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We always do a little. So but have we played that little tune on our podcast yet?

We haven't played it on the show yet. We've always done it in the press room.

It's five dollar foot long subway that feels kind of obsessed, too obsessed with that.

So toe tappy and I feel like we just throw it on the podcast a couple times. We might get some samme Samis.

Yeah, we might. Yeah. I think it's a big hit with the five dollar foot long. And by the way, I'll even take the six inch. That's fine with a bag of chips and a soda.

I'll take that too. If I had a dollar the number of times I've heard you say that.

Well, the thing is since I know Lord, I know.

Listen, I want to tell you, I think Scotty and I really look forward to our Jeopardy! Wheel of Fortune our every night.

Do you guys watch what anybody. Oh, seven and seven thirty. That's. Oh, see.

OK, so now listen, I don't watch it, but in my defense, because I haven't given up yet. Yeah.

You watch those two shows in your sweatpants, right. Yeah. OK, it says that says the guy living says the guy in PJs. Now listen guys, look, that's a that's a naked knee already there. I've got short shorts. I got shorts on today. I really got really hurt us. You really hurt us. Shamed me yesterday.

Yeah but jet ok subway. But like I'll watch Wheel of Fortune and you know that the puzzle will be like, you know, like blank. I have one half dozen of another and I'm like at six but then they, they can't ever get it.

I'm yelling at the TV. But then the last puzzle.

Do you ever do you watch Jason for real. I have in the past.

OK, so the last puzzle now the bonus round, they put two words together that never make any sense.

Right. They'll do like that. I haven't seen they'll be like the phrases like charred bricks or something. Sure.

You know, and it's really upsetting. But this is all moot because you guys don't watch. Well, this I forget.

When did you move to Florida again? I forget this because. And so do you argue with people when you're in line for the early bird, like what's going on?

And it's all you get is basic cable in the trailer. So that's why he's watching those game shows I'm on. I'm on cable right now, so I'm watching MSNBC or things you've got.

I just and I say that because my grandparents lived in Florida and my grandmother would talk to the TV and they would be going on here in the other room.

She'd be going, oh, huh, yeah. Huh. And I'm like, I know she's in there by herself.

Hey, is Vanna is Vanna still out there? Turn and turn turnin. Sure. She's turning lots of letters. Turning cubes. Yeah. Yeah.

Anyway, guys, today. Yes. This very powerful woman has accomplished more in her few years on this earth than most people have in their entire lifetime. She's a bodybuilder.

Very powerful. Oh, not in that sense, maybe. No, but she's very much in shape. I'm I'm pretty confident you guys and our listener will know who she is. She's an Oscar winner. Golden Globe and Emmy winner. If you don't know or Google her, her name is Reese Witherspoon.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Oh, my gosh. Wow, look at her setup that I've got. First of all, I got microphone envy. Wait a minute.

Why do you have it looks like a mike from the 20s. Oh, because that's my other job.

I'm just kidding. She's a time traveler. Dum dum did that not just in. Doesn't look like America's doing very well out of a hamburger sandwich. Oh, I'll take that. Oh, Reese.

I'm so happy you said yes to. Why know. Come on. Huge.

Wow. Long time listener. First time caller. No you haven't.

Listen any you know. I have I you guys really. Yes. You guys are really good guys.

And I don't mean guest. I don't mean guests of the youth radio hosts.

She's got to name her favorite. Oh, jeez, that's a tough race. You are from Nashville, aren't you? That's right. I'm from Nashville, Tennessee. How old were you when you moved out and where did you move to? Straight to L.A.?

Well, let me see. Well, I was an Army Air Force brat, actually, so we grew up in all over.

Come on. My husband, Scott, is an army brat. Grew up like 17 cities.

Yeah. Yeah. So he's been traveling around. So my dad was in the Air Force. And so in the 70s we were in Germany and then we came back to Nashville. I grew up there and then I started making movies when I was 14.

How old were you when you left Germany and were you old enough to know German?

Yes, I was five. I spoke German then that part of Germany. I lived in this button. On an army base who lived in Stuttgart, oh, really? Yeah, those are neighbor cities, because I think these Boston is where the Porsche test track is.

From what I understand, that might be right. That's true. That's true. We went to one time we were going over to Europe and DAX was going over with us like the day before. And he lands in Frankfurt and he says to the guy he rented a Porsche from like Avis or whatever.

And he goes, can I can you tell me how to get to that test track?

And the guy goes, Yeah, of course, you go this way, but you must not use this car on the deck. Oh, know for sure. For sure. I won't know for sure. I won't. But just tell me where it is. OK, it is here. But let me be clear. You cannot use this him.

Of course. Of course I won't. Yeah, for sure. Things man.

You know, the test drug is that your German is pretty good.

If I close my eyes I'm in Berlin. Well, how crazy would you like it to sound, Mr. Hayes?

Oh, this is better. That is that sounds threatening that when I had to leave.

But I was trying to oscillate back and forth between Mr. Shepherd and this guy.

You have got my attention now.

Priest will want me to say this joke to you, which I just think is so dumb. But he wanted me to ask you because everybody's been wondering what I thought.

Who knew that I was coming and who didn't? That's why this is a joke. You know, if I had ever ran into. You will want me to ask, have you ever been without your spoon? Oh, OK.

I would, but I'd be in pieces. Oh, remember?

All right.

This is so now, Reese, here you are. You are you not. Sorry. Sorry. That's a crossover.

You're talking to the voice of Reese's Pieces right there. I am the voice of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He really is. Reese Witherspoon, welcome to our show. Thank shock.

This is the show where Reese listens to three guys talk. I know.

I know. I know. I'm sorry. Yes. Welcome to Hollywood people.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or you're like a huge you were like the huge Avon or something, right?

I did Avon for years. I said, Elizabeth Arden, for you.

You have a commercial campaign you're excited about right now.

Reese, now I have this great thing with Buick where you I have a book club really called Reese's Books. Yeah, sure.

And in all the new Buicks, we have an app that plays all the audible books that all my favorite podcast.

Oh, wow. Which is kind of a great idea. I thought you were going to say in every Buick there's a stand to put a book that you read at stoplights. Oh, God, Sean. So wait a minute. Audio books are in the books.

Yeah, they're in that. All of our picks are embedded in the Buick. And I'm I got so excited you I thought for the first time yesterday you would have thought my name was on Jeopardy. That's how exactly I owe my life and my name has been on Jeopardy. But it was above. Yeah. I just threw that down. What was it.

It was a Jeopardy thing going on. Sure. Yeah, it was it a twelve hundred dollar clue or two hundred dollars.

I think I was a five hundred first round clue. Oh oh.

There was a girl. This sweet girl once swiped because I was a whole category and it's actually worth googling because the two dudes next door had no idea who I was.

Why do we want to the book. Do you remember the title of the category? It was something like this. Yeah, because of course.

Of course. If only you had to read it. Well I know. I wish I want to know, like you're a crazy audition story because we've all shared a crazy audition or crazy.

What about one that you wish you would have gotten that somebody else. God, they did a great job. And you.

Oh well, I really wanted Clueless when I was 18 and like, I've never told anybody.

And then Amy Heckerling did a whole thing in Vanity Fair last year and told everybody, oh, well, you know, any dipshit pops up and you're like, yeah, thanks.

Yeah.

I never really let anybody know how how hard I win at that one and didn't get it. I went pretty.

How are you a fan of the writing, an email to the director or the producer or you know, and sort of declaring how sure you are for something? Or do you think it's better strategy to kind of have sexy indifference?

No, I'm that I'm the passionate go for it person because I feel like ego is the death of creativity. Like, yes, your ego comes before it.

Like you can't be on set in a collaborative medium like this, like we work with 200, 300 people a day. If you can't bend your ego to the side for a minute, you're not going to do very well. Yeah, yeah, I totally agree.

Art is absent of ego.

I think it should be, but I mean it should be Yalda just talk about each other for like ten solid minutes. No I'm just kidding.

We love each other a lot. But wait so I'm really psyched about this thing you did with Buick about putting these books. Oh my God. Please. I just want to say like what was the. So you have this book club and this was like the. Natural progression of that, I mean, obviously, right. So how did how did you start the book club thing? Well, what was the genesis of that?

Well, you know, I started this book club because first before I started the book club, I.

I started a production company probably 10 years ago because all the scripts I was getting were just so God awful, like literally listener.

This is the gold standard of all production companies in Hollywood. But thanks to this, Wetherspoon here is now and also it also dovetails into your book club thing because listener, she reads, I think from wrong, a book a day. Do you really read a book a day?

Probably every two days in saying, Are you kidding me? No, I'm so jealous.

My eyes get crossed sometimes. It's why I wear glasses.

What about scripts? Does that mean you don't you'd rather read a book than a script, are you?

I read the scripts, but there aren't as many scripts because I like I'm very discerning about what books we develop.

So the book club came out of the first two books I opted for my production company were Gone Girl and Wild, and now they were both. They both hit number one at the same time. And somebody said to me, well, you're putting all this stuff on your Instagram. Why don't you just make it a separate Instagram about the books you read? And so I did. And it it just started doing really well. And it actually has been this incredible opportunity to have first first time authors get their book noticed and seen.

And yeah, that's exciting. And now are these publishers giving you early looks at things and hoping that you'll like it and that.

Yeah, yeah. So I'm reading right now for February, of course.

Now, do you have people that you trust? You've got to have people that that help you with some of the reading.

It's like me and one other person or my CEO of my company or doing it to answer your wading through all of it yourself.

Like that's that's amazing. There's a lot that you can get through. Well, then First Filter is it's written by a woman and it starts and it has a woman at the center of it. And I have a no women locked in a basement rule. Why? Why.

Oh, God. Why is that delegitimizing the story? I was like, yeah, I've do big little lies. This executive in L.A. called me in one of the major studios and he was like, hey, hey.

I just we would love to have something like Big Little Lies at our studio. And I'm like, Oh, thank you so much.

He was like, it was so good. I just have I just have one one little comment. I can't believe it's coming.

I can't believe it's coming. The guys parts just they're just not as good.

Yeah. That is now. So you're getting it.

Oh wow. And who was that. Not the name but that was somebody out of a buyer.

Ran a major studio. He just emailed me yesterday.

He's like out of the business now starting an app and he's like, yeah, he's starting an app for men.

Do you have any guys centric ideas like that? He had all night starting the app. Do my go.

That's amazing. Sean, I got to say, I am inspired by you. Thanks, Jason. You've been reading my Wikipedia page again. I got quite a story. It's the American dream. No, no, no, no, no.

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I'm fascinated in the reading of it all. So are you are you a speed reader or are you just great? I can read really fast and that is just something that came naturally. Yours or did you work on that when you were a kid?

I actually didn't know that was like something that everybody didn't have until I met my husband and we were going on a date or something when weekend.

And he was like, hey, can we go out of town? I was like, Yeah, I just have to read scripts. He's like, You're going to be reading it. As I said, yes, I have three scripts to read and he's like, that's going to take all weekend.

And I was like, Oh, are you kidding? You think you can?

I was like, I think it takes me about forty five minutes to read scripts. And then, you know, I just said and he was like, oh what. And so I didn't know.

I think my grandma was that first grade teacher and she taught me how to read when I was four or five. And I think she taught me how to speed read. Wow. But I, I can't ask her to stay here anymore. God bless you, Grandma.

But I do read really that it took Jason it took Jason three days to read the definition of reading. It does. And it's only a paragraph I couldn't figure out the left right.

I had the top to bottom thing. Right top of. Yeah. So do you do you do you know if you have a specific technique, like some people say, like they group three words at a time or.

But you know what is so fascinating. Have you ever taken time on set to see how your fellow actors memorize his lines?

I'm fascinated because I can tell now because it's such a solitary right.

So we all probably memorize our lines in different ways. And so if you start to ask people what their tricks are, that it has a lot to do with how you read. Do you ever do this?

Whenever you memorize, whenever you memorize lines, do you remember like if you forget a word, but you remember the later it starts with. Yeah, it happens to me a lot.

Yes. What about you? I can see the page. You can see the whole page. I can see the whole page.

All I have to do is see it basically once Jason's the fastest I've ever worked with in terms of memorizing. He and I are both pretty quick. At the same time. I have I remember one time, Jason, that we're going to do a scene unarrested, arrested when we're doing that Netflix season and we watch there's a two man scene and it was like eight pages. And right as we're walking is set, Mitra's goes, Hey, guys, we just rewrote it.

And it was one of the first scenes we both were walking. And Jason would go pick up and you're going to say, but we looked. We looked, we looked, we looked, we looked. We buried the script and we started shooting. You remember that, Jay?

Yeah. Wow. Amazing. Also, Mitch Hurwitz writes such good dialogue, good dialogue.

It is. If it's well-written, it does go into your brain pretty easily when it's well-written.

But so when you memorize, though, are you you going top to bottom on the page and you're just memorizing it like that or you memorizing it in groups or thought you memorize it as fast as you read?

I don't know. Teach me three runs. I have to read it the night before, then try her makeup, then I have to say it alone in a quiet space. Yeah. And then I have to hold the sides even though the sides have nothing to do. Sides are our little lines that we carry on set. And then for the rehearsal I have to hold them in my hand. And then during the blocking, wherever I stand is where I say the line.

And if you change my blocking, I can't remember the line.

Right. Forget it. Yeah, that's why. Yeah, I can't really remember my lines until the scene is blocked the same way.

I want to hear your process, Jason, because this kind of stuff is really fascinating to blocking is what Jason is, where you stand, where you sit when you get up all that stuff.

This is this is this is for Sean's and in Wisconsin, I believe it is.

Sean was very happy to see how excited she and your sister very kindly explained what sides are. Right. Sean was so excited because he loves explaining things. Well, I think that's important. I do, too. Thank you.

Reese Witherspoon, what's her name, by the way? What's the sister's name? Tracy. So so it's the Tracy ticker bottom of the screen explanation.

OK, so what I do is I, I think a lot about about about how I'm going to do it, which is which is actually not really a good thing to do as an actor. And that's why I don't really get it perfectly memorized before I do it, because I don't want to nail in how I'm going to do it, because I've got to leave room for how you're going to be doing your lines, you know, so I can be flexible with performance.

So actually, I learn my lines specifically once we do our rehearsal and then they're lighting the shot and the stand are.

And have you ever had this moment on set where you're looking at somebody and they're doing like they're doing such incredible work? You forget the lines?

Yeah. All Yeah. You start watching. I do that a lot when I'm directing. Yeah.

You get out of your body and you start looking at them and going like either holy shit, they're so bad in this scene or oh my God, I can't believe I get to act with this human right when I'm directing something that I'm in.

I've got to be doing that. Like I got to be watching their performance at the same time. So, yes, sometimes it's it is. And you're thinking about, oh, my God, how am I going to edit around? It's got to be so. But it's but it's fun because it's a great is. A perfect season to have, like you're right there, and you can actually, if they're open to it, you can give them adjustments and notes while you're inside the scene.

You don't necessarily have to wait to the end and try to remember your notes and stuff like that. But I love it.

I can't memorize lines without making a choice. I know a lot of actors, like you said, Jason, they memorize the words, but they wait until rehearsal to kind of figure out how it goes, memorize it like a robot.

Some will even write it down, though. They'll write their lines out and remember they'll remember every single word, like real staccato. I couldn't do that.

I worked with this actor once and he couldn't if you ad libbed at all and it was a comedy. So you got to just be loose, you know, because that stuff gets really stuck and not fun. It's not funny after take three, it's just not funny anymore. Right.

And if I didn't say the last lot written line, he literally only knew my last word.

So I didn't say the word lie. I thought, he's not listening to me.

Yeah, I've worked with people like that who are like, oh, sorry, I didn't hear the cue. And you're like, well, how did you not know that I was saying the same thing? Raise the intention.

Yeah. Is the stupid ass.

I usually just wait for a huge gaping pause and that's when I know I hope they stop talking. It's my turn.

I spent I spent half my time so excited about doing something that's going to crack the other person up. So I'm just giddy. I'm like bursting to.

Yeah. Round at all times, even in life that I'm just like giddy.

That's so fun to be around people who are like, so excited to adlib. And I'm like, I love. That's infectious. Yeah. You guys seem to be having that that kind of vibe on morning show.

We don't adlib that much on morning show, but we have such great dialogue. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So by the way, I love the show and you're fantastic.

Thank you. So good in it. So I love it. I love it. It's so fun. It's great to work with Jenn every day and and all those incredible.

You can't even like Martin Short came on our show and I was freaking out.

He was so great. I think he got nominated didn't he. He did it. Yeah. Yeah I did. When do you guys go back?

We're going to go back right now. It's going to be interesting. I've been talking to some friends who are on sets and wearing masks and then I'm like, what's it like to to try and stay in the scene, but then also stay safe and keep everybody safe. So she's kind of trying to mentally prepare for that. But I'm excited to work again because I'm going nuts over here.

You and me both look at us. We started a god. The podcast was so crazy.

You guys are so much fun to listen to you like, oh, god, it's me. Kaling I was like, should we be doing what those guys are?

Yeah, you should. Yeah, yeah. You should get on it. Well, your list of accomplishments is endless. Speaking of like I don't know what to do with myself because I'm similar, but you're much more prolific than I am your acting career. You're producing career, your clothing company, your book club.

You're like in seven television shows right now all at once. Oh, and oh, you're a mom.

I mean, these guys know my story, but what the hell happened to you as a child that gave you they gave you this, like, boundless ambition?

Well, I was always like a really overachieving kid, but I wanted yeah, I think every actor has to kind of dig down and figure out who are you trying to make happy. So once you figure that out, like, I figure that out through seven years of therapy, I figured it out. Yeah.

Or you graduated. I well, I think I graduated from therapy. My therapist passed away. So I didn't go anywhere that I don't know.

But that was it was it was it apparent. Was it a family member for sure. For sure.

It's always right. Always my right or wrong. How do you feel given an amen for sure.

I'm still trying to get my other boys. Yeah.

So it's usually like whose approval you try to get and once you kind of solve that puzzle then it's like, OK, why am I still doing this? What am I doing?

That's when my whole career shifted to more purpose driven.

I want more women behind the camera. I want to see more stories written from a woman's perspective by a woman. I want to have women make more money.

And it just gave me fuel, you know. Yeah, it's changed my whole life.

Is that what inspired you to in the lead in the way of fight for women's equality and equal pay for genders? And do you think your efforts have paid off and where are we?

Absolutely. I mean, I see so much shifting, so much more consciousness. The lights are on. People are actually having these conversations and discussions.

Yeah, I mean, y'all know how prolific well it was. There were no people of color at agencies and no people of color as executives at studios. And now I'm seeing so much more of an effort to actually diversify storytelling by changing the storytellers, but also the executives that make the decisions are just becoming more diverse, which is going to really create a better diversity of programming and the emergence of streaming. Has helped everyone because it opens not just opens it up, I remember being, you know, when I was first dating Amy, my ex-wife, and then when we were married and people would talk, you know, there was that whole thing.

It used to be like, you know, like, well, there was always that argument, like, women aren't as funny. And I was like, not as funny. The funniest people I know are women, women.

I know me and my and Rachel Dratch. I'm like, are you for fucking real? They're the funniest people, period. And you and the fact that there was even the debate was so absurd. Yeah. Although although it should be noted, one time I did an interview and they said, what's it like being married to the funniest person in America? And I said, you'd have to ask my wife.

So you guys got divorced three days later.

Are you guys are you excited about Kamala Harris?

Oh, gosh. All your interview with her was so well-timed. Oh, I know. It's crazy how lucky she was that crazy. Crazy.

Yeah, that we were we were chasing it for a little while. And then the fact that she said, you know, she picked the date and we were like, she must know that she's picking a date the week that he's going to make his pick.

She called us like the week before and was like, we got to go now. And at that point we were like, oh, this this is happening, y'all. Yes, something's happening. My gosh.

She's all raced to the microphones. It was so good. It was so good. And I it's it means so much, you know, that she just represents so much to women out there. Little girls, little girls, black and brown girls all over this country now know that anything is possible. And it's so important, you know, that we'd be so lucky.

We'd be so lucky to have our vice president and hopefully president. She's incredible.

Anybody who dedicates their life to public service like that is just really remarkable.

And I'm also fascinated about her husband, Doug. I want to learn that Doug's amazing. I want to follow Doug for the next 12 years.

I want to see what's going on with my husband's friends. A, he really like that? Really? Oh, really.

Well, charge him for a minute at the start. Yeah, he was hilarious. He was so cool. He was setting up her computer. He was doing all the tech stuff right for the he's the greatest guy. It was super funny and they have great care.

And we said, what's it like? He said, Chasten said the vetting process just must be pretty intense. And he just whispered, he goes, You have no idea.

He looked straight into the camera. It was the only time he did it. Yeah. You even imagined.

Would you ever want to run for office?

I know you all asked that on the show, but I wonder I mean, these guys said that I could never be the prime minister of Canada, which I took great umbrage with.

I think with your dual citizenship, you've kind of screwed yourself out of both. I'm straight about. Yeah.

What about you? Because you already. Yeah, I was going to say you're president of so many companies. You don't I mean, you you have that about you.

You have that intelligence and charm like ability and all of those things that are needed. And people look up to you and they listen to you because you are an influence.

Oh, thanks for saying that. I that's true.

I yeah. I think you'd get a lot of the vote.

You'd be a senator like this, right. Yeah. I mean it, I mean it's you should do it.

Yeah. I mean our standards are very low in this country. Sonny Bono was one of our congressmen. Yeah. We just we don't have to say that the bar is low.

No, I mean, I'm just saying it's like, you know, come on, like yeah, you'd be great if you ever get bored of killing it in this industry.

I love what we do. I feel so lucky to do with this.

I feel so you wouldn't you would never want to do that. I mean, I wouldn't say never because I don't know where I'm going to be when I'm. Yeah. You know, sixty five.

The thing that's seductive about the whole notion of running for politics for anybody, I'm sure, is you look at some of these problems and you just think the answer is so simple.

Well, I think we need better representation and balance too. I mean, where women are 50 percent of the population, but we're not. Fifty percent of the representation in government, which is bizarre, is particularly when they're adjudicating over our bodies. Yeah. And and the lack of representation of people of color who make up a large almost majority of this country. It's it's true. What about ballots? You know, just yin and yang, male female balance.

I love all the countries that have handled covid well or run by women, run by women.

So like, you know, full stop. That's all you need to say. Well, I think women have a different relationship to power. I mean. Well, that's interesting. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, that's interesting. My company has you know, it's all women right now. There's men there too. Yeah.

And get them out of there. Join us.

But it's interesting how no one needs to be the number one. We sort of pass the baton almost.

You know, it's always kind of deferring power or sharing responsibility. So it's. Almost his power balance and that there's no one person sort of dictating or mandating exactly what's going to happen, it's like collective ideas and it works really well for there actually someone doing a case study at it at one of the big business schools. What about about the about the about our company.

How is that? Go, go, go. Hello, sunshine. Yeah.

You know, so we've got to change the way. And what you're talking about is changing the way, changing our perspective on how we look at things and how.

Well, yeah. And just listen. Yeah. Just listen. Yes. Sean.

Jesus, what what would you say Reese, how are you managing your kids during this pandemic?

Are you like you are you pulling your hair out, trying to keep them from having playdates with a family that might not be as isolated as you? I mean, I'm asking because I'm dealing with it myself and I know you.

You're a great moron. So I love your sweet girls.

And your decisions as a parent are probably better than mine. So I want to know what you're doing. I don't know about that.

But I think the hardest piece is I have a daughter in college, right? So I have a daughter in college and I have a teenage son who's 16 and 17. And, you know, it's it's easy to keep my seven year old at home, but I think a big piece of being a person that age is social development. I mean, yeah, the depression that happened at the beginning of this pandemic between the two of them not being able to see anybody and and, you know, trusting my daughter is back at college, you know, and she had she had I trust her implicitly, but we talk very frequently.

We check in, we have classes.

She's in class, she's not in classes, but she has a small study groups here and there.

And that's just it's terrifying to me. Guys like, I don't know and I miss her like crazy, but I just keep checking in with her like, you know, you got to do this. I know I'm going to sound like a broken record, but don't do this. Don't do that.

The seven year old. That's because I've got an eight year old and a 13 year old and the eight year old. I would love to figure out how to get into some sort of like what? Almost like look online for, like, clean playgroups.

You know, like I was like shopping for friends for a situation where she can get that social interaction because, well, we're doing a pod.

We're doing a pod with like six families and we're starting next week when we get back. And, yeah, he's clean, everything's been vetted and they take their temperature test. Everybody myself, I take I test everybody and I paint them all myself and I keep them locked in my garage and but it's great.

And then the kids, now they can go over, they can get their learning from school.

And we have we hired this friend's sister, who's our teacher, to come and be to help them. And because the first part of the pandemic, because, like you said, they were going crazy, they couldn't see their friends and they also didn't want they had me or their mom, both of us were like over their shoulders. And they're like like they didn't want to take direction of school work from us. Oh, by the way.

Well, like also no one's talking about this, which is families that are divorced. Yeah. Like, this is really stressful, very stressful, really stressful. And if you don't have a good relationship with your ex partner, it is I mean, I know people who are losing their minds over fighting on top of fighting, and it's really, really stressful and stressful on the kids so much and on them, too.

There's a big there are so many mental health implications here. We're really lucky that we bubbled up together and we're good friends. We live on the same street and all that kind of stuff. But there are a lot of people who it's that's not the case. And it's going to be a while before we really start seeing what sort of effect this has had on families, like you said. Absolutely.

I try to share a lot of resources on Instagram for parents like Child Mind Institute in New York, do some online services. That's really great. There's a lot of great sources and. Right. You know, hopefully you can look to people who are sharing stuff. Yeah, that's awesome.

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Yeah. Latenight night. So, Reese, now you did a friend's ask, did you not, where you were in front of an audience? Would you ever do a sitcom in front of a live audience?

It scared the living crap. I mean, really, no rush, no fun rush? No, I was terrified. And thank God. What about theater?

You you've never done theater. No. No, too scary. What about Saturday Night Live? You did Saturday Night Live right after 9/11. I did.

I done Saturday Night Live twice. I was the first person after 9/11. What would your taste? Poor taste.

Listen to someone like we have to do this.

American do it. America wants to laugh. We could do it. I know you're doing it, man. You're doing. Why are you in my bedroom doing it?

Was trying to imitate Lorne Michaels, the head of Saturday Night Live.

But can I tell you, on Saturday Night Live is the scariest thing I've ever done. So that is the scariest job I've ever done that I made for that was Amy.

That was Amy's first show. It was Amy's first show. I know. And she and I was there. You were great. You were there, of course. Oh, I was so bad.

Well, you're so you were great. You were great. You know, I was that was you know, some people just nail SNL.

A lot of people don't. It just wasn't me.

There was a lot of pressure, like you said. There was a lot of pressure. Everybody was watching. It was incredibly well viewed. And, you know, there was so much pressure in that moment. And you did. Are you kidding? Come on.

Great. You're somebody should talk about like that. I thought that forty year special was cool, how people talked about what those feelings are like. Like, oh, that's terrifying, don't you think of.

So you would not do a sitcom because you think it would be too frightening every week, week after week. Scared. Uh, I don't think you would like I think you had fun.

Well, now look after you've already taken over the world because is there anything left you want to tackle?

Yes, I would love to have a bookstore. Are you serious? And then sell tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny little artisanal chocolates.

Oh, Jesus. We'll be right back after these messages, please. Can I talk with we're talking with Martha Stewart, a number for your therapist real quick, because you have an emergency situation.

So tiny chocolates at a bookstore. Yes. What do you think that having a bookstore would be the best way to attract a chocolate lover, kind of somebody in the market to buy chocolate? You're going, oh, I have another dream.

You guys are going to like this one. OK, ok, ok. This is my retirement plan. I am going to become a farmer and I'm only going to plant peaches and call it resus peaches.

I'm on board. I like that kind of uncertainty.

That's suspicious because you can't be sat on a peach farm. No, you can't. I probably could. I love a peach salad in the summer. How good is a peach? I mean, hit on like peaches.

I don't like know I love. But maybe you could sell the peaches at the book store with the chocolate out. Now you're talking. You know, I'm saying diversify.

The chocolate will be at the counter as people are buying their books. You get the chocolates anywhere, OK? You relax. I'll send you a box of the chocolate. But I like making tiny chocolates. You do really fine. Wait, wait.

Do you also cook like crazy? I'm not a great cook, but I can't be a patient.

Because here's what here's my image of Reese Witherspoon.

You wake up and you don't stop moving until you go to sleep at night.

I bet there's a bunch of little yellow birds in your bedroom, though, to when you wake up, right? Yeah, some blue ones.

The energy of a squirrel who drank coffee all day.

And I'll bet you never got to be in school, right. Not alive or God here. I think I failed, though. I got I only got a straight ask what in calculus.

Oh, well, I never got that high. I think I made it to Algebra two.

Oh, now my kid is in second grade. I can't do the math that he's doing. I can't do it. It's tough, isn't it? It's tough for. Well, too. It's really it is tough.

I went I went to a math I went to they had like a math symposium for when she was in fourth grade to talk about how they were redoing the math.

I was like, I got to go with a bunch of their parents. And I kept sticking my head up. I'm like, wait, Singapore math. It was I don't know. Yeah, it was tough, man. It sounds amazing.

Reese, look at fine lady. Thank you for being here today. I'm so happy for everything that you've accomplished in your life. You make us all feel lazy and I'm getting everything your heart desires because you deserve everyone.

You're not lazy. Sean also has the energy of his grill. Just drink coffee, but then take two pints of ice cream, sit on the couch.

You could all do that to me. I need a I need a sugar nap.

Yeah, that was I think that was the fastest hour I have felt. Yeah. Yeah, I know. That was really an amazing race. Well, I love you all.

We love you. I'm just such a huge fan of all of you. I've gotten to work with most of you, Sean. I know. It's got to happen. We just love each other from afar. Yeah, do a sitcom together. Yeah, I'm going to put me in, put me and convince her to do a sitcom with you. I will be all over that. You have honored us with your presence. You're fantastic and interesting and cool and all of the above.

And thank you for coming in.

Joining us, idiots. We really think you to say hi to Jim. I will do all right.

I yeah. That is such a special lady. Yeah, it really is. I think she makes you feel like I've done nothing. I know, and I don't think I've ever been that happy or energetic or ready to take on the day.

You've definitely never been that energetic and your face has never been that happy for now. I mean, I felt that happy. I just told my face. You never told me that.

Yeah, but she is like it is it's amazing how many different things she's doing at once, at all times and doing with you people and doing and do it at such a high level that she's got the Midas touch.

It's unbelievable. And whether it's movies or like multiple television programs that are kind of seemingly running one into the next on HBO or on Apple plus and like, frankly, it's kind of inspiring. You know, it's like, wow.

And it inspires and inspires me to to to work harder.

I hope so. I was hoping that something would finally inspire you, Sean. Yeah, me too. Jesus fucking Christ.

One more day at this rate. I mean, it's unreal.

You were an hour to d two t shirt and you just the signals that you're sending is just don't hire me is all that.

This has helped me not help me. Obi Wan help me anybody. You're my only hope. I'm not feeling the force.

Help me and just change my circumstances. I'm doing a Miss Universe project to have a script I'm doing with your dad.

Oh he couldn't even get that one out. Please, please finish it. Finish it. Well you're going to. I was going to do the last time that you did that to us. Your dad leaving a few times mid conversation, which is so rude. I love it. And the guest is always like Jesus.

OK, guys, thank you for being such great hosts with my guest today, Reese Witherspoon.

She was great. Sean, what a great truly was the fastest hour. I felt it was great. She's great. OK, by the way, is I mean, where are you going or not? You're leaving so quickly. What do you got? Something you got to do today?

Listen, Sean, let me just say a couple of things first.

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