Danson called his former co-star “amazing” and said Harrelson is “biting off these big chunks of life.”

There’s really no telling what Woody Harrelson might do.

The 63-year-old actor is what Ted Danson calls a “freakish creature” — so much so that one of Danson’s “favorite Cheers stories’ involves Harrelson doing something very unexpected.

On Jimmy Kimmel Live On November 14, Danson, 76, recalled the cast of the ’80s sitcom “waiting” for Harrelson to show up for rehearsals one day, “and he had to be about 30 minutes late for rehearsal.” you’ll be late… And we said, ‘Well, who cares?'”

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“And someone came running in and said, ‘Woody called. He’s in Berlin. The wall is falling and he didn’t want to miss it,'” Danson said, recalling his colleague’s truly incredible excuse for being late in November 1989 come. .

“That’s the whimsical side of Woody, but also the beautiful side. He just bites off these big chunks of life. He’s just amazing.”

The former costars recently teamed up to launch a joint podcast venture, Where everyone knows your namewhich Danson previously told PEOPLE was “so much fun” to make.

“We can reminisce and share and catch up, which is enough, but we also met a lot of people among us who we can talk to and find out what they do, including Senator (John) Kerry who has a small (role) in Cheers and we can talk to him about climate change,” Danson said before the podcast’s premiere. ‘We can really go in any direction with it.’

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The podcast has also given Harrelson a platform to reflect on the many incredible things he has done in his life, including snowboarding naked with his old friend, the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea.

“I have footage of Woody Harrelson and me snowboarding down a big snowy mountain stark naked,” Flea admitted during an August appearance on the podcast.

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Harrelson called it “amazing footage” before admitting that his wife Laura “warned him against” letting Flea post the video to Instagram.