Hey, one more thing before you go.

Before we get started on today's episode, we would like to say that our hearts, thoughts and prayers are out to everyone affected by the fires in Southern California, both family and friends, as well as those.

So many people who are losing everything that they've got.

This absolute catastrophic event is unimaginable.

And everyone that has been affected in one form or another, those who lost everything, our first responders, our firefighters, our police officers, our EMTs on the, on the front lines, and the volunteers on the back end, our hearts go out to you.

Our thoughts, our prayers go out to you.

Please stay safe 100%.

Don't make me cry.

I'm gonna wake mess up my makeup.

The.

With all this stuff going on in the world, you know, this kind of seems, I don't know, shallow maybe to do something to talk about a TV show.

But, you know, I think, I think we all use TV and movies and entertainment to escape what's happening.

And I think that especially with the fires and other things going on in the world right now, we're just here to talk about it, some, something that's enjoyable for an hour and can help you feel better for just a short time.

So that's why we're still doing this.

I agree.

So with that in mind, what do you get, Diane, when you have a quirky, cute cleaning lady with a photographic memory and OCD to make sure everything is in order and right where it's supposed to be?

You kind of used to that with me, right?

Just a little.

On some things.

Not everything.

Not everything.

Not everything.

And what happens when you join that with a team of detectives solving murders?

Well, in this episode, we're going to answer some of those questions and more.

We're diving into one of our favorite television shows, our new favorite television shows.

High potential, captivating television show that's been making waves.

I'm Michael Hurst.

I am joined by my wonderful wife and co host, Diane.

Hello, everyone.

Welcome to one more thing before we go over the Teacup Sunday.

Hi, Diane.

Hi, Michael.

Well, that was a, that was a rough start to the show.

We haven't had that in a really long time.

But yeah, with what's going on in the world and going on locally, we have family and friends in the California area, a lot of friends, a lot of.

And we just, we understand.

And our empathy has just kind of overworked itself lately and it's just almost overwhelming.

We're grateful that we don't have.

We don't.

That we know of right now.

Anyone who's been personally affected.

I know I have a friend that was on standby to evacuate.

Luckily, thank God, thankfully, our daughter and son in law have not been put on even standby.

They're farther away from the fire.

The smoke and the ashes.

Yes, yes, they're getting the smoke and the ash, but they, they are safe.

So, I mean, thank God for that.

But we've just been watching so much coverage of it and you know, we, where we recognize, you know, some of the places that they talked about and it's, it's, it's unbelievable and it's, it's hard to even imagine what they're going through.

Well, I do have some entertainment friends that I still associate with that from the cuff, from my conferences and from the film festivals and things like that that have been affected by it and have had to evacuate.

And you know, some of them, I don't know whether they've lost anything, but I know that they were evacuated and had to leave the areas.

I didn't know that.

Again, we just want to emphasize how much our hearts and our prayers, our thoughts and our prayers are out with everybody that's been affected and unfortunately will continue to be affected throughout this catastrophic event.

But now let's try to lighten the day a little bit.

And I am really excited about talking about this show.

Like I said earlier, it's one of our favorite new shows.

We know the, the, the characters, the, the main characters, all the main characters actually, we've seen on other things.

They've always been a favorite of ours, especially Caitlyn Olsen.

Yeah, yeah.

It's pretty cool, huh?

Yeah, I love it, I love it.

It's a comedy.

I mean, I would say it's a comedy, but it also has some real touching moments in it too.

Yeah, it really does.

And you know, it caught on really quickly.

And you know, it's interesting because ABC launched this, you know, opposite Elsbeth, and there's some similarities between that and CBS's Elsbeth.

But I think that having the approach that ABC is doing with high potential in the way that they're doing it, I think is better, in my opinion.

It's a little bit coming from an individual.

I mean, you watched Monk with me, didn't you?

Yeah, we love Monk.

So it's, you know, you have the OCD of Monk in a certain way, but then you've got touches of other programs that we have watched where you get the photographic memory and you get the, oh, I can piece that together.

No, that doesn't belong there this belongs there.

And, you know, Psych was doing it.

You know, Psych and Psych, they'd go.

You know, he'd see these things and they'd flash back and he'd piece them together.

But, you know, he was Potential, was portraying a psychic, but in reality was using his photographic memory in regard to.

Helping to solve a crime and sort of.

What was that show?

Elementary, or is that still on?

Yeah, yeah, elementary.

Yeah.

With.

So it reminds me a lot, like you said, that you set up elementary.

Elementary starred Johnny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu, and it was kind of a Sherlock Holmes type thing where he was solving cases like that.

And it was the same.

Same principle.

It's kind of a mixture.

Yeah, but.

But it brings a nice, I think, to this.

And especially Caitlin Olson.

The last thing that we actually saw.

I know she was in sunny Philadelphia.

Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

But we only didn't.

We only saw a few episodes of.

Actually we need to go back and watch it.

We do, but we also.

In the Mick.

The Mick.

We loved her in the Mick.

It was.

It was like, fantastic.

So it was nice to see her come into something.

And she's married to a comedian who's.

Who is also in sunny Philadelphia.

Yes.

And they just did a crossover, actually, of the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia cast along with Abbott Elementary.

They just did a crossover, which we didn't see, but I know they were.

They did it.

And he also is a co owner of the English soccer team, and I don't remember which one, with Ryan Reynolds.

And his name is Wexum.

Yeah.

Welcome to Wexum is the show that they've got.

They've got a show, basically, them acquiring the team itself and then how they evolved it and how they took it to a championship.

And this whole time we're talking like this, we're trying to remember his name.

That's okay.

Yeah, I can see him.

Everybody knows what we're talking about.

Everybody knows what we're talking about.

And today we're talking about high potential.

So should I tell everybody about high potential?

Yes.

This show, High potential, premiered on September 17, 2024.

It's aired about eight episodes so far.

It follows the story of Morgan, a single mom of three whose exceptional mind helps her solve crimes while working as a cleaner for the police department.

It's a compelling blend of mystery, drama, a touch of humor.

This amazing favorite stars Kaitlin Olson, Daniel Sunjada, who, I will remind everybody here in a few minutes where we know him from.

Javica.

Is it Java or Havoca.

How do you pronounce her name?

J A, V, I, C, I, A.

Havoca.

I don't, I don't know.

Havoca.

Leslie.

We'll try that.

And Matthew Lamb.

Each brings their.

Sorry, that's not right.

Each brings their own unique flair to their drolls, making the characters truly unforgettable.

I think what sets high potential parts is, is the unique premise.

Morgan's unorthodox method of rearranging evidence while cleaning brings a fresh kind of a refreshing twist to the crime solving genre.

As we talked about, it's not about just solving mysteries.

It's also about the resilience and ingenuity of everyday characters, which, which, I mean, I.

Coming as a cop, I would love to have had somebody like her.

Right.

Available to me.

But of course there's always got to be, you know, at least one that's resentful and doesn't like her and he hasn't really been in the last couple episodes, so.

Interesting.

But yeah, she's not a, she's not the cleaning lady for long.

We'll just put that, put it that way in case you haven't seen it.

But if you, yeah, if you have seen it, obviously you know the, you know where it has evolved into.

But you know, the cast characters have great chemistry.

I think that the, the, the availability of what they've been able to create, it makes it a very compelling show to watch.

I think, you know, you, you get to try to figure out, you know, you and I do this all the time and I've, I've trained you.

You've.

You're no longer a rookie.

Yeah, I've, I've learned a lot about figuring out who did what in the shows.

It's pretty, it's.

Yes, it's.

Sometimes I even figure it out before you.

Sometimes you do.

There has been occasion that you have.

Never used to happen.

But, but we like watching the kind of shows that we can figure things out without being so apparent, you know, because sometimes they just, it's like, oh, that's just too apparent, that's too easy.

You know, we like being able to kind of go along with the show and watch what's happening as it's happening and figure it out, you know, kind of a thing.

So, you know, from this approach, I think that they do a really good job with doing that.

Yeah, it's.

I, I love.

It's so funny because you can see her mind.

You can see the, you can see the wheels turning, you know, when she's looking and even they.

They say it too, like, oh, she's getting that look.

But I, I've noticed that this show.

I immediately liked the cast as a cast where some shows, you're kind of like, I don't know that they're really melding all that well.

I'm not sure this.

This one should be there.

You know, what is this character there that all of them are there for a purpose.

And it makes a lot of sense.

Yeah, it's cool.

It's pretty.

I think that even in the respect that the, the police department itself, you know, it.

It's.

It's.

It is a homicide unit.

So, you know, there's something there that kind of allows her just to work with that group within itself.

So I think building the chemistry between all of them is.

Is really good.

Caitlin Olson again, you know, she was Dee Reynolds and Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which I, you know, I think I watched more of Always Sunny in Philadelphia a little bit more than you did, because probably I think Nicole was.

Still.

Was with us for a little while while that was playing, and she really loved it.

So I think I watched the first season of Always Sunny Philadelphia, but, you know, still a great.

She's a great.

And she's a great actor.

She's a great comedian.

She's written out for her role again in that.

Her comedic timing, ability to balance humor with emotional depth shine through in that series.

MacKenzie, Mickey Malone in the Mick, which, you know, that Mick is kind of a wild, brash woman who becomes the guardian of her sister's spoiled children.

I think she works.

She works well in this because she's got kids.

In.

In.

You see the.

You.

You see what she brings kind of forward with that as well, because she.

I think she brings a little bit of that character with her to this, I think.

So you can.

You can see pieces of that, for sure.

Glimpses, at least.

Yeah.

And you know her, the character.

We have to mention him, the, the baby daddy character because I don't think they ever married in the.

You know, the character's never married.

He is.

He's been all over the place for a long time, too.

And he was in a show I really liked, Single Parents.

It was on a few years ago.

And.

I'm sorry.

Blanking on his name again.

I'm blanking on names today.

Every day.

It was a rough start this morning.

And I don't.

I don't remember if he was on snl.

I don't think he was.

No, I don't think he was or something that he's married To Colby Smulders, who was in Everything, and we love her, too.

And I can't remember his name.

Anyway, look up Colby Smers.

That's her husband, and he's in the show, too, and he's not in it enough.

That's what I'm trying to get to.

He is not in this enough.

He deserves a bigger role.

He is awesome.

I believe it.

And I'm.

Even though I can't remember his name.

He's awful.

Yeah.

Daniel Sundiata.

He was Frank Rivera in Rescue Me.

He's perhaps known for his best role as Franco Rivera.

He was a firefighter in that acclaimed TV series, Paul Briggs.

In Graceland, he played an undercover FBI agent living in a house with other agents from various federal agencies.

I watched that for a little while, and as far as recognizing from there, it was pretty good.

He also was James Holton, the Devil Wears Prada played a fashion designer in this popular film with Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway.

And he played Reggie Jackson in the Bronx Is Burning.

He also portrayed the legendary baseball player in a miniseries.

You know, he.

I've seen him some other things as well, so, I mean, we recognize him.

You'll recognize him.

But the chemistry between him and Kaitlin Olson, is it.

It.

It's good.

I think their chemistry works really well, you know?

Yeah, they're great.

And then I wish I could pronounce her name correctly.

I probably should do this better.

Maybe go find something to.

Go figure out how to pronounce some people's names.

Havoc.

Leslie.

She was Ryan Wilder in Batwoman.

She made handling has been taken over the title role in the CW series, becoming the first black actress to play Batwoman.

Ally Finer in God Befriended Me.

Amber.

She was the sister of the main character.

And shown the bar.

Yeah, shown the bar.

The wine bar, which is another series.

I wish CBS would not have canceled.

Whole other conversation, but we've talked about God, Godfriend.

Godfriended me in many other episodes that we've talked about it, but we know her from there, mostly from there.

Paris Hilton.

Excuse me.

Paris Duncan in Family Business, A member of a powerful family.

It's a BET drama, and I think that the show has the power to inspire, motivate you.

It's a reminder that everyone has untapped potential.

And sometimes the most unlikely heroes shine the brightest.

I think the combination of them all is.

And the cases that they're presenting aren't really far fetched.

I mean, that's one thing I like about it, is the Cases are something reasonable.

Yeah, you can believe it.

You can believe that they've happened and.

The outcomes and the investigation unfolding, the way it unfolds, it makes sense.

It's not the thing where you just throw something together.

A lot of times you get a homicide on TV and then you have the typical.

You show up and there's crime tape everywhere and there's cops everywhere.

The detectives go in and they check the post, how long has he been dead?

And we have any suspects.

And then it kind of goes on, you know.

But this, I think, intrigues me.

From my perspective as an investigator and a cop in the past, I think that what it does for me is it kind of goes, oh, now you.

You're really having to analyze, and you're having to really go into this in depth, and you have to really, you know, pick this stuff out.

And.

And to me, I appreciate that.

That's.

It.

Just.

She's really thinking things through.

And.

And some of the ways she comes up with the stuff.

At first when she's talking about it, like, what?

No way.

But then she's.

She.

She lays it out and why.

And it's like, oh, yeah, that does make sense.

So, I don't know.

It's.

It's.

It's funny.

It's.

It's touching.

It's, you know, when she's dealing with her kids and all this other.

Other stuff, and it.

There's.

There's some.

It's not just one.

It's not just about what happened, you know, the murder or the.

Whatever's happened that they're investigating.

It's not just about that.

There's other layers to the story that are happening throughout the series.

Well, I'm gonna give away.

I'm gonna give away just a little bit because I'm hoping everybody has already seen this.

And if you haven't seen it, I'm gonna give away just a little bit just because.

Spoiler alert.

Exactly.

Spoiler alert.

Spoiler alert.

So this show, if you haven't seen it, this show opens as one of my favorite openings in so many other shows.

It has a clean lady come into this detective's office, the department agency's office, which I did have some questions as to why it was shut down, because typically it's supposed to work 24 hours a day.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

You were saying that.

That is the one thing that happened.

You were like, wait a minute, where are all the cops?

It's not supposed to be shut down at night.

So she comes in.

What you see is a Clean lady come in and she's got earbuds in and she's dancing.

And she's dancing.

And she's dancing on the furniture.

Dance or dancing on furniture, on the shorew.

Wiping everything down and clean everything until she comes to a murder board.

And she stops at the murder board and she's doing stuff.

She keeps looking at it.

Keeps looking at it.

And then before she leaves, she goes over and she switches everything around and.

And then, you know, basically putting, putting the pieces in place.

Yes.

Which they had been trying to do but couldn't by looking at the murder board.

And here you see her shoulder.

She fixes everything and then she closes everything up and leaves.

And then the next day they all come in and they kind of get what happened.

What'd you do to my murder board?

Right, well.

And then didn't they have to.

They had to figure out who did it too?

I mean, they, they looked back on the security footage or something and.

Yeah.

See her dancing first.

They see her dancing around.

Yeah, yeah.

Because she's dancing around the room.

Clean.

Which look, if you're gonna, you, you have to do your thing.

You have to go in and clean this whole office building.

There's no reason why you can't dance.

Around if it helps you get your job done better.

Sure.

But.

So it was kind of funny.

They call her in and say, did you do that?

Well, yeah.

Well, yeah, because it wasn't right.

You guys had this wrong and this wrong and that wrong.

And so yeah, and then, and then they, they went, okay, well let's try this.

And it works.

So that's how it really develops into the show that it is because you get to see her ocd, you get to see her crime solving skills and you just see the chemistry.

You get to see.

I mean, she comes in, she, she doesn't dress like a cop.

I'll just put that out there.

She doesn't dress like a cop.

She dresses like a, a 19 year old.

Yeah, but she's, you know, look, if you got the body for it, do it.

Yeah, she definitely got the body for it.

So yeah, it doesn't last that long.

So good for her.

It's all good.

But anyway, we should wrap this up.

We didn't want to make this quick and easy because we didn't want to take care of most of your day.

So I think in my opinion, my verdict is if you haven't watched high potential, binge it.

Oh yeah, Very Benjamin show.

Definitely.

If you have watched high potential, we need to like, absolutely put the word out for a second season.

We're hoping that these fires that have destroyed so much out in California and put so much on hold that it doesn't affect the industry, you know, to a point where some things get canceled or not being able to.

The rookie films there.

Rookie films in Santa Monica films and everywhere that it was burning.

The rookie films and yeah, they do a lot.

A lot of location shoots on.

On the Rookie and a lot of other shows and this one too.

High potential as well.

Looks to me like they're.

I mean maybe, maybe not.

I don't know for sure but they sure make it look like they're doing real location shooting on the show.

They are.

They are doing real location shooting and yeah.

What's going to happen now with so many of the shows now?

I thought high potential already got a second season.

It has not yet.

I believe that they have got a second season.

I believe that I read something about them getting a second season.

So.

Okay.

Because you just said you were hoped that they do but.

Well, what they did was they gave.

They gave him an eight episode start and based on the ratings they gave him like three or four more episodes.

Okay.

To go through before season two.

But they won't.

So basically we want them to get a full second.

We want to give them a full second season.

Full second season.

So watch it, binge it.

Check it out.

It is a.

A.

It's a much.

What a must.

Must watch.

Yeah, I tongue tied there.

Sorry.

Must watch.

It is definitely a must watch.

It's one of our favorite shows.

I love it and it definitely helps me escape from reality for an hour, you know.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So it works.

Yep, it works.

It works.

So one more thing before you all go.

You have any words of wisdom?

Diane, you want to share anything?

Nope.

Just again our hearts go out to Southern California and everybody affected and the first responders and the firefighters.

Oh my goodness.

I.

I can't even imagine what the firefighters have been going through.

So we are thinking of you and thoughts and prayers go out.

Not that how much that helps, but we are thinking of you.

I think those are amazing words of wisdom.

I concur.

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