Laughter and Legacy: Joel McHale; Will Reeve & the Reeve Siblings

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In this episode of Pop Culture Weekly, I talk with

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Joel McHale, and I talk with Will Reeve, Matthew Reeve,

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and Alexandra Reeve Givens all about the brand new documentary Superman.

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The Christopher Reeve Story. Let's go.

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Welcome to pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon from iHeartRadio

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your pop culture news, views, reviews and celebrity interviews on

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all the movies, TV, music and pop culture u CRABE Weekly.

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Here's Kyle mcmahonna.

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No, Hello, Welcome to pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon.

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I am Kyle McMahon, and of course I thank you

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for tuning in to another episode of pop Culture Weekly.

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So we have some great stuff for this episode. I

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speak with Joel McHale, who I absolutely love. He's hysterical

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all about a new project that he's working on with

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the makers of Riis a Roney and that is Macarney.

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So we'll talk about that shortly, as well as the

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new projects that he's working on in film and TV

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and all that stuff. And also I spoke about this

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documentary before, but I had the pleasure of seeing super

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Man the Christopher Reeves Story, which is such an incredible documentary.

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I went in and was just absolutely bawling.

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It is inspiring, it is heartbreaking, it is all of

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the things. It really is such an amazing documentary. I

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am so happy that I got a chance to see it.

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And I speak with Christopher Reeve's children, William Reeve, will Reeve,

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Matt Reeve, and Alexandra Reeve Givens all about their relationship

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with their father and the new film Superman The Christopher

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Reeve Story. So let's get right into it. We'll start

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out with the Reeve's children. So super Man the Christopher

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Reeves Story had a premiere at the Sundance Film Festival

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back in January. The film is from Warner Brothers Discovery.

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There's two day theatrical release September twenty first and September

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twenty fifth, along through Fathom Events.

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Actually the twenty.

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Fifth is Christopher Reeves would have been Christopher reeves seventy

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second birthday, So happily, happy, heavenly birthday to him. It

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has a one hundred percent critics review rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

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It really really is an incredible documentary. It is honest,

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it is inspiring, you know, it really shows.

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The man behind the hero. For all of us.

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You know, it's a reminder that our hero tie their

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shoes one at a time, just like all of us.

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If you miss or missed the theatrical release in the US,

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because those in the UK, you're getting a release in November.

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It will be hitting the Max streaming service and I'll

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get you the date as soon as that is announced.

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But Christopher Reeve, of course most famously played Superman. He

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had an acting career spanning thirty four years. He won

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a British Academy Film Award, an Emmy, a Grammy Screen

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Actors Guild Award. Was heavily involved in his activism, particularly

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around an environmental and human rights causes, and then tragically,

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in nineteen ninety five, he was paralyzed from the neck

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down in a freak accident during an equestrian competition. He

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had to use a wheelchair and a ventilator for the

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rest of his life and after his accident he was

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a huge advocate for spinal injury research, including human embryonic

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stem cell research, and then with his wife Dana, they

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founded the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, which has been

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hugely influential and instrumental in the gains not only in

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spinal injury research, but in stem cell research in general.

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In two thousand and two, he released a book Nothing

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Is Impossible, Reflections on a New Life, where he talks about,

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you know, life that had completely changed for him. On

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October tenth, two thousand and four, Christopher Reef pasted at

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the age of fifty two. His children, Matt, Will and Alexandra,

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continue to serve on the board of directors of of

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the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation. I'm telling you please

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see this film, really, really, really is a powerful, powerful

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film on heroism, the power of the human spirit, grief, death.

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You know, it's it's incredibly powerful. So let's talk with

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Matthew Reeve, Alexander Reeve, Gibbons, and Will Reeve. Thank you

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to all three of you for speaking with me. The

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film is incredibly powerful and inspirational and and it took,

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in my opinion, such bravery to do it to put

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you know this out there. Matt, If it's okay, I'll

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start with you. Why was this important now to tell

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this story?

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So when we embarked on this project, we didn't like

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have a calculated plan that it would come out sort

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of right now. We were approached by originally an archivist

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who had seen some other material of our dad when

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he was doing on another project, and he asked if

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we had home movie footage. And as it happened, we

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had just kind of cleared out a family house and

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we knew what we had with these boxes of tapes

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in different formats, and I tried to digitize some of them,

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and anyway, we started approaching production companies and it first

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Passion Pictures, and then the directors came on board, and

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then Words and Pictures, and you know, it was made.

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We thought, if we're ever going to do it, this

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is the right time. Enough time had passed since our

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dad and Dana had had passed away, and you know,

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we wanted to ensure that his story was kind of

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brought to a new audience, a new a new generation

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who perhaps didn't know exactly who he was or what

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his story was. And also to remind people who did

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know his story and had been a fan of his

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from the Superman movies and knew him as an advocate

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for the disabled, to remind them of the story and

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also tell a more richer in depth story about who

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he was and all the other things that he did

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and that he wasn't just a guy in a cape

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or a guy in a chair, and really tell his story.

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And we were just so lucky because we were in

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this amazing, unique, privileged position to be able to do that.

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So when the opportunity to present itself, we agreed that

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this was the time.

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Thank you and Will.

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I lost my mom three years ago to pancreatic cancer

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and there was a moment in the film where you

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said something like that was the moment that I, you know,

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March would I believe it was six that I've been

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alone since then, and that really I'm like bawling in

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the theater when you said that, it really really touched No.

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I mean, I mean it was a.

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Beautiful statement, something that I could relate to, because you

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feel like, you know, this rock for you, these rocks

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for you are suddenly not there, and for me it

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kind of feel rudderless in many ways. First of all,

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thank you for saying that, because there's so many people

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out there that feel the same.

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How has that effect did you? Now? You know? Now

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you're you're some years on where are you?

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I should clarify that I like I've never actually I've

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never felt fully alone. Look who I have with me

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I have. I have such a village around me. I

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have my sister, my brother, my broader family. That's the

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family who took me in, Like, I have so many

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people supporting me, rooting for me, loving me, lifting me up,

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carrying me through not only that time of grief and trauma,

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but through present day.

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I'm so lucky to have.

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So many people who love me and who I love

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right back, and we do anything for each other. So

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when I say in the film that I've been alone

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since then, what I what I mean is I've been

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without the two very most important people in.

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My life, my mom and my at.

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Of course, is hard, and grief is a permanent thing.

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I missed them in some way every single day, and

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I will forever. But part of this process of being

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a part of this film and now getting to talk

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about it and share it with the world has brought

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I think each of us closer back to them. It

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helps the grief process to keep people's memories alive by

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sharing stories of them and trying to espouse the values

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that they put in you. So while I may have

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been without my parents for twenty years. I've never really

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been without them because of the head start that they

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gave me and each of us in terms of their values.

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I love that. Thank you also much. That's my time.

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I really appreciate what you're doing with this film.

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Thank you, Thanks Man, Matthew Reeve, Alexandra Reeve, Givens, and

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Will Reeve.

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It is.

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Please do yourself a favor and see super Man the

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Christopher Reeve Story. It is incredibly powerful. I was bawling

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in the theater as I watched it, and I left

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inspi fired by the power of the human soul.

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And will go see it. Do yourself a favor and

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go see it.

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All right, We're gonna take a short break, and when

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we come back, I talk with comedian, actor, writer, producer

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Joel McHale about Macarroni and of course the bear, animal

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control and more.

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We'll be back in sixty all right, welcome back.

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We're gonna jump right into it. Joel McHale is hilariously funny.

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I love him.

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He of course started really blew up with the soup,

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which ran for like eleven years. Which was a kind

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I guess that went over you know so many of

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the best moments in pop culture and online culture.

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And it was just hilarious. I loved that show and.

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It was hugely influential in like a show like this

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pop Culture Weekly.

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Of course.

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He played Jeff Winger on Community, was in Spider Man,

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Two Spy Kids, All the Time in the World, Ted,

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The Happy Time Murders. He stars in The Bear, the

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Emmy winning show, as well as Animal Control on Fox

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and Hulu. Let's get right into my conversation with the

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one and only Joel McHale. So I am here with

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the one and only Joel McHale, And first of all,

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thank you for joining me on Pop Culture Weekly.

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iHeartRadio.

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Thank you for having me. Kyle and my dog if

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you can see him, is also here.

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His name's Beinback.

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He's adorable and I love that beam bag.

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So let me you have a exciting new partnership partnership

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there you go. Thank you that that you are doing

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with the creators of Rice Aroni and uh I'm starving now,

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but tell me tell me about that. I'll let you announce.

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It here we go right it Rice, Well, I guess

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I'm partnering with Rice Aroni and they are releasing Macaroni.

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I yeah, love it.

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They took the word Rice, remove that and put mac

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there and now it's Macaroni. It's pretty good. I'm there.

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I'm their chief uh Macaroni Officer. It's a real title.

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Uh.

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They guarantee it, and uh yeah, they're they're launching this

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huge uh macaroni brand and uh they got a couple

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of flavors and I, through experience, can tell you it's

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very tasty. And we'll send you some, Kyle, and you'll

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be like, he's right, He's absolutely right. Darn it.

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I can't wait because first of all, I love Rice Aroni,

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and now to hear that you have partnered with them

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and are doing Macaroni, it's like, like I said, it

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just continues to make me hungry.

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Yeah, and I think I grew up eating mac I

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mean Riceerni, and it's one of the most iconic brands

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that America has ever produced. And so yeah, now with

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macw when they asked me to, you know, if I

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was interested, I did a Lucy sketch with my phone

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to agree, and my ancients are like, don't agree yet.

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I'm like, no, no, no, I'm in. I mean I also

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have teenage boys, so they're they were quite happy about it.

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I bet yeah.

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And there are two flavors that they are that are

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coming starting out.

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What what are they? Are?

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You like, cream cheddar and creamy white cheddar? You say, Kyle, yes,

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uh yeah, so there's creamy cheddar and creamy white cheddar.

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You can pretty much figure out the difference there. And

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you know, it makes the perfect dish. And it's I

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you know, I run around like a maniac all the time,

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so it's very easy to make and it's quick, and

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it's yeah, the the uh the work to uh you know,

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satisfaction ratio is pretty uh pretty uncon it's off the charts.

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It's great, which you know that's really important to me

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because I am, you know, much like you. You know,

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we have busy schedules and I I'm sure yours is

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much busier, but I you know.

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It's a dare you, Kyle, You've got a very busy schedule.

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It's it's I just don't cook, you know, I mean

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I try and I just don't. And it's like I

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feel like, in general, cooking like, you know, you have

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to go and buy all these ingredients and they have

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to like prepare each one and they have to mix

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them all a certain way, and then you eat for

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like ten minutes, and it was like I just took

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like four hours out of my day to eat this sandwich.

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all that time, and then I don't exactly.

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So that's why I love risaroni is because you know,

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it takes what ten minutes, I can go and whatever,

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check emails to social media while it's cooking, and then

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then I'm good to go and done. I didn't have

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to do all of this stuff easy clean up. So

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I am thinking that macaroni is going to be very

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similar in the preparation department.

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Yeah, the payoff for the amount of time that you

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were spending cooking it is. Yes, the ratio is off

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the charts and there. Yeah, you'll it's you can have

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it obviously alone, which I have multiple times, or it's

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the perfect dish and because you can sit there and

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cook for four hours or cook for two hours and

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you'd be like, what am I going to serve with

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this roast that I've been slowly or you know, like

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smoking meat or something like what I'm going to serve

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with it? And pasta, I think is always I think

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it enhances the flavors of meat, and it obviously vegetables,

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but it really brings it. I mean, that's why pasta

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is one of the most popular dishes on the planet.

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And when aliens, you know, I'm sure when aliens we

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meet them, they'll be like, tell us about your favorite food,

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and you'll be like, here's here's some pasta. There you go,

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and then they will and the mind control begins. But

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but I but yeah, no, it's the payoff. If you

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don't have a lot of time, then it's perfect. And

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if you have, it's also like that, like, look, Thanksgiving

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will be like mashed potatoes are fantastic, but this takes

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you can cook everything else and then do this right

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at the last minute.

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Yeah, I love that.

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And that's also you.

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Now you're giving me ideas because when I go to

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somebody's house and they're like, oh, bring a dish, and

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I'm like, have you ever met me?

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But now I don't need eat.

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I don't need to worry because I can just whip

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up some macaroni and and bring it on over.

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That exactly right, and I well, for I mean, both

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flavors are good, so you don't have to like you

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could ask in advance to your friends. You're like, you

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prefer creamy cheddar or creamy white cheddar. And then they'll

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be like, we'll need four or five hours to think

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about this. Your friends are a little weird.

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But yeah, and you know it also makes me seem

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fancy because I'm like, not only do I make one one.

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Flavor, you could make both exactly exactly. I like this.

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So you are there's an opportunity for fans to come

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out and meet you and taste macaroni, right.

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You mean September twenty sixth in New York City. Absolutely, yes,

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we're having this macaroni experience and so and it's anybody

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can come down and there's samples and they'll be They're

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gonna get a box of macaroni. I'll be there eating

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macaroni and people like Joel, what do you think, I'm like,

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please don't up me while I'm eating, and uh, yeah no,

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So that'd be a whole day on the twenty six

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in New York and uh and I's said it's the

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perfect time of year because if we did this in January,

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it'd be a little cold. And then if we did

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this in the you know, like on August first, it

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would be uh. I think the macaroni be melting everywhere.

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So this all works out great, and uh so I'm

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really excited to get there and hang out. And so

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please come on down, come down to the event and

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get some macaroni.

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I love that.

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And uh, you're you're always so busy working on a

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million projects. You have the Bear, right, and yeah, yellow Jackets.

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Tell tell me what's what's coming up next for you?

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First of all, congratulations on the Bear.

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By the way, Oh thank you.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, as I tell people, I'm the good guy, and

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I don't and you'll see, you'll see. Uh but no,

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I Chris Door cast me in that, and I've known

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him for a long time and he was very trying

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to take pity on me and put me in his show.

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And Jeremy's you know, he's I had most of my

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scenes with him, and he's, you know, just one of

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the best actors on a planet. And uh yeah, and

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I'm doing Yellow Jackets right now up in Vancouver. And

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but Crime Scene Kitchen launches in a week and a

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half two weeks and then House of Villains in October

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on Eve.

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Okay, I just uh.

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Yeah, my my. I'm in a competition with myself too

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to agree to every I I love working, so it

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all works out great. It's very nice that people still

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want to hire me, so it. Yeah, so that that's

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what's I think Yellow Jackets will come out next year

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and yeah, but how but Crime Scene Kitchen, we it's

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coming out in a week and a half, So go

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see me and Curtis Stone and Yolanda Gamp. They're the

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real chefs who john all the the amazing desserts and

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savory stuff, and I just sit there eating it and

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making sure my hair looks great.

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Well, if you never ever need a tasting assistant, you know,

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I put my resume in.

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Kyle.

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It's not a bad idea, Like, let's welcome comic man

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or tasting assistant.

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Kyle, it's good. I love it.

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You're like, thank you God, great.

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I just come and take a bite and leave.

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You can be assistant Chief Macaroni officer.

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There we go. I love it.

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Bite.

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Where is the best Where's the best way to keep

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track of all the things that you're doing.

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On Napster. You know it's weird. I still you know,

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I'm still ripping off music from two thousand and four.

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I would, yeah, you know, Instagram it's probably the best.

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I still am. I'm gonna figure out TikTok here in

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a second, Okay, are you on it?

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I am? And I'm horrible about posting on TikTok.

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Yeah, I need to learn better. But lots of Instagram

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and it's pretty complicated. Joel McHale at Instagram, and then

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you know, learn about Rice. Just go you go to

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all the go to the instagrams for Riceerni as well

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to get so, you know, for the event and all that.

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On the twenty six your first TikTok could be eating

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uh macaroni.

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Oh, I'm sure the people, the Riserni Macaroni people right

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now are like, that's a great idea and they're scrambling

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tapping out like your first TikTok. I put up a

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few tiktoks with Ryan speak Press. That one went very well,

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and so I just need yeah, I need to start

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putting on.

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Awesome Joel, Thank you so much. It's a pleasure to

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talk to you. I love all your work and I

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can't wait for everything, including the macaroni coming very very soon.

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I can't wait.

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Yes, and I'll see you on the twenty six And

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good luck to all your sports teams. I don't know

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if you like the Eagles or your your Jets or

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your Giants. I don't know which. You live near a

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lot of professional sports teams, so I don't know.

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I do.

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I go by color.

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So the Green team, I like the Green team, right,

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and the Jets.

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The silver team is cool too, so.

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Oh the Silver team, Okay, yeah, I just watched for

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the concert in the middle of the game.

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That's what I do.

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Is it the seventy six ers?

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Is your seventy six or seventy Yes, seventy six ers

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or Philly Yep, yep, Eagles, seventy six ers, Phillies is

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all those Philadelphia teams. And then you know there's some

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overlap with DC Baltimore and that sort of thing.

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So yeah, we're been a good place for sports.

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