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Will Arnett

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
21827 total appearances

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Fresh Air
Will Arnett

And my dad worked really hard, and he got everywhere on his own merits.

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Will Arnett

You know, he got into Harvard on his own.

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Will Arnett

He became a partner at this law firm, Stikeman Elliott, in Toronto on his own as a kid from Winnipeg.

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Will Arnett

He didn't have a fancy background.

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Will Arnett

So I've always respected how much of a sort of a self-made guy he is.

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Will Arnett

And he's always, you know, my dad said to me once, I asked him once years ago, he's, you know, he's long since retired.

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Will Arnett

And I said to him, I said, why didn't you move to the States?

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Will Arnett

Because you could have made a lot more money in the corporate world.

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Will Arnett

You know, you see how CEOs are compensated in this country and how absurd it is.

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Will Arnett

And he said, because I have an obligation to give back to the system that allowed me to come up.

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Will Arnett

And that's the kind of guy he is.

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Will Arnett

A lot of it was, Terry, I loathe to admit, a lot of it was smoking related.

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Will Arnett

I was never like, I was never like a real through weed guy.

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Will Arnett

Um, it was, it was smoking, um, kind of bad grades cause I was goofing off, um, defying curfews, uh, all stuff like that.

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Will Arnett

there were a group of us and I think that they just at a certain point, people say, Oh, you were kicked out.

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Will Arnett

And I, and I always maintained that I was asked not to return.