Thanks to Flyer for the following.
These are the videos of the 40 minutes he spent being a good sport and going along with some of the silliest stuff I’ve ever seen on a talk show. It is in Spanish and I’ve included transcripts provided by poster Crazy Latin, but you really don’t need to understand it because nothing important is being said, it’s just silly, yet oddly entertaining to watch the actor actually go along with all of it..
PART 1
Interviewer: My God! [referring to the overwhelming applause, the expression is literally translated as "My mother!", but it's used the same way English speakers use "My God" or "Oh, my!", etc.]
Interviewer: Matthew, it must be exhausting [points at the audience]... I imagine that when you walk down the street, women are always [reporter imitates expressions of what he thinks female fans of MF do]
MF: No, no, no... No, it's been a great five years for me. The show has been incredibly successful around the world, and every time I come to another country and I see how people react, it's really fantastic. It's a good feeling.
Interviewer: Aha!, Ehm... One thing... the series has given you, because you've come to Spain to present the second season of Lost, that starts on Cuatro, airing two episodes, starting on the 13th of July, two episodes a day. The series has surely given you many good things in these five years, but, be honest with me, when you get on a plane, do people look at you as if they were thinking [Spanish expression best translated as "Holy s**t!" followed by general laughter]... We're going to the island!
MF: Yes, yes, I've had some people looking at me very strangely on an airplane... and, uhm, you know, I'm actually a pilot, I love to fly, so it's never really affected me that the series started with a plane crash, but, my character has some very, very die hard fans that have looked at me with very sidelong glances and that are a little worried when they see me on a plane.
Interviewer: I'm sure that if you go to the bathroom to take a piss in the middle of the flight, people put on the lifejackets [General laughter]. No?
MF: [Giggling]No, no, no...
Interviewer: One thing... we'll take a very short break, but we will not go away. It's a weird thing, right? We're going away, but we are not going away, because we will be on this side, and you'll be able to see what happens here during the advertising break, and we'll be right back in a tiny instant with Matthew Fox. We have a lot to talk about Lost [loud applause and cheering from the studio audience]
[Commercials - apparently you can travel to the Domenican Republic with all expenses covered for a week for only 695 Euros. While other commercials air we can see Foxy chatting with the Interviewer and other crew members from the show in a little window to the left of the screen. They take him to the other part of the set where there are a couple of ant puppets that come out of holes on the table and I presume give the show its name: The Anthill. Apparently one of the ants is very amusing, as Foxy is giggling throughout.
Some makeup woman comes over and retouches his make up. Then he's chatting away with the ants, as if it were the most natural thing in the world, while he takes a few swallows from a water bottle. Foxy leans into the table, totally engrossed with the puppets now. God, the Spaniards sure do have a lot of commercials.
Someone comes over and indicates they have to move somewhere else. Foxy readily stands up and complies. The interviewer actually takes him outside and points at some scaffolding; there are people on a platform which is raising up to the top of the structure. Foxy seems interested enough in whatever it is the guy is showing him, and then the interviewer points to a golf cart, I don't know what they use it for, but whatever it is, it makes Foxy giggle some more. Then they head back toward the studio. They go back to the table with the ant puppets. One of the ants discusses a drawing of Hurley with Foxy, who is still very much playing along.
Interviewer: Matthew, it must be exhausting [points at the audience]... I imagine that when you walk down the street, women are always [reporter imitates expressions of what he thinks female fans of MF do]
MF: No, no, no... No, it's been a great five years for me. The show has been incredibly successful around the world, and every time I come to another country and I see how people react, it's really fantastic. It's a good feeling.
Interviewer: Aha!, Ehm... One thing... the series has given you, because you've come to Spain to present the second season of Lost, that starts on Cuatro, airing two episodes, starting on the 13th of July, two episodes a day. The series has surely given you many good things in these five years, but, be honest with me, when you get on a plane, do people look at you as if they were thinking [Spanish expression best translated as "Holy s**t!" followed by general laughter]... We're going to the island!
MF: Yes, yes, I've had some people looking at me very strangely on an airplane... and, uhm, you know, I'm actually a pilot, I love to fly, so it's never really affected me that the series started with a plane crash, but, my character has some very, very die hard fans that have looked at me with very sidelong glances and that are a little worried when they see me on a plane.
Interviewer: I'm sure that if you go to the bathroom to take a piss in the middle of the flight, people put on the lifejackets [General laughter]. No?
MF: [Giggling]No, no, no...
Interviewer: One thing... we'll take a very short break, but we will not go away. It's a weird thing, right? We're going away, but we are not going away, because we will be on this side, and you'll be able to see what happens here during the advertising break, and we'll be right back in a tiny instant with Matthew Fox. We have a lot to talk about Lost [loud applause and cheering from the studio audience]
[Commercials - apparently you can travel to the Domenican Republic with all expenses covered for a week for only 695 Euros. While other commercials air we can see Foxy chatting with the Interviewer and other crew members from the show in a little window to the left of the screen. They take him to the other part of the set where there are a couple of ant puppets that come out of holes on the table and I presume give the show its name: The Anthill. Apparently one of the ants is very amusing, as Foxy is giggling throughout.
Some makeup woman comes over and retouches his make up. Then he's chatting away with the ants, as if it were the most natural thing in the world, while he takes a few swallows from a water bottle. Foxy leans into the table, totally engrossed with the puppets now. God, the Spaniards sure do have a lot of commercials.
Someone comes over and indicates they have to move somewhere else. Foxy readily stands up and complies. The interviewer actually takes him outside and points at some scaffolding; there are people on a platform which is raising up to the top of the structure. Foxy seems interested enough in whatever it is the guy is showing him, and then the interviewer points to a golf cart, I don't know what they use it for, but whatever it is, it makes Foxy giggle some more. Then they head back toward the studio. They go back to the table with the ant puppets. One of the ants discusses a drawing of Hurley with Foxy, who is still very much playing along.
PART 2:
Interviewer: Well, we're back with Matthew Fox, who has come to promote the second season of Lost that I remind you will be premiering on Cuatro [Spanish TV station], starting on July 13, 2 episodes a day. So, enjoy Lost during the whole summer.
Interviewer: You know that there are millions of people that are , Matthew, it's not that they are fans, it's that they are obsessed, I'd say, with the series..
MF: Yeah, a little bit, yeah
Interviewer: Do you ever go into the forums, some times, on the internet?
MF: No, no, no, no. no... [giggles] I make it a habit of never doing anything on the net about myself or any of the projects I work in. I think it's better, just to sort of let people make their own conclusions [can't understand what he says next as the sound is jumpy]
Interviewer: So, you have never gone to google and entered 'Matthew Fox'
MF: Never.
Interviewer: To see what comes up.
MF: [shaking his head] I've never googled 'Matthew Fox'. I would be terrified to google 'Matthew Fox'. I don't know what I'd find.
Interviewer: For sure, you'd find "Matthew FoxNaked "... every time you search for a name it comes up: "so and so, naked", it always comes up. I am on the internet a lot.
MF: [giggling] I hope not, I mean, it's possible, I guess, yeah.
Interviewer: Or a fake one, they'd put up a fake one. Do you understand everything that happens on the series? For instance, Sun, the Korean woman, why are her clothes always ironed, for instance? [general laughter] Everything looks as if it had just come out of the... sorry! [they are interrupted by loud noises of stage, Matt turns around and a dinosaur comes on stage aiming for him and almost taking a bite, then it turns to the audience. It seems this was a surprised to Foxy, he looked a bit scared there for a second]
MF: What's with the very large dinosaur that just went by? [giggles some more]
Interviewer: Uhm... that is like the polar bear on Lost.
MF: [nodding in understanding] ah! I see!
Interviewer: It comes out, nobody explains it, it comes out, it goes away [Foxy giggles some more]
MF: Touché! Touché!
Interviewer: I was told that at the beginning of the series you encouraged all the actors to go skinny dipping on the beach. Can that be true?
MF: Yeah!
Interviewer: Tell us!
MF: Ah, I... I like to swim naked... [can't hear his comments over the audience's enthusiasm for nekkid Foxy] I mean, come on, now, specially in Hawaii, the water is really warm, it's very humid and salty place... so, if I'm going swimming in the middle of the night, I'd rather do it naked. I got as many people on the cast to go skinny dipping as possible.
Interviewer: Yes, you said it was to break the ice, with what part of the body did you want to break the ice?
MF: [giggles], I think, I think, I think once you gone skinny dipping with somebody, you get to know them better.
Interviewer: There's a different sort of trust, no? People don't look the same, that's true.
MF: Yes.
Interviewer: You live in Hawaii?
MF: Yes
Interviewer: You know what it is? It's that we don't have any idea what Hawaii is like. Only what we have seen on the movies. In Spain, surely when you got to Spain you thought that you'd be met at the airport by a bull fighter, probably a guy with a spade and a bull... well, then, I'll tell you, we think that Hawaii is a place where you get down [from the plane] and there are a bunch of girls with flowers on their hair and coconuts on their breasts that are constantly saying: 'Aloha'. Is it like that, Hawaii?
MF: That's exactly how it is [general laughter and applause, Foxy giggles some more] Perfect!
Interviewer: I love it, but, ehm, ehm, in Hawaii, what does 'Aloha' mean? Hello or good-bye?
MF: It's an expression to wish somebody well, so you'd use it in both places. A little bit like "ciao".
Interviewer: And what is the food like in Hawaii? The typical [food], coconut a la pepper?
MF: They do a lot of pork, they cook pork into the ground, using hot coals, they are famous for poi [?], which is a type of root that they grind into a paste, which is sort of purple in color. so, those are the really, really traditional Hawaiian foods.
Interviewer: And you eat that of your own free will?
MF: No, no, I really, I don't like poi at all. I tried it once [but I didn't like it?] I lot fish, as well, I mean they eat a lot of fish in Hawaii
Interviewer: [pulling a tray from under the desk] In Spain, the typical [food] is ham. Ham
MF: Yeah
Interviewer: Sliced, the leg of the pig. You want to try it?
MF: Oh, yeah, I've been eating it in my dressing room all night long [laughs - and may I say, I've personally never tasted better ham in my entire life as the Spanish one when I went to visit my family there, it's really heavenly! - Foxy takes some ham from the tray and pops it in]
Interviewer: It's good, right?
MF: Very good!
Interviewer: I'll leave it here, in case you want some more. Look, I'm going to introduce you to [ants' names, which I didn't get.. The puppet ants pop up from the desk]
Ant 1 [closest to Foxy]: Let's not pretend that we have just met because, if you remember, people can see us during the commercial breaks now.
Interviewer: Oh, yes, you have been talking for a little while, you have become good friends
Ant 2: Yes, we're not going to fake it. But that doesn't take away the fact that I was very excited you know?
MF: All right
Ant 2: Because I feel very identified with you.
Ant 1: Yes, that's true
Ant 2: Because I was Lost once, in a supermarket, for like 10 minutes
MF: yeah, I see, so we've had somewhat similar experiences, I suppose
Ant 2: Yes, and it was very strange too, because suddenly nobody talked, and yet we could hear voices that said [mimicking the attendants on the speaker system at supermarkets] "María José, report to the register". Things like that, you know? Horrible!
Ant 1: Yes, very strange things. The only thing I want to say, besides this thing we'll show you in a moment, what I want to say is that, girls, I'm now friends with Matthew Fox, when you see me on the streets, ask me about him, and you can touch me, if you want.
Interviewer: But you have an adventure for Matthew, right?
Ant 1: Yes, we have prepared a training course on survival in a very extreme case.
Ant 2: We have titled it "Lost in Barbate".
Interviewer: I don't know what it is, right now you and me are even, I swear. Lost in Barbate.
Ant 2. Barbate is a region in Spain, imagine that you are lost, you don't know how to speak Spanish, and you need a few indispensable classes in order to survive.
Interviewer: In Spanish [the classes]. In Barbate.
MF: OK
Ant 1: All right, the first phrase, if you are lost in Barbate, is, if you see somebody, tell him: Pisa[I have NO IDEA what that word is, must be slang of that particular region, probably something like Hurley's 'Dude'], do you know where there is a ciringuito [Have no idea what that is either - must be funny to the Spaniards].
MF: [repeats the phrase]
Ant 2: Very good!
Interviewer: But, you speak Spanish very well
Ant 1: Ok, now you know what to do in that case, right? Now, let's pretend that you have been sunburned. You were at the beach, there's a wonderful beach in Barbate, and you got burned, so, what do you have to say in that situation? You have to say: It's so hot, it's unbearable [the phrase itself is not funny, but they are using slang words, making fun of Spaniards that speak it that way]
MF: [Repeats the phrase, it's even better this time]
Ant 1: That is indispensable in Barbate.
Ant 2: Now, imagine that you go into a bar and everyone looks at you in a mean way, it looks as if they are going to hit you. Then you have to say: This round is on me, comrades [again, using slang]
Ant 1: That's right
Ant 2: That will save you.
MF: Ok, [repeats phrase, messes up second word: 'ronda' - round] I heard laughter.
Ant 2: He went for it.
Interviewer: Good, good.
Ant 2: You have made great progress and your grade is "Olé, olé and olé" [Expression used by Spaniards when a bullfighter pulls a good move on the arena]
Ant 1: Yes, sir! Bravo!
Interviewer: On the island many weird things happen, right? So it is in Madrid. I say it because in Madrid, if someone doesn't pay a traffic ticket there are two ants that grow to gigantic size, which doesn't make sense, but here people usually don't pay, so, it's very normal to see gigantic ants on the street [these guys must have smoked something good before they did this show]. I've been told there are two people who have not paid a traffic ticket, and that, outside, on the street there are [ants] right now, this moment. Do you want to see them?
MF: Really? I want to see that. [They stand and head outside]
Interviewer: [to audience] Since, he's here, we have to show him [MF]
Ant 2: Very typical of Spain
Ant 1: He passed the class with flying colors, he can improve pronunciation a bit, but he is ready to go to Barbate [while he talks, MF and interviewer get on the golf cart and Ant 1asks if the interviewer has a license to drive that cart]
PART 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhR0G...e=channel_page
[Ants are saying uneventful things as the interviewer drives the car to the "street", where they stop, get out and the interviewer points at a giant ant - anyone can clearly see it's a puppet operated from below by a person although the cameraman is trying his best not to include the puppet operator on the show]
Interviewer: There it is!
MF: Very cool!
Interviewer: Careful, it doesn't come in peace! I think they could attack us. Careful! Let's go, let's go, let's go!! Over here! Run! [they jump on the cart and drive into the studio, giant ants following behind, then the dinosaur joins the ants, but bumps into the walls. Foxy laughs]
MF: We made it!
Interviewer: [as they walk back into the set] Dear God! [asks the audience to recognize the special effects guy, Sandro. Sandro comes in really excited and immediately heads over to hug Foxy.]
Sandro: I'm a super fan! I'm a super fan! [hugs Foxy again]
Interviewer: Calm down! No touching!
Sandro: I brought something, because I'm a super fan. I made a Lost puzzle. But there's a problem. A piece is missing.
MF: OK
Sandro: It just happens to be your face
MF: My face is missing out of the puzzle? [Sandro shows him the picture and takes advantage of the fact that MF can't see him to take off a hair piece he was wearing, he's now bald] Ok, I see that. I don't know how to help you [Foxy realizes the guy is bald and bursts out laughing]
MF: OK, okay... [He can't stop laughing]
Ant 1: Just pretend that he has hair.
Sandro: Everybody is missing something. Listen, I've requested that they send me the missing piece to complete the puzzle, and they've told me:'here, but you have to look for it yourself'
MF: ok
Sandro: So, that's a problem. Look, mix these pieces
MF: I'm not sure about that
Interviewer: No, this can't be rigged too!
MF: Do I grab one?
Sandro: No, mix it. Take a bunch and throw them into the table [he does]. Take one and try it out, to see if it could be your piece. [Foxy grabs a piece] Put it in, put it in [Foxy does, and while he's trying pieces, Sandro applies a fake mustache to his face]. It's very complicated, but it's ok, let's move on [Foxy sees the mustache and laughs again]
MF: Ok
Sandro: I'll pour the pieces, and you tell me to stop.
MF: Ok.... [after a while] Stop!
Sandro: And now you have to pick one without looking, because we know which one is missing, and you're try it on the puzzle. If it's the right piece you give me a kiss
MF: No, no...
Sandro: Yes, yes, ok, two but not more than that. Go on, take one from the bag without looking, fast, fast!
MF: Now what do I do? [Sandro makes the sign of the cross, hoping it will be the right piece]
Sandro: Try it on the puzzle [he does, the piece is the right one]
Ant 1: Yes, sir!
Sandro: Thank you very much! He got the right one! Good bye!
Interviewer: See you later, good bye.
MF: Fantastic
Interviewer: Matthew, don't leave, the rest of the show is just standing up
MF: I'm not gonna leave
Interviewer: Please let the Crazy Scientist come in!
Ant 1: I think you got your mask wrong!
Crazy Scientist: [shaking Foxy's hand] Hi Matthew, how are you?
MF: Fine, and you?
Crazy Scientist: Hi! Hello! How's everyone? Well, today we have...
Interviewer [To Foxy]: Everything he says, he means well. He tries to mean well.
MF: Ok, ok.
Crazy Scientist: What we're going to do today, we're going to do science. We're going to do water ??? . And for that we're going to try to do things with electric tape. We're going to show you the power of electric tape. It can be used to repair a file folder, to climb a wall, or climb down from a mountain.
MF: Uhum.
Interviewer: To prove the power of electric tape...
Crazy Scientist: That's what we're going to do
Interviewer: ok, go ahead
Crazy Scientist: [takes off his lab coat, and he's wearing a cheap Spiderman costume]
Ant 1: As you can see the budget for costumes on this show is brutal
Interviewer: We're going to see if it holds.
Crazy Scientist: Let's test it.. This board is made with electric tape [turned around, I think, so that the sticky side is facing the guy. He climbs a little step ladder and turns his back to the board]
Interviewer: Don't hurt yourself. Don't hurl yourself backward, it's not necessary...
[The guy is pushed back into the board. Everyone helps trying to keep his entire back against it.]
Crazy Scientist: It is possible! Spiderman! What it is, is that electric tape has polyethyline and sap from the trees [he falls off the board]
MF: You've done very well
Crazy Scientist: We're to demonstrate it in a practical example, let the Man in Black come in [he does, rolling in a stainless steel table]. So, here we have a plastic bottle.
Interviewer: Stop, let's take a break because this is the most dangerous part and we need to take a break. Only 2 minutes
PART 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNPyL...e=channel_page
Interviewer: Well, we're back with The Anthill, already. Two minutes. Flippy [Crazy Scientist], the power of duct tape...
CS: That's right. Duct tape is also known as American roll in Spain, because we used to buy it in Torrejon [a town in Spain, I suppose this is a joke]. What it has is that this side here, where it sticks, has polyethelyne and it also has wood resin. That's why it is important, when you go to the country, that you don't break the trees because you can get stuck to them.
Interviewer: Don't get stuck to a tree, ok? Be careful!
CS: This roll can support 5 kilos [about 12.5 pounds], so, let's do a demonstration, let's take this [the plastic jar]. You can take it [to Foxy]
MF: Ok, I'll hold it.
CS: Let's see here how much it weighs [MF puts it on a scale on the table]
Interviewer: They have put you to work, my friend
Ant 1: How much does it weigh?
Interviewer: It weighs 10 kilos [about 25 pounds]
SC: So, let's test how much it [duct tape] can hold
[they put tape around the jar's handle, still attached to the roll, and put the roll on a tube, they give Foxy one end of the tube, SC takes the other, and they pull it away from the table, but the jar is too heavy and it falls to the floor]
SC: Now outside I have more than one roll, I have about 8 rolls, Pablo [show host], how much do you weigh?
Interviewer: I weigh 64 kilos. But that jar went down very fast, no?
SC: So, I'd need about 13 rolls.
Interviewer: There are ten right?
SC: More than 8. Yes, there are 10
Interviewer: Ok, now I'm going to jump off a high floor, and they'll hold me with duct tape. I want to say that this is the first time this has been done in the world, so we'll take some safety measures, they'll put a safety harness on me...
Ant 2: You little girl!
MF: I want to see this. I really want to see this.
Ant 1: Look how he puts on the harness.
Interviewer: Excuse me, it's a fourth story height!
Ant 1: Are there mattresses underneath?
SC: Matthew, we're going to climb all the way up, and then we'll bring him down that side.. We'll slide him down to the mattresses [To interviewer] Whenever you want!
Interviewer: No, not when I want, when they're done with the harness.
Ant 2: Hey, Matthew, if you want to do it, you can do it
MF: No, no, no, I'm fine, I wanna watch him
Ant 2: hey, what's Matthew going to do? Is he going to go up with you or stay down below?
Interviewer: Better if he stays on the ground
Ant 2: That way you can see Pablo kill himself from a much better view
Interviewer: It's the first time this is done in the world, and they'll lower me down, using only the duct tape rolls
[while they go up the platform SC explains that each roll holds 5.5 kilos and there are 10 rolls, so, it must hold Pablo's weight]
Ant 2: I hope you comedown faster than you're going up
SC: Matthew, how are you? how's the view from down there?
MF: I'm fine, I'm very excited. I can't miss this
Interviewer: [at the top of the scaffolding] It's a bit high
MF: Must seem even higher from above
[Interviewer explains the experiment and jumps off holding onto a tube that has 10 rolls of tape holding it to the top. The tape rolls with the guy's weight, but it does so slowly, so the guy descends safely]
MF: It worked!
Ant 2: Look at what Pablo has to do to impress our guests [scientist guy jumps off too and the interviewer and Foxy head back into the studio]
Interviewer: [To Foxy] I don't want you to suffer. On this segment, we'll have a guy that dances a certain way.
MF: Ok
Interviewer: And the polite thing is to try to dance like him
MF: No, no,no, really? No, no
Interviewer: Let's have Marlon!
[Guy enters dancing something that sounds like Russian music, Foxy and the interviewer imitate him. It's hilarious, but Foxy does quite well! Man hug with the dancer]
Ant 1: Hey, you've done very well, Matthew
Ant 2: Spectacular, Matthew
MF: Thank you, ants!
[Science guy is back. they moved onto another set]
CS: Well, here we are with the Butterfly Effect, Pablo, and it's the same as the other day when I cut my hair.
Interviewer: Yes, a few days ago he did this experiment, and he always makes a bet. Because the experiment went wrong, he had to cut his hair. He had very long hair. I have the hair somewhere around here. Let me see if I can find it. Yes here it is. It's disgusting [they actually bring out a bowl of hair]
MF: Yours? [To Crazy Scientist, who nods]
Ant 1: You can see by the texture that there's hair from other areas
CS: Thank you very much for putting the remains of my hair on TV. The idea is for that doll [a male doll, wearing a bathing suit and suspended from a wooden poll] falls into the bucket and get a tan. We're going to put this ball here [the whole thing is rigged so that the ball will start a chain of events that will eventually land the doll in the bucket. It looks like a Willy E. Coyote's invention. He explains all the steps to Foxy]
Interviewer: Very hard
CS: Well, I've already lost my hair, can't lose anymore
Interviewer: Well, only your honor, we won't punish you if it goes wrong. But, well, we're live, and at this moment ...
Ant 2: Don't embarrass yourself in front of Matthew Fox!
Interviewer: At this moment, 10:17 pm, let's have the butterfly effect begin.... NOW! [SC initiates the circuit with a ball. It fails!]
Ant 2: Noooo! The most horrible ridicule in front of Matthew Fox!
SC: I don't have any more hair! Don't look at me that way
Ant 1: Well, restart manually, at least [from where the ball fell off]
SC: Yeah, you'll get to see how it would have worked [It fails again, later in the circuit. CS finishes manually]
Interviewer: No, no, noooo [starts to destroy the experiment]
SC: Don't break it! I can recycle it!
MF: [Shaking CS' hand] I'm sorry, so sorry
Ant 2: You have embarrassed us!
Interviewer: [At center stage with Foxy] Matthew, have you had a good time?
MF: I did, I had a good time
Ant 1: I think he still doesn't know if he had a good time or not
MF: I did, I had fun
Interviewer: I'm very grateful to you
MF: Thank you! [He says goodbye to the ant puppets!]
Interviewer: You know that there are millions of people that are , Matthew, it's not that they are fans, it's that they are obsessed, I'd say, with the series..
MF: Yeah, a little bit, yeah
Interviewer: Do you ever go into the forums, some times, on the internet?
MF: No, no, no, no. no... [giggles] I make it a habit of never doing anything on the net about myself or any of the projects I work in. I think it's better, just to sort of let people make their own conclusions [can't understand what he says next as the sound is jumpy]
Interviewer: So, you have never gone to google and entered 'Matthew Fox'
MF: Never.
Interviewer: To see what comes up.
MF: [shaking his head] I've never googled 'Matthew Fox'. I would be terrified to google 'Matthew Fox'. I don't know what I'd find.
Interviewer: For sure, you'd find "Matthew FoxNaked "... every time you search for a name it comes up: "so and so, naked", it always comes up. I am on the internet a lot.
MF: [giggling] I hope not, I mean, it's possible, I guess, yeah.
Interviewer: Or a fake one, they'd put up a fake one. Do you understand everything that happens on the series? For instance, Sun, the Korean woman, why are her clothes always ironed, for instance? [general laughter] Everything looks as if it had just come out of the... sorry! [they are interrupted by loud noises of stage, Matt turns around and a dinosaur comes on stage aiming for him and almost taking a bite, then it turns to the audience. It seems this was a surprised to Foxy, he looked a bit scared there for a second]
MF: What's with the very large dinosaur that just went by? [giggles some more]
Interviewer: Uhm... that is like the polar bear on Lost.
MF: [nodding in understanding] ah! I see!
Interviewer: It comes out, nobody explains it, it comes out, it goes away [Foxy giggles some more]
MF: Touché! Touché!
Interviewer: I was told that at the beginning of the series you encouraged all the actors to go skinny dipping on the beach. Can that be true?
MF: Yeah!
Interviewer: Tell us!
MF: Ah, I... I like to swim naked... [can't hear his comments over the audience's enthusiasm for nekkid Foxy] I mean, come on, now, specially in Hawaii, the water is really warm, it's very humid and salty place... so, if I'm going swimming in the middle of the night, I'd rather do it naked. I got as many people on the cast to go skinny dipping as possible.
Interviewer: Yes, you said it was to break the ice, with what part of the body did you want to break the ice?
MF: [giggles], I think, I think, I think once you gone skinny dipping with somebody, you get to know them better.
Interviewer: There's a different sort of trust, no? People don't look the same, that's true.
MF: Yes.
Interviewer: You live in Hawaii?
MF: Yes
Interviewer: You know what it is? It's that we don't have any idea what Hawaii is like. Only what we have seen on the movies. In Spain, surely when you got to Spain you thought that you'd be met at the airport by a bull fighter, probably a guy with a spade and a bull... well, then, I'll tell you, we think that Hawaii is a place where you get down [from the plane] and there are a bunch of girls with flowers on their hair and coconuts on their breasts that are constantly saying: 'Aloha'. Is it like that, Hawaii?
MF: That's exactly how it is [general laughter and applause, Foxy giggles some more] Perfect!
Interviewer: I love it, but, ehm, ehm, in Hawaii, what does 'Aloha' mean? Hello or good-bye?
MF: It's an expression to wish somebody well, so you'd use it in both places. A little bit like "ciao".
Interviewer: And what is the food like in Hawaii? The typical [food], coconut a la pepper?
MF: They do a lot of pork, they cook pork into the ground, using hot coals, they are famous for poi [?], which is a type of root that they grind into a paste, which is sort of purple in color. so, those are the really, really traditional Hawaiian foods.
Interviewer: And you eat that of your own free will?
MF: No, no, I really, I don't like poi at all. I tried it once [but I didn't like it?] I lot fish, as well, I mean they eat a lot of fish in Hawaii
Interviewer: [pulling a tray from under the desk] In Spain, the typical [food] is ham. Ham
MF: Yeah
Interviewer: Sliced, the leg of the pig. You want to try it?
MF: Oh, yeah, I've been eating it in my dressing room all night long [laughs - and may I say, I've personally never tasted better ham in my entire life as the Spanish one when I went to visit my family there, it's really heavenly! - Foxy takes some ham from the tray and pops it in]
Interviewer: It's good, right?
MF: Very good!
Interviewer: I'll leave it here, in case you want some more. Look, I'm going to introduce you to [ants' names, which I didn't get.. The puppet ants pop up from the desk]
Ant 1 [closest to Foxy]: Let's not pretend that we have just met because, if you remember, people can see us during the commercial breaks now.
Interviewer: Oh, yes, you have been talking for a little while, you have become good friends
Ant 2: Yes, we're not going to fake it. But that doesn't take away the fact that I was very excited you know?
MF: All right
Ant 2: Because I feel very identified with you.
Ant 1: Yes, that's true
Ant 2: Because I was Lost once, in a supermarket, for like 10 minutes
MF: yeah, I see, so we've had somewhat similar experiences, I suppose
Ant 2: Yes, and it was very strange too, because suddenly nobody talked, and yet we could hear voices that said [mimicking the attendants on the speaker system at supermarkets] "María José, report to the register". Things like that, you know? Horrible!
Ant 1: Yes, very strange things. The only thing I want to say, besides this thing we'll show you in a moment, what I want to say is that, girls, I'm now friends with Matthew Fox, when you see me on the streets, ask me about him, and you can touch me, if you want.
Interviewer: But you have an adventure for Matthew, right?
Ant 1: Yes, we have prepared a training course on survival in a very extreme case.
Ant 2: We have titled it "Lost in Barbate".
Interviewer: I don't know what it is, right now you and me are even, I swear. Lost in Barbate.
Ant 2. Barbate is a region in Spain, imagine that you are lost, you don't know how to speak Spanish, and you need a few indispensable classes in order to survive.
Interviewer: In Spanish [the classes]. In Barbate.
MF: OK
Ant 1: All right, the first phrase, if you are lost in Barbate, is, if you see somebody, tell him: Pisa[I have NO IDEA what that word is, must be slang of that particular region, probably something like Hurley's 'Dude'], do you know where there is a ciringuito [Have no idea what that is either - must be funny to the Spaniards].
MF: [repeats the phrase]
Ant 2: Very good!
Interviewer: But, you speak Spanish very well
Ant 1: Ok, now you know what to do in that case, right? Now, let's pretend that you have been sunburned. You were at the beach, there's a wonderful beach in Barbate, and you got burned, so, what do you have to say in that situation? You have to say: It's so hot, it's unbearable [the phrase itself is not funny, but they are using slang words, making fun of Spaniards that speak it that way]
MF: [Repeats the phrase, it's even better this time]
Ant 1: That is indispensable in Barbate.
Ant 2: Now, imagine that you go into a bar and everyone looks at you in a mean way, it looks as if they are going to hit you. Then you have to say: This round is on me, comrades [again, using slang]
Ant 1: That's right
Ant 2: That will save you.
MF: Ok, [repeats phrase, messes up second word: 'ronda' - round] I heard laughter.
Ant 2: He went for it.
Interviewer: Good, good.
Ant 2: You have made great progress and your grade is "Olé, olé and olé" [Expression used by Spaniards when a bullfighter pulls a good move on the arena]
Ant 1: Yes, sir! Bravo!
Interviewer: On the island many weird things happen, right? So it is in Madrid. I say it because in Madrid, if someone doesn't pay a traffic ticket there are two ants that grow to gigantic size, which doesn't make sense, but here people usually don't pay, so, it's very normal to see gigantic ants on the street [these guys must have smoked something good before they did this show]. I've been told there are two people who have not paid a traffic ticket, and that, outside, on the street there are [ants] right now, this moment. Do you want to see them?
MF: Really? I want to see that. [They stand and head outside]
Interviewer: [to audience] Since, he's here, we have to show him [MF]
Ant 2: Very typical of Spain
Ant 1: He passed the class with flying colors, he can improve pronunciation a bit, but he is ready to go to Barbate [while he talks, MF and interviewer get on the golf cart and Ant 1asks if the interviewer has a license to drive that cart]
PART 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhR0G...e=channel_page
[Ants are saying uneventful things as the interviewer drives the car to the "street", where they stop, get out and the interviewer points at a giant ant - anyone can clearly see it's a puppet operated from below by a person although the cameraman is trying his best not to include the puppet operator on the show]
Interviewer: There it is!
MF: Very cool!
Interviewer: Careful, it doesn't come in peace! I think they could attack us. Careful! Let's go, let's go, let's go!! Over here! Run! [they jump on the cart and drive into the studio, giant ants following behind, then the dinosaur joins the ants, but bumps into the walls. Foxy laughs]
MF: We made it!
Interviewer: [as they walk back into the set] Dear God! [asks the audience to recognize the special effects guy, Sandro. Sandro comes in really excited and immediately heads over to hug Foxy.]
Sandro: I'm a super fan! I'm a super fan! [hugs Foxy again]
Interviewer: Calm down! No touching!
Sandro: I brought something, because I'm a super fan. I made a Lost puzzle. But there's a problem. A piece is missing.
MF: OK
Sandro: It just happens to be your face
MF: My face is missing out of the puzzle? [Sandro shows him the picture and takes advantage of the fact that MF can't see him to take off a hair piece he was wearing, he's now bald] Ok, I see that. I don't know how to help you [Foxy realizes the guy is bald and bursts out laughing]
MF: OK, okay... [He can't stop laughing]
Ant 1: Just pretend that he has hair.
Sandro: Everybody is missing something. Listen, I've requested that they send me the missing piece to complete the puzzle, and they've told me:'here, but you have to look for it yourself'
MF: ok
Sandro: So, that's a problem. Look, mix these pieces
MF: I'm not sure about that
Interviewer: No, this can't be rigged too!
MF: Do I grab one?
Sandro: No, mix it. Take a bunch and throw them into the table [he does]. Take one and try it out, to see if it could be your piece. [Foxy grabs a piece] Put it in, put it in [Foxy does, and while he's trying pieces, Sandro applies a fake mustache to his face]. It's very complicated, but it's ok, let's move on [Foxy sees the mustache and laughs again]
MF: Ok
Sandro: I'll pour the pieces, and you tell me to stop.
MF: Ok.... [after a while] Stop!
Sandro: And now you have to pick one without looking, because we know which one is missing, and you're try it on the puzzle. If it's the right piece you give me a kiss
MF: No, no...
Sandro: Yes, yes, ok, two but not more than that. Go on, take one from the bag without looking, fast, fast!
MF: Now what do I do? [Sandro makes the sign of the cross, hoping it will be the right piece]
Sandro: Try it on the puzzle [he does, the piece is the right one]
Ant 1: Yes, sir!
Sandro: Thank you very much! He got the right one! Good bye!
Interviewer: See you later, good bye.
MF: Fantastic
Interviewer: Matthew, don't leave, the rest of the show is just standing up
MF: I'm not gonna leave
Interviewer: Please let the Crazy Scientist come in!
Ant 1: I think you got your mask wrong!
Crazy Scientist: [shaking Foxy's hand] Hi Matthew, how are you?
MF: Fine, and you?
Crazy Scientist: Hi! Hello! How's everyone? Well, today we have...
Interviewer [To Foxy]: Everything he says, he means well. He tries to mean well.
MF: Ok, ok.
Crazy Scientist: What we're going to do today, we're going to do science. We're going to do water ??? . And for that we're going to try to do things with electric tape. We're going to show you the power of electric tape. It can be used to repair a file folder, to climb a wall, or climb down from a mountain.
MF: Uhum.
Interviewer: To prove the power of electric tape...
Crazy Scientist: That's what we're going to do
Interviewer: ok, go ahead
Crazy Scientist: [takes off his lab coat, and he's wearing a cheap Spiderman costume]
Ant 1: As you can see the budget for costumes on this show is brutal
Interviewer: We're going to see if it holds.
Crazy Scientist: Let's test it.. This board is made with electric tape [turned around, I think, so that the sticky side is facing the guy. He climbs a little step ladder and turns his back to the board]
Interviewer: Don't hurt yourself. Don't hurl yourself backward, it's not necessary...
[The guy is pushed back into the board. Everyone helps trying to keep his entire back against it.]
Crazy Scientist: It is possible! Spiderman! What it is, is that electric tape has polyethyline and sap from the trees [he falls off the board]
MF: You've done very well
Crazy Scientist: We're to demonstrate it in a practical example, let the Man in Black come in [he does, rolling in a stainless steel table]. So, here we have a plastic bottle.
Interviewer: Stop, let's take a break because this is the most dangerous part and we need to take a break. Only 2 minutes
PART 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNPyL...e=channel_page
Interviewer: Well, we're back with The Anthill, already. Two minutes. Flippy [Crazy Scientist], the power of duct tape...
CS: That's right. Duct tape is also known as American roll in Spain, because we used to buy it in Torrejon [a town in Spain, I suppose this is a joke]. What it has is that this side here, where it sticks, has polyethelyne and it also has wood resin. That's why it is important, when you go to the country, that you don't break the trees because you can get stuck to them.
Interviewer: Don't get stuck to a tree, ok? Be careful!
CS: This roll can support 5 kilos [about 12.5 pounds], so, let's do a demonstration, let's take this [the plastic jar]. You can take it [to Foxy]
MF: Ok, I'll hold it.
CS: Let's see here how much it weighs [MF puts it on a scale on the table]
Interviewer: They have put you to work, my friend
Ant 1: How much does it weigh?
Interviewer: It weighs 10 kilos [about 25 pounds]
SC: So, let's test how much it [duct tape] can hold
[they put tape around the jar's handle, still attached to the roll, and put the roll on a tube, they give Foxy one end of the tube, SC takes the other, and they pull it away from the table, but the jar is too heavy and it falls to the floor]
SC: Now outside I have more than one roll, I have about 8 rolls, Pablo [show host], how much do you weigh?
Interviewer: I weigh 64 kilos. But that jar went down very fast, no?
SC: So, I'd need about 13 rolls.
Interviewer: There are ten right?
SC: More than 8. Yes, there are 10
Interviewer: Ok, now I'm going to jump off a high floor, and they'll hold me with duct tape. I want to say that this is the first time this has been done in the world, so we'll take some safety measures, they'll put a safety harness on me...
Ant 2: You little girl!
MF: I want to see this. I really want to see this.
Ant 1: Look how he puts on the harness.
Interviewer: Excuse me, it's a fourth story height!
Ant 1: Are there mattresses underneath?
SC: Matthew, we're going to climb all the way up, and then we'll bring him down that side.. We'll slide him down to the mattresses [To interviewer] Whenever you want!
Interviewer: No, not when I want, when they're done with the harness.
Ant 2: Hey, Matthew, if you want to do it, you can do it
MF: No, no, no, I'm fine, I wanna watch him
Ant 2: hey, what's Matthew going to do? Is he going to go up with you or stay down below?
Interviewer: Better if he stays on the ground
Ant 2: That way you can see Pablo kill himself from a much better view
Interviewer: It's the first time this is done in the world, and they'll lower me down, using only the duct tape rolls
[while they go up the platform SC explains that each roll holds 5.5 kilos and there are 10 rolls, so, it must hold Pablo's weight]
Ant 2: I hope you comedown faster than you're going up
SC: Matthew, how are you? how's the view from down there?
MF: I'm fine, I'm very excited. I can't miss this
Interviewer: [at the top of the scaffolding] It's a bit high
MF: Must seem even higher from above
[Interviewer explains the experiment and jumps off holding onto a tube that has 10 rolls of tape holding it to the top. The tape rolls with the guy's weight, but it does so slowly, so the guy descends safely]
MF: It worked!
Ant 2: Look at what Pablo has to do to impress our guests [scientist guy jumps off too and the interviewer and Foxy head back into the studio]
Interviewer: [To Foxy] I don't want you to suffer. On this segment, we'll have a guy that dances a certain way.
MF: Ok
Interviewer: And the polite thing is to try to dance like him
MF: No, no,no, really? No, no
Interviewer: Let's have Marlon!
[Guy enters dancing something that sounds like Russian music, Foxy and the interviewer imitate him. It's hilarious, but Foxy does quite well! Man hug with the dancer]
Ant 1: Hey, you've done very well, Matthew
Ant 2: Spectacular, Matthew
MF: Thank you, ants!
[Science guy is back. they moved onto another set]
CS: Well, here we are with the Butterfly Effect, Pablo, and it's the same as the other day when I cut my hair.
Interviewer: Yes, a few days ago he did this experiment, and he always makes a bet. Because the experiment went wrong, he had to cut his hair. He had very long hair. I have the hair somewhere around here. Let me see if I can find it. Yes here it is. It's disgusting [they actually bring out a bowl of hair]
MF: Yours? [To Crazy Scientist, who nods]
Ant 1: You can see by the texture that there's hair from other areas
CS: Thank you very much for putting the remains of my hair on TV. The idea is for that doll [a male doll, wearing a bathing suit and suspended from a wooden poll] falls into the bucket and get a tan. We're going to put this ball here [the whole thing is rigged so that the ball will start a chain of events that will eventually land the doll in the bucket. It looks like a Willy E. Coyote's invention. He explains all the steps to Foxy]
Interviewer: Very hard
CS: Well, I've already lost my hair, can't lose anymore
Interviewer: Well, only your honor, we won't punish you if it goes wrong. But, well, we're live, and at this moment ...
Ant 2: Don't embarrass yourself in front of Matthew Fox!
Interviewer: At this moment, 10:17 pm, let's have the butterfly effect begin.... NOW! [SC initiates the circuit with a ball. It fails!]
Ant 2: Noooo! The most horrible ridicule in front of Matthew Fox!
SC: I don't have any more hair! Don't look at me that way
Ant 1: Well, restart manually, at least [from where the ball fell off]
SC: Yeah, you'll get to see how it would have worked [It fails again, later in the circuit. CS finishes manually]
Interviewer: No, no, noooo [starts to destroy the experiment]
SC: Don't break it! I can recycle it!
MF: [Shaking CS' hand] I'm sorry, so sorry
Ant 2: You have embarrassed us!
Interviewer: [At center stage with Foxy] Matthew, have you had a good time?
MF: I did, I had a good time
Ant 1: I think he still doesn't know if he had a good time or not
MF: I did, I had fun
Interviewer: I'm very grateful to you
MF: Thank you! [He says goodbye to the ant puppets!]