Hey, stop it my nose. Okay, I I feel much better. I feel much better. I know what you guys are thinking. I'm a lot taller in person and I also talk a lot slower.

with the actual Wilmer Valderrama.

Actually, I don't know, it was tough with the 25-foot puppet out there. I know. You know, which one which one was bigger, you know? You're going to say that. You said it. I didn't. Are you nervous at all that the puppet might be more handsome than you are? I'm not saying that he is, but you know, there is. Yeah.

Uh, yeah, you know, little mini mini. He's already excited. He's getting all excited now. Oh my gosh. He's got an ego problem. I'm telling you this is an ultra ego for capital letters.

Well, the show is called the Hollywood Puppet Bleep Show. How did this idea come about?

It it all spurred for a number of things, right? One is I sit around with my with my colleagues and we're all telling these crazy stories that happened to us and we always end up that you know, we always end up that story with like, man, imagine if you if people were to hear this story. I mean, they wouldn't believe the things that happened to us, you know? One of my friends, Andy, you know, who's who's really experienced in, you know, in the puppeteering. He really looked into it and and looked at artists and whatever. We you know, we all kind of just came together and said, hey, you know, this is the best way to do it and what if we we had celebrities tell a crazy story. And very much a- a- a Crime Investigation Channel and an ID channel, what if we broke into reenactments and these reenactments were done by uh puppeteers.

Right. Including your own story. It's very timely.

I uh you know, everybody it's it's no, you know, it's no wonder that uh I'm I'm a huge fan of the the the armed forces and our troops. And when I went to Germany, um I was going to visit uh the troops in this base and we have uh German, you know, secret service, you know, basically guarding the gates. And when I rolled up, you know, I got stopped. They were questioning me and whatever and I thought that, wow, this is taking a little longer than there's a lot of things happening here than All of a sudden, you know, barricades go up, gates close and I go, whoa, something serious must be happening. And then all of a sudden, they close the door and they take everybody out of the room except me. What turns out that I filled the description of a terrorist has been threatened in the base. And apparently, they got the guy.

Were you like, hold on?

In the in the security desk. And I say, I'm sorry, I'm an American actor and I'm here visiting the guys, you know?

You got some celebrity friends who will be on there as well? Any chance uh your your old co-stars from that 70s Show?

You know, I had all these friends and I went to the phone book and I go, which of my friends could make really funny stories to give me funny stories. So I'm scrolling and you know, Little Jon and Terry Crews and Gina Rodriguez and Joe Jonas and Steve Aoki and Amber Rose and they were coming with the funniest stories and at least one of those stories I was like, yes, that told through the eyes of puppets, amazing.

You've been very outspoken and very candid about your experience as an immigrant and as an as an immigrant actor. Did you ever think that in your career you'd have a giant puppet made out of you and be executive producer of this show and be host of it and have everything that you that you've accomplished so far?

Well, that uh first of all, very very sweet of you to mention that stuff. Um, you know, when I look back at at my 18 years, you know, my 18-year-old self and I remember getting that 70s Show and I remember seeing the opportunity, you know, where where I could grow into a I I felt like ambition was going to be the only thing that was going to keep me alive in this industry. I felt like swinging as hard as I possibly could every morning and going into set and making sure that everything I did, either whether it was in a TV show, whether it was in a movie, that was probably memorable, and not only memorable, but just the best of my ability. I looked back at all the things that I was allowed to do at a time in television where there was very little diversity for us. Um, and look at the journey of what television has become and movies have become. It makes me really proud to be part of that evolution.

Where does having a giant puppet of yourself kind of like rank? It's definitely a landmark. Like, is it like above that 70s Show?