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Podcrushed

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Podcrushed

Penn Badgley, Nava Kavelin, Sophie Ansari

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family, Dinner's On Me) brings his buoyant sarcasm and wellspring of wild stories to the pod -- from the time he got pinned to a fence and ditched by a roving gang of eighth graders, to his arrest and court appearance as teenager, to the serendipitous story of his Modern Family audition.

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0:00.0

Lemonada. A bunch of kids grabbed me and, um, pinned my jacket. I had like, you know,

0:13.2

buttons like those like heavy duty winter coat buttons. They pinned the ones that were on my hood to

0:18.6

a chain link fence and then pinned my arms as well by my

0:22.8

my cuffs to a chain link fence and then the bell rang for when to go in and they left me

0:28.7

Welcome to Pod Crushed. We're hosts. I'm Penn. I'm Sophie and I'm Nava and I think we would

0:34.7

have been your middle school besties running lines together for the

0:37.6

middle school play.

0:40.0

Welcome to Pod Crushed.

0:42.0

My co-host, Navakavan, and Sophie Ansari.

0:45.2

I, you know, I've talked a lot.

0:47.0

I've just, don't stop talking about my past, my relationship to theater, my relationship

0:53.2

to acting, what's meant to me,

0:56.4

but you two, have you guys been in plays in school?

0:59.9

It would have only been in school, clearly, not professional.

1:02.3

Like me.

1:03.0

Yeah, in kindergarten, I was in the play Peter Rabbit,

1:07.3

and I was the illustrious mother rabbit.

1:09.8

The Mother Rabbit.

1:10.3

That's my story.

1:11.2

Did you just have to hop across the stage?

1:13.4

I don't remember.

1:14.4

I don't remember what I did, Sophie.

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