WEBVTT - Jaleel White 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:08.200 This is Frost Tips with Lance Bass and I heard 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:13.920 radio podcast. Hello my Little Peanuts, it's me your host, 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:17.720 Lance Bass. This is Frostit Tips, so me Lance Bass. 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:22.120 Happy holidays everyone. I got drewpe with me today. Okay, 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:24.840 So I'm excited to have this man on. I keep 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:27.960 running into this guy a lot over the years, and 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:32.000 he's a part of this kind of nineties entertainment family 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:35.280 that you know, you just you know, we're not I 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:38.879 wouldn't say that we're close friends. We don't call each 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:41.320 other and hang out, but when you do something like 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:45.960 as big as family matters and beyond TGIF and then 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:47.920 of course my group and seeing comes out at the 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:50.479 same exact time, Yeah, you kind of have this bond 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:53.240 without even really knowing each other. I kind of said 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:54.920 the same thing with Liam passed away, you know, a 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:57.680 few weeks ago. I never met the guy, But you 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:00.240 just have this I don't know, you just feel like 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:03.440 this little family. It's like going to the same college 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:04.200 or something. 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:06.840 Yeah. Yeah, when you meet some from your hometown, you 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:07.720 never like know them. 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:10.520 But that's a perfect example because there's a couple of 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:15.039 people like Mary Elizabeth Ellis, you know, uh, she's on 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:17.560 sunny in Philadelphia, married to Charlie Day. 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:19.880 We're from the same hometown, Laurel, Mississippi. 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:23.119 Never met her in Laurel, but here in la when 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:24.680 I got to meet her and we see each other, 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:26.280 it's this bond we have. 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:30.640 You know, we're just like shared experience. It, yeah, shared experience. 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:33.000 And especially when your childhood because you know the same 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:35.679 you know bakeries, you went to the same Christmas parade 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:39.520 that you would do with your family. I just always 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:42.880 feel like family when I see Julil I see. 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:46.520 Him on lots of things. He seems like a genuinely 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:49.720 nice guy. I've seen him in interviews and some on 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:53.920 the view recently. He seems that he's made it out 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:59.960 of that childhood stardom and and seems grounded and normal. 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:02.640 He seems like a nice guy. I look forward to talking. Yeah, 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:03.880 great family man. 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:04.639 Uh. 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:06.600 And you know what I'm gonna do this whole interview. 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:10.760 What's that I am going to go a whole interview 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:15.320 with jillil White without saying his character's name from Family Matters, 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:17.560 Not gonna say it one time because I know he's 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:19.320 probably so sick and tired. 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:21.080 I'm talking about that character. 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:22.120 We all know it. 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:24.160 We all know what he went through. I will take 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:24.760 that bet. 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.560 Okay that there's no way in heck you will go 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:30.119 the entire podcast at the cast without saying. 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:34.000 All right, what do I win. We're gonna figure that out. 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:36.280 I'll go to Towny Bagel and figure, oh, thank you, 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:38.639 it's our favorite babel place here in Palm Springs. 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:43.320 A little playing plug. Good luck getting in the lines 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:46.560 of block around yeah, around the block. Yeah. But yeah, 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:47.720 So I can only. 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:52.080 Imagine I enjoy talking about the instant days, right, but 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:54.320 you know, there comes a time where's like, Okay, I'm 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:57.600 so overtelling that exact same story for the last twenty 0:02:57.720 --> 0:02:58.440 five years. 0:02:58.560 --> 0:02:59.160 So I get it. 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:01.520 He probably gets a little like, Okay, there we go. 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:04.200 There's another interview. I have to talk about everything. So 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:07.359 let's see how long I go without saying the name. 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:08.920 I look forward to hearing it, and I'm proud I 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:11.800 still haven't said it. But not even not even in 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:13.560 the intro here have I even brought it up. 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:16.320 You know, I wanted to talk about the fact that 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:22.760 you just recently hosted the the Grove Tree Lighting. Yeah, 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:24.640 and this this they do it annually. 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:27.079 It's the twenty third annual and you just got done 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:27.640 hosting it. 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:29.680 I saw it all from behind the scenes, got to 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:31.080 help out a little with the script. 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:36.000 But you were a great Drew was over there like, yeah, yeah, 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:38.520 I was. I was really in between commercialaces. You ready 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:41.240 for this? You want to try this one? Making changes 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:42.200 on the fly? 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:46.760 No, but but but what I realized was that that 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:51.640 whole situation with the tree lighting was a huge which 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:52.600 is a huge ordeal. 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:55.720 They had like six or seven performances. Huge. I've never 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:56.120 been to it. 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:58.600 I lived in I live in Los Angeles since before 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:00.000 the Grove's creating. 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:02.680 I've never been to it before. It's the twenty third 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:03.680 year it's been going on. 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:06.320 And to me, because you know, I've been to this 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:09.160 lighting before, because it is to me, the most beautiful 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:11.960 Christmas tree lighting in the country. I've done Rockefeller, I've 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:14.400 done all kinds of little towns out there. This one's 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:17.960 special because Rick Caruso and his old Cruso team, they 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:20.960 build beautiful spots. So if you've not been to the 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:25.120 grove here in Los Angeles, Uh, there's the What Americana. Yeah, 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:27.679 there's all these different malls they build a different properties 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:34.200 at the Hills, Rosewood hotel in Santa Barbara, gorgeous hotels, 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:38.120 over the top experiences and just really beautiful places of 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:39.480 our family friendly. 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:42.120 Well and they and they broadcast this thing all across 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:45.719 the country on box stations all and they're broadcasting it 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:47.960 over and over again. So this is what I'm saying, 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:51.440 is like, not only was it Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving Eve 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:54.839 and all of that, but it's gonna be around Christmas again, Eve. 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:57.640 And Christmas Day ever. You're all over the place. It's fun. 0:04:57.680 --> 0:04:58.320 It's really fun. 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:02.279 I think, you know, after this experience, Uh, you know, 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:05.200 I loved you know, obviously I love posting, and especially 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:06.680 if it has anything to do with a holiday. 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:09.640 So it really is kind of like my perfect gig. 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:13.719 So I'm actually talking them about doing this again, maybe 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:15.839 next year, but making making it bigger. 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:17.040 I mean, this year was big. 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:21.960 We had Ryan Tetter, Rachel Platten, uh, we had Schalea, 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:24.599 we had the girl who won American Idol. 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:27.960 I know, when once you started listing people, I was like, 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:29.000 we don't have a list. 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.200 In front of us were a lot of really it 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:33.400 was great, beautiful. 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:36.080 We had we had dancers that looked like the Rockets, 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:38.039 but they weren't the rockets because we're in Los Angeles. 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:39.640 Uh, it snows. 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:42.960 One of the coolest How they get it to snow 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:44.200 in Los Angeles? 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:48.840 Spoiler, it's so so it's true. I know it is. 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:51.599 I'm sorry to burst your bubble. It wasn't real snow. 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:54.200 I knew it wasn't real snow. I don't know. 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:57.720 I think I just taught you something like that snow 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:00.960 would melt Los Angeles. And it's actual that it wasn't real. 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:05.719 It was real snow, but I didn't know what it was. Okay, 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:08.039 But here's the coolest thing about the show. Not only 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:11.840 is it the Santa is a man. Okay, this is 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:15.679 like the legit Santa people, Uh it was this one? 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:17.159 Is this this is. 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:20.440 The guy if you saw the Thanksgiving Day parade Macy's, yeah, 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:23.520 that was him. Yeah, so this is the legit, the 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:26.560 real one, all right, And we got him at this 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:29.240 tree lighting ceremony. But you know what my favorite part 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:33.520 was you singing No, it wasn't that part because that 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:35.839 was like a karaoke moment. Next year, if I do 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.360 this my real moment next year, I'm not going to 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:41.279 do a little little sing along karaoke moment. 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:46.400 Good, but you want to do something serious. It's Christmas. 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:51.480 Christmas time is my thing because Christmas music it's for crooners. 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:54.040 Yeah, and I'm a crooner. Yeah, you know, I get 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:55.159 to use my basy voice. 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:57.520 So this is this is my I was gonna say, 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:00.000 this is my Christmas. 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:03.200 It's my Christmas. I don't know. But what would you do? 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:06.279 Would you do like fantasy Baby? No? No? Hello? 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:09.040 Did we just go over to the fact that I'm 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:13.200 a I know, but I Sinatra Dean Martin? 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:20.880 Yes, like, oh yeah, you got to you know, fun Crome, 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:24.840 Little Elvis come on. Okay, So yeah, so I think 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:31.760 about anyway, the Drone show was the best. That was crazy. 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:34.600 I've seen some drone shows on television before, but to 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:37.800 see it in person, it was incredible. Well, how do 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:39.320 I still understand how they can do this? 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:42.640 Anyway, if you want to watch it, just search the 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:48.080 twenty third annual the Grow Tree Lighting Celebration on your 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:51.240 dirug TV or wherever you watch TV and you will 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:54.800 be able to see mister Bass host the show. 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:55.960 I'm just saying. 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:58.320 I mean, and again, next year, if I do this, 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:00.680 we're not gonna wing it as much we there were, 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:02.800 because we did have a good rehearsal the night before, 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.200 but there were parts I didn't even know we're gonna happen, 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:09.800 especially the ending. Yeah, I had we didn't rehearse the ending. 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:11.960 I had no idea how the show was going to 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:14.240 even end. Didn't know what I was supposed to say. 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:17.040 And then all of a sudden, I'm on stage with 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.880 this amazing choir and all the the artists come out 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:24.640 and we're seeing Dry Carrey's you know whatever, her song, 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:26.640 and I'm having the best time. 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.360 I'm like, wait, I didn't I don't even know what 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:30.920 to do, and we're supposed to light the tree. I 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:32.280 don't really know how I was supposed to do that. 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:34.960 Santa did it? Uh singing? I was supposed to end 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.079 the show ended it a color. You should not be 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:39.360 talking trash. You're gonna want this. 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:42.600 Show, but this show is all about an insider information 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:44.960 on how the television works. 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:45.840 Yeah, that was the show. 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:49.480 I saw you on that stage when when everything was 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:51.520 the fireworks going off, and you're kind of you you 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:54.079 managed to sort of figure it out, like Okay, I 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:55.760 can stand here, this is where I can hang, and 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:55.920 so on. 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:56.280 It's over. 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:58.800 You know I'm going wrong and strong the run through 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:02.400 went so long the night before that they didn't really 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:06.240 tie up the loose end that is the ending, like 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:09.160 one of the most important parts is definitely the ending. 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:13.240 But somehow it worked. Magic. It was magical, well was 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:15.480 it was Christmas matchic. It was Christmas magic. It was 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:16.760 Christmas magic, all right. 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:18.720 Before we get to Jalil, we do have to touch 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:21.160 on Wicked because I haven't seen you guys in forever. 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:24.000 Let's just say it. 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:27.760 It's the best movie we've seen in a very very, 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:32.199 very long time. And it's not a bandwagon thing. I 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:33.959 don't care if you like musicals or not. You go 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:36.040 see this movie. I dare you to say you don't 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:36.560 like this movie. 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:37.320 There's a trend. 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:44.280 There's a trend on TikTok straight guys doing doing long 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:48.640 soliloquies talking about their love of this musical that they 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:52.559 don't like musicals in general, they don't whatever, And and 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.040 they're like, you can scroll and see a bunch of 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:58.200 straight guys talking about for some reason, and they act 0:09:58.280 --> 0:09:59.920 like Wicked just came out of nowhere, that it has 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.679 have been around as a musical for twenty twenty years. 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:05.120 They're like, what is this song defying gravity? This is 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:08.240 my new workout song. Like you can scroll on TikTok 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:09.000 and C Street. 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:16.120 They say it's their new workouts. Yeah. No, last night 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:18.360 I was scrolled. I'll start sending. 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:22.360 One guy says on his way work Now, all straight guys, 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:24.760 you're speaking for all straight guys telling you. 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:29.640 There's a trend. It's crossing. It's a four quadrant movie. Okay, 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:31.840 if you know the lingo and the business. We don't 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:37.400 no one listening right now, everyone's four quadrant. Yeah, all right, anyway, 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:39.400 it's incredible. Congratulations to everyone. 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:40.160 Did you know? 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:43.920 But I've never told you this. This is gonna sound 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:47.040 way more fuller than it is. But I shadow directed 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:51.160 John cho once. What did you say a minute the 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:54.319 director director? You shadow directed him or you were in 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:57.920 his shadow learning how to direct same thing? 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:00.599 No, well I don't think so, because one sounds like 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:03.120 you taught him. No, no, nope, he taught me. 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:04.199 Uh no. 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:06.720 It was uh and it and it didn't even really 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:09.040 dawn on me until last week. I'm like, wait a minute, 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:12.200 I know, John Chu it was Step Up three. 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:15.679 So our friend Adam Shankman, who you know, directs the 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.560 first Step Up and like, I mean, all these major 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:23.200 movies Step Up three and two, John Chu, he had 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:26.840 an over the director directing, uh baton to John Chu. 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:29.319 And so it was on Step Up three that I 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:31.439 asked Adam Shaneman because I thought he was going to 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:33.520 be directing, you know, these scenes. I was like, I 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:35.679 would love to shadow you know, direct you, I mean, 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:38.320 because I want to learn. I want to shadow him, 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:39.600 I want to shoot you. I want to learn how 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:42.360 to like do directing. And so when on set and 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:44.760 it was John that he introduced me to. He's like, 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:46.800 oh and so he like started teaching me all kinds 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:48.520 of fun stuff. Only spent one day with him, so 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:51.880 again it sounds way cooler than it was. Uh, but yeah, 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:54.040 so we uh you know, I got to spit a 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:56.079 whole day with him and like watched him do his 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:57.800 thing on Step Up three, and he is a lovely, 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:00.880 lovely man, he seems gets So go see the movie 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:04.360 over to the other let's get let's get you a 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:06.280 little oh and by the way, a little more shout 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:10.599 out Ariana Grande and Cynthia Rigo. Oh so incredible. But 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:14.400 I am so like a proud father of Ariana Grande 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:17.360 because for as long as I've known her, She has 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:22.160 talked about wanting to do Wicked. Originally actually Alphabet she 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:23.520 always wanted to play off of. 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:26.320 But but I'm like, you are good, Duck. You are 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:27.160 good lind Duck. 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:31.120 And for as long as I'm known her, she has 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.920 been so obsessed with if they make this into the movie, I. 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:35.880 Have to be in it. 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:40.840 And she turned down so many roles just in case 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:43.520 she would get this role. And it worked out and 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:44.559 I'm so proud of it. 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:46.000 It could not be a better part. 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:48.439 All right, go to your little kitchen over there. We're 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:50.000 gonna take a little break and we come back. We're 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:53.400 gonna have the one only Jalil White and uh yeah, 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:54.960 you know you. 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:56.840 Know the game I'm playing with myself during this interview. 0:12:56.920 --> 0:13:17.360 I'm not gonna say it this guy, mister Jalil Wise, 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:22.000 how's it going, buddy? What's going on? Shades? How you doing? 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:23.839 We're gonna get my shit home? Hello? This is what 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:25.040 we're doing, Helo. 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:29.880 This is this is the first I'm doing the podcast outside. 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:32.560 So yeah, you're gonna get shady lance today. 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:38.439 Is this why we're doing? Nice? How have you been? 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:38.720 Man? 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:42.160 I'm doing fantastic. Really, it's been an amazing year. 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:45.000 For you, boy, Nice, Well, you know last time I 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.440 saw you, I think we're at the UCLA Bruins game, 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:49.200 the basketball game. 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:54.920 Now you went to UCLA, didn't you graduated from there? Yeah? 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:58.880 I went to u c LA from ninety five to 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:01.480 two thousand and one. It took me about six years. 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:05.920 Nice, what attracted to do to u c l A. 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.000 Of all the colleges you could go to, which. 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:08.880 What was U c l A. 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:13.360 My dad went to u c l A, and it 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:16.080 really was only between U c l A and USC, 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:20.440 and quite frankly, U c l A was also closer 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:24.520 to work for me, so I could get to Warner 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:28.320 Brothers more easily from UCLA. Just take the canyons and 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:32.320 Leslie moved as Bill Cosby wrote my letters of recommendation. 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:41.520 That's amazing. You know, I will my neighbor, you know, uh, 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:44.480 my neighbor of Maryland. She's like she owns the neighborhood. 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:46.560 You know, she's in her eighties. Like the first thing 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:48.640 I knew when I moved in, she's like, you're coming 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:50.480 to an u c l A game with me? And 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:54.680 apparently she she graduated from USC but her when she 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:57.080 married her husband, he's a big u c l A 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:00.720 along and she had to denounce USC ordered for her. 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:04.800 To So she's to that game that I saw you at. 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.640 They take that serious. You know John Tercian who runs 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:13.440 h Wood, Oh yeah, definitely right. Like I finally confronted 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:14.880 him one day about this stuff, and I was like, 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:21.000 you fundamentally dislike people who attended UCLA and he was like, yes. 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:27.680 Yeah, but do you need therapy? Therapy, dude. It happens 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:28.120 all the time. 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:30.440 I mean, especially like going back back in the day 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:32.440 when like above Dublin's and all that. You know, growing 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:38.520 up in la Ah Dublin's, but you know there was Pantera, Sara, 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:41.280 you know who worked there, and if you didn't like 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:43.360 what she liked, you're not getting in. It didn't matter 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:45.520 who you were. If you weren't you know, if you 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:47.720 didn't say n Synct was better than Bakshi Boys or 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:49.920 Brett fab was the best quarterback of all time, you 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:51.640 literally would not get into a club. 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:52.440 You know. 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:55.680 It's uh LA is all about those common interests in 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:57.960 common bonds and if you ain't coming. 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:00.880 You out exactly exactly. 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:06.200 Well, it is the holidays right now. Happy holidays? Do 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:10.000 you celebrate? Like what is your tradition for the holidays. 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:14.120 Hell, yeah, celebrate the holidays, man. I married a woman 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:19.120 a Greek family who is very They are very serious 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:22.080 about the holidays. They take their holidays more serious than 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:25.600 any family I have ever met. All of the children 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:30.760 who are all grown, descend upon the family home and 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:35.600 by carriage and horse drawn buggy decorated by her mom 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:39.280 and uh. And we're there for about a week and 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:43.200 we do everything from you know, Christmas Eve dinners to. 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:48.400 I mean you name it, to your family. 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:52.920 Workouts to the same Chinese restaurant we go to every 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:54.400 year the night we land. 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:57.720 I just love it. It's a great time for family. 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:02.440 Uh, to appreciate family, kind of answer the phone a 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:05.159 little less, you know what I'm saying, like check the 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:09.639 emails less frequently, and just diving to helping out making 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:10.399 pancakes with. 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:13.480 My father in law in the mornings. And I love it. 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:16.040 I'm such I'm such a holiday dude. Man. And watch 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:18.480 movies too, like last year, and you never know what 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:19.200 you end up watching. 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:20.879 I remember last year we had the kids in the 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.280 room and we were watching Thanksgiving the horror movie, and 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:25.480 it was like, this is not appropriate for them at all. 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:27.640 But somehow it feels very holiday. 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:32.120 Julia, do you are you an open presence? By the way, 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:34.480 I haven't met me yet, but I'm close to the. 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:40.000 You know, I actually have to criticize Lands for that. 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:43.080 What a terrible effing host. You've just been sitting here 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:46.439 the entire time, like like you're waiting to take our 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:47.800 order or something. 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:49.320 Thank you for saying that. 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:52.320 And you know what, it's finally it's time that somebody 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:55.480 put Lance in his place on my behalf as my bad. 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:57.800 I'm sorry, sometimes I just think, you know, everyone that's 0:17:57.800 --> 0:17:58.119 been all the. 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:01.160 Show that comes on in sunglasses, all right, he goes, 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:04.520 hey man, sorry, I'm late. Good and just treat you 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:05.879 like you're his handler. 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:09.960 I know, but it's thirsty. You'll bring him something to drink. 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:12.760 Well, that's true. I'm used to it though, But but no, 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:15.520 I wanted to ask you. Are you a open presence 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:16.760 on Christmas Eve? 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:18.840 For Christmas Day? Family? 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:23.760 We are definitely an open presence on Christmas Day family. 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:28.480 I grew up as a kid opening my presence at midnight. 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:31.560 My parents were very strict about that, so I would 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:34.560 stay up until twelve oh one to get at my gifts. 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:38.760 But now that My daughter is fifteen years old and 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:41.040 she ain't caring about that. She gets up in the 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:44.000 morning like everybody else. But but all the kids are 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:48.639 up the other the my laws and that my cousin's kids. 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:51.720 They're all up at like six am. 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:56.720 Yeah, I remember those days. We always do the one gift, 0:18:56.800 --> 0:18:58.560 you know, the night before you know, Christmas, do you. 0:18:58.560 --> 0:18:59.320 Do do the one gift. 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:02.399 It's always, you know, especially when the parents pick it out. 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:05.520 It's always like it's pajamas. It's always pajamas. 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:06.160 Dude. 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:10.720 I'm just happy I'm past the age of needing the 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:12.440 toolbox as a father. 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:17.439 That that hit me sideways. Like my daughter was like. 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:20.760 Four and we unwrapped all this stuff and she's like 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:23.879 yeah right, and then you start unopening opening something. You 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:27.639 got all these instructions and freaking nuts and bolts. And 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:29.560 my dad just goes to the garage and he comes 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:31.240 back and he plants a toolbox in front of He's 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:33.520 all right, get to work. And your child sits there 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:36.879 and looks at you like you're somebody that she hired 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:39.720 at outside of home depot who ain't working fast enough. 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:43.840 You like yuppel. 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:48.560 My day is trash, Like this is so happy to 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:50.680