Rob Huebel, Star of Medical Police

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 14 January 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Rob Huebel joins us to talk about his new series Medical Police - the spin-off of his old show Children's Hospital, which ran for seven seasons on Adult Swim. He's a talented comic actor who has appeared on MTV's Human Giant and on Amazon's critically-acclaimed series Transparent. Rob sits down with Jesse to talk about where he gets his sense of humor from, what it's like playing jerks with a heart of gold and how he got his start in improv. Plus, he'll talk to us about his favorite types of silly comedies. All that and more on a all-new Bullseye!

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:13.6	I'm Jesse Thorn, it's Bullseye.
0:22.8	So there is a new show coming to Netflix. One of those shows where the title kind of tells
0:27.3	you everything you need to know. It's called Medical Police. Yes, Medical Police.
0:34.6	It stars Rob Hubel, who's my guest. Rob is a veteran comic actor. He broke through
0:39.2	in 2007 on the MTV sketch show Human Giant alongside his ease and sorry and Paul Sheer.
0:45.2	He's been in many many other things. Maybe you know him as less from transparent. He was
0:50.9	on the league, he was on 30 Rock and maybe his best known role was on the totally bonkers
0:56.2	adult swim show Children's Hospital. Children's Hospital was a medical drama parody where
1:02.0	pretty much all of the doctors are truly awful at their jobs. He played Dr. Owen Maistra,
1:08.5	who was also a bad doctor. Owen used to be a cop in New York City but left after September
1:15.0	11th. Children's Hospital's last episode aired in 2016, which brings us to Medical Police.
1:23.0	The new show picks up where Children's Hospital left off.
1:26.6	Focusing now on Owen, played by Rob and his ex-girlfriend Dr. Lola Spratt, played by Aaron
1:32.6	Hayes. Here's the premise. Lola and Owen discover a deadly virus, one that could end life
1:39.0	as we know it. And together with the government, specifically the Centers for Disease Control,
1:44.8	the two of them start traveling the world to see who made the virus and find a cure. They
1:50.2	are Medical Police. Here's one of my favorite scenes from the show. In this clip, Lola just
1:55.6	confessed she's having cold feet about the mission. And as you're about to hear, Rob's character
2:00.8	is giving her a pep talk. Hey, now listen to me. Come here. Remember what happened,
2:07.2	Nelson Berlin? Yeah, we got shot out of the sky and left for dead. Yeah. No backup for support.
2:12.9	And what we do, we kick, and then we continue to kick,
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