Tony Hale

Podcrushed

Lemonada Media

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Tony Hale (Veep, Toy Story, Arrested Development) takes us from his globe-trotting childhood as an army brat to his breakout roles in Arrested Development and Veep. Along the way, he opens up about anxiety, faith, and fatherhood, while sharing the life lessons and practices that keep him grounded. He also gives a behind-the-scenes look at his new project, Sketch, plus a few surprising Emmy stories. Preorder our new book, Crushmore, here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Crushmore/Penn-Badgley/9781668077993 Want more from Podcrushed? Follow us here: Instagram TikTok X (Twitter) Follow Penn, Sophie, and Nava: Instagram Penn Badgley Sophie Ansari Nava Kavelin TikTok Penn Badgley Sophie Ansari Nava Kavelin See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's so funny because it's hard to separate painful, cringe, embarrassment from like fun story.
0:14.7	No need to separate.
0:16.9	Give us a pain.
0:20.3	Welcome to Pod Crushed.
0:22.2	We're hosts.
0:23.0	I'm Penn.
0:23.8	I'm Sophie and I'm Nava.
0:25.6	And I think we would have been your middle school besties.
0:28.0	Singing Casey and Jojo in the back of our station wagon.
0:30.9	You are the only one my everything.
0:34.5	And for you, it is an all my no
0:37.7	hello crushies
0:41.6	I am so
0:42.7	did you see I made like direct eye contact
0:44.9	I'm so excited
0:46.9	to welcome you all to today's episode
0:49.4	our guest today is Tony Hale
0:51.2	who I'm obsessed with
0:52.4	I'm a huge fan of VEP
0:53.9	and a huge fan of arrested development.
0:56.7	And I think he steals the show on both of those comedies, which is hard to do with like the
1:00.8	brilliant co-stars that he's working with. So I couldn't be more excited for today's conversation.
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