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Hey, Renee, I'm great.
How are you? Oh my gosh,

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I am so excited to be chatting
with you because I just think you're I

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love everything you do, and you're
one of those people that I wish I

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could hang out with, like have
a drink with, or would like you're

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at my table whenever they always ask
because you're so hilarious. I love you.

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Oh, thank you so much.
Well, I will hope. I

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mean, that's hard to live up
to, but I'll do my best.

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Please try very hard during this interview, John, first of all, congratulations

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on extended family. That looks hilarious. Thank you so much. We're having

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so much fun. We're almost done
shooting the first season, and it's so

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nice to finally have it playing in
front of people because we actually shot the

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pilot almost almost two years ago.
Are you serious. Yeah no, but

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there was the NBC had their president
left and then the strike happened. Oh

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yeah, that's true. Yeah,
we've just been doing it and it's so

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funny because there's kids on the show, and we're like, the kids are

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going to be grown ups, so
you're going to have to have one of

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those in the future two years from
now. Well, I love Donald Faison

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first of all, one of my
most favorite actors. He's he's fantastic.

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Abigail Spencer and I feel like,
do you get to control the clips they

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use to promote the shows on TV? Do you know? Do they give

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you a heads up? They do? Not know. Every now and then

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you're shooting something you're going to and
you think to yourself, they're going to

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use this in the promos, Like
the second I was taking the Sarah gun

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to my butt. Uh huh,
they're going to use this, you know.

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Usually it's like physical bits of comedy. You're tripping, you falling because

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you know, because that's the quickest, easiest laugh, you know. Uh

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so uh But but no, I
don't have any control over it. I

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you know, it's really up to
the promo department. But I've been really

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happy with what the promo department has
been picking. It's fantastic. But I'm

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just like that promo gets me every
time when you've got the fair gun on

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your butt and they open the door, I'm like, this is a fan

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whoever did this? What a what
a draw? And of course I think

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it's a timely show right because everyone's
you know, consciously uncoupling or trying to

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be amicable, trying to be adults
here, and the show is about how

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an amicable divorce, if there really
is such a thing. And then like,

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I don't want to give away everything, but I know it's been out

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there about how you're trying to combine
your lives. One of your favorite sports

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teams, the guy likes your now
ex wife, like very timely premise,

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though I would say, oh,
thank you. Well, the crazy thing

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is my parents have divorced amicably,
and so, you know, and that

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was back in you know, nineteen
seventy two, you know, so you

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know it can't it's been around for
a while, thankfully, but you know,

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we just what I loved about this
relationship was, you know, is

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that it's very specific. You know, this is you know, this is

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how they chose to try to make
something good out of something that they couldn't

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work out, you know, And
I feel like, you know, when

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you got kids, that it's your
responsibility to try and find that at least,

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you know, obviously this is not
a solution for everybody. It helps

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that that one of them owns the
Boston Celtics, you know that that kind

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of makes it a special situation and
it was inspired by the way by the

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real owner of the Boston Celtics who
does this with he and his wife share

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an apartment with her ex husband so
that the kids don't have to move.

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See. You know, I appreciate
that and thank you for sharing that information.

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But I am Sicilian, so this
does not compute with me. I

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do apologize. I tried. I
wish I could. Maybe I'll let you

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know. I'll use your show as
learning. That's what I'll do, Okay.

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I just feel like I feel like
I'm not trying to stereotype my people,

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my Sicilians, but this just is
not We don't underst stand this.

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You know, Hey, all I
can tell you is Amelia who Amelia Lar

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This is based on you know,
it's a deeply a tell and and proud

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of it, and you know this
works. You know, it's a it's

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a you know again, it's these
particular people. I really love the characters

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as written, and that's kind of
as an actor, when you get that

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feeling like I really know these people, right, that's when you kind of

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have to jump on it as a
as a performer. Listen, I don't

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have a lot of time with you
and I have We all have our schedules

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to keep, but I want to
make sure people know they can watch this

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on Peacock. You can stream episodes
there obviously on NBC. This is a

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fantastic show, extended family with one
of you know, the best comedic timing

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professionals on the planet. I know, I know you have scripts. I

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know you have to do this,
but I just love it. And you

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have been in front of us your
whole life. You have a I know

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that it's hard work for you.
Maybe you don't. We don't see all

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the tears in your life, right
John, but you have been blessed in

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our eyes as being on screen since
the eighties from of course, I mean

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talk about the John Houston movies clearly
two Men in a Baby or you know

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what I mean, all the stuff
that you've done. Oh my gosh,

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I capt forget the name of the
show. I'm like two and a half

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Men. I'm like two and a
half Men with three babies, whatever the

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name of that show is. But
like you've done so much and grown in

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front of our eyes. It seems
like a charmed career to me, where

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you're able to say this is what
you've consistently done. I am aware of

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how lucky I am in this business, and every now and then I have

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that am I in a simulation a
feeling when I because you know, I'll

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step onto the set and be like, wait, I'm like the you know,

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I'm one of the stars of a
TV show. How the hell did

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that happen? But you know,
I have I have the benefit of I

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sort of grew up backstage parents for
performers, and so I've always had sort

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of a gut level of comfort in
this world, you know, and a

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little bit of a nepo baby thing
because you know, when you're when you

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when you grow up in it,
you sort of you get it in a

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way that it's harder for people just
who are getting coming into it from outside.

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And and so'm I. You know, Uh, I've had advantages that

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I'm that I'm obviously grateful for.
But uh, you know, every day

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on the set I have there's never
been a day where I didn't feel lucky.

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Even in the podcast genre. Now
because you have your own podcast show

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or are you still actively uh doing
that with with your your podcast that you

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have on I just did. I
wasn't sure if that's something you're still actively

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doing or do you have to put
it aside when you're taping with with Lawyers,

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Guns and Money. No. No, The amazing thing about a podcast

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is that it is something that you
know you can absolutely do while you're doing

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it. I mean, Donald Faison
on Extended Family still does his podcast.

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And yeah, I used to do
a show called Undisclosed which was about wrongful

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convictions and I used to do interview
people on it, and then when the

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opportunity for Lawyers, Guns and Money
came up, which is a very specific

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story, I just jumped on it
because it's an absolutely Banana's true story about

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this young public defender in Miami in
nineteen eighty six who gets this nut client

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whose claims to be working for the
CIA, claims to be a gun runner

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for the CIA, and he kind
of dismissed his claims as like, Okay,

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you're a crazy person. But then
the guy gave him a phone number

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and it was It ended up being
answered in the White House and this young

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public defender ended up uncovering what later
became known as the Iran Contra scandal.

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But this huge, like world shaking
scandal with this one kid in Miami and

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it's just an amazing story called Lawyer's
Guns and Money. Well, I wish

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I had more time with you because
I have a ton of other questions,

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But meanwhile, we're just going to
have to take this and be satisfied.

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John Cryer, you're one of my
absolute favorites. I wish you a ton

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of success on extended family and all
of your projects. I appreciate your time

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today, Thank you so much.
That's gonna be my motto going forward is

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take this and be satisfied. I'm
going to take this and be satisfied today,

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my friend. Bye.