![]() “Let me tell you when Wings started in '89 and Cheers was still on the air, we would all shoot on Friday nights, so we would go meet the Cheers people and Woody would be there and Kelsey and Ted, and it was f-ing incredible,” he reminisces. Weber thinks back on the days of Wings and how the cast would all get together after shoots at a restaurant in Hollywood called Sunset Grill to bond and celebrate. There's something about finding compadres or comrades in arms and sharing those practical tales of survival that we have in common.” “Nobody is giving a symposium on how to act or all that stuff. “But more often than not, they're practical tales,” Weber weighs in. Everybody has got 20 great stories about somebody famous that was kind or was terrible, and that's what my mother used to call the fly-on-the-wall thing.” I mean, those are my favorite things and everybody has them. ![]() “Sometimes I have to come right out and say, ‘OK, what was the high school production that's changed your life?’ My favorite things are the stories of how we got here - being a young actor in a theater company and some director was an a-hole. “Sometimes you need to be coaxed,” McCormack admits. While the conversations often flow naturally, they are still getting used to keeping things on track with the intent on having a produced product by the end. Related: Sean Hayes Says Shooting the Final Episode of 'Will & Grace' 'Was Really Sad. We want to tell the stories that are embarrassing, the stupid things we did or asked some big star, because those are the ones that are the most funny and the most humble.” ![]() “We're an agenda-free meal and it's just friends getting together, which has proven to be the most compelling thing about it.” McCormack adds, “I think we all find ourselves being naturally self-deprecating. “The strong point is how casual it is,” Weber says. They’re calling it “excited fan chat” and want to focus on the funny anecdotes of how guests got to where they are and the random projects of theirs' that they never talk about. The pair keep the conversations light and refrain from getting too in the weeds of the entertainment industry. “You're never really sure what the table's going to be, but it's always fun and there's always variety,” McCormack explains, while Weber notes that the hardest part of doing the podcast - like any good dinner party - is nailing down their very busy friends. “Yacking and making each other laugh” is the goal of each conversation, something they’ve enjoyed doing with each other “for the last 25 years.” McCormack jokes that his friend is "the most himself when it's just us eating and drinking, so I wanted to unleash this on the world,” adding that the two wanted a project that felt organic to them and that could serve as a fun creative outlet when they’re so-often between projects. Every episode features more than one guest so that “no one is in the spotlight, in the hot seat, selling something” or feels like they’re being interviewed. The hosts dug through their Rolodexes of famous friends to invite, as well as those they regularly go to restaurants with. ![]() Guests include stars like Bryan Cranston, Julie Bowen, Tony Shalhoub, Alfred Molina, Jason Alexander and Yvette Nicole Brown. It’s when conversation flows most freely and when it can occasionally meander into witty, stupid or silly stuff that is always very listenable.” Weber adds, “Eric and I go way back, we always have fun, and it's a good medium to just chat. “We just thought, This is the energy we want to capture with each other and with our friends, this dining out energy.” “Particularly in a theatrical setting, whether you’ve just seen a play or you’re in one, the stories that get told, and the way they get told when you see your fellow actors over a glass of wine and food, there's nothing better,” McCormack says about coming up with the podcast.
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