Chapter 1: What recent projects is Tim Baltz involved in?
No, no, no, I love dogs, but no, I just walk them.
Oh, okay.
But he has a dog. Oh. Who's gorgeous.
Dogs love me. They come up to me.
Oh, that's great.
Yeah.
Dogs have a good sense of people, personalities.
Well, I like to, when I see a dog, I like to try to communicate telepathically with it and let it know that I'm okay.
How do you do that?
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Chapter 2: How did Tim Baltz transition from Chicago to Hollywood?
Yeah, well, I am. I'm a good boy.
Yeah, but why do you need to tell the dog that?
Because I want the dog to believe that I'm a good boy, too. We're both good boys. We're going to get along.
You know? On this episode of The Commercial Break... It fit really quickly. And I think that was another interesting thing because, you know, Eastbound was really centered around Danny's character and Vice Principals was a two-hander with him and Walt and Goggins. And this all of a sudden is their take on an ensemble show. And they did kind of prove that they could move up.
I don't know if you would call that an evolution, but it's just different style. And they took on that ensemble style and they gave everyone... This was key. They gave everyone ownership over their parts.
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Chapter 3: What unique experiences does Tim share about working on Righteous Gemstones?
Yeah. Yeah. And they trusted everyone. Like, I'm not going to come in and change everything. Sure. But if the syntax feels weird in my mouth, they're like, change it. Say it how you think the character would say it, you know? The next episode of The Commercial Break starts now.
Oh, yeah, cats and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green. This is my dear friend and the co-host of this show, Kristen Joy Hoadley. Best to you, Kristen.
Best to you, Brian.
Best to you out there in the podcast universe. Thanks for joining us on a TCB Infomercial Tuesday. Coming at you with our new best friend, who I'm sure we just become buddy-buddy with everybody, Chrissy. I know, I love it. Tim Baltz is here. And if you don't know that name, you know that face. You know that guy. He's been in some... Some rather prestigious television shows.
The Righteous Gemstones.
Yes, in its fourth season.
In its fourth season and its final season. Better Call Saul. He made a guest appearance that was great. I just re-watched it last night. It's a little appearance, but a big impact. Little appearance, big impact.
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Chapter 4: What is the premise of Deli Boys?
Yeah.
Better Call Saul, he now has Shrink, which is available, I believe, on Peacock. Yes. And Deli Boys, which is getting really good reviews on Hulu. I haven't seen it, but I look forward to watching it.
Yeah, I've started watching it. It's good. He plays a great character.
Oh, he does? What's his character in the show?
He's like the investigator, but he also stormed the Capitol or something. Yeah. It's funny. Like I said, I'm just in the first, like I've watched like the first two.
Oh, really?
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Chapter 5: How does Tim describe his character in Shrink?
Okay. I'm interested to see this show. Isn't this about like a group of like gas station guys who turn into a gang or something like that?
No. Well, it's... Or they own a deli? It's two sons who had their father kind of kept them shielded, but he had a big conglomerate or a big, you know... Organized crime. He did. They didn't know that. They just thought he owned delis.
Ah, okay, there's the Deli Boys. Yeah, I read a summary of it.
And then he dies, and then now they're kind of brought into the fold.
Ah, very fascinating. With that auntie. Very good.
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Chapter 6: What challenges did Tim face while filming Shrink?
All right, well, Tim, he plays, what is the name of his character on Righteous Gemstones? BJ. Oh, yeah, that's right. BJ, yeah. He is the husband of, what's her name?
Ellie Patterson is her actress name, and I can't remember.
BJ Barnes. He's BJ Barnes on the show. He's hilarious. He is so good in this show. Everybody is great in this show. They are all just scene stealers. It's hard. Chrissy and I were talking beforehand, and we came to the conclusion that Righteous Gemstones and that whole line of Danny McBride ensemble cast stuff is similar to...
The 80s and 90s when Christopher Guest was knocking it out of the park on every single improv movie that he did. And, you know, Christopher Guest, all those movies I think are like 95% improv. They have a bullet point and they're trying to get there, but the rest is improv. And I know Danny has scripts, but it's so funny and so good and so well done that...
that it reminds me of the gut-busting movies. Oh, yeah, the parodies. The parodies. Yes, it's so good. And Righteous Gemstones is so on point. It's so prescient.
We've done so many of those.
Preachers.
The preacher features, yeah.
It's hard to preach on a full dick.
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Chapter 7: What insights does Tim provide about the current state of streaming platforms?
I was watching some videos of Carl the other day. Oh, yeah. Carl's back on the scene. He is? Yeah, but he's like a reformed man now. He believes in Jesus, but not without all the pomp and circumstance. And I don't believe any of it. This is another way for him to try and make money. I'm sure there's a money grab somewhere here. It's the year of our Lord, the money grab. That's what it is.
Everyone's trying to fuck everybody else over so we can all make an extra buck because the end of the world is right around the corner. And we all want to live a little bit of luxury before we die. That's that's how I feel. That's how I feel.
Yeah.
You know. So anyway, so Tim's here. He's also from Joliet, Illinois, which is in near Chicago and very close to my hometown. So I feel like we're already friends in some way. Chicago is this weird place. There's a line in West Wing. where the president is talking to his chief of staff and says something about Chicago.
And the chief of staff goes, or the president goes, Chicago is one of those weird places that everybody who has ever been there is from Chicago and they love Chicago, but they don't live there currently. It's so true. It's so true. Well, you would spend a winter in Chicago and see how it goes down with you.
It's a bonding thing.
Yeah.
It's a bonding thing.
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Chapter 8: How does Tim Baltz view the evolution of comedy in television?
When you're a Chicago kid, you're a Chicago kid. You'll always be a Chicago kid. I even I have friends who lived there for college years or right after college. They took a job or whatever. And it's like they claim they're from even though they got there when they were 20 and left when they were 22.
They claim they're from Chicago for the rest of your life, because if you've ever been to Chicago, it's just one of the coolest fucking places on earth. I have been.
It really is. I love it.
It is like New York without the sharp elbows.
It is in a lot of ways... Got the whole water part of it.
Yeah, it's on the water. It's a big city. It's got a lot of personality. There are a lot of flavors of human beings that live there. Irish, Polish...
everything you know it's all there it's a big melting pot and it's got almost a little bit of southern hospitality like people aren't gonna like say hi to you when you're walking down the street but if you get into a conversation with them they're going to be very nice yeah because that's just how chicago is chicago we're we're nice people it's midwest that's right we all suffered the same winter so let us be nice to each other now that we can actually go outdoors
And if you don't think Chicago is cold in the winter, go to Chicago in the winter. It's fucking cold, man. It's fucking cold. Anyway, so Tim from Chicago. Then he moved to L.A. And he's what else has he done? He's been in so many episodes of comedy. Bang, bang, which is he's got.
And we talked about shrink. Yeah.
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