Howie Mandel interview with Scott Bakula - Quantum Leap

my next guest won a Golden Globe for his betrayal of Dr Sam Becket on the hit TV series Quantum Leap he also starred in the big screen and on Broadway and you can see him in the new ABC miniseries Tom Clancy's netforce take a look at a clip from netforce Jack three of heavy fire Straight Ahead faster sorry there seems to be a road block sir just get me as close to it as you can move it Steve please welcome Scott pacula [Music] welcome welcome it's good to see you it's good to see you too and that's not you're not sick are you no I'm F that's we can kiss if you have if you know you want you feel the need you want to you want to kiss me no okay so anyway I'm just holding on to my booty right now so I at least I'm not cuz that would be too gracious a host if I was hanging on to your booty Wouldn't It Anyway net force net for internet right yes the internet I know nothing about I'm so computer illiterate this is a big you too me too me too didn't you have to do research no they didn't ask me before they hired me so uh I I faked it you never been on the uh the internet never browsed never never chatted nothing I I have a I have a 14-year-old daughter who's constantly on it and I'm always saying I have a 14-year-old daughter is that yours you know but she looks a lot like you yes I didn't well you were on the road you know what I and she's on the is yours on the internet uh no no well yeah no actually she is those chat lines I hate that I'm always saying get off the computer get off the computer you don't find that scary it's very scary it is very scary you find them in the in those in those weird rooms well I I never find them that's the thing you know they're always like the screen goes black as soon as you enter the room you know what are we doing nothing nothing nothing nothing who are you talking to nobody but it's actually these are scary cuz people can take over the world with the internet they can get all sorts of information right isn't that what this movie is about well it's the Year 2005 and Tom Clancy has created this world where the FBI split up into their normal FBI and netforce which all they do is police the internet and while we were shooting this movie the FBI our real FBI designated 100 agents to start doing exactly that so to start doing a movie yes but they going nuts with it so now now you know why people wave at policemen no because they something to hide really of course haven't you you go by a cop and you've like maybe you've been going a little fast or maybe you you know you're you know that left blinkers out and you're just the friendliest person you've ever been because you have something to hide somebody in the trunk sure think about it next time no there's somebody in the trunk so you would just wave that's right everybody's I'm fine no drugs here really no drugs I'm all right Jeffrey dmer just whiz by chewing on something coming from lunch see you I didn't know I never thought about that wave smile and chew that's the that's the way to get by that's the rule huh now your background was it theater like you come from a theater family where you from I don't I'm from St Louis you're from St Louis yeah and uh wow carpool you're supposed to be seeing the pope right now what's going on right anyway and and yes hello you got it I'm with you yeah I know you are tomorrow and the background the background was not uh theater nobody in the family were they happy that you did that I I you know I had an uncle who had gone to New York when he was younger and tried it and it had some success but then came back and got in the family business so what was the family business his father was in uh insurance insurance yeah my dad uh is and was a lawyer so I thought that's what I was going to do right and and I said they think you were going to do that too I think they kind of thought so hoped yeah maybe hoped were they disappointed that you chose they were surprised how about that they were surprised surprised shocked supportive uh eventually yeah not right away well I think they were you know when you come home and you say I'm leaving college to go to New York it's a kind of a little bit of a and you're live in St Louis it's a big deal now were you a good student uh I was a pretty good student not in college not in college I heard that you were that you loved school I loved more than the person loves school I heard you loved High School I loved I did I did love High School actually heard I had a good time I heard good time I saw pictures I saw they show me pi can we show this picture and it looks like you're the kind of guy that would have a really good time can I see the picture there there they are in high school is having a good time hit hit in the backand is that is that a good picture is there another picture from high school that's you I bet there is I bet there is is there another one I'm guessing good time in high school it always haunts me the guy in the control room doesn't know what is this what is this you see you put a dress on once and it always comes back to haunt you what is that what is that you know what that is that's Quantum Leap that's oh I didn't know I just thought we caught something through the window last night yeah that's Quantum Lee I love that show I think people talk more about more than all the characters you played about you being a woman yeah people were uh fascinated by that I think it was it was safe to talk about because there's one thing I'm not is an attractive woman so no you're not no Electra no no there's there's no uh there's no fear there there's no danger and once the family back in St Louis saw this picture they knew their son was okay yeah they they he chose he chose the right career are there more pictur they they unlisted their phone number is what they did they did are there some more pictures PA they moved I guess there's some more pictures the guy in there is like lightning I'm telling you he is like lightning he loves that picture yeah we have a control room in a different time zone oh there there's more there youth we missed Dr Ruth we missed Dr Ruth that's all right she was there she was there and what is this this is me pregnant this now back to the 14-year-old daughter that you have yeah that was I was delivering her at the time is you delivering a baby yeah can you can't you tell yeah I can what standing up oh well that's the the Indian way oh right so you're you're dressed like a squa here I can tell that is the traditional squa squa frck yes the the frock absolutely I'm afraid it was did you have when you had you know why I'm standing up because the stups really are cold they are oh yeah yeah they are see we don't we don't appreciate that no but I have some stups backstage I'm going to bring out for you so why do you carry them with you are you superstitious because you just never know do you get to do not only not only did you do the opposite sex SC did you did you do a lot of sex SC you do a lot of sex SC right you thought of it as kind of a romantic kind of I I've done a few yeah yeah yeah and family cool with that yeah you know somebody said that my mother made a comment about she didn't like the scenes where I would take my shirt off and my mom didn't like to see without a shirt but I think what she meant to say was she didn't like what came after that the taking off the shirt was okay but was the it's the after part that she didn't want to see you probably no no do you like doing those no no no no I don't see I never get to do anything like that so I I want to know if it's fun again that can be arranged you could you've got stirups you can arrange sex sces for me AB you're the man the guy I call you are the man I love you Scott baula ladies and gentlemen thank you so much for being here next for us the miniseries on ABC tonight we'll right we'll be right back with Stephen Anthony Lawrence for my favorite martian I know you got to run thank you so much for coming next