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Chapter 1: What makes the cold open of SmartLess special?
So, listen, this is, I know, Sean's favorite part of the show, the cold open. Super fun, yeah. Chat and chew. Chat and chew. Well, but no, no, no. That is his really favorite part of the show is what follows here. After the fun music, he gets to do his coffee chat. But right now, he sort of welcomes the listener in. Right, yeah.
How you doing? How's everybody going?
He gets a sense of everything. Everything asks everybody how they're doing.
And then like a little funny quip, like what's the bit going to be? You know what I mean? Yeah, or I could do a dad joke, you know, or whatever. You could do a dad joke. I could do something like I asked. Or you could do that. Yeah. Or you could just say to our audience, you could just say, hi. Hi. Welcome to SmartLess. Welcome to SmartLess. SmartLess.
I have to say something. Okay. This year, you guys, both of two of my best friends in the whole world, you, both of you, are doing some of the best work I've ever seen you do. I'm hanging out with Will on the set of his movie, and I've seen some footage, and Will, the work is truly, truly incredible.
This is what I'm hearing, Will.
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Chapter 2: How does Paul Rudd feel about his friends' current projects?
Truly incredible. Mind-blowing. I've never seen it. People are going to be blown away. Not surprised. And Jay, when I sat down and watched Black Rabbit, I've already spoken about it. This year is so exciting. I'm so excited for people to see both of you in these two incredible pieces, and I know you cringe when I say this, pieces of art, because I do believe that they're two pieces of art.
Well, thank you coming from the reigning Tony Award winning artist. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, that's not why I said it.
No, but you set the tone for us. You kind of led out and, you know, wow. What a performer. Really spicy from the Tabasco theater. And now... That was unexpected.
Nobody thought. Watch him go back. That's as he's getting yanked out.
Nobody... Let me finish.
I have a good, wait, I have a good- When do we start recording this episode, you guys? I got a hard out.
I know. Wait, listen, wait. Sean, your guest is going crazy right now.
Do you want me, I know I'm going to get there, but do you want me to ask you guys a thoughtful question that we can riff on, or I have a joke, or we can just get to the guest?
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Chapter 3: What is the story behind Paul's candy store?
Yeah. He's just doing a slight reveal.
This is long overdue. Wait, how did you know he was from Kansas City? Let me tell you something. Guys. Because there's only a few. There's Claire McCaskill. There's Rob Riggle. There's Jason Sudeikis. Claire McCaskill. I didn't know that.
How do you know that?
Paul, do you get mistaken for Claire McCaskill a lot?
I get a lot of her emails. Okay. And it... It's usually when they talk about the three from KC. The big three. It's Sudeikis, me, and McCaskill.
How has it taken this long for Sean? I feel like this is Sean's fault.
Couldn't make your deal any earlier than now. And now finally you've given us a manageable price.
Aline Kashishian was rough.
Yeah. She banged us up on that.
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Chapter 4: How did Paul Rudd's upbringing shape his career?
Anyway, we went in, and another guy named Andy Ostroy, we went in and bought the candy store, and now we run it.
Now, Rhinebeck is, you can't walk there from the city, right? That's a trip. You can. It'll take you a while. Yeah.
Yeah.
You'd need a lot of candy to fuel it. Yeah. It's like a two-hour drive? It's about a two-hour drive.
Yeah, about an hour, depending on if you're leaving from the Upper West Side, it's about an hour and 45.
Well, I'll get a head start. Jenny Slate also owns a small store like upstate New York.
Massachusetts.
Oh, never mind. Moving on. A general storage.
She has a general storage. Are we going to start going down, Sean? You want to start listing people who also own businesses? Just come on down the 85 and let us know. Paul's got a candy store in Rhinebeck, okay, started by Ira.
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Chapter 5: What was Paul's experience as a DJ in high school?
So you end up surviving six, but was not in seven. No. They didn't ask me about seven.
They did like a cast change like Fargo or... I think they kind of went... I want to say in seven, it might have been Josh Hartnett. They did a White Lotus swap. That might have been H2O. Oh, H2O.
I remember that one.
I think it came back strong in seven.
If I had been a reviewer of Seven and that you weren't in it, my headline for my review would have been all trick and no treat. Oh, jeez. You know? Oh, man. Yeah.
You know, Paul, you're in a pretty special episode of Smart List so far. We're only 31 minutes in.
That's really sweet.
And we're not even to the first question yet.
Yeah, 29 of which my microphone went down. I know. I did want to know. Can I just say also... How fun it is just to listen to you guys.
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Chapter 6: How did Paul Rudd's family background influence his life?
Well, there were different categories. There was dramatic interpretation, humorous interpretation, prose and poetry, improvised duet acting.
And we will be right back. And now back to the show.
So Paul, I heard you were a DJ for a while, right? Well, I mean, barely. You know, I did.
I thought it was like a long, I thought it was a years long thing.
I really did DJ. But when you say to people that, you know, oh, I used to DJ, that sounds like it was kind of a cool thing. But the way I DJed was not cool in any way.
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Chapter 7: What was the significance of Paul's bar mitzvah in Canada?
It was like weddings and bar mitzvahs and stuff. Yeah, bar mitzvahs.
And by the way, eventually it was that. The first time I DJed, was I was in high school.
It's just an ice cream truck.
And I went... Nobody, they're like, we don't even have equipment in this thing. I was trying to get a job as a waiter. I was in high school. And I went to different restaurants and I had really long hair. And I didn't want to cut my hair because... Because you're a G. I was a cheese ball. And I'm like, I got to keep this. You're crushing it.
And so I was getting rejected at every waiting application I'd fill out. There's no way. I couldn't get a job. And I went to this bar called Studebakers, which was like a 50s bar in Kansas City. Had to be 23 to get in. They didn't want any of the younger crowd.
Wow. Sure. Yeah. They didn't even want new drinkers. You had to have at least two years under your belt.
They want some certified 23-year-olds who, like, who's going to go to a 50s bar anyway?
Right. You had to be born in the 50s to get here. To even want to go to this place.
That's funny. And so I... Went to try and get a job and they said, we're not hiring. And I saw that they had a DJ booth. And I said, do you need a DJ? Because I also DJ, which is not true. I didn't. But they said, actually, we do. But here's the thing.
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