A [TEXT MESSAGE] Conversation With Writer/Director Alexis Wilkinson
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A [TEXT MESSAGE] Conversation With Writer/Director Alexis Wilkinson
Kurt Vonnegut, Wisconsin, Harvard, Jamaican Soda, Humor Writing, & More!
A [BLANK] Conversation With⌠is an interview series where guests engage in a three-day conversation via their preferred mode of text-based communication, with no commitments to the length or frequency of their responses.
What youâre about to read is a groundbreaking moment for this series, because Alexis Wilkinson is the first guest that Iâve never met in person! In fact, despite following each other on the-app-formerly-known-as-Twitter for some time, weâve never interacted much outside of the occasional âlikeâ or âretweetâ until now.
Wilkinson first came to my attention due to the many headlines in 2014 about her being the first African American female president of The Harvard Lampoon.
And since, she has written on shows like Veep and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, published humor pieces in magazines such as The New Yorker, and most recently co-wrote the hilarious Realm audio series The Co-Founder.
Sheâs also a director! And a prime example of her work in that sphere is this sketch titled, âPC Culture Comes To The Plantationâ (which she also wrote!) â
Every interview in this series has tested the limits of the format in different ways. And a few pitfalls were made on my end in this one that are funny as hell in hindsight.
Please enjoy my three-day conversation with writer/director, Alexis Wilkinson via text message!
Enjoy⌠Oh! And if you donât like curse words or explicit content or whatever phrase you prefer that defines that kind of thing, this is your warning:
There are swear words in this chat!
TABLE OF CONVERSATION:
Kentucky, The Ad Industry, & Artificial Intelligence
âSlave Black,â Grandparents, & Writing in Different Mediums
Miscommunication, Sci-Fi, & Jamaican Soda
Note: Since Tim lives in New York, each text is timestamped in Eastern Standard Time. However, certain reactions like âiPhone hahaâs and â¤ď¸s exist out of time. We have no way of retrospectively knowing exactly when those buttons were pressed. There have been minor adjustments of the text for clarity.
DAY 1 (Monday 08-21-2023)
Tim Barnes: (11:51AM) Hello Alexis! Welcome to the interview. I hope this isnât too early. I try and wait until until 9-ishAM PT for people on the west coast Alexis Wilkinson: (12:20PM) Iâm actually in Kentucky so youâre good! Tim: (12:22PM) Oh wow! What brings you there? Alexis: (12:28PM) Iâm working for an ad agency here. Itâs been a nice change of pace. Tim: (12:29PM) Ah, so you can tell that Iâm basing all of my info on scraps of internet information. Youâre the first person Iâve interviewed in this series who I havenât actually met! [Alexis gives this an iPhone "!!"] (12:30PM) Every headline about Mitch McConnell must hit harder for you now (12:48PM) How does the ad life compare to the TV writing life? Alexis: (4:16PM) Donât even remind me about that turtle. But Iâm from Wisconsin and was in high school volunteering for the Scott walker recall so Iâm used to these political trenches. (4:19PM) Ad life isâŚdifferent. Less glamorous maybe, but you work for free almost never. I struck way before this WGA Strike lol. Ridiculous industry. Non-serious executives. Not a way to live. (4:20PM) Iâd like to own a home one day, you know? Tim: (4:23PM) Hahaha, yes. I totally understand. What were some of the difficulties that emerged for you in Hollywood? Youâve got one of those rĂŠsumĂŠs that should open so many doors. One of the great things about this strike is that writers are generally more open about the pitfalls. Itâs certainly helped me get over that âis my lack of employment my fault?!â feeling Alexis: (4:33PM) I am very lucky coming from the Lampoon, which made everything much easier, so I donât really have a right to complain. But that has never stopped me before soâŚI would say that my main difficulty, outside of trying to be a Businesswoman instead of a just a goofball tellinâ my lil jokey jokes, was finding my own comedic voice. Iâm also so easily distractible and LA was very distracting at 21. Tim: (4:34PM) That brings me to my first big question. As someone who attended Harvard â are you a member of the Illuminati? Alexis: (4:34PM) âŚyou understand youâre on a list now, right? For that question. Tim: (4:35PM) Yeah, but itâs hopefully on the âNiceâ side. Isnât Santa a member? Alexis: (4:35PM) Your name on the List is getting larger and largerâŚyou know too much⌠Tim: (4:36PM) Hahaha (4:41PM) I was still in Chicago when I read about you being the first Black female president of The Harvard Lampoon, and I was thrilled. INSTANT follow on Twitter. Still feeling some of the residual glow of Obamaâs first election, you know? Iâm curious about the âfinding your voiceâ moment youâre in. Lately, Iâve found that so much of my voice was tied to the general energy of the Obama era. And now that Trump is gone, we have our first vibe-less president in a while. This sounds insane, but I feel like the Biden administration is forcing everyone to find their own voice (4:41PM) Have you found that voice now? Alexis: (5:19PM) Hahah well I hope my Twitter content since then hasnât been too much of a let down. Iâm no Obama. I think Iâm still developing that voice to be quite honest. I also think Iâm hesitant to put myself in any one box. I did standup for like a month in New York on that journey back in college which was really enlightening. But performing is hard! And I donât like being looked at too much. Leave me alone lol Maybe one day when they stop screwing over actors as well Iâll give it a whirl. [Tim gives this an iPhone "HaHa"] Tim: (5:46PM) It did stand out how infrequent your posts were. Which I think just means youâre a more advanced human being. Breaking out of labels has become a bit of a theme in a lot of these interviews. Has embracing your inner businesswoman helped you beyond being able to afford stuff? Also, tell me more about your month of standup! Was there a theme to your jokes? Alexis: (6:17PM) Again, writing for free is not my style. And definitely not writing for whatever X is. I think refocusing has given me a more long-term look at things. I put less pressure on myself to take everything on all at once. Maybe thatâs just aging haha. My month of standup was interesting. I did a set at what was essentially a Waffle House. And I was the only girl and just very different from the other people who got up so all the waitresses sat down and just stared at my like I was a panda walking upright. It was funny. The theme was like âHarvard, black girl, datingâ what else did I have at that point? (6:17PM) A blind comic did come up after me once and asked the audience if I was cute. And then proposed. Very uncomfortable but pretty funny. (6:18PM) Stared at me* lord the typos have come already Tim: (6:19PM) To err is human, to typo is divine Alexis: (6:20PM) My favorite Einstein quote. [Tim gives this an iPhone "HaHa"] Tim: (6:21PM) Did someone in your life influence you when it came to looking at a hyped app like Twitter and saying ânah, Iâm not doing this for freeâŚâ? Alexis: (6:22PM) Ok why are you acting like I never tweeted? I did! But once I started making money that was low priority. I had some bangers back in the day. Tim: (6:22PM) hahaha Alexis: (6:22PM) I got a gig writing greeting cards off Twitter. It was good to show what I could write. (6:23PM) But now people can look it up. Tim: (6:23PM) Okay, okay!!! You tweeted! Alexis: (6:23PM) Put some respect on my handle lol Tim: (6:28PM) I think about some of the odd comedy writing jobs that have emerged from the internet, and its clear to me that theyâll one day seem like what older comedians talk about in interviews where they were writing for a radio hour sponsored by some sort of soup, or literally cocaine before it was illegal. (6:28PM) It feels like greeting cards are a great entry point for working in ads Alexis: (6:28PM) The only coke reformulation I wanna see is reintroducing the cocaine. What happened to respecting traditions??? (6:30PM) Thatâs actually not how into it. I started in-house at Old Navy after I had worked for someone doing a little â¨lifestyle⨠type blog for a fashion brand. She edited that and then ended up being creative director at old navy. (6:30PM) If you ever pick up the âanytime chino,â that name is all me baby lol [Tim gives this an iPhone "HaHa"] (6:30PM) Iâve written in so many mediums. It doesnât make sense to explain haha (6:31PM) How I got* into LORD HAVE MERCY (6:31PM) you better edit this. Donât have me out here looking illiterate. (6:32PM) I have autocorrect and thick thumbs. Tim: (6:46PM) I mean, it is pretty helpful to know that even Harvard grads have difficultly typing on phones (6:48PM) It seems like youâve truly embraced the fact that you work in so many mediums. That kind of thing used to hold me back. Being a podcast producer by day, and a struggling standup comedian by night, for instance â wondering âWhy canât I just be a struggling standup comedian ALL the time?!â [Alexis gives this an iPhone "HaHa"] (6:49PM) What I used to love about standup was the constant impulse to do it. There were places to be at night, and people to impress. (6:49PM) Have you found a healthy routine that balances what you do for work with your passion projects? Alexis: (7:44PM) I think Iâm getting better at balancing. And when I say I donât like writing for free, I mean for others. I do it all the time for myself. Really want to do a collection of short stories sooner rather than later. Over the years, Iâve gotten much better at not exhausting myself so much creatively that I donât even have the energy to journal or even pick up a pen lol. But itâs hard! Tim: (7:49PM) It is! Iâve been writing sci-fi short stories. They honestly arenât that great but itâs a unique feeling of accomplishment and I can sense that Iâm getting better at it. Also â isnât it great completing something that doesnât require production to fully exist? [Alexis gives this an iPhone "â¤ď¸"] (7:50PM) Youâve written many humor pieces for places like The New Yorker. Thatâs a style of writing that I find difficult to carve a unique âvoiceâ in (7:52PM) Like, I can hear David Sedaris reading most things under the banner of âhumor.â Whenever I try to write a comedic essay I feel like I have to kick David Sedaris out of my head (7:52PM) I suppose Iâm asking â how did you carve your lane in that space? Alexis: (7:57PM) Hmmm. Thatâs a good question. Lots of trial and error. But also taking note of what I think is funny across a variety of sources. I love Sedaris but also love cartoons and Kurt Vonnegut. And using the emotions Iâm feeling and finding the funny thing in them. Thatâs why AI could never replace me. It doesnât have trauma. Thatâs my secret sauce đ¤ (7:58PM) Itâs a work in progress though. I look back on some of my earlier stuff likeâŚgirlâŚwhat is this? Haha but thatâs how it should be right? Means youâre evolving Tim: (8:40PM) Gay, straight or otherwise, the voice inside of every Black person that says âGirl⌠what is this?â is paramount. âGirl⌠what is this?â helped us survive as a people (8:42PM) Itâs getting late so no pressure to respond today. But do you fear the rapidly evolving state of A.I.? Just a little nightmare fuel of ya Alexis: (9:31PM) I already answered! No. Besides, writing isnât my only skill. And the world is on fire. AI is the least of my problems. Good night! (9:38PM) Wait one last side note: Ai isnât even copyrightable. And until it can stop just chopping and screwing other peopleâs stuff, I think itâs just like any other new technology. It only will eliminate jobs if we let it. And if companies donât care about IP anymore. And one of those things is very unlikely to happen. Now Iâm gonna go take a bubble bath. Ya dun stressed me out.
DAY 2 (Tuesday 08-22-2023)
Tim:
(8:43PM) Hahaha. I hope the bubble bath calmed you. Iâve been thinking about the âanytime chinoâ --
(8:43AM) Thereâs a subtle brilliance. âAnytimeâ is very underutilized (8:44AM) Iâd order an âanytime burgerâ in a heartbeat (8:47AM) How did your family end up in Wisconsin? Alexis: (9:26AM) Hahah thank you thank you. And the great migration. Thatâs how we ended up there. But my dad was born in Jamaica. Met my mom in grad school when she was an undergrad. Tim: (9:47AM) I just recently learned the term ADOS (American Descendant of Slaves). And it was a surreal experience accepting that. Like, âoh yeah, thatâs way more specific than âAfrican American.â What was it like growing up Black in Wisconsin on top of having a more nuanced background than what most Americans think of when they hear the term âBlackâ? (Unfortunately, I fear I will connect this to Obama again) (9:54AM) *American Descendent of Slavery (not slaves) Alexis: (9:55AM) Haha I say Iâm âslave blackâ sometimes which really catches people off guard. Growing up, I was in between Barack and a hard place (sorry sorry SORRY). I moved around that state and Illinois and my mom always very much prepared me for being different and having to do everything 2x backwards and in heels to get what I want. So I just got used to it. And also learned how to turn those points of difference into strengths. I think having an unusual background gave/gives me a unique perspective on things. (9:55AM) At least thatâs what I tell myself. Tim: (10:02AM) I think Issa Rae has commented on this before. I havenât seen all of Insecure (Now IâM the sorry one!), so I donât know if her character in the show is Senegalese-American like she is in real life. But there is a forced blending of things in America where you just have to deal with the stamp youâre given. I can see her choosing to have her character be âslave blackâ for the sake of clarity in the story she wanted to tell. Are you often faced with such choices in your creative work? (10:45AM) Sorry, that question was way too intense for the morning Alexis: (12:01AM) I donât limit myself to my own experience which is part of the reason I donât get on screen much or write things where Iâm a character. Thatâs a hard balance to strike. Tim: (12:19PM) I havenât finished listening to The Co-Founderâ the narrative podcast you co-created (this isnât a trend, I promise!) and a scene that stood out to me involved a phone call between Juliet and her grandmother in episode 3. The two characters had a sense of friendship that felt unique. Is that inspired by a relationship in your life?
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Alexis: (4:34PM) Heyyyy appreciate the listen! Partially, yes. I loved my grandma very much and miss her. She was a really big part of my childhood. She passed away before I was Julietâs age though. (4:34PM) Also the dynamic was different. But I think a grandmaâs wisdom and words can really mean something. Tim: (4:40PM) My grandfather recently passed away and Iâve been reflecting on the unique bond between grandparents and their grandchildren. I donât want to read too much into that scene in âThe Co-Founderâ but would you say that exchange was a bit of wish fulfillment â a level of conversation you wish you could have with her by the time you reached Juliet' (4:41) s age? (4:41PM) Sorry about how that got cut off there, lol Alexis: (4:45PM) Haha I guess I never thought of it like that, but yes. I really wish she had been around and was still around. [Tim gives this an iPhone "â¤ď¸"] (4:49PM) Juliet is very different than me in a lot of ways, but like you said, grandparents and their grandkids often have a special bond. A lot of things I write have something thatâs inspired by something in my life. In my first screenplay the main character was named âBlytheâ which was this girl I thought was super cool in like 3rd grade lol. (4:50PM) I donât even remember her last name but I remember that being her first. Tim: (4:52PM) I find myself sprinkling strange nuances from the people in my life as well. And Iâm glad Iâm doing more of that. Iâm so annoyed by some of my earlier work that seems more about trying to project myself instead of explore the lives of others [Alexis gives this an iPhone "â¤ď¸"] (4:53PM) You mentioned Kurt Vonnegut earlier. What would you say his influence has been on you? I also must admit that I watched a long podcast interview with you over the weekend in preparation for this â and that gave me some insight into some of the other losses in your life. We donât have to get into the specifics of those if youâd rather not. But Iâd assume Vonnegutâs ability to find humor in some of the most dire situations is what drew you in.
The long podcast video in question:
Ground Up 036 - Laugh it Off w/ Alexis Wilkinson
Alexis: (4:54PM) Yeah exactly very âso it goesâ way of looking at things sometimes, particularly death. So when I read him in high school I just never stopped. His lectures are really good too. Tim: (4:56PM) And you gotta love those goofy little drawings (4:58PM) Thereâs a point in so many documentaries about men where itâs like, âand then he abandoned his wife and family to pursue his dreams.â â and unfortunately there was a bit of that in his life, lol. (5:01PM) I donât remember if you mentioned this here or in the long podcast interview I watched â but are you writing a novel? Alexis: (6:16PM) Iâm working on a collection of short stories, yeah. (6:17PM) But who knows when Iâll be done Tim: (6:21PM) Thatâs exciting! Are they fiction or non-fiction? Alexis: (6:26PM) Fiction! Though I do have some non-fiction stuff written but I think I want more things to inevitably happen to me before I put that out there. And based on my track record, itâs coming lol Tim: (6:54PM) Was it difficult learning the structure of a humor piece, vs sitcom script, vs short story? Alexis: (7:49PM) I try to do a lot of research before I start something and I also just imitate people until I get it right lol Tim: (7:59PM) Who are some other writers that you love? Is Barack Obama one of them? (just saying that to keep up with the annoying Obama theme on my end) Alexis: (8:05PM) Hahah big sedaris fan. Read a lot of Simon rich when I was first starting out. Junot diaz. Jonathan escoffery. Octavia butler. Still Re-read bell hooks often. I know Lane Moore personally and really like her funny books. Tomi Adeyemi and I were classmates and sheâs awesome. Ashley Ford. The poet billy collins. (8:05PM) Stop bringing up my ex-husband itâs inappropriate Tim: (8:06PM) Wow, this is a great time for me to promote an upcoming show --
(8:06PM) The first ever commercial in this series Alexis: (8:07PM) AYYYYY ok awesome tell her I say hello and that I also contributed to the commercial [Tim gives this an iPhone "!!"] Tim: (8:08PM) My wife (who doesnât like being called âwifeâ so weâve settled in âwoman kingâ) is reading Tomi Adeyemiâs âChildren of Blood and Boneâ and loving it [Alexis gives this an iPhone "â¤ď¸"] (8:10PM) She also works in city politics and wanted me to tell you that she both identifies with and longs to attain Selina Meyersâ ability to speak her every thought with abandon [Alexis gives this an iPhone "HaHa"] (8:11PM) But we probably canât talk much about Veep due to strike rules (8:12PM) You were classmates with Tomi in college?! Could you sense her brilliance then? (8:13PM) I guess you kind of canât say ânoâ Alexis: (8:36PM) Haha she was extremely focused. She had a blog and really manifested become a famous author. Quite incredible to witness (8:36PM) Also just a sweet lady as well. Itâs nice when good people do well. (8:37PM) Becoming* Tim: (8:34PM) I donât want to keep you too late, but Iâve been trying to figure out what it is about your texting style thatâs so different and I just noticed that most of your final sentences end with a punctuation mark. True dedication to the craft of writing. So, final question for the day â How do you feel about lower cased social media posts. I recently converted to that style and you seem to tweet that way as well. I donât know what it is about it. Perhaps it just makes me feel like bell hooks while posting about potato chips Alexis: (8:15PM) Hahaha I do like to end my sentences in texts. and all lowercase for me just makes social posts lessâŚserious? Earnest? But I also LOVE an occasional CAPITALIZATION for EMPHASIS, as my friends know lol talk tomorrow! [Tim gives this an iPhone "!!"]
DAY 3 (Wednesday 08-23-2023)
Tim: (11:10AM) Day three! JUDGMENT DAY (11:12AM) Thinking of Octavia Butler and Vonnegut and a few of the Star Wars references in âThe Co-Founderâ â do you consider yourself to be a big sci-fi fan? Would you like to work more in that space? Alexis: (11:46AM) I absolutely would! I never really got into any Star Stuff (as I call it) when I was younger, but I have a bit as an adult. I love the philosophical questions that technology can pose more than anything. But I looooove a dystopia. Itâs nice to imagine thereâs something worse than this, yk? Hilarious. Tim: (11:56AM) Wow, so to you a dystopia is a form of relief? Never thought about it that way, but I bet thatâs the key to why those stories work. Even if the vibe is âweâre clearly heading toward thisâ it can make you appreciate the moment more Alexis: (12:04PM) I think itâs the same impulse that makes me love true crime. Like, itâs not logical, but if the murderer is murdering THEM, they canât possibly be murdering ME at the same time. Just doesnât make sense. Tim: (11:52PM) Do you think thereâs any connection there with your personality? I know that sounds rude as hell, lol. But I mean in terms of deflection. Using comedy as armor, etc. Alexis: (12:52PM) hahahahah omg. Damn. (11:52PM) He said âso youâre broken. Tell me about that.â [Tim gives this an iPhone "HaHa"] (11:53PM) I donât think Iâm deflecting. I think Iâm the only truly accepting. Deflection is not thinking about it. When you do and can laugh at it, thatâs true acceptance. (12:54PM) Also boy you donât know me! Tim: (12:54PM) Hahaha (12:56PM) I will say, that youâre great at ending your responses with a joke, which I may have misconstrued as some sort of deflection. But I agreeâ jokes are a great way of looking at the world or your own life from a birds view and give it that jab of context (12:56PM) Jab of Context â a new vaccine from Barnes-Co Alexis: (12:57PM) There was a study on humor, one of the few, I think I use whatâs called affiliative humor. Meaning I do it to bond to people, make them like me. Obviously this has backfired in this instance lolll but have I not answered your questions? My jokes only reaffirm my answers, not deflect. (12:58PM) Iâm pulling uno reverse. This is a you problem Iâve decided lol. Tim: (12:59PM) I think weâre exploring one of the many faults of text communication, lol. I truly hope Iâm not offending you in some way! Alexis: (1:00PM) You think you can offend me? Thatâs how I know you donât know me lol. Iâm kidding. Itâs fine. Lots to think about. Youâre doing amazing sweetie [Tim gives this an iPhone "â¤ď¸"] Tim: (1:02PM) Hahahaha, great. Whatâs the mood of Kentucky vs California? Alexis: (1:04PM) Also, listen, if you read thru this and I start sounding too bitchy or too broken, just cut that. People need to find out Iâm a broken bitch in person or not at all!!! (1:04PM) Iâve only been in Kentucky like 3 months so the juryâs still out. Tim: (1:07PM) No I donât think youâre coming across that way at all. I just got worried I was coming off as flippant in some way. Are you a person who likes having a daily routine? Moving always causes a shift in that. I was wondering if Kentucky affected that. I suppose the biggest shift from LA to Kentucky is the lack of oat milk in coffee shops (wow, this based on no research at all. Kentucky could love oat milk for all I know!) (1:18PM) But thatâs a long way of asking â if you do have a regular creative routine, what is it?! For me, writing my ridiculous five jokes every morning and at least one short story a month has been very helpful. Iâm re-discovering routine during the strike (1:28PM) Just noticed I already asked that in a different way in day one. Wow, I feel like Iâm in an I Think You Should Leave sketch. Sweating bullets over here --
(1:38PM) Letâs start small. Whatâs your favorite soda? Alexis: (2:31PM) Hahahaha. You good. I like a sprite for the most part. I love a Jamaican soda called Ting. Delicious. And Iâm jealous you write one story a month. Feel like Iâm either churning shit out or not motivated at all. Tim: (2:39PM) --
(2:41PM) I really enjoy Tananarive Due and Steven Barnesâ âLife Writingâ podcast where they tout just writing a sentence a day. That advice really helped me this year. Because you often end up writing more, but thereâs a satisfaction to one sentence if thatâs all you can muster (2:52PM) Wow, just looked up Ting and it seems super refreshing (2:55PM) Do you visit Jamaica often? Alexis: (3:10PM) No unfortunately. Used to a lot as a kid over summer break but harder to find the time now. (3:11PM) Iâll have to look up that podcast. Tim: (3:16PM) The podcast is great for writing advice and the joy of hearing two Black married writers who are madly in love with each other, lol [Alexis gives this an iPhone "â¤ď¸"] (3:16PM) Nothing beats summer break memories as a kid. I bet you had some great times there (3:17PM) Is there anything in particular that stands out when you think back on those trips? Did your âAmerican-nessâ stick out? Alexis: (4:08PM) Coming from Wisconsin is was soooooo nice to just blend in. Like nobody watching me. Looking at me weird, wondering why I was there. Until I opened my midwestern ass mouth I was just any other Jamaican kid walking around. Did a lot of good for my self esteem I think. (4:08PM) It was* Tim: (4:33PM) Yeah, thatâs an experience I think so many people out here should have. I say that as someone whoâs never had it in that way. Do you ever get that feeling when you travel of, like âOh, this is the Kansas version of my friend Tonya back home?â Alexis: (4:38PM) Haha do you mean do I see people who remind me of people from my hometown in other places? (4:38PM) Oh, do you think Iâm in Kansas? Iâm in Kentucky hahaha Tim: (4:42PM) Yeah! And no I didnât forget about Kentucky â I was trying to project someone who is neither of us, lol Alexis: (4:43PM) I definitely see people who I have to double take to make sure that isnât Jake who works at qdoba and things like that, sure (4:43PM) Is that not normal? I thought everyone felt that Tim: (5:00PM) Yeah! I think it happens to everyone. Just wasnât sure to what extent. In writing it kinda feels like you learn there are only so types of characters and itâs all about how you remix them. If there is a God, it seems like thatâs whatâa going on Alexis: (5:03PM) My sister says I date the same man in different fonts so I really feel that lol [Tim gives this an iPhone "HaHa"] Tim: (5:11PM) Wow, thatâs brilliant (5:12PM) Have you dated the Wingdings version yet? Alexis: (5:15PM) Heâs undoubtedly up next. Definitely got a comic sans in there though [Tim gives this an iPhone "HaHa"] Tim: (5:46PM) Well, I am unexpectedly getting some drinks with friends now and I fear accidentally repeating a question again, but this has been so much fun! Thanks for being the first guest Iâve never met in person. It was a true roller coaster in all of the best ways. Thereâs still the rest of the day left so you can write whatever you want until midnight! Lol. But also, if you have any questions for me Iâll try to answer. I hope you had a good time! I think people will love this one Alexis: (5:47PM) Thanks so much forâŚhaving me? Entertaining my delusions? All of that. It was a blast. Cheers! [Tim gives this an iPhone "â¤ď¸"]
END OF INTERVIEW
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