WEBVTT - Unmasked with Kate Flannery 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:06.000 This is the most dramatic podcast ever and iHeartRadio podcast. 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:09.639 Chris Harrison and Lauren z E Ma comedy from the 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:14.680 Home Office in Austin, Texas. We are such huge fans 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:15.880 of our guests. 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:17.800 I know you just said the word home Office. 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:23.640 And it's so perfect for this time because Kate Flannery 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:30.200 iconically played Meredith, the redheaded spitfire on the Office, and 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:32.639 of course she's done so many other comedic projects. She's 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:35.440 been on Dancing with the Stars. She was just revealed 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:37.800 to have been on this season of The Mass Singer. 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:40.360 She was the starfish. So we're going to talk to 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:43.199 her about everything from her time on the Office to 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:45.440 whether the rumors are true. 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:47.520 Is an Office reboot. 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:53.360 In the works. Kate Flannery, It's so good to see you. 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:52.519 See you. 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:54.080 How's it going so good? 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:55.080 I don't know if you remembered me. 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:56.960 I interviewed you for Entertainment tonight when you were on 0:00:57.040 --> 0:00:59.600 Dancing with the Stars, and I told you that and 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:01.280 i'll tell you again now. And I used to go 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:04.000 to your Lampshades shows, which I always love it. 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:06.759 And I don't know if you remember me, but when 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:10.399 you were the Bachelorette, I was hosting that season, and 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:12.520 when you had sex with those five guys in the 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:13.479 hot tub that one night. 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:17.240 Who you expect me to remember all those guys, chrisy 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:17.880 you crazy? 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:20.080 No, No, that was my job. I kept track of 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:21.959 the names of the guys you were sleeping with. I 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:25.800 would never expect that from you. It's so good to 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:26.400 see you again. 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:28.640 I used to see you. How's it going. 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:32.640 It's so good. So you had your you met Kate 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:34.040 through entertainment tonight. 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:36.959 Yes, but it's also weird when you and Kate. I 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:39.480 actually think Chris has been told the same thing. So 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.760 I feel fine telling you something you've You've probably heard before. 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:45.480 But it's weird when you interview someone but you also 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:48.320 fall asleep to them every night, Like I fall asleep 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:49.560 to the office every night. 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:50.080 I do. 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:52.480 And I don't mean because it's boring, because I know 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:54.880 how this comes across. 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:55.640 The comfort thing. I totally got it. 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:57.480 Do people tell you that all the time? 0:01:58.000 --> 0:01:59.920 Yes, I mean not all the time, but some of 0:01:59.880 --> 0:02:00.320 the time. 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:01.920 But it is weird when people come up to you 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:04.160 in an airport, it's like, Oh, my wife and I 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:07.200 we crawl in bed and we was like, you realize 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:10.800 that visual now that I'm thinking of, and what. 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:12.160 Do you like ambient? 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:14.360 Yeah, exactly. Or it's like we hit pause and then 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:15.720 we have sex and we turn it back. 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:17.240 On, and then we turn the Bachelor back on, and 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:18.000 then we're turned on. 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:19.720 By it, and then I'm wondering, is it just my face? 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:24.760 And So I met Kate, so her and Jane Lynch, 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:27.400 which we'll talk about. They do, they do stuff together, 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:30.040 they do these shows together. And I don't know if 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:32.000 you remember, but the first time I met Kate, we 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:37.639 were backstage for ari Ari Emanuel who owns runs Endeavor 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:39.640 and now William Morris en Deavor the agency. 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:40.000 Yeah. 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:41.880 So these are the things you do in Hollywood that 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:47.560 are really glamorous. We're doing a Jewish school fundraiser. Jane Lynch, 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:51.840 Kate Flannery, Chris Harrison, big names on the stage for 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:55.320 a Jewish junior high high school. By the way, this 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:58.040 school there's only like, there was like ten thousand people 0:02:58.080 --> 0:02:58.679 in attendance. 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:00.320 It was crazy. 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.760 The so obviously The Office was on at that time. Yes, 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:05.200 so Kate, I'm going to sell him out right now, 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:06.639 but like it's a good thing. 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:09.639 You know. He never watched the Office until about a 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:11.800 year ago. Ever, this is true. 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:16.240 No, I'm so late to this, and no, it's all right. 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:18.360 I mean I get it. You know, you're you're a 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:18.919 little busy. 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:21.160 No, but I came. But now that I came to it, 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:23.160 it's embarrassing how much I watch it. 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:24.560 You waited too long. 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:25.760 It truly is embarrassing. 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:27.799 But then we binged it and now he loves it. 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:31.280 I can't believe Steve Croll was dead the whole time 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:35.960 spoiler alert, the whole series, he was dead and nobody knew. 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:38.800 That's the reveal. Well, you know, no one can go. 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:41.400 Back and watch it, but it is. It is funny, 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:44.320 how I And what I find interesting is that it 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:46.840 is just as relevant and it hits in the same 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:49.480 place is probably it did the day it was created, 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:51.720 which talk about the mark of a great show. 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:56.480 Absolutely absolutely, it is timeless, and it's like, I know, also, 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:59.200 there's so much truth in comedy, you know. It's like, 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:04.040 that's why I'm so bummed that, you know, comedy is 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:07.560 just they're losing their bravery and everyone's in microscope and 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:08.960 it's just such a bummer. 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:13.120 But I love hearing that from you, Kate, because I mean, look, 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:15.000 I think we all it's funny, and again this is 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:17.640 a Hollywood mess up. They're out there giving us the 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:20.760 reboot of this and the sixth sequel of that, And 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:23.480 then you see how much and you hear from how 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:28.359 people are I think crying out for like rom coms 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:30.720 to be back, for our rated comedies to be back 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:31.200 in the theater. 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:32.040 We've been through a lot. 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:34.880 People want to laugh, and why is that not happening. 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:37.480 Do you think it's because, I mean, your career comedian. 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:39.839 Is comedy really hard to do now? And what do 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:40.880 you think needs to change? 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:46.360 I think people are hyper sensitive and I think they 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:50.960 don't feel like comedy is safe, which is bummer. 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:51.440 Because I feel like. 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:55.200 It's like an equal opportunity offender if you look at 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:57.520 all comedy like someone is being made fun of. But 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:00.359 at the same time, we all have these moments where 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:04.520 we get to laugh at our own expense, and we 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:06.560 don't have the ability to laugh at ourselves. 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:08.200 We're really in trouble as a culture. 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:11.880 Well, it's interesting what's happened here in Austin. Love him 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:15.840 or hate him? Joe Rogan left California, created this thing 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:18.000 called the Mothership down here. They were in the Vulcan room, 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:20.240 which is this bar here in Austin, and he bought 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:24.440 a place and people have left all around the country 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:28.520 to come to Austin because it is it's this place 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:31.680 for free comedy, and I mean free, I mean you're 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:34.280 free to do it. They lock up your phones. I've 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:35.360 been to a couple of the shows. 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:36.360 I love that they lock. 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:39.039 Up the phones because I think that's what's probably scary 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:41.320 as a comedian, Right, You're testing out an act and 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:43.320 then a little snippet of it goes and it doesn't 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:44.560 come across well in your life's. 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:47.560 Right's out a context, the moments out of context. 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:50.480 And these great comics have either moved here or they 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:52.600 are just coming to perform here and work on their 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.720 acts before they do a Netflix special or whatever. And 0:05:55.960 --> 0:06:00.320 it sells out immediately. It's killing here in Austin. 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:03.200 Right, No, I totally get it. 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:06.240 I mean it's it's just a strange time and I'm 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:08.800 just so happy to be on a show that I 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:12.400 feel like treats the audience so intelligently. I think that's 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:15.120 why kids are really into it too, even though though they'd. 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:15.960 Never worked in an office. 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:19.359 And there's some like a boss and a teacher and 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:21.839 people in desks that you didn't pick. You know, nobody 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.240 picks next to sit next to Dwight. You know, it's 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:29.320 like there's something so relatable. Fortunately, and I don't know, 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:31.599 I just I just hope we can get back to 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:37.560 new content without major hyper awareness. 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:39.920 Okay, but Kate, I have to ask you. And I 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:42.960 was just saying, no more reboots, but no more reboots. 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:46.960 But Kate, here's the thing though, the rumors have been around, 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:50.039 and then there were rumors that there was like meetings 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:52.920 and table readings happening in January. Where are we at 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:55.800 on the Office reboot? Because my god, are people crying 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:56.120 for it. 0:06:56.640 --> 0:07:01.480 I'm I've not been a part of any any any 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:02.400 I mean, if it exists. 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:04.120 I don't even know if it exists. And maybe maybe 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:07.279 I'm being replaced by m A. Stone. I don't know. 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:09.600 Well, amistone will be quite a compliment. 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:13.200 But now we know who she would want to play her. 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:17.880 Yes, well there's a there's there's like I think Darryl, 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:21.960 played by Craig Robinson, makes a comment about like is 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:24.760 it just me or is is Meredith kind of given. 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:25.560 An Emma Stone vibe? 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:28.840 Totfully that's like an office reference but yeah, I don't 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:29.640 think whatever. 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:32.480 I don't think I'm a little older than Emma Stone. 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:45.880 And yeah, you know I was. 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:49.320 I was shocked and correct me if I'm wrong, because 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:52.080 it feels like it was longer. The Office is nine years, 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:56.360 a nine year run, yep, that's that seems crazy. Doesn't 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:59.280 it feel like it was around for so much longer? 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:01.480 Well, I think it's spills that way because people are 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:03.440 still watching it and talking about it all the time. 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.640 I mean, nine years is a great run, but it's just. 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:09.640 People still watch Friends and Stuff and Seinfeld. But I 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:11.880 feel like those shows ended. I don't know why. 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:14.080 I feel like the audits because you just found it 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:15.520 this is a year that's not true. 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:21.040 I don't know more and are welcome, Chris, Well, you guys, 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:23.840 just do you just give us a little mini reboot 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:26.880 in this AT and T commercial that y'all did you? 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:29.480 And Rain Wilson and Jenni Fisher and a bunch of 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:31.920 people are in it. It's so funny. How did it 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:34.120 feel to be back together, to be filming something together? 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.160 Well, I mean, this is the thing you do nine 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:40.640 seasons with people you either never speak to them again 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:42.680 and if they're coming towards you on the street you 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:45.719 turn around and go the other way, or you are 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:48.640 a family, and we are fortunately a family. 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:51.120 So it was so great to work with each other. 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:55.000 And you know, I mean, obviously we're not doing the Office, 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:58.559 it's a commercial, we're playing ourselves, but such a shorthand 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:00.520 with all of us, and such a joy to be 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:01.120 back together. 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:04.679 It fell right back into place, totally, totally, like. 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:06.200 No time had passed the best. 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:09.440 I do feel like whenever I hear interviews with any 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:12.200 of y'all from the cast, people talk about what a 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:14.640 special like, not just that it being a hit show 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:16.600 that has lasted and the content was good, but what 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:20.319 a special work experience it was? What was the Office 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.280 doing right at a time when so many people are 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:27.240 frustrated with their work experiences or the environments that we 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:27.800 have today. 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:30.640 What was what was right about the work environment? 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:33.480 Well, you know, it always starts at the top, and 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:37.600 our showrunner Craig Daniels and our lead Steve Corral were 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:40.440 really good. They're good human beings, and they also put 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:43.880 the show before anybody's ego, so it was always about 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:47.360 the work. And you know, you can't act like a 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:50.760 douchebag at the leads, not acting like a douchebag. 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:54.160 If the guy who has more lines than anybody, you know. 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:57.480 So yeah, and also I always felt like we were 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:00.160 treated like there was no hierarchy. We knew the was 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:04.920 a hierarchy, but information was the seminated actually, like we 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:07.240 all knew a lot of the same things, like which 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:10.800 is unusual. Sometimes there's tears of knowledge and shut out 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:13.120 and have to have a certain contract to know that 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:16.200 or whatever. And I, especially for the first few years, 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:20.120 I felt like we always were just just treated like 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:22.079 a family, like we were all in the same room 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:24.679 together for so much, so many you know, so many years, 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:28.640 and and uh, it really felt like everyone cared. 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:29.080 About each other. 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:32.160 I always found when I got to ABC, it was 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:33.839 like the end of an era. And but it was 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:35.960 the same way where like John Ritter was doing his 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:38.960 show and everybody fell in line because he was that guy. 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:41.800 And then like in My People, Yeah, it's like every 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:44.320 show had a patriarch or a matriarch that really set 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:47.640 the tone. And then when the ensemble craze happened of 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:50.920 Grey's Anatomy and Desperate Housewives and all that, it like 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:54.320 all that dissipated and it blew up because everybody was 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:55.240 fighting for themselves. 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:56.360 That's the thing. You're so right about. 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:59.079 The secrets thing too, and the like. It's like if 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:01.400 people are being used to pit against each other, which 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:03.280 you know a little bit about that from The Bachelor, 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:08.679 but you it creates, well, people are angry at each other, 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:11.559 they're resemful, they're scared, and it's not and it ultimately 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:12.840 makes the product stuffer. 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:15.400 I think I think so too, you know. 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:17.560 I mean, and when I say that we were all 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:19.800 in the same room, we were we all had to 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:23.000 do background work. But you know, but also like you know, 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:26.199 even if I didn't talk in a scene, sometimes I 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:28.520 would still get a laugh because of my expression, And 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:30.560 I thought, like, this is just a great thing to trust. 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:33.080 So the process was just so interesting. And literally the 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:35.880 first season, Greg Daniels, our show runer, asked us to 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:41.439 bring real paperwork, so literally we were doing taxes because 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:43.240 you know, you wanted it to feel like it was 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:45.400 a real work environment, and so when the camera came 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:47.240 to you, you were already working. 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:49.040 You weren't like acting like you were working. 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:52.160 You were working. So that's like that was another thing 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:54.800 that sort of informed what was going on. So I 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:56.440 don't know, and I just you know, I'm one of 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:59.320 seven kids. I'm I'm I was born into an ensemble. 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:04.680 Realizing that, yeah, you and your twin you were the youngest, Yes. 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:06.920 The youngest of seven. Yeah, my sister and I don't 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:08.400 look alike that much. Win and I don't look alike. 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:11.280 I saw you said she's actually funnier or she's the 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:12.000 funny one. 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:14.240 It is. She is way funny than I'm for sure. 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:16.960 For sure, I have to use this opportunity to ask you. 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:18.840 And I don't know if this is a tough subject 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:23.040 to talk about, but I listened with intent to. I'm 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:24.959 gonna forget it. The guy who plays Kevin what is 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:29.040 his real name, Brian? Yes, I absolutely loved his like 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:32.680 in depth retrospective podcast that he put out a couple 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:34.600 of years ago, and it was kind of the first 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:37.600 time I heard people talk about when Steve left. So 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:39.800 it's just coming into my mind because you're talking about 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:41.679 like there were no secrets and that kind of thing. 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:45.160 But what was that moment, Like, was that a departure 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:47.000 from how it had been losing your patriarch? 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:48.440 Yeah, no, totally. 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:53.440 It was extremely emotional, for sure, for everybody including Steve. 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:54.640 He didn't really want to go. 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:57.920 Yeah, but I god, I just feel like I just. 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:01.319 Thought the writers handled it so well and it allowed us. 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:05.680 All to process together, which is, you know, unusual, So 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:07.160 it kind of felt like it was all sort of 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:10.400 happening in real time. But I'll never forget they Creed 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:15.160 and I were doing a satellite radio tour or TV tour. 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:17.800 Breast tour in the morning, and they had announced it 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:20.480 like that morning, and we didn't even know that Steve 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:23.120 was leaving. So I was like, uh, I think we 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:26.360 lost the feed. Like I can't asked a question about it. 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:27.280 I was like, I'm. 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:29.680 Sorry, I can't. I can't see it for you because 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:32.520 I didn't know what to say. Yeah, you know, but yeah, 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:35.040 it was so emotional, and I don't know, I just 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:40.240 think everything evolves, and you know, good things come to 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:40.560 an end. 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:44.480 Unfortunately, TV does eventually end, except if you're on The Simpsons. 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:48.480 So yeah, it happened at some point. 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:50.960 But to me, and this is just my opinion, that's 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:54.280 just I'll never understand why they let him go. Like 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:56.320 you said, he didn't want to go, and it's just 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:58.240 we're kind of, you know, we're like all Hollywood. 0:13:58.240 --> 0:13:59.040 We're all experienced here. 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:02.360 That's just one of those Did somebody higher up just 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:03.960 make the dumbest decision in the world. 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:04.679 I don't get that. 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:06.840 I think so they didn't renew his contract. I don't 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:08.679 know what, and everyone's like trying to figure out what 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:09.480 the hell was going on. 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:12.560 You get in these shows sometimes and you're like, the 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:16.079 only people that can ruin this is us, and they 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:18.760 do and they do like they can't help themselves. Sometimes 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:20.760 it happened on it. It happened a show I was 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:21.520 involved in one time. 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:24.800 It was just but you're the reality TV Steve. 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:29.520 KROWBP, you can have Creed who did more with less 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:33.800 than those two Creed it was like the line like 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:37.440 sometimes one or two lines, yeah, oh, and they would 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:39.240 own the episode with one or two lines. 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:42.720 I'm telling you, Like, that's that's a lesson to all actors. 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:45.440 You don't need to count your lines in your script 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:47.160 and get upset if you don't talk a lot. 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:49.360 Got to make the most of what you got. And 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:52.720 also just like trust that sometimes less is more. 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:59.480 Chris, you know what, Actually so many similarities. You were 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:01.320 often in that position with the Bachelor, like you have 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:02.240 like one line. 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:04.240 Yeah, no, I mean, and I came to a whole 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:07.320 different obviously, you know, Kate was second city and improv 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:10.400 and comedy, and I came through this to local news 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:12.840 and sportscasting. But the first lesson I ever learned, and 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:16.640 I tell all journalism kids, get over yourself. It's not 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:19.520 about you. You're not the story. And it is and 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:21.760 probably I guess comedy and acting is the same way. 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:24.320 It's not about you. If you're good, people are going 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:24.680 to know. 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:30.160 Right right, and also if it's I don't know. I 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:35.600 just think there's so many performers who hijack everybody before. 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:38.400 They you know, yell action and they have to tell 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:40.440 a joke and they have to put somebody down. You know, 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:42.880 it's like they have to claim their power ownership over 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:43.280 the show. 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:45.760 Kate, do you have a favorite since it was you 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:47.800 and Creed in that corner, do you have a favorite 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:51.720 Creed line from the show? 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:56.360 I liked the he wanted to Creed one time says 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:58.400 to Meredith, did we. 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:04.920 And with those two you fully believe maybe they did 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:06.560 and they forgot did they can't? 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:09.160 She said? She said, we did. 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:12.280 It's so good. 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:27.600 Okay, I'll ask you one more time and I'm going 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:29.320 to hope I get a different answer, but I think 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:32.560 I won't. You were just together for the for the commercial. 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:35.880 Were you all talking about the potential of a reboot 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:38.120 at all? Like, was there any discussion? Has anyone heard anything? 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:39.000 And would you all be. 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:41.200 In because I know there's a text thread, there is 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:43.040 the office text thread that you guys are all on. 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:45.920 Yeah, there's there's nothing on the text thread. Yeah, I don't. 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:46.400 I don't know. 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:50.200 I mean, I you know, I also have a big mouth, 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:51.560 so maybe people just don't tell. 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:52.720 Me anything that they don't trust you. 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:57.360 Thinking about the mask saying or was it you literally 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:00.680 wear like a sweatshirt that says talk to me and 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:03.240 you're walking around rehearsing, I'm like, this is hell. 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:04.760 I want to talk to everybody. 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.159 And by the way, for those that don't know, she 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:09.480 was just okay. It was just revealed on the mass 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:11.560 Singer the star the Starfish. 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:15.560 Okay, so I still have my well this is my commemorative. 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:17.480 Face mask and snorkel. 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:17.879 Okay. 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:21.080 It looked like you I'm not gonna say miserable, but 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:23.240 you could You couldn't even move in that damn thing. 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:26.200 It was fun though, it was a challenge. I literally 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:28.040 felt like there was a rubber band around my knees, 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:29.359 like it was a little like it was like I 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:33.000 felt like very short, you know, very short, short legged. 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:34.760 And you're, by the way, you're a damn good singer. 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:36.560 I've heard you sing like you're a good performer. 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:39.560 Thanks, I'm more of a jazz singer. And this was 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:42.960 a little more poppy. But I felt taken care of 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:44.720 and I felt like the arrangements were good. It was 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:47.960 really fun and I liked all the songs, and yeah. 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:49.359 I could have I could have stayed longer, but you 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:52.000 know what, sometimes less is more. Maybe the three episodes 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:52.360 is great. 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:54.880 I've actually to take away from this from this podcast 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:56.440 less more do and do. 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:57.240 More with less. 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:59.320 Kevin Hart was smart. He's like, I'm out, I'm gonna 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:01.320 dress up like book and I'm out. In the first episode, 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:05.240 like peace out, did you you you were singing alongside 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:07.680