[electronic music]

I will meet you there when you arrive.

Tell me your destination.

[electronic music] I will meet you there when you arrive.

[electronic music] Can't walk through the roses and not the thorns.

Can't live in a glass heart stone with stones.

'Cause I can't lose you.

To the rhythm, it pops off.

Hello.

Ethan.

What, what does it feel when you have such a great cast and everything to be nominated, to be recognized by your peers?

It feels like validation of the whole production, you know? Uh, uh, everybody involved, there are so many amazing people.

We had amazing stage managers.

You know, we had amazing designers.

And so when the show gets recognized, and we get recognized, and it, it feels like that work that everybody put in is being honored and celebrated.

How would you feel if you had to get drafted and go to the war, to war?

Well, I don't think I really care.

See you this summer.

[upbeat music] One crunchy bite of a Hershey's Cookies N' Cream bar and I'm taken right back to college move-in day.

I was a little overwhelmed by the newness of it all.

Boxes were everywhere.

I needed a break from unpacking.

But just as I was able to take a breath and open my Hershey's Cookies N' Cream bar, my new roommate Rachel walked in.

[suspenseful music]

I grew up in, uh, southeast of Salt Lake City, uh, Utah, near the mountains.

My parents still live up, up in that area, and I was blessed to grow up in this area because I'm really close to these canyons and these mountains.

And, uh, I used to frequent this one particular canyon.

I still go up there actually all the time to this day.

I've been hiking up in there for over 40 years.

The canyon, the Little Cottonwood Canyon, was actually formed by a glacier back in the Ice Age, and they say it's still there.

You guys have created quite the craze here.

Um, so it all started basically, it was me and Ethan at first.

We were in like...

Uh, we did it all in our physics class.

Um, we just got, like, bored.

We made an aquarium, like, with, like, tape and, like, aligned in, like, a paper thing, and we just kept like...

We, like, posted that to, like, our personal Instagrams.

Like, when, when did you guys start getting into this stuff?

Mm-hmm.

And [laughs] it's just so important that, that people take a moment to actually understand what's going on here.

I don't know what is with these people.

I don't know what their end goal is, other than, like, they just want Israel to die.

I mean, that just seems to be like their one-

Clearly.

And, like, also, they have this bright idea that we should [laughs] stop funding the Iron Dome.

Like, I feel like also they don't care about the Arabs or the Palestinians or Middle Easterns in general, because that would inevitably create such a more fucked up war, right? Like, and, and, and-

In fact, the reason Manon reached out to us in the first place is because of Ethan, and it all started with a prank that he pulled on a colleague.

A couple months ago, the Spotify on our iPad at the bar went out, and we couldn't, uh, get in contact immediately with the owner of the bar to get his login to re-log into Spotify.

Instead, he's more interested in making craft cocktails at the whiskey bar he works at on the Upper East Side, and occasionally acting as the bar's DJ.

And as a prank, I decided to start looking up songs that had his name in the title and play them throughout his shift, hoping that he would just think something weird was going on with the Spotify.

In fact, the reason Manon reached out to us in the first place is because of Ethan, and it all started with a prank that he pulled on a colleague.

A couple months ago, the Spotify on our iPad at the bar went out, and we couldn't, uh, get in contact immediately with the owner of the bar to get his login to re-log into Spotify.

Instead, he's more interested in making craft cocktails at the whiskey bar he works at on the Upper East Side, and occasionally acting as the bar's DJ.

And as a prank, I decided to start looking up songs that had his name in the title and play them throughout his shift, hoping that he would just think something weird was going on with the Spotify.

Ethan, what have you been thinking about this season?

Uh, it's a, it's a good season.

I've actually quite enjoyed it so far.

Carolinas, love the Carolinas.

I feel like they have a very awesome food culture there, and I've been excited to like see it more 'cause I don't know a ton about it, so it's been fun to learn about it.

Some good personalities for sure.

I feel like we're to the point now where like all of the really strong, awesome personalities are left, and maybe that's more of like an editing thing anyway, but I'm excited to like continue to see these people on my television screen.

There was a concept there, but it wasn't a fully realized dish, but it ended up working really well for lunch today.

[laughs]

To you.

Just so you know, I see you all year round.

Thank you.

Yeah.

And I don't know if Harley is, I don't know if Harley needs a week, or what, if you were doing it for him.

Yeah.

Maybe I don't, maybe I don't wanna encourage people, maybe, but I'm just saying, if you feel that, um, you didn't get what you paid for, then take it up with YouTube, 'cause I got nothing to do with that.

This is one I'm gonna have to go in, uh, full focus." I've been doing Slay the Spire 2 lately.

Dude, I've been playing that too.

I'm fucking over it.

That game, I'll tell you, they don't give you any good cards.

It, they're so...

Like, the whole run is just totally random based on if you get any decent cards.

Okay.

Um, what's stopping us right now, you know, not entirely sure.

But, um, basically, like, we have each step for everything that has to be done.

We built out teams and systems for the main priorities, and those things are working pretty well.

I'm happy with, uh, our talent and what they're producing.

But so far, what I'm experiencing is that, you know, I'm left with this, you know, list of, like, random chores that somehow only I can do.

Yeah.

But I'm not sure how to approach hiring for this 'cause it ends up being like a very niche specific task, but I may, m- I might only need them for like, you know, 20 minutes a week or something, so it ends up being me, but with a million things.

后来我们只好两个人自己分工做完。After the poster was done, he came over and said, "You did a great job!" 海报完成后，他才走过来说：“你们做得不错耶！”

Teamwork，合作。Master，高手。Poster，海报。Team，小组。Invisible mode，隐形模式。Same team，同一组。Gone，不见了。Animation，动画。Ninja，忍者。Disappear，消失。Deal，处理。Cartoon，卡通。Character，角色。Content，内容。Divide the work，分工。Done，完成。Great，不错。

[片尾音乐] English follow me!

Teamwork，合作。Master，高手。Poster，海报。Team，小组。Invisible mode，隐形模式。Same team，同一组。Gone，不见了。Animation，动画。Ninja，忍者。Disappear，消失。Deal，处理。Cartoon，卡通。Character，角色。Content，内容。Divide the work，分工。Done，完成。Great，不错。

Ethan was laser-focused, spelling on his bed about the opportunity to speak to all of you listeners for this interview.

I'm happy, beyond happy, just feeling grateful.

Know this part of my life, great.

Love this opportunity.

Know this part of my life, great."

Yeah.

Thank you.

My question really was at this point I know I'm young and patience is key.

I've got a lot of, uh, different, uh, avenues I like that, uh, appeal to different morals-

You may learn during that time that you actually love number four and you decide to give that 80% and the others five.

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, I'm just thinking at that point, a hundred, I always got the fear of, like, if I go 100%, I'm gonna fuck up, and then I've...

You've answered the question before.

Like, I do not interact with it on a daily, weekly, if not, not even monthly basis.

I have an interesting thing.

So, I process a lot of my journal entries through GPT.

Oh.

Just so you know, it looks like it, it...

Custom GPTs do not get included into this history search.