The Brutal Side of Making It In Show Business - Zach Braff - #1107
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
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🗓️ 6 June 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | As somebody that's basically a Philistine and has seen maybe two or three theatre shows in his entire life. |
| 0:05.2 | Yeah. Of a career of being a spectator. And obviously a person who kind of understands the art form as well, what are the ones that stand out to you as this is, that was really, really special? |
| 0:15.4 | Well, I'll tell you, lame is Rob, which is which which is probably a very common answer for people. I was like 13 years old, and I had never |
| 0:23.5 | really been moved to tears by art before. I had never seen something as a young person so beautiful |
| 0:33.8 | in my life. I was so moved by the music. I was so moved by the stagecraft. I was |
| 0:38.5 | the story was thrilling. So that was a real seminal moment in my young life. You know, my dad had been bringing me to see all the play. Yeah, I lived in North Jersey. So my dad would bring me in, you know, took 45 minutes and he loved theater. He got me into it. So he would bring me to see all these plays. A lot of them were sillies. A lot would go over my head. Um, but I loved it. And then, Le Miserab was the first one where I |
| 1:01.4 | was at the right age to feel emotion, to have tears streaming down my face. And that's when I was |
| 1:06.9 | like, what is this? This art form is something that is so powerful. |
| 1:12.6 | And so that I went on to see, like, so many productions that both musicals and dramas and comedies |
| 1:18.6 | were there was just so much joy for me in seeing it happen live and having it be different |
| 1:23.3 | every single time. |
| 1:25.3 | And the shared experience with people around you who are also swiping a tear or laughing |
| 1:30.3 | that that's just something's really magical when it's great when it's great it's just so fun what about when it's bad |
| 1:39.1 | when it's bad it's really bad and uh you know i never leave an intermission just because just because I'm an actor myself and I feel too bad to do that. Yeah, it can be, it can be, it can be horrible. But I try, you know, I do, I do, I do filter what I'm not, I'm not going to see things totally blind. You're not going in blind. I don't go in totally blind. I'd be, that would be, I'd be lying if I said I was just going to |
| 2:02.9 | any random show. I definitely go to what I've heard my friends say, you got to check this out. |
| 2:08.3 | I've heard that you wanted to be a doctor at one point. When I was in high school, there was a |
| 2:13.0 | program in my high school with the, the town had a volunteer rescue squad. |
| 2:18.3 | I guess that's just the way it works in some towns in New Jersey, at least. |
| 2:25.3 | I can only speak to that, is that the town has a volunteer rescue squad of people who are EMTs who donate their time and there's an ambulance service. |
| 2:33.3 | On serious calls, the paramedics come in a separate ambulance from the hospital. |
| 2:39.0 | And they had a program for kids that were 17 and up to volunteer and get trained and go on calls. |
| 2:45.5 | And I went on many calls with the ambulance service. |
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