"John Williams"
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Hey, guys. Welcome to the cold open. Hey. Anything you'd like to say? No, Will. You can't start a cold open with a yawn. Sorry, dude. Sean, anything to fire up the cold open with? You want a dad joke? Yeah. Open up the book. Okay. Sorry, listener. Just give us one second. Welcome to our cold open. Did you hear about the cheese that's been working out? I didn't. What happened? The dude is shredded.
Yeah.
Welcome to SmartList. Hello, my name is Jason. Hi, Jason. My name is Sean. I'd love to pod with you guys. Are you guys up for podding? Sure. Let's get your pod on. Let's get this podding starting. Let's get this podding starting. Thank you, guys. That's a good one.
I've never heard that.
Let's get this podding started.
Anything worth talking about?
I looked up right before this. I was looking up how to survive a nuclear war.
Jason had a good one. Mark it down. Okay, sorry. No. Will, anything exciting in your life today?
No. This morning?
Still just in recovery.
You want to know how to survive a nuclear war? Oh, right. You're still trying to kick your virus. Yeah. Sean, what were you saying? You want to win? Do you want to know how to survive a nuclear war? Or a nuclear bomb? Okay. Run? So you've got to cover your eyes and get down, and then you've got to find a basement or something.
Okay, man.
And we'll be right back. Because I read a headline this morning when I got up, like, you know, North Korea is ready to, you know, they're always saying whatever.
You know we're doing a happy feel-good type of podcast here?
I'd like just to say really quick, Jason, I miss you.
Sorry, do you want to make a statement?
I do. I would just like to say... If I can get in here. Wait, Willie's got a really fast good joke for Jason today.
Well, about the fact that dogs can't do MRIs, but cats can. Okay, so here we go. Great.
Did you guys get on early? We both watched the same TikTok video. Oh, no. I don't have the TikTok.
Anyway. Sean's got a few written down. Go ahead, Sean. No, I got it. By the way, he went back and he wrote them down. Go ahead, Sean.
I know. You want to hear another one? Milk is the fastest liquid on earth. It's pasteurized before we can even see it. Not bad.
Okay. Anything else you want to help the people driving to finish off their car accident with?
No, because they're going to get super excited about our guest today. And now listen, I love when we get a true living legend on this podcast. My guest today served our country in the Air Force, became a renowned jazz musician, and then eventually moved to Hollywood to work on some of the biggest films in motion picture history. I'm sure you're going to guess who it is right away. He is the single most Academy Award-nominated living person, and after Walt Disney, he's the second most nominated person of all time. Anyone in the world from all walks of life could hum his work. Guys, it's the illustrious, incomparable, one of my heroes, John Williams. Got it. No way. Yes, incredible. Wow. Look at this. Wow.
Good day, sir. This is so cool. Unbelievable. Hi, John.
Hello, gentlemen. How are you today? I just saw pictures of all three of you, and you looked healthy to me, like three NFL players on their day off.
That's stretching it.
So, Sean, how is it possible you could play Oscar LeVant?
Well, I don't know. It shocked us too. Because I don't look anything like him, I know.
No, I know.
But I worked on all the things an actor should work on.
Did you research a lot of things?
I did. I read all his books. I went to the archives at the... Paley Center, where they have all the old footage. And I just spent, you know, a couple days there looking at stuff. And then I downloaded some stuff on YouTube. You know, you just go nuts when you try to do something like that.
Did you have to go to the piano and sort of...
This is supposed to be about you, John Williams.
John, did you get a chance to see Sean do his play on Broadway? No.
No, no.
Oh, he was just incredible. I mean, you would have been very impressed with his piano playing ability. Somebody who would know what to look for. This guy's classically trained, and he did the entire Rhapsody in Blue solo on stage on a...
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