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Chris Hardwick

Chris Hardwick

American actor and television host

Sep 18, 2026

Alison RosenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
154:14
Mm.
154:14
And, you know, uh, and, and besides the fact that he's a brilliant comic, you know, he...
154:19
It's not...
154:19
I'm, I don't think he would be upset if I were to say that for a while he wasn't really selling a lot of tickets.
154:23
Then, you know, he finds this medium, he puts his voice on there, uh, people love it, and now he's crushing.
154:30
And it's, it's, it's so gratifying as a, as a comic [laughs] because you're constantly, you f- constantly feel like you have no control in this business, and this is finally a way where you have a little bit of control, and it's nice.

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Adam CarollaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
163:54
... or a cougar or someone who's trying to get the '90s out of their system.
163:57
Although, you know, I did, I did have a friend in high school.
41:42
you most curious about in your business right now?
41:44
My business as a chair, I think there's all this conversation about AI, right? Let's be honest.
41:50
It's all about AI.
41:51
And I made a note to myself that I'm going to become a speaker against AI.
42:00
So that was my takeaway from a comment that was made today.
42:04
I think that There's a fear that I have that we're going to go so far down the garden path.
42:13
We already have such a high degree of lack of communication, especially in the younger generations.
43:57
What's one
33:02
[laughs]
33:02
You know? Where it's like ...
33:03
And you go, "Yeah, that's exactly what it is." And then you start really unpacking Walter White, and you're like, "Oh, my gosh.
33:10
Was he always this? Was this underneath, or did this manifest as a result of the, the condition that he had based on, you know, his fight for survival in his last t- remaining time or whatever?" But, um, I, I always think that every episode of that show is, like, a stressful math problem that has to be solved, and not only do they solve it, but they solve it in a way where you're like, "Yeah, I guess that ...
33:34
They'd need a big magnet.
33:35
I guess that's, that's how they got out of that."
34:50
Right
34:51
... protagonists that are sort of like, oh, yes, everyone's flawed, you know? The- these guys are a little more deeply flawed, but, you know, but that, that type of protagonist is a really interesting ...
133:39
Do you remember your first time on air and any recollections about KROQ? Because also an alternative rock station and what it was like at that time for you.
133:49
Do I remember my first time on the air was when I got hired.
133:53
I went on.
133:55
Jenny and I went on to promote Singled Out.
133:56
We went on the Kevin and Bean show.
133:58
It was 1995.
133:59
It was right out.

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Wow.

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