>>ORDERLY: Somebody waiting to be discharged?
>>DR. MORRIS: Right over here.
>>MICHAEL: Hey, Doc, you want to see something? Take a look at this. I've never done one of these before. I've never been able to.
>>DR. MORRIS: Mr. Wiseman Mr. Wiseman?
>>ORDERLY: What kind much surgery did you say you had?
>>DR. MORRIS: Put him down. Put him down. Put him down.

JON: Please welcome Eric Close. Eric.
(Cheers and applause)
JON: Nice to meet you. I’ve got my pen. What can I do?
ERIC: That is an old clip.
JON: You've been on for a year. How old could it be? That's from the first season of "Family Ties." What the hell was that?
ERIC: We're getting down to the wire and just, God, the season has just went... it's flew by.
JON: It's fun, though?
ERIC: Oh, I'm having a blast.
JON: You weren't doing them pushups, were you? Was that you doing them pushups?
ERIC: That could have been me. No. We had this guy, Brian Del Monaco, who was a gymnast.
JON: Yeah, Del Monaco, that's good doing flips. Del Monaco.
ERIC: He rocked. He made me look good.
JON: That's excellent...
ERIC: That was me holding the guy in the wheelchair.
JON: No. That was clear that you weren't strange at all. I can't believe, you know, they deliver water. I always have to call somebody, like, to help me, you know, to get that jug of water and you're like dragging it up the stairs. You live in L.A., so you, you probably live in a house.
ERIC: No. I live here now.
JON: Where do you guys shoot the show?
ERIC: In Queens. Anybody from Queens? No.
JON: People from Queens are not volunteering that information. Let me show you something. Brooklyn in the house.
AUDIENCE: Yeah
ERIC: Yeah, we're shooting in Queens. But we shoot all over the city.
JON: Right. But now, you're from Los Angeles. You went to school out there?
ERIC: Yeah, I'm from L.A.
JON: Where did you go to school?
ERIC: U.S.C.
JON: I went to you. U. C. L.... nah.
ERIC: Oh, I'm sorry, man.
JON: I'm just trying to find some common ground here. What did you do when you first got out of school? Did you go jump right into the acting thing out there or...
ERIC: No. I was pursuing a career in directing and I was doing odd jobs and I started working at a bank as a teller.
JON: What a freak. It's a bank.
ERIC: Yeah, it was fun. I had a good time.
JON: What did you do there? Were you like a guard or...
ERIC: I started out as teller, and then I became a merchant teller, people came in that would like order big amounts of cash and I'd order in big amounts of cash.
JON: Like a merchant teller, because I don't know what... is that like admiral or something...
ERIC: When you go into a bank, yeah, yeah, exactly, more uniforms, lots of...
JON: How much money were people...
ERIC: People bring in a lot of money. Sometimes I would order about $250K. And these guys would bring it in, in big plastic bags.
JON: So you were running a drug thing out of your bank? What kind of craziness is this?
(Laughter)
JON: $250,000, now, where do you order that from? Is that is their a catalog or, how do I get a hold of this?
ERIC: Yeah, I think you order it from Toys "R" Us or something like that.
JON: Toys "R" Us? That's amazing.
ERIC: It's all monopoly money.
JON: Was it boring? Nothing happens, you're just counting money and...
ERIC: No. Eventually people... one time I was there in, n and I'm sitting there and you're kind of trained, if anything happens, if someone tries to rob you, you've got to just give him the money and say, "go." Don't make eye contact, whatever. Well, this lady came in with her hand in a paper bag, and she walks up to my counter and puts her hand down like this, but as she was coming, I thought, "well, if I get out of here before she can say anything, then I got her." So just as she came up, I said, "I’ll be right back." And I took off. So she sat there waiting, I went and got my manager and I brought her back.
JON: You made her wait?
ERIC: I made her wait.
JON: To rob you? Not only is she goes going to rob you, but now she's frustrated, she's pissed off.
ERIC: That's exactly why they don't want you to do, that because if she get pissed of off, they pull out the gun start shooting. Thank God she did. My manager stops to-to-approve a check and I didn't see that. So I walk back to the window and she's sitting there and she says "I have a gun." And I said, "I’ll be right back." And I took off again. Broke the rules twice, so.
(Laughter)
JON: So did she rob you? What happened?
ERIC: No.
JON: You're leaving the story like I went to talk to the manager. Did you get robbed?
ERIC: She took off. She was frightened.
JON: You know what? Here's the thing and I have said this to criminals time and time again. Tenacity. It's about dedication.
ERIC: That's right.
JON: She wasn't ready to rob you.
ERIC: No. No.
(Laughter)
JON: Tony Robbins should have a talk with her. The show is terrific. We enjoyed seeing you. And since you're in New York, you're going to come become our go-to guy.
ERIC: I’d love to.
JON: You're going to have to come back all the time and give us some more of the bank stories.
ERIC: I'd love to.
JON: Eric Close. "Now and Again" is on Friday nights on CBS.