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Speaker 1: make you a straight offer and pay you more money. What. Yeah,

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00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:10,920
Speaker 1: And so my agents advice was bird in the hand,

427
00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:14,080
Speaker 1: take the job. So I took this the CBS offer.

428
00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:15,760
Speaker 1: We tried to get a New Girl to make me

429
00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:18,800
Speaker 1: an offer. They didn't want to. They didn't go with

430
00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:22,120
Speaker 1: their tests. They don't find anybody. They then hired Damon

431
00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:26,840
Speaker 1: Wayne's Jr. Thinking his show Happy Endings wasn't going to

432
00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:31,560
Speaker 1: get a second season. Exactly my show Assistance doesn't get

433
00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:35,679
Speaker 1: picked up after the pilot. After the pilot, Happy Endings

434
00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:38,160
Speaker 1: gets picked up for a second season, so Damon has

435
00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:43,280
Speaker 1: to go. So now I'm thinking, hey, guys, hey remember

436
00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:46,600
Speaker 1: me the guy walked that on your test, Like, can

437
00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:49,560
Speaker 1: you bring me back him? And they loved Damon so much,

438
00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:52,480
Speaker 1: has performance so much. If you watch the pilot, he's fantastic.

439
00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:55,240
Speaker 1: They wanted to keep that and not redo it, so

440
00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:58,680
Speaker 1: they had to rewrite another to write another character in people.

441
00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:00,879
Speaker 1: A lot of people say, oh, a black guy swap.

442
00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:02,960
Speaker 1: This is just he's a black dude. You're stopping another

443
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,240
Speaker 1: black dude. It was no, it was it was like

444
00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:07,240
Speaker 1: it was open to any ethnicity. I mean a lot

445
00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:10,360
Speaker 1: of folks read for it. You name it, every ethnicity,

446
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:13,960
Speaker 1: you know, size, age. It was kind of like they

447
00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:16,000
Speaker 1: didn't know what they wanted. That's why I had to

448
00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:19,359
Speaker 1: read so many times. It was constant changing of the sides,

449
00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:24,520
Speaker 1: dynamics with character structured you know, status and my the

450
00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:26,680
Speaker 1: koy one. Am I the boss of the group? Am

451
00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:28,679
Speaker 1: I the shot? You know who? Am I? So it

452
00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:32,440
Speaker 1: took a while. That's why I was that many auditions. Crazy.

453
00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:36,119
Speaker 1: That is crazy. That has never happened to me. I

454
00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:39,080
Speaker 1: have never been sitting at the courtyard at Fox or

455
00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:41,720
Speaker 1: wherever you were and told no, someone else just made

456
00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:44,400
Speaker 1: you an offer, walk out on this test. That's amazing.

457
00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:47,000
Speaker 1: Did you go in and tell them or did you

458
00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:49,640
Speaker 1: just leave? That's why I want to know I walk

459
00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:51,800
Speaker 1: into the room and say I'm sorry, I've just got

460
00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:54,120
Speaker 1: another offer, or did you just get in your car

461
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:57,639
Speaker 1: and drive away? Almost almost I was walking to the

462
00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,560
Speaker 1: room when my phone started vibring. My my agent said

463
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:03,159
Speaker 1: keep your phone on. I was walking with the casting

464
00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:07,200
Speaker 1: director Seth Yanklewitz, and uh, either you walk into you

465
00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:10,359
Speaker 1: signed that. You signed that paper, And before I did it,

466
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:12,680
Speaker 1: I looked at him and I said, it's my agent.

467
00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:16,360
Speaker 1: And he knew right away he did, he knew. Yeah,

468
00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:19,040
Speaker 1: I loved you, Seth. I'm sorry I did that to

469
00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:21,879
Speaker 1: you in that moment. But it worked out. Look at us,

470
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:25,920
Speaker 1: Look at us now. It worked out exactly. It worked out.

471
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:28,680
Speaker 1: You end up joining in the second episode, right, because

472
00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:31,119
Speaker 1: they wanted they wanted the pilot to air as shot.

473
00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:35,159
Speaker 1: Is that right? Yeah, exactly, And that was weird. I

474
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:37,560
Speaker 1: gotta say for the first two seasons, I didn't know

475
00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:41,000
Speaker 1: if I was being fired or not. I'll admit I wasn't.

476
00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:45,879
Speaker 1: We weren't writing necessarily for my strength because we didn't

477
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,440
Speaker 1: know my strengths yet. We didn't know that dynamic would.

478
00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:50,159
Speaker 1: We would try certain things and test certain things. He

479
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:55,119
Speaker 1: just wasn't working. Maybe maybe he's jobless, maybe he's uh,

480
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:56,840
Speaker 1: you know, he gets a job as an usher or

481
00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,480
Speaker 1: a babysitter. We were trying all these things, and then

482
00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:02,679
Speaker 1: that became aim the game, a little bit of the character,

483
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:06,359
Speaker 1: and then I started playing into that more, doing bits

484
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 1: off camera with the other actors. They started to realize

485
00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:12,920
Speaker 1: the writers, I gotta say writers on a New Girl

486
00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:16,320
Speaker 1: geniuses because they would look at the bits in between

487
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:20,240
Speaker 1: stuff and figure out what was funny. They impro improvised stuff,

488
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:22,240
Speaker 1: and they would go, let's tailor it towards that, and

489
00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:24,840
Speaker 1: they would write the most ridiculous stuff from my character

490
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,920
Speaker 1: and it worked and I loved it. Every every episode

491
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,439
Speaker 1: felt like a sketch comedy show to me because I

492
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:34,879
Speaker 1: didn't know what character trait I had that week. And

493
00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:38,720
Speaker 1: you know, one week, my character is a professional, former

494
00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:42,159
Speaker 1: professional basketball player. The next week he has thin fingers

495
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 1: and he can't carry anything. Next week he constantly has

496
00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:51,520
Speaker 1: directions for some reason. It's like, what, So it was funny.

497
00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:53,679
Speaker 1: It was fun. It was a fun fun show to

498
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:56,800
Speaker 1: do for sure. After the second season for me, when

499
00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:59,399
Speaker 1: you felt like they figured out who you were and

500
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:01,920
Speaker 1: we're able to play into what you felt like your

501
00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:03,960
Speaker 1: strength was. Yeah, And once I knew I wasn't gonna

502
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,840
Speaker 1: get fired, I was just more comfortable going to work

503
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 1: every day. It's like, Okay, why don't you think you

504
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:12,200
Speaker 1: were going to be fired? Was there anything specifically that happened?

505
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 1: I thought I was under performing to be quite honest

506
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:16,800
Speaker 1: with you, I knew what I was capable of doing,

507
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:18,639
Speaker 1: but I would leave fit every day going I didn't

508
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 1: do what I wanted to do. And they don't know

509
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 1: that I have this weird energy that I could perform

510
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:27,520
Speaker 1: at this level that I could perform at I don't

511
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:29,720
Speaker 1: think they I don't think I've done it yet. And

512
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:32,119
Speaker 1: I would watch the episodes back and sometimes that cringe

513
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:35,200
Speaker 1: at him, and I don't know if that's that's any good.

514
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:38,879
Speaker 1: It's very insecure. I was extremely insecure, and you know,

515
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,280
Speaker 1: my cast mates, obviously in the producers would kind of

516
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 1: reassure me, like, you're not going anywhere, but you know,

517
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:48,720
Speaker 1: I know how this business is, you know, and and

518
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 1: they were very gracious to give me a lot of

519
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:54,199
Speaker 1: room to grow. I think we're all glad it happened

520
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:57,840
Speaker 1: that way, because it was just another piece too. I

521
00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:02,440
Speaker 1: think otherwise Perfect asked, everybody on the show is clicking

522
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:04,360
Speaker 1: on all cylinders from day one, and I was trying

523
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 1: to find my footing. Yeah. I feel like there's in

524
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 1: a lot of ways a similarity between the Office and

525
00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 1: New Girl in terms of this sort of disparate collection

526
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:20,720
Speaker 1: of characters that are that find themselves together and form

527
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 1: this sort of pseudo family in a way, right is

528
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:26,040
Speaker 1: that is that a stretch not a stretch at all,

529
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:29,199
Speaker 1: Not a stretch at all. It's like, no matter what

530
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 1: office you go into to them in that office there

531
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 1: this you have a story about a guy who acts

532
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 1: this where oh I know this woman, she behaves this way,

533
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 1: and you wouldn't believe it until you saw it, you know.

534
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 1: And then the office is a heightened version of what

535
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 1: people can identify with all the characters on the show.

536
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 1: And I think that's the same way with New Girls.

537
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 1: That people they have these people who live together, and

538
00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 1: everyone has a story about my roommate does this, or

539
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:56,760
Speaker 1: he wears a kimono at night and you don't know, no,

540
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 1: he doesn't. And then you watch New Girl and you

541
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 1: people go, look that's about me, you know. You know,

542
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 1: it's a weird group of people that have a common bond,

543
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:10,719
Speaker 1: and you know, and they and they stick it out

544
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 1: and they stick together. And I think the reason why

545
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 1: our shows resignated is because and lasted for so long,

546
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 1: is because people at home felt connected to the characters. Right, No,

547
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 1: for sure, when did you realize that the show was

548
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 1: taking off? It was gonna, you know, after you after

549
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:30,920
Speaker 1: you found your own personal security in terms of your

550
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 1: job security, when did you feel like you're gonna, we're

551
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 1: gonna be around for a while. Do you remember was

552
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 1: there a moment, there were a few I gotta say,

553
00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 1: once people started knowing my name on the street because

554
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 1: people people always, they still to this day, called me

555
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 1: Winston from Winstay. It's constant. But the moment people would

556
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 1: go Mr Morris, let more la more getting get a photo,

557
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 1: and I thought, my god, they looked up my name

558
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 1: like they they know people are invested in It's like

559
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 1: sometimes you watch a TV show and then you'll just

560
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:06,040
Speaker 1: go onto the next. Some of my favorite shows, I

561
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 1: couldn't tell you the actor's real names. You know. Now

562
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 1: I can't be you know, because we're in the business now.

563
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:14,440
Speaker 1: But like it's one of those things where you're walking

564
00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 1: on the street, somebody says your name and it hits

565
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:19,440
Speaker 1: you like, my goodness, that's what they know me from.

566
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 1: I must it must be working. And when you would

567
00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 1: read I'm not supposed to read comments, but I read them.

568
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:27,480
Speaker 1: And when you see so many, whether they're good or bad,

569
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:31,440
Speaker 1: I go there's a conversation around an episode that we

570
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 1: did there, you go, oh, people care, people are actually invested.

571
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 1: Then you see fan fiction you know about about your showing,

572
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:49,280
Speaker 1: You're like, whoa, people are disgusting but also invested. Yes, um,

573
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:56,800
Speaker 1: have you ever played true American? I have American? Yeah,

574
00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:58,600
Speaker 1: but on the accident kind of I was. It was

575
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 1: a party going on in Hollywood and we walked past

576
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 1: it and you know, people recognize me and they were like,

577
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 1: you'll never believe what we're doing over here. We're playing

578
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 1: to American. And I reached out to the guy. We

579
00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 1: exchanged Instagrams afterwards, and I've been I've been talking to

580
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:13,840
Speaker 1: him lately, like where are the photos that I'm in?

581
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 1: He's like, I was trying to keep you out of

582
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 1: him because I didn't want to be that guy would

583
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 1: be a paparazzi guy while your party. But I even

584
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:22,920
Speaker 1: posted some photos of my instagram back then. They were

585
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 1: literally having a full on true American party in their

586
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 1: front yard. That's amazing, like standing on chairs, doing DIBs

587
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 1: and you know, screaming JF carry after. It was a

588
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,479
Speaker 1: whole thing, which also blew my mind till this day.

589
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 1: It still blows my mind. A drinking game with no rules.

590
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 1: You know, Yes, I went in prepera this is not

591
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,880
Speaker 1: a joke. I was like, oh yeah, that true American,

592
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 1: and I got online to try to ascertain and figure

593
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:53,720
Speaker 1: out what the rules were. Reading the description of True American,

594
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:57,160
Speaker 1: by the way, A drinking game from New Girl left

595
00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 1: me more confused, and I thought that I was to

596
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 1: start with. So I don't know if that's a good

597
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 1: thing about that, but that's that's the point. That's the point,

598
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:07,960
Speaker 1: because if they're all those beers, you're gonna be confused

599
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 1: and in the night you're gonna Why did I do this? Why?

600
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 1: I one of the things that happened on the office,

601
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,719
Speaker 1: it was intentional. Greg Daniels, our showrunner, had come from

602
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 1: Saturday Night Live, and from the very beginning he felt

603
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:29,480
Speaker 1: like the ensemble experience was incredibly important. But the ensemble

604
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 1: experience not just amongst the actors, amongst everyone, and so

605
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 1: he had writers who were actors and actors who were writers,

606
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 1: and I know a New Girl, you guys had a

607
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 1: similar experience. You wrote an episode, you directed an episode.

608
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 1: Was that you or was that a part of the

609
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 1: culture you you feel like that that was created on

610
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 1: the show A little a little of both Liz Mayweather

611
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 1: is very She asked a lot of questions and loves

612
00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 1: hearing stories about personal life and incorporating things that you

613
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 1: may have done. And you know, that testament to all

614
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 1: the writers as well. They just you know, they want

615
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 1: to know, and they all know and knew that I

616
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 1: had aspirations to direct and to write. You know, I

617
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 1: would always have ideas on set as actors were always

618
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 1: pitching ideas, character storylines. My whole, the whole Winston being

619
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 1: a police officer was my idea, and then writing the

620
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 1: episode came because of that. The episode that I wrote

621
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 1: was about my character being being new to the force

622
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 1: but then meeting this woman that he really liked and

623
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 1: was vibing with, and then she finds out that she's

624
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 1: protesting the police, and so he's like, oh, so he's

625
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 1: now doesn't know if he's ashamed to be a cop

626
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 1: or if he's proud to be a guy. He doesn't know.

627
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 1: And so because because he's a black police officer, you know,

628
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 1: so he's like, uh wait, you know, and that came

629
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 1: from Twitter. So on the show, my character is named Ferguson.

630
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 1: At the time, there was a lot of civil unrest

631
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 1: based off what happened in Ferguson and people started tweeting me.

632
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:01,240
Speaker 1: They were like, oh, how's it feel to play a

633
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 1: black cop with a cat named Ferguson in these times?

634
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 1: And I was like, God, damn it if I get

635
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 1: one more tweet about this, and people started really asking

636
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 1: me questions went from being funny two serious, like, na, brother,

637
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:17,520
Speaker 1: you gotta speak up. What do you think about this?

638
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 1: And it's like, I'm just an actor, but okay. Uh

639
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:22,960
Speaker 1: So I went to Liz Maryweather because I genuinely started

640
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,600
Speaker 1: feeling uncomfortable. I asked her if I could address it

641
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 1: on the show, and so she said, why don't you

642
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:30,359
Speaker 1: write an episode? So she paired me with Rob rose

643
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 1: l one of our fantastic writer producers, and we came

644
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:36,400
Speaker 1: up with an episode and we addressed it in in

645
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 1: a way, you know, a very Network TV funny kind

646
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:42,200
Speaker 1: of way, but we still put some light on it

647
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:45,319
Speaker 1: and what could possibly go through the police officer's head

648
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 1: in that moment. He doesn't meet someone like that, you know,

649
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:50,960
Speaker 1: in these times that we're living in. So that was

650
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,320
Speaker 1: the reason why I wrote that one, but it was

651
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:55,799
Speaker 1: for her. It was like, please do it. And then

652
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:57,920
Speaker 1: directing they just asked, Hey, do you want to direct?

653
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:01,600
Speaker 1: Damn right? I do? Yeah, And that was easy. I was.

654
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 1: I want to say it's easy. The process was a

655
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:05,800
Speaker 1: lot more difficult than I thought it would be. But

656
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:09,760
Speaker 1: on set everyone was so everyone except for Max s Greenfield.

657
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 1: Everyone besides Max Screenfield was so kind. Max. Max was

658
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 1: intentionally a dick. Yeah, yeah, I had that too, Rain Wilson. Yeah,

659
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 1: and it makes it just it just to make it,

660
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:28,720
Speaker 1: just to make a diymmical. Yeah, just take that whatever

661
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 1: the little, maybe the teeniest amount of insecurity you might have,

662
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:37,279
Speaker 1: and just just twisted in. Yep it oh it. Even

663
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,920
Speaker 1: though you know they love you and they're messing with you,

664
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:43,600
Speaker 1: it's still it works. What they're doing is working. I'm

665
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:45,920
Speaker 1: getting more and more insecure as the day goes on.

666
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 1: I'm like my in over my head. You brought up Ferguson.

667
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:56,160
Speaker 1: Are you a cat guy? Um? This is gonna disappoint

668
00:35:56,200 --> 00:36:01,800
Speaker 1: a lot of people. No, in fact, hell no, you know,

669
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 1: I I don't mind. I don't mind cats anymore. When

670
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:06,279
Speaker 1: I was younger, my buddy used to have a bunch

671
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 1: of cats, and one of them, when it was a kitten,

672
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,759
Speaker 1: he said, oh, it's buttercut hold Buttercup. I said, oh, hey,

673
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:14,400
Speaker 1: Buttercup is so adorable. And we just got through playing basketball,

674
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:18,240
Speaker 1: so I had no shirt on. Buttercup goes and attaches

675
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:21,800
Speaker 1: to my chest and slides down and cuts up my

676
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:25,320
Speaker 1: chest on its way down. Because it was too fast,

677
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:27,800
Speaker 1: you didn't see it coming. You couldn't stop this attack

678
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:31,320
Speaker 1: if you tried. Cats are super quick and sneaky. I

679
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:34,400
Speaker 1: don't trust them, at least with dogs. They're loud and

680
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 1: you know they're coming. You know they're coming. This one

681
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:42,400
Speaker 1: cats and I watched Pet Cemetery and it was the

682
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 1: scary film. Yeah, so now I don't I don't think cats.

683
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 1: Is there a thing that fans talk to you about

684
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,239
Speaker 1: the most? Is there a moment from New Girl that

685
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:16,880
Speaker 1: people talk to you about the most? There's a couple Ferguson,

686
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 1: for sure. You know I'm joking, but cats are like

687
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:23,239
Speaker 1: incredible creatures. So people that cat people out there that

688
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:27,360
Speaker 1: I love to talk about Ferguson, But I would probably

689
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:30,839
Speaker 1: say one of the moments that people always bring up

690
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:33,799
Speaker 1: is Prince. You know, we had prints on our show

691
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:38,800
Speaker 1: for an episode, and that to me was one of

692
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:42,360
Speaker 1: the more significant moments in my just my life. You know,

693
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:46,319
Speaker 1: being on camera with Prince and being around him backstage

694
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 1: and or off camera and just talking and having him

695
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:53,360
Speaker 1: share stories and having him just Prince showed up to

696
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:58,240
Speaker 1: our rap party, which was crazy. That's awesome, It's super awesome.

697
00:37:58,280 --> 00:37:59,799
Speaker 1: And I said to I said, hey, you don't stick

698
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 1: around for a while, and he looks at me giggles. Goodness,

699
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:14,799
Speaker 1: no question done, get out of here. I don't think

700
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:18,080
Speaker 1: i've ever shared this story before. I would say the

701
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:24,360
Speaker 1: most quintessential Hollywood, you know when you put Hollywood in quotes,

702
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:28,920
Speaker 1: Hollywood moments of my entire life. I don't remember the event.

703
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:35,880
Speaker 1: It was some pre award show event at Chateau Marmont,

704
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 1: the famous Chateau marm at this point in my time,

705
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:42,880
Speaker 1: and I didn't even know there were bungalows at the

706
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,440
Speaker 1: Chateau Marmont. And by the way, if you're listening, there

707
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:49,080
Speaker 1: are bungalows at the Chateau Marmont. Some of these bungalows

708
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 1: are very nice, and at least one bungalow has a piano.

709
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 1: And something happened very late at night was someone said, oh,

710
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:02,440
Speaker 1: come into this bungalow. And I went into this bungalow

711
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 1: and there was Prince sitting at the piano playing Get

712
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:10,880
Speaker 1: the Chateau MArmand, and I thought, okay, well this is

713
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 1: it for me. This this is the moment. This is

714
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:17,920
Speaker 1: the Hollywood moment that you know, I never thought would come,

715
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:21,960
Speaker 1: but that has has suddenly brought itself here. So I

716
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:24,840
Speaker 1: don't know exactly the experience of working with him or

717
00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 1: hanging out with him, but how cool and amazing he is. Yeah. Oh,

718
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 1: you walk into a room and Princes playing the piano.

719
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:36,960
Speaker 1: You know you've made it, or at least you've been

720
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 1: invited somewhere where somebody's made it exactly. You're you're at

721
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:44,520
Speaker 1: the table, a kind of at the table. Yeah. Yeah,

722
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:48,600
Speaker 1: an incredible run a new girl. Now you guys are

723
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:51,840
Speaker 1: going back, as we talked about at the beginning, welcome

724
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:56,479
Speaker 1: to our show. You're rewatching it now in real time, right, Yeah,

725
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 1: I'm looking at it in real time right from where

726
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 1: I'm sitting. I have a tem be back here. I

727
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:03,759
Speaker 1: watch it. I take notes, I I do. I dive

728
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 1: back in and it's interesting. I find myself instead of

729
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 1: taking notes, I find myself laughing as a fan because

730
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:11,919
Speaker 1: I didn't get a chance to truly enjoy it. While

731
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:14,800
Speaker 1: it was on because you know, it's airing, we're filming.

732
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 1: It's airing, we're filming. Now. It's like I could go

733
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:20,680
Speaker 1: and binge it and forget that I'm supposed to be

734
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:23,279
Speaker 1: taking notes. You know. It's a it's a It just

735
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:27,239
Speaker 1: reminds me of a beautiful time in my career. Not

736
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 1: to say it's not great now, but you know, then

737
00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:31,520
Speaker 1: it was like I was younger and I was care

738
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 1: care free, I had you know, I was on the

739
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 1: television show just show it up. You know, I got

740
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:40,839
Speaker 1: kid Now, I got I got responsibilities. Does it bring

741
00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:44,000
Speaker 1: you back to the moments of shooting it as you're

742
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:47,320
Speaker 1: rewatching it? Absolutely, I don't know how it feels to you.

743
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 1: When I'm watching it, I forget about some of I

744
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:53,880
Speaker 1: have to remember some of the like negative moments. I

745
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:56,239
Speaker 1: tried to because I want to write those things down,

746
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 1: like that was something that was bugging me that day,

747
00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:00,920
Speaker 1: Like I can't remember, you know, and I try to

748
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 1: think about the negative stuff, but you can't because the

749
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 1: editors do a good job and making me look happy

750
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:11,399
Speaker 1: on those days. But uh, it definitely takes me back

751
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 1: to to that time. This is gonna sound Oh, this

752
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:16,719
Speaker 1: sounds cheesy, you know what I mean. So I'm not

753
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 1: that guy, but it definitely puts a warming sensation in

754
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 1: your belly. It's like Christmas when Santa comes out the chimney,

755
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:28,640
Speaker 1: or your drunk neighbor, the guy who shows up, you know,

756
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 1: the guy who'll doing your mom's Christmas black come here? Yeah,

757
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:44,600
Speaker 1: I know. I during the pandemic, I went back and

758
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 1: rewatched the Office as well, and it's interesting, you know,

759
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:52,320
Speaker 1: for us, a lot of the episodes, you know, we

760
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 1: were doing quite a bit of improving and stuff, and

761
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:57,000
Speaker 1: the first edit would come back at like forty three minutes.

762
00:41:57,440 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 1: For me, the thing that struck me the most was

763
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:02,239
Speaker 1: taking me back to the moments where we were when

764
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:06,840
Speaker 1: we were shooting it, and then also remembering what actually

765
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 1: made the cut, like what is actually a part of

766
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 1: from a narrative now you know, or what what got

767
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:14,840
Speaker 1: you know that that's itself like what got cut? Or

768
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:17,719
Speaker 1: yeah I know that For me, that was it. Do you?

769
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:20,440
Speaker 1: You obviously haven't gotten and your rewatch to the finale,

770
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:23,960
Speaker 1: any specific memories for you of your last days on

771
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 1: set or your last day Oh my gosh, oh my god.

772
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:32,040
Speaker 1: It was such a surreal moment. It was mixed feelings.

773
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:33,359
Speaker 1: I still think about it a lot of time when

774
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:35,040
Speaker 1: you watch it. They did such a great job of

775
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 1: capturing how we are actually feeling. You know, our finale

776
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:42,360
Speaker 1: is us leaving our loft. You know, we're standing in

777
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 1: there in this loft playing True American, and then we

778
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 1: end up we fast forward on the show to us

779
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 1: having kids, playing True American with kids, and then we

780
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:56,480
Speaker 1: rewind back to us in being this empty loft. Now,

781
00:42:56,760 --> 00:42:59,320
Speaker 1: on that day when we were shooting, I remember behind

782
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:03,319
Speaker 1: camera they all showed up, all the writers are there,

783
00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 1: everyone was there, and everyone was emotional. It was very

784
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 1: except for Jake Johnson. I think actually he left immediately

785
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:15,480
Speaker 1: He's like peace, Uh, but it was we were all

786
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:17,720
Speaker 1: It was a very emotional time. You know, you spend

787
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 1: you know, seven years on a television show and you

788
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:21,680
Speaker 1: get to know so many people and your it's a

789
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:23,520
Speaker 1: true family. You spent so many hours with each other.

790
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:27,120
Speaker 1: I remember us being on that this empty box and

791
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:30,680
Speaker 1: this empty loft going like they're clearing out the stage

792
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:33,560
Speaker 1: for real, They're not gonna put props back in here.

793
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 1: It's actually empty. It was. It was an unbelievable feeling.

794
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 1: They saved the last moment for our last day. They

795
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:45,359
Speaker 1: did it right, you know, you know, and fans will

796
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:48,040
Speaker 1: and fans don't know. Just then then they find out

797
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:49,480
Speaker 1: that it was all just a big prank by me,

798
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:52,360
Speaker 1: which was my character was like, oh, we didn't have

799
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 1: to move out the loft. Look at this kind of

800
00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:56,800
Speaker 1: leaves the door open for a reunion, you know, but

801
00:43:57,239 --> 00:44:05,399
Speaker 1: who knows. That's awesome. Um April eight woke, it's back

802
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 1: for season two. By the way, I saw, JB Smooth

803
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:12,200
Speaker 1: is on it. So is it now in your contract

804
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:14,960
Speaker 1: that everything you do has to have JB Smooth? Or

805
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:17,719
Speaker 1: or maybe everything he does has to have you, or man,

806
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:21,040
Speaker 1: it has to I can't go a day without talking

807
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:23,839
Speaker 1: to j B. I can't. I love that dude so much. Man,

808
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:28,359
Speaker 1: he's so funny when I tell you so, directing him,

809
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:32,480
Speaker 1: he plays my quote unquote father and new girl, and uh,

810
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:35,000
Speaker 1: I got a chance to direct him, and you know

811
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:37,879
Speaker 1: it's not really directing him. He kind of jab gonna

812
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:42,320
Speaker 1: do a JB Gonna do. It was so funny. The

813
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 1: way he improvises has me in tears. You don't want

814
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:48,560
Speaker 1: to cut anything. I can give you a story about JB.

815
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:52,360
Speaker 1: We were doing barbershop actually when we were in barbershop together.

816
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:54,600
Speaker 1: You know, you do a table read, you pretty much

817
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:56,719
Speaker 1: stick to the script so the writers and everybody can

818
00:44:56,760 --> 00:45:00,400
Speaker 1: see what works, you know, changing roads whatever. That's the point, right,

819
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:03,200
Speaker 1: just to see what works. I'm a table read is

820
00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 1: that you read the words that were written, so you

821
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:08,759
Speaker 1: see what works. Yes, that's correct, Go ahead, that's the point.

822
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:14,160
Speaker 1: J B goes. JB just goes left. I mean he

823
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:18,200
Speaker 1: added maybe five minutes of dialogue to this one particular scene.

824
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 1: And I tell you the writers were like, bingo added

825
00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 1: it to the movie. His character in the movie now

826
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 1: has this huge art, like this big that was way

827
00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:30,440
Speaker 1: more than it was on the page, and it's brilliant.

828
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:33,439
Speaker 1: It was. It was almost like they left it intentionally

829
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:35,800
Speaker 1: because they knew JB was going to do something with it.

830
00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:38,399
Speaker 1: And when I say in tears at the table read,

831
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:41,200
Speaker 1: then him and Sad with the entertainer started improvising together,

832
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:45,719
Speaker 1: going back and forth, roasting each other, improvising full on

833
00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:47,880
Speaker 1: jokes to each other at the table read, and I

834
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:50,800
Speaker 1: just thought this is gonna be crazy, and I and

835
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:52,440
Speaker 1: I and that's how it was on set, and I

836
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:54,840
Speaker 1: was like this, if I could do barbershop for the

837
00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:56,920
Speaker 1: rest of my life. I'll do barbershop for the rest

838
00:45:56,920 --> 00:46:00,319
Speaker 1: of my life. So yeah, that that's just one story

839
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:03,160
Speaker 1: about JB of many that where you go, hey man,

840
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:09,920
Speaker 1: the lines are, oh another quick story. I'm sorry. I

841
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:12,759
Speaker 1: was sorry. I was pitching something and I needed JB

842
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 1: to like send a funny little clip. I said, just

843
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:18,760
Speaker 1: like ten seconds anything you want. But in this parameter

844
00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 1: he sends to me, I think at eight minute video,

845
00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:25,799
Speaker 1: I say, he's just like, hey man, So here you're

846
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:28,160
Speaker 1: pitching the show man. Look, man, look when you're pitching

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Speaker 1: the show, anytime you go in there, what you want

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Speaker 1: your hand. You see, just have a just have a

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Speaker 1: whole bunch of toilet paper on your hand. So you

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Speaker 1: get there and and you get there to your to

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Speaker 1: your pitch, They're gonna go, what the hell is he

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Speaker 1: throwing them off unmer staying I'm looking at the toilet paper.

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Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying, He goes, Or what you

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Speaker 1: wanna do is you wanna have the meeting real early,

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Speaker 1: like five thirty am. It's like just every butt crack

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Speaker 1: of Dawn. Just have a real early pitch meeting, and

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Speaker 1: you go in there and you sit down and just

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Speaker 1: have a pocket full of loose grapes, just loose grapes,

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Speaker 1: and just every once in a while when you're talking

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Speaker 1: to you're talking, just Papa, loose grape in your mouth,

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Speaker 1: welcome me, bearscome me Bear's work. And then he goes, oh,

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Speaker 1: and about all these things you need to do. So

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Speaker 1: amazing the tears. It's like, Dab, I just want you

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Speaker 1: to say, I a doors this show. Oh gosh, you

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Speaker 1: are the best. Thank you so much. Woke. That's right,

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Speaker 1: April Amen, Season two premier. Have you had fun doing that? Absolutely? Absolutely?

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Speaker 1: The cast on this show, the creators of the show,

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Speaker 1: I mean, the best group of folks. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: we got Sishi's and made a Blake Anderson T. Murph

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Speaker 1: this season. We got Amy Garcia on the show. You

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Speaker 1: named Miguel Piso, Marky Degings, we got Billy magnuson this show.

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Speaker 1: This season. I'm telling you, folks would be really really shot,

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Speaker 1: often pleasantly surprised, you know, with what they're going to see,

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Speaker 1: you know, just creating this kind of weird environment talking

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Speaker 1: about certain things that are kind of political, but you

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Speaker 1: leave it so open ended. You're following the lens of

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Speaker 1: a guy who doesn't know which way who he is politically.

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Speaker 1: You're following his view and you're like, hey, that's kind

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Speaker 1: of how I am. Like, Oh, you know, in the

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Speaker 1: world of misinformation and left or right or whatever the

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Speaker 1: hell you want to be on he's that person. He's like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, I think a lot of

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Speaker 1: people will resonate with this character and what he's going through.

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Speaker 1: So I'm excited for folks to see it. Awesome, Well,

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Speaker 1: I cannot wait to see it as well. You are hilarious, engaging,

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Speaker 1: such a pleasure to actually talk to you. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for coming on. Man, you as well, Man,

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Speaker 1: you as well. I'm a huge fan, dude. I think

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Speaker 1: you're hilarious and and that, and I'm super like honored

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Speaker 1: that you would have me on your show. So I man,

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Speaker 1: I really do appreciate it. Thank you so much. Urn,

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Speaker 1: It's like I've always known you. Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for joining me today on the podcast. This was truly

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Speaker 1: my pleasure. To the rest of you, I'm gonna see

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Speaker 1: you next week for another episode of Off the Beat.

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Speaker 1: In the meantime, make sure to like, subscribe, comment you

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Speaker 1: know the drill and if I were you, I would

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Speaker 1: also tune into La Mourns podcast. Welcome to our show

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Speaker 1: because us podcasters we gotta stick together until next time. Everybody,

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Speaker 1: have a great week. Off The Beat is hosted an

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Speaker 1: executive produced by me Brian Baumgartner, alongside our executive producer Langley.

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Speaker 1: Our producers are d A Go Tapia, Liz Hayes, Emily Carr,

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Speaker 1: and Hannah Harris. Our talent producer, He's Ryan Papa Zachary.

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Speaker 1: Our theme song Bubble and Squeak performed by my great

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Speaker 1: friend Creed Bratton, and the episode was mixed by seth

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Speaker 1: Olandski