1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:02,520 Speaker 1: Ken, you are a renaissance man. You do it all. 2 00:00:02,640 --> 00:00:05,480 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for being. 3 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:08,240 Speaker 2: Here with us and more importantly taking good care of 4 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 2: my girl while you were, you know, making this incredible 5 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 2: show that I can't wait to watch. 6 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 3: Oh, we're taking care of each other. It was wonderful. 7 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:17,639 Speaker 1: No, you lifted my ass up. Let's be honest, not 8 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:20,319 Speaker 1: that it's a light ass, but you get it. Calm 9 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 1: Down with Erin and Carissa is a production of iHeartRadio. 10 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:32,040 Speaker 1: Hey guys, well I have to go. I can't calm 11 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:34,279 Speaker 1: down right now because I don't even know where we're 12 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:38,640 Speaker 1: looking though, Who cares? Ken is here, Carissa, and I'm 13 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:42,320 Speaker 1: so excited about this. Welcome to the Calm Down Podcast. 14 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:44,720 Speaker 1: First of all, Ken, John so excited to have you 15 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:48,560 Speaker 1: and your publicist forced this on us. No, I'm kidding. 16 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:48,879 Speaker 2: Hi. 17 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 1: The first time I met you and spent three weeks 18 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 1: with you in the UK to film ninety nine Debat, 19 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:57,319 Speaker 1: I would text Chrissa all the time and I kept 20 00:00:57,320 --> 00:00:59,639 Speaker 1: saying to her, we have to have you on the podcast. 21 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:02,000 Speaker 1: We have to have you on the podcast. So thanks 22 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:04,039 Speaker 1: for coming. Are you kidding? Thank you? 23 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:04,679 Speaker 3: So? 24 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:07,200 Speaker 4: I'm just it is great to be I feel like 25 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 4: This is a very special edition of the podcast of 26 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:11,040 Speaker 4: Calming Down. 27 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:13,440 Speaker 1: I'm not going to calm down. 28 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:16,600 Speaker 2: There's many things Ken that she said she loved working 29 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 2: with you on this new show. Of course, you've got 30 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:20,560 Speaker 2: the graphic in the background. Look how official it is 31 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:21,280 Speaker 2: ninety nineteen. 32 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 1: God, I didn't even see it. 33 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 2: We will get into the show in a second. But 34 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:27,920 Speaker 2: this was Ken, and it came as no surprise to 35 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 2: me that Aaron's first thing that she told me when 36 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 2: I asked her how it's going, and she said, Ken 37 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:36,320 Speaker 2: is hysterical. Thank god, I'm working with him, so I 38 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 2: know you guys had such a good time. 39 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 1: Give us your version. 40 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:42,119 Speaker 2: Since I've heard Aaron's version of the time over there 41 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:43,759 Speaker 2: and the show and everything. 42 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 3: Well, what she won't say is how funny she was. 43 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:50,919 Speaker 4: She kept me in stitches the whole time, so many 44 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 4: in jokes or we're having long hours on set and 45 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 4: just probably seemingly simple things that won't make you laugh 46 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:01,360 Speaker 4: out of context, but we would. There are just so 47 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 4: many things we would just say just to keep each 48 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:05,880 Speaker 4: other going and laughing. 49 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:06,520 Speaker 3: I don't know. 50 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 4: To me, it was just it was that from Jump 51 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 4: that was the best part of it. The chemistry was 52 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:13,960 Speaker 4: like right there in as immediate. 53 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:16,680 Speaker 1: I was nervous because, okay, so, just to give you 54 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:18,520 Speaker 1: an idea of this show, and Chris and I have 55 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:21,080 Speaker 1: talked about it on this podcast, is that it is 56 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:25,440 Speaker 1: seemingly simple games for serious cash. The winner of this 57 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 1: game can win a million dollars, will win a million dollars. 58 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:32,680 Speaker 1: And what I didn't really understand was is how do 59 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:35,519 Speaker 1: I fit in with Ken. We know Ken is hysterical, 60 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:38,400 Speaker 1: we know he is a doctor and super smart, but 61 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:40,760 Speaker 1: I just didn't really know how that would unfold. And 62 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 1: so we sat up kind of like in a booth 63 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 1: that you see Kevin Burkhart, Tom Brady, Greg Olsen in 64 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:51,959 Speaker 1: and we watched these contestants players live out these challenges, 65 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:54,840 Speaker 1: do these challenges, and then Ken, the way you just 66 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 1: Ken would put himself in, like in the shoes of 67 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 1: the challenge of the plays the challengers and challenges, and 68 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:05,799 Speaker 1: he would get so emotional and it was like this 69 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:08,240 Speaker 1: is where my heart hurts, and Chris I would become 70 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:10,520 Speaker 1: Bill Bellichack. I'm like, what do you mean? They need 71 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:13,280 Speaker 1: to be our teammates, they need to work harder, And 72 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 1: it was incredible. You were emotional, you were hysterical, and 73 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:18,919 Speaker 1: I loved the way it all came together. 74 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:22,960 Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel the same way because just I you know, 75 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 4: both of you are broadcasting brilliant geniuses, and I think 76 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 4: just to have selfclaimed, it was just surreal to you 77 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 4: eventize the show. You know, it's one thing just to 78 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:41,760 Speaker 4: you know, have a game show and with competitions and 79 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:44,920 Speaker 4: call it. But you made it an event, so everything 80 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 4: felt like, you know, a playoff atmosphere. It was like 81 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 4: feel the sixty eight March Madness. Now it was our 82 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 4: version of March Madness on a Fox game show. Really wise, 83 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 4: and you just raise the stakes with your I don't know, 84 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 4: your broadcasting ability is just it was. 85 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 3: It was a thing of wonder. 86 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 4: To watch, just just even with techniques would die at 87 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:08,640 Speaker 4: the showrunner is just saying, you know, like, oh, Marissa, 88 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 4: how do you feel going into the sag nuts competition? 89 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 4: And what do you feel about that? And then before 90 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:17,359 Speaker 4: you can finish the sentence, you're already starting it. You know, 91 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 4: that's just kind of the pros you both are, and 92 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:23,599 Speaker 4: it was I loved learning those kind of techniques from you. 93 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:25,720 Speaker 3: It was great. It was so much fun. 94 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 2: Go ahead, Babe, Ken, you're obviously no stranger to television. 95 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:31,720 Speaker 2: How long have you been in the industry now? Because 96 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 2: you stopped practicing what? And I don't know that origin story. 97 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 1: Tell this story. That's what I wanted to get to. 98 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:40,479 Speaker 1: Enough about broadcasting, Come on, your story is fascinating. Yeah. 99 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 4: I I left medicine around I believe it was December 100 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:47,760 Speaker 4: of six. 101 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. 102 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:51,279 Speaker 4: And what kind of doctor internal medicine general practitioner? 103 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 1: Great, and I do I love I. 104 00:04:55,520 --> 00:05:03,200 Speaker 4: Love those generalists generally speaking, because you're not a specificist. No, 105 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:09,159 Speaker 4: it was really it's been almost nineteen years. And my 106 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:13,039 Speaker 4: wife Tran, who is a doctor still is she practices 107 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:17,760 Speaker 4: like part time family practitioner, and it she really encouraged 108 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 4: me to quit my job and do this full time. 109 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:24,400 Speaker 3: So I would not have quit my job if it 110 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 3: wasn't for her. 111 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:26,479 Speaker 1: So what were you doing? Go ahead? 112 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:29,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead or sorry? I just was why did 113 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 2: you want to make the switch? 114 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:33,120 Speaker 1: I don't I don't know this right, Yeah I had. 115 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 4: I was doing stand up comedy and for lack of 116 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 4: a better word, like acting on the side, like for. 117 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:41,680 Speaker 1: What does that mean? What does that look? OK? 118 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 4: So it also like when I I went to college 119 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 4: at Duke, I took my first acting class there. 120 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:47,359 Speaker 3: I fell in love with it. 121 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:51,160 Speaker 4: Was kind of koreaned by my father into staying pre 122 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:55,719 Speaker 4: meds and so I did, but I kept I kept 123 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 4: doing stand up comedy and kept performing even when I 124 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:01,360 Speaker 4: was in med school and resident and see, and I 125 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:04,279 Speaker 4: even won uh stand up comedy competition when I was 126 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:05,480 Speaker 4: doing my residency. 127 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:07,120 Speaker 1: In New Orleans. Seriously, yeah, and the winner. 128 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:09,360 Speaker 4: Got to perform at the Improv in Hollywood. So I 129 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:14,360 Speaker 4: was like probably twenty nine years ago in that stand 130 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:18,360 Speaker 4: up routine. Do you remember, No, Man, I really did not. 131 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:22,400 Speaker 4: I the jokes were, I sang a lot, I had 132 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 4: a guitar, like doing song charities. 133 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:25,440 Speaker 1: It was. 134 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:27,040 Speaker 3: It was way out there. 135 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:27,280 Speaker 1: I'm not. 136 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:30,560 Speaker 3: I don't consider myself a great stand up by any means. 137 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:30,800 Speaker 3: You know. 138 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:32,680 Speaker 4: It was more of a means to an end to 139 00:06:33,279 --> 00:06:35,800 Speaker 4: doing stand up comedy. So I could, you know, do 140 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:39,159 Speaker 4: comedic acting. I thought that was where I you know, 141 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:41,560 Speaker 4: that was my my sweet spot. But I like doing 142 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 4: stand up at least for me, it was great to 143 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 4: it was a great outlet. It was a great I 144 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,120 Speaker 4: always told people friends of mine, it's like my golf, 145 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:50,839 Speaker 4: you know, as a dog is my golf. 146 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:51,159 Speaker 3: I would. 147 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 4: I would just do open mics, didn't matter what stage 148 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 4: it was, and I'd always like to perform. And I 149 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:00,719 Speaker 4: just kind of kept that up even when I eventually 150 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:04,080 Speaker 4: moved out to LA and worked at Kaiser at Woodland Hills. 151 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:07,000 Speaker 4: I was just I was known as the doctor stand 152 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:11,240 Speaker 4: up guy, and I eventually got on Comedy Central, b 153 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:14,640 Speaker 4: E T Comicview, like so while I was a practicing doctor. 154 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 4: So I had a reputation even as a practicing physician 155 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:22,360 Speaker 4: of like doing comedy and already being on television. And 156 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:25,200 Speaker 4: then my first movie was Knocked Up, playing the doctor 157 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 4: and Judd Apatow is Knocked Up. That was my movie debut, 158 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:32,320 Speaker 4: and I shot that while on like like on a 159 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:35,320 Speaker 4: vacation week, you know, and I shot still having my 160 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 4: day job. 161 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:38,080 Speaker 1: That's insane. It was that point my. 162 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 3: Wife was like, Okay, it's time to go pro. 163 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:42,840 Speaker 4: She was just like, because I went back to work 164 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:46,120 Speaker 4: after filming Knocked Up, and jud Apatow had said you 165 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 4: are my discovery. 166 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:49,000 Speaker 3: I'm going to put you in all my movies and 167 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:49,320 Speaker 3: he did. 168 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 1: I mean, that's a great person. It wasn't for Judd. 169 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 4: Apatow, I wouldn't be talking to you right now. Because 170 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:58,240 Speaker 4: he put me in Knocked Up, Pineapple Express, Step Brothers. 171 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:00,240 Speaker 4: He gave me cameos in all these movies, and so 172 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:01,200 Speaker 4: I really owe it to him. 173 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 1: I want to know. So you always hear from like 174 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 1: players in the draft or the combine obviously when the 175 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:09,200 Speaker 1: GM or you know, the coach sees them. What was 176 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:11,760 Speaker 1: it for Judd? Like how did he see you? How 177 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 1: when did you know you had made an impression on him? 178 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:18,000 Speaker 4: It was it was I think the first day of filming, 179 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:21,200 Speaker 4: because I knew he liked his actors to improvise. 180 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 3: And I'm a big fan of forty old version. 181 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 4: That was the movie that was out in theaters before 182 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:29,520 Speaker 4: Knocked Up came out, and and I remember watching the 183 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:32,640 Speaker 4: back back in the day we watched DVD's and DVD commentaries, 184 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 4: and jud had said like famously, like, oh, I like, 185 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:38,520 Speaker 4: I expect all my actors to improvise, and that's something 186 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:41,960 Speaker 4: that that's in my that's in my repertoire. So the 187 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:44,800 Speaker 4: very first day, I don't think I even had any 188 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:46,880 Speaker 4: lines in the script, and jud was like, Okay, you're 189 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:50,600 Speaker 4: going to tell Catherine heigelu in Steth Rogan what to 190 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:53,560 Speaker 4: do and and none of it was in the script 191 00:08:53,679 --> 00:08:57,760 Speaker 4: and we just improvised from thin air a whole scene 192 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 4: that went on for like five ten minutes. And I 193 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:05,200 Speaker 4: remember like that kind of being my I don't know 194 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:07,520 Speaker 4: that that was my my big break, I think. And 195 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:10,240 Speaker 4: then and jud really from that point on he just 196 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:12,480 Speaker 4: became such a big advocate for me. 197 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:14,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, so incredible. 198 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:16,480 Speaker 2: You mentioned your wife giving you, you know, the full 199 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:19,680 Speaker 2: green light that go ahead. So but was that always 200 00:09:19,679 --> 00:09:22,240 Speaker 2: the case, because I can't imagine how that first conversation went, 201 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:24,000 Speaker 2: where You're like, honey, I don't want to be a 202 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 2: doctor anymore. I want to go be an active or 203 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 2: a stand up comedian. And she's like, have you lost your. 204 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 1: Mind right now? 205 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:32,080 Speaker 3: A great question because she we met at work. 206 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 4: She also worked at Kaiser, and she and I was 207 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:37,719 Speaker 4: known as the stand up guy, the weird stand up guy, 208 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:39,760 Speaker 4: and so she came to see my shows. In fact, 209 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 4: our first our first quote unquote date date was it 210 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:45,240 Speaker 4: was supposed to be a group a group of people 211 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:48,160 Speaker 4: watching me perform at the Ice House in Pasadena, and 212 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:50,760 Speaker 4: it just ended up only being tran coming. 213 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:52,959 Speaker 1: And it was great to happen. 214 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:55,680 Speaker 4: So we had full audience, no no, no, no, just 215 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:59,480 Speaker 4: among friends, among friends. Everyone was so busy, and I 216 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:01,680 Speaker 4: was kind of it would just be me and and 217 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:03,520 Speaker 4: so it went out to work, eat out. It worked 218 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:05,719 Speaker 4: out and went out to eat and it was a 219 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:08,439 Speaker 4: Tuesday night. They I think it was an open mic 220 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 4: night at at the Ice House. And fortunately I had 221 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:15,360 Speaker 4: a good set. And Tran just loves comedy like I do. 222 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 4: And I think that's what bonded us, because we both 223 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 4: love We have the exact same taste in comedy, you know, 224 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:25,560 Speaker 4: I loved Judd Apatow films, just almost exact same taste 225 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:28,640 Speaker 4: of what we like in movies. And she knew she 226 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:32,320 Speaker 4: married a comedian at heart anyway, And so by the 227 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:35,000 Speaker 4: time I was by the time I was kind of 228 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:37,320 Speaker 4: torn of what to do after filming knocked up, she 229 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:40,839 Speaker 4: was like, you gotta you gotta go for it full time. 230 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:44,000 Speaker 4: If anything, I was more reluctant because I was a 231 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:47,600 Speaker 4: partner at Kaiser. I was, you know, I was vested, 232 00:10:47,679 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 4: you know, I had I had a career and making 233 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:54,400 Speaker 4: good money. And Trean was like if we She was like, 234 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:56,319 Speaker 4: if you don't do it now, you'll never do it. 235 00:10:56,840 --> 00:10:58,960 Speaker 4: And we had just gotten married. She goes, I'm not 236 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 4: going to stand in the way of your success or failure. 237 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:04,960 Speaker 4: Even if you if you really want to do it, 238 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:07,520 Speaker 4: I will support you. And though so she did for 239 00:11:08,559 --> 00:11:11,160 Speaker 4: you know, I think for two years really she was 240 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:14,040 Speaker 4: really supporting me and until The Hangover came out and 241 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:20,920 Speaker 4: then the rest is history. 242 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:26,640 Speaker 1: And you lead us right to it. I mean, first 243 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:29,679 Speaker 1: of all, the audition for the Hangover, how the hell 244 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:32,200 Speaker 1: does that go? What do you know about the role 245 00:11:32,679 --> 00:11:35,200 Speaker 1: that you are auditioning for? Do you audition? I guess 246 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:38,240 Speaker 1: that's a stupid question. That's something you told me about too, right, No, 247 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:41,079 Speaker 1: I know this kind of stuff. It's fascinating right. 248 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:43,120 Speaker 4: Well, back in the day, I did, and especially around 249 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:45,120 Speaker 4: that for that one. Yeah, oh yeah, I mean I 250 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:50,360 Speaker 4: auditioned for mister Chow and I I just remember improvising 251 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:54,200 Speaker 4: the whole I didn't go. But there wasn't much of 252 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:57,120 Speaker 4: a script for mister Chow, and I believe in the 253 00:11:57,160 --> 00:12:01,800 Speaker 4: bodyguards in the script they were my sons. So everything 254 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:03,280 Speaker 4: had just kind of changed, so they were looking to 255 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 4: cast an older and older man like. 256 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:06,600 Speaker 3: In the sixties. 257 00:12:06,679 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 4: Yeah, and I just there's somewhere on the Blu Ray 258 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:14,840 Speaker 4: DVD of The Hangover cuts of my audition, and I 259 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:19,160 Speaker 4: just went unhinged. It was like early Chow and it's 260 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:21,440 Speaker 4: somewhere like like there's like five ten minutes of me 261 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:26,839 Speaker 4: just all unhinged, improv and you hear Todd Phillips laughing 262 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:30,840 Speaker 4: in the background. And I got the part the next day, 263 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:33,920 Speaker 4: So my god, Yeah, it was one of those magic moments. 264 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 2: I'm sitting in Las Vegas currently right now for something 265 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 2: that I'm working on, and I'm just waiting for the 266 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:41,080 Speaker 2: tiger to come out of the bathroom. As we're having 267 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 2: this conversation. I'm like looking at at the Las Vegas 268 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:48,360 Speaker 2: script and the memory that's that whole movie, all of 269 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:52,040 Speaker 2: the the actors. So it brings me to the question 270 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:53,959 Speaker 2: when Aaron and I go on the road with our crew. 271 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:56,320 Speaker 2: We have so many great memories. The game is obviously 272 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:58,560 Speaker 2: the game, but there's all these side stories of the 273 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:00,880 Speaker 2: group hanging out in different you know, things that we 274 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:04,480 Speaker 2: get into. So I can only imagine what your guys's 275 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:06,839 Speaker 2: crew was, Like, how long did you shoot the movie 276 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:09,280 Speaker 2: and what stories could you share with us or one 277 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:12,840 Speaker 2: anecdotal story to just sort of embody that group all 278 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 2: together making that movie. 279 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:15,199 Speaker 3: That's a great question. 280 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:18,560 Speaker 4: I do remember one of the first day I was 281 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:22,440 Speaker 4: shooting out in the Vegas desert. Me and Bradley Cooper 282 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:27,800 Speaker 4: were walking through the Caesar's Palace hotel lobby and I 283 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:30,160 Speaker 4: think we still had like fake blood and all just 284 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:34,440 Speaker 4: grimy costume and wardrobe and we're headed back to our 285 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:37,440 Speaker 4: rooms and no one batted an eyelash. 286 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:38,079 Speaker 3: You know, we weren't. 287 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:42,960 Speaker 4: We were famous and we were recognizable, and it was Vegas. 288 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:44,600 Speaker 1: No one here, no one. 289 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:47,880 Speaker 4: Bradley just walking through the lobby and no no. And 290 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:50,320 Speaker 4: that was like every day in the first Hangover and 291 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:55,320 Speaker 4: by the third Hangover, we were we were taking the 292 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:59,280 Speaker 4: same I think entrances that Obama would take to get 293 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:04,080 Speaker 4: the VI, you know, you know, just the side entrances. 294 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 4: And it was a complete it was like night and day. 295 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:09,719 Speaker 4: So that was kind of that was kind of a 296 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:13,480 Speaker 4: very full circle to go to Vegas the very first time, 297 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:18,160 Speaker 4: not yet recognized, and then the third one everything was 298 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 4: was completely different, and it was definitely a very full 299 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:23,600 Speaker 4: circle moment that movie. 300 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:26,640 Speaker 1: I you know, I feel like when I remember when 301 00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 1: I first saw it, you just laughed so hard and 302 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:32,240 Speaker 1: now and I remember every age did I mean, my 303 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 1: parents loved the Hangover, And I feel like anytime I 304 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:38,760 Speaker 1: check into a hotel anytime I'm just flipping through the channels. 305 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:44,920 Speaker 1: I can't imagine your residuals. Also, congratulations for that. It's 306 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:48,920 Speaker 1: just always on. When Harry met Sally Sleepills in Seattle, 307 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 1: the Hangover, It's always on. When did you guys know 308 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:56,640 Speaker 1: shooting the first one that you're like, man, we're onto something. Damn, 309 00:14:56,640 --> 00:14:57,560 Speaker 1: this is going to be a hit. 310 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:00,760 Speaker 3: I didn't mean no, I was. 311 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:04,880 Speaker 4: I remember telling Tran I said, I think this is 312 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 4: the funniest movie I've ever been a part of. But 313 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:10,600 Speaker 4: I actually was one. I said, I hope women like it. 314 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:11,840 Speaker 4: I didn't know if it was too much of a 315 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:12,680 Speaker 4: guy's movie. 316 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:14,120 Speaker 1: And then so we went. 317 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:16,960 Speaker 4: We had the early screening like three months before the 318 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 4: movie came out, like a friends and family screening, and 319 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:23,400 Speaker 4: Tran went and the moment Bradley says, Tracy, we fd 320 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:26,720 Speaker 4: up and Tran just guess it. She's laughing from that 321 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:30,640 Speaker 4: moment on, and she was like, can rest your cares. 322 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:32,840 Speaker 3: You know, women are going to love this movie. 323 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:35,480 Speaker 4: They want to know what the bachelor party is like, 324 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:38,960 Speaker 4: what you know, what that night in Vegas is all about. 325 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 3: And she actually was one of the first to call it. 326 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:42,200 Speaker 3: She goes. 327 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:44,280 Speaker 4: Back then, it was like if you made one hundred 328 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:47,360 Speaker 4: million dollars at the box office for a comedy movie, 329 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:49,720 Speaker 4: that's considered a success. And I was like, do you 330 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:52,080 Speaker 4: think it'll hit one hundred And she was like, it's 331 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:54,280 Speaker 4: going to hit two hundred and that was her prediction. 332 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 4: And it hit like two hundred and seventy eight just 333 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 4: domestic gross. 334 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:00,400 Speaker 1: It was. 335 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:02,800 Speaker 3: It was such at that time. 336 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:05,960 Speaker 4: It was the biggest comedy R rated comedy in the 337 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:08,680 Speaker 4: you know that hit the box office. It gave me 338 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:11,280 Speaker 4: a career. I know, none of us knew it would 339 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:13,280 Speaker 4: be that big. We knew we made a great movie, 340 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 4: but you just never know if the you know, the 341 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:18,200 Speaker 4: public's gonna like it, if it's really going to resonate. 342 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:20,000 Speaker 3: So there's so many things out of your control. 343 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:21,800 Speaker 1: Are we on a text chain, all of you guys? 344 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:23,160 Speaker 3: Do you still do have it? 345 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 1: Yeah? 346 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:26,480 Speaker 3: I just I just texted Bradley last week. 347 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 1: It's the title of the text change. 348 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:31,120 Speaker 4: Well, no, there, no, there's no title. But I think 349 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:33,960 Speaker 4: I think I started it. No one really participated, but 350 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:36,520 Speaker 4: usually it's like one on one, but we've all like 351 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:40,680 Speaker 4: remained close and it's just it. I don't know one 352 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:44,920 Speaker 4: of those things where it's it's like a family, it's 353 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:45,480 Speaker 4: I don't. 354 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:46,920 Speaker 3: Know, I can't it must be. 355 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 4: We got it in sports analogies, just like just when 356 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:52,800 Speaker 4: a championship team just gets together, and when you win 357 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:55,840 Speaker 4: your first championship, that's kind of a very special kind 358 00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:57,080 Speaker 4: of kind of bond. 359 00:16:57,120 --> 00:17:07,159 Speaker 2: I think, yeah, well, I'm going to tell you what 360 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:08,720 Speaker 2: else is going to be a winner, and that's ninety 361 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:13,399 Speaker 2: nine to be. I have the rat privilege of hearing 362 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:17,000 Speaker 2: from Aaron some of the different challenges that you had. 363 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:19,680 Speaker 2: Can which one stuck out to you? And which one 364 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:22,280 Speaker 2: do you think is going to be one that like? 365 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:24,359 Speaker 2: Because that's the fun thing about this show is that 366 00:17:24,359 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 2: these are challenges you can do at home with your family, 367 00:17:27,119 --> 00:17:30,119 Speaker 2: and you know, it's not this like crazy obstacle course 368 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:32,760 Speaker 2: that you can't recreate in your own world. So what 369 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:34,520 Speaker 2: is you like most about working on this show? 370 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:38,040 Speaker 4: I mean, I think the best games people are going 371 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:41,760 Speaker 4: to single out the Frozen Whistle, the Frozen ice block game, 372 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:44,400 Speaker 4: but I think my favorite game is the Dominoes game 373 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:47,560 Speaker 4: because it's high stakes, there's a lot of twists and turns. 374 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 3: So far team of twelve. 375 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:52,159 Speaker 4: That that do these you know, larger you know that 376 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:56,120 Speaker 4: these large dominoes and they have to tip it over 377 00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:59,280 Speaker 4: and you just see a lot of drama that unfolds. 378 00:17:59,359 --> 00:18:02,720 Speaker 2: Gain So it's not your typical size domino. It's like 379 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:04,760 Speaker 2: something they're like bigger ones or what is that? Like 380 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:07,840 Speaker 2: this big yeah, and you have to it's incredible. So 381 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 2: you think about it, and I've I've, with. 382 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:12,040 Speaker 1: A lot of cocktails, tried to describe this game to 383 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:14,440 Speaker 1: Cursa many times. In fact, I stood up and showed her. 384 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:17,439 Speaker 1: You have like a long beam almost right, yeah, and 385 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 1: they have to place them and you think you have it. 386 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:21,880 Speaker 1: You're like, oh, I'll do it this far apart, and 387 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:24,719 Speaker 1: you're upstairs in the booth going that's too far apart. 388 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:27,239 Speaker 1: And then if you run out of dominoes, you have 389 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:30,479 Speaker 1: to reconfigure them. Then you try to push it and 390 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:33,000 Speaker 1: only if half if if half of them go and 391 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:34,960 Speaker 1: then they fall over, you got to run back and 392 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:38,359 Speaker 1: do it again. It's so hard to do. Chrisa would 393 00:18:38,359 --> 00:18:41,560 Speaker 1: be really really good on ninety ninety PA. She's competitive 394 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:44,640 Speaker 1: as hell, she's super smart, she's got the whole thing 395 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:47,679 Speaker 1: going for but she also can make an adjustment. Me 396 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:50,800 Speaker 1: if I threw an interception screwed up a report or 397 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:54,480 Speaker 1: effed up the Domino game. I'm done. I'm crying and 398 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:58,040 Speaker 1: that Yeah, CHRISA would crush this game. Oh well, I 399 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:00,240 Speaker 1: can't wait for people to see this, So for you can. 400 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:03,160 Speaker 1: How is it different preparing for a show like this 401 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:04,639 Speaker 1: versus let's say a Mass Singer. 402 00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:09,359 Speaker 4: Great questions, because like, those are the the shows that 403 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:13,120 Speaker 4: I have done are music based and and and actually, 404 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:16,520 Speaker 4: you know, that's kind of up my alley because I do, like, 405 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:21,159 Speaker 4: especially like Mass Singer at like, there's there's something I 406 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:23,920 Speaker 4: really gravitate to that show in terms of like I 407 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:29,280 Speaker 4: have a background like playing piano and and and violin 408 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:31,680 Speaker 4: as a kid, So there is this kind of musical 409 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:34,520 Speaker 4: thread that I don't talk about much except on Calm 410 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:39,439 Speaker 4: Down podcast and Aaron so so so for me to 411 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:40,960 Speaker 4: do that and I could see your voice, that's really 412 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:43,720 Speaker 4: up my alley. But this one, you know, I got 413 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:48,480 Speaker 4: the job because they had seen me at like during 414 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:52,520 Speaker 4: March Madness. Uh, Like Bleach Report did a segment of 415 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 4: me just micing me up during a duke game in 416 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:58,119 Speaker 4: the playoffs this past year, and they're just seeing me 417 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:02,520 Speaker 4: just having this energy, having this passion and just just 418 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:06,480 Speaker 4: standing up after every play, good or bad. And I 419 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:10,040 Speaker 4: got the job because you know, they wanted someone that 420 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:13,399 Speaker 4: could bring that energy into this kind of competition. 421 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:15,480 Speaker 3: You know that wasn't from sports. 422 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:19,360 Speaker 4: And then they wanted Aaron because she is from sports, 423 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:21,920 Speaker 4: so you have that energy together. I thought that it's 424 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:24,879 Speaker 4: a good combination. So I think what I bring to 425 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:27,800 Speaker 4: this and what I all I bring to all these 426 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:31,440 Speaker 4: shows are really energy and just being authentic, like being 427 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:34,840 Speaker 4: invested and caring about the game. If you care about 428 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:37,800 Speaker 4: the game, you know then the audience know, then that 429 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:40,400 Speaker 4: will the audience will will trust the game. 430 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:41,120 Speaker 3: If that makes sense. 431 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:43,879 Speaker 1: I have to brag about Ken Curs. I didn't realize this. 432 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:48,600 Speaker 1: The Mass singer is going into their fourteenth season. I can't. 433 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:51,439 Speaker 1: That'sana's Ken. What is it with you? 434 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:54,400 Speaker 2: Look the jet optile connection, then you get the hangover, 435 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:55,320 Speaker 2: then you get the Mass. 436 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:58,280 Speaker 1: I'm going to say it's you Ja right now. I mean, 437 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:00,320 Speaker 1: this guy is crushing it all I write it to 438 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:06,119 Speaker 1: him as playing money. I mean he like tucks into 439 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:10,120 Speaker 1: these amazing projects and like, I think that that's what's 440 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:12,879 Speaker 1: incredible is you were talking today to the media and 441 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:15,159 Speaker 1: you were saying you didn't know certain things were going 442 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:16,920 Speaker 1: to be a hit. You guys had no clue about 443 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:19,040 Speaker 1: mass singer. You just said you had no clue about 444 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:21,800 Speaker 1: the hangover. I can't wait for ninety nine to be 445 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:24,440 Speaker 1: what are we getting a jail? 446 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:29,280 Speaker 4: But it's that same excitement we we knew with those projects, 447 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:32,000 Speaker 4: we knew we were doing something good and something special. 448 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 4: And with nine nine to beat, you know, I think 449 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 4: it's safe to say behind the scenes everyone knew that 450 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:38,520 Speaker 4: we were doing something special. It was I felt like 451 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:43,920 Speaker 4: we overachieved at every level of this show. Behind the scenes, said, 452 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:46,400 Speaker 4: I mean, just to have you and I together and 453 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:49,520 Speaker 4: having the chemistry that we do, and then honestly having 454 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:51,200 Speaker 4: these contestants, these players. 455 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:53,760 Speaker 3: There's so much drama and. 456 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:58,200 Speaker 4: Much drama, so much like Aaron's sidelining report, sideline reporting experience. 457 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:02,320 Speaker 4: She would, yeah, she would find the storylines right there. 458 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:04,840 Speaker 4: They're fighting, they hate each other's fu. 459 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:06,399 Speaker 1: Can you'll love this. 460 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:09,240 Speaker 2: Our nickname for Aaron is Nosy Rosie. But she becomes 461 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:12,680 Speaker 2: an investigative journalist real quick. Nothing is getting by this girl. 462 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 2: She is head on a swivel. Nothing is getting by her. 463 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:19,440 Speaker 2: That track track wait for this c Chris and I 464 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:21,640 Speaker 2: have this thing. I don't know if Tran is involved 465 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:24,320 Speaker 2: in this kind of nonsense. But when we go to 466 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:27,639 Speaker 2: dinner with our significant others, it's either we're together or 467 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:28,800 Speaker 2: we're you know, just on. 468 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:32,720 Speaker 1: A date with our guys. We enjoy our time with them, 469 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:35,480 Speaker 1: but we also need to know the storylines with everybody 470 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 1: else in the restaurant. Like all lose track of the 471 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:41,720 Speaker 1: conversation with Jared, CHRISA will do this, the same with Steve, 472 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:44,280 Speaker 1: and I'll look over and at this point Jared doesn't 473 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:45,520 Speaker 1: fight with me. He goes, what do you got going 474 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:47,480 Speaker 1: on over there? And be like, I'll tell you in 475 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:51,040 Speaker 1: a minute. First date not going great, She's gonna leave 476 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:54,080 Speaker 1: when the appetiteser, Like does Tran do that? Because we, 477 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:57,320 Speaker 1: as you know in sports broadcasting, we're into the storylines. 478 00:22:57,760 --> 00:22:59,440 Speaker 4: I don't think I don't think any of us. I 479 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:02,159 Speaker 4: don't think any human being alive has your eye as you. 480 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:04,360 Speaker 4: No one has your talent, no one has your gift. 481 00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:06,080 Speaker 4: You're just I'm not. 482 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:08,200 Speaker 1: Saying that, but I'm just like knowing what's going on. 483 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:09,840 Speaker 1: You know what I mean. 484 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:11,879 Speaker 2: I'll tell you what else. If you don't know this 485 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:16,160 Speaker 2: about Aaron, can you soon learned? After the significant amount 486 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:19,240 Speaker 2: of time, sixteen hour days. I was just going to say, 487 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:21,400 Speaker 2: on the long days, I want to know how many 488 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,840 Speaker 2: times Aaron asked you a question and the doctor hat 489 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:26,600 Speaker 2: got put on with Ken because my girl likes a 490 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:29,280 Speaker 2: diagnosis so many times feeling something, She's like, I have 491 00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:32,760 Speaker 2: a stomach ache. Oh, she pepper you with questions about 492 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:35,200 Speaker 2: maybe her own ailments or other people's. 493 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:39,320 Speaker 1: I don't remember. I remember some reallypos we had offline. 494 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:41,040 Speaker 1: I won't share them, but I was asking you some 495 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:44,600 Speaker 1: things about some things not personal, but just like, hey, 496 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:45,520 Speaker 1: what do we think about this? 497 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:48,800 Speaker 4: What do you think about that? Medical each other? You like, 498 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:50,720 Speaker 4: oh what about that? What do you think of this? 499 00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:53,800 Speaker 4: We were asking you, but yeah, I'm trying to remember. 500 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:57,080 Speaker 4: Maybe I was just too stressed out, just trying to 501 00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:57,800 Speaker 4: keep up with you. 502 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:02,560 Speaker 1: I've never seen anyone drink more coke zero And I wait, 503 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,320 Speaker 1: tell me you don't coffee? You just have coke there? 504 00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:05,479 Speaker 4: Right? 505 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:07,800 Speaker 3: No, I drink coffee too, you do. 506 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:12,560 Speaker 1: So as a doctor, you are absolutely approved that combo. 507 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:14,080 Speaker 4: Well, I don't know if I approve it, but I 508 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:17,000 Speaker 4: lived in being a doctor. It came from being a doctor, 509 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:20,240 Speaker 4: being on call for thirty six hours at a time. Oh, 510 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:22,520 Speaker 4: my god, you would have to caffemate, you know, you 511 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:25,800 Speaker 4: would have to drink. So all that came from being 512 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:27,000 Speaker 4: on call as a phone. 513 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:29,680 Speaker 2: That's so interesting now that you just said that, I'm 514 00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:31,399 Speaker 2: thinking because those days that you guys are on the 515 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:33,880 Speaker 2: site you mentioned fifteen to sixteen hours, those are long days. 516 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:34,560 Speaker 1: Yeah. 517 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:37,119 Speaker 2: Of course, if you are up in your rounds and 518 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:39,320 Speaker 2: sometimes you just said thirty six. 519 00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:40,240 Speaker 3: Hours, you're a sleep. 520 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:40,960 Speaker 1: Yeah. 521 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:44,920 Speaker 2: It was harder being good CT for a sixteen hour 522 00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:47,560 Speaker 2: shoot day or having to be you know, on the 523 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:50,199 Speaker 2: floor to thirty six hours as a doctor. 524 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:51,560 Speaker 3: Good question, I think. 525 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:54,440 Speaker 4: I think being on the floor as a physician doesn't 526 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:56,679 Speaker 4: get any more intense to that, and that definitely prepared 527 00:24:56,760 --> 00:25:00,400 Speaker 4: me for these long hours because whenever we're shooting into 528 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,199 Speaker 4: the night, I go into another mode of being on 529 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:06,320 Speaker 4: call and then either I just get silly or for 530 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:09,879 Speaker 4: eating pizza or light lips sinking Benson boone or whatever. 531 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:12,120 Speaker 1: I don't mean to go deep here, and you can 532 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:14,400 Speaker 1: tell us to edit this out, but you joke about 533 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 1: it all the time. You're like my crippling anxiety. But 534 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:20,000 Speaker 1: I find that fascinating that you're very honest about that, 535 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:21,200 Speaker 1: and yet you are a doctor. 536 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:25,760 Speaker 4: I mean, I think there's like always I think it's 537 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:30,440 Speaker 4: healthy to be anxious. I think it's healthy to be nervous. 538 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 4: And even you know, first day before any shoot, first 539 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:35,960 Speaker 4: day before doing a TV show, first day before doing 540 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:40,719 Speaker 4: a movie, I'm I always have like a relatively sleepless night, 541 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:42,840 Speaker 4: even to this day. I mean, anytime I'm on a 542 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:46,719 Speaker 4: new set, if I'm not feeling those butterflies, then something's 543 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:47,560 Speaker 4: wrong with I love that. 544 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:48,679 Speaker 1: I really believe. 545 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:54,359 Speaker 4: I think I believe having the anxiety just actually focuses me. 546 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 4: That means I care and if I if I don't, 547 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:00,679 Speaker 4: I don't think. Is there anything I've done in my 548 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:03,200 Speaker 4: career in entertainment where I haven't felt some anxiety? 549 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:03,560 Speaker 1: Wow? 550 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:05,600 Speaker 4: And I because yeah, if I, if I did, that 551 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:07,160 Speaker 4: meant I wasn't taking this seriously. 552 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:10,119 Speaker 1: Who'd you look up to in the comedy world, I 553 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:11,080 Speaker 1: thinking world. 554 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:16,680 Speaker 4: Steve Carell is our Michael Jordan. I think, Wow, he's there. 555 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:19,159 Speaker 4: He just doesn't have a weakness in his game. And 556 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:22,200 Speaker 4: one of my earliest TV credits was the Office that 557 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:25,679 Speaker 4: was before Knocked Up, and I got to do a 558 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:29,520 Speaker 4: couple of scenes with him, and he would every take 559 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:34,520 Speaker 4: was slightly different and he and even the director didn't 560 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:36,720 Speaker 4: even say do it differently. He just knew how to 561 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:40,800 Speaker 4: self edit. It was like a quarterback just being able 562 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:43,199 Speaker 4: to have a different read or just seeing the default. Oh, 563 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:44,840 Speaker 4: I'll just do it this way with that. Just think 564 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:48,919 Speaker 4: you so quick, okay, just making these reads. And Correll 565 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:50,920 Speaker 4: was kind of like the quarterback of the office. I 566 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:53,240 Speaker 4: think it was already established, and I think forty old 567 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:56,240 Speaker 4: version had already come out in theater. So everyone on set, 568 00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:59,320 Speaker 4: anyone was a guest star, was just starstruck. But what 569 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,280 Speaker 4: was amazing he was also just better than everybody else. 570 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,920 Speaker 4: And I still think I think he is a goat 571 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:06,960 Speaker 4: of comedy for sure. 572 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:10,320 Speaker 2: I love that quote of Steve Carrell's The Michael Jordan 573 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:14,760 Speaker 2: of Comedy. You started outlining quarterbacks and making adjustments at 574 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:18,280 Speaker 2: the line. Peyton Manning very famously would yell out omaha 575 00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:22,160 Speaker 2: for his audible What is your one word audible at 576 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:24,400 Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage? If you were a quarterback, ken 577 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:27,119 Speaker 2: you're saying, what that's hot? Chrissa? 578 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:29,280 Speaker 3: What a question? 579 00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:31,000 Speaker 1: How great is she? You know? 580 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:37,040 Speaker 4: My version of omaha is if in a comedy movie 581 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:39,040 Speaker 4: or a TV show, if there's like a single on 582 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:42,639 Speaker 4: me and I'm and I'm allowed to reset myself and 583 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,000 Speaker 4: just give off. Even the NFL promo that we did, 584 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:47,040 Speaker 4: I asked to do the Buffalo line a couple of 585 00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:50,320 Speaker 4: different times, so I'll do that a lot, where Okay, 586 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:51,879 Speaker 4: do you mind if I just take a run and 587 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:55,200 Speaker 4: just do just do my own variant of this line 588 00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:59,440 Speaker 4: over and over and that will be I've been known 589 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,399 Speaker 4: to do three four different takes just for me just 590 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:05,600 Speaker 4: to experiment with it. So I think on a single 591 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:08,160 Speaker 4: and then I'll ask the director if we have enough time. 592 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:09,399 Speaker 4: It's like, oh do you wand if I just do 593 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:11,240 Speaker 4: a run of these and that that is kind of 594 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:14,680 Speaker 4: my version of Omaha, Wow, who's. 595 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:16,040 Speaker 2: Someone you want to work with that you've never worked 596 00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:18,560 Speaker 2: with us? He works with the incredible people, But is 597 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:21,240 Speaker 2: there that wish list? Is there that one person? 598 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:25,200 Speaker 4: Eddie Murphy? Yes, I would love just to watch him 599 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:27,680 Speaker 4: work on set. I don't even have to have a 600 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:30,480 Speaker 4: scene with him. I just would love to be even 601 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:33,480 Speaker 4: in a group scene with him and just see him go. 602 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:37,919 Speaker 4: Because to be able to be that fascile with characters 603 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:42,720 Speaker 4: and voices and acting and emotion within a comedy, that's 604 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:45,680 Speaker 4: another goat right there. You know that's another Michael Jordan 605 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:50,720 Speaker 4: because to watch Eddie work would just be a dream. 606 00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:52,560 Speaker 3: Just to watch him work. I don't even need a line. 607 00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:53,640 Speaker 3: I just want to watch him work. 608 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:56,880 Speaker 1: I would be a CTU. Know how this gets that 609 00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,320 Speaker 1: we've done it before. I mean, you're tired, but when 610 00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:02,760 Speaker 1: somebody says something and you just start I would start crying. 611 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:05,520 Speaker 1: And a big fear is peeing my pants with you 612 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:08,800 Speaker 1: because I was in a very light pant suit, so 613 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:11,320 Speaker 1: there was no disguising if I I peed myself. There 614 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:14,040 Speaker 1: just wasn't. And there were times I was like, please God, 615 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:17,240 Speaker 1: Please God, don't pee. But you had me laughing so hard. 616 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:20,440 Speaker 1: What do you watch that makes you want to pee 617 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:22,000 Speaker 1: your pants? 618 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:22,200 Speaker 4: Oh? 619 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,760 Speaker 1: That's any any like go to thing that you're like, 620 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:27,520 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. 621 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:32,200 Speaker 4: Me and Tran will watch old Peter Sellers like Pink 622 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:33,960 Speaker 4: Panther movies back in the day. 623 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:35,480 Speaker 1: What makes you laugh about that? 624 00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:40,360 Speaker 4: His physical comedy Peter like I think the Return of 625 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,120 Speaker 4: the Pink Pants. I will watch it over and over 626 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:46,840 Speaker 4: again for comfort Food, where there is a whole scene 627 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:51,240 Speaker 4: where Peter Sellers as Inspectacluso is examining this home gym 628 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:55,080 Speaker 4: and just failing miserably and he is on these the 629 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:59,440 Speaker 4: uneven parallel bars, like and just trying out saying he. 630 00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:00,920 Speaker 1: Was a in this in the day. 631 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,800 Speaker 4: And then he and he does he does a flip 632 00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:07,040 Speaker 4: and he doesn't know there's a stairwell right where the 633 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,800 Speaker 4: right where the parallel bars are, and he just falls 634 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:11,920 Speaker 4: straight down the stairs. You don't see it coming. The 635 00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:15,440 Speaker 4: camera doesn't even establish it until the very end. And 636 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,720 Speaker 4: his gift for physical comedy is unparalleled. 637 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:23,760 Speaker 1: People falling, My nanny keeps texting enough Barbara, people falling 638 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:27,200 Speaker 1: is my like I lose myself. My One of my 639 00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:30,080 Speaker 1: really good friends who has kids said that will change, 640 00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:33,240 Speaker 1: like kids falling off slides or like falling down. She's like, 641 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:35,560 Speaker 1: that'll change once you have a kid, and she is right. 642 00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:38,760 Speaker 1: But the Jackasses back in the day, like the first 643 00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:42,040 Speaker 1: Jackass where people would just eat it. I was peek, 644 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,720 Speaker 1: like dying dying. You love physical comedy? Oh the Chevy 645 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:48,560 Speaker 1: Chase falling down and like snl back in the way. Yeah. 646 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:49,280 Speaker 3: Absolutely. 647 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:53,360 Speaker 4: I think Peter Sellers is at to me like he 648 00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:55,840 Speaker 4: and and bust your keat and they're kind of at 649 00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:58,200 Speaker 4: the top of the top of the list in terms 650 00:30:58,200 --> 00:30:59,800 Speaker 4: of that, in terms of history of comedy. 651 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,479 Speaker 1: So are you, my friend, do you do physical comedy 652 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:02,760 Speaker 1: or no? 653 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:06,360 Speaker 3: I don't see myself in the same light as those 654 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:07,040 Speaker 3: guys at all. 655 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:12,080 Speaker 4: I just kind of I think, I just do what whatever. 656 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:15,480 Speaker 4: This sounds precious, but whatever the scene calls for me 657 00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:17,200 Speaker 4: to do. If I have to do a lot, I'll 658 00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:18,840 Speaker 4: do a lot. But I don't have to do anything. 659 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:23,040 Speaker 4: I won't because sometimes there's just elements of physical comedy 660 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:25,560 Speaker 4: where you just stay still so someone else can move. 661 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:27,520 Speaker 3: So it's all like a I look. 662 00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:31,640 Speaker 4: At comedy as a team sport where coming from a 663 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:35,520 Speaker 4: show like Community or the Hangover, where there's huge talent ensemble. 664 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:40,040 Speaker 4: I just look at myself as serving the scene, you know, 665 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:42,560 Speaker 4: just doing whatever it takes for the team to win. Yeah. Yeah, 666 00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:46,920 Speaker 4: I've always first mentality, I've always I've definitely always had 667 00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:49,520 Speaker 4: that because I've never I've never thought of myself as 668 00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:52,080 Speaker 4: the lead or anything. I just wanted to I just 669 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:55,400 Speaker 4: wanted to contribute a verse that that that's my honest truth. 670 00:31:55,560 --> 00:32:00,560 Speaker 1: Here's my verse with Robin Vick. So I would instantly 671 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:01,440 Speaker 1: do they tired? 672 00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:09,360 Speaker 2: You mean, like sixteenth hour? You guys make a great team. 673 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:11,960 Speaker 2: I cannot wait to see the show. Can you are 674 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,640 Speaker 2: a renaissance man. You do it all. Thank you so 675 00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:18,160 Speaker 2: much much for being here with us and more importantly 676 00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:20,920 Speaker 2: taking good care of my girl while you were, you know, 677 00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:23,400 Speaker 2: making this incredible show that I can't wait to watch. 678 00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:26,440 Speaker 3: We're taking care of each other. It was wonderful. 679 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:28,600 Speaker 1: No, you lifted my ass up. Let's be honest. Not 680 00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:31,600 Speaker 1: that it's a light ass, but you get it, light 681 00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:32,240 Speaker 1: ass you. 682 00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:37,400 Speaker 2: I can't wait to watch the show. You guys can 683 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:38,360 Speaker 2: Thank you so much. 684 00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:45,160 Speaker 1: We love you, guys. 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