-Are you a good liar?
-No, no. I'm a horrible liar. I'm really bad at it.
I remember when I was in college,
I was to dog-sit this dog -- one of my friend's dogs.
-Where is this?
-This is in Southern Illinois. Like, farmland.
-Yeah.
-And he and his wife -- newlywed wife --
they were going on a honeymoon.
And they entrusted me with their dog.
Their dog was like their baby. Right?
I mean, it was this beautiful white German shepherd.
I had a dog at the time.
It was this little beagle.
I was like, "Yeah, bring the dog in, no problem."
And so I came home one day.
And I would always leave my windows open
'cause my dog was a beagle,
and the screen -- she's not going through the screen.
-They don't really jump, yeah.
-They don't do much. They eat and sleep.
Not when you're sleeping.
But this dog -- I pull in, and the dog is like halfway
outside the house like lean-- it had seen something,
a deer or something, and the dog takes off.
And they're on their honeymoon.
-Through the window? -Through the window.
I spent two days tracking this dog down.
Happy story though. I found the dog.
But I spent -- [ Laughter and applause ]
Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah.
-Two days. -Two days, looking for the dog?
You must have been going crazy.
-I lost like 15 pounds.
I was running all over the place.
It was unbelievable.
-Did they call you and say, "Hey, how's everything going?"
-They called me like three or four times a day
to check on their dog, and I always had an excuse.
Well, here's the thing.
I was like, what, they're on their honeymoon.
I don't know where the hell the dog is, what do I tell them?
I ruin their honeymoon. They're gonna come home.
Or I might find the dog.
And let them have a good time, right?
Let them have a good time.
-What are you saying to them? -I was pretending to be the dog.
I was, like, making noises.
They're like, "He sounds weird,"
I'm, like, "Well he's really tired.
He went on a long walk. He's exhausted."
-So it wasn't completely a lie.
-No, he was on a walk, for sure. Yeah.
-Where did you find him?
-I found him across -- all the way across --
on the other side of Carbondale,
in the backyard of this woman's --
in this woman's backyard.
And I went into her backyard and I cornered the dog.
And the dog was kind of spooked.
And I -- I just said to him --
I was like, "Dude, I'm gonna stand here.
You're gonna have to eat me if you want to get out of here."
She comes out with a cellphone.
Back in the day -- not a cellphone.
A cordless phone with an antenna.
You know the big -- -Oh, yeah, of course.
-And a gun. Yeah, and a gun.
And I was like, "Ma'am --" I'm standing in her backyard.
I was like, "But -- that's a dog --" And I explained --
-You and the dog are both spooked.
-Yeah.
-You're like, "What the --" -Oh, God, yeah.
-This is what happened? No way.
That should be a movie.
-Got him back. And yeah, I could star in it.
-Did the people -- You can.
-They came back and they were like,
"Thank you for taking care of the dog."
And at that point -- So now I had the dog.
Everything was fine.
And it was one of these relationships
now with me and the dog,
where it was just like, I'm sitting here with a coffee,
and I'd be like, "Don't you move."
[ Laughter ]
"Don't you move." -"You know what you did."
-That's right. -So, you get the dog.
And then you go to your apartment.
-Well, what happened was -- once I had the dog,
I was in a rush to get out of the house so fast
that when I got back with the dog
and I had -- like, I had secured the animal,
I had locked myself out of my -- So I'm like --
-If irony exists. -It's unreal, like we both --
-The way you get into the house is...?
-Was to break in through the window that he had opened.
[ Laughter and applause ]
-That's how you do it. That is so good.
"This Is Us."
Is there anything to say?
-I would tell you that --
You know, I've been saying this for months.
It is our most ambitious season.
And I wouldn't just say that.
It truly is.
It's a -- I'm just blessed to be on the show.
And we're just, you know, lucky to all be working together.
-It's the best drama on TV. -Thank you, man.
-I want to show everyone a clip.
Here's Justin Hartley
in a brand-new episode of "This Is Us."
Take a look.
-I could drive you tomorrow morning to the airport.
-Thanks. You don't have to. -I don't mind.
-Really. It's uh, it's okay.
-No, no, it's no problem. I'd be killing time. You know.
-Um...
Look, I just, uh...
I, um...
I don't want this really nice, really light,
really lovely thing to be serious, you know?
You know where I'm coming from, right?
-Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course.
I'm the King of Cas, okay?
Cas like casual, okay.
Not the King of Cashmere.
Although that's a lie. I am the King of Cashmere.
I am. I'm not ashamed of it.
-The King of Cas. [ Cheers and applause ]
Justin Hartley, everybody.
"This Is Us" airs Tuesdays at 9:00 p.m. on NBC.