Ben Affleck

A month into a six-month shoot that, like, this is not going to work.

And that is the fucking worst.

What is that like?

That's the worst, man.

I came to think of that.

It's like it's all bad.

It's going to be 80 16-hour days in a row, and then a post-production period that's going to be pretty fraught, and then it's going to come out and we're going to get fucking...

It is.

I don't know to what degree each specific thing is.

Like, we spent this whole week in New York doing, you know, I don't know how many interviews, you know, the quick ones with all the outlets.

Yeah, all that stuff.

And this, just given how many people listened to the show,

will be more meaningful.

We think, I mean, we were speculating.

That, you know, it's exactly... I think also, like, this format, like, at least I know why it...

Why I started listening to podcasts was because in the world, like, the divisive kind, the way everybody was talking, these sound bites and all this shit, and it was just, like, the ability to just listen to human beings talk, often who had different points of view but, like, had a civil conversation was, like...

It was such a welcome thing, you know, given the kind of the hysterical kind of, you know, frenzy of divisiveness that's kind of – it just feels – it's just like, you know, it's like if I open my phone and look at the news, I'm just like, fuck.

It's like, put it down.

It's just – it's like I feel my cortisol level go up.

And to actually hear people – listen to people I know I don't agree with, but listen to them and just –