Good Sam Cast - Rapid Fire Questions

The cast of Good Sam, Sophia's new show, answers rapid fire questions so we can get to know them better!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, everyone, It's Sophia and welcome back to Work in Progress.
If you've been listening to Work in Progress for the
last few weeks, you know that I wanted my whip
smarties to get to know the other community I have

(00:20):
been spending all my time with, and that is my
Good Sam family. I've had the pleasure of working with
the amazing casting crew from my new CBS show Good
Sam for almost two years now. They really have become
some of my favorite people that I have ever worked with,
and it has been a gift to get to know them.
I'm so happy that you have been getting to know
them through our deeper conversations on the podcast too. But

(00:44):
today I thought it would be fun to do a
rapid fire round of questions with some of the cast
and crew so you can see their individual personalities and preferences,
from what their coffee order is to somewhere they want
to travel. Today's episode it's fast and fun. Thank you
for tuning in, and I won't keep you any longer.
Let's get to it. This is Miriam Carvel. I play

(01:04):
Nurse Donna Williams. My name is Davie Santos, and I
played Dr Joey Costa. What's up? This is Edwin Hodge
and I play Malcolm High. It's Omarma Scottie and I
play Dr e san Shaw. I'm Wendy Krusen, I play
Dr Vivian Katz, I am Sky Marshall and I play
Doctor Lex Truly on the sand, Here we go on

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the rapid fire questions. What is your favorite TV show
that you watched last? I may destroy you? Oh and Hacks.
I also love that those shows I just I loved
has I think Hack two and Queen's Gambit before that
bit of a shameless plug but as we see it
on Amazon is so good a Queen's Gambit. This is

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us definitely succession Succession. I love Mayor of Easton. I
love Kate Winslet. Oh, she was so good in that.
And The Great is fantastic and lots of fun. Huzzah.
When would you say your most productive? For me? It's
like eight am till um two is when I wish

(02:17):
to be heavy duty writing, but it often is later. Yeah,
I think I stopped asking myself that question. When does
it do? Yeah? When am I most productive in the
morning after like eleven pm, late at night, top of
the morning, right when I'm fresh out of bed. I
am a night owl. I love doing work at night.

(02:38):
I don't, I don't know, call me a vampire. I
am most productive after breakfast, before lunch, and after dinner
into the wee hours of the night. Oh it's a
tiny window in the morning between about ten and eleven.
I'm on fire. The rest of the day not so much.
What's your comfort meal? Tomato soup and chicken pop pie,

(03:00):
like grony and cheese. You know, a good, warm, cheesy
dish is just that that just soothes the soul. Pasta
I think chicken noodle, soup, Japanese food. I love sushi,
and I'm addicted to ramen a, savicha, or basically anything
so you food related. Lemon pasta so good, like dessert

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with pasta. It's so amazing. Where is the place on
earth that you feel most at peace? A basketball court
in my bedroom upstairs, in an airplane once in the
air and there's no WiFi. I feel most at peace
in the kitchen, the little cabin on Georgian Bay, that
rocky shore, that blue lake that was my um grandfather's

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and it's for sure the winner there and any like
kind of beach waves. Situation for me is like I
can really and and if I'm on the water on
some sort of boat. It's something I discovered about myself
recently because I don't go on many boats, and I
was like, what is this silence in my mind? This
is really lovely. Yeah. I like hiking. I like being

(04:08):
in the trees and kind of lost on the path. Yeah. Yeah,
I love to be in the mountains too. But it's funny.
When you mentioned a boat, the first thing that came
to my mind. I was like, Kayty, we gotta we
gotta take Jenny to the up Oh yeah, you just
get her on a boat boat face the upper Peninsula
of Michigan. We gotta go will be our celebratory end

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of season something I can't wait. I'm trying to get
my husband to like tramp, like to become sort of
sort of sailor, because I've realized how relaxed I am.
And he's like, I don't know anything about boats and
I don't have any skills or like, but could have
become something you're passionate about because then he could drive it.
Maybe he would. Yeah, you never try to be like, hey, sailor,

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like just sort of lay it in. I'll let you
know how it goes. If each of you could pick
a book that would be mandatory for high school students
to read, what book would you use? High School? I
don't know. Beloved Tony Morrison, but I don't know if
that's high school anything by Maya Angelo, Emotional Awareness by
Paul Ekman, the leading facial expression scientist, and the Dalai

(05:15):
Lama very good East West book. Tony Morrison's Beloved definitely cast.
I mean, come on, you know, I recently read Bell
Canto again. For me, it's like all about point of view.
It depends on how you look at things and like that.
That book for me was a really start to sort
of interesting conversation in my mind. What was the first

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concert you ever went to? Either Backstreet Boys Are in
Sync Shaun Cassidy. The first concert I ever went to
was for the Used metha Man and Red Man at
the House of Blues in Chicago, the Police, Jay z
Fade Black Staples Center. Will never forget that. I think

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it was The Moody Blues or Billy Joel. It was
with my dad, for sure, so that's not very cool.
Mine was with my friend's dad and it was Billy Joel,
Oh my god, this is perfect. Me and my friends
did our first concert without our parents, I think in
the eighth grade, and it was when Lauren Hill's record

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came out and we saw Lauren Hill and Outcast. It
was the best, still one of the best concerts. It
was so cool. And we saw them at Universal City
Walk and our parents drove us and then sat in
the parking lot until we got out because they were
so nervous to let us go in like an amphitheater
by ourselves. And we were like, we are we are

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fourteen years old, and we do not need you to
chaperone us. We're fine, And wow, what a what a night,
What a concert? What a concert. I'm curious about this.
For you guys, when you know that something is the
right thing for you, is there is there like a
feeling that arises in you. Is there name you can
ascribe to that. I think for me it's obsession, just

(07:04):
like I can't stop thinking about it, yeah yeah, or
like wanting to pitch it, or like pitch on it,
like like I think that's right, keep simmering up like
you can't let it go, A feeling of tempered confidence, euphoria.
That would be the feeling of certainty or providence. Providence

(07:24):
as well fizzing. I start to fizz, I can feel
it just tingling and anticipation. Do you know something good
is going to happen? I guess contentment. You know I
can just be content and feeling good about what is
going on. Okay, last question, what so far is a

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memory that each of you cherishes from at current? The
first seven episodes we've done of our show, Well, I
would say like for me, I live for the moments
when people tell me that they like working working on
the show like that that makes it all worthwhile for
me that day, like no matter, it's just like if
I'm having a hard day and then I find out

(08:08):
that somebody else is having a good time, that's like
completely reframes stuff and I'm grateful for every single reminder
every single day that it's not about me. And then
I like the more I can position myself visa to
be like how can I be useful and helpful to
this overall whole endeavor that I'm always better headspaced. So
I'm really grateful every single time I know that somebody

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else is happy. That keeps me going I really loved.
For me, like sitting on the stage with um, you
and Gina was a really special full circle moment where
we got to just talk and talk about it. Just
it felt very like, oh my gosh, I was so
excited for your guys, this connection and because you guys
are both such singular, um extraordinary people and leaders and

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community members, and just thinking about like that those relationships
and how they grow and create more change an opportunity
was a really like just awesome feeling. There was one
night where we were shooting. We were outside, it was
super cold, super late, which is not great, but we're

(09:15):
also all a little loopy, and there was a take
where Davy took a bite of a prop and I
don't know if we were supposed to eat the prop,
and it just it just cracked us up and it
was so fun. And yeah, anytime we laugh on set
really or dance on set, you know, I just I
have to say it was sitting around we were on

(09:35):
the pilot, sitting in the hallway of some set, you know,
late late at night, in clothes that you know, our
characters not yours, you're uncomfortable, and figuring out what we
want to order to eat, and Sophia is always the best,
takes lead, always has that menu up and good foods

(09:58):
on its way. One of my fondest was sitting around
a country house table um listening to Gina tell us
about love and toasting to all of us coming together
to have a weekend together outside of work. The memory
that I have is when the cast and our our

(10:21):
lovely director, Gina Rodriguez, we all run in a farmhouse
and we just we just spent a couple of days
out there and it was just nice to kind of
connect with everybody and dance, laugh, eat um, to share stories,
do yoga. It was a great time. A memory that
I cherished while filming Season one of Good Sam is

(10:45):
definitely when everybody surprised me on my birthday. I was
kind of bummed because I was working the day of
and I was tricked into believing that I was setting
up for a shot, and outcomes Sophia and Jason with
donuts and everybody's saying and it just made me feel
really nice and lone and appreciated. A memory I cherish
that comes to mind during the filming of Good Sam

(11:07):
so far, being accepted wholeheartedly by the rest of the cast.
M I love that, I gotta say. And I was
so surprised because we've now seen it so many times,
all of us, But when when we watched the pilot
on TV, I just had I had chills for an hour.

(11:28):
I couldn't believe it. With the final music and the
final picture lock and seeing other people see it, watching
people lean toward the TV because they were really invested,
I was like, oh, man, we did it. It's not
just us who thinks it's special. All these other people.
I think it's special, and that feels really cool. So
I know it's so nice that it's out in the world.

(11:49):
It feels like, oh, here, we're at this moment. There
were times when we probably didn't believe it was going
to come. I love were here. We did it. That
was so much fun. I loved hearing everyone's answers, and
I hope you enjoyed getting to know these wonderful people
a little bit better. Before we go, I want to
thank all of you for not only listening to and

(12:09):
supporting work in progress, but for supporting good sam. It
is something that brings me the utmost joy and a
tremendous amount of fulfillment and I'm just so incredibly grateful
to be able to do both this podcast and the show,
and i am so grateful for each of you who
follows and supports my work. Until next time,