399: Jason Alexander—I Thought There'd be More Plumes
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
4.9 • 40.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2024
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
The Tony Award-winning actor, director, and podcaster goes deep with TWIHI about everything from his traumatic childhood and dashed dreams of becoming a magician to the Broadway show that made him want to act and his recollections of Stephen Sondheim and Hal Prince.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. This is the way I heard it, and I'm Mike Row, and my guest today is Jason Alexander. |
| 0:08.3 | Woo! What a nice guy. Super nice guy. It's annoyingly nice guy, actually. |
| 0:13.1 | I was pissed off by the end of it. The more I think about it, the angry I get. He was thoughtful, |
| 0:18.9 | he was funny, generous with his time, insightful in his |
| 0:22.3 | observations. Opened up about his personal life and stuff. Real pain of the ass. I'm telling you. |
| 0:29.1 | This is the second time I've met Jason Alexander. I was on his podcast a couple of months ago |
| 0:35.3 | with our friend Peter Tilden, who's been on this podcast. |
| 0:38.3 | And if it sounds a bit incestuous, well, that's one of the first things we talk about. |
| 0:43.3 | The Strange World of PodcastLandia and Why, a man like Jason Alexander, a Tony Award-winning |
| 0:50.3 | Thespian, and George Costanza for crying out loud. He's done everything you really |
| 0:56.7 | can hope to do in this industry. And now he has a podcast and he's having a ball. Yeah. And he's |
| 1:03.1 | working with his best friend. Like the parallels are very similar between our podcast and their |
| 1:08.5 | podcast. Even if our careers are not. |
| 1:11.5 | That's correct. |
| 1:12.0 | Yes. |
| 1:15.7 | There's a lot of similarity. |
| 1:21.3 | I didn't realize he was really such a voice in theater. |
| 1:22.1 | Oh, yeah. I quickly did some research and reconnected the dots. |
| 1:26.6 | And so we spend a fair amount of time just reminiscing about some of the greatest |
| 1:33.6 | Broadway shows ever written. |
| 1:35.9 | And he's encyclopedic with it. |
| 1:37.6 | Well, he was in one of the greatest Broadway shows that I, like, love and adore, that was very unsuccessful when it first |
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