Yo, what's up, guys? I'm currently boarding my airplane.
On my way back to LA.
Ready to see everybody, get around that goofy energy.
Yo, what's up, everybody?
How y'all doin'?
Oh-ho, it's blank. Nothin'.
This is the first door I ever walked into.
And I sat right here. There was a couch right here.
Uh, and this was actually PJ's desk.
He also had a whole bunch of snacks back there.
Let's see, let's see, let's see.
Hi!
Stephanie! Hello, hello!
- Hey, oh, my goodness! - Ohh.
Oh, I'm so glad to see you.
Oh, my God, I'm cryin'.
- Oh-ho-ho. - Please don't cry.
Please don't cry. Not yet.
You can cry when I leave. Not when I get here.
Oh, I'm so glad to see you.
Oh, my.
- Is this Kevin's? - Yep.
You know, when I first met him,
I could tell his character was a bit awkward, or like, shy.
I really felt for him just because
that type of character person can be beat up, uh, beat up in this world.
I think I hear somebody.
Nah-ha-ha!
Oh, it's, ah… two of you guys.
Boss man!
The fresh cut.
Man, you look good, brother.
- It's good to see you. - It's good to see you.
- Big boss man. - Oh!
- How are you doing? - Amazing, man.
How are y'all?
Do you know where we are right now?
This is, uh, your office, right?
- That's right. - Soon to be your office.
Yeah.
He didn't quite make it.
Speaking of how I look now, what did you think when you first met me?
Maybe you were a little outgoing with your style.
Hey.
Hey, whoa.
But not any negative judgment.
But you rolled with it. You rolled with it.
Yeah, absolutely.
- This is so wild. - Other Anthony's office.
I'm gonna grab a coffee.
Now…
No mirror for me to check myself in.
You know, the mirror was right here.
- So, this was Helen's office. - Helen's office.
- Yeah. - I gotta show you somethin'.
This room right here
is where the control room was.
When you were here talking to Helen,
filming the video,
everyone was right on the other side of this wall.
- Just watching. - Just like, shh, shut up, shut up.
Let's make sure everybody's quiet.
- 'Cause you were right there. - Yeah.
Ah, shit.
It's not supposed to say "standby" in green, is it?
There, now it says record. Can you do it again? I'm sorry.
- I'm sorry. - That's okay.
Work, work, work!
I need to change, I guess.
I feel so underdressed now, yeah.
Do you guys know who's hosting?
- Absolutely. - Do you know who's hosting?
I don't.
Yeah. No, I'm here.
Not great. I parked at crew parking.
Yeah, the car was there, it was at crew parking.
Drove me three minutes to the set.
Guy talked my ear off the whole way. Thank you!
Thank you. I don't have any cash on me.
I thought I was only doing one season of this show,
I'm not a series regular.
Also, they flew me business, not first.
I walked past the first class cabin, I walked right past Jeremy Renard.
Didn't even look up at me.
Let's check it out.
Oh, my gosh.
- Okay, there's our girl. - Wow.
- There's our girl. - She's still jerkin' that thing.
No way.
Home sweet home.
Not Granny goin' crazy!
No, look, I'm not mad, I'm just sayin'
maybe we can change some things moving forward.
Oh, hey!
I see you.
James Marsden, guys, hi.
Sorry, just on with my agent. Chris Nolan movie.
Yeah, let's, uh, get that Nolan meeting back in the books.
Throw the guy a bone.
Yeah, he's havin' a moment, right?
Oh, my God. So, do I write PJ?
- Oh, you wrote… - Who's hosting?
- I don't know. - Our real names.
Real names?
- Real names. Real names. - Real name?
Alright, I'll sit next to Pops.
Alright, I gotta go do this.
Uh, do you guys know where's the set?
Right here? 'Kay. Smells good.
Is there a clicker?
This is why I do my own stunts.
- Oh! - Oh, my God!
Oh, boy.
- You good? - You okay?
Whoa!
How's it going?
What's up? What's up, man?
You, my friend.
How are you?
Pleasure to meet you.
Same! James Marsden.
- Anthony. Nice to meet you. - Great to meet you.
- Hey, man. How's it goin', guys? - This is a surprise.
How are you? Yeah, yeah, good to see you.
I'm nursing my broken knee.
Nice entrance!
- Where am I going? - Oh, wow.
We are totally surprised.
- Are you? - Yes, yes.
Well, it's about time you guys got surprised, right?
- Here we go. - Here we go.
Is everybody here?
- Whoo, yeah! - Yeah.
Actually, we're missing a couple of people.
Are you? I didn't see the show.
You would know.
Yeah, they told me to watch the season so I was familiar with it.
So, I just watched the first season over again.
What?
Hey, hey, guys.
How's it going?
Hi!
Hey.
- That's who I was talking about. - You look great.
Wow, thanks so much, guys.
Is James Marsden there?
Yes. Yeah.
- Hi, James Marsden. - How are you?
I'm okay. I was worried about meeting you in person
and imprinting on you.
Where are you? Where does this find you?
Uh, well, I'm just working remote.
Can you wave to everyone? Hey!
- Hey! - Nice!
Don't break her arm.
Well, welcome. Welcome to our little backyard BBQ chat.
Thank you guys, all, for taking what we did
and elevating it to another level.
I mean, I've got a million questions.
I guess what's the first question that usually comes to mind
is like, when were you close to maybe thinking somethin' was going on?
Like, day two or day three when I would call home,
I would just tell my mom, like, every day I would call her,
you'll never believe what happened today.
You'll never believe it. And she's like…
I would tell my mom, you literally cannot write this shit.
Yeah.
My mom would be, nah, somethin's off.
You need to start questioning. I was like, no, Mom.
- Yeah. - And, um, she was right.
Gotta listen to Mom.
Gotta listen to your mom.
You got good instincts.
Nobody wanted this to ever feel like a prank show.
It's more of a celebration of someone's character.
And you, my friend, there's such a purity to your character.
You just come into this ragtag group of weirdos
on this retreat. And you are just so open
- and up for anything. - Hm.
And anytime you see somebody just kinda flailing out of control,
you're there to be like this soft place for everybody to land.
To me, it's just like…
When I was young, we didn't get rewarded
for cleaning up our bedrooms, you know.
- That's what you're supposed to do. - Yeah.
So, in a sense, in an environment like this,
I don't feel I should be rewarded,
I don't think y'all should call me a hero, or anything,
because I just feel like I did
- what I was supposed to do. - Yeah.
Oh, by the way, can you check on Amy?
Just make sure she's doin' okay? That was a weird thing to do.
- Yeah. - Just make sure she's okay.
- Hey, boss, I got it. - You got it?
- I got you, man. Yeah. - You got me?
Hey, what'd I say, man?
Keep your head up. Hey, hey.
You did good. You went up there and you were yourself.
- Yeah. - And that's all that really matters.
I feel like I'm going to pee now.
No, no, no. Don't do that. Just breathe.
It's like, so tight on my privacy.
Maybe give her some slack, boss?
Okay, okay…
There you go, yeah!
Thanks for letting me be vulnerable about my body.
You gotta, like, you're here.
I gotta try it, right?
There's an art to a good shake. You know what I mean?
Yeah, for sure.
Now, this is gonna hit you, pop in the front door,
but you're also gonna get it through the back door too.
So, a real S.W.A.T. team.
- Front and the back. Okay. - Mm-hmm.
You think the house is clear,
and then, boom.
Comes in? Yeah, yeah.
Yeah. You get it, man.
Uh, Ryan,
you had the whole show on your shoulders…
Yes, James.
You actually had to drive Anthony
to the retreat all by yourself.
- That's true. - That's a long amount of time.
- That was. - To be sitting with the hero
and not be screwin' it up.
Yeah, yeah.
What'd you guys talk about?
I think we talked about baseball.
I was petrified that you were gonna ask me about the hot sauce company.
I should've. You were the man to ask.
In retrospect, it's not a very realistic…
Like, when you start a job, you're not like, so are you an LLC?
You know, what's the tax rate…
But I was like worried
you were gonna ask me that stuff.
So, I was like, what can we talk about? Family and baseball and…
Yeah. I remember that's where you first told me that you were a mother's boy.
- You didn't say it like that, but… - Yeah.
Me too. Me too. I think that's why we connected.
You know, when I came back my mom was very conciliatory,
- Yeah. - you know, for a few days.
First couple days, it was like, oh, my gosh, Kevin,
it's only mac 'n cheese, you know. Like you gotta…
And then, lately, yeah, last night she was like,
you know, maybe you should improve yourself a little.
We watched this movie Limitless with Bradley Cooper,
and she goes, "He's cute. You should get your hair cut like that."
Yeah, I can get a haircut, but I don't have his hair.
- You know? - Yeah, right.
I'm not symmetrical like Bradley Cooper.
I got one eye is bigger than the other.
Like, I know what I look like. I don't look like Bradley Cooper.
She thinks I can get a good haircut and suddenly be a movie star.
Right.
You guys did get to have a little… There was a sort of, not looser,
but because we had the confines of the judge and, you know,
this is like a legal system thing.
Everyone had to be buttoned up and straight.
You guys got to have a little bit more fun,
but you never want to be laughing when you're not supposed to, right.
Yeah, that was hard for us.
- Oh, my God, with all of us. - Yeah.
I remember, no matter what,
we all had our great moments in the group interview,
but this guy right here,
anytime it would be completely silent,
- we know that somethin' ridiculous… - He's brewing up something.
…is gonna be said from this guy way in the back.
We would legitimately forget he was there sometimes.
'Cause it was like three rows, and like you.
Well, I had an advantage that I…
Nobody could see me. I was in the way back.
And so, anything I said, they're like, "What? Who was that?
He's still here?"
I love apple sauce.
Actually, "triukas" means to trick in Lithuanian.
You should redefine value chains
by integrating them into continuous brand value streams,
where each stakeholder, whether internal or external,
becomes an active participant in the brand's life cycle.
Oh, shit.
- He rattled that off. - Yeah.
The Grammy.
We'll take that. This is for Rockin' Grandma's.
Yes!
Rightful home.
- Its rightful place. - Yeah.
I heard that you all had to hold back for the talent competition.
Yes, yes. I really, really wanted to sing.
And they were like, no, you can't do it.
'Cause we had such a stellar performance over here.
So, I brought out my flute.
There you go.
Said, I'm gonna bring the flute out then. I got y'all.
And your tutu. And my tutu.
That you made with your daughter.
See?
It was really hard for me to hold back 'cause I mean,
I'm a musical theater baby. I grew up doin' this.
I was like, I want to sing!
They didn't ask me to hold back. They said, sing as good as you can.
And they were like, that's about right, that's believable.
Blair… uh, Marjorie,
I freaked out over a cake in the first season.
And you get to freak out over Doritos.
- Yeah, it feels crazy. - Yeah.
But I did actually think of your cake thing as I was doing it
and being like, yeah, but he recovered.
Yeah, I know there were moments.
I think for me, that was the hardest moment.
He thought it was all real, and I saw his head just drop.
Did you ever feel that?
Did you ever get like, my heart hurts a little bit
because this person is, you know, getting rejected, or…
For sure. I would say the biggest moment
is whenever he had the sign mishap and we took it over to the dumpster.
I could just tell, like, he was out of it. He wanted to quit.
In that moment is when I felt the most deeply for him.
It was like, I hate it for him, you know.
You're doing good work, man.
Keep rolling with the punches, boss. You got it.
The whole time, we knew we had a goal. Like, we had a clear finish line.
We gotta stop Triukas, and we gotta do the reveal.
But while we were filming we realized,
you know, no, Anthony's gonna lead us across the finish line.
Like, all we gotta do is be our idiot selves.
And he'll lead us across, like…
Yeah.
What was the most uncomfortable moment for you?
I would say, probably the most uncomfortable moment for me
would probably be the final moment.
It might not seem like it, but just having to jump in there
and take a stand for a company
that I really didn't have anything to do with.
It was probably the most uncomfortable.
But I mean, boy, what… There's so many people out there
that just wouldn't have the integrity or the backbone
to do something like that.
In a world where so many people only act out of self gain,
to see you do what you did when you had nothing to gain,
- was beautiful. - Really moving. I just can't…
We're going to play that right now.
- You guys haven't seen this? - Uh-uh.
Dad!
Get up. Get up. Get up.
Dude, stop it!
- Mr. Doug. - Okay. Here we go.
- Doug, Doug, hold on, hold on. - This is it.
Can I speak with you for just one moment?
It is very important.
- Please, Doug, look at me. - We're in a meeting.
I understand. Please look at me. I need to talk to you.
- Right now. - Anthony. Anthony.
I need to talk to you, right now.
After I talk to you, if this is what you want to do,
by all means. Look at me.
Father to father, I need to talk to you.
No, listen, we're making this deal.
I'm sorry, I know that you're new here…
Ma'am, your words mean nothing to me.
I'm looking out for the people that have looked out for me.
Doug, Doug, I have one question.
I have one question, Doug.
Are you really going to listen to the temp?
I go home in two days. I genuinely have no dog in this fight
besides I care about y'all.
Well, then you know what?
This deal is through.
My business with you is through.
- What? - That's what I'm talkin' about, Doug.
I am not signing this
- any day, any time, ever! - Doug…
- Yeah! - Wow.
That's awesome.
- "Your words mean nothing to me." - Nothing.
Come on. Unbelievable.
The measure of a man, right there.
- "Your words mean nothing to me." - "Your words mean nothing to me."
Good for you, man.
- That was incredible. - Oh, my God.
Thank you so much for joining us, we really appreciate it.
Today, we're going to be showing you a trailer.
The only thing that matters to me is that we have your honest feedback.
That's the most useful thing.
I loved it. I wish it was longer. I brought my…
I thought we were gonna watch the whole thing.
Stuff like this… I mean, this is a comedy movie,
but I've had experiences like this
that I think are real in the supernatural realm.
So, I'm always down for it.
Uh, yeah, I don't like ghost stories.
Scary movie stuff, don't like it.
I didn't see the original, but I don't like Tim Burton
because my ex likes Tim Burton.
- So, like, I hate Tim Burton. - Okay.
I remember I had a VHS watchin' Home Alone.
I was a latchkey child. So, I watched that over and over again,
to the point where I thought my neighbors next door were Beetlejuice.
It was pretty obvious, you know.
Like, that I was really wanting to have this.
- Yeah. - Yeah, yeah.
- Oh, yeah. I could feel it. - I know, yeah.
And at one point, I said, check your phone,
I texted you about having sex.
Can I ask you about the yogurt incident?
I come from a no-waste family.
So, I decided to eat it off… the floor.
How would you say goodbye?
Goodbye…
Joe.
We probably can't personally recommend you for this position,
but we do think you will get the position anyway.
Cool. Yeah, 'cause my dad…
- Exactly. - Yeah.
Wow.
That's wild.
- Ah. It must have been nerve-racking. - Yeah.
So, you were all around like a round table.
What a pressure cooker.
I was sitting next to Rachel during, um, our…
- The audition? - Control group. Our auditions, yeah.
And it was so hard not to laugh.
Yeah, you were the first person I talked to.
- We talked for a while. - Yeah, we did.
People were spitting food out?
Yeah.
I can't believe that.
I kept thinkin', I hope we both get this.
Oh, man.
Jimmy, I know people know why I was my real name on the first season.
Why were you the only one with your actual real name?
At the callbacks,
you had to come up with whatever fake name you wanted.
And, uh, I picked Carl.
And had a name tag, Carl.
And I kept introducing myself as Jim.
- I'm Jim. Carl. - Jim? Soloman.
So, they must've been like, you know what,
- just be Jim. - Yeah.
Whatever naturally wants to come out of his mouth.
This egocentric motherfucker.
Talk about his name.
- Yeah. Yeah. - Why mess with this, you know?
Perfection. It's perfection.
Why mess with those abs too?
Oh, my God. Talk about the abs.
What's something that's like the furthest thing from yourself
that existed in your character?
I like snacks. Like, it's crazy even seeing the…
You had them in the audition though, right?
- Yeah. - You had them in the audition.
It started there, where I just was tryin' to find somethin' to do.
So, I just grabbed all these snacks and brought it in.
Can I have… the snacks are…
Anything you want you can grab.
That's cute.
Jake the director was like, I kinda like that snack thing.
I was like, well, let's keep buildin'.
One thing I thought was hard was
because we couldn't get to know each other…
I was too afraid to learn any real facts about anyone.
So, it was like, trying to get to know someone with no information.
So it was just small talk.
It was like, so, um…
- I found it so weird and hard. - Yeah.
- Yeah, such like surface-level things… - Yeah!
Yeah.
…trying to say in character even when Anthony wasn't around.
Only people that been to prison can tell you about prison.
Other people… all you can do is guess.
'Cause you ain't never been in there.
Unless you have. Have you been to jail?
No, you take care of the dirt.
I'm not in the dirt business, I'm in the produce business.
I understand that. I understand that. Yeah, r-right.
No, I know. I… Mm-hmm.
No, can I… And can I… Can I have a turn to talk?
Excellent. Thank you, my man. Good to hear from you.
Alright. Hey. Take it easy on those Coors Lights this weekend.
Alright, okay. Alright. Okay.
You too. Okay. Alright. Okay. Uh-huh.
Yep, okay. Alright. Okay. Okay.
Alright. Okay. Okay. Alright. Okay.
Okay. Alright. Okay. Okay.
Bye. Alright, bye. Bye.
He's a good guy. He's a good guy.
Amy, how's your bucket list coming?
Man, crossin' 'em off. You know?
Um, it's boring, until, you know, Stephanie,
Helen started suggesting things.
You know what you should do, you should get your labia pierced.
- One more time? - Whoo!
You should get your labia pierced.
- Ow, Helen! - What is a labia?
- Oh, dear. - Someone explain.
Lady garden.
- Ho! Oh! - Ow!
There were so many times Helen would suggest that,
and Anthony's like, please don't do that.
- Don't do that, Amy, please. - Please.
Should I put cocaine on my bucket list?
No, no!
- Maybe the day right before I die… - No.
No. Stop even considering it. No.
Helen told me to put on my bucket list
that I should go up to a stranger and swear at them.
Really?
- What did you tell me to say? - Hello, motherfucker.
You might get beat up?
Hopefully, you didn't take her up on too many of those.
I mean, who knows?
Oh, lord.
Just really looked out for all of us.
I think you were like, you just seem like your world is so small.
Like, don't do those things.
I wanted to keep the pureness in you. Don't let this world ruin you.
Yeah, yeah.
So, Anthony, you're not the first person
to be placed inside of a sitcom without knowing it.
There is another.
Good to see you, man.
You look great, by the way.
Clean shaven, man.
Thank you, thank you. Always good to see you, my man.
How you doin', brother?
I'm doin' very well, man.
It's weird to be here.
- You guys have met. But did you… - Yeah.
Yeah, what was that like?
We got got again.
- Oh, really? - Yes.
See, that's what I'm talkin' about. Y'all gotta chill out.
- Hello, chaps. - Hello, hello.
I had a feeling.
- Oh! - Ronald.
Anthony. Come on through.
That's the biggest surprise.
Well, I did look at the mirrors over there.
- Yeah. - I immediately thought, I said,
- there's no point. - Yeah. Don't investigate it.
Got us, man. But we were able to sit down and talk
about some of the things we experienced. So, that was cool.
I'm so curious about your guys's experience.
It was like the same show, but it was so different.
I mean, how was this experience for you guys?
I don't even know where to start. Who wants to start?
I mean, yeah, I'll start. Like, overall, it was really cool
being at the Oak Canyon resort,
like, bonding. Like, we bonded very strong.
- The hard part… - Resort?
By the way, we want to thank the venue and the location manager.
It was all very good.
- It was good. - It was a resort.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The hardest part was when we were, quote, unquote, not filming
after hours, like after dinner.
We had to stay in character the whole time.
So, we'd be playing Uno…
What do you know about Giant Uno? Boom.
And the whole time I'm worried like I'm gonna say the wrong backstory,
detail about me, or blow it, you know, in some way.
So, the whole time, we had to kinda stay in character
24/7, basically.
Alright, this is the winner's circle.
Tell me what happened in today's game of Uno.
Hey, man, you know we came out here, caught a couple dubs in Uno.
They couldn't mess with us, man.
One win. Two win. Just got here.
Yeah.
Knowing that you guys had this backstory, this history,
if you were like super inquisitive and wanted to sort of, you know,
nail down somebody, and go, hey, when did you guys first meet and what was…
- Oh, yeah. - Jerry and I invented a whole family tree.
You know, aunts were, uncles were,
- how they were related. - Right, grandparents.
Oh, we know how they're related.
I still subscribe to a warehouse podcast.
I will say there's maybe two days that we were in the office
and the Slack thread that we had was… first of all, unhinged.
But secondly, it actually was kind of helpful
because like, we were doing bits
that also did kind of help remind us of what the world was.
I was paranoid that Anthony would call me out
and know that I didn't know anything about my job.
Erika-slash-Kate and I would… had a running bit where
I did the worst order in the world that she asked for, for hot sauce,
and it spiraled from there. It lasted like, to this day.
The whole time, yep.
You guys had also…
Like, we had a broken air conditioning unit, leaky roof.
- You guys had, like, fires. - Oh, yeah.
- Yeah. - We had tarantulas.
- Tarantulas. - Snakes to worry about, right?
A 24-hour snake wrangler walkin' around.
- Really? - Yeah.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God!
What?
It's female.
- There's a little bumble bee. - Get away!
Oh, shit! I think I got stung, damn it.
- I'm gonna end him. - Oh!
Whoa!
I mean, I caused this to myself, but I accidentally did the full splits
in the hip hop dance class.
Oh, yeah!
That sucked.
Self-inflicted.
Was there anything that you guys improvised on the fly
because maybe Anthony reacted or didn't react a certain way?
Did you guys have to change anything last minute?
It wasn't a change, but one of the things that sticks out to me was…
What was the guy that kept coming by…
Malibu Realtor.
Malibu Realtor. The whole Malibu Realtor thing had happened.
I came out the door and I had just taken out my earpiece,
and something was like, no, put it back, put it back.
And I come out and you start telling the story of the Malibu Realtor.
- Jackie! - What's up?
Let me holler at you real quick.
What's up?
And I hear Jake go, Jackie, he's nowhere near a camera.
You've gotta get him near a camera.
How do you, like, pull you over? Like, can you stay here?
- Can we step over here? - So, you said something funny, though.
And I did the Black people laugh.
Where you run?
Where you run and laugh at the same time.
And I pulled you right next to a camera and I was like, thank you, Jesus.
And I just hear Jake go, you did it!
And I was like, thank Jesus, thank you, Jesus!
But okay, we're workin' it out.
Would you guys do it all again?
Yeah! Yes!
What about you two?
- Yeah, 1,000%. - Oh, yeah. Of course.
- You'd do it again? - Yeah, I had a great time.
Well, I mean, not as good a time as you, probably,
but yeah, it was worthwhile, for sure.
It looked like he was having a good time.
I know. And when I sat down and talked to you at the cafe,
'cause I just rewatched the episodes again before I came here,
and I was like, yeah, this guy says multiple times,
I'm havin' the time of my life. And I was like,
god, I just did not have that same experience.
It just wasn't the same.
What are you talkin' about?
I'm dealin' with jackass over here, man.
- You spent most of your time with me. - I know!
How much better could it get?
This has been fun, guys.
Great to get to know all of you.
Hats off to Anthony and Ronald.
Absolutely.
And to all you guys, you guys are so wonderful.
- Congrats on a huge success again. - Thank you.
Let's go out the way we know…
Ohh!
Are we gonna…
Are we gonna conga or what?
Let's conga!
Look at the outfit, PJ!
Come on, now.
Yah! Yah! Yah!
Hey, hey, hey!
This is awesome.