Oh dear lord, please no. Hasn’t the poor woman been through enough? How many sociopaths is she going to be engaged/married to?!

Did you also have to repack like, 35 bazillion clothes because they were in lawsuits with other clothing companies for stealing the design? I did. It was great. Go to work Monday and unpack, steam, size, clear a rack and hang. Go to work Tuesday, rip it all down. It was the retail equivalent of Sisyphus’s stone…

I worked there when I was 19 but the black woman and Asian woman who were hired at the same time and I would joke we were the affirmative action hires. (I was not a size 2.) We were also the only three people who actually bothered to do any actual work in the store.

...They weren’t a parody group?

Mine too. And the Zachary Levi and Chris Evans impressions. He’s really a skilled mimic.

That’s fantastic. An ex’s family had a campsite near the Ommegang Brewery, and they always had a big festival on the grounds around my birthday, so we’d go to a tasting and enjoy pumpkin bowling and artisan New York cheeses.

Perfect. Answer.

Same! I was a smart bookish person who got a pass b/c I taught people how to successfully copy homework without getting caught and and knew enough pop culture that I could answer their random questions about actors/movies/music/etc.

Didn’t he also wear stilts to “get into character” while voicing Groot? Which is nerdy and adorable all at once.

Sigh. I sadly don’t have to go back and check. He definitely said he is a tennis and Shakespeare nerd. Also, he does a velociraptor impression, which on the face of it is pretty nerdy.

Ommegang has G0T beer?! Sigh. Sometimes I miss living in NY and having access to stores with more beer than I get here.

Thanks for the info! When I was reporting, I mostly was dealing with in-state stuff, and nothing so crazy that I needed to record all the convos, so I just had to know New York law. I appreciate the clarification!

38 states are one-party consent. If you are part of the conversation, you have the right to record it. Trick in something like this is whose state law do you use — the one the interviewer is in, or the one the subject is in?

I know! I see it around the internet but totally missed the initial piece / context.

You are funny and insightful on this thread and others. I like you.

Ugh. I didn’t see that. I expect more from Ruffalo.

I was trying to deal in the realm of what’s feasible. :-)

Right? The crap they said in the game of Telephone, Renner’s joke about Evans not having any kids “that he knows of,” the fact most seemed super drunk, the girl who had her shirt off to show her tattoo and flashed her boob, the Family Feud thing that just got weird... It was a mess. The red carpet interviews, which I…

Agreed. That’s a long time to be answering the same questions. Although, c’mon guys. If you show up to the interview hungover that’s one thing. But please do not come in actually wasted. The Jimmy Kimmel thing was a mess.

I’m in PR, too! We should start a crisis management team specializing in how not to sound like a douchey asshole. We’d be amazing.