-Welcome back to "Late Night." We're here with Rob McElhenney.
"Always Sunny" renewed to Season 18.
As you mentioned, "Mythic Quest" --
100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
You just bought a football team in England.
I want to talk to you about that.
But the biggest heat you have right now --
-Seth, I bought a football team in North Wales.
-North Wales. -Yes.
-Yes, thank you very much for clarifying.
Yes, I should have said Britain. I apologize.
But this is your heat right now is you found a dog.
I should say your wife and co-star, Kaitlin, found a dog.
-Yes. So, I've got a couple of TV shows on the air right now,
and we just announced another one yesterday.
And all anybody wants to ask me about
on Instagram or Twitter is about this dog.
-It's a pretty good-looking dog.
-It's a great-looking dog.
Kaitlin found this dog on the freeway here in L.A.
And she miraculously -- and with a person that she met
on the freeway -- saved this dog
and eventually got the dog into the car.
And she brought him home, and we fell in love with him.
I mean, his paws were all ripped up,
because, clearly, he had been running for 40 or 50 miles,
they suggested, because his paws were all torn apart.
And so we had him all stitched up.
And we were all ready to make him a member of our family.
We named him.
We even had a name for him,
because he has a giant head and tiny, little legs,
so we called him Frank Reynolds.
-Okay. That makes sense.
For fans -- This is a very good Frank Reynolds
photo right there.
There you go, yeah.
-Well, That's a very -- that's a very DeVito pose, isn't it?
-It really is, yeah, 'cause he tends to be shot down on.
-Yeah, yeah. Well, sure.
There's no other direction to go.
So, we were psyched. We had a dog.
We had a dog.
And I Instagrammed about it in a story, and we were pumped.
I mean, we already have two other dogs.
And, so, my kids fell in love with Frank Reynolds.
And then I got a text, a mysterious text from somebody,
who said, "I know the owner of that dog."
And I said, "Who is this?"
And she said -- Well, the person said, "I am a pet detective."
So now I knew -- Like, I knew someone was trolling me,
because -- And I didn't know who this number --
where this number came from or who it was.
But I went along with the bit and I responded,
and it turned out that, no, this person
had scoured the Internet and found photos of a reward
that was given -- of a reward page
that was plastered all over this one neighborhood
in Los Angeles and wasn't even online.
Somehow, she figured it out, found it out,
found my information,
found my phone number, my home address,
and tracked us down and reunited the dog, who's --
Apparently, the dog's name was not Frank Reynolds.
The dog's name was Chance.
But she tracked us down, and I was, like, blown away.
This was all over the course of 20 minutes.
They said -- 20 minutes from the time I posted it.
I said, "How did you find me?"
And she said, "Rob, I'm a pet detective.
I can find anybody."
And I was like, "Oh."
Click.
I mean, I thought she was in the Mossad or something.
So, anyway, I did a deep cleanse
of my information on the Internet.
But my guess is, if she wants to, she'll find me again.
-This sounds like -- There's a sad element that you lost Frank,
but we should point out that, you know,
this was a happy ending, that Chance --
We actually -- There's a video of Chance
seeing his family again, which was very nice.
-Yes. -Hi, baby!
-Chance! -Hi, baby!
-I mean, look how happy that dog is.
-I don't know. I'm not sure. I think it's a scam.
I think that's not --
-That is a happy dog.
And, of course, we were bummed
that we missed out on Frank Reynolds,
but we were so happy that he was returned.
-We alluded to it.
So, this is a pretty awesome story.
Wrexham -- am I saying it right?
That's the name of the Welsh club that you have purchased?
-Yes. That's right.
-So, you and Ryan Reynolds
bought a very low-division, a sort of
underperforming-but-historic football club.
How did this come about? This was your idea?
-Yes. Yeah.
Just over the pandemic, I really got into football.
I have to call it football now, because if I call it soccer,
I'm gonna get stabbed when I go to North Wales.
So I just make sure -- I don't code switch.
I don't come back to America and then start saying "soccer,"
because I'll get -- I really will.
If I slip up, there will be a beating involved.
-Yeah, I think that's safe. That's smart.
-Yeah. So it's very clearly "football."
And I just started getting into watching football
and watching football documentaries.
And I was not a big fan of it in the past,
you know, because it's not a huge sport here in America.
But I got into it big-time.
And once I learned about how you could be
promoted and relegated out of the league,
that really piqued my interest,
because that's just so not a part of American sports.
I mean, if so, you know, there would be teams
you know, at the bottom of the NFL every year
that would be booted down to playing out of the --
They would no longer be a part of the league.
So, I thought, "Well, if you can get relegated,
you can also get promoted."
So if you go far down enough and you can find a club
that maybe I could afford, that maybe I could help
that club to be promoted up into higher leagues.
So that's what I did.
-Has the fan base embraced the idea of you and Ryan so far?
-They have thus far, yes.
I mean, we've been very respectful and very careful
about how we're approaching this.
We recognize that we're an American and a Canadian.
We're also Hollywood types.
And I don't know if you've noticed this, Seth,
but a lot of people don't trust Hollywood types.
I don't know why. -That's true.
I have noticed that. -I don't know why.
I don't know what agenda they believe we have.
Maybe certain agendas that are espoused on your program.
I don't know.
-Well, it should be noted that you mentioned
a third TV show.
You're going to do a documentary about owning this club.
-Yeah, so, that was a key part of this.
So, I got really invested in a bunch of documentaries
that I was watching over the pandemic,
which I know a lot of people were, as well.
I got really into "Chef's Table,"
I got really into "Last Chance U,"
and I got really into "Cheer."
And it turns out that there's one company
that makes all of those documentaries.
And I reached out to them and I said, "I love your shows.
I'm going through this weird process.
Would you consider documenting this?"
And they said yes.
This company is called Boardwalk.
And they're going to document the entire process.
-It's really exciting. I can't wait to see it.
And congrats on everything.
It's really nice to talk to you, buddy.
-Thank you. You too, Seth. Good to see you.
-I will see you soon.
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