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Speaker 1 Now I can do anything. I like my friends.
I like my podcast. I like my Jason.
I like my Sean. I like my Smartlist.
I like everybody. Let's go.
It's an all-new Smartlist. Smart.

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Speaker 1 First of all, though, I would just like to say really fast, happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you.
Oh, Will, happy birthday.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God. Happy birthday to you.

Speaker 1 And it's on. May the fourth be with you.

Speaker 1 Which is one of my biggest regrets that somebody came up with that. I love it.
Are you kidding?

Speaker 1 It bumps me up. No, because

Speaker 1 it's just completely

Speaker 1 taken my birthday hostage forever. Well, not for me.

Speaker 2 You're lucky you're not born on

Speaker 2 420, right? Isn't that the with all the kids like to smoke their weed on the 420?

Speaker 1 Hey, man, I've been looking for ways for you to sound older. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And I think we just found it. You know what I mean? How about this? Does this sound

Speaker 1 how? It's also, but

Speaker 1 Jason, for you and me, it's also, more importantly, it's Cinco de Quattro. It's Cinco de Quattro, very big day in

Speaker 1 the

Speaker 2 people that know about arrested.

Speaker 1 In the arrest development canon, Sean, so thank you.

Speaker 2 Sean, thank you for following the show.

Speaker 2 Speaking of Sean, let's take a moment to celebrate Sean's Tony Award nomination.

Speaker 1 Yeah, don't wave it away. It's a big deal.
Yep. Thank you.

Speaker 2 And very well deserved.

Speaker 1 Good lord, is that show good?

Speaker 2 Again, just to repeat, anybody going through the tri-state area,

Speaker 2 stop in New York City. It's a fun town, and there's a great show.

Speaker 1 What's the theater called

Speaker 2 Goodnight Oscar at the Belasco Theater?

Speaker 2 Some people call it Tabasco, but that's just so they can remember it.

Speaker 1 Jason, do you know what the Tony awards are short for? Do you know what the actual name of the award is? Anthony's. Closed? No.

Speaker 1 Sean, you know, right? Antoinette. Antoinette Perry Award.

Speaker 1 Really? Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 God, you know, listener, are you shocked as me at how smart Will every once in a while is?

Speaker 1 I am.

Speaker 2 You'd also be shocked to know that he's actually 67 today.

Speaker 1 He's fantastic.

Speaker 1 He does have a, you do have like an endless well of just knowledge and stuff. I got a lot of time.
I got a lot of time on my hands. Clearly.

Speaker 1 Jason, I said to Jason yesterday, I said, hey, do you want to read this thing that I just wrote? And he said, please don't.

Speaker 2 Please don't. No, he said, he said, oh, I'm going to send you that script.
I said, please don't. He says, what do you mean? I go, I don't, I don't, I don't even read my own texts.

Speaker 2 He's like, well, thank you for your honesty. I just thought, you know, it's just a fun script.
I said, there's nothing fun about reading.

Speaker 1 He did say that.

Speaker 2 Yeah, my parents really screwed me. Now, I'm watching Sean there itch his eye.
Sean, Sean just had

Speaker 2 what we call it, ocular surgery.

Speaker 1 Laser surgery. We don't call it that, but he had a

Speaker 1 turn to the doctor and said, you can't read. And Sean said, boy, do I have some good news for you?

Speaker 1 But he does have a detached retina. So Sean's got a partially detached retina.
Jason's got a detached personality.

Speaker 1 So we have, hey, hey, yo.

Speaker 1 detached list.

Speaker 1 But Sean, you're still doing seven shows this week after laser surge. Yeah, my eye.
I'm not supposed to read or dart my eye around a lot.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 that was the direction from the director.

Speaker 2 The doctor said, don't dart your eyes.

Speaker 1 Wait, it was his note from the director and the doctor.

Speaker 1 No, and I said to both of you guys, I'm slowly turning into my mother. I'm going to lose my eye.

Speaker 2 I mean,

Speaker 2 you better knock on wood. Now, your mom lost her eye from cancer, you said, not from a detached retina shock.

Speaker 1 She was two years old, yeah.

Speaker 2 She was two years old?

Speaker 1 She was two years old when she lost her eye, yeah. Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 You know, we're still looking for it. So, wait,

Speaker 1 and so I went in and I get vasovagal. Do you guys get that?

Speaker 1 Hey, man, we're trying to keep it clean over here too.

Speaker 1 What do you mean? It's when you get nauseous and faint from like, you know, needles or poking at your eyeballs.

Speaker 2 That happened to me once.

Speaker 1 Oh, I get it all the time.

Speaker 2 That happened to me once. So you just go out if you get nervous about it.
I am like, I have to lay down.

Speaker 1 I need a fan. I need coolness.
I'm going to throw up. I'm going to

Speaker 1 feel better with a fan around. Let's be honest.

Speaker 2 What about doing the show? Do you ever feel it coming on just with nerves for the show?

Speaker 1 No, no, that's different. This is all doctor health related stuff.
Like if I'm in, I got, I passed out getting contact lenses once.

Speaker 1 I passed out like,

Speaker 1 I tried like 10 years ago to get Botox and I passed out.

Speaker 2 But you're trying to get, in fairness, you were trying to get it directly from the cow, right?

Speaker 1 Sean, what would have been amazing is if you passed out going in for Botox and you fell and cut yourself and then you had to get stitches and then you passed out while trying to get stitches from the passing of cats.

Speaker 1 I do. I get it so bad.
You guys don't get that? no man

Speaker 2 you know it just occurred to me we're doing a full talk show we do it we we do a talk show and right now we're doing the regis and kathy lee patter beforehand right what are you talking about well i used to watch that show and i'm like how do they come up with this stuff regis just comes in with his coffee talks about his weekend and it it covers as as full national entertainment for 20 minutes i could talk about 9 000 things for an hour i i don't i don't think people are interested right i mean what are we what are we doing?

Speaker 1 What Jason's trying to say is he's not interested in your life.

Speaker 2 I'm not interested in him.

Speaker 1 He's not interested in himself. Let's get somebody else.

Speaker 1 We are going to get somebody interesting, but I do want to say Jason was so grumpy yesterday.

Speaker 2 Oh, my God.

Speaker 2 I was embarrassed.

Speaker 1 Jason and I played golf the last three days.

Speaker 1 And then yesterday,

Speaker 1 none of us played particularly well. Tuesday, we got to play with

Speaker 1 football great legend Gareth Bale, who is just an ass.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I mean, just an asset.
Oh, you had to be like, freaking. This guy's a real god.

Speaker 1 I was, God, he's unreal, right? Yeah, you're a little nervous.

Speaker 2 It was like you were playing with Charlize Theron. I was so, yeah.

Speaker 1 Hey, man.

Speaker 1 How did it come about you guys just play golf with all these people? They just randomly show up. You host a talk show, bro.
Yeah. I know, but I'm just saying, like, how do you organize that?

Speaker 2 Well, we met this guy up at some celeb golf tournament.

Speaker 1 And then that's what happens. Hey, let's go.
And then we swap numbers. You know, he's a good guy.
Yeah, we do. We swap numbers.

Speaker 1 we go like hey man we want to play golf with you Gareth Bailey so if Charlize wanted to play golf you would let him play I don't know I'm not answering this listen I'm pleading now I'm now pleading the fifth so anyway I was a I was a real so he was he was a group he he sped out of the parking lot and to the point that 30 seconds after he left I had to call him go hey man are you okay why

Speaker 2 he did call me as I was getting out of the parking lot I was like oh no maybe I've pissed him off because I didn't really say goodbye to anybody I just had to get out of there before I embarrassed myself by like going into some some sort of I played a bad golf round rage.

Speaker 1 No, but here's the case.

Speaker 1 Here's what happened. He went like this.
I was putting my stuff in the back of my car and his window is open. And then as he's putting it up and his car, he's now in drive, he looks over.

Speaker 1 I'm not exaggerating. He goes like this.

Speaker 1 I will.

Speaker 1 And then zip up the window and killed that. And I was like, fucking.

Speaker 1 All because you played a bad game.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I just, I play too much to play that badly. And I just need to be more disciplined.

Speaker 2 And I need to actually really if I'm gonna if I'm gonna be upset about not playing well I need to have a reason but I thought

Speaker 1 I need to start like really training or something Jay I thought about it I thought about this and this is not a joke we joke about this a lot we're gonna get to your guests I feel badly for them but I just want to say this you yesterday and he does this a lot did this last two days

Speaker 1 We're going to, everybody's like, hey, do you want a little bit of food? They got a little snack shack and I get like a little chicken salad, maybe a thing.

Speaker 1 And Jason, the last two days goes, yeah, just get me a cup of

Speaker 1 sliced apples.

Speaker 1 That's all he had. No, and I'm like, he's starving to death.
That's what's going on.

Speaker 2 He's literally Bill can't shake these five or ten pounds.

Speaker 1 Dude, Jason, what's I told Jason? If he loses 10 pounds, I'm taking him to the fucking hospital.

Speaker 1 He ate that. Yeah, you don't need to lose any more weight.
Sean, he ate a cup of sliced apples. That's it.
I'm like, that's not enough when you're

Speaker 2 nuts on top of them. No, I'm fucking kidding.

Speaker 1 Don't you get tired during the day from not eating? Yes, tired.

Speaker 2 I came home. You know what I did? Well, there's the sickness.
I came home, I saw Amanda in the kitchen. She's like, Hi, what's wrong? I go, nothing.
I'm a disaster.

Speaker 2 I'm embarrassed because I'm in a bad mood because of golf. She goes, Really? I go, yeah.
She goes, we want to talk about it. I said, you don't want any part of me.
I'm going to the gym.

Speaker 2 So I put on my gym clothes and I went and I ran on the elliptical for an hour and then sweated out in the hot box for an hour.

Speaker 2 So two hours, I just had to get into a deep sweat to get all the rage out of me.

Speaker 1 By the way, what you don't hear in there is any nutrition going in. I know.
That's what I'm saying. So his blood sugar is plummeting.
That's what I mean.

Speaker 1 Your body is like screaming at you for like fuck up. Both of you just see that.
There we go.

Speaker 2 I don't know what the hell you're talking about.

Speaker 1 Let's get to your guest, huh? Yeah. Unless you got some other right.
Yes.

Speaker 2 No, I do. I want to get to the great guest, but just want to remind anybody: if you're interested in what you're hearing, we have actual pictures of us doing this too.

Speaker 2 Moving pictures there on Macs, Smartless on the Road, the dock

Speaker 2 that me, Will, and Sean are enjoying, but we're a a little biased. We're in it.
But if you're interested, it's on Max there,

Speaker 2 our little docus series called Smartless on the Road.

Speaker 1 You know, May 23rd on Max was the day that that's,

Speaker 1 right?

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah. And they all came out at the same time.

Speaker 1 And you can get all six episodes at the same time. Yeah, if you're looking at that.
Binger. Binge away.
Yeah. All right.
All right. All right.
Okay. My guest.

Speaker 2 Fellas, listeners.

Speaker 2 Do you like funny people? Sure do.

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Speaker 1 Kind people?

Speaker 2 What if you manage to pack that into one woman? Add two scoops of charm and a cup of conversation skills, and what do you get? You get our next guest, gang.

Speaker 2 She's an American actress starring in a new show, which I'm very lucky enough to be a producer on. She's a new mom, an ex-tennis player, and horseback rider.

Speaker 2 She's a native Californian, a proud Sagittarius, and the daughter of Lane and Gary. Please welcome Pure Sunlight Wrapped in Skin, Miss Kaylee Cuoco.

Speaker 1 Look at her go.

Speaker 1 Look at her, Cuoco.

Speaker 2 Have you ever been called Sunshine Wrapped in Skin?

Speaker 1 No, that was so sweet. That was a first.

Speaker 1 I was literally very much

Speaker 1 enjoying your guys' car. I was trying to hold my hand over my mouth because I was dying laughing at the whole rage thing.
You're the only one.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, Sean, at your disorder, which I think I have, the fainting disorder with the needles. That's truly? Yes.
Well,

Speaker 2 then that gets me into my first question.

Speaker 2 During my deep research, because I'm a crack journalist,

Speaker 2 you had a horse riding accident where you almost lost your leg. I'm not exposing anything big here.
This was already out.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 How did you deal with that?

Speaker 1 You're never exposing anything big, don't worry.

Speaker 1 So, hey, Will, that sounds like a sexual insult. No, that's good.

Speaker 2 Now, I'm going to let you correct that for a second because it really sounded like a bad thing.

Speaker 1 No, I just wanted to interrupt and just say hi, Kaylee. How are you? Hi, Kaylee.

Speaker 1 I feel like we've only met once before at something that you were hosting. You were backstage and you were like in a complete blackout, it seemed like.
Not drug or drink.

Speaker 1 No, you were just, yeah, you had to do a bunch of stuff.

Speaker 2 She's probably focused. She's professional.
She's focused.

Speaker 1 I've never been focused in my life. That is shocking.
But I'm so glad to be here. I'm nervous.
You guys, this is like one of the best podcasts. And my sister, it's her favorite one.

Speaker 1 And she's like, if you mess this up. Come on.
Well, there's nothing to mess up. There's nothing to mess up.
This is the best it gets.

Speaker 2 We're not going to let you get a word in edgewise. Don't worry about it.

Speaker 1 Jason's got a big question for you. So settle in.
I hope you pack to lunch.

Speaker 1 So you're riding a horse.

Speaker 2 You're riding a horse. You're jumping over gates and going around barrels and whatever the fuck you do.
And then you get, and then, and then, then the horse falls or you fall.

Speaker 2 The horse falls on you, lands on the leg, is stuck on the leg, broke, broken the leg. Did you ask the horse to get off? Did the horse get off immediately?

Speaker 1 Wait, how long ago is this? This was a while ago. This was, um, let's see, it was beginning of Big Bang, and we've been probably, I don't know, 12, 13 years ago.
Oh, my God. Okay,

Speaker 2 so, guys, she almost lost her leg.

Speaker 1 I once asked a horse to get off during a Big Bang.

Speaker 2 show, Will.

Speaker 1 So it's his birthday. He's on fire.

Speaker 2 You really almost lost your leg on this.

Speaker 1 Well, yeah, no, it was a bad accident. It was a very bad accident.
And yeah, I had fallen. The fall didn't hurt me.

Speaker 1 He ended up stepping on me. And I remember, I know.
And the crazy part is

Speaker 1 when it faces. Oh, my God.
Sean's down. And he can't dart his eyes.
So he's just screwed. Scotty.

Speaker 1 Scotty hit the paddles.

Speaker 1 So he said, don't fade. Kaylee, how old were you when this happened? I was, my God, it came to me.
Early 20s? I was probably 22. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 2 So, so now, but you had to sign something before surgery that gives the doctor permission that once they get in there and they see that maybe we might not be able to save the leg, that you won't sue them if you wake up without the leg.

Speaker 1 Yes, it was that serious.

Speaker 1 It was really serious. So I had to go under.
I had to sign something. Yeah, it's exactly right.
And luckily I came out and I was. So, but wait, talk to, do you remember?

Speaker 2 You probably don't remember because you were so under anesthesia, but when you first woke up, was your first look down to see if the leg was still there? You remember that?

Speaker 1 Yes, totally. Oh, yeah.
No, I have a very,

Speaker 1 yeah. How, how, what are we talking about? We're talking about it's separated from your body.
Like

Speaker 1 I had a compound fracture. So for those who don't know, it's the bone that comes out of your leg.
Yes.

Speaker 1 Wait, where,

Speaker 1 which bone? Oh, that's what I've seen. My tibia fibulus.
It was near my ankle and my knee. My bone's always coming out.

Speaker 1 Will, this is family. Will's always caught with his bone out.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, right. So you had to.
That's what it's called. Okay, sorry.

Speaker 1 I'm going to have to update my

Speaker 2 first spit take in 100%.

Speaker 1 I'm going to have to update my dating profile. That's what it's called.

Speaker 1 I woke up and it was. You're creating a compound fracture.

Speaker 1 Yes. Okay, so wait.
Don't come in here. I've got a compound fracture.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 So your bone is sticking out of your top part of your thigh or your bottom part of your thigh? No, no, no, no, no, no. Ankle, ankle, knee.
Okay. So there was two.
Yep. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And so it just was a horrible, horrible, horrible break. And I had been.
Why did you say it didn't hurt? No, it did. Oh, no.

Speaker 1 It did hurt. Oh, my God.
I was going to say, when I fell.

Speaker 1 The fall didn't break my leg. My fall wasn't a big deal.
He stepped at me and I remember clear as day because it takes a second when something is that bad.

Speaker 1 I was like, did I, did I just fall on a whole like thing of leaves? Cause I heard all the cracking.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So I was like, are there leaves? And it took me like five or 10 seconds to actually realize it wasn't just 400 leaves.
It was my bones. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So what do you have pins and rods in there? Yeah. I have, you can do.

Speaker 2 There's you set off metal detectors?

Speaker 1 No, I always thought I would, but it never happened.

Speaker 1 No, no. God, what was the recovery like for that? Like, just, you know what's crazy? So I I was shooting Big Bang.
It was on a Friday after work. And so I was supposed to go to work on Monday.

Speaker 1 They pushed me behind the bar, right?

Speaker 2 They gave you like a bar job.

Speaker 1 Oh my gosh. Yes.
I'm like, I have to call Chuck Laurie and tell him right now that the great Chuck Laurie. Just, yes, the great Chuck Laurie, but you don't want to make that call.

Speaker 1 And so they literally didn't think I would like walk for three months.

Speaker 1 They thought I would not walk for three months. I was walking in a week with a boot.
I was back to work in two weeks. It was like miraculous.
Wow.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I mean, I, you know, they always say the worst, and then I ended up being okay, but like, it, they were very so.

Speaker 1 Wait, you, but you still now have, because listening to this story, I'm on pins and needles. Do you actually have pins in there for real? Yes, I do.

Speaker 2 They didn't take those out. They're not planning on taking those out?

Speaker 1 No, I went back in years later and I was like, is this bad to have in there? And they said, honestly, the surgery would be such a pain for you. Like, if they're not bothering you, leave it.
So

Speaker 1 I'm, um, I know. So, can you run and jump and do anything? Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 Do you have fun scars on your bottom of your leg?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I do. That's cool.
I got some cool scars. I don't have any good scars.

Speaker 2 You guys have any good scars?

Speaker 1 No. I do.
What makes you feel like you're badass? I fell off the bunk bed when I was a kid, and I have on the side of my head.

Speaker 1 Oh, bless you. You're a dresser.
Oh, the bunk bed. I've never met a guy that fell off the top bunk.

Speaker 2 You know, they usually have little bars up there to help. I had a bar on the arm.

Speaker 1 Although you just confirmed something that I've long suspected.

Speaker 1 That you're a top. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, I was going to say it, and I was like, you know what? We'll say it. I do have this scar.

Speaker 2 Wait, Seanie. Wait, there it is.
Yeah, that's called a belly.

Speaker 1 Sean, you've lost so much fucking weight. I'm really lost a lot of weight.
I know, but I'll gain it right away. Will, what did I get you for your birthday? Sean sent me today this fucking asshole.

Speaker 1 He sent me four large things of ice cream, and he said, This is what I use to get fat.

Speaker 1 The steak.

Speaker 1 This is what I eat to get fat. Happy birthday.
And I'm like, you asshole, because now I got to eat it.

Speaker 1 It's calling me. If it's in the freezer.

Speaker 2 What kind of ice cream was it?

Speaker 1 It's the best. Hagen has chocolate and coffee and vanilla.
Yeah. It's the best.
Hagen does. So creative.
It's the best. You either go with the best or you don't.

Speaker 2 You've gotten into it since then, right, Will?

Speaker 1 You opened it up

Speaker 1 this morning. I had cake last night with the kids.
We had ice cream cake, that's my favorite, and yellow cake with chocolate frosting. That's That's exactly right.
Did you use the cake lady?

Speaker 1 No, no,

Speaker 1 Mercy made it,

Speaker 1 who is here, and

Speaker 1 she's a great cake. The cake lady is great, but Mercy makes an incredible cake.
And so I will say, because we talked about it earlier, Jason, you going in, I ate the cake.

Speaker 1 I ate early with the kids, and about 45 minutes after eating two pieces of cake, because one of each,

Speaker 1 I went, no, motherfucker. And I went down.
I came down into the gym and I worked on it for an hour. Oh, you did.
You have to for you. Did you sip into the rubber suit?

Speaker 1 Yeah, of course I always wear the rubber suit, as you know.

Speaker 1 We'll be right back.

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Speaker 1 Kaylee, you always look so thin.

Speaker 1 Do you go crazy with junk food at all, ever? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Do you? I mean, you know, I definitely do. You know what else, Kaylee? You've got great skin.
I've always noticed that about you.

Speaker 1 You've got really nice.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 you've got really nice skin. Well, that's so nice.
Thank you. I know it's really nice to have a work thing this morning and not have to do any hair or makeup whatsoever.
I was very excited.

Speaker 2 You know, that's on purpose. You know, while we get to look at each other,

Speaker 2 you know, it's like, I don't want anyone to have to go, ah,

Speaker 2 hair and makeup and the whole.

Speaker 1 I mean, you guys have to look at me, but other than that, no one else. Why do you have such good skin? Do you stay out of the sun?

Speaker 1 No, I don't stay out of the sun. I've got quite a skin regimen, all my little products.

Speaker 2 But you were very good about putting on Sunblock when you were almost a semi-pro tennis star when you were a youngster, yes.

Speaker 1 Wait, what? Let's get into it. Yes,

Speaker 2 she decided at 16, I could go this way or we could try acting.

Speaker 1 You were a tennis player? I did. I played tennis my whole juniors when I was younger.
Yeah, that's all I did.

Speaker 1 And I really thought I was going to be a professional tennis player when I was much younger. Where was that? In here.
Camarillo. Yeah, in Camarillo and then Southern California.

Speaker 1 But I traveled all over the country and I loved it. And then realized, oh my God, and I I was auditioning and working.
And then I got my first show.

Speaker 1 And I was like, to be a professional tennis player, you got to really just do that. I thought, I don't know if I can give myself to both.
So I was like, I'm never going to play again.

Speaker 1 And I put my rackets down at like 16, but I played.

Speaker 1 very competitively for years and years as a young teen. Wow.
And traveled all over and I loved it. Yeah, I loved it.
It's so hard. That takes so much training and so much dedication.

Speaker 2 I loved it. Do you still play a tiny bit?

Speaker 1 So I stopped for years. You know, I think when you're competitive in any sport, it's not fun.

Speaker 1 The fun kind of leaves a little bit. So to play for fun was not something I wanted to do.

Speaker 1 So over COVID, my girlfriend, who is my oldest friend, who was my doubles partner as a young, when we were really young, she's like, let's start playing again.

Speaker 1 So we started playing doubles together during COVID and like entered tournaments. It was hysterical.
And had, I loved it.

Speaker 2 Because it's socially distant, right?

Speaker 1 That's why you could do it during COVID. That's why Will got me back into golf, son of a bitch.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I heard that you had some rage, but that was an interesting story.

Speaker 1 Real issues.

Speaker 1 Which time did you hear about?

Speaker 1 You talked about the time the guy did it charges Tesla?

Speaker 1 That's one of the greatest stories ever.

Speaker 2 Now, see, now that's a perfect example of me two years ago versus now.

Speaker 2 I exit myself from the situation before I'm accountable for my knowledge.

Speaker 2 I will separate myself from people and be and just deal deal with them i will say that he did approach all of us who were playing with him yesterday and said

Speaker 1 one but one one by one i'm not joking and he said hey man i'm really sorry that uh that i've been kind of grinding and cranky today and he went and i heard him say it to the other guys and i thought

Speaker 1 this is a new jason sweet

Speaker 2 my beautiful wife amanda is teaching me how to be a better man kaylee

Speaker 1 guys don't fight

Speaker 1 so bad i just want to know if she had rage when you played when you

Speaker 2 was your worst moment did you ever say you can't be serious?

Speaker 1 Oh my God.

Speaker 1 Are you kidding? I broke so many rackets. I had a real bad attitude, actually.
I just really to this day, you don't want to play Scrabble with me. I am the worst.
I ever played with you.

Speaker 1 You don't want to play Scrabble. I'll kick your ass in Scrabble.
Exactly. That's how I get too.
I lose my shit. I love to win.
I don't fuck around. It's not a joke to me.
Game night is not.

Speaker 1 No one wants to let me participate in game night because I don't make it fun for anybody.

Speaker 2 Do you have a game night going right now?

Speaker 1 Like in this moment? No,

Speaker 1 because because Shawnee, sometimes you do game nights, I like game nights, we love game nights,

Speaker 1 we are obsessed.

Speaker 2 But again, you say we, we're talking about Tom Pelfrey, are we not?

Speaker 1 Me and Tom Pelfrey, we love game nights, easy on the eyes, what a guy.

Speaker 1 I love back.

Speaker 1 Is that

Speaker 1 your guy? Is Tom Pelfrey your guy? Is that your guy? Tom Pelfrey's my guy. We love game nights.
Okay, I met him because of it's really, I have to think, Jason.

Speaker 2 They met at the Ozark rap party, if you can believe that.

Speaker 1 Sweetwill. You were the reason I met him.
Yes.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Now,

Speaker 2 walk us through this story.

Speaker 2 Did he know you were coming or did you know he was going to be there? Was there any sort of setup there at all?

Speaker 1 I don't remember. I knew.
So we have the same, I'm sure you've heard this story a million times, but we have the same manager.

Speaker 1 And she, the December, that past December, she had said, I want to set, I want to set you up with someone that I know. And I said, it was too soon after my last relationship.

Speaker 1 I was like, no, I'm not ready. She goes, noted, fine.
So in April, I was going to New York to promote flight attendant. And my manager, Andrea, was like, Yeah, so it's interesting.
You're sure.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 You can edit the applause in later. That would be great.

Speaker 2 Yep. And we put a little in for Big Bang earlier.
Go ahead.

Speaker 1 Thank you. No, thank you.

Speaker 2 These are great shows.

Speaker 1 These are, thank you. Please continue.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 she decided to come with me to New York to just hang out. And she goes, actually, I'm going to, my other client is going, I'm going to see my other client there.

Speaker 1 And she didn't even really say it was Tom, but she said, I'm going to go to the Ozark premiere and it's during the week. And do you want to come with me? And it wasn't.
You were like, what's Ozark?

Speaker 1 Nobody knows what that is. 100%.
I've no, I've never heard of the show. I didn't want to go.

Speaker 1 And so she said, come with me. And I was like, I was like, okay.
And I went with her and got all dolled up. I knew I would meet him, of course, but it didn't occur to me about anything else.

Speaker 1 And when I got there, we were a little late. And so everyone was piling into the theater.
I didn't have a minute to meet him. And I was actually standing near, waiting in the line of the restroom.

Speaker 1 I was faced away and I overheard, you know he's got a very sexy voice mr. Tom Pelfrey

Speaker 1 and I overheard him say to our manager where is this Kayleigh

Speaker 2 and I turned around and it was like she's right in front of you waiting to take a dump

Speaker 1 and you were like that's what I said yeah that's what I said to him and he thought it was really cool that I was so open um no i saw him and it was like this very strange like the world kind of stopped really yeah yeah it was really wild and he gave me this huge bear hug and it like i said there were so many people piling and it wasn't a moment to really talk and so we all just i was like nice to meet you yeah i mean he did real easy with that quick smile right he's got a nice that laugh come on yeah infectious and so how many years has that been going on we've been together for one year we got pregnant two months in we have a baby we were like boom boom boom we're in let's go back to my room yeah you know we're not 20 anymore we were like we doing this or not?

Speaker 2 So Matilda is a full month.

Speaker 1 She's five weeks old today, you guys.

Speaker 1 Oh, my gosh. Congratulations.
That's all my baby. Wait, you had a baby five weeks ago? Can you believe that? No, I can't.
It's crazy. I know.
And look at you.

Speaker 1 You don't look like you had a, like, you're just, you look great. Tom, Tom actually carried it.
Oh, no kidding. No kidding.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's interesting. If a man could

Speaker 1 be, Tom would carry the baby. He is that obsessed.

Speaker 1 But how do you have energy? Like, aren't you exhausted?

Speaker 2 Or do you have one of those good babies that sleeps all the time?

Speaker 1 She, no, she's pretty awesome. Look, I'm not going to lie.

Speaker 1 We have some very nice help. Yes,

Speaker 1 I feel even guilty saying it, but we have very nice help, which is why I can, like, it changed.

Speaker 1 Our relationship is so survived because we have all this help with this baby. Listen, women.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God.

Speaker 2 I mean, yeah, I mean, if he, if he can, if you got in-laws or whatever,

Speaker 1 anything.

Speaker 2 Big, big fan of like,

Speaker 1 think about this. In the old days, it used to be people all lived with their families in the old times.

Speaker 1 And you had family around, and family would help out, and you'd have siblings and parents and grandparents and stuff. And it would all.
But you're not at the end of your rope. Yeah.
And now,

Speaker 1 exactly.

Speaker 1 And it's great. I mean, my mom is here this morning, and she was like, so excited I had something I had to do so she could hang out with the baby for an hour.
So it's like, it's the best. Now,

Speaker 2 does she mom Matilda like you would, or do you guys have like

Speaker 2 a little bit of tension?

Speaker 1 Like, don't start trouble. No, yeah, no, honestly, my mom is the best.
And actually, so is Tom's mom. They are like, they come in, they help, they don't overstep.

Speaker 1 Do they get along? Do the moms get along? Oh my God, we're so lucky. They all oddly look like each other, too, and they become very close.
We're just like really lucky. Yeah, you're very lucky.

Speaker 1 We're very lucky. That's great.
I know. I know.
Five weeks old. I can't.
Do you want more kids?

Speaker 1 Yeah, we do.

Speaker 2 Sean, you move.

Speaker 1 Are you moving a couple?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm moving a couple.

Speaker 2 Do you have any links you could send her?

Speaker 1 Yeah, the dark web.

Speaker 2 All right, so let's start with, now,

Speaker 2 Big Bang is something that was a Big Bang, right?

Speaker 2 That was a phenomenon.

Speaker 1 Nine, ten, twelve seasons? Twelve seasons.

Speaker 1 I mean, that's incredible. Now,

Speaker 1 could you have kept going or was it like, you know, this is the right time to end this? You know, I'll be honest with you, and I've talked about this before.

Speaker 1 We truly, our group of actors, we thought we were 100%

Speaker 1 doing the 13th season. We thought, we'll do a 13th, it'll be the last one, you know, and then, and this story is not new.
I'm not giving anything away.

Speaker 1 I mean, Jim really did, Jim Parsons really wanted to be done and he was kind of the first person to call it. Okay.
And we, we were, we were not, we didn't know that was happening.

Speaker 1 We kind of all thought we were going to do another season, but we heard it at the beginning of season 12, basically after like our second table read, we were told this was going to be it and was actually kind of, I mean, as sad as we all were and like kind of a little bit shocked, it was cool because then we had like a whole season to really be in the moment, play.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it was cool. We could kind of like slow down.
It was Jim's show. Was it Jim's show?

Speaker 2 Originally, yeah. And then it kind of became more of an ensemble.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he just was, he, he didn't, he was done. And

Speaker 1 we were all just, oh my God, it was so shocking. But then I think over the few weeks, it was like, okay, maybe this is the right thing.

Speaker 1 And honestly, I mean, for me, I wouldn't have even done, I don't know, flight attendant would have happened. Like the timing was actually amazing.
Everything happens for a reason, yeah. Totally.

Speaker 2 So we were, it was fine but that routine of uh uh in front of a live audience uh

Speaker 2 it's that is a do you miss that i mean it's so

Speaker 1 right i loved it i loved the audience i i thought it was i loved obviously love the schedule it was great i'm happy now not doing it but it was such incredible memories i mean some of those live shows were some of the best nights of my life for sure.

Speaker 1 I mean, my dad never missed a tape. He was in the audience every week.
Every single evening.

Speaker 2 He had his own chair at the back of the audience.

Speaker 2 Couldn't sit in it.

Speaker 2 The angel could not even sit. He was standing the whole time.
And what would you do before each show with the little thumbs up?

Speaker 1 He gave me a thumbs up for Curtain Call every time I came out. And the curtains were.
And the past would do it too. And the crew started.
Yes. The crew started, obviously, and my dad.

Speaker 1 So everyone would do this, like, thumbs up for my dad. I mean, he was there, I'm not kidding, every show night for 12 years.
My dad came to

Speaker 1 none of them. He didn't come to any of them.
Well, he didn't go to anything. Yeah, he didn't didn't come to me.
No, he went to Kaylee's shows.

Speaker 1 Sean, your dad went to every one of Kaylee's shows. He was so wonderful.

Speaker 1 He drove her dad. He had a chair.
He was so into it.

Speaker 1 Kaylee, how many episodes did you guys do of Big Bang? Oh, my God. You know what? 300.
It was something like that. I actually don't remember the number.

Speaker 2 22 times 13, quick.

Speaker 1 We did 24. I'm sure there were some years that were 24 and 250, something like that.

Speaker 2 It was up there.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It was up there.
300. Oh, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 That's so impressive. And it's so.
and I'm

Speaker 1 tested like once in a not just of the schedule, but of like kind of what Jason was saying, like being able to go and do that every week in front of the audience.

Speaker 1 That's so, what people don't understand is how much fun

Speaker 1 a live audience really is so free.

Speaker 1 It's so fun.

Speaker 2 Now, when we're a kid and we're at home, we're playing, uh, we're playing tennis. Where did the whole thing for acting come from? Was were Gary or Lane?

Speaker 1 Lane, am I saying that right? Yeah, Lane. Yeah, lovely.

Speaker 2 Were they into acting at all? Like, who, how did this come about?

Speaker 1 No, it was kind of crazy. No,

Speaker 1 I did a lot of different things when I was younger. You know, my, my, I would go on auditions.
Like I said, I played tennis. I went to, I had, went to these camps that I loved.

Speaker 1 Like, it was, I had a million things I was doing. So, and I, it was just, it was smart because nothing ever.

Speaker 1 really got me down. Like I wasn't like a child actor who was just acting.
Like it, I just, it was another thing that I did.

Speaker 1 And then if that didn't, i had a tennis lesson or i went away for the weekend like it they just constantly had me in all these different things and until it got a little bit more serious and i remember very clearly they sat me down i was pretty young i probably was not even eight or eight or nine years old and they sat me down they're like you're this is a real job like do you want to keep doing this and i there was like not a doubt in my mind i was like this is what i want to do tennis like are you sure yeah and

Speaker 1 tennis no sorry i wanted to be an actor

Speaker 1 so keep playing tennis keep doing both have the the second thing we they weren't comfortable with me just doing the acting thing what was the first what was the first real gig with the first first real paying like cheerios something like that I mean I did do all those commercials I was the Barbie girl for like two years I did like a handful of Barbie commercials I was in every single one do you still have them on tape oh yeah somewhere my mom was I want to see those I was the Oscar Meyer I sang the Oscar Meyer song I had to say

Speaker 1 give us a little yeah yeah

Speaker 1 well I don't know how to spell it

Speaker 1 Exactly. Yes.

Speaker 1 You sang that in the commercial. Yeah, I had to do the whole thing and play against a fake little wiener.

Speaker 1 Anybody? Anybody? Anybody? I was tossing that up for you. Will I? I know.
No, no, no.

Speaker 2 All right. So then, so then

Speaker 2 you're acting along and you're,

Speaker 2 was there a thought? Well, maybe I should go to college too to have, make sure I have like a backup or something.

Speaker 1 Did you go to college? Hated school. So that was the one thing.
I just was not

Speaker 1 grade school, seventh, eighth, into early. I said, I asked my parents if I could get my GED.
And I was very clear. I'm like, guys,

Speaker 1 this is not for me. Like, I know my future is not going to be, I don't, I hated school.
I don't know.

Speaker 2 I did trigonometry.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
It wasn't for me. Even when I had to do set school, like the devastation that I had to like leave set to go do school, it just killed my soul.
True.

Speaker 1 So they let, they were like, I can't believe they listened to me. It's kind of amazing.
They let me get my GED.

Speaker 2 Gary's very permissive.

Speaker 1 He, he was like, go ahead.

Speaker 1 Always been the bump on him.

Speaker 1 They were so cool about it.

Speaker 1 Wait, were you? I'm such an idiot. Were your parents actors too? No.

Speaker 1 No, they were not.

Speaker 1 My mom stayed at home with us since the minute we were born. Jay, how do you know their names, Gary?

Speaker 2 I'm just, you know, doing bits. You know, I did a little bit of research.
I know their names, and I'm acting as if I know them. It's funny.

Speaker 1 It's funny.

Speaker 2 Gary was a realtor. Gary was in residential real estate.

Speaker 1 Oh, yes.

Speaker 2 Mostly in the Camarillo area.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 yes wow these are guesses these are he was a he was a um paramedic firefighter actually for a very long time wow yeah went into real estate and my mom stayed home i mean my mom truly drove me all around like that's all she did was brothers and sisters and my sister yeah my sister's three years younger my sister wanted to do the same thing or no she did she loved school though she went to high school she was like a you know a little social butterfly but she's she's an actor too she has an amazing voice she's incredible yeah she she was on Mass.

Speaker 2 Matt, no, not Mass Singer.

Speaker 1 The voice. Voice.
Yeah, she did.

Speaker 1 Uh-huh. After a couple of rounds.

Speaker 2 Now, with with Gary's history in medicine, do you know CPR?

Speaker 1 What's funny is we just learned CPR because of this baby. Right.
So we had these private CPR sessions, which, by the way, was terrifying.

Speaker 1 I don't know if you to show, they're showing you how to do like the CPR on the baby. That was, I'm like, I'm never going to remember this, by the way.

Speaker 1 I'm so traumatized by even doing it on the fake baby. So So we did technically learn, but I learned it too, but I think

Speaker 2 I need a refresher because I think I may have forgotten maybe. Cause like you forget one little component, it's useless.
Do you crazy? Sean Will. Do you guys know CPR?

Speaker 1 No, I don't, but I can guess. But wait how to do it.
But wait. In a pinch? Yeah, in a pinch.
I could probably just guess what you do.

Speaker 1 You just plug them, you plug the nose, make out with the person, and then pound on the chest.

Speaker 1 Saturday. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But wait, I always thought it was so crazy in like movies and TV shows when people, you know, are passed out or whatever, dying and people have to do CPR and they're pounding on their chest.

Speaker 1 How does the actor not like moo? Like I'd be like, ow, ow, ow, ow, every time.

Speaker 1 You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 Like, you're the worst actor. God.

Speaker 1 Well, I think they, I remember we had to do CPR in one in a scene in Flight Attention. I mean, they're pretty padded.
I don't think we're just socking people in the chat. I think they're not.

Speaker 1 This is like a question. Hey, we got a question from the audience over here for showbiz.
When you guys are shooting a movie, is it real?

Speaker 1 What are you doing, dude? I always wonder that.

Speaker 1 I always wonder that because it looks like

Speaker 1 you're pounding. And also, when you're breathing, when you're breathing into their mouth in a TV show or movie, and how are you not going,

Speaker 1 like,

Speaker 1 you know, how do you?

Speaker 2 I went down to give you mouth to mouth on murder bill, and you just, you, I thought you were going to let me, and then you didn't.

Speaker 1 And then I was like, wait, you're going to let me. And you was too embarrassed.

Speaker 1 You guys, that was so good. Jason, I had to give you, oh, no, I had to put a pill in your mouth you had to put a pill in my mouth and i'll rest

Speaker 1 and i kept telling you that i hadn't washed my hands but but uh this is about kaylee i know this is about this is about this is about kaylee so do they put pads on they put padding on the surface can we please escort this guy out of the

Speaker 1 i know

Speaker 1 this is they put padding on and then you push on the pad that's right

Speaker 1 oh i didn't know that yeah and then they'll cut to you know his chest and they'll take the pad sean you know you know star wars you know they don't shoot that in space right

Speaker 2 yeah And the lightsabers are not, they won't really cut you in half.

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Speaker 1 and now back to the show,

Speaker 2 Kaylee. Were you prepared for the Uber success of Big Bang? Like all the fame, the notoriety, the money, everything changed

Speaker 2 sort of exponentially every year.

Speaker 1 Notoriety

Speaker 1 is bad. Notoriety.
Didn't you shoot the pilot like a couple times or something? Yes. I was actually the third actress to join Big Bang Theory.
Really? Yes.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 1 They did, I believe, two.

Speaker 2 Old Chuck had the thinning shears out, huh?

Speaker 1 100%. You're right.

Speaker 1 Do you know who did it? Do you know the people? You don't have to say their names, but do you know the people who did it before you, the pilot?

Speaker 1 I knew one of them. Yeah.
I knew one of them. Awkward, huh? Weird.
Well, yeah. Well, I knew her later.
So it wasn't like she was my friend at the time. I'm like, oh, you got a show.

Speaker 1 And then I went and took it. But no, I did know her later.
And she actually ended up. guest starring.
She was still friends with everybody. It was all fine.
Oh, good. I know.

Speaker 1 So they shot one pilot, trashed it, two, second pilot trashed it. And then the third pilot, you were in the pilot in the get-go.
They kept rewriting it and revamping it.

Speaker 1 I mean, it was totally changed when I joined. Like, it wasn't what it was.

Speaker 1 And so, what is it about, like, this is fascinating to me. What is it about that particular show that they kept throwing money at it and redoing it? And what was it that they believed in so much?

Speaker 1 Just the concept or and the actors in it? Or like, why? Whereas

Speaker 1 as opposed to other shows, you shoot a pilot, didn't go, they throw it out. Like, buy, right?

Speaker 1 I think, I remember Chuck did a couple, I know he's talked about this before, but he just like really believed in it.

Speaker 1 And the studio believed in Chuck, and he kept saying, Give us another chance, give us another chance. Like, I can make, I think I'm going to make this work.
And, you know, he's Chuck and he does.

Speaker 1 So they single-handedly kept sitcoms alive for the last

Speaker 1 15 years. Yeah.
But he kept saying, I'm going to get this right. I'm going to get this right.
And, you know, he.

Speaker 2 And so what about, what about all the fame and

Speaker 2 the money and the

Speaker 2 being recognized on the street?

Speaker 2 Like, were you prepared for all that? Cause it was, I mean, the show was enormous.

Speaker 1 You know what's so crazy? I feel like my sort of, I hate to mean this word, whatever, this fame or whatever, I was such on a slow, like uphill climb.

Speaker 1 I feel like there are actors who get, like, maybe they do, I don't know, they do some huge film or something, then all of a sudden, right, it's overnight fame and they're like, oh my God.

Speaker 1 I don't really feel like it was like that for me. Like, I've kind of, I've been doing this since I was five years old.
Right. Right.

Speaker 1 Like, I, not that I was famous back then, but like I've always been in the business and I've always done a million things and I've, it never affected me that like I never felt that moment of, oh my God, I knew when Big Bang Theory.

Speaker 1 Because what you did for a living. Yeah, but Big Bang Theory had got like 30 million viewers a week.
Like it was insane. I know.
We were, I mean, it was awesome. We were thrilled.

Speaker 1 And Sean and I did, when we did that show, The Millers, and especially the first season, we were on behind you guys,

Speaker 1 behind Big Bang Theory for a year.

Speaker 1 yeah and you you single-handedly like kept us on the air because we had the leading of big bang theory we're like sweet we could just air some uh dial tone if we wanted but then you can't drop off a lot right then you got the pressure of trying to hold that number we did drop off yeah and then they got and then they moved us and then we were like oh we're screwed but uh it was a little phenomenon man i don't know like

Speaker 1 i was just massive and i know you know who i know um i know a few people but i certainly know uh johnny a little bit such a nice horse oh he's a good dude i love I love Johnny Glex.

Speaker 1 He's such a nice guy. Such a nice soul.
He's like doing his thing.

Speaker 1 Where did he move to? Did he move to like Tennessee or something? Nashville and Loving it. Yeah.
That's so great. He's such a good guy.

Speaker 1 I got to tell him. I saw you talk to you.
Yeah, please say hi to inform me. I just, he's such an olive person.
I know. I know.

Speaker 2 All right.

Speaker 2 So now what you've done is you've somewhat combined your passion for acting and your passion for tennis, although you're letting Chris Messina do the tennis part, but tell us about this incredible new show called Based on a True Story.

Speaker 1 story produced by

Speaker 1 jason do you know that you probably know this but when i met mr tom palfrey he had this script in his hand he was reading it like three weeks into dating him and i go what are you reading he goes i'm reading this based on a true story i i i can't do it because i've got this other show

Speaker 1 yes and i know that read it and i was like give me that let me read it he goes it's so funny this is obviously a year ago yeah and i go oh my god this is hilarious He goes, I know. It's so funny.

Speaker 1 It's Jason's, Jason doing it, and all this stuff. I said, stole it from Jason's trailer.

Speaker 1 He'll never read it. He'll never get around to reading it.
Well, he was going to play the plumber. He was looking at maybe playing the plumber.

Speaker 2 After working with him on Ozark, like anything and everything I heard about or thought about, you know, and people were talking to me about him, it's like, yeah, what about Tom for this?

Speaker 2 What about Tom for that?

Speaker 1 So he loves you so much, man.

Speaker 2 Chances are high that maybe that was something I was aware of, but it was one of many. He probably had a bunch of people.

Speaker 1 Isn't that crazy that I was like

Speaker 1 that? And I like looked through it. I said,

Speaker 1 this is brilliant. Obviously, that was months before I even ever got the call for it.
And things were written very differently. The couple, you know, had older kids.

Speaker 1 The story was a little bit different. So once I got the call and I was kind of talking about it with you guys, I was like, I love this so much, but I don't know if I would have teenagers.

Speaker 1 Like we started talking and then Craig, our showrunner, was like, we'll take away the kids. Like they were kind of helping me figure out how this could be.
I loved it so much. Plus, I love true crime.

Speaker 1 I love tennis. I love working in LA.
I was like, I need all these things. This is great.
So, the general concept:

Speaker 1 good job. Yeah.

Speaker 2 So, the general concept is that you and Chris Messina are married. The great, the great Chris Messina.

Speaker 1 The best. We'll hold for applause there.
The best.

Speaker 2 He plays an ex-tennis star. You play

Speaker 2 a realtor that is obsessed with true crime podcasts. You have a plumber come to the house to fix a toilet

Speaker 2 played by, ironically, Tom Bateman.

Speaker 1 Yes, fabulous. Isn't that weird? Yes.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 this guy turns out to maybe be a serial killer. And you guys decide, well, we're not going to turn him in if he agrees to do a podcast with us about his serial killing.

Speaker 1 I got to see that.

Speaker 1 And we'll keep his name away from the authorities. No more sounds.
That's great.

Speaker 2 There's probably a better way to describe it, but

Speaker 2 that's the bones of it. That sounds great.

Speaker 1 Wait, when is this on?

Speaker 2 This is coming. June 8th.

Speaker 1 June 8th on the peacock. Absolutely.
Wait, this is streaming on the cock?

Speaker 1 Of course.

Speaker 1 That's what we always say on the anything for a. Wait, but that sounds really good.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I know. It does sound really good.

Speaker 1 It was such a quirky. It was so insane, the story.
I thought it was so brilliant. I said, I have to be part of this.

Speaker 1 And then, like, after I had signed on, we got everything going, I came to LA to do some chemistry reads. And Jason wasn't there, but there was the producers there, and I was talking to everyone.

Speaker 1 And I sat them down. I'm like, guys, because they had written it and it was done and ready to go.
I was like, guys, what if this character was pregnant?

Speaker 1 Just fitball.

Speaker 1 I'm like, now think, think hard. Think about your answer first.

Speaker 1 Yeah, really think hard because this could really be. And they were like, well, I'm like, no, really.
And they're looking at me and they're like, what? I'm like,

Speaker 1 surprise.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
We hadn't, we were like a month out from shooting, maybe a little longer, but I said, do you think you could write it in?

Speaker 1 And how many months were you?

Speaker 1 When we started shooting, I was five months. I mean, we shot three weeks before I gave birth.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 About up until three weeks before I gave birth. Yeah.
So I was five months when we started. So let's say I was like four.

Speaker 2 Oh my God. And didn't they say, well, well, Kaylee, we can delay start of production.
Like have your kid enjoy.

Speaker 1 And you were like, no, no, no, no, no. I want, right? I want to do it now because I also, not only did I want to do the show and I was so ready to do it, it, I actually not and also I wanted to

Speaker 1 for them to write in the pregnancy. I actually thought it worked for the show.
And once we all talked it out, it actually worked. I don't remember it not being about this couple being pregnant.

Speaker 1 Plus, the way they wrote it in was so brilliant. Like it never focused on the pregnancy.
It just was, I was just pregnant.

Speaker 2 So that's the jeopardy, too, that you're basically working with the serial killer and you can see this big, huge baby body.

Speaker 1 Fully pregnant.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Fully pregnant. That's cool.

Speaker 2 So you were five months pregnant and through till what, being eight months pregnant by the time we wrapped?

Speaker 1 Four weeks before I gave birth was my rap day. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But it was awesome because I got to, I, I mean, what job? I got to eat what I wanted. I was treated like a freaking queen.
It was the best. I wore what I wanted.
I felt very empowered. And also like

Speaker 1 for so long. Yes, comfy shoes.
I've been able to like play my eight. I've been in this business for so long that I thought it was cool.
Like, okay, now people are seeing me.

Speaker 1 Like, I'm going to be real about this. I'm going to show that this is exactly what I am.
And I'm pregnant and it's fine and I'm working. And I thought it was like a good thing to do.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 It just felt right. That's cool.
I would have killed to play that killer. I want to play it.

Speaker 1 He's great. He's really great.
He is great.

Speaker 1 I'm seeing it. They're all great.
It's a really cool, weird show and very funny.

Speaker 2 Now, you're very lucky because it's shot in Los Angeles. You're going to be able to bring Matilda to the set if and when there's a second season.
Yes.

Speaker 2 Have you thought about like how that's all going to kind of play out?

Speaker 1 I mean, dude, I would do a second season in a heartbeat.

Speaker 1 It was one of the most

Speaker 1 fun experiences I have ever. I really mean that.
That Christmas scene is just a real joy.

Speaker 1 We laughed.

Speaker 2 And that's, that's what's fun. Not to, we move on after this, but that, that is really, I mean, the writing is fantastic, concepts fun and all that stuff.
But the chemistry between you two guys, um,

Speaker 2 I don't know. It's just,

Speaker 2 I do, I do stuff sometimes and people say, hey, boy, how did you guys get such great chemistry? Well, it's when you have two really nice people it's pretty simple

Speaker 2 chris or sean will don't you guys agree like chemistry is not not a mystery if you're not working with a dickhead yeah exactly simple chris is just awesome people are like well they had great chemistry yeah because they're normal nice people yeah exactly good right and it's it's infectious and it works for the characters too because you guys are kind of aweshoxing while working with a serial killer um it's It's pretty great.

Speaker 1 No, we had a blast, man. It was awesome.
I can't even tell you. I had a question about Tattoo.
Well, I just want to say it out loud.

Speaker 1 What's it called again?

Speaker 2 Based on a true story.

Speaker 1 Based on a true story. June 8th, streaming on the cock.
Just so we can say it. Just so I can, because neither of you can say it, but I can say it.

Speaker 1 Will his story.

Speaker 2 So I can see it. Set his calendar.
You're ready to do it. Are we having a viewing party?

Speaker 1 We're going to do a viewing. We're doing it.
Are you kidding? Are you kidding? Are you fucking ditto?

Speaker 1 Would you, I want to know. I have something.
Go ahead, Charlie.

Speaker 1 Do you have any kind of desire to write and to be a writer and to write scripts and like directly?

Speaker 1 I think I could direct. I think I would be a good director because I like to get in and get out.
Like I don't waste a lot of time.

Speaker 1 I'm also not every, like it was funny working with Messina, who is very, likes to prepare and likes to rehearse and watch every, you know, playback. I, that is not my jam at all.
You're in your

Speaker 1 yeah, I would like to get in there. Why are we talking about this? Let's just shoot it.
And then Chris is like, but we have to, what are we going to do now? Like, he's hysterical.

Speaker 1 So the two of us together kind of balance. That was like me with Laura Linney.

Speaker 2 Laura was very, very prepared, very sort of always, the notes and the script and the lines always learned. And like, it was very admirable.

Speaker 2 But I just, my brain doesn't work that way.

Speaker 1 Me too. Very admirable.
I mean, my brain does not work that way either. It's just not for me.

Speaker 2 I know, but

Speaker 2 it makes a great partnership.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm not a playback watcher. As an actor, I can't watch playback.

Speaker 2 So, Tracy, what happens here is that you shoot a scene and and then you can go to the monitor, the little TV next to where you just shot, and they'll play it back for you so you can see what you did good, what you did bad, what the technical things are you need to look out for.

Speaker 2 Then you go and you shoot it again.

Speaker 1 And it really was initially not for the actors, it's

Speaker 1 generally for the director so the director can watch maybe the producer.

Speaker 2 What the camera is seeing.

Speaker 1 Yeah, see what the camera is seeing, and so they'll be like, hey, let's get that again. Maybe there's a bump on the camera move, maybe the light wasn't right, maybe the wrong line, whatever.

Speaker 1 By the way, you know who invented or created the playback? Who's that show? Jerry Lewis. Is that right? Really? What? Huh.
Yeah. Huh.

Speaker 2 Now, some actors will not look at playback, and they won't even see the film once it's all done, cut together. And

Speaker 2 I don't get that. I learned so much about what I did wrong by looking at what I do.

Speaker 1 It's like watching the end product. Yeah, it's like shoot it and go home and then go to the next job.

Speaker 1 That's me, too. Otherwise, you're just obsessed.
You're obsessed about like, what about, you know, I can't do it. I'm the same way.

Speaker 2 Maybe I should do that with golf, Will. Maybe I should care a little bit less.

Speaker 1 Well, let me just tell you, I was going to say to you, I talked about you at great length with Josh last night. Oh, boy.
This is true. And I did bring it up that you're not, you know, Josh.
Oh, Josh.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 2 He's a friend of ours. And we play Kayla.

Speaker 1 He's golfer, Josh.

Speaker 1 And so, Josh, who's a Kaylee, he's a friend of ours.

Speaker 1 He's a bald fellow. And I keep saying that I want him to start wearing a different wig every day.
And I said it'd be amazing because he keeps his head shaved.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, if he showed up every day with a different wig,

Speaker 1 oh, my God.

Speaker 1 That is so fun.

Speaker 1 So anyway, we were saying, apart from the fact that, Jason, I think you're malnourished and your blood sugar is abnormally low and that that's what makes you cranky all the time in everything you do, not just golf.

Speaker 1 I think

Speaker 1 on top of that, you need to stand over the ball and hit it.

Speaker 1 You have too many thoughts. And Jason is known as one of the slower golfers in the Los Angeles Southern Columbia.
He was so slow yesterday. He was so slow.

Speaker 1 And he thinks about way too much. And Kaylee, you know, as an actual competitive athlete, that sometimes you just have to let it, your instincts take over.
You just got to go. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Maybe, maybe Kaylee needs to be the person to come play with you and walk with you and be your kind of sports psychologist.

Speaker 2 Yeah, be my whistle. I would be so bad at golf.

Speaker 1 That sport would make me insane. Like, it would make me insane.
But, but you could talk him through. You could be like, Jay, speed it up.
Hit it. Get the ball.

Speaker 1 What about bowling? Do you guys like to bowl?

Speaker 1 All right, Kaylee, this has been great. Yeah, thank you for joining us today.
Sorry, unfortunately, somebody decided to capsize the whole thing with some bullshit about bowling.

Speaker 2 That's a Tony Award-nominated actor.

Speaker 1 Well, you said Josh is a ball guy, and I'm a ball guy. And then you went to

Speaker 1 bowling, and I like to bowl.

Speaker 1 Antoinette Perry just rolled over.

Speaker 1 Kaylee, all right.

Speaker 1 I love you. Thank you.
Thank you, guys. You crushed this.

Speaker 1 You crushed this. Thank you.
This is so great. You are a delight.
Thank you. You got real good chat on you, girl.
If I was a girl, I'd wear a scrunchie in my hair like you do.

Speaker 1 What do you think of the scrunchie? I always do. This is my bit.
I always do with scrunchie because it's old school. I always go like, listen, guys, the thing is that

Speaker 1 I think that what we need to, and I always do my scrunchie bit. I'm doing the movie.

Speaker 1 I always do my scrunchie bit.

Speaker 1 I've never seen the scrunchie bit. Oh, I've seen it.
Sean has seen it better under 20 years.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I was going to be like, guys, I think the problem is, look, if we go over there,

Speaker 1 can we

Speaker 1 listen to

Speaker 1 his hair.

Speaker 1 He's gathering his hair and putting a fake scrunchie in his hair. That's my favorite.
I love his hair. I have a big 80s scrunchie in my hair.
I love it. I love it.
Super cute. You guys are awesome.

Speaker 1 Thank you for being here. All right, Kaylee.
We love it. Thank you for being here.
You guys are amazing. Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 Have a great rest of the day.

Speaker 1 Bye, guys. Thank you, honey.
Bye, Kaylee. Thank you.
Bye.

Speaker 1 Bye-bye, bye-bye.

Speaker 2 You guys, that's just, she's just, that's a real spirit.

Speaker 1 She's got great vibes.

Speaker 2 I said sunshine wrapped in skin, but maybe it's spirit wrapped in skin, huh? And some sunshine.

Speaker 1 She's one of those personalities, too, that's like a phenomenal actress, but you can tell is a fun person and doesn't take life serious like she does her work serious, too.

Speaker 1 Kaylee was, you know, I've often. Bubbly Cuoco.

Speaker 1 Sorry? That sounds like her name should be Bubbly Cuoco. On ice.
Bubbly Cuoco. But Kaylee, but she's so great.
She was so great on Big Bang theory and so funny and fun. Yeah, and just like a,

Speaker 1 yeah, it just had so much life to her. And then you think, like, well, maybe that's sort of the character she's playing.
Nope. She is that person.
She has great energy, great

Speaker 1 all the time. You want to hang out with her immediately.
You know, by the way, have you ever exited a plane when the flight attendant, when you're leaving and the flight attendant over? Too.

Speaker 1 It is too early, but go ahead. Yeah, go ahead.
He says, Happy birthday to you.

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