June 11, 2025 • 29 mins
Desi Lydic has the latest updates from the L.A. ICE protests, including Trump's outsized military deployment to the city, which defies both California Governor Gavin Newsom and the... "P***y Comitatus Act"? Plus, one soldier sends a letter home from the frontlines of the L.A. war.
Where does the public stand on Trump vs. Elon? Grace Kuhlenschmidt and Josh Johnson head out to ask New Yorkers to pick: Team Douche or Team Pedophile?
Bryan Cranston joins Desi to discuss his new movie, “Everything’s Going To Be Great," and a busy year of work, including his third film with Wes Anderson and playing a hilarious exec on “The Studio.” He shares how he navigates portraying vastly different characters, why he had to really sell himself to get the role of Walter White, and his passion for live theater.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 5 (00:37):
You've got so much to talk about tonight, the United
States invades the United States, America chooses who they want
to live with in the Maga divorce, and Trump has
an escalation that lasts longer than four hours.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Let's get into the headlines.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
By now, you've probably seen all the protest footage out
of LA in the wake of Trump's immigration sweeps. But
despite what you're seeing on the news, keep in mind
that most of the protesters have come with more of
a chill so cow vibe, dancing, playing music, and unleashing
these devastating projectiles or police. So there's definitely a chance
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that this can all be resolved peacefully as long as
nobody escalates this thing with an unnecessary show of force.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Will be a President Trump mobilizing two thousand California National
Guard troops against the will of the state's governor. President
Trump ordered the deployment of two thousand more California National
Guard troops, making for a total of four thousand now
making the unprecedented move of dispatching seven hundred active duty
marines to the streets of Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
Yes, nothing calms down a situation like a military invasion.
In fact, that was part of my birth plan. I
was like, honey, I want candles, classical music, and seven
hundred armed marines storming the hospital room. Also drugs, lots
of drugs, you know it. Scratch that, just the drugs,
(02:09):
you know. I'm beginning to wonder if Trump is intentionally
trying to escalate this situation because more chaos allows him
to portray blue states as centers of crime while positioning
himself is a strong man that the country needs to
rally around.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
No, that's silly.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
I'm sure he's just doing what's best for everyone. Although
deploying soldiers in an American city could put Trump on
the wrong side of the law again, there is concern
over violating the Possy Comatadas Act.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
The Possi Coomatadas law says that the US military cannot
engage in police functions on US soil.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
That's right, posscomatatis. It's a very serious legal principle. So
let's hear more about this very serious legal principle.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Look, I believe strongly in pussycomatatus.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Indeed, Trump is truly in violation of pussy come in tatas.
That's to say nothing of his violations of the Snatch Act.
But in all seriousness, this is an extreme measure. The
last time pussy come in tatas was used, it was
on your mom last name. Another major concern here is
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that Trump called up the National Guard without permission from
Gavin Newsom, governor of California and man with strong opinions
about the food and business class.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
But Newsom is hitting back.
Speaker 7 (03:50):
The absurdity of this cannot be understated. There were two
thousand National Guard that were quote unquote deployed, of which
only three hundred and fifteen actually were mission assigned. Seventeen
hundred have no particular role or responsibility.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
This wouldn't be the first time someone went to la
looking for a role and couldn't find one. Okay, you
listen to me, seventeen hundred troops. You keep following your dreams,
you work on your craft, knock down those doors, and
most importantly, most importantly, do not go into porn, not
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go through it, although if you did I've got a
great title for youatals there it is so okay. Newsom
is lobbing the unfathomable accusation that Trump might make decisions
without fully thinking them through. But I'm sure Trump will
be the bigger man here.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Earlier in the day, the President suggesting that it might
be a good idea of his borders.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Are Tom Homan arrested the California governor would job, I
think it's great?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Would ask what crime Newsom has committed to warrant to arrest?
Speaker 7 (05:05):
The President responding, I think is primarily primary crime is
running for governor because he's done such a bad job.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
That's a ridiculous statement from Trump. Gavin Newsom's primary crime
is obviously his podcast.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
And even if.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Newsom wasn't good at his job, being a bad governor
doesn't mean you should get arrested.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
It means you should be mayor of New York.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
So well, Newsom and Trump fight each other, Los Angeles
is becoming a battleground for their rivalry.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
It's hard.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
It's a hard story to turn away from, especially when
some of these reporters are real easy.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
On the eyes.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
It is entirely possible that by the end of today
we will.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
See nearly five thousand combined California National Guard and Marines
deployed here in southern California.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
They can see how.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Much smoke is being deployed on the other side by
the lapd oh, I'm definitely saying a smoke show. Someone
should really hose that down. Excuse me, are you with CBS,
because I'd like to watch that ass for sixty minutes.
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These jokes were brought to you by the female gaze.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
The female gaze.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
It's not creepy because we're girls. So that's basically where
we're at right now. Trump's terrible policy has generated a
huge backlash, which he's responded to by overreacting, which is
going to generate another backlash. We don't know how this
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is going to end, but at least we know it'll
be a huge waste of money.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Defense Secretary p.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Hagschaf says the deployment of the State National Guarden Marines
will cost at least one hundred and thirty.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Four million dollars.
Speaker 8 (07:05):
He expects the deployments to last at least sixty days.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Hello, Doge, I found some cuts for you.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Can you put your mom on the phone?
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Teamagers Jesus Now, A sixty day deployment is a very
long time for these soldiers, especially if they don't have
a lot to do. Not to mention, it's going to
make for a very weird Ken Burns documentary.
Speaker 9 (07:39):
My Dearest Susie all right from the not at all
war torn Whole Foods parking lot on Fairfax and third
across from the Grove. On previous tours, I witnessed awful carnage.
But today I did a celebrity home tour. I saw
Kelsey Grammar's house, loved him in down periscope. How I
long for the taste of your home cooking. I tried
the Haley Beaber smoothie from Heroin. I posted a picture
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of it on my Insta, but I only got twelve locks. Sadly,
last night we lost Johnny. He caught the improv bug
and signed with UTA. At night we sleep on the floor.
Secretary Hegseth was going to book hotel rooms, but he
blacked out and forgot.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I miss you, my dear Susie.
Speaker 9 (08:21):
I pray this war end soon, but not too soon
for I have Friday night reservations at Noble.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
The Marines podcast Friday Monmass if you don't go away, well,
(09:01):
then mac only.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
So the few in between President Trump and Elon Musk
has been going on for almost a week now, but
it's only getting started because yesterday that caddy bitch Trump
was asked about Elon again. So take off your earrings everyone,
because this is going to get ugly.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Do you think Elon Musk ever had drugs here at
the White House? I really don't know.
Speaker 8 (09:21):
I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
I hope not. Look, I wish him well.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
You understand we had a good relationship, and I just
wish him well very well.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Actually, wait, what.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
You wish him well? I don't want to hear that
weak ass shit. This is a post reunion behavior. I
want pre reunion behavior. What does this mean is the
feud over?
Speaker 6 (09:45):
Maybe there's this potential softening of the feud that erupted
over the Big Beautiful Bill when Musk called it an abomination.
Musk posted this reply to President Trump's post, It's a
heart emoji. Read into that what you will.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Oh, it's not over because a single heart emoji is
actually some passive aggressive shit, which you know if you're
gen z like me, don't google it. The single heart
is the lowercase k of emojis. Trust me with this
kind of crash out, Elon ate and left no crumbs, facts,
(10:23):
no cap short king, I'm very young again, don't google it.
So who do Americans really support when it comes to
Trump versus musk our own, Grace Coolinschmidt and Josh Johnson
hit the streets to find out what started.
Speaker 10 (10:35):
Out as a romance is now.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Ending in tragedy.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Two billionaires and.
Speaker 10 (10:39):
It's actually not us this time.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
No, it's crazy.
Speaker 8 (10:42):
Two billionaires are having a public few and if.
Speaker 10 (10:45):
This were a custody battle, America is the child caught
in between.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Who will ignore our needs the most?
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Who will remember our birthday?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
There's only one thing left to do. It's time to
pick a side.
Speaker 8 (10:57):
Oh, I can go whichever are you?
Speaker 10 (11:01):
Team Trump or Team Elon? Oh?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
God?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Neither really looks like a knife and a knife.
Speaker 10 (11:06):
I'll give you a userer question. Douchebagger, pedophile?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Neither neither.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
That's no way.
Speaker 10 (11:11):
How about Trump? All right?
Speaker 5 (11:12):
I mean Trump's in charge of everything.
Speaker 10 (11:15):
M Eon should keep his mouth shut. Team Trump or
Team Elonniger.
Speaker 8 (11:27):
I appreciate Elon saying what he's saying, and I feel
like Elon.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Might help be the bridge.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I used to be tim Ellon, but now it's like.
Speaker 10 (11:37):
Tracy, what do you think Elon did? That was so
crazy that you said I'm no longer team Elon.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Twining all that stuff feels very crazy.
Speaker 10 (11:45):
But to you, Trump tweets like a normal human being.
I guess have you been following the drama between Trump
and Elon? No, not at all. All right, I'll explain
it to you. We have Elon, who's actually and I
did some research, a billionaire. He makes cars and and
he has a lot of money, which is kind of
what billionaire means. I have something in common with my friends,
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and so it makes sense that they have become friends.
And basically then so someone got mad at someone and
it's hard to remember.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
They both have money, and who doesn't love that?
Speaker 10 (12:14):
And Epstein is an island he was an island owner,
and some other stuff perhaps as well. So can you
make a decision now, even though I just give you
so much information?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
So good?
Speaker 10 (12:25):
So I'll put you down as a socialist.
Speaker 8 (12:28):
What if it really came to blows in person?
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Who you got?
Speaker 8 (12:32):
You think Trump beating Musk? So you know, Elon showed
up to the White House.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Of the Black eye.
Speaker 8 (12:39):
Yeah he is, he said his five year old punch stone.
So basically, in this fight, if it ever comes down
to it, Trump needs to train to reach the level
of a five year old.
Speaker 10 (12:48):
I don't think Trump's beating anybody when you were still
to be so for child.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
I don't think so.
Speaker 10 (12:53):
Because the press is too nervous to ask something like this,
between Donald Trump and Elon Musk, which one has the
bigger dick?
Speaker 4 (13:03):
No, well, God complex?
Speaker 10 (13:05):
Oh I'm sorry, which one has a bigger what God complex? Yeah? Trump?
So what lesson has this taught you about friendship?
Speaker 3 (13:15):
That's a good question.
Speaker 10 (13:16):
I feel like it's taught me that if two billionaires
who have been egostroking each other for years can't make
it work, what faith do we have in the rest
of our friendships of just people with unpaid venmo requests?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Sounds hopeless?
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Right exactly?
Speaker 8 (13:31):
Is there anything that you think could get them back
in each other's good right to strengthen the friendship?
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Give them money back to because if there's.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
One thing someone like Eon needs is money, but he
wants more and more money. When things happen, they just
run their course.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
It's over and done with, move on.
Speaker 10 (13:53):
So is that your advice maybe for Trump and Elon
right now.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Move on.
Speaker 10 (13:58):
Get Oh there's always an billionaire buddy.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
I say, give them Epstein's island.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Move Trump and all the nagas to the island.
Speaker 8 (14:08):
I'm actually glad that when I'm billions because nothing el
played out friendship.
Speaker 10 (14:14):
Did you just tweak it on on Epstein's list?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yeah, but that was before when I was upset with you.
Speaker 10 (14:19):
You're not coming to Boys Night anymore.
Speaker 8 (14:25):
Yeahs, I'm great when we come back.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
And Ryan Branton Love joining me on this show, I said,
I'll go away Love next to Day, My guest tonight
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is a multi award winning actor who can currently be
seen in The Phoenician Scheme and The Studio. His new
film is called Everything's Going to Be Great. Please welcome
Brian Cranton.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Thank you, Oh boy.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
I am such an enormous fan of yours. Thank you
for being here. Yes, and I'm not the only one, obviously.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
They're just they're just reacting through the applause sign. That's all.
They're very they're very obedient.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
We are very controlling when it comes to audience noise.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
This is true.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
You are in so many incredible projects right now. I
actually had to write them all down just to keep
track of them.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Okay, so I just forgive me the scroll.
Speaker 10 (15:56):
Is.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Yeah, everything's going to be great.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
The Phoenician Scheme, The Studio, All My Sons, Malcolm in
the Middle, Reboot, Breaking Bad, The College Years, Brian Cranston's
searching for Stanley Tucci as he searches for Italy.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Yeah, he went missing.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
He went missing, and you had to go find him.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Breaking Bread, The Walter White Baking Shows.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
It's a bake off with a secret ingredient. We won't
say what if it's a blue ingredient, but I'm not
saying what it is.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Yeah, I think we have an idea. It goes totally
off the rails. Trumbo too electric, Trumbloo.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I'm on roller skates this time.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
I'm very excited for that one. You this isn't you really?
You have so many That's okay, We're done with that
prop now.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
It was good though. It was good.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
So when you play such an iconic character like Walter White,
so many actors have a really hard time doing something
other than that because audiences have to get used to
them seeing them playing different roles.
Speaker 10 (17:01):
But not for you.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
It feels like every role that you play. You play
it like it is tailor made for you. No one
else can do it. So how do you how do
you even go about like transitioning from role to role?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Well, I have a scroll that helps me descrub but.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Perfect.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
No.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
What was hard was going from Malcolm in the Middle
for seven years playing this silly goofy dad in underwear
like kids would wear, and then trying to get the
job on Breaking Bad. It's a little different character, and
this is true. The people at AMC and Sony were saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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You want the guy from Malcolm in the Middle to
be Walter White. No, no, you know, And so it
was we had to convince them that that's what actors do.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
There's an interest. I love this story that you tell
about getting that job. How that how one job?
Speaker 10 (18:09):
On?
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Is it the X Files that Vince wrote on? Yes,
And you had no idea would ever lead to that opportunity.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
You never do as an actor. You're just looking for
work anywhere you can because you have bills to pay.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
I had a young family and.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Acting pictures and resumes and all that, right, and the
offer came into audition for the X Files and I
happened to get it.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Okay, great. I worked on the X Files.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
And then ten years later, after Malcolm in the Middle,
I get this call that Vince Gilligan from He's doing
this new show called Breaking Bad.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Do you remember him? I said?
Speaker 10 (18:47):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Do you know? He said? He wrote X Files? Do
you remember him? Now?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:53):
I love it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
So I had to go in and really sell myself
that I was the guy, you know to do this job,
and he was my champion to get it.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
And that's what you need.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
You need someone who believes in your talent and believes
in you and can support you on your way through.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
You need those breaks.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
He remembered you because you left an impression.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
I peed on his rug, and that's how do you
do so as you do, I left my scent.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Yes, yeah, and it worked.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
You you talk about doing a lot of extra work
as you were coming up. I also did a lot
of extra It's how I got my SAG card.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Which is what was the first role that you had
that actually had a name.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Well, if you if you don't call drunken frat boy
a name, is that not a name or is that?
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
I was drunken frat boy. I did Baywatch, I did anything.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
You know, I mean yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
My first role with a name was QT Number two.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Yeah yeah, and I threw my brawl at Chris Evans.
You know, a very silly movie. I don't know what
they're clapping for.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Classy.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Yeah, it's really classy. If you see him, could you ask.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
If he still has Yeah, I'll get it back.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
I could use it.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
The Phoenicians game. This is your third Wes Anderson is Yeah.
I feel like with Wes Anderson movies, you see one
frame and you know it's a Wes Anderson film. That's right,
so hyper specific about the visuals and aesthetic.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
What is it like to be directed by him?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
He is a sweetheart of a man, he really is.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
He's and that's why everybody wants to work with him,
because he has such a clear vision.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
He's a true auteur.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
And like the trust exercise that we all took in
acting one on one, where you fall back into your
partner's arms and you realize, I need to trust the
people I work with, we all trust him. When we
read his script. It is very dense and sometimes confusing
because it's so involved. So he makes a cartoon. What
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he calls a cartoon is an animatic. He does the
animation for in the full hour and a half long
of the entire movie, and he voices all the characters,
and then he he voices every single character, and then
he says, here, this might make more sense to you.
And so you're watching the whole movie play out, and
(21:17):
you hear his voice do your character, and you realize, oh,
that's what he wants me to do somewhere out there,
and so you go searching out there to see if
you can capture you know, like a like a like
a firefly.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
That's how it feels like.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
You're you know, you're trying to hunt down something that
makes makes it familiar to you.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
That sounds so time consuming and very expensive.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Actually, he doesn't pay his actors very much, so it's
actually too Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
You heard that, You're first.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
This I Had the Studio is my favorite show this year.
It is so so funny, and watching those, especially those
final two episodes with you in it has me thinking
you are the You have the most range of any
actor known to me.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
That applause sign is amazing, so good, so good. I've
got to get that for home man. Yeah, just like that.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
You play this insane movie mogul, this ceo of a studio,
and there are all the I don't want to give
anything away, but there are all of these wonners, these giant,
epically long takes, and you're doing all this crazy physical comedy.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
How do you rehearse for something like that?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Rehearse? Well, we do it.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
We do about fifteen sixteen, eighteen times, and we get
it fluid and really well done. And then once you
get your lines out, then uh seth Rogen and Evan
Goldberg they said, you know, say whatever you want. So
you're thinking of lines you can throw out there and
pitching ideas. And I know there was a I was
(23:11):
in the tenth episode. I'm hugging a statue out in
Las Vegas on the strip, and I'm I'm orally copulating
this statue, which was a choice I made that I
now regret.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Sometimes. I think sometimes you got to blow someone to
get that ammy.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
That's true. That's that's a good point.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
I think it's bound to happen.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
That's a good point. Yeah, good point. And it reminds
me of my youth.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Everything's going to be great.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Is it?
Speaker 10 (23:52):
Please?
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Please?
Speaker 4 (24:00):
There's one movie we need right now, and I'm sure
it shit, Hope.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
I don't know if I can confidently say it, but
I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. That's beautiful and it's so funny,
and I'm curious this is about you play Buddy Smart,
a struggling regional theater producer with your wife Alice and
Janny are raising these two teenage boys.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
I'm curious.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
I learned in your book that you come from an
entertainment family. Your parents were actors. Your dad was someone
who hung onto his dream and never wanted to let go.
Were you inspired by your family dynamic or your father
at all for this role.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Yes, And we're always learning from our parents. And I
think my dad made some mistakes and he always wanted
to be a star. That was so important to him,
and it didn't happen, and it hurt him really bad,
and consequently then hurt the family a lot and broke
up the fam. It was ugly in many cases. And
(25:03):
I learned from that thinking why be a star? No,
I just want to be able to make a living.
If I can make a living as an actor, that
is my success story, and that's what I want. And
so this I was a third generation actor. My daughter
is the fourth generation actor. I'm so proud of her.
(25:23):
She's playing a Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
It's like she's on the pit.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Yeah, she plays she plays.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Doctor mel King on the pit and she is doing
She's such a beautiful actor.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
And she's in it for all the right reasons.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
And it's like, I'm I can't, I can't be more
proud of.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
She learned from the bat.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
You're about to head to the West End to London
to do all my sons, I am yeah. Are you
are you inspired by wanting to do that play? Or
do you just feel like now might be a great
time to cool your heels in Europe for a bit.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Now, everything's gonna be great. Everything's gonna be great.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Everything's gonna be great, gonna be great. I you know,
as a theater rat, I can't stay away from the
theater long. It's exhausting because I tend to choose damaged
characters that I'm most attracted to. And every time you
(26:28):
go to the theater and perform, it's like a gut
punch and you like, oh my god, why am I
doing this? And you you're so exhausted and yet so
exhilarated and there's a relationship what you have with this
great audience.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
You have a relationship with them.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
You say something, they react, And that's like doing live theater.
I feel you when you're in my in my theater
and we're performing. The difference is you have to come
up with new material, right every day, to the same audience.
(27:04):
All I have to do the same material to a
new audience. So it's the same responsibility, just in reverse.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Yeah, and we're here to entertain, that's right.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
And so when you do a show one hundred and
seventy five times the same material every single night, but
to a new audience. The motivation for you is to
say they paid good money, they deserve to hear a story.
That's my responsibility. I'm going to give you the best
damn story I can give you, and then you haven't.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
Ye know, well, I think I think the important takeaway
from this interview is that Brian Cranston and I are
exactly the same.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Yeah, eac, we are the same exactly.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
The same level, same, same same, No, you are in
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You've got so much to talk about tonight, the United
States invades the United States, America chooses who they want
to live with in the Maga divorce, and Trump has
an escalation that lasts longer than four hours.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Let's get into the headlines.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
By now, you've probably seen all the protest footage out
of LA in the wake of Trump's immigration sweeps. But
despite what you're seeing on the news, keep in mind
that most of the protesters have come with more of
a chill so cow vibe, dancing, playing music, and unleashing
these devastating projectiles or police. So there's definitely a chance
(01:19):
that this can all be resolved peacefully as long as
nobody escalates this thing with an unnecessary show of force.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Will be a President Trump mobilizing two thousand California National
Guard troops against the will of the state's governor. President
Trump ordered the deployment of two thousand more California National
Guard troops, making for a total of four thousand now
making the unprecedented move of dispatching seven hundred active duty
marines to the streets of Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
Yes, nothing calms down a situation like a military invasion.
In fact, that was part of my birth plan. I
was like, honey, I want candles, classical music, and seven
hundred armed marines storming the hospital room. Also drugs, lots
of drugs, you know it. Scratch that, just the drugs,
(02:09):
you know. I'm beginning to wonder if Trump is intentionally
trying to escalate this situation because more chaos allows him
to portray blue states as centers of crime while positioning
himself is a strong man that the country needs to
rally around.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
No, that's silly.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
I'm sure he's just doing what's best for everyone. Although
deploying soldiers in an American city could put Trump on
the wrong side of the law again, there is concern
over violating the Possy Comatadas Act.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
The Possi Coomatadas law says that the US military cannot
engage in police functions on US soil.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
That's right, posscomatatis. It's a very serious legal principle. So
let's hear more about this very serious legal principle.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Look, I believe strongly in pussycomatatus.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Indeed, Trump is truly in violation of pussy come in tatas.
That's to say nothing of his violations of the Snatch Act.
But in all seriousness, this is an extreme measure. The
last time pussy come in tatas was used, it was
on your mom last name. Another major concern here is
(03:38):
that Trump called up the National Guard without permission from
Gavin Newsom, governor of California and man with strong opinions
about the food and business class.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
But Newsom is hitting back.
Speaker 7 (03:50):
The absurdity of this cannot be understated. There were two
thousand National Guard that were quote unquote deployed, of which
only three hundred and fifteen actually were mission assigned. Seventeen
hundred have no particular role or responsibility.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
This wouldn't be the first time someone went to la
looking for a role and couldn't find one. Okay, you
listen to me, seventeen hundred troops. You keep following your dreams,
you work on your craft, knock down those doors, and
most importantly, most importantly, do not go into porn, not
(04:34):
go through it, although if you did I've got a
great title for youatals there it is so okay. Newsom
is lobbing the unfathomable accusation that Trump might make decisions
without fully thinking them through. But I'm sure Trump will
be the bigger man here.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Earlier in the day, the President suggesting that it might
be a good idea of his borders.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Are Tom Homan arrested the California governor would job, I
think it's great?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Would ask what crime Newsom has committed to warrant to arrest?
Speaker 7 (05:05):
The President responding, I think is primarily primary crime is
running for governor because he's done such a bad job.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
That's a ridiculous statement from Trump. Gavin Newsom's primary crime
is obviously his podcast.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
And even if.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Newsom wasn't good at his job, being a bad governor
doesn't mean you should get arrested.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
It means you should be mayor of New York.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
So well, Newsom and Trump fight each other, Los Angeles
is becoming a battleground for their rivalry.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
It's hard.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
It's a hard story to turn away from, especially when
some of these reporters are real easy.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
On the eyes.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
It is entirely possible that by the end of today
we will.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
See nearly five thousand combined California National Guard and Marines
deployed here in southern California.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
They can see how.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Much smoke is being deployed on the other side by
the lapd oh, I'm definitely saying a smoke show. Someone
should really hose that down. Excuse me, are you with CBS,
because I'd like to watch that ass for sixty minutes.
(06:26):
These jokes were brought to you by the female gaze.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
The female gaze.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
It's not creepy because we're girls. So that's basically where
we're at right now. Trump's terrible policy has generated a
huge backlash, which he's responded to by overreacting, which is
going to generate another backlash. We don't know how this
(06:55):
is going to end, but at least we know it'll
be a huge waste of money.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Defense Secretary p.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Hagschaf says the deployment of the State National Guarden Marines
will cost at least one hundred and thirty.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Four million dollars.
Speaker 8 (07:05):
He expects the deployments to last at least sixty days.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Hello, Doge, I found some cuts for you.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Can you put your mom on the phone?
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Teamagers Jesus Now, A sixty day deployment is a very
long time for these soldiers, especially if they don't have
a lot to do. Not to mention, it's going to
make for a very weird Ken Burns documentary.
Speaker 9 (07:39):
My Dearest Susie all right from the not at all
war torn Whole Foods parking lot on Fairfax and third
across from the Grove. On previous tours, I witnessed awful carnage.
But today I did a celebrity home tour. I saw
Kelsey Grammar's house, loved him in down periscope. How I
long for the taste of your home cooking. I tried
the Haley Beaber smoothie from Heroin. I posted a picture
(08:01):
of it on my Insta, but I only got twelve locks. Sadly,
last night we lost Johnny. He caught the improv bug
and signed with UTA. At night we sleep on the floor.
Secretary Hegseth was going to book hotel rooms, but he
blacked out and forgot.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I miss you, my dear Susie.
Speaker 9 (08:21):
I pray this war end soon, but not too soon
for I have Friday night reservations at Noble.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
The Marines podcast Friday Monmass if you don't go away, well,
(09:01):
then mac only.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
So the few in between President Trump and Elon Musk
has been going on for almost a week now, but
it's only getting started because yesterday that caddy bitch Trump
was asked about Elon again. So take off your earrings everyone,
because this is going to get ugly.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Do you think Elon Musk ever had drugs here at
the White House? I really don't know.
Speaker 8 (09:21):
I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
I hope not. Look, I wish him well.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
You understand we had a good relationship, and I just
wish him well very well.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Actually, wait, what.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
You wish him well? I don't want to hear that
weak ass shit. This is a post reunion behavior. I
want pre reunion behavior. What does this mean is the
feud over?
Speaker 6 (09:45):
Maybe there's this potential softening of the feud that erupted
over the Big Beautiful Bill when Musk called it an abomination.
Musk posted this reply to President Trump's post, It's a
heart emoji. Read into that what you will.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Oh, it's not over because a single heart emoji is
actually some passive aggressive shit, which you know if you're
gen z like me, don't google it. The single heart
is the lowercase k of emojis. Trust me with this
kind of crash out, Elon ate and left no crumbs, facts,
(10:23):
no cap short king, I'm very young again, don't google it.
So who do Americans really support when it comes to
Trump versus musk our own, Grace Coolinschmidt and Josh Johnson
hit the streets to find out what started.
Speaker 10 (10:35):
Out as a romance is now.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Ending in tragedy.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Two billionaires and.
Speaker 10 (10:39):
It's actually not us this time.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
No, it's crazy.
Speaker 8 (10:42):
Two billionaires are having a public few and if.
Speaker 10 (10:45):
This were a custody battle, America is the child caught
in between.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Who will ignore our needs the most?
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Who will remember our birthday?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
There's only one thing left to do. It's time to
pick a side.
Speaker 8 (10:57):
Oh, I can go whichever are you?
Speaker 10 (11:01):
Team Trump or Team Elon? Oh?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
God?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Neither really looks like a knife and a knife.
Speaker 10 (11:06):
I'll give you a userer question. Douchebagger, pedophile?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Neither neither.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
That's no way.
Speaker 10 (11:11):
How about Trump? All right?
Speaker 5 (11:12):
I mean Trump's in charge of everything.
Speaker 10 (11:15):
M Eon should keep his mouth shut. Team Trump or
Team Elonniger.
Speaker 8 (11:27):
I appreciate Elon saying what he's saying, and I feel
like Elon.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Might help be the bridge.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I used to be tim Ellon, but now it's like.
Speaker 10 (11:37):
Tracy, what do you think Elon did? That was so
crazy that you said I'm no longer team Elon.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Twining all that stuff feels very crazy.
Speaker 10 (11:45):
But to you, Trump tweets like a normal human being.
I guess have you been following the drama between Trump
and Elon? No, not at all. All right, I'll explain
it to you. We have Elon, who's actually and I
did some research, a billionaire. He makes cars and and
he has a lot of money, which is kind of
what billionaire means. I have something in common with my friends,
(12:05):
and so it makes sense that they have become friends.
And basically then so someone got mad at someone and
it's hard to remember.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
They both have money, and who doesn't love that?
Speaker 10 (12:14):
And Epstein is an island he was an island owner,
and some other stuff perhaps as well. So can you
make a decision now, even though I just give you
so much information?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
So good?
Speaker 10 (12:25):
So I'll put you down as a socialist.
Speaker 8 (12:28):
What if it really came to blows in person?
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Who you got?
Speaker 8 (12:32):
You think Trump beating Musk? So you know, Elon showed
up to the White House.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Of the Black eye.
Speaker 8 (12:39):
Yeah he is, he said his five year old punch stone.
So basically, in this fight, if it ever comes down
to it, Trump needs to train to reach the level
of a five year old.
Speaker 10 (12:48):
I don't think Trump's beating anybody when you were still
to be so for child.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
I don't think so.
Speaker 10 (12:53):
Because the press is too nervous to ask something like this,
between Donald Trump and Elon Musk, which one has the
bigger dick?
Speaker 4 (13:03):
No, well, God complex?
Speaker 10 (13:05):
Oh I'm sorry, which one has a bigger what God complex? Yeah? Trump?
So what lesson has this taught you about friendship?
Speaker 3 (13:15):
That's a good question.
Speaker 10 (13:16):
I feel like it's taught me that if two billionaires
who have been egostroking each other for years can't make
it work, what faith do we have in the rest
of our friendships of just people with unpaid venmo requests?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Sounds hopeless?
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Right exactly?
Speaker 8 (13:31):
Is there anything that you think could get them back
in each other's good right to strengthen the friendship?
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Give them money back to because if there's.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
One thing someone like Eon needs is money, but he
wants more and more money. When things happen, they just
run their course.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
It's over and done with, move on.
Speaker 10 (13:53):
So is that your advice maybe for Trump and Elon
right now.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Move on.
Speaker 10 (13:58):
Get Oh there's always an billionaire buddy.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
I say, give them Epstein's island.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Move Trump and all the nagas to the island.
Speaker 8 (14:08):
I'm actually glad that when I'm billions because nothing el
played out friendship.
Speaker 10 (14:14):
Did you just tweak it on on Epstein's list?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yeah, but that was before when I was upset with you.
Speaker 10 (14:19):
You're not coming to Boys Night anymore.
Speaker 8 (14:25):
Yeahs, I'm great when we come back.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
And Ryan Branton Love joining me on this show, I said,
I'll go away Love next to Day, My guest tonight
(14:51):
is a multi award winning actor who can currently be
seen in The Phoenician Scheme and The Studio. His new
film is called Everything's Going to Be Great. Please welcome
Brian Cranton.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Thank you, Oh boy.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
I am such an enormous fan of yours. Thank you
for being here. Yes, and I'm not the only one, obviously.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
They're just they're just reacting through the applause sign. That's all.
They're very they're very obedient.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
We are very controlling when it comes to audience noise.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
This is true.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
You are in so many incredible projects right now. I
actually had to write them all down just to keep
track of them.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Okay, so I just forgive me the scroll.
Speaker 10 (15:56):
Is.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Yeah, everything's going to be great.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
The Phoenician Scheme, The Studio, All My Sons, Malcolm in
the Middle, Reboot, Breaking Bad, The College Years, Brian Cranston's
searching for Stanley Tucci as he searches for Italy.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Yeah, he went missing.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
He went missing, and you had to go find him.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Breaking Bread, The Walter White Baking Shows.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
It's a bake off with a secret ingredient. We won't
say what if it's a blue ingredient, but I'm not
saying what it is.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Yeah, I think we have an idea. It goes totally
off the rails. Trumbo too electric, Trumbloo.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I'm on roller skates this time.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
I'm very excited for that one. You this isn't you really?
You have so many That's okay, We're done with that
prop now.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
It was good though. It was good.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
So when you play such an iconic character like Walter White,
so many actors have a really hard time doing something
other than that because audiences have to get used to
them seeing them playing different roles.
Speaker 10 (17:01):
But not for you.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
It feels like every role that you play. You play
it like it is tailor made for you. No one
else can do it. So how do you how do
you even go about like transitioning from role to role?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Well, I have a scroll that helps me descrub but.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Perfect.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
No.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
What was hard was going from Malcolm in the Middle
for seven years playing this silly goofy dad in underwear
like kids would wear, and then trying to get the
job on Breaking Bad. It's a little different character, and
this is true. The people at AMC and Sony were saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
(17:42):
You want the guy from Malcolm in the Middle to
be Walter White. No, no, you know, And so it
was we had to convince them that that's what actors do.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
There's an interest. I love this story that you tell
about getting that job. How that how one job?
Speaker 10 (18:09):
On?
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Is it the X Files that Vince wrote on? Yes,
And you had no idea would ever lead to that opportunity.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
You never do as an actor. You're just looking for
work anywhere you can because you have bills to pay.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
I had a young family and.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Acting pictures and resumes and all that, right, and the
offer came into audition for the X Files and I
happened to get it.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Okay, great. I worked on the X Files.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
And then ten years later, after Malcolm in the Middle,
I get this call that Vince Gilligan from He's doing
this new show called Breaking Bad.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Do you remember him? I said?
Speaker 10 (18:47):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Do you know? He said? He wrote X Files? Do
you remember him? Now?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:53):
I love it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
So I had to go in and really sell myself
that I was the guy, you know to do this job,
and he was my champion to get it.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
And that's what you need.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
You need someone who believes in your talent and believes
in you and can support you on your way through.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
You need those breaks.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
He remembered you because you left an impression.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
I peed on his rug, and that's how do you
do so as you do, I left my scent.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Yes, yeah, and it worked.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
You you talk about doing a lot of extra work
as you were coming up. I also did a lot
of extra It's how I got my SAG card.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Which is what was the first role that you had
that actually had a name.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Well, if you if you don't call drunken frat boy
a name, is that not a name or is that?
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
I was drunken frat boy. I did Baywatch, I did anything.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
You know, I mean yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
My first role with a name was QT Number two.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Yeah yeah, and I threw my brawl at Chris Evans.
You know, a very silly movie. I don't know what
they're clapping for.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Classy.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Yeah, it's really classy. If you see him, could you ask.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
If he still has Yeah, I'll get it back.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
I could use it.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
The Phoenicians game. This is your third Wes Anderson is Yeah.
I feel like with Wes Anderson movies, you see one
frame and you know it's a Wes Anderson film. That's right,
so hyper specific about the visuals and aesthetic.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
What is it like to be directed by him?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
He is a sweetheart of a man, he really is.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
He's and that's why everybody wants to work with him,
because he has such a clear vision.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
He's a true auteur.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
And like the trust exercise that we all took in
acting one on one, where you fall back into your
partner's arms and you realize, I need to trust the
people I work with, we all trust him. When we
read his script. It is very dense and sometimes confusing
because it's so involved. So he makes a cartoon. What
(20:56):
he calls a cartoon is an animatic. He does the
animation for in the full hour and a half long
of the entire movie, and he voices all the characters,
and then he he voices every single character, and then
he says, here, this might make more sense to you.
And so you're watching the whole movie play out, and
(21:17):
you hear his voice do your character, and you realize, oh,
that's what he wants me to do somewhere out there,
and so you go searching out there to see if
you can capture you know, like a like a like
a firefly.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
That's how it feels like.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
You're you know, you're trying to hunt down something that
makes makes it familiar to you.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
That sounds so time consuming and very expensive.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Actually, he doesn't pay his actors very much, so it's
actually too Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
You heard that, You're first.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
This I Had the Studio is my favorite show this year.
It is so so funny, and watching those, especially those
final two episodes with you in it has me thinking
you are the You have the most range of any
actor known to me.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
That applause sign is amazing, so good, so good. I've
got to get that for home man. Yeah, just like that.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
You play this insane movie mogul, this ceo of a studio,
and there are all the I don't want to give
anything away, but there are all of these wonners, these giant,
epically long takes, and you're doing all this crazy physical comedy.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
How do you rehearse for something like that?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Rehearse? Well, we do it.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
We do about fifteen sixteen, eighteen times, and we get
it fluid and really well done. And then once you
get your lines out, then uh seth Rogen and Evan
Goldberg they said, you know, say whatever you want. So
you're thinking of lines you can throw out there and
pitching ideas. And I know there was a I was
(23:11):
in the tenth episode. I'm hugging a statue out in
Las Vegas on the strip, and I'm I'm orally copulating
this statue, which was a choice I made that I
now regret.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Sometimes. I think sometimes you got to blow someone to
get that ammy.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
That's true. That's that's a good point.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
I think it's bound to happen.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
That's a good point. Yeah, good point. And it reminds
me of my youth.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Everything's going to be great.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Is it?
Speaker 10 (23:52):
Please?
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Please?
Speaker 4 (24:00):
There's one movie we need right now, and I'm sure
it shit, Hope.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
I don't know if I can confidently say it, but
I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. That's beautiful and it's so funny,
and I'm curious this is about you play Buddy Smart,
a struggling regional theater producer with your wife Alice and
Janny are raising these two teenage boys.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
I'm curious.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
I learned in your book that you come from an
entertainment family. Your parents were actors. Your dad was someone
who hung onto his dream and never wanted to let go.
Were you inspired by your family dynamic or your father
at all for this role.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Yes, And we're always learning from our parents. And I
think my dad made some mistakes and he always wanted
to be a star. That was so important to him,
and it didn't happen, and it hurt him really bad,
and consequently then hurt the family a lot and broke
up the fam. It was ugly in many cases. And
(25:03):
I learned from that thinking why be a star? No,
I just want to be able to make a living.
If I can make a living as an actor, that
is my success story, and that's what I want. And
so this I was a third generation actor. My daughter
is the fourth generation actor. I'm so proud of her.
(25:23):
She's playing a Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
It's like she's on the pit.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Yeah, she plays she plays.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Doctor mel King on the pit and she is doing
She's such a beautiful actor.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
And she's in it for all the right reasons.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
And it's like, I'm I can't, I can't be more
proud of.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
She learned from the bat.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
You're about to head to the West End to London
to do all my sons, I am yeah. Are you
are you inspired by wanting to do that play? Or
do you just feel like now might be a great
time to cool your heels in Europe for a bit.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Now, everything's gonna be great. Everything's gonna be great.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Everything's gonna be great, gonna be great. I you know,
as a theater rat, I can't stay away from the
theater long. It's exhausting because I tend to choose damaged
characters that I'm most attracted to. And every time you
(26:28):
go to the theater and perform, it's like a gut
punch and you like, oh my god, why am I
doing this? And you you're so exhausted and yet so
exhilarated and there's a relationship what you have with this
great audience.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
You have a relationship with them.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
You say something, they react, And that's like doing live theater.
I feel you when you're in my in my theater
and we're performing. The difference is you have to come
up with new material, right every day, to the same audience.
(27:04):
All I have to do the same material to a
new audience. So it's the same responsibility, just in reverse.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Yeah, and we're here to entertain, that's right.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
And so when you do a show one hundred and
seventy five times the same material every single night, but
to a new audience. The motivation for you is to
say they paid good money, they deserve to hear a story.
That's my responsibility. I'm going to give you the best
damn story I can give you, and then you haven't.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
Ye know, well, I think I think the important takeaway
from this interview is that Brian Cranston and I are
exactly the same.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Yeah, eac, we are the same exactly.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
The same level, same, same same, No, you are in
absolute delight.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Thank you for being here.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Everything here.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
My grant will be a collect letter, unny, Frank, We'll
be right back after me.
Speaker 8 (28:22):
That's the show Play with the pony though.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Tired of complaining about who's running things. We are too,
and we'ren't paid to do it.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
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