John Goodman | SmartLess

[Music] hi I'm John Goodman grizzled Show Business veteran and you're listening to smartless Smart [Applause] L smart BL smart BL I was almost just a little bit late today because I I may have just had like one of my one of my first sessions definitely um first half dozen can't count them on one hand the amount of times I've gone on Instagram you guys are familiar with this yes oh my God this is so good this Dre come true you describing Instagram so yes so I'm uh looking watching a video on it right a small it's a small and going going funny funny stuff is happening people are falling and hurting themselves and uh and then uh I my thumb accidentally hits the screen and it disappears goes up and there's another one right underneath it that's right um similar but then I don't know so I did it again and then I'm like then it's like some sort of a sports thing and then someone's selling me something anyway um I don't think it's inst instatic or instantaneous uh I think it's Instagram I think is what it is you don't usually go I post what is it you don't usually go what is this can I can I just is this was that just you was that just you describing using Instagram yeah I think so you know what I'm talking about you've been there so you really don't honest we're not alone you you don't usually go on there Jason no but I get it now P you can sit there and I did what I thought was going to be five minutes and all of a sudden my alarm went off to get to the computer to start this I was like oh [ __ ] good thing I said an alarm it's the demise of our whole institution it's everything now Sean and I send each other videos that we think are funny yes yes and it's really easy to do and that's a funny way to communicate as oh so if I see something on Instagram that I like I could sort of like send that to you there's like a little little thing I can icon there and you can hit it and then if you're if we're all following each other you can send it to one of us and then we go like haha that's so funny cuz it's true or whatever right or yeah or saw it thanks old man man yeah exactly yeah wait so now we can send you videos and you'll actually watch them yes I think I will I might not I oh but you know what I don't do is if you send me a video that when I click on it says oh the person whose video this is will know that you are watching it yeah then I don't click on those what does that mean does that mean the person's a private nobody knows nobody knows what you're looking at unless you like it no like when when Amanda sends me something and and I got to click I I have to say that it's they're going to see that it's me that's just a phone call oh yeah she I don't know but this is listen this stuff this is and it's all here on one of these you guys have one of these phones this is uh with the pictures on the front of it this is the beginning of the end cuz I I just got rid of the one that closes you know those it kind of looks like a Pac-Man by the way this is our this is our generation equivalent of when our dads used to say I saw this thing in the paper today or on the TV right on the TV I wait I that was a picture of Maple and uh I saw her for her birthday you saw Maple last night look at that little tur yeah she just turned 12 love her SC Scotty and I got her some beads that she can wear on her wrist and we got our little leatherbound thing that she can draw in because she's such a good drawer she's incredible she amazing she's an amazing artist and and an incredible athlete yes amazing she's so good she's been kicking ass they beat they beat another big team you know that were there at the game she told me who they beat the other night I was like no way no I know it's crazy did I already bore you guys it was the Bost in Celtics um yeah so she's in sixth grade and she plays on the boys team because she's such a badass it's the first time in the history of the school yeah that a girl's ever play on the it's so rad I know I I just I love her it's so wild Jason it's night time it's 7 o'clock are you you're getting sleepy or um just about uh you know had a long day of work but now but this is this is the highlight in my day look at you too you know please don't don't [ __ ] it up with a [ __ ] guest Arnette you know what if this is a terrible let's just end it here I can't wait I'm so glad I can't wait for you to eat this [ __ ] you're eating these words you're you're moments away from eating you're going to be so embarrassed you're [ __ ] better be good you're gonna bow down to the power of this dude because one of these first dad joke first and then we're going to make him bow down one dad joke go ahead to long already I can't find my gone in 6 seconds DVD it was here a minute ago okay all right so here we go we we we've wasted this person's time and he he deserves so much more respect than that well we'll see and and Jason I am so excited because this is a guy who's been doing it for a long time at the highest level he's been nominated for I think he's W nominated for seven times Golden Globe nominated four times like every he's been just nominated and won apologize now I'll just start with you're going to eat [ __ ] but more than that cuz I I don't even want to get into his credits cuz they're all the greatest funniest amazing movies not just funny but also but dramatic but like really huge influence on my life and you guys know because I have on the show used him consistently as the gold standard I talk about people being being okay being in bad movies but always being good and he is always my example as you guys know of the guy who's never turned into bad performance movies got and one of the things that I love about him most that he that he and I have in common is is that is the line when he said you guys lost to a bunch of [ __ ] nerds guys it's the alltime Champ for me it's John Goodman oh I'm so sorry Mr Goodman hi you fellas oh no my God I can't follow that well done well Mr John by the way every word he just said is true every single thing you've ever done is phenomenal I age every performance there's not a d it's true yeah and always associated with good he does reference you quite a bit as the bar to jump over it is true John at risk of embarrassing you further what a pleasure to meet you and thank you for coming and and and doing this and joining us my pleasure thank you it's America's favorite podcast thank you for welcoming into your pod this is cool well I I do do use that you often and and I'm sorry again at risk of embarrassing you as the the sort of the the gold standard of someone who's always good never turns into bad performance um and I've been such a fan of yours for such a long time and you've done so many different things and you've crossed you've done comedy in you know you've done sitcoms multiple really fantastic sitcoms like the old school standard like like multic cams like with an audience that is just and to do that pull it off well sorry Sean uh to to pull it off well uh it's the best job in the world it's the best job in the world but then you've G on you've had an incredible career in film but you started in theater is where I'm driving at oh here comes Sean Here Comes now this is where will and I just sit back so I want to hear about how what that start was like for you Mr Gman because I don't know the story and how you got and what what that what your journey was I had nowhere else to go excellent next question I um no I I sabotaged my own education the only time I got lit up was doing plays and I decided to make that my major since I was inches from being thrown out of school uh really and everything took off after that and as as soon as I found out how wonderful it can be uh then I started to want to learn uh history English whatever I needed to uh pull out of my bag of tricks when when performing a role oh wow so that you could stay in school and stay a part of the theater Department yeah oh wow Prett where was that where was that that you so you were in school were you in Missouri is that right it was called Southwest Missouri State University now it's called Missouri State University but then you moved to New York is that true is that how that work that is true that that took the amp track from St Louis to New York and August of 1975 holy [ __ ] and did you have did you have a Destin other than the city were you like I'm gonna go do this I'm gonna or were you just like I'm just I'm rolling the dice here I was a frightened hick uh the the main thing I wanted to do was take classes with UDA haogen and get into the actor studio and uh learn some more and did you did you get in there I did not I left about month and a half later doing a a dinner theater non-equity dinner theater version of 1776 what dinner theater the LA comadia Dinner Playhouse in Springboro Ohio I worked at feasant run dinner theater in St Charles Illinois oh okay yeah which I just found out um Ben Stiller's parents did Summer Stock there oh right yeah yeah summer chicken stock I guess cuz it's hey guys so dinner theater is what it sounds like correct you sit there you're at your tables they serve you the whole thing while the play is going on and the the ACT how dare they make noise well I just going to say you got the glasses clinking the forks door [ __ ] people getting lit yeah getting lit and and and whistling the the waiter over because the shit's not right and uh and they put they put the tables right up to the edge of the stage so then do I was playing Tommy Jus and The Music Man and I was doing something fell right on top of the one of the tables and I had to keep going it was so ridiculous I swear to God just living your dream with a bunch of pasta sauce in your pants huh my buddy hack it I mean and was there ever a time where you're on stage and you're like oh man that smells pretty good down there Prim uh I couldn't get hired for their next shows but my girlfriend did so I went down there uh just to get out of New York and work as a waiter in the dinner theater wow uh for the summer but I cut the grass I uh did all kinds of odd jobs and and made enough money to pay off my my student loans that summer wow so so I sorry Sean so I New York was a total wipe out and so you not at all I just uh I left uh it was a horrible winter yeah and I was broke and uh I couldn't I couldn't get arrested as a as a waiter anything else I I got one night's work as a bouncer in a club called the Adams apple and they had this German head bouncer who was telling us how to rip guys mouths open uh when you got their head down in the curve and then you you stomp the back of their head and their teeth come out check please yeah I I didn't show up the next night so then where did you go at that that's the only job I had the city so then so then so what then it does sound like New York was kind of it wasn't really bearing a lot of of fruit that well it was also at the at the time it was uh Ford to City Drop Dead uh they were defaulting on on their loans uh the city was just going to hell um the Subways were terrifying you know the graffiti all the stuff uh and it you know I was a a kid from the suburbs yeah right but it I I was determined to to live there because I dug it yeah right but did you so you so you left her a little bit went to Ohio and then you came back to yeah I came back and then I got my card about like a month after that your Equity card or sad card yeah My Equity card doing a a bus and truck of the robber bridegroom oh my God oh my God that is so I how old were you you were about uh 20 what 20 yeah 23 24 any other options available to you at that at that moment uh either practically or just sort of emotionally like were you attracted to anything else could you have taken a work in the road and been something else at that at that moment no I had uh it the way I look back on it now unfolds itself like it it was a calling yeah I mean I used to get kicked out of uh when I get kicked out of a class they'd send me to the library and I would sit there and read plays and I'm like you know 14 15 years old I have no idea why yeah was anybody in your family doing that like was was no no my brother uh my brother was a a fan of theater he he's a bit older than me and we'd go into Clayton Missouri Pick Up The New York Times every Sunday literally you know weighed a ton back then and I would go to the Arts and leisures and basically to look at the hersfield cartoons and then I just start following what shows were up I I I no idea why you just enjoyed it yeah why why were you why were you getting kicked out of class were you just running your mouth and you wanted to perform and get attention I had to have attention yeah exactly I yeah I I learning was learning bad attention good yeah I had the same problem so then John so the uh so then New York you stuck it out there and things really started to pick up traction or was or or was the big break out in Los Angeles or somewhere in between I had a series of little breaks I uh when I got back from the tour at one time I had a bunch of pictures you know resumes stapled them all together and in desperation I was sending them out to theaters one guy great advertising picked up my my picture called me in I got the gig and he set me up with the commercial agents and then I couldn't not get them for some reason I just I've been goofing off I've been goofing on them my whole life uh well it's also kind of like the four like I I speak on behalf of the four of us if you can't do anything else you have to make this work yeah you know what I mean you got to pay the bills at least Yeah by that time I was hanging out with a lot of like real real actors at a place up on the west side and I I got to hate myself for doing commercial I was all screwed up and I was really getting into drinking at the time and I I I resented doing commercials cuz other guys were doing what I thought was real work right uh so I didn't care I think that's why I got so many of them right right right and I got a lot of them and in defense of commercials I do like commercials I think St Stanley kri said they're the only form of the medium that you can actually acquire Perfection because they're just 30 seconds and you they're like they're very intricately made nowadays especially the lighting alone man would take forever to set up and it had to be just right and the product just right and John you you you had what Jason you were getting so many what Jason likes to call you had at that time it seems to me you had a sexy indifference uh you didn't care you didn't go in there you didn't want it too bad and then you just kept getting him and I know that that feeling that especially when you're younger I remember thinking like man I'm just I'm not going to read for in my first agent being like it's pilot season you're going to read for some sitcoms I'm like sitcoms how dare you yeah are you out of your mind I'll never sorry I'm an artist yeah and I'm and then all of a sudden I'm like so broken I'm like [ __ ] let me I'll read for anything please you know what I mean right you know what though Roseanne was so like um so theater it was a lot of sitcoms don't feel like theater and a lot of them do which is what they should feel like and Rosanne to me anytime I watched it it was like oh I'm I'm in New York watching a play every single time good point yeah it was uh it was different for the time because were the antidote to a lot of things like Dallas and Dynasty and all these Rich folk things and I think we we hit a nerve I know my nerves were does it go that far back when when when was the what was the year 1987 I think the the pilot [ __ ] I think I graduated or tried to graduate high school that year I want I want to get to I wanted to get to Roseanne because I I really think I mean when you guys were doing it at its best it was just unrivaled I watched it every week I was uh such a massive fan of what you guys did all the work the writing everything about it I thought was so good how did that come into your orbit John at the time where were you at when that came around and you read that I was out here for something in La yeah it was either a movie or or a commercial and uh I I got hip and running a Corvette I thought I was hot [ __ ] I had a couple of bucks and uh I remember going to the audition in that Corvette and I walked in I I didn't didn't know much about her I'd seen her in some Pizza Hut commercials uh i' seen a couple of clips and she was really good like on on the Carson Show and uh I walked in it was very friendly and I read and I just I I knew I had the gig yeah I just did you did you want that gig I I I where where were you where were you in your career at that I was living out of suitcases all the time because I was just starting to get films uh yeah like starting in 1985 I I was booking a lot of movies that was after Revenge of the Nerds yeah that was uh that was shot in 83 yeah when did um when when did you start your your your incredible collaboration with the Cohen Brothers was that during the Run of Roseanne or was it after no it's before it was in uh 1985 oh wow I just got a a lead in a film that David burn directed really yeah it was called true stories it's really interesting looking oh yeah [ __ ] I want to see that and I was just really getting you know I show up i' uh go to Dailies because I wanted to and what when you were working with the cins or with no bu before that with with David burn and I was really getting into films I wasn't as scared as I was yeah and I got called I was in New York on a week off or something anyway I was in New York they called me in for Raising Arizona and we just sat down and goofed around for about an hour really that was the audition and then I read I bet you felt like you got it no I I didn't know but I i' never sit in an office for an hour like you got to feel like you got something we never we I never had a more more fun audition before or since we just sat and goofed around uh yeah I was going to say we were on the same level humor-wise but those guys are geniuses yeah no kidding yeah oh but I I can't imagine well yes I can't imagine I was going to say that did they let you contribute once you got in there and really started I mean that character is so specific John I mean what an incredible job you did with that character I have to assume that you you you you augmented that dialogue a little bit or no they're pretty specific right yeah I wouldn't know how to augment any better than they wrote it wow uh we we had rehearsal time on Labowski yeah so by the time we shot we were we were in pretty good shape with the dialogue and it that's why a lot of people asked me if if it was improvised it's just so conversational yeah uh be because of we were fasil with it yeah what was that process like making that I mean the big labasi obviously is is held up as as one of the alltime c one my fav it's just lovely man it's just just a great time great hang do you remember reading that script the first time yeah yeah did did you did you know Steve and Jeff beforehand or was the chemistry just great luck great luck yeah that wow K man yeah and uh everybody hit it off so you read that they send you that script and you're like what you're like holy [ __ ] like this did they write it for you I bet they did oh Labowski yeah yeah that and Barton FR yeah and the last one I did for him which was which was the last one um inside L and Davis yeah oh yeah beautiful movie a little bit more of a serious turn yeah yeah it was cool yeah talk about that I mean I mean think about the breadth of of characters that you played with them at the helm as writer directors and all with such different tones too uh what do that shift like that Dynamic working with them on on on films that have such a hugely vastly different tone to them y they're they're such film fans and uh and mag pieses for popular culture they just throwing in and everything and it and it works they've got a great ears for uh people's dialogue uh for human speech will worked with Barry sonnenfeld uh I was about to bring up Barry so I love Barry I'm friends with that yeah we've had him on the show and I've been friends with Barry for for a number of years and I I worked with him a couple times and he's uh you obviously worked with him on a bunch of great films Jay you mention I mean and also very different Raising Arizona uh uh Miller's Crossing were both Barry films again so totally different from the script and the way they looked yeah and and fantastic uh he talked about his first was his first uh oh Blood Simple yeah Blood Simple blood simp first yeah and he's he claims that they hired him because he had a camera yeah I believe that but they uh back then they they were broke and they would just know what they wanted and they they'd invent ways to do it like uh you know these guys from the 20s they just if they had a problem they solve it and strap a camera on a board and run with it yeah and just did you did you see that progression have you seen that evolution is because you've been with them for so long and they might say the same about you the evolution of them as filmmakers from Raising Arizona to uh L I mean it must be pretty significant yeah more of a shortcut than anything else they the more experience they get the the easier it get the L they need to say yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah and moving forward in your career in your life do you still have the fire in your belly that you had when you were a kid to just kind of pursue keep going challenging yourself it's much different now yeah in what way because I I I feel like I'm still learning I the last couple years I've been Goofy for me because I've been uh trying to be good and it it doesn't work that way uh you know like way planning things way too much and uh at the root of that was the fear of losing trust in myself uh so I I overcompensated by working way too hard and I've just kind of come out of that in the last year or so uh and it's man there's there's so much to learn yeah how did you how did you manage to come out of that uh practicly having a nervous breakdown no it it was bad uh with everything and it just finally yeah it just it just purged out of me when I I went to the therapist one day and then for the rest of the day it was horrible nothing worked everything I woke up woke up the next day and sherub danced around my head but it just felt a lot better it just you got to be relaxed when you do stuff and open and listen yeah do you find that I'm finding that the older I get the smarter I get the smarter we all get but with the added intelligence or observational skills what comes the burden of trying to manage all of the new stuff that you're absorbing and learning and and it and there's something brilliant about staying ignorant yeah it just keeps complicating stuff and making things um more Dynamic and more fun but it's it's more of a challenge and you got to keep up you know you have to be ready to listen to your yourself you have to be relaxed hard uh for me that was the key I I already know this stuff yeah and that's the one thing I didn't trust myself about I didn't make it to Stella atler I didn't make it to udah hogen I got into the studio but I was I've never been there and I I I I just didn't have a I felt I didn't have a base for everything and it finally dawned on me I know this stuff man I've been doing this for 50 years it's like you know it and it's there if you listen for it if you let it come to you it's boom yeah yeah yeah did it did it start to feel like like maybe you weren't did like you weren't doing anything and then you realized well that's because I'm just natural at it and I do know all this stuff and I I've I've just found sometimes if if I if I'm so comfortable in a character I can sometimes feel like oh I'm just kind of phoning this in I'm just walking this through and then you feel like ah then maybe I should I should play this scene a little I should act a little harder you know and then it feels like well now I'm really working today but then you kind of might you might watch playback or just even hear your own voice and like no God this this isn't working this feels like [ __ ] and then you go back to just doing it normally and it's like no that's great that's fine I know this stuff and you just happen to be natural at it I wonder if that's how like athletes feel when they just they're just playing they're just in it you know that's what it is just play yeah and listening do you find as your as your as you're you're changing as a person um that that it changes the kinds of roles that you look to do since what we do is kind of a an exercise in expl in personal exploration we happen to get paid for I don't know I've been doing the same role for the last same two R you haven't for the last like four 5 years yeah and I haven't really had much of a chance to do everything else cuz you've been doing the Conor you're talking about the con the Connors in the righteous gemstones yeah it's also John it's also wild to hear you talk about whatever whether I've read about stuff that you've been struggling with and you're so nice to be open about your journey just being more comfortable in your own skin and getting to know yourself as Jason said as we get older that it's always so surprising and it's never not Sur surprising to look at you somebody I've always admired and was like wow that's such a cool career I'd love to have his career like amazing actor everything he does to hear somebody like you speak publicly about whatever your issue is whatever you're going through is really kind of uh eye openening because from over here it's like oh he's got this career of a lifetime and it's it's always so surprising and it shouldn't be because and it's also so helpful to to me cuz I I same same goes for me as far as far as my my admiration for you but it like makes me feel a lot better about all the human feelings I have that are sometimes challenging it's like I know uh you know it's it's it's it's silly that we all need a reminder that everybody's human but it is it's really nice to hear so thank you for sharing my pleasure it's just kind of to help myself and maybe help somebody else yeah but yeah it's when I i' been clean about 16 years now and the last 16 years I've had to grow a lot into my normal age and it's it's been a it's been a lot but I'm glad I did it yeah oh that's great John you know that the um last time I saw you I was going to say this when you first popped on on the show today but the last time I saw you was Saturday Night Live when I hosted in 2001 at the Afterparty you came everybody was partying and you walked in and pulled your pants down and walk all the way across the entire room and everybody was dying laughing I was like is that John Goodman with his pants down I I don't remember that that's that's longer than 16 years ago and I'm I'm I'm cursed with a bad memory like that I will remember stuff like that but this one yeah no believe me 300 people that were there remember it oh my God so you're going to you were so good on that show too there's going to be a lot of stuff missing from your autobiography because of your uh your ability to recall some of stuff I got the same problem Pat it with blank pages draw your own conclusions and Cliffy the clown I remember seeing you on SNL uh it was I think Amy my ex-wife's first year uh on the show and you hosted and uh I just stayed very far away I remember seeing you at the Afterparty I'm like oh my God yeah I hit it off with her from jump yeah it just her as she and Seth wrote a bit and and we did it I I thought I thought it was a brilliant bit uh but I just you know I really dug her yeah she's cool it made me feel welcome well you yeah yeah and and you were so you were so good you had such a facility for that you could have been an all-time great cast member uh for sure yeah I I don't know how to do improv but uh no but you don't need I auditioned for it in 1980 when they everybody quit and uh the cast on no way did you really yeah you know who who got it Lori medcafe oh wow but she was I don't think she would ever went on air I don't know what happened but uh yeah she was one of the people they picked oh wow wow I didn't know that oh it was horrible that it was open calls and they had guys walking around in Blues Brothers costumes like o by the score it it a hideous dream no way a desperation flop sweat oh [ __ ] man so would that have been a job that you would have really really loved being a part of that cast was my that was my that used to be my favorite thing to do every year yeah I'd get so goddamn scared and just hit the door and walk onto the floor it it was great man I I I was a big fan of the National Lampoon when I was in college and when I saw a lot the writing staff from Saturday Night Live I was really intrigued yeah and I I it it was a hit to me I I remember parties used to stop when it when it had come on and people watch television for sure oh yeah that's a good point it was a big deal who were your who were your big kind of Idols when you were a kid when you want to get an acting or comedy or anything like who were you like well I'm almost ashamed to say Brando but why that's great yeah know every a lot of people my age will will'll say that uh it just never seen anything like him yeah uh and I didn't really pay that much attention to movies I liked them what was the thing that was that was that was distractingly different about him uh per the the the style that was around right then we he looked like he was making it up right uhhuh and it's just 19 he hit in 1950 51 uh looked more like a guy that incredibly good-looking guy that walked off the street right so the the style was much more sort of um um that's presentational broad yeah presentational back before that right it was a it was a much bigger thing it's a style he and like Montgomery Cliff and all those guys right like got more naturalistic Montgomery Cliff was was another Icebreaker he was one of my Idols too even though he's a little before my time I he was one of the guys I loved him [ __ ] pretty old well I am pretty old yeah I think people are sliding the kids today are kind of sliding away from that that stuff that I was raised with the uh group theater everything was based from that and the stanos slowski uh IES and then and then the the sects that developed uh among the acting teachers sure it seems like people are getting away from that now but did you want to get into comedy where you like okay I'm gonna be I think that I have a I'm quite Adept at at comedy did you know that was that something that you were like I was good at comedy uh in the classroom and when I thought it was still cute to mug right um yeah no if if it it has to be NE necessarily really structured uh comedy play as opposed like improv but there are rules there too and it it it has its own structure yeah and it it it could be terribly hard but when it's easy man it flies and there's nothing like it mhm um I have to John A lot of the times on this show uh I thought Sean was gonna say I have to go guys I thought SE I'm going right now no I have to wait a minute am presently going it's warm no I I have to ask if you have any tragic theater stories like mine falling the table at the dinner table only because I love them because they're so shocking to me the worst thing that ever happened to me was in uh well two things happened in this show I was doing a musical in 1985 on Broadway and uh I was doing it for a while which one do you remember yeah Big River and I was supposed to come out and surprise my son Huckleberry Finn and before I was just standing behind this flat waiting to go on and I couldn't remember my first line and I panicked oh God and I panicked and I just wouldn't come and I was the queue was there and I was going to step out and say ladies and gentlemen I'm so sorry I I can't and the line popped into my head but that happened for four nights straight yeah yeah wait did the line pop in your head once you stepped onto stage or before you soon as I opened my mouth isn't that amazing how that oh God isn't it amazing how that happen yeah yeah and it's wild it's it it's right there but I and I don't know why it happened uh and the second was a my son was supposed to hit me in Huck Finn supposed to hit me in the jaw with a uh a a stool three-legged stool and one night I forgot to turn forgot to put my hand up and throw my head back and I caught it it drove my jaw back into my head it knocked me out and I got up and finished finished the show and really no I finished my scene and then I I had to go down the street to the hospital no way wait you were you didn't have a broken jaw did you no uh no but it it was touch and go for about 5 days there when I didn't show up understudy started getting stretched out yeah let him have it for a while performance is after you just took like 10 feet a steep 10 feet away so it's really far away no but um what I know I understand that thing about the line I was doing hairspray live on NBC this is like five years ago eight years ago I remember and it's live in front of the whole country and I'm playing Mr Pinky or something like that and um it's that sensation and I rehearsed and rehearsed and it's now you now you're I'm behind the door it's live in front of the country and it's a big deal and I open the doors and I had the sensation I think it's was Marty Short and Harvey firestein or something and I I said in my head am I supposed to be here right now am I oh my God have entered too early all in the span of half of a second and so oh yeah you could put a whole dictionary in that half a second totally so I'm sitting there and I turned to him and I'm I mouth the first line instead of singing it and it looks like the sound was cut out and so I that's perfect that a technical glitch at the top of my number what a [ __ ] disaster it was a disaster it was the Panic inside was so unbelievable that then I started singing the second line it was it was just awful it was awful God I can't wait to see how did it turn out we uh we we also had uh I think the first or second preview of uh the front page did about five or six years ago and uh there were guys that came in sat in the front row put their drinks on the on the stage and their feet up there and then that one guy got up and started going I love you John Goodman I love you John good I love and I go I'll just not say anything uhhuh please make and he he got up he walked out of the theater drunk that was a little frightening no kidding there was two there was two girls who candid did the show called an act of God and there's these two girls that were bombed out of the no I don't think so this time yeah no I saw it I saw it at Theon oh that's right they were bombed out of their minds and that from the second I walked out they scre they were screaming like oh my God I love you in front of everybody everybody's quiet except yeah exactly screaming and so I was like they're not only drunk I think they're on like drugs or something so and I think I've told this story on on the show before but um they were so gone I had in my head while I'm talking in my head I'm like yeah I think I have to stop the show and so I I went I go excuse me a second I walked upstage told the this is unro told the um stage manager you got to get the two girls out of there they're they're they don't they're not they're not moving they're clapping and laughing and every word and um wait wasn't this the oneman show yes this is a oneman show so you walked off the stage wed off stage I said EXC one left stage set the yeah left the stage empty the the the security guards came down removed them the whole audience clapped I walked on and I said and that's the power of God cuz I was playing God um right yeah and I just kept going but it's awful people just don't know how to behave in the theaters the moral of the story it's getting worse too it is getting worse it is getting worse oh man uh John Goodman we have taken up way too much of your time man just honestly from from afar from very afar just been such an admirer and and just a complete fan of yours I am I'm a huge fan of you guys as well uh great man I yeah okay I'm going to cut it short there but thank you it's uh I really really appreciate hanging out with us for an hour I was terrified at the beginning of this uh oh man really you guys are so good again that just makes us feel incredible that that we that we're even on your radar let alone you know so just a dingdong you know dingdong with a WiFi connection J is in New York with a Wi-Fi connection in a rented apartment he's just starting a job Sean's in park fa facing away from his TV I can hear something vacuuming above me I'm like what this is a joke we're a bunch of clowns so thank you for doing that yeah uh the the great John Goodman thank you my friend what an honor yeah thank you for thanks for the invite man it's been wonderful anytime thank you thank you thanks that was fantastic thank you John very much adios that was John Goodman that's John Goodman the great the gold the gold standard as I said standard and and maybe the best most classical name in the history of all names yeah I wonder I wonder what what is his middle name is it is it equally classic an American like like a Frank or something like that John Frank Goodman something like Steven actually I think it's stepen yeah there you go that works is it really John St Goodman that that was a fantastic uh get there will um I set myself up for that and got got a real beat down he's just how about how about he's killing it on the the Connors too isn't the Connor still like run we didn't even get a chance I want to get so he does the Roseanne they do it like 12 years Roseanne's like 263 episodes or something right and then he goes and now they've done almost 100 episodes of the Connors unbelievable yeah and in that time he's made like 10 movies with the Cohen Brothers amongst others you know and he's just been in like the guy's just done it all I'm not gonna cry I'm sorry I just had a little bit of gas it's just Gas America yeah but like to to to be him and to sustain all that through all like I don't know whatever he's it just means you're great yeah he's just got it he is great and he has been great for his whole career and has stayed employed his whole I guarantee you this I bet you if you go back and you find some of those early commercials you watch them and you're like this guy's great MH absolutely by the way I have seen those early early commercials when he's really young like I I think it was like a a burger commercial or something thing and you're like oh yeah that guy's great and he's great right but Revenge of the Nerds was like like one of the you know the first four or five five things he's he did I was like and he was like you watch that movie and you go oh you feel like that guy had been around forever exactly he feels iconic you he feels iconic and it's one of his first films and and you're like oh that's John Goodman that's I don't know why I remember the one line from Roseanne I don't know why I remember this they were on vacation and they got an argument and they were like in the Bahamas or something and Roseanne goes you know what Dan we should have gone on separate vacations I go to the Bahamas and you go to hell and I was like oh my God and I was like I was like I can't believe they just said that I was so young I was like I can't believe they said it on TV that's a great light that was produced by uh by the great Tom wner I know and produced by the Great and the Conor is still produced by the great Tom Warner our friend and uh love that chairman of Liverpool Football Club and um and a pretty strong uh eight handicap maybe right is he I'm trying to think he's a good golfer he's not to be underestimated want to say I wanted to say happy birthday to our buddy uh Billy Hogan over there at liver Liverpool Football Club I think we missed it but uh did you want to sing to him right now Cu uh Sean I'd love to sign off first if that's okay if you're going to be singing yeah yeah yeah just before you start singing but you know you know I always do like a classic it's it's sort of like an homage to marn Monroe I always do that real classic no don't don't you don't lift up your sweat pants for [Music] him um so I'm trying to think up a buy oh let me see if I got one are we supposed to you know what here's what I would here's what I'd like and it was got two two things one the first one was was was confirmed in or res suggested by the great Justin thorough earlier today we need to have some uh live uh questions from the from from the fans or or at least at least read a question online we're g we are going to maybe do something like that go ahead I would like also in that same folder some suggestions for buys from our listeners I'm sure they would come up with these like why don't they ever use this word I do I I do have I do have a buy that I was I was getting to but I I want to say two things about I think that you're right JB I think that's a good idea yeah but and but I will also say this we are not taking [ __ ] creative suggestions [ __ ] J you know what you're right so [ __ ] keep him every time I see him he says the same you know what you guys ought to do I'm like shut the [ __ ] up tell you how to cut your sleeves off yeah yeah [ __ ] you the nose out through the mouth yeah [ __ ] you thow you [ __ ] [ __ ] on three no on three [ __ ] you thow are you ready 1 2 3 anyway guys I did get some new bye focal that's true I did get some I'm really sad bye congrats [Music] smart smart BL smartless is 100% organic and artisanally handcrafted by 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