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There are scores of consulting firms in the United States, their role, to work with companies on all kinds of matters large and small. A big business with a low profile Aaron Moriarty this morning is looking at one of the biggest downsizing to check out what you talking about, how do you know that Otto I know the Breanna consultant. That's how I know many Americans can relate to this: efficiency expert. What you're really doing is interviewing for your own job consultants like McKinsey and Company are about more than layoffs. A lot of people in powerful positions feel that they can go about their business without McKenzie at their side. The most influential company. You may never have heard of coming up on Sunday morning and then I'll be talking with Julia Roberts about her true love's acting family and breakfast. She's one of Hollywood's most bankable stars but there's more. It's just never consumed me being actor.

It is my dream come true, but it is not my only dream come true. What of the other dreams my conversation with Julia Roberts.

Later will also be hearing from actor Dwayne Johnson a.k.a. the rock.

He tells Tracy Smith all about his humble beginnings secret aspirations and about keeping it real Dwayne the rock Johnson is one of the biggest movie stars on earth that started at the bottom, 14, 15 times by the time I was working but could be the White House is running for president dream was ahead on Sunday morning. No has to on the Isle for the Broadway debut of actor John David Washington, for whom acting is all in the family. David Pogue is checking out 1/2 billion dollar facelift for New York City landmark Connor Knighton introduces us to a young Grammy winner with what may be the perfect name for a bluegrass guitarist Martha Tyson revisits a small town restaurant attracting big time attention plus Morocco, remembers the late John Denver story from Steve Hartman and Jim Gaffigan on his least favorite thing about Halloween and more on Sunday morning October 9, 2022 and will be back after this is one of the largest and most influential consulting firms in the world, but how much do you know about what a corporate consultant really does to dogged reporters made it their business to find out there talking with Aaron Moriarty top universities like Harvard in Cambridge Massachusetts there is a fall tradition playing out behind the scenes.

Students are back and so are company recruiters looking to hire the best and the brightest user prize students after Harvard they want a place to work as prestigious as the University that they went to. And according to New York Times investigative reporters Walt Bogdanovich and Michael for side on top of many students.

Liz is a place that may surprise you. McKinsey and Company. What does it gives advice and people are willing to spend a lot of money for their new book is when McKinsey comes to town.

The hidden influence of the world's most powerful consulting firm. They don't disclose their clients.

They don't disclose how much money they're getting from them. The first people to get inside the black box actually find out who their clients are and how much they were paying them say McKinsey has worked with nearly everyone from Walt Disney to US steel healthcare providers, tobacco companies, the state of Mississippi to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. McKinsey has even worked for CBS's parent company in the past. Well, it's so big and so powerful and so secret and it influences the way we live, which makes McKinsey. They say a major force for spreading ideas globally, both good and bad in the 90s and 2000.

A lot of people thought globalization's was the cat's meow and people are losing jobs all over America and McKinsey was beating the drums on it and they were even putting slides in a cigarette companies presentation on health maybe they should think about off shoring as well. It works for company B, why don't you try.

Founded in 1926 by University of Chicago professor James L.

McKinsey, the company has long been known as an efficiency expert when you put gas in your car. McKinsey had something to do with that business.

When you go into 7-Eleven to buy some soda they touched out. It's a pretty safe bet that if you've heard of a company or federal agency that McKinsey is working for them or has worked for them. Eric Edstrom is a West Point and Oxford grad garrison. Lovely. A graduate of Cornell both worked at McKinsey. They are among the dozens of current and former employees who talk to the authors both signed and really not supposed to talk about this right. I'm not talking about any specific client in my going away letter and everything we've said today. I've never mentioned client name before garrison lovely became disillusioned, he found the work really is a 21-year-old. It's hard to imagine having more of an impact on actual outcomes in the world than working at a consulting firm. Just being in the room and having a good idea and follow through on it. You cannot dream of having a lot of impact.

The flipside about his if their organizations are supporting the mission is doing good in the world that new initiatives and ideas have bad effects, McKinsey sets itself apart from other consultants with the promise that recruits can change the world. What if we could be the largest private-sector catalyst for the compensation and touts its work with fossil fuel companies to reduce their emissions. That's why Edstrom joined the company, but he was outraged to discover how important those same companies are to McKinsey's bottom line.

They serve a lot of clients with really harmful effects. They know exactly what the repercussions are going to be and then they say were going to do it anyway and that tells you all you know. Until recently, McKinsey largely avoided public scrutiny of its clients the last year I paid a nearly $600 million settlement related to its work with opioid makers including Purdue Pharma McKinsey was accused of helping Purdue turbocharged sales of the powerful painkiller OxyContin. After hundreds of thousands died of opioid overdoses across the country. McKinsey apologize and said it stopped working for opioid manufactures in 2019. It admitted no wrongdoing, the disclosure of McKinsey's work for Purdue set off alarm bells on Capitol Hill at the same time McKinsey was providing secret advice to Purdue to boost opioid sales. The firm was also consulting for the Food and Drug Administration House oversight committee majority interim report found that McKinsey had nearly 2 dozen consultants who had worked at both Purdue and the FDA but at a hearing earlier this year, the company's global managing partner Bob Stern felt denied any conflict of interest. McKinsey did not did not serve both the FDA and administrative and operational, including organization structure and technology California Congresswoman Katie Porter is not persuaded streamlined technology solutions, find efficiencies, operationalize all mumbo-jumbo to hide the fact that McKinsey was making money off opioids at the same time they were helping the government.

Figure out how to regulate if you work for FDA was so important, didn't have some influence on what they actually did in the world. With regard to lectures and Kinsey declined our request for an on camera interview, but in a statement to CBS News says there are strict policies in place to prevent the sharing of sensitive client information.

The firm isn't currently working with the FDA and I think most Americans when they hear that a consulting company is working for a drug company at the same time it's working for the regulator. I think it's just common sense. But there's a problem here in their book. The authors also focus on McKinsey's password and Ron immigration and customs enforcement as well as Chinese state run companies can think. Take a look at this book and say just cherry picking the clients were things didn't go quite as well and that they've done so much good but it's more than just the bad apples. I think it's structural when you have such hard-working people working their hearts out for a client that's a bad actor. That's a real force for bad in the world. McKinsey and its statement says the book fundamentally misrepresents our firm in our work and that last year the firm instituted a new client selection policy more rigorous than any other in our industry, it no longer represents tobacco companies. The negative attention though doesn't seem to have had an impact on business. More than a million people apply for jobs at McKinsey last year and the firm has collected almost $1 billion from the federal government alone since 2006. The reputation is such that a lot of people one in powerful positions feel that they they can go about their business without McKinsey at their side and that's why they hire.

That's where they keep hiring him in spite of a lot of the negative news that's come out about after all their McKinsey Imo rock and it's been a while but I think busy digging up even more stories about the people and things of the past that are fascinating me now. What did your father think of the label of the whole idea of the Latin author from the screen idols who redefine Hollywood's leading man was a love-hate relationship with much love for one to the dog who introduced millions of kids to classic literature member and listen to obituaries River high podcast. Drew Barrymore all my goodness, I want to tell you about our new show it's the truth news podcast and in each episode Mina weekly gastric to cover all the quirky find inspiring and informative stories that exist because well and maybe you do too.

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It's a good news on the got me was one of the most beloved entertainers of our time.

Hard to believe that John Denver died 25 years ago this week. Morocco is back on them obituaries be launching a new run of his popular podcast. He looks back at the country boy who took the music world by storm. People say yes you yes so 1974 valid by her former husband, singer-songwriter Sean three sanctuary Dorado desert Sleepy blue ocean while their marriage is continued to honor John's legacy helping to design this part which is part of nature preserve in career retrospective, but it's a place he never got to see diving crews search the waters of Monterey Bay for clues to the crash. 25 years ago this week.

John Denver died in the plane he was piloting plunged into the waters off the California coast. He was 53 years old fast. Sometimes I wonder. I was scared pretty quickly. Superstardom wasn't inevitable. The entertainer humanitarian and environmentalist John Denver's own Road began in Roswell, New Mexico. He was born Henry John duction Dorf Junior in the 1960s he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his music career. Before joining the Chad Mitchell trio and meeting Annie. You don't get to be as big a star as John was by accident.

He was ambitious very John had this really so I don't think I looked at it as an ambition until things start happening all John went solo. He and Andy moved to Aspen where the Rockies inspired some of his most memorable last Symphony Orchestra. John's bandmates commemorated years of Rocky Mountain high Denver's 1972 tribute to the first place called home and that album shot into the stratosphere sharing stages with you John, Frank Sinatra, the Muppets, as John Starr rose he needed someone to help keep him centered on a rocketship's words were described rocketship scary thing rocketship can craft you can go very high from them very fast.

He sought the Council of Tom from meditation and martial arts instructor would become a loyal friend just had this bond was very powerful. So I started working with him privately and some of the principles of aikido, and it just was great for his spirit for his soul was grounded for him.

Crum accompanied him across the country and around the world. When he went to these foreign countries. He always tried to sing something in the language usually portrait what but the view through John Denver signature granny glasses wasn't always rosy. There's an up and down and a lot of artists of that way and I think the part of his creativity came down moments was the hardest conversation you had with him the times when he was so dark and deep really sort of lost.

John Denver entertained millions.

But there was also a colleague about him and his music use need him.

One of the most good stars of his era.

As you hear on my podcast them obituaries about the celebration of our dearly departed, now available wherever you get your pot something old is something new at New York's Lincoln Center. Paul takes us to David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center is the home of New York City's most famous performing arts away, calling your enemies. In 1962. His reputation was haunted by two aspects of its creation.

First is the 2021 remake of West side story reminded us building Lincoln Center involve demolishing a vibrant black and Puerto Rican neighborhood.

Second, something was wrong with the acoustics of Philharmonic Hall hear each other on the audience could hear the that could be considered a drawback. Deborah Porter is the CEO of the New York Philharmonic and Henry Toombs's Lincoln centers with a long and winding his over the years. Lincoln Center has spent millions on renovations trying to sound nothing. Finally, in 2015 media mogul David Geffen contributed $100 million with the stickers so far as a critic of the first mortgage is when we visited in May. The auditorium was already gently rounded instead of sharp and boxy, and 500 seats, smaller spot. The stage has moved 25 feet closer to the audience and some of the audience can sit behind the stage facing the conductor seats will give you some of the most dynamic house. The formerly flat floor is now sloped for better sightlines sections of the stage canal rise or fall to accommodate different ensemble sizes. We can actually take out the state to bring up an additional 100 light estate holds shape, size, and materials are all intended to address the problem removed from her home in order to make but what about the historical problem is to recognize the injustice was a pall of all foundation story Newhall is designed to open up the building to the neighborhoods it once shut out.

You can stop to enjoy performance from the new sidewalk studio or visit the new restaurant and bar or dropping of the new lobby café that's also where you can watch the Philharmonic's concerts live on this 50 foot video wall every Philharmonic concert for free Geffen yesterday $550 million budget years so how are you acoustics judge his job and speak the Philharmonic's music director you rehearsed no fear honestly and truthfully, what do they think of their excitement up some one by one as nobody, nobody was happy in this hall is going to be world-famous.

I know you guys stuck your fists into a problem. People have tried to solve, and it seems like you did it take so much pride in the fact that this really was dropped on against illegals time the city was it Sunday morning on CBS and here again is Jane Hawley that's Dwayne Johnson the rock in the popular film series fast and furious is made quite a name for himself in the world of movies but he tells Tracy Smith that his favorite role is dad in show business, much bigger than Dwayne Johnson is the highest-paid actor in the world according to his worldwide totals are counted now Johnson wants to be the next superhero curse comics universe black. Adam is a prisoner turned violent demigod out for revenge times are due.

Well I consider him but it's like reading the Bible role that seems to fit in like skintight superhero suit Wayne Johnson real superpowered might be humility and only child. Johnson had the humblest of beginning his dad, Rocky Johnson was a pro wrestler back in the days when road trips were long and money was tight so you guys were nomads we have that life up until I was 16 years old. We would and I spent a lot of my time he went to college on a football scholarship, injuries and bad luck. Eventually send them back home with only seven bucks to his name.

Years later he name his production company seven bucks productions.

As a reminder of where he started night wrestling as a way to pull himself out of wrestling going on is biographical sitcom young rock Johnson recounts how he started wrestling at WMC TV in Memphis under the name flex come on Philbrick's and how a friend named downtown.

Bruno gave the Baroque future superstar, a place to stay in his rundown trailer. It turns out the trailer park in Wells Mississippi is still there and so was his old friend Bruno lower their old home was pretty much as they left it to what were my heels for this portion for Starbucks. What are you thinking I'm so grateful to know the opportunity so as to talk about amazing Dwayne Johnson went on to be a huge success in the wrestling world as the rock in 2001, he made the jump to film and after some early success. Hollywood tried to mold him into a typical leading man. Great. But now here's what you have to do you have to stop working out as much you have to lose weight care course of the rock.

Talk about wrestling. Let's stay away from all that these are all the things they told you don't be this anymore so I tried Tracy.

I tried smaller losing weight. It all felt wrong and once you started being yourself. When that happened, Hollywood conform around. Years later so well he can step the big screen guys can also see in an animated Disney feature to be funny or at least try to be before this, I used to work in an orange juice for Concentrated also owns a wide array of businesses among them Terrebonne tequila. It's no secret he likes to drink it. Well, except you, Wayne Johnson says his favorite role is to his three daughters and two younger girls are often seen on Instagram page so you really enjoy this tea parties. Tracy I love and that's the kind of thing that seems to make the public love him all the more. In fact, been talked about seriously as a presidential candidate, 20, 21 polls showed nearly half of voters would pick him for the White House, something Tom Hanks joked about a few years back when Johnson hosted Saturday Night Live. Sounds like you yes Johnson told us that a run for the White House going to happen is running for president off the table now this is all I will say this because it requires beside us love our country.

Everyone must most important thing number one stressor.

During this time is critical to my daughter's life because I know what it was like to be on the road to be so busy that I was absent for a lot of years. First daughters growing up critical life. The presidency, so my number one daughters sure seal some great but you do so.

Sure can play a hulking superhero no problem, but in real life. The only thing bigger than Dwayne Johnson's muscles is just if black Adam is fueled by rage today what are you fueled by the blackout of Israel by rage I feel by around my daughter's so I would say that my passion is to take out with Gary this week. Dr. Rick's FINRA ministry to the national oceanic and atmospheric administration talk. Whether you these patterns are not political correctness.

Right doesn't care. Driven by political agendas or things we can do but policy now for more from this week's conversation followed the take out with Maj. Garrett on Apple podcasts forever. You get your podcast Vegas was always one of the shows will change for us. You euros, no downstream Paramount plus all the future of bluegrass Connor Knighton introduces us to guitarist Billy strings the speed with which Billy strings wise his fingers across the strings of his guitar playing bluegrass already picked out when I grow up I want to be a bluegrass player is amazing. Know what that was, at that age I was already like a sort of musician are Billy strings born William apostle's nickname growing up in central Michigan playing guitars with musicians father, Terry playing this all night and my dad was the life of the party and that's what I want to but strings got older he noticed that the parties at the trailer park where he lived, never seem to stop. It was amazing and then you know somewhere those parties, started the Guild darker. People started going to jail and you know is located on what's going on strings as his parents went deep in the methamphetamine addiction is something water is like there. I was going to become or go to prison or end up somehow. Strings 13 Traverse City, Michigan playing heavy-metal music playing around the fire with my system to perform in a metal band strings is onstage always a high energy from traditional legends seemed so Stoicism it's better if you just have no expression if you just look like a statue. That's the best and even better yet if you look like you're just like not even stoked to be there. You look very stoked to be his fans are just attracted my show to show following champ think of us as agenda with Jim… Like a more sophisticated word American songwriter magazine described strings last month, one artist of the year. The Americano Road is relaxing on the dock right now pushing your the home recently purchased in Nashville with his fiancée out like for solitaire.

You know, I just needed to find a place near the slick as well fish the most.

Next, me and dad comes out next month collection of grasshoppers with the man is so elastic like talk about this.

I worry that it will make my parents look better something like it's really a success story 30 last week says he's ready to stop focusing on the past and start thinking about the very least present my whole adult life I been looking in the rearview mirror dwelling on the past dwelling on the years I lost with my folks are dwelling on the poverty that I endured whatever and I'm finally getting to a point. Now I'm starting gaze through the windshield instead. Not worried about what's behind me or really just going for you from Steve Hartman this morning all act of kindness from the streets all after Richmond, Indiana police officer was shot in the line days before the whole community, 28-year-old officers was aloft, so the idea that anything good ever come from her past was unimaginable until one day a stranger walked into the department held in his hand a white envelope and inside a sliver of hope to information clerk Charlotte Jones, the man appeared to be homeless and atoning method like the most amazing gift we have gotten inside the envelope. 81 dollar bills and a note that read people from the street.

He accepted a hug, but insisted on no other recognition. The man didn't give his name but he said officer Burton was kind would often check in on the homeless, so he took up a collection and got donations from people on the street people with virtually nothing to do. They gave that knowing they don't know if they're going to have another dollar Richmond Police Lt. Donnie Benedict that is as general as your eight dollars was like $8 million will never know exactly who all gave her why those answers are hiding beneath the brush and underpasses of Richmond, but by all accounts, Sierra Burton was generous with the Facebook always defaulted to smile, surprising that HEALING on the street all officer Amy Miller Sierra step comes from all this people don't forget who she was and this is part of who she Sierra's honor donations for the homeless are already pouring for the department. The greatest gift will always be that simple white there's hope out there. There are people out there who will give everything in the line of duty and those they serve is one of Hollywood's biggest stars with any number of memorable film credits to her name but did you know that Julia Roberts also nets and she almost never drops a stench Julia Roberts at 54 is a beautiful she was. People magazine's most beautiful woman in the world record five times but it's murder Georges Campbell high school, Ms. Panthera, not even a runner-up have to say the pinnacle of my looks, was that one moment after graduation in 1985 she followed her sister Lisa and aspiring actor to New York City. Their older brother Eric Roberts was already established but thing wasn't her plan. She sold running shoes. I was a quick laser ice really good at placing and yet well I was walking down the street. This is the trip I was walking down the street with my brother and his then girlfriend, and past someone that they knew and that person is a talent agent, no more selling shoes. Julia Roberts was waiting in Mystic pizza a low-budget film, cult classic we all hateful awful people talking about is wages and psychotic the newcomer in the stellar cast of steel Magnolia 1990 was a different story and unlikely story. May Julia Roberts who's never had an acting class. A star you got the part of the drug addicted prostitute who has a relationship with a very rich man and the end of the movie was him stopping the car, opening the passenger door, basically pushing her out into the street and driving way. Good on you for getting that part pretty grim stuff and then the studio went bust. I think over the course of a weekend I didn't have a job and then about a week later, they said, oh, the script was sold to Disney yeah right with Gary Marshall known for family for the odd couple and happy days. See Robertson the part but as a courtesy.

He did see her because what's the story with you. Some people say you can't dresser up. Some people say I can't dress it down. I don't know what is said, I don't know what it is. It was a perfect fit is what it was that dress is one of the most iconic in film Julia Roberts thousand one Julia Roberts won best actress and Brockovich one for best turned up in a vintage Valentino. It was a beautiful dress that I tried on the Saturday before the Sunday of the Oscars for the first time we didn't do anything to fit perfectly. And she put it away. My daughter was digging through the closet, looking for possible prom dresses last spring stress and tried on is too big for her but she looks so lovely and your daughter didn't know that that was her mother's Oscar. I don't think she did. She has three children with her husband of 20 years. Daniel motor. I always think that they are like me and then Danny comes home from work and I have you motor is a cinematographer whose film was premiering. It can took their daughter. She is a one-of-a-kind baccarat face timing actually right before they went out and she was lying on the bed just putting his time on were getting ready to go. You ready, ponytail eyelashes like eyeliner mom we talking about. Okay, yeah. I can now just sweet just the innocence she's just with her dad.

It's not about anything else. What you do carry the couple first met on the set of the Mexican Brad Pitt costar. I was watching knowing that you might at that time been crushing on one behind the camera. Yeah, I think he and Brad were crushingly tethered. I felt like I was constantly interrupting their conversation sit there and they were talking about music like I today.

She says her career and family are both important but not equally so. It's just never consumed me being actor. It is my dream come true, but it is not my only dream come true. What of the other dreams the life that I've built with my husband the life that we've built with our children. That's the best stuff to come home at the end of the day triumphantly to them. Excuse me ma'am, I need to sit somewhere else.

I'm sorry it's a full flight used to be married.

We were only married for five the first time in 20 years, she's starring in a romantic comedy out next week. United with longtime friend George Clooney ticket to paradise was shot on location in Australia. It was the longest she'd ever been away from her family 62 days. I wrote a lot of letters you could probably have sent emails pretty.

That's kind of boring you don't get the cool stamps and it's something Danny and I have always done the first letter he ever wrote me, which was seven pages long. I still have it tucked away when they'll show it to Hazel and say that's what you are looking for downtime. As you can see domestic arts Roberts learn how to knit on a movie set 30 years ago. We call it are lonely meters. How lonely were you last night, like pullout like this much knitting loan that was and knitting ever sense I brought my knitting. I cannot wait to see this to call it my knitting is a stretch will you got a little tight stitch here.

That's how people are in a talk about Titan entertain. Paul is you describe yourself as a homemaker when I'm not working.

That is my full-time job and it isn't no rainbows in kittens every day but bring me a lot of joy and you do breakfast before school. I love breakfast. It's my favorite meal. My younger way.

Henry is, he is my breakfast partner and my right in thinking that Jane Polly might be standing in the way of you getting home to your family because you've got a get home.

I presume for breakfast in the morning for Henry. We love our breakfast. This is intelligence matters with former acting Dir. of the CIA Michael Morel this week, a career CIA operations officer joins us to talk about a critical moment in the war on Ukraine. If you were to plunge the world into this darkness rush also descends into this darkness, along with everybody and it's a legacy that I think Boudin's successors will have struggled for generations to overcome follow. Intelligence matters were ever you get your podcasts now streaming progress and start wearing crazy time once final point is when there are people in the best way to protect good people is to convict final season Millstream Tyson or this morning finds herself at the lost kitchen and welcome you all and by the time Aaron French welcomes guests twice a week to her lost kitchen restaurant they've been sipping for two hours already and they haven't even the menu yet.

I hope you taste our joy tonight because that is what we are running on a lot, a lot, and something else. Make into every meal. She serves as the story of how lost kitchen, she found freedom and now came in.

Freedom may population about 700 make me feel like this is the center of the universe seems lost kitchen is one of the hardest to get reservations in the world. Aaron French has another one in the works and movie rights to her best-selling memoir were sold in a major bidding war in season three of her TV series begins this month. Her success is all the more stunning because of how hard it was to come by. Here's what she says. My dad was a pretty hard guy to be around her father, Jeff Richardson owned diner. This one just outside freedom. Aaron started working there at 12 have moments when I would make something on the line and he give me that quiet look of right. That's where I learned to figure out this challenging relationship with my dad to cook together. Her mother Deanna was a schoolteacher.

She would never speak out.

She was allowed to all Aaron wanted to do was get away from the diner out freedom and she did. But after 2 1/2 years of college in Boston. 21 she discovered she was pregnant, dropped out and went back freedom to have her baby, a boy she named Jame and to work at the diner even coming back home and diving back into food.

I still wasn't picking up on the cues that maybe I love this finally sunk in. At the age of 30, Aaron opened the restaurant the first lost kitchen. It was a hit, but her life was a wreck, especially her marriage. My anxiety was growing.

I was working these crazy hours I was miserable marriage. I started taking scription medication and the spiral started to what came next. Addiction a drawnout nasty divorce. Erin lost her restaurant for a time, she even lost custody of her son so she had to drag herself out of the depths I spent a lot of like just recovery time.

Just bring myself back to life and living here. Her lifeboat was a land yacht was absolute mess. She took a sledgehammer to the interior.

I does have this one moment I just let it all go and just needed a good scream and cry and fresh beginning Jewish up as Erin likes to say, it became the lost kitchen wheels come see you yesterday. Now it's parked a few yards from the 19th century middle where the restaurant has been for the last eight years. Tourist attraction even for people who can't get reservations and that practically everybody to get a reservation here postcard this year. The restaurant received over 50 house while love. Here postcards are drawn at random to determine who gets in the restaurant is open from the end of May to October dinner costs $195 sounds like a lot, but it's a good 12 cooks secret ingredient lots of butter the lost kitchen is staffed mainly by women all Aaron's friend, who don't need to talk work to music soundtrack with a happy ending story about second chances was a moment that I realized that I had to go through all that to get exactly right and that is that beautiful and terrifying thing about life nine years ago, Erin met media executive Michael.they got married in 2018.

Erin's mother, now divorced from her dad does whatever needs doing and when dinner begins. Aaron French presides over the lost kitchen like a woman who is finally herself. I hope they last long hours and now appearing on Broadway actor John David Washington. So what is it about that name. Caliph SNA explains walking down the street on the marquee shop, but also feel I must say, I also feel like part of my family. After John David Washington is making his Broadway debut is boy Willie in August Wilson piano lesson I'm comfortable. Some would say the 38-year-old was born to act his mom. Paulette is an actor and so was his dad a guy named Denzil, my father, he walked me around the street when he was getting ready for sex in the park and I still love when he would live at first John David did not follow in his father's footsteps, he went to Morehouse, the historically black college in Atlanta on a football scholarship. What motivated it really was. Independence was my own name was being able to carry more weight in my life and my life even though I was hiding what I really wanted to do.

I hiding what you really want is related to my mother's an extremely talented artist in my father's one of the greatest of all time is my favorite actor was intimidating. We were in the compass mom home with the family feel comfortable but then when I get to the outside world seems simple to pursue fellow football would change their narrative when they saw the playable. It didn't quite work out that way.

That's what I thought was going to happen until I revealing the Journal-Constitution freshman year and had a great game in Denzil son runs for you realize that it was an escape.

After college he played football in the startup lead UFO.

Then in 2013, he ruptured his Achilles tendon. He decided to make a career change how you make that turn something head shots and I would say I would recommend Texas is shot but it was an open call audition for a story about football players still injured and on pain medication. He went to his first audition for a new HBO series called dollars plan was get comfortable with auditioning old know in the come out here to New York again.

It didn't go as expected. After a series of follow-up he got the part was life changing moment for the six August, what did you learn about yourself as you started to become a professional actor, I learned what happiness really went on to star in black claims directed by Spike Lee.

Then 10, directed by Christopher Nolan now Amsterdam, directed by David Ross worked with legendary directors working with the director who's known you since your baby that's LaTonya Richardson Jackson, director of the piano lesson which costars her husband Samuel L Jackson's in the Washingtons our old friend. What's it like being on set with a partnership like that the tensions often so you sit back and you shut up and learn some John David is your costar Samuel take direction from the director Tanya five take direct popular to speak another language in the subtext of the Yale repertory theater 35 years ago, Samuel L. Jackson originated the role John David is playing on Broadway. If you have a piece of land you find everything else all right in place. You stand right up next to white me for talking about the price of cotton well on stage. Jackson delivered some lines knowingly deliver the zero 1987. So yeah, I guess that is saying it's time to scroll put up or shut up and come see the play.

Mother is like the question is sometimes I get notes from mental notes, but John David Washington says he's done trying to prove my draft understand that I can have the best game career headlines also be what it is.

So to try to prove something to somebody is a fool. Everything about that happening when people say you Denzil Washington John David said I don't see the realities is larger-than-life, so no I don't think that way I can. Maybe one day you have a kid season for pumpkins but not for Jim Gaffigan. It's October, which means we are officially pumpkins the strangest of all made up seasons. Humans are a strange animal and Americans may be the oddest of the species pumpkins season is peak American weirdness over the next couple weeks. Pumpkins will suddenly become Republicans is declaration seven on doorsteps at the end of driveway dinner table section – in other places you would normally just leave food lying around everywhere, pumpkin spice will invade all coffee shops.

There's a secret spice is mostly just cinnamon but since it's October.

Let's call it pumpkin spice brand pumpkin would be the logo occasionally even the old and the word October be replaced by a pumpkins shape right.

I don't think so either. I wouldn't describe myself as anti-I don't care that much either way, I mean they are pumpkins after all.

Having a strong opinion on pumpkins is odd. Which is why pumpkin season is so baffling to me. I suppose we can blame pumpkin mania on hollowing pumpkins are used to make Jack carving eyes and a partially toothless smile on her pumpkin is a fun activity to do with kids, literally the best and only usable pumpkin faces in the watermelons you know why because they'll be a waste of water but a pumpkin with pumpkin were certainly not eat. Everyone is cut open a pump, but this is gross and smells like wet cardboard jack-o'-lantern scary because of their appearance, just reliving the trauma of removing those pumpkin got pumpkins are part of the squash family and as any nonvegetarian will tell you squash our zombie vegetables squash look like vegetables, but they have no taste knows zucchini is just a cucumber but tastes like a paper towel.

Heck, squash is the only vegetable instruction in the name/, which is usually what we do with those pumpkins on November 1 at the pumpkin season everyone thank you for listening. Please join us when our trumpet sounds again next Sunday morning, while everything on the ears. Watch the streaming on people and listen where everything