1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,279 Speaker 1: Hi everyone, I'm Katie Kurrig and welcome to Next Question. 2 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: It's a special day in a special bonus episode because 3 00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:15,480 Speaker 1: I'm in Miami, everybody for Super Bowl fifty four. It's 4 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs versus the San Francisco forty Niners. 5 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 1: Two teams, was something to prove to their die hard fans. 6 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:28,320 Speaker 1: The forty Niners are headed to their seventh Super Bowl. 7 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:34,280 Speaker 1: We support archy hard times, the low time. It's been 8 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:37,879 Speaker 1: so long, so many bad years. Are taking it all 9 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:46,120 Speaker 1: the way, are you. It's been fifty years since the 10 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:51,519 Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs were lasting the Super Bowl. After a 11 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 1: lifetime watching the Chiefs, this is an incredible within sple. 12 00:00:56,720 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 1: This just means so much, not only to me, citizens 13 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:06,039 Speaker 1: Iron City fans for both teams have been streaming into 14 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 1: this city all week, all wearing red and gold. By 15 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 1: the way, because for the first time in Super Bowl history, 16 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 1: the teams share the same colors, even though the forty 17 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 1: Niners are a little more on the scarlet side. While 18 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 1: the crowds are gathering all around Hard Rock Stadium, I've 19 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:26,640 Speaker 1: set up shop nearby and the Sleep Number booth at 20 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:31,480 Speaker 1: the Media Center, a giant space where their camera crews 21 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:35,360 Speaker 1: and makeshift studio set up. People milling around a lot 22 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 1: of football players and it's kind of crazy here, but 23 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 1: a lot of fun. My guest today is a devoted 24 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:45,200 Speaker 1: football fan. In fact, he might be the biggest Chiefs 25 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 1: fan of all time, and he's here wearing head to 26 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 1: toe Kansas City Chiefs gear. Eric stone Street, who plays 27 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 1: Cam Tucker on Modern Family. It is time for some 28 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:00,920 Speaker 1: farm justice back home. When we have two alphableles, we 29 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 1: lock them in a pin and let them fight it out. 30 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 1: This is between Nanny and Luke. Come on, let's go. 31 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:11,399 Speaker 1: Oh and help yourself to a gingerbread person. They're both 32 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:16,960 Speaker 1: gluten and gender free. Hi, Eric stone Street, I am 33 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 1: so happy to see you, so happy to see one 34 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:21,919 Speaker 1: of the nicest people on the planet. You are well, 35 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 1: thank you. That means a lot coming from you, because 36 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:26,919 Speaker 1: you're one of the nicest people we try. Don't wait, 37 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 1: and you are obviously pretty darn jazzed, Eric, because you 38 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:39,279 Speaker 1: are here to cheer on your team, Kansas City chief 39 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:44,240 Speaker 1: So excited you got your hat on? Oh, I got 40 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:48,040 Speaker 1: everything on? But but about come September or October. This 41 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 1: is basically all I wear in my wardrobe. Really, you know, look, 42 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:55,839 Speaker 1: it's comfortable, it's it's it makes a statement. It represents 43 00:02:56,360 --> 00:03:00,880 Speaker 1: what I love football Kansas City. But no, I'm very excited. 44 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 1: I've been a fan of the Chiefs since I was 45 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:04,359 Speaker 1: a little kid. You know. My aunt and uncle got 46 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 1: me um to go in their season tickets, and then 47 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:09,520 Speaker 1: my dad got me season tickets when I was maybe 48 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:12,600 Speaker 1: in eighth or ninth grade. I had season tickets all 49 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:14,800 Speaker 1: through college. Then of course moved away to Chicago and 50 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. But I've always maintained my Chiefs fandom. Um 51 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:23,360 Speaker 1: and knowledge, you know, I football knowledge, you know. I 52 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 1: just I mean, I recognize all these guys walking around legends. 53 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:27,919 Speaker 1: I just saw, Oh my god, there's John Randalls, like 54 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,240 Speaker 1: there's Anthony Munos. You know. So I know so much 55 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 1: about football. So being here and now representing the Chiefs 56 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 1: and representing my team and having a reason to be 57 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 1: at Super Bowl is so fun. Now, did you play 58 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:39,680 Speaker 1: football when you were younger? I did. I just told 59 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:42,000 Speaker 1: Anthony Munio so I had a poster of him in 60 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: my room, even though he was a Cincinnati Bengal and 61 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 1: I was a Chiefs fan. I said, I had a 62 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:47,800 Speaker 1: poster in you in my room because I wanted to 63 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 1: be an offensive tackle, but I never got big enough 64 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:54,280 Speaker 1: or good at football. I played in high school and 65 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 1: you know I was fine, but never to the level 66 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 1: that I would ever have garnered any kind of stuff. 67 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: You grew, I mean, you grew to love the sport 68 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:05,400 Speaker 1: to play it, but also just as a super fan, 69 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:08,640 Speaker 1: just a just a fan and just love the game 70 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 1: and love love everything about it. And you've met a 71 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 1: lot of players, I know, Eric, when you were younger 72 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:16,600 Speaker 1: growing up in Kansas City. And there's one actually very 73 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 1: moving story. You met a young player at a mall's 74 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 1: signing named Joe Delaney. Can you tell us that story? Yeah, 75 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:26,200 Speaker 1: I was at I was at Indian Springs mall and 76 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:29,480 Speaker 1: there were two players out signing autographs, him and J. T. 77 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 1: Smith I believe was the other one. But I got 78 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 1: Joe Delaney's autograph, and that sort of was the moment 79 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:37,360 Speaker 1: that you know, you look back of like when did 80 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 1: your fan fan hood start? For me? And it was 81 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:44,719 Speaker 1: were you then well six, I mean seven, seven or eight, 82 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:47,800 Speaker 1: you know, um, because I don't remember what year he 83 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 1: passed away, um. But then of course I got his 84 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 1: autograph and he played I think that next season, and 85 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:55,520 Speaker 1: then he passed away trying to you know, save a 86 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:58,240 Speaker 1: kid and uh who was drowning and drowning and he 87 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 1: drowned and self. Yeah, I mean he was going to 88 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:03,280 Speaker 1: be that was so heartbreaking, going to be one of 89 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:06,880 Speaker 1: the greatest that was back in I guess three or something, right, 90 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 1: I'm not sure what the year was. Yeah, yeah, he 91 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 1: died in nineteen three, so I would have been probably 92 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 1: uh ten when that when I met him, And so 93 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 1: it was shortly thereafter where this accident took place, just 94 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:21,880 Speaker 1: a year or so afterwards after that. You know, I 95 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 1: can't help but ask you one question about this, Eric, 96 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:28,599 Speaker 1: because I just came from Los Angeles because I was 97 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 1: at a stand up to cancer scientific summit and Eric, 98 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,840 Speaker 1: by the way, has been incredibly supportive of the work 99 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:38,440 Speaker 1: we're doing its stand up, but boy, Los Angeles was 100 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 1: just uh it just like if a city could cry, 101 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:47,159 Speaker 1: Los Angeles was crying stunned. I was in Kansas City 102 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 1: when I found out the news, and immediately reflected on, 103 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,400 Speaker 1: you know, as we all do, what our personal experience 104 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 1: was and has been with people that we've lost or 105 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:59,640 Speaker 1: passed away, And the story that came to mind for 106 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:01,919 Speaker 1: me was, um, he came to the set of Modern 107 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:04,679 Speaker 1: Family one day. He we got word that hey, Kobe's 108 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:07,400 Speaker 1: coming to Modern Family. We're like what, And so he 109 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:11,080 Speaker 1: comes and watches this rehearse and shoot and he was 110 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:15,359 Speaker 1: just sitting there, just taking it all in. And I said, so, 111 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 1: what do you think, Kobe, And he goes, well, it's 112 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:18,880 Speaker 1: cool how you guys rehearse because it's like us setting 113 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 1: an offense. You know, you have to be here so 114 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:23,160 Speaker 1: she can be here, and then if you move that way, 115 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:25,240 Speaker 1: then this person counters and does this. So it's really 116 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 1: neat for me to see all this happen. And then 117 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,919 Speaker 1: at the end, I said, so what made you, you know, 118 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:32,520 Speaker 1: come today? And he goes, you know, I woke up 119 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:34,159 Speaker 1: this morning and I just I felt like I wanted 120 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 1: to watch something funny. And what I thought that he 121 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:38,600 Speaker 1: was so cool is like most people just turn on 122 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:41,279 Speaker 1: the TV and watch something or but Kobe Bryant's like, no, 123 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to a set in the sound stage 124 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:45,839 Speaker 1: and watch something. And then he says, and plus, you 125 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 1: told me to stop by sometime. And I'm like, Kobe, 126 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:50,839 Speaker 1: and he goes, you did last year he told me 127 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 1: to stop by, And I'm like, well, yeah, but like, 128 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 1: who knows if he was serious. I know I told 129 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 1: him to stop by, but he knows I he was 130 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:01,320 Speaker 1: serious about probably in passing, like yeah, fine, but the 131 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:03,480 Speaker 1: fact that he remembered that and then referenced and made 132 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:06,800 Speaker 1: a joke about it, but came and so hungry to learn, 133 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:09,240 Speaker 1: and and he referenced that, you know, why would I 134 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 1: go to any other show? You guys are the best. 135 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:12,720 Speaker 1: I want to watch the best do what they do. 136 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:16,160 Speaker 1: And and every time I saw him was just so 137 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:18,760 Speaker 1: delightful and such a nice person, and always with his 138 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 1: family and would always introduce and ppictures and whatever. Just 139 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 1: heart heartbreaking, tragic, and so sad for all those families, 140 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 1: all those families, and those young girls, and a lot 141 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 1: of the surviving children left that one family without a 142 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 1: mom or a dad or a sister. It's just I 143 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:43,239 Speaker 1: don't know. But obviously we're continuing to keep Vanessa Briant 144 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:46,320 Speaker 1: in our prayers because, uh, it's going to be a 145 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 1: long difficult road for her. And I thought, what what 146 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 1: Barack Obama? President Obama said? You know, he was just 147 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 1: getting started on his second act, and I do believe 148 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:59,040 Speaker 1: he would have done great things. But I hope. Absent 149 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:01,680 Speaker 1: of that, you know, people will be inspired to do 150 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:04,120 Speaker 1: great things. But that's what he did. I think that's 151 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:05,560 Speaker 1: what he did while he was living, and I think 152 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 1: that's his legacy. He'll continue to do that, um after 153 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:12,120 Speaker 1: he's gone. Yeah, Well, getting back to I'm going to 154 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:15,119 Speaker 1: talk to you about modern family, which is ending soon 155 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:18,720 Speaker 1: and I'm sure you're sad about that, but but let's 156 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 1: let's get back to football just for a few minutes. Um. 157 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:24,200 Speaker 1: You you go to almost every game? How do you 158 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 1: do that with your schedule? Well, this season with Patrick Mahomes, 159 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 1: I just decided that this was a year I wasn't 160 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:32,600 Speaker 1: going to miss a game. So I went to every 161 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:36,839 Speaker 1: Chief's home game this year. UM, with the notion that 162 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 1: we would be here. I having gotten to know the 163 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:42,360 Speaker 1: general manager of the Chiefs, Brett Beach and Andy Reid, 164 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 1: the head coach a little bit, and marked on him 165 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:45,800 Speaker 1: and the president. You know, I just really felt like, 166 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:49,720 Speaker 1: given what I listen to them say, this was we 167 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 1: were going to make it to the super Bowl this year. 168 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:55,880 Speaker 1: And there's plenty of documentation of me saying that. And 169 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 1: I'm not a cocky guy. I don't like to put 170 00:08:57,920 --> 00:08:59,800 Speaker 1: the cart before the horse is type of thing. But 171 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 1: it just felt like we were so close last year. 172 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:07,199 Speaker 1: Our roster got better this year, so given that we 173 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:09,200 Speaker 1: shouldn't make we should go to the super Bowl. Now 174 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:11,160 Speaker 1: it's called any given Sunday for a reason. Any team 175 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:14,320 Speaker 1: can beat any team any day. But I just felt 176 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 1: like we were going to be here now when you 177 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:17,920 Speaker 1: went to those games where you're do you still have 178 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:21,480 Speaker 1: family in Kansas City? And you do? So are they 179 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:25,040 Speaker 1: all so into it? Are they coming to the super Bowl? No? Well, 180 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:27,320 Speaker 1: just Lindsay and I are here at the super Bowl. Um, 181 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:28,880 Speaker 1: but my mom would come to all the home games, 182 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:31,319 Speaker 1: would get her there, and my sister would come and um, 183 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 1: and what about like friends from high school? Friends from 184 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:36,080 Speaker 1: are you still close to them? Some? Some? For sure 185 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 1: we stay in touch. I have a lot of friends, 186 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:39,559 Speaker 1: and I'm still in touch with college buddies a lot. 187 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:42,480 Speaker 1: And um, where'd you go to college? Kansas State? Oh god, 188 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:47,520 Speaker 1: my god, you are hardcore Kansas you know. But there's 189 00:09:47,559 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 1: something to that, though, and something that I think you appreciate, 190 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:53,000 Speaker 1: can appreciate and other people can appreciate it. I'm proud 191 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:56,360 Speaker 1: of where I'm from, you know, I'm my parents chose 192 00:09:56,400 --> 00:09:58,400 Speaker 1: to raise me in Kansas because that's where they're from. 193 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:01,320 Speaker 1: And I don't like it when places get painted with 194 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:03,640 Speaker 1: with broad brushes. I'm not a fan of broad strokes 195 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:06,280 Speaker 1: in that way. I don't want people to just think 196 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 1: that everyone from Kansas is a certain way or any 197 00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:10,600 Speaker 1: everyone from that part of the country. There are good 198 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 1: people everywhere. I agree with you. I love to put 199 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:17,280 Speaker 1: the spotlight on where I'm from and draw attention to 200 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:20,600 Speaker 1: where I'm from because they're great food there, there's great entertainment, 201 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:23,480 Speaker 1: there's great culture, there's great people, great sports, obviously with 202 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:27,360 Speaker 1: the Royals and the Chiefs. So I love being from 203 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 1: Kansas and I love telling people about it. That's so nice, 204 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:31,640 Speaker 1: and I think you should be and there's no reason 205 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:34,800 Speaker 1: to be proud. But I think in the current culture 206 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 1: and landscape that we're in, you know, people people that 207 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 1: I identify, we're so tribal, and we make assumptions about 208 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:46,440 Speaker 1: people that are completely untrue, and you know, I just 209 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:49,360 Speaker 1: wish everybody would be not not be so hard on 210 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:52,680 Speaker 1: each other. You know, has your relationship with the game 211 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:56,760 Speaker 1: changed at all? Obviously the game has gotten some some 212 00:10:56,880 --> 00:11:01,319 Speaker 1: tough press, and understandably so, with the number of injuries 213 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:05,200 Speaker 1: with ct E and and on field collisions and traumatic 214 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:08,320 Speaker 1: brain injuries, and I'm just curious, Um, you know, has 215 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:10,920 Speaker 1: it changed your relationship with football at all? You know 216 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 1: it has It hasn't for me. I haven't played the game. 217 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:16,800 Speaker 1: Of course, I'm empathetic to people that you know, have 218 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:22,040 Speaker 1: suffered you know, health issues because of playing football. I 219 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:26,160 Speaker 1: think of the people that have suffered that. And of 220 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:28,080 Speaker 1: course I don't know this for a fact. I'm just 221 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:30,600 Speaker 1: basing it off. My interviews that I've seen would all 222 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:33,280 Speaker 1: say they would do it again, like they would all 223 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:36,120 Speaker 1: play the sport again the same way because of what 224 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:39,320 Speaker 1: they got out of it, you know, So I have 225 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:43,240 Speaker 1: to yield to players. I think the NFL is is 226 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 1: doing a lot to make the game safer. They are, 227 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:48,920 Speaker 1: They're improving helmets, there are some changes in the rules, 228 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:51,800 Speaker 1: and a lot of resources have been devoted to making 229 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:55,040 Speaker 1: the sports safer. Um. And it starts with youth football. 230 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:57,880 Speaker 1: It starts with you know, a generate teaching this new 231 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 1: generation of kids how to tackle and how not to 232 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:04,120 Speaker 1: put yourself in the situation to potentially get you know, injured. 233 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:08,320 Speaker 1: So hopefully they're making the right strides and um uh, 234 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:11,360 Speaker 1: you know, I feel like concussions in general in all 235 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:15,560 Speaker 1: sports are taken are treated much more seriously. Now. I 236 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:17,480 Speaker 1: was talking to someone the other day. They said, oh, 237 00:12:17,559 --> 00:12:20,600 Speaker 1: you bang your head and be like, give them smelling salts, 238 00:12:20,679 --> 00:12:23,480 Speaker 1: get back out their kids. And now, of course I 239 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:27,320 Speaker 1: think that there's so much more medical information that that 240 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:29,959 Speaker 1: people take it much much more serious. I think so. 241 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:32,360 Speaker 1: And I think as long as the NFL, and I 242 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:34,920 Speaker 1: know they are in colleges and everyone's you know, making 243 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:38,040 Speaker 1: strides and using the technology for good to make the 244 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:42,079 Speaker 1: game safer than I think that's obviously moving in the 245 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 1: right direction there. So, um a Super Bowl prediction from 246 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:47,240 Speaker 1: Sleep Number. By the way, because we're here in the 247 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:50,360 Speaker 1: Sleep Number booth. Um, you know, Sleep Numbers working with 248 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:54,480 Speaker 1: a lot of NFL teams, including the Fansas City because 249 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:57,199 Speaker 1: they're really trying to help sleep is kind of very 250 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:01,840 Speaker 1: underrated and it's so critically important and it's a lack 251 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:04,920 Speaker 1: of sleep is an epidemic in this country. So according 252 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 1: to Sleep Number, Kansas City is a slightly more well 253 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:12,559 Speaker 1: rested city than San Francisco. So they're putting their money 254 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:15,040 Speaker 1: on the Chiefs. What do you think of that? I 255 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:17,040 Speaker 1: love it. I love it. I know a lot of 256 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:19,240 Speaker 1: the Chiefs players, and they all have their sleep numbers. 257 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:21,960 Speaker 1: They all use them. Really, as we're talking, Travis Kelsey's 258 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:24,280 Speaker 1: right above us talking about his sleep number. Yeah, isn't 259 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:26,960 Speaker 1: that great? And uh others I think that's his mom 260 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:32,160 Speaker 1: or something. Yeah, that's awesome. Uh. I'm happy to hear 261 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 1: anyone predict the Chiefs to win from any angles. So 262 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:39,559 Speaker 1: what are the what are the bookies or whatever they are? 263 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:41,800 Speaker 1: They one and a half point favorite, which is essentially 264 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 1: a coin toss. Yeah, it's a good It's gonna be 265 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:46,199 Speaker 1: a great game, that's what we have. Do you think 266 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:47,880 Speaker 1: it'll be high scoring? I do. I think it's going 267 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:49,640 Speaker 1: to be in the thirties because I guess people were 268 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:51,920 Speaker 1: a little bit disappointed last year, right because it was 269 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 1: such it was a defensive battle. I don't think this 270 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:57,280 Speaker 1: is gonna be a defensive battle. I think it's going 271 00:13:57,320 --> 00:13:59,800 Speaker 1: to be an offensive juggernaut. I think we're gonna go 272 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:03,400 Speaker 1: back and forth on each other a little bit. I'm 273 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:06,520 Speaker 1: just so nervous. I'm so excited. It's just a control thing, 274 00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:08,679 Speaker 1: you know. It's the same reason you get nervous, you know, 275 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:11,120 Speaker 1: doing things that you don't have any flying for example. 276 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:13,040 Speaker 1: You know, you get nervous about that because you're you're 277 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:15,200 Speaker 1: not making any of the decisions. I'm not I'm not 278 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:18,040 Speaker 1: a coach, so everything's in the hands of and it's 279 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:19,560 Speaker 1: a good thing. I'm not a coach. Let's be very 280 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 1: clear about that. Would you'd like to be a coach, 281 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:24,080 Speaker 1: but you are You're not a coach, but you play 282 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:27,240 Speaker 1: one on TV. And speaking of that, we're going to 283 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:33,520 Speaker 1: talk about the last season of Modern Family. We're gonna 284 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:35,680 Speaker 1: We're done. We're going to do it right after this. 285 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:49,960 Speaker 1: We're back with Eric stone Street. We're here. If you 286 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:52,560 Speaker 1: guys are hearing some ambient noise, we're in the media 287 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:56,280 Speaker 1: center for the Super Bowl. So we've got a lot 288 00:14:56,320 --> 00:15:00,680 Speaker 1: of crews milling around, a lot of football players, uh, 289 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 1: people with microphones kind of in search of right anything 290 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 1: to them. So, um, let's talk about Modern Family. I 291 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:14,000 Speaker 1: can't believe it. You must eleven years and twenty two Emmys, 292 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 1: including two for you, my friends. Um you, I mean, 293 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:22,560 Speaker 1: you must be feeling so many different emotions, right and 294 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:24,200 Speaker 1: it has to do with what we just talked about, 295 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:28,280 Speaker 1: which is football, which is the most exciting time in 296 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 1: my sports life. The Chiefs are in the Super Bowl, 297 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:33,400 Speaker 1: while at the same time it's one of the saddest 298 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:36,760 Speaker 1: moments in my professional life. Saying goodbye to a dream 299 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:39,280 Speaker 1: role in a dream job for the last eleven years. Well, 300 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:43,040 Speaker 1: I mean, how lucky, right, What is Dr Seussa say, 301 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:47,040 Speaker 1: don't cry because because it's over, smile because it happened. Yeah, 302 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:49,840 Speaker 1: something like that. Yeah, yeah, And that's definitely our approach, 303 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:54,080 Speaker 1: like we are most definitely thankful and grateful that it happened. Um, 304 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:57,240 Speaker 1: it's gonna be hard. You know, I've kind of said 305 00:15:57,520 --> 00:15:59,840 Speaker 1: I didn't go to acting school, but I know one 306 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:02,480 Speaker 1: thing they don't teach you in acting school is how 307 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:04,800 Speaker 1: to be on the show eleven years and develop a 308 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:07,840 Speaker 1: hundred and some odd different relationships with crew and cast, 309 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:10,000 Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden say goodbye to that. 310 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:12,360 Speaker 1: You don't learn how to do that. You have to 311 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:16,160 Speaker 1: do that. And you know, you've said goodbye to jobs 312 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:18,760 Speaker 1: and people that you've loved and worked with for years 313 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:20,520 Speaker 1: and years. This is the first time I've ever had 314 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 1: this extended period of time in my life with the 315 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 1: same people for nine some eleven some five six years. 316 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:32,880 Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna try to keep my heart and 317 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:35,520 Speaker 1: mind and eyes open and enjoy every moment of it 318 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:38,960 Speaker 1: and let the emotions hit me when they hit me. Um, 319 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:42,680 Speaker 1: and they've started to most definitely. You know, was Cam 320 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:45,280 Speaker 1: the role of a lifetime for you? Eric? Oh? I 321 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:49,640 Speaker 1: think so there's you know, people have always said like, oh, 322 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:52,440 Speaker 1: aren't you worried about being typecast? And you know, and 323 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:55,000 Speaker 1: that's a popular question, I guess for people to ask. 324 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 1: But if that, if that's it, I mean, it's great. 325 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:03,960 Speaker 1: I mean, it's just I never imagined it for my career. 326 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:05,560 Speaker 1: I was going to ask you, how did you get 327 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:09,959 Speaker 1: that role? And it was it was it competitive? You know, 328 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:13,679 Speaker 1: how did it happen? It was competitive. I came into 329 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 1: the process late. They had cast a few of the 330 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:18,000 Speaker 1: other parts, and I you know, had four auditions for 331 00:17:18,080 --> 00:17:21,199 Speaker 1: the for the for the for the role, you know, 332 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:23,560 Speaker 1: which is an uncommon in Hollywood to keep kind of 333 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:26,320 Speaker 1: having to jump through hoops. But you know, Stephen Chris, 334 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:28,080 Speaker 1: the creators of the show, they had an idea of 335 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:30,080 Speaker 1: what maybe Cam looked like. And I don't think I 336 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:33,960 Speaker 1: was it at first, and so they you know, passed 337 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 1: on me, not meaning I was a terrible actor or 338 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:40,840 Speaker 1: terrible performer, but they just didn't think it. But to 339 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:46,480 Speaker 1: their credit and thankfully to them, they kept being reminded 340 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:49,199 Speaker 1: by my audition and they kept their minds open and 341 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:50,840 Speaker 1: their hearts open, and they were like, you know what, 342 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:53,359 Speaker 1: bring that guy back in because we keep thinking about 343 00:17:53,359 --> 00:17:55,879 Speaker 1: his audition. And then they decided to test me. And 344 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:58,560 Speaker 1: I tested it twentye and tested at ABC and got 345 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:04,120 Speaker 1: the party and us that's the rest of the story. 346 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:07,680 Speaker 1: So in two thousand nine, when this show started, Eric, 347 00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:12,199 Speaker 1: it was truly groundbreaking, and I was so thrilled that it. 348 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 1: You know, it showed all kinds of underrepresented people on 349 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:22,399 Speaker 1: television living normal lives. How did that evolve? Because I 350 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:26,359 Speaker 1: feel like the country has evolved and attitudes have evolved, 351 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:30,640 Speaker 1: perhaps in some ways because of of what you did 352 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:34,040 Speaker 1: on Modern Family. How did you continue to kind of 353 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:38,040 Speaker 1: update and push the envelope during the course of the show. Well, 354 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:40,000 Speaker 1: just as life happens, you know, that's the beauty of 355 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:43,080 Speaker 1: the blueprint of that show is is that as a family, 356 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:47,639 Speaker 1: you know, it ebbs and flows right right. Tragedies happened, 357 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:54,159 Speaker 1: Shocking things happen, growth, you know, job changes, financial issues, whatever, 358 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:57,240 Speaker 1: those all things, those things all happened. So with Mention Cam, 359 00:18:57,280 --> 00:19:01,760 Speaker 1: the goal always was from the beginning, that make people laugh. 360 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:03,520 Speaker 1: You know, we want to make We want these characters 361 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:05,040 Speaker 1: to make people laugh. We want these characters to be 362 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:09,000 Speaker 1: a mirror for everyone, not just a mirror for gay people, 363 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:11,879 Speaker 1: just a mirror for a lesbian couple, but a mirror 364 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:14,359 Speaker 1: for everyone. And I think the writers did such a 365 00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 1: good job of putting us in situations that that weren't 366 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:21,240 Speaker 1: defined by our sexuality. I always said from the beginning, 367 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:23,000 Speaker 1: Mitch and Cam's goal was to prove that they could 368 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 1: be terrible as terrible parents as anyone else. And as 369 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:31,240 Speaker 1: as you know, it's like gay marriage. People would say, 370 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:34,360 Speaker 1: why can't gay people be as miserable as the exactly 371 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:37,080 Speaker 1: and and and you know, we just wanted what defined 372 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:40,520 Speaker 1: Minch and Cam to be that they were men, that 373 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:43,719 Speaker 1: they were partners, that they were fathers, and they were sons, 374 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:46,439 Speaker 1: and they were you know, all these other things, and 375 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:48,480 Speaker 1: let the fact that they were gay be one of 376 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:51,600 Speaker 1: the things that they are. But certainly isn't at the 377 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:53,959 Speaker 1: top of the list of what everybody needs to know 378 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:57,239 Speaker 1: about them. You know, it's like it's not important. I 379 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:01,439 Speaker 1: was gonna ask you how much of you was in camp, 380 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:04,800 Speaker 1: because listen, you know, you grew up on a farm. 381 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:07,439 Speaker 1: Can grew up on a farm. You guys have a 382 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:09,959 Speaker 1: lot of similarities. You like to clown? Do I use 383 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:14,280 Speaker 1: that as a verb? Yeah? Yeah, yeah. What does that mean? Clowning? Yeah, clowning. 384 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:16,440 Speaker 1: It means you like to dress up as a clown. Well, 385 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:19,400 Speaker 1: but clowning is comedy. I was I was clowning earlier 386 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:21,399 Speaker 1: because I keep tripping on this carpet out there for 387 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:24,399 Speaker 1: some reason, and I literally tripped leaving that way, and 388 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:26,400 Speaker 1: then when I came back, I tripped at the same place. 389 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:28,800 Speaker 1: I'm like, how did I trip at the exact same place? 390 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:30,439 Speaker 1: And then there was a group of firemen there, and 391 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:32,120 Speaker 1: I knew that they were listening to me, So then 392 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:34,639 Speaker 1: I said, I tripped at this same exact place, and 393 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:36,439 Speaker 1: then I tripped again just for their benefit. That's like 394 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:39,360 Speaker 1: an example of clowning, you know, uh, just having fun 395 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:41,359 Speaker 1: and you know, entertaining people. I wanted to do that 396 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:42,480 Speaker 1: when I was a kid. I wanted to be in 397 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:44,600 Speaker 1: the circus and to get to be on Modern Family 398 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:47,639 Speaker 1: and play Bisbo the clown in the greatest circus of 399 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 1: all time Hollywood. Um was just a complete, complete dream 400 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:55,439 Speaker 1: come true. But did the writers take some aspects of 401 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:59,119 Speaker 1: your personality and background and really incorporate them into the character. 402 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:01,000 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, all of us. You know, they sat down 403 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:03,280 Speaker 1: with us and just listened and we talked and they 404 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:08,360 Speaker 1: just mind what they wanted and left some behind. And UM, 405 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:12,440 Speaker 1: so thankful for that. Grounds of characters. Yeah, and you 406 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:14,359 Speaker 1: you know, one of the things I wanted to ask 407 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:17,800 Speaker 1: you is about this new attitude about casting certain people 408 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:22,960 Speaker 1: for certain roles. Like now, people are offended or take 409 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:27,760 Speaker 1: issue when a character who does not identify as similarly 410 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 1: as the character is cast. For example, a trans person 411 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,479 Speaker 1: should play a trans person, not a non trans person. 412 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:36,760 Speaker 1: A gay person should play a gay person gay character, 413 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:40,400 Speaker 1: you know, latinos should play latinos, on and on and on. 414 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:44,240 Speaker 1: And I wonder if you've gotten any pushback because you 415 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:47,800 Speaker 1: are not gay for playing a gay man. I think 416 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:49,720 Speaker 1: there are definitely people out there that have a problem 417 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:51,480 Speaker 1: with it, and did when I got the part. I don't. 418 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:55,119 Speaker 1: You know. Here's the thing, Hollywood has a tried and 419 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:58,960 Speaker 1: true method of how they cast parts. Right, they bring 420 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:00,879 Speaker 1: people in and then the crew leaders and producers of 421 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:04,200 Speaker 1: the show decide who they think is best. Now, did 422 00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:06,399 Speaker 1: a lot of gay people audition for the role of 423 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:11,560 Speaker 1: cam Right. You know, I did a lot of straight people, absolutely, 424 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:14,480 Speaker 1: and I think it's a real slippery slope when we 425 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:17,560 Speaker 1: start saying, okay, we just want you to check this 426 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:19,960 Speaker 1: box to tell me if you're gay or not before 427 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:21,480 Speaker 1: we let you audition for this part. I mean, how 428 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 1: would that even work? Like, how would you even say, like, no, 429 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:26,800 Speaker 1: I swear I'm gay. It's like, and what about people 430 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:29,800 Speaker 1: that aren't comfortable with being out? But are you know, 431 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:31,800 Speaker 1: quietly gay? It's like, well, no, but I'm gay. But 432 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:34,320 Speaker 1: I can't say that I'm gay because I don't want 433 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:35,760 Speaker 1: my parents to know yet. But no, I'm gay. I 434 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:38,040 Speaker 1: can audition for this part. It just doesn't make sense. 435 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:41,840 Speaker 1: I mean, we have to just obviously give everyone a chance, 436 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:45,119 Speaker 1: and I think opened the doors for for for people 437 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:49,720 Speaker 1: who haven't haven't had opportunities. I don't know. I mean, 438 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:51,679 Speaker 1: this is my opinion. I Ope, it doesn't get me 439 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:55,439 Speaker 1: in trouble, but I feel like actors, that's what acting is. 440 00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:58,160 Speaker 1: You take on the persona of someone else. Well, that's 441 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 1: the gift to me from a performer. The gift to 442 00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:02,520 Speaker 1: me is to be able to play someone like that 443 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:05,440 Speaker 1: like that. That's the exchange I bring who I am 444 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:07,320 Speaker 1: and what's in my heart to that character, and that 445 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:11,359 Speaker 1: character then returns a tremendous amount to me. That's the 446 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:15,199 Speaker 1: exchange we have, and me bringing my life experiences to 447 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:19,800 Speaker 1: someone else is what we should sort of be celebrating. Um, 448 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:21,440 Speaker 1: but I just think, you know, you don't want to 449 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:25,679 Speaker 1: go down that road because uh so, then I just 450 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:28,960 Speaker 1: think it's opportunity as long as everyone's getting an opportunity 451 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:31,760 Speaker 1: to audition. And look, I can make the case that 452 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:34,600 Speaker 1: for twelve years before I got on Modern Family, I 453 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:38,800 Speaker 1: didn't get a tremendous amount of opportunities. But maybe because 454 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,119 Speaker 1: of the way I looked, I didn't maybe get Cam 455 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:44,200 Speaker 1: because of me being a heavy set guy. They didn't 456 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:48,239 Speaker 1: think that that was who Cam was. And so there 457 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:51,359 Speaker 1: are all kinds of reasons people don't get parts. There's 458 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:55,560 Speaker 1: only usually one reason they do, you know. There's it's 459 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:58,200 Speaker 1: because somebody decided that that's who they want to play 460 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:00,879 Speaker 1: the part. As long as there's opportun unity and people 461 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:03,400 Speaker 1: are allowed to be in the room equally, which I'm 462 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:08,400 Speaker 1: supportive of, you gotta yield to the creative process, which 463 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:10,480 Speaker 1: is this is who we want to play this part. 464 00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:13,160 Speaker 1: And I think just be aware of your implicit biases 465 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:16,919 Speaker 1: and make sure that people are open to the possibilities, 466 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:20,040 Speaker 1: just as you had to open their eyes that you 467 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:22,800 Speaker 1: could play cam as well as somebody who looked different 468 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:25,199 Speaker 1: than you, you know. And my mom always, you know, 469 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:27,320 Speaker 1: said when they when the Chauffeur started, they were like, 470 00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:29,399 Speaker 1: people would say, oh, well are you what do you 471 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:31,520 Speaker 1: think of your son playing you know, a gay guy 472 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:33,240 Speaker 1: on TV? And I told her she said, well, what 473 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:34,880 Speaker 1: am I supposed to say to that? I don't care? 474 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:36,600 Speaker 1: And I said, Mom, what you need to say to 475 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:39,440 Speaker 1: them is that you watched your son murder people on TV. 476 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:42,119 Speaker 1: And no one ever asked that question, what's it like 477 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 1: to watch your son murder someone on TV? You know, 478 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:48,040 Speaker 1: that never was a question anyone never thought to ask. 479 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:51,879 Speaker 1: But bringing that back to what your initial question was 480 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:54,760 Speaker 1: is like, so you know, you're going to have to 481 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:57,720 Speaker 1: find people with real life experiences and everything if you 482 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,639 Speaker 1: start using that line and cast, so you have to 483 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:04,119 Speaker 1: cast convicted villains, which murders. Again, if you're out of 484 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:05,880 Speaker 1: jail and they've done your time, you should and you're 485 00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:08,159 Speaker 1: an actor and now you have an agent, come on 486 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:11,000 Speaker 1: into the audition. You know, for that murderer show us 487 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:14,960 Speaker 1: how it's done. What does Eric really think of his 488 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:18,359 Speaker 1: Modern family castmates. You'll find out when we come back 489 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:29,040 Speaker 1: and we are back with Modern Families Eric stone Street, 490 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:34,760 Speaker 1: So eleven seasons, Is there any Are there any particularly 491 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:40,680 Speaker 1: intense memories you have, either funny poignant of experiences you 492 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:45,240 Speaker 1: had on the show, there are so many. I mean 493 00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:48,800 Speaker 1: the Fizbo episode, crying calling my parents and telling them 494 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:50,719 Speaker 1: that there's an episode called Fizbo the Clown that we're 495 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:53,679 Speaker 1: shooting next week. It was a pretty big emotional moment. 496 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:57,000 Speaker 1: But I would say when why was that so emotional? Well, 497 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:58,720 Speaker 1: because I wanted to be a clown. My dad gave 498 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:00,520 Speaker 1: me the name Fizbo the Clown when I was a kid, 499 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:02,760 Speaker 1: and now you know here I showed the writers an 500 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:04,359 Speaker 1: article about me as a kid, and now it's an 501 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:09,840 Speaker 1: episode of television. Um, I would say, I always go 502 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:12,960 Speaker 1: back to when we found out the show was picked 503 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:15,680 Speaker 1: up for what's called It's Back nine. You know, when 504 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:17,800 Speaker 1: I got the job, audition for the job and got 505 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:19,880 Speaker 1: the job. That was awesome. I was very excited, but 506 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,200 Speaker 1: you know that's my job to get those jobs. So 507 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:25,159 Speaker 1: I was like measured Well, now we have to, and 508 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:26,600 Speaker 1: then the show got picked up, and it's like, well, 509 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:28,199 Speaker 1: that's out of my control. That's not up to me. 510 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:29,840 Speaker 1: I did the best I could. Now it's up to 511 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:32,320 Speaker 1: the show creators and the networks and the studio to 512 00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:35,480 Speaker 1: see if this fits on TV. Not not under my control. 513 00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:36,959 Speaker 1: So that was a great That was a great day, 514 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:38,720 Speaker 1: but not the biggest day. But the day that the 515 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:41,199 Speaker 1: show got picked up for the back nine, meaning we 516 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:43,240 Speaker 1: were going to do a complete season of twenty four 517 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:47,320 Speaker 1: episodes on ABC, that started to pay pave away from 518 00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:50,720 Speaker 1: my mind to imagine, oh man, we're gonna be on 519 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:53,199 Speaker 1: TV a long time, because if we do one full season, 520 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:55,639 Speaker 1: they're never gonna do one full season and just cut us. 521 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:57,880 Speaker 1: They're gonna do a second season. And if they're gonna 522 00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:00,240 Speaker 1: do a second season, now we're getting kind of if 523 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:02,520 Speaker 1: in syndication, so they're not gonna let it go after 524 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:04,520 Speaker 1: two seasons. So we're gonna do three. And if we 525 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:07,840 Speaker 1: do three, ways four and oh my gosh, four five. 526 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:09,879 Speaker 1: So then you started managing like I'm going to be 527 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:11,639 Speaker 1: on TV for a while. So I think still to 528 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:14,240 Speaker 1: this day, the day the Back nine got picked up 529 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:18,160 Speaker 1: is the most important day and is what is responsible 530 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,600 Speaker 1: to leading me here right now. I want to name 531 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:22,720 Speaker 1: some of the people in modern family. I just want 532 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:27,720 Speaker 1: you to kind of give me a short instantaneous reaction. Okay, 533 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:33,399 Speaker 1: Ed O'Neill, legend, just down, just down home. All he 534 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:35,280 Speaker 1: wants to do is have something in his crock pot 535 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:38,600 Speaker 1: and an mm A fight on TV, holding holding one 536 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:41,359 Speaker 1: of his collectible knives, just sitting at home. Ed O'Neill 537 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,480 Speaker 1: right now, no doubt, is cooking something, holding one of 538 00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:48,160 Speaker 1: his knives in his house and watching a sporting event. 539 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:52,840 Speaker 1: That's Ed O'Neill. It's super nice, so very funny or 540 00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:58,480 Speaker 1: not that life very funny, very funny, very funny. Different 541 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:02,640 Speaker 1: kind of funny than Jay. Yes, different. I mean at 542 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:05,000 Speaker 1: seventy some years old, he's from Ohio. I mean he's 543 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,480 Speaker 1: got different life perspective and he sometimes catches you off 544 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:12,399 Speaker 1: guard with what his humor is. Yeah. Sophia Vegara generous, beautiful, 545 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:22,280 Speaker 1: inside out, nice, um hilarious, self deprecating. Rico Rodriguez, who 546 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:25,280 Speaker 1: plays Manning sweet just a good kid. Can't get any 547 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:31,520 Speaker 1: better than then. Rico Julie Bowen energy goes twenty four 548 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:35,280 Speaker 1: hundred miles a day. I mean she is a mile 549 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:40,080 Speaker 1: a minute, good mom, carrying, polite. I always really liked her. 550 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:43,880 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, she's great, isn't she graz smart too? Very brown, 551 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 1: brown graduate. Yeah. Tyrell uh ty Burrell is so uh. 552 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,920 Speaker 1: He's like a what do you call it? A U 553 00:28:56,400 --> 00:29:00,240 Speaker 1: when a guy can do everything. He wants to make 554 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,120 Speaker 1: his own sausage, he wants to brew his own beer. 555 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:03,960 Speaker 1: He wants to do this, he wants met him at 556 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:06,200 Speaker 1: an event and he was super nice. And I met 557 00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:08,920 Speaker 1: his wife. They were lovely. She's a baker, I mean, 558 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:12,160 Speaker 1: he's he's he's just they sound very crunchy. Well, they're 559 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,600 Speaker 1: from Utah. They live they live up in Utah. And 560 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 1: he's just he's an awesome, friendly, awesome guy. Sarah Highland talented. 561 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:23,240 Speaker 1: I've blown away by Sarah's acting. When I got on 562 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:26,400 Speaker 1: the show and I started seeing her in episodes, I'm like, oh, wow, 563 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:35,440 Speaker 1: she's great. She's really good, aerial, Winter sweet nice. Um. 564 00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:39,040 Speaker 1: Do you worry about child actors? I do not. These kids. 565 00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:44,760 Speaker 1: Nolan could smart. He's you know, he's a mensa and 566 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:50,840 Speaker 1: he plays a dumb character. Yeah, he's very smart. I 567 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:53,320 Speaker 1: should be I should be too. Yeah, let's let's let's 568 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,120 Speaker 1: let's let's look. I think we need to we we 569 00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:58,000 Speaker 1: should just start a petition. Well, we need to get 570 00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:00,400 Speaker 1: them to lower the standards, and then we'll get in. 571 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:05,440 Speaker 1: And finally I want to ask you, well, actually to 572 00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:13,040 Speaker 1: two more. Your name's on here, but I'm humble, incredibly challenged, 573 00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:19,280 Speaker 1: wonderful lover. Yeah, I enjoy him in bed. I enjoy 574 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,720 Speaker 1: him very much, all of him in bed. He's a 575 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:27,640 Speaker 1: wonderful guy. Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Oh man, Jesse's you know, 576 00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:30,760 Speaker 1: are you guys super tight? You know we are super tight. 577 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:34,480 Speaker 1: But here's the thing that's so great about Jesse and I. 578 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:38,320 Speaker 1: His relationship were so different, like and we are a 579 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:41,640 Speaker 1: great example of how people can be completely different and 580 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:44,400 Speaker 1: have a great friendship. Like there's no doubt that I'm 581 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,920 Speaker 1: here at the greatest sporting event of all time and 582 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,920 Speaker 1: he's probably at Barber streisand tonight. You know, like we 583 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:54,320 Speaker 1: do completely different things, and we have so many operate 584 00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:57,600 Speaker 1: moments from our past. We're all tweet out or instagram 585 00:30:57,600 --> 00:30:59,680 Speaker 1: out a picture of me at brock Lessner's mm A 586 00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:02,760 Speaker 1: FI and he's seeing Lady Gaga in Las Vegas for 587 00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:06,680 Speaker 1: the thirtieth time. Uh, what is m m A. It's 588 00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:09,960 Speaker 1: don't mis martial arts. Sorry, I knew I was thinking. 589 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:12,480 Speaker 1: I couldn't remember the mixed part. But my point is 590 00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:15,920 Speaker 1: is we we have a fantastic relationship. We've only really 591 00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,320 Speaker 1: been mad at each other a couple of times, Like 592 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:20,520 Speaker 1: where we when did you get mad? At the second 593 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:22,720 Speaker 1: second season we got mad at each other for something 594 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:25,680 Speaker 1: and I don't remember what it was, but it was stupid, 595 00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:27,880 Speaker 1: and we both just went to each other and we're like, 596 00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:29,600 Speaker 1: you know, what are we doing? We're gonna be working 597 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:32,080 Speaker 1: together forever, so we can't be mad at each other. 598 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:35,160 Speaker 1: But who who who made the first move to apologize? 599 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:38,040 Speaker 1: Jesse's the type of person that I can't stand if 600 00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:41,080 Speaker 1: he's upset. He's got that kind of personality where I 601 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,320 Speaker 1: might have a personality. We're like, oh, Stone Streets mad, Good, 602 00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:45,320 Speaker 1: let him sit there for a while, you know, you 603 00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:47,520 Speaker 1: know what I mean? You know those people where Jesse's 604 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:50,560 Speaker 1: the type of person. It's like, I don't want Jesse 605 00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:52,040 Speaker 1: to be mad at me. I don't want Jesse to 606 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,480 Speaker 1: be upset, so I need to bridge this gap here. 607 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:57,800 Speaker 1: So you were the bigger person, not always, I'm not always. 608 00:31:57,800 --> 00:31:59,760 Speaker 1: I don't even remember in that moment what it was. 609 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:02,120 Speaker 1: But I just know that we had a conversation, which is, 610 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,240 Speaker 1: we don't have time to be mad at each other, 611 00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:07,960 Speaker 1: so let's just be super upfront and honest with each other. 612 00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:11,240 Speaker 1: But you know, the other thing about our show that 613 00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:13,680 Speaker 1: made it, all of us get along so well as 614 00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,800 Speaker 1: we don't work together all the time. You know, we're modulars. 615 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:19,000 Speaker 1: So I'm working with Jesse the most, which means I'm 616 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,080 Speaker 1: not working with Ti and Julie. I'm not working with 617 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,320 Speaker 1: Ed and Sophia, so we don't have a lot of 618 00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:26,080 Speaker 1: time for each other to really get on each other's 619 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:30,520 Speaker 1: nerves much as other ensemble shows. And finally, Aubrey Anderson 620 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:33,560 Speaker 1: Emma's who played Lily your daughter. Yeah, well she's come 621 00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:36,040 Speaker 1: a long way. You know, we had two twins that 622 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:37,800 Speaker 1: did not want to be that. We had a set 623 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:39,320 Speaker 1: of twins that did not want to be there. They 624 00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:44,800 Speaker 1: cried all the time. So we fired their asses. Uh no, 625 00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:48,479 Speaker 1: we wed. Yeah, we did what a family would do, 626 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:50,880 Speaker 1: and we removed them from a situation that they clearly 627 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,400 Speaker 1: weren't having a good time and it was not worth it. 628 00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:56,400 Speaker 1: And they found they found um Aubrey and you know, 629 00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:00,320 Speaker 1: she she's so cute, so sweet when she got there, 630 00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:03,160 Speaker 1: but you know she she had her own struggles with 631 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,400 Speaker 1: wanting to be there and doing it and she's really 632 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:08,120 Speaker 1: come into her own as a young lady now. I'm 633 00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:10,920 Speaker 1: so proud of who her personality has become and what 634 00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:12,880 Speaker 1: she is. And what do you think the secret sauce 635 00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:15,480 Speaker 1: of the show was, Eric, I mean, just great writing, 636 00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:21,320 Speaker 1: great characters, very modern family. I mean the secret sauce 637 00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:24,200 Speaker 1: of the show is is families are universal. No matter 638 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,080 Speaker 1: where you are, what country you're in, we all suffer 639 00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:31,000 Speaker 1: the same drama, the same stuff back and forth, and 640 00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:36,160 Speaker 1: it just it's it's all relatable. And even when we 641 00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:39,240 Speaker 1: would we would write something, you know, we would write 642 00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:42,000 Speaker 1: something on and I would think, like, there's nobody that's 643 00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:43,840 Speaker 1: gonna get that joker, nobody's gonna like that joke. We 644 00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:46,360 Speaker 1: would inevitably be out somewhere and be like, oh my god, 645 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:48,640 Speaker 1: when you said that, that happened in my family, That 646 00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:51,800 Speaker 1: exact same thing happened. And that's where you know writers 647 00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:54,280 Speaker 1: are brilliant. They're like chefs. You know, you don't sit 648 00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:55,920 Speaker 1: down at a restaurant and look at the menu and 649 00:33:55,960 --> 00:34:00,280 Speaker 1: think like man Elk and blueberry jam and fog. It's 650 00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:02,880 Speaker 1: gonna go great together. It takes somebody to tell you 651 00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:04,320 Speaker 1: that's going to be good, and then you taste it, 652 00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:07,280 Speaker 1: you're like, that's really good. And that's what comedy writers do. 653 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:10,400 Speaker 1: They they create the taste of what is funny. And 654 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:14,000 Speaker 1: we've had the best writers maybe in Hollywood history, on 655 00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:15,960 Speaker 1: that long of a run of a TV show. So 656 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:18,279 Speaker 1: what's ahead for you? When you think about, Okay, what 657 00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:19,839 Speaker 1: am I going to do next? Are you and your 658 00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:23,799 Speaker 1: cute girlfriend Lindsey going to take some time off? We're 659 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:28,640 Speaker 1: talking about you, Lindsey. Um, she was sort of stacy 660 00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:30,839 Speaker 1: for a minute. I don't know what we're I don't 661 00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:32,920 Speaker 1: know what I'm gonna do. I'm not. But here's the 662 00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:35,400 Speaker 1: thing is what modern families afforded me the opportunity to 663 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:37,480 Speaker 1: do is not worry about it. I don't want to 664 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:39,920 Speaker 1: go away forever, because you know how Hollywood is. I 665 00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:43,000 Speaker 1: go away and people forget, you know, who I am 666 00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:44,959 Speaker 1: or what I've done, and they'll miss you even more 667 00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:48,160 Speaker 1: well potentially. And that's the other thing about getting to 668 00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:49,759 Speaker 1: play the character I got to play. People got to 669 00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:52,160 Speaker 1: know me, you know, for playing a character they don't 670 00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:54,839 Speaker 1: know they haven't gotten to know me, and usually people 671 00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:56,760 Speaker 1: don't like me as much as they like my character. 672 00:34:57,400 --> 00:34:59,560 Speaker 1: That's what I feel that must always be. Well, not 673 00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:02,759 Speaker 1: always is, but you know, it's hard to talk in 674 00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:05,759 Speaker 1: real life and be as funny as as as you 675 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:10,160 Speaker 1: are when you're reading comedy writer's words, although you're pretty 676 00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:12,480 Speaker 1: damn funny that they have a completely different sense of 677 00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:15,800 Speaker 1: humor than my character does, which always catches people off guard. 678 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:19,040 Speaker 1: But I'll find something to do that's meaningful and funny. 679 00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:21,319 Speaker 1: You're not you're not thinking about it, or you think, 680 00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:23,879 Speaker 1: n G, I'd love to do a play, or are 681 00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:26,080 Speaker 1: you just going to kind of savor the end of 682 00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:28,759 Speaker 1: this run. I'm gonna savor it and then jump in 683 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,960 Speaker 1: and find something that is exciting. I've never done a 684 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:36,799 Speaker 1: multicam comedy, like a traditional sitcom that that sounds fun 685 00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:38,320 Speaker 1: to me to do that, because it's like doing a 686 00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:41,440 Speaker 1: play every every week, and now there's so many opportunities 687 00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:44,640 Speaker 1: with so many outlets, which I guess the conversely, you 688 00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:48,120 Speaker 1: think it's so much content, how can anything breakthrough? It's 689 00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:51,560 Speaker 1: it's it's it's an incredible time but a challenging time 690 00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:54,439 Speaker 1: right now, right But I'm excited. That's the good news 691 00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:56,839 Speaker 1: is I'm thankful, I'm grateful, and I'm excited to see 692 00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:59,040 Speaker 1: what's next. Well, before we go, you have to tell 693 00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:01,400 Speaker 1: me quickly about this video you did with the Chiefs. 694 00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:04,759 Speaker 1: Randy Reid. Yeah, okay, explain to people who may not 695 00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:07,200 Speaker 1: Understandy reads the head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs, 696 00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:09,640 Speaker 1: and I wanted to do a video celebrating Andy Reid 697 00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:12,440 Speaker 1: in the chief So I played his brother, Randy Reid, 698 00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:15,160 Speaker 1: seeing what he does, seeing what these guys do. It's 699 00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:17,000 Speaker 1: a lot different than what I do. I have a 700 00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,880 Speaker 1: jet ski business in Oxnard, California, and it's just something 701 00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:22,880 Speaker 1: my friend jered Well came up with the idea a 702 00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:24,759 Speaker 1: few years ago, and then my friend Jerry Collins, I 703 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:26,360 Speaker 1: asked him if he wanted to help me write it, 704 00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:28,600 Speaker 1: and he came up with, you know a lot of 705 00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:30,560 Speaker 1: the stuff, and then we just went to training camp 706 00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:33,680 Speaker 1: and improvised it. But it was very popular in Kansas 707 00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:36,200 Speaker 1: City and Coach Reid was in it, and him being 708 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,359 Speaker 1: in it really grounded it and made it feel real 709 00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:41,319 Speaker 1: and a lot of people Patrick Mahomes girlfriend as she 710 00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:44,080 Speaker 1: watched it apparently and was like, man, Andy Reid's brother 711 00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:47,160 Speaker 1: is he's something else and she's like, Patrick's like, that's er, 712 00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:51,560 Speaker 1: that's not. But that was happened a lot, a tremendous amount. Yeah, 713 00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:53,600 Speaker 1: she wasn't one of the only ones that I got 714 00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:56,200 Speaker 1: that message about. But it was just meant to be 715 00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:58,640 Speaker 1: a love letter to my favorite you know football team, 716 00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:00,880 Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs. Where are you to be sitting for 717 00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:05,719 Speaker 1: the Super Bowl? Do you have good seats? I'll tell 718 00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:07,000 Speaker 1: you where I'm sitting, and then you tell me if 719 00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:09,160 Speaker 1: you think they're going to be good seats with the 720 00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:15,799 Speaker 1: Commissioner of football. Oh oh, aren't you the one that'll 721 00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:17,399 Speaker 1: be fun? So are you going to be in a box? 722 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,000 Speaker 1: You're gonna be in You don't want to be in 723 00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:22,080 Speaker 1: the stands. I picture you as want to be in 724 00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:23,640 Speaker 1: the stands. I mean to focus, I need to go 725 00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:25,840 Speaker 1: to the bathroom. When I need to go to the bathroom, 726 00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:28,080 Speaker 1: I don't want I love the stands. You're probably not 727 00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:30,000 Speaker 1: going to be super sociable because you're going to be 728 00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:33,759 Speaker 1: I'm not sociable. I'm not sociable. You are a football games. 729 00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:36,360 Speaker 1: I'm not. I want to just watch the game. I 730 00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:38,520 Speaker 1: don't want to chit chat. But no. The reason I'm 731 00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:41,280 Speaker 1: sitting with Roger is because five years ago he invited 732 00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:43,000 Speaker 1: me to the Super Bowl because his wife and he 733 00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:45,200 Speaker 1: and his daughters are big fans of the show. He 734 00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:47,480 Speaker 1: called me and said, we'd like you to come to 735 00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:51,240 Speaker 1: the super Bowl and I said, no, thank you, that's true. 736 00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:54,040 Speaker 1: You said no thing. I said, no, I'm not coming 737 00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:55,560 Speaker 1: to the super Bowl until the Chiefs are in it. 738 00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:59,640 Speaker 1: And he said, very funnily funny, that's not a word. 739 00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:01,440 Speaker 1: I think it might be. I just made it up. 740 00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:03,880 Speaker 1: He said, in a very funny way. Okay, if you 741 00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:05,560 Speaker 1: want to wait that long, that's up to you. And 742 00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:09,440 Speaker 1: I was like, okay, Roger, game on. And so the 743 00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:11,719 Speaker 1: last two years I've been Roger, the Chiefs are in 744 00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:14,520 Speaker 1: the a f C Championship rain check time, and this 745 00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:17,640 Speaker 1: year we won. So I'm he's made good on his 746 00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:20,439 Speaker 1: invitation to the to the super Bowl, and I made 747 00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:22,120 Speaker 1: good on me never coming to the super Bowl and 748 00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:24,200 Speaker 1: tell the Chiefs are in it, well, awesome. Well I 749 00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:27,360 Speaker 1: am rooting for the Chiefs because I love you, so 750 00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:34,120 Speaker 1: by extension, I love the chief Sorry to but they've 751 00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:37,400 Speaker 1: had a lot of fun. Are you the most famous 752 00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:40,600 Speaker 1: band Paul Jason skis. Are they all coming, Rob Wriggle, 753 00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:43,319 Speaker 1: I'm sure they'll all be here, but we're all fans. Well, 754 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:50,080 Speaker 1: thank you, love seeing you. And that does it for 755 00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:54,000 Speaker 1: the special bonus episode of Next Question from Miami. Thank 756 00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:57,160 Speaker 1: you to sleep Number for the cozy podcast booth, and 757 00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:00,919 Speaker 1: thanks to my guest Eric stone Street for the on conversation. 758 00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:03,640 Speaker 1: I just love that guy, and thank you all for 759 00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:06,359 Speaker 1: taking the time to listen to this before the big game. 760 00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:10,120 Speaker 1: Enjoy the super Bowl. Check out my commercial. I think 761 00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:12,879 Speaker 1: it happens in the first quarter and what can I say? 762 00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:15,640 Speaker 1: I was brilliant. But don't blink because you'll miss me 763 00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:19,640 Speaker 1: until next time and my next question. I'm Katie Couric. 764 00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:26,040 Speaker 1: Next Question with Katie Kurik is a production of I 765 00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:29,560 Speaker 1: Heart Radio and Katie Curic Media. The executive producers are 766 00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:33,440 Speaker 1: Katie Currik, Courtney Litz, and Tyler Klang. The supervising producer 767 00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:38,040 Speaker 1: is Lauren Hansen. Our show producer is Bethan Macaluso. The 768 00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:42,239 Speaker 1: associate producers are Emily Pinto and Derek Clemens. Editing by 769 00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:47,360 Speaker 1: Derrek Clements, Dylan Fagan, and Lowell Berlante. Mixing by Dylan Fagan. 770 00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:52,520 Speaker 1: Our researcher is Gabriel Loser. For more information on today's episode, 771 00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:55,160 Speaker 1: go to Katie kurik dot com and follow us on 772 00:39:55,200 --> 00:40:02,000 Speaker 1: Twitter and Instagram at Katie Kurik. For more podcasts for 773 00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:05,200 Speaker 1: my Heart Radio, visit the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcast, 774 00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:07,360 Speaker 1: or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.