Speaker 1: I Am all In Again.
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Speaker 3: I Smell pop Culture with Easton Allen and I Heart
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Speaker 3: heard Scott Patterson say my name.
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Speaker 3: Scott's voice said it. That wasn't manufacturer, that wasn't an edit.
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Speaker 3: exciting here on this show. So you're here because you'll
Speaker 3: love Gilmore Girls, right, we all love Gilmore Girls. We
Speaker 3: want to live in stars Hollow, We want to hang
Speaker 3: out with Rory and Lourlai. You are here because you
Speaker 3: love of the pop culture references in Gilmour Girls. That's
Speaker 3: why I'm here. I love it too. I have been knighted.
Speaker 3: I have been appointed by Scott Patterson to go deeper
Speaker 3: than just listing off the pop culture references. No, no, no,
Speaker 3: We're going to talk to the people that created them,
Speaker 3: that are behind them, that are these pop culture moments
Speaker 3: and this week, We're going to another part of the
Speaker 3: WB verse.
Speaker 1: This is a show called Felicity.
Speaker 3: Some of you might be Felicity fans, some of you
Speaker 3: may not have ever seen it. It is streaming on Hulu.
Speaker 3: You can watch Felicity now, but it was referenced in
Speaker 3: season three, episode twenty one, Here Comes the Sun. Okay,
Speaker 3: get ready for this reference. Lorela and Paris are selling
Speaker 3: tickets to Chilton's grad night. No one's really coming to
Speaker 3: buy it, no one's biting so that they're kind of bored.
Speaker 3: So Paris suggests that Lurlai unbuttons her top to get
Speaker 3: more attention, and Laurela changes the subject quickly and wants
Speaker 3: to talk about where Paris is going to go to college.
Speaker 3: Paris says it's between Princeton, Columbia, and Yale, and she
Speaker 3: says Princeton's a good school, but Jamie goes there, and
Speaker 3: if I go there, it looks like I went there
Speaker 3: just to be with him. Suddenly in Felicity without the
Speaker 3: hair issues. So Felicity and Gilmargirls were both shows on
Speaker 3: the w W WWWB in the early two thousands. They
Speaker 3: were kind of like Felicity was on its way out
Speaker 3: as Gilmergirls was starting, Felicity ended in two thousand and two,
Speaker 3: and Gilmergirl's premiered in two thousand of course, so a
Speaker 3: couple of years of overlap, but they share a lot
Speaker 3: of similarities here. They have many multiversal connections. The actress
Speaker 3: who plays our beloved laying Keiko Gina. She's in Felicity
Speaker 3: as well as Gilmore Girls, and Felicity is about a
Speaker 3: young woman following her boyfriend from Palo Alto California, northern
Speaker 3: California to New York City to go to a fictional
Speaker 3: on New York University. Similar themes to Gilmore Girls. Uh uh,
Speaker 3: Felicity a bit more, a bit more dramatic, heavier, heavier stuff,
Speaker 3: but very similar themes otherwise. So what we're going to
Speaker 3: do this week, We're going to talk to one of
Speaker 3: our favorite characters from Felicity. We're going to talk to
Speaker 3: Greg Grunberg. He played Sean. He's Sean's the friend on Felicity.
Speaker 3: He was like, he did not go to college with them.
Speaker 3: He was an older guy who like lived off campus,
Speaker 3: and he was kind of their goofy friend who always
Speaker 3: had an idea for an invention. He had all these
Speaker 3: like entrepreneurial ideas. These different businesses like, uh, we'll talk
Speaker 3: about this with Greg, but things like flavored pen caps,
Speaker 3: bagel knobs those are bagel like donut holes injected with
Speaker 3: cream cheese and locks. Really cool stuff like that. But
Speaker 3: here's the thing about Greg Grunberg. He's a major part
Speaker 3: of Felicity. He hosts a Felicity podcast called Dear Felicity.
Speaker 3: He went back and we watched all the episodes. This
Speaker 3: guy has been in everything everything. He is a childhood
Speaker 3: friend of jj Abrams and they are longtime collaborators. I mean,
Speaker 3: Greg has been in Heroes, Alias, Lost, Mission Impossible, Three,
Speaker 3: Star Wars, Star Trek. How many people can say they've
Speaker 3: been in Star Wars and Star Trek. I mean, come on,
Speaker 3: this guy has so much cool stuff on his resume.
Speaker 3: He's the coolest dude in the world, and we're gonna
Speaker 3: get to know him. He's here now, Greg Grumberg, thank
Speaker 3: you so much for doing this.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: We are so excited. Were such big fans.
Speaker 2: Dude, Are you kidding me? Come on, I'm a huge
Speaker 2: fan of Gilmore girl, That's not true at all. I'm
Speaker 2: I'm a fan. I'm a fan of everything that Gilmore
Speaker 2: Girls represented. You know, I was like around when all
Speaker 2: of that happened. Obviously, I'm working I worked with Myleo
Speaker 2: Vntimilia for years. He's won a dear friend of mine.
Speaker 2: And you know, I have my own podcast, Felicity Podcast
Speaker 2: that we do. So this is like when you guys asked,
Speaker 2: I'm like, of course, let's talk that time was so
Speaker 2: important in my career, to my family, to everything. And
Speaker 2: you know, it's interesting what we've found on our podcast
Speaker 2: is talking to everybody that was involved in the show.
Speaker 2: It like you like we were talking about before we
Speaker 2: went on the air, It's so little about the show,
Speaker 2: more about what that show represented, you know exactly.
Speaker 3: Yes, you guys like Felicity and Gilmore Girls kind of
Speaker 3: almost like ships.
Speaker 1: In the night on the WB.
Speaker 3: I mean like, yeah, you guys ended in two thousand
Speaker 3: and two, Gilmore Girl's premiere in two thousand, so it
Speaker 3: was a bit of overlap. I mean, do you remember
Speaker 3: did you guys get compared a lot during this couple
Speaker 3: of years you were both on the air.
Speaker 1: Do you remember that?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean this was back when networks had more of
Speaker 2: an identity. They really knew what they wanted to be
Speaker 2: you know, Fox was doing this crazy kind of like
Speaker 2: not experimental stuff, but even their comedy stuff was just
Speaker 2: out there, and you know, the animation and all that stuff,
Speaker 2: and the WB, you know, which then became the CW Right,
Speaker 2: the WB was it was that teen Angst, It was
Speaker 2: Dawson's Creek. It was us and Buffy and and Gilmore Girls,
Speaker 2: and like you know, like JJ often joked and we
Speaker 2: would joke, we'd be like, you know, if if Ben
Speaker 2: was a werewolf, maybe we would have gotten a couple
Speaker 2: more years. You know, it's just because they but Gilmore
Speaker 2: Girls was the one thing that they all had in common.
Speaker 2: And I didn't watch all of them, but I know
Speaker 2: Gilmore Girls had it just quality from top down. Man.
Speaker 2: It's like because people are watching it now and loving
Speaker 2: it just as much, and if it stands at esta
Speaker 2: time and you go, you know, you watch stuff from whatever.
Speaker 2: When I was a kid, I'll watch things and and
Speaker 2: I just go, I just didn't hold it doesn't hold up.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: I try to try to get my boys, you know,
Speaker 2: I have kids your age, and it's like I'm like, hey,
Speaker 2: you guys got to watch this, and they're like, nah,
Speaker 2: it's just you know, they just don't like it's a
Speaker 2: different time, Dad, But Gilmore Girls holds up, Felicity holds up,
Speaker 2: Dawson's holds up.
Speaker 3: It's you know, it's interesting, it is and we're so
Speaker 3: fortunate as an audience still like have these shows that
Speaker 3: are such high quality and that the actors and everyone
Speaker 3: cares so much about.
Speaker 1: We're just grateful for it.
Speaker 4: So the.
Speaker 3: Gilmaco's has a lot of cultural pop culture reference and
Speaker 3: it references in the show, and the Felicity was mentioned.
Speaker 3: You know, in season three, episode twenty one, these two
Speaker 3: characters are talking about what college when I was going
Speaker 3: to go to and she says, well, I can't go
Speaker 3: to Princeton because my boyfriend's going there, and if I
Speaker 3: go there, that looks like I'm following him, and then
Speaker 3: I'll be Felicity without the hair issues. So we got
Speaker 3: to talk about the haircut. We got to talk about
Speaker 3: the Felicity haircut.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4: I mean.
Speaker 3: Take us back to the season two Carrie Russell cuts
Speaker 3: her hair. Yeah, it was this huge moment I don't
Speaker 3: want to say scandal, but like a huge moment everyone
Speaker 3: was talking about. Every show you just listed how to
Speaker 3: reference that haircut. Buffy, One Tree Hill, Sabrina Teenage, which
Speaker 3: they all talked about the haircut. What do you remember
Speaker 3: from that time?
Speaker 2: I just I remember. You know, it's interesting because looking back,
Speaker 2: I look at it like, oh, they were just trying
Speaker 2: to blame the ratings dip. Every show comes out of
Speaker 2: the you know, Heroes. I was on this massive show Heroes, right,
Speaker 2: and then it's like, all of a sudden, there's a
Speaker 2: dive and you go, well, the show is all about discovery.
Speaker 2: Every show is about discovery. The audience is discovering the characters.
Speaker 2: The characters are discovering who they are if they're well
Speaker 2: written and evolving. And then to keep that discovery up
Speaker 2: so that season two you've got, you know, more to
Speaker 2: discover and more to talk about. Water Cooler back then,
Speaker 2: you know, it was water Cooler. Back then you had
Speaker 2: to wait till next week to see the episodes, you know,
Speaker 2: and also commenting on a show back then was a
Speaker 2: lot different. I mean, I guess it's the same now
Speaker 2: in it insofar as like you know, like Ted Lasso
Speaker 2: is shooting right now, and on social media you see
Speaker 2: people out there window they're watching in that alley where
Speaker 2: he walks, and people like, oh, they're backshooting and look,
Speaker 2: and so you can comment about the story and maybe
Speaker 2: the show runner will see it. Back then, if you
Speaker 2: commented on a on an episode, it's like, dude, we
Speaker 2: shot that six months ago, Like what are we supposed
Speaker 2: to do about it now? You know? So when the
Speaker 2: Haircut thing happened, first of all, everybody was looking for
Speaker 2: it was like the blame game, like, oh, Carrie did this,
Speaker 2: and we've talked about it, you know with Carrie on
Speaker 2: the show, we've talked about you know. Uh, it's you know,
Speaker 2: Dear Felicity, by the way, is the is the podcast
Speaker 2: If people haven't checked it out, it's we're we're done
Speaker 2: with it and we absolutely love doing it. I don't
Speaker 2: know if we're going to get a second season, but man,
Speaker 2: it was so much fun. And because on Felicity, Dear
Speaker 2: Sally was how they started every episode talking into a
Speaker 2: tape recorder and and uh so, but but we talked.
Speaker 2: We've talked to everybody. We talked to JJ and Matt,
Speaker 2: we talked to Carrie, we talked to hair and may Cut.
Speaker 2: We talked to everybody, and so what I ended up
Speaker 2: happening is the truth about it is that Carrie was
Speaker 2: on a photo shoot and I might be butchering this,
Speaker 2: but carry was on a photo shoot, and even back then,
Speaker 2: they could sort of show you what you would look like.
Speaker 2: They could do a and say, oh, look this is
Speaker 2: what you look like. We're short hair. And so she
Speaker 2: saw that and they were like, oh, that's kind of crazy,
Speaker 2: and she sent it to JJ as a joke and said,
Speaker 2: I cut my hair, cut my hair. And he's like what, because,
Speaker 2: by the way, let's just talk about forgetting all that
Speaker 2: and I'll explain the rest of it. But like, what
Speaker 2: did you think, because like everybody's got their own opinion.
Speaker 2: I like your hair. Okay, let's not talk about hair.
Speaker 2: I can't even show you my head right now because
Speaker 2: I shaved it for a movie. And is this video
Speaker 2: too or audio only?
Speaker 3: It's audio only, but we'll paint a picture. Greg has
Speaker 3: this beautiful pork pie hat on and then he's lifting
Speaker 3: it up to reveal a bald head. I want mince
Speaker 3: words here, you're here, it's.
Speaker 2: A bald head. It's for it's for a movie, of course,
Speaker 2: is JJ abrams and I can't talk about it and
Speaker 2: it's exciting. That's all all of his things that yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's super super cool but so but but I ask
Speaker 2: you because people watch that show and they said, Okay,
Speaker 2: here's a girl from you know, she's she's from northern
Speaker 2: California and then she's going cross country to the jungles
Speaker 2: of New York and it's the city's gonna eat her
Speaker 2: alive and all this stuff. And then she finds her
Speaker 2: footing and now she's getting and you know, it's season two,
Speaker 2: so now she's been there and she's got it going
Speaker 2: through a breakup and blah blah blah, I'm independent. Whatever
Speaker 2: it works. It totally works for a girl to like
Speaker 2: rediscover either that or she's gone crazy because people like, well,
Speaker 2: buzz their hair or do something if they're kind of
Speaker 2: they're in need of it, just a whole new you know,
Speaker 2: life lift or whatever. But people went out of their
Speaker 2: freaking minds and people went nuts, and you know, and
Speaker 2: also the ratings, you know, weren't as strong, so they
Speaker 2: blamed the haircut, which is so not true. And every
Speaker 2: show goes through a little bit of a dip. But
Speaker 2: it gave us a ton of publicity. People were buzzing
Speaker 2: about it, they were talking about it. We were able
Speaker 2: to do oh so, so so let me get back.
Speaker 4: So she did.
Speaker 2: I'm not even letting you answer, sorry, but she did.
Speaker 2: She did send that photo JJ and his wife Katie,
Speaker 2: Katie CEO of Bad Robot, and you know, JJ's wife
Speaker 2: and the greatest on the planet's so smart. JJ then
Speaker 2: sent it to the WB and first of all, he
Speaker 2: freaked out and she was like, I'm just kidding. I'm
Speaker 2: at a photo shoot, and he was like, wait a minute,
Speaker 2: this looks pretty cool. Sent it to a ton of people,
Speaker 2: I mean, dude, eight, like a ton of people to
Speaker 2: say how crazy is this? And they were all like,
Speaker 2: it's crazy, but it's kind of cool. So it wasn't
Speaker 2: like a you know, somebody did it. And because we're
Speaker 2: a contractually bound to stay looking the way we are,
Speaker 2: you know I'm doing it. There's the trailer of a
Speaker 2: new show that I'm doing, also a JJ show, a
Speaker 2: Bad Robot show called.
Speaker 1: Duster Duster coming May fifteenth one Max.
Speaker 2: Yes, May fifteenth on Max. And I've got like my
Speaker 2: hair in that is big and puffy at six it's
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy one and like I'm like, okay, so I
Speaker 2: you know, I grew my hair out and the whole thing.
Speaker 2: But we've been working on that show for two and
Speaker 2: a half years. Now this movie comes up, and so
Speaker 2: I'm like, what am I gonna jj I goes, We'll
Speaker 2: get your wig. You know, you could do anything these
Speaker 2: days whatever. So that's uh, But we were able to
Speaker 2: on Felicity. They were able to then put a wig
Speaker 2: on her, like they cut her hair. Then they did
Speaker 2: a flat pack over. You know, they make it work,
Speaker 2: but they chose to do She did it, and she
Speaker 2: lost her I think visually she lost her innocence, but
Speaker 2: as a character, she was losing her innocence and gaining
Speaker 2: her independence. And it's it was just so good. Now,
Speaker 2: and now you tell me what you think.
Speaker 1: I completely agree with you.
Speaker 3: I think that it's because this show follows someone's life,
Speaker 3: it's got to show growth, it's got to show her journey.
Speaker 3: And I think that was such a great way visually
Speaker 3: to depict that. And I thought it was such a
Speaker 3: I don't know, I like changing someone's hair. I think
Speaker 3: is such a simple way to initiate that kind of change.
Speaker 3: I thought it was great. I thought she looked great.
Speaker 2: First of all, Oh, she cannot look bad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's impossible for her, you know, she
Speaker 3: could have like she could have shaved her head like
Speaker 3: you have right now, and she so want to look good.
Speaker 2: It was also looked as good as I do.
Speaker 3: Though yes, let's yeah, let's be honest here. But it's
Speaker 3: so interesting to me how big of a thing it was.
Speaker 3: Like I was telling my wife this morning, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: I'm talking to Greg Grumberg from Felicity, and she's like
Speaker 3: that you got ask hi about that haircut.
Speaker 2: I was like, the two things I get, I get
Speaker 2: haircut and smooth A's two things. Again, I'm like, you know,
Speaker 2: my character was it was this inventor and for these
Speaker 2: I'm just I'm laying this out for people that don't
Speaker 2: know the show. But you know, every week I was like,
Speaker 2: what about this?
Speaker 4: And what about this?
Speaker 2: And what about this? And it was really funny to
Speaker 2: see these stupid ideas. Some of them actually have become
Speaker 2: real ideas in our lives. But smooth A's really struck
Speaker 2: a chord and the haircut really struck a chord. Like
Speaker 2: there are so when I because I had to rewatch
Speaker 2: the show and now, by the way, I'm going to
Speaker 2: watch Gilmar Girls because my wife absolutely loves it. And
Speaker 2: my boys, their girlfriends love the show. And so my
Speaker 2: son has watched it because his girlfriend watched it, and
Speaker 2: my other boys have anyway, but rewatching and we touched
Speaker 2: on it a little bit. You know, they stand the
Speaker 2: test of time. But rewatching it just it shows you
Speaker 2: and and it speaks to how great the writing is.
Speaker 2: It's all about the writing and Matt and JJ and
Speaker 2: that the entire you know, uh, everyone that was involved.
Speaker 2: They just captured the essence of what it's like to
Speaker 2: be a you know, a college student, but not more
Speaker 2: than that, just the family dynamic and expectations your parents
Speaker 2: have and the disappointment and you find out your parents
Speaker 2: are not perfect and very imperfect and all of that.
Speaker 2: And then it's so relatable to everybody else. So it
Speaker 2: wasn't like, you know, I don't feelmore girls. Certainly was
Speaker 2: not a young, you know, kids show. I mean, it
Speaker 2: was just so widely watched, felicity widely watched, you know,
Speaker 2: and and the main thing I get and I wonder
Speaker 2: if this was like this for your wife. But again,
Speaker 2: you guys are so young. But like when she was
Speaker 2: people say, oh, you know, I watched this with my mom.
Speaker 2: I was at way at school and this was a
Speaker 2: way for her. We bonded over it and that, dude,
Speaker 2: I'm the luckiest guy in the world. From Felicity to
Speaker 2: Alias Lost Heroes, all these things. When people star Wars
Speaker 2: people tell me, like military people, they'll be like, I was, dude,
Speaker 2: I was stuck in a fox hole, or I was,
Speaker 2: you know, on the base and just waiting for our
Speaker 2: orders and I watched your show and you got me through.
Speaker 2: Or even NBA players they'll be like, dude, I'm on
Speaker 2: the I'm on the plane, I'm on the bus. I
Speaker 2: watched every episode. It's so unbelievable. We're in some stupid
Speaker 2: studio somewhere, you know, talking to each other, going hey,
Speaker 2: and I talked to you for a second. That's every
Speaker 2: scene on our show started that way. And we were
Speaker 2: just loving each other, loving the opportunity and to know
Speaker 2: that people actually watch the show. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: What a special thing to have. I just I love
Speaker 3: hearing those kind of things like it's it's it's incredible.
Speaker 3: I mean, like you said, you're making this show. You
Speaker 3: don't know really how it's going to be received, what
Speaker 3: it's going to be, but it's just such an important
Speaker 3: place for people, and they continue to revisit.
Speaker 1: It's it's somewhere to Gilmore Girls that way.
Speaker 3: Like I know so many people that like rewatch Felicity
Speaker 3: every year or rewatch it, you know, just on a
Speaker 3: loop almost, or like they fall asleep watching it.
Speaker 2: Or drinking games every time someone says hey, every time
Speaker 2: someone says hey, you drink, I mean you're drunk in
Speaker 2: the after the first act of event. Yeah, I agree
Speaker 2: with you. It's just it's a it's a very very
Speaker 2: special thing. It's hard to compare it to something else.
Speaker 2: I don't know, it's you know, and I've been like
Speaker 2: I said, it's been so lucky over and over again,
Speaker 2: you know, uh, to have been a part of all
Speaker 2: this stuff. And now you know, like they we did
Speaker 2: a reunion at the festival, the TV festival, and then
Speaker 2: you know they're always asking it. Do you want to
Speaker 2: do a where are they now? I'll give you a scoop,
Speaker 2: very big scoop we're gonna be doing. It looks like
Speaker 2: a Felicity reading of an episode that never aired, and
Speaker 2: it's never aired because it was just written. Somebody wrote
Speaker 2: a really I'm not gonna tell you what it is,
Speaker 2: but it's Felicity and all the Felicity characters and we're
Speaker 2: gonna be reading it for charity over zoom.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's really cool and we're just locking in
Speaker 2: scheduling with everybody. But I just talked to Amy Joe
Speaker 2: and you know, by the way, I stayed friends with
Speaker 2: all these people, and I had Robbie, Benedict and I
Speaker 2: just had breakfast and Mandy of course, Amanda, you know
Speaker 2: Mandy who was my love interest and she was the
Speaker 2: greatest I love. She's my favorite character on the show, Megan.
Speaker 2: She uh, the three of us, Rob, Benedict and Mandy
Speaker 2: and I we just had breakfast and we were like,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be fun. And they're like, yeah, so it's happening.
Speaker 2: There's the thing. You'll hear more about it. Follow me
Speaker 2: on you know, on Instagram or or on x and
Speaker 2: and you know, with all the details that come out,
Speaker 2: but it's gonna be It's really really cool.
Speaker 3: That's awesome. And Amy jo Johnson being in the show too.
Speaker 3: I mean, like I was such a big fan of
Speaker 3: the Pink Ranger and then seeing like like I was
Speaker 3: so excited to see her grow in her career too,
Speaker 3: Like like you know, she's not just the Pink Ranger.
Speaker 3: She's doing this incredible dramatic role.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as frustrating as actors get in certain roles like
Speaker 2: oh I'm just the Pink Power Ranger or whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 2: if you have the goods and if you have the size,
Speaker 2: you know, the big shoes to fill, when you and
Speaker 2: that door opens and step through it, it's I think
Speaker 2: it's incredible transformation. I think it's like, like I told,
Speaker 2: I'm like, I want I want this to be this
Speaker 2: is my look, Like I love this. I want to
Speaker 2: like start doing roles like this, like you know, this
Speaker 2: is great, And that's just it's just that getting back
Speaker 2: to a hair thing. But but like when Amy Joe,
Speaker 2: she was so good. Everybody was great, but she was
Speaker 2: so good on the show. And when you think about, oh,
Speaker 2: that's the Pink Power, there's just something really cool and
Speaker 2: special about it. I have a band called The Action
Speaker 2: Figures that I don't know if you know about, but yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: so it was banned from TV years ago. I started
Speaker 2: with Hugh Laurie and Bob Guiney and Scott Ryan's and
Speaker 2: James Denton and Jesse Spencer and Terry Hatcher and all
Speaker 2: these people and now it's called The Action Figures and
Speaker 2: we play conventions and we play corporate gigs and charity events.
Speaker 2: But it's that expectation that people are like, oh, these
Speaker 2: are just actors, and then they're like, holy shit, these
Speaker 2: guys are fun and the music's great, and we kill it.
Speaker 2: I mean, we really do kill it. We have so
Speaker 2: much fun. And we're a celebrity cover band. We only
Speaker 2: play cover songs. But it's that same expectation when you go, oh,
Speaker 2: she was the Pink Power end or how good can
Speaker 2: she be? And then you're like, wow, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean when someone is given the people don't realize
Speaker 2: us actors like we say, yes, man, we want to work.
Speaker 2: You know, even today, Like I get calls and I'm like,
Speaker 2: you know, my agent will be like, ah, you just
Speaker 2: got an offer for this thing, do you you know
Speaker 2: it's a little thing whatever. I'm like, I want a
Speaker 2: zoom director. Let me read it. Let me unless it's
Speaker 2: something crazy bad, you know, it's I did. I did
Speaker 2: a movie called Big Ass Fighter and you have seen it.
Speaker 2: You've seen it.
Speaker 4: It's good.
Speaker 2: It's so good, and I I mean I I have
Speaker 2: such a blast doing it. I've done End of the World,
Speaker 2: Big Ass Fighter, Max Reload and the Other Blasters was
Speaker 2: the other one I know, and then uh, Satanic Hispanics.
Speaker 2: These movies are like low Budge. Oh and group Sex.
Speaker 2: I did a movie called Group Sex that if you
Speaker 2: haven't seen it, it's a Roman. Oh my god. First
Speaker 2: of all, don't google other things because things come up.
Speaker 2: Group sex. But Larry Trilling, who was our showrunner on
Speaker 2: director on Felicity as well as Ken Olan. But Larry
Speaker 2: and I are old, old friends and we wrote this
Speaker 2: script together. It's a romantic comedy that takes place set
Speaker 2: in the world of a sexaholic recovery group. And it's Odette.
Speaker 4: Uh you know.
Speaker 2: Annabelle stars in it with Josh Cook and me and
Speaker 2: James Denton and Him Whitley and Lombardo Boyard and Rob
Speaker 2: Benedict and there's it's such a great cast. It's so fun.
Speaker 2: And it's these small movies that like, I just love
Speaker 2: working man. So when somebody calls, you know, we say yes.
Speaker 2: So the fact that you actually hit lightning in a
Speaker 2: bottle with a project that people are they're good people.
Speaker 2: It's well written, you know, and the audience receives it.
Speaker 2: It's just insane. And so now getting back to what
Speaker 2: we were talking about, like the opportunity now to maybe
Speaker 2: bring some of these shows back alias Felicity Heroes, Like
Speaker 2: we already did Heroes once and now they're talking about
Speaker 2: it again. It's like, what's going on. I know I'm
Speaker 2: really old when that happens, but I'm like, oh, I
Speaker 2: can remake a show for the third time. Oh man, I.
Speaker 3: Love you know, looking through your resume, it's so fun
Speaker 3: because like you're one of those actors that you have
Speaker 3: so much cool stuff on yours and it's from the
Speaker 3: biggest franchise imaginable, from Star Wars, Star Trek and then
Speaker 3: Big Ass Spider. At the same time, it's just like
Speaker 3: if if Greg Grumberg is in it, you got to
Speaker 3: go see whatever it is because it's gonna be good.
Speaker 2: It's the sweetest ever.
Speaker 4: I love.
Speaker 1: It's a hallmark.
Speaker 2: Like I get people. I get people that you know,
Speaker 2: comic cons that happens, but I get people all the
Speaker 2: time that come up to me and I'll be like, wait,
Speaker 2: what I just uh, It's just it's like I can't
Speaker 2: believe that they actually saw some of this stuff, you know,
Speaker 2: the real estate is all the same now, So a
Speaker 2: big as fighter and the movie that JJ and I
Speaker 2: are doing right now, you know, they're they're going to
Speaker 2: occupy the same screen space on some streamer eventually, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean, JJ is doing something that could be in
Speaker 2: the theater. It's a huge, huge movie. But I'm just saying, like,
Speaker 2: you've got this small budget and a big budget. At
Speaker 2: the end of the day, they're both vuying for those
Speaker 2: same eyeballs at the same time on your device. So
Speaker 2: you know, if it's good. This is what I tell people,
Speaker 2: because I have young actors that will talk to me
Speaker 2: and they'll be like, I got offered this thing, what
Speaker 2: do you think? And and I go, you know, if
Speaker 2: it's really shitty, no one's going to see it because
Speaker 2: there's just too many things to see.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: But if it's if it's good, they'll find it, you know,
Speaker 2: So that I always you know, I'm not trying to
Speaker 2: welcome everybody to send me scripts, but I'm just saying like,
Speaker 2: don't be surprised if you you know, if you write
Speaker 2: something for somebody like me and they go, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, you go like, there's no way I'll never chew.
Speaker 2: There's a way. We want to work and we want
Speaker 2: to work with good people on good projects.
Speaker 3: Greg Greenberg is with us. It's I Smell Pop Culture.
Speaker 3: We're going to be right back. So much more to
Speaker 3: get into. This man has so much awesome stuff in
Speaker 3: his life and his world and in his mind.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back. Everybody.
Speaker 3: It is I Smell Pop Culture. We're probably the I
Speaker 3: Am All In podcast here on iHeartRadio. We're hanging out
Speaker 3: with Greg Gremberg, just this man during the commercial breaks
Speaker 3: giving me incredible ideas that I will be ceiling and
Speaker 3: using and using it to elevate my own O life.
Speaker 2: So wait, but by the way, those ideas didn't come
Speaker 2: for me just now. They came from Sean Blumberg. That
Speaker 2: was my character on the City.
Speaker 4: Dude.
Speaker 2: I cannot stop doing this. I do it all the time.
Speaker 2: You know what, I feel like, I'm going to get it.
Speaker 2: I'm going to get it. I don't have one around here.
Speaker 2: I've been making these ticket bowls. If you follow me
Speaker 2: on social media, I've been making these ticket balls. You
Speaker 2: take a roll like a raffle ticket roll, and you
Speaker 2: you can mold it up if you if.
Speaker 1: You like, like you fan it out or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you fan it up and out and it's this
Speaker 2: beautiful bowl and you're like, wait a minute, wait, where's
Speaker 2: my phone. I'm going to show you. It's just like
Speaker 2: I but but more than that. I come up with
Speaker 2: business ideas and then I do them. I created the
Speaker 2: first mobile coupon app called yaousa back in the day.
Speaker 3: I saw that in your Wikipedia and I was like,
Speaker 3: this is such a sean thing to do, and it's like,
Speaker 3: this is crazy.
Speaker 2: And that's and here here's this ticket balls. Look at this.
Speaker 2: Here's the ticket ball that I just made for Leslie Fox,
Speaker 2: a dear, a friend, a caregiver.
Speaker 1: Amazing. Oh my god, they're beautiful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're really And I signed the bottom and I
Speaker 2: give them out, I take the auction them off at
Speaker 2: charity events. Look at this one.
Speaker 3: I mean, come on, dude, I mean that's sincerely a
Speaker 3: beautiful looking bowl. And then added like the novelty of
Speaker 3: it being like a raffle tickets.
Speaker 1: It's so cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then my wife and I I'm just sharing. My
Speaker 2: wife and I, you know, ran to Trader Joe just
Speaker 2: this morning. I got the new Easter bags.
Speaker 1: You got the bag? Wow, lines down the block for
Speaker 1: that thing.
Speaker 2: So my character. But my character started like JJ and
Speaker 2: Matt old dear friends. I produced or helped produce Matt's
Speaker 2: thesis film at USC This is how long I've known
Speaker 2: each other. JJ and I have known each other since
Speaker 2: we're five. Wow. So I was guest starring. I had
Speaker 2: one opportunity on a show on Fox that didn't go.
Speaker 2: I did the pilot that was the brother on this
Speaker 2: show called Flying Blind, and that didn't go. It's really funny.
Speaker 2: And then I was doing guest spots here and there.
Speaker 2: I was on Murphy Brown. I mean going way back.
Speaker 2: I was on I was doing everything I was doing.
Speaker 2: I did over fifty commercials. And meanwhile, j J and
Speaker 2: I are living together after college and uh, and he
Speaker 2: and Matt get this opportunity to do a show and
Speaker 2: I go, Okay, guys, I'm on the show. This is
Speaker 2: this is Other actors are like, oh, how do I
Speaker 2: how do I I don't want to be a past
Speaker 2: how do I let my friends know? I'm like that.
Speaker 2: I called them right up, and I go, who am
Speaker 2: I playing?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: Because because by the way, you only want to work
Speaker 2: with the best people You're You're spending all day and
Speaker 2: night with them, and you want to trust them, and
Speaker 2: so we knew je. So I was like, okay. So
Speaker 2: I looked at the script. I knew what the show was.
Speaker 2: And they said you're too old. You're not in college anymore,
Speaker 2: you know whatever, And I said there was a way,
Speaker 2: and I kept pastoring them and they were like, wait
Speaker 2: a minute, what if these what are these college students?
Speaker 2: Lived with this guy off campus and he was hanging
Speaker 2: out with college because and he was a crazy And
Speaker 2: while I was living with JJ, I'm this out of
Speaker 2: work or out of work struggling actor right and going
Speaker 2: from out to job commercials and this and that. I
Speaker 2: was a driver for a producer named Joel Silver. I
Speaker 2: was his driver for a years. WHOA, yeah, which was crazy.
Speaker 1: Sound crazy?
Speaker 2: It was great crazy. It was like he taught me
Speaker 2: a lot and about the business and everything. But during
Speaker 2: that time I was like okay, so I begged and
Speaker 2: pleaded and they said okay. But during that time, I
Speaker 2: had a frozen yogurt business I had. I'm always hustling
Speaker 2: for my dad. My dad's an entrepreneur and I always don't.
Speaker 2: So JJ's like Matt were like, let's make that Greg's character.
Speaker 2: And so that's how that's why Sean Blumberg, Greg Grunberg,
Speaker 2: I mean it sounds very similar. Yes.
Speaker 3: I was so curious about that because I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 3: this character is like so perfect for you, and then
Speaker 3: like more about your life, I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 3: it's like life imitating art. But then it makes so
Speaker 3: much sense that it was, i mean created for you.
Speaker 3: Some of the there's so many inventions and ideas from Sean,
Speaker 3: but bagel knobs favorite of mine, Like doughnut holes that
Speaker 3: are like bagels injected with cream cheese. Yeah, brilliant, I
Speaker 3: mean brilliant. The flavored pen caps, I know that's a
Speaker 3: popular one.
Speaker 2: Flavored pen caps were great.
Speaker 4: The uh the.
Speaker 2: Milkless cereal that you just have water too, Like, that
Speaker 2: was a good one. I had enough, Like this is
Speaker 2: what I was saying, is I'm rewatching. I had to
Speaker 2: rewatch the show for the podcast. Yeah, and I'm rewatching,
Speaker 2: going wait a minute, that's that's actually a really good idea.
Speaker 2: There were all these ideas, and then of course the
Speaker 2: biggest one was documentary, and I was like, way ahead
Speaker 2: of my time. That was my character doing a documentary
Speaker 2: about Oh wait till you hear the segue. I have
Speaker 2: for you on this document a documentary on the students,
Speaker 2: and they would vent and it was me and I
Speaker 2: had to hold the camera. And then the Union came
Speaker 2: and said, no, Greg can't hold the camera, he's an actor.
Speaker 2: So I then I had to be right behind. I
Speaker 2: was like riding a motorcycle, not motor The cameraman, Union
Speaker 2: camera guy Mike May would hold the camera and I
Speaker 2: would have to be behind him, and I would, but
Speaker 2: because the eye line had to be as if I
Speaker 2: was holding the camera.
Speaker 4: That was a whole thing.
Speaker 2: And then yesterday you don't even know about this. I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't think yesterday. I was just nominated as for
Speaker 2: an Emmy as a producer for my for my Pete
Speaker 2: Rose documentary Charlie Hussel and The Matter of Pete Rose
Speaker 2: that's on HBO. Max.
Speaker 1: Congratulations, thank you, incredible.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I'm producing documentaries and shows and stuff now.
Speaker 2: And I was like, I gave thought to it. Yesterday
Speaker 2: I got a call from my manager and she was like, congratulations,
Speaker 2: you guys got nominated for an Emmy.
Speaker 5: I was like what, and I thought, wait a minute,
Speaker 5: it was all started with documentary. Yes, awesome, that's incredible.
Speaker 5: I have a Pete Rose signed baseball at home. I'm
Speaker 5: very proud of That's congratulations.
Speaker 1: That's huge.
Speaker 4: You see.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you can. You can't see, but
Speaker 2: back there as the poster. Did you see the documentary
Speaker 2: that we did.
Speaker 1: I have not seen the documentary yet, but I will.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's four parts and you know, rest in peace, Pete. Uh.
Speaker 2: It was the timing of it. I'm thinking, I'm so
Speaker 2: happy we did it and before, I mean, he wasn't sick,
Speaker 2: so it was really a shock when he passed away.
Speaker 2: But we're still trying to get him in the Hall
Speaker 2: of Fame. It's been a mission. You'll see. It's the
Speaker 2: through line of the present day through line of our podcast,
Speaker 2: I mean of our documentary again. It's called Charlie Hustle
Speaker 2: and the Matter of Pete Rose on Max. And it's
Speaker 2: great because we show this we talked to all these
Speaker 2: people and Pete's awesome, and then we talk about the gambling.
Speaker 2: We talk about his life and his family and everything
Speaker 2: and all the trouble he got in and and his
Speaker 2: regrets and it's so sad, but it's he's just from
Speaker 2: a different time and he did some pretty bad things
Speaker 2: in his life, but he also is the top. So
Speaker 2: how do you separate these heroes that we have, you know,
Speaker 2: from their statistics when you know they're real, that you
Speaker 2: know that they're human and there they have faults. But
Speaker 2: it's I can't wait for you to see it. I'm glad,
Speaker 2: especially if you have a ball. Where did you get
Speaker 2: the ball?
Speaker 4: Signed?
Speaker 2: Did you in Vegas?
Speaker 3: My dad got it for me when I was a
Speaker 3: little kid, and I don't even know where where he
Speaker 3: got it from, but it was like that was our
Speaker 3: that was like our prize posision, Like all this Pete
Speaker 3: Rose baseballs is like you know, like I'm gonna be
Speaker 3: buried with it probably exactly.
Speaker 2: It's so funny.
Speaker 4: I love.
Speaker 1: So you're okay.
Speaker 3: So you mentioned you've known J. J. Abrams since you
Speaker 3: were five years old. I mean, that's that's crazy.
Speaker 2: It's crazy.
Speaker 3: Like I was curious, like what the collaboration process is, like,
Speaker 3: I mean, you you've worked with him on so many things,
Speaker 3: Like so when you hear that he's got like when
Speaker 3: he first got involved with Star Wars, I mean, were you.
Speaker 1: Like, Okay, who am I going to be? Like what's
Speaker 1: my what's my character?
Speaker 4: Is that? No question?
Speaker 2: But more than that before that. I mean, look, we
Speaker 2: talk three times a day. We play backammon, that's our
Speaker 2: one of our things. But our families, I mean God
Speaker 2: parents her his kids, and he's to mine. And I
Speaker 2: mean they're like they are literally family, and I love
Speaker 2: every one of them. And and JJ and I are brothers.
Speaker 2: We're closer than brothers, to be honest. And he so
Speaker 2: and I talked, you know, we share everything and and
Speaker 2: I'll be like, hey, what do you think of this?
Speaker 2: What do you think of that? And so usually projects
Speaker 2: I've been working on projects with him forever, just as
Speaker 2: a friend and he and he has that with a
Speaker 2: number of people, Matt being one of them, and just
Speaker 2: brilliant people that he has. You know, he never lets
Speaker 2: go of anybody. Everybody that works with JJ wants to
Speaker 2: work with him. Again, he's just the best of the
Speaker 2: best in the business. And I'm lucky enough to call
Speaker 2: my best friend. But so, but when something like Star
Speaker 2: Wars comes up, that's not something that like he's been
Speaker 2: writing since college and you know, like forever young or
Speaker 2: you know, regarding Henry or any of the stuff that
Speaker 2: we were living together. He was writing. This is like wait,
Speaker 2: what And He's like, oh yeah, yeah, they asked me
Speaker 2: and I and I met with them and they're great
Speaker 2: people and I really want to do this, and I'm
Speaker 2: like Star Wars, dude. I freaked out because I'm like,
Speaker 2: we saw Star Wars together, like he saw it before
Speaker 2: I did at the AFCO Theater in Westwood when it
Speaker 2: first came out when we were twelve. And then I
Speaker 2: remember going to see it and it's just like this
Speaker 2: was my childhood. What are you talking about?
Speaker 4: I was.
Speaker 2: I couldn't believe it. I was like, you're the because
Speaker 2: back then he was like the original he wrote original
Speaker 2: material and they said he said, no, you know, from
Speaker 2: all my work and everything. And truthfully, you know, Tom
Speaker 2: Cruise gave him his big break in film, you know,
Speaker 2: insisting that or supporting that. He directed Mission and so
Speaker 2: that was an extension of Alias, you know, basically the
Speaker 2: same sort of action stuff. And then he put me
Speaker 2: a mission and I had, you know, a couple of
Speaker 2: days on that, which was awesome and so but but
Speaker 2: again those are things. But when Star Wars happened, I
Speaker 2: was just like it was in insistence. It wasn't even
Speaker 2: like who am I playing. I'm like I'm playing somebody
Speaker 2: so we got to figure this out, and he was like,
Speaker 2: I got you. You know, He's like, don't worry. So
Speaker 2: I had no idea, but I was so excited that
Speaker 2: one he did not share any scripts with me along
Speaker 2: the way when he was writing, Wow, just didn't. I mean,
Speaker 2: he was like the only thing that I would ever
Speaker 2: get out of him was I'm super excited. I'm super excited.
Speaker 2: He's very, very brutal when it comes to do his work,
Speaker 2: like on himself, not in a negative or harsh way,
Speaker 2: but just critical. He just makes He's so detail oriented,
Speaker 2: he's so smart. His first draft of every script, and
Speaker 2: I've told him this million times, is like if you
Speaker 2: and I were to write our eighth draft is his
Speaker 2: first draft that he because he's got so much experience
Speaker 2: that too, Like they're just brilliant, brilliant writers and directors, producers.
Speaker 2: But so when that happened, I'm like, okay. So then
Speaker 2: I get to same thing happen un lost by the way,
Speaker 2: I got to Hawaii and I had no idea who
Speaker 2: I was playing, and they go he goes go to
Speaker 2: wardrobe and you'll see, and I'm like okay. And as
Speaker 2: I'm walking to the set and to the trailers. I
Speaker 2: look up in a tree and I see somebody that
Speaker 2: looks like me. It's a dummy Crest as a pilot,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, oh shit. I'm like, I don't know
Speaker 2: how I get there, but that looks like me. And
Speaker 2: so on Star Wars. I get there, and I get
Speaker 2: to London and he goes coming right to this restaurant
Speaker 2: the whole cast we're having, you know, we're having It's
Speaker 2: Chinese restaurant. So I got to London and I go
Speaker 2: downstairs at this restaurant, I see Katy Kennedy and JJ
Speaker 2: and and and then I see all these this cast
Speaker 2: and a bunch of people I didn't know. And Kathleen
Speaker 2: Kennedy goes there. He is, there's Snap Weaxley, and I
Speaker 2: was like, Snap Wexley, like that sounds awesome. And so
Speaker 2: that's how I found out. And then I got fitted,
Speaker 2: you know, because I went about a week and a
Speaker 2: half in advance. I got fitted for my flight suit,
Speaker 2: my ex wing suit and everything. It was, dude, it
Speaker 2: was everything you could possibly dream of and more. And
Speaker 2: then add on top of that, you're doing it with
Speaker 2: your favorite person outside of your spouse in the world
Speaker 2: and it was just like the best experience, and it
Speaker 2: always it just keeps getting better and better and better
Speaker 2: with everything we work on together. It's just too much fun.
Speaker 3: I mean talk about like the ultimate dream come true.
Speaker 3: Like you get to go into this like movie that
Speaker 3: you love from your childhood, your best friends are there, Like,
Speaker 3: what a great experience.
Speaker 1: I I can't believe it.
Speaker 2: He's just he's the nice look. I can't hire JJ
Speaker 2: to write a movie to put me in it, and
Speaker 2: I don't. There's no small roles. I don't care what
Speaker 2: I'm doing this thing. I'm going, you know, I've got
Speaker 2: like whatever a week and a half, two weeks on
Speaker 2: this movie. Sam Jackson, Glenn Powell, Jenna you know, Jenna Ortega.
Speaker 2: I'm like, and me and a bunch of great actors.
Speaker 2: I have a very small role, but still I'm like,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be working with those three brilliant people and
Speaker 2: j J. And I'm like it just like you're saying,
Speaker 2: it's a dream, it's it's it's ridiculous. I pinch myself
Speaker 2: all the time. I pinch him. That's why he pays
Speaker 2: me to pinch him.
Speaker 3: That's I just gotta get off my chest. I love
Speaker 3: my favorite. One of my favorite Star Wars characters is
Speaker 3: a guy named Jack Porkins. He was in a New
Speaker 3: Hope and.
Speaker 1: You carry on the mantle of being a pilot with
Speaker 1: a cool name, and I love.
Speaker 2: I know what that guy, another fat pilot.
Speaker 3: I get it, you're very spelt, Greg, You're in great shape,
Speaker 3: but snap Wexley great, great name. And I love of
Speaker 3: watching all the pilot scenes of just like you know,
Speaker 3: Red five standing by, or like I was rewatching Riise
Speaker 3: of Skywalker the other day. I love Raise the Skywalker
Speaker 3: so much. Yeah, and I mean, do you have a
Speaker 3: line like just like like Incoming Ties or something like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've got your back.
Speaker 2: Po is like what people like have me sign on
Speaker 2: their thing, but people that really are in the note
Speaker 2: there's a line that I said that that I say,
Speaker 2: what happened? It got cut and but it's still on
Speaker 2: the DVD extras or something where he goes, let's go
Speaker 2: to warp speed or whatever it's called, not warp speed,
Speaker 2: let's go to hyper speed or something, and I say,
Speaker 2: is there any other speed? And then we jam it?
Speaker 1: So that rules.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's a great line. You know, It's like,
Speaker 2: is there any other speed. You know, I want to
Speaker 2: show you this picture. People can't see it, But dude,
Speaker 2: back then, at this age, I had no idea that
Speaker 2: I was standing next to my future self.
Speaker 3: He's staying in front of a Buddha statue because.
Speaker 2: I look like a Buddha right now with my hair
Speaker 2: like this. So funny, you know, talking.
Speaker 3: About we were talking earlier about cutting your you know,
Speaker 3: you shaved your head for this role. I'm and like,
Speaker 3: when you're doing Felicity, you're saying, like contractually obligated to
Speaker 3: like maintain your appearance to a certain extent. I'm so curious. Like,
Speaker 3: there's this story of Ryan Gosling getting a role with
Speaker 3: I'm trying to remember who the director was, but he
Speaker 3: Gosling decided that the character would be like not morbidly obese,
Speaker 3: but very overweight. So he like gained a lot of
Speaker 3: weight and then he showed up to the set and like,
Speaker 3: what do you This was not what we discussed we
Speaker 3: were talking about, and he lost the role because of it,
Speaker 3: Like they had to cast someone else because they didn't
Speaker 3: want this character to be over So I'm curious, Like.
Speaker 2: My god, that's crazy. Well, if you're asking me about
Speaker 2: my weight, no, no, no, but it's it is not
Speaker 2: only weight and maintaining your look, but also it's one
Speaker 2: it's you know, it's it's so weird. It's the one
Speaker 2: profession where that discrimination is allowed because it's based on
Speaker 2: something that was written. But no, there are it goes
Speaker 2: beyond that. We're not allowed to do any dangerous sports.
Speaker 2: We're not allowed to jump out of planes. We're not
Speaker 2: allowed to it's all because you're you're insured and and
Speaker 2: you're being bonded. So the bonded the bonding company will say,
Speaker 2: you know, I mean this happened on uh. I was
Speaker 2: on a move. I did a movie called The Holloman
Speaker 2: with Kevin Bacon and he wasn't the first one cast.
Speaker 2: It was they wanted where they cast Robert Downey Junior.
Speaker 2: But Downey was going through whatever he was going through
Speaker 2: drug wise that during that time, and he couldn't be insured,
Speaker 2: and and so they got Kevin. I mean, Kevin was
Speaker 2: actoutely incredible. But you know, that's the whole thing is
Speaker 2: like the insurance on this stuff, and it's for the
Speaker 2: time that you're making the movie. Some people just they're
Speaker 2: not ensurable, they're not bondable, you know, And and anything
Speaker 2: can happen to us. I mean, you know, we're human,
Speaker 2: but but putting yourself in a little bit more of
Speaker 2: a like race car driving or oh, Lisa Shue Elizabeth
Speaker 2: shoe On on that movie where we shot for nine months.
Speaker 2: Why because we shot for six months and she decided
Speaker 2: she's a friend too. She went out and did some exercise,
Speaker 2: not even decided. She was working out, trying to stay
Speaker 2: in good shape, and she popped her achilles, oh, during lunch,
Speaker 2: and because they have a gym at Sony, and so
Speaker 2: she did it and they were like, oh no, And
Speaker 2: that was.
Speaker 4: Before we had to do all this running stuff.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, So we had to shut down for a
Speaker 2: little bit and we came back and I mean, it's
Speaker 2: it's a miracle that these things, you know, happened. I
Speaker 2: remember on Star Wars, if you remember, before I went
Speaker 2: to London, Harrison was trapped. This door came down in production.
Speaker 1: Yes, I remember when this happened, Yes, yeah, and it.
Speaker 2: Came down on Harrison and JJ ran over to try
Speaker 2: and lift the door up. JJ ended up hurting his
Speaker 2: back helping Harrison Harrison and going to the hospital just
Speaker 2: because they want to check on him. I mean, you
Speaker 2: know that guy. Yeah, toughest guy in the world. And
Speaker 2: but it's like things happen, man, things happen, So you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: you have to you have to maintain all that stuff.
Speaker 2: And there are times. I mean, I did a movie
Speaker 2: called Paterno where Al Pacino plays my dad and you
Speaker 2: know Paterno, and I played Scott Paterno. And Scott was
Speaker 2: you know when I during the time that I played
Speaker 2: him in his life, he was huge. And so they
Speaker 2: put a fat suit on me and I get to
Speaker 2: New York and Parry Levinson. Perry says, he's like, just
Speaker 2: enjoy everything, man in New York. Just enjoy everythingcause they're
Speaker 2: putting me on fat suit. But they wanted the fatness
Speaker 2: in my neck and my face to match the fat suit,
Speaker 2: so they were you know, I would bay gels. I mean,
Speaker 2: New York is no shortage of carbs.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 2: I literally ate my way through Manhattan. And you know
Speaker 2: the problem with that is at my age, I'm fifty
Speaker 2: eight now, it's like really hard to lose the weight.
Speaker 2: It's like it's hard to you know, maintain it and
Speaker 2: lose it. But I do the best I can.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: Greg Greenberg hanging out with us. This is I Smell
Speaker 3: pop Culture. We're having so much fun. I have a
Speaker 3: couple more questions for you. We got to talk about
Speaker 3: your new series coming on Max, some other stuff that's
Speaker 3: really really exciting in your life.
Speaker 2: I want to do a promo for you, please. Okay, Hey,
Speaker 2: it's Greg Grunberg from Felicity, Alias Lost, all these great shows,
Speaker 2: and yes, if you smell pop culture, it was probably
Speaker 2: me because I fared it.
Speaker 3: There you go, we'll be right back, and we're back.
Speaker 3: It's I Smell pop culture. My name's Easton Allen hanging
Speaker 3: out here. It's Greg Gruenberg from Felicity, Star Wars, Star
Speaker 3: Trek anything you could possibly name, anything you love. If
Speaker 3: you have a poster of it in your bedroom, Greg
Speaker 3: is in it.
Speaker 2: A by the way, speaking posters, I did The Boys.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you watch that show. Yes, I
Speaker 2: had a small, tiny little cameo on The Boys, Eric Oric.
Speaker 6: As yourself, right, Yeah, I played myself. Yeah, Easton, dude,
Speaker 6: you know all the show. Yeah, I played myself and
Speaker 6: then they put me the movie within the movie. So
Speaker 6: the poster for Dawn of the Seven.
Speaker 2: I'm on the poster. That's so awesome. You keep jabbing away.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna show it to you right now.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: I mean, like I was just saying, anything that's cool,
Speaker 3: anything that you like, Greg is in. But you have
Speaker 3: a show coming May next month, May fifteenth. It's called Duster.
Speaker 3: It's coming out on Max the one to Watch once again,
Speaker 3: teaming up with j g Abrams on this.
Speaker 2: And and LaToya Morgan it is, and Josh Holloway and
Speaker 2: the entire cast Keith David, Rachel Hillson, Like, it's such
Speaker 2: a cool show man.
Speaker 4: This is there.
Speaker 2: Occasionally there's a time when I'll times when I'll do stuff.
Speaker 2: I care about everything I do, but there are times
Speaker 2: like this where I really hope the audience feels the
Speaker 2: same way we do. It's socking cool. It is just
Speaker 2: a cool, cool show. The trailers out now, and I
Speaker 2: think Josh and Rachel are going and Keith are going
Speaker 2: to the can to the Can Film Festival or the
Speaker 2: Can TV Festival or something to promote it, which is
Speaker 2: a good sign that you know, HBO likes it. It's
Speaker 2: gonna be on Max May fifteenth, like you said, And
Speaker 2: it takes place in nineteen seventy one. I play the
Speaker 2: head of the FBI and Rachel is an FBI agent,
Speaker 2: a new agent that comes into town and she's got
Speaker 2: a beef and we're trying to trying to turn this
Speaker 2: guy that Josh plays, we call Duster. He drives a
Speaker 2: plymouth duster for the mob and we're trying to get
Speaker 2: him to cooperate with us. We're trying to get him
Speaker 2: to be, you know, an inside agent or work as
Speaker 2: a double agent with us, and to take down the
Speaker 2: organized crime there. And it's but it's so good. I
Speaker 2: mean that that tells you nothing about the show. It's
Speaker 2: all character driven, it's fun, and it's seventies and it's
Speaker 2: my favorite thing. I am a car nut dude. I
Speaker 2: own if I do a project, I buy the car
Speaker 2: if I I love everything about My son actually stole
Speaker 2: a chewy seatbelt from Star Wars. My family came to
Speaker 2: visit in London and we uh, we took a tour
Speaker 2: of the set and the boys were in the cockpit
Speaker 2: and then they climbed out of the cockpit and we
Speaker 2: got back in the car and my son was like, Luke,
Speaker 2: what I took? That was the proudest moment in my life.
Speaker 2: But no, I I love everything seventies. It's just it's
Speaker 2: a it's a time when I look back on stuff
Speaker 2: and I watched stuff, you know, once upon time in
Speaker 2: Hollywood and all that stuff. It's like it's just a
Speaker 2: rich time and and it lends itself to great story
Speaker 2: because you don't have the device of a cell phone
Speaker 2: or a fax machine or it's like it's a seventy
Speaker 2: maybe yeah, but you know what I mean, it's it's
Speaker 2: like you can't just pick up the phone or you know,
Speaker 2: or text somebody or whatever. So anyway, it's really really
Speaker 2: good Duster. Check it out. I hope people enjoy it,
Speaker 2: you know, really exciting.
Speaker 3: I can't I can't wait. I can't wait to watch Duster.
Speaker 3: And then I also I just want to make sure
Speaker 3: we mention this. You have this really cool program that
Speaker 3: you're part of helping those living with epilepsy, caregivers for
Speaker 3: those of epilepsy, and it's called talk about It on
Speaker 3: video dot Com.
Speaker 1: What can you tell us about that?
Speaker 2: It started many years ago. Our son, our oldest son, Jake,
Speaker 2: who's twenty eight now, he's living well with epilepsy. And
Speaker 2: epilepsy and seizures can be absolutely shattering. But if people
Speaker 2: around you know what to do, in case you have
Speaker 2: a seizure, it doesn't present. You know, epilepsy is a
Speaker 2: kind of thing where in most people it doesn't present,
Speaker 2: so you don't know that people around you have the
Speaker 2: chance of having a seizure. We all one in twenty
Speaker 2: six people will have, you know, a seizure in their lifetime.
Speaker 2: And there's three I mean there's yeah, there's like thirty
Speaker 2: million people, three million people in the United States that
Speaker 2: have It's just it's a it's a huge thing, and
Speaker 2: people don't talk enough about it. There's a stigma attached
Speaker 2: to it. So I found I was like, this is
Speaker 2: a way that I can kind of reverse that narrative
Speaker 2: educate people. The ignorance that comes isn't because anyone's being
Speaker 2: mean or anything. People just don't realize that there are
Speaker 2: simple things like you can't choke on your tongue, You
Speaker 2: don't stick anything in anyone's mouth when they're having a seizure.
Speaker 2: You put them on their side, put something under their
Speaker 2: heads so they're not banging their head on the ground,
Speaker 2: and just let them have their seizure and it'll ride
Speaker 2: itself out and chances are they're going to be fine.
Speaker 2: And you don't even need to call the paramedics, but
Speaker 2: if it lasts longer than two and a half minutes,
Speaker 2: call it paramatics. All this stuff is that talk about
Speaker 2: it on video dot com And now we're helping the
Speaker 2: National Bleeding Sorce Foundation, We're helping cancer, we're helping all
Speaker 2: kinds of other causes. And it's you'll see if you
Speaker 2: go to talk about it on video dot com. You
Speaker 2: And by the way, we have we just crossed over
Speaker 2: one hundred thousand subscribers on YouTube. Wow because it thank you,
Speaker 2: because every actor that I've ever worked with is helping
Speaker 2: me do PSAs and get the word out. And my
Speaker 2: podcast talk about It is really popular because I'm just
Speaker 2: trying to not normalize, but I'm just trying to engage
Speaker 2: people in the conversation and go, oh, there are a
Speaker 2: lot of heroes in this community, both patients and caregivers
Speaker 2: and doctors and whatever. I also have a series called
Speaker 2: The Caregiver. You can go to The Caregiver series dot
Speaker 2: com where I take caregivers out for a day of
Speaker 2: care and talk about what it's like to be a
Speaker 2: caregiver and we all end up being caregivers in our lives.
Speaker 2: So I'm really enjoying. I'm glad thank you for bringing
Speaker 2: it up, because I enjoy talk about it so much.
Speaker 2: I enjoy the Caregiver series so much. I kind of wish,
Speaker 2: you know. I love acting, don't get me wrong, but
Speaker 2: it's so rewarding to do this, and you know, I've
Speaker 2: connected and learned from so many people. It's really it's
Speaker 2: pretty awesome.
Speaker 3: I'm so impressed by what you're doing. And I think
Speaker 3: it's so incredible you're using your platform to spread awareness
Speaker 3: of this and the caregiver thing, especially a very close
Speaker 3: friend of mine, his wife suffered a traumatic brain injury
Speaker 3: and he's become her caregiver and just talking to him
Speaker 3: about it's such a challenging role and a role that
Speaker 3: no one's really prepared for, and people are afraid to
Speaker 3: talk about it and they're afraid to be open about it.
Speaker 3: And I I just really appreciate you showing that side
Speaker 3: of life and what can happen to people and how
Speaker 3: special these roles are in people lives.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean as I always look at it selfishly
Speaker 2: because I get so much more out of it than
Speaker 2: people are getting, and people are really touched by it
Speaker 2: and the connecting and realizing that all alone. Like your
Speaker 2: friend is not alone, he's unfortunately in the majority, like
Speaker 2: people are out there taking care of people. And what
Speaker 2: your friend has to realize very quickly, And this is
Speaker 2: what we stress on Caregiver Series is as a caregiver,
Speaker 2: you need to take care of yourself first. It's like
Speaker 2: when they say on a plane, put a mask on
Speaker 2: yourself before you put a mask on your child. If
Speaker 2: you're not healthy mentally, physically, whatever, you can't take care
Speaker 2: of the ones that you love. So you need to
Speaker 2: have that time for yourself. I'm talking about five minutes
Speaker 2: a day. I'm talking about like get the app, I
Speaker 2: have this app, right, meditate and you know, you need
Speaker 2: to take care of yourself because you're now taking care
Speaker 2: of others in a bigger way than you originally anticipated.
Speaker 2: And so you know, the people are heroes, but we're
Speaker 2: all in this together and nothing's no one should be
Speaker 2: ashamed of anything. If you go on social media and
Speaker 2: people are talking about their perfect life, they're lying, Yes,
Speaker 2: everybody's got something. You know, So I again, I appreciate you,
Speaker 2: and I just encourage people go to you know, talk
Speaker 2: the Caregiver Series dot com. Go to talk about it
Speaker 2: on video dot Com. You'll see your favorite celebrities from
Speaker 2: everything that I've ever done, asking important questions and then
Speaker 2: doctors answering and you'll learn something. You'll laugh on my
Speaker 2: podcast talk about it, you'll laugh. I mean, we have
Speaker 2: a good time.
Speaker 1: That's so awesome.
Speaker 3: Greg Greenberg, one of the best to ever do it.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for hanging out with us today.
Speaker 3: This has just been so much fun. I could talk
Speaker 3: to you for hours. Man, there's so like what it
Speaker 3: brings up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's do it. I smell a spinoff, No, I
Speaker 2: smell pop culture. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the best duster on Max coming May fifteenth.
Speaker 3: To watch out for this new JJ Abrams movie where
Speaker 3: you're going to see Greg's beautiful bald head in it
Speaker 3: and so much more come in the Felicity Zoom Red.
Speaker 1: You've got to watch out for that. Just yeah.
Speaker 3: Thank you again for being so generous with your time
Speaker 3: answering all my questions. You're just the greatest man.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, thank you, and thanks to your to
Speaker 2: your you have an awesome show, and thanks for everybody listening.
Speaker 2: And I got to this far. This was a lot
Speaker 2: of fun. Appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Wow again, thank you Greg, You're just. You're the best.
Speaker 1: Exceeded any expectation I had. You're just it was.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 2: I love it. Hey anytime, if you need me to,
Speaker 2: if you have somebody else and you're like, would be
Speaker 2: really funny. If great commented on this pop, just let
Speaker 2: me know whatever. You're easy to talk to, you dude,
Speaker 2: you're the best.
Speaker 1: Thanks man, You have a great rest of your day.
Speaker 4: You too. Bye bye, Hey everybody, and don't forget.
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