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BuzzWorthy Radio: Heath Kizzier!

Heath Kizzier, formerly Dr. Joshua Landers from CBS Daytime's The Young and the Restless, will be making an appearance on BuzzWorthy Radio!

After being on the show for one year, Kizzier went on to discover other ample opportunities. He recently came out with a new book: Can I See Your I.D., son? Available now at Amazon.com

Duration:: 28m
Broadcast on:: 20 Jun 2009
Audio Format:: other

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Lee, coming at you on this wonderful Friday evening. It's 8 p.m. Eastern Time, 5 p.m. Pacific Coast Time, June 19, 2009. Probably the first day of this week where it actually isn't raining outside. Absolutely incredible. We're going to be joined by Heath Kizier, formerly from the Young and the Restless, Dr. Joshua Landers. He has come out with a new book entitled, Can I See Your ID Son? We're going to be talking about that. We're also going to be talking about his time on the Young and the Restless and what else we can expect from Heath as well. Give us a call at six or six, five, nine, five, four, two, eight, if you want to get on in the conversation. Before I actually bring Heath on, I just want to take a moment for everybody who is in my area and there are quite a few of you who listen to the show who are in my area. I just want to give my condolences to the family of Gary Papa. He died today of cancer and those in my area know him as the sports corresponded on six PVCs action news. And I just want to pay my respects out to his family, him and his family. And I just wanted to get that out there. But his time moves on. As I'm saying that, that news is, let's get on to some good stuff. Shall we bring on our guest of honor? Heath. How are you? Hi there. How are you? I'm good. How is yourself? I am doing fantastic. That's great. It's very sunny California where it's starting to get hot again. Yes. I can pretty much say that here on the east coast, this is our only day this week where it actually has it rained. I have to say, I miss the rain so you can send some this way. You actually miss the rain. You can have all of it. I'm not stopping you at all. Not at all. You can have it all. But listen, you have been on the young and restless doctor. Joshua Lenders, you started in '96, I believe. '96, right? Yeah. Yeah. Good night. And you grew in '98. Yeah. And you basically went through it all. You married Nicki Newman and got shot also in the span of a two-year span. That's great. Yeah. Exactly. You pretty much battled Victor. married Nicki. And put him back to the end. Yes. Yes. He married Nicki right after you die. What can you say about Victor Newman? He's Victor Newman. He can do whatever he wants. Apparently so. What was I doing, you self-apra? What's that? What was it like doing a self-apra? It was the hardest acting work for sure I'd ever done. Just because of the amount of just the volume where, you know, you're doing a television show and you're doing that over the course of six to eight days. You're doing a movie and you're doing that over a course of two to four months. And you're doing an hour of television and a 12-hour day. You have to be on your toes. Yeah. You know, there's sometimes where your, you know, your story line is off a little bit. So you have a little time off, but then when the story line is cooking, it's every waking hour memorizing lines and getting ready. So it's an experience. A very, you know, yeah, a good experience, but it was hard. Especially. Yeah. Yeah, because you have to, you probably have to memorize like close to 80 pages a day when you're doing this. It's kind of, it's rough. It's really rough. I did discover over time that, you know, the body does what the body does and it helps. And so over time, your short-term memory becomes phenomenal. And you can almost just do a one read and have it. Wow. The expense of that is your long-term memory. It's destroyed. Yeah. It's literally destroyed. I mean, you can't remember your kid's name. A birthday? Never. Definitely. You definitely need a memo pad. Oh, man. That's funny. Honestly, I can't imagine myself going through that kind of strenuous material day in and day out. And I commend everybody who does this. Yeah, I really do. But, you know, if you love what you're doing, I guess it doesn't matter. But I couldn't picture myself doing something like that. Almost it's not five days a week. There is no way. I probably would. I probably would kill myself. Yeah. Yeah. What was your favorite moment being on this show? I mean, why not? It's anonymous for being the number one rated daytime drama on CBS. And you being a part of that, that's absolutely amazing. Did you have any favorite moments being on this show? Well, I will definitely say the last week of my tour there. It was really great. I mean, it was the best material that I had on the show thus far. And it was, you know, I got to chew the scenery just a little bit. And that was fun. I mean, it was just fun. Yeah. Those last few days. And of course, I was getting killed off. And I'm not going to be working there anymore. And that was sad. But at the same time, just the work and just really getting to dive in. That was just fantastic. Right. Absolutely. Would you ever want to get back into that? Not necessarily the best show per se, but, you know. Right. You know, I've been thinking about it. I've moved up for the most part into writing, but never say never as they say. That's true. So, you know, if something were to walk up and say, "Hey, I would certainly consider it." It's a different deal entirely than what I'm doing now. Yeah. Nice segue into the writing thing. That's definitely what we're here to talk about the most of is your new book. Can I see your ID? First of all, how did you come up with that title? I mean, really. That's the kind of like, I like that title, but it's like, where did it come from? Well, it's pretty funny. When I was a kid, I was kind of a big, clunky, looked older than I was, and kind of always always did, until I hit, you know, "Real Adult." And so, I always had the ID, or I was trying to do things without an ID, and so I was constantly getting guarded. Yeah. I wish I had that, I wish I had that, but I don't. I've always looked older than 21, my whole entire life. Well, when I became, I never really had to present an ID, which is sad. I'm going to be honest, it was sad. I envy you, man. I envy you, just for that sole purpose. So, how long have you actually been writing? I actually started when I was still on the show. Wow. Scream plays and whatnot in the late '90s. And the first novel came out in 2001, so that was the first, you know, official published work. And so, it's interesting, you know, again, like acting. Writing was something that I just accidentally fell into, and just learned to just absolutely love it, just to love it. Right. And it, you know, it works perfectly with my personality, which is a little, I overanalyze and I do, and as an actor, you can't do that. I mean, that sort of goes against what you're trying to do. If you're the writer, you can do that, and do it, and expand in your head, and do all that stuff until it's perfect, and then you can present it, and then it's exactly what you want it to be. Exactly. You can say that, you know, and this is my own opinion, but I'm sure that you may have heard people say this, like writing releases like a lot of emotions, you know, like when you write, you release stress or tension and everything that's been built up, and you're able to release it through writing, and it's just, before you know it, you'll have, like, your first paperback being sold in stores or on Amazon or something. Is that, like, what happens with you? It does, I mean, in the process, when I'm writing and deep into the scenes, I will literally, you know, just disappear. I'll go away for 12 hours, and not have an idea that I've been at the desk for that long. Meanwhile, going through the scenes, and, you know, with every character you're trying, and you're laughing, and you're with them, as with them as you can be, honestly, with even a real person, because you're so in their head, and they're such a different person, and you've created these different people, and so each of these people have their own emotional struggle, and you're going through each one of those as you're writing. Right. Right, exactly. Now, this book, that's out now on amazon.com, or actual local Barnes & Nobles, just so all you guys know, this is a memoir, correct? It is. It is. It is. It's more or less a coming of age, certainly not an actor tell all of the coming of age taking me from, you know, when I was a kid in Colorado, homeless, to becoming a TV actor. Really? My range. Wow. So it's, yeah, a lot of adventure and a lot of, I don't know, within the pages. Yeah, I had no idea about that. That's amazing to, you know, just look back, and look back at your life. You know, like you said, in the days of being in Colorado homeless to where you are right now, that's amazing, that's commendable. Just by that alone, you know, you've done so much in that time span, you know, and you're able to reflect on that by doing this memoir and for everybody else to read and take it upon themselves to see your life as how you saw it. That's amazing. Yeah. You know, and the process was cathartic for me. It was so different than what I had expected. My first two books were hardcore thrillers and one of the most apocalyptic thriller. And so I sat down to write this kind of just for myself. And I thought, oh, well, you know, I'm going to be writing this really intense, you know, another really intense thing. And it just turned out to be so different than what I had ever written before. And it was so fun. Right. And just to be able to take little heath and, you know, put a, an adult perspective on it, all of a sudden you lose your ego and you can really talk about it freely and you don't have to be the cool guy anymore. And so it was so much fun to sort of see it from my perspective at that age, but looking back at it now from this age. Right. Because I don't know if that made sense, but it was really quite something. It did. It's like you were like, you're writing stuff that you probably would never have thought to talk about before, but it just ought to start coming out. You just go ahead and just run with it. Right. I thought, you know, I had a pretty boring life until I really started to go. Sit down and actually think about it because you kind of just things you forget thing. And I've been a journal writer forever and ever and ever. So I, you know, I haven't really read them. You know, you always write them, you know, really go back and read them. And I went back and I started re-experiencing some of these things and I mean getting struck by lightning on the top of Mount Blanc in Europe. You know, I mean, things like that are sort of part of the story of this book. Wow. Wow. Looking back on it though, would you want to change anything that's ever happened to you? I know that's kind of a very, very astute question. Very tough question. Yeah. And the reason I am where I am is because of the coincidences of life. And I kind of go through and I can count five major turning points, thus coincidences in my life, that had any of those not happened, I would be a completely different place and time right now. You know, I might not have. So basically, I think no. I think no. I mean, there was some hard times, but I think really no. I'm really happy. I'm happy right now and I've never been. That's great. I think a lot of people do say that. It just turned forward. But you actually mean it. I do. I really, really do. You know, this is something I've actually wanted to know. I don't think I've ever posed this question because I don't think I've ever had someone who actually played a doctor on a series before on this show. But when you were doing that role, how tough was it to play a doctor? Did you have to learn like all these medical words and everything, all that medical jargon? And you had no idea what you were talking about at all. Terrified. Terrified. Because not only was I a doctor, thank you very much, I was a gynecologist. You were a gynecologist? That's how Nikki and I met. I was her gynecologist. I did not know that you're a gynecologist. And so I had to, we met and I had to tell her all about her uterine cysts and things. And I mean, you know, I couldn't say half the words without blushing. You like the red and you could make it to the scene. I got a re-brush up on my wine art history because even I had no clue. You were kind of a gynecologist. I was like, "What? You were?" Well, and I just could not, I mean, when I first got the job, I could not figure out how they were going to put the two of us together as me as a gynecologist. It just seemed a little weird. They did it. That's like your perfect pickup line. It's basically you start talking about the her ovula and all that stuff. And then there you go, you get together, that's it. You get together for life. Wow. It was pretty traumatic. I ran out and I got all the doctor books and the doctor dictionaries and I had to call a friend that was a doctor. How do you pronounce this? I don't want to say it wrong, especially the first few weeks. I wanted it to be perfect and I wanted to be just good for everybody. So yeah, it was pretty traumatic. I thought that they had like that medical person that's there on the set when they do that kind of stuff. Like a medical personality. What do they do when you're really, when you're in the hospital and there's trauma, when there's, you know, ER kind of stuff happening? For my kids, they, you know, for a lot of the early stuff, it was just in the office. So I wasn't fortunate enough to have that fellow on that first week. Okay, so yeah, you really did have to study up on all those words. That's terrible. I'd be scared, I'd be scared for life if I had to say that to somebody. If it wasn't like, you know, my profession and I'd be like, my God, I'm just like pronouncing these body parts on the air like that. And for everybody to see me say that, that's kind of scary. Yeah, I do. I mean, I'm in an immediate call to my acting coach. I need help. What am I doing with this space and say these words that I don't know? How embarrassing. Oh, man. Oh, man, did you have to do like so many takes in order to get it right, or were you able to, you know, that's like, I will say, and really that's the only way that you make it as a soap actor. I did so much practice at home. I was a neurotic mass at home, but on the set, I really didn't know it the first time. Oh, good. Yeah, I mean, if you don't on a soap, there's just so little, there's just so little time. So if you did, you know, if you're not dead on first time, second time at most. Right. Because they just don't have the time. Right, exactly. Somebody that doesn't, you know, especially now. I mean, I can pretty much say that so the pretty much are now different than they were over 10 years ago when you were on it. You know, it's worse now as far as time constraints go. Right. And now they just, they block the seeds. They go right into the scene. You don't even do like a rehearsal for it anymore. You were lucky. Yeah, well, we used to do, well, and, you know, that's the other thing is you would get, you'd do a walk through and you'd walk through with your director and your director would. I mean, you know, the soap and how they, the camera angles and the push-ins and the, you know, the walk past and all that stuff. And I'd go through and you'd have so a normal scene, you'd have up to 15 to 20 moves in the scene. So not only are you trying to remember the words, but you're trying to remember when you're supposed to go over the plated plant and when you're supposed to go to the edge of the table. Yeah, exactly. I just, I never knew how tough it was until I started asking people exactly what it's like doing all that stuff. I didn't realize it's like you gotta, you gotta be in this position. You gotta be in that position. You gotta do this. You gotta do that. It's just, that's, that's nerve-wracking. At least for me. A lot of, a lot of angles in your head where you're, you're trying to do your best as an actor and be in the moment and do all that, but then you've got all that other stuff, so. Have you, have you, have you become a little overwhelming? Have you actually watched a soap before you got all in a soap? I did, actually I watched "Young and the Refless" when I was in high school. I, I was playing football and, and broke some bones and so ended up at home during the summer practices. And there was a, two other guys that also got banged up until we were all, we'd all go to one of the other's house and we'd sit and watch soaks. All day long. All day long. Totally, totally got hooked on. That's why I was so freaked when I heard I got the part and then they said, "Oh, well you're, you'll be hooked up with Mickey." Oh, okay. With the one name that I actually knew. And so, what, so ever? Mickey. Oh. What? I was just talking more. What? You were probably like, "How am I going to get her away from Victor Newman?" Ricky. Winner and kind of knowing I was doomed right from the very start. Mickey and Victor. Yeah, heck that was, that was my doom getting them back together. That's kind of what it was to me. And what was it? I mean, I talked to the man. He scares me to death, but I love him. What was it like working with Eric Braden? He's a, he's a, he's a good guy. I mean, you know, kind of fades himself and, and whatnot, but a, but a nice guy and, and he has that. He has that Victor Newman presence. Yeah, he does. In real life. He does. You definitely, I got a little straighter when I was talking to Eric. And I said, "Yes, sir. Yes, sir." So he definitely scared you into oblivion, just beat it up and around him. My God, I, when I, when I talked to him, I, I, I could not, I could not stop shaking. That's just how intimidating he is to me. Oh, really? Yeah, he is. I, God, God bless anybody. God bless anybody that ever, ever possibly may have used him or anything. I was shaking like a leaf. It's terrible. It's terrible. But listen, let's, let's, let's, let's plug, let's plug this book again. Can I see your ID song? Where can they get this? Let's plug this out. You can, or any of your other books for that matter. He's on pretty much anywhere online right now. The, the brick and mortar stores will have it in a couple of weeks. So Amazon and Barnes and Noble right now. And it's, it's like it's doing pretty brisk business. We're, we're at the early stages right now. So we're just, just getting it pumped up. So I'm excited to be here and, and tell you about it. Getting started. That's how you're supposed to go to, right? Exactly. Exactly. Get the word out there. It gives your, can I see your ID song? Barnes and Noble. Amazon.com. Find it. Formally from the younger rest of this is Dr. Joshua Lenders. Excuse me. The gynecologist, a doctor. Joshua Lenders. Oh no. Now you're just going to add it all the time, weren't you? I am, man. Now that I know that. I am. Now that I know that. Something. Something. Anything, man. That was just, that was news to me. That was great. I love it. Thank you so much for having me. I appreciate it. It's been a good time. Love to have you back on any time. Especially if you get back on a soap, find me. Oh my God, it will do. All right. Have a great rest of your evening. You too. Enjoy sunny California. All right. We'll be. Take care. Take care. All right you ladies and gentlemen. You better. He. All right ladies and gentlemen. Of the wonderful, personally radio sets. I am off for now. But I should be back on Tuesday. Yes. On Tuesday. And I don't remember the date of this kind of Tuesday. This is bad. The 23rd. We're going to be on the 23rd. We're going to be joined by. Wedding planner host, Diane Valentine. This show is going to debut on TNT. Actually it already debuted on the 16th. It takes place at 8pm on that station. So make sure you guys check it out. It is produced by Mark Burnett. She is going to be joining us on the show next Tuesday. So make sure you guys check us out. Until then, I am going to be signing off right now. And I will be joining you guys next week. And from all of us here at Buzzworthy Radio. Make sure you get the latest buzz. What's Buzzworthy? We'll see you guys on Tuesday. Take care. Can't get enough of Buzzworthy Radio. Knock on now to www.buzzworthyradio.net. To get the latest news, I'm upcoming guests. Past shows and videos of all your favorite stars. Keep getting the latest buzz. What's Buzzworthy?