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Hey, if you're hearing this

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it's because you are not

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registered on sub stack get

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your ass over there and

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register. It's free Chris Ryan

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dot sub stack.com I've put

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up what looks like a paywall.

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It's not really a paywall. It's

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more of an unlocked door. All

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you got to do is knock

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if you can't afford the five

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bucks a month. Just drop me a

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line say Chris. Let me in Let

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me in It's raining outside. It's cold

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out here. Let me in. And

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I will let you in. There's

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no obligation. If you can afford

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it, I appreciate the support. If

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you can't afford it, or for

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some other reason, you have a

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religious injunction against sending money to

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me, that's fine. Just tell me

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you went in and you will

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be in. I'm trying to curate

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an audience of people who actually

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want to be here who have

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at least enough interest. to drop

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me a line and say,

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Chris, I want to hear

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the podcast, partly because it

1:04

makes for better experience with,

1:06

you know, the sort of online

1:08

forums and stuff. You don't get

1:11

the trolls and the sort

1:13

of negative energy that comes

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with just leaving the gates

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wide open for anyone to

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wander in without even saying

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hi. And partly, to be

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honest with you, partly because

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I really... love getting messages

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from people. You know, I

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get messages from all over

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the world, people saying, hey, I

1:34

can't afford it, but I'm out

1:37

here living in a van in

1:39

Outback Australia and I listen to

1:41

your podcast. Or I'm a truck

1:43

driver in Iran and I listen

1:46

to your podcast when I've got

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a long ride at night. or

1:50

I'm, you know, a medic working

1:52

in Kazakhstan and we listen to

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your podcast at dinner. It's like,

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holy shit, it's so cool just

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to know who's out there. And so this is

2:02

kind of a way to push you to

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let me know you're out there and

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that you want to be part of

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this community and that's all it

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takes. You're in. I hope you

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do that and I hope you

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listen to this episode with the

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great Simon Rex. He's awesome. Some

2:18

of the things we talk about

2:20

are the history of Laurel Canyon

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which is where we recorded this.

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fearlessness in performance, because

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Simon is pretty fearless as

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far as I can tell.

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And he's sort of his

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weird wild trajectory through fame.

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Like he was famous when

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he was young, he was

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a fashion model, he was

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on MTV, he was a

2:44

rapper, but it was all, it

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was all unserious. It was

2:49

all making fun of people

2:51

like him, good looking guys

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and young and cool and

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you know, the whole hip-hop

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thing. And now he's, now he's at

2:59

a very different kind of experience

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of fame. I mean, his,

3:03

one of his recent films

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was, you know, won the,

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I think it won the

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Palmdore at Khan or got

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a five minute standing ovation.

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I mean, it's crazy. And

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the guy who directed it

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just won, I think, eight

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Oscars, Sean Baker. And we talk

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about this experience of what

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it's like to work as

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a serious actor now. Particularly,

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we talked a fair bit

3:32

about a film called Easy.

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Easy's Waltz that Simon filmed with

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Al Pacino and Vince Vaughn. I

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don't think it's released yet, but

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we talked about that. It's a

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great episode. I really enjoy it.

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All you got to do to

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listen to it is let me

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know you want to. Hope you're doing

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well. Thanks for tuning in.