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🗓️ 20 October 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey guys, Willy Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down |
0:08.8 | Podcast. My thanks is always for clicking and listening along. |
0:13.0 | Very excited to bring you my conversation this week |
0:15.6 | with actor Jason Siegel. |
0:18.2 | He has been in some of the funniest movies |
0:20.9 | of the last 20 years. He got his big break with Freaks and Geek |
0:25.5 | a short-lived but now cult classic series created by Judd Apatow. It had |
0:31.1 | Jason Seagull, it had Seth Roggan, James Franco, busy Phillips, all these |
0:36.4 | young actors who went on to do great things, many of them alongside Judd Appetow along |
0:41.8 | the way. For Jason Seagull, that means movies like Knocked Up, |
0:44.8 | this is 40, and then creating and writing his own film |
0:48.3 | for getting Sarah Marshall, which was a big hit. |
0:51.2 | And of course, famously had full frontal nudity. Stay tuned for a great |
0:56.3 | story from Jason in our conversation about his mother seeing that scene for the very |
1:01.7 | first time. |
1:03.0 | He's now starring and has been for, |
1:05.0 | this is the second season in the Apple TV plus series, |
1:08.0 | shrinking his co-star Harrison Ford. |
1:12.0 | It's a show he created with the guys who did Ted Lasso, including Brett Goldstein, |
1:17.0 | who was one of the stars, of course, of Ted Lasso. The series is about therapists and Jason plays a therapist who is in the middle of a crisis of his own and he'll explain all that to you. Love hearing too about the moment when he found out that Harrison Ford was actually going to do the series. |
1:34.0 | They thought that was a pipe dream when they pitched it to him. |
1:36.0 | He said yes and it's gone on to become one of the best series in all of television. |
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