"Allison Janney"

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Speaker 1 Welcome back here. We're here on an all-new SmartList and it's great to have everybody here on the show and I'm going to pass it to one of my co-anchors there.
And do we have any news, Jason?

Speaker 1 Today there's a SIG alert on the 405. You're going to want to go ahead and take surface streets, Tricepulveda, or the Canyons.
Back out to sports with Sean Hayes. What's your sports, Sean?

Speaker 1 Does anybody want to guess my middle name?

Speaker 1 What are you doing, dude? You're supposed to be the sports guy.

Speaker 1 You know, when someone throws you the ball, you don't drop it. Well, I could talk about traffic.
I don't know about sports. Well, that's the joke, dinghy.

Speaker 1 Dallas Cowboys and the Bears are playing this Saturday. Okay, welcome, Miss Marlowe.
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Speaker 1 Shay, Will, we're just talking about how Sean is the problem. We never have this issue when your guest or my guest, it's just, we always start right on time, but whenever it's Sean's guest,

Speaker 1 it's all, there's always nonsense. But it's not me.
I'm always on time. No, but it's your vibe it's your vibe for sure yeah things are just disorganized in your life you know no and it's they're not

Speaker 1 like his answer is just no no they're not but wait i want to say about where we're all going tomorrow we're all going together yeah i heard so willie we're going to we're going to to the hollywood bowl to see amadeus live well i'm very excited you're coming are you going to be

Speaker 1 No, you're actually fairly cultured. You're sneaky cultured.

Speaker 1 I was so shocked because it's Amadeus Live and I texted Will. I I was like, I already think I already know the answer, but just so you know, we're all going.
I can't imagine you want to go.

Speaker 1 And he's like, oh my God, I'm so excited to go. I was like, really? Awesome.

Speaker 1 So, listener, what this is, is Hollywood Bowl out here in La La Land is this big place where the outdoor air, where the, where the, or the orchestra plays.

Speaker 1 Is La La Land just a fun way you say Los Angeles?

Speaker 1 They should name a movie that.

Speaker 1 So what they do is each summer, the LA Philharmonic plays the Hollywood Bowl, and then the winter they go inside.

Speaker 1 But during the summer, they played the Hollywood Bowl, and then they run three movies each summer, or three or four,

Speaker 1 and they drop a big screen down, and it's usually some big, huge cinematic film that's got a big orchestral score.

Speaker 1 And they drop the music out, and the symphony plays the music while they still keep the music or the dialogue and the sound effects. There we go.
They play live the music while we watch the movie.

Speaker 1 That's it. Got it.
I mean, sorry, listener. I'll send each of you your minute back.

Speaker 1 But what I'm trying to do. Sometimes it should be, the listener should know that sometimes when we're in a social setting, and Sean, you know what I mean? I'll look over at Jason.

Speaker 1 I'll see him talking to somebody, especially somebody who's new to our circle, and I'll see him talking about what they do, and I'll be like, this person is really struggling.

Speaker 1 But they're also a big Ozark fan, so they're willing to put up with that.

Speaker 1 So they're like, Jason's super famous, so I'll just do it anyway. But fuck me, this guy get to the fucking point.
So I'm excited. But Jason, Jason, I should say this.

Speaker 1 Also, I'm glad that Jason's driving because I'm going up to Jason Amandas and I'm driving with them. I'm their kid.

Speaker 1 You're glad I'm driving. Why? Are you going out tomorrow night? You're just going to get all banged up? No, just so that you and I can, because I don't want to deal with parking at the bowl.

Speaker 1 That was one of my big thoughts. Well, Sean was nice enough.
Now, listener, you should know that Sean has gifted us these tickets because he's a very generous man.

Speaker 1 And that there was parking with it was another step that I...

Speaker 1 didn't think you had.

Speaker 1 No, I'm excited to go. By the way, the other thing I forgot to tell, Will, Jason, was

Speaker 1 my massage in the Bahamas. I can't believe I haven't told you about the massage in the Bahamas.

Speaker 1 Who, me or Will? Oh, sorry, massage in the Bahamas. Okay, sorry.

Speaker 1 Okay. Yeah, you said that a little quick.
Yeah, sorry.

Speaker 1 It's almost like you, well, I'm not going to say it. No, but I've never had this happen to me in my entire life.
Well, you've never, okay, yeah. No, so we splurged.

Speaker 1 We're like, you know, hey, let's get it. Hey, let's get massages.
So I had this woman who was very, very strong, a lot stronger than I am, and she

Speaker 1 wasn't doing anything crazy

Speaker 1 or questionable, but she until she

Speaker 1 was, you know, I was on my, I flipped over, I'm on my back, and she's doing my leg and just rubbing right up against my penis and my balls. Well, now,

Speaker 1 let's be a little bit more specific here. She wasn't rubbing up against, she wasn't.
The back of her hand was on him. Yeah.
She gave you

Speaker 1 some brush buys, right? She gave me brush buys, but literally, like, no.

Speaker 1 She didn't give a shit about anything. She's just rubbing right next to it over and over again.
And it's growing a little bit

Speaker 1 and so i thought well i don't want to give her the wrong idea but anyway she it's like it was almost like medical like she didn't care

Speaker 1 i'm gay yeah

Speaker 1 i think she knew that and that's why she was giving you the drive-bys yeah i didn't get any of that and she had just worked on my wife so she knew that maybe the you know she's she ought to mind it with her with with you she she didn't have to worry

Speaker 1 safe zone yeah she thought there's no way this guy's going to be offended or aroused or anything like that and then sure enough here comes your

Speaker 1 But if you're rubbing up against it, wouldn't you be like, maybe I should switch my hands around? Maybe she's dead. Maybe the back of her hands are dead.
How about you not get an erection? Okay.

Speaker 1 I know I couldn't. I know.
I started. Does Scotty know that you were aroused by this? He was in the, he was right next to me.
It was a couples thing with another woman doing it. Okay.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Here's what. Here's a, here's, I'm glad you brought this up because I want to bring this up.
As you can imagine, I take issue. I feel like every week's just become me with my grievances.

Speaker 1 We are thinking about a new title. The couple.

Speaker 1 The couple.

Speaker 1 The couple's massage. Nobody wants that.

Speaker 1 That's the worst title. Well, no, I didn't.
That's just the worst. I want that.
Somebody hearing me, because this is what I do. But sometimes when I'm getting massaged, I'll be like,

Speaker 1 you know, I'll catch myself. What was that?

Speaker 1 What sound was that? What did that mean? Like, like falling asleep and like to the point where I'm like, oh, yeah, I do that too.

Speaker 1 And then you're slobbering and stuff. Who wants to do that next to somebody else? I think the couple's massage is way overrated.
And then we offer couples massage. That's a deterrent.

Speaker 1 It's a deterrent, especially when you're laying next to me. And

Speaker 1 I like to give a lot of feedback because I feel bad that they don't know whether they're doing good or not. And so I do a lot of.
I can't imagine. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 You do not. No, you don't.
No, you don't. Oh.

Speaker 1 That's crazy. A lot of stuff like that.
And

Speaker 1 whoever I'm partnered with, oftentimes it's my wife.

Speaker 1 They get upset because I'm disturbing their experience. Oftentimes.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's got it. I do a lot of those.
Oh, that's got it. This is a great transition into our.

Speaker 1 I do a lot of, I do it like real cutesy, though. Oh, look what you're doing.
Oh, look what you're. Look what you did.
Good for you. Look at, look at you.
Oh, are you generous?

Speaker 1 Suck.

Speaker 1 Okay, here we go. Our guest today is a very close friend of mine and also good friends of all of ours, actually.

Speaker 1 She's an extremely gifted actress, having won an Oscar fairly recently. What? But I swear her voice is almost as busy as she is.
It's everywhere.

Speaker 1 You hear it in DuckTales, Finding Nemo, the Adams Family, Minions, Over the Hedge, so many documentaries, medical commercials. Her voice is fantastic.

Speaker 1 Also, it turns out she was actually a very serious figure skater in real life. I can't wait to ask her about that.

Speaker 1 The first few years of her career were spent with roles in tiny plays, and she was ready to quit numerous times. We've all been there until Aaron Sorkin

Speaker 1 saw her in one of those tiny plays called her and auditioned for a tiny little show called The West Wing. Please welcome the absolute face of the world.
It's Allison. It's Jane.

Speaker 1 Listener. Oh my God.
God, I was so nervous I was going to have to look at nothing. Listener, she's got this great, like, what do you call that kind of hat? She's got a hat with a big feather on it.

Speaker 1 It's a pillbox hat with an ostrich feather. Probably not a real ostrich feather.
So everybody calm down. It's not a real ostrich feather.
And a veil, and there's some netting in front of your face.

Speaker 1 What's that called? Some net. It's a veil.
It's okay.

Speaker 1 It's a veil with dots on it. So it looks like I have big black acne, but I don't know.

Speaker 1 Like moles, like moles. Like big moles, beauty marks.
Beauty marks. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Beauty marks. But like, I'm just going to pull these down for a second to pull up my veil and put these back on.

Speaker 1 I just wanted for effect you to see what I just came from to come to talk to you, three handsome gentlemen. You just came from this place? All right, go ahead.

Speaker 1 I can't hear what you're saying, so go ahead and say something. Nasty.

Speaker 1 Look at you. Oh, my God.
Look at you.

Speaker 1 Look at you. Okay, look.

Speaker 1 Wait, why do you look

Speaker 1 stunning? Okay, well. Where did you just come from? A wake?

Speaker 1 Well, very good. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Funeral scene. And I'm doing that.
You had Kristen Wigg on the program not too long ago. And that show we're doing for Apple.
It's an Apple series as yet.

Speaker 1 It's an untitled project. And we're doing a funeral scene today.
And this is 1968.

Speaker 1 Palm Beach.

Speaker 1 This is what a lady looks like at a funeral in 1968.

Speaker 1 Does your character have to cry at this wake or were you happy about the death? Okay, so that's why I chose to wear these. So you don't have to cry.
So you don't have to cry. Dark sunglasses.

Speaker 1 Actors are lazy, guys. We're all very, very lazy people.
It's hard. I'm in a wool dress.
It's outside. It's hot.

Speaker 1 It's hard.

Speaker 1 Are you in California? I am in California. I'm right now in a base camp with all the trailers in a park.
Oh, you're in the trailer. I'm in my trailer, yeah.

Speaker 1 Look at that pop-out. She's got a nice one there.

Speaker 1 It is a very nice trail. It's the nicest trail I've ever had I usually get I think when I did your movie Jason I was in a honey wagon well

Speaker 1 it's easy to cut that out

Speaker 1 this is a shot that's well worth taking and let's let's explore Tracy a honey wagon is smaller than a regular didn't you tell me that you were to you took a pee washed your feet and brushed your teeth all at the same time right isn't that how small it was

Speaker 1 Hey, so now, are you one of those actors? Have you ever had them blow the camphor into your eyes so that you can get some tears going? Yeah. You know what?

Speaker 1 After a certain amount, and you know what, I did a movie with Tony Collette called The Way, Way Back, and

Speaker 1 she can bring the emotion like nobody's business. And she had to do it over and over again.
At a certain point, she was like,

Speaker 1 bring it in. I can't do it anymore.
And I was like, thank God. I was so glad to see someone I respected so much do it because you should be able to do it at the same time.

Speaker 1 So listener, this little trick here, Tracy, is a tube filled with like menthol crystals in it. And the makeup artist will blow through one end and eroding show business for a lot of people right now.

Speaker 1 It irritates your your eyes so much that you start to cry. And then they go, okay, quick, roll it.
And you're

Speaker 1 going to tell them how this sausage is made. Are you crazy?

Speaker 1 I once made the mistake of having them do that when I had my contacts in and a crystal got under my contact. And I, I mean, I literally, the director was like, please, you can't be that emotional.

Speaker 1 Jason, have you ever done it? Like, have you ever gone on set and actually blown people? Yeah. Well, what do you mean? Oh, wait, I'm just trying to get a soundbite.

Speaker 1 I'm still trying to get a sound bite out of you. I'm trying to get a a gotcha sound bite out of you.

Speaker 1 Wait, Ali.

Speaker 1 Okay, so wait, I did not know a couple things about you, and I've known you for 75 years. I didn't know you really were a figure skater.
I had no idea. I can't believe you didn't know that.

Speaker 1 That's like. Well,

Speaker 1 how's it going? How are you going to know that?

Speaker 1 Because it's like, it's such old. It's never come up.
It probably came up at the junket for Itanya, right? Which we were not at. We met.
Jason and I met at the junket for Itanya. I mean, not Itanya,

Speaker 1 Juno. That's where I first met you and fell in love with you.
And Sean, I fell in love with just all throughout our

Speaker 1 encouraging careers

Speaker 1 during, you know, West Wing and Will and Grace. Right.
And Will, do you remember where we met?

Speaker 1 When we fell in love?

Speaker 1 Yes. Vamp.
Wait, where did we meet? He doesn't remember. I didn't even try.
I'm really sad. No, no, no, no, no, no, wait, wait.

Speaker 1 Jesus Christ. What is that going to be? I only met you once, and I'll never forget it.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Show a picture of your child. I'm not going to remember.
It's okay. And it may not have been you.
I might have been wrong.

Speaker 1 It might have been Patrick Wilson.

Speaker 1 Oh, is that who you get? Do you ever remember? You've been to the Soho house in New York City, right? Sure, yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, it was a long time ago, and I met you there at the bar at the Soho house. I was there for my birthday, and you just happened to be there.
And I met you.

Speaker 1 So it was about 20 years ago, 25 years ago? Was he drinking?

Speaker 1 Probably 20 years ago. Not 25, but like at least, well, actually

Speaker 1 25 30 15 20 25 30 15

Speaker 1 i don't know but i i interrupted because we were talking about skating and i uh i did i know i was are you sick of talking about it no i know i'm it's okay i don't mind talking about because i really i did want to go to the olympics that was my my dream

Speaker 1 as a young girl i was a really i was a great athlete in in school i played field hockey lacrosse ice hockey everything i'm just i'm very athletic and uh and i decided to oh i know why because my father was in commercial real estate in Dayton, Ohio, and Kentucky and Cincinnati.

Speaker 1 And he owned a,

Speaker 1 you know, a building that housed an ice rink. So I got, you know, my little lifetime membership card and got free ice time.
And all of a sudden, I just became infatuated with

Speaker 1 skating. It was literally to, it's the only time I've ever been.
when you're so excited. I was so excited to put my skates on, I could hardly get them on fast enough to get out on the ice.

Speaker 1 really and were you i bet you were great i was very graceful but i'm very very tall

Speaker 1 ice skating figure skating is an acrobatic sport yeah you can't you know i can't get this six foot frame three times around uh triple you know there i should have been an ice dancer that's what i should have been but something happened when you were a teenager that made you stop irread or something Uh-oh, we don't have to talk about it.

Speaker 1 You mean when I almost died? That is not what you're talking about.

Speaker 1 She's died.

Speaker 1 You're doing the greatest. She almost When we talk to her about some of her relationship failures, we know that.
And then we'll roll into politics and religion. Sean, can I talk to you for a second?

Speaker 1 What is the

Speaker 1 outfits, Allison? Tell us about your favorite story. Hang on a second.
Hang on. Let her answer this part first.
What happened? I'll just say it's a story that anyone who knows me well knows the story.

Speaker 1 So I'm surprised. Well, two of you don't know this, but

Speaker 1 I went through a plate glass window when I was 17 and

Speaker 1 lost three quarters of my blood. I almost died, and it was pretty freaking traumatic how did you get through that why did you get go through when did you not see it I

Speaker 1 didn't see it no but I mean it's those horrible you know at a party when someone goes walking right into one and usually they bounce off of it but you went through it I did what I you know the the awful part is there was a game going on with um and and the girls uh the couples and the girls had balloons tied around their ankles and and the object was to pop everybody's balloon so you were the only couple left with your balloon unpopped.

Speaker 1 And I was cheating because I had a strapless long gown on and I tied the balloon up around my knee so no one could get pop my balloon. I've been a cheater.
I'm such a cheater.

Speaker 1 Well, it takes a lot to admit that.

Speaker 1 How does it send you through a plate glass window, though? Well, then one, someone who was trying to pop my balloon kept furiously trying to step on my balloon.

Speaker 1 Instead, stepped on my dress and it ripped and fell off. And I was there for the party with parents and kids and everybody was there.

Speaker 1 And I just graduated from high school and my dress was falling off. I didn't have any bra on.
It was a strapless dress and I'm a very small chested woman.

Speaker 1 And so I held the dress up and I ran to get inside. And there was a porch with, you know, some doors open, some closed.

Speaker 1 And I hit it and then. The glass fell on top of me on my leg.
And I, oh, my God. The band was playing right next to me.
And I was like, keep playing, keep playing. Don't play.
I was so embarrassed.

Speaker 1 And then I turned around and I I said oh my god I saw blood all over my my finger and on my neck and everywhere and I said I'm supposed to now I'm supposed to scream and then I am gonna faint and then I'm gonna die and that's what I as my actress head was like these are the things I'm supposed to do right now I'm supposed to scream

Speaker 1 and then

Speaker 1 you know it was like a fellini movie or something being on the ground and seeing all these people with cocktails and cigarettes leaning over me looking to see what was going on with my blood and people it was crazy

Speaker 1 Oh my god, so you couldn't skate anymore. No, done my skating, but you know, it was, it was, it was good.
I was not meant to be a figure skater

Speaker 1 at all, but I did. Well, but what about that injury wrecked your skating career? Well, I lost an artery, my cut tendon in my lower right leg, and my foot doesn't work so well anymore.
Oh, no,

Speaker 1 you couldn't, you could have walked that off.

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Speaker 1 Wait, one time I was, my sister was out here visiting. Oh, God.
It never goes well when it starts with. One time, my sister.

Speaker 1 Okay, go ahead, man. We were at a stoplight.
One time I was with my sister at a stoplight. Got it.

Speaker 1 In Century City, and we're watching this girl. She must have been 14, 15 years old, rollerblade.
What? And she was, it was on a long hill, and she couldn't stop herself.

Speaker 1 And you know, when you watch, see something, and she ran, she rollerbladed right into a movie poster

Speaker 1 and the glass completely at a bus stop, and the glass completely shattered. No way.

Speaker 1 What was the movie? Do you remember? There comes a joke. It's better not be a joke.
No, I don't remember the movie. I don't remember.

Speaker 1 It would be better if I had the movie ready, but I think it was like, you know, Chipmunks, something about the chipmunks. Shattered glass.

Speaker 1 But did you, was she okay? So we ran over there to help her, and she was like,

Speaker 1 my sister couldn't stop laughing. I was like, oh my God, this poor.
She She turned and said, tell the band to keep playing.

Speaker 1 No, she ended up being totally playing. Everybody does that when they have, it's their first instinct is to tell the band.

Speaker 1 My sister was laughing only because she knew she was totally fine. Because my sister was a cop and she was like, oh, the girl's going to be totally fine.

Speaker 1 It looked way better. Tracy was a cop.
Yeah. Tracy is a cop.
Yeah. We learned that.
We learned that very late. Well, we were on stage for that.

Speaker 1 We learned that when she hogtied Bateman in the back of a van.

Speaker 1 Hey, hey, you know,

Speaker 1 know, Allison, I know, I, um,

Speaker 1 I don't want to,

Speaker 1 I, I did a, a little figure skating in my time as well. Oh, here we come.
You did? Oh, here we go. I did.
I, well, I did, I did a, as part of the cinema, I did a, I did a film. I made a

Speaker 1 figure skating picture called Blades of Glory. Yeah.
He did all of his own skating.

Speaker 1 I didn't do all my own skating. I didn't do all my own skating, but of the four main, of me and Ferrell and Navy and John Heater, I did the most of my own skating.

Speaker 1 Wait, did you know, did you learn to skate just for that movie, Will? No, no, no, he's Canadian, dude. He came out with skates.

Speaker 1 You play hockey, right, Will? Yeah, yeah, yeah. At a very high level.
Go ahead, Alison.

Speaker 1 Goalie, so it wasn't a lot of fun.

Speaker 1 Isn't that weird that all that figure skating? I mean, I can't be the first person to say this. And then you went in Oscar for a movie about skating.
I mean, it's just crazy. It's crazy, Allison.

Speaker 1 It's nutty. It's just nutty.
I couldn't believe it. And I actually got my skates back out and got on the ice, and I thought that my character might, they might put in a little scene where she skated.

Speaker 1 And so you saw that, you know, she wanted her daughter to

Speaker 1 succeed where she had failed. And then that part was so great.

Speaker 1 Did you come up with the bird and the oxygen tank? Or was which one was? Because I'm obsessed with that role. I tell you, I've never smoked so many cigarettes in my life.
And

Speaker 1 every scene I kept saying, maybe this scene, she doesn't smoke. And Craig Gillespie, the director, was like, no, you're smoking.
You're smoking in every scene.

Speaker 1 And then we get to that final scene with the bird.

Speaker 1 and uh the bird handler was like you're not you can't smoke around the bird you're not allowed to and craig was like oh yes we are we're smoking around like there was a huge uh fight about it and i said uh to the prop guy i said what do you do you have one of those those things those um

Speaker 1 you know

Speaker 1 things you stick in your nose in the the canister, the oxygen.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the oxygen tank, yeah. Yeah, but it can't, what's it called?

Speaker 1 And he did, exactly. Yep.
Exactly, Jason. That's exactly what he said.
And that's how that came about.

Speaker 1 That, of course, it made sense that my character would have emphysema after smoking for an ever- What about Craig Gillespie? That guy, what a genius. He's amazing.
I love it. He's pretty.

Speaker 1 I got to say, Jason, you have been one of my favorite directors, too. You are, there's no one more fun to watch on a set than you.
You, you love.

Speaker 1 I mean, at least it seemed to me you love being in that position and just

Speaker 1 don't. I love it so much.
You just are able to handle anything that comes your way. You're such

Speaker 1 a, I had so much fun working with you on that.

Speaker 1 Listen, you guys, why don't we all do, I propose that we all do a sitcom. I know you guys were talking about sitcoms recently on the podcast.

Speaker 1 Should we just make news right now? Okay, so what would the concept, what would the concept be? How could we best utilize what the three of us do and you do? And what would that concept be?

Speaker 1 Okay, well,

Speaker 1 I think you're already halfway there with the outfit on right now, the funeral outfit.

Speaker 1 Okay, so I'm a boxer, right? I'm like a young, I'm like the youngest. No, I have you

Speaker 1 know something. I've got Will, I've got you being a luggage porter at a hotel

Speaker 1 that Allison owns. I own the hotel.
She owns a hotel, and she's got three of us working there. Will, you're just doing a lot of luggage care.
You're in charge of VIP relations, Jason. Thank you.

Speaker 1 And Sean. I'm valet.
I'll do the valet. Jason's like the maid or D, I agree.

Speaker 1 Wait, listen, you're still in the luggage department. Sean, what are you? I'm the valet.

Speaker 1 What's a valet do? You mean the car parker or the guy that's taking care of

Speaker 1 the concierge stuff? I park cars. But you fill in whenever, wherever it's necessary.
Sometimes you're on room service duty or you kind of jump in the middle.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but Simon Kim, you got to be at the front desk. We have to have the front desk and concierge cam.
So, Sean, you need to be front desk and Jason, you're concierge. I'm sorry, I have to repeat.

Speaker 1 I do like Jason as concierge. Let's put Sean with an old-timey operator board where he's got to plug in the little

Speaker 1 camera.

Speaker 1 We can't get cameras in there. I can't get Shimade in there.

Speaker 1 Wait, Will, what did we decide you were? I'm the bellboy because real young seeming just very sort of boyish. Yeah, well, the big bad boy.
I feel like I'm cutting people off.

Speaker 1 They want to agree with me. Go ahead.
Who wanted to? No.

Speaker 1 So, Allison, we get Burroughs to direct it, right? You think we can make his deal? Please. I've never worked with him.
I want to work with him so badly. You've never worked with James Burroughs?

Speaker 1 No, I've never worked with him. I've never worked with him.
I'm very, I'm sad about that. You didn't do any moms? No, no, no moms.
Who Who did the moms?

Speaker 1 Jamie Widows, the fabulous Jamie Widows did. Oh my God, we love Jamie Widows.
I love Jamie Widows. He's just okay.

Speaker 1 So, but wait, I want to talk about your career because like you, I've heard you talk about it before, like the, the agonizingly long kind of,

Speaker 1 you know, slow start in your career and what it took for you to get to where you are. Talk a little bit about that because

Speaker 1 up until West Wing, I mean, did Aaron Sorkin really see you in a play and just go, oh, that's her for West Wing? Is that how it worked? No, I think he's, you know, I didn't, I wasn't given that part.

Speaker 1 I was up against a lot of very

Speaker 1 talented ladies.

Speaker 1 But I think what sealed the deal for me is that Aaron saw me in primary colors. Oh, yeah.
And he's such a Mike Nichols fan, as am I. I love Mike Nichols so much.
He was always so generous with me. And

Speaker 1 he put me in that movie. And that

Speaker 1 prat fall I did was a big,

Speaker 1 that just won me a lot of points. Um, I love that.

Speaker 1 Now, now, did you like, are there roles you were up for and didn't get along the way, or even now, looking back, you still wish you would have gotten them, or does it all make sense now?

Speaker 1 Um,

Speaker 1 boys, a lot there. I mean, I was trying to think of a joke, like you guys always think of something.
I was like, No, hold, hold, hold. We don't.
It's hard when Sean throws as much crap at the wall.

Speaker 1 You know,

Speaker 1 oh, yeah, I know. Okay, so I um I auditioned for the part of Roz in, you know, Fraser.

Speaker 1 My dear friend Perry Gilpin got that part. Oh, yeah.
You're both fantastic. And then I auditioned for Third Rock from the Sun and Kristen Johnston got that part.
Wow, wow.

Speaker 1 So there were a lot of things I didn't get.

Speaker 1 You would have worked with Burroughs on both of those. Yeah.

Speaker 1 How about that?

Speaker 1 But think about all the things. Think about all the things.
Maybe he doesn't like me. Think about, yeah, well, there you go.

Speaker 1 Think about all the things you would not have been available for had you booked one or both of those. That's right.
Well, I know.

Speaker 1 And, you know, I think it it was meant to be that West Wing was the one that was meant for me. And I mean, as my friend Dule Hill says, if it's not yours, it can't be yours.

Speaker 1 I got to write that. That doesn't sound bright.

Speaker 1 He says it better than I just said it. It's not just yours.
It can't be yours. I don't know.
It's some way of like, it's just

Speaker 1 okay. Everything's going to be all right.
Everything is happening the way it's supposed to happen.

Speaker 1 I'll put it this way. You didn't have to hear toss salad and scramble

Speaker 1 all the time. You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 You got to free me on that. What a bonus.
Pussalad and scrambling. You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 Okay, so but wait, so but growing up, growing up, your parents, when did you go to the Royal Academy of Drama of School, whatever, for theater? The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Speaker 1 I went there when I went to the neighborhood playhouse in New York City, and they gave me a fellow, that got a fellowship there to study at Rada.

Speaker 1 And it was so funny. I go all the way there, and my teacher's American, and every student in the class is American.
So it was a great experience, but it seemed kind of funny.

Speaker 1 I thought I was going to be there with all of you. I did a summer program at Rada

Speaker 1 when I was 18, yeah.

Speaker 1 Did you have a lot of Americans in your class, or was it a lot of? Did you have a dance or mime? Or what were you doing there?

Speaker 1 Do you guys want to see my dance belt?

Speaker 1 That's all I'm wearing.

Speaker 1 That's all I'm wearing.

Speaker 1 No, for theater, yeah.

Speaker 1 Did you do what Shakespeare monologue did you do, Will?

Speaker 1 Oh, I think I did something

Speaker 1 from Lear, I guess. Wait, wait.
Something from what? From King Lear. Will.

Speaker 1 You should have seen Lysander or Demetrius or something from Missouri. I'm trying to think.
Sorry, what's that, Jason?

Speaker 1 I was just, when you're done, I want to talk about you've done Shakespeare question mark. Well, no, I mean, I did it at two, you had to do it at, I did, she was there for real.

Speaker 1 I was just there for a summer doing a, doing a program there. No, my thing was a summer thing, too.
It wasn't a whole, it was just a like six-week thing.

Speaker 1 And And you know, here's the thing that really, that really stuck out for me. One was I had a teacher there who kept saying something, something to the effect of like,

Speaker 1 um, hit the back row, the back row. And I was like, okay, got it, got it.
So shout. And then, and then the other one was, um,

Speaker 1 what was the guy's name? He was a, uh, this is like 1987 or eight.

Speaker 1 And I did

Speaker 1 all the stage fighting stuff. I really, it was, that was fun.
Um, Yeah,

Speaker 1 did you do sword fighting epa?

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah. So, which I still do a lot of that.
So, wait, but then didn't you do, didn't you do boarding school? Was that before the Royal Academy? After

Speaker 1 no, no, Allison, thank you. Thank you, Will.
Thank you, Will. Allison, is this not my interview? Nope, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 In fact, you can go up, move your microphone, just the whole arm of it, just all the way to the right. There it is.

Speaker 1 So, Allison, so you're in boarding school. Yes.
Yeah, but is that before the Royal or after the Royal? That was way before. That was.

Speaker 1 That was high school, dude. That was high school, man.

Speaker 1 I can't keep track. I don't know.
I graduated high school in, I mean, whatever, 77.

Speaker 1 Where was boarding school? Where did you grow up? I grew up in Ohio, but I went to boarding school in Lakeville, Connecticut. Oh, was that fun? Wait, what school was that? Hotchkiss.

Speaker 1 Oh, you went to Hotchkiss. I did.

Speaker 1 Huh. That's where my.
Which eventually became like a school for a lot of like problem kids. It did? it? I went to non-Hodgkins.
Sean,

Speaker 1 save it for hypochondriacer, okay? No one who understands that joke.

Speaker 1 It was very high level, but well above

Speaker 1 my intelligence. No, Alison, I knew a couple of kids who had gone to Hodgkinson and like this is in the 80s.
And my impression was that

Speaker 1 they'd each been kicked out of other, like one had been kicked out of choat.

Speaker 1 You know what I mean? It was kind of like that. Really? Yeah.
yeah but

Speaker 1 i know now allison um how i

Speaker 1 i i would imagine that you get sent so many tasty tasty things how do you decide don't be so gross the way you describe

Speaker 1 so tasty tasty well but how would you describe the characters that she plays fantastic scrumptious

Speaker 1 just delightful just delightful characters just anything that doesn't we don't have to picture you licking your fingers dude

Speaker 1 How would you decide? Here you go.

Speaker 1 I'm going to really mash this metaphor out. How do you decide what you want to eat? You know, God, which tastes

Speaker 1 like it. It depends.
Like if I had chicken last night, I'm going to want something different. I got you.
Sure.

Speaker 1 If I want, you know, like I just did, okay, so I finished mom, and then what I did was I went to do this movie, Lou, in Vancouver, where I play, it's a pretty different kind of role for me.

Speaker 1 And I, I don't want to give away, although the trailer does have some pretty, I had to, let's just say I had to learn some hand-to-hand combat.

Speaker 1 Okay, so that's what I want to ask about because I just saw it. It's fucking fantastic.

Speaker 1 You saw the movie. You saw the movie.
It was fantastic. Yes.
And you,

Speaker 1 it's a role that you've never, I've never seen you do anything like this before. What does that mean?

Speaker 1 What's that? What does that mean?

Speaker 1 Because it's kind of like a tough, like it's the female Liam Neeson, I like to think. Yeah, for sure.
You're kicking ass. But guys, she's kicking like crazy.
Really?

Speaker 1 And I read somewhere that you trained with like Charlize Throne and Halle Berry's guy. Aaron.
You know, that, like, right. And

Speaker 1 Daniel Bernhardt. I don't want to give away the ending and I won't.
Yeah. And, and, but the last scene, one of the last scenes, but on a bitch on a beach.
What?

Speaker 1 One of the last scenes, you're on a beach and you're kicking the shit out of this guy. And I'm going, wait, that has to be Allison.
It can't be the stunt person.

Speaker 1 And he, and he buries your face in the fucking sand and kicks the shit out of you. And you kick the shit out of me.
I'm like, oh, yeah. What?

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. I've got a lot of anger.
I've sitting on a lot of anger under here.

Speaker 1 I'm so physically violent as

Speaker 1 you must have hurt yourself just a little bit. I did.
I have some, I definitely had some bruises.

Speaker 1 This was something, you know, it's one of those things, you guys have been talking about this when you see a script and you see. It's nighttime, a storm is approaching.
And I'm like, I'm out.

Speaker 1 But I did it this time. And this was all, this whole whole movie takes place during this massive storm that hits the Lopez Islands.
I mean, the San Juan Islands.

Speaker 1 I thought of that too when I was watching it. I was like, it's raining in every scene.
Yeah, every single. And wind machines.
So in every scene, I'm like going,

Speaker 1 you know, screaming my lines. So I ended up having to

Speaker 1 loop a lot of them after the fact because I sounded so,

Speaker 1 to sound kind of cooler to have my voice register down. Yeah.
You know, hey, where are you going, you know, to be? But instead of going, hey, Bridge. So the nightmare continued.

Speaker 1 You're shooting nights, you got rain, and then you had to ADR the whole thing. And I had to ADR a lot of it.
And we also shot it during one of the worst heat waves in Canada. Will, I don't know.

Speaker 1 You know, last summer. Yeah, last summer terrible.
It was, and nobody in Vancouver has air conditioning. No.
It's like, you don't need it, but it was pretty brutal. It was brutal.

Speaker 1 It was brutal on the wildlife in Vancouver. Yeah, it was sad.
But I worked with Journey Smollett, who was so game and great and

Speaker 1 so fun to act with. And I couldn't have done it with someone who would have been, you know, oh, it's so wet and muddy.
I can't, you know, she was totally, let's get in the mud together.

Speaker 1 So that was fun to do, like a total left turn for me. And I was really able to do that.
And now I'm this lady. And, you know, it's fun to keep shaking it up and playing.
So if somebody

Speaker 1 wants to grab you, just make sure you check out what she did right before and off you the opposite. Exactly.

Speaker 1 Yeah. But really, I was so impressed.
It's such a good movie and I was like, wow, look at you go.

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Speaker 1 What were you doing with Mark Manchaka, my other favorite person in the world? Down in Australia, maybe? Were you? No, I was in Thailand. Yes.
Mark Manchaka is so, I just love him so much. My God.

Speaker 1 For listener, if you watch Ozark, he played Russ Langmore, the red-headed guy with the beard.

Speaker 1 Oh, wow. That was Julio Carr's

Speaker 1 uncle? Yes, I think. Yeah.
I should know that.

Speaker 1 He is extraordinary. I went to do this movie called True Love with John David Washington, who was

Speaker 1 just the most extraordinary. I'm a big fan of it.
Lovely, talented, generous, kind man. And

Speaker 1 And Menshaka was on it. We kind of were

Speaker 1 a duo, the two of us.

Speaker 1 You didn't go out at night at all with Mark, did you? Oh, no. He hates to have Negronis.
Yeah, he hates going out after work.

Speaker 1 We had

Speaker 1 Thailand. We went to the house.
How was that?

Speaker 1 It was also

Speaker 1 a very hot location. And we traveled all around to Chiang Mai and Pataya, I think the sex capital of the world.

Speaker 1 A little strange.

Speaker 1 You keep saying, I think. You keep saying, I think it is.

Speaker 1 Why are your fingers crossed? Yeah. Why are you crossing?

Speaker 1 Jesus.

Speaker 1 That sounds great. I'd love to work in Thailand for a while.
It was, it was, the people there were so lovely and friendly, but it, too, was incredibly hot.

Speaker 1 What I want to know, too, I'm going to go back to the early part of your career and say, and ask you,

Speaker 1 what are some of the earliest things that you watched as a kid? And we're like, oh, man, I want to do that. You know, that you remember.
Carol.

Speaker 1 And Carol Burnett is on this show I'm doing on this Palm Beach show. No way.
Oh, really?

Speaker 1 And I'm now Wordle friends with her. I'm so excited.
We do Wordle every day. Oh, that's great.
How is, you know, Will, Will Arnett's got real strong Wordle skills. What are your Wordle skills like?

Speaker 1 I've tried to do Quartel and I can't do it. I can only do Wordle and I'm not very good at it.
But I haven't gotten, I think I've gotten mostly in the five out of six.

Speaker 1 Will won't even talk to you now. Watch out.

Speaker 1 Let me just say this

Speaker 1 because we've talked about it a few times.

Speaker 1 I'm on a chain with a couple other people that Jason had to jump ship on because I get it. He tailed between his legs.

Speaker 1 And we do octortal, which has eight boards, octortal, quartal, wordle, and then we do, and then we do the score of all three combined.

Speaker 1 We do it every day. We've been doing it for

Speaker 1 almost eight months now, every single morning. And today

Speaker 1 I had a

Speaker 1 77. This is why I've quit.
Go ahead, start. Good God,

Speaker 1 Which is really...

Speaker 1 Tell us all how you could have got a 75 or a 74. Had I just done blah, blah, blah, blah.
That's why I quit, guy. Just so now everyone's going to hear it.
I mean, this fucking guy. Oh, here's my score.

Speaker 1 Now, had I done X, Y, and Z in Russia.

Speaker 1 I had such a 50-50 on Quirtle, and I could have. Anyway, it doesn't matter.
I could have had a 70%. How long does it take you to do in the morning?

Speaker 1 How much time do you spend on it before you start your day?

Speaker 1 About 10 minutes to do all three. Really? Yeah, yeah.
Wow. It takes me forever to just do Wordle.
I do too. It takes me all day.
I look at it in the morning and I go away from it.

Speaker 1 What takes longer is reading Will's excuses why his score wasn't even lower. That's what really

Speaker 1 sucks. Scotty knocked it out of the park the other day.
His first guess was craze and then twice. And the word was twice.
That's that, that's it. Well, that's just good guessing.
Good guessing.

Speaker 1 Isn't that amazing? What's your first word, Will? I can't tell you. He can't tell you that.
Come on.

Speaker 1 I can't do it. No, you should go with I did vowels for a while.
I think it's all about consonants. You do? Yeah.
Okay. I'm going to try that tomorrow.
I'll let you know how this turns out.

Speaker 1 Twist is a good one. Twist.

Speaker 1 It's not because he twice.

Speaker 1 Wait, so you watched, so Carol, and so you watched Carol Burnett growing up, and that

Speaker 1 inspired you to want to do that? Or like, what made you really want to do that? Well, I wanted to have my own Carol Burnett show when I was watching, you know, that was my dream.

Speaker 1 I just thought, that's what I want to do. I want to.

Speaker 1 Did you tell Carol Burnett what she means to you? Yeah, I had dinner with her the other night, and I just told her how much I loved her. And I, you know, is that the first time you met her?

Speaker 1 No, I've met her before, but I've never worked with her like this and gone out to dinner with her. And I had to do a scene with her in this where I guess I can't give it away.

Speaker 1 Don't give it away. Don't give it away.
No, I'm serious. Leave that to Sean.
Yeah, I won't give it away.

Speaker 1 But I had to do a scene with her where she doesn't say anything, and I am the one who talks the whole time. So it was, she literally says nothing.
So it was.

Speaker 1 Where did you guys go for dinner?

Speaker 1 We went to the palm. You did? I love the palm.
I love it. We went to the palm and we all had, and Carol, oh my God, it's so great.

Speaker 1 She has a specific drink she likes to have and she has these cards printed up with a little picture of her, you know, pulling her ear and her drink,

Speaker 1 the recipe for her drink. And she gives it to, I hope she's not mad that I'm telling this.

Speaker 1 She's not listening. I guarantee you.
She's not listening. She's not listening.
No, no, no, no. And she gives it to the waiter.
And so I got a copy of it.

Speaker 1 That's pretty awesome. So whatever drink she wants, she just hands it to the waiter? The same drink always.
Oh, she just hands the cartoon to the water.

Speaker 1 So wherever she goes, yeah. Oh, that's fantastic.
It's very specific. It's like a Cosmo, but what she likes it,

Speaker 1 bubblegum pink colored with a little bit of Cointreau, and it says all these exact amounts and everything. It's kind of like that.
You know what? You know what's great about that?

Speaker 1 If you know what you like. Yeah.
You just ask for it. This is what I like.
I bet she's got her cartoon up there on the wall, right? Her little William McCall. I don't have them anymore.

Speaker 1 At the new Palm. Palm changed owners.
And it changed owners, too.

Speaker 1 You know, Steve Martin used to have cards that said if somebody came up to him, he just would stop them and hand them a card and say, this is proof you've met me. Instead of a picture.

Speaker 1 Are you serious? So he wouldn't have to take a picture or sign anything. He just hands them a card.
Oh, my God. I want to have those made up.
Pretty good.

Speaker 1 And he would leave the house with just a bunch of those cards.

Speaker 1 I had my photo. I had one of those

Speaker 1 drawings on the wall at the Old Palm on Santa Monica. And Mitch Hurwitz and I went,

Speaker 1 we used to go there so much, we knew the old Mader D.

Speaker 1 And we said, this guy Cedric, and we said, what we want is, because we'd seen one from like the 70s, it was buried in the back. And we were like, we want a version of what we saw.
We want...

Speaker 1 our heads, but on babies' bodies that are wearing diapers, and then they're sitting on a cloud.

Speaker 1 And he said, Great, where do you want want it we said we want it right by the front door and he put it right there

Speaker 1 anyway so when they closed when they when they just demolished the old one that was a while ago now that they demolished that um they sent it to me the palm sent it to me and i've got it in my office a piece of wall yeah a piece of wall from the old palm with uh with that thing on it i wonder if the one and if the new york one's gone too because i was up there with i because i did nine to five with um with uh dolly parton and we got ours up on the wall there at the palm but i i guess that's gone too now but no one sent that to me.

Speaker 1 That was such a good show, and you were so good. And I love that.
Dolly was in the stage version of 9 to 5? She, well,

Speaker 1 she was a collaborator on that version that I did with Stephanie Block and Megan Hilty back in 2010. I didn't know you were in 9 to 5.
What a way to make a living. I wish that's wonderful.

Speaker 1 Oh, I wish I would have seen that.

Speaker 1 Without that joke coming? Yeah, I know.

Speaker 1 Did you guys read about that huge storm that's heading our way? Wait, wow.

Speaker 1 Well, no, they didn't say it's heading our way. They said that it's a

Speaker 1 there's a potential for it. Oh, oh, right.
You're talking about the big mother storm that's been rained for months and months. Huge.

Speaker 1 Like there's also supposed to be an earthquake that's the big, big one, not just the big one, the big, big one. When is that supposed to happen? That's

Speaker 1 we're overdoing.

Speaker 1 We're overdoing it. Wait, Alison, you're talking about that article that was like in the LA Times or the Times issue.
It was in the New York Times.

Speaker 1 It was about massive, massive rain coming our way, like, you know, six inches a minute or so.

Speaker 1 But hang on, hang on. It's not,

Speaker 1 that's misleading. It's not heading our way.
They said it could, that is something that is, that is possible within the next like 20 years, right? Yes, I read that.

Speaker 1 You made it seem like it's that we're going to look out by Thursday.

Speaker 1 Don't bother washing your car. You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 I didn't mean to do that. I am a little bit of an alarmist, I guess.
It just scares me. Allison, where would you go if california was no longer inhabitable where would you live

Speaker 1 um i'll tell you what i'd get my knee my niece petra and her boyfriend they both fly planes they have their pilots licenses and they um i wanted to mention my niece's amelia air pet rescue she flies pets from um rural areas to urban areas you're saying petra flies pets petra flies pets for amelia air rescue but she's they fly planes so i'd get in the plane with them and we'd take off and go

Speaker 1 by the way

Speaker 1 It needs to be paid for, Alison. Nice rescue.
Amelia Air Rescue, Amelia Aircraft. If I was on that plane, I'd be petrified.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God. Very sweet.
Well, but where would you ask them to fly it to? Where would you like to live if it wasn't Los Angeles? New York? Maybe upstate New York.

Speaker 1 And, you know, I like upstate New York very much. I love Burlington, Vermont area, Lake Champlain.

Speaker 1 Oh, way upstate. Yeah, way upstate.
Like Adirondacks type stuff.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but more on the Vermont, like Grand Isle Isle

Speaker 1 and the Lake Champlain area. I like Burlington, Vermont.
I think that's gorgeous. Also, the Lake George area is fucking stunning.

Speaker 1 I watch this old house every Sunday still.

Speaker 1 And they just had Saratoga Springs on. I thought that was real pretty.

Speaker 1 That's beautiful.

Speaker 1 Lake George is a little bit south of the Adirondack. I mean, it's right there.
And then you go up north and you get to Plattsburgh, which is at the top of the area.

Speaker 1 Yes, and then you can take the ferry across from Prattsburg to Vermont.

Speaker 1 Boy, is that right there? Oh, yeah. That's my country.
Let's get it. But, but, um, Alison, we kind of joked about like what you do on your days off.

Speaker 1 And like, what you, I know we got to let you go, but I want to.

Speaker 1 What do you, what is it that you do? Like, it's, it's Friday, you're, you're not working, you're not working until the middle of the next week. It's Friday.

Speaker 1 What do you, what are you like, all right, I'm going to do this is my plan for the next couple of days, other than just getting on the couch and watching a TV show. Well,

Speaker 1 I'll tell you, I do, um,

Speaker 1 I have watercolors. I like to do, put a little, like,

Speaker 1 what do you call it? A still life together and do watercolors. I have knitting I like to do.
I also have a full gym. I have a trainer I loved who comes over and we work out together.

Speaker 1 I did just adopt a new puppy, so I have four dogs now, and that's taking up most of my life is training this new puppy that I got. So you're a homebody.
You love being at home.

Speaker 1 I love, I'm kind of, but I kind of feel like I, I didn't think I was. I thought I used to like to go out all the time, but now I just hang out at home.

Speaker 1 I'm really a very, I hang out at home with the dogs and

Speaker 1 happy.

Speaker 1 That's what I love too. But I want to be invited to things, but no one ever invites me.
And I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do it. It's both cozy at our place.

Speaker 1 Will you guys invite me? Will bring his cards and Sean will bring some chin chin. Yeah.
I would love that. I never get invited anywhere.
So

Speaker 1 let's do some tarot card reading.

Speaker 1 We're going to do some taroting.

Speaker 1 Yes, do. And then

Speaker 1 my mom does a lot of knitting. She does a lot of a lot.

Speaker 1 I've got needle point things. Oh, needlepoint.
Forget me. Yeah, I know all about it.
My mom has bored her whole family for years about it. And we have to do, yep, amazing.

Speaker 1 I have a feeling I'd like to do it. She does great thing.
I will say, she's listening. My mom listens to it.
She loves it.

Speaker 1 And she's great at it. I have a feeling that needlepoint is something I'd actually fall in love with, too.

Speaker 1 I think so, too. Like

Speaker 1 the monotony of the kind of. And then it's the monotony of the story about it.
The knitting, though, is the thing that saved me through many family holidays when

Speaker 1 things were stressful. And you sit there with knitting and you could be in a room for with who it's the most calming thing to do.

Speaker 1 And then those needles are handy in case one of those family members starts to really run their mouth.

Speaker 1 Exactly. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Alice and Jani, we love you. You have to go back to work in your trailer.
You could just haunt you forever.

Speaker 1 This is so I really, just let me tell you one fantasy I have when I listen to you because I listen to your show all the time. Okay, it's a family show.
Just keep talking. I do

Speaker 1 going on a road trip with the three of you. A road trip to anywhere.
I would just be the best, I would just laugh at everything you say.

Speaker 1 You should come on the road with us next year when we go back out on the road.

Speaker 1 I want to be. If I could just, I'll do craft service or something.

Speaker 1 We're going to get your niece, we're going to get Petra and her boyfriend to fly the plane for us. Petra can fly us anywhere we want to go.
The plane with Petrol.

Speaker 1 Oh my god, you're so everybody.

Speaker 1 You're so quick. Everybody's jumping in on the fun pledge.
I'm scared of you. We're having fun.
We're having fun. I'm petrified.

Speaker 1 Allison. Now she's in.

Speaker 1 Everybody's in.

Speaker 1 I love you, honey. We took up too much of your time.
I love you crazy. I have to go back to my funeral.
Now I'm both so happy, and now I'm, I got to go cry. Tell Wig, are you going to see Wig?

Speaker 1 Go tell Wig you were better than you. You know, it's her birthday today, not that

Speaker 1 we say.

Speaker 1 Say, guess what? I got a birthday present for you. The guys say

Speaker 1 I was better than you. Just say

Speaker 1 that you were the best. The best episode.
But play it off.

Speaker 1 And say, how was it? And just go, I don't want to say it. And then say, let me finish of today.
There you go. And she'll go, oh, you.

Speaker 1 Oh, you. No, I would do it.
Like, do it for real. Just go, how was it? Just go, you know, it was, I don't know, and just be like, so you drop, you know, really, really lure her in.

Speaker 1 I want to just go, I feel kind of bad because they said it. They said it was the best that they've ever had.
And then just, that's the hammer. You know?

Speaker 1 I'm totally doing that. I'm totally doing it.
I'm going to nail it too. It's going to, I'm going to reel her in.

Speaker 1 Of course, you are because you're

Speaker 1 a killer. You're a powerful killer.

Speaker 1 Especially in the hat. God, you're a killer.
We love you. I love you guys.
I will say happy birthday. We love you.
You're a mega talent. It's so great to see you.

Speaker 1 Love you, sweetie. All right.
We love you.

Speaker 1 Bye, Allison.

Speaker 1 Bye. Love you guys.
I'm just going to click out. I'm going to leave.

Speaker 1 Yes. Or slam it.
Or slam the left. I'm going to leave.
Leave.

Speaker 1 Have either one of you fellas worked with that incredible lady? No. Yes, many times.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 You have?

Speaker 1 Yeah. She's just been a friend for a long time.
Like, if you want her to do, you know, she's always there for you.

Speaker 1 If you have like this great part and you just, you see her in it and you're just like, I wrote this for you or I have this for you in mind. She'll be like, yeah, definitely.

Speaker 1 You know, she's always kind of there and she's great. She's a good, good friend.
She's, again, one of those people who is, no matter what the thing is,

Speaker 1 she's always

Speaker 1 great. Yeah.
Never sucks.

Speaker 1 There's only a few of those actors

Speaker 1 that that that they always hit it no i call it the john goodman syndrome yeah john goodman's that way no matter what john goodman's in he's always amazing and then there are a few people and now she's in there we'll just well like well let's create a little file um yeah allison was great though um and and i love that we all kind of know her i know will you don't know her as well but i don't really but i feel like i know her yeah

Speaker 1 she's just the best there's a reason why she works all the time is because she's the coolest she's just really down to earth and cool yeah what do you guys got the rest of the day

Speaker 1 I'm going to go eat something. I had two boxes.
Wow, hang on a second.

Speaker 1 Stop the presses. Really?

Speaker 1 Can we guess what it is? Oh, yeah. Did you get our listeners? Tommy listened to 5.42.
Yeah. You're in LA.

Speaker 1 You guys are starving.

Speaker 1 It's going to be, today is going to be, he's going to make homemade pizzas on a French bread loaf.

Speaker 1 He's just going to take some pasta sauce and pour it on top. And he's going to grate the cheese himself to make it seem like he's really doing something.
And he's going to put it in a toaster oven.

Speaker 1 Like I'm really creating something.

Speaker 1 And while he's waiting for it, he's going to have four bites of ice cream. Oh my God.

Speaker 1 Sean, is that close to what you're having? It's kind of close to it. No, don't say it.
Don't say it yet. Don't say it yet.
Okay.

Speaker 1 You are.

Speaker 1 See, now as you're saying it's kind of close.

Speaker 1 You have leftover pasta from a restaurant you went to and you're going to reheat it. Or you're going to go pick up from a pasta restaurant you're going to pick up Italian food.
That's exactly right.

Speaker 1 Is it Mariano's or whatever? Merinos. Merinos? Yeah.
Best Italian restaurant. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Is there going to be garlic bread involved with this? Absolutely.

Speaker 1 But last night I had, did I tell you? I'm not making this up. I had two boxes of mac and cheese.
Oh, God.

Speaker 1 Anyway. Kraft mac and cheese.
Kraft macaroni and cheese. Was it extra cheese? No, just the regular.
Just the regular.

Speaker 1 I'm going to tell you You know, we had that debate a while ago. We had, sorry,

Speaker 1 you can go ahead. You know, in Canada, we call it craft, they call it, it's called craft dinner.
I'm not kidding. Yeah.
Forever, it's called the craft macaroni cheese is branded as craft dinner.

Speaker 1 So, um, right. And that the thing I don't understand is growing up, they're like, feeds a family of four.
And I'm like, it feeds, I need two boxes

Speaker 1 of it. It feeds a family of four supermodels.
Hey, do you, um,

Speaker 1 do you,

Speaker 1 remember we had the debate about the um, about the Chexmix and the bugles? Yes.

Speaker 1 And Jason, do you remember that? No, I don't think so. Yeah, that's not really weird.
God, look at that vacant look on his face.

Speaker 1 That must have been a year or so. Just like we can get one of those motel signs.
It just says vacant.

Speaker 1 So we had a debate about bugles, and it turns out Chexmix and Bugles are made in the same factory. And we had a thing, and then they sent us all.
And the Bugles, I will say, win.

Speaker 1 The Bugles are incredible. I can't get enough of those bugles.
I love them. The regular and the ranch-flavored ones.
They're all good. You're about to get a box.

Speaker 1 So I just want to say to all the people of America and Canada, I guess,

Speaker 1 and wherever bugles are available, go grab them because they are fantastic.

Speaker 1 What if bugles were spelled instead of B-U-G, they were spelled B-I-G.

Speaker 1 You mean,

Speaker 1 oh my God.

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