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Speaker 1: Hello Trevor, um, to see you, good, to see you here. Good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: good to be in the Space round table. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for joining me, especially to talk about a
Speaker 1: book that I mean, it's like part memoir, but really
Speaker 1: it's I feel like this is a how to guide
Speaker 1: for anybody who wants to just work and grind through life.
Speaker 1: I hope. So that would be great if it had
Speaker 1: more than one use. No, I feel like that's one
Speaker 1: of the biggest uses. That's when we hold the door
Speaker 1: open to stick it under the door. Please. But it's
Speaker 1: a really good book about your life but comedy. It's
Speaker 1: about show biz, it's about hanging in there. It's about
Speaker 1: a lot of dead ends, which uh I only included
Speaker 1: about I'm gonna say a third of the dead ends
Speaker 1: because it's very hard to write about shows and things
Speaker 1: that no one's ever gonna see or can see. I
Speaker 1: I wrote the book for a number of reasons. One,
Speaker 1: you know, pop culture moves so fast these days, and
Speaker 1: a lot of the things I did are smaller, cultish things.
Speaker 1: I'm still very proud of them. Mr Show. I was
Speaker 1: part of Get a life helping with Tenacious D and
Speaker 1: Tim and Eric and and but these things are all
Speaker 1: going to get covered over by lots more gloppy comedy
Speaker 1: and stuff. All of these feel like the stepping stones
Speaker 1: that got you to the world that we see you,
Speaker 1: and now that the person that we see today. I like,
Speaker 1: I fell in love with the obviously, like many people
Speaker 1: from Breaking Bad, you know, that's the way I went.
Speaker 1: Like this guy is I never loved a lawyer who's sneezy,
Speaker 1: who's you know what I mean? I feel like you
Speaker 1: changed how we even see lawyers for some reason. Love
Speaker 1: this guy. Guys he's a bad you think way you
Speaker 1: think he's a bad guy. No, No, I think he's
Speaker 1: a good guy. But his guys, his choice to be
Speaker 1: Saul good Man, uh to put on this front you
Speaker 1: you know, embrace situational ethics. I think it's a bad choice.
Speaker 1: I don't like. Yes, I think it's don't like people
Speaker 1: like that. But in the end, in the end, because
Speaker 1: I know the end. Now we finished two weeks ago tomorrow,
Speaker 1: we finished shooting. This is long away to be in
Speaker 1: the end. I like where it goes. Okay, okay, so
Speaker 1: we'll see you will see when when when you read
Speaker 1: this book, I mean the titles is a comedy, comedy, comedy, drama.
Speaker 1: I don't know your story. A lot of people don't
Speaker 1: know your story. They just see a person on TV.
Speaker 1: They like, this person is amazing. Then we see you
Speaker 1: somewhere else, this person is even more amazing. We assume
Speaker 1: life has always been amazing. Then we see the grind.
Speaker 1: We see, like you said, it's failure, failure, failure did end, didn't, didn't,
Speaker 1: didn't moment of success no failure, failure did and didn't
Speaker 1: moment again. And it feels like throughout your life, like
Speaker 1: Saul Goodman, you've been just trying to get that grip
Speaker 1: on on this world, in this career. Are you happy
Speaker 1: with where your life has gotten to? Is this a
Speaker 1: celebration of that now? Very much? Yeah? And by the way,
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I've had unbelievable success in the last
Speaker 1: few years with better Coalsaul in this film, actual film
Speaker 1: nobody played really well around the world, And uh, of
Speaker 1: course that informs it. But I'm very happy with where
Speaker 1: I'm at. But I also I am happy with all
Speaker 1: the variety of things that I did and have gotten
Speaker 1: to do. And I think that that's A great quality
Speaker 1: to show businesses is the different avenues you can go
Speaker 1: down over time. Because this business loves people reinventing themselves.
Speaker 1: It does feed on the injured. You know, if you're
Speaker 1: trailing blood, you will get eaten and spit out. But
Speaker 1: if you can just regenerate yourself quickly and go I'm back,
Speaker 1: the business is like, oh great, he's back, and and
Speaker 1: that's pretty neat. I was really touched by you sharing
Speaker 1: parts of your story and how you know you grew
Speaker 1: up is one of seven siblings, right, you know, and
Speaker 1: your dad was struggling with alcoholism, walked out on the family,
Speaker 1: et cetera. It feels like that really changed a lot
Speaker 1: of how you wanted to be a dad. Like in
Speaker 1: the book, there's a really beautiful part where you go,
Speaker 1: I don't want to do better coal Soul because I
Speaker 1: want to be a better dad. I want to be
Speaker 1: at home. And then it's your kids who say, no,
Speaker 1: you gotta go do the show. Did you manage to
Speaker 1: call the kids? How did this? I don't wonder too
Speaker 1: much about it, but that does seem a little magical
Speaker 1: because my kids were thirteen and fifteen at the time,
Speaker 1: and then when they first came to me and said,
Speaker 1: we are going to do we want to do better
Speaker 1: call Soul. It was a joke at first. The first
Speaker 1: scene I did with Brian Cranson on the set of
Speaker 1: Breaking Dad in the office. As soon as we were
Speaker 1: done with the take, one of the camera crew said,
Speaker 1: can I get a job on the sequel? And everyone laughed,
Speaker 1: and then it became this kind of running joke. There's
Speaker 1: got to be a sequel. They should do a show
Speaker 1: about Saul. And then Vince Gilligan came to me more
Speaker 1: than once. Do you think there's a show in that
Speaker 1: about Saul? I think there is. But when they said
Speaker 1: you know it's shot in Albuquerque, I looked at my
Speaker 1: kids and I thought about our life, and I did
Speaker 1: think of all my own dad and he did not
Speaker 1: prioritize his family at all. And I just said, I
Speaker 1: can't do it. I can't leave yet. There's too much
Speaker 1: work here at the house. And uh, the kids overheard that,
Speaker 1: and I hung up the phone and my son was
Speaker 1: standing there across the room and he he goes, so
Speaker 1: you're not gonna do that show? Huh? And I go, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's not it's not time. And he goes, well, you're
Speaker 1: gonna disappoint a lot of people. And uh. And then
Speaker 1: we carried on talking and he said, we'll help out
Speaker 1: at the house. Dad, We'll make it work. So I
Speaker 1: let it go. And then my daughter came to me
Speaker 1: and she had talked to my son, and uh. And
Speaker 1: my daughter was more like a kid who grew up
Speaker 1: in how they would with questions, Uh, what would it
Speaker 1: be like? Would it be hard to do? Do you
Speaker 1: think people would like it? And then she said if
Speaker 1: it's bad, how bad would it be? Real manager type
Speaker 1: year old? Yes, And I go, it wouldn't be bad.
Speaker 1: It would be an interesting experiment. That's the worst it
Speaker 1: would be. And she goes, well you should do it.
Speaker 1: I love that. I love that. Before I let you go,
Speaker 1: how's your hearts? By the great? I did? I did?
Speaker 1: You just have you know? I finished the book long
Speaker 1: before I had the heart attack. Um I did. I
Speaker 1: had a heart attack. And I was very lucky to
Speaker 1: have it on the set And there were some pros
Speaker 1: around who immediately gave me CPR and everybody listening take
Speaker 1: a CPR class, brush up on it. They saved my life.
Speaker 1: You you don't remember any of that. I don't remember
Speaker 1: any of it. The next after the surgery, I woke up.
Speaker 1: My family was there and I was like, hey. I
Speaker 1: was like, I gotta go back to work. And they
Speaker 1: were I'm in a hospital gown and and they go, um, no,
Speaker 1: you don't you have an heart attack. I'm like, well, no, no,
Speaker 1: what no, I was. I was at work. And then
Speaker 1: they go, how did you get here? And I go
Speaker 1: and my brain did this all on its own. I
Speaker 1: d I drove here, and I parked on level two
Speaker 1: and then because I knew you guys were here, and
Speaker 1: and then I came in here and my wife goes,
Speaker 1: so you came in here, and you got in that
Speaker 1: bed and you put that gown on. And I looked
Speaker 1: down and I'm like, yeah, Like my brain made up
Speaker 1: a little story about how I had gotten there. Totally weird,
Speaker 1: but I'm great. I'm glad man, I'm glad. I'm glad,
Speaker 1: you're great. I'm glad we get to celebrate the final
Speaker 1: season with you. I'm glad we said we get to
Speaker 1: celebrate the book with you. Um, congratulations, thanks for congratulations
Speaker 1: on your life and say heights of the kids. I
Speaker 1: will thank them for all of us as the fans.
Speaker 1: I will We really do appreciate them, all right, people.
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