Joel, long time no tease, how are you? 3

I am well, Ms. Guerrero. 4

It is always nice to see you. 5

You're less... 6

I'm usually... 7

Clips of you being very aggressive, 8

especially with Pastor Ken Copeland, 9

which I loved so endlessly. 10

I played it on a loop, 11

I gave it away as Christmas gifts, Hanukkah gifts. 12

I just put it in a little... 13

I was like, here you go. 14

You are doing the Lord's work. 15

Thank you so much. 16

I will forever somehow married to that man 17

in many people's psyches, 18

so I don't know how I feel about that. 19

But I'm glad that so many people watched it 20

and enjoyed it. 21

Yes. 22

So I'm a huge fan of yours, Joel. 23

Okay, that's a lie, but go ahead. 24

No you're a fantastic actor, 25

you're a wonderful host, we miss "The Soup" of course. 26

But what have you been doing lately? 27

I know that episodes of "Community" are back online, 28

and I hear you've got a podcast, 29

but you're still really busy with a bunch of stuff. 30

This is gonna sound strange, 31

but I'm actually busy than I think I was 32

before the quarantine, 33

because now I'm doing everything from the house, 34

but I have 12 and 15 year old sons. 35

And I don't know what we would do without the Xbox. 36

Now we're on spring break, which seems no different 37

than the previous week. 38

But in the meantime, Ken Jeong and I 39

have launched a podcast, because Ken is a real doctor, 40

and I am not, and so we decided that we would 41

kind of make this podcast about answering questions 42

about the crisis and "Community", 43

and we taped our second episode yesterday. 44

It's gonna drop tomorrow, 45

and spoiler, Andrew Yang comes on to the podcast. 46

So he's helping the economy to recover, 47

or putting the stuff in place to help the economy recover 48

and he's a tremendous man. 49

So we started that. 50

Boy, I'm sorry I'm talking so much. 51

And on top of that, Melissa McCarthy 52

and Octavia Spencer and I have started a thing called, 53

"Comfort Food 2020" that buys food 54

from independently owned, local restaurants 55

in different cities, and they buy meals, 56

so those restaurants get paid, 57

and then we feed hospital staffs. 58

Wow, that's amazing. 59

That is such a great idea. 60

Whose idea was that? 61

Oh, it was all mine. 62

(Lisa laughs) 63

You know, nothing to do with Octavia or Melissa, 64

they just ride on my coattails. 65

You know, 'cause my movie career is equal to theirs, 66

I think they were excited to pair with me. 67

No, so I was going on to local restaurants 68

on my Instagram, and going, come here, 69

they have great food, it's take out, 70

these are the prices, here's the menu. 71

And then Octavia had fed this hospital staff, 72

and then they said, do you wanna come on 73

and then we'll start using the restaurants 74

you've been featuring? 75

And so that's kind of how it all came together. 76

And when you have the power 77

of Octavia Spencer and Melissa McCarthy, 78

and a former, basic cable, clip show host, 79

I mean, that's going-- 80

Huge, big. 81

Yeah. 82

Tell me a little bit about the podcast 83

and the tone of the podcast, 84

because obviously you and Ken are very funny guys, 85

but we're living in a time of, quite frankly, 86

a pandemic and a crisis, 87

and a lot of people are anxious and scared. 88

So tell me about how you do this, 89

and how you strike that balance. 90

Well, thank you for saying we're funny. 91

I'm funny, Ken is not funny. 92

(Lisa laughs) 93

And I have to carry him through these podcasts 94

to make it appear that he's funny. 95

He would absolutely agree with me. 96

So that's a very good question, 97

because whenever both of us were turning on the news, 98

and as you know, they don't stop, 99

and you can watch one hour or seven hours of news, 100

and sometimes there's no news coming, 101

but you remain terrified. 102

And to decipher exactly what's going on is hard, 103

so we knew that "Community" was coming back to Netflix. 104

Yep. 105

And we thought... 106

'Cause people ask both of us questions 107

all about "Community" and Donald all the time, 108

Donald Glover, not Trump, 109

because Donald Glover, he's gone on 110

to have a slightly elevated career since. 111

So we wanted to combine those things 112

and really ask questions like, do masks work, 113

and then talk about that. 114

Do gloves work, talk about that. 115

And Ken knows all about the medicine. 116

He really knows it. 117

And I try to just tell stupid jokes all the time 118

to keep it light. 119

So that's basically how we came around to it, 120

and Ken pays me $1,000 a week to be his friend, 121

so I thought this was a good way 122

to knock out the whole social hour with him, 123

and I wouldn't have to talk to him again 124

for the rest of the week. 125

Makes sense. 126

So Ken is a real doctor, 127

and has he considered answering the governor's call, 128

when he has been asking for retired doctors 129

and nurses to come back into service to help? 130

Oh, I think he's considered it, 131

but he was a terrible doctor, when he was a doctor. 132

He set a number of world records for being terrible. 133

He would often be just drinking a beer during an exam. 134

I think it was really irresponsible. 135

That's a good... 136

Well, right now, Tran, his wife, 137

is a full-time doctor, 138

so she is only working. 139

So Ken is with his daughters, his young daughters at home. 140

Taking care of them. 141

And I think that he... 142

I don't think, 'cause he's been out of medicine 143

for a decade, and so I think there's a number of things 144

he would have to do to get up to speed. 145

To get his license back so that he could practice. 146

'Cause as you know, he was barred. 147

Yeah, no, he stole all those medical supplies way back when. 148

Sounds like I should investigate that, actually. 149

I'll get on him. 150

Ken Jeong, medical thief. 151

I think a lot of stuff would have to happen. 152

But in the meantime, putting up the podcast 153

and talking about the virus, 154

because he's so well educated, 155

even though he went to Duke and North Carolina, 156

which are crappy schools. 157

So he's very well versed, and it's great. 158

So you guys are doing... 159

Obviously, you said that you've been 160

probably busier now than you've been in a long time. 161

Yeah. 162

Can you give people some advice, 163

because so many people are feeling cabin fever, 164

they're stuck inside. 165

Here we live in southern California, 166

and you're not able to go outside, 167

and really enjoy, exercise and things we used to do. 168

Going out to restaurants, for example. 169

So what advice would you give people 170

that are fighting cabin fever? 171

I don't know, red wine? 172

Okay, no, let's see... 173

I would say stay as active as you possibly can physically. 174

Whatever allows you to. 175

Because you have to take care of the temple. 176

So that will chew up a lot of energy, right there. 177

But I would say, be cautious, 178

obviously do all the distancing, 179

listen to things about how you should go grocery shopping, 180

how you should bring those bags in, do all that. 181

Definitely buy from local businesses, 182

but don't let the paranoia paralyze you. 183

So it is very serious and very terrifying, 184

but don't let it overcome you. 185

And you know, read some books. 186

Read the books that you should have read 187

in high school and college. 188

Knock some of those out. 189

And if you're me and my sons, 190

we're playing a lot of "Madden", 191

"Fortnite", and "Call of Duty", 192

so I recommend those games, they're great. 193

And "Spiderman", we like the "Spiderman" game on PS4. 194

I know you're a sports fan. 195

This is a brutal time for sports fans right now. 196

I mean, how many classic ESPN games can one watch? 197

So what do you suggest for sports fans, 198

that don't have anything to gamble on, 199

what about the degenerates, what are they doing right now? 200

Good question about the degenerates, 201

but if you think about it, 202

people that bet on things, 203

can find almost anything to bet on. 204

They probably would bet on how many commercial breaks 205

will be taken during one of those classic games. 206

'Cause they cut out all of the peripheral stuff in those. 207

When I turn on ESPN, now it's "30 for 30" all the time. 208

Right. 209

I just watched that "O.J.: Made in America" again, 210

which was fantastic. 211

And I can't recommend enough the documentary, "McMillions", 212

but sports fans are pretty... 213

I would say Esports is your answer. 214

Go watch some "Overwatch League" stuff, 215

and you and go to Twitch 216

and watch a lot of video games live. 217

I know that a lot of older dudes 218

don't want that or anything. 219

But if the biggest sacrifice we have to make 220

is missing some live sporting events on TV, 221

then we are gonna be just fine. 222

Did you watch "Tiger King"? 223

Everyone keeps asking me about this, 224

and I still have not watched it. 225

(Lisa gasps) 226

It's so good. 227

I know everyone is freaking out, 228

and I know that if there's secrets or spoilers, 229

I'm gonna be really screwed. 230

'Cause I'm gonna learn them all. 231

I know it's bad when even... 232

My mom just turned 75 two days ago, 233

Happy birthday, Laurie McHale in Seattle. 234

Happy birthday! 235

Happy birthday, Mom! 236

Even she is like, "Well, have you seen the 'Tiger Kings'?" 237

And I went, wow, so I need to... 238

This reminds me of high school, 239

when my mom goes, "Have you heard of the Pearl Jam?" 240

And I went, okay, it's not happened, 241

the band is popular, my mom knows who it is. 242

So if they know it, I'm gonna start tonight. 243

Good. 244

Call me in the morning and you can quiz me, 245

and we can do this again, and we can do a wrap up. 246

Perfect. 247

Is there any other documentary on other than 248

"Tiger King" I should watch? 249

No, that's the only one, that's it. 250

Okay, well, what do you watch that is non-documentary, 251

if you go home tonight, what are you watching? 252

So I'm watching, "Little Fires Everywhere". 253

That's the Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washinton, 254

kind of, mini series. 255

It's excellent. 256

I'm watching "Westworld", the new episodes that are out. 257

So I love that. 258