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Olivia Munn on Husband John Mulaney’s Relationship with Her Mom & Making the Worst Smelling Stew
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This video provides an excellent resource for intermediate learners to practice listening to natural, fast-paced conversational English. In this interview, actress Olivia Munn discusses her career, her family life with comedian John Mulaney, and her personal journey with breast cancer. Learners will benefit from observing Munn’s **storytelling techniques**, particularly how she uses dialogue and timing to deliver a humorous anecdote about accidentally using prop money. The transcript offers exposure to **contemporary idioms** (e.g., "life on the road," "besties") and **medical vocabulary** related to health screenings. Watching this will help students understand how to navigate shifts between lighthearted humor and serious, informative topics in a social setting.
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Our first guest tonight is a talented
actress and officially according to Los
Angeles magazine, The LA Woman.
>> That's right.
Season two of her show, Your Friends and
Neighbors, premieres April 3rd on Apple
TV. Please welcome Olivia Mun.
It's
>> very good to see you.
>> How are you?
>> I'm doing good.
>> You know what? Now that I think about
it, I assumed you were the LA woman and
maybe you are the or is it the LA woman
or were you named officially the LA
woman? Um I I think they might Oh, it
sounds
>> Let's go with the official
>> because I do they they have a brunch for
me and I get some kind of like a a
trophy.
>> Yeah. If you got a brunch I
>> like I won a competition.
>> If they give you a brunch that means
you're the only woman. Congratulations.
>> Thank you so much.
>> How is the family? Everyone good?
>> Everyone is doing really good. Yeah.
>> Good. Of course. Your husband is John
Melany. Very funny.
>> Yeah.
>> An adorable man. And how old are the
kids now? Um, Malcolm is four and May is
17 months.
>> Four and 17 months. Those are very fun
ages, right?
>> It's so sweet. He's Malcolm right now is
at his first jiu-jitsu class.
>> Oh, really?
>> Yeah. I know. It's very cute.
>> And John's at a fun age also, right? You
know.
>> Yeah, he's he's a lot of fun.
>> Is Malcolm wearing the he have a little
ghee on? Does he have an outfit?
>> He does. It's a little blue ghee. He's
at a Gracie jiu-jitsu. So Oh, that's
fun. You know, I I did taekwondo growing
up, so it means a lot to me that they do
martial John was like from Chicago and
so he's like in the city, so he didn't
really care about athletics as much, but
>> Yeah. Yeah. So he's not Well, yeah. But
he's But it's cute to see the kids do.
>> Oh my gosh, it's the cutest.
>> You know what's the cutest thing is? Cuz
my son did karate classes when they're
about five or six years old when they
take a thumb, they put it in somebody's
eye and they just really jam it in
there.
>> Adorable.
>> I would be very proud if that happened.
you know, um John, uh who of course I
know, um tells me sometimes about
Malcolm being on the road with him on
his standup comedy tour.
>> Always is like funny to me that his tour
manager is four.
>> Yeah. And he has a lot of demands, by
the way. He's got a longer writer than
John. Um but yeah, he's John's on tour
right now and he does bring Malcolm with
him everywhere like solo and um they do
their own thing. It's so funny because
they are little besties. I mean, you've
been around them and he's just like
adores that little boy and he's been
talking to him like a like an adult
since, you know, he was born and and
Malcolm, just like John, is really
verbal and he could speak like, you
know, in full sentences before he was
two. And um that's just John's side.
That's my side. Um, and uh, and so it's
so funny because now that he's on tour
with them, like really, and with them
all the time, Malcolm has adapted this
like adult really adult way of talking.
Like um, like the other day I like
scheduled this fun playd date and did
this whole thing and I was like, "Hey,
like you know, they're coming over." And
he goes, "Did you think I wanted to play
with them?" And I was like,
"Oh, um, okay. Sorry." And then um you
know this is his version of being like
oh does you know I guess it's the the
inverse you know version of that but I
don't know what he's saying actually.
But he goes um after that I gave him
something to eat. I made these like
brownies and I tried to make them from
scratch cuz I'm trying to cook more. And
he goes did you think I would like
these? He was like so he that's how he
talks to people like did you think I
wanted you to come in here? I'm like
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Used to refer to the person or people that the speaker is addressing. It is the second-person pronoun used for both singular and plural subjects and objects.
People refers to a group of human beings or the general public. It is the standard plural form of the word 'person'.
To have a specific sense or significance, especially when explaining a word or sign. It can also describe a person's intention or the importance of something to someone.
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