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Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)

John C. Reilly

Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)

Team Coco

Society & Culture

4.73.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

John C. Reilly talks to Ted Danson about bringing back empathy with his vaudeville-style music act Mister Romantic, how he met his wife on “Casualties of War,” hiding his acting dreams from his dad, his long relationship with Paul Thomas Anderson, why he tried talking Leonardo DiCaprio out of doing “Titanic,” and more. Learn more about John’s album, "What’s Not to Love?” Like watching your podcasts? Visit http://youtube.com/teamcoco to see full episodes.

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0:00.0

Being in porn was thought of as taboo. You probably remember, but...

0:05.0

Oh, my porn. Never mind.

0:26.5

We're going to do this a little differently, just the beginning part, because all of us,

0:33.3

well, at least Nick and I, I don't know if you were able to do it, but we're so taken by your music.

0:35.8

What's Not to Love, the album that came out.

0:38.9

And Mary and I listened to it this morning and went nuts and turned to somebody our assistant and went how can we see this stage performance and you're

0:47.7

coming to oh hi yeah so excited so we will be there is that where you live yeah well yeah i don't

0:53.2

if you like to talk about that.

0:54.4

I do.

0:54.9

No, we do.

0:56.3

Another friend lives up there.

0:57.6

Yeah, I'm excited.

0:58.3

I love Ohio.

0:59.1

Yeah, it's wonderful.

1:00.6

And people are really eating up the show.

1:02.6

You can feel it in the audience like a sponge for love and empathy.

1:06.9

Well, let me read what you said.

1:08.5

Yeah. Well, let me read what you said. I looked at our weary world a few years ago and tried to think of a way I could spread love and empathy. I decided the most fun way to do that was through performing and singing and telling people I loved them. And then you end this with the lyrics all have something deeply true about them. Somebody once said, it's better to light one tiny candle than to curse the darkness.

1:32.3

Well, this is our little candle in the darkness.

1:35.3

Now, we're going to listen to you and I, just for a second, because I'll be seeing you in all the old familiar places that this heart of mine embraces all day through. In that small

2:00.7

cafe, the park across the street in that small cafe

2:01.6

the park across the way

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