The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Almost Famous OG: A Very Bieber Holiday

Episode Date: December 25, 2024

Grandpa to one of the newest babies in Hollywood, Stephen Baldwin is here! He’s sharing what the family will be doing this holiday season and why he joined “Special Forces” and what made it his most challenging project to date. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly, and now I'm seriously suspicious. Wait a minute, Sam. Maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit. Well, Dakota, luckily, it's back to school week on the OK Storytime podcast, so we'll find out soon. This person writes, my boyfriend's been hanging out with his young professor a lot. He doesn't think it's a problem, but I don't trust her. Now he's insisting we get to know each other, but I just want her gone.

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and, you know, learn about what the show has in store for us. And the first one to join us is Stephen Baldwin. And I am so excited to talk to him. I am too. I've been a fan for a long time. I can't, I can't wait to talk with him. I'm sure it's going to be very exciting and interesting. Hello, Mr. Stephen Baldwin has joined the chat, everyone. Almost Famous OGs. Don't know Don't spread in. Thank you.

How are you? What's happening? I'm excited. Oh, my gosh. So good to see you. I don't know. Have you met Bob, my co-host, before? I don't think so.

We haven't met before. How are you, sir? Bob, you're blessed now. Nice to see you. I agree. Thank you. Thank you very much. You've got it.

How are you? Like, how is? is life. I know you only have like 25 minutes, and we have a lot to talk about. Oh, my goodness. I'm great. I'm out here in Hollywood, just seeing family and getting ready for Christmas. Are you so excited to celebrate with your sweet little grandbaby? Both of them, yeah. My granddaughter, Iris. Right, true. You have too, right? I have a four-year-old granddaughter, Iris. And now Baby Jack is here. Baby Jack is here. to change the world forever and we're excited. We're excited. Good timing. Christmas, got a little

Christmas grandson. That's awesome. Congratulations. Yes, congratulations for sure. I feel like we said congratulations. I said congratulations in person, but congratulations here as well. Do you guys have any specific fun plans that you can share? No, listen, we're laying low. You know, family time is, you know, very special for us. But yeah, we're going to just be around the L.A. area and I've been doing some traveling, you know, other family members have to be connected with and all that. My daughter's husband, Andrew, and Justin and Haley, too. They've got to go see some other family, too.

Yeah, that makes total sense. Okay, so we've got a big. premiere coming up, January 8th, Special Forces, Season 3, for real. Are you doing anything for the premiere? I don't know yet. I'm just waiting, you know, for Cam Newton to, like, text me and tell me to, like, meet him in Vegas or something. I don't know. Right? Look at your laugh because you know it's totally possible. Look at you laughing. You're like, Cam, look it up. Let's go. Oh, my God. That's awesome. Well, you had to be such a fun experience for you.

I mean, you know, you look like you're in pretty good shape, but I can imagine this had to be crazy challenging. I mean, I haven't really gotten even asked Trista too much about it yet, but it had to be just incredibly physically challenging. Well, listen, you know, Hollywood's Hollywood. I won Fear Factor 25 years ago when Joe Rogan was the host. Yeah. So I kind of, I'm one of the actor guys that kind of digs, you know, the need for speed, you know, adrenaline, but I'm 58 now, hello.

Yeah. I'm 10 years older than all the other special forces contendent. Nine. I was 51 when I did it. I'm 52. Oh, okay. Nine. First of all, you guys are both not very good at math.

If you're 51 and he's 58, that's seven. Oh, I thought he said 60. Did he say 60? You're right. We are not going to mask. There's a reason you're here, buddy. Yeah, we're not letting you guys go on math leads compete. We'll have you on Special Forces.

How's that? Yeah. Yeah, so, I mean, at 58, did you feel like, I mean, were you nervous? Because, I mean, I've watched the previews. It looks intense. I want to get to the point. I want to get to the point of what you're asking, which is, this is a big Fox production. I've been on Celebrity Apprentice.

Trista's been on a ton of stuff. You know, at a certain budget level, these shows, you know, can sometimes be kind of produced in a way where it's not really that dangerous. You know what I mean? Yeah. That was not the case here at all. And I've been through that kind of stuff. I'm a skydiver.

You know, I've raced cars, crashed cars, motorcycles, all that kind of stuff. In 1990, I won the Toyota Long Beach Grand Prix. when they did the pro-celebrity race. So I've done a lot of this adrenaline stuff. Yeah. But special forces was just something like, and this is really kind of almost asinine for me to say, which is I thought, well,

the only way to really find out how bad could it be is to do it. That's the only way to really see how crazy and gnarly it is, is to do it. And I totally would never do it again. I don't know about, but there's people that have already been asked that question. that are like, you know, like, well, yes, of course, you know, the Patriot in my own heart and, you know, all the, and then you're going, there's, there's, I can't, you know, obviously, we can't reveal what happened, but. Right.

It was beyond gnarly dangerous. Yeah. And, and I wouldn't do it again. So it's funny that you say that. So at first, I think I would say, no, I wouldn't do it again. But I don't know about you, but when I came back from the show, like, recent when I had returned. And then even now, if I think about it when I'm like going to bed, I feel like I would like to go back just to do different things. Like, I loved meeting everyone. And, and, you know, we met people from all different walks of life. There's no way I would have ever met Cam Newton, you know. unless we were at an event or something. Like, you know what I mean?

So I just feel like, and you, I mean, I feel like we've crossed paths once or twice maybe, but I just feel like the relationships are so cool. So I would maybe want to do it again just for that because it would be like a whole new group of people, you know? But you're right. It was so gnarly. And I, you know going in if you've watched the show. Did you watch the show prior?

not really a little bit because beverly mitchell is a friend of mine who had done the season before us yeah and i didn't want to really ask her too much i just wanted to see what she had to say about how risky it was this that and even she couldn't say much right no i yeah i talked to hannah brown who actually was on the same season as beverly i think they're good friends and same thing like just it was just like training tips like how are you going to train? But I feel like I knew going in, it was going to be hard, obviously, but you can't know, like you were saying.

You can't know until you actually go and do it. Here's what I do. I try to play it safe with what you can and can't say. So I'll just talk about like the first day, right? The first day, we have three big, like, crazy events. Right? The trailer's already out. So you can see the helicopters and all that kind of stuff.

So that's already out there in the marketing and the promoter. right but what people don't see is in between the three major events that almost like blew your mind on the first day was 150 push-ups and realize that's it well forget the right 150 push-ups yeah in between jumping onto helicopters they want yeah so this this you know what sphere factor and all this other stuff look like you know child's play totally And you are so right. I think I said that in my interviews that the hardest thing for me was the running and having to carry this like 35 pound backpack in between all the challenges. Like I felt like the challenges were like, okay, we can finally breathe and like stand here and watch out, you know, cheer everybody else on. But and yes, they were crazy and I was scared. But I feel like the running and in between is so hard. And I don't think you'll get to see.

lot of that. I think you will. You do? Well, because a lot of what they're trying to engage in the psychology of this entertainment is, you know, the struggle that we go through. You know, when I was, I have asthma, right? You know, I was struggling with that when we were out there. And then other people have fears, just innate fears of water and things like that.

So you can be as cool as you think you want to be, but when you're swimming with all your clothes on and they got like a little towboat alongside of you that like, you know, they can rescue you. You start saying crazy stuff when you think, you know, you're going underwater. Yeah. Totally. My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly and now I'm seriously suspicious. Oh, wait a minute, Sam.

Maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit. Well, Dakota, it's back to school week on the OK Storytime podcast, so we'll find out soon. This person writes, my boyfriend has been hanging out with his young professor a lot. He doesn't think it's a problem, but I don't trust her. Now, he's insisting we get to know each other, but I just want her gone. Now, hold up. Isn't that against school policy? That sounds totally inappropriate.

Well, according to this person, this is her boyfriend's former professor and they're the same age. And it's even more likely that they're cheating. He insists there's nothing between them. I mean, do you believe him? Well, he's certainly trying to get this person to believe him because he now wants them both to meet. So, do we find out if this person's boyfriend really cheated with his professor or not? To hear the explosive finale, listen to the OK Storytime podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Hi, my name is Enya Yumanzoor.

And I'm Drew Phillips. And we run a podcast called Emergency Intercom. If you're a crime junkie and you love crimes, we're not the podcast for you. But if you have unmedicated ADHD... Oh my God, perfect. And want to hear people with mental illness, psychobabble. Yes, yes. Then Emergency Intercom is the podcast for you.

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Let's go. Don't tell her anything. So, Stephen, I don't know if you remember this, but I think they gave us, remember we were both. I'm asthmatic too. and they gave us the wrong, I think I got your inhaler and you got mine or by, you know, or somebody else had one.

Welcome to the special forces, dressed out. You know, is this my albuterol? What does it say on it? Yeah, this is anti-lizzard venom, you know? Okay, sure. Let me breathe some of that in and see what happens.

Oh, really. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Okay. What I feel like before I went, I'm sure you did this. in preparation, like talking to people, like how to get through it.

But I feel like one of the biggest pieces of advice that I got from a friend who's a Navy SEAL was just remember your why. What was your why in doing the show? My why for doing the show is I love the military. I really support the military here on abroad. I just think anybody that commits to that service, I think is pretty cool.

My dad was a Marine. Awesome. You know, that's just one of those little things. You know, I've worked a little bit with the Gary Seneas organization, and just where I can, I like to try to bless in that way. So I thought this was a cool way to do that, kind of salute the troops. And then again, that individual test, you know, I'm a skydiver. But every time you go out the door, you better make sure when you leave that aircraft, you've checked everything and that your parachute's going to work.

And if it doesn't work, the second shoot's going to work. Amen? Yeah. Yeah. So I kind of went into this like that, you know, like, let me just see how hard they're going to push us. And I thought, I mean, Tristan, it only makes sense that they go, I thought relatively easy on us, day one, two, maybe three, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, going forward, forward. As you know, as it progressed, it got harder and harder and harder. with the first date being 150 push-ups.

Yeah. Military-style push-ups, too, Stephen? Like, are you there and they're over yet? Oh, my gosh. Oh, yes, sir. Yeah. That's brutal. I couldn't do that.

And then run and jump on a helicopter from a speedboat. Yeah, from a moving boat. Man. Exciting. Like, cool stuff when you see it in the movies, but I just don't know if I could do it. I just don't think I could. Well, you didn't have a choice when you were doing this.

Yeah. Yeah, exactly. You just got to go. Screaming in your face. How was it? I'm sorry, Bob. I feel like if you have any questions, pipe on in here. Oh, I am.

No, I'm a fly on the wall. Well, I was just going to say, one thing I was going to say was, you know, with them screaming in your face boot camp style, did you ever, were you ever, like, push to that point where you just wanted to be like, just stop yelling at me? Like, I just don't know what I would do. Like, I don't respond well in situations like that. Like, how did you handle that? I don't respond in those situations well either, dog.

I'm telling you right now. No, I'm the youngest of six kids. You know, my brothers are my brothers. We were all, you know, we were all athletes. My dad was a football coach. Our upbringing was very Friday night lights, getting drunk on the weekend, chasing chicks. You know, it was just, you know, Americana kind of sort of normal. So in the beginning of the show, they kind of blindfold you.

I'll just leave it at that. and then they remove that blindfold and then invite you to participate in the very first activity so I'm on this boat and it's moving and I'm standing at the back of the boat and my blindfold comes off and for who I am and where I'm from this is the worst opening line you ever want to hear from an authority you know in an introductory basis like this my blindfold comes off and this guy goes get that smile off your face oh i promise you bro i wasn't smiling i'm sitting there going if this guy thinks this face is smiling i'm screwed right from the beginning and and then and then and then straight up i'm like you know yes sir you know

and he and he goes you heard me i go it was billy you know i mean he goes you heard me and he Of course. Yeah. He goes, you heard what I said? And I go, I go, yes, sir, not smiling. And the next thing I felt was his hands punching my chest, pushing me off the back of the boat while it was moving. Oh, my gosh. It was nuts, totally nuts. I mean, honestly, like, that's like PTSD. You saying that? I think since then, any time I've had like a thought in and around, you know, get that smile. Now when I get pulled over for a routine traffic stop, I'm like, I'm not frowning. Oh, man. That's insane. You know what I was bummed about with the press day is I thought that Billy and Foxy and Q and Rudy would all be there or at least one or two of them and nobody was there. And I don't know if you were in the car with me when I had this conversation.

I feel like Denise and I were talking about it, but we really wanted to get to know them on like a personal basis and not like, you know, superior to inferior. You know, we wanted to like, I don't know, just chat with them because we do realize that they are normal people, like family people, totally respect them. Absolutely. And I really wanted to get to know them, right? Have you had the opportunity to see them outside of the show? Not yet. No, myself as well. I haven't had a chance to interact with those guys.

But I think it's probably also they don't want us to do that until it airs, probably. Yeah. Yeah. There's maybe a little of that going on. Yeah, you're saying the first day thing or the first moment thing. And yeah, it like makes my heart race. Like, oh, I need my inhaler again. Yeah, but no, but with the moment I described earlier, you have to understand how many times in my life I heard get that smile.

Like I've heard it all. Like my dad said it. a thousand times to me. You know what I mean? Did he? So when the blindfold comes off and that's the one line, the guy says, I'm just there going,

this is not at all what I thought it was going to be. I wonder if somehow they knew that. Like, did you guys have to do like the psych about and all that kind of stuff before the show? And maybe like, yeah, but I don't think the smile off your face line was in there, bro.

Yeah. I don't know. I think he says that to a lot of people, honestly. He like wants to put you in your place. Like, you are my inferior, you need to listen to me kind of thing. You know what I mean? Yeah.

I have an interesting question. So being our age, you know, we have kids. We are, you know, we've lived our professional lives, you know, most of it. I feel like a hard thing for me and going into it thinking about this was just sharing common space with other people who I'm not married to. or, you know, like having a bathroom right next to freaking, I'm like taking a pee or poop right next to Carrie Hart, who literally, like, I'm sure he can hear and smell and I can hear and smell too. So how was that for you? I want to know when we're sleeping, who's going to figure out Cam Newton snoring.

I want to know who's going to. Yeah, exactly. He's going to tap him on the shoulder in the middle of. I'm trying to keep it down. Oh, gosh. And Golden. I think Golden and Carrie and Cam were all the big snorers in the bunch. See?

Yeah. No one's going to tap them on the shoulder in the middle of the night and say, hey, roll over. Keep it down, buddy. Bikes down. A sock in it there, Cam. That's crazy. Yeah, was that a weird adjustment, Stephen, for you? I mean, kind of having that common space sort of violated?

No, I did two movies where I had to do military training. And in those movies, I had to live like in that similar kind of living in a barracks, living in, you know, communally like that in a military sense. So no, that didn't freak me out too bad. But definitely the snoring and the farting, quite frankly. Trista, I know that she was probably not with her normal restricted diet, so it causes her to be gassy. There you go. I said it.

I said it. It can happen. Yeah. That's not with the SF stay. It's not special forces. It's not special parties. It's special forces. Go ahead.

I'm sorry. No, it's fine. So I can't remember what day it was, but we all ended up. in like this random field because everyone had to pee and and maybe even more than that. Were you part of that? And did you like, so I know that someone, and maybe you'll remember, got like attacked by a nettle or something? How great is Trista?

I already confessed to like farting issues. She wants to straight poop. No, no. I'm not talking about food. She wants to know about the farting and the number two. Let's go. No, no. I'm talking about the nettles.

So someone got like, like, squat. in this field and got like squatted into like a nettle. And I can't remember who it was. Were you there? It was several of the ladies went, you know, traipsing into the wild brush. Yeah. Yeah. And you all came back with little chiggers on you.

Exactly. Those little kind of like things that stick to, yeah. It's like a, it's like pointy and sharp and like makes you itchy afterwards. But it almost looks like poison ivy. It's freaky. Yeah, I was so, I was so worried about that. But I can't remember who it was that, like, got stung. That's just things that you don't think about when you sign up for special forces. You know, you think maybe you're going to have some bathrooms. No, I mean, when you got to go, you got to go. And I feel like everybody had to go. So we just stopped in a field, you know.

Oh, my God. Well, that was also the day that. When everybody ran to the rest of the room, like, you, y'all weren't even given permission to do it. Like, remember we were driving and driving and driving and, like, we had been asking, when can we go to the bathroom and all of a sudden they stopped for something? Everyone piled out, yes. Oh, my gosh. My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly, and now I'm seriously suspicious.

Oh, wait a minute, Sam. Maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit. It's back to school week on the OK Storytime podcast, so we'll find out soon. This person writes, my boyfriend has been hanging out with his young professor a lot. He doesn't think it's a problem, but I don't trust her. Now, he's insisting we get to know each other, but I just want her gone. Now, hold up. Isn't that against school policy?

That sounds totally inappropriate. Well, according to this person, this is her boyfriend's former professor, and they're the same age. And it's even more likely that they're cheating. He insists there's nothing between them. I mean, do you believe him? Well, he's certainly trying to get this person to believe him because he, now wants them both to meet. So, do we find out if this person's boyfriend really cheated with his professor or not?

To hear the explosive finale, listen to the OK Storytime podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Imagine that you're on an airplane and all of a sudden you hear this. Attention passengers, the pilot is having an emergency and we need someone, anyone, to land this plane. Think you could do it? It turns out that nearly 50% of men think that they could land. the plane with the help of air traffic control. And they're saying like, okay, pull this.

Do this. Pull that. Turn this. I'm Mani. I'm Noah. This is Devon. And on our new show, no such thing, we get to the bottom of questions like these. Join us as we talk to the leading expert on overconfidence.

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celebrity, whatever, whatever. And my favorite moment was, and Cam came up and circled back with me on it later, but when we all got on the boat and, you know, I saw Brody and, you know, I don't think I ever told you the story, but like a very funny story is about three weeks before we all left. I don't know if you ever heard this story, but I was talking to Denise.

I know Denise Richards, she was doing my one bad movie podcast. And all of a sudden, like three weeks before we're going, I'm talking to her about this and that and just work and this and that. And she turns around and she goes, oh, heck, I'm sorry I didn't call you back, but I've been really crazy. And this thing just came through and I got to go to London in like three weeks. And it's this reality show, like this military thing, and I really can't talk about it. And I've already signed. So I turn around and I go, oh, wow, sounds like so like so much. much fun. Is it like a boot camp? She's like,

oh, no, no, it's not really that. I can't talk about it. I said, oh, great. It shoots in London. She goes, no, no, we meet in London's and then we go to Wales. I go, my gosh, I can't believe it. I say nothing, Trista. No way. I called the producers to go, hey, man, I know Denise Richards is on the show. It was hysterical. And then when we got on the boat, the first day, she walks out to me. She goes, you're such an asshole. I was literally standing.

I was standing right there when you came up to her. And she was like, why didn't you say anything? When we were all gathering on that first day, when it first started, when we all first started trickling on the boat. Yeah. Cam came on the boat and he had that big hat on. Yep. And he comes on the boat and he sits down and I thought he was security.

Oh. Because he had those glasses on. He had these glasses and he had these glasses. and a six foot whatever. I don't know how big the guy is. So I kind of like to go where nobody else is. So I go over to the guy by himself, the tall security guy,

oh, maybe he needs a little chat. You know what I mean? I'm sitting there and I literally like sit down next to him like this. I'm like, hey, buddy, what's your name? He goes, Cam. You never looks to me. He just goes, Cam.

And I'm sitting there going, watch me now. I literally go, you're a idiot. That's Cam. Newton. But that's my favorite moment because he was just so sweet about it. I'm saying, they're going, hey, this fella, what's your name? He's like, Karen Newton, I'm a legend. I'm like, oh, hi, how are you? It was adorable. It was adorable. That is funny. That is so funny. You guys had some big

names on the show, too. I mean, obviously you and the actor world, you had a lot of athletes on there that were like, I mean, Golden Tate. Yeah, I mean, what a crew. You guys had Olympians. Yeah, Marion Jones. I mean, Marion Jones. I mean, my. Oh, my gosh. You had people with great physical ability, but then you also have some people that, you know, mentally and psychologically were these scrappers that, you know, you didn't think you were going to see, you know, rise to the occasion. Yeah. Like the fabulous Tristan. Oh, thank you. She, yeah, she's got a little, she's got a little fight in her.

Oh, you're so sweet, Stephen. I mean, I feel like I just wanted to go in and try it. and like you were saying you just got to go try it at first i don't know what your first reaction was when they called you but mine was hell no are you kidding me why would you want me yeah well i just said because whenever you do this kind of thing i'm not going to BS myself about it you know i'll do certain things if they're going to pay you for the risk or this or that or you know like they should like they should reward you for whatever it is you're going to do totally on this one only because I really had a sense as an athlete myself

and having done stunts and movies and I've seen the show and you can get hurt doing this show so it wasn't the money it definitely wasn't the money to do special forces it was that thing you said Trista which is just it's that itch you can't scratch it's that self curiosity you know how hard can it be and you can't there's only one way to find out Yeah.

Trista, you said something I liked when you, when you and I were talking about this. I want to see if Stephen feels the same way. Trista had said, you know, because I was like, is it like a competition show where you're, you know, you're, and she's like, yeah, you're competing with yourself. And I thought that was really interesting that, that she saw it that way. Did you see it the same way? Was it more of a you versus you type of situation? You know, when it comes to reality, I've done a lot of reality stuff in 30 years. So I have a little bit of a PTSD when it comes to that.

I bet. But, well, my phone calls with the producers before Special Forces was just like, I didn't believe a word of it. You know, I mean, whatever there, it's you against yourself. You know, it'll be very psychologically challenging. And, you know, the Special Forces, you know, they get held underwater until they pass out. And, you know, it'll be dangerous. I'm sitting there going, they're saying that.

And then, like, you know, my brother Alex is going to come in on a zip line or something. You know, like, you know, I don't. You know what else? Who knows? You know what I mean? I just thought it's going to be some other stuff. But it really legitimately was this no nonsense. You know, these guys came in to just really push us.

What? Beyond anything. Absolutely. And I've done military training before for films. Yeah. With a guy named Dale Dye who owns a company called Warriors Incorporated. They trained everybody, excuse me, for the movie Platoon with Charlie Sheet. Oh, amazing.

Yeah. So I worked with that company twice. But again, you can't compare the training they give you militarily for a movie to play a soldier to what we just did in special forces. There's no comparison. This was legitimately either you do it or you can't do it. And if you can't do it, you're out. Right. Gosh.

It definitely was a challenge. But I do think, yes, it was a challenge against myself. But thinking about it too, even though it wasn't like a challenge. where one person is going to get kicked off. I feel like you kind of want to step up and do as well as everybody else. So it does push you if you have, you know, a competitive bone in your body. And I for sure did. I know you have to go.

I wish we could talk more, but I know you have to go. So thank you so much. Well, thank you. I have to get back to my granddaughter. There you go. Priorities. I like it. I like it.

Family first. Well, yeah. If I'm out in LA, I'm going to see the gang and the kids and all that. But I'd love to come back on. Oh, we'd love to have you. Let's talk after. At some point in February, where do you live? Where are y'all living?

Where am I? I'm in Denver. So, but I'm coming out to L.A., you know, for press and stuff randomly. Okay. But yeah, we would love to have you on. I'm starting up season two, a one bad movie in February. Fun. Nice.

with the filming and all that. So I'll circle back with you about getting you on the podcast as well. Oh, I would love that. We'd love it. Well, thank you so much. Thanks for being a part of the almost famous OGs. We appreciate it. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. And I'm dead serious. Let's do it again whenever it makes sense. I mean, how soon in the cycle could we do it? Can we do it again like after the show airs? After the show starts. Yeah, for sure.

And it's only five shows. so there's not a lot of shows but we'd love to chat again for sure we might have to do a little color commentary uh for oh we're doing that we're doing recaps after every yeah yes you're doing it on your show yeah yeah yeah I'd love to do a recap bad love it I love it all right well Merry Christmas enjoy your family to you Merry Christmas God bless follow the Ben and Ashley I almost famous podcasts on IHartRadio or subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly and now I'm seriously suspicious. Wait a minute, Sam. Maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit.

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