Podcast appearances and mentions of Richard Dean Anderson

Silvana and Tegan invite Eric to the podcast for an exciting announcement and to talk about our amazing adventure to Vancouver for our birthdays.  We'll be back in July with a revamp of the show. Please feel free to write into our email or instagram with ideas. Find out more about filming locations we visited at Richard Dean Anderson's Website. Join the conversation on our socials!  

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What's up, dudes? I need to release a new episode, but I only have a paperclip, some chewing gum, and a trash can. Guess I'll have to MacGyver it! Thank goodness I have Art from A Cozy Christmas  and Joe from Now Watch This to help me! That's right! We're talking MacGyver! But wait! Christmas magic and miracles?!?! In a MacGyver episode?! Does he even come up with a cool hack? No. Is there at least a great version of a Christmas classic? You bet! So grab your pocket knife and an egg, hook up a battery to a potato, and rig up this episode!A Cozy ChristmasFB: @cozychristmaspodcastTwitter: @CozyXmasPodIG: @cozychristmaspodcastNow Watch ThisFB: @nowwatchthispodIG: @now_watch_this_podGive us a buzz! Send a text, dudes!Check us out on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Totally Rad Christmas Mall & Arcade, Teepublic.com, or TotallyRadChristmas.com! Later, dudes!

National pie day. Entertainment from 2002. Frisbee went on sale, Georgetown founded, 1st person assissinated by a firearm. Todays birthdays - John Hancock, Frances Bey, Chita Rivera, Rutger Hauer, Anita Pointer, Richard Dean Anderson, Sully Sullenberger, Mariska Hargitay, Tiffani Thiessen. Johnny Carson died.Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard    http://defleppard.com/Baby don't you cry (pie song) - Quincy ColemanPiece of your pie - Motley CrueU got it bad - UsherWhere were you when the world stopped turning - Alan JacksonBirthdays - In da club - 50 Cent      http://50cent.com/All that jazz - Chita RiveraI'm so excited - The Pointer SistersBeverly Hills 90210 TV themeJohnny Carson introExit - It's not love - Dokken     http://dokken.net/

The day has finally arrived, lovely listeners, when we get to discuss this testament to postmodern television! Martin Lloyd is back and he has written a television show that is eerily reminiscent of the Stargate Program.  Silvana and Tegan are excited to be joined by their very special guests Eric and their military advisor, Rob.  Where was Katharyn Powers in this episode?  Join the discussion on our socials.  

Silvana and Tegan watch Season 5, Episode 9 "Between Two Fires". This is the end of the Tollan storyline and the end of Narim and his cat.  Silvana explains Legends of the Hidden Temple to Tegan. The ladies discuss our duties as citizens of a nation and the better downfall of the Tollan via infiltration instead of invasion. Tegan still wants justice for Hebron, and we could have gotten it this time! The ladies also wonder whatever happened to Narim's feelings?  Join the discussion on our socials.

Kathleen "Kate" Ritter, Stargate author and owner of the venerable RDAnderson.com, is joining Dial the Gate to share memories of meeting Richard Dean Anderson through MacGyver fandom, following his work to Stargate, and ultimately writing content for Stargate merchandise!

Silvana and Tegan are joined by Eric, who discusses An Ascended Being Maxed Out My Credit Cards and his thoughts on Orlin.  The three then discuss Season 5, Episode 7 "Beast of Burden". Chaka has been captured by offworld 'slavers' who use Unas for their menial labor. Daniel does his best to rescue Chaka without burning down this world, but will he succeed? Join the discussion on our socials. 

Silvana and Tegan watch Season 5, Episode 6 "Rite of Passage". This episode brings back the character Cassandra but played by the actress from "Bane".  Check out our episode on "Singularity" ("The Distant Land of Toronto") and "Bane" ("Get Jeff Goldblum! We've Got A Bug Transformation Problem!").  This episode reminds both ladies of the first X-Men movie.  Someone is in a bed the whole episode, so of course Peter DeLuise directs. Join the discussion on our socials.

Silvana and Tegan watch Season 5, Episode 4 "The Fifth Man". If only they had made this the fifth episode!! The SG-1 team has a fifth member, or does it? An alien has convinced them that he is an injured member of their team in need of help. Will we ever see this race again??? Absolutely not. What if Simmons was a Reol? Silvana and Tegan come up with a great story line for the Reol race.  Spoiler warning for season 1 of Rings of Power. Join the discussion on our socials. New episodes released weekly on Mondays. 

Silvana and Tegan watch Season 5, Episode 3 "Ascension". In this episode an ascended being takes a shine to Sam and hitches a ride home so he can stalk her. If he stalks her long enough, will she love him? YES?!  This Sam-centric episode has some great scenes: Teal'c in a cowboy hat, for example. However, even Amanda Tapping's great acting and Jack not into Star Wars can make up for all the scenes in which we are screaming.  Silvana learns what she's supposed to say back to "live long and prosper". Tegan is shamed for not bringing a towel places. Silvana proposes having an onsite therapist at the SG-C for crewmembers and psychological analyses of aliens they encounter. What do you think? Join the discussion on our socials. Apologies for some of the background noise. There is a construction zone at Silvana's house that is thankfully over now! We'll now be back to our regularly scheduled episodes every Monday.  Fan letters were saved until the end since we dove right into this episode. We couldn't stop ourselves.  Thank you for your patience, lovely listeners!

Silvana and Tegan watch Season 5, Episode 2 "Threshold". Silvana questions if Bae'tac has a life insurance policy out on Teal'c after this episode. Tegan does not recommend candles around oxygen tanks. Just a PSA for our lovely listeners.  How does no one at the SG-C know Lord of the Rings well enough to recognize the name Va'lar? As usual, the ladies ask the hard hitting questions.  Join the discussion or check out our season rankings on our Linktree. We will be returning October 14 with our next episode!

Silvana and Tegan watch Season 5, Episode 1 "Enemies". This is the second part of a three parter, that the ladies are not fans of.  Silvana and Tegan brainstorm some better storylines where the main drive of the plot isn't Teal'c being brainwashed. This episode gets the highest marks yet for technical quality.  Thanks to Prop Nquity for the email! Check out "Pod Meets World" if you're a "Boy Meets World" fan.  Join our discussion on the socials.     

Silvana and Tegan discuss the tier ranking for Season 4 of "Stargate SG-1." There are some obvious episodes, like "Window of Opportunity" or "Point of No Return".  Sorry, we were too late with our "Jane the Virgin" warning; you'll just have to find it somewhere else.  Episodes with Jack/Sam romance immediately lose ranking. Silvana and Tegan take Sophia's opinions into consideration when deciding where to put "Entity".  Surprisingly, "The First Ones" was a bigger hit than anticipated. Check out the tier ranking and other links on our Linktree.

If you love the 80s, you're probably enjoying this season of Fanacek.  If you don't , well suck it up and let me educate you.  This week I'm discussing 80s actors who could have made a run at big screen stardom, but they knew damn well that television is where they belonged. What they lacked in feature film potential, they made up for in self awareness.  Follow me down this road as I wax poetic about such folks as John Stamos, Erin Gray, Suzanne Somers, Loni Anderson, Richard Dean Anderson and The Hoff himself, David Hasselhoff.  Enjoy, suckas!

Silvana and Tegan watch Season 4, Episode 21 "Double Jeopardy" and answer the question what does this have to do with the game show "Jeopardy"? This episode is Michael Shanks's directorial debut and features the actor who plays Lurch in the Addams Family.  Harlan is back! He really does not understand what SG-1 does.  Check out our instagram and other links on our linktree.

Silvana and Tegan are joined by their good friend and fellow podcaster, Sophia from Where's Beverly, for Season 4, Episode 20, "Entity". This is Sophia's favorite episode! She "must preserve!" Silvana dares Tegan to write the next fan fiction. Sophia explains why this is the best episode of Stargate. Sophia and Tegan discuss the medical inaccuracies in this episode, despite their onsite medical advisor. What would Stargate have looked like had Samantha Carter's body died and brought her back in a different body or used the robot Carter? Where have we seen that before... Check out our instagram and other links on our linktree. Where's Beverly Instagram Previous episodes with Sophia: "It's Equality"   

Esta noche te transportamos a la gloriosa epoca de los gloriosos años 80's con series que marcaron nuestra infancia y juventud, con series como #HospitalGeneral o… #McGyver ¿Que fue de el protagonista de esta legendaria serie? ¿Tuvo un final feliz o termino como muchos otros actores exitosos? Olvidado? Esto y más te contaremos hoy en este Podcast de #ElFilip

TW: Suicide/self-harm Silvana and Tegan watch Season 4, Episode 18, "The Light". Once again, there is a strong need for a therapist on base, but there is not one! There's not even a trigger warning for this episode... SG-1 is challenged by a planet that has a narcotic effect on anyone that visits it. They meet a teenager named Loren and rescue him from this planet - to never be seen again. Silvana asks the most important question of this episode: Where are they defecating? is Teal'c an honorary Jehovah's Witness? Was there a Little Finger gao'uld equivalent? Check out our website, socials, and tier rankings on our Linktree.

Silvana and Tegan are joined by guest star, Eric, for Season 4, Episode 17 "Absolute Power". In this episode, the Harsesis Child arrives at the SG-C to make Daniel fall asleep and dream of an alternative reality. The three discuss the child actor chosen for the Harcesis Child. Tegan finds it weird that this is back to back with "2010", since neither results in much change in the overall storyline. Will absolute power corrupt Daniel Jackson? Absolutely. Is breakfast a conspiracy? Join the discussion on our socials.

Tegan and Silvana watch Season 4, Episode 16 "2010". This episode is one of Silvana's favorite episodes and takes place ten years in the future. The Stargate program has been revealed to the world when a highly advanced people called the Aschen offer to share their technology with Earth. Could they be why the Earth birth rate is dropping? Yes, of course it is.  This episode has some excellent easter eggs, especially when the team visits the SG-C as a museum site.  Tegan didn't enjoy this episode as much as Silvana, but what did you think? Is this one of the best episodes of Stargate SG-1? Leena Norm's video on having children in a climate crisis: https://youtu.be/SNVg2-tNcq8?si=wfCxWot3H1tQIE4l Join the discussion by visiting our Linktree.

Silvana and Tegan watch Season 4, Episode 15 "Chain Reaction," and are joined by guest star, Eric! This is a Maybourne and Jack episode and splits Jack from the rest of SG-1.  The three discuss how Stargate is unique in how contemporary espionage plays into the storyline. Also isn't Kinsey the worst? Maybourne's apartment leaves much to be desired. It makes a Gao'uld froyo shop look like a great option for daily living. Is Teal'c an honorary Millennial?  Join the discussion; check out our Linktree. 

Join us this week in the SNL Hall of Fame as we welcome Jon Schneider onto the podcast to discuss the one of kind, Will Forte. Will he be enshrined in the hall? Only you can decide.Transcript: Track 2:[0:42] Hey, it's J.D. here, and I want to thank Doug DeNance for another lovely introduction.Welcome to the SNL Hall of Fame podcast. As I mentioned off the top, I am your host, J.D.I am joined by Matthew Ardill in the trivia corner, and of course, our chief librarian, Thomas Senna, will handle the conversation with John Schneider today. So that's really exciting.But who are we going to cover? Well, before that, the SNL Hall of Fame podcast is a weekly affair where each episode we take a deep dive into the career of a former cast member, host, musical guest, or writer and add them to the ballot for your consideration.Once the nominees have been announced, we turn to you, the listener, to vote for the most deserving and help determine who will be enshrined for perpetuity in the hall.And that's how we play the game. It's just that simple.May the 6th is the date you're going to want to circle on your calendar.That is when voting opens in the SNL Hall of Fame, and we have one hell of a ballot.There are some stakes here, as there are people that are on their fifth ballot that if they don't make it in, they will be removed from the ballot.And that is as high stakes as it really gets here on the SNL Hall of Fame, except for that time that we had lava on the floor.You bet your ass people wiped their feet then.Track 2:[2:10] Let's go to our friend, Matt Ardill. Matthew, my friend.Track 3:[2:13] How are you doing, JD? I'm great. I'm great. Thanks for asking. How about you?I'm good. I'm great as well. Yeah. Yeah. I've got, I'm really excited.I love Will Forte on so many levels.I can't wait to share. Well, learn me up.Okay. Well, Will Forte, 5'9", born June 17th, 1970. He has 132 acting credits, 26 writing credits, 20 soundtrack credits, and five producer credits.He was born in Alameda County, California, and attended the University of California.He was a member, and this shocked me.He was a member of the varsity football team, varsity swim team. So he was a jock.Track 3:[2:57] That's not what I would have expected. Me neither. I want a picture of Theater Nerd. Yeah.Exactly i would have imagined that as well but i mean it's that's just you know that's i guess us not seeing past the stereotype but uh yeah he went on to earn a history degree valuable lesson you just taught us matthew yeah let's do just because somebody plays sports doesn't mean they don't have the the love of theater in them that's right but yeah so thank you for that yeah not from but yeah got a degree in history from ucla and um then he realized his true love was comedy so he joined the groundlings he also tutored faye dunaway's 12 year old son in mathematics while he was in high school which is like that's just a weird i mean this is the weird connections you get living in california yeah i suppose so yeah yeah you know so it's just it i i don't know No, I feel like living in Canada, we don't get those wacky connections, but, um.Track 3:[3:59] At a young age, he went to see Tony Orlando, and Tony brought him and his friend up on the stage, and he encouraged them to follow their passions.So much so, he wrote him and Tony a nice letter many years later.What a class act. Yeah, yeah. And he, in fact, is a class act in multiple ways.He is also a class act video game player. He is the 36th highest scorer in the world in Donkey Kong.Long whoa yeah he watched the that fistful of quarters documentary and he's like i can do that and is now registered on twin galaxies as number 36 in the world that's brilliant that movie also very very good yes and it's not to go on a tangent you watch that fistful of quarters that the villain in that show is a total nut bar you can go down a rabbit hole all on its own as As well as an amazing video gamer, he is also a super sweet dude.Rachel Dratch describes him and Seth Meyers as her comedy non-boyfriends, basically her comedy brothers.She's remained incredibly close to them.Track 3:[5:12] But he's also remained close to other cast members.He attended Andy Samberg and Seth Meyers' weddings, both in character as Hamilton.Hamilton oh my gosh i would have paid good money just to see that i mean just a full character problem is a lot of their families don't know the character so all they know is there's a super racist weirdo walking around at the way which is the most will thing like that just is like yeah i that that that makes sense that makes sense um he collects life preservers and construction helmets he actually got his start uh as a published author he wrote 101 things definitely Definitely not to do if you want to get a check.Track 3:[6:12] It was a comic that he wrote at 24, which he parlayed into his first gig writing for the Jenny McCarthy show and then moving on to Letterman.One of the weirder things that I read is at one point, Val Kilmer was trying to find a house in Malibu.So he was just couch serving and will let him stay on his couch for a couple of months. And one night they were watching the amazing race and they thought that'd be awesome and wanted to go on the amazing race there.Their agents ultimately stopped them.Track 3:[6:46] Uh, boo, those agents did not really do the right thing.Uh, and then unfortunately time got away from them and it didn't happen.Um, but yeah, just, and just to illustrate how amazing a dude he is.Uh, he gave his entire per diem to the crew, uh, for MacGruber, which when he was filming the film MacGruber, he, uh, his mom visited the set on this, the naked celery scene, uh, shooting day.So that must've been a little weird.Um, you think, yeah, it's like, uh, but yeah.So as a part of a fundraising event for boys and girls club of Venice, he auctioned off an opportunity to see, um, a early cut of MacGruber with him and Ryan Philippe, uh, before its premiere.Um but he said if somebody paid a hundred thousand dollars he'd take them out for yogurt twice a year for the rest of his life thought it was a joke and someone called us bluff so now wow ever since the release of mcgruber he's been taking this person out twice a year for yogurt.Track 3:[8:00] Um oh that's they're gonna develop a friendship yeah yeah that i mean you don't you don't do that not actually start to like one another you would think you would explore it at least yeah yeah and and i mean in the ultimate expression of how good a duty is like a true gentleman when filming the last scene for the last man on earth he and kristen shaw had a sex scene after her character ate a can of beans and she let one rip like crazy and he took the bullet for it he claimed it was his so, Just a true gentleman all around. Wow. A gentleman of thoughts.Track 3:[8:47] Yes. Yes, indeed. Well, I think that I'm pretty excited that our guest today is the Grand Poobah over at the Saturday Night Network.It's John Schneider, and he is joined right now downstairs with Thomas, so let's join them in conversation.Track 4:[9:40] All right, J.D. and Matt, thank you so much. Yes, welcome to another episode, another wonderful conversation with a great guest.Welcome to the SNL Hall of Fame podcast.And today we are talking about, this is a personal favorite of mine. This is a chance for me.And my guests to just be total geeks. It's almost for me like when Sammy K and I did the Vanessa Bear episode last season.That's like 14 for you and one for me kind of thing.So this is what this is like with Will Forte, our nominee today.So to join me, another fellow Will Forte nerd, possibly he's, Will Forte is one of my favorite, probably in the top two or three favorite cast members of mine personally.And I think for my guest, Will Forte falls under that category, too.So I am joined by a friend, somebody who I greatly admire in the podcast.He's kind of like a podcasting influence for me personally.Track 4:[10:42] It is from the Saturday Night Network, John Schneider. Hey, man, what's up? Thanks for joining me. Hey, Thomas.Track 4:[10:49] Well, I'm very first of all, I'm very humbled that you would say that mutual respect here and love what you've done with the show and and JD and Matt and everybody here so thank you so much for having me back and I have to say Thomas I maybe have podcasted about I'm gonna just I'm gonna throw out a guess here I'm gonna say like 300 podcasts about SNL I maybe have done like over the last few years I don't think I've ever been as excited to do a podcast as I am right now like this is this is one of the best things I could have ever done as an SNL podcaster is get to talk about will forte he is definitely my favorite cast member of all time i wouldn't be talking about snl or podcasting about snl or doing all the things that we're doing at the snn if i didn't fall in love with will forte on the show and everything that he did and i i know i'm not alone with that i know that there's so many people out there that will forte is such a big influence on so thank you for having me today i can't wait to have this conversation yeah absolutely i'm so giddy too and then redoing some refresh because with will forte i don't necessarily need to do research quote unquote but i like to refresh myself watch sketches go in with uh you know having watched these sketches as close to recording time as possible so they could be fresh and this is like the most fun quote unquote research i think that i've done for this entire show because.Track 4:[12:07] I love will forte so much so so yeah this is gonna be great thanks for so much for joining i meant what i said as far as you being like a podcasting influence what you've built at saturday night Network is just amazing.Track 4:[12:19] So tell us, tell the listeners what's been going on over at the S&N a lot. I know.Thank you so much. Yeah. I mean, it's been pretty crazy. It's been great to get the show back after that writer's strike and glad that everything turned out well over there. And.Track 4:[12:37] You know, nonstop coverage of the season. As we go through all the live weeks, we have coverage right after the show is done airing.So we have this great group of people who stay up late with us and talk about the show.If you're watching on YouTube, you can always find our hot take shows and join us in the conversation.So let's say, you know, you're tired, you're lying in bed, you just enjoy the show, but you just have to talk to somebody about it.It's a great place to go and hang out. And we also have our Monday night round tables where we're just, you know, breaking down the show even further, talking about the legacy of a specific host in a specific episode.And then our By the Number shows that we do on Wednesday that Mike Murray hosts for all the stats on, you know, turning SNL into a live sport.So that's our regular coverage. We also get to do some really cool interviews that we do on our show called SNL Stories.We just had Christine Ebersole, season seven cast member. We just spoke to Bobby Moynihan. There's a lot of great ones out there as well.Track 4:[13:25] Yeah, now we're sort of turning our heads towards the end of season 49, finishing up all the coverage on that, doing some summer stuff.And then it's season 50. It's the big one. So we have lots of stuff planned for season 50, and I can't wait to get to all of that.And yeah, you got to come hang out with us at the Saturday Night Network.Yeah, so this guy's built like a true network, like you and everybody else.Bill Kenney, Sammy K, the Andrews, everybody who's really closely involved.You've got quite the community going at S&N. It's a true network, like you have a Saturday Night thing, a Monday thing, a Patreon thing, by the numbers.So it's really definitely a true network there. Maybe you can get Will Forte on, like, SNL Stories one day.That is the dream. I'm hoping for, like, yeah, that's the big one or one of the big ones for sure.I'm hoping maybe for a special numbered show, maybe a 500th, maybe a 1,000th, something like that.I can convince him to do it. I have met Will Forte before.Track 4:[14:21] I actually went to go meet him on my birthday when he was at Just for Laughs.This was before I was doing SNL media coverage. But I went to go talk to him, and he could not have been nicer. and I know that some of our podcasters have bumped into him over the last few years and he said that he would do it.So I'm hoping one day we'll get him to, you know, come on board.And I think we're gonna have a blast whenever that does happen.Yeah, that that would be a biggie. So Will Forte, our nominee today on the SNL Hall of Fame on the cast from 2002 to 2010.And from what I understand, John, that was basically the era that made you love the show like that whole that all those was cast between 2002 and 2010, that whole era.So what were your impressions of Will Forte when you first saw him on SNL, this oddball?Track 4:[15:08] Yeah so very fun fact that he almost got hired the year prior but i think he wanted to keep writing on that 70s show which was also a show i enjoyed very much at the time but uh yeah so when so i'll go back to like my original my origin story for watching the show the first time, and um i really fell in love with the show you know from like 2005 to 2010 i was in high school then and that for me was just like will was such a big part of that cast but prior to that i tuned into SNL.I knew what it was. We had like friends who had older siblings who were watching it all the time.And at times I would just like turn on the show and just catch glimpses.And I remember seeing like Tina and Jimmy on the show and being like really intrigued. Some of, you know, Smigel's TV Funhouse stuff.But one time I remember my parents going out on a Saturday night and I turned on SNL and I was very curious what I was gonna see.And I saw Will Forte as Tim Calhoun, this politician who's just like is so anxious and can't get anything out and just like nervous flop sweating I think I would make a real good president because I'm a hockey dad soccer uncle football cousin ping-pong brother and And Donkey Kong best friend.Track 4:[16:35] My opponents have been using my full name to scare people.Is it my fault that my middle name is Boo?Track 4:[16:47] I just fell in love. For me, there's just something about it that clicked.And getting to watch him throughout his time at the show, So I've like psychoanalyzed this over the years, Thomas, where I'm like trying to figure out what it is for him that just, you know, makes me laugh harder than anybody else.And I think it's because like...I think I'm like a pretty like I have quirks, but I think I'm like a pretty normal person Yeah, but like will brings out the weird in me Like he brings out something in my personality that isn't brought out by most people And it's something that I watch on the screen and I just get purely happy So in some of like the you know saddest times of my life i've turned on will forte sketches and he's just Brightened my day.That's such the mark of a good performer, too He does that for me As well, like i'm a pretty normal i'm probably a little more weird than you i would say like if we're doing a scale or we have to ask listeners i'm guessing we'll ask we'll take a we'll take a poll or something but uh i'll ask them on i'm doing the hot take show so maybe that'll i'll chat to see to see about that uh but so but you're right so he brings out like the the weird aspect of me to like all those little those little things that i'm like why do i relate to this like because i've kind of i kind of had that like weird side of me but that that's That's like the mark of a good performer is like he's relatable in that weirdness that maybe you didn't know you had until you watched him perform in some ways. Does that make sense?Track 4:[18:09] Yeah, I mean, I think he's he's reminds me a lot of like the friends that I chose like for my life.Like I'm I have a very unique situation in my personal life where some of my friends have been my friends for over 20 years. Like these are friends from when I was really little.And I won. I always like wonder like why I gravitated to a specific type of person.And it's like the people who will go the furthest with a joke like that and like they have a lot of will forte qualities in them and i just think i like to surround myself with people who are um sort of like you know don't give a shit and you know and it will like take something really far not not offensively but like um i remember seth meyer is telling this amazing joke uh this amazing story about will forte once on late night where he said that um i believe it was one of the writers, I'm blanking on the name of the specific writer, but one of the writers had been so hungry on a Tuesday night writing night and was writing all night and ordered Chinese food.And it took so long to get upstairs to the 17th floor.Hours and hours. Finally, the delivery guy drops out the food, gets there. The writer is like so excited.Will Forte goes to pick up the bag and drops it out the window.Track 4:[19:17] It's one of the greatest things I've ever heard. And I'm just like, you got to look that up on YouTube and like watch Seth tell that story.It is so funny to me and it is perfectly like encapsulates Will Forte and why everybody loves hanging out with him.That's so oddball. That's so Will Forte. You honed in on something that relates to something that I wrote down, like a key word.I was thinking about Will Forte, and the word that keeps coming up for me is commitment.I think Will Forte, more than most cast members that have come through the show, is he's 100% committed to this sketch.No matter what, this character, this sketch, Will Forte is in it.And to me, John, when I see cast members, won't name names obviously, but when I see cast members who maybe are less so, who I gravitate less toward, or maybe cast members who I feel slightly uncomfortable watching on screen, I think it's a lot of times because they lack commitment on screen.Because I see there's something that's not letting them just break out of their shell completely.With Will Forte, that was never the problem. Can you think of a performer on SNL that can rival? I mean, there's probably people who can rival, but is there any performer who could exceed Will Forte's commitment?Track 4:[20:34] I think Will Ferrell probably is a good example. I mean, the like the two Wills, I think like, you know, Phil Hartman and Dana Carvey.You got to put that in that category a little bit. Those are all time greats, though. Yeah, like I really I really do feel.But Will, like it has his own kind of commitment where he goes to like he goes to one side that is so unique to the show. And, you know, a lot of times on on our podcast, when we're evaluating an episode, we'll talk about the 10 to 1 sketch.And he basically, you know, that did exist prior to it. But, you know, it's really the Will Forte slot in the show.Like, I think everyone that's come after him has always been like looking for a Will Forte to be the weird sketch.Sketch um and i think like the committed weird is really what people are looking for in that 10 to 1 it's not just like oh here's like a random weird one-off character that's quirky it's like somebody who is so weird that it just makes everybody in the sketch and out of the sketch just like amazed at that person i think sarah sherman does that sometimes as well and i wish we got that more on the show but yeah i mean i think you nailed it i think that's that is a quality that we look for and will but i will also say one other quality thomas, that i always stuck out to me about will was that he's like a very normal good-looking guy.Track 4:[21:49] And like you know maybe like barring the time like for last man on earth that he like shaved like half his beard and half his head like he is like so normal looking and he's a secret sicko, that's what i love is that like you would never know that this guy in his head is an evil genius and i love that about him yeah and i think that's one of the things when i first saw will forte on screen i'm like okay he's just kind of a your standard issue male cast member that they hired and he's just gonna be like cookie cutter but you put this real quick he he totally dispelled all the notions that i had just by looking at him you're right there's like this sicko i love that word that's that's a perfect word to describe a lot of what's underneath the surface of will Will Forte is just, yeah, like that sicko, right?They're like a nondescript, normal-looking guy, but then something comes bursting out of him that's just very weird.And when I think about all-time greats, Hall of Famers, whatever, I think it scores bonus points, especially, you know, with Will Forte, that he had his own unique lane in the show.Like, you can see a sketch and say, that's a Will Forte sketch.Track 4:[23:07] And that's rare. And that's something that I, you know, when it comes to SNL, when I see a cast member like that, I really gravitate toward it because that's a rare quality to have where it's just like, that's Will Forte's lane.You mentioned 10 to 1, any sort of oddball thing.Andrew Dismukes kind of has that right now. That's why I kind of gravitate toward him because Dismukes has a stamp.But to me, that scores Will Forte bonus points for having his own unique lane, John.Track 4:[23:37] I agree. I mean, look, I think we had this very interesting discussion when we did the SNN's cast member countdown.So Will Forte was voted 18th overall by the viewers.I was doing my rankings at the same time. I had him at 21.So really around the same range, but slightly lower than that.And you may be saying like, John, how can this person be your favorite cast member? And you have them at 21st.And the truth is, is that I think that, you know, when you're looking at the 50 year legacy of the show, um, there are a lot of performers that are extremely well-rounded that have contributed and just, you know, built in every aspect of the show.And I just, I don't, I think that will have the ability to make the show all about him like an Eddie Murphy at times, like a Kristen and wig at times.You know, like a Will Ferrell. But the show was never built around Will.Will was always one or two parts or three parts of an episode.And you would watch his sketches and you may walk away feeling like they were your favorites.But it was very rare when you you watch an episode of Saturday Night Live during Will Forte's tenure, that you're like, that is a Will Forte episode, or this season was Will Forte season.Track 4:[24:42] So I also needed to be objective and fair about that. Now, I don't think that disqualifies him from the Hall of Fame whatsoever, because I think that like The Hall of Fame is a whole other thing where you're talking about people who built the legacy of the show, and I think he's very, very much a part of that. Yeah, absolutely.And still, I mean, you said 21st. He ended up on the, or 18th on the countdown.18th on the cast, 21 on my list. Where do you have him?I think I had him probably about 16th, ultimately, even though he's one of my two or three.Yeah, he's one of my two or three favorite cast members, but favorite, and then, and I'm trying to put together the greatest.So it's different, but to me.Track 4:[25:18] Shoot like top 20 top 25 that's right smack in the middle of hall of fame territory right there if we're talking 160 or something now cast members so to me will forte is a slam dunk hall of famer so this is gonna be like the listener will know where i'm coming from and where you're coming from obviously with this episode but i was surprised i think that i had him higher than you but really you're right like it's the same ballpark so we both view him about equally i think yeah i mean the other thing you have to you know like the other thing that i factored into my cast rankings was also you know his contribution after his time in the cast he does leave in 2010 um and i think that he you know we'll get to this full conversation of his career but i i do think he could have stayed an extra couple years and that really would have helped him in terms of legacy like had he left at the same time as andy sandberg and kristen wigg he He has only come back to host once.That episode that he hosted was one of the weirdest episodes in SNL history.I think we could say that now.Track 4:[26:18] So, you know, that to me is a factor that I think about in terms of overall contribution to the series.So, you know, these are things to think about. But overall, I mean, what a career that he put up at the show. I can't wait to get into it. Just amazing.And we can get into it. What is maybe the first sketch or character that you think about when you think of Will Forte?All right. So I got two that are my quintessential Will Forte sketches.These are two of my favorite sketches of all time.I've always I've had the trouble of deciding which one is my truly my favorite all time.But if I had somebody who came to me said I've never watched a Saturday Night Live sketch before, which one should I start with?Track 4:[27:01] I'm going to start with Jeff Montgomery, the sex offender.Just out of curiosity, what exactly is your Halloween costume? I'm a sex offender.Track 4:[27:17] Excuse me? I'm a sex offender. For Halloween.A sex offender. Yes, pretty convincing, huh? Here, watch this.I'm Jeff Montgomery. summary by law i'm required to inform you that i'm a repeat sex offender and i'll be living in your neighborhood it's a great costume right yes yes to me this to me like encapsulates everything i look for in the show it is so fantastic this is a this is a sketch by the way that was cut once previously from the brian williams episode in 2007 it was then brought back for the john Jon Hamm episode in October 2008.Track 4:[27:57] And this is a guy who rings the doorbell, trick or treat, and says that he's dressed as a sex offender and needs some papers to be signed.And the confusion between Jon Hamm and Will Forte, as they discuss, are you dressed as a sex offender or are you actually a sex offender, is one of the funniest things I have ever seen.And Will Forte plays this beautifully.It's beautiful wordsmithing by Will Forte to dance around the fact that he's a sex offender needing to go around the neighborhood.And this is a great example of understated Will Forte, in my opinion.I think the other one that you're going to mention that I have a feeling you're going to mention is more so on the bigger side a little bit.But this, yeah, this Jeff Montgomery one is more understated Will in a lot of ways.Yes. And I want to credit Colin Jost, who wrote that sketch with him.So that, you know, the two of them, I mean, what a team that is.Collins wrote some fantastic sketches over the years.But yes, I would say this is the sketch that I would show people the most of, of Will Forte.I have, I struggle whether it's truly my favorite sketch because there's one that like sentimentally means more to people, but I don't know if you get it if you're not an SNL fan. So do you want me to jump to that one?Yeah, I think you're going to, well, go ahead.Track 4:[29:19] So so i also want to say jeff montgomery did come back a second time with tim mcgrath which is uh but but yes um the the one i'm the one that means the most to me in my heart is the dancing coach sketch with peyton manning yeah and that to me is like i i think i can say it's my favorite sketch of all time this is where peyton manning uh is on a is not a football player he's a basketball player in the sketch and it's halftime in a basketball game uh like sort of like a college basketball situation and him and keenan and fred and andy and bill and jason they all come in uh to the locker room, and Will Forte is the coach and starts talking to them about, you know, being more motivated.All right, listen up.Track 4:[30:00] I see a lot of mopey faces around here. Granted, we're down by 34 points.McMillan broke his ankle, and our cheerleaders have started cheering for the other team. That doesn't mean we can't come back and win this thing.And Wally, you got something you want to say? Yeah, coach.Guys. And gives them the speech that leads to Will Forte playing the theme or one of the songs from Casino Royale and he starts dancing.You definitely got to look this up if you can find it online because Will Forte dancing and making everybody laugh, including, you know, watching Bill Hader's face in the back of the sketch is.Honestly like when this came out and i saw this live we watched this sketch maybe a hundred times thomas that's how much you watched it was so funny to me and i cannot watch it without laughing, great one of my greatest sketches of all time this is amazing physical comedy by will forte i'm glad you paired this one with the jeff montgomery one at the top because it's almost like the comedic yin and the yang for will forte like i said jeff montgomery's more like it's about how Will Forte's delivering the lines and it's more understated.And this one, it's just like physical comedy, these dance moves, how he times it out with the song.Track 4:[31:17] You're right, like Keenan. Keenan's almost the first one to break.He and Peyton have to cover themselves, their faces with towels just to not break.And Fred, Fred's usually like pretty, you know, keeps it together.Famously in the Debbie Downer sketch, Fred was the one kind of like watching everybody going, going okay guys we still have a scene to do in this one fred was this is one of the few times that i saw fred almost break and bill of course bill hater uh always does but how could you not this was such great will forte physical comedy like i i absolutely love this one john honestly i think a lot of cast members feel like this is one of their favorite sketches of all time bobby moynihan when he joined us uh he he mentioned this sketch at one point about how this is one of his favorite sketches and then he got to be in the second one in his first episode and it was just like so exciting for him to see the dancing uh you know the dancing coach and i just you know like i said it's one of those visual things that you got to go watch this it is so amazing the commitment from will forte absolutely fantastic so to me those are the two quintessential will forte sketches there's a lot more though i can't wait to get into yeah i have a quintessential central one as well it comes toward the end of his SNL tenure and it's the one that he and Jason Sudeikis did with Blake Lively the potato chip, Janelda, how many potato chips did you put in here today? Thirty-five.I thought so. I thought so!Track 4:[32:43] You didn't happen to take any out for yourself? Oh, God, no.Why, that would be stealing. It certainly would.Track 4:[32:53] Janelda, what would you say if I'd have told you that that man right there is nothing but a common potato chip thief? Ah!Potato chip thief! to me if i wanted to show somebody like this is will forte's humor this is will forte's playground i might show them potato chip thief too that'd be one of the first ones that i show them, like just just displaying will forte's like humor what he brought to snl he and this one he plays it big like it's maybe a little more understated at the beginning but he ends up like yelling screaming but underneath that screaming he says some really funny things so potato chip thief john would be to me like another quintessential will forte yeah so i love this sketch a lot it has a lot of elements of other sketches which is maybe why i don't put this at the top of my will forte list like i would say that this is and i get what you're saying i think for a lot of people this is the top will forte stuff um for me i'd say this is maybe like my B tier Will Forte, just because it has elements of other things that I think ultimately led to this occasion.Track 4:[34:01] It's a brilliant sketch. Love Jason Sudeikis in this as well.Love Blake Lively. Like this is a really, really great sketch.I believe this is John Solomon and Will Forte in this one.John Solomon wrote a lot with Will when he was on the show. But the, you know, chewing the potato chip and spitting it into, you know, the mouth, which is just like, again, something you got to see I know that that happened a little bit in the 2000s the baby bird stuff with Will Ferrell and all that stuff so the grossness of the sketch I think really does work here but it does lose its luster a little bit if you've seen it before whereas I think the dancing coach like is just like non-stop money but yeah ultimately I do I do really really love this sketch and I think that the commitment here from Will is fantastic and the reason that I felt like it has you know stuff from Will's earlier career is because him yelling is a another staple of Will Forte with the Zell Miller impression which you ever go see that you know one of his like talk show guys that he did and like he would just yell that's like an early Will Forte career thing where he would just yell so much that his face would turn red.Senator Miller knowing what we know now how could we possibly avoid such destruction from future tsunamis? Tsunamis!I'm sick of hearing about tsunamis!Thank you.Track 4:[35:30] And that is also incorporated into the sketch a little bit. But I love this one too, Thomas.Yeah, definite Zell Miller vibes, one of his recurring characters.Zell Miller, Georgia politician.I think Zell Miller said some crazy things, especially about Barack Obama.And then Will Forte just sort of turned him into a caricature completely.Track 4:[35:53] I do want to talk about Will Forte as a breath of fresh air for the show.Show to uh because i think and i know it's subjective but he started at a time where i think snl was trying to find an identity will ferrell had just left and they didn't quite have an identity they were playing around with like do we push seth meyers as the star of the show who's the star of the show what's our humor what's our viewpoint and i think will forte was a breath of fresh air amidst them trying to figure themselves out i mean the show and things like the falconer that premiered in season 28 and that was so to me that was so unlike a lot of what was on snl at the time that it was um it was a relief sometimes to see the falconer something like that pop up on screen and this the falconer is one of the things that will forte is best known for but it was just like a relief for me as a viewer when it popped up in this era of SNL.Donald, we're starving to death.This land that once filled us with life is now barren.One of us must search elsewhere, and only one of us can fly.Track 4:[37:06] No, Donald, you! Oh, Donald, even in these desperate times, you still retain that dry sense of humor.Now you must fly away from these woods and bring back something, a possum, a squirrel, anything to keep us alive. So be gone, my friend.Bring us life. Bring us life.Yeah, I do like the Falconer a lot. I think those sketches are pretty forgotten because of all the great things that Will Forte did after.But I truly believe those are great sketches.That's Will with Eric Slovin and Leo Allen. And I think Eric Slovin was the guy who, by the way, who will dump.Track 4:[37:47] Before but yeah those falconer sketches are really great and just so weird and bizarre for a time where snl's writing was a little choppy and they were trying to figure it out like you said in that you know post will ferrell world and pre kristin wigg bill hater jason sudeikis and andy samberg world and i think that those sketches are really great i think they did nine of them um and they are very enjoyable i love will getting to talk to objects like that and i think you know or Or animals like that.And I do think you get to see more of this in Last Man on Earth.If you ever go watch that show.Track 4:[38:23] Yeah. That he brings out some of his Falconer character.Yeah. Especially like at the beginning of the series. The Last Man on Earth.When he's talking to the balls.The various balls that become his friends.That are like placed inside the bar.I can definitely see that. I'm going to go ahead and call Donald an object too. Because you could see.One of the funny things is you could see the strings on that puppet.I'm sure that was a choice.Like let's make the strings show and make it look as ridiculous as possible and john when i sometimes when i as a viewer when i complain about like little writing things and stuff one of my chief things is escalation like how do you do escalation what's proper escalation the sketch needs more escalation that's if i always say that like it could have been bumped up just another notch with the falconer to me a lot of these sketches were just perfect examples of how you escalate, especially a recurring sketch.How do you find escalation in something recurring?I think Will Forte and the people behind this Falconer sketch just did that escalation beautifully.Track 4:[39:32] I totally agree. I think that's a great point for these.You know, there are some other sketches from early in his career that I think are really important to bring up that are often lost upon people.So I think now is a good time to maybe pivot to some of those um one of those is from the season 28 episode 14 episode with queen latifah i don't know if you know what i'm gonna say but this one is give up the ham give up the ham, such a good sketch that is like because of the i don't know if it's like the song like it doesn't get put up a lot and like you gotta look you gotta google it and look up this but um basically people fighting over ham at a grocery store and then the sketch breaks down with bull forte singing singing, give up the ham.Track 4:[40:44] And it is so so good and like i think maybe the first moment of really seeing like how great this guy is i know that him and fred sort of did some stuff on update but like this was to me the first like major major moment for well for a day on the show it's commitment to something ridiculous or like a commitment to an everyday thing like uh shopping at a grocery store say so how can we take that scene that scenario and and play it up into something ridiculous and and uh it was that amy poehler and queen latifah i think rachel dratch comes in as amy poehler's friend so all these people start walking in but then will just totally owns it with this song like yeah that's just total commitment again like you'll never have trouble with will forte and commitment give up the Ham's one of the ones that I go back to semi-regularly, honestly, if I need a good laugh, I do that.That's a really good shout out. That's from season 28, episode 14.One that I thought of, season 28, the next episode, episode 15, it was a sketch that he did with Jimmy Fallon, Salma Hayek.It was called Cardboard Box. You remember this one, John? I do.Yeah, go ahead. So Will Forte, so he played a husband who was suspecting his wife of cheating.Track 4:[42:06] So Will Forte's character mailed himself to their house in this big cardboard box so he could catch them in the act.And this is just, to me, like we're talking early examples, like such a wonderful early example of a truly absurd premise that Will Forte completely sells.And he has to do this inside a box that he's not even on on camera most of the sketch and what he has to do and what he has to convey from inside a cardboard box is like chef's kiss like beautiful work yeah he does this thing sometimes where he can like we talked about zell miller with yelling till he's red but sometimes he does this like angry yell in a calm way that it's very hard to describe unless you hear it but um he did this recently on like i think you should leave in one of the episodes uh tim robinson's show where he's like almost like he like fell on the sidewalk and he was like under a car but he wasn't like really stuck um but yeah he does this thing sometimes where he's like stuck in a place and he's just like someone will say something to him and he'll like respond with this sarcasticness in his voice that's like oh of course you would think that you know like that type of thing and it's just so brilliant to me and this is this is This is a real deep cut Thomas, but this is a great sketch.You don't think he has any idea what's going on with us, do you? Oh, please.That ignoramus doesn't suspect a thing. He does now.Track 4:[43:32] Ray, where are you? Right here.All right here i'm in the box what the hell are you doing in the box i thought you went to cleveland i was but i mailed myself home to lay this little trap for you and now after laying in wait for 28 hours the trap is sprung ha 28 hours it's awesome i think what jimmy fallon was hosting this or was it salma no salma hike was hosting it jimmy fallon was still on the cast obviously season uh 28 uh but yeah this is like kind of a deep cut i think will forte has a lot of these it's like these one-offs yeah where you you get reminded of it and it was like oh yeah will forte.Track 4:[44:14] Did this well let me take you to one of the greatest episodes in snl history i think which is the jack black episode from 2005 that december episode that had you know lazy sunday and all that stuff in it um that really like changed uh you know changed the era of the show and brought on this new golden age and one of the sketches there that uh really cemented you know will's place in the show throughout this golden age is that spelling bee sketch that's very famous well forte moment where they ask him to smell business and he keeps asking questions back and he goes on and on and on and on and it is the ultimate commitment to the bit as he continues to go on Q, M, T, S, D, T, Q, M, P, R, F, T, D, P, D, P, N, H, R, K, T, E, T, F, business.Track 4:[45:20] And I think that so many people growing up writing sketch comedy have tried to find a take on this specific sketch.And I don't know that anyone's ever matched the level at which Will Forte can pull something like the spelling bee sketch off.It's a very specific type of humor where you're testing how far you can push the joke.And sometimes so like you're testing the cycle of a joke almost.So you make the joke. It's funny, funny, funny.And it hits the peak and then almost becomes less funny.But then he's still doing it. And it's less funny, less funny.But then he does it enough to where it circles back around and it's really funny again.That's a very specific type of thing. A very, I think, maybe possibly brave thing to do on a show like SNL.I can see people doing that on like, you know, let's make a YouTube video and try this out.But to do something like that on a show like SNL where you're almost messing with the viewer in some ways and testing their patience.But there's a really great reward ultimately. I think the spelling bee sketch is a perfect example, especially like the run he goes on of saying Q, I don't know how many times in a row.Track 4:[46:32] But you know what's great about something like this is that I don't think there is a person that came before Will Forte that can pull off this sketch as well.Like you think about uh great like orators in snl history like people like dan akroyd or phil hartman who can just say things really quickly but still make the listener understand them and it's so brilliant at the speed at which they communicate whether it's as a pitchman or even just as a game show host or something like that but will forte can say things slower than the average person and it doesn't sound like too slow where it's not entertaining and that is like a whole other level of brilliance that i don't know that i've seen before prior to well forte yeah his voice it's almost like asmr in a lot of ways like yeah like with this spelling bee one you mentioned tim calhoun and that's one of the things that stood out was almost like a low-key asmr kind delivery with Tim Calhoun.He was a little bit nervous, but it gets that he's just like whispering, but not.And just, yeah, it's just that like a very unique delivery.Track 4:[47:42] And I had written a note. So Spelling Bee, as far as like testing, see how far you can push the joke.It also reminded me of something else that he did on Weekend Update when he was, he appeared He appeared with Amy, I think Amy and Seth, in season 34, and he appeared as himself, and he was recapping a Senate vote.When Friday's tally was finally counted, and that was all she wrote, people asked, how did that pass?Track 4:[48:37] So this was an example of him kind of taking a joke so far that maybe it becomes unfunny but then it circles back around so he was he made up this song and recapping how certain how certain senators voted and then amy interrupted him and he's scolding amy about how rude it is to interrupt your friends when they're singing and this reminded me of spelling bee in like how far can Can we push something?It is really great. I mean, he basically started on SNL when he kept coming on and doing songs with Fred Armisen a couple times and, you know, in different variations of that.But yeah, he will come on update and do songs on a regular basis throughout his SNL tenure and he will push things to the absolute limit.And, you know, I think a great sketch to jump to off of this conversation is Fly High Duluth, which to me is like an underrated classic john yes this is uh this good snl podcaster, that's from the scarlett johansson episode and it's basically like a tv talk show where they're like oh we have a band that's finally gonna come out and do the theme song for the show and they just like keep going and going and going with the song where they keep thinking it's over but it's not and will forte is like drinking and going like full rock star with it and it is so brilliant.I cannot wait to hear what you think of the sketch because I don't get to talk about it enough. Mama.Track 4:[50:04] Don't you point that gun at me.I said, please, Mama.Track 4:[50:15] Don't you point that gun at me.Because my love is consecrated in the blood of the.Track 4:[50:36] It's an example to me. Well, by the way, first of all, as an example of the, just the breadth of will for taste sketches, we had mentioned spelling bee.That was season 31 episode 9 fly high Duluth was season 31 episode 10 so this came like one episode after that like you can look through all his great sketches and like dang that happened those happen like back to back and that happens a lot uh like I'm on my list I'm seeing like back to back to back episodes but yeah fly high Duluth is again one of those where I frequently go back and watch it and it's just again that commitment to the sketch the commitment to the bit it's so So ridiculous.He's like this Jim Morrison type of guy singing this theme song for a show in Duluth, Minnesota. And he's like...Track 4:[51:25] With his with scarlett johansson so his his his lover his his uh what's she line or she tiger i think he called her something like that i think her name is yeah it's like they're wally and char char yeah yeah yeah so it's just like this is a wonderful example to me of like will will forte's commitment to the sketch just doing these ridiculous things chugging which i assume was iced was tea or something like that in a jack daniels bottle uh but no this is one of my favorites and i never get the sense that will forte is is self-conscious even for one split second up there and so to me as a viewer it makes me feel like i'm in good hands with will forte in this sketch yeah absolutely and this is uh this is one that he put together with eric kenward who's is now a producer on the show um but yeah i mean this is a this is another brilliant sketch that you just got to break down it's a very long sketch and sometimes you know my personal preference is not to go too long with sketches unless we're talking about like one of the great debate sketches in snl history that really has like something to say i think then you can push things a little bit which is my opinion but you know i think you know i prefer shorter sketches but the the joke here is that you know will is going to push this and push this as far as it And they've done this a couple times in the talk show format in SNL history where things just like break down to an extreme and you need somebody who can.Track 4:[52:53] You know, you can drive the ship when that's happening and not let the sketch go off course to the point where people are like, oh, they're doing the same joke over and over again. And why was it so long? Why did it drag?Track 4:[53:05] Will forte never lets that happen he always lets it escalate he always has to get to another point that's interesting like i find that there's never a will for to sketch i'm watching and i'm like ah i wish i saw less of that no you're completely right like by the end of this duluth live sketch like they're doing a full-on breakdown like he's starting and he's kind of seeing the lyrics are kind of weird but you're like okay this is kind of like a weird kind of hippie or 70s rock band doing this but okay like it's kind of weird but then you're right like it escalates and escalates to the point where like Fred's doing this full drum solo and he's shredding on the guitar he's breaking the guitar Will's screaming on the mic like yeah so yeah the escalation this was beautiful beautiful escalation and something that I always look for as an SNL fan uh yeah go check that out that was season 31 episode 10 and we haven't with Will Forte we haven't talked about.Track 4:[54:00] Impressions so much or anything i have kind of a maybe a hot somewhat of a hot take for you i actually think i actually think he was a decent george w bush oh okay i i really do and i think it suffered because he had to follow will ferrell's george w bush that was its own thing but i think just in a vacuum i think he could have really made that work because i think he has the type of personality to where he can play understated but he could also say weird things and be squirrely and have that bizarre nature underneath the surface which was george w bush and kind of how will ferrell depicted it but i think it suffered because he had to follow will ferrell but i think in a vacuum and going back to re-watch some of these i was thinking to myself like, a pretty good George W. Bush, honestly. You know, we're roughly $7 billion in debt. But don't worry, I got a plan.I've decided to consolidate all of our debt with one of those debt consolidation companies.Track 4:[55:09] That's right. We're going to go with Dytek.Like me, you've probably seen their commercials late at night on ESPN2.You know, the ones with the guy who says, lost another loan did I take?It's a funny commercial.I think he's a decent impressionist, and that's a very interesting take.Now, I think that the decline in the show post-Will Ferrell, I think, gets unfairly associated with the Bush impression a little bit.And that sort of falls on to people like Will Forte and Sudeikis and Daryl Hammond, who tried to do it for a bit.Like you know you know i think people were were upset that will ferrell wasn't around anymore, and that was like nobody really gave it a chance um and the show has like a history of not being able to transition over these iconic impressions in a way maybe besides daryl is bill clinton who took that from phil harman i think that maybe is the only exception but yeah i see what you're saying i just don't know that i ever really gave it a chance as much as i loved will forte i wasn't Like, you know, we're talking about like a post 9-11 world where people are pretty down on Bush in general.Track 4:[56:24] And, you know, the, you know, you know, Will Ferrell made Bush lovable because he was like a frat guy.And that's what he turned him into, like a bro and a frat guy.And I think that Forte never got the characterization or the writing to be able to turn the sketch and make it something of its own in the way that Will Ferrell had that leash to do. Yeah, you couldn't make the George W.Bush around when Will Forte was playing him lovable like Will Farrell did.I'm going to confuse that the whole darn show. Will Farrell, Will Forte.But so so will forte's uh george w bush i think it it was at a disadvantage because of just where george w bush was as a political figure around that time you know the kind of the whatever paul shine was on him if you could say that was was worn off quite a bit around that time so so you couldn't do the same type of depiction as will ferrell did and i i was like you i didn't really give it a chance but this is just sort of in hindsight kind of re-watching it sort of dawned on me I'm like this could you know it's not like.Track 4:[57:33] He was the best impressionist or like mimic but you don't have to be if snl history has taught us anything about impressions is you don't have to sound exactly like the person or even look exactly like the person i think he could have found an angle that i think he had the right personality to do and i saw i saw something in these george w bush impressions impressions that i hadn't really given a chance prior i mean he did it for a while i think he did it for over were he did 20 of them yeah like maybe two years he was doing it so sort of like finished up a little bit of um you know uh george w which is tenure of the show i guess they handed to sudeikis for like that the baton for like a little bit but yeah i don't know i i just i always felt like will forte um like i said he brings such a like a bright light to the show and and stuff like that and i don't think that the country was like very happy in general with bush and you know was looking for a change and like i don't know that um will it wasn't the right place in the right time for him to play him i think ultimately but i love the hot take i think it's a great hot take it's like there's a lot of what-if scenarios like do i think um if well forte was around a couple years earlier could he have played the original like incarnation of bush that's a possibility i think so um but.Track 4:[58:49] Well, I think you're right that you mentioned that maybe his George W.Bush impression unfairly gets lumped in with why the show was struggling around that time.I agree with that. I think there are a lot of factors. I just think where the country was, where humor was at the time.And I brought this up a few times on the show around 2000, let's say 2002 to 2005.Track 4:[59:11] That was a very weird time for humor in general. It was a lot of edgelord stuff.It was just a lot of really broad humor, I would say.And so i think maybe the the show suffered from just where humor was over in our society just in in general look i think i think um our community of like snl diehards looks back at that time, very like unfondly because you know you watch these things off time you go back and you watch these things on a binge and you'll see like all these episodes and you'll see the decline of the the show um and i'm not disqualifying you know people's feelings about those seasons because i would definitely rank them pretty low but i think tina fey often mentions how it was a very hard time to write comedy just like post 9-11 everybody you know nobody wanted to talk about politics you know they i mean the u.s was like invading countries around the world and then potentially invading the wrong countries and like you know there was like all this crazy politics stuff going on that nobody really wants to talk about.And people want it to, as far as, you know, Tina was concerned is that people wanted to turn on SNL on a Saturday night and not think about these things.So they focused more of their writing around pop culture.And the problem when you do that is that the references and the sketches become very dated.So to go back and watch like season 29 and season 30, um.Track 4:[1:00:34] I don't know almost 20 years later you're like this doesn't hold up as well as the things that came before it or the things that came after it so i think there's a lot of things working against it though i will say will forte was a bright spot in a little bit of a dark time of the show yeah breath of fresh air for me definitely and since i'm confusing will ferrell and will forte as probably a lot of people did around that time i want to talk about a sketch that i love that has both of them and when Will Ferrell came back to host in season 30 toward the end of that season it was a sketch called Pepper Grinder oh wow and yeah this is one that I think slips through the cracks for a lot of people too so basically Will Forte's character he and his wife are celebrating their anniversary at dinner and Will Ferrell oddly plays a college student you have to suspend your disbelief there for that real quick and basically will forte's character makes will ferrell's waiter character grind the pepper for a long time to teach him about grit and perseverance and and everything and this is just like to me will is so good at taking an everyday situation to like a dramatic absurdity sir my arm is starting to burn louis that's enough stay out of this jamie this is between me and the boy i can't lose this job sir then keep grinding.Track 4:[1:02:02] Oh god the pain grind son grind oh god oh god it burns please sir please.Track 4:[1:02:19] He's working with another master at that, Will Ferrell.So as a comedy nerd, as an SNL nerd, John, this type of sketch is like a dream for me.I love this sketch. It's a great one. And it's great seeing like two legends, you know, play off of each other.This is the type of sketch that you watch as a you know, what we're making when we're putting together a reel of Will Forte sketches, which is essentially what we're doing here.And then giving this off to the Academy of voters to go vote for Will Forte.I want the listeners to consider something here, which is watch this sketch and then think about if Will Forte could have fit in any era of the show.And this is a sketch that shows you why he could have like he could have done this sketch in the original cast by far like that could have fit in really well with a couple people here and showed them you know like i could just picture like a gilda radner sitting across from the table and like a dan akroyd with a pepper grinder like you could picture these things when you see these sketches because he just fits in so well with any cast um because he is such a unique archetype that i think really molds to the people around him so i do feel like that is why hosts it was It was probably their dream to be in a Will Forte sketch because he is such a great scene partner.Yeah, it was amazing to watch them work. And Rachel Dratch does a really good job with her role and her comments throughout this sketch.And now that I'm thinking about it and thinking about one of the traits of Will Forte that we've been talking about all episode, I think the pepper grinder sketch really has a bunch of them all wrapped in one. So you have that commitment.Track 4:[1:03:44] Completely 100% commitment. You have the escalation. It's what this sketch is built on, is that escalation that you're not quite expecting.You have the more kind of subtle Will Forte and good line deliveries at the beginning, especially.You have Will Forte just going nuts and yelling in this sketch.So I think this Pepper Grinder sketch encompasses encompasses all the like the a lot of the positive traits that we've talked about with will forte john am i wrong to say this is the perfect will forte sketch oh there's so many though that's the problem yeah it's not like you know there's every sketch is the perfect will for i'm just getting excited i'm just using hyperbole at this point too i like it i like it but um yeah i know i agree i think this is a like i said it represents a lot about you know what i like about will forte which which is, this is one of the sketch.I think there's another sketch that he does that is a comparable sketch to this one.And this is like later in his career, but I'm just trying to remember.It's one where he's like, maybe you can place this for me in my mind, but it's one where like, they're trying to decide like, who's going to pick up the check.And then like, he insists that he's going to pick it up.Track 4:[1:04:55] And that one is so, so great.I need to find where that was. It was called, I got this. I think if you look it up on on YouTube that's from season 35 and it's uh, it was like a game show basically Yeah, that was yes. Okay. You mentioned it's a game show.Yes It's a game show bill hater was trying to figure out who's gonna settle the bill And I think I honestly think that like that could be the same character from the pepper grinder sketch Like him just playing this like older gentleman about like who's gonna pay the bill and stuff like this and this is um One of it's in one of will's last episodes of a cast member as a cast member, but it's it's a really good sketch, Check still out there gentlemen. I got your money's no good here.I got this dad Come on, you're getting on in years, and I want to show you my love before you pass.I got this I'm only 58 I got this you introduced me to jazz.I got this you helped me to learn eBay. I got this I got my MasterCard right here.I could just not I got this I got this this is the woman I will be buried next to she comforts me when my hernia acts up the least I can do for this blessed angel is Is buyer spaghetti on her birthday? I got this!Track 4:[1:06:04] Impressive! Good rat! When people complain, like, they see, oh, another game show sketch.I think the game show format is perfect for a sketch comedy show.Especially, you could talk about technical reasons, blocking, the way the studio's set up, all of that.But I don't scoff at game show sketches just because they're game show sketches.We've had a lot of really clever ones recently this is an example and you just have to have the right premise and the right performers and we certainly had that especially with the premise of this and with will forte my problem the game show sketches is just that people don't really they're like aren't that many new game shows that's the problem right but i guess that's the you know evolution yeah that's why you invent a game show called like i got this yeah yes but But yeah, this is a great sketch.I think, you know, Thomas, we talked about how great of a great of a performer is Will is with performing with basically anybody.But I do think that he's also built chemistry with cast members that he has seen as like his ultimate scene partners.Track 4:[1:07:10] And that may have developed like later in his career, so much so that I wish he could have stayed on the show more.But I think that him and Jason Sudeikis on the show together is an all time duo that people talk about and still reference to this day of like oh that could be a forte in sudeikis.Track 4:[1:07:27] And we haven't even talked about any of their sketches together where they are so brilliant um i'll start with the espn guys the pete twinkle and greg stink you know this is a sketch that sort of premiered like very late in will forte's uh career at the show where i think it was in his last season this is season 35 and then we get it a bunch of times in that season but it's all like,

Silvana and Tegan watch Season 4, Episode 9 "Scorched Earth". The ladies love this episode and suggest it as a great one to start people on Stargate.  The SG-1 team are helping a group of people settle a new planet, but another civilization has already started terraforming it! How will the team solve this one? Answer: with the Daniel Jackson we've all been waiting for! With a little conversation, Daniel is able to solve everyone's problems. How is this advanced civilization not one of the original four races? This is rather like Horizon Zero Dawn, from the perspective of the Gadmere.  Maybe it is just because Silvana is an Agile Coach, but this episode provides a great example of agile culture vs command/control structure.  Join the discussion! Check out Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer Born Sexy Yesterday from Pop Culture Detective

Silvana and Tegan watch season 4, episode 8 "The First Ones". Daniel Jackson is kidnapped by an Unas as a sacrifice, and the SG-1 team has to track them to rescue him. Silvana and Tegan speculate about how the Jaffa could use this world to their advantage. What exactly is Chaka?  Join the discussion on Discord or Instagram by visiting our Linktree.

When a bunch of men in large snake heads suddenly jump out of a relic of alien technology housed deep within Cheyenne Mountain, General Hammond decides to call Richard Dean Anderson with a haircut out of retirement. But when they discover that the gate is less like two cans on a string and more like a touchtone phone, it's going to take an ensemble cast with eidetic memories to dial in the right number. Does the snek make the X from the inside? Do Furries require fur? How many claymores can you fit in war wagon? It's the episode that puts it in the theme.own.Join weekly watch parties during Pilot Season on the USS Hood Discord! Friends of DeSoto for LaborSupport the production of Greatest TrekMusic by Adam RaguseaFollow Greatest Trek on Twitter, and discuss the show using the hashtag #GreatestTrek!Greatest Trek on YouTube | Facebook group | Subreddit | Discord | WikiSign up for our mailing list!Get a thing at podshop.biz!

Silvana and Tegan are joined by their friend Eric for Season 4, Episode 6 "Window of Opportunity". This is a fan and podcast favorite!  Have you ever wondered what Teal'c was doing while Jack was getting up to shenanigans? Find out what everyone's favorite parts were and just how much Tegan and Silvana hate the Jack/Sam moment.  Eric has some theories about time loops. Silvana makes an observation about Stargate SG-1 and the West Wing. Join the discussion by joining one of our socials.

Asha Fenn lives in coastal Maine, a hermit for art, leveraging creativity to live in flow and love as much as her body can. Creating a practice of art for survival and comfort, Asha pours her life into letter and line. If you want to help the artist keep making art, please like, follow, and share on social media - or, if possible, you can become a patron through patreon.com/ashafenn/ -@ashafenn on Instagram Discussed this week: being a kickass artist of multiple mediums, a single banana, Kristi Shaw, North East Growing Company, @wickedgoodfire, Kristi Shaw, 10 year friendship, eight years on weed, havinging necrotic bones, possessing child sized hips, Richard Dean Anderson's MacGyver, facial paralysis, swallowing issues, thick water, applesauce gang, honking bobos, sanitized lemons, having an older brother Valium paranoia, intractable chronic pain, getting a full hysterectomy, Gen X, starting weed in your 40s art, getting a contact high, riding a lubricated slide into artistic flow, practicing art every day, living in wet ink, owning gastric issues, gastroparesis, running an art studio, having an Amazon writer's page, the CD of suffering, the gift of being relentless, learning to love moving from breath to breath, having a voice, tit-curdling pain, glasses as an accomodation no one thinks about, and more! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/potluckypodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/potluckypodcast/support

A Morning News Update That Takes Into Account The News Stories You Deem 'Highly Conversational' Today's Sponsor: FlowersFasthttp://thisistheconversationproject.com/flowersfast Today's Rundown: Paramount Global Braces For New Round Of Layoffshttps://deadline.com/2024/01/paramount-global-layoffs-february-1235798785/ Fake Biden robocall urges New Hampshire voters to skip their primaryhttps://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fake-biden-robocall-urges-new-hampshire-voters-skip/story?id=106580926 Tim Scott, potential Trump VP, engaged to girlfriend after proposing in South Carolinahttps://www.foxnews.com/politics/tim-scott-potential-trump-vp-engaged-girlfriend-proposing-south-carolina Trump may testify in sex abuse defamation trial, but the court has limited what he can sayhttps://apnews.com/article/trump-carroll-defamation-lawsuit-trial-1e5420d5b28c857220429275ab901a34 Fulton County DA Fani Willis seeks to quash subpoena amid allegations of improper relationshiphttps://abcnews.go.com/US/fulton-county-da-fani-willis-seeks-quash-subpoena/story?id=106556166 Jury selection begins in trial of 2 men accused in murder of Run-DMC's Jam Master Jayhttps://abcnews.go.com/US/jury-selection-begins-trial-2-men-accused-murder/story?id=106552760 Gaza hostage relatives burst into Israeli parliament, calls for action mounthttps://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/relatives-gaza-hostages-storm-israeli-parliament-panel-2024-01-22/ Teen Stanley Cup Collector Says Her Parents Spent $3K on 67 Quenchershttps://www.businessinsider.com/stanley-cup-quencher-collector-parents-buy-status-symbol-teen-tiktok-2024-1 Website: http://thisistheconversationproject.com Facebook: http://facebook.com/thisistheconversationproject Twitter: http://twitter.com/th_conversation TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@theconversationproject YouTube: http://thisistheconversationproject.com/youtube Podcast: http://thisistheconversationproject.com/podcasts #yournewssidepiece #coffeechat #morningnews ONE DAY OLDER ON JANUARY 23:Richard Dean Anderson (74)Mariska Hargitay (60)Tiffani Thiessen (50) WHAT HAPPENED TODAY:1986: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted its first members: Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.2018: Twelve camels were disqualified from the King Abdulaziz Camel beauty contest in Saudi Arabia after their owners used botox on their lips.2020: The voice of a 3,000 year old Egyptian priest was recreated by scientists by 3D printing his vocal tract. PLUS, TODAY E CELEBRASTE: Speak Up and Succeed Dayhttps://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/speak-up-and-succeed-day/#:~:text=Speak%20Up%20and%20Succeed%20Day,Days%20Of%20The%20Year TODAY'S POLL QUESTION: Will MrBeast's Content Bring The Numbers Back To X? http://thisistheconversationproject.com/dailypoll20240123

National pie day. Entertainment from 1980. Frisbee went on sale, Georgetown founded, 1st person assissinated by a firearm. Todays birthdays - John Hancock, Frances Bey, Chita Rivera, Rutger Hauer, Anita Pointer, Richard Dean Anderson, Sully Sullenberger, Mariska Hargitay, Tiffani Thiessen. Johnny Carson died.Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard http://defleppard.com/Baby don't you cry (pie song) - Quincy ColemanPiece of your pie - Motley CrueRock with you - Michael JacksonI'll keep coming back for more - T.G. SheppardBirthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/All that jazz - Chita RiveraI'm so excited - The Pointer SistersBeverly Hills 90210 TV themeExit - It's not love - Dokken http://dokken.net/ https://cooolmedia.com/

Silvana and Tegan watch Season 3, Episode 19 "New Ground". The Bedrosians and Optricans are at war over their origin story, and SG-1 ends up in the middle of it.  Like in the "Bane" episode, Teal'c's make-up is a little off, and this is an episode that provides an example of how the lack of diversity in the TV and make-up industry can impact the quality of the end product. A lot of the technical details are not great, and parts of this Stargate SG-1 episode drag.  Also like in "Bane", Teal'c is seriously injured. In this episode he is blind and spends a great deal of time in a cave.  The new characters on this planet are having their religion questioned by the very existence of SG-1 and the Stargate. Where are the tortured souls who are discovering their religion is based on a lie?! You should really explain how Zats work when you give them to people! I don't need to know all the details about these goddamn eye treatments but give me one blessed line saying "the second shot kills!" A character is introduced to the SG-C but Tegan and Silvana don't recall seeing him again. Where in the world is Nyan?  Why didn't Tegan and Silvana enjoy The Crown or House of Dragon? Join the discussion by joining us on our Linktree. The verilybitchie video about Doctor Who versus Women The Pop Culture Detectvie video about the Adorkable Misyogyny of the Big Bang Theory

Power Station likes it hot, Paulo and Dori do not! We needed Richard Dean Anderson to help us MacGyver our aircon, maybe we should have called him by his first name. Paulo compiles a list of his favourite 80s baldies, Dori takes on the 80s Movie Quote Quiz - like Telly Fun Quiz but without a duck - The Karate Kid won't go away and the Stranger Things ''kids'' need to retire.

You will recognize him as technician "Vern Alberts" in Stargate SG-1, but did you know that this actor was also Richard Dean Anderson's photo double? Actor Bill Nikolai joins Dial the Gate to discuss memories of working on the set of SG-1 opposite RDA and the cast!

Marv chats with Mac Jackson, the writer, creator, and star of the audio drama series MacGyver SG1, a show that unites the two Richard Dean Anderson starring franchises.  Apologies for the sound, but Marv had some trouble with his microphone, but ran out of time to re-record his audio before release. 

Let's dive back through the gate with "Children of the Gods," the premiere episode of STARGATE SG-1. Continuing our Essential Stargate series, Mike and Clyde review the two-part premiere, which introduces us to a new cast playing the gate hoppers from the 1994 Stargate movie. We also meet some disgusting belly worms and a weird gold dude named Apophis. Open the iris! Stay tuned for our next episode covering episode 2 of SG-1, "The Enemy Within." Don't forget to subscribe, leave a review, and follow us on social media. Follow along with us; here's the list of STARGATE SG-1 episodes we plan to review: ⁠https://www.gateworld.net/news/2020/11/watch-list-only-stargate-sg1-key-episodes/ Chapters 0:00:09 Introducing Intergalactic podcast and Stargate SG-1 discussion 0:02:39 Differences between Showtime and syndicated versions of the pilot 0:05:14 Hope for Brad Wright's involvement in the Stargate franchise reboot 0:08:29 A strong start with a fresh take on the story. 0:11:39 Atlantis hits the mark consistently, while SG-1 evolves. 0:12:54 Introducing the Main Characters and their Journey Begins 0:16:23 Characters with depth and a sense of purpose 0:21:24 Caution and Campiness at the Stargate 0:24:13 O'Neill's Lie and Richard Dean Anderson's Portrayal 0:29:20 O'Neill's Unusual Communication Method with Daniel Jackson 0:29:42 O'Neil's mission to investigate alien invaders from Abydos 0:33:02 Diverging Positions Emerge 0:36:07 Military's cool science and the possibility of exploring new worlds 0:40:37 SG-1 Team Formed to Explore Other Worlds 0:43:54 Comparison: Gould vs. Wraith - Which is More Disgusting? 0:48:07 Teal'c's Transformation and a Conflict of Loyalties 0:51:01 Battle at the Stargate and the Role of Jaffa 0:53:01 The Jaffa's nature and Teal'c's unique situation Intergalactic is a podcast reviewing the most essential entries from the greatest science fiction franchises of all time. From the makers of ⁠Star Trek Discovery Pod⁠, Mike Moody-Garcia and Clyde Haynes.  Sub to the pod: ⁠http://intergalacticpod.co⁠ Follow the pod: Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/intergalacticpod⁠ Threads: ⁠https://www.threads.net/@intergalacticpod⁠ Follow Mike Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/mikemoodygarcia⁠ Threads: ⁠https://www.threads.net/@mikemoodygarcia⁠ Follow Clyde Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/clydehaynes⁠ Twitter/X (ugh): ⁠https://x.com/@clydehaynes⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/intergalacticpod/message

Silvana and Tegan watch Season 3, Episode 15, "Pretense".  Alexis Cruz guest starring! Who cares about the rest? Silvana and Tegan discuss another Katharyn Powers episode that they both enjoy! When Skaara/Klorel crash land on the Tollan planet and asks for help, they reach out to Stargate Command to bring SG-1 into the defense of Skaara. They are invited to the triad where a philosophical debate ensues and the stakes are Skaara's body and life.  Overall a solid Stargate episode that the ladies enjoyed! Can we have more Sam and Teal'c team ups, pretty please?  Check out our first episode on the Tollan, "My Feelings are Ready".  Join the discussion! Check us out on our linktree. TW: SA and suicide Knowing Better's History of Vegetarianism in the US

Silvana and Tegan watch Season 3, Episode 14, "Foothold". The SG-C has been invaded and taken over, but Sam escapes to seek help from Maybourn. But then Maybourn is an idiot every day of the week, so things don't go as planned.  We are once again introduced to aliens we will never encounter again! Join the discussion via our Linktree.

Jeff and Kev are heading into the wild west with Richard Dean Anderson and John de Lancie. The guys talk all things Legend, the short-lived UPN debut series. It's a mix of western and sci-fi; it's a fun time. Listen in, because we won't stop till screamin' starts!  Amazon Affiliate Link to Legend on DVD :  https://amzn.to/44TPnEi   For viewing the show online https://archive.org/details/legend-s-01-e-01-e-02-birth-of-a-legend-1-2   We have a giveaway in this episode, keep an ear out for the keyword and instructions.   You can find the podcast at SunsAndShadows.com or your podcast app of choice! Follow us on all platforms, we have frequent giveaways and always discussing something fun! Facebook: @sunsandshadows Twitter: @sunsandshadows Instagram: @sunsandshadowscast Letterbox'd: SunsAndShadows You can also support us at: Buy Me a Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sunsandshao

Mr. Burns outsources work to India and sends Homer to run the operation. Meanwhile, Patty and Selma kidnap MacGyver, aka Richard Dean Anderson. To be honest, when it comes to "Simpsons go to" episodes, this ranks up as one of the best. Plus the guest appearance from RDA was fantastic. Enjoy!Support the Four Finger Discount Network for EARLY & AD-FREE access to every show we produce, as well as 100 hours of exclusive content! Join the FFD family today at patreon.com/fourfingerdiscountCHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCASTS:Toon'd In! with Jim Cummings - spreaker.com/show/toond-in-with-jim-cummingsGoin' Down To South Park - spreaker.com/show/goin-down-to-south-parkSpeaKing Of The Hill - spreaker.com/show/speaking-of-the-hill-a-king-of-the-hill-The One About Friends - spreaker.com/show/the-one-about-friends-podcastTalking Seinfeld - spreaker.com/show/talking-seinfeldThe Office Talk - spreaker.com/show/the-office-talk-podcastThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5828977/advertisement

MacGyver, Stargate SG-1... Richard Dean Anderson a marqué l'histoire de la télévision en jouant les rôles les plus mythiques de sa génération.Il nous a accordé une interview exclusive où il est revenu sur la raison de l'arrêt de sa carrière et nous a partagé les moments les plus forts de celle-ci.#legend #legendmedia #richarddeananderson #stargate #macgyver #anedote #interview Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Bridget Mary McCormack In today's episode, we embark on an enlightening conversation with Bridget Mary McCormack, exploring the transformative potential of technology in the courtroom, its impact on underserved communities, and the lessons attorneys can learn to better serve their clients. Bridget Mary McCormack led the court in embracing technology and its transformative potential during her tenure as Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. Get ready for a thought-provoking episode filled with insights and inspiration. Bridget is now the President and CEO of the American Arbitration Association International Centre for Dispute Resolution. With a remarkable career in the legal field, Bridget has been at the forefront of championing innovation and technology to improve access to justice.  As a New York University Law School graduate, she began her legal career in New York City before joining the faculty at Yale Law School and later the University of Michigan Law School. Her dedication to the legal profession is evident through her various appointments and roles, including serving on The American Law Institute, the National Commission on Forensic Science, and the Michigan Judicial Council. Moreover, Bridget's work extends beyond the courtroom, as she actively contributes to legal education and publication efforts. As an Editor of the American Bar Association's prestigious Litigation Journal, she continues to shape and influence the legal landscape. Join Bridget and me as we discuss the following three questions and more! What are the three biggest takeaways the courts have learned from technology during COVID? What are three ways technology has helped the underserved?Bonus Question! What are three things that lawyers can learn about serving underserved population segments in addition to their existing clientele? What are the three most common mistakes attorneys and the public make with using technology in the courtroom?  In our conversation, we cover: [00:54] Tech Setup on the Go: A Window into Bridget's Digital Arsenal [12:40] Revolutionizing the Courts: Unveiling the Transformative Power of Technology [16:19] The Unforeseen Benefits: Witness Comfort and Safety in Virtual Hearings [20:12] Transforming Access to Justice: Empowering the Underserved through Technology [21:42] Empowering Change: Equipping Attorneys to Serve the Underserved [22:36] Democratizing Legal Solutions: Embracing DIY Platforms in Access to Justice Solutions [23:19] Unleashing the Potential: Three Tools for a Transformed Legal Landscape [27:27] Navigating the Technological Terrain: Common Mistakes in the Courtroom Resources: Connect with Bridget: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/bridget-mary-mccormack-26700b30/ Email: mccormackb@adr.org  Hardware mentioned in the conversation: Lenovo ThinkPad: lenovo.com/lk/en/laptops/thinkpad/c/THINKPAD Logitech 4K webcam: logitech.com/en-us/products/webcams/brio-4k-hdr-webcam.html Blue Yeti microphone: logitechg.com/en-us/products/streaming-gear/yeti-premium-usb-microphone Shure MV7 microphone: shure.com/en-US/products/microphones/mv7?variant=MV7-K Bose Aviation Headsets: bose.com/en_us/products/headphones/aviation_headsets.html Software and Apps mentioned in the conversation: Overcast: overcast.fm/ Hello Divorce: hellodivorce.com/ * To “MacGyver something” according to ChatGTP 4: a common slang term, derived from the title character of a popular American TV series called "MacGyver," which originally aired in the 1980s and was later rebooted. In the show, Angus MacGyver, portrayed by Richard Dean Anderson, was a resourceful and clever secret agent known for his ability to solve complex problems and escape dangerous situations using unconventional and makeshift solutions. He would often utilize everyday objects and his scientific knowledge to create devices or tools on the spot, allowing him to overcome obstacles in creative ways. Therefore, when someone says they're going to "MacGyver" something, it means they are going to find a clever and inventive way to solve a problem using whatever materials or resources are available to them. It's a term that highlights ingenuity and resourcefulness in finding practical solutions to challenges.

Toniiight, MacGyver and Jack Dalton are wanted by authorities in France after they get caught up in a major jewel heist! Plus, The Road to RDA continues with Mike joining Sam & Jeff to prep for his pursuit of Richard Dean Anderson, and - uh oh - Roberta the flirty robot is back! Will she behave?

The wonderful legend Marshall R Teague joins Mac to discuss his two times on MacGyver and also his memorable role on the SG-1 episode "A Matter of Time". They guys also discuss Martial arts, friendship with Chuck Norris, Family, career, Road House, literally hanging around with Richard Dean Anderson and so much more. Please subscribe and donate to our Patreon Through The Forever Adventure Network today!

Tegan and Silvana watch the Season 2 finale and are really glad when it is over.   Join the discussion on Discord or other other social media apps. 

Actor Charles Andrew Payne has a vast resume. One of his proudest roles is Pastor Bruce Barnes in the feature film LEFT BEHIND: RISE OF THE ANTICHRIST. Pastor Barnes is the bedrock of the story, a man torn between the faith he professes and what he believes. His family is taken in the rapture, but he has been left behind. Charles also narrates the film as his character Pastor Barnes. Past television series and feature films include Miracle In East Texas where Charles played Reverend Reece. He had the role of Jock on the television series Wynona Earp and the role of Darryl in The Surrogate While living in Vancouver one of the roles he most enjoyed was playing Breeze on MacGyver with Richard Dean Anderson and worked with Richard again on Stargate. He had the pleasure of working with Johnny Depp on 21 Jump Street in one of his earlier TV roles. He also worked with Kevin Sorbo on Andromeda and Miracle in East Texas. He joined both Pam Grier and Snoop Dog on The L – Word. A fun fact is that Charles often gets mistaken for Samuel L Jackson. People get mad when he tells them “I'm not him”. Considering Samuel is 20-plus years older and taller, “I think it will be a great day when he gets mistaken for me, then I'll know I've made it.” add Charles. LEFT BEHIND: RISE OF THE ANTICHRIST is coming to theaters nationwide beginning Thursday, January 26. Charles joins a stellar cast. Starring Kevin Sorbo (GOD'S NOT DEAD, SOUL SURFER), Neal McDonough (MINORITY REPORT, “Arrow,” TIMELINE), Corbin Bernsen (“Psych,” MAJOR LEAGUE, “The Resident”), Bailey Chase (“Longmire,” “Saving Grace”), Greg Perrow (ACTOR FOR HIRE, THOSE WHO KILL), Sarah Fisher (“Degrassi: The Next Generation,” ROXY) and Sam Sorbo (LET THERE BE LIGHT, HOPE BRIDGE, MIRACLE IN EAST TEXAS), LEFT BEHIND: RISE OF THE ANTICHRIST is the next chapter of the mega-hit LEFT BEHIND film franchise, based on the 80 million-copy New York Times bestselling book series of the same name. Charles' social media links: IMDb and Demo Reel: http://imdb.me/charlesandrewpayne Twitter: @cpayne567 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?... Instagram: @charles_andrew_payne Alberta Agent: Kelsea Forzani Mannix | 403.801.9555 | kelsea@detailstalent.com Canada & US Agent: Jenn Andrusco |604-733-9800 | jenn@thecharacters.com

Actor Charles Andrew Payne has a vast resume. One of his proudest roles is Pastor Bruce Barnes in the feature film LEFT BEHIND: RISE OF THE ANTICHRIST. Pastor Barnes is the bedrock of the story, a man torn between the faith he professes and what he believes. His family is taken in the rapture, but he has been left behind. Charles also narrates the film as his character Pastor Barnes. Past television series and feature films include Miracle In East Texas where Charles played Reverend Reece. He had the role of Jock on the television series Wynona Earp and the role of Darryl in The Surrogate While living in Vancouver one of the roles he most enjoyed was playing Breeze on MacGyver with Richard Dean Anderson and worked with Richard again on Stargate. He had the pleasure of working with Johnny Depp on 21 Jump Street in one of his earlier TV roles. He also worked with Kevin Sorbo on Andromeda and Miracle in East Texas. He joined both Pam Grier and Snoop Dog on The L – Word. A fun fact is that Charles often gets mistaken for Samuel L Jackson. People get mad when he tells them “I'm not him”. Considering Samuel is 20-plus years older and taller, “I think it will be a great day when he gets mistaken for me, then I'll know I've made it.” add Charles. LEFT BEHIND: RISE OF THE ANTICHRIST is coming to theaters nationwide beginning Thursday, January 26. Charles joins a stellar cast. Starring Kevin Sorbo (GOD'S NOT DEAD, SOUL SURFER), Neal McDonough (MINORITY REPORT, “Arrow,” TIMELINE), Corbin Bernsen (“Psych,” MAJOR LEAGUE, “The Resident”), Bailey Chase (“Longmire,” “Saving Grace”), Greg Perrow (ACTOR FOR HIRE, THOSE WHO KILL), Sarah Fisher (“Degrassi: The Next Generation,” ROXY) and Sam Sorbo (LET THERE BE LIGHT, HOPE BRIDGE, MIRACLE IN EAST TEXAS), LEFT BEHIND: RISE OF THE ANTICHRIST is the next chapter of the mega-hit LEFT BEHIND film franchise, based on the 80 million-copy New York Times bestselling book series of the same name. Charles' social media links: IMDb and Demo Reel: http://imdb.me/charlesandrewpayne Twitter: @cpayne567 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=665322278 Instagram: @charles_andrew_payne Alberta Agent: Kelsea Forzani Mannix | 403.801.9555 | kelsea@detailstalent.com Canada & US Agent: Jenn Andrusco |604-733-9800 | jenn@thecharacters.com

Today on Too Opinionated, we visit with actor Charles Andrew Payne!  Actor Charles Andrew Payne has a vast resume. One of his proudest roles is Pastor Bruce Barnes in the feature film LEFT BEHIND: RISE OF THE ANTICHRIST. Pastor Barnes is the bedrock of the story, a man torn between the faith he professes and what he believes. His family is taken in the rapture, but he has been left behind. Charles also narrates the film as his character Pastor Barnes. Past television series and feature films include Miracle In East Texas where Charles played Reverend Reece. He had the role of Jock on the television series Wynona Earp and the role of Darryl in The Surrogate While living in Vancouver one of the roles he most enjoyed was playing Breeze on MacGyver with Richard Dean Anderson and worked with Richard again on Stargate. He had the pleasure of working with Johnny Depp on 21 Jump Street in one of his earlier TV roles. He also worked with Kevin Sorbo on Andromeda and Miracle in East Texas. He joined both Pam Grier and Snoop Dog on The L – Word. Want to watch: YouTube Meisterkhan Pod (Please Subscribe)

Amanda Tapping is beloved around the world for iconic roles on Stargate SG-1 and Sanctuary and her ever-growing list of television directing credits (including an impressive run as an executive producer on the cult favourite Freeform series Motherland: Fort Salem); Sabrina Rani Furminger is host of the YVR Screen Scene Podcast. Since Amanda and Sabrina's first interview together in January 2013 (for a Westender cover story entitled “What's next for Amanda Tapping?”), the pair have grown to become dear friends. In late November 2022, the pals packed their bags and flew to Paris, where Amanda was scheduled to appear at Paris Manga alongside her former Stargate SG-1 co-star Richard Dean Anderson – and while sipping bubbly beverages at a sidewalk bistro on the eve of the convention, they decided to record an episode of the YVR Screen Scene Podcast. Tune in as Amanda and Sabrina break with the podcast's usual studio format and discuss their decade of friendship, the last days of Motherland: Fort Salem, Richard Dean Anderson, and what comes next. Episode sponsor: Fish Flight Entertainment

Thomas Kopache- Trek Untold Thomas Kopache joins us for the kickoff to season three of Trek Untold, a man who has appeared in the Star Trek franchise a whopping eight times as seven different characters! He was the Romulan named Mirok in "The Next Phase" and a train engineer on "Emergence" from Star Trek TNG, an Enterprise-B comm officer in "Star Trek Generations," the ill-fated Viorsa on "Star Trek: Voyager," the Father of Kira Nerys in two episodes of DS9, a Vulcan ambassador in the series premiere of Enterprise, and finally a Sphere-builder test subject in the third season of that series. Thomas is an original and lifelong Trekkie, and in addition to our Trek talk tells us how he discovered his passion for acting, what he learned while working on "Spenser for Hire" with Avery Brooks, stories from the sets of "Stargate SG-1" with Richard Dean Anderson, "Ghosts of Mississippi" with Alec Baldwin, "Boston Legal" with William Shatner, Rene Auberjonois, and - unrelated in Trek but still great - James Spader. First, Thomas ruminates on why he was a judge so often in his career. Then, we examine his recurring role on "The West Wing" with Martin Sheen, their reunion special, and whether that show changed his views on politics and how he finds the "inner joy" of acting in all of the diverse types of work he does. Plus, who is "the catheter cowboy"? Check out the video version of this podcast on Youtube.com/nerdnewstoday every Sunday. Please subscribe to our channel and hit the notifications button to be updated when we go live or upload our next video! Trek Untold is sponsored by Triple-Fictionproductions.net, 3-D printing Star Trek and sci-fi-inspired prop replicas, dioramas, and accessories for cosplayers and action figures. Use code UNTOLD10 at checkout for 10% off all orders. Visit them at Triple-Fictionproductions.net.  Visit my Amazon shop to check out tons of Trek products and other things I enjoy - https://www.amazon.com/shop/thefightnerd View the Teespring store for Trek Untold gear & apparel - https://my-store-9204078.creator-spring.com Support Trek Untold by becoming a Patreon at Patreon.com/TrekUntold.   Don't forget to subscribe to the show and leave a rating if you like us! Follow Trek Untold on Social Media Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/trekuntoldTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/trekuntoldFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/trekuntold Follow Nerd News Today on Social Media Twitter:  Twitter.com/NerdNews2Day Instagram: Instagram.com/NerdNewsToday Facebook: Facebook.com/NerdNewsToday Trek Untold is sponsored by Treksphere.com, powered by the RAGE Works Podcast Network, and affiliated with Nerd News Today.   The views expressed on air during Trek Untold do not represent the views of the RAGE Works staff, partners, or affiliates. 

Thomas Kopache joins us for the kickoff to season three of Trek Untold, a man who has appeared in the Star Trek franchise a whopping eight times as seven different characters! He was the Romulan named Mirok in "The Next Phase" and a train engineer on "Emergence" from Star Trek TNG, an Enterprise-B comm officer in "Star Trek Generations," the ill-fated Viorsa on "Star Trek: Voyager," the Father of Kira Nerys in two episodes of DS9, a Vulcan ambassador in the series premiere of Enterprise, and finally a Sphere-builder test subject in the third season of that series. Thomas is an original and lifelong Trekkie, and in addition to our Trek talk tells us how he discovered his passion for acting, what he learned while working on "Spenser for Hire" with Avery Brooks, stories from the sets of "Stargate SG-1" with Richard Dean Anderson, "Ghosts of Mississippi" with Alec Baldwin, "Boston Legal" with William Shatner, Rene Auberjonois, and - unrelated in Trek but still great - James Spader. First, Thomas ruminates on why he was a judge so often in his career. Then, we examine his recurring role on "The West Wing" with Martin Sheen, their reunion special, and whether that show changed his views on politics and how he finds the "inner joy" of acting in all of the diverse types of work he does. Plus, who is "the catheter cowboy"? Check out the video version of this podcast on Youtube.com/nerdnewstoday every Sunday. Please subscribe to our channel and hit the notifications button to be updated when we go live or upload our next video! Support Trek Untold by becoming a Patreon at Patreon.com/TrekUntold. Trek Untold is sponsored by Triple-Fictionproductions.net, 3-D printing Star Trek and sci-fi-inspired prop replicas, dioramas, and accessories for cosplayers and action figures. Use code UNTOLD10 at checkout for 10% off all orders. Visit them at Triple-Fictionproductions.net.  Visit my Amazon shop to check out tons of Trek products and other things I enjoy - https://www.amazon.com/shop/thefightnerd View the Teespring store for Trek Untold gear & apparel - https://my-store-9204078.creator-spring.com   Don't forget to subscribe to the show and leave a rating if you like us! Follow Trek Untold on Social Media Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/trekuntoldTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/trekuntoldFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/trekuntold Follow Nerd News Today on Social Media Twitter: Twitter.com/NerdNews2DayInstagram: Instagram.com/NerdNewsTodayFacebook: Facebook.com/NerdNewsToday Trek Untold is sponsored by Treksphere.com, powered by the RAGE Works Podcast Network, and affiliated with Nerd News Today.