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Bard would whisper funny lines into my earpiece and I would botch them.

Thirty-five seconds to make sure everyone has the right microphones and earpieces.

Joe Biden is still surrounded by all the trappings of power – the black SUVs, the security guys with curly earpieces, the sniffer dogs sent ahead to sweep the room for explosives.

"Instead of doing a screen test and auditions, it was like, 'we've seen your videos, here's your mic, here's your earpiece, off you pop'," he says.

Big talk from the guy who had his lines fed through an earpiece while filming.