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So make yourself their first choice. Hello and welcome to Obsessed the Podcast. I'm Matt Wilstein from the Daily Beast and today on the show I am thrilled to be joined by an actor and comedian who you may know from The Daily Show, Children's Hospital, and Hot Tub Machine. But you have never seen him deliver a performance like the one he does in the new AMC drama series The Audacity , which, if it were up to me, would earn him his fifth Emmy Award. Rob Cordry, welcome to Obsessed the Podcast. Thank you. I am just as thrilled to be here and that was a very kind introduction. Well, I did really love this performance of yours in the Audacity, which I have to say, I'm not sure this show has gotten as much attention as it deserves. I think people love it, but I'm hoping that more people are able to check it out because it's so good and it's a very different type of role that we've seen you in before. So I'm curious how did this role of a war veteran trying to get Silicon Valley billionaires to help vets come to you? Well, first of all, in terms of people seeing it and word of mouth spreading, you and my wife feel the same way. She's she's like, what's going on? She's beside herself . But yeah, no, it's it's, you know, of course, one of those things that it's I have enough faith in the show that I think that word of mouth there's so many shows out that word of mouth becomes a little it's like syrupy and so it'll it'll get there because it's such a good show. But anyway, how did this happen? Was your real question? Yes . Well, it kind of happened in the very traditional way. sides and had an audition. My audition was more of a meeting with Jonathan , Gladser, the creator at first. And we hit it off famously. And I just had one of those rare experiences where you leave a meeting thinking like, oh, this is going to be something. I know I know I can do this and and I think unless he's a great liar, which there's a lot of good liars out there . He thinks I can too. So then we had an audition and it was just he and I that was that . Yeah, I mean you said you thought you had it in you. And that was sort of my next question is how did you know that you could do this? Because you know, I think as I said , we know you mostly from comedy, although I do know you started out kind of doing more dramatic stuff, Shakespeare and everything early on. Were you intimidated by this much more serious role or did you just think I'm ready for this ? Oh my gosh, I'm not intimidated by this kind of thing in the least. I actually feel like drama is a lot easier to than comedy. And yeah, Zach Galfanakis and I would talk about this on set all the time, like kind of whisper to each other like are we getting away with something here? Like what are we fooling every this is going well and yeah, I just feel like also when you get older , I think the showbiz machine itself sort of starts thinking of you as in a different way. Like you get some gray hair and you assume more grabitos . I don't know. But yeah, I did start out doing drama. I mean, I went to theater school. I was an actor, and I fancied myself a very important dramatic actor for a long time and sort of stumbled into comedy . Thank God . Well, I want to get to some of your comedy work in a little bit, but to stay on the audacity a little bit longer, this show is such a scathing takedown of the tech industry. Like, I don't know if you watched Silicon Valley, but that was sort of a satire of an HBO of tech. And there was a lot of sort of , you know, negative stuff about the industry and that, but this is like, I feel like a whole other level. So I'm curious , did it give you new insight into just the base depravity of our tech oligarchs and this industry that has taken over so much of the world at this point because your character really is a is an antagonist to them and and works against them, but ultimately to no avail , but also needs them, you know, and that's that's his whole MO is that he sort of a fish out of water going from Washington, DC to try and get money from these guys who have the deepest pockets in the world and and his is his last shot and he's coming up empty. But I you know, it's so funny. We've been told we've been told for the longest time and we believed that these guys are going to save our lives. These guys are going to change everything . And I think it was probably around the time after Steve Jobs died that the sort of gloss wore off it a little bit and they started to behave badly and we started to raise our eyebrows and like started to started to realize that , you know, it's it's really the bottom dollar and not , you know , do no harm above all else. So , you know, I basically all the stuff that I was reminded all the stuff that I that's in the audacity , I was reminded of because you have to be constantly reminded that like your privacy is something that every day we are freely giving away without a thought . And you know , if I've learned one thing I now take the time every website I go to to customize my cookies . Deny those cookies. Yeah. Yep. Oh, oh, essential only . And if I can just say all of 'em gone, good. . Yeah Yeah, I think a lot of you know, a lot of people sort of think like, well, I have nothing to hide. So what's the big deal about my privacy? And yeah, this show and I think, you know, it does make you think differently about some of that stuff. Yeah, yeah, they say that, right? They say that. I say that. My wife says that. We all say that because I don't have anything to hide, but but they're not looking for that. They're not like trying to catch you at anything. They're not spying on you. They are they are sifting through your data in a way that and getting to know us in a way that we don't know ourselves and so then somebody will say, well, I have nothing to hide. And then in the next breath, say, My Alexa is listening to me. I swear to God. And it's not it's not listening to it',s way more insidious than that . Yeah . I think if it if it started when Steve Jobs died , this realization, I think it really culminated when all of the tech oligarchs lined up behind Trump at the inaugur ation and kind of made their allegiances known. So what did you what did you make of that? Yeah, that you know, things were already pretty cemented for me at that point. I mean, it was no surprise and that the whole doge period of our of this term was , I mean , you know, his own in one breath, you're like, oh, that's a pretty good idea , I guess, make it more efficient. But like democracy works slowly and that's kind of the way it needs to . And it's working fast right now. So this is a spoiler alert for anyone who has not finished the first season of the Audacity. So feel free to skip ahead a couple minutes if you want to watch it and you haven't yet yet, may butbe I'll just say that your character will not be returning for a potential season two of this show . So how did you sort of feel about the end of the show and where this guy ended up . They show a gun in episode one . I'm a writer. Like I write I've written seven , you know, seasons of television. Like I know what that means and yet I didn't even I never even assumed somebody was going to die and let alone who it was going to be and it was around episode six, I think we were shooting . And Jonathan, I got back to my trailer and Jonathan was waiting outside with a look on his face. And I was like , well I can't be fired this late into the game. What's going on here? And we had a talk and like the poor the guy, he's such a sweetheart , he's crying, telling me that I'm going to die . And I'm finding myself comforting him because I understand how heartbreaking it is to kill off any character that you've created. But you know what I was alone and able to really think about it , you know, I was heartbroken. It was really I really, really enjoyed enjoyed this show and I wanted to be part of it forever and not for the reasons that I usually want to be part of a show forever, just because I love money. I love it . Love money. No, I just wanted to do this. I wanted to do it over and over and over. Do you feel inspired to do more work like this, more dramatic work or just more deeper characters like this? Listen , I'll give you whatever you want. What do you want? What do you got? I'll do it I'll do it. I don't really I don't really think there's a lot of difference between the two at least in the way that I prepare, I prepared just as much for hot tub time machine as I did for the Audacity. I you know , my character biography was perhaps a little longer this time around , but it was long for hot tub given that it's a ridiculous comedy movie . So yeah, I mean, I just approach it the same way . I'll do anything either way. So speaking of hot tub time machine, you did a little time traveling not too long ago from the past, from two thousand five to the present on the Daily Show with John Stewart, which I loved that bit, and it was really fun seeing you back on that show with John . How surreal was that to do that bit and now have John back at the desk after being gone for so long and you're doing a correspondent pie ce after I don't even know how many years they've been at that point. It's so, it was so good. I love that man. I'm so glad he's back. And I'm so glad he's just doing it once a week. Like good for him , you know , I really felt like he thought he was needed and he is . Anyway, it was wild because you know, when over the last , I don't even know how long Trevor was on ten years or so. I was on but as a guest, you know, on the couch. And that was cool. That was surreal in itself, but like he didn't want to do. Trevor didn't want to do bits with old correspondence because well, understandably so, he this was his show now and he wanted to make it that and I totally understood, but I missed it. I definitely missed it. And you know, with John being back, I was so excited to get the call to finally get the call and like, oh my god, we had I had a blast and it's so different , of course. I just realized now how much money we didn't have shooting that show back then. Like there's a costume department with costumes in it . We had nothing. We had to buy our own suits. It was amazing. Yeah, so I mean, you started on that show all the way back, I think in two thousand two , what are your memories from auditioning? Because you mentioned, you know, not knowing how to audition. I don't know how you felt about it by that point , but what was what was the experience of going in and auditioning to be on the Daily Show? Yeah, well that like sort of crash course I put myself on that , you know, after hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of auditions that I knew I wouldn't get. So it wasn't feeling the pressure as I auditioned. I was pretty good at auditioning by then. And I you know, You know, the Daily Show was one of those things and the audacity was it's sort of hinted at that earlier that when I said I could do this . I had been a huge fan of the Daily Show and you know, I used to watch it on my lunch break at the Jekyllin Hyde Club in New York. I don't know if you know what that is, but it's like a spooky spooky themed restaurant with terrible food . And I was Dredworthy, the wisecracking butler and I used to watch the Daily Show. And I knew I could do that . And I just thought if I put enough work into this prep , I will get this. And I just had an abundance of confidence, but also like, you know, I put my nose to the grindst and I would like take the script for the audition tape it on the wall ahead of me. So it sort of it mimicked as much as I could the way it would be in the studio and with a teleprompter and I would do it and I, you know, I would it was and and to actually it's it's actually an easy audition the Daily Show at least it was . I mean, when we got in there, you're sitting at the desk with John and he's like , he and Larry David in my In my experience are the easiest people to make laugh and the most satisfying . Like would you get a laugh out of one of those guys? You're like, oh my god, like that is just you have enough air for the next year . And he's very generous. He was very, very generous. You were there at this time where I feel like there were these twin tracks for young comedians in New York. You were either trying to get on the Daily Show or trying to get on SNO or both . Did you end up having an SNO audition experience as well? You know, I didn't. At the UCB , yes, exactly what you said. Like it was it was the Daily Show hadn't become what it became around when the years that Ed and I were on it, you know. Yeah, at home. Yeah, yeah, Steve Correll had just left and but so it was just starting. It was just starting to become what it became. And I think like we can thank George Bush and the war for for like pushing it over the over the edge. But so we were we would have showcases at the UCB for SNL. The Daily Show didn't do it at that point . When I was on the show, the Daily Show started going to UCB, but yeah, dead. They would come every once in a while and do a showcase and then they would say, yeah, we want to see these groups come back . We want to see them again. And then we just did one night with all the groups that had been chosen and Lauren actually came , at least that's what I heard . And I swear to God . And now people will tell me this is I'm making this up or I'm just imagining it and making it so in my head , I heard Lauren laugh at one of our sketches . And I was like, oh, that's enough , because he's the hardest laugh in show business . Yeah, if Larry David's an easiest. Yes, exactly. He's the other side of the Larry David scale. And and I was just like, oh, well, that's good enough . That's that's good enough. I mean, I mean, I don't I don't I'm so glad it sounds weird because I loved SNL my whole life. I still do. And I was that was not a show I thought I could do like I thought I could do the Daily Show, you know? I knew I could do it, but it was very intimidating the hours and the live aspect of it, which on one hand was fun . On the other hand , you know, you're dealing with cue cards and you can't memorize anything and I'm a big memorizer . And it would just be a real shift in the way I think about all of this. So it's all for the best . I would have done it in a second . Yeah . You know, I think people do talk about SNL as this incredibly stressful environment and it's cutthroat and competitive . Did the Daily Show have elements of that for you? Or was it more sort of we're all in this together and trying to make a great show? Or are you competing with the other with Stephen Colbert and Samantha B, and John Oliver to get your bits on the air? How does that work? Well, I wasn't. I'm like the least competitive person in history. My wife's like, you should be more competitive , you know, it might be helpful . Like that's why I don't play sports. I never really played sports because I don't I don't like it when other people lose and I win. I was on top gear for two years. We did two seasons of top gear. And I was one of the hosts. And whenever I would win a race, I felt bad because the other two cared so much . And luckily I didn't win a lot of rac es, but you know, so so no, it was not. It really wasn't. At least for me, at least for the guys I was working with with Ed, I'm sure it wasn't and with , I know it's, I mean, you'd be an idiot to compete with Steven Colbert . No, what you do is you copy Stephen Colbert. That's the key. Yeah, you do what he does and then like and then you eventually, you know, it becomes your own thing. Yeah, I'm sure you've been, you know, following everything that's happened with him over the past year and you know, his show just ended. And what did you make of all of that and sort of how he handled it and then what do you think he's going to do next ? That was really it really kind of upset me. I think of course he's such a kind he's one of the people that he's one of the people in my life that I consider sort of a role model that I sort of look up to and he of course just he's a gentleman, you know? And he handled it like a gentleman . And it made his jokes funnier until the day he left. And I love that guy. And I have no doubt that, you know, we have not seen the last of Stephen Colbert. I think , you know, once Conan was off show . He's just he's a mogul . He's doing everything and because he loves doing it and Steven does too. So that's what we're going to see. We're going to see more of like perhaps the Team Coco model, I don't know. Was it during the Daily Show that you got your first big movie, which was old school ? No, Old School was before the Daily Show. Oh , before the Daily Show. Yeah, it's funny. Because I worked with I knew the writer from UCB Scott Armstrong , and Todd Phillips was the director and I had just done a series of like six god what was auto parts commercials with him. So it helped that I knew the two guys in charge. And you know, I got that part and you know, I was told up front, there's not going to be a lot of lines . And what we do give you will be cut when that was true . But you know, it was so good. And then we went back a couple months later to do reshoots in that in between shooting and the reshoots, I had booked the Daily Show and I was on maybe for a couple months . And I remember Eddie Peppetone , who was just one of the, you know , older pledges in old school , would always he's he's like, oh big is big time now . The daily show , you know? Did you film a lot of stuff for old school that didn't make it in that they didn't cut out? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. And as a matter of fact, my friend Scott would come up to me after a scene that I had lines in, and he'd say, it was really good, man. It's totally gonna get cut I was like, why do we shoot it? Like I didn't understand enough about the process of the way Hollywood works. Someone was like, I don't understand what's going on. We were shot that on film . Like you wasted a lot of film . We spent all morning doing that kinda not funny bit , I admit . You know, I think one of the things that people really knew you from after the Daily Show was Ballers on HBO , which I don't know if you're aware is Elizabeth Warren's favorite show, but she likes talking about that all the time. Yes, that's right. We've talked. We've spoken about it. Oh, really? I was curious just from that experience, do you have any memories that stand out maybe about your interactions with the Rock who just seems like , you a know, endlessly fascinating character. Yeah, man, he's just a good guy, you know , he's he's a really he's a really good guy . Everything, he's everything you want him to be , you know , But I did have like I had these I got nervous shooting the first episode like telling my wife, what if he like invites me to go work out with him or something . feel really like intimidated by that. And she was like, Oh, Rob , yeah , we'll deal with it when it happens, okay ? And of course he doesn't want to work out with me , but we had a very good working relationship and just a great guy to work with. Funny, you know, he's everything you want him to be. Yeah, and I'm shocked he didn't see you and say this is my new gym partner . I mean, it's so funny. He if he ever heard me say that he would howl laughing because he's probably like, I think of you as the kind of overweight bald guy because I had a couple pounds on me back then . And you know , why would you be a You don't belong in the gym . Is there something, you know, surprising from your very long resume that people come up to you and ask you about or want to talk to you about and that you that's sort of unexpected or that you are surprised people care about . Well, you know, I get a lot. I was only on one episode of Kirby Your Enthusiasm. Yeah, right. But that's all it takes on that show, I mean , but I get it a lot. Like I was in New York once and I was walking in a door and this cab screeched to a halt behind me and I turned around and the cabby opened his window and he was this Indian guy and he said pervert because and then he screamed away. I was so So I get a lot of that. For anyone who hasn't seen the episode, you play a convicted sex offender. Yes But you know, never, they never specify what he did. Were you honored that Larry David thought of you for that role or offended or I am honored that Larry David thought of me cast me because I am a fellow bald gentleman and that was a big pl ot point because he liked me because I was bald and and you know, forget all the sex offender stuff . And now you're making me feel guilty for wearing a hat so there you go. Come on, be loud and proud man see we have good shaped heads. That's the thing . We have nothing to be ashamed of. And we don't have the Larry David Halo, but he's he's he's talking it. So yeah, I mean, that's, you know, he's from a different time . I had a great interaction with Larry David years later. We were at, I was with WME at the agency at the time and we were at a Christmas party and it was miserable . Like every year, you know, they would throw this party at What's his face's house . I can't remember his name. I can't be fucking bothered. Sorry . But he had a huge party at his mansion and all these tents in the backyard and I'm just sitting there like so uncomfortable . I don't know how to do that kind of thing that sort of it's a Christmas party, but it's not. It's a Hollywood. It's a networking. It's a weird o kay you gotta know how to do it. And I never have perfected that. And Larry saw me from across the room and made a B line to me , and we just sat there like in the corner all night making fun of people and and I was like, Oh this is a I'm in my own episode of Caribbean Enthusiasm right now. They should be shooting this. It's great . It was so fun. Yeah, the best person to be with in that situation. It's since then it's the best party I've ever been to. Suddenly. Yeah. I was curious if you have a lot of stoners coming up to you all the time between hot tub time machine and your very memorable role in Herald and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay if you do you have a stoner following? Well, you know, not I guess children's hospital probably more so . People are always like, Oh, you guys must get so high before you write that show. And we got so angry. We were like, It's a lot of work . Writing the show is a lot of work. We can't get high . But you know , when I when somebody comes up to me on the street and says they're a fan or whatever . I immediately profile them . I'm like , let me guess, you know, and I can tell what they know me from. And it's just certain like, you know, the broad strokes are like the upper upper west side older gentleman with a NPR tote bag is the daily show , you know, and and then and it's funny like usually people of color, Harold and Kumar but younger . Yeah, it's a hot tub is a weird one because a lot of times there's a lot more female fans of hot tub time machine than I thought there would be. And I was yeah, it was really cool. So a lot of women seem to be fans of that show. They say they say very nice things. And if it's a small child, it might be Muppets Most wanted . Small children are afraid of me. I don't know why. It's facial hair, I don't bald. I don't know. Glasses. I got a lot going on. Was that a highlight though getting to work with muppets? Yeah, I was in the first one too and I got cut . And the producers called me and they were like, oh god , Rob , I don't know, I mean, this is never easy. I don't know how to tell you this, but you know , so we were cutting the movie. It's it's so low. And I was just like, you can tell me if you had to cut me guys. I understand this is like happens all the time . You know, and they were like, yeah, hey, hey, hey, we cut Billy Crystal too . I was like, oh okay . All right . But like they put me just as to throw me a bone. They're that nice. They were really kind. They threw me a bone and put me in the second one. And it was fun and also awesome because it was super easy. I was on set for like two hours. Did you get to interact with any muppets or friends with them or how does that work? On the first one, the part that got cut , I oh, it was so cool. I talked to them all backstage. And you know, they all have on camera personas and backstage personas because if they if the if the puppets are alive, the case is open, those puppets are alive . It's not the puppeteer and you believe it, you know, and you know, Kermit is like he gets a little blue. He takes he takes a some edgy jokes , you know, a lot of innuendo . He was he was the best one of, course , but like I remember going the bit was happening on a stage in a theater in the Muppet Theater. And I was supposed to go out at a certain time, and I'm waiting for my cue and I do my bit and then I walk back and I turn around just to walk to the action. I do something really ridiculous on stage. I forget what it was . But then when I walked back, I looked over and Rolf the dog, you know, the piano playing dog. I saw him go like this. He was like , he's checking you out. It was this very subtle thing that's like, it's nothing. But I was like, Oh my God, you are alive . You're a real piano playing dog . Well, it sounds like you have been cut out of a decent amount of films. Is there a is there is there something that you auditioned for and didn't get that you feel you still think about as like, oh, that was the role that got away? I do think I sometimes watch TV and I'll see a show with all of my friends in it . You know, like I'll be seeing I'll be watching the Croh back when it was on and I'm like, guys , what about the kid ? What about what about the kid? And you know, and then my wife has to remind me like you were shooting children's hospital and a movie and just relax . Nobody hates you. Yeah. I wonder if it's that thing if people just assume that you're too busy because you do a lot. I mean, that's a thing too. Like I have I have done that before as well. And so luckily David Wayne always reminded me like we don't know. We don't know that. Maybe they have a day to come . You know, he always was good about like shooting for the moon on that show. Yeah, never hurts to ask. Never hurts to ask when you look back on all of your, you know, decisions and career, is there something that you said no to at the time that you now kind of think, ooh, maybe I should have said yes to that one . No , but there is one that I said no to that turned out to be a massive show and I and I would probably be doing this interview from like a helicopter made out of gold that was modern family . And they were so cool and it was but it came at a time where it was between that and ballers . And I chose HBO over network TV. And so I made that choice. I never regretted it , but you know HBO pays very well, but it's not paying like whatever that was ABC syndication and yeah that's like the last like great big sitcom syndication story. Yeah I was like yeah that was the one and yep Oh well too real I'm too real guys Yeah. you,'re too HBO . Which part was it ? I don't well, I already told him, so it was the dad . The yeah, Phil. Yeah, it was for Phil. Yeah, Tyberlo, he was great. Yeah, but yeah, yeah, I told Tyberl and I talked about this afterwards. I feel okay saying that nobody likes to know that they were like you know their other people were who going out for these things as well. But I always try and keep that in mind when I'm doing something, when I'm in a show, like you're not necessarily everybody's first choice for this. So make yourself their first choice. Yeah, yeah. What about the flip side? Anything that you said yes to that you now wish you could go back and say no to? That's a great question. I've never gotten that question before . Well, let's see here. I wish I had , no, no , no. I was gonna say this one movie, I forget what it's even called The Winner's Something, The Winner's Circle or the it's about a girl's basketball team , but because it was it was all night shoots . But I would say no to it now because I've learned but you know, I got to hang out with Sam Rockwell every night and we became friends and I was like, well, I can't I can't say I can't retroactively say no to that I'm wait, give me one second. I'm going to think about it. You've done a lot. So there must be something . I don't know. If I think of it , I'll call you back. Okay, good idea. They say that you should never meet your heroes. And I want to know if you have a story that either proves that saying right or wrong . Oh , actually. Wrong, I guess, is the answer. have had such good luck and maybe it's because it's a goal of mine is , you know , do just do good things with people who aren't dicks . with people who you can potentially fall in love with . And so I've been very, very lucky . You know, I did do two movies and a couple episodes of television with Chevy Chase and you know, Chevy's tricky. Yeah, he's got a reputation. He's tricky, but we got along, we got along very well. We had dinner a couple times . I mean, he put his fing er in Clark Duke's potatoes . And when we were at dinner, he went, how was that? I was like, wow, okay, that's the chevy taste that I idol ize right there . But yeah, even Chevy, I mean, I know, I know he's he's he can be tricky, but I love them. And, you know, there's a lot of people that could potentially be a little bit of a handful that I enjoyed, but I'm a terrible judge of character. The last question that I like to ask is is there a story or memory from your career that makes you laugh now but really was not funny when it happened. Oh my god, there's so many. You know, it's my almost my every interaction a celebrity I admire outside of the workplace. Like I have I have left a wake of conf used celebrities in my path. I cannot the right thing when I really feel like some for some reason I work myself up and I'm like, well go after you going you're in the same club . You know, you can say how much you admire him . And I would do something stupid and I would get a weird look and I'd like thank you. Like once Stephen King was on the Daily Show, I'm a huge Stephen King fan read literally I've read all his books. I'm a completist . And I think he's a fantastic writer. And he was on the show. And I came up to him. He actually came out to me and said, Hey, I hear you're from Boston. You know, he's from Maine . He goes, I'm from Maine. I was like, yeah, no shit . But he, you know, we were talking for maybe about thirty seconds. It was going great. And I said, well, this is a real thrill. I'm your biggest fan , which is the worst thing to say to Stephen King because he wrote a bestselling novel and a great movie was made about it misery where that was the whole it sounds like I'm quoting like I'm going I'm your biggest fan wink and like and he just he gets all weird's. get He nos, not it even' weird , he gets disappointed . And he goes, he goes, he goes, don't cut my foot off, okay ? And I was like, oh , blew it again . Oh yeah. George Clooney. Oh, there's so many of them. What did you tell George Clooney? That I didn't want to go out drinking with him . I was like, What are you doing? I just met him at the Daily Show again and he was like , I'm going out drinking and want to come. And I was like, oh, oh, oh , I got to know my wife, I have a like dinner . And then ten minutes and he's like, okay. And ten minutes later , I'm like, what have I, what have I done? I could be in Italy right now. You yeah, you would be, I think. Yeah . Well, I'm glad you're here with me instead of in Italy with George Clooney, but you know, all eight episodes of the Audacity are available to stream now on AMC plus. Rob Cordri, thank you so much for being here . Thank you. It was a pleasure. All right, thank you so much again to Rob Cordry. I love hearing all those old daily show stories and please do check out the Audacity if you haven't seen it. It's a really good show that as I and Rob agree, not enough people have seen, so I hope that everybody checks it . If you are enjoying this podcast, please subscribe to us on YouTube at the Obsess Channel. You can see all of our episodes there, you can leave us comments. We'd love to hear from you. You can also follow us at Beast Obsessed on Instagram and check out our content there as well. And listen to the podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast and leave us a rating and review. 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