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- [Host] The popularsitcom Last Man Standing

recently wrapped its seventh season.

A big part of the show's success comes

from the rapport betweenTim Allen's character,

Mike Baxter, and hisneighbor Chuck Larabee,

played by actor JonathanAdams. Take a look.

- [Male Speaker] Last man standing is

the popular Fox sitcomstarring comedian Tim Allen.

Actor Jonathan Adams playsthe neighbor next door.

Along with his successful career

in television over the years,

Jonathan is sure of his priorities.

Faith, marriage, and family.

- [Host] Well, welcome to the 700 Club.

Jonathan Adams, it'sgreat to have you here.

- [Jonathan] It's great to be here,

That was such cute pictures of my kids.

- [Host] (laughs) It's fun, isn't it

when you get to see your own family.

- [Jonathan] Yeah!

- [Host] Yeah, that'sgreat. Well, it's fun

to have you here and getyour take on the relationship

between you and Tim Allen on this show.

What do you think makes it so special?

- [Jonathan] Oh, well. Like I said.

I keep saying that he, he and I

have different ideas about politics.

We have different ideas about

a lot of, a lot of key things.

But the really key thing we have

the same idea about is faith and family.

And that's what makes thecharacters stay together

and keep together and have a good rapport.

- [Host] I think that's why people love

the show so much because youshow that it can be done.

- [Jonathan] Yeah, absolutely.

And that's what's fun about it, you know?

Yeah, yeah, you canstill talk about politics

and about, you know, thingsthat are going on in the world.

- [Host] And live to tell about it.

- [Jonathan] And live to tell about it.

And not like lose yourbest friend or your kids.

- [Host] Absolutely, it'sthe way things used to be.

I don't know what's happened today.

I know that the show justwrapped its seventh season.

Let's take a quick look.

- [Jonathan] Oh, we have more.

- [Host] We have more.

- [Chuck] Sorry I amlate. Carol and I went out

for breakfast and I startedtalking about our anniversary

and I lost track of time.

- [Mike] Oh, what anniversary is it?

- [Chuck] Oh, 25 years next Saturday.

- [Mike] Congratulations.- [Chuck] Thanks.

- [Mike] Vanessa and I are 35 years.

- [Chuck] Yeah, I know. Carol and I like

having marriage old timers as friends.

In fact, I wanted totalk to you about that.

- [Mike] I'm done listeningfor the day, blame him.

(laughter)

- [Chuck] Oh, you were telling jokes?

(laughter)

- [Jay Leno] Scientist and amonkey and an elephant, okay?

- [Chuck] Oh, the onewhere there's diarrhea?

(laughter)

- [Chuck] Not cool.

- [Host] They're alreadyworking on season 8, right?

- [Jonathan] It's very funny because

it is actually my wife, my wife,

my actual, real life wifeand I's 25th anniversary

in April, it was. So yeah.

- [Host] Do they, do you have any say

in what's written into the series or?

- [Jonathan] No.

- [Host] No?

- [Jonathan] No, I just,I just go out and act.

No, really, it's just I don't.

They just, they, if Idid have any say in it,

it wouldn't be as funny,is all I have to say.

We have really great writerson the show, you know,

I do my thing and they do their thing,

and we come up with somereally, really fun, funny stuff.

- [Host] So how do youkeep it fresh, you know,

week after week, season after season.

I mean, you have to,

you've gone through a lotof different scenarios

that can be played out.How do you keep it fresh?

- [Jonathan] Well, you know,

my first thing is how youdo keep like, life fresh?

How do you keep your -

- [Host] Well, that'sa challenge, Jonathan.

- [Jonathan] It is achallenge, but I'm just saying,

how do you keep your day to day fresh?

You mix it up. You finddifferent aspects of it.

You make light of certain things.

You look deeper into other things.

You find your way through.You keep it fresh.

You just keep going.

- [Host] I know that faith and family play

a big part in the series,but also in your real life.

Talk a little bit aboutyour life growing up.

Were you, was your family,a family of believers?

- [Jonathan] Well, not really.We are what I like to call,

we were what I like tocall CEO Christians.

We were Christmas and Easter Only.

And that was really all we would do.

So you know, my mother and father

would dress us up forChristmas and Easter service,

and we'd go out and take pictures

and come back and whatever.

And it really wasn't a bigpart of our everyday life.

And when I grew up, Iwasn't a Christ follower.

I got into, I was basically an agnostic.

I was not a believer forreally quite some time.

- [Host] So how did you come to Christ?

- [Jonathan] My

beautiful wife,

Monica Farrell, now Adams,

was a believer, a very,very strong believer

in Christ Jesus and Icame to faith through her.

- [Host] Were you attracted to that?

Because it wasn't whatyou'd grown up with,

you said you were basically agnostic?

- [Jonathan] Yeah, and itwasn't what I'd grown up with.

And, was I?

Yes. I was, see, the way I say agnostic is

that you're searching for, for truth.

- [Host] You just haven't landed on it.

- [Jonathan] You just haven'tlanded on a truth yet.

- [Host] Yeah.

- [Jonathan] And I landed on

the truth of Christ eventuallyand it's changed my life.

- [Host] How has it impacted your work?

Because there's so much

just this argumentativein our culture today

about people who are people of faith,

people who are not, neverthe twins shall meet.

You work in a business that sometimes has

a very liberal perspective on things.

- [Jonathan] Absolutely.

- [Host] How do you dealwith that, Jonathan?

- [Jonathan] First ofall, I always try to,

whenever I'm reading somethingor trying to pick a role,

if I get to pick it at all is,

I'm looking for

if it has a sense of

if there is something violent,

if there is somethingdifficult in the piece.

That is has a sense thatit was there for a reason.

That you're trying to get somewhere.

Not just for the sake of it.

- [Host] Some redeeming qualities to it.

- [Jonathan] Someredeeming qualities to it.

And not necessarily, but

I think of my job as being like a mirror.

Like, I'm showing you what the world is

and what the world could be,you know, at the same time.

And so

I

I look for those kinds of roles

that will put that mirror up

and not just necessarily be, you know.

- [Host] The negative aspects of it.

- [Jonathan] Negative forthe sake of being negative.

- [Host] So everybody I know is waiting

for this series to begin again.

What can we expect in season 8?

- [Jonathan] You know what, I don't know.

- [Host] They let you know, do they?

- [Jonathan] They don'tlet me know anything.

They tell me, they say show up.

(laughter)

- [Host] And that's good news.

- [Jonathan] You know, justshow up. That's all I get.

No, no, no, I,

really, all I know is that

we're going to see more of my wife, Carol.

She's going to be coming back.

And we are,

And it's still going to be all about

you know, the fun that'sgoing on in our families.

- [Host] Is it ever scarywhen you're in a series

because you don't ever know for sure,

is the series coming back?

Is my role coming back?

I mean do you, are you always putting

your feelers out there for other options?

Or how do you handle that?

- [Jonathan] Well, I don't know.

To me, it's not so much scary anymore.

I spent a lot of time not,

I spent a lot of time looking for work.

And that becomes my work.

So my work is looking for work

and when I actually work, that's fun.

So, I always say I get paid for, you know,

for all the times thatI'm trying to find work.

And when I actually dothe work, that's actually,

that's actually the goldmine.

- [Host] Well, you hit upon a winner.

I mean people love the series.

They love you, they lovewhat's happening there.

And you can hear more of Jonathan's story

on our Facebook page.

You go to Facebook.com/700Club.

Be sure to watch series 8, it's coming up.

- [Jonathan] It's coming up.

- [Host] We'll be there.

- [Jonathan] Thank you.

- [Host] Thank you,great to have you here.

- [Jonathan] Thanks, glad to be here.