Sean Gunn Part Two!

I Survived Theatre School

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And Jen Bosworth and I'm Gina . We went to theater school together. We survived it, but we didn't quite understand it. 20 years later, we're digging deep talking to our guests about their experiences and trying to make sense of it all. We survived theater school and you will too. Are we famous yet? Sad for you that you're not in the neck. You're not in your little pod. No, I'm not saying, oh, you mean at the Al yeah. Co-working oh yeah. Oh yeah. It's a whole shit show. Like I, you know, it was interesting because I thought they're really lax about masks here.

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So, and I thought, you know, that's not going to go well, like the there's this thing in Pasedena where, and maybe I might be making all this up, but I think I'm right. That it's like a real sort of old school. Right. Wingy kind of a place. And like, and like, and like, it was a sundown town, so, which means, okay, so black people could not be out after sundown up until like 1960. That was literally a law. I I'm pretty sure there was a, like a law it's bad. So there's a lot of them, if you look it up online, there's a lot of these towns in, in the country, but like, yeah, yeah.

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For, for, and they, of course, I'm sure they said it was for the safety of the black people. You know what I mean? Some garbage ass racist and they're not wrong, but it's only because the white people were killing them. I mean, like that's that's they were in danger. So anyway, anyway, that there's a trickle down effect, like yeah, for sure. And then I was like, oh, and I was talking in Spanish to the, to the woman who cleans. And I was like, you know, we were talking about it. And like, my Spanish is probably like at seven seven-year-old level, but I can glean what she was saying, which was her bosses told her not to wear a mask at the cleaning play, like while she was cleaning, because it made people uncomfortable.

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And she was like, no way, because she almost, she lost, she said her husband and her kids all had COVID and she did two back in back a year ago. And so after that, she was like, I'm wearing a mask anyway. So now, so two people that had it reported, I mean, who knows what really went down, but two people upstairs in the w they were upstairs in like a suite, the people you can rent, like a legit office there. And so like, so it wasn't downstairs. I don't care. We share coffee, we share all the common areas. Okay. And then I started getting this massive headache and I was like, oh, like, but I always get migraine. So who knows? Right. And then my throat was hurting and I was like, oh, okay.

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Oh my gosh. So I got a test, but here's the thing because of the surge, you it's, there's like, it's really hard to get a proper test, not a rapid test. I mean, you can get a rapid test for 25 bucks at Walgreens. The shit is like 50%, like right on. If you get a positive that's right on. But if you get a negative, it's a 50% chance with a rapid test. I was reading that it's that it's wrong. So that you think you're, you're negative and you're really positive. It's just like, we can't do anything. Right. Right. So it's like, so there's, so I did my PCR and I had to wait forever and that's okay in the car or whatever.

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And then they were like, look, it's going to take a really long time to get your results because we basically, we thought we were done with this. And now I'm like, oh my God, they're having to scramble to get people and get people to read the labs. Yeah. Anyway, I'm negative. I don't have COVID praise Jesus. Hey. Cause I was like, yeah, but I don't think I told you this. My niece has COVID in Chicago. No, no, no. That's my cousin. Oh, your niece. Oh no. Mia. 17 year old Mia has COVID because kids at our school had it and got were, and she was, I think, got it from them.

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And then now she has it. And she had, you know, it was scary. She's backs, but not boosted because there wasn't enough time between her vaccine. Okay. So she had a fever of 103.5 Bakst with this variant it's it's the variant. And they think, I think I remember telling me when you were in Chicago and, and she was hanging out with her friends and you were like, I can't really hang out inside with you because you've been just, they just teenagers and they don't, you know, they don't give a shit. Understandably. They're thinking about college and like, you know, she, she she's D anyway, it's not shocking that she got it.

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Also Evanston, you know, my Alma mater Evanston township high school had 120 students in one day after Thanksgiving, get COVID test positive for COVID. Wow. So they're there. They're back online. Okay. Yeah. I mean, I'm just waiting for that to happen here. I'm sure it's going to happen at any point. All right. So I'm healthy. I'm healthy. I'm I'm relatively happy. I, yeah. So that's, what's going on with me. How are things over there on the east side of the world? Things are cold frigid, frosty, bitter, but we just, isn't going to get better.

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Desolate today is somewhat of a good day because today is the shortest day of the year, which means after today, the days will begin to get longer, which I've just like, whew, thank goodness for that. For a lot of people, people were sad and not even people with sad that the solstice is like really important for a lot of press, but one of them is that there's more hope after today, a hundred percent. Speaking of that, you know, I also notice that this is the time of year where a lot of people die, you know, because I don't know why. I've just always noticed that like the end of December, a lot of people die and somebody that I was, I mean, we weren't close or anything, but I was friends with somebody who only in the summer, I wanna say, found out that she had bone, bone marrow cancer.

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Is that leukemia. I mean, there's all kinds of blood cancers, but yeah. And anyway, she died yesterday and she has, so I don't know exactly. Maybe she was in her early sixties. So young, young, her, you know, she has anyway, she was a brilliant writer. And yeah, last night I was reflecting on the fact that I've said on this podcast, I'm not afraid of death. And recently I'm like, Hmm. Right. Rethinking this. And I, and I, but I did say at the time, I'm sure it's just because I haven't really had to deal that much with it.

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You know, like my own before I own home. But then my sister died and she left no trace essentially minus her two beautiful children and people just start dying. I just re I remember in, you know, when I was in my twenties and people who are in their fifties and sixties were constantly going to funerals, I was just like, oh my God. You know? And I, somehow I chalked it up to that's you, you're weird. You're right. Instead of this is just what happens now. Right. I'm not ready for it. I'm not ready to just have a bunch of people die.

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I'm going to say maybe that's what it is. I'm more afraid of other people dying. Like I, okay. Let's unpack this in the last month. I've been afraid of you dying three times and they're serious way. The first time was when you went to San Francisco and there was like this one period of time. I mean, it was probably like a couple of hours. Oh yeah. We were supposed to have a call. Well, are we actually, it's just that you normally text me back right away. And this time I didn't. And I just decided that you were, I decided that you went to San Francisco and somebody murdered you. Like, I, I couldn't be, I couldn't be shaken that.

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Then when you told me you were sick, I was like, oh my gosh, she's going to get COVID and die. And then one other time, I can't remember the other time was, why am I, well, I mean, when my ovary, my ovary, when we thought I ...