‘Project Hail Mary,’ ‘Marshals,’ ‘Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat,’ and ‘SNL UK.’ Plus, ‘Paradise’ S2E7.

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My name is Chris Ryan. I'm an editor at thewringer.com. I'm joining me in the studio. He'll have some apple pie. It's Andy Greenwald.

Different studios that up today. Different studios, we're at our sick and more studios.

“I think we're allowed to say that that's the name of the studios.”

Well, we're not here when we're recording, so don't all rush out in front. Yeah, exactly. Please, and if you do form an orderly line to meet Andy. Thank you for his service. For me, you can just rush.

Yeah. Bull rushed me. I don't care. It's Monday. It's more than I'm concerned that it's Monday.

But I do feel like we're either going to be looking at each other or we could be judging the Westminster Dog Show if we look forward. Yeah, this is a little bit of a weekend update table, which is appropriate. Because we are going to talk a little bit about Saturday Night Live UK today, as well as paradise. Andy and I are playing a little bit of a show in tell today.

And I mean that in the originalist Samuel Lito way of showing tell where you bring something to class to present to your classmates. Okay. You know, we kind of had this weird moment of TV where post industry, like in the frozen of the pit, we're all loving it, but post industry post night of the seven kingdoms.

I don't know if something is grabbed our full and undivided passionate attention. That's new over the last couple of weeks. But doesn't mean we're not doing the work. It doesn't mean we're not watching tape scouting shows. And what we decided to do today is rather than unite and talk about one show.

We did, we're going to do paradise together. But we'll bring some work to the table, right? Okay. I feel a little bit of pressure, but yeah. Like how so?

You're 50% of this podcast. 50% of the podcast, but 15% of the work, which our numbers would be tough to negotiate. I would guide you through this process. Before we get into it, it's the watch at Spotify.com. It's the watch pod underscore on Instagram.

It's ranger-tv channel on YouTube.com or on your YouTube app. And you can listen to us and watch us on Spotify or wherever you get podcasts. Some of the other shows that we're going to talk about today. In case people are interested, jury duty company retreat. SNLUK, as I mentioned, marshals.

Yeah. Can't wait to discuss that with you. Mm-hmm.

Here's the thing that I'm concerned about today's show.

If I can be honest, I do think that maybe what we should have done. It's a little bit late now, but we probably should have assigned each other something. Because I think we're kind of- Well, yeah. You keep circling that.

Keep pushing the bruise. It's almost like we're telling ourselves a little bit because when we were allowed to retreat to our respective culture corners, you went and you watched marshals. And I watched American classic. A elderly sitcom about the American theater.

“I think that's what makes peanut butter doesn't work without jelly.”

You know what I mean? It does. Well, it's fine with that jelly. But like if I want to start the Chris Ryan show, I guess I could do it. 100% could do it.

It would do crazy numbers. Has this only occurred to you? But no, because I don't want to just stare at a camera and be like an episode two of marshals. Casey revisits the zone of death.

No, I think that first of all.

First of all, it's- There are a couple different ways you could do it. I've been, I've been really consuming a lot of content of like solo travel influencers who now seem to have like remote control drones following them. So it looks like they're being filmed. Reader.

We all do. And I think that would be what you would do. You'd be like walking in the neighborhood. People would be like, "What's up, CR? You'd be like, "Okay, okay." But I like one of those areas.

No, it's silver, like you'd be doing sell. Okay, so my travel would be like 10 minutes west of me. How much free time? I mean, do you want to travel further? Yeah, okay.

Do you want to see the world? Okay, we'll get a lot of- Get in line now. Thank you, sir. No, not a lot of big headlines coming out of the weekend of newsmen.

A lot of people probably spent their time watching tournament games. They're- it is worth noting.

“I think that project tale Mary is a big fat hit.”

First of all, this is great.

I think that's awesome. It's a original sci-fi concept based on Andy Wears novel. Andy, we're obviously wrote. The Martian, everybody should listen to Andy on House of R. And Lord Miller went on a big picture, so definitely check those out if you're looking for more

in-depth projectile Mary content. I know you didn't get a chance to see it. Can I confess something? Sure. Because this is embarrassing.

You kind of called me on that. No, I didn't. My brain. No, no, you didn't a good way because I really want to see the movie.

I was with the kids.

And it didn't occur to me until I had missed the potential screening window to see it.

“That I could take them to a movie that wasn't like Moana 3.”

Yeah. I don't know. I want to apologize to our listeners for that. That was on me. I forgot that like they're old enough now to go see a movie without songs by Lindenwell

Miranda. Take him to Hamlet. Be like suck it up. Uncle Chris prefers movies that go like this. What are your thoughts?

Yeah. Suck it. Couldn't you have it so bad? Do you? Also, you know, he caught a couple else, but Dad did all right.

Yeah. Dad rebounded. He turned that pain into art. Yeah.

Imagine the second season of sick the landing I could do.

Oh my god. Yeah. Anyway, I thought your kids would like this movie. Yeah. It is a bit long.

I don't know how they do with the two and two hour and like I think it's 30 to 20. My older daughter said that the cone in bit at the Oscars read it. The split screen with subway surfers. Okay.

“You too, when Tiktok, that's what they are.”

She legitimately said that that was the most engaging part of the broadcast for her. Okay. Well, that doesn't vote well for the future of monoculture unless surfers. Somebody surfing indeed becomes the monoculture. I just think it's it's a really cool story for the movie business.

They're first cue of the year to have a big. Yeah. Big hit like this. And it's like, you know, we did nice guys on rewatchables that I'll be going up today. And I guess it's time to like reckon with like a maybe Ryan Gosling is is him.

You know, I think he had had a couple of years there where whether it was Barbie or Fall guy where it was like, you know, Barbie he's obviously playing a supporting role. But Fall guy is like a definite like choice from him to make a different kind of movie. Then he had when it was like nice guys. Well, and have Nelson all the way back. I love how it's have Nelson. But it's pretty impressive

to watch him sell this all over the world, charm every single junket interviewer he's got. Yeah. Go on all the shows. And he is the like if you don't like Ryan Gosling, I don't think you should see this movie because it is 90% him talking to another character.

But what do you think? Are we too quick? This is this is kind of a big picture conversation that literally the show of the big picture conversation. I don't want to step on their toes with this. But like are we too quick to declare someone a movie star or not a movie star in this era because he has he takes all the boxes. He's beloved.

He's incredibly talented. He is charming in comedy and drama. And he can hold camera and hold attention and sell a movie like this.

It's just him basically around the world.

That was true when Barbie came out and everyone was like, Oh my God, we love this guy. It's almost like we forgot. And then fall guy came out. It was still true. Fall guy wasn't a very good movie.

“And there were some I think pretty quick obituaries of his career as a leading man.”

When opportunities are different in the 2020s and over 10 years, 20 years, 30 years ago. I've been thinking about this with all jowl man and Leo and a bunch of actors and their choices to I mean, obviously it's a privilege, but also they're they choose to work with the best possible directors that they can and I think that Gosling has gone through like different phases of his life.

Like there's obviously like a difference between the blue Valentine and have Nelson part. Then there is they kind of like post like I don't know like crazy stupid love where he's like doing a you know a bunch of different genres working with a bunch of different filmmakers. He seemed like he was going to do like I'm Damien Shazel's De Niro. Like I think he was kind of on this trajectory of like I'm a pretty serious actor.

Drive drive. But then kind of like was like you know what I think I want to have like way more fun while I work. And maybe feel a little bit better at the end of a day. And so his roles that he's done in the last couple of years have been pretty lighthearted. And this is of a piece with it. It just happens to be probably the best movie.

Yeah, Barbie is obviously Barbie but like this is the most successful execution of Ryan Gosling char machine that I've seen in recent years. Do you know who's really really happy today? The folks at Lucasfilm. Okay, they got Starfighter coming because they built their. What is that that's next year?

Yeah, okay. But it's built around want to go to space with this guy. Yeah.

The answer is the resounding yes.

Yes, it sounds like it. What do you want to do first? Should we do some paradise? Do you have anything else on there? Any other news?

Any other things? Really. Nice you question. This is just throwing this at you. But I saw news today that a show that I was curious about.

But have not engaged with Star Trek Starfleet Academy was just canceled. Okay. We are not. Is that your body in Hollywood? Yes.

We are not historically Star Trek watchers or. Discussors on the show.

As a, you know, we, we, we were the watchers on the wall of IP to a degree.

Oh, yeah. And I find this very, very confusing.

And maybe the answer is just.

There's been a lot of turmoil at all the streamers in Paramount is not immune to it. And the Cindy Holland regime may have a different attitude about this beloved Plank of their, of their business than the previous regime. And that that might be it. But my sense of the show would made me curious about it.

Not curious enough to watch it yet. So it's on me.

“Was that this felt like a bigger swing to rein ignite the franchise?”

Oh, okay. Like we're going to get a big star again. But we're going to make it younger or sexier. We're going to do there been rumors of like a. A Hogwarts for Star Trek for years.

And then they made the show. And they seem to put a lot of money and attention into it. And now they're just sort of casually pulling the plug after two years. Feels feels odd to me in terms of the priority that I thought that stuff had for their Brand management.

Maybe they no longer maybe they want to reboot the whole thing again. Or maybe part of their attitude is all of our energy is now going to go into. DC and stuff for about to acquire. I think it's the former. So I think that the way that they had been running Star Trek for.

The last like five, six, seven years. Especially since yeah, but like as they kind of had ruled out.

“I think it's like half a dozen shows on her amount that various points were running.”

That it was like, you know what? There is a baseline audience for the stuff of passionate trekkies that keeps it afloat. And we're going to spend accordingly.

Like we're never going to get too out in front of our skis with budget.

Yep. And we're just going to kind of serve the audience. But it's not going to pop beyond that probably. Right. Like there was some nice reviews for certain things.

I know you checked out like card when it came out. But for the most part. Kind of try first learned about Dr. Trinity Santos. As he's a pre-owners and card. I don't know that.

Very good. But that's not really a money maker for them. No, but it. They have to have it be. Could we get a Star Trek movie to be.

A 500 to 750 million dollar movie.

I don't remember how much the first Star Trek with pine made. Yeah. But it's got they probably are like this IP. Has the potential to be a blockbuster. We can't just let it languish in making your procedural television show every week.

“I think that's probably the retrenchment and the new plan because we don't talk about it enough because generally we don't talk about it.”

But when we have discussed over the past few years. The missteps in the management of Star Wars and even Marvel. One of the major points of conversation is it was diluted and made to feel a lot less special when it was something that was just showing up on our televisions and on our streaming services. And that was the entire plan with Star Trek for the last 10 years. This is more valuable to us as something as you said, as a floor center of audience that will subscribe to our service as long as somebody is beaming somewhere.

And they may now be looking at them being like, we have devalued this to the point where it's sort of generationally no-invoid. And we need to reimagine the whole thing. I think that if you've got something that's set in outer space. Put Ryan Gosling in it. Is that your advice? It's good advice.

Make something that can go on. I'm acts. Make something that can play in and be an event cinema thing. I mean, there is this viral clip of Gosling going around from introducing a project tail married. I don't know if it was Lincoln Center or wherever the IMAX theater is in New York City. And he was like, thank you for coming out to movie theaters.

It's not your job to the audience. It's not your job to keep theaters open. It's our job to make movies that make you want to come to movie theaters. Whoa. And to John get a like a tingling.

I actually would love to hear what John is to say about that. Because I take that not necessarily as like we have to make large format movies that appropriately play on 70 millimeter or IMAX the screens. I think it's something that makes it feel there's got to be a quality right now that makes you feel like this is worth not. This is worth in convincing myself because like so much of what entertainment has become. This actually leads into how I want to talk about some of our show and tell stuff.

Is so much of like entertainment is about convenience now that you just have too many differing. Basically approaches to how people want to consume TV or movies. And so you've taken away the singularity of like, well, if I want to see this within the next 18 months. I have to go see it at a movie theater. You could extend windows and all that.

But like if somebody's just like, I think ready or not to will play just as well on my flat screen television as it does in the movie theater. Then they're just going to wait and I don't know how to, I don't know how to thread that needle necessarily. Like, I don't know, I don't know what that means for anything that's like smaller than a project tail marry or smaller than doomsday or smaller than doon three or Odyssey.

What makes that kind of movie.

I mean, like, look, the house made made a ton of money. They're still in audience to calling Hoover movies make money. People go out to see movies, but it's a little bit more. It's hard to like gauge anymore. What non-imax stuff will perform.

“Well, look, Gustav's childhood home in Oslo looks honestly looks shitty at home at your own house.”

You got to go see it in the biggest screen possible. Did you see some more value on a big screen? I don't have to answer that. I intended to. But I did not.

It's also worth thinking about it in terms of the flip side of that argument, which is one of the reasons. And we shouldn't, I'm not trying to briefly like pre-right the obituary here. But I think that one of the major obstacles for Mandalorian and Grogu is that it's like, well, this is a TV show. And the volume has trained a, a mini generation of audience to be like, well, I can see these things. I can see these things on my screens at home.

What is, what's the value at? What's different in the theater? And it can't just be like, you know, a novelty, a not popcorn bucket. Yeah, and I just, I think even if you were to take away the idea that people are already very familiar with the character. And if seen hours of footage of these people already, which is totally fine.

And because we've seen hours of footage of the Avengers, and we're going to go see them in December. What's of, what's at stake? You asked me out. I'm going to see it together.

I'll go, yes, the answer is yes.

I got your rose. What's it tough time for the bachelor at franchise? Oh, should, do you want to comment on that? I did some Taylor Frankie Paul reading this week. Do you know who this person is?

You said it in a way that you hear like, the three names made it sound like this is like a congressional historian. Oh, I thought it made it sound like more like a graduate of the Iowa Raiders program. And this is, I read some Taylor Frankie Paul's short stories. What's interesting about Taylor? You know, Taylor Frankie Paul enlisted in the Marine Corps at a young age and did serve in Afghanistan.

And so her perspective that she brings to the novel form is really moving. Yeah. She seems like a wild girl, man. Okay. That's your wife.

She's on secret lives as Mormon wives? Kind of. My wife is ready. Guys worried that the camera's going to spin. I feel like I mean, all my, like, keywords right now.

She's never videos like when they are around a dog and they're like, yeah, I want to go to the park.

Yeah. Yeah. She's on secret lives of Mormon wives, which I've never seen. And then she had gone from that show and she immediately became like the bachelor at. Yeah.

I feel like Mormon wives, I feel like I know about their public facing lives. I don't want to assume too much. No, there's a secret lives. Right.

“So I'm saying, so what is secret about their lives?”

Yeah. Softening. Yeah. Excuse me. Softening?

No. Well, she called it softening. Softening is like when you go for frozen yogurt. I think they just did it. Yeah.

Exactly. Don't make me ask.

We know what third base is broadly right?

I know what third base was, but I feel like the way things are going. And who knows how the Mormons interpret the text, you know what I mean? Yeah. But I think it just is supposed to let you know everything up to the biblical deed. Everything up to touching home.

Yes. Yes. Sorry. When you said third base, I thought about how J.P. Crawford ripped a triple before it's called up to the major league. So that's the secret life.

I'm interested in thinking about the gas face. No. So you search and peat nice.

“Do you watch the bachelor in bachelor at franchise's kayak?”

So I used to and I happened to have been tuned in in a couple years. But I was all set to tune in to Taylor Frankie policies. So is this a sign? What? Give me my easy older man hot to what you prep me.

Is this a sign of the debasement of this once romantic franchise that now they have to dumpster to fully vertically integrate because secret lives in more moonwives is like a hulu show bachelor's ABC things. So they were going to take somebody from a reality show that we already have. And even further stream them up stream them. She had a pretty serious domestic violence.

Yes. And I guess at the best way to put it. And which some footage was leaked of her like going off. Yeah. And so they pulled the season.

They filmed the season. They were like fully like. They shot another normal life season or not or they were shooting it. The fifth season of Mormon wives just aired. They were in production on season six.

But the production shortly before they can the bachelor at season. They had stopped down production on season. So let her go to bachelor at no. She had already wrapped filming because she had more. She was having more issues and more.

But she was having more issues. But she was having more issues with her partner. And so they had pause production on season six. But there's like also like a sublayer of it. It's like what's real and what's not.

We're like she's.

She is is she was she still with this guy for up until the point of.

Of kind of a. Semantics guy. But I realize now. It's tough to go from being a Mormon wife to a bachelor right without some bumps in the road. Right.

Like you can't.

“I think that would be the pitch for this season.”

I'm ready to give any case. Wow. I read about that this weekend. Okay. How is that?

I think it's an interesting New York magazine profile. Very quite well timed. And I watched Michael Powell and Emerc press burgers. I can't do very till. Wow.

Quite good. You contain. Fuck it. That's incredible. You did both those things high and low.

I did. What would you like to talk about the shared experience of watching paradise. No, let's end with a shared experience. Let's run through a couple shows to give people a sense of what they. Shoulder shouldn't be watched.

Okay. We used to do that. We used to offer a service. I'm going to talk about Marshall's real quick. Take your time.

“Do you feel like you still need bad TV in your life?”

Uh, well, I feel like I've been getting a steady diet. No, that's not what I mean though. I don't mean TV that aims to be good, but winds up missing the mark. Right. Uh, I don't mean 57 minute shows that like, yeah.

You're just kind of like maybe I just don't really care about these people or what happens to them or whether or not this works out for X, Y, or Z. I mean straight up like I'm watching this. Yeah. I can't really like it's essentially shot like an episode of the Drew Barrymore show.

I can't really tell like seven of the characters names, but I remember with one guy's name. But there is just enough of a story that will be resolved in the 42 minutes that I am watching this. Yeah. That I will blindly have it on. Now, Sam S. Mel is used to make fun of us for the idea of a laundry show.

That you're walking in and out of the room for. Yeah. But I think I found it. Talk to me. It's Marshalls.

Now Marshalls is part of the larger Yellowstone project. Interesting. I'm not going to get into like a huge reading of the state of the Taylor share in the universe. Because I know that there's like only a select group of people who listen to us. Really can give us shit about it.

But this is an interesting expansion because it is one of two. This one and then the Dun Ranch, which is coming in May. And what's that coming on? That's Paramount Plus. And that's Cole and Cole Houser and Kelly Riley extending the Yellowstone story.

Okay. But this is on CBS. This is on CBS. Both shows are not written by Taylor Sheridan. Okay.

Both shows are more of like based on characters created by Taylor Sheridan and executive producer by Taylor Sheridan. But written by Claude. No.

I would say that the first two episodes of Marshalls is actually like.

Made me mad because I was like a more prestigious execution of this story would be interesting. It's very, very reminiscent to me of the times when I've been. You know, when I would be at my mom's house in like Chicago fire 19 episodes of Chicago fire would be on. And I would be like I for some reason I am following this even though I'm like in the room 110th of the time. Yes.

It's basically about the character case he was my favorite character on Yellowstone, which is why I give Marshalls a shot.

“Just all of a sudden becoming a Marshall, which honestly they handle about three minutes.”

And I'm totally fine with. That's fine. And he's in a like a high intensity. Guns forward part of the marshals with Logan Marshall green, a couple other people. And the second episode is actually really cool like it's kind of secario light.

Area and brotherhood in Mexican cartels or doing a fentanyl deal in the zone of death, which is like the Montana Wyoming border. Is that what they're calling it now? Well, that's where they used to dump bodies on Yellowstone. Oh, so it's like it is reference.

It does. It does make some references and it's actually like a pretty good episode of television. But it did strike me that like there's so much stuff not only that's on right now. Yeah. Stuff that is on recently enough like I've I've mentioned a couple of times my shame at.

Never catching up on dark winds, you know.

Yeah, it seems like something we would really like. Yeah, and I'm like well, I'm watching yellow. I'm watching marshals, which has some stuff to recommend. And then there's parts of it that you're just like, I need to be put to sleep. But there is a weird extra layer of guilt to watching bad television. When you know you could always be watching something that at least had this a promise of being really good.

Yeah, but there's also a reason why we eat snack food and like dependable. Like comfort food, that's fine. I think that the rhythms of that and and when we talk about paradise, this will come into play too. Because paradise is so broad cast television is DNA that there are that it is possible to skate along the surface of the show. It is possible to dare I say it at least consider doing a load of whites, you know, while you're dancing between the the the bunker and the outside world. But you're right in the sense that because that part of my diet is I'm lacking in that part of the diet even in RFK's inverted pyramid.

I deaf I dishes too much other stuff for me to catch up.

Yeah, so even though I would probably find that reassuring.

“The the sensation that I'm basically chasing is like coming home.”

Yeah, after a long day of doing something that had nothing to do with television. And it's like 530 and while I'm making dinner, I put on a show and that's the show that comes on but I had no choice. I was like, I'm just putting on TBS or I'm putting on my say and that show comes on. I'm like, you know, like out of order, I wind up watching these Marshalls episodes. But now at any given moment of your life between standing on grocery lines or making your dinner or any hours that you're going to spend watching stuff.

You could theoretically be watching a canterbury tale or dark winds or whatever.

It's it's kind of hard to negotiate with like stuff that's just like I look 18 million people watching that episode of Marshalls.

They don't need my my cosine signature and I'll probably keep watching it because of my dedication to Casey doesn't. But it's it's strange. It's a really nice thing to just kind of relax into something. I don't think we've talked about this, but you know what I started watching with the girls is fire up jeopardy really. Jeopardy is just you could just they're all streaming.

Yeah, you could just watch it whenever you want without the commercials. Yeah, right. And they just watch jeopardy. And they like it. Yeah, because you know, it's good jeopardy.

Like it's completely the same except sometimes like Claro will be an answer. Yeah, but other than that, it's very, very, very pleasant to make. Yeah, to make the machine do what it used to do. Yes, and and have those rhythms of like, well, this is a fine thing. This is a fine thing to do together.

So like I would just I would I guess like if you're really desperate for. More Yellowstone Sheridan stuff. It's interesting to watch someone kind of right.

What they think Sheridan sounds like Spencer had never wrote and created this one.

Yeah. And the first two scripts are good and Gregory Greg, you tennis directed the first two. You know, the first two of the director and they have some verb, but I just, you know, for as much as we knock Netflix for like the Netflix effect. Yeah, the visual language that we are kind of all speaking now.

Man, CBS procedural's really they look diff. Can I ask you though? And maybe this is going to be useful for some of our listenership as well. I think it's time to come to reckon with this. And I think it was clear for anyone who listened to our last show from Thursday.

But I'm willing to admit that I suffer from TDS. Taylor, derangements syndrome. Taylor, derangements syndrome. And if anyone else is suffering from that, is it a healthier experience for them to watch a show that is just stressful.

Oh, you should watch this. No, no. Which camera's up. I wasn't going to do this is all just can't really tell. So I've just added to my criteria too.

I don't think it's triggered by this is.

“That's what I'm saying because maybe the issue isn't the dude riding horses to the zone of death”

40 minutes and back again in time for supper. It's that in the middle of it, there isn't a large conversation about pronouns and ferrets. Yeah, there's not. So they're really, they don't have any time for like, right, discursive conversations in marshals.

Okay. It's all like a lot of, a lot of skeletons out there. Sometimes they should stay buried. That's right, brother. And then they go do their thing.

That just seems like good advice. Yeah, sure. Sure. Everything I will say about Logan Marshall Green and the cast is a very convincing. We're in the tactical vest.

I am curious. They obviously did a lot of like weapons training and stuff for this show.

I don't know if they did weapons training while you're on a horse because there's a scene in the second episode,

where he seems rather uncomfortable. And then there's a lot of very far away shots of guys on horses. Do you think you'd be comfortable on the horse without the tactical gear? Or do you think it's the horse? Yeah, I'm just trying to look after my guy.

Give me a show that you watched over the weekend. You know, one of the things I love about contemporary television landscape is the ability to be surprised, not necessarily surprised by the quality or tenor of programming because we pretty much ticked all the boxes of nothing new to invent. More that we can still be like, "What is this?"

And it's on where? And that was my reaction when I heard that there was a sitcom that was already five or six episodes deep, starring Kevin Klein and Laura Lini. And it was airing on MGM+. Which I have to admit, I thought was like, "Free-V."

And then it's not.

“It's what epics used to be and you have to pay for it.”

This doesn't even sound like a real conversation. I know. And the show is about a titan of Broadway. They still do free-V? I don't know.

I don't think so. A titan of... Jeff's not giving that away for free anymore. We're keeping it all in. But just like the idea of people pitching a television show

That is about a titan of Broadway being brought low

and then returning to his rural hometown to save his local theatre with the help of his family. I'm like...

First of all, okay grandma, come back to your rest home.

But also, that sounds like a great, great thing for pilot season on Amazon in 2013. Is it a period piece? No. It's a contemporary show. It is a contemporary show.

It is a contemporary show made by the director Michael Hoffman and the comedy writer, musical theatre actor Bob Martin. And it stars Kevin Klein as I said in Laura Lini and also a sparkling constellation of Broadway grates. And it's so bizarre to me that it exists.

Like you watch it and I genuinely feel happy for people to do what they want. I'm not trying to to rag on this show.

“I think it's kind of a small miracle that it exists.”

Yeah. And any show that's trying to make it about like how we should support local theatre is clearly fine with me and how I see the world. I want to talk to you about Kevin Klein. Kevin Klein doesn't need us to big up him.

Stored. Mary, you think you got to just work on your angles there? No, I was just asking if he was still married to me. Okay. Okay.

And happily I might ask.

It's just that like amazing if Kevin Klein showed up

before Projectile Mary was like, "I am still married to Phoebe Gates, which some people might find as amazing as Space Travel. Enjoy Projectile Mary." The problem with movie theaters is we haven't given ideas big enough.

I know, including the majesty of my relationship. With fast times of rich monies star Phoebe Gates. Kevin Klein, one of our great American actors of the stage in screen. Recently watched one of my favorite Kevin Klein films, Dave with my children. Absolutely hits close to a perfect movie.

Loved it. I have to say that as he's as he's age, he definitely is approached to performance seems to have changed slightly. And we just watched, was it called Disclosure? The Quarone? Was that Quarone? Who directed that?

Yeah. That's weird. That happened. Was it no Disclamer? Disclosure.

Disclamer. I think it was. That was another show. It's like this really exists. And in that show,

“remember he played a grieving British pensioner.”

I remember. In Devers to ruin Cape Lynch's life. Yes, we did. I think you were like, I'm kind of like committed to this.

I think you did too, because otherwise it was a lonely walk. Okay. And he was what's the word for not subtle in that show. Yeah.

And in this show, which seems to be created around him, he plays an extravagant aging line of Broadway, who likes a typical name Richard Bean,

who in the opening performance lear with someone reading his lines to him in his ear. And then at the party afterwards, finds out that he has received better views. And he basically,

not assaults, but has a viral meltdown moment, yelling at the New York Times theater critics. So this is finger on the pulse stuff. And I would say, there is broad as a barn door,

and then there's whatever he is doing in this. And this is an American classic. Okay. American classic. And then it also takes me out slightly

when he is forced to return home because his mother has died. That's just brother John Tenney,

“a great working actor for many years as in it.”

He's really good. Calls him. It's like Richard, you have to come home. Our mother has died.

But our father is still alive. And at this point, reader, I have to confess, I did Google Kevin Klein age.

Kevin Klein is 78 years young. Samuel, it plays his dad. Yeah. It's fucking bad again. It is.

Is it? No. First of all,

when they shot the first season,

first of the show, with Harris, you'll in playing his dad. Oh, nice. He has to weigh.

And they recast with Len, carry you, legend of Broadway. It age, who's basically nine years older, it's the same Elliot Coralary.

And it's just kind of, I'm willing to accept. Can't get Kevin Klein's dad, like there's no man who's alive. I know Kevin Klein.

These are the kind of thoughts where I'm like, maybe cast Kevin Klein is the dad. Uh-huh. Or let's just give the whole thing kind of a think.

I'm willing to accept. We're going to talk about unparadized. How there is a young boy on that show, named Bean, who has lived in a bunker for three years.

And has frozen at nine years old. And I feel like they should be studying him for that reason. But I'm willing to accept some versions of, like, okay, well, you know,

it's the magic of theater, magic of the movies that these things don't happen. But it does begger belief a little bit to be like, this nearly 80 year old man has a few more,

as a few more acts in his one-man show, including dealing with his trouble compared to him bearing one at that age.

They've tried to address it.

Like, there's the young Laura Lini,

who's married to John Tenney, who plays Klein's brother. Okay, so it's his sister-in-law. His sister-in-law. They have a past at this local theater.

Um, and, uh, I wonder what Phoebe Kates thought about that. And they're the John Tenney and Laura Lini's daughter. It's like,

I want to go to New York and be an actor, Uncle Richard, and like, you Google her, and she's like 30. So they did try it on.

I really fixated on people's ages right now. I wonder what that says.

“I think it says that I'm fixated on our age,”

and how much longer we continue to be the hip voice of young television. More than one has to write there for us. More than one has to write there for us. More than one has to write there for us.

More than one has to write there for us.