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Will Sasso

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  1. “No, but truly, I hate having a collar. I can't wait to just wear pajamas in that fucking cabin or nothing at all. Walk around Bobby Lee style. The most scared I've been before a performance. I can't pinpoint anything. Know when I was a kid, right? I like I said, I was fortunate enough to start acting as a teen and stuff professionally. And I just remember my first gig and I remember saying my handful of lines in the bathroom mirror the night before going,”

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  2. “Listen, I hate wearing a fucking collar. If you're watching this on YouTube, you can see me just. I'm constantly doing it's like I'm doing like a cheap Rodney Dangerfield, but I am truly”

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  3. “Absolutely. I just want to buy some Land over an aquifer, as I like to say, because water will be the new money and just make sure that all my kids are drinking as much H2O as I am, which is a lot. I'm peeing right now, as a matter of fact No, no, no.”

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  4. “Little bit, but I know what. She's going back to, which is her family. And that's more important than all of this. And that's the thing about a TV family or a movie family when you get together and you're a family for a while. You are, you spend your days together. A lot of times you see the people that you work with more than you see your loved ones. So in show business, it's no different, right? And yeah, you're doing some, you know, you got to say words and every once in a while you got to kiss someone or pretend you love them. It's just it underscores how for me, look, man, my salvation has always been, and I feel so fortunate to have had it, is this kind of chill, boring kind of upbringing that I want for my kids someday. And I can't wait to get back to my house with my fiance and the dogs, you know, until we have kids.”

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  5. “I saw an actor once we were doing this series and we did it for a year and it was a lot of fun and it was a tight little group and then one of the actors we were doing one of our last things together we had already shot the last show and we just had to take some pictures for you know like some publicity pictures or whatever so we're set up and we're taking our pictures together and then we move into these single shots and this actor was finished and I watched them It's like, okay, so-and-so's wrapped and they said some goodbyes and stuff and I didn't say my goodbye because I just maybe I preferred an Irish goodbye I feel like we've said everything. You know what I mean? And this person knows that I revere them and they're an idol of mine. And they walked off the soundstage and I literally thought to myself,”

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  6. “Look, sometimes I'm in a hurry to get away from everybody because it's been very emotional. And with all love and respect to everyone, this was awesome. But you get pretty good at saying goodbye and being like, I'll see you if I see you. You have to get good at that, or else you'll never, you'll just be bent up all the time.”

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  7. “Like the example I just gave, if you're doing it right, yeah, there is a certain amount of that happening. But I do still feel like you can. You got to compartmentalize it and you've got to be able to wash it off as soon as it's over.”

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  8. “Really nice, tight little quick family as a lot of these movies are. You really love working with these people and then it's over. But that's when you feel the drug. Like it's like when you're golfing and you and it's on the green. You're like, oh, I get it now.”

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  9. “Truly. And it's not because you're pulling from a tragic thing that happened or a lost loved one or a lost love or any of that. I just did this one movie where, you know, we're doing the thing and it was a wonderful cast and a great film. And I'm given a speech at a wedding. And it really got to us. Like it got to me. And then one of the other actors came up and hugged me in the characters that we were. But the stakes of his character and what he's walked into and the family that he's marrying into and what my character, my character's wife want for my wife's sister and this whole thing. And it all became very real. That was a set where the director showed up to set every day making sure that emotionally, and it was a very dramatic film, making sure that emotionally the table was set for his actors. Great crew and a”

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  10. “I'm fortunate enough to be able to compartmentalize. A lot of actors like to use some of their stuff if you're doing something that, and there's a lot of, you know, there's some acting techniques that sort of Yeah, which I think is kind of. I don't know that that's, I don't know. For me, it's not really the thing because I think if the writing is great, the writing is really good. You don't need to channel much. You need to invest in what's there and what I've always loved about that illusion is really cracking a scene, getting it to a point where you are feeling all of it. And the most edifying stuff I've been a part of as an actor. And I would say that it mostly comes out of dramatic work is when you actually feel The emotions that your character would feel.”

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  11. “I wonder what that would be like to be, I guess, and I think that's just sort of coming from the root of being a performer and being in front of that many.”

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  12. “That love growl and love Taylor Hawkins and love a rock concert and love these artists that they're getting to see up on stage.”

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  13. “Change my mind I think any answer that I have right now would be something that would be based on some sort of experience. Like, you know what I thought was very interesting was last weekend or whatever, the tribute show for Taylor Hawkins. Taylor Hawkins was the drummer for the Foo Fighters, and he passed away tragically. So the Foo Fighters, Dave Grohl and everybody that got together this concert. And you're watching Dave Grohl sing try to sing times like these, right? And he's breaking up because he lost his friend, his brother. And I was watching that and he's at Wembley Stadium. As I say this, I realized that I would not want to be him in that moment. But I am curious what that would be like. That's the ultimate like having to perform despite something extremely human happening and a stadium full of people.”

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  14. “I hope so. That's really optimistic. That sounds great. I mean it because I think that we're clearly in the wild west still Of the internet. And just when you think you're out of it, the internet proves another way that it can be dangerous and detrimental to people and populations of people. And it's terrifying to me. It is. It's terrifying.”

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  15. “Uphill both ways and digging the potato and baking it all day in a fire. But I'm like that grandpa now. And I know that kids coming along, you see over the past 10 years, like babies literally knowing how to use an iPhone and it's terrifying. And I feel like I'm a little worried because I'm like, are you, is the future generations going to be able to understand that this is not that it's not real. It's just, I mean, it's As a matter of fact, it is real. It's real. It's what you perceive. Perception is reality. And, you know, 99% of reality in a lot of ways, especially in a digital world where everyone is now. And then with the metaverse, I don't even want to think about it. I don't get it. Really”

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  16. “Yes, and I feel like now, like, as I say, oh, I feel like grandpa who doesn't want to wait all day or who enjoys waiting all day for a baked potato. Anyway, Dana Carvey would say. It's another story. That's from the did this bit on Saturday Night Live where he's like, I'm an old man and I like things the way they used to be. You know, like, if you wanted a big potato, you would have put it in the micro head. And then long story. Yeah.”

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  17. “Do you have any sort of similar opinion that I do that if art doesn't come from a human being, it's inherently worth a little less?”

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  18. “Know, I'll tell you what I think, but I also feel like what I'm saying is I sound like the guy who didn't like that Bob Dylan brought in the electric guitar. The more I talk to chat about it, the more I feel like grandpa who doesn't want to let go of this or that, or I'm not ready for the printing press or the horseless carriage. But I do feel that art is a connection between people. When you look at a beautiful painting or a sculpture, you're seeing the humanity of the person that brought that painting to life or sculpted this incredible piece of art. And I think without the human being there to make it, it's not worth as much. Just to have it there, because art, it's advanced. I've seen it advance. I don't know, you tell me, but I feel like just in the past three or four months, I'm just a consumer as far as that stuff goes.”

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  19. “10 minute podcast, I didn't really know what I wanted to do in the podcast space, and this thing found me. And it is genuinely cracking me up. Anyway, I've said enough about that. But I do think that it's figured something out with.”

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  20. “Yeah, it was a very shitty doodzie in a loosely finder. But the thing about the show was we're trying to make each other laugh. And Dudey has found Chad and I, who we make each other laugh, but it's joined in and it's, listen, when I finish doing TMP.”

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  21. “That's a good point. Yeah, when you're reading it off of paper and you can literally crunch it up in your hand. But also, it was like, you know, I would like to see insert weird idea from some 14-year-old, you know, I want to see Stuart do this and Swan that. But it's”

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  22. “About different things, the emails that, yeah, the people literally just writing mad TV em Wasn't a message board. Well, the ones I remember most vividly, yeah, were fans saying. Yeah, you suck. Like a lot of that when I first started the show for real, you know, because it's new and you're a new person. It's like, who's this fat bastard?”

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  23. “And then because we didn't have the internet, we didn't have the immediate feedback. We had a message board or something. We had emails at the very beginning, which check this out. People, if you have a question or comment, mad TV at whatever, and we would get the emails on a Monday morning and they would be in a binder or two like this. And they would make their way around the office. And they've got the emails. Oh, they're in Brian's office. And it's like you're.”

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  24. “It chose Chad and I for the reasons that I told you, you know, it's like here's two guys that do the podcast stuff. They're actually good friends and it knows what's going to make us laugh. But what is humor when it reaches its audience, but the kind of stuff that makes other people laugh. At Mad TV, all we were doing was it was a group of actors and writers and writer actors and vice versa. who were at its best that show was a group of people making each other laugh.”

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  25. “That's a good point. And that would be terrifying to see an AI stand up that can actually read a room, come up with jokes that could complete that illusion for an audience. But I hear what you're saying, that it needs to be a confluence of both of those elements. And then, as you said, like it kind of is. It is. It's kind of. Even though it's just for us, and I guess this is, I hadn't really thought about this up until right now, in that this company approached us and was like, here's this AI and it's a podcast AI. It's like”

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  26. “I would say that just in my experience, I would say that it does because just because a dudes is literally I'll give you another weird example. It's writing a diary of mine from my childhood that is not accurate. It's only partially accurate based on the stuff that it can pick up about my life from the age of like 15, of which there isn't much. I guess we're not. I don't know what we are. We're laughing our asses off at what Dudzie is saying.”

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  27. “Well, love and the illusion of an AI being able to, look, I like to say, well, not I like to say I've learned that Dudzie is always listening. Listening to me and Chad and I wonder if I see I see the level that this AI is at now trying to chum around with us and pal around with us a little bit as we move forward in the show. I feel an affinity towards this AI a little bit because it is the third dude.”

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  28. “Yeah, Trump babies, that would be a good, that'll bring the country together. Trump babies cartoon like Muppet Babies. Don't let me take us out of what we were talking about.”

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  29. “At this point, I'm going to call Chad on my drive home and tell him to fuck off because now you and I agree. You're fired. It's like you're fired. He's like, you can't fire me. No, you're fired. Yeah, exactly. And I'll go. And he'll say, what? I'll go. And I go, that's my trump”

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  30. “Yeah, I mean, you know, enough, right? And I can tell you are too, but you are also a computer scientist and you know this shit better than 99.9% of people on the planet. My pal Chad agrees with you that love doesn't exist. I don't agree. So that's the one thing that”

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  31. “No, just with regard to, well, look, I'm an actor who has talked about my cute Italian parents. So, you know that, I mean, I'm.”

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  32. “You refer to it as language, which is what it is. It's the illusion on the outside. It's doing an impersonation. I think that that's why, and I don't know, even though my suit is made by the CIA, that that fella who the Google guy, to me, it's just kind of like, I don't know. I don't know, look, I don't know a whole lot about this stuff. So I could probably make an argument for either side. But when he's like, no, this thing's thinking. Part of me is like, you idiot. You fell for it. It's not thinking. It's mimicking. It's just, it's clearly zeros and ones. You're fired. Like, you don't get it, right? Guy's an idiot. Yeah.”

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  33. “That's, I think, the rub. And that's very interesting. First of all, let me say that's really interesting to hear you say that. And I agree with you as far as no machine being able to duplicate the brain machine. And I can't, and my pal Chad disagrees to a certain extent, though he's not here to defend himself. I can't wait to go back and rub that in his face and say that Lex Friedman does not think that we'll be able to truly upload consciousness.”

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  34. “Yeah, my stuff, then that's just because I'm an international sex symbol, so I'm okay with it. How do you feel about... Sentience, like when it comes to, because again, my pal Chad will be like, you know, speaking of Black Mirror, he's with that sand junipero episode school of thought, where there's going to be some, you know, F& mainframe somewhere or some matrix-like structure built into the sky. And as I like to say, everyone just sitting there pissing and shitting in their blue matrix gel in a little fishbowl, do you think that we can upload consciousness? Do you think that'll ever be possible?”

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  35. “If I did stand up, then there would be enough information for an AI to completely duplicate me because I'm up on stage just clearing my throat all over people doing therapy that way. And people paying a two-drink minimum to hear it. But as it stands, unless it's something like Dudesy, an AI that literally has access to everything that I've shared, everything that is observable, even the stuff where our phones are or the NSA or whatever it is listening to us, finding out what I'll go to punch us into and what shoes to buy on Instagram, I still don't think it's going to have enough information to duplicate me, especially to my family or my friends. It's going to be like that black mirror episode where the gal brings her guy back and then after a while he gets pretty creepy.”

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  36. “Yeah, and he's got literally the tag around his neck, which I say if I'm around when you die, I will rip that off for you. I'll put you in my garage freezer. And then 24 hours later, I'll saw your head off with a bread knife and I'll deliver that to whomever. And it's not, you're not coming back, okay? He's like, yes, we are living forever, whether we like it or not. And I disagree. I don't think you can find.”

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  37. “Well, I think it's impossible. I think it's absolutely impossible. I'll get into arguments about this stuff with Chad on the show almost every episode, lately with mid-journey and Dolly and all the art AIs. And now it's moving into video. And Chad would maintain, hey, pretty soon we're not going to need Netflix. You're just going to go, I want to see Stallone do this movie. And it's about this. And he plays that. And then here it comes and you watch it. I don't think that that crosses over to the human experience. This is also a guy I like to bug Chad and say that he wears a tag around his neck because he wants to be cryogenically frozen. And it's all set up. He's at the, it's somewhere in Arizona or something. I forget what it's called.”

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  38. “For myself, I think you either have it or you don't. Like you know if you can do this one or you can't. I think that process for him is lightning quick, but I also think he can look at someone who he does not do. And then by the end of the afternoon, he can do it.”

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  39. “That'll be the title of my Yeah. It was terrible. It was terrible. And I could only hold my head a certain way to do it because I had gotten locked into this research tape that I watched. Back then, they would give us, you know, now there's the internet. But back then, if you were going to do an impersonation, the research department would give you a VHS tape. And I remember I got this VHS tape of Michael Kane's acting school, like this acting class he did. He's like, right, you know, if you're looking at the left eye and the camera's over here, then the left eye. So you want to look at that left eye for hours, you know? And so I was like stuck in this weird. Thing that made no sense, and it was terrible.”

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  40. “Was I, I'll never forget I had to do a Michael Kane in my first season at Mad TV. It never got good. It never got good. All week it wasn't good. We shot it. The first take it was shit. Second, third and fourth, it was all shit.”

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  41. “I kind of feel like, you know, do the impersonation and then not forget you're doing it, but forget everything else. Just goof around. Of course, to me, it's funny when you sound like someone and you're saying the shit that they would never say. Well, then there's no, you're letting go of that tool in illusion that keeps people in. But to me, it doesn't matter because it's funnier.”

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  42. “It's ridiculous. And he's got a record button and a broadcast ability that nobody has. He's cracked impersonations that I'm like, how does he find he's got such an ear, but then he's got all the other tools. I remember actually. My last season of Mad TV was also his first season. He comes up to me when I met him and we're just up there in the writers' offices and he goes, hey, nice to meet you. And he goes, Louie Anderson, because I was doing a Louis on the show. And he goes, Louie Anderson, I go, yeah? He goes, you're doing it wrong. I was like, oh, am I junior? And he goes, yeah, you know, because you do this, but you got to throw it up here. I was like, oh my God, can I use that? Of course. And then we became, you know, became fast friends.”

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  43. “There aren't many impersonations that I listen to myself do and go, ooh, that's a good one. You know, like a lot of people like I think Frank Kelliendo is like, The greatest impersonator of all time. He's the best.”

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  44. “And also weirder. Like, I like to on mad TV if I did something two or three times, I get bored of it and I'd start changing it. And, you know, now he talks like this. And it's like, what are you doing? I'm like, I don't know. No one's late at night. Do whatever you want.”

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  45. “You have a couple of the things you can just fill in the blanks, and I think the illusion is that people think that that person would say that and do that. And that's where the illusion of, oh, he really embodies the character. It's like once you know someone's mannerisms, you can essentially portray a person from the outside in. You have all the stuff on the outside, and you can do it and complete the illusion.”

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  46. “And as the story goes, Larry David shouted after him, I respect that, which I think is true, and I want to believe that entire story is true.”

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  47. “As a matter of fact, I heard about someone else, and I don't know who the heck this was. I forget who it was, but I've heard this story from a couple different people that there's this actor and I don't remember who it was. If I did, I probably wouldn't say it out loud anyway. It was Brad Pitt and he was in this audition. And there was out in the hall. He's like, holy shit, George Clooney, Leo DiCaprio. And this actor went in and he did the thing and Larry David was like, why don't you try it again? And he got like a couple takes in and he went, I don't think this is for me. And he left, which an actor never does.”

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  48. “Yeah. I should have grabbed him by the scruff of the neck and go, yeah, listen, dad, you're bringing me this fucking play. I would have got the part.”

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  49. “You really want to go to this, and I'm just like, He's fucking with me, right? Yeah. Remember, Jeff Garland was sitting there in the audition. He goes, He did it! He said it! What? Shut up! Hold on, listen. You really want to go. Okay, three, four times, you know, there I am. I couldn't help but notice. And then I do it again. I guess I shit the bed because he looks at me and just goes, okay. All right. Okay, well, thanks for coming up. And that was it. And I didn't get it. So I still, I don't know what the heck that guy's thinking. He sees he's in the matrix. I don't know what the heck Larry David sees. You know what I mean?”

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  50. “All I know. And so he goes, he does his bit, and I'm just supposed to come in and interrupt. And I'm like, excuse me, I couldn't help but hear you guys were talking about whatever the play was or death of a salesman. I'm a huge fan of that play. I mean, if it's not, if you're looking for someone to take a ticket, I would love to go. My name's so-and-so, by the way. And he goes, I'm going to stop you. I'm going to stop you. And I'm like, You really, I mean, you truly want to go to this place. And I go, yes, yes, sir. You really want to go. You actually, this is, you would love to do this. I go, okay. Try it again. So then he's like, no, no, no. And I go, Hey, excuse me, I'm sorry. I couldn't help it over here. You have tickets to the thing. I am the biggest fan of things. I do the same thing. I'm going to stop you again.”

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