-Oh, my gosh. Jon. Jon Glaser. Welcome back to the show.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Wow. Yeah. -How's it going?
-Good. I didn't know -- Did you run here?
What's going on, buddy? -Yeah, I have --
I'm training for a trail, a half-marathon in May
and, you know, I'm trying to work everything
into my running schedule, and I had to do a big run today,
so I just thought I would run from Brooklyn to the studio.
I would have tried to get the run out in the morning, but --
We had parent/teacher conferences for my daughter.
She's doing great in school.
They broke up the clique that she had,
so things are going good with that.
But, yeah, I just -- You know, I'm like,
"Let me get my run in."
We mic'd me up at home, and I just got here.
And it was a good run. It's good weather.
I love this weather. The 30's. -Oh, yeah.
-Yeah, it felt good. Felt good. -Welcome to the show.
We do want to -- You have a lot of gear on.
-Yeah. -I know Jon Glaser loves gear.
-It's true. -Could you maybe walk me through
some of the gear that you actually have on you there?
-Yeah, I mean, I got a lot of my trail stuff.
You know, I got my trail shoes on, which have a little more
cushion than I like for the trails.
I like a flatter shoe for the road.
Everything else pretty standard.
I got, you know, compression sleeves for my calves,
compression shorts over my running shorts.
Tank. Wool base layer.
Arm warmers -- they're actually for biking,
but they work great for running.
-Wow.
-Nice Polar Tech hat and shades.
I'm sorry I said "shades," but, uh --
And then I got my trail vest, which is great.
It's got, you know -- You got a water bottle.
Sometimes I'll do one of the bladders with the tube,
and I like to be hands-free with my water.
You got to hydrate. -Yeah. Oh, wow.
Is that how you do it there? You squeeze it from the bottom.
-You can take it -- You can take it out. You can also leave it in.
I'm just being quick 'cause I'm tired.
The nice thing about this pack is that it's got --
You can load up a lot in the back.
You can put a lot of your supplies --
Actually, if you unzip, I got a couple things I can show you.
-Oh, sure. Of course. -You know, I got my windbreaker,
you know, in case it got cold. -Oh, yeah.
-And then, also, for after my run,
I got my foot-long sub, but you can put that back.
I'll eat it later. I'm not gonna have my meal on the desk.
It'll be messy. I have too much respect for the talk-show genre.
-Oh. Absolutely. Jon, thank you so much. I appreciate it.
-Yeah, but you know -- -I mean, that's amazing.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Welcome and thank you so much.
We -- I love the show "Jon Glaser Loves Gear."
-Thank you.
-How would you describe the show to anyone watching?
-It's basically, at its core -- There's a lot of truth there.
It's a fake reality show
about the fact that I genuinely do love gear.
But it is a mostly scripted thing with reality elements.
And -- But it's true. I do love gear.
And we do a lot of stupid topics.
Like, we do -- Well, they're not stupid. They're all real.
But we'll do, like, a tennis episode
that morphs into baby gear.
We did an episode about football
where my son is going to play football, but then
I find out he's not playing football.
He's been lying to me and taking magic lessons.
[ Laughter ]
-Every theme doesn't quite get to the --
what the theme of the episode really is.
-Correct. We did a basketball episode
that turned into wheelchair basketball
because I got a vasectomy and I'm in too much pain to play.
And so -- And I'm playing --
I'm basically playing kind of an ass [bleep] version
of myself in the show.
Who would have the nerve to join a wheelchair basketball league
because he got a vasectomy?
-Yeah, exactly. -It's really dumb.
It's a dumb show. -Oh, it's very, very funny.
-Man, I'm so tired 'cause I actually really ran here.
-Oh, my God. That's not true. Do people believe
that it is real, though, when they do view it?
Have you seen commenters where people go like,
"I can't believe you just said that."
-I think there's a good element
of confusion, which I actually like.
You know, one of the jokes we have in the show
is that I have my real family and a fake family.
And the idea there is that my real wife doesn't want to be
on camera, so we blur her face to protect her identity.
And I won't put my children on camera,
so we blur my kids' faces.
But the network wants -- because it's a reality show --
They want to see me and my family,
so I hire actors to play my family.
-Yeah. Here's a picture of what it looks like.
There's kind of both families in the same shot.
That's you're -- [ Laughter ]
And this is your fake daughter and son and your fake wife.
-Yes. -And that is your real family --
-Yes, and then, of course, ass [bleep] me in the show
hired, like, a young, hot Icelandic model to play my wife.
[ Laughter ]
But even that, like, it's not --
People say, "That's your real wife, right?"
And it's, no, it's an actress who's playing my real wife.
There's all these weird lines that are blurry and confusing,
but I love that about the show.
-Both of these families are fake.
But in this episode, though, you go skydiving.
And my question to Jon Glaser --
I think I'm speaking to the person, not the actor.
But did you really go skydiving?
-Well, that is the finale episode,
and it just aired last night.
So now if you want to see the show, you can go On Demand
and watch all the episodes from this and the first season.
So I don't want to give that away.
You know, it's a pretty big, like, "Will he or won't he?"
So I don't want to say whether I did.
Maybe I did. Maybe I didn't. [ Audience oohs ]
-Yeah, but -- Yeah, but I saw you do it.
[ Laughter ]
-That was the lamest, "Ooh!"
-Yeah, they were like, "We kind of really -- Yeah, it would be fine if..."
-"Yeah, whatever. You did or you didn't. So what?"
-But why wouldn't you say --
If you did skydive, say you did,
I mean, was that a great experience?
-Well, if I did, I'm sure it would have been incredible,
and if I didn't, then I didn't.
But you got to watch and find out.
-I know, but say you didn't do it, yeah?
Why wouldn't you do it? -Because it's terrifying.
It sounds awful. It sounds --
I mean, it was a gen-- It was, for sure --
I think we talked about it as the season finale,
and I just didn't know if I could really do it.
But maybe I did.
-This is an amazing cliffhanger right here.
'Cause I don't really -- I don't know what to believe.
'Cause I think the real Jon Glaser
would have maybe come up with the idea to TruTV and said,
"What if at the finale I skydive?"
hoping that they would say, "That's insane."
-Well, that's in the actual episode,
where I'm asking the network like,
"I shouldn't do it, right?"
They're like, "No, do it."
And then I'm very, very terrified that I have to do it.
But, again, I don't want to say whether I did or not.
-All right. You guys got to check it out.
On Demand or TruTV.com.