Rosie: As Sully, on the hit CBS series, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, our next guest has made staying at home on Saturday nights a lot more fun. Take a look:

(A clip is shown from season 5 where Sully and Michaela are talking about how fast Katie is growing up and wishing they could just freeze time right then.)

Rosie: So romantic. Joe Landau (Rosie mispronounces Joe's name)

(Joe walks out and corrects Rosie by whispering in her ear)

Rosie: Lando, not -dau, he reminded me.

Joe: That's okay.

Rosie: It's my first show and I messed up. Ouch.

Joe: Thank you for having me.

Rosie: Thank you for being here.

Joe: Congratulations, by the way.

Rosie: I have interviewed you before.

Joe: This is our second time together on a talk show.

Rosie: But it wasn't this one.

Joe: No, it wasn't. And, actually, I think I made a little talk show faux pas last time.

Rosie: What?

Joe: We were on Kathie Lee and Regis and she was subbing and I come out and remember you were going, "Look at him, Reg. Would ya just look at him, just look at him." You kept doing that.

Rosie: That's a pretty good impression of me.

Joe:- And so I got all comfortable and I figured, well, I had heard in Hollywood that you were going to get a TV show. So, I bring this up in front of Regis and she like, "Ixnay owshay" and you just (sound that symbolizes cutting throat). All right.

Rosie: Yeah, that's right. But Reg knew but I didn't wanna be like promoting my own show.

Joe: But nobody else knew, though.

Rosie: I know and I felt a little bad to go in subbing and say, "Oh, by the way, I got my own show. Come watch me." You know, I felt a little, uh, little slimy.

Joe He looks pretty serious (pointing at a man standing off set)

Rosie: Yeah, that's our guy who moves the wires.

Jow: Okay.

Rosie: That's a tough job and he had to focus on the wire the whole show. He doesn't watch the show, Joe, he simply looks at the wire. See? He doesn't care about the show. It's just the wire he's concerned with. Do you have any of them on your show? Any wire lookers?

Joe: We have wire lookers, we have everything you have here.

Rosie: Yeah?

Joe: And more. And actually, speaking of our show since this is your first show of your second season, right?

Rosie: It is.

Joe: Back on the first season of our show, I commissioned a Native American artist to make up 'cause you know I'm known for the tomahawk, besides the hair and the leather outfit and the whole thing,

Rosie: Right.

Joe: For a tomahawk...

Rosie I know that gets to be a drag. I'm known for that as well.

Joe: So I commissioned this artist to make these silver tomahawks by hand and I had Larry Sellers, who plays Cloud Dancing on the show, who's a very spritual man, he blessed and cleansed them and all. And if you wear this on a keychain or around your neck or in your ear, or someplace else...

Rosie: Okay.

Joe: It'll guarantee you at least 6 seasons of success on this show.

Rosie: I will wear it. And you know it's good in New York, too, because if someone comes up behind you, you can be like, "Get away from me!" (making a chopping motion with the tomahawk). You can use it in N.Y. It's a weapon. It's got a dual purpose.

Joe: So God Bless and good luck.

Rosie: Thank you very much. God Bless and good luck to you. You just got married, I hear.

Joe: Yes, I did.

Rosie: Congratulations.

Joe: My wife's backstage.

Rosie: She's backstage?

Joe: It was very exciting, very exciting.

Rosie: Is she an actress as well?

Joe: No, she's not. She runs a bakery.

Rosie: She runs a bakery?

Joe: So we both have early mornings.

Rosie: Are you the luckiest man in the world?

Joe: Yep.

Rosie: Do you have like chocolate croissants every morning?

Joe: I used to.

Rosie: Yeah?

Joe A couple of chocolate croissants and, before you know it, you can't fit into those buckskins, so...

Rosie: Oh yeah, you're looking pretty chubby there. You're looking chubby (as she looks at the camera with a knowing look). You look really good in that. But, you're watching your weight. You don't have to diet the bakery stuff?

Joe: No, no, I'm not big on it now. I used to be.

Rosie: Your wife's probably thin. She works in a bakery and doesn't eat the food.

Joe: True. Just like I met her when I was the chef in the restaurant and she was the cashier. And as soon as she became legal, I asked her out and the rest is history.

Rosie: Really? Well, congratulations.

Joe: But I wouldn't eat a lot there, either. Cause when you're around it constantly, like couscous and things...

Rosie: Got ya. Are you a lot like your character on the show? Not really? Are you like a ruggedy outdoorsy kind of guy?

Joe: I like to do a lot of that stuff, but I'm usually a pretty anal person at home, and you know my character's kinda dirty.

Rosie: Yeah, and you're kinda neat.

Joe: Kinda neat, kinda neat. Look at this suit and stuff. I got all dressed up for Rosie today.

Rosie: Yeah, you're looking kinda stylish there. It's working for ya.

Joe: Thank you.

Rosie: To get into character, do you have to do anything or just putting on the chaps...

Joe: Just putting on the clothes and doing the whole preparation ahead of time, it takes about an hour to get ready and stuff in the morning. We just shot an episode which is going to be the first one out where Sully is... he's alive, I don't want to ruin the cliffhanger or anything.

Rosie: Well, because you did fall off of a cliff and you were sorta dead.

Joe: Yeah, I'm sorta dead.

Rosie: You and Moulder are both sorta dead. We're waiting for the first show. I know you're not really going to be dead.

Joe: No, well half of me is still alive and the other half is sorta busted up and it's a pretty interesting first episode where I...

Rosie: Well, tell me this, do you have amnesia?

Joe: I can't remember. (audience laughs)

Rosie: I was sure you were gonna wander back and Dr. Quinn would be saying something like, "Honey, you're home," and you were going to be like, "Who are you?" No?

Joe: Joe: No, but I had some weird eating habits on that first show.

Rosie: Yeah?

Joe: Because Sully has to, uh, has to stay out of the way of the army because they're searchin' for him and so he has to survive on his own so I had to uh, had to be like Ewel Givens and eat pine nuts and grub worms and...

Rosie: Well, not real worms, you had the prop people put in fake worms.

Joe: That's what they did at first, but you see there's supposed to be this log full of termites...

Rosie: Yeah?

Joe: Well, they took these little Gummi Bears, right before the director shot the scene, and they put these Gummi Worms in there or took the Gummi Bears and put them in there. And they didn't look anything like worms, and so, 'cause I'm in the clothes... usually, I'm arachnophobic, I'm scared of spiders, but when I'm in the clothes, it doesn't bother me. So, I said to the director, we had two cameras going and I said, "Just put the real worms in there and let's just go, before I think about it."

Rosie: Yeah?

Joe: And he's like, "Are you sure you wanna do this?", and I was like, "Just go... go, go, go!!" So he went over and said action and I opened up the log...

Rosie: Don't even. You ate a worm? Joe, I'm serious. (while she was saying this, Joe made the motion of a worm with his pinkie finger and then put it in his mouth, making a sucking noise).

Joe: I ate five.

Rosie: I'm worried about your mental health. You had the option of Gummi Bears over real worms and you thought you would eat the real worms because you had on chaps?

Joe: It worked for me, but the worst part about it was the director said, "Do you mind? We need to do another shot, because the camera angle..."

Rosie: You didn't do it. You did it twice?

Joe: I did it twice.

Rosie: (Rosie pauses, then goes immediately into) It's been nice having you here. Thanks for coming.

Joe: Thank you for having me.

Rosie: And uh... no, I think it's admirable in some sick way. Something I would never choose to do.

Joe: Well, it didn't actually hit me until I was driving home. I called Kirsten at the bakery and I said, "You won't believe what I just did."

Rosie: And she said, "You're not kissing me."

Joe: I ate worms, I ate ferns, I ate... ooh. And that bothered me then, but...

Rosie: Yeah, it bothered you in the car on the way home.

Joe: Mm, hm.

Rosie: Alrighty, call me the next time you're thinking about doing that.

Joe: Okay.

Rosie: And I'll talk you right out of it. I'll go, "Smell the leather. You're in the car." Well, the show is wonderful. What year are you going into?

Joe: Sixth season.

Rosie: Sixth season and uh, much success for you to continue.

Joe: Thank you.

Rosie: And very good luck on your marriage. Thank you for this (pointing to the tomahawk). I appreciate it.

Joe: You're welcome.

Rosie: Joe Lando, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. We'll be right back with Paula Poundstone.



Video Captures courtesy of Yukiko Sato

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