Epic TV Week: Best Moments on THE LAST SHIP (with Ash Weathersby)

[00:00:07] The world is in trouble again.

[00:00:12] Don't play in the hero, Alex.

[00:00:15] All over the planet, crops are sick.

[00:00:18] No one can grow food.

[00:00:20] Within a year there could be no way to sustain human life.

[00:00:25] You've all lost everything. Is that the reason to give up?

[00:00:30] Ancient African palm seed is the only plant alive today

[00:00:32] with proven immunity to the Red Rust.

[00:00:34] Those seeds are our only hope.

[00:00:36] You cannot run from your home.

[00:00:37] You're a destiny, Tom.

[00:00:40] Those seeds do not leave this island.

[00:00:44] This is our beginning and the end of anyone who stands in our way.

[00:00:50] So he's just holding the seeds for ransom?

[00:00:53] The future of the world in this man's hands.

[00:00:56] Not if we get them first.

[00:00:59] I left home because I was confused.

[00:01:04] Looked to injustice and revenge.

[00:01:08] And now?

[00:01:09] I want both.

[00:01:16] Famine, plague. You can go to war and make it quick.

[00:01:20] Missile inbound!

[00:01:24] It's our last chance to save the human race.

[00:01:27] Our guy facing death.

[00:01:38] I've faced worse.

[00:01:54] It's a chapter review show.

[00:02:20] Long time coming.

[00:02:34] I just figured I'd get some other fans of that still popular cult show

[00:02:38] that was The Last Ship.

[00:02:40] And lo and behold, Ash Weathersby,

[00:02:42] who was behind one of the main Facebook groups

[00:02:45] I reached back out to a year later

[00:02:47] and I was like, hey, I know.

[00:02:50] We might as well just sum up our favorite moments.

[00:02:53] The show is still strong on Hulu.

[00:02:56] It lasted five years.

[00:02:59] The actors have come and gone.

[00:03:01] And it's just so funny and just without a doubt.

[00:03:04] Some of them were already semi-famous.

[00:03:06] I'm just like Eric Dain and Adam Baldwin,

[00:03:09] but it's so funny how some of the other ones,

[00:03:11] like I can name some of them off,

[00:03:13] but it's just like so kicking and everyone's like, oh, that guy.

[00:03:18] I know that guy.

[00:03:19] Where do I know that guy from?

[00:03:21] And if I don't know their name,

[00:03:22] I still know like the character.

[00:03:25] Yeah.

[00:03:26] And any time I see Master Chief,

[00:03:28] I literally will blurt out Master Chief,

[00:03:31] even though his name is Charles Parnell.

[00:03:33] He's actually a cool guy.

[00:03:35] I did get the chance to meet him.

[00:03:37] Oh, wow.

[00:03:38] Well, back in 2016,

[00:03:40] the cast invited me out to California.

[00:03:45] The original plan was to take a walking tour of the set

[00:03:50] and meet some of the cast

[00:03:51] and even possibly have a background role.

[00:03:54] Some of that didn't get to pan out,

[00:03:56] but I did get to have lunch with some of the cast members

[00:03:59] and then later on in the evening,

[00:04:02] out there at Santa Monica Pier,

[00:04:03] was invited out to dinner with Elise Mirtow

[00:04:06] and her husband, Beau Foxworth.

[00:04:10] Elise played Kara Foster's mother.

[00:04:14] Yeah, oh sweet.

[00:04:15] In the first three seasons.

[00:04:17] I've seen her actually popping up in a lot of commercials lately

[00:04:20] and she and I still keep in touch with her acting career.

[00:04:24] She had actually just got done

[00:04:27] casting out four or five different commercials.

[00:04:33] So it's kind of like the boss group where people are just very involved

[00:04:36] and some moderators keeping track and saying,

[00:04:39] hey, come on out and, you know, we'll invite you to the set.

[00:04:45] And, you know, in starting that group,

[00:04:53] my wife and my family and I will tell you,

[00:04:56] I have a very Captain Kirk mentality.

[00:04:58] It's not that I don't like to lose.

[00:04:59] I don't lose.

[00:05:01] There you go.

[00:05:03] A small group of us were running a different group

[00:05:07] and the group's leader did not like the direction we were taking it

[00:05:10] and removed us.

[00:05:12] I have been in those types of groups before.

[00:05:14] That's the unfortunate downside of Facebook.

[00:05:16] It's supposed to unite people, but so often,

[00:05:19] you know, bricks start being pelted and you're like,

[00:05:22] how'd we get here?

[00:05:24] What did we do?

[00:05:26] I was in a group that was for a canceled TV show

[00:05:28] and people were being restless.

[00:05:30] And I'm like, let's just have this be about one of the actors.

[00:05:33] Let's have it be a tribute.

[00:05:34] It doesn't have to just be dissolved.

[00:05:36] Exactly.

[00:05:38] So I'm sorry you had that.

[00:05:39] That's always wrong.

[00:05:41] We were all in a Facebook Messenger chat because I got the bright idea

[00:05:47] that if we were going to turn the group into a powerhouse.

[00:05:51] Communication.

[00:05:53] Well, yes, communication constant that could be kept off of the page

[00:05:57] until we were in a group and ready to drop something on the

[00:06:00] Hey, what do you think of this?

[00:06:02] Hey, should we do this?

[00:06:03] No, you know, it's a committee.

[00:06:05] Yeah, not to mention we were scattered out over nine different time zones.

[00:06:11] We did.

[00:06:12] We had a moderator makes a difference.

[00:06:14] Martin and and and toward Belgium.

[00:06:17] He's still a moderator in the group today or he's an admin,

[00:06:20] not moderator Mary Ann Strieb Mary Ann out in Australia.

[00:06:27] We had a few on the Eastern Seaboard.

[00:06:29] I take it they follow the career of Bryn Foster, the Aussie of the show.

[00:06:35] Yes, yes.

[00:06:36] And he actually is still an active participant in this group.

[00:06:40] And I've been off the air for what four or five, six years now.

[00:06:44] And that's some good.

[00:06:45] I think it's just because he kind of owes so much like,

[00:06:48] I mean, kind of it both him and in bar lobby, you know,

[00:06:51] just playing Israeli fighters, you know, and then yes,

[00:06:54] the fact that he's a martial artist, he's kind of the go to be movie

[00:06:57] action star.

[00:06:58] He just came out with like an action movie and in bar lobby, same thing.

[00:07:01] Like I would see her and like some brief stuff and but that in Sons

[00:07:05] of Anarchy kind of made everyone say, hey, let's give her some more recurring

[00:07:08] roles.

[00:07:09] So it's yes, I think it really was a big booster for everyone involved.

[00:07:13] Like everyone's playing against type.

[00:07:15] It wasn't just any other apocalyptic future war show.

[00:07:20] And the current is kind of, I think the mentality of it also.

[00:07:25] Yeah.

[00:07:25] The captain goes out with a way team.

[00:07:28] When we decided to kind of branch off and do our own thing,

[00:07:32] we had laid down a set of parameters as to how we wanted to run

[00:07:37] it.

[00:07:38] And we always said that our best ideas were fueled on caffeine

[00:07:43] and extreme lack of sleep.

[00:07:47] But that's very important.

[00:07:49] And that's very particular.

[00:07:50] When these shows come out, the actors sometimes will quietly slide

[00:07:54] into some of the groups and the producers, the video effects guys,

[00:07:58] the writers, just to kind of see what the pulse of the show is

[00:08:03] and how it's going.

[00:08:05] They're gauging it as opposed to rude people on Twitter,

[00:08:08] you know, retweeting stuff.

[00:08:10] It's easier to gauge.

[00:08:12] And I had a standing rule that said, okay, guys, here's what I

[00:08:16] want to do.

[00:08:16] If we see a name come across for approval to join and we recognize

[00:08:22] them as a cast or crew, because the crew is just as important as

[00:08:26] the cast if not more so.

[00:08:27] This is for everybody.

[00:08:29] With no, with no crew, you have no cast, you have no ship,

[00:08:32] you have no show.

[00:08:33] Yep.

[00:08:35] We welcomed by name.

[00:08:38] We called out by name as we would hit the approval process.

[00:08:41] Every single person that joined the group, all 4,000 of them

[00:08:46] at one point, except for the cast and crew.

[00:08:49] We just quietly slide them into the system and we would shoot

[00:08:52] them a message off the side.

[00:08:54] Hey, welcome to the group.

[00:08:55] We normally announce people because of who you are.

[00:08:58] We will let you decide if you want to interact or if you

[00:09:01] just want to sit back and you want to be private without

[00:09:04] being bothered.

[00:09:05] You might just want to be the programmer but not, you

[00:09:08] know, recognize for your talent.

[00:09:10] You want your privacy.

[00:09:12] We get it.

[00:09:13] Give the thing a pulse and let it run.

[00:09:17] Yeah.

[00:09:17] And my team, because it might have been my idea, but it was

[00:09:23] definitely a group effort.

[00:09:25] Jaco Sims.

[00:09:27] I know you know the name.

[00:09:28] I loved it.

[00:09:29] I loved how the minute I saw the promos for like New

[00:09:32] Amsterdam, like, okay, interested, interested.

[00:09:35] I know that face.

[00:09:37] Mr. Sims is stars.

[00:09:38] He was.

[00:09:39] He and Kevin Michael Martin would start dropping live

[00:09:43] video chats.

[00:09:44] Oh, they would do.

[00:09:45] They were doing Q and A's with just the members of our

[00:09:48] group.

[00:09:48] I think I joined in the second last year, all the

[00:09:52] different Facebook groups.

[00:09:53] And I just loved the various memes and just

[00:09:55] predictions.

[00:09:57] It was very more civil as opposed to other ones like

[00:10:00] because there's plenty of other great groups I'm

[00:10:02] part of.

[00:10:03] But without fail, there's always like once a year

[00:10:05] someone somehow, despite even some of the shows that

[00:10:09] I'm in, not even being political, we get in a

[00:10:11] political topic.

[00:10:12] I'm like, how did we get here?

[00:10:13] And then it goes to hell with like people saying, I

[00:10:18] hate this character.

[00:10:19] I'm like, what a great way to start a conversation.

[00:10:21] I hate this character.

[00:10:23] Okay.

[00:10:24] Why are you here?

[00:10:27] Nothing constructive.

[00:10:28] Just I hate this character.

[00:10:30] Okay.

[00:10:31] You want to tell those people this is not an

[00:10:33] airport.

[00:10:33] There's no need to an an houcher.

[00:10:36] Your departure begins now.

[00:10:39] The ship.

[00:10:40] But while they were doing the last ship,

[00:10:44] Jocko and his mother actually had a live podcast.

[00:10:49] I forget.

[00:10:50] This has been a couple of years now.

[00:10:53] You have to bear in mind.

[00:10:54] I forget what night of the week it was 17 to 18.

[00:10:57] Man, that's something just when that would have

[00:11:00] been taken off.

[00:11:01] It was called Apollo night LA.

[00:11:03] And they reviewed indie and unsigned artists,

[00:11:07] but they during the shows run,

[00:11:10] Jocko would actually bring cast members to sit in.

[00:11:14] It makes sense.

[00:11:15] Yeah.

[00:11:16] Kevin Michael Martin in there.

[00:11:18] He had Eric Dane in there.

[00:11:21] And somehow or another, some of my crew dropped

[00:11:26] in a line to Jocko that my birthday was coming

[00:11:30] up on the night of one of their podcasts.

[00:11:33] And it just, I think I want to say it happened to be

[00:11:35] the night that Kevin Michael Martin was on the show.

[00:11:40] Jocko called me out in the middle of the show.

[00:11:42] He told me to call in.

[00:11:44] So I got to, I got to hang on the phone with them

[00:11:48] for the entirety of their broadcast.

[00:11:50] Man.

[00:11:51] And then there was a night that Eric Dane was there.

[00:11:55] So it was more like an internet radio kind of show.

[00:11:57] Yeah.

[00:11:58] Yeah.

[00:11:58] Yeah.

[00:12:00] And Eric Dane was going to be there.

[00:12:02] So we dropped that, that in the group with the link

[00:12:05] to the podcast.

[00:12:06] Hey, this is your chance.

[00:12:09] Call in and talk to, call in and talk to Captain Chandler.

[00:12:12] Do it.

[00:12:13] I want to say he said they had somewhere upwards of 200

[00:12:17] phone calls in an hour and 15 minute long show.

[00:12:22] People just don't even, didn't even have time

[00:12:24] to talk to him.

[00:12:25] Just wanted to drop a note.

[00:12:28] And I guess how I knew we had made it as a group was

[00:12:35] right at the middle of season three.

[00:12:38] I got contacted by some of the VFX team.

[00:12:42] Oh, lovely.

[00:12:43] I want to say it was for the fourth of July.

[00:12:47] They had made, they themselves had made a custom banner

[00:12:51] for the DDG 15 one group on Facebook.

[00:12:54] And they said, you know, this is for you, for your

[00:12:57] participation.

[00:13:00] We would love to see you display this on the top of your

[00:13:03] screen.

[00:13:03] I'm like, oh cool.

[00:13:04] Are they doing this for everybody?

[00:13:05] No.

[00:13:07] Just us 4,000 crazy people.

[00:13:09] Man.

[00:13:10] So it was kind of cool to keep getting called out by

[00:13:13] these people.

[00:13:13] I'm still friends with some of these people.

[00:13:16] That's lovely.

[00:13:18] What was the company that did the effects?

[00:13:21] I didn't recognize any particular names attached to

[00:13:23] that one.

[00:13:25] I would be at a total loss.

[00:13:28] But it was pretty good.

[00:13:29] Like, it wasn't we to RILM level, but it was still

[00:13:32] pretty like digital domain kind of cool stuff.

[00:13:35] Yeah.

[00:13:37] And we got, we found out that they were actually

[00:13:44] starting to drop Easter eggs to our group in the

[00:13:47] show.

[00:13:48] Yeah.

[00:13:49] Sweet.

[00:13:51] The very, the very first episode of season three

[00:13:55] Chandler's driving around St. Louis in his pickup

[00:13:58] truck.

[00:14:00] He pulls up to this building.

[00:14:02] There's a mural on the side of the building, the

[00:14:03] bottom corner.

[00:14:04] It says DDG 151.

[00:14:08] He started calling his daughter ash.

[00:14:12] And stuff that even goes over the director's

[00:14:16] heads.

[00:14:17] I saw that Hank in a preparing for this, I saw that

[00:14:20] there was a back when the show first came on that

[00:14:23] co-creator Hank Steinberg said there was often 150

[00:14:27] visual effects shots per episode.

[00:14:31] Yeah.

[00:14:32] And you got that they're calling out to you saying,

[00:14:36] hey, see what did we got the visual effects.

[00:14:40] You've got some green screen, but then you've got

[00:14:42] what they determined was the coolest thing was

[00:14:45] when they would go down to San Diego and film on

[00:14:48] the actual ship with the actual live Navy sailors

[00:14:51] background.

[00:14:51] San Diego.

[00:14:53] Yeah.

[00:14:55] And I had to for the life of me, I cannot remember

[00:14:58] the names of the ships that they used, but I believe

[00:15:02] it was Eric Danes that was quoted as saying the

[00:15:04] thing that shocked him the most is how young the

[00:15:07] crew of the ship was.

[00:15:09] Yeah.

[00:15:10] I knew there was a.

[00:15:13] I used to see the guy who is a stand in.

[00:15:18] Post on Facebook once in a while he had done like a

[00:15:21] bunch of buttered like character actor work and he

[00:15:25] was getting like, make a ridiculous great money,

[00:15:27] you know, being the stand in and he would joke how

[00:15:30] Eric would give him some off color nicknames.

[00:15:36] But I think he said it was pretty fun.

[00:15:41] Now Kevin Michael Martin was definitely the cut up of

[00:15:44] the group.

[00:15:45] Oh, he he was you got him and Jaco Sims together and

[00:15:50] it was it was pure mayhem.

[00:15:52] Oh wow.

[00:15:53] I know because they often get like beat up every

[00:15:56] other episode.

[00:15:57] So I don't know if it's just a lot of leg for God

[00:16:01] sakes.

[00:16:01] Let it have fun.

[00:16:03] That's right.

[00:16:04] He does lose a little.

[00:16:07] Oh man.

[00:16:10] So what was what was your take on the on the show?

[00:16:14] You said you joined you said you watched the show

[00:16:16] from the beginning but you didn't jump into social

[00:16:18] media until a couple of seasons in.

[00:16:20] I will I've been on social media forever, but like

[00:16:23] I think I saw there was a group I think by the

[00:16:26] third season I think and it was pretty fun.

[00:16:31] Like everybody would like casually like recommend

[00:16:33] each other.

[00:16:33] What's another fun apocalyptic show that you like

[00:16:36] like Revolution or Jericho, you know and.

[00:16:40] Yeah.

[00:16:41] And there was there was some crossover we would see

[00:16:44] some.

[00:16:47] Pro members who would worked on like NCIS and

[00:16:50] actors and similar concepts that were compared

[00:16:54] to shows like 24 so that was kind of fun.

[00:16:59] I know Emerson Brooks is a pretty prolific voice

[00:17:03] actor.

[00:17:04] He plays the admiral.

[00:17:08] Who is here to place Chandler under arrest and.

[00:17:13] Around season free and then gets assigned with the

[00:17:17] cat he was the captain of the Shackleton right in

[00:17:20] the last few seasons and that he's been in

[00:17:23] everything like Call of Duty and what have you.

[00:17:27] I did see La Monica Garrett whose Jocko's

[00:17:31] brother you know.

[00:17:34] Jocko plays Carlton and he plays.

[00:17:37] Hamburg and seeing him just be on so many other

[00:17:41] just big shows like special ops and doesn't aid

[00:17:45] survivor you know it sums of anarchy it was.

[00:17:49] It was cool just seeing him kind of have some

[00:17:52] camaraderie as both a sibling and once again

[00:17:56] like he gets roughed up pretty bad in action

[00:17:59] so just cool to add some emotion there but.

[00:18:04] Yeah I mean I like to say I did see some cool

[00:18:07] interactions back and forth people just showing

[00:18:09] photos pre visualization kind of videos and.

[00:18:14] The co-creators you know I always look out for

[00:18:17] their names now just because they just want to

[00:18:20] make a fun spectacle that happens to be on the

[00:18:22] small screen you know both Hank Steinberg

[00:18:24] and Stephen Cain and Cain.

[00:18:26] I got a hand to him I mean he was very involved

[00:18:29] with the last season of Jack Ryan and the new

[00:18:33] Halo TV show but I mean even won a few awards

[00:18:36] for being the story editor on the the other TNT

[00:18:40] hit show but the closer.

[00:18:43] And good show yes really awesome show

[00:18:48] and kind of like the last ship there's a lot

[00:18:50] of people have seen it but not everyone

[00:18:51] really talks about it I don't know why it is

[00:18:53] I think it's just some shows just kick your

[00:18:57] butt they're just like that was awesome

[00:18:58] and then you move on.

[00:19:02] Any show that Michael Bay I mean the man

[00:19:04] gave us Transformers for God's sakes any

[00:19:06] show that's going to have Michael Bay as a

[00:19:09] creator you know it's going to be edgy

[00:19:13] you see thrill ride from start to finish

[00:19:15] and it was nothing but.

[00:19:17] And I don't know why as some people were

[00:19:20] hesitant I'm like for God's sakes this is

[00:19:22] kind of more like earlier blackbusters he's

[00:19:24] done like Armageddon and the rock you know

[00:19:26] this like it's going to have some eye

[00:19:29] candy and some something you just can't

[00:19:31] look away from so I mean yeah

[00:19:34] kudos to him and partner in crime Brad

[00:19:37] Fuller using their company because I did

[00:19:39] see a lot of actors on there who had

[00:19:41] been in a lot of their movies on the

[00:19:44] show and then you had you had twenty

[00:19:45] twenty hit and the last ship

[00:19:48] actually believe it or not started to

[00:19:50] make a resurgence because apparently

[00:19:52] having a worldwide pandemic

[00:19:54] was not good enough people wanted to go

[00:19:56] sit at home and watch somebody else

[00:19:59] have it for a little bit happen that

[00:20:00] is true yeah there there was a virus

[00:20:03] outbreak in one season it's just like

[00:20:05] yeah I have gone out to even purchase

[00:20:08] the 80s book by William Brinkley it

[00:20:11] was based on

[00:20:14] anyone

[00:20:18] you know

[00:20:19] yes that's the one and

[00:20:21] I can't wait to read it do you ever find

[00:20:24] yourself ever like voting stuff from the

[00:20:26] show like mcdonald james report not

[00:20:30] really

[00:20:34] we used to have

[00:20:36] a lot of fun

[00:20:39] working

[00:20:40] and

[00:20:41] we can

[00:20:42] the lines of the show to kind of turn

[00:20:44] it into a

[00:20:46] Benny Hill sketch

[00:20:51] one

[00:20:51] of the classic lines from Welcome to

[00:20:54] Get Mo

[00:20:55] is when Eric Dain

[00:20:57] is in code talking to the ship

[00:21:00] while he's face to face with the

[00:21:01] terrorists and right as Slattery pulls

[00:21:03] the trigger they don't know what he's

[00:21:05] saying we don't know what he's saying

[00:21:09] we don't know what he's saying

[00:21:12] we don't know what he's saying

[00:21:14] and it's a fun excuse for who

[00:21:16] Ross down without getting political

[00:21:17] and it's just fun how

[00:21:18] I mean

[00:21:20] how about the fact when they first

[00:21:22] returned in season two and they're

[00:21:23] like wow our government's gone to

[00:21:25] hell

[00:21:26] there's a lot of bad apples here

[00:21:28] they're all killing people

[00:21:30] like no one's even following a

[00:21:32] constitution anymore

[00:21:33] and see Tex Nolan was the true

[00:21:37] he was the comic

[00:21:39] relief love John Piter

[00:21:41] Ferguson yeah well

[00:21:43] what a great role for him because like

[00:21:45] he's a Canadian guy and

[00:21:47] I've seen him play all kinds of people

[00:21:49] Russians French he's

[00:21:51] like he was an he's an awesome

[00:21:53] for God's sakes and this is like

[00:21:54] well as far as I'm concerned he's a Texan

[00:21:58] he's thought how well

[00:21:59] he played that role

[00:22:01] I mean it was

[00:22:02] it was perfect you know

[00:22:04] because he went into it

[00:22:06] lighthearted always flirting with the doctor

[00:22:08] always kind of verbally

[00:22:10] gut punch in the captain just

[00:22:12] kind of keep him on his toes

[00:22:14] in a way you know because he wasn't

[00:22:16] a part of the Navy so he was really

[00:22:18] the only confidant that

[00:22:20] Chandler had and

[00:22:22] it was cool to just know that it's like hey

[00:22:24] he might be a merc but he's

[00:22:26] a soldier first so that was a fun

[00:22:28] twist on it he's like hey

[00:22:30] I've done all kinds of gigs

[00:22:31] but I'm just trying to

[00:22:34] keep some kind of order here

[00:22:35] and you know it's just

[00:22:38] they did some good

[00:22:40] build up of every character the minute they introduced him

[00:22:42] he's like I'm not sure what their

[00:22:44] agenda is but you're going to know

[00:22:46] by seasons in

[00:22:48] yeah

[00:22:50] they kind of introduced him

[00:22:52] as okay we don't know if he's too

[00:22:54] faced or if he's just a good natured

[00:22:56] country boy luckily turned out to be

[00:22:58] the latter

[00:22:59] yeah and even then

[00:23:04] just there were so many fake

[00:23:06] outs like no one was safe that whole

[00:23:08] show but it never felt like they were just trying

[00:23:10] to go for like a cheap

[00:23:12] just like

[00:23:13] gut punch which does a lot because there's so many

[00:23:16] ways it could have just

[00:23:18] I know some people I knew just stopped

[00:23:20] watching it but it was

[00:23:21] just because they were the picky kind it wasn't that

[00:23:24] they necessarily thought it was a bad show I'm like okay

[00:23:26] well sorry didn't do anything for you

[00:23:28] but I like

[00:23:30] it's a spectacle I'm

[00:23:32] literally seeing a blockbuster

[00:23:34] movie every week what why would I

[00:23:36] it's every summer why would I give

[00:23:38] that up that's too much fun

[00:23:40] to sacrifice

[00:23:42] and some of the

[00:23:43] some of the older navy vets

[00:23:46] and some of the generally grumpy in the crowd

[00:23:48] you've been on social media

[00:23:50] you know the type

[00:23:51] unfortunately

[00:23:52] yes

[00:23:54] the last three episodes the honor courage

[00:23:57] commitment a lot of like oh

[00:23:59] it's jump the shark it's jump the shark

[00:24:00] it's a show sit back and watch

[00:24:03] I see what's there

[00:24:03] enjoy the show have a good

[00:24:06] 47 minutes of escapism

[00:24:09] right

[00:24:10] is it too much to ask to just have fun

[00:24:13] did you also notice

[00:24:15] how Ronomitra who plays

[00:24:17] the doctor was also with Eric

[00:24:19] Dain on a hospital

[00:24:21] show back in the day

[00:24:23] no I must have missed that one

[00:24:24] yeah it was Gideon's crossing but it was kind of

[00:24:27] interesting because it actually crossed

[00:24:29] over with the practice which coincidentally

[00:24:31] she was also part of the cast of in the

[00:24:32] yes she was okay but

[00:24:35] yeah for from

[00:24:36] my mother that was the first role she had seen her

[00:24:39] in so then she sees me watching

[00:24:40] shows like the practice and strike back

[00:24:43] and she's like oh doctor from last ship so

[00:24:45] it is kind of

[00:24:46] it's a reasonable blockbuster show to where it's like

[00:24:49] what are you consider it high

[00:24:51] or low brow it entertained you

[00:24:54] you recognize you thought the actors

[00:24:56] had kick ass roles

[00:24:59] and the actors and the actresses

[00:25:02] um

[00:25:04] you know like you said two of them

[00:25:06] were pretty well known mainstream guys Eric

[00:25:08] Dain Marley and me that type stuff

[00:25:10] right

[00:25:13] and you know slattery

[00:25:15] the man that's not his

[00:25:17] yeah there's not

[00:25:19] it's not exactly his first go round

[00:25:21] in a military role metal jacket

[00:25:23] and firefly yeah I mean and Chuck

[00:25:25] yeah

[00:25:27] the Patriot oh my god

[00:25:29] Independence Day and

[00:25:32] I'm still looking forward to

[00:25:33] seeing what Marissa nightland who plays

[00:25:35] Kara can do next and

[00:25:37] I thought it was cool how she and Dain

[00:25:39] get married but she was

[00:25:41] in an earthquake movie

[00:25:43] a few years ago with yeah

[00:25:45] yeah the San Andreas

[00:25:47] and I saw her as

[00:25:48] she was a recurring diplomat on

[00:25:51] a madam secretary so

[00:25:53] I was like okay cool she's

[00:25:55] she's doing accents and everything

[00:25:57] that's cool um

[00:25:58] and like for Jack for Jack O TLS

[00:26:01] was a jump and off point for him I mean he really

[00:26:03] he had a few small bit pieces here and there

[00:26:05] I'd seen him as a guest star but never as a

[00:26:07] recurring you know

[00:26:09] and and I don't think

[00:26:11] he was in the very first episode I

[00:26:13] don't think he showed up to the second one

[00:26:15] I think you're right yeah I think

[00:26:17] became mainstream after

[00:26:19] that and then new Amsterdam

[00:26:21] took off and

[00:26:22] uh tell me now he had done a lot

[00:26:25] but uh what's so funny when

[00:26:27] my ship took off uh we

[00:26:29] were visiting my grandfather at his

[00:26:31] military retirement home and next thing you know

[00:26:33] we see a bunch of funny ads and

[00:26:35] Master Chief keeps appearing in these ads

[00:26:37] in my mother and I like

[00:26:38] I start pointing at the screen

[00:26:40] was it cricket mobile

[00:26:42] yes he's jumping

[00:26:44] around and it looks like he's on a helicopter

[00:26:46] saying the most ridiculous thing

[00:26:48] with a straight face and you're like that is

[00:26:50] amazing I love this dude

[00:26:53] and then it was a cool slap

[00:26:54] in the face when the new top gun came out

[00:26:56] and he was an officer in that

[00:26:58] as well he's been in Transformer

[00:27:00] he's been in every other brockheimer Michael pay

[00:27:02] production since so I

[00:27:04] I applaud him

[00:27:05] um

[00:27:07] uh Max Hernandez who played

[00:27:09] doc reos was another one I think

[00:27:11] he had had like bit parts on

[00:27:14] uh

[00:27:15] uh yeah the Marvel Cinematic Universe

[00:27:17] is one of the agents and I was just like

[00:27:19] see but this is cool here because he's

[00:27:21] playing a more vulnerable role as opposed

[00:27:23] to just a suit you know

[00:27:26] and the guy who

[00:27:27] played the uh the first

[00:27:29] president of the United States

[00:27:31] the one that risked for him oh yes

[00:27:33] man did you know

[00:27:35] at one point in his life he was the

[00:27:37] illegitimate son

[00:27:38] of George Devereaux and the golden girls

[00:27:42] what

[00:27:43] there's actually a golden girls

[00:27:45] episode uh

[00:27:47] where this young kid shows up

[00:27:49] on Blanche's doorstep looking

[00:27:51] for George Devereaux

[00:27:53] and apparently

[00:27:54] George flew out to Texas had an affair and the son was the result

[00:27:57] and if you look at him

[00:27:59] it's the president of the

[00:28:00] it's the TLS president of the United States

[00:28:03] oh that's right

[00:28:04] yeah Mark Moses yeah

[00:28:06] you see I always

[00:28:08] he'd been in so many just

[00:28:10] edgy movies whenever you see him

[00:28:12] you're just like that face he could go

[00:28:14] either way he could be a bad apple or he

[00:28:16] could be a cool guy and back when

[00:28:18] they used to have the sci-fi network

[00:28:20] um

[00:28:21] he used to be in all kinds of those made for

[00:28:23] sci-fi network movies he would just show up

[00:28:25] in one of them

[00:28:27] very invaluable character

[00:28:29] actor but giving it all

[00:28:31] more than the source material often

[00:28:33] times um you might remember

[00:28:35] him in platoon he's the

[00:28:37] one hot shot poster boy

[00:28:39] so to speak and he's like

[00:28:41] he gets the grenade death at the very end

[00:28:43] yes

[00:28:45] he thinks he's cool

[00:28:47] and you're like no dude

[00:28:49] this is a

[00:28:51] bad plan from beginning to end

[00:28:53] why are you going along with this

[00:28:54] so the most interaction I've ever had

[00:28:56] was with

[00:28:58] Andy Tran

[00:29:00] was one of the

[00:29:02] Asian guys often

[00:29:04] loading up the torpedoes

[00:29:06] yeah I believe when he also

[00:29:08] uh he was also

[00:29:10] primarily responsible for repairing the damage to the James

[00:29:12] yeah they kind of gave him

[00:29:14] uh engineering and star track

[00:29:16] yeah kind of role here

[00:29:17] and just really awesome guy

[00:29:20] full episode in in the episode

[00:29:22] we'll get there when they got stranded at sea

[00:29:24] when the fresh water fell

[00:29:26] he did good on it and I loved

[00:29:28] how they did attribute to him

[00:29:30] in one of the final season 5 episodes

[00:29:32] it was kind of a part

[00:29:34] clip show in a way and

[00:29:36] I know he also does like some martial arts

[00:29:38] and other indie acting but

[00:29:39] I'd like to see him do more

[00:29:43] because

[00:29:43] like you say he was intense like

[00:29:45] much like the doctor they were keeping it up and running

[00:29:48] but it was cool how they also

[00:29:50] kept going in unusual

[00:29:51] directions like who's going to be

[00:29:53] the MVP next

[00:29:56] um and the villains

[00:29:57] like sometimes they didn't get

[00:29:59] their comeuppance like Peter Wellers mad scientist guy

[00:30:02] he just flat out got away

[00:30:04] and I

[00:30:05] and who would have thought Eric Day would have gone up against RoboCop

[00:30:10] and

[00:30:11] that's not the thing too like

[00:30:12] Peter Weller just

[00:30:14] he had to go against one of the robots

[00:30:16] but I mean yeah

[00:30:18] uh and he show Wellers

[00:30:20] on he often directs a bunch of episodes

[00:30:21] so I mean it was kind of cool to just

[00:30:23] see him just still getting work and

[00:30:25] it takes you the whole season for him to realize

[00:30:27] he's just talking to himself

[00:30:30] they're

[00:30:31] I'm ashamed to admit that I was about 6 episodes

[00:30:34] into that season 5 realized alright

[00:30:36] this man's motor's

[00:30:38] running but there's nobody behind the wheel

[00:30:40] I

[00:30:41] fell for it too and usually I'm good at it

[00:30:44] I've seen too many movies

[00:30:46] and then slowly

[00:30:48] when I just

[00:30:49] it was good writing

[00:30:51] and way better than you

[00:30:53] expect for a summer blog poster show

[00:30:55] but then they're just like those little small moments

[00:30:57] you're like wait a second he's not in the last frame

[00:30:59] and it's not it's clearly

[00:31:01] not an error it's clearly they're hitting

[00:31:03] at us oh well

[00:31:05] what do you know he's been talking to himself

[00:31:07] and then you go back and re-watch that first season

[00:31:10] and it's like from the get go you're going

[00:31:12] why did I not notice this

[00:31:13] why did I not notice this the first gore friend

[00:31:17] we were so distracted

[00:31:18] by everything hitting the fan

[00:31:20] I think and then

[00:31:23] and

[00:31:24] but

[00:31:25] who knows to them I mean they had Jonathan

[00:31:27] Mosto direct a pilot he's done all kinds of

[00:31:29] spectacles you know like terminator

[00:31:31] free

[00:31:33] breakdown with Kurt Russell

[00:31:35] this was the first thing I saw Jody Turner Smith

[00:31:37] and she plays

[00:31:39] Sergeant Azima in the final season

[00:31:41] yes

[00:31:43] you know a lot of the

[00:31:45] the villains major and minor

[00:31:48] oh yeah

[00:31:49] you go back and you look

[00:31:51] and they've played sometimes guest parts

[00:31:53] or bit parts

[00:31:54] for years and you're like

[00:31:57] that's where I know that person

[00:31:59] from do you remember

[00:32:01] the acting president

[00:32:05] not the acting president I guess you would have been the acting mayor

[00:32:08] of

[00:32:09] the

[00:32:11] Baltimore that they sailed into

[00:32:13] no Virginia

[00:32:14] yeah Virginia

[00:32:18] she actually

[00:32:19] she was actually

[00:32:21] a

[00:32:22] Trek alumni

[00:32:24] she was a Star Trek alumni she played in Star Trek First Contact

[00:32:28] looking up

[00:32:29] Urban Delgado

[00:32:31] her character name her character name

[00:32:33] in first contact was Lily

[00:32:35] Oh Lily

[00:32:36] Oh yes yeah yeah

[00:32:38] yeah Alfre Woodard yeah

[00:32:41] she

[00:32:41] you go back and you look through her IMDB

[00:32:44] she's been through a lot of stuff

[00:32:45] but she played a what I call a desperate villain

[00:32:48] she was doing what she had to do

[00:32:51] to try to keep her city alive

[00:32:53] and then she just kind of succumbed

[00:32:55] to

[00:32:56] it is what it is and damn the consequences

[00:32:58] and it's so hard because

[00:33:00] her daughter you know

[00:33:02] Eilisha you know played perfectly

[00:33:04] just to Elmore you know she's part of the crew

[00:33:06] and she's like I'm not going to betray the US

[00:33:07] I'm not going to betray my family

[00:33:09] I'm not going to betray

[00:33:11] but I'm going to have to betray you mom because

[00:33:13] killing is wrong

[00:33:14] why are you murdering these people other than you're insecure

[00:33:17] they looked at you the wrong way

[00:33:19] and

[00:33:21] it's cool how

[00:33:23] her mom has raised her to be an honest person

[00:33:25] her very mentor

[00:33:28] what used to be

[00:33:29] someone she could call her parent

[00:33:32] is

[00:33:32] ordering death squads and she's like

[00:33:35] this is a brigade of fascism

[00:33:37] this is not the United States

[00:33:39] and cruise to the actress she's gone on to be on HBO

[00:33:42] insecure

[00:33:42] and then

[00:33:46] some of the

[00:33:47] some of the families some of the actors

[00:33:50] like Arthur Woodard's character

[00:33:52] she took her morals and went south

[00:33:54] but then you had

[00:33:56] but then you had Elise Merto

[00:33:58] you had Kara Foster's mama

[00:33:59] who was basically

[00:34:01] a fall down drunk when she went to see

[00:34:03] came home and all of a sudden she's running a

[00:34:05] community center

[00:34:06] made everybody's bed and entertained

[00:34:09] and she became a ringleader

[00:34:11] so it's like

[00:34:12] I think that's what they were trying to convey in the show

[00:34:15] is in those kind of situations you find out

[00:34:17] what you really made of

[00:34:19] and some people excel

[00:34:21] while some crash and burn

[00:34:23] absolutely I like how

[00:34:26] Tracy Menendorf

[00:34:27] she's been in a million things

[00:34:28] I liked how they were trying to save her

[00:34:32] because you know she's Chandler's

[00:34:34] Captain Chandler's wife

[00:34:35] and then she you know the virus

[00:34:37] claims her and so then it's a matter

[00:34:39] of save the kids from the death squads

[00:34:41] and then

[00:34:43] you know get her

[00:34:45] get his in law you know her dad's

[00:34:47] safe and have him watch the kids while he commands

[00:34:49] the ship and

[00:34:51] it was just some cool kind of

[00:34:53] espionage in a way too

[00:34:54] in between all the apocalyptic

[00:34:56] and the

[00:34:58] torn up governments

[00:34:59] and that actually brings me to my favorite moment

[00:35:02] when they interview Titus Welliver as the Merck

[00:35:04] leader I love how you think

[00:35:06] oh no he's been sent by

[00:35:08] you know the mayor turned president

[00:35:10] you know Virginia to kill these guys

[00:35:12] and like no he's actually a freedom fighter

[00:35:14] brigade so he came to the right place

[00:35:16] he was just

[00:35:17] he was just doing his usual like

[00:35:20] he had you in his crosshairs of his sniper rifle

[00:35:22] he was just making sure you weren't a threat but they

[00:35:25] you know it was just a cool way

[00:35:26] to close out that season and make us go oh no

[00:35:29] you know

[00:35:31] and

[00:35:33] and how cool how he

[00:35:34] doesn't make it throughout the season but

[00:35:37] he's just redeemed by that

[00:35:38] he doesn't want to live under a government

[00:35:40] that just you know shoots people on site

[00:35:43] you know he's like there's no police there's no

[00:35:44] there's not even any gangsters you know

[00:35:46] why are we being treated like criminals

[00:35:48] you know I can't even go outside and take a leak

[00:35:51] without being targeted by

[00:35:53] some death brigades

[00:35:55] and it was just kind of cool to just

[00:35:58] again you know just

[00:35:59] without getting political just showing hey

[00:36:01] it's wrong to just

[00:36:04] if it were to all be lost

[00:36:05] you know

[00:36:06] who do you trust in charge to be like the fifth

[00:36:09] or 20th person left in

[00:36:11] charge

[00:36:12] and

[00:36:14] they did some other kind of cool stuff

[00:36:16] you know when Mark Moses character becomes

[00:36:19] the president

[00:36:19] he doesn't last he's got a crooked chief

[00:36:23] of staff

[00:36:24] some other people in his office who you think

[00:36:26] they're the ones pulling the strings but they're actually

[00:36:28] also patsies

[00:36:30] they had no idea

[00:36:32] but the new president they brought in

[00:36:34] he's been in everything boys in the hood

[00:36:36] as the college dean

[00:36:40] someone in great voice acting I've seen him

[00:36:42] on many track roles playing a click on

[00:36:48] he was

[00:36:49] let's look up his name he had a badass name

[00:36:52] and

[00:36:53] I thought it was cool that they gave him

[00:36:55] two seasons before he said

[00:36:56] I'm out

[00:36:58] president Oliver

[00:37:01] Oliver yeah

[00:37:02] I liked in

[00:37:05] the one of the season

[00:37:07] endings when they had

[00:37:08] when they were trying to divide up the country

[00:37:11] and Chandler showed up

[00:37:12] yes just to make sure

[00:37:14] hey let's prevail he quelled the army down

[00:37:17] in the army general looked at him so well who do we report to

[00:37:19] who do we

[00:37:20] yeah

[00:37:23] you salute him and Oliver

[00:37:25] comes around the corner

[00:37:27] yes that was just a good way

[00:37:29] to put it is like okay

[00:37:31] it'd be too much for one episode for them

[00:37:33] to restructure everything but at least

[00:37:35] they're doing a cool is just like

[00:37:37] hey you know

[00:37:38] there's still a chain of command here you know

[00:37:41] and the guy is sound

[00:37:43] in his right mind last I checked

[00:37:45] you know there's

[00:37:46] otherwise you know

[00:37:47] it was just it was also just cool to just

[00:37:50] see that the captain had

[00:37:52] just a way like you say he did have that same kind

[00:37:54] of captain current mentality is like

[00:37:56] don't be a meathead just

[00:37:58] put the gun down let's talk

[00:38:01] shoot and

[00:38:03] cool on

[00:38:03] I thought Stephen Colt was awesome that

[00:38:06] final season as president

[00:38:08] Rice and they

[00:38:10] inducted him in as the 49th president

[00:38:12] and

[00:38:13] because that that dude he's also he's always

[00:38:16] been like a presidential guy you've seen him

[00:38:18] as the speaker of the house on the West Wing he was

[00:38:21] RFK

[00:38:21] on 13 days

[00:38:23] yes he was on 13 days

[00:38:26] he's just got that face people want to see

[00:38:28] and be a secret service agent

[00:38:30] or

[00:38:31] president or

[00:38:32] some like cop lieutenant he's just always that

[00:38:36] kind of he carries himself

[00:38:38] in that way and just

[00:38:40] the minute I see him playing around with like a ship

[00:38:42] model and like the first episode like I already

[00:38:44] like this guy he's I know

[00:38:45] he's going to think outside the box

[00:38:47] he's not just

[00:38:49] you know a guy who's like what do I do

[00:38:52] you know like he already wants

[00:38:54] he wants

[00:38:55] you know his military strategist

[00:38:58] guys to come in and he wants to think

[00:39:00] real hard about this

[00:39:02] new version of Columbia that's threatening

[00:39:04] the now rebuilt United States then

[00:39:06] is like see that is awesome

[00:39:08] that when you when you see them

[00:39:10] going to the place they

[00:39:12] now call Grand Columbia I'm like

[00:39:13] I'm getting D-Day

[00:39:16] and Bay of Pigs kind of illusions here

[00:39:18] you know but this is an apocalyptic

[00:39:20] version of it

[00:39:22] people are actually like you say you mentioned

[00:39:24] earlier he's like people are losing their legs it's like

[00:39:26] I don't think anyone survives with

[00:39:28] their legs he's a supporting character

[00:39:30] in the last season

[00:39:32] and but they do it so awesome

[00:39:34] like it's emotional

[00:39:36] without being preachy

[00:39:37] they don't play

[00:39:39] and Kudos to the editing too like

[00:39:42] Jablawski's score is epic

[00:39:44] without being mushy

[00:39:45] or soap operaty it's just very

[00:39:47] just like in the moment

[00:39:51] almost like bullets

[00:39:53] ricocheting you get that same kind of feel

[00:40:01] Cohen and

[00:40:03] DeKona Kane

[00:40:05] they were all

[00:40:07] in the DDG 151 group

[00:40:09] from the beginning they were all fairly

[00:40:11] they were all fairly active

[00:40:13] I had the honor

[00:40:15] of dragging all three of them into

[00:40:17] my administration chat for the very

[00:40:19] last episode airing

[00:40:21] and lovely

[00:40:22] I was told

[00:40:25] on the last episode I was

[00:40:27] told we have a surprise

[00:40:28] for the fans and

[00:40:31] most of the fans are in your group

[00:40:33] I'm like okay

[00:40:35] they started as they were getting ready to pull

[00:40:37] Chandler out the water after the James went down

[00:40:39] they started rolling the

[00:40:40] in credits and it said the cast

[00:40:43] and crew of the last ship wish to thank

[00:40:45] its fans and listed

[00:40:46] 30 pages

[00:40:48] of just names of fans

[00:40:51] and about 90%

[00:40:52] of them was people in my dad group

[00:40:55] man

[00:40:57] but it was so cool that they

[00:40:59] you know the fans kind of

[00:41:01] because you know it's a summer show

[00:41:02] it's a summer blockbuster

[00:41:03] when they're active they want to

[00:41:06] go to their people that are also watching

[00:41:08] it's somewhere between 10 and 13 episodes

[00:41:10] and then it disappears for nine months

[00:41:12] so at that point

[00:41:15] it's up to the fans

[00:41:16] to try and keep

[00:41:18] the cast and crew energized

[00:41:20] so that they get pumped up when they

[00:41:22] come back you know you feed off of each other

[00:41:24] so I thought that was cool

[00:41:26] that they basically gave a shout out

[00:41:29] to as many of the fans as they could

[00:41:32] but right as it went off the air

[00:41:34] that's really neat

[00:41:35] and because it's so hard to just

[00:41:39] I think in a post

[00:41:41] Game of Thrones

[00:41:42] Walking Dead

[00:41:43] seemed like for a while everyone was looking at the negatives

[00:41:46] oh my neighbor or my friend

[00:41:48] or my family relative

[00:41:50] you know on Facebook

[00:41:51] just spoiled my favorite show for me

[00:41:54] I'm like well just go to a group

[00:41:55] talk about it

[00:41:57] no one's going to spoil anything

[00:41:59] it'll be cut up before you know it

[00:42:00] it was

[00:42:03] pretty straightforward

[00:42:04] and Kudos to also just the

[00:42:07] that's neat to know that the actors would still be involved

[00:42:09] it wasn't just oh you know

[00:42:11] I'm no longer on the show therefore I cut contact

[00:42:15] yeah

[00:42:16] and Kudos

[00:42:17] to

[00:42:19] especially when they had Nesbautista

[00:42:21] who I knew for doing the

[00:42:23] theme song for TVs The Shield

[00:42:25] he was like a musician before

[00:42:27] he was an actor he played Cruz

[00:42:28] and I remember he got killed in one of the final seasons

[00:42:31] I'm like

[00:42:33] even though he was always kind of like the fifth

[00:42:35] or sixth guy out there he had so much

[00:42:37] to do and I think that's what was cool

[00:42:39] no one felt like a plot device

[00:42:40] or whatever the plot demands

[00:42:43] and Kudos to Paul James

[00:42:45] who played

[00:42:48] Michael O'Connor

[00:42:49] he was also one of the other engineers

[00:42:51] and he had a tragic death

[00:42:54] you know in season 4

[00:42:55] where he gets killed by some of the

[00:42:58] other traders

[00:42:59] on board

[00:43:01] but it was all often cool how

[00:43:03] half the time he was working with the other guys

[00:43:05] coming up with strategy plans

[00:43:07] how to get the ships back up and running

[00:43:10] and

[00:43:12] Kudos to all the writers who had to just come up

[00:43:14] with this stuff it's like how are we going to film it

[00:43:15] how are we going to

[00:43:16] do it

[00:43:17] you know

[00:43:20] it'd be cool to know if they asked some other like navy guys

[00:43:23] like hey what do you do with

[00:43:24] the midget?

[00:43:25] I can kind of answer that one for you too

[00:43:27] when they would go

[00:43:29] and they would film for

[00:43:31] anywhere between three days and three weeks

[00:43:33] in San Diego

[00:43:35] the writing team went with them

[00:43:38] oh man

[00:43:38] writing staff went down there with them

[00:43:41] because LA to San Diego is not a far drive

[00:43:44] but they would go down there

[00:43:46] and you know

[00:43:47] do what writers do

[00:43:49] step back in the back

[00:43:51] look at everything take mental notes

[00:43:53] listen to what everybody is saying just board ship

[00:43:57] talk

[00:43:57] to some of the senior crew of the ship

[00:44:00] find out

[00:44:01] what is the

[00:44:03] correct terminology for this or that

[00:44:05] or

[00:44:07] so there wasn't a miscommunication

[00:44:09] or getting mad at a director

[00:44:10] like filming what you imagined

[00:44:12] it was

[00:44:13] when Travis Van Winkle's character in season one came back on the ship

[00:44:17] started exhibiting symptoms

[00:44:18] and they announced circle

[00:44:21] William on the ship

[00:44:22] right

[00:44:24] that's awesome

[00:44:24] that was from

[00:44:27] the actual XO of the USS

[00:44:30] Dewey if I remember correctly

[00:44:31] oh man

[00:44:32] in that situation this is what we would do

[00:44:36] this is what we would announce

[00:44:37] these are the steps we would go through to secure the ship

[00:44:40] here's the

[00:44:41] prevention to

[00:44:43] stop a virus spread or do a lockdown

[00:44:45] and

[00:44:47] because they had an active Navy participation

[00:44:50] mm

[00:44:51] you know

[00:44:52] what I understand is the military will

[00:44:55] assist in funding of the show

[00:44:57] as long as the military is portrayed in a positive

[00:44:59] and realistic light

[00:45:00] right it can't be like a few good men or something

[00:45:03] where one of them is the bad guy

[00:45:05] but they let them use

[00:45:07] three different Arleigh Burke class

[00:45:08] destroyers docked in San Diego

[00:45:10] as a backdrop for the fictional

[00:45:12] Nathan James

[00:45:15] so you know if you're having that

[00:45:17] kind of cooperation

[00:45:18] in the second season

[00:45:20] they intercepted a message from Secnaf

[00:45:23] that's right

[00:45:24] if you take a good close look at that

[00:45:26] that was the actual

[00:45:28] at the time actual

[00:45:30] secretary of our United States Navy

[00:45:32] oh man

[00:45:34] that actually was

[00:45:36] Secnaf in 2015

[00:45:38] damn

[00:45:40] they got him on the show

[00:45:42] that let us know what the military

[00:45:45] thought about the job that the writers

[00:45:47] and the staff

[00:45:48] and the BFX team and the actors were all doing

[00:45:50] on the show

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[00:47:12] often you didn't see any

[00:47:18] flag waving really it was just often

[00:47:20] like near the ends like okay we

[00:47:22] we captured the place so now we're raising

[00:47:24] the flag yeah

[00:47:26] um and speaking of Aussies

[00:47:28] I mean what did you think

[00:47:30] of the Jesse character

[00:47:32] who ends up during the red flu outbreak

[00:47:34] she's a tourist pilot

[00:47:36] and becomes an unlikely ally

[00:47:40] played by Deacon

[00:47:42] Lachman

[00:47:44] and it's so funny she'd been on a similar show

[00:47:46] called last resort which was this very similar

[00:47:48] concept a few years prior

[00:47:50] where

[00:47:51] it was a nice piece of eye candy for that season

[00:47:54] I know but yeah

[00:47:56] and I do think she's a cool action star

[00:47:58] she's been on everything um

[00:47:59] yeah adult how I like

[00:48:01] I like how they introduced her character drunk

[00:48:03] and passed out on the couch

[00:48:05] Sasha Cooper trust me

[00:48:07] it's also Sasha trust wake up she goes

[00:48:09] oh hey

[00:48:12] yeah to the baby

[00:48:14] and

[00:48:15] both her and Wolf had a cool camaraderie

[00:48:17] like they weren't flirting they're just like doing

[00:48:19] you needed some just dry kind of dark

[00:48:22] humor while they're

[00:48:23] about to literally head into hell

[00:48:25] you know

[00:48:27] and uh

[00:48:28] Lao Hao was such a

[00:48:31] evil minister too

[00:48:32] it was cool how they also showed

[00:48:35] how uh

[00:48:37] China and Japan

[00:48:39] were at odds with each other it was cool

[00:48:41] just them acknowledging other parts of the world

[00:48:43] have gone downhill since all these different

[00:48:45] virus and

[00:48:47] World War 3 scenarios

[00:48:48] you know and

[00:48:51] everybody was in fact in one way

[00:48:53] and like

[00:48:54] when I was talking about like the navy

[00:48:56] terminology that they use that they got correct

[00:48:59] um

[00:49:00] the start of season 5

[00:49:02] where the Nathan James has basically

[00:49:04] become the SS Minnow

[00:49:06] and it's taking passengers

[00:49:08] out for a cruise around the harbor

[00:49:11] and um it just

[00:49:12] happens to be out of the harbor when the

[00:49:14] South American fighter jets fly over

[00:49:17] and Chandler

[00:49:18] looked dead up and said their wings are dirty

[00:49:23] that's

[00:49:23] that's key for he's got full armament under his plane

[00:49:27] oh nice see

[00:49:28] and that goes over our head unless we

[00:49:31] know the inside scope but that's awesome

[00:49:33] so I guess that's why

[00:49:35] I spoke so much to actual vets

[00:49:37] and active recruits that you like see

[00:49:39] at least they're doing

[00:49:41] more than just training your actors to

[00:49:43] represent a character is

[00:49:46] it feels like you just take care

[00:49:49] I taught with Emerson Brooks and Faye Masterson

[00:49:52] pretty regularly

[00:49:54] all over and

[00:49:54] nice guys and I told them

[00:49:57] at the start of season 4

[00:49:59] I ended up enlisting in the guard

[00:50:02] whoa

[00:50:04] hey how could you

[00:50:05] I went in and put two years in

[00:50:07] and Emerson Brooks said

[00:50:09] I'm not in any kind of shape for that good luck

[00:50:12] to you but

[00:50:12] hey at least he's honest

[00:50:17] very nice

[00:50:18] um

[00:50:19] but yeah what else has Faye

[00:50:21] done I know you've been

[00:50:22] a nurse since the beginning of the episode and I forgot

[00:50:24] yeah she's

[00:50:26] she was a British actress

[00:50:27] she was in

[00:50:30] I think she lives in British

[00:50:32] Vancouver now

[00:50:34] I believe

[00:50:36] so she's like British Canadian

[00:50:38] oh okay

[00:50:40] I always loved how she would

[00:50:42] announce every other

[00:50:43] she was in a Chevy Chase movie

[00:50:46] kind of Robertson

[00:50:48] that's right

[00:50:49] as a teenager she was in

[00:50:51] Eyes Wide Shut

[00:50:54] oh wait it's the

[00:50:56] you're right both that and the 50 shades

[00:50:57] she played the receptionist

[00:51:01] in the 50 shades movie

[00:51:01] I've seen her in Johnson County War

[00:51:04] which was a pretty epic miniseries

[00:51:06] with Tom Bairinger

[00:51:07] so I mean it's not a lot

[00:51:10] wow very cool

[00:51:12] you might like her

[00:51:14] in the quick and the dead

[00:51:15] the power of one Morgan Freeman

[00:51:17] she was I think she was

[00:51:19] um

[00:51:21] of the character that was played by Leo DiCaprio

[00:51:24] in the quick and the dead

[00:51:25] oh okay

[00:51:26] I remember correct

[00:51:29] I'd love to see her do some more stuff

[00:51:31] because she was always intense when she'd get on the comms

[00:51:34] and you're just like uh oh what's going on

[00:51:36] and you gotta forgive me

[00:51:38] cause I'm ripping some of this stuff from memory

[00:51:40] and I've been up since 5am

[00:51:41] oh hey man

[00:51:44] I'll try to make your

[00:51:45] job as easy as possible

[00:51:48] you're doing great

[00:51:49] you're doing great I'm having a good

[00:51:51] good

[00:51:52] the motivation I need

[00:51:55] yeah I mean but it's so true

[00:51:57] I mean like they just picked

[00:51:58] for more than just the cream of the crowd

[00:52:00] like they just picked guys who've been everywhere and

[00:52:04] you

[00:52:04] felt like it was more than just they trained a bunch of

[00:52:07] semi-knowns and unknowns to do a boot camp

[00:52:09] it was just also cool just seeing them

[00:52:11] kind of do more than just

[00:52:14] like the camera

[00:52:15] was also just

[00:52:17] like in your face like it was never

[00:52:19] just let's do a tracking

[00:52:21] shot that every show does or

[00:52:24] film an explosion here

[00:52:25] and like

[00:52:27] I have the time

[00:52:28] I couldn't tell what was a closed off set

[00:52:31] versus are they actually

[00:52:33] filming on an island you know

[00:52:34] every episode was so intense

[00:52:37] and

[00:52:38] it's a lot of fun because

[00:52:40] the transitions that they do

[00:52:43] say they're walking down

[00:52:45] a P way

[00:52:47] passageway and internal hallway

[00:52:48] in the ship

[00:52:51] depending on

[00:52:53] how big the

[00:52:54] doorframe is

[00:52:56] depends on whether or not they were on the set

[00:52:59] or on the actual

[00:53:01] ship the set they had to make

[00:53:02] the P ways a little bit wider

[00:53:04] because the camera wouldn't fit through

[00:53:06] I bet

[00:53:08] it's one of those deals where

[00:53:10] you haven't dealt with one of those

[00:53:12] shin knocking

[00:53:14] passageways you wouldn't notice

[00:53:16] the difference but if they're on the

[00:53:18] outside of the ship and they're walking around

[00:53:20] like we'll get their episode when they're firing

[00:53:22] the parachutes in the air

[00:53:24] will give the ship a little bit

[00:53:26] of power and propulsion

[00:53:29] right up until

[00:53:30] it backs off to CGI with the parachutes

[00:53:32] popping up when they're grabbing the shoot

[00:53:34] guns and they're lining up

[00:53:36] to shoot they're on the duty

[00:53:39] got that sandy

[00:53:40] and then it cuts to

[00:53:43] CGI of the parachutes

[00:53:45] popping up then it cuts down

[00:53:46] to the engine room which was

[00:53:48] on the set at the

[00:53:50] Culver City studios

[00:53:53] man look at you go

[00:53:55] and obviously

[00:53:56] they've shared some insight but yeah no that's

[00:53:58] that is a good point because

[00:54:00] you'd see some shows where

[00:54:02] you can tell they're reusing the set

[00:54:04] that was like a prison on the last episode

[00:54:06] and it's now the interrogation room

[00:54:08] and here yeah you know unless you have

[00:54:10] seen like every frame of the set or

[00:54:12] visited it you're really not going to know but

[00:54:14] then when like you say you break it down

[00:54:16] you're like that makes sense why

[00:54:18] that's done here versus there

[00:54:20] that there's a reason for everything we just often

[00:54:23] we don't often

[00:54:24] I'm glad my little group

[00:54:26] had the VFX guys in it

[00:54:29] so late and I got

[00:54:31] a little bit of insight

[00:54:33] and they're being helpful as opposed to just

[00:54:35] hey you know let

[00:54:36] let me wreck the illusion for you

[00:54:38] and talk the talk

[00:54:40] and

[00:54:43] you had to bring up Travis

[00:54:45] Van Winkle as Danny's character

[00:54:47] I've seen him in just so many things

[00:54:51] a few hysterical college

[00:54:53] comedies

[00:54:54] and he was recently on the Arnold

[00:54:56] Schwarzenegger Netflix show

[00:54:58] that was a lot of fun so

[00:55:00] I think he's found his bread and butter

[00:55:02] he can be either the handsome guy or he can be

[00:55:05] he actually is

[00:55:07] there was a goofy

[00:55:08] spoof movie they made years ago

[00:55:11] they ripped on

[00:55:12] the 300 it was called meet the Spartans

[00:55:15] oh my goodness

[00:55:16] my brother saw that in theaters

[00:55:18] he was in the it's horrible

[00:55:20] I mean it's

[00:55:22] it's horrible but he was in it

[00:55:26] look where you're just like this guy

[00:55:28] he's he could either be a

[00:55:30] jock or he could be a serious everyday guy

[00:55:32] I don't know what he's gonna do

[00:55:34] you really want to have some fun

[00:55:36] totally while we were shooting

[00:55:38] the last ship I think they had had a hiatus

[00:55:41] during Eric Dain's

[00:55:43] personal issues

[00:55:44] he had to step back a little bit so they put

[00:55:46] filming on hold so

[00:55:51] Hallmark Channel

[00:55:53] made one of their infamous Christmas

[00:55:54] movies he is definitely

[00:55:56] in a bunch of those

[00:55:58] was he in that with the Sasha actress

[00:56:01] yes

[00:56:03] yes

[00:56:04] I remember it

[00:56:05] and the weirdness of it

[00:56:07] she was in real life 30 months pregnant

[00:56:10] filming that show

[00:56:12] oh lord

[00:56:18] so you never know

[00:56:20] you never know where they're gonna pop up

[00:56:22] yeah my wife

[00:56:23] when Christmas time rolls around

[00:56:26] my wife joking is like do you want to watch your last

[00:56:28] ship Christmas movie

[00:56:35] and you're like

[00:56:36] I'm just doing this to support people

[00:56:38] I admire not because I want

[00:56:41] get the popcorn honey

[00:56:43] right

[00:56:44] and that's why don't you think it's

[00:56:46] also kind of interesting that they explain that

[00:56:48] to people sometimes is like I wouldn't even

[00:56:50] be watching this had someone I

[00:56:52] otherwise love not been in it

[00:56:54] you know

[00:56:56] oh like what is your fascination

[00:56:59] with that just if you if you're not

[00:57:01] in my head man you don't know you gotta bring it

[00:57:03] on right there are plenty

[00:57:04] of bad movies I have seen but because

[00:57:06] they got people I admire I

[00:57:09] they make a tolerable

[00:57:10] don't know exactly

[00:57:13] um it was cool how

[00:57:14] they had

[00:57:16] Cooper and not Cooper

[00:57:18] uh

[00:57:20] his character was yeah Danny

[00:57:22] I liked how he got married

[00:57:25] Kara and

[00:57:25] they still gave her something to do she's working

[00:57:28] basically at what's the new Pentagon

[00:57:30] basically and I liked how he had some

[00:57:32] cool camaraderie

[00:57:34] Sasha who was you know played by Bridget

[00:57:36] Regan and you know that's

[00:57:38] another gal you know she's got a brief part in

[00:57:40] John Wick and

[00:57:42] she's been on Jane the Virgin and some other shows

[00:57:44] and it was kind of cool

[00:57:46] how she's had her moment in the sun to do some

[00:57:48] other comedy and tough gal roles

[00:57:50] but what a cool role for her

[00:57:52] like she because of her

[00:57:55] espionage and working in China

[00:57:57] she knows all these different languages

[00:57:58] and it was also

[00:58:00] cool how she was basically

[00:58:02] the girlfriend of the captain but once again

[00:58:04] it was never

[00:58:06] we just gotta get everyone hooked up just

[00:58:08] for the hell of it is like no there's

[00:58:10] them I

[00:58:11] you speak my language

[00:58:13] I understand you I like

[00:58:15] you you like me you know it's not

[00:58:17] you're just trying to get in bed just

[00:58:19] for the sake of plot

[00:58:21] you asked me this at the start of this

[00:58:23] video one I think one of the things that made

[00:58:25] me laugh the hardest

[00:58:27] it was five seasons

[00:58:30] was

[00:58:32] season five

[00:58:33] episode one

[00:58:35] Nathan James is basically a tour ship

[00:58:38] they have the cardboard cut out

[00:58:41] of captain Chandler

[00:58:43] and he is

[00:58:45] physically standing next to it

[00:58:47] and this touristy looking couple

[00:58:50] runs up can we get a picture

[00:58:53] he says yes ma'am

[00:58:55] they throw him their camera

[00:58:57] and goes stand by the cardboard cut out

[00:59:00] and he's just looking at the camera

[00:59:01] looking at them like

[00:59:04] yeah

[00:59:06] it was

[00:59:07] they had some like little small

[00:59:09] just gotcha moments where you're like I wouldn't

[00:59:11] know how to take that when the world's

[00:59:13] you know just been rebuilt

[00:59:15] you know never expected in my life

[00:59:17] to be a poster boy nobody right here

[00:59:20] I am

[00:59:22] yeah it was

[00:59:23] just fun it felt like a Tom

[00:59:25] Clancy movie just all this

[00:59:27] nonstop attention

[00:59:31] never never clue like never mind

[00:59:33] a little bit of hunt for red October

[00:59:35] was in there oh yes especially

[00:59:37] with the submarine

[00:59:38] little bit of Jack Ryan little bit of James Bond

[00:59:42] Jason Bourne

[00:59:43] yeah

[00:59:45] especially the fight scenes but

[00:59:49] yeah I mean kudos to them for just

[00:59:52] it just felt just so natural

[00:59:55] and like you say it's so much work

[00:59:56] and people are sharing again how the factory

[00:59:59] is put together and all

[01:00:01] but

[01:00:02] what a cool way to incorporate all these different cultures

[01:00:05] all these different people and

[01:00:08] without it being like a cheesy

[01:00:10] kind of

[01:00:11] a team kind of shows like no these guys

[01:00:13] are all together they're all

[01:00:15] in it to win it and

[01:00:19] and they

[01:00:19] they got all these different backup plans

[01:00:21] we're not going to stop you know rebuild

[01:00:23] the world overnight but

[01:00:25] there's a cool breathe the room in between each season

[01:00:27] is like okay

[01:00:29] we got this fret and then at the end of this season

[01:00:31] we're gonna somehow rebuild

[01:00:32] and

[01:00:34] we're rebuilding off-screen but now there's this other

[01:00:36] tyrant who's in control

[01:00:38] and we're not sure how to deal with them

[01:00:40] you know all gonna have an off-screen

[01:00:42] and

[01:00:44] it's a team effort on one of those ships

[01:00:47] from the

[01:00:48] CO on down to the guy with the Cadillac

[01:00:51] that was what was

[01:00:52] cool too it was kind of like Star Trek is like

[01:00:54] I don't know

[01:00:55] if you don't know what a navy Cadillac is

[01:00:58] if somebody offered you the keys to one don't take it

[01:01:03] but

[01:01:05] those are what are called

[01:01:06] mop buckets for those who don't need

[01:01:08] yes

[01:01:09] I'm not gonna keep them at the expense

[01:01:12] the show itself

[01:01:14] kind of had the same

[01:01:18] support

[01:01:18] system and structure that an actual navy ship

[01:01:20] would do yeah Stephen King

[01:01:22] he's the CEO he's Helman this Joker

[01:01:25] everybody worked

[01:01:26] in concert together they had the best

[01:01:28] of the best for writing

[01:01:29] editing

[01:01:30] graphics they had the backing of the

[01:01:33] US Navy

[01:01:34] they assembled what in my eyes is probably

[01:01:37] one of the finest casts

[01:01:39] that could represent

[01:01:42] the TV show

[01:01:43] and the military as a whole

[01:01:45] and they pulled it off for five years

[01:01:47] on a TV show

[01:01:49] they made movie effects

[01:01:51] on a TV show budget

[01:01:53] absolutely and

[01:01:55] who knows to them for changing it up

[01:01:57] but not in a forced

[01:01:59] kind of way

[01:02:01] any other show that had done it before

[01:02:03] would have probably fallen victim to

[01:02:05] we got to lock someone up in the brig

[01:02:07] you know like that would have gone old fast

[01:02:10] because we've seen it done for years on

[01:02:11] you know about Stark Alactica and what have you

[01:02:13] that was like every other military

[01:02:15] movie and that was cool how they only

[01:02:17] had that like a few

[01:02:19] threats to that but that was not the whole

[01:02:21] essence of the season

[01:02:23] Locking Quincy in his cabin

[01:02:25] after he tried to kill the ship

[01:02:27] yeah it was pretty much

[01:02:29] to end an ongoing

[01:02:31] thing but it wasn't the only

[01:02:33] solution it wasn't the only

[01:02:35] it wasn't a measuring contest

[01:02:37] for every character they would often

[01:02:39] it was often just more the enemy is

[01:02:41] bigger than I imagine

[01:02:43] I'm gonna need some serious battle

[01:02:45] plan to combat this and it's going to take

[01:02:47] 10 episodes you know

[01:02:50] um but

[01:02:51] yeah no that that's true too like

[01:02:53] they would

[01:02:55] that is cool to know that again

[01:02:57] uh anyone who guest directed

[01:02:59] an episode it was often one where someone's

[01:03:01] out in the field the producers

[01:03:03] are there it's not just

[01:03:05] and kudos to also just the plot twist

[01:03:07] they were never just so open into where you're like

[01:03:09] what did so and so intend by that last

[01:03:11] moment I don't know just make

[01:03:12] anything up and we'll you know re-edit

[01:03:15] it if it doesn't make sense in post you know

[01:03:17] it's just clear

[01:03:19] concise communication

[01:03:20] and

[01:03:22] kudos to for also like

[01:03:25] every

[01:03:26] epidemic or

[01:03:28] military force that they encountered

[01:03:30] you know it just always is one of those

[01:03:33] you're like ah lord almighty

[01:03:34] how do you even begin

[01:03:36] to assess this threat

[01:03:38] you know like that's

[01:03:40] and they made it so digestible

[01:03:43] for us the viewer the characters

[01:03:44] had something to say instead of

[01:03:47] yes sir no sir you know

[01:03:48] they were actually

[01:03:49] you felt like they were actually breathing instead of just

[01:03:52] you know pretty boy who's

[01:03:54] gonna kick some ass later

[01:03:56] I do want to

[01:03:58] um because you've been

[01:04:00] you've been gracious with your time

[01:04:01] and you know accommodating

[01:04:03] to try and get this set up

[01:04:05] yes I do want to give you

[01:04:08] a little insight into the show

[01:04:10] and um

[01:04:11] you have to forgive me I kind of keep dropping back

[01:04:14] into my Facebook group because

[01:04:15] okay

[01:04:16] I can't watch the special effects

[01:04:19] and the behind the scenes stuff

[01:04:21] from the social media standpoint

[01:04:24] um

[01:04:26] I said I'd never let this man die

[01:04:29] so we had a

[01:04:30] a member in our group

[01:04:32] his name was Tom Richardson he was a

[01:04:35] sergeant in the army in Vietnam

[01:04:38] and

[01:04:39] this is

[01:04:40] this is where

[01:04:43] the DDG 151 group kind of

[01:04:45] got a little strange

[01:04:49] he was in

[01:04:50] stage 4 cancer

[01:04:52] oh man

[01:04:53] he was 64 years old he was in

[01:04:56] stage 4 cancer lung, liver and spleen

[01:05:01] and

[01:05:02] he was

[01:05:05] huge huge huge

[01:05:06] fan of the show he used to

[01:05:08] always type in all capital letters

[01:05:10] because he said that was the only way he could read what he was typing

[01:05:13] got ya

[01:05:14] and he used to get in there because

[01:05:16] the camaraderie

[01:05:17] in the group plus the camaraderie

[01:05:19] that's written into the show

[01:05:22] made him feel like the part of him that he never thought

[01:05:24] he would ever revisit

[01:05:26] hmm

[01:05:27] well we found out

[01:05:32] he was going through chemo

[01:05:35] so

[01:05:36] my group got together

[01:05:38] and I don't know

[01:05:40] for the life of me there was alcohol involved

[01:05:42] I know there was alcohol involved

[01:05:45] probably massive quantities

[01:05:46] of it

[01:05:47] but we ended up

[01:05:50] mailing him

[01:05:51] and this was coming from all over

[01:05:53] the globe

[01:05:55] somebody mailed him a DVD player

[01:05:58] somebody mailed him the first two

[01:06:00] somebody else

[01:06:01] in I say someone in Ohio mailed him the DVD player

[01:06:04] somebody in

[01:06:06] New Hampshire I think it was Sue Clark

[01:06:08] when I'm at this

[01:06:09] I'm sure you're listening

[01:06:09] we were still doing that back when the show

[01:06:13] happened in the 2010s

[01:06:14] yeah

[01:06:16] and somebody had mailed him

[01:06:18] the first two seasons of the last ship

[01:06:21] on DVD so he could have something to do

[01:06:22] while he was going through chemo

[01:06:24] well one of the writers on the show

[01:06:26] Dan DiCuna he caught wind of what we were

[01:06:29] doing and decided he wanted

[01:06:31] to chime in a little bit too

[01:06:32] that's neat

[01:06:33] he went to Eric Dain

[01:06:36] and Adam Baldwin

[01:06:38] and they actually made Navy Challenge Coins

[01:06:40] for these guys and it said

[01:06:42] TNT's the last ship USS Nathan James

[01:06:44] Spear of the Navy

[01:06:46] Commander Mike Slattery

[01:06:48] Captain

[01:06:50] wait call

[01:06:52] see that's going though

[01:06:54] they sent those to him

[01:06:55] and they mailed a

[01:06:57] a puffy vest that had the Nathan James

[01:07:00] shield

[01:07:01] and singing it

[01:07:02] where he said Spear of the Navy

[01:07:05] they mailed that

[01:07:06] to him and they wanted

[01:07:08] to film him opening this stuff up

[01:07:11] well

[01:07:12] I decided that wasn't good enough

[01:07:14] I was not going to be done by the TV show

[01:07:16] it's my damn group

[01:07:18] right so his

[01:07:20] birthday was coming his 65th birthday was coming

[01:07:23] so we scared

[01:07:24] a little surprise for him

[01:07:26] I was going to drive up there

[01:07:28] and we were going to throw him a surprise party

[01:07:31] and

[01:07:32] Dan had asked me

[01:07:35] what was his favorite

[01:07:37] episode well it was the episode where they destroyed

[01:07:39] the sub

[01:07:40] in season 2 at the end of season 2

[01:07:43] so he

[01:07:45] got a copy of the script together

[01:07:47] had the entire cast sign the top page of it

[01:07:50] he mailed it to me

[01:07:51] to take up to Tom

[01:07:53] we got some presents for him

[01:07:54] and some military merchandise

[01:07:56] stuff like that

[01:07:59] well apparently the TV show

[01:08:00] said I was not going to out do them

[01:08:02] so Eric Dain and Adam Baldwin

[01:08:04] got together

[01:08:06] during a set break when they were still in their

[01:08:08] Digi Blues

[01:08:10] and

[01:08:11] made a tribute morale booster

[01:08:14] video for Tom Richardson

[01:08:17] they had the opening of their

[01:08:19] video was the season 2 opening credits

[01:08:20] then they came on and they addressed him

[01:08:22] directly

[01:08:24] and they sent

[01:08:26] all kinds of merchandise

[01:08:28] they sent t-shirts from the props

[01:08:30] apartment

[01:08:31] for him to wear

[01:08:33] and

[01:08:34] when he

[01:08:36] became terminally ill

[01:08:38] about 9 months later

[01:08:40] the military pays for X amount

[01:08:44] for a burial

[01:08:45] but it wasn't going to

[01:08:48] quite be enough

[01:08:48] so they started a go fund me

[01:08:52] and I was a big fan

[01:08:54] of not putting stuff like that in the group

[01:08:55] I don't want fundraisers in the group

[01:08:58] um

[01:08:59] I made the exception this one time

[01:09:02] well Eric Dain

[01:09:04] dropped in

[01:09:06] $1000

[01:09:08] oh man

[01:09:10] Travis VanLinkel

[01:09:12] matched him

[01:09:13] because you can see who's contributing

[01:09:15] people from the group were contributing

[01:09:17] people have never met this man

[01:09:19] they are dropping 20 bucks, 50 bucks, 5 bucks

[01:09:22] whatever they could afford

[01:09:23] well I think Jaco Simms dropped in

[01:09:26] 5 then Eric decided to out

[01:09:28] do him and dropped in 1000

[01:09:29] then Travis VanLinkel dropped in 1000

[01:09:32] and the next thing I know I'm getting a message

[01:09:33] from GoFundMe that Tom Richardson's name

[01:09:36] is trending on GoFundMe

[01:09:38] oh man

[01:09:39] the GoFundMe Stephen Cain

[01:09:42] contributed

[01:09:43] and at some point we were like $1000 away

[01:09:46] and GoFundMe

[01:09:47] kicked in the last grand

[01:09:50] all because of the show

[01:09:52] wow

[01:09:53] that was

[01:09:57] from my perspective of the show

[01:09:59] that was why I enjoyed it

[01:10:00] and enjoyed what I did with it

[01:10:02] well and plus

[01:10:04] it's just an atypical kind of interaction

[01:10:06] instead of oh my god where they're going to do next episode

[01:10:09] it's more

[01:10:09] hey here's a veteran who happens to watch it

[01:10:13] and he's in need

[01:10:14] and

[01:10:17] that's cool, it was very neat

[01:10:18] very unique

[01:10:20] in season

[01:10:23] 3

[01:10:26] they're running together now

[01:10:27] yeah no

[01:10:28] 4, 3 was China

[01:10:30] so in season 4

[01:10:34] no well season 3

[01:10:36] it's late

[01:10:37] in season 3

[01:10:39] Kara was going to meet somebody at an abandoned gas station

[01:10:43] there's supposed to be these two thugs

[01:10:45] that are going to come there

[01:10:47] and kill her

[01:10:48] they didn't get named

[01:10:51] but they did name one of those characters

[01:10:53] in the script Tom Richardson

[01:10:55] ah

[01:10:57] jeez, how about that

[01:10:58] so that was their way of sending that man out

[01:11:00] in style

[01:11:02] that's cool

[01:11:05] and that's why I say that was

[01:11:07] a stellar cast

[01:11:08] and an amazing behind the scenes team

[01:11:13] especially if they're paying attention

[01:11:15] to all these things

[01:11:17] and they're still making time for Easter eggs

[01:11:19] and other stuff

[01:11:22] they had a lot of fun with us

[01:11:23] and we had a lot of fun with them in return

[01:11:25] it was a total blast

[01:11:27] I

[01:11:29] started to say I'd do it again

[01:11:31] but it was actually very exhausting

[01:11:33] oh I imagine

[01:11:35] kudos to them because

[01:11:37] by getting all that military prep

[01:11:41] plausible

[01:11:41] I think that's why it was easy

[01:11:44] for people to buy into

[01:11:45] the concept too instead of

[01:11:47] hey, you know

[01:11:48] and even though you often saw

[01:11:51] Eric on the

[01:11:53] poster, the show was just

[01:11:56] carried by just the overall

[01:11:57] premise I think versus who's the star

[01:12:00] you know

[01:12:01] yeah, whoever

[01:12:03] the star was depended on what was

[01:12:05] happening in that episode

[01:12:07] even these famous character actors who are

[01:12:09] dynamite and everything playing in the

[01:12:11] presidents

[01:12:11] they're there just kind of more as a special guest

[01:12:15] star

[01:12:16] they're in everything so it was more

[01:12:19] just like hey, we're going to

[01:12:20] give it our all and it's TNT

[01:12:23] so we respected in everything

[01:12:24] we're not boning it in

[01:12:26] like you say, we're a lifetime

[01:12:29] or homework

[01:12:29] and you need that rapport

[01:12:35] you really do instead of hey

[01:12:37] this is a cheapy in Canada or Atlanta

[01:12:39] and we're going to be done in

[01:12:41] two weeks

[01:12:44] I'm not going to know

[01:12:45] anyone's name

[01:12:46] who the guy at craft services was

[01:12:48] it didn't matter

[01:12:53] what cool memories though

[01:12:54] too

[01:12:56] yeah, Jess, I say you're

[01:12:57] unlocking a lot of stuff

[01:12:59] that I hadn't thought about in a while

[01:13:02] well, trust me dude

[01:13:04] like I see so many people

[01:13:05] who

[01:13:07] they like to dispose of something

[01:13:08] once they see it

[01:13:09] it doesn't matter, if it's a so called

[01:13:13] great show

[01:13:13] you're putting in your top 10

[01:13:15] why are you not

[01:13:18] revisiting it

[01:13:19] maybe it wasn't that good

[01:13:21] maybe it was a one-timer

[01:13:23] and I did end up

[01:13:26] accidentally re-seeing some episodes

[01:13:28] just because sometimes

[01:13:29] my digital video recorder

[01:13:31] DVR for those who still have cable

[01:13:33] would crap out on me

[01:13:35] and it didn't matter, I'd still sit down

[01:13:37] and be like okay

[01:13:38] I saw one episode out of order

[01:13:41] I'm going back and seeing the other episode

[01:13:42] and I'm seeing this again

[01:13:43] it really was the perfect comfort food

[01:13:48] people are seeing these other shows

[01:13:50] that are

[01:13:51] psych or suits that are taking off

[01:13:53] on streaming

[01:13:54] I think it's only natural

[01:13:57] because people liked working on those shows

[01:14:00] people have seen them

[01:14:01] re-watching them and people are now

[01:14:03] just introduced to it

[01:14:04] it only makes sense to put it on streaming

[01:14:08] exactly

[01:14:09] but everyone likes to look for drama

[01:14:11] or clickbait and is like

[01:14:13] let's not, we don't have enough drama

[01:14:15] in our life, why do I need to know about

[01:14:17] you walk outside if you want drama

[01:14:19] yeah, I already know

[01:14:21] about these two other A-listers who couldn't stand each other

[01:14:23] but at the end of the day I'm going to still see their movies

[01:14:26] so what does it matter

[01:14:27] but it is TNT

[01:14:29] they know drama

[01:14:32] that's what I think

[01:14:33] it was also, the right network too

[01:14:35] is just like

[01:14:38] you'd see this

[01:14:39] and you'd see one of their wacky comedy shows

[01:14:42] I got into Resolving Isles about

[01:14:45] three years ago and see that was one

[01:14:47] I'm glad I could finally

[01:14:48] see it on streaming because I wanted to see it from the start

[01:14:51] but TNT

[01:14:53] they somehow had a way

[01:14:55] instead of waiting for syndication or what have you

[01:14:57] they just kind of had it

[01:14:58] if you missed it, they still encouraged you to check out the DVD

[01:15:01] and you're like oh I will

[01:15:02] that looks like a binge

[01:15:05] rental stores were about to shut down

[01:15:07] and it was kind of that same kind of deal

[01:15:09] where he was like just collect the DVD

[01:15:11] just collect the whole set

[01:15:12] you'll rewatch it

[01:15:16] well I'm going to go ahead

[01:15:17] and I'm going to cut you loose for tonight

[01:15:19] I think

[01:15:20] I've got to get to bed

[01:15:23] it's been a delight having you on the show

[01:15:24] and for those who didn't see it back in the day

[01:15:27] you had no idea what you missed

[01:15:28] just seeing it on on-demand

[01:15:31] and seeing everyone tease the next episode

[01:15:33] it was unlike anything else at that time

[01:15:35] in the 2010s

[01:15:36] so it's been such a delight Ash having you on here buddy

[01:15:39] and I'll let you know when the episode drops

[01:15:42] Outstanding

[01:15:42] Great trivia night and Godspeed soldier

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