Zooey Deschanel Loves to Snack

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One of the times that my mom and I got in the biggest fight of our entire life is when she, I had told her that I don't like diet Pepsi. Maybe I was like 12. And so she bought a bunch of diet Pepsi for herself to have when she got home from being a nurse. Yeah. And I, she had like one left one day and I drank it. I drank it just because there was nothing else interesting to drink in the house. And I didn't even like it. I just drank it to have something to drink. And she got home and she had been counting on the diet Pepsi all day. And she was like, through tears, like, how could you? And I was like, you're being a crazy bitch right now. And she was like, I'm not like, she was like, she was so, and she was right. She was mad at me. You know, what's so funny is that you just jog my memory that like, I remember in high school having like a really bad day and I opened my lunch and my mom had packed. Like a bagel with jam on it. And I was like, I want butter. I remember crying over it. Cause I was like so tired and I'd had such a bad day already that the like jam was like the straw that broke the camel's back. And I was just like, did you cry to her or just at school at school? And my friends were like, you don't understand. I love butter and I just want butter and I just want butter today. And my, and then I think it was like, you know, it's like the nineties and everyone thought that like, jam was healthier than butter, which it's not. Um, but I think I'd said like, mom, like put jam on my bagel cause it's fat free or something. Yeah. Cause we were all obsessed with fat free. And then I was the thing. The thing. Yeah. That is so funny. Yeah. So anyway, you and I would be in a little health notes. We just, we wrapped a movie together. Yes. The best movie. So much fun. I had the best time. I'm so glad. I miss you so much. Like, I can't believe like, I don't get to see you every day now. It's a weird withdrawal. Cause we were spending like every minute together for weeks. Yeah. And then you finished the movie and left. And then it's just like, like we're not hanging out at all anymore. And then I was like, I was like hanging on to the fact that I was going to come here. Yeah. Going, okay, at least I get to see Caleb soon. Well, then we just had to keep playing. That's how you do it. You have to keep planning like, okay, in January we'll go somewhere. Okay, good. Yeah. In February we'll go somewhere. Every month. Every month we're going to go somewhere. Every month we're going to go somewhere to make it all work. Yeah. We, but we finished the movie and we were being, we were being pretty good. We, I would say when we were at that church, that was our base camp, we were walking on the outside track. Oh yeah. We're getting our steps in. So good with our steps. We were doing good with our steps. We were doing so well with our steps. Yeah. Um, even I remember there was one day it was so freaking cold. Yeah. And we still went out and walked on that track. And my eyelashes were like icicle frozen. Yeah. Yeah. It was, it was real. I think that's why my skin like freaked out and had to wear aquaphor on my face for like three days. You said you were having a skin thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was just the, it was the wind. Yeah. That's Chicago wind. That's Chicago wind. It's famous. It's really famous. They don't call it windy city for nothing. Not for nothing. They call it that because of the wind. A lot of people don't know. People don't know. People are scared to say this. They're just, they think it's just a clever name. Oh guys, it's the wind. Yeah. It's the wind guys. I, yeah, I was, it was such a delight to get to do that with you and I'm so excited. I'm so fine. I can't wait for everyone to see it. I can't wait. It's called trash mountain. It is called trash mountain. It's based on your life. It is. And I, we just actually, I had, uh, we did an episode with Lily who, you know, was going to do it and then, um, EP'd and she, we didn't, she and I did an episode and I was expressing to her a little bit, something that you and I kind of talked about on set where I was just like, Oh, it's this really interesting thing where like the movie is based, based on my life and a thing I went through, but so much of it changed for the movie version that there were these really conflicting, like interesting times that like, you know, you and I would be doing a scene or something and I had such a hard time because, you know, without giving anything away, there would just be things that like my character in the movie would say or do that I would never do in real life as me. Right. And I kept having these like challenges where I was like, Oh, that's really hard. I remember there were moments that, that, even your movie character had to be a little bit tough on my character, your sister. Yeah. And that's, you're just the sweetest baby boy and you never would ever do that. And you're like, I would never. Yeah. But you're like, it's got to have some drama. Yeah. We have to have some drama. And it was such a, it was such a beautiful thing. We, we wrote this movie and we're like, who's going to play this role. It has to be someone so good. It has to be someone so down. And then you and I got lunch in LA and I was like a little, I was just nervous. Cause I, you, I, you know that I'm a huge fan and I've been a huge fan for a long time, but I was like, I'm a huge fan of her work. I, I hope that she's cool. God, I hope we get along. And then we had like the most magic, like three hour lunch. Yes. It was so fun. And you were what I remember. That was so cute. I kept your voicemail. Cause you, you, you, you sent me a voicemail. Cause you were, you were trying out a dumb phone. Yeah. Hey, don't laugh that hard at that. Don't laugh that hard at that chance. It was a valid era that I went through. I was like, I mean, I was like, Oh my God, I admire this. But then you couldn't figure out how to use the dumb phone. And it left me this like really long message. And it's like, actually, and it was like transcribed. I was dying. It was so funny. It was me being like, I don't, Zoe, I don't know how to figure out how to turn this off. I'm sorry, I don't know how to turn it off. I don't know how to press end. I don't know what, I don't know how to do this. And it's just, and then it was transcribing it. I think at one point I gave over and I was like, well, it won't let me in the voicemail. So another thing I was thinking about today, like I'm like, while I'm talking to you, trying to figure out how to hang up the call on the dumb phone. Unbelievable. The dumb phone makes you maybe a little bit. Yeah. Less smart. Dumb. It dumbed me. God, the dumb phone era. I want, I could cry right now. I wanted it to work so bad. It ruined my life. I was treated like a leper. So wait, people were ready to stone me in the streets. I mean, it was like, it was not working. People were community. Wasn't loving. The community was more than not loving. I was a hated and reviled figure in the community. And they started to message me other places. Like people refuse to call the dumb phone. I was really ostracized. You're like walking past like a message board, like it is somewhere on a, in a Pilates studio. And you're like, wait, what? Someone's like, Caleb, if you are reading this, I will say the final straw for, for the dumb phone was one of my friends got so mad at me because we had gone, we had gone out to his, his, uh, his show. And then I was like, Hey, we're going to go to this bar afterwards, but I wouldn't let anyone bring their smartphones with them in my group. And so the only person who had a phone was me who had the dumb phone. No. And then you couldn't find it. And then no, no, no. And then I was like, we found the, and then I was like, but if you don't get to the place before we go to the next place, I'll leave a note with the bartender that says where we're going next. Yeah. And then he came to that bar too late. And then he had to get the note from the bartender. And then he had to meet us at the next bar. I thought this whole thing was pretty quaint and cool. It is. People were pissed off that you went back to like a era, like even before, like, I'm like back. There was like a time when we had like pagers and stuff, but like you had a pager, you didn't have to get a note from a bartender. I'm like, you're taking it like way back. Yeah. I took it back in a way that people were not appreciating. People were like, no. And can I tell you something? Yes. Three weeks of bliss. - Yes. - I've never been happier. I can't tell you what we're missing out on. no it's great i think the thing is is if you have a smartphone and you just pick the apps that don't write your brain yeah you like have a maps app you just like have your you'll be able to text people or whatever you're good i will say you're good at phone oh thank you you're responsive when you need to be but i don't like i feel that when we hang out you're very present yeah i put my phone away a lot of times i i put it away so i don't even i'm not even looking at it or thinking about it i don't even see you on phone unless you're pulling up pictures of the kids oh that's it you're like you're like you have to see this picture of the kids and i'm like i do well especially on set like i try to stay really focused and so then phone gets put away you know and then the treat is like a new york times puzzle you know yeah that's what's bad about me on phone i mean there's so many things but one of them is that the only time i ever do my puzzles and games is when i've run out of everything else to do on right right it's like two in the morning and i have nothing left to do on phone and i'm like oh i could play wordle for the first time in 17 days i i've been really good at word lately though yeah second word multiple days in a row oh that's a big second word is like i i it's pretty low percentage of my wordles where you live in you in the third fourth word fifth third and fourth is my main yeah but i have you know i have a number of maybe i have like 12 um second words yeah yeah yeah but wordle's not my best game what's your best game my best game is the one where you like cross the letters and you make words wow you know that little box letter box yes i don't know why i'm like i love it and i'm sort of good at that one yeah it's where you have to have the center letter has to be in all of the words yeah yeah you have to make yeah you have to to cross out every letter and then you can't like use letter you can't like make a word with this like on the one row yeah you can't put two in a row they have to cross the box yeah i was yeah i in uh in eighth grade or ninth grade i tried to get into sudoku yeah and i entered a period of depression based on it i i mean i'm there like i don't like number games i like letter like word games yeah i love scrabble but like no no sudoku you and i haven't played scrabble yet we need to scrabble i love to scrabble i made it um i uh i had a guy uh that i had been seeing come over to my house recently and i was like do you want to come over and play scrabble yeah he was like yeah it sounds great and he got over and he was being very like touchy like we weren't gonna play scrabble and you're like i was like we'll we'll have sex but we're gonna play this game of scrap and then i played a very intense game of scrabble with him and destroyed him and then the mood i will say the mood was a little killed yeah you can't be too intense about scrabble well but i think he has to recognize and represent he has to show up ready for scrabble yeah that's why i was with girls scrabble is king if i say come over for scrabble well i think i pushed it because then after scrabble i did try to play oh scrabble yeah yeah yeah it was uno when i tried when i pulled out uno after scrabble he was like hey man and i was like no totally totally that i gave on that i was like you're right we should hook up yeah yeah yeah you gave up the uno i was like oh no uno no also i'm not into uno you wouldn't play uno with me i of course i play uno with you okay i just don't really want to play it in general but yeah to sort of appease you i would play uno with you but i like monopoly deal no i don't know this will you explain it to me let's do it um so monopoly deal is very much like monopoly only you can play it a lot faster than a game monopoly like lasts a full day yeah um like if you play the board game but if you play monopoly deal you can cycle through it faster and it's very similar to the game but you play it with cards and it's super fun you can take it on vacation yeah yeah if you like monopoly you'll like you'll love monopoly deal they need to hit you up yeah one of the first times i realized that i was capable of being drunk with power was when i was assigned i got to play the banker oh yeah you know i really was like i'm could be a bad person if i didn't keep this thing in check you know because i really liked the way i felt yeah i like the way i feel as a banker too i did and in a way that i was like i liked it i liked hurting i liked hurting i mean i liked i was like that property is you know you can't have it anymore i'm taking that back that's mine now yeah and you'll go to jail yeah and you will not collect two hundred dollars and i liked that do not pass go you can't i'm sorry no pass it's not personal baby it's business listen yeah exactly it's business baby um okay wait i have a question for you okay tell me everything you okay you have made so many indie movies in your so many indie movies you're like kind of the indie movie queen i feel yeah i mean yeah and what is so when you started like auditioning and stuff you were telling a little bit about like how they were sending you out and how that was going how were your first like auditions and booking movies going like how did you so when i first started i'm not sure i can't remember exactly what we talked about and if there was something like fun i said about it but um that when i first started i was like 16 years old and i was like horrible at auditioning like absolutely awful at it um but i did it i'd cry after like every single one yeah um and then they were that was the time they were like making a ton of teen movies so they like basically if you were a 16 year old they were like we'll sign you so it was a good opportunity but problems that one i wasn't good at auditioning and two i wasn't good at auditioning so i didn't fit into like any archetype of teen because they were like she's i remember hearing this casting director like on the phone talking about me and she's like no no she's not she's not like your typical babe because i guess that's who is coming in she goes she's like weird and i was like um is this is this a compliment should i have heard that like i'm weird that's good right that's so fucking funny uh so yeah so bad at it so i got better like but took a very long time yeah it took like a year of auditioning to like be like i got this auditioning is though such a randomly different skill than working like it totally is and that's why i i have i also have a hard time like understanding why now i mean now i have like enough of a career that's not something i'm having to do all the time but i i do think it's strange that they cast a lot of stuff off of video now and it's like like self-tape type situations and i just think you have to be in a room to see if somebody can take direction and and that's the most important thing for an actor to be able to do is to be able to adjust in the moment like you know in a kind of nerve-wracking situation and that you're like you have like skills on the day you know yeah and that you're like a energy i don't know the energy in the room is just different it totally is yeah people can come across so well on screen and then you meet them and you're like yeah it can be like that um i think that's what's so interesting about the moment we're in now where so many people's careers are entirely screen mediated yes then you you meet some of these people and it's no tea no shade and less deserved but like some of these people that have such a uh perfectly curated screen yeah presence you meet in person or you get around them on a job or something and you're like whoa the vibe is crazy different yeah and the screen mediation there's something so like lost or added like it's just a difference maker it is and when you're making a film you're like you have to curate the the whole set vibe and that that ends up coming across like and if you're just seeing like this and it's just the person and they've they've been very you know controlling about how you know what they show then you're gonna see like those other bits that maybe aren't additive to to your project you know yeah you kind of want to see the whole you do i was wondering the other day actually i'm wanting to ask you uh like i'm only capable obviously at this point of seeing almost famous as like this huge movie like this big you know but when you got that role did it feel like a huge get that was a huge get okay yeah that was a huge get because i mean cameron crowe's like a legend yeah and it was like his story i mean you know what's funny look i got to play cameron crowe's sister and i got to play your sister equal opportunities oh my gosh no both unbelievable like no so that it was such a everyone wanted to be in that movie and it was like the unt they called it the untitled cameron crowe project and honestly like it was so crazy because i was a college student i'd done one movie and a episode of tv i mean i'd been around like auditioning as you know um in high school but i'd only booked a few jobs and i'd booked this wonderful little movie with lawrence kasdan before i went off to college and then i was like i'm going to theater school and during my winter and spring breaks my um my agents and managers sent me out on some auditions and um I auditioned for that because everybody did, but I didn't think there was, like, any way I would. get anything in it but i went back a couple times i didn't meet him but i met the casting directors and they had i was on tape and um i guess what happened was sarah polly was supposed to play kate hudson's part kate hudson was supposed to play my part and then kind of last minute sarah polly couldn't do the movie anymore kate hudson got moved up to penny lane and then they had this part and they had to find someone fast and so i guess they went through all the tapes of people that had come in and cameron saw me and was like oh she looks right seems right and so i luckily i kind of got to skip a lot of the process i think because i was like at college and then i came back on spring break and they were like cameron crowe wants to meet you like himself and so i went in and they just like cast me because they like need someone fast but i think he makes i mean like i think he has people come in and read a bunch of time like he really likes to work a lot with people and do a lot like really make sure the vibe is right which respect um for that but then i didn't have to do like a million reads which was great for me um but i had an amazing work session with him and yes it was a huge deal it was like this was the that was the movie that everybody wanted to do yeah yeah and then you did and then i did it and then what how did things kind of transpire after that like what it what it what happened after that so i quit college to do that movie and then i got no work for like a full 14 months iconic absolutely iconic and then i was just sitting around watching movies all day so i'd go to the new beverly and the new art and all the like revival house theaters and i'd watch double features for seven dollars and just fill my days with like watching like old movies and so that was kind of like an education i guess in terms of like watching old movies and so that was kind of like an education i guess in terms of in itself um luckily i had like a group of friends at the time that was also very into doing that so yeah i'd go see like um rock shows and um i would go to the theater to see movies for 14 months for 14 months it was like film school do you remember the first thing that you got after that little spell of like kind of just like working at it and waiting around actually yes because i got cut out of this movie um because i only had one scene and i understand why but i was a little bit like what but it was great because it broke the spell it was um it was a michelle gondry movie called human nature he made it like before all his really fit it wasn't didn't didn't it wasn't a super famous movie but it was patricia arquette and i got to i got to she was she was having a flashback where she's like in college and um she's supposed to be like i feel like she's like part eight or something in the movie i'm trying to remember um and i'm supposed to be her college roommate in a flashback um but they cut it out so um but anyway that footage is somewhere i will be finding it you'll find it i'll be getting a little letter michelle gondry yeah please yeah one of the biggest uh arguments that my mom got mom and i got into outside of the diet pepsi argument was that i booked like one of my first one of my very first tv roles when i was like doing stand-up in chicago was on fargo and it was a big break for me it was a big deal and it was like a pretty actually a pretty good role i played like a 1950s like redneck gas station owner it was like very simple and like i it was an interesting like far from self role that i got to like actually like create and work on you mean you're not a 1950s gas station well i'm one of those things and i'm never saying which but i yeah it was like a fun thing to actually get to develop a character and i had told my mom about it and then she like after i booked it and then she posted about it on facebook she was like she was like my son's gonna be and i was like mom i was like i could get cut out of that you're gonna jinx me like i don't know if i'm supposed to say anything yeah and she was like i don't know how to delete it and i was like girl get like and so i had to like talk her through deleting it on the phone and i was so mad at her but it was really sweet but yeah because my i still am very superstitious about me too i'm so superstitious i'd be like ah because you can get cut so easily i'm like i don't want to brag and then especially if you have like one scene it's just so easy to just snip snip it out to see you later that thing is too that movie's too long if you're not pivotal that's why like one thing about almost famous that i was like so happy about is my character's so pivotal even though i only had like three or four scenes like they couldn't cut me out yeah so you did you did that you did that movie after the yeah and then i'm trying to think what i did then i had like a oh okay let's see i did like a ton of little indies like right in a row i think i did i did that that broke my heart broke the spell and then i did like um i know i did uh this little movie called manic um with joe gordon levitt and don cheeto that was a tiny movie um but it was fun to shoot and then um all the real girls which is one of my favorite movies i ever got to do um yeah it was like a bunch of indie movies then i was just like just like doing sundance movies like back to back after that big sundance era for you sundance era like lasted like 10 years yeah how well i mean how did you feel at the time like were you i think i guess my question is like in the moment that you were in your sundance era were you like this is the fucking best this is exactly what i want i had always like said i wanted to do like art films that was like that was like my goal and i was like i'm doing it um so i felt really good about it i loved that uh era the only thing is that with like little tiny indies you have to like work so much to just like pay rent you know like you just have to like basically do like five movies a year um which was fine because i was like in my 20s um and um yeah i mean it was great i loved doing i love doing indie movies like it's probably my favorite thing to do in terms of passion like nothing's better i also just like i like the feeling that we're like all filmmakers and we're all involved like deeply on this level of like getting it done um i think it's just like it's i think there's this thing the bigger the budget the more separated you get from like as an actor they're like go wait in your trailer and like um we'll come get you and then you're kind of you kind of feel more separated from that sort of filmmaking process and i just i love being in it like i'm i'm very like hands-on i love it yeah you really do i mean like i do a lot of people say stuff like that right and then their actions kind of don't bear it out right and i i you told me that when we met the first time you were like i love this shit like i love making films i love indies and i was like i was like i really hope that's true because that's what this movie would be yeah and then being on set with you i was like god she really does love it like oh i love it standing in for yourself and like like so just like yeah you you really do love it i have to say i was very um inspired and surprised i love it so much and i also i just love the um like i'm i just i like the like grittiness of doing an indie movie and i also just like love like like getting to do character driven things that maybe are not exactly what a big studio would feel comfortable making like things that are off the beaten path and a little bit more you know like maybe a little more emotional than they might want maybe a little bit like different in and i feel like those are the really special things and so for me it's just a treat to get to do it i love it yeah well you're so great at it it's a gift to us when you do it oh you're so sweet working with you was a treat stop working with you as you know i'm shy um i do want to ask a question that we absolutely can cut if you're like i don't really want to talk about that um but you said something really really interesting to me about um when you decided to do new girl yeah when you went in and signed on to that project yeah and then you you had that moment of realization where you were driving in the car and you saw the oh yeah like can you do you want to talk a little bit about like that sure and like deciding to do tv yes something i was surprised by and didn't really know is that like i really had fallen in love with your work in films yeah and then like i guess there was a weird thing about going and doing tv yeah it was it was at the time they're like film actors and tv actors and they you don't mix and it's like tv was sort of seen as this just like other whole thing and it was this line that not a tv if you were a movie actor and it was like i was a movie actor and then there were tv actors and it was kind of like so limiting and i i just feel like whenever you see like those weird prejudices like that you have to go like red flag and then opportunity because frankly that script was so amazing the new girl script was so amazing i was like if this were a movie everyone would want to do it it would be like everyone but it was because it was tv it didn't have the kind of probably didn't have as much you know like people who were wanting to do tv wanted to do it but it was like it was just didn't have as as many people may be interested in it but it's like was such an amazing script and i felt like well here's where we make the decision to go where the material is and not think about like oh i'm a this so i'm not going to do that and also it was a it was a pretty i mean there's it seems like there's always transformative like every few years there's a big transformation in in the entertainment industry like things change and and um uh like it just changed you have to be ready to pivot and and do things that were was do things that are different from how you used to do them so for me that was doing television um because they had actually so when I first started there were tons of indie movies being made all the time and then and that's how I that's was my bread and butter and then all the like studios that had like wings that made independent like kind of independent type films like they cut a lot of the sleep so all of a sudden it was like they might have had 80 and then they went to eight and it was like just a bunch of superhero movies and I was like well that's kind of not my thing and not that I couldn't do a superhero movie um uh Marvel if you would like to call me I'm accepting we're taking calls we're taking calls um but it just was like a lot of the stuff I had been doing was kind of drying up and I was like do I just do music because I was doing tons of music at the time and that's kind of what I was thinking I was going to do and then um I got that script and I was like you know what this is so freaking funny I I and I was like it's also it now everyone's like oh you are Jess but I'm like no that's nothing like any of the parts that I ever did before and I was so excited to have the opportunity to play something like that and I was like I'm going to do it I'm going to do it I'm really different and get like into it because I was like this is my wheelhouse but nobody knows it yeah so I was really excited what what made you fall in love with the script I mean I know you said it was funny and that it was a new challenge for you but was there's do you remember anything about it that like really set it apart at the time from other things you were reading the the tone of the dialogue was just so unique and Liz Merriweather who wrote it is unbelievably talented um she's gone on to do a ton of incredible stuff but um yeah um just the way she wrote dialogue was just so great and I love the characters that she created you know yeah and I was like oh I love reading scripts that go that when I read them I go ah I can't wait to say that you know I can't wait to say that yeah not oh can we do it this way you know like it's just so fun to be able to have that feeling where there's like lines or like oh I can't wait yeah that is that yeah that's so cool that's the best like your script well thank you that's very nice Ruby Ruby uh caster who co-wrote it with me um she was just a dream to work with I feel like you guys are a dream I love you both so much it was a blast um okay but so the I just I'm so interested in it because I feel like the experience that you had with that show was such a a rarefied like yes like crazy but there's a very small percentage of people in the world who will go through something like that right and you were talking what we were talking about okay I know what you were asking me this moment where you were like the craziest moment I was like I had the show had just like gone on the air and it was big when it came out and um I remember driving down Highland um which is like a huge street in LA like right near the Hollywood Bowl um on my way to work rush hour and I looked up to my left and I literally was surprised because I you don't always know what the marketing department's gonna do they just don't know what they're gonna do and I was like I don't know what they're gonna do and I was just like they'll do big you know they'll do they'll go big sometimes and I looked to my left and there was a full building with a picture of me my face a full building and then it said it said simply adorkable and and it said like Zoe Deschanel and I was like I was like this is all at once like my nightmare and my dream yeah um all the things um and then I'm like driving and I didn't have tinted windows because I didn't know like if you're on TV you need tinted windows I mean like being an indie actor everyone that comes up to you is like it's a different thing it's a really it's cool it's cool yeah people are like dude I love your work you know it's like that I loved you in that thing whatever it's not the same as being marketed and I remember so I'm like I look up and I was like oh my god and then all of a sudden I feel this there's like a pounding on my window and this guy starts going hey hey you and he just starts like pointing at the thing and I was like and I have apologized to you I regret I was having yeah I was having a bad day it's okay but I was very excited to see you um yeah it 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including costco walmart target public's whole foods kroger and heb thank you olipop at peloton sometimes thinking big means thinking small introducing the new peloton tread flex our first foldable and movable tread that's just about three feet stowed so you can roll it away with an ultra quiet and comfortable belt that whispers while you run made to fit however you move and fit to move wherever you go wherever you like let yourself run peloton explore peloton tread flex at onepeloton.com welcome back freaking frack welcome to the jungle abc wednesdays abbott is back it's gonna be the best year yet thank you now we can finally turn this up and everyone's going wild y'all think you run this school but you don't it's going great abbott elementary anything can happen in the jungle right guys all new wednesdays on abc and stream next day on hulu mr monopoly here miss me monopoly is back at mcdonald's with millions of prizes a 2027 cheap charity a carnival cruise vacation gift cards from doordash and best buy peel then play in the mcdonald's app get your bag no purchase necessary 50 us and dch 18 plus see play at mcd.com for rules and play at mcd.com slash amoe for info and playing without purchase by mail by november 2nd chance card game ends november 8th game ends november 22nd 2026 see rules for prize details monopoly is a registered trademark of hasbro it was kind of a crazy time just because it was like oh whoa this is this is what it feels like and sometimes it's a big shock to the system to all of a sudden have a different level of um people knowing you who you don't know you know and then yeah you got to learn to be chill with it yeah i feel like yeah because sometimes your heart rate you know yeah and yeah it can yeah it can be very isolating i feel like you have to find a way to still live in the world and figure out how you navigate that thing um but then yeah you were on this massive hit show for a long time nine seasons um seven seven but nine was it nine years or did i just make nine up in my head eight years yeah so i made it up in my head you know it felt like nine yeah yeah thank you hey that means the world to me thank you uh but yes uh seven seasons eight years and how did it like when it was coming to an end how did it feel transitioning out of that do you remember like the big feelings of it it was really hard the hardest part was that those other actors i were like my family yeah and i saw them every day like more than a lot of my family members you know and i i just miss them and that's really hard it's really weird and then everybody lives all over the city and you know you don't necessarily get to see them very often or you know it's like unless you go have lunch or whatever but you know how in LA if you if one person lives in the valley and one person lives on the west side one person lives in Highland Park like nobody's gonna see each other very often unless you make a really concerted effort yeah so yeah I just miss I miss my buddies and I miss that camaraderie and I loved getting to make something every week that was like wow we made like a whole episode of TV um in five days that was like incredible so that was crazy yeah and I was I loved that I I like being in the trenches like that and it's like the way I feel about making indie movies like I love TV and like how fast it goes and I love indie movies and how fast it goes I have a hard time when it's like glacially slow filmmaking process that I'm like that that's a little that's actually a little tougher for me yeah yeah it's interesting doing the like I mean I came from like a indie comedy where we did everything quick and cheap and immediately and the first time I did something big where it was like we're shooting two pages today I was like what the fuck are you talking I was like we have so much time this is insane it just feels crazy that you're like oh wow y'all are really moving like this two pages before like 8 a.m yeah it's just crazy you're like what are we doing next yeah what's the rest of the day yeah yeah that's intriguing so what um what chapter do you feel like you're in now I mean I know you have the Caleb Herron by the way supporting Caleb Herron chapter um yeah I mean I'm just like getting back to all the stuff that I've always loved doing I mean I have two kids who you met I love them Elsie and Charlie they love you they're absolute icons Charlie does not like sorbet does not like sorbet and also when I met your kids I couldn't tell if they were just I met them for the first time I mean I'd heard so much about them I was like yeah I think I came on a little too strong I like wanted to be their friend so bad and then I met them like fresh off the plane they were just a little tired I was like you guys and they were like hey like no they like wait to show their personalities so something they're like very polite usually too so they'll be like hello nice to meet you yeah and and um I was so stoked when we ran into you guys in the hallway and their personalities came out and I was like yes you could see their little silly personalities and I was like oh my god I'm so excited to see you guys and I was like oh my god well and we were at a disadvantage because they didn't know anything about me but I already knew so much about them right because you and I had talked so much about them of course and I was like what's up guys how are we like I was like truly ready to like lock in and they were like get this man no no they're they're just they're they they like just have they always they withhold the personality a little bit and then they want to like burst it on you they're so cute um but uh yeah but so they were like little and so like when the show ended they were like so small and so I kind of was just like oh my god I'm so excited to see you guys and I was like oh my god I'm so excited to see you guys and I was like oh my god I'm so excited to see you guys and I was like oh my god not as many jobs just because I you know want to hang with them but now I'm like stoked because it was like we had so much fun making our film and I love I love making you know movies that I feel passionate about you know like where I feel passionate about the material and you know I just yeah I just I love making movies so I'm I'm stoked to do that and you're in New York right now doing a bunch of this stuff talking about yes film you have coming out I have a really cute movie coming out called Merv and it's um it's a rom-com but it has like it's a rom-com but it's like my favorite rom-coms where they have like some serious elements too like it it's it it has these like moments that really ground it because it has it's not just like silly um but it has a lot of silliness too um but it's about a couple who breaks up and they share a dog and then the dog is depressed so they have to cheer him up and take him to dog beach in Florida a dog beach in Florida and maybe they reunite who's to say I'm not saying who's to say but the dog is named Merv and the dog is so cute he's a very good actor happy ending for the dog can we say or no happy ending for the dog the dog nothing happens to the dog okay I just want to know this I just want you to know this is not like a dog dies movie yeah this is a dog is alive movie this movie one of the big things about it is there's a dog that's alive one of the big things about it is the dog is so alive and the whole time and there's nothing about the dog has a very long life that like continues on after never stops being only even six years old right now and he has like so much life left one thing about this movie is the dog has lived and will continue to live yes he's like not even in his quarter life crisis yet he's chilling chilling yeah he's got so much much to do he's such a sweet baby yeah and he's working he's got jobs he's got gigs yeah he's got gigs he's a working actor he's an actor and he loves sausages that's what that's how you pay him really yes by the way yeah exactly so one of the things that we would laugh so much on sab out is that the dog they'd be like we have to pay him and how they pay him is in like chicken pieces or antenna you know what yeah yeah i'm starting to look at some of my contracts a little sideways right now because i'm like i need someone to come over and give me some chicken every once in a while ah please someone flies in a chicken on an antenna yeah it's what we want sounds really nice yeah so he's he's living the good life yeah and he eats like healthy treats because you know he's a working actor he's a working actor he can't just eat only sausages but he loves those sausages did you this legitimately was a a point of growth for me when i started acting was i i first i i went pretty crazy at crafty yeah like i would upset my tummy bad yeah i had to be like hey so you're actually a grown-up then you're at work i had to be like no more candy for breakfast like it was a real problem well they they some sets they put out a great spread yeah um the thing is is what you do girl we had this like this it was like um what do you call it was like a trail mix they would put out and the first year we were all like i think it was like kirkland signature or something we were all like oh my god this trail mix is so good we eat it had m&ms in it and everyone's like addicted to the trail mix but then they put the same trail mix out like you know the same brand same kind every day for like seven years and then by the end i was like i could look at that trail mix and even though it's an amazing trail mix it's like you see it enough times you're like rage i don't want it get it out of here i just was like well i just was like i can't believe i became immune to this incredible trail mix yeah i felt like really good about that like it's just immune that's a beautiful i could just look at those m&ms and just be like whatever you mean nothing to me you mean nothing to me i wouldn't need a handful i was weak season one for the m&m trail mix but not anymore not get that shit out of here it doesn't mean anything to me raisins you think i'm gonna take a handful of that right now i would never do that no i would never that's not in my character but it was like if they changed it up and put like a new snacky out forget it i love a snacky i do love us you love a snacky yeah you know about my snack drawers right i do know about your snack i told you about it yeah your snack drawer is iconic but also i will say most of the time you're taking down like baby carrots dipped in cottage cheese that's like your big snack that's my big snack that's it is but it's sometimes hard to snack with you because i'll be wanting like a snickers and then all of a sudden it's like you're doing one of the most healthy things i've ever seen if you put ranch powder on it come on that's delicious it's really good yeah no i that's like a healthy snack but yeah i like a snack i love a snicker i like the really mini mini snickers you saw me taking down some you did i would say one of the coolest things that happened to us on our movie was that me you and kyle do you remember the moment we all discovered how important coffee was to us yes that we were all like we were like we need to buy a real espresso machine to have on this tiny indie set for four weeks for four weeks well we were i was really like i was like i don't want to say anything snobby right now yeah but i don't i just i want good coffee on this thing yeah and it was nice that you guys felt the same yeah well and then i said actually it's more important to me than food like and then kyle was like i buy a legitimate espresso machine on every film i'm on yeah and then give it to the camera department i was like we all understand each other i'm glad we understand what needs to happen yes we need we need what we need but we we were pulling shots at lunch and i was i was not alcohol shots but espresso shots by the way and i was making them for a lot of people there was one there was one lunch where i remember i was like late to go back for hair makeup because i was making so many espresso shots zoe's not ready she was making coffee for everybody i was making coffee for everybody she was pulling shots for the crew she's at her barista job right now she'll clock in when she can but i felt good about it everyone said the that it was good the coffee i made one of my favorite things about you many to choose from is your love for karaoke we tore some karaoke up on this we sure did and when you showed up i could tell you were tired yeah you were like thank you for saying that you were like not maybe a hundred percent wanting to be there yeah and then you get up and saying man i feel like a woman by Shania Twain, and I was like, i love this person like how much do i love this person i want you to know that you're 100 right that when we were in the car michelle can vouch when we were in the car i said 33 minutes we will step into that party for 33 minutes and then it was a lot longer than that i was there for hours i started taking shots i don't i don't even really drink like that like something came over me they were like jello shots being passed around or what was that cooler blue like yeah it looked like something that was like you that was used to like market teenage mutant ninja turtles or something i got sick off that i had so many shots because basically what happened was there was this girl at the bar who kept sending shots around to everyone yeah and i was like you're not gonna outdo me if i'm gonna buy shots and so then i started buying shots all of a sudden i've done 20 shots yeah i was deep in it i did man i feel like a woman and then i kind of slurred my way through lucky lucky by britney that was iconic that was a moment i'm not gonna lie that was a great moment yeah you did a great song i can't remember the name of it was like a funky oh was it tell me something good yes by yeah chaka khan and rufus yeah god you you murdered that thank you that was a real and that was it see but that's you wrote that song i wrote that song you i wrote that song also stevie wonder wrote that song i thought you said you wrote that song and i was like i did write that song stevie wonder wrote that yep oh i didn't know that and you listened to it you'll be like oh hell yeah he did it's a stevie wonder song yeah you killed that and that's the kind of karaoke knowledge that you bring that's not a song that i think almost anyone else would pick but you oh thank you that's that's a good karaoke song thank you it's a good it's it's a great song yeah it's a good one in general but you really murdered that thank you we were on our karaoke in a big way um i love karaoke and we have karaoke at our house like we do karaoke just casually and the kids love it so fun yeah what what are what are their go-to songs do you know elsie likes to sing like adele yeah and charlie likes to sing like the ghostbusters theme yeah yes yeah elsie's also like give me the mic she'll be like i'm not gonna sing and then she'll be like give me the mic she's me i'm like oh whoa whoa okay and then it's like and then my sister later we were doing karaoke with my sister was my sister's birthday and then my sister was like singing along with elsie and then emily's like um i'm not sure elsie liked that i was singing along with her she's like i think she wants to sing adele by herself one of the most foundational karaoke memories i have is that i was staying at my friend's house i was maybe like 10 and i was known to get down on karaoke and i was staying at my friend's house i was asleep it was like three in the morning and i was this is a friend that i was very very close with her family and our parents were very close so i knew her mom like extremely well like basically another parent of mine her mom came home drunk from the bars with a bunch other like my mom and a bunch of their friends and woke me up from my slumber and was like you have to come downstairs and do karaoke with me right now and it was just me and her in the living room doing karaoke together amazing everyone else was asleep it was just the two of us she's so drunk and i'm just i'm like barely awake standing there 10 years old and we did um would you still call me superman that song yeah kryptonite kryptonite she picked it and we did kryptonite after we finished it the first time she was like one more time and then we did the same song and then we did it two more times so we did kryptonite three times in a row and then i was like can i go to bed and she was like yeah get out of here oh my god as i was going to bed i heard her do kryptonite that is so funny queen it reminds me that when i was in college i went to northwestern somehow i got invited to this overnight formal like with a fraternity with a no at all and recipe for disaster but not the disaster you think um but hold on hold on this guy got so wasted and um requested the song come on eileen like 40 times and the dj kept playing it for him hell yes he was so rude yeah it was just crazy but i kept like the come on eileen like a thousand i was like are you freaking kidding me the why is the does the dj like have a crush on this dude or something and you know what that's some shit i would do yeah and i like that song but like not that many times it's too much it's too many times one time one time is enough maybe one time big gap in the night second time later yeah like what everybody's cleared out the dj at my birthday party last year i threw a costume party for my birthday oh my god like every year yeah coming up again wait you know you're invited i gave you the information i'm have i'm have to come i'm gonna remind you of the information well you have the venue information you just have the date but i'm gonna give you the rest okay okay yeah yeah yeah uh the dj last year there was a moment where the dj played a um i hope you dance by leanne womack like club mashup it was like i hope you do and it was like i literally i've never seen a room light up like that oh my god and i was grinding on these two lesbians that were dancing and i was like oh my god i'm dressed as the blue man group and i just i remember in that moment being like life is so special you're like i've never been happier i've never been happier and i that made me think of that my one of my happiest moments was at um you know that place marie's crisis it's like i love show tunes so i was like singing along to like les mis and then like for some reason my i love my parents so much and for some reason they were like we're in new york where are you and i was like in marie's crisis and then they walked in and started singing les mis with us i was like this is it beautiful this is it imagine something better than that it was like one day more another day another destiny not knowing the song me not knowing the song sorry to all involved sorry to all involved it's okay i know although i did get one of my first i came i did an internship uh in new york when i was in college and i had this internship where it was i worked with international high school students yeah and we if we don't brag don't brag and if we planned trips for them the school the company we worked for would pay for our part of it so like if we plan to take them to a broadway show and we could explain why it was a cultural immersion for them they would pay for our ticket so i but you had to get only one trip a week of the same thing could be planned so i gamed the system and as soon as the uh portal opened every week to plan trips at midnight i would go in and plan all the best most expensive stuff for my kids so that my shit got paid for yes and i put i print my kids wanted to go to les mis and i'd never been to a broadway show so i was like i'll take you guys to les mis i've never been to broadway and so i took them to les mis and we sat all the way in the back on the back wall like up in the very top it was so uncomfortable but i just was like and i had all my international kids with me and most all of them spoke english but like for a lot of them it was their second language or it was just you know it was a varying degrees of like what kind of english they spoke um and so it was a lot of like communicating like the military when we were on the train and i'd be like stop you know it was like very like i'd be like this i had to use a lot of gestures and um i remember there was a really a really sad part of the show and i was crying yeah and one of my students was crying and she turned around to me and she went to like tell me that she was crying and i was like no i can see you know i was like i can see that you're crying it's very beautiful i took my we took um our kids and then like my um daughter's like best friend and then her mom is one of my best friends and then i was like oh my god i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry and also she loves layman's and i grew up like loving layman's and so we watched we all went when it was like touring again and and came to la and we were crying the entire show yeah yeah oh it's great it's great that's so sweet so i have a question for you yeah what's so true to you oh what's so true to you right now so true to me that i'm so happy i love that so true i love that do you think that every like okay tell me what you mean like you're so happy i'm so happy i'm like happy to be here with you like i'm happy to be in new york there's like it's like the holiday season yeah my house is decorated with like sparkly lights and all kinds of things and i'm gonna have holiday fun stuff and soon and i love christmas and we've got a little movie coming out i made this awesome movie with you i mean everything's just fun i feel pretty good yeah everything's pretty good it's nice to be happy i'm happy what kind of tree vibe are you guys doing oh we have we have multiple trees of course but do you have like a big like okay your big tree yeah what is the vibe the vibe is like 1960s tree with like really colorful bulbs that feel like yeah only described it like 1960s like a little psychedelic yeah like maybe yeah a little psychedelic this really tracks because one of my favorite things about you you know is that you used to you know that one of my favorite things about you is that you used to dj uh in la yeah on the east side and you would only play 60s girl groups yeah yeah that's my favorite i wish i could be there so bad yeah you know what's funny is that so some of the gigs we would play only 60s girl groups and then some of them i'd open it up a bit and play other stuff but people would be like annoyed we weren't like some there would be dumb people that would be like, "Why don't you play modern music?" like are you djing it's my dj night my dj night and i'm like i want to dance to this stuff yeah so i would dj i dj'd with two two different friends and they were both like big girl group people so yeah but i would dj like dive bars like nobody nobody knew i was doing this it was like a little i love that secret wish i could have been there but i couldn't i wish you could but guess what but guess what you were probably like 18 or something what years was this where you were like 2010 2010 i was 15 oh you would have been too young they wouldn't let me in yeah i was in missouri i was maybe i was in the cow fields yep bye i did this is so i wish we should make it happen again i'll dj a dive bar for you now unannounced unannounced and only girl groups i would love that yeah i would completely love that please do that honestly for trash mountain release we'll find a time and a way a hundred percent oh i have a segment for you this is the true or false segment okay um what it is every guest we i'm gonna read you 15 statements okay you're gonna tell me as quickly as you can if you think what i just said is true or false okay and zoe okay if you get 10 or more correct we're gonna give you 50 oh my god us dollars okay incredible so the stakes are high okay are you ready yes bugs bunny is older than mickey mouse uh false false bald eagles mate for life true true the capital of nebraska is omaha true false lincoln the first text message ever sent said testing uh true false it was merry christmas okay yeah that is it crossroads crossroads schools school newspaper is called crossfire true true lobsters have blue blood uh true true the liver is the only human organ that can fully regenerate itself true true france has 12 time zones false true what yes france france no france 12 time zones france 12 how is that possible it's not big enough baby i don't know they didn't they didn't consult me at all can we fact check that i'm sorry fact check it can you fact check not with chat gpt because that lies i never do fact check it without chat gpt yeah and while we do elvis's final rank in the army was private first class true false sergeant into the woods debuted on broadway in 1987 true true the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy was written by douglas adams true true a group of owls is called a roost false false a parliament the caesar salad was invented in italy true false mexico jan i knew it was in mexico jan hooks's real name was synthony cynthia smith true false jan hooks is her real name french woods festival of the performing performing arts is still open true true how'd she do okay we may have to review the tape but i believe nine okay now what do we get on the time zones question it is so how is that possible i will tell you one second i was trying we only have like four or three or four in the u.s that okay so 12 with its overseas territories france no france uses 12 time zones 13 at because it claims antarctica no no you're right we got to give her that how many in france like actual how do you say that word contiguous uh i don't know yeah sure that one well it's all it's all like the little islands and stuff no we don't care no no we you got it you got 10 yeah thank you i want 50 and i'm glad that you went to war over this because you were right thank you i knew there was something because i was like i know about time so well counting antarctica is crazy and they know that the french people need to stop doing that yeah yeah they're always doing that the french they're always counting antarctica can i donate the money to a charity oh we would never do that no no you have to take it and spend it okay can i spend it on dinner with caleb harron yeah you can yeah you can we're gonna go get some wine or something uh zoe is there anything you okay where can people watch mervin when on amazon prime okay um comes out december 10th okay what day is this coming out this comes out the 18th so this so it'll already be out merv is out now go watch it now yeah merv is out now globally if you're somewhere some if you're in france with your 12 or 13 time zones or antarctica or antarctica you should be able to watch this it's on amazon prime now it's called merv and it also stars charlie cox who is daredevil charlie cox daredevil yeah he's so nice yeah and he's english which is huge which is huge for the english people yeah yeah uh is there anything you leave the people with before we go um i love you all beautiful thank you so much thank you for having me this was so fun can i come back uh a lot yeah you have okay great you absolutely can thank you thank you so much at peloton sometimes thinking big means thinking small introducing the new peloton tread flex our first foldable and movable tread that's just about three feet stowed so you can roll it away with an ultra quiet and comfortable belt that whispers while you run made to fit however you move and fit to move wherever you like let yourself run peloton explore peloton tread flex at onepeloton.com welcome back freaking frack welcome to the jungle abc wednesdays abbott is back it's gonna be the best year yet thank you now we can finally turn this up and everyone's going wild y'all think you run this school but you don't it's going great abbott elementary anything can happen in the jungle right guys all new wednesdays on abc and stream next day on hulu mr monopoly here miss me monopoly is back at mcdonald's with millions of prizes a 2027 cheap charity a carnival cruise vacation gift cards from doordash and best buy peel then play in the mcdonald's app get your bag no purchase necessary 50 us and dch 18 plus see play at mcd.com for rules and play at mcd.com slash amoe for info and playing without purchase by mail by november 2nd chance card game ends november 8th game ends november 22nd 2026 see rules for prize details monopoly is a registered trademark of hasbro