Generation Gab Ep. 73 - Eric Gilliland

my generation baby hi everybody and welcome to generation gab my name is john lear and i'm a gen x fun dad and my name's chase o'donnell and i'm a millennial semi-recent grad thank you so much for tuning in to the episode 73 of generation gab and we have such such an amazing guest uh today uh he's a an old friend of i guess you're an old friend now eric oh yeah he's a very very successful television writer and and uh film too probably and and and a wonderful person and one thing people don't know is a wonderful improviser that's been a while my friend yes but you are he's very very so welcome to the show eric gilliam happy and flattered and honored oh dude it's so good good to have you here and um i see you i've been trying to get you on this for a while and i appreciate it and i'm so busy with things well you are you have a lot going on nothing at all i mean i mean can just like a few of the things on your resume like roseanne are just huge i would assume you're the busiest person out there wouldn't you you would think he could not i know he's at the point now where he gets to choose when he wants to be busy and when he does it i'm looking for work nothing's out there what do you want well everybody is right now so i mean i guess we could start should we i kind of want to hear from the beginning how you got into film and television and ended up having such a successful career oh really um we need to have that first just to give people right so we can introduce you to everyone listen to everyone hi williston um uh i went northwestern as to john but yeah [Music] northwestern wow we did not meet um in college did we ever meet i feel no i think we missed by like that missed it by that much yeah let's get smart reference all right and then okay so you graduated northwestern and then what happened i went out to la drove out there and took crafty pa jobs and you know hourly jobs didn't work for a while wrote two specs spec scripts sample apples of writing yes and i a friend of mine from northwestern worked at william morris she gets her boss and he gives his boss yeah and my friend uh dimmer marione uh had a manager and gave it to his manager and they both signed he's a northwestern grad too a famous act great actor great actor uh and a good guy very simple you know northwestern has some incredible alums yeah yeah i mean i knew it was such a great school but like the people that i keep hearing that went to northwestern through you john it's very amazing it's very strange because i didn't realize i was in a factory when i was at did you really i didn't either no no i didn't know that it was a factory and then once i graduate i'm like oh this is a factory yeah it's pretty it wasn't when i was there i mean i went out there i followed steve stark and mike hitchcock right they paved the way my kick michael hitchcock we should have on this show he's an incredible incredible uh improviser actor um and he an amazing man writer yeah uh he was invest in show that uh that's probably the most people all those movies yeah yeah uh incredible i'm gonna put him down on the list right now good work eric you just helped me um i got your back right i got your back yeah so uh and then i got then i got uh you know interviews we've got um what's called interview no uh meetings and um what generals you've got some generals very good federal general is like what is a general explain what a general is i'm just gonna meet the guy right no agenda no job necessarily let's see if he's a good guy right right the end actors don't get a lot of generals we get some with like with like casting directors but usually no but dude but but writers they go on generals where you're just there's nothing you didn't mean to each other you just me yeah and i'm a nice guy i was back then i was adorable i was adorable and uh i got my first show called women in prison on the on the new fox network which was a very good show it's not bad not good but it was really fun it was so super fun um do you remember having like how you celebrated did you like i have my own office wow an office yeah as a 24 year old uh see that's how good he was he was 24 and he was already on style that doesn't sound incredible it's pretty amazing might have been 23. um and uh you don't know the dick van dyke show but i had a uh a dart board with mel cooley's picture on it their boss i threw darts at the bosses that's such a writer's thing to have it's such a writer to have it i did it i did it did you have lots of squeezy toys or the yeah and did you have the silver balls that bounce into each other or the woodpecker that dips in its beak into a glass or whatever no but i did have that machine that would have like laughs or applause or [Laughter] dried used condoms that you would throw with the wall behind you that's a very common i didn't know i didn't know what used condoms were back then um good night everybody see that's how you become a writer in a writer's room boom okay who's the boss which is a big deal not a great show but a big deal what do you mean not a great show what was wrong with that show it's kind of soft like a like a like a new condom yes but who who was the um who was the the why the daughter on it there's like alice alyssa milano alyssa milano yeah yeah did you know that she was gonna be like a big sex symbol like as she was growing up because you had her in her teens right yeah i had it when she was 16. so wow if you had a exercise studio maybe that's a big deal who didn't yeah aerobics was the big one right yeah and jane fonda yeah did she so you didn't really know how to remain in touch we've like said hi on twitter what does she um what uh she's really political now she's like very political yeah don't be careful no i feel like a lot of people became political the past four years you kind of had to i guess yeah i think people did um so okay so you did who's the boss big deal big deal then i went on a show called living dolls with halle berry her first job oh gorgeous drop dead gorgeous in person is she just like oh my god i've never seen anybody else beautiful in my life yeah um leah remini remedy or mean womany that's her first job she was great and funny lady michael learned from the waltons millennial she's not funny not funny at all not money no did she need to be in the show yes it's sitcom john yeah yeah right right was it a live audience thing all of these were live audience gigs yeah so the multicam in front of a studio audience and the next job no i was just gonna say so what's the schedule like for a writer because that's a brutal schedule when you're doing that uh three camera thing right you are editing last week's show you are thinking of outlining the show three weeks from now you are punching up the shows on the stage is that that week and you rewrite it every night it's just it's just it's really sounds kind of fun it's really fun but the hour you got to be i don't know people with families didn't like people with kids and wives and husbands i don't know how they did it they did they just yeah they divorced and didn't make it you were on blow the entire decade during that decade i missed blow and sitcoms by that much evidently like taxi there's been on blow the whole time everyone's gone blow and i i just like i missed the vlog but i'm fine with that i'm really [ __ ] with that so you guys just had like reese's peanut butter cups and yeah a lot of yeah we get you fat so what happened after living dolls and halle berry i think went on to uh flintstones [Music] very good um i went on to do the wonder years for a year now pretty cool of course and that was single cam so the schedule's easier right yes great but you're writing much more first i took out my junior high diaries that i kept and got stories actually out of my diaries when you no way yeah see chase that's where you gotta hang on to those journals chase says dreams well you know a lot of these shows you mentioned are great because they've crossed over to different generations because wonder years is a show i grew up on too yeah it was a period piece so you know it wasn't the 80s or 90s 60s was it supposed to be on the city like 60s late 60s vietnam war and when you were getting these um writing jobs were you part of the developing team or you were like going on to it later watch that go on staff and then i was moving up in his titles he was getting bigger and bigger titles like producers it's just because once you once you had one job you made tons of connections and you were able to just move on to the next jobs we get jobs yeah yeah wow i mean it kind of like where you started in that sitcom world what a great place to start with those connections to just keep on i'm the luckiest idiot who's ever watched yes you some luck is involved but you are very talented eric and you're also easy to work with which i think is almost as important i kind of agree you know because you're not the kind of guy who's he's not a jerk he's just not a dick and so he he gets along with everybody everybody likes him and and it's not it's not forced it's authentic it's he's a good good man i teach at nyu every now and then at the end of the semester i tell my students you've seen people come in here guess friends of mine be with me for a semester kind of nice guy look after me don't be a dick dicks don't know what being a dick is that's why they're a dick they don't know it they're not aware of it they don't have the i want the plant to see that they might if they might be a dick does not let it grow right maybe i mean you got to say it look you're doing the right thing by sending them out i'm just saying i don't think dicks are so dickish they don't even know their dicks if you know yeah they're so unaware the people who think they might be dicks are not dicks those are people who are not dicks who were worried that maybe they drank too much coffee or didn't eat enough and were angry and said something they regret that's not right that's somebody who screwed up and you can apologize about it yeah yeah yeah yeah like chase you wouldn't believe the stuff she says to me when we're not recording it just hurts like a wonderful thing oh just like good example well john you would say that stuff like that wow but she it's not but chase is not a dick she just is you know she's hungry she needs to eat i know that i've heard her on the show she's lovely yeah thank you john's kidding tell everyone you're kidding i am totally kidding chase is the nicest person if people don't know i'm kidding then please unsubscribe we don't want you exactly on our show [Music] sitcom on the set of a porn set with the live audience yeah yeah the pilot episode was a guy dressed in an ss outfit spanking another guy it was terrible idea audience participation too that was weird became ready to play all right okay so so after wonder years uh roseanne that's the one i've been waiting for i did nurses the show called officials with nurses um and it was terrible i i got fired from nurses i was hoping to get fired i was just terrible and i got fired of the day my exact day my escrow closed in my house in l.a oh jesus and i've been to that house so you got fired right when you needed to start making some mortgage payments yeah so i i had enough in the bank to stop for the midwest i left the bank for two years of unemployment one year try to find a job another year to sell the house right right smart but then i got i was pretty smart yeah um but then i got roseanne and i was off the race and then then it's like you're you keep that house and you buy a plate on a magnificent place in new york city in the uh i mean it's amazing for those of you who are seeing it you know when you got roseanne that it was going to be a hit it was already hit oh you already it was already on the air yes on season five or something yeah okay but so it was over that but it's like can we keep this up yes all the writers were new they fired everyone from last year so we were all fresh why did they do that yeah why it was ann and tom you know who knows yeah okay but it worked out really well through the season of the show i was i was there for four years it worked out for you guys but the team that got fired not so great yeah i know i mean don't you feel responsible to give them a portion of the proceeds the remuneration that you receive they all went on to get out of paid well yeah eric i think just to even things out a a sizable check to each of those writers from you would be a nice gesture huh john were you one of those writers no i'm just i'm trying to get a job on eric's staff to run his operations do you think uh lori needs more money no no no not the actors writers no the writer the executives are big bang theory and oh lori oh chuck laurie oh glory did i give him a check i'll give him a chat yeah i would just to be right just to be right about it okay so can i ask when did you two meet you answer that john my recollection is the first time we really well we met when he was on a show called my boys on tbs i think that's when we met and we met at the upfronts i think is that right oh that but that was sort of businessy and we were busy and i i was on 10 items or less and we were in new york city i think or some event around but we met prior to that at a northwestern alum yes now that's when i fell deeply deeply madly in love with you i we were both in an improv was i directing it or was i in it were we both in it because i directed it once you were directing i think i hosted maybe and you directed it yes and and and eric and it was a thing to raise money and we did kind of some improv and eric is so rare uh yes no but he in the way he improvises is very rare believe me trust me this is the one thing i believe it it's like it's like in a jazz band you see a guy who plays the vibes in a way that you've never seen before and you're like holy [ __ ] that's you know so he's very flattering it's true right and get out he's very smart he's very open he's very he has a good heart you're not a dick again i are there any videos of you improvising we can see no i wrote a role for him on quick draw and then we got cancelled yeah i had a lot we haven't canceled until season three my dream had my dream you should have written him in earlier john i know but we didn't get we you know the first two seasons of a show are a free-for-all you're just like running by the cd you can't do anything fun it's just crazy bill and then season three you're like okay now what are we gonna do you know i know what i'm doing yeah well for the quick draw movie you've got to bring him in there is a quick draw movie not gonna happen no i mean i wrote nancy and i have it but um i love that show i love that show so much a great detail such a good show uh but okay so eric you are in this weird place getting back to the the the the sort of point of our show you're in this interesting place because like uh chase said you were in the pocket making television so you were you were involved in communicating the culture to the people right between the bridge between gen x and millennium yes yeah i mean roseanne was a gen x show that millennials i you know what i wouldn't say uh roseanne is millennials right they were friends that was gen x but we was that was gen x yeah yeah i well you know what for i guess it was on the air when i was a kid but i didn't watch it but it was a big time show i was like we like all knew about it and the family's so tell me about what is your take as a as a gen x or slash are you a baby boomer or a gen x or i think i'm right it depends on who you ask what you're a gen x or personally i'm i'm baby boomer adjacent okay so you're in general john yeah you're an elder generator yeah so what do you think in your mind is the difference between those two generations what do you see um heavy questions here on generation big one yeah well i i teach at nyu they're using pretty smart students so it's i don't have the the uh the millennials sort of i'm lazy and i don't want to fend for myself i don't i don't see that much me neither i don't see it and i don't teach at nyu i think that's kind of a false thing i i see i see millennials busting their ass they just yeah especially during this thing so yeah yeah and and and as you're working on television because you continue to work on television shows uh throughout your career um what do you think millennials want what is the difference in the sense of humor as well as we get to millennials and gen zers as opposed to gen xers i guess stuff maybe more they're more aware of gendered or uh they're very they're very pc they're very concerned don't don't say that because they're going to upset that person and i like that kind of stuff yeah like you you you were pitching a show called spank my booty and no it just didn't go anywhere and you that's when you first started to realize it was a fun pitch fun pitch it was a fun pitch yeah yeah yeah you i i i think you went a little far with the pitch i mean sometimes a pitch should just be a pitch everybody thinks you should go in and do something but i think the spanking was odd i think that's a good observation it is we're much more pc yeah it is yeah and like unless moonves like the pitch is true true i was in the pitch because i was the one getting spanked all i had to do was show up in assless chaps start interrupt sorry um i kind of wanted to hear you guys told me to ask you about the vlogs you did together okay so nancy and nancy howard my partner and i uh who produce quickdraw we started a show called how to make a tv show in 90 days or die trying or something like that 60 days 90 days and so we are how to write a tv show anyway we started this daily tv show yeah how to sell a tv show and so we literally vlogged every day and did just like a five minute thing about what we were doing towards selling a tv show and we actually sold it we sold the show that we were we developed from start to finish to um nbc but then they they didn't pick it up uh and you sold it and eric became he's so hilarious and he would just chime in on on all of the chats i had my own vlog that was doing just for fun yeah and he a very good vlog you've had very famous people on i did yeah and it was a very good vlog a blog we sort of uh jokingly hired eric as the show runner for our vlog runner the vlog runner so we actually work together eric is a blog runner on our vlog and it's still out there you can still take it by friday for their vlog i've actually watched some of your vlog john and now i need to walk watch eric you need to you yeah it's really good too and we've done a simulcast vlog didn't we where we were all off yeah yeah yeah and what was right where can we find it for people that actually are listening and want to look for it i'm i met i think eric still or eric argill land on youtube yeah just search your name eric gill online blog it'll probably come up and john weir or john lear true right yeah vlog it'll come up if you can't find it just that's when no one had okay perfect it was so much fun and it was so funny and people in the industry started to hear about the vlog because we would take nancy would shoot pitches and stuff real meetings and pitches with people and so we didn't come into the waiting room yeah and so we would come into pictures and they'd be like oh my god am i going to be on the vlog and these are like executives you know and we'd be like do you want to be you know we made our we made our agent do an interview that was so much fun that's amazing yeah i remember watching your vlog john back when i like auditioned for your show i was watching everything um it was the uh the music one oh no that one uh the hippo that was for mtv yeah yeah chase also did a pilot that we did with eva longoria that didn't go and i was so i have similar feelings about the two of you because like i i've improvised with both of you and i fell in love with both of you through that so i'm in love with both of you you're that's what the nicest guy would say you know what seth meyers is yeah seth meyers very nice guy varian oh really you know i like to hear that when i went to the taping of his late night show he did stand in the audience and say ask me anything as jimmy fallon didn't even acknowledge that we were there there you go yeah i beat jimmy fallon out of a role on a show called um uh jessie on nbc was up for that yes it was me and jimmy were in the uh tape we were in the uh what do you call it what's the final thing where you do the the final callback where you're in the offices network what do they call that test we had to test for it oh yeah yeah yeah and this is their kidding me yeah but you couldn't valid it was me jimmy fallon and somebody else maybe it's just me and jimmy fallon but anyway when you t i don't know if they do this anymore eric maybe you know i don't know but back then when you tested for a network show you had to sign a five-year contract in the waiting room before you went in to audition and and because they were not gonna they would not read you unless you signed this is the final call and you so there's all this negotiating going it's the worst possible way to find an actor for a show because you've got them all freaked out with their agent and everybody calling and then there's trying to remember what they're supposed to do it's the worst way to get an actor and so and then you go into an office it's always an office why i have why is it an office eric because they don't understand at all to be an actor because they're all business people as a writer what eric would you be in those network decisions yes yes yes he would be in there but he'd be the one supporting you because he wants you so he's smiling and he's laughing at all the jokes and then the rest of the people are all network executives and there's like 20 people in this dinkball office this is my experience with destiny and they're all with their arms crossed and you know looking at their phones and [ __ ] it's the worst way to get a comedic actor on your show ever at cbs a little like a black box theater down in the basement it was terrible and i would um uh unless movement was in the meeting and and i would go out and sort of be jack saying you're gonna do great rub your shoulders like put them in i'll why is he doing that yeah to make them feel comfortable have them have them be happy they're human beings human beings are sensitive or nervous itself why is he doing man well nancy and i figured out a way around that for 10 items or less and what we did we used this term the screen test which is the oldie tiny term we said we'd like to because of the nature of our show because it's hybrid we need to screen test our actors so we would get down to the finals three and brought them on location and shot them on location in costume and then we edited them in the way that we wanted them presented to the execs and then nancy and i would walk the dvds into that same office and play the dvds in front of all of them and it worked like a [ __ ] charm that's great that's really smart i loved it yeah but you were doing multicam live and that's a different thing so they probably still would have needed to see him live that's true i guess yeah but they get a laugh of an audience but you know that's not or not it's a laugh so so weird what are you working on now eric tell us what your life is like now yeah smoothie he has a you have a great life no i gotta i'm trying i've got oh i got a i have an old-timey radio show that i'm going to revamp for for a podcast world it's from 1938 it's called the cinnamon bear and it's a 15-minute the 10-minute episode to run from the day after thanksgiving to christmas eve by these two children who uh uh lose their silver star for top of their christmas tree they go in there try to find it the cinnamon bear it's a three inch high teddy bear says i know where the star was come with me shrinks them down to get in a uh a christmas tree that's an airplane they fly into maybelline they meet all these creatures and witches and giants and cowboys and it's really fun got uh got johnny lucky who's gonna be in it holy [ __ ] rachel dratch nice anna gospeler anna gasps our northwestern alum as the cinnamon bear john cameron mitchell oh my god and as santa claus john lear brian renner nailed it more oh all right well i wish him well isn't that cool yeah so we're going to see we're trying to sell it right now it looks looking pretty good as a couple days ago that's so good when can we i mean are you how can for next season for next christmas for next thanksgiving okay all right like five days a week ten minutes at least every day so you want you know listening with your kids and that's such a great idea i love that i'm rewriting it and we're redoing the music with uh uh my friend mark adam you know him and the my friend who's the was the accordionist for the pogues they're gonna redo the music holy [ __ ] yeah i can't wait to listen to them yeah no this is a fluke you're like the coolest guy in new york that's a direction and l.a no i don't go out la much but i went uh i rented it out to a friend you don't come out much but come out when you can because i'd love to see you i'm going to come together yeah when this nightmare is over and this time is over exactly yeah i have a guest room one day you have to sell chase too because she's i would love chase is a super talent super talent quadruple [Music] crazy fast and an improviser triple threat oh thank you thank you did you meet improvising yes we did an audition for one of our shows yeah that's why and i was just like who is this i've got to get on her coattails and exploit her to my benefit yeah are we going to do like hey do you know what this thing was from the 70s and this is yeah i have a few questions here i don't want i don't because i know you have a time limit or something like we do here we go this is how i was we were gonna uh close out the episode like i move things along i'm looking for you see he's a vlog so i just have a few questions now these are not your generation we're gonna see how well you know the millennial generation gentlemen gentleman okay and we're going to let eric answer first i don't know if he passes it'll go to john okay good luck eric okay and by the way eric has put some high stakes on this if i win ryan reynolds out as santa claus so this is big okay probably his name this one i think is easy who was the first winner of american idol let eric take it away no googling is there can i get a hint are they on this zoom call now no um i think it was a female singer she wanted to talk show now yes um oh wow i'm very impressed yeah but sean you can snag it from him in five seconds if he doesn't i know he has a talk show um [Music] so neither of you can i mean eric knows she has a talk show yeah i know she is the name and she's going through a divorce about a rough divorce and she had an injury right didn't she have an injury i'm not aware of the engine right or is that somebody else but she's facial i'm not sure yeah she hurt her face or somehow or something god i don't know i i can see her all right you guys both are who it is um it's kelly clarkson no i said that i said that i said kelly said you said picker sinners but no that was clearly question okay so all right okay i'm gonna start getting eric which female pop star famously shaved her head in 2007. okay oh yeah i know can i answer i'll steal it britney spears yeah do you ever do you want a ho ho ho like is it is it like my santa [Music] i have a mug that says britney survived 2007 you can handle today and um it's a very big millennial reference to reference britney spears why don't you do that for a cancer just for me oh she had a breakdown and just shaved her head in front of the paparazzi weirdly i had a breakdown during 2007 but nobody saw anything because i was nobody so it was great i think we were vlogging back then yeah i was vlogging eric's song i told you around the breakdown yeah okay sure go for it okay think of something while i do this we're on the topic of britney spears which boy band member did britney spears date famous this is big news justin timberlake yes oh he got it whoa that was up cheering well because i shouldn't be cheering i'm i'm competing against you all right complete guess that was good okay wait for you okay okay claus says ho ho ho what advertising image also said ho ho good one um pantyhose no great guess thank you are you done um okay what advertising said ho ho ho i mean i i'm gonna now actually go with coca-cola because they have santa and all that yeah yeah good shot good try but no it's so far away from coca-cola you can do it though it was the jolly green giant frozen vegetable from the valley of the dolly green giant he's a giant we see ho ho ho ho god you hear bob do it do it bob that was yeah ho ho ho green giant oh i still you know it's amazing how powerful advertising is because even when i shop today and i see green giant i want to buy it part of me wants to sing a song sing the song yeah i have an old uh here's an old jingle from that was just in kansas city it was for a construction company it's called okay here i'm going to do it home improvement problems car car call standard improvement company at westport one seven one hundred car good one huh i love local ads yeah chicago had a lot of them that was good that was really good all right james you have another one for me or should i finish it off with you guys no i keep going we'll hit you up again okay here's another one this is this was big news a few years ago what is the name of the fraudulent and failed music festival founded by bailey mcfarland and jaw rule steel steel well you can't steal yet oh the place that then disaster that was on an island and that no one showed up and uh maybe he showed up they made a movie about it don't help him chase i got to get this role okay but he's on the right track he knows what he's talking about what he'll do it's very rare it's a very rare thing hey kids i don't i won't know the name of it i don't know fire festival fire festival fire festival suit up suit up john i'm gonna be in santa and i'm gonna dress in full costume for the record even though it's i've got it i've gotta be in full you know what eric as much as i'd like to do it as much as i want it i want success for you and so i'd like you to keep the person you've already cast because he's a big movie star and i think if we have an elf we have an elf if you if it helps this is a true friend that i'm being right now you want to be a true friend if it helps the show then yes i'd love to help you but if i i do don't get don't worry about gifts you do you my friend i want to see you have a happy successful career in life you're giving as can be thank you well john and this is coming from someone who had a breakdown in 2007 um so what is this oh you can't see it oh is that a popcorn kernel oh yeah [Music] i know what that is all right chase how many quarters did it take to play a game of asteroids how many quarters okay so now i want you to know i'm gonna guess here because i don't i don't know asteroids so i would say one quarter that's right you just got so chase is playing santa oh my god huh i didn't what that's a steal eric she stole um i know you're not a i mean where can people see you reach you on the on the interwebs where can we follow you yeah out of nowhere on twitter i i just say what soup i had that day he's he is a big time soup advocate and he does post his suit every [Music] this is fascinating stuff wait what is the difference between soup and smoothies i mean is it sodium okay sodium and this has like greens in it and all kinds of vegetables and ginger still counts as a soup it's the same thing over every single day it'd be so boring i really like this exact same smoothie every single day okay yeah that wouldn't work yeah that was fun but it's fun to see me go back like a decade like what pete what tea soup i had that day that's kind of fun i can't wait i i think i'll give you a follow eric hot dog yeah there you go you got another one boom over a thousand like why are you what are you doing people love stuff like that yeah it's it's i think it's more like like sort of it's uh art now it's a weird art piece your comedy is still in the pocket dude you're still there in the sweet spot that's amazing we're we're very few people you know are able to do that you do it john and i like to close out the episode by asking what you're doing this weekend here we go this is going to be good here we go for the win look at my phone calendar yeah yeah good for you have it planned um january okay friday physical therapy that tree is it hip or knee what was it oh both i had a new hip and a and a really messed up knee yeah oh boy like dangerous like i could have died septic knee it was hot it was really really bad and it happened like a year ago i totally forgotten about it yeah yeah i reminded you new year's eve was in the hospital that was small yeah terrible um but a friend of mine brought me a bottle of coffee another friend of mine martha said honeymooner's a marathon every new year's eve like all right so i just got the honeymooners and you're welcome i i was the one who got you the scotch he's a big gamer what kind of game it's called code names and it's really fun it's hard to explain but it's really fun and we are ravenous about it eric has a very a very famous bingo game that happened in los angeles every i want to say new year's day or july from like 4th of july 4th of july how fun yeah it was really fun i've been really good bingo caller yeah it's really funny and star-studded yes yeah that's fine um and then i'll go to brunch at the waverly inn on saturday and sunday because things are opening up outside restaurants here have always been open outside and it's freezing it's in you know the 30s but they have some good heating systems okay wear long underwear and they give me free gimlets i give them free toe warmers he's a very big tipper i've gone out to dinner with eric and he's a very good tipper you are you're my friends especially my friends yeah because he's friends with all of his weight staff i am staying home although there's a small chance that jennifer may be renting a house out in the desert and the family may be headed out there we don't know but there's talking really exciting yeah it's really beautiful has boulders inside and and oh cool it's built in this boulder canyon thing that's really cool it's very cool yeah getting out of getting out of dodge is important it is chase what about you um i am catching up on life i'll be doing some laundry i'll be um you know emailing writing some scripts just catching up on other to do well she's a millennial so she's working like 15 gigs right now well right now i'm writing scripts for a um children's abc mouse type show yes that's helping pay the bills and a thousand other things including a thousand yeah she's like doing like 19 things that's really impressive i can't i can't bring myself to do much of anything well you don't need to you guys don't need to you've already had such an incredible career i wrote a a magazine article in a comedy magazine which one american bystander oh everybody get what what what yeah show us yeah he's oh american bystander what what this month december uh the holiday one i guess oh my gosh i i want to read it but it was meryl marcos in here and and jack handy i mean it's really damn eric look who you are with that's pretty that's pretty tip i mean i just spat something out wow i got in so that's kind of cool and bob what are you doing this weekend bob the ho ho ho oh i'm i'm searching out uh soup and smoothie recipes on twitter this week soup it always makes you feel good that's why eric is in such good shape he's his weight has stayed the same since i've known him he's happy he's happy joyous and free yeah you are thank you so much yes i always wanted to be there it was great yeah you're right right in that wheelhouse it it's it's also the texas allergy season so it's really i'm really hitting my are you in texas yeah he's in texas okay yeah awesome for the internet man the wonders of the internet texas la new york eric willingland thank you thank you guys much for doing this i really appreciate it do not take it lightly i love it thanks so much have you back i got nothing to do all right and i'll see you in the santa roo ready [Music]