WEBVTT - Will Sasso

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<v Speaker 1>I had to drown. You're in a room, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>the usual, and people staring at you, and I'm just

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<v Speaker 1>like like floating, like making myself light in a fucking

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<v Speaker 1>room and just like you know what I mean, and

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<v Speaker 1>then like pulled over on the side of the road

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<v Speaker 1>after you're just like, oh, fuck's the matter with me?

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<v Speaker 2>What's that doing? I know?

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<v Speaker 1>Hello, My name is Will Sasso and I will.

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<v Speaker 2>Welcome back everybody. Thanks again for joining us for your

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<v Speaker 2>favorite podcast. I'm sure off the beat. I am your

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<v Speaker 2>favorite host, Brian Bombgartner. We have a favorite of mine

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<v Speaker 2>on the show today, the hilarious Will Sasso is with me.

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<v Speaker 2>Will has been gracing your screens for now over thirty years,

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<v Speaker 2>which is odd because he claims he's only thirty two,

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<v Speaker 2>but anyway. He first appeared on Canadian teen television, then

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<v Speaker 2>in incredible movies like Best in Show and Happy Gilmore,

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<v Speaker 2>and finally on the iconic comedy sketch show Mad TV.

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<v Speaker 2>Guess what all of that was before the year two thousand.

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<v Speaker 2>He certainly hasn't slowed down since then, starring on shows

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<v Speaker 2>like Less than Perfect, Another Period, louder Milk, and Young Sheldon.

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<v Speaker 2>He is also an accomplished voice actor. You've heard his

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<v Speaker 2>voice on animated shows like Family, Guy, Russell, Maniac, Murder Police. Also,

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<v Speaker 2>he stole the role of Curly in The Three Stooges

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<v Speaker 2>from me, so we're definitely going to discuss that. And

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<v Speaker 2>as you will hear, he's a hell of an impressionist.

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<v Speaker 2>Well at least he really makes me laugh. Let's hear

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<v Speaker 2>from him now, My friend and yours Will Sasso.

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<v Speaker 3>Bubble and Squeak. I love it, Bubble and squeak. I know,

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<v Speaker 3>Bubble and squeak. I cook get every month lift over

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<v Speaker 3>from the ninet before.

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<v Speaker 2>What's up? Will?

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<v Speaker 1>Hello, Brian? How are you?

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<v Speaker 2>I'm doing well?

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<v Speaker 1>How are you good? Chilling?

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<v Speaker 2>She's chilling. Where are you chilling?

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<v Speaker 1>I'm in Los Phelis. Where are you at?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh okay, that's my old neighborhood. Oh really, that is

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<v Speaker 2>that where you live?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah? Yeah, nice, nice to meet you.

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<v Speaker 2>By the way, it's very nice to meet you. I

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<v Speaker 2>want to talk about I don't know if you've been

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<v Speaker 2>reading the news. You've been in the news a little

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<v Speaker 2>bit recently. Oh yeah, yeah, we haven't. Was it the uh,

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<v Speaker 2>the show the show that I'm doing? The you got shows?

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<v Speaker 2>You got you're you're basically everywhere. You're a man of

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<v Speaker 2>all mediums.

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<v Speaker 1>Right, there's a television show sometimes exactly. Yeah, yeah, you

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<v Speaker 1>know how it is.

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<v Speaker 2>But I want to talk a little bit about how

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<v Speaker 2>you how you got started. You're Canadian a right, I am.

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<v Speaker 1>I am, I'm Canadian. I'm originally from just outside of Vancouver, Canada.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. We're heavy into research here. I want you to paint,

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<v Speaker 2>paint a little bit of a picture of your childhood

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<v Speaker 2>for me. Your parents, I understand, were Italian immigrants. Are

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<v Speaker 2>you first generation? Well not American, I guess Canadian? You

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<v Speaker 2>were the first ones born? Yeah, and how was that?

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<v Speaker 2>How was that culturally for you? With your parents being Italian?

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<v Speaker 2>They spoke Italian mostly I assume.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, they spoke Italian a lot, you know, to

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<v Speaker 1>each other and stuff. And then uh, after I went

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<v Speaker 1>to Italy as a kid, that I learned Italian and

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<v Speaker 1>so that, you know, so then they couldn't hide stuff

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<v Speaker 1>from me or speak over my head. But yeah, my

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<v Speaker 1>my uh my brother and sister were both born in Italy.

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<v Speaker 1>And then shortly after that, my mom and dad decided

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<v Speaker 1>to move out, brought a bunch of aunts and uncles

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<v Speaker 1>and cousins with them, and uh my dad had promise

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<v Speaker 1>of employment out in Vancouver kind of you know, and

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<v Speaker 1>and yeah, they made the big they made the big move.

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<v Speaker 1>And then I was born like ten years later.

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<v Speaker 2>What were you as a kid like growing up?

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<v Speaker 1>Like?

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<v Speaker 2>Were you? Were you interested in sports or performing?

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<v Speaker 1>I was probably exactly like you, you know, yeah, you know.

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<v Speaker 1>It was the class class, the typical class clown bullshit,

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<v Speaker 1>right and uh and yeah, so I wanted to you know,

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<v Speaker 1>act and ron only you couldn't shut me up and

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<v Speaker 1>all this stuff. So I got involved in all the

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<v Speaker 1>plays and and but I was also yeah, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>I did jock and playing all the sports and stuff.

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<v Speaker 1>Which I went to a school that was really my

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<v Speaker 1>high school was really friendly to the performing arts, and

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<v Speaker 1>uh we had like great theater program and rah rah

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<v Speaker 1>ron this and that. So it was nice that I

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<v Speaker 1>could do both things. And there was you know, nobody

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<v Speaker 1>bubged the theater nerds in our school because there were

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<v Speaker 1>like a you know, also a bunch of jocks who

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<v Speaker 1>were in all the productions.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, I don't know about the jocks thing, but

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<v Speaker 2>you are right. We were very similar. And the school

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<v Speaker 2>that I went to, yeah, exactly like there was no

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<v Speaker 2>like stigma about being Yeah, no, exactly like what you're saying, Like,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, there was a theater department and arts center

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<v Speaker 2>with quite a good reputation, and I feel like it

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<v Speaker 2>was sort of honored in that way by the rest

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<v Speaker 2>of the community. But what I'm interested about for you,

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<v Speaker 2>and I wonder if it's the same. I'm fascinated by this.

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<v Speaker 2>Maybe I'm the only one, but I ask most people

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<v Speaker 2>this question. You know, when you're a kid, you grow

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<v Speaker 2>up and maybe you want to be a fireman, or

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<v Speaker 2>maybe you want to be an actor, or you want

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<v Speaker 2>to you know, you have this sort of dream of

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<v Speaker 2>what you may want to do when you grow up.

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<v Speaker 2>But like the moment for you when it changed, or

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<v Speaker 2>if it never did change, if it was always from

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<v Speaker 2>the beginning, from like, oh this is a hobb this

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<v Speaker 2>is an activity. I guess like for me, there was

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<v Speaker 2>a very clear line from when it turned from like

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<v Speaker 2>this will help me get into college and I enjoy

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<v Speaker 2>doing this activity as opposed to like, oh, no, this

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<v Speaker 2>is what I want to do for the rest of

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<v Speaker 2>was was there a moment for you or a line

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<v Speaker 2>for you where that shifted.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, I was I was fortunate enough to sort

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<v Speaker 1>of this is probably also like you and others in

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<v Speaker 1>our business. I spent so much time in front of

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<v Speaker 1>the TV sort of dreaming that I think I was

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<v Speaker 1>conscious of I think I knew I wanted to be

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<v Speaker 1>an actor before I was conscious of it, Okay, because

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<v Speaker 1>and I feel like I was just when I say,

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<v Speaker 1>like class clown I think you know, for a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of class clowns, it's just your sort of seeing what

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<v Speaker 1>you don't understand. You don't recognize that there's a love

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<v Speaker 1>there that you have for for what's happening, and there's

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<v Speaker 1>something inside of you that's making you, you know, want

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<v Speaker 1>to be funny or whatever that means to you and

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<v Speaker 1>whatever that can facilitate in your life. That just sort

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<v Speaker 1>of came out, and it was I wasn't conscious of

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<v Speaker 1>it by the time I had already decided it was

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<v Speaker 1>by the time I woke up to it. I was like, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>you know what I mean. It was weird, yeah, and

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<v Speaker 1>a pretty predictable list of influences and stuff from you know,

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<v Speaker 1>the old you know, Senten Live and SETV and all

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<v Speaker 1>the all the funny stuff Munty Python and things that

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<v Speaker 1>I watched growing up, and uh, Yeah, I just wanted

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<v Speaker 1>to be an actor.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean I read that you had an agent

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<v Speaker 2>and you were booking TV roles by the time you

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<v Speaker 2>were fifteen, which that is very much not me. But

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<v Speaker 2>you was like film and television. Was that like what

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<v Speaker 2>you wanted to do? Was that your early focuses? Because

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<v Speaker 2>for me, it was theater for me and being on stage,

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<v Speaker 2>and that was really all I thought that I was

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<v Speaker 2>ever going to do. For you, was was it different?

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<v Speaker 1>I wanted to be in television and in film. You know.

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<v Speaker 1>I grew up out in the burbs and a town

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<v Speaker 1>near Vancouver and you know, a short bus ride in

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<v Speaker 1>near downtown, and there was an industry and there is

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<v Speaker 1>now especially, but in you know, the late eighties and

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<v Speaker 1>early nineties, there was a lot of stuff going on.

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<v Speaker 1>They were shooting you know, twenty one Jump Street out there,

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<v Speaker 1>and a bunch of Canadian shows and American films would

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<v Speaker 1>come up to shoot. And there were agencies that was

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<v Speaker 1>a really you know Vancouver or Toronto or where most

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<v Speaker 1>of that is in Canada. And so there were these

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<v Speaker 1>agencies and I was fortunate enough to get hooked up

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<v Speaker 1>with one when I was fifteen, and then I started

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<v Speaker 1>working when I was sixteen and just you know in

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<v Speaker 1>that you know, my folks are you know, from Italy

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<v Speaker 1>and they didn't get what I wanted to do and stuff.

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<v Speaker 1>For there to be an industry literally right next door

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<v Speaker 1>was obviously a great, a great advantage to be able to,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, go out there and crash some auditions and

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<v Speaker 1>try to get represented.

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<v Speaker 2>And then were they supportive my folks?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they were cool because they were like and I

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<v Speaker 1>feel like, you know, they were the same with my

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<v Speaker 1>with my older brother and sister, which is there was

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<v Speaker 1>no mo of like you have to do this or

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<v Speaker 1>you have to do that outside of you know, do

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<v Speaker 1>well in school. That's what you know, because there was

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<v Speaker 1>nothing before them in Canada, so there's nothing to sort

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<v Speaker 1>of draw from to say here's how to do it here.

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<v Speaker 1>It's just you know, love what you do, work very

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<v Speaker 1>hard and let us know how it's going.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah did you did you do? You feel like so

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<v Speaker 2>they were hard working? That was important? Working hard?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Yeah, they were hard workers.

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<v Speaker 2>Which you early did you know you did some early

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<v Speaker 2>shows in Canada Neon Ryder. I was a huge fan

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<v Speaker 2>of that show.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, aren't we all?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Madison Sliders, tell me uh. And then I want

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<v Speaker 2>to talk to you about your decision to move to

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<v Speaker 2>Los Angeles. How would you say the work, the environment,

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<v Speaker 2>the culture in Vancouver was different than when you finally

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<v Speaker 2>moved to La.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, you know, very different. It was. You felt like

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<v Speaker 1>you could sort of see the ceiling on the community there.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, there were many actors to this day that

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<v Speaker 1>make an entire career there, and I can remember talk

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<v Speaker 1>speaking with one in particular before I took off, and

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<v Speaker 1>we were working together on this thing and you played

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<v Speaker 1>my father, and I was I was such a you know,

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<v Speaker 1>I was like young and full of piss and couldn't

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<v Speaker 1>wait to get down to the States and all that.

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<v Speaker 1>And he was like, I love it here.

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<v Speaker 2>You know.

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<v Speaker 1>He's like, you know, my kids go to school there,

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<v Speaker 1>and I do this, and I thing and and he's

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<v Speaker 1>and he's showing up as the heavy and all sorts

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<v Speaker 1>of stuff that you you know, you watch you see

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<v Speaker 1>some whatever movie and you Haarson Ford's the president or whatever. Oh,

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<v Speaker 1>and there's so and so in that you could see

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<v Speaker 1>who uh who was in town that were at the

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<v Speaker 1>top of the industry. It did feel, uh, it was.

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<v Speaker 1>It was a very nice sort of community and proving

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<v Speaker 1>ground where you could feel like you were a part

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<v Speaker 1>of that community. And I was fortunate enough to work

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<v Speaker 1>on the show Madison for a number of years, which

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<v Speaker 1>was like like a de grassy kind of show or

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<v Speaker 1>I sort of like in the style to like a

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<v Speaker 1>Canadian my so called life. It was like a you know,

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<v Speaker 1>it was like a gritty show about teenagers and and

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<v Speaker 1>this sort of thing, you know, with working with wonderful people,

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<v Speaker 1>you know behind the scenes that we were all young,

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<v Speaker 1>and we kind of came up and I learned from

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<v Speaker 1>my cohorts, you know, really what I could about, you know, acting,

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<v Speaker 1>and you could sort of feel like you were, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>a part of this community. And then moving down to

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<v Speaker 1>La I don't know. I still don't know. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>know what the fuck is going on down here. I

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<v Speaker 1>have no I know you, and we've never met. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>but I'm sure we may agree that right, nobody knows

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<v Speaker 1>what the hell is going on down here. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>know what the ceiling is. I don't want to know

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<v Speaker 1>what the ceiling is now, you know, walking into some

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<v Speaker 1>sort of eyes wide shut, you know room where it's

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<v Speaker 1>like here's a seven picture dale. No, no, none of

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<v Speaker 1>that stuff. Happens everybody. But you know I still I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know.

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<v Speaker 2>I have to break I'm skipping ahead here. I can't

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<v Speaker 2>contain it any longer. So so you and I were

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't even know if you could say we were

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<v Speaker 2>up for the same role, because I don't know how

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<v Speaker 2>considered at all I was. I assume not at all,

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<v Speaker 2>and you got it. So I'm not putting myself in

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<v Speaker 2>the same situation. But I have an audition at least

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<v Speaker 2>for the Three Stooges. Oh, I'm slipping way ahead in

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<v Speaker 2>your career, and I have to tell you this. I

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<v Speaker 2>knew the director a little bit beforehand. I can't even

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<v Speaker 2>believe I'm telling this publicly. I have been debating about

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<v Speaker 2>this for like three days. I still refer to the

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<v Speaker 2>audition as the worst experience of my life.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh no, what happened? I kinda see.

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<v Speaker 2>I want to know if you had to do the

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<v Speaker 2>same thing, and maybe it's why you got it. I

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<v Speaker 2>can't speak for you. I was asked to read the

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<v Speaker 2>Three Stooges role of Curly Three Stooges. Yeah, by myself,

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<v Speaker 2>with physical comedy, with the with the physical stuff that

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<v Speaker 2>you're doing with the other people who weren't there. Yes,

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<v Speaker 2>I have found this to be I just referenced it

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<v Speaker 2>last week. By the way, I swear to you, I

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<v Speaker 2>found it to be the most awkward four and a

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<v Speaker 2>half minutes of my life, like maybe the only time

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<v Speaker 2>in an audition where I was watching myself from outside

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<v Speaker 2>of myself saying why. Actually there were two and the

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<v Speaker 2>other one was a very smart, reputable some would call

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<v Speaker 2>them geniuses. Or it was also asked to improv the

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<v Speaker 2>front half of me being cut by a propeller on

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<v Speaker 2>an airplane. So there you go. Yeah, so did you

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<v Speaker 2>do that? Do you remember improving as though Moe and

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<v Speaker 2>Larry were there, but they weren't.

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<v Speaker 1>I did. First, let me say, Okay, if you're in

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<v Speaker 1>a movie and you're cut in half by a propeller,

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<v Speaker 1>we all know there's no acting past that. Why do

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<v Speaker 1>you need to see it?

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<v Speaker 2>No, they had written that. They had written me, why

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<v Speaker 2>you watch your guts spilling out of the front of

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<v Speaker 2>your body.

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<v Speaker 1>There's stuff happening post getting hit with the Yeah, there

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<v Speaker 1>is real quick. I auditioned for that movie Pearl Harbor,

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<v Speaker 1>and okay, and I didn't get it, and I I did,

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<v Speaker 1>you know?

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<v Speaker 2>I think I did? I don't remember what.

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<v Speaker 1>You remember being asked, this is like propeller death worthy.

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<v Speaker 1>I had to drown in the audition. Does that ring

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<v Speaker 1>a bell?

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<v Speaker 2>No, I don't think that was me.

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<v Speaker 1>I had to drown. You're okay, you know the usual

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<v Speaker 1>and people staring at you and I'm just like like floating,

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<v Speaker 1>like making myself light in a fucking room and just

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<v Speaker 1>like you know what I mean, and then like pulled

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<v Speaker 1>over on the side of the road after the audition,

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<v Speaker 1>like the matter with me?

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<v Speaker 2>What's that doing?

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<v Speaker 1>I know it's auditions, Like it's auditions like that that

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<v Speaker 1>that you know then you walk into it's like, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>we want you to be the three suges you by yourself.

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<v Speaker 1>Of course, of course you do. Of course that's the

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<v Speaker 1>way to audition this. Yes, I did. I remember coming

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<v Speaker 1>up with some stuff where I'm just you know, getting

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<v Speaker 1>hit and then wanting to hit but curly never lands one.

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<v Speaker 1>And then I did some dumb thing where I smacked

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<v Speaker 1>myself or like I went in to poke myself and

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<v Speaker 1>thinking with and you know or like I but that

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<v Speaker 1>was it. Like I didn't do too much of it

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<v Speaker 1>because I was My opinion was like you guys don't

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<v Speaker 1>want to see a lot of this you want to oh.

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<v Speaker 2>Side, Yeah, I know, I know, I'm sure I played

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<v Speaker 2>it just totally wrong. But I now it has become

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<v Speaker 2>the code word for me when I get a script

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<v Speaker 2>that is asking me to do something which is like, dude,

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<v Speaker 2>you're covering this in a close up. You're not going

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<v Speaker 2>to see anything right now that resembles anything like my

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<v Speaker 2>brain goes to like producer, actor, like director, where it's like,

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<v Speaker 2>you're not this is not serving you any purpose, and

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<v Speaker 2>it's only making me look absolutely ridiculous. Not that clearly

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<v Speaker 2>by my work. I don't mind looking like an idiot,

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<v Speaker 2>like that's not a problem, but I just yeah, I

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<v Speaker 2>that one. Who I mean, God bless you because you

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<v Speaker 2>clearly nailed it.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh cheers cheers was fun.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, But I just I remember that. I remember that day.

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<v Speaker 2>I remember those days and just going like what what

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<v Speaker 2>am I just let me play with somebody else, please

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<v Speaker 2>for sure.

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<v Speaker 1>And then by the way you show up, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>we go out there and literally just smack the shit

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<v Speaker 1>out of each other for a couple of months, like

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<v Speaker 1>there was no there was barely any acting, Like it's like,

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<v Speaker 1>how are we going to do this? I was like, well,

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<v Speaker 1>they slapped the snot at each other, So that's what

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<v Speaker 1>we're gonna do. Yeah, right, Yeah, Curly got so messed

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<v Speaker 1>up that they were taping his head shut and Moe's

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<v Speaker 1>going like, this doesn't look so good, and then he

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<v Speaker 1>had to retire. That's what we're doing, okay, falling down

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<v Speaker 1>real holes and hitting each other with ladders and all right.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, yeah it sound sounds about right. Yeah, well that's

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<v Speaker 2>not where it started for you or ended. You joined

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<v Speaker 2>the cast in nineteen ninety seven of Mad TV. You

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<v Speaker 2>talked about SNL SCTV as being early influences. Was this

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<v Speaker 2>a dream for you? Was this absolutely? Absolutely?

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<v Speaker 1>To do sketch was just I always grew like I

0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:37.280
<v Speaker 1>grew up watching sketch, feeling like this is an incredible

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<v Speaker 1>medium because these people get to do so many different

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<v Speaker 1>things and you know, scratch all those comedy itches and

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<v Speaker 1>I love that aspect of it. I love this kid.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, you watch dan Aykroyd, He's one guy in

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<v Speaker 1>one sketch, In the next sketch, he's a completely different person.

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<v Speaker 1>And had always watched sketch. It was my favorite thing

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<v Speaker 1>growing up. So yeah, to end up in the cast

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<v Speaker 1>of Mad TV, was incredible. I was so blown away

0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:09.919
<v Speaker 1>that I got to do it still am, and it

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<v Speaker 1>was one of those things also because the show was

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<v Speaker 1>I joined in the show's third season, and I was

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<v Speaker 1>really stoked to be a part of something that was

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<v Speaker 1>new and didn't have where Obviously Sara Night Live is

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<v Speaker 1>the big daddy and has. I mean, you know, I

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<v Speaker 1>could talk for five days about how great SNL is,

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<v Speaker 1>and certainly anyone who shows up on Siren Live, it's

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<v Speaker 1>it's on them to bring who they are and bring

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<v Speaker 1>a new thing to it, and that's the only way

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<v Speaker 1>the show can continue and has continued, you know. But

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<v Speaker 1>there was an extra layer of the unknown at mad

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<v Speaker 1>TV where we don't even really know what the show is,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, it was I don't know if we ever

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<v Speaker 1>figured it out, but you could kind of do all

0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:59.800
<v Speaker 1>sorts of stuff that in hindsight I kind of go, well,

0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:02.960
<v Speaker 1>that was that might have been something that you wouldn't

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<v Speaker 1>have even been able to do or have been allowed

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<v Speaker 1>to do on other sketch shows, right, And of course

0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:11.680
<v Speaker 1>your mind goes to comparing things to sound It Live

0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:15.920
<v Speaker 1>because it is the sketch show. I still can't believe

0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:17.760
<v Speaker 1>we got to do that it was just too much fun.

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<v Speaker 2>You know. You talked about having that sketch being one

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<v Speaker 2>of your favorite things to watch. Did you do Did

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<v Speaker 2>you do long form improv as well? Early on? No?

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't, So this was sketch.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I I I kind of you know, came up

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<v Speaker 1>you know, doing a lot mostly everything scripted, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>and by the time I had moved to LA, I

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<v Speaker 1>was really just pursuing acting and didn't do any live

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<v Speaker 1>stuff at all.

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<v Speaker 2>Really before I showed up at man favorite impressions to do.

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<v Speaker 1>I like, you know, I have a bunch, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>a bunch of the impressions I used to do at

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<v Speaker 1>mad TV, which are a lot of fun to do.

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<v Speaker 1>And uh, nowadays I kind of amuse myself by being

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<v Speaker 1>able to do smaller impressions that I didn't know that

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<v Speaker 1>I could do and maybe I can't do like lately

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<v Speaker 1>I've been doing this is uh yeah, see you no,

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<v Speaker 1>you're not going to know you know what. I'll just

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<v Speaker 1>do it and then you tell me if you have

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<v Speaker 1>any idea who I'm doing. These are the sort of

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<v Speaker 1>things that I annoy my wife and my friends with. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>ready here it is you must be Jimmy. Here I'll

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<v Speaker 1>do it again. Hold on, ready, you must be Jimmy. Right, okay,

0:21:45.520 --> 0:21:51.080
<v Speaker 1>This is, of course Harvey Kaike Tell in Pulp Fiction

0:21:51.240 --> 0:21:54.040
<v Speaker 1>when he shows up at Quentin Tarantino's house and he says,

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<v Speaker 1>you must be Jimmy. Now, my friends are like, well,

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<v Speaker 1>you sound absolutely nothing like him, and that that's not

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<v Speaker 1>a good impression, and I go, not yet, not yet,

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<v Speaker 1>but you must be Jimmy. And as I'm doing that,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm sounding I'm just sounding more like Robert de Niro

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<v Speaker 1>and probably confusing the two in my head.

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<v Speaker 2>You're getting closer.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, stuff like that. So, yeah, favorite impressions like I

0:22:24.720 --> 0:22:28.479
<v Speaker 1>suck at as many impressions or more, uh than I

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<v Speaker 1>do ones that I'm like, oh it sounds.

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<v Speaker 2>Like that sounds pretty good. You must be Jimmy. You

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<v Speaker 2>must be Jimmy. Jimmy.

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<v Speaker 1>Feel free to use that.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm going to.

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<v Speaker 4>Actually, you have no idea.

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<v Speaker 2>You guys did a reunion season. I'm like, how was

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<v Speaker 2>that after so many years getting back together? Was that

0:23:07.520 --> 0:23:10.320
<v Speaker 2>so fun? Did you did you first off? Did you

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<v Speaker 2>know it was just going to be one bit or

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<v Speaker 2>did you were you kind of like, oh, let's see

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<v Speaker 2>if this still works?

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<v Speaker 1>Well? They they had a new cast. Actually they did

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<v Speaker 1>it in twenty fifteen, I think sixteen.

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<v Speaker 2>You were involved with that at all?

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<v Speaker 1>I was, I was, oh yeah, yeah, but there was

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<v Speaker 1>a there was a brand new cast and then some

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<v Speaker 1>of us, you know, they brought in some of the

0:23:31.280 --> 0:23:34.280
<v Speaker 1>old gang to do bits here and there. Pretty much

0:23:34.320 --> 0:23:37.200
<v Speaker 1>every show there was one or two of the old guard,

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<v Speaker 1>really creepy getting back into it, like, you know, because

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know it had been uh uh, I guess

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<v Speaker 1>six eighteen.

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<v Speaker 2>Well like twenty years did you started it?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah? Yeah, pretty real weird, So I don't know, Like

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<v Speaker 1>I was doing a bit which used to be very physical,

0:23:57.000 --> 0:23:59.520
<v Speaker 1>and I get hurt and stuff, and I'm like, I

0:23:59.560 --> 0:24:01.840
<v Speaker 1>don't want any of that. It won't even look good.

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<v Speaker 1>But then you do it and it doesn't look good

0:24:04.400 --> 0:24:10.080
<v Speaker 1>and it hurts. But yeah, that was bizarre when some

0:24:10.160 --> 0:24:13.199
<v Speaker 1>of the old casts were like around each other like

0:24:13.320 --> 0:24:15.520
<v Speaker 1>in our old get ups, there's no way to not

0:24:15.640 --> 0:24:20.239
<v Speaker 1>go like like there's just no way because it's like

0:24:20.280 --> 0:24:22.679
<v Speaker 1>we're older and it's like look at you, what are you?

0:24:22.920 --> 0:24:26.119
<v Speaker 1>What are you doing? And the ones who out of

0:24:26.119 --> 0:24:29.000
<v Speaker 1>the old cast were like, ah, no, thanks not for me.

0:24:29.400 --> 0:24:33.800
<v Speaker 1>You later go like smart and you know, and the

0:24:33.840 --> 0:24:36.760
<v Speaker 1>show only lasted one year, but they were in a

0:24:36.800 --> 0:24:39.359
<v Speaker 1>shitty position. They were on the CW, which is not

0:24:39.400 --> 0:24:42.000
<v Speaker 1>where the show used to be. The show was on Fox,

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<v Speaker 1>and they put them on. I'm pretty sure this is correct.

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<v Speaker 1>I know it was the middle of the week. I'm

0:24:47.520 --> 0:24:50.800
<v Speaker 1>pretty sure it was Tuesday nights at ten and it's.

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<v Speaker 2>The come on on the on.

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<v Speaker 1>The W, which means you can't do anything.

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<v Speaker 2>Geez.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you would sort of, you know, you would sort

0:24:58.920 --> 0:25:00.920
<v Speaker 1>of cover some of the old stuff, and you were

0:25:00.920 --> 0:25:03.240
<v Speaker 1>told like, no, we can't, we can't go there. And

0:25:03.240 --> 0:25:06.800
<v Speaker 1>it's like, yeah, okay, I'm doing why are we doing.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's do a season twenty years later. Yeah, of a

0:25:10.920 --> 0:25:16.040
<v Speaker 2>groundbreaking show that even though networks standards and practice is

0:25:16.119 --> 0:25:19.239
<v Speaker 2>much looser now, you're going to do less what you

0:25:19.280 --> 0:25:23.040
<v Speaker 2>did twenty years before. That doesn't sound like a great idea.

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<v Speaker 1>No, No, it didn't. It didn't work. And I feel

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<v Speaker 1>bad because the cast was fantastic, the writers were fantastic,

0:25:30.200 --> 0:25:32.600
<v Speaker 1>and a lot of the old writers came back, a

0:25:32.640 --> 0:25:35.199
<v Speaker 1>few of them to you know, really make sure that

0:25:35.280 --> 0:25:39.600
<v Speaker 1>it was mad TV. And uh, yeah, it didn't work.

0:25:40.760 --> 0:25:44.880
<v Speaker 2>You you a lot of times, I'm jumping all over

0:25:44.880 --> 0:25:48.080
<v Speaker 2>the place. I usually go chronological with people, but I

0:25:48.119 --> 0:25:52.960
<v Speaker 2>feel like you've been working for thirty years with amazing

0:25:53.320 --> 0:25:57.040
<v Speaker 2>actors and comedians. I'm kind of cherry picking here with you.

0:25:57.119 --> 0:26:00.639
<v Speaker 2>And this one is personal for me because I just

0:26:00.880 --> 0:26:06.760
<v Speaker 2>spent eleven am to eleven pm with Catherine O'Hara up

0:26:06.880 --> 0:26:12.119
<v Speaker 2>in Napa, California. We let's just say this will We

0:26:12.200 --> 0:26:15.080
<v Speaker 2>had a day. We did have an hour on that

0:26:15.240 --> 0:26:19.840
<v Speaker 2>day alone. I know you worked with her in Best

0:26:19.880 --> 0:26:25.600
<v Speaker 2>in Show? Did you know Christopher before this? Christopher Guest? No, okay, no,

0:26:25.680 --> 0:26:31.359
<v Speaker 2>so this was just an audition, no Canadian connection, okay, no, no, okay.

0:26:32.359 --> 0:26:34.440
<v Speaker 2>How was that experience like for you?

0:26:35.400 --> 0:26:38.840
<v Speaker 1>I mean, so I showed up to do Best in

0:26:38.960 --> 0:26:42.440
<v Speaker 1>Show and I was like, Christopher Guest is one of

0:26:42.480 --> 0:26:47.440
<v Speaker 1>the funniest people ever. And I was a huge, huge,

0:26:47.640 --> 0:26:50.240
<v Speaker 1>and still am a huge spinal Tap fan and see

0:26:50.280 --> 0:26:54.000
<v Speaker 1>a movie so many times this is spinal Tap. And

0:26:54.400 --> 0:26:58.359
<v Speaker 1>I loved waiting for Guffman and this was this was.

0:26:58.480 --> 0:27:01.720
<v Speaker 2>Like the third one, right there, spinal Tap, there was Guffman.

0:27:02.400 --> 0:27:03.399
<v Speaker 2>Was this his third one?

0:27:03.720 --> 0:27:08.560
<v Speaker 1>Yeah? Okay, I of those of that genre, yeah, you know.

0:27:08.600 --> 0:27:10.080
<v Speaker 1>And I was such a geek for it. I was like, oh,

0:27:10.119 --> 0:27:12.719
<v Speaker 1>there's Karen Murphy, the producer of Spinal Tap, Like this

0:27:12.800 --> 0:27:16.760
<v Speaker 1>is insane. We were shooting this scene that I don't

0:27:16.920 --> 0:27:18.560
<v Speaker 1>think any of it is still in the movie where

0:27:19.320 --> 0:27:21.640
<v Speaker 1>the one fellow is explaining to me these more these

0:27:22.480 --> 0:27:25.159
<v Speaker 1>fishing lures, and and mister Guests was just like, so

0:27:25.240 --> 0:27:26.840
<v Speaker 1>you don't get it. You just don't get it. You

0:27:26.840 --> 0:27:30.080
<v Speaker 1>don't understand why we're putting fishing lures on a map.

0:27:30.119 --> 0:27:32.040
<v Speaker 1>And it's like okay, and he's like, see, you wake

0:27:32.119 --> 0:27:34.000
<v Speaker 1>up in the morning and you want to go fishing.

0:27:34.240 --> 0:27:36.960
<v Speaker 1>And I'm like, well, go go back, go back further

0:27:37.119 --> 0:27:39.040
<v Speaker 1>to the day before. Well, I don't know why you

0:27:39.080 --> 0:27:40.840
<v Speaker 1>need Okay, it's the day before and you want to

0:27:40.840 --> 0:27:43.639
<v Speaker 1>go fishing. Wait, why would you be a fisherman to

0:27:43.680 --> 0:27:46.240
<v Speaker 1>begin with? Or whatever? Playing dumb And then I keep

0:27:46.359 --> 0:27:49.919
<v Speaker 1>touching this stuff, and there was this shot overhead and

0:27:50.000 --> 0:27:52.880
<v Speaker 1>Christopher Guest keeps slapping my hand out off of the thing,

0:27:52.960 --> 0:27:55.439
<v Speaker 1>and the bit like keep slapping my hand away, and

0:27:55.520 --> 0:27:58.919
<v Speaker 1>I'm laughing. I keep cracking up, and he goes like,

0:27:59.119 --> 0:28:02.760
<v Speaker 1>just dry as hell, right, because if you laugh then

0:28:03.560 --> 0:28:07.000
<v Speaker 1>then then we can't we can't use that, and I'm like,

0:28:08.800 --> 0:28:11.639
<v Speaker 1>and I did a few years later or whatever, I

0:28:11.680 --> 0:28:14.240
<v Speaker 1>did a scene for Mighty Wind that didn't end up

0:28:14.240 --> 0:28:18.400
<v Speaker 1>in the film where I'm I'm a balloon delivery guy

0:28:18.520 --> 0:28:22.560
<v Speaker 1>and I'm delivering these balloons to to Larry Miller. And

0:28:22.800 --> 0:28:25.960
<v Speaker 1>the balloons are red white and black, so they're they're wrong.

0:28:26.000 --> 0:28:29.199
<v Speaker 1>They're supposed to be red white and blue. And I'm like, here,

0:28:29.320 --> 0:28:33.400
<v Speaker 1>balloon's sign here. Larry Miller's like, what what what is this? What?

0:28:33.400 --> 0:28:35.679
<v Speaker 1>What kind of red white and black? What? I'm like,

0:28:35.720 --> 0:28:38.280
<v Speaker 1>I don't know, sign here? And he's like, what country

0:28:38.400 --> 0:28:38.600
<v Speaker 1>is that?

0:28:39.320 --> 0:28:39.480
<v Speaker 2>You know?

0:28:39.600 --> 0:28:42.080
<v Speaker 1>We're doing the scene and he cracks me up. He's

0:28:42.120 --> 0:28:43.840
<v Speaker 1>in the middle of his thing, you know, I don't

0:28:43.840 --> 0:28:46.600
<v Speaker 1>even know what Bulkan country or what. And I'm like,

0:28:47.640 --> 0:28:50.440
<v Speaker 1>I start to crack up. And Christopher Guest, who now

0:28:50.520 --> 0:28:53.240
<v Speaker 1>in a Mighty Wind, has this like, you know, bozo

0:28:53.440 --> 0:28:57.320
<v Speaker 1>hairdo you know, with this like red hair in a

0:28:57.640 --> 0:29:01.320
<v Speaker 1>you know, in the horseshoe hairdo you know, like us here?

0:29:01.440 --> 0:29:03.960
<v Speaker 1>And he walks over, he takes the headphones down and

0:29:04.000 --> 0:29:07.520
<v Speaker 1>he walks over very serious, and he goes, I don't

0:29:07.560 --> 0:29:09.400
<v Speaker 1>know if you'll remember this, but a few years ago

0:29:09.480 --> 0:29:15.320
<v Speaker 1>we had a conversation and like just but you never

0:29:15.640 --> 0:29:19.000
<v Speaker 1>you never get he's a very sweet man. He'll write

0:29:19.040 --> 0:29:22.320
<v Speaker 1>you like a like I've gotten like a handwritten note,

0:29:22.440 --> 0:29:24.840
<v Speaker 1>you know, like from the desk of Christopher Guest. You know,

0:29:25.000 --> 0:29:27.280
<v Speaker 1>based on whatever you'd worked on with him or whatever,

0:29:27.320 --> 0:29:32.720
<v Speaker 1>you get this nice note. Extremely wonderful giving guy and

0:29:33.640 --> 0:29:37.280
<v Speaker 1>great actor to work with. But I feel like I never,

0:29:37.600 --> 0:29:40.560
<v Speaker 1>like everyone that I talked to that has worked with

0:29:40.720 --> 0:29:44.960
<v Speaker 1>him has that sort of review of like it's intimidating,

0:29:45.000 --> 0:29:51.120
<v Speaker 1>you know, I mean he's it's yeah, it's very Yeah,

0:29:51.160 --> 0:29:53.840
<v Speaker 1>it's it's intimidating and and a lot of fun.

0:29:54.480 --> 0:30:01.400
<v Speaker 2>You did four seasons on Less and Perfect playing Carl.

0:30:01.560 --> 0:30:06.440
<v Speaker 2>Now this is back on network television, obviously very different

0:30:06.560 --> 0:30:10.040
<v Speaker 2>from Mad TV. How was how was that experience for you?

0:30:10.800 --> 0:30:12.760
<v Speaker 1>Oh? That was That was a lot of fun. I

0:30:12.840 --> 0:30:15.960
<v Speaker 1>loved doing that show and it was just this Yeah,

0:30:15.960 --> 0:30:19.120
<v Speaker 1>it was a show about It was an office comedy.

0:30:19.120 --> 0:30:20.959
<v Speaker 1>I don't know if you're familiar with that sort of genre,

0:30:21.720 --> 0:30:24.080
<v Speaker 1>but yeah, it was an office comedy. It was a

0:30:24.160 --> 0:30:26.760
<v Speaker 1>multi camera office comedy that not as many people watched

0:30:26.760 --> 0:30:30.560
<v Speaker 1>as the one, but yeah, it was it was a blast.

0:30:31.040 --> 0:30:33.720
<v Speaker 1>You know what can I say, And I was, you know,

0:30:33.840 --> 0:30:36.320
<v Speaker 1>doing mad TV where I remember there was one day

0:30:36.360 --> 0:30:39.720
<v Speaker 1>where I was on the cast of Less Than Perfect

0:30:39.840 --> 0:30:42.920
<v Speaker 1>and I went to Mad TV to do a couple

0:30:42.960 --> 0:30:44.920
<v Speaker 1>of bits. This is a two or three years after

0:30:44.920 --> 0:30:47.480
<v Speaker 1>I had left the show, and the the you know,

0:30:47.560 --> 0:30:51.320
<v Speaker 1>Mad TV got sizable budget cuts every year for the

0:30:51.360 --> 0:30:54.240
<v Speaker 1>fourteen seasons that they did the show. So on this

0:30:54.320 --> 0:30:57.160
<v Speaker 1>particular day that I came to do a couple of

0:30:57.200 --> 0:30:59.920
<v Speaker 1>bits for the show that week, I was walking back

0:31:00.080 --> 0:31:02.680
<v Speaker 1>stage or just on the stage and there's you know,

0:31:02.840 --> 0:31:06.640
<v Speaker 1>cables everywhere and stuff, and the lights were only on

0:31:06.640 --> 0:31:09.040
<v Speaker 1>on the set that they were shooting on, so like

0:31:09.080 --> 0:31:11.240
<v Speaker 1>you almost needed like your own flashlight. You go like

0:31:11.280 --> 0:31:13.800
<v Speaker 1>where And I didn't realize this, and I just go

0:31:13.880 --> 0:31:16.640
<v Speaker 1>walking onto the stage and just completely you know, I

0:31:16.760 --> 0:31:19.000
<v Speaker 1>trip on a bunch of cables and fall over and

0:31:19.040 --> 0:31:21.600
<v Speaker 1>I'm like fuck, they didn't even turn the lights on

0:31:21.680 --> 0:31:25.760
<v Speaker 1>anymore here. And I remember going back to Less than

0:31:25.760 --> 0:31:29.560
<v Speaker 1>Perfect later that day, you know, you you know, you're

0:31:29.600 --> 0:31:31.880
<v Speaker 1>fortunate enough to be working on the sitcom. And I was,

0:31:32.240 --> 0:31:34.440
<v Speaker 1>I don't know, I was over at you know, craft service,

0:31:34.480 --> 0:31:37.440
<v Speaker 1>eating a you know, coffee cup ful of bacon or whatever,

0:31:37.800 --> 0:31:41.920
<v Speaker 1>and the and the producers were there, the showrunners Nina

0:31:41.960 --> 0:31:44.600
<v Speaker 1>and Jean, and I remember, I very sincerely was like,

0:31:45.240 --> 0:31:48.200
<v Speaker 1>you know, this experience is so wonderful and you guys

0:31:48.240 --> 0:31:50.600
<v Speaker 1>and I somewhere in I said, you know, you're keeping

0:31:50.600 --> 0:31:55.000
<v Speaker 1>the lights on and I said, and they were looking.

0:31:54.760 --> 0:31:57.320
<v Speaker 2>At me like, what are you talking about?

0:31:57.440 --> 0:31:59.000
<v Speaker 1>What the fuck are you talking about? And now I

0:31:59.040 --> 0:32:03.840
<v Speaker 1>can't go further and go, well, you know, so I

0:32:03.920 --> 0:32:05.960
<v Speaker 1>used to be on the Sketch Show and they're really

0:32:06.040 --> 0:32:08.400
<v Speaker 1>cheap over there, and you know, you got to be

0:32:08.560 --> 0:32:11.360
<v Speaker 1>and they keep getting their budget is you know, it's like,

0:32:11.400 --> 0:32:14.360
<v Speaker 1>why are they even doing the show anymore? And I

0:32:14.440 --> 0:32:17.600
<v Speaker 1>tripped on some cables earlier, and I just really appreciate

0:32:17.640 --> 0:32:20.160
<v Speaker 1>the fact that you guys have devil eggs or whatever,

0:32:20.200 --> 0:32:20.480
<v Speaker 1>you know what.

0:32:20.480 --> 0:32:22.320
<v Speaker 2>I mean, there's something to say.

0:32:22.600 --> 0:32:25.760
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, there's nothing to say with what we do. If

0:32:25.840 --> 0:32:28.240
<v Speaker 1>you're if you can be on a network show or

0:32:28.320 --> 0:32:32.000
<v Speaker 1>any show. I'm just like, there's no work you can

0:32:32.040 --> 0:32:34.840
<v Speaker 1>do as an actor that justifies how grateful you you

0:32:34.920 --> 0:32:38.040
<v Speaker 1>should feel to be doing that sort of stuff. So

0:32:38.400 --> 0:32:42.040
<v Speaker 1>that show was an absolute Yeah, it was a gas

0:32:42.080 --> 0:32:44.320
<v Speaker 1>and I loved everyone that I worked with. Sarah Rue,

0:32:45.280 --> 0:32:49.200
<v Speaker 1>Sherry Shepherd, Andy Dick, Andrea Parker, Zach Levi, Patrick Warburton,

0:32:49.320 --> 0:32:54.040
<v Speaker 1>and Eric Roberts. I don't think I'm missing anybody. Yeah,

0:32:54.080 --> 0:32:56.200
<v Speaker 1>it was a fun show with a great group of people.

0:32:56.280 --> 0:33:00.680
<v Speaker 2>And yeah, your guest star Roles. I'm saying all of

0:33:00.680 --> 0:33:03.680
<v Speaker 2>this really to get to the end. Your guest star Roles,

0:33:04.520 --> 0:33:10.360
<v Speaker 2>the marvelous missus masl Curb your Enthusiasm, Gray's Anatomy, Modern Family,

0:33:10.840 --> 0:33:14.600
<v Speaker 2>How I Met your Mother, Entourage two and a halfy

0:33:14.680 --> 0:33:16.840
<v Speaker 2>blah blah blah. But I want to talk to you

0:33:16.840 --> 0:33:21.360
<v Speaker 2>about maybe your greatest guest role. You were on ww

0:33:21.680 --> 0:33:25.280
<v Speaker 2>e oh SmackDown a few times, so now I need

0:33:25.320 --> 0:33:28.600
<v Speaker 2>to understand. I understand it started as a cross promotion

0:33:29.480 --> 0:33:32.080
<v Speaker 2>with Mad TV or something, but then you ended up

0:33:32.080 --> 0:33:36.440
<v Speaker 2>with an arc there and you had matches talk to

0:33:36.440 --> 0:33:40.520
<v Speaker 2>you were a big wrestling fan. Yeah, I'm told so

0:33:40.640 --> 0:33:42.600
<v Speaker 2>this was your This was all you're doing. Was this

0:33:42.720 --> 0:33:44.880
<v Speaker 2>like your dream? Your total dream come true?

0:33:45.320 --> 0:33:50.880
<v Speaker 1>Yeah? Yeah it's I'm I'm a huge wrestling dork and

0:33:51.040 --> 0:33:54.840
<v Speaker 1>uh okay and still am, and it's like that's my thing.

0:33:55.080 --> 0:33:58.920
<v Speaker 1>I really still love professional wrestling. So right on Mad TV,

0:33:59.080 --> 0:34:02.760
<v Speaker 1>we had Brett Hart come on. At which time he

0:34:02.840 --> 0:34:06.680
<v Speaker 1>came on, he was the world Heavyweight Champion in the

0:34:06.800 --> 0:34:10.719
<v Speaker 1>WWF back in the day. And then he comes on

0:34:10.760 --> 0:34:13.160
<v Speaker 1>the show and we did this bit and at the

0:34:13.239 --> 0:34:15.799
<v Speaker 1>end of the bit he comes back in and surprises

0:34:15.880 --> 0:34:19.640
<v Speaker 1>me legitimately and the thing and we're dorking around and

0:34:19.640 --> 0:34:22.120
<v Speaker 1>then I put him on my shoulders and I like

0:34:22.200 --> 0:34:25.040
<v Speaker 1>spun him around a bit in an airplane spin, which

0:34:25.080 --> 0:34:28.320
<v Speaker 1>is not this is the world heavyweight Champion of the WWF.

0:34:28.320 --> 0:34:32.160
<v Speaker 1>And I'm like, OUI you know so, But Brett's so

0:34:32.360 --> 0:34:34.839
<v Speaker 1>mellow and cool and we're talking about it, and our

0:34:34.920 --> 0:34:39.120
<v Speaker 1>producer at mad TV, Brian Hart no relation, is also

0:34:39.200 --> 0:34:41.840
<v Speaker 1>a big wrestling fan, and his gear started turning, like

0:34:41.880 --> 0:34:44.440
<v Speaker 1>what could we do with this? And it was really

0:34:44.480 --> 0:34:49.120
<v Speaker 1>his idea to have Brett back the next year and

0:34:49.239 --> 0:34:52.239
<v Speaker 1>do this thing where he attacks me in front of

0:34:52.280 --> 0:34:56.120
<v Speaker 1>the cast and in front of the audience, and only

0:34:56.120 --> 0:34:58.600
<v Speaker 1>a handful of people knew about it, and in hindsight,

0:34:58.680 --> 0:35:02.439
<v Speaker 1>that was shitty to do. But we did this sort

0:35:02.480 --> 0:35:06.799
<v Speaker 1>of fake you know, this sort of whoops, don't say fake,

0:35:06.880 --> 0:35:09.520
<v Speaker 1>but because he hit me as hard as he could

0:35:09.520 --> 0:35:11.680
<v Speaker 1>with this folding chair, he goes, do you want me

0:35:11.719 --> 0:35:13.520
<v Speaker 1>to pull back on the you want me to hit

0:35:13.560 --> 0:35:15.680
<v Speaker 1>and pull back a bit or what do you? And

0:35:15.719 --> 0:35:18.239
<v Speaker 1>I was like, because I wanted it to look good.

0:35:18.239 --> 0:35:20.399
<v Speaker 1>I was like, oh, and we're pals at this point.

0:35:20.400 --> 0:35:22.879
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, don't worry, Brett, you can't hurt me, knowing

0:35:22.920 --> 0:35:26.239
<v Speaker 1>that he could kill me if you and he hit

0:35:26.320 --> 0:35:29.840
<v Speaker 1>me so hard I had raised welts.

0:35:29.800 --> 0:35:32.320
<v Speaker 2>On my back with a real folding chair.

0:35:32.520 --> 0:35:34.360
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it was one of those folding chairs though that

0:35:34.480 --> 0:35:38.000
<v Speaker 1>isn't metal. It was you know, it's got plastic bits,

0:35:38.040 --> 0:35:42.160
<v Speaker 1>but the the the framing is metal, so it still

0:35:42.280 --> 0:35:45.879
<v Speaker 1>connected and hurt. It just weighs less. Okay, yeah, it's

0:35:45.880 --> 0:35:47.719
<v Speaker 1>still hurt, you know it. It was a terrible thing

0:35:47.760 --> 0:35:50.360
<v Speaker 1>to get hit with that hard, but it just stung

0:35:50.560 --> 0:35:52.840
<v Speaker 1>so bad. And then I was wearing like a gator

0:35:52.920 --> 0:35:55.440
<v Speaker 1>pad on my knee and I fall down. He starts

0:35:55.440 --> 0:35:58.520
<v Speaker 1>smashing my knee. Then he puts me into the sharpshooter

0:35:58.680 --> 0:36:03.240
<v Speaker 1>his hold and we go into this Andy Kaufman Jerry

0:36:03.320 --> 0:36:07.640
<v Speaker 1>Lawler arc where you know, cut two. I end up

0:36:07.760 --> 0:36:11.719
<v Speaker 1>on Monday nightro He's with w CW now and we

0:36:11.920 --> 0:36:15.680
<v Speaker 1>have a match where it's like before that, I'm like

0:36:16.040 --> 0:36:18.759
<v Speaker 1>on like a couple of entertainment magazines going, yeah, I'm

0:36:18.760 --> 0:36:20.919
<v Speaker 1>gonna sue the guy and blah blah blah, and people

0:36:21.000 --> 0:36:23.239
<v Speaker 1>are buying it. And then it's like, it's all leading

0:36:23.320 --> 0:36:26.080
<v Speaker 1>up to this match. I interfered in a match the

0:36:26.120 --> 0:36:31.120
<v Speaker 1>week before in Buffalo and helped interfere and Rowdy Roddy

0:36:31.120 --> 0:36:35.319
<v Speaker 1>Piper took the US title from Brett that night, which

0:36:35.400 --> 0:36:37.880
<v Speaker 1>that that's mind blowing. And I could go on about

0:36:37.920 --> 0:36:38.759
<v Speaker 1>all of it and.

0:36:38.719 --> 0:36:41.879
<v Speaker 2>Then we have a Ye, this was a year's set

0:36:42.000 --> 0:36:43.880
<v Speaker 2>up for you guys to actually have a match. This

0:36:44.000 --> 0:36:44.880
<v Speaker 2>was all leading to this.

0:36:45.320 --> 0:36:47.520
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it was leading to having a match, and it

0:36:47.560 --> 0:36:50.879
<v Speaker 1>was God and Brett is, you know, the greatest and

0:36:50.880 --> 0:36:53.399
<v Speaker 1>and uh some say, you know, and I would say

0:36:53.400 --> 0:36:56.239
<v Speaker 1>the greatest in ring performer ever and they call him

0:36:56.280 --> 0:36:58.640
<v Speaker 1>the you know, the the best, you know, the best

0:36:58.800 --> 0:37:01.480
<v Speaker 1>ever was best, best there is, best there was, best

0:37:01.480 --> 0:37:03.880
<v Speaker 1>there ever will be, and the excellence of execution. For

0:37:03.920 --> 0:37:06.160
<v Speaker 1>a reason, he could have a match with you know,

0:37:06.239 --> 0:37:08.960
<v Speaker 1>a bag of flour and he did that night. He

0:37:09.040 --> 0:37:12.360
<v Speaker 1>basically he took me in there in the afternoon, you know,

0:37:12.480 --> 0:37:14.120
<v Speaker 1>just to get used to the ring and stuff. He

0:37:14.160 --> 0:37:17.520
<v Speaker 1>gives me a side Russian leg sweep boom. We both

0:37:17.600 --> 0:37:20.279
<v Speaker 1>hit the ground this thing, and I go okay, and

0:37:20.560 --> 0:37:23.280
<v Speaker 1>then he just goes, you know, you watch this stuff

0:37:23.400 --> 0:37:26.400
<v Speaker 1>for your whole life, you get it. I'm like, uh no,

0:37:26.520 --> 0:37:29.399
<v Speaker 1>I don't, no, no, I don't. What do you mean?

0:37:29.960 --> 0:37:33.000
<v Speaker 1>And he says that because he's that good, and he goes,

0:37:33.440 --> 0:37:35.759
<v Speaker 1>just don't move unless I move. You you'll know what

0:37:35.800 --> 0:37:37.840
<v Speaker 1>I'm doing, and I'll tell you if I have to.

0:37:38.040 --> 0:37:40.279
<v Speaker 1>I was like, okay, and it went off without a

0:37:40.360 --> 0:37:43.000
<v Speaker 1>hitch because I just did what he said.

0:37:43.880 --> 0:37:46.000
<v Speaker 2>Like are you are you getting shots off on him

0:37:46.120 --> 0:37:46.279
<v Speaker 2>or no?

0:37:47.120 --> 0:37:49.160
<v Speaker 1>Well, this is the thing that makes it very easy.

0:37:49.239 --> 0:37:52.520
<v Speaker 1>We showed up and we go backstage, you know, and

0:37:52.800 --> 0:37:55.200
<v Speaker 1>we're hanging out with some of the wrestlers and you know,

0:37:55.239 --> 0:37:58.400
<v Speaker 1>the bookers at the time, and we're talking with Brett

0:37:58.640 --> 0:38:03.399
<v Speaker 1>and Brian, our producer and Mad TV. We're flying over

0:38:03.480 --> 0:38:06.160
<v Speaker 1>and he had he was like because my thing was

0:38:06.200 --> 0:38:08.200
<v Speaker 1>like and his thing too. It's like, I hate it

0:38:08.239 --> 0:38:11.560
<v Speaker 1>when you have these guests from the world of television

0:38:11.600 --> 0:38:14.680
<v Speaker 1>and film come into wrestling and then they're getting one

0:38:14.719 --> 0:38:17.600
<v Speaker 1>over on them, Like why does Jay Leno have Hulk

0:38:17.600 --> 0:38:21.040
<v Speaker 1>Hogan in a headlock like that makes no sense, right,

0:38:21.080 --> 0:38:23.640
<v Speaker 1>So anyone who steps in the ring with these guys

0:38:23.880 --> 0:38:27.239
<v Speaker 1>should just immediately get the shit kicked out of him, right,

0:38:27.800 --> 0:38:31.439
<v Speaker 1>That's what would happen. And that's what you know wrestling is,

0:38:31.440 --> 0:38:34.839
<v Speaker 1>is the illusion. So we pitched that to Brett. We're like,

0:38:35.400 --> 0:38:37.280
<v Speaker 1>you know, we don't know how it starts or whatever.

0:38:37.480 --> 0:38:39.719
<v Speaker 1>Maybe Will kind of pisses you off because he's even

0:38:39.800 --> 0:38:42.160
<v Speaker 1>just in the ring. This makes no sense. You're like,

0:38:42.200 --> 0:38:44.480
<v Speaker 1>why do I have to do this? And you just

0:38:44.840 --> 0:38:46.520
<v Speaker 1>kick the shit out of him for how long is

0:38:46.520 --> 0:38:51.160
<v Speaker 1>the segment? Eight minutes? Okay? And Brett laughed, Yeah, good, good,

0:38:51.440 --> 0:38:54.440
<v Speaker 1>And that's what we did. So at the beginning, Brett's

0:38:54.520 --> 0:38:56.839
<v Speaker 1>like kind of frustrated, and he puts the hand up

0:38:56.840 --> 0:38:59.279
<v Speaker 1>for like the test of strength where they go, so

0:38:59.320 --> 0:39:01.560
<v Speaker 1>it's like, you're gonna have a test of strength with

0:39:01.640 --> 0:39:04.279
<v Speaker 1>this TV actor. You know, it's big, out of shape

0:39:04.320 --> 0:39:07.400
<v Speaker 1>dude or whatever, and so he just goes like this

0:39:07.480 --> 0:39:09.840
<v Speaker 1>and he kicks me in the gut and goes against

0:39:09.840 --> 0:39:12.320
<v Speaker 1>the ropes and clocks me and and he just beats

0:39:12.320 --> 0:39:14.200
<v Speaker 1>the shit out of me the whole time, which I

0:39:14.239 --> 0:39:15.520
<v Speaker 1>thought was hilarious.

0:39:16.400 --> 0:39:17.800
<v Speaker 2>Minutes you got your ass kicked.

0:39:18.120 --> 0:39:21.040
<v Speaker 1>Well that's the uh, that's the segment time, so I

0:39:21.040 --> 0:39:23.720
<v Speaker 1>guess it was that included the intros in the outro,

0:39:23.880 --> 0:39:26.879
<v Speaker 1>so like five minutes five minutes. And he did fun

0:39:26.920 --> 0:39:29.239
<v Speaker 1>stuff like he goes and grabs a chair and it's like,

0:39:29.239 --> 0:39:30.919
<v Speaker 1>oh no, he's gonna hit him with the chair again,

0:39:31.280 --> 0:39:32.759
<v Speaker 1>but just to put the chair in the middle of

0:39:32.760 --> 0:39:35.360
<v Speaker 1>the ring and like drink a bottle of water and go, okay,

0:39:35.640 --> 0:39:39.400
<v Speaker 1>what are we doing here? And it was the playing

0:39:39.440 --> 0:39:42.799
<v Speaker 1>out of my dreams, not just being in a wrestling ring,

0:39:42.920 --> 0:39:45.480
<v Speaker 1>but being in there with Brett Hart. It's still to

0:39:45.520 --> 0:39:48.759
<v Speaker 1>this day makes no sense. And uh, at one point

0:39:48.840 --> 0:39:51.879
<v Speaker 1>I was literally again He's like, I will pick you up,

0:39:52.320 --> 0:39:55.040
<v Speaker 1>I will do the next thing. You know, don't don't move,

0:39:55.800 --> 0:39:58.040
<v Speaker 1>and Brian Hart wanted him to do this one move

0:39:58.080 --> 0:40:00.960
<v Speaker 1>that he does, the quick leg drop, and at one

0:40:00.960 --> 0:40:03.640
<v Speaker 1>point I'm laying there on the ground. I didn't know

0:40:03.680 --> 0:40:05.560
<v Speaker 1>that he was about to do it, but like he said,

0:40:05.640 --> 0:40:09.640
<v Speaker 1>don't move, and I remember literally time slowing down and

0:40:09.680 --> 0:40:11.200
<v Speaker 1>I was looking up at the lights and I'm just

0:40:11.200 --> 0:40:16.400
<v Speaker 1>going it was unbelievable. I'm on wrestling, I'm on ww

0:40:17.040 --> 0:40:20.200
<v Speaker 1>this is crazy. That's crazy. This all happens within a

0:40:20.360 --> 0:40:24.160
<v Speaker 1>second of me thinking this, and I go anyway, I

0:40:24.200 --> 0:40:26.239
<v Speaker 1>start to get up. He's in the air when I

0:40:26.280 --> 0:40:29.600
<v Speaker 1>start to get up, so my head is now up,

0:40:29.719 --> 0:40:32.480
<v Speaker 1>you know, with the length of my shoulder to the ground,

0:40:32.760 --> 0:40:35.600
<v Speaker 1>and he's coming down with the leg drop and could

0:40:35.600 --> 0:40:39.200
<v Speaker 1>break my neck. And only Brett Hart and you know whatever,

0:40:39.280 --> 0:40:44.120
<v Speaker 1>a lot of them. They're incredible performers and athletes and actors.

0:40:44.400 --> 0:40:47.480
<v Speaker 1>And he bent his you know, he bends his leg,

0:40:47.520 --> 0:40:50.240
<v Speaker 1>bends his knee at the last second, creating this perfect

0:40:50.280 --> 0:40:55.839
<v Speaker 1>cradle from I would have broken my neck easily. And

0:40:56.880 --> 0:40:58.759
<v Speaker 1>he's you know, he's tossing me in the corner and

0:40:58.880 --> 0:41:01.480
<v Speaker 1>stomping me in the chat and you don't feel anything.

0:41:01.560 --> 0:41:06.080
<v Speaker 1>And I remember walking outside afterwards, just like taking a

0:41:06.080 --> 0:41:08.960
<v Speaker 1>breathe and going like he's getting away from all of it,

0:41:09.040 --> 0:41:11.840
<v Speaker 1>like and just going I just had a you know,

0:41:12.040 --> 0:41:14.360
<v Speaker 1>I mean, a shitty match that everyone was like, Boo,

0:41:15.080 --> 0:41:19.440
<v Speaker 1>fuck off, for real, nobody wants this, We like this show.

0:41:20.040 --> 0:41:22.759
<v Speaker 1>You should know that nobody wants this, Will Sasso, and

0:41:22.880 --> 0:41:26.640
<v Speaker 1>you should know you're a wrestling dark Boo. And I'm

0:41:26.640 --> 0:41:29.040
<v Speaker 1>walking out there going I can't believe I just did

0:41:29.080 --> 0:41:33.160
<v Speaker 1>this and and Brett Hart, you know, tosses me around

0:41:33.160 --> 0:41:36.160
<v Speaker 1>and nothing hurt and it was unbelieving, unbelievable.

0:41:54.040 --> 0:41:56.040
<v Speaker 2>You're coming to the end. I've had the opportunity to

0:41:56.080 --> 0:41:57.880
<v Speaker 2>work with Chuck Laurie a couple of times.

0:41:58.239 --> 0:41:58.479
<v Speaker 1>Great.

0:41:58.840 --> 0:42:02.560
<v Speaker 2>I know you have played Jim mccowis der Mandy's dad

0:42:02.680 --> 0:42:05.479
<v Speaker 2>on Young Sheldon. How does it feel that it's coming

0:42:05.520 --> 0:42:06.120
<v Speaker 2>to an end.

0:42:06.800 --> 0:42:09.880
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's incredible to be a part of something that

0:42:10.840 --> 0:42:12.879
<v Speaker 1>to come in at the end of an incredible run

0:42:12.960 --> 0:42:16.120
<v Speaker 1>like that that they've had. They've been going for seven years,

0:42:16.120 --> 0:42:19.600
<v Speaker 1>and I've been playing Emily Ousman's father, myself and Rachel

0:42:19.640 --> 0:42:23.440
<v Speaker 1>bay Jones for the past couple of years, and I mean,

0:42:23.440 --> 0:42:26.040
<v Speaker 1>it's lovely to go onto a Chuck Laurie set. First

0:42:26.080 --> 0:42:30.160
<v Speaker 1>of all, everyone's very happy to be there and just

0:42:30.239 --> 0:42:32.320
<v Speaker 1>what a nice group of people. And I've been fortunate

0:42:32.400 --> 0:42:35.320
<v Speaker 1>enough to work on a couple of other of his shows,

0:42:35.680 --> 0:42:38.920
<v Speaker 1>and it's the same across the board. And to be

0:42:39.120 --> 0:42:41.600
<v Speaker 1>in this, you know, you know how it is. They

0:42:41.680 --> 0:42:44.480
<v Speaker 1>say it's a TV family, it's like family, but it

0:42:44.520 --> 0:42:47.200
<v Speaker 1>really is. I mean, it's the easiest job in the

0:42:47.200 --> 0:42:50.960
<v Speaker 1>world to come into a well oiled machine and just

0:42:51.920 --> 0:42:54.239
<v Speaker 1>hit the ground running and hopefully if there are no

0:42:54.440 --> 0:42:59.480
<v Speaker 1>snags there and it makes sense and you're an addition

0:42:59.680 --> 0:43:03.239
<v Speaker 1>to the story that makes sense. I mean, what else

0:43:03.440 --> 0:43:06.359
<v Speaker 1>what can I say? It's been It's been wonderful, and

0:43:06.400 --> 0:43:09.879
<v Speaker 1>it's also really interesting to be there at the end

0:43:09.880 --> 0:43:15.319
<v Speaker 1>of it because you know, these kids, Ian, Reagan and

0:43:15.360 --> 0:43:18.680
<v Speaker 1>Montana grew up together. They grew up together, the three

0:43:18.719 --> 0:43:22.520
<v Speaker 1>of them, and Zoe and Lance and Anti Pots. You know,

0:43:22.560 --> 0:43:25.399
<v Speaker 1>they are like the parents and grandparents are these kids

0:43:25.440 --> 0:43:28.960
<v Speaker 1>in a way that's you know, it's very interesting, you know,

0:43:29.160 --> 0:43:32.879
<v Speaker 1>like just seeing seeing them grow up must have been

0:43:33.719 --> 0:43:35.719
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. I don't know how those kids sort

0:43:35.719 --> 0:43:39.920
<v Speaker 1>of separate from each other and from this experience, you know,

0:43:40.000 --> 0:43:42.120
<v Speaker 1>you and I know that. It's like you work with people,

0:43:42.200 --> 0:43:44.680
<v Speaker 1>you say you'll keep in touch, you don't, you know,

0:43:44.719 --> 0:43:46.759
<v Speaker 1>we all move on to other things and there's this

0:43:46.880 --> 0:43:50.960
<v Speaker 1>high turnaround. So it's always special to be a part

0:43:51.000 --> 0:43:54.040
<v Speaker 1>of something that has its has its legacy and is

0:43:54.040 --> 0:43:56.600
<v Speaker 1>winding down, and to be there at the very end

0:43:56.600 --> 0:44:00.239
<v Speaker 1>of it is is something to observe, you know, because

0:44:00.239 --> 0:44:04.200
<v Speaker 1>I don't I feel nothing right, I feel nothing, no,

0:44:04.560 --> 0:44:07.319
<v Speaker 1>I uh Yeah, I'm you know, I'm observing, going like

0:44:07.400 --> 0:44:08.960
<v Speaker 1>this is this is incredible?

0:44:09.400 --> 0:44:12.919
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Will Ferrell, who came in right around the time

0:44:13.000 --> 0:44:16.719
<v Speaker 2>Steve Carroll left. He came in, he did four episodes

0:44:16.719 --> 0:44:19.680
<v Speaker 2>with us Steve was leaving. He was like, it's the

0:44:19.680 --> 0:44:23.839
<v Speaker 2>weirdest thing. It feels like I was invited to a

0:44:23.880 --> 0:44:29.359
<v Speaker 2>funeral of someone didn't know. Like everybody everybody's perfect, We're

0:44:29.400 --> 0:44:32.520
<v Speaker 2>making a comedy, but everybody's kind of crying. It's sad,

0:44:32.640 --> 0:44:36.600
<v Speaker 2>and it's like this weird, uh, this weird experience. But

0:44:36.880 --> 0:44:39.560
<v Speaker 2>I get, at least in one level what you're saying. Yeah,

0:44:39.600 --> 0:44:43.279
<v Speaker 2>the throwback you finished the throwback? What seventeen years ago?

0:44:43.560 --> 0:44:44.799
<v Speaker 1>I yeah, something like that.

0:44:44.920 --> 0:44:46.120
<v Speaker 2>A long time ago.

0:44:46.360 --> 0:44:48.840
<v Speaker 1>I was right before Mad TV we got on with that.

0:44:48.840 --> 0:44:50.920
<v Speaker 2>That's what I That's what I hear. No, it was

0:44:51.000 --> 0:44:52.360
<v Speaker 2>a long time ago, right.

0:44:52.600 --> 0:44:54.319
<v Speaker 1>I think we shot it a couple of years ago,

0:44:54.360 --> 0:44:57.160
<v Speaker 1>and you know, like, isn't it weird? Like we'll do

0:44:57.239 --> 0:44:59.719
<v Speaker 1>something and then what happened to that? And then it

0:44:59.719 --> 0:45:00.319
<v Speaker 1>comes out?

0:45:00.760 --> 0:45:08.520
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but it's getting unbelievable press. My crack research team

0:45:08.760 --> 0:45:14.680
<v Speaker 2>meaning me, saw ninety six percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Everybody's

0:45:14.760 --> 0:45:18.799
<v Speaker 2>watching it, everybody is loving it after so much time.

0:45:18.800 --> 0:45:21.040
<v Speaker 2>Are you happy with the reception that the movie's getting.

0:45:21.080 --> 0:45:23.600
<v Speaker 2>Do you remember it feeling good about it when you

0:45:24.200 --> 0:45:25.759
<v Speaker 2>shot it a few years ago?

0:45:26.520 --> 0:45:31.000
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, no, I did. It was it was Justina Machado

0:45:31.960 --> 0:45:34.240
<v Speaker 1>is starring in the movie, and I play her husband,

0:45:34.760 --> 0:45:37.120
<v Speaker 1>and she's an old friend, she's an old palace.

0:45:37.200 --> 0:45:40.760
<v Speaker 2>So it was so oh you knew okay, I knew.

0:45:40.640 --> 0:45:44.239
<v Speaker 1>Justina, and yeah, we have had the same manager for

0:45:44.480 --> 0:45:47.960
<v Speaker 1>many many years, like twenty five, twenty whatever years, and

0:45:49.560 --> 0:45:54.280
<v Speaker 1>Justina and I did something similar similar, meaning we played

0:45:54.360 --> 0:45:56.200
<v Speaker 1>husband and wife in this short that I made a

0:45:56.239 --> 0:45:59.680
<v Speaker 1>while back, and it worked. It was it was great.

0:46:00.200 --> 0:46:04.080
<v Speaker 1>It was a first time director, and you know, Mario

0:46:04.280 --> 0:46:08.200
<v Speaker 1>the director was a very sweet guy and not hiding

0:46:08.280 --> 0:46:11.400
<v Speaker 1>the fact that it was his first time directing a feature,

0:46:11.840 --> 0:46:15.240
<v Speaker 1>and so it was cool to just kind of go like, well,

0:46:15.280 --> 0:46:17.319
<v Speaker 1>you know, we just got to play these scenes. And

0:46:17.960 --> 0:46:20.279
<v Speaker 1>I don't know until he says cut, which sometimes he

0:46:20.280 --> 0:46:23.400
<v Speaker 1>would forget to do because he's a first time director,

0:46:23.440 --> 0:46:26.440
<v Speaker 1>and then he goes he's kind of looking around. You

0:46:26.480 --> 0:46:29.560
<v Speaker 1>have to say cut, you have to say and then

0:46:29.600 --> 0:46:32.520
<v Speaker 1>we're on set going what do we do? Should we

0:46:33.160 --> 0:46:34.839
<v Speaker 1>I don't want to say it? Can you say it?

0:46:35.080 --> 0:46:36.719
<v Speaker 1>And as we know, you have to stay in your

0:46:36.719 --> 0:46:41.480
<v Speaker 1>boxes with regard to your union. So sometimes we would

0:46:41.520 --> 0:46:44.800
<v Speaker 1>just keep rolling into the night and they would waste

0:46:44.840 --> 0:46:48.200
<v Speaker 1>a lot of money that way and go horribly over budget.

0:46:48.400 --> 0:46:51.600
<v Speaker 1>But two years later they got that. They didn't get

0:46:51.600 --> 0:46:54.080
<v Speaker 1>their money back, but they got, you know, enough money

0:46:54.120 --> 0:46:56.760
<v Speaker 1>to put it out. It was a fun movie.

0:46:57.400 --> 0:46:59.040
<v Speaker 2>You have a podcast. I don't know if you knew

0:46:59.080 --> 0:46:59.480
<v Speaker 2>that or not.

0:47:00.280 --> 0:47:02.120
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I'm in the studio right now.

0:47:02.200 --> 0:47:07.839
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, there it is, Dudsy. Tell me about well, first off,

0:47:07.880 --> 0:47:12.160
<v Speaker 2>tell my listeners about Doodsy. The podcast.

0:47:12.760 --> 0:47:17.279
<v Speaker 1>Dudsy is a podcast with an AI bent to it.

0:47:17.360 --> 0:47:21.959
<v Speaker 1>There's an AI theme to where myself and my good

0:47:21.960 --> 0:47:25.560
<v Speaker 1>buddy Chad whom I've known for over twenty years around

0:47:25.600 --> 0:47:30.080
<v Speaker 1>that and he's a writer, producer primarily I'm an actor,

0:47:30.360 --> 0:47:33.320
<v Speaker 1>and so it's these The idea is, here's two guys

0:47:33.320 --> 0:47:35.360
<v Speaker 1>that have that have been friends for a long time.

0:47:35.920 --> 0:47:38.680
<v Speaker 1>We've worked together, we've written things together and done shit

0:47:38.800 --> 0:47:44.440
<v Speaker 1>like that. And the conceit here is that somewhat malevolent

0:47:44.560 --> 0:47:49.160
<v Speaker 1>AI has has procured us to do this podcast together.

0:47:49.719 --> 0:47:52.560
<v Speaker 1>And there's there's elements of it that are all too

0:47:52.640 --> 0:47:55.520
<v Speaker 1>real and there are elements of it that are not

0:47:56.200 --> 0:47:59.759
<v Speaker 1>because it is a comedy show, right, and.

0:48:00.040 --> 0:48:04.360
<v Speaker 2>The AI this Duji acts as your producer, your boss.

0:48:04.440 --> 0:48:06.880
<v Speaker 1>You're pretty much comes up with all you know, like

0:48:07.040 --> 0:48:10.239
<v Speaker 1>is feeding us segments saying do this, do that, which

0:48:10.280 --> 0:48:13.919
<v Speaker 1>is a fun way to come about things like if

0:48:13.960 --> 0:48:16.400
<v Speaker 1>it's like you know, in a podcast, it's kind of

0:48:16.400 --> 0:48:19.120
<v Speaker 1>one thing to go, I'm gonna do this impression and

0:48:19.200 --> 0:48:22.319
<v Speaker 1>bore the you must be Jimmy and then everyone's bummed out.

0:48:22.800 --> 0:48:25.680
<v Speaker 1>But it's another thing to go like, well, hey, you

0:48:25.719 --> 0:48:28.920
<v Speaker 1>know like podcasts about news or big business, will you

0:48:28.960 --> 0:48:32.120
<v Speaker 1>won't stop doing your hul Cogan impression? This is info

0:48:32.280 --> 0:48:33.839
<v Speaker 1>mania And it's like, well, let me tell you something

0:48:33.840 --> 0:48:36.440
<v Speaker 1>about the news, dude. We got all sorts of news

0:48:36.440 --> 0:48:39.480
<v Speaker 1>out there, brother, and I'm gonna so it's a it's

0:48:39.520 --> 0:48:41.919
<v Speaker 1>a way to get all these you know, bits going

0:48:41.960 --> 0:48:49.560
<v Speaker 1>and stuff. Yeah, it's a very thick, weird delivery with

0:48:49.840 --> 0:48:55.800
<v Speaker 1>it's very it's a very complex delivery. That is. Look,

0:48:56.880 --> 0:49:00.120
<v Speaker 1>I love professional wrestling. I don't know if we've mentioned.

0:48:59.920 --> 0:49:01.399
<v Speaker 2>That, Yeah, we've mentioned it.

0:49:01.600 --> 0:49:05.600
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, And so you know the idea of k fabe

0:49:05.640 --> 0:49:08.960
<v Speaker 1>there like, well, what's real? And I don't fucking like

0:49:09.040 --> 0:49:12.440
<v Speaker 1>AI at all, and Chad digs it. Of course in

0:49:12.480 --> 0:49:14.760
<v Speaker 1>our business, we don't. I don't want to have anything

0:49:14.800 --> 0:49:17.719
<v Speaker 1>to do with it, right, And Chad really like he

0:49:17.840 --> 0:49:20.080
<v Speaker 1>digs it, but he's like a futurist and a weirdo

0:49:20.200 --> 0:49:23.040
<v Speaker 1>tech dorc and he loves that stuff. And I'm like,

0:49:23.280 --> 0:49:25.640
<v Speaker 1>I don't need any of it. I like acting with

0:49:25.800 --> 0:49:28.400
<v Speaker 1>people and I like it. And to me, art is

0:49:28.520 --> 0:49:31.320
<v Speaker 1>useless if it's not person to person, if a person

0:49:31.320 --> 0:49:33.680
<v Speaker 1>didn't come up with the art, it's useless. But the

0:49:34.120 --> 0:49:37.040
<v Speaker 1>podcast sort of comments on that and sort of like,

0:49:37.320 --> 0:49:40.560
<v Speaker 1>you know, what is it that AI can do? And yeah,

0:49:40.680 --> 0:49:44.960
<v Speaker 1>more recently, is what is it that people will will believe?

0:49:45.520 --> 0:49:49.239
<v Speaker 1>You know? It's it's odd, It's certainly odd. It's been

0:49:49.239 --> 0:49:50.160
<v Speaker 1>an odd thing.

0:49:51.000 --> 0:49:54.040
<v Speaker 2>I read somewhere. Is this part of the lie that

0:49:54.200 --> 0:49:57.480
<v Speaker 2>dudes he has access to your text messages? Is this

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<v Speaker 2>a bit?

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<v Speaker 1>Have I mentioned how much I like professional wrestling? All right, Dudsy, Well,

0:50:05.320 --> 0:50:09.280
<v Speaker 1>the thing what you're describing is in order for Dudzy

0:50:09.880 --> 0:50:14.799
<v Speaker 1>to do the show where it is able to bring

0:50:14.840 --> 0:50:17.520
<v Speaker 1>stuff up from our past, come up with the best

0:50:17.560 --> 0:50:22.239
<v Speaker 1>concepts for us, and in its function, it promises to

0:50:22.320 --> 0:50:25.960
<v Speaker 1>make each episode better than the last episode because it

0:50:26.040 --> 0:50:30.040
<v Speaker 1>is currently it is constantly gathering data. Why wouldn't it

0:50:30.360 --> 0:50:35.400
<v Speaker 1>have all of our passwords, search histories, purchase histories, access

0:50:35.440 --> 0:50:38.000
<v Speaker 1>to all of our hard drives and clouds so that

0:50:38.080 --> 0:50:41.080
<v Speaker 1>it can make this show possible. If there's a video

0:50:41.360 --> 0:50:44.080
<v Speaker 1>that dudes he wants to show from my past, it

0:50:44.120 --> 0:50:46.879
<v Speaker 1>has access. If there's a bit of writing that dudes

0:50:46.920 --> 0:50:51.640
<v Speaker 1>he wants to highlight from Chad's you know, and then

0:50:51.719 --> 0:50:55.400
<v Speaker 1>other things happen and people go, you know, man, I

0:50:55.400 --> 0:50:57.759
<v Speaker 1>don't know. People like, uh oh, it's ai. It's like

0:51:00.080 --> 0:51:04.240
<v Speaker 1>it's so interesting to kind of to me to be like, yeah,

0:51:04.239 --> 0:51:08.520
<v Speaker 1>but you know, isn't everything I haven't said too much?

0:51:08.560 --> 0:51:12.479
<v Speaker 1>So it's yeah, it's uh.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know if you were going to say anything

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<v Speaker 2>at all. So I like it.

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<v Speaker 1>It's an interesting thing. Look, I I really enjoy, you know, working.

0:51:21.719 --> 0:51:24.600
<v Speaker 1>I love the illusion of what we get to do. Yes,

0:51:25.520 --> 0:51:29.279
<v Speaker 1>and to me, you know, nobody watches an episode of

0:51:29.280 --> 0:51:32.400
<v Speaker 1>their favorite show and goes, well, why is that person

0:51:32.480 --> 0:51:36.359
<v Speaker 1>being mean to that person? Or why does this It's like, well,

0:51:36.360 --> 0:51:38.399
<v Speaker 1>because it's a it's a show it's like and it's

0:51:38.480 --> 0:51:40.880
<v Speaker 1>like professional wrestling, where it's like, well, we all know

0:51:40.920 --> 0:51:44.239
<v Speaker 1>that behind the scenes, there's a show here, there's a

0:51:44.280 --> 0:51:50.279
<v Speaker 1>show that's being produced. Chad and I are messing with

0:51:50.320 --> 0:51:53.680
<v Speaker 1>each other constantly in our lives, and some of that

0:51:53.880 --> 0:51:56.440
<v Speaker 1>can come into the show, which is a lot of fun, right,

0:51:56.520 --> 0:51:59.640
<v Speaker 1>and there can be a lot of surprising ourselves and

0:52:00.040 --> 0:52:02.719
<v Speaker 1>one another. You know, I guess it's so, I guess

0:52:02.800 --> 0:52:06.239
<v Speaker 1>it's uh, I guess if I don't know. Do you

0:52:06.239 --> 0:52:08.040
<v Speaker 1>have a question past that? I don't know how much

0:52:09.600 --> 0:52:12.880
<v Speaker 1>I really don't you know? To me, it's clear, you know,

0:52:13.640 --> 0:52:15.359
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. All I know is that I love

0:52:15.440 --> 0:52:16.480
<v Speaker 1>doing the damn show.

0:52:16.800 --> 0:52:20.359
<v Speaker 2>You love doing the show, ye, And you know there

0:52:20.440 --> 0:52:23.080
<v Speaker 2>has been some conversation about the show, which, by the way,

0:52:23.200 --> 0:52:25.800
<v Speaker 2>may not be terrible for the show that you guys

0:52:25.880 --> 0:52:29.120
<v Speaker 2>have used AI with. I don't even know how you

0:52:29.160 --> 0:52:34.200
<v Speaker 2>say it, Tom Brady and George Carlin over the last

0:52:34.840 --> 0:52:39.799
<v Speaker 2>year or so. Are you surprised by the flack that

0:52:39.840 --> 0:52:45.200
<v Speaker 2>you have gotten from that? Is it totally understandable to you?

0:52:45.960 --> 0:52:49.239
<v Speaker 2>And are you planning to AI me anytime in the

0:52:49.280 --> 0:52:49.879
<v Speaker 2>next year.

0:52:51.680 --> 0:52:54.800
<v Speaker 1>I'm surprised by the flack but it does make sense.

0:52:55.360 --> 0:52:58.399
<v Speaker 1>It makes perfect sense to me. You know. I read

0:52:58.400 --> 0:53:02.239
<v Speaker 1>this one article that was from Ours Technica that I

0:53:02.239 --> 0:53:05.839
<v Speaker 1>thought was very good, and it pointed out it kind

0:53:05.840 --> 0:53:08.680
<v Speaker 1>of went through some of the stuff that has come

0:53:08.719 --> 0:53:11.719
<v Speaker 1>out of the show, and this is a person who

0:53:11.760 --> 0:53:15.000
<v Speaker 1>clearly understands AI and what the parlor trick is. Because

0:53:15.040 --> 0:53:18.400
<v Speaker 1>I always say, like, AI is not AI can't really do.

0:53:18.560 --> 0:53:21.799
<v Speaker 1>It is not sentient. It's just zeros and ones and

0:53:21.840 --> 0:53:26.080
<v Speaker 1>it mimics and it predicts, and it is capable of

0:53:27.360 --> 0:53:30.160
<v Speaker 1>so many things artistically that we are capable of, and

0:53:30.200 --> 0:53:35.040
<v Speaker 1>that to me is hopefully it just sort of settles

0:53:35.160 --> 0:53:38.480
<v Speaker 1>into being a tool. I think that my brain right

0:53:38.520 --> 0:53:41.239
<v Speaker 1>now can't understand. I am the guy screaming at the

0:53:41.480 --> 0:53:44.799
<v Speaker 1>horseless carriage right now going no, we don't want this.

0:53:45.600 --> 0:53:48.279
<v Speaker 1>You know, my Palchad will say, it's not like that.

0:53:48.400 --> 0:53:50.200
<v Speaker 1>It's just going to settle into being a tool.

0:53:50.719 --> 0:53:50.960
<v Speaker 2>You know.

0:53:51.080 --> 0:53:54.320
<v Speaker 1>Think think of the the film camera and how people

0:53:54.440 --> 0:54:00.640
<v Speaker 1>rebelled against that, the radio, the printing press, whatever, anything calculator.

0:54:01.080 --> 0:54:04.759
<v Speaker 1>So we're in this bizarre time in AI where it

0:54:04.880 --> 0:54:09.120
<v Speaker 1>is growing exponentially. You know, it's interesting. We used to

0:54:09.120 --> 0:54:13.080
<v Speaker 1>do mad TV. There are parent impression that yeah, you're

0:54:13.080 --> 0:54:16.560
<v Speaker 1>doing impressions and it's like I never heard anything. But

0:54:16.600 --> 0:54:19.040
<v Speaker 1>first of all, I have reverence for pretty much everyone

0:54:19.080 --> 0:54:22.120
<v Speaker 1>that I ever impersonated. It came from a real love

0:54:22.160 --> 0:54:25.000
<v Speaker 1>of you know, talking like them or doing their stick

0:54:25.120 --> 0:54:27.440
<v Speaker 1>or whatever, or having them on my mind and wanting

0:54:27.480 --> 0:54:30.680
<v Speaker 1>to do and impressions. But certainly at mad TV, we

0:54:30.719 --> 0:54:34.359
<v Speaker 1>wouldn't get shit for doing an impression of someone because

0:54:34.360 --> 0:54:39.239
<v Speaker 1>it's understood that it is. It's just ease, apparently, I

0:54:39.280 --> 0:54:42.479
<v Speaker 1>guess when you when you put a different paint job

0:54:42.520 --> 0:54:45.839
<v Speaker 1>on it and and put it out there, but all

0:54:45.880 --> 0:54:50.879
<v Speaker 1>you really have is is jokes that you know Chad wrote,

0:54:51.320 --> 0:54:56.560
<v Speaker 1>and there is no there's no it's an open secret,

0:54:56.640 --> 0:54:59.400
<v Speaker 1>you know, like people who enjoy the show are like

0:54:59.640 --> 0:55:02.279
<v Speaker 1>very to the whole delivery of it. Oh and on

0:55:02.320 --> 0:55:06.680
<v Speaker 1>that note, I should say that I am currently the

0:55:06.680 --> 0:55:13.680
<v Speaker 1>The Dude's Undisputed Episode Champion. Recently I got a hold

0:55:13.719 --> 0:55:15.680
<v Speaker 1>of there I am right there, there you are. And

0:55:15.800 --> 0:55:19.799
<v Speaker 1>so if you need any more of a clue as

0:55:19.840 --> 0:55:23.759
<v Speaker 1>to what is happening over here, you know, you do

0:55:23.880 --> 0:55:26.239
<v Speaker 1>something and you kind of go like, well, here's this bit,

0:55:26.520 --> 0:55:29.720
<v Speaker 1>and the fella at ours technica what he had written

0:55:29.719 --> 0:55:31.520
<v Speaker 1>in this pieces, like, am I to believe that these

0:55:31.560 --> 0:55:36.400
<v Speaker 1>two dudes got a hold of an AI that is

0:55:37.800 --> 0:55:44.320
<v Speaker 1>way way more advanced than anything that anyone at MI

0:55:44.600 --> 0:55:49.440
<v Speaker 1>T even could get their hands on. At this point,

0:55:49.520 --> 0:55:52.239
<v Speaker 1>that is me saying too much because to me, all

0:55:52.280 --> 0:55:54.600
<v Speaker 1>I want to do is, you know, make some people

0:55:54.680 --> 0:55:58.000
<v Speaker 1>laugh and stuff. So when there's a reaction, I'm like, oh,

0:55:58.239 --> 0:56:02.680
<v Speaker 1>oh fuck, h oh okay, well, m I don't know,

0:56:02.920 --> 0:56:05.520
<v Speaker 1>but we got to try stuff. To me, it is,

0:56:05.600 --> 0:56:08.360
<v Speaker 1>you know, it is. It's it's understandable because we don't

0:56:08.400 --> 0:56:11.920
<v Speaker 1>know what the uh, what the future holds, you know, right,

0:56:12.520 --> 0:56:15.239
<v Speaker 1>even with the stuff that is total nonsense.

0:56:16.000 --> 0:56:18.880
<v Speaker 2>Well, I think it's fascinating. I think it's a discussion,

0:56:19.040 --> 0:56:23.240
<v Speaker 2>as is everything in art, a discussion at least worth

0:56:23.280 --> 0:56:27.759
<v Speaker 2>having and sussing it out. But I appreciate you being

0:56:28.120 --> 0:56:31.520
<v Speaker 2>so candid about it, and I hope that people will

0:56:31.600 --> 0:56:32.160
<v Speaker 2>check it out.

0:56:32.600 --> 0:56:34.799
<v Speaker 1>You know what, can I tell you this? Yeah, let

0:56:34.800 --> 0:56:37.160
<v Speaker 1>me tell you this, Brian, real quick. Sorry. I kind

0:56:37.160 --> 0:56:40.720
<v Speaker 1>of feel like, so long as you know, when people

0:56:41.040 --> 0:56:45.399
<v Speaker 1>tune into Dudsy, which is you know, YouTube and all

0:56:45.440 --> 0:56:48.640
<v Speaker 1>your podcast platforms, by the way, when people watch Dudzy.

0:56:48.880 --> 0:56:52.280
<v Speaker 1>So long as they are enjoying that hour of dudesy

0:56:52.360 --> 0:56:55.960
<v Speaker 1>and the weirdness that happens. To me, that's what it is.

0:56:56.160 --> 0:57:00.319
<v Speaker 1>And I say everything that I've said here with in

0:57:00.400 --> 0:57:04.040
<v Speaker 1>my I'm keeping in mind. You know, our beloved pods

0:57:04.080 --> 0:57:05.880
<v Speaker 1>as we like to call them, the pals of Dudsy,

0:57:06.239 --> 0:57:09.040
<v Speaker 1>people who are very engaged in the show and really

0:57:09.080 --> 0:57:12.320
<v Speaker 1>love it, and you know, they're lighting up our discord

0:57:12.440 --> 0:57:16.200
<v Speaker 1>and keeping this community alive. And what I've found is

0:57:16.240 --> 0:57:20.560
<v Speaker 1>a bunch of other comedy nerds that really dig being

0:57:20.600 --> 0:57:22.920
<v Speaker 1>a part of this weird thing. And I tell them

0:57:22.920 --> 0:57:24.480
<v Speaker 1>all the time when we do the show where we

0:57:24.560 --> 0:57:27.280
<v Speaker 1>do this dudeesy after Dudsy where things kind of chill

0:57:27.320 --> 0:57:29.520
<v Speaker 1>out and we talk a little more real, and I

0:57:29.560 --> 0:57:32.720
<v Speaker 1>go like, I just love that experience of it. And

0:57:32.760 --> 0:57:35.560
<v Speaker 1>it's the same for me coming in here and doing

0:57:36.080 --> 0:57:39.160
<v Speaker 1>doing this dumb stuff. And that's what I want people

0:57:39.240 --> 0:57:43.600
<v Speaker 1>to understand, that that it's a silly goose time and

0:57:44.200 --> 0:57:48.200
<v Speaker 1>we're we're doing silly shit. Certainly, this is nothing new.

0:57:48.400 --> 0:57:51.960
<v Speaker 1>People are going to have their own reactions. I have.

0:57:52.280 --> 0:57:55.400
<v Speaker 1>I really don't have anything to say about that.

0:57:55.680 --> 0:57:59.120
<v Speaker 2>I really am well, that is art and that is

0:57:59.160 --> 0:58:00.520
<v Speaker 2>comedy and that is a good thing.

0:58:01.800 --> 0:58:04.560
<v Speaker 1>You can take that. Yeah, it's it's it's it's yours

0:58:04.560 --> 0:58:05.760
<v Speaker 1>to interpret, of course.

0:58:05.760 --> 0:58:10.120
<v Speaker 2>That's right. Well, it's been so great chatting with you

0:58:10.240 --> 0:58:11.840
<v Speaker 2>and getting to know you a little bit. I've been

0:58:11.880 --> 0:58:14.560
<v Speaker 2>such a fan of yours for such a long time.

0:58:14.720 --> 0:58:15.320
<v Speaker 1>Oh, cheers.

0:58:15.360 --> 0:58:20.920
<v Speaker 2>Likewise, everybody check it out the throwback Young Sheldon finishing

0:58:21.200 --> 0:58:24.960
<v Speaker 2>next month and of course available wherever you get your

0:58:24.960 --> 0:58:28.680
<v Speaker 2>podcasts and on YouTube. Dudesy Will, thank you so much

0:58:28.720 --> 0:58:29.320
<v Speaker 2>for joining me.

0:58:30.160 --> 0:58:30.400
<v Speaker 1>Thank you.

0:58:30.480 --> 0:58:36.120
<v Speaker 2>I'm disputed episode champion of the world of or at

0:58:36.200 --> 0:58:39.520
<v Speaker 2>least of dudes. It's only it's only you were chat

0:58:41.160 --> 0:58:43.600
<v Speaker 2>congratulations man, maybe my dog.

0:58:44.960 --> 0:58:46.320
<v Speaker 1>Remember that time you almost won?

0:58:49.400 --> 0:58:51.160
<v Speaker 2>Thanks Will, Thank you so much.

0:58:51.560 --> 0:59:05.520
<v Speaker 5>Cheers, Brian, thank you, Thank you, Will.

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<v Speaker 2>That was a lot of fun and no, I will

0:59:10.560 --> 0:59:15.800
<v Speaker 2>never get in the ring with you. Listeners, check out

0:59:16.400 --> 0:59:21.560
<v Speaker 2>Dudsy podcast. It is an interesting watch and listen to

0:59:21.640 --> 0:59:24.560
<v Speaker 2>be sure wherever you get your podcasts. Also you can

0:59:24.640 --> 0:59:30.120
<v Speaker 2>see will Well Finishing up is run on Young Sheldon

0:59:30.280 --> 0:59:34.959
<v Speaker 2>and of course on Netflix the throwback check that out

0:59:35.040 --> 0:59:38.960
<v Speaker 2>as well. Come back next week for another, well, another

0:59:39.040 --> 0:59:44.440
<v Speaker 2>exciting episode with a very exciting guest. Until then, everybody

0:59:44.600 --> 0:59:54.680
<v Speaker 2>have a great week off. The Beat is hosted and

0:59:54.760 --> 0:59:59.520
<v Speaker 2>executive produced by me Brian Baumgartner, alongside our executive producer

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