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Subject to change. Now I can do anything anything i like my friends i like my podcast i like my jason i like my sean i like my smartless i like everybody let's go it's an all new smartless smart Smart

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First of all, though, I would just like to say really fast, happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you.
Oh, Will, happy birthday. Happy birthday to you.
Oh, my gosh. Happy birthday to you.
And it's on May the Fourth Be With You. Which is one of my biggest regrets that somebody came up with that.
Are you kidding? It's the first time I've heard of it. No, because it's just completely, you know, taking my birthday hostage forever.
Not for me. You're lucky you're not born on the 420, right? Isn't that the, with all the kids like to smoke their weed on the 420? Hey man, I've been looking for ways for you to sound older.
Yeah. And I think we just found it.
You know what I mean? How about this? Does this sound... How about...
It's also, but Jason, for you and me, it's also, more importantly, it's Cinco de Cuatro. It's Cinco de Cuatro.
Very big day in the people that know about Arrested. In the Arrested Development canon, Sean, so thank you.
Sean, thank you for following the show. Speaking of Sean, let's take a moment to celebrate Sean's Tony Award nomination.
I know. Don't wave it away.
It's a big deal. Thank you.
And very well deserved. Good Lord, is that show good.
Again, just to repeat, anybody going through the tri-state area, stop in New York City. It's a fun town, and there's a great show there called Good Night Oscar at the Belasco the Belasco Theater.
Some people call it Tabasco, but that's just so they can remember it. Jason, do you know what the Tony Awards are short for? Do you know what the actual name of the award is? Anthony's? Close.
No. Sean, you know, right? Antoinette.
Antoinette Perry Award. Really? Yeah.
You know, listener, are you shocked as me me how smart will every once in a while is i am you'd also be shocked to know he's actually 67 today and he looks fantastic 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 uh jason i said yesterday, I said, hey, do you want to read this thing that I just wrote? And he said, please don't. Please don't.
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 even read my own texts. 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.
He did say that. Yeah, my parents really screwed me.
Now, I'm watching Sean there itch his eye. Sean just had what we call it, ocular surgery.
Laser surgery. We don't call it that, but he had a...
And I can't read. I'm not supposed to read.
He's not supposed to read. And I said, Sean turned to the doctor and said, you can't read.
And Sean said sean said boy do i have some good news for you uh but he does have a detached retina so sean's got a partially detached retina jason's got a detached personality so we we have hey hey yo detachless uh but but uh but sean you're still doing seven shows this week after laser surge. Yeah, on my eye.

I'm not supposed to read or dart my eye around a lot.

That was the direction from the director?

The doctor said, don't dart your eyes?

Wait, that was his note from the director and the doctor.

No, and I said to both of you guys,

I'm slowly turning into my mother, I'm going to lose my eye. I mean, you better knock on wood.
Now, your mom lost her eye from cancer, you said, not from a detached retina thing? She was two years old, yeah. She was two years old? She was two years old when she lost her eye, yeah.
Oh, my God. Oof.
Yeah, we're still looking for it. So wait.
And so I went in and I get Vasovagal. Do you guys get that? Excuse me.
Hey, man, we're trying to keep it clean over here, dude. I'm just looking for that.
It's when you get nauseous and faint from like, you know, needles or poking at your eyeball. That happened to me once.
Oh, I get it all the time. Happened to me once.
So you just go out if you get nervous about it am like i have to lay down i need a fan i need

coolness i'm gonna throw up i'm gonna we all need a fan we all feel better with a fan around let's be honest what about doing doing the show do you ever feel it coming on just with nerves for the show no no that's different this is all doctor health related stuff like if i'm in i guy i passed out getting contact lenses once.

I passed out like...

I tried like 10 years ago to get Botox and I passed out. But in fairness, you were trying to get it directly from the cow, right? Give me a second.
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 out of getting Botox. I do.
I get it so bad. You guys don't get that? No, man.
You know, it just occurred to me, we're doing a full talk show. We do a talk show.
And right now we're doing the Regis and Kathie Lee pattern 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 covers as full national entertainment for 20 minutes.
I could talk about 9,000 things for an hour. I don't think people are interested, right? I mean, what are we doing here? What Jason's trying to say is, he's not interested in your life.
I'm not interested in myself. He's not interested in himself.
Can I just say this? We are going to get somebody interesting, but I do want to say Jason was so grumpy yesterday. Oh my God.
I was embarrassed. Jason and I played golf the last three days uh and then yesterday um we none of us played particularly well tuesday we got to play with with uh football great legend gareth bale who is just an absolute for the americans yeah i mean just an absolute you had to be like freaking out this guy's a real prince i was i was god he's unreal right yeah you're a little nervous it was like you playing with Charlize Theron.
I was, yeah. Hey, man.
Wait, how does it come about you guys just play golf with all these people? They just randomly show up? We host a talk show, bro. Yeah.
I know, but I'm just saying, like, how do you organize that? Well, we met this guy up at some celeb golf tournament. And then that's what happens.
Hey, let's play golf. And then we swap numbers.
He swap numbers we go like hey man we want to play golf with you gareth bale so if charlise wanted to play golf you would let her play i don't know i'm not answering this listen i'm now pleading the fifth so anyway i was a i was a real so he was he was a grump he he sped out of the parking lot and to the point that 30 seconds after he left i had to call and go hey man are you okay why why he did call me as i was getting out of the parking lot to the point that 30 seconds after he left, I had to call and go, hey, man, are you okay? Why? 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 sort of I played a bad golf round rage. No, but here's what happened.
He went like this. I was putting my stuff in the back of my car, and his his window was open and then as he's putting it up and his car he's now in drive he looks over i'm not exaggerating he goes like this i will zip up the window and peeled out and i was like all because you played a bad game yeah i just i play too much to play that badly and and And I just need to be more disciplined, and I need to actually really, if I'm going to be upset about not playing well, I need to have a reason.
But I thought about this. In other words, 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 going to get to your guests. I feel badly for them.
But I just want to say this. You, yesterday, as he does this a lot, did this the last two days.
Everyone'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, and Jason the last two days goes, yeah, just get me a cup of sliced apples. That's all he had.
No way. And I'm like, he's starving to death.
That's what's going on. But I still can't shake these five or ten pounds.
Dude, Jason, I told Jason, if he loses ten pounds, I'm taking him to the fucking hospital. He ate it.
Yeah, you don't need to lose any more weight, Jason. Sean, he ate a cup of sliced apples.
That's it. I'm like, that's not enough when you're watching seven months.
With a cup of nuts on top of them. Oh, fuck.
Don't you get tired during the day from not eating? Yes. Tired, and guess what? You know what I did, Will? Here'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.
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.
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. So for two hours, I just had to get into a deep sweat to get all the rage out of me.
By the way, what you don't hear in there is any nutrition going in. I know.
That's what I'm saying. His blood sugar is plummeting.
That's what I'm saying. Your body is like screaming at you for like, fuck up.
Both of you just shit. There we go.
You don't know what the hell you're talking about. Let's get to your guest, huh? Yeah.
Unless you got some other unfinished. Right.
Yes, no, I do. I want to get to the great guest.
But I want to remind anybody, if you're interested in what you're hearing, we have actual pictures of us doing this too. Moving pictures there on Max.
Smartless on the road. The doc that me, Will, and Sean are enjoying are enjoying but we're a little biased we're in it but uh if you're interested uh it's on max there are uh our little docuseries called yeah it's on the road um you know may 23rd on max was the the day that that's right yeah yeah and they all came out at the same and you can get all six episodes at the same time yeah Yeah, if you're a binger, binge away.
Yeah. All right, all right, all right.
Okay. My guest.
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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.
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.
Oh, look at her go. Look at her Cuoco.
You ever been called sunshine wrapped in skin? No, I was, that was so sweet. That was a first.
Yeah. I was literally very much enjoying, enjoying your guys' comments.
I was trying to hold my hand over my mouth because I was dying laughing. I'm so embarrassed.
You're the only one. Yeah, no, Sean, at your disorder, which I think I have, the fainting disorder with the needles.
That's true? Really? Yes. Well, then that gets me into my first question.
During my deep research, because I'm a crack journalist, you had a horse riding accident where you almost lost your leg. I'm not exposing anything big here.
This was already out. Oh, yeah.
How did you deal with all... You're never exposing anything big.
Don't worry. So, hey, Will, that sounds like a sexual insult.
No, that's good. No, I'm going to let you correct that for a second because it really sounded like a sexual insult.
No, I just wanted to interrupt and just say, hi, Kaylee. How are you? Hi, Kaylee.
Hi, guys. 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. Oh, I was? No, you had to do a bunch of stuff.
She was probably focused. She's professional.
She was focused. 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 and she's like, if you mess this up, come on.
There's nothing to mess up. There's nothing to mess up.
This is the best it gets. We're not going to let you get a word in edgewise.
Don't worry about it.

Jason's got a big question for you, so settle in.

I hope you packed a lunch.

So you're riding a horse.

You're riding a horse.

You're jumping over gates and going around barrels and whatever the fuck you do.

And then the horse falls, or you fall.

The horse falls on you, lands on the leg,

is stuck on the leg, broken the leg.

Did you ask the horse to get off?

Did the horse get off immediately?

Wait, how long ago was this?

This was a while ago.

This was, 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.

So, guys, she almost lost her leg.

I once asked a horse to get off during a Big Bang. I mean.
It's a family show, Will. It's his birthday.
He's on fire. You really almost lost your leg on this.
Well, yeah, no, it was a bad accident. It was a very bad accident.
And yeah, he, I had fallen. The fall didn't hurt me.
He ended up stepping on me. And I remember, I know.

And the crazy part is-

Sean just fainted.

When I fainted.

Oh, gosh.

Sean's down.

And he can't dart his eyes, so he's just screwed.

Scotty!

Scotty, get the paddles.

So, he's done, don't faint.

Kaylee, how old were you when this happened?

I was, my God, I can't do math.

Early 20s?

I was probably 22.

Yeah, yeah.

Oh, wow. Okay, so now, I can't do math, Early 20s? I was probably 22.
Yeah, yeah. Oh, wow.

Okay, 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.

Yes.

It was that serious?

It was really serious.

So I had to go under,

I had to sign something.

Yeah, that's exactly right.

And luckily I came out and I was... So, but wait, wait, talk wait talk do you remember 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 yes totally oh my god oh yeah no I have a very wait yeah how what are we talking about we're talking about it's separated from your body like what I had a I had a compound fracture so for those don't know, it's the bone that comes out of your leg.
Wait, which bone? Oh, that's what I've got. My tibia fibula, so it's near my ankle and my knee.
My bone's always coming out. Will's always caught with his bone out.
Yeah, no, right. That's what it's called.
Okay, sorry. I'm going to have to update my...
That was almost my first spit take in 150 episodes. I'm going to have to update my dating profile.
That's what it's called. I woke up and it was dead.
You're creating a compound fracture. Yes.
Okay, so wait. Don't come in here.
I've got a cop out right here. So wait.
So your bone is sticking out of the top part of your thigh or your bottom part of your knee? No, no, no. Ankle, ankle, knee.
Okay. So there was two.
Yep. Yeah, and so it just was a horrible, horrible, horrible break.
And I had been in the- Why did you say it didn't hurt? No, it did. Oh, no.
It did hurt. Oh, my God.
I was going to say, when I fell, the fall didn't break my leg. My fall wasn't a big deal.
He stepped on me, and I remember clear as day. Because it takes a second when something is that bad.
I was like, did I just fall on a whole thing of leaves? Because I heard all the cracking. Yeah, so I was like, are there leaves? And it took me like five or ten seconds to actually realize it wasn't just 400 leaves.
It was my bones. Yeah.
So what do you have pins and rods in there now? Yeah, I do. Do you set off metal detectors? No.
I always thought I would, but it never happened. What was the recovery like for that? You know what's crazy? So I was shooting Big Bang.
It was on a Friday after work. And so I was supposed to go to work on Monday.
They put you behind the bar, right? They gave you like a bar job. Yes.
I'm like, I have to call Chuck Lorre and tell him right now. The great Chuck Lorre.
Yes, the great Chuck Lorre, but you don't want to make that call. And so they literally didn't think I would, like, walk for three months.
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. Yeah.
I mean, you know, they always say the worst. And then I ended up being okay.
But, like, they were very good. So wait, but you still now have, because listening to the story, I'm on pins and needles.
So you actually have pins in there for real? Yes, I do. They didn't take those out? They're not planning on taking those out? No, I went back in years later and I was like, it's just 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 I'm, I know. So can you run and jump and do anything? Oh, yeah.
Do you have fun scars on the bottom of your leg? Yeah, I do. That's cool.
I got some good scars. I don't have any good scars.
You guys have any good scars? No. I do.
Makes you feel like a badass. I fell off the bunk bed when I was a kid.
And I have on the side of my head. Oh, bless your heart.
Oh, the bunk bed. I've never met a guy that fell off the top bunk.
You know, they usually have little bars up there to help. I had a bar on mine.
Although you just confirmed something that I've long suspected. What? That you're a top.
Yeah. I mean, I was going to say it.
And I was like, you know what? I will say it. I do have this scar.
Wait, Shawnee. Wait, there it is.
Yeah, that's called a belly button.. Sean, you have lost so much fucking weight.
I'm not kidding. Yeah, you really have lost a lot of weight.
I know, but I'll gain it right away. Will, what did I get you for your birthday, Will? Sean sent me today this fucking asshole.
He sent me four large things of ice cream. And he said, this is what I use to get fat.
This is what I eat to get fat. Happy birthday.
And I'm like, you asshole, because now I got to eat it. It's calling me.
If it's in the freezer. What kind of ice cream was it? It's the best.
Hagedass. Chocolate and coffee and vanilla.
Yeah. It's the best.
Hagedass. So creative.
It's the best. You either go with the best or you don't.
You've gotten into it since then, right, Will? You opened it up? Not this morning. Not this morning.
I had cake last night with the kids. We had ice cream cake, because that's my favorite, and yellow cake with chocolate frosting.
That's exactly right. Did you use the cake lady? No, no.
Mercy made it, who is here, and she's a great cake. The cake lady's 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. I ate early with the kids, and about 45 minutes after eating two pieces of cake, because one of each, I went, no, motherfucker, and I went down.
I came down into the gym, and I worked out for an hour. Oh, you did? You have to.
Did you zip into the rubber suit? Of course. I always wear the rubber suit, as you know.
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All right, back to the show. Kaylee, you always look so thin.
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? Kayla, you've got great skin.
I've always noticed that about you. Yes.
Thank you. Yeah, 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 and makeup whatsoever.
I was very excited. You know, that's on purpose.
You know, while we get to look at each other, you know, it's like I don't want anyone to have to go, ah,

hair and makeup and the whole, it's the best.

I mean, you guys have to look at me, but other than that,

no one else does. Why do you have such good skin?

Do you stay out of the sun? No, I don't

stay out of the sun. I've got quite a

skin regimen on my little

products, but, you know. But you

were very good about putting on sunblock when

you were almost a semi-pro tennis star when you were a youngster. Yes.
Wait, what? Let's get into this. She decided at 16, I could go this way or we could try acting.
You were a tennis pro? I did. I played tennis my whole juniors when I was younger.
Yeah, that's all I did. And I really thought I was going to be a professional tennis player when I was much younger.
Where was that? Here. Camarillo.
Yeah, in Camarillo. And then Southern California.
But I traveled all over the country and I loved it. And then realized, oh my God.
And I was auditioning and working. And then I got my first show.
And I was like, to be a professional tennis player, you've 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. And I put my rackets down at like 16.
But I played very competitively for years and years as a young teen. Wow.
And traveled all over. And I loved it.
Yeah, I loved it. That's so hard.
That takes so much training and so much dedication. I loved it.
Do you still play a tiny bit? So I, I stopped for years. You know, I think when you're competitive in any sport, it's not fun.
The fun kind of leaves a little bit. So to play for fun was not something I wanted to do.
Yeah. So over COVID, my girlfriend, who is my oldest friend, who is my doubles partner as a young, when we were really young, she's like, let's start playing again.
So we started playing doubles together during COVID and like entered tournaments and it was hysterical and had, I loved it. Cause it's socially distant, right? That's why you could do it during COVID.
That's why Will got me back into golf, son of a bitch. Yeah.
I heard that you had some rage, but that was interesting story. Real issues.
Which time did you hear about? You talking about the time the guy that didn't charge his Tesla? That's one of the greatest stories ever. Now that's a perfect example of me two years ago versus now.
I exit myself from the situation before I'm accountable for my mood. It's a way to do it.
I will separate myself from people and just deal with it on my own. I will say that he did approach all of us who were playing with him yesterday and said, one by one, I'm not joking.
And he said, hey, man, I'm really sorry 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, fuck, this is a new Jason. That's good, that's sweet.
It's my beautiful wife, Amanda, is teaching me how to be a better man. Kaylee, so did you, when you played? Guys, don't fight.
We want to talk to Kaylee so bad. I just want to know if she had rage when you played, when you...
Yes. It was your worst moment.
Did you ever say you can't be serious? Oh, my God. Are you kidding? I broke so many rackets.
I had a real bad attitude, actually. Did you really? To this day, you don't want to play Scrabble with me.
I am the worst. I am the worst.
No, 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... No one wants to let me participate in game night because I don't make it fun for anybody.
Do you have a game night going right now? Like in this moment? No. Because Shawnee, sometimes you do game nights.
I like games. We love game nights.
We are obsessed, but again. When you say we, we're talking about Tom Pelfrey, are we not? Me and Tom Pelfrey, we love game nights.
Easy on the eyes. What a guy.
Like Tom Pelfrey. I love that.
Is that 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.

They met at the Ozark wrap party, if you can believe that.

Oh, really?

You're the reason I met him.

Yes.

Yeah.

Now, walk us through this story.

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?

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.

And she, the December, that past December, she had said, I want to set you up with someone that I know.

And I said, it was too soon after my last relationship.

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, 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 you're sure.
You can edit the applause in later. That would be great.
It's in. Yep.
And we put a little in for Big Bang earlier. Go ahead.
Thank you. No, thank you.
These are great shows. These are, thank you.
Please continue. So I, she decided to come with me to New York to just hang out and she she goes, actually, I'm going to see my other client there.
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.
And you were like, what's Ozark? Nobody knows what that is. 100%.
I never heard of the show. I didn't want to go.
And so she said, come with me. And 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.

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 in the restroom.

I was faced away and I overheard, you know, he's got a voice Mr. Tom Pelfrey and I overheard him say to our manager where is this Kaylee and I turned around and it was like she's right in front of you waiting to take a dump 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 no I saw him and it was like this very strange like the world kind of stopped really? yeah it was really wild and he gave me this huge bear hug and like I said there were so many people piling in and it wasn't a moment to really talk and so we all just just, it 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.
He's got a great smile. 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.
Wow. We're insane.
Let's go back to my room. You know, we're not 20 anymore.
We were like, we doing this or not? So Matilda is a full month? She's five weeks old today, you guys. Oh my gosh, congratulations.
Thank you. 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. You don't look like you had a baby.
You look great. Tom actually carried it.
Oh, no kidding. No kidding.
If a man could... They're very progressive.
Honestly, Tom would carry the baby. He is that obsessed.
But how do you have energy? Aren't you exhausted? Or do you have one of those good babies that sleeps all the time? No, she's pretty awesome. Look, I'm not going to lie.
We have some very nice help. Yes.
I'm a big advocate for that. I feel even guilty saying it, but we have very nice help, which is why I can, like, our relationship is so survived because we have all this help with this baby.
Listen, why not? Oh, my God. I mean, if he can, if he got in-laws or whatever, I'm just such a big fan of life.
life. It makes you better.
Think about this. In the old days, it used to be people all lived with their families in the olden times.
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, and now. So you're not at the end of your rope.
Yeah. And now it's different.
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, does she mom Matilda like you would? Or do you guys have like a little bit of tension? Don't start trouble. 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.
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've become very close.

We're just like really lucky.

Yeah, you're very lucky.

We're very lucky.

That's great.

I know.

I know.

Five weeks old.

I can't believe.

Do you want more kids?

Yeah, we do.

Shani, are you moving a couple?

Yeah, I'm moving a couple.

Do you have any links you could send her? Yeah, the dark web. All right, so let's start with, now Big Bang is something that was a Big Bang, right? It was.
That was a phenomenon. Nine, 10, 12 seasons? Twelve.
Twelve seasons. I mean, that's incredible.
Now, 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. We truly, our group of actors, we thought we were 100% doing the 13th season.
We thought we'll do a 13th. It'll be the last one, you know.
And this story is not new. I'm not giving anything away.
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 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 little bit shocked, it was cool because then we had like a whole season to really be in the moment, play.
Yeah, it was cool. We could kind of like slowly.
It was Jim's show. Was it Jim's show? Originally, yeah.
Then it kind of became more of an ensemble. An ensemble show? Yeah, he just was, he was done.
Okay. And 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. 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.
Totally. So we were, it was fine.
But that routine of in front of a live audience, that is a, do you miss that? I mean, it's so good, right? I loved it. I loved the audience.
I thought it was, I loved, obviously, loved 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.
I mean, my dad never missed a tape. He was in the audience every week.
Every single thing. He had his own chair at the back of the audience.
Couldn't sit in it. The angel could not even sit.
He was standing the whole time. And what would you do before each show with a little thumbs up? He gave me a thumbs up for Curt and Paul every time I came out.
And the crew. The whole cast would do it too in the crew.
Yes. The crew started obviously with my dad.
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, none of them.

He didn't come to any of them.

He didn't go to anything.

Yeah.

No, he went to Kaylee's shows.

Sean, your dad went to every one of Kaylee's shows.

He was so wonderful.

He drove her dad.

He had a chair. He was so into it.

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.
22 times 13. Quick.
We did 24. I'm sure there were some years there were 24.
250, something like that. It was up there.
Yeah. It was up there.
300. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Yeah. That's so impressive.
And it's so and i'm i am like once in a not just of the schedule but of of like kind of what jason was saying like being able to go and do that every week in front of the audience that's so what people don't understand is how much fun yeah a live audience it really is so fun it's so fun now when when we're a kid and we're at home, we're playing tennis, where did the whole thing for acting come from? Was Gary or Lane? Lane, am I saying that right? Yeah, Lane. Yeah, lovely.
Yes. Were they into acting at all? Like, how did this come about? No, it was kind of crazy.
No, I did a lot of different things when I was younger. You know, I would go on auditions.
Like I said, I played tennis. I went to these camps that I loved.
Like it was – I had a million things I was doing. And it was just – it was smart because nothing ever really got me down.
Like I wasn't like a child actor who was just acting. Like I just – it was another thing that I did.
And then if that didn't'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 a doubt in my mind. I was like, this is what I want to do.
Tennis. They're like, are you sure? Yeah.
You're talking about tennis? No, sorry. I wanted to be an actor.
Oh, yeah, yeah. So keep playing tennis.
Keep doing both. Have the second thing.
They weren't comfortable with me just doing the acting thing. What was the first real gig? Were the 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 does for sure. I want to see those.

I was the Oscar Mayer.

I sang the Oscar Mayer song.

Give us a little.

Yeah.

Well, I don't know how to spell anymore.

I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener.

Exactly.

Yes.

You sang that in the commercial?

Yeah, I had to know how to spell it anymore. I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener.

Exactly.

Yes.

You sang that in the commercial?

Yeah, I had to do the whole thing and play against a fake little wiener.

Anybody?

Anybody?

Anybody? I was tossing that up for you, Will.

I know.

No, no, no.

All right.

So then you're acting along and was there a thought, well, maybe I should go to college

too to make sure I have like a backup or something?

No.

I don't need trigonometry. 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.
So they were like, I can't believe they listened to me. It's kind of amazing.
They let me get my GED. Gary's very permissive.
He was like, go ahead. That's always been the bump on him.
Go. They were so cool about it.
I'm such an idiot. Were your parents actors too? No.
No, they were not. My mom stayed home with us since the minute we were born.
Jay, how do you know their names, Gary? I'm just doing bits. I get a little bit of research.
I know their names and I'm acting as if I know them. It's fun.
Okay, okay, okay. Gary was a realtor.
Yes, he was a realtor. Gary was in residential real estate.
Oh. Yes, good job.
Mostly in the Camarillo area. Yes.
Yes? Wow. These are guesses.
These are guesses. He was a 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 drive me.
Brothers and sisters? My sister, yeah, my sister's three years younger. My sister- Want 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 an actor too. She has an amazing voice.
She's incredible. Yeah.
She was on mass, no, not mass singer. Um, the voice.
Yeah. Oh, wow.
Really? She was on the voice. Got her a couple rounds.
Now with, uh, with, with Gary's history in medicine, do you know CPR? 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.

I don't know if 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.

I'm so traumatized by even doing it on the fake baby.

So we did technically learn, but.

I learned it too, but I think I need a refresher

because I think I may have forgotten maybe,

because like you forget one little component,

it's useless.

It's crazy, right?

Sean and Will, do you guys know CPR?

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 to do.

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

Yeah, you're right. It's a Saturday.

Yeah.

But wait, I always thought it was so crazy in movies and TV shows when shows When people You know Are passed out Or whatever Dying and people Have to do CPR And they're pounding On their chest How does the actor Not like move Like I'd be like Ow ow ow ow Every time You know what I mean Like You're the worst actor God Well I think they I remember we had to do CPR In a scene in Flight Attendant I mean mean, they're pretty padded. I don't think we're just socking people in the chest and think that it's real.
Sean, do you want to just, 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? What are you doing, dude? I always wondered that.
I always wondered that because it looks like, you know, 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...
Like, you know, how do you... What about, I went down to give you mouth to mouth on Murderville and you just, I thought you were going to let me and then you didn't.
And then I was like, wait, you're going to let me and you didn't. I was too embarrassed.
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 arrest development.
And I kept telling you that I hadn't washed my hands. This is about Kaylee.
I know, this is about Kaylee. Wait, so they put pads on? They put padding on? Sir, can we please escort this guy out of the yard? I know.
They put padding on and then you push on the pad the pad? That's right. Oh, I didn't know that.
Yeah, and then they'll cut to, you know, his chest and they'll take the pad out. Sean, you know, Star Wars, you know they don't shoot that in space, right? Yeah.
And the lightsabers are not... They won't really cut you in half.
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And now back to the show. Kaylee, were you prepared for the uber success of Big Bang? Like all the fame, the notoriety, the money, everything changed and sort of exponentially every year.
Notoriety means something bad. Notoriety means it's bad.
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? Jesus.
Wow. They did, I believe, two pilots.
Old Chuck had the thinning shears out, huh? 100%. You're out.
Yeah. 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? 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, 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. So they shot one pilot, trashed it, second pilot, trashed it.
And then the third pilot, you were in the pilot? Yes. From the get-go? They kept rewriting it and revamping it.
I mean, it was totally changed when I joined.

Like, it wasn't what it was at all.

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,

just the concept and the actors in it?

Whereas as opposed to other shows, you shoot a pie that didn't go,

they throw it out. Like, bye, right.
I think, I remember Chuck did a couple, I know he's talked about this before, but he just like really believed in it 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. So they just kind of- He single-handedly kept sitcoms alive for the last 15 years.
Yeah. But he kept saying, I'm going to get this right.
I'm going to get this right. And, you know.
And so what about all the fame and the money and the being recognized on the street? Like, were you prepared for all that? Because it was, I mean, the show was enormous. You know what's so crazy? I feel like my sort of, I hate him in this word, whatever,

this fame or whatever. I was such on a slow, like uphill climb.
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.
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.
Like 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 came. Because it was what you did for a living.
Yeah, but Big Bang Theory had like 30 million viewers a week. Like it was insane.
I know. We were, I mean, it was awesome.
We were thrilled. Sean and I did when we we did that show, The Millers, and especially the first season, we were on Behind You Guys, behind Big Bang Theory for a year.
And you single-handedly, like, kept us on the air because we had the lead-in of Big Bang Theory. We were like, sweet, we could have just air some 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 moved us, and then we were like, oh, we're screwed. It was a little phenomenon, man.
I don't know. It was just massive.
And I know who I know. I know a few people, but I certainly know Johnny a little bit.
Such a nice guy. Oh, he's the greatest.
He's the greatest. I love Johnny Galick.
He's such best he's such a nice guy such a nice soul he's like doing his thing now where did he move to

did he move to like tennessee or something nashville loving it yeah that's so great he's

i gotta tell him i saw you guys talk to you yeah please say hi to him for me i just he's such a

sweet person i know all right so now what you've done is you've somewhat combined your passion for

acting and your passion for tennis although you're letting ch Chris Messina do the tennis part. But tell us about this incredible new show called Based on a True Story.
Produced by Aggregate. 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 can't do it because I

got this other show. I didn't know that.

Yes. And I 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.

And I go, oh my God, this is

hilarious. He goes, I know it's so funny.
It's Jason's doing it and all this stuff. I said, it's hilarious.
I still look from Jason's trailer. 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. 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.
I was like, yeah, what about Tom for this? What about Tom for that? So chances are high that maybe that was something I was aware of, but it was one of many. He probably had a bunch of stuff.
Isn't that crazy that I was like, let me see that. And I like whipped through it.
I said, this is brilliant. Obviously, that was months before I even ever got the call for it and things were written very differently.
The very differently. The couple had older kids.
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.
We started talking, and then Craig, our showrunner, was like, we'll take away the kids. They were kind of helping me figure out how this could be.
I loved it so much. Plus, crime i love tennis i love working in la i was like i need all these things this is great so the general concept sounds like a good job yeah so the general concept is that you uh and chris messina are married the great the great chris messina the best we'll hold for applause there the best um he plays an ex-tennis star.
You play a realtor that is obsessed with true crime podcasts. You have a plumber come to the house to fix a toilet.
Yes. Played by, ironically, Tom Bateman.
Yes. Fabulous.
Isn't that weird? Yes. And 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. I got to see this.
And we'll keep his name away from the authorities. No more killing.
That's great. There's probably a better way to describe it, but that's the bones of it, right? That sounds great.

Wait, when is this on?

This is coming.

June 8th.

June 8th on the Peacock.

Absolutely.

Wait, this is streaming on the cock?

It's streaming on the cock.

Of course.

Yep, yep, yep.

Wow.

That's what we always say on the,

anything for us.

Wait, but that sounds really great.

Yeah, I know.

It does sound really good.

I was so upset.

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.
And then like after we had, 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 were there and I was talking to everyone.
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? Just spitballing.
And Craig goes, I'm like, now think hard about this. Think about your answer first.
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, surprise. Yeah.
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
We were like a month out from shooting, maybe a little longer. But I said, do you think you could write it in? And how many months were you? When we started shooting, I was five months.
I mean, we shot three weeks before I gave birth. Yeah.
Wow. 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.
Oh, my God. And didn't they say, well, Kaylee, we can delay start a production.
Like, have your kid enjoy it. And you were like, no, no, no, no, no.
No. I want, right? I want to do it now.
Yeah. Because I also, not only did I want to do the show and I was so ready to do it, I actually not, and also I wanted to, for them to write in the pregnancy, I actually thought it worked for the show.
Yeah, it did. And once we all talked it out, it actually worked.
I don't remember it not being about this couple being pregnant.

Plus, the way they wrote it in was so brilliant.

Like, it never focused on the pregnancy.

It just was, I was just pregnant.

It's the jeopardy, too, that you're basically working with the serial killer

and you can see this big, huge baby bump the whole way through.

Fully pregnant, yeah.

Bananas.

Fully pregnant.

That's cool.

So, you were five months pregnant and through till, what, being eight months pregnant by the time we wrapped? Four weeks before I gave birth was my wrap day. Yeah.
But it was awesome because I got to, 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.
Comfy shoes all the way in. I've been in this business 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.
Like, I'm going to be real about this and 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. It just felt right.
That's cool. I would have killed to play that killer.
I wouldn't play it. No.
He's great. He's really great at it.
He is great. I can't wait to see it.
They're all great. It's a really cool, weird show and very funny.
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? Absolutely. Have you thought about how that's all going to kind of play out? Dude, I would do a second season in a heartbeat let's get it done let's get this done today it was one of the most fun experiences i have ever i really mean that christmas scene is just a real joy we laughed and that's that's what's fun not not to we move on after this but that that is real i mean the writing is fantastic concepts fun and all that stuff.
But the chemistry between you two guys, I don't know.

It's just I do stuff sometimes and people say, hey, boy, how did you guys get such great chemistry?

Well, when you have two really nice people, it's pretty simple.

Thanks, man.

Chris or Sean, Will, don't you guys agree?

Like chemistry is not a mystery if you're not working with a dickhead.

Yeah, yeah.

Exactly.

It's simple.

Chris is just awesome. People are like, well, they had great chemistry.
Yeah, because they're normal, nice people. Right.
Exactly. It's good.
Right. And it's infectious, and it works for the characters, too, because you guys are kind of aweshoxing while working with a serial killer.
It's pretty great. No, we had a blast, man.
It was awesome. I can't even tell you.
I had a question about... Well, I just want to say it out loud.

What's it called again?

Based on a true story.

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.

You know...

Will has set his calendar.

You're ready to do it.

Are we having a viewing party at your house, Will?

We're going to do a viewing.

We're doing it.

Are you kidding?

Are you kidding?

Are you fucking... Would you...
I want to know. I have something.
Go ahead, Sean. Do you have like, do you have any kind of desire to write and to be a writer and to write scripts? No.
Direct? What about direct? 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. I'm also also not ever, 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 own.
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 do now like he's hysterical so the two of us together kind of balance that was like me with laura linney 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 um but i just my brain doesn't work me too very admirable i mean i my brain does not work that way either it's just not for I know. But it makes a great partnership.
Yeah, I'm not a playback watcher. As an actor, I can't watch playback.
So, Tracy, what happens here is that you shoot a scene and then you can go to the monitor, a 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. Then you go and you shoot it again.
And it really was initially, it's not for the actors, it's generally for the director so the director can watch, maybe the producer See what the camera's seeing. Yeah, see what the camera's seeing and 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.
By the way, you know who invented or created the playback? Who's that Sean? Jerry Lewis. Is that right? Really? What? Huh.
Yeah. Huh.
Now, some actors will not look at playback, and they won't even see the film once it's all done, cut together. And I don't get that.
I learned so much about what I did wrong by looking at what I do. Like watching the end product.
Yeah. It's like shoot it and go home and then go to the next job.
That's me too. Otherwise, you're just obsessed.
You're obsessed about like, you know, I can't do it. I'm the same way.
Maybe I should do that with golf oil. Maybe I should care a little bit less.
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 up that you're not, you know Josh.
Oh, Josh. He's a friend of ours and we play golf with.
He's a golfer, Josh. And so Josh, he's a, Kaylee, he's a friend of ours.
He's a bald fella. 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.
And I'm like, if he showed up every day with a different wig. With a different wig.
Oh, my God. I never, that is so fun.
Yeah. 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.
I think on top of that, you need to stand over the ball and hit it. And you have too many thoughts.
And Jason is known as one of the slower golfers in the Los Angeles Southern. I was so slow yesterday.
I was so slow. I was so slow yesterday.
And he thinks about way too much. And Kaylee, you know, as an actual, you know, competitive athlete, that sometimes you just have to let your instincts take over.
You just got to go. Yeah.
Maybe Kaylee needs to be the person to come play with you and walk with you and be your kind of sports psychologist. Yeah, be my whisperer.
I would be so bad at golf. That sport would make me insane.
Like, it would make me insane. But you could talk him through.
You could be like, Jay, speed it up. Hit it.
Hit the ball. What about bowling? Do you guys like to bowl? 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.
That's a Tony Award nominated actor. Well, you said Josh is a ball guy and I'm a ball guy.
And then you went to bowling. And I went to bowling.
And I like to bowl. Antoinette Perry just rolled over.
Kaylee, love you. Thank you.
Love you too. Love you guys.
You crushed this. See you again.
You crushed this. Thank you.
This was so great. You guys are a delight.
Thank you. You got real good chat on your girl.
If I was a girl, I'd wear a scrunchie in my hair like you do right now. 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 I think that what we need to, and I always do my scrunchie, I always do my scrunchie bed. I've never seen the scrunchie bed.
Oh, I've seen the scrunchie bed for 20 years. Yeah.
I'll be like, guys, I think the problem is, look, if we go over there, can we, and I scrunchie my hair. He's gathering his hair.
He's gathering his hair and putting a fake scrunchie in his hair. It's my favorite.
I love his scrunchie. Because I have a big 80s scrunchie in my hair.
I love it. I love it.
Super cute. You guys are awesome.
Thank you for having me. All right, Kaylee.
We love you. You're the best.
You guys are amazing. Thank you.
Have a great rest of the day. Bye, guys.
Bye, Kaylee. Thank you.
Bye. Bye.
Bye. Bye.
Bye. Bye.
Bye. Bye.
Bye. Bye.
Bye. Bye.
Bye. Bye.
Bye. Bye.
Bye. Bye.
Bye. Bye.
Bye. Bye.
Bye. Bye.
Bye. Bye, Kaylee.
Thank you. Bye.
Bye.

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

She's got a great vibe, huh? I said sunshine

wrapped in skin, but maybe it's spirit

wrapped in skin, huh? And some

sunshine. 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 does her work serious too kaylee was you know i've bubbly cuoco sorry that sounds like her name should be bubbly cuoco on ice bubbly cuoco but but kaylee but it she's so great she was so great on big bang theory and and so funny and fun yeah just like Just like a little, yeah, 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 vibe.
Yeah, 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 the flight attendant, oh, too early. It is too early,

but go ahead.

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday,

sweet, sweet Willie Arnett.

Happy birthday to you.

Bye.

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