his films, and his thoughts about things

from philosophy to science. I realize that for some people, this conversation itself will be

controversial, the very fact that we're airing a conversation with Woody Allen.

For those people, I would say, I'm reminded of a conversation I had with Ricky Gervais earlier

at the beginning of our podcast, where he said that people that get angry, that conversations happen

that they don't want to hear, are like people who go downtown and see a sign

saying guitar lessons for sale outside a door and say, I don't need any damn guitar lessons.

Well, if you don't want a guitar lesson, don't go in. If this podcast for any reason upsets you,

don't listen to it. But if you do listen to it, I think you'll be fascinated. And I am particularly thankful that Willie Allen trusted me and our crew to come in earlier this year before the pandemic and have a long conversation in his studio in New York City.

And I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did when we had the conversation.

With no further ado, Woody Allen.

Well, Woody, uh, thanks so much for agreeing to do this. It's a great pleasure to be able

to talk to you as well. Yeah, well, we'll see, we'll see how you feel about that after this is over. There's so many things to want to talk to you about, but what I want to be, since this is kind of an origins podcast, I wanted to start with your origins. You didn't like school. Did not, no. And I read that you were ejected early.

Is that really true?

Were you kicked out?

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