L.A. has the largest jail system in the country.

You got people that been in jail just like one time and their life can't get nothing because of whatever mistake they made.

I stole some ground turkey because I wanted to feed my family. We was hungry.

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From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's the treatment. It's The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment from New York.

I'm Elvis Mitchell.

I'm sitting across from a guy who, when we first really got to know on TV as Logan on Dark Gang, he didn't smile too much.

He made it for it ever since by sort of smiling his way through many, many, many years of NCAS. And now I'm not smiling

so much in the new series Bull, in which he plays, Bull. I'm sitting across from Michael Weatherly.

First of all, Michael, thanks for what you're doing this.

It is a deep and profound pleasure, Elvis, to be in the booth with you. Nothing deep here, but let me ask you this because you've worked as an actor as a guy who basically has to be reading everybody.

These characters you played have been these characters who are basically sort of professional assessors of situations.

And I wonder how you sort of get yourself to get your mindset ready to play that kind of guy.

Yeah, sometimes, like, which comes first, I think, were they that way? You know, I grew up in a family

where there was a lot going on and you needed to be on your toes, whether you were at the dinner

table or just trying to navigate whatever

social dynamics were swirling around. And in a nutshell, my mom's Boston Irish Catholic, and

my father is Birmingham, Alabama, Republican. And so, whose roommate was Donald Rumsfeld at

Princeton. So there's a certain severity to one side of the deal.

And my mom is actually the one who taught me how to throw a punch.

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