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BETH HOYT: Hi, guys.
I'm here with Zak Orth from NBC's "Revolution," as well as
"Wet Hot American Summer," "Romeo and Juliet," "Vicky
Cristina Barcelona," "The Baxter," so many more.
ZAK ORTH: Hi.
BETH HOYT: OK, so on "Revolution," it's the future,
all forms of energy have like ceased to exist.
Is season one, are you done filming it?
ZAK ORTH: Right now, we've shot 13 episodes,
we have 7 to go.
BETH HOYT: What are you doing on your break?
ZAK ORTH: I am running errands, and
cleaning the house--
BETH HOYT: Like getting your life back together--
ZAK ORTH: And spending time with my family, and getting
used to the idea that I am not getting on a plane in like two
days to go back to work.
BETH HOYT: Oh that's good.
And then as soon as that feels comfortable--
ZAK ORTH: Then as soon as that feels comfortable, then
everybody has to go, oh, you're leaving again.
BETH HOYT: Do you know what happens?
Do you read the scripts week by week?
Or do you--
ZAK ORTH: I definitely read the scripts week by week.
And I mean, I'm happy to not know what's going on.
Which is good because I don't know what's going on.
BETH HOYT: Yeah.
ZAK ORTH: Yeah, so I have no idea.
I mean I have my guesses and my theories, and I know some
things that are going to happen when the
show comes back on.
BETH HOYT: Do you guys talk about it on set?
Are you like, I think this, and I think this?
ZAK ORTH: Oh definitely.
Everybody is, is uh--
BETH HOYT: Super speculative?
ZAK ORTH: Yeah, is-- is energized by the show and by
trying to figure out where it's going, and who's going to
die next, and all that stuff.
BETH HOYT: So you've worked with some
of my favorite comics.
And we've had them here, David Wayne and Michael Showalter,
Michael Ian Black.
ZAK ORTH: Mine too.
BETH HOYT: And all the "Stella" stuff.
How is filming a show like "Revolution" different than
being on a set, or doing show with them?
ZAK ORTH: In every single possible way
that you could imagine.
BETH HOYT: Yeah.
ZAK ORTH: They just have this system, which is, they'll
write it out, but they won't really give it to you.
And they'll sort of feed it to you piecemeal.
And, and, it's little jokes.
It's a little shots, and pops, and all this stuff.
They know what it's going to be.
They know how it's going to cut together.
So you just sort of do it.
BETH HOYT: Yeah.
Can we talk about "Wet Hot American Summer" and what is
happening now?
ZAK ORTH: All I know is that I'm constantly being told that
it is happening.
It will be-- yes.
It will take place before, with the same cast.
BETH HOYT: That's great.
ZAK ORTH: And that it'll be winter.
BETH HOYT: You know what?
I also want to do with you this thing called a tag--
ZAK ORTH: Yea.
BETH HOYT: Called the weird questions tag.
ZAK ORTH: Yea.
BETH HOYT: Number one, what's a nickname only your
family calls you?
ZAK ORTH: Mepo.
BETH HOYT: What is that?
ZAK ORTH: Mepo.
BETH HOYT: Mepo.
ZAK ORTH: Nobody else calls me that.
BETH HOYT: Number two, do you have any weird phobias?
ZAK ORTH: Uh, I do a lot of counting.
BETH HOYT: Oh yeah?
ZAK ORTH: I count stairs.
And I count water when it's running before I wash my hands
or fill a glass with it.
And yeah, on occasion it has been that if I lose count on a
staircase, maybe once or twice, in my life I've had to
go back down and had to [INAUDIBLE].
BETH HOYT: I totally--
I mean I'm very superstitious.
I don't--
And I get--
I do those kinds of things.
Number three, what's a song you secretly love to blast and
belt out when you're alone.
ZAK ORTH: [SINGING - "WE'LL MEET AGAIN"]
I find myself singing that a lot.
BETH HOYT: Wow, that is beautiful.
ZAK ORTH: That's not beautiful.
But it's--
BETH HOYT: It's very Tony Bennant-y.
ZAK ORTH: It's an honest answer.
BETH HOYT: Number four, what's one of
your biggest pet peeves?
ZAK ORTH: What's one of my biggest pet peeves--
BETH HOYT: Oh god, what if I did it, and that's why you're
being like, I can say it cause she just did it.
ZAK ORTH: When people take a really long
time to answer questions.
BETH HOYT: Is it?
ZAK ORTH: Yeah.
BETH HOYT: It's not mine, luckily.
ZAK ORTH: No, thank god.
But yeah.
BETH HOYT: Number five, what's one of your nervous habits?
ZAK ORTH: Uhh, oh I do this.
BETH HOYT: Taking a long time--
ZAK ORTH: I take hair.
I, I, since I was a little kid, I have to twist it, and
then-- see I can see myself do it.
And then I have to do this.
BETH HOYT: Wow, that seems very calming because then it's
soft right there.
ZAK ORTH: Yeah and then it sort of like
vibrates a little bit.
Like it's a little, like springy, springy feeling.
BETH HOYT: Wow, that was a lot.
ZAK ORTH: Then you flick it like that.
BETH HOYT: Number six, what's the beauty rule that you
preach but never actually practice?
ZAK ORTH: Uh--
BETH HOYT: I know we're all dying to hear this one.
ZAK ORTH: Probably moisturising.
BETH HOYT: Hmm, you don't.
ZAK ORTH: No.
BETH HOYT: But you are constantly talking--
ZAK ORTH: I'm constantly telling people--
BETH HOYT: Yeah, you told me that this morning.
ZAK ORTH: To moisturize.
Yes.
BETH HOYT: And I was like--
ZAK ORTH: Yes.
I'm constantly criticizing people for their dry skin.
BETH HOYT: You really should too, especially back in New
York for the winter.
ZAK ORTH: Yep.
BETH HOYT: Number seven, which way do you face in the shower?
Is there?
ZAK ORTH: Uh, the, the shower behind me.
Yeah.
BETH HOYT: And number eight, do you have
any weird body skills?
ZAK ORTH: Is, is this one?
BETH HOYT: Wow, yes it is.
Yes it is.
ZAK ORTH: Sort of like--
BETH HOYT: The worm with your index fingers.
ZAK ORTH: Yeah, the worm, yeah.
BETH HOYT: It's like a lot of things.
That's a pretty-- that's a good one.
Number nine, what's your favorite comfort food?
ZAK ORTH: You know what I always want, uh, even if I've
had like a fantastic meal at a at a wonderful restaurant?
What I always want is, uh, pretzels.
BETH HOYT: Dipping them in things?
ZAK ORTH: Uh, pretzel rod in Nutella isn't bad.
BETH HOYT: Yeah, you're right, you're right.
Winning answer, that was what I was looking for.
Number ten, what's a phrase or exclamation you always say?
ZAK ORTH: Oh, for god's sake.
I say that way too much.
It's a very like old man thing to say.
Oh for god's sake.
BETH HOYT: All right Zak, where can people find you
online while they're waiting for the next "Revolution?"
ZAK ORTH: What do you mean?
BETH HOYT: Of "Revolution."
ZAK ORTH: Like, like--
BETH HOYT: Like you're Twitter?
ZAK ORTH: Do I have a social presence?
I mean I have all of that stuff.
I have a Twitter.
BETH HOYT: Are you into Twitter?
ZAK ORTH: I read it a lot.
But I think that the people that know how to do it really
well, that are really funny, are so far beyond anything
that I could possibly pull off.
BETH HOYT: So you're like--
ZAK ORTH: Yeah, I just--
BETH HOYT: I just want to read it.
ZAK ORTH: I don't really--
I don't really contribute.
I've tried, and I'm always like, oh god, delete it.
BETH HOYT: So do you do not even want to tell us?
Can we look at it?
Can we?
ZAK ORTH: No, it's my, my, my name.
BETH HOYT: It's @ZakOrth.
ZAK ORTH: Yeah, @ZakOrth.
Yeah, sure.
That's it.
BETH HOYT: All right, cool.
ZAK ORTH: Yeah.
BETH HOYT: Well, thanks so much for being here.
ZAK ORTH: Thank you for having me.
This was very fun.
BETH HOYT: It was fun.
Happy New Year.
ZAK ORTH: Yeah.
To you too.