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Ira Glass

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Insult Dogs and Emotional Support Alligators

Michael B. Jordan gets life advice just from listening to Samuel Jackson play golf.

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Insult Dogs and Emotional Support Alligators

And your last advice column comes from Shane Torres.

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Insult Dogs and Emotional Support Alligators

We've all sent a text message to the wrong person before.

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Insult Dogs and Emotional Support Alligators

Okay.

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Insult Dogs and Emotional Support Alligators

So here are your choices, Vanessa.

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Insult Dogs and Emotional Support Alligators

From Josh Gondelman, how Andrew Lloyd Webber, excuse me, Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber got the idea for Cats from a cat scan.

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Insult Dogs and Emotional Support Alligators

From Shantira Jackson, how Michael B. Jordan got valuable life advice just by playing golf with Samuel L. Jackson.

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Insult Dogs and Emotional Support Alligators

And from Shane Torres, how the actor in the lead in Steven Spielberg's new movie got brilliant advice from Spielberg in a text that wasn't even meant for him.

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Insult Dogs and Emotional Support Alligators

Which of these was the real story of unexpected but life-changing advice in the news?

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Insult Dogs and Emotional Support Alligators

This is the hardest decision I've ever had to make.

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Insult Dogs and Emotional Support Alligators

Wow.

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Insult Dogs and Emotional Support Alligators

Just because I am a cat mom, I'm going to go with A and Andrew Lloyd Webber.

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Insult Dogs and Emotional Support Alligators

You're going to go with Josh's story of how Andrew Lloyd Webber knew that his next big musical would be about some animal.

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Didn't know which one.

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Insult Dogs and Emotional Support Alligators

No, then I will go with...

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Insult Dogs and Emotional Support Alligators

I'll go with B then.

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Insult Dogs and Emotional Support Alligators

You're going to go with B. The second story you heard, that's, I'm sorry, that is Shantira's story of how Michael B. Jordan went golfing.

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Insult Dogs and Emotional Support Alligators

Well, to bring you the real story, here's actually the person who got that fabulous advice.

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Insult Dogs and Emotional Support Alligators

That was Josh O'Connor speaking on fresh air about the wise text he accidentally got from Steven Spielberg that led to his acting breakthrough.

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Insult Dogs and Emotional Support Alligators

I'm so sorry, Vanessa, but as you heard, Shane had the real answer.