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'Living With Ed'

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'Living With Ed'

Published: Fri, 16 Oct 2009

Description: Actor and environmental activist Ed Begley Jr. on new season of show

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" How a look at -- right now you're not cleaning panelists are sitting there signing your -- care what. Not only not putting more power in the system. Leave -- clearly just. Just come down from the we're not going to. To -- that's a look at living with -- both my next guest -- never ending quest to lead the tiniest carbon footprint possible the third season premieres October 21 that's Wednesday night at 9 PM eastern. -- green with a career spanning five decades you remember him. From every single TV show ever made he's big into all of them. Joining us is prolific actor and back. That means is this -- bag -- you know solar power like China whiskey sours. Opera stuff I gotta ask you didn't think -- should be a game called six degrees of Ed Begley junior because. It seems like you could do that was all the TV shows you bed."

" I've been in quite a few shows since 1967. That's lot of shows going back to classic shows like. -- and Adam 12 and route to 22 I've have a long and rich and powerful career right. You are in room 220 do I look let's just -- yeah wood burning wood that dry -- Was that -- they -- very good that's. Bernie that's David job with the giant red hair a white guy with a half right. Fantastic -- Michael Constantine he was great. Fantastic show. Any any time Connors Mike Connors always -- little on the front of the car stop he never needed to go outside. -- Nanny and the Professor Richard long. The white oh my god you know alternate rich get -- look -- actually gets Julia knows. Though was the man I think it -- Juliet -- yes I don't know -- you weren't very good yet. They're so you -- neither should you run. From back then let's see I was on mod it yeah I -- other the lovely Bea Arthur very good yet I've been in. Oh geez. I was in saint elsewhere of course the eighties you talk about old shows -- this you know I look at. You've been in everything I mean it's it's an amazing -- take up taking up too much time on this because I -- about your new show. Which it sounds hilarious so basically explain. Explain what you're so -- that it sounds like fun. It's a show that follows my wife and I around. You know in our little home in studio city I really wanted to show so -- have something like and a nanny cam that someone else -- paying for. The document when I go through. -- this wonderful woman but she's not entirely on board with some of this green stuff. And so now the world can -- but much to -- surprise half the people at least half the people side with her but when prepared for that market. You guys got you have carbon offsets in your pre nup. We we do we're one of the few Hollywood couples have a pre nup that mentions that I got a lovely gift you know for birthday and organic -- she didn't like it you know was not good enough firms have -- and suddenly I. Yeah again I'm the bad guy and yeah."

" Denigrated the other hand thought is that you're swimming -- you could actually smoking it's delightful exactly do you think you know. I wish I -- this is where I can totally get into the environmentalists and I'm using and a did you ever catch her cheating like like using too much air conditioning."

" When you're not -- All the time. Might finally have a hook up with this water -- know that met it really tells me when she's taking a long shower I can get online and any part of the country any part of the world. And monitor her long showers -- she's a big Pinocchio she keeps saying well -- not taken -- long shower and then of course yes. And so now I can monitor from anywhere in the world. It's amaze me and say yeah patriotic wanted to build showers -- entirely different reasons. Do you honestly. -- your own -- by bicycle. You know not one show we showed me biking for about fifteen minutes. And making enough -- enough current to toast toast I don't have to ride the bike to make -- I can make it -- my solar power. But when I ride the bike why would I waste that wonderful kinetic energy on the bicycle. Liquidity into the same batteries for the solar -- stored and used it you know it doesn't go to waste that's the point you don't why waste anything Greg. Not get -- I guess -- are there are certain things that you. That you don't waste that. Might actually be wastes. You know -- You know there's some things you just gotta throw away that you know -- to crash. You know when you have three of them for cleaning the silver cleaning and some little area you don't need a fortnight interview with an -- nobody wants it that's you know. An old tennis shoes that homeless person probably doesn't -- like broken and -- What are you gonna do with that exact things you -- finally get rid -- I'm Tammy I -- you were nominated six straight times for an Emmy for urology and elsewhere. You never why did you feel you got -- Always a bridesmaid never -- you know. Well there's some justification borders -- wonderful comic part that I played on this dramatic show. And it was I was up for best dramatic -- so I was never gonna win a wonderful actors did my friend -- almost one. When your other good people one they they deserved it I was happy to get nominated through it you're such a nice person. Man I never would have said that I would have said I wish the pox on them but -- better person I. It's always it's a pleasure -- please come back Ed Begley junior a new season of living with a begins Wednesday at 9 PM eastern on Planet Green check it out coming up next voice --"

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worry about when he ran for office. But today an age of global warming as TV's and so on and so on. It's one of the biggest issues on voters' minds to which presidential nominee will be the least hazardous to the environments. Actor -- Begley junior is here as one of the first celebrities to go green is and I environmental activists and you've been doing asked for what twenty some years now. We're on new -- had 38 years holy cow you were you this before it was even half. Bob and you know what this is an issue that's on the concerned so many voters with gas prices where they have bad but. Gas prices now of course are down congress dragging its feet for the past few months it's gonna take months and months for the