WEBVTT - "FEELING THORNY!" w/ Rob Benedict 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.000 Welcome to Will you accept this Rose? A production of 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:08.200 I Heart Radio? Oh yeah, I want to get all 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:13.840 up in you tonight. It seems so I just gotta 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:42.200 wonder to worship when you reach name. Hello, baby boys, 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:47.160 baby girls, baby humans, baby bunnies and monkeys out there. 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:49.880 My name is Ard Marine, and I have a special 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:54.480 special podcast for you guys today when we realize that 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:57.800 ABC is literally running out of content and they're like 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:01.080 trying to trick us that Sewn Mocy said that they 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:03.440 didn't just air this four weeks ago and we did 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:07.360 it with Jerry and um Rob, we were ready to 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:10.280 do another podcast. We're like, wait, we've done this one before. 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:15.319 But guess what in December, we clearly didn't know that 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:17.400 a pandemic was going to happen, but I knew we 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:19.120 were about to go into the Bachelor's season. It was 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:22.400 going to get busy for us. And I knew my 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:25.600 book was coming out in September and I wanted to 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:29.080 do something special in the release for it. Um. I'm 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:31.800 sure you guys have heard week after week me talking 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:34.160 about it, but I did. I wrote a book. I 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:37.840 wrote a book called little Miss Little Compton. Um. It's 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:41.840 a memoir. It talks about my family growing up in 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:46.280 this tiny town in Rhode Island with um an allegedly 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:51.000 illiterate chief of police and no stoplights in a general store, 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:56.520 and my parents never dated one another, they were co workers, 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:59.000 and when New Year's Eve they got engaged on a 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:02.960 dare and they got married six weeks later and they 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:05.880 stayed married for fifty years. And it starts with that, 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:09.280 and it talks about my time with my family, and 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:11.840 then also that I was able to, you know, go 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:15.680 up with no connections or anything and found my way 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:18.560 onto an NBC sitcom by the age of twenty two 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:21.079 and sort of how I did that, and some funny 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:25.440 stories about accidentally kicking Courtney Cox in the face on 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:28.720 the set of Friends. Things like that are all in 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:32.000 the book. So, um, if you guys enjoy what you 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.960 hear on the podcast, it's really my heart is in 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:37.480 this book. It's truly if you want to get to 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:41.240 know me, this it's all in there. And um, it 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:43.400 was probably the most intimate thing I've ever done, next 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:45.480 to the podcast. And I actually feel like doing this 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:52.000 podcast gave me the bravery to kind of open up 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:54.280 and be a little bit more honest about myself. I 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:56.320 think that in the past, even in my stand up, 0:02:56.320 --> 0:03:00.200 I've never been super personal and just for you long 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:03.320 time listeners and maybe for some newer ones. But I mean, 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:07.160 the last few years personally have been wonderful and also 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:13.480 pretty banana pants batch crazy. Um. But uh yeah, there's 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:16.240 been a lot that's happened, and all happened during The Bachelor. 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:19.280 I lost both of my parents during the podcast season. 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:23.080 Both of them passed away on weekends, and both of 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:27.119 both times I ended up doing the podcast on Tuesday 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.400 because I canceled everything else but the one thing I 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:32.880 wanted to do with my podcast, so and it forced 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:34.880 me to be more open because I couldn't hide what 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:36.840 was going on. I couldn't hide the fact that I 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:40.160 was in my childhood then with my brother or my 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:43.400 mom in the first case like so that was this 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:46.160 was the place that I felt brave enough to start 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:49.720 sort of telling the truth. So what was fun about 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:52.960 writing the book was I realized I have all these 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:56.240 interesting and wonderful friends, none of whom grew up in 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:59.400 Los Angeles, none of whom had any connections, who are 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:01.880 a lot are large part of who you've gotten to 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:05.720 know as our regular participants. You know, we've got Rob 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:10.840 Benedict and Paget Brewster. Um, Aaron Foley was such a joy. 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:15.040 Lauren Lobkis and I had never really sat down and 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:18.120 looked at my story, and I was curious just what 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.479 made them them? I know them now, but I was 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:23.040 curious about how they grew up, where they grew up, 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:27.279 how they got their start with their family was like. 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:30.159 And so these episodes are a little more personal. So 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:33.640 we decided, my sweet sweet Anna, who is here and 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:36.040 it's been such a joy and such a gift and 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:39.960 is in the book. Um as are you guys the 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:43.200 podcast I you know you guys helped put Humpty back together. 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:47.599 It's really been one of the joys of my life. Um. 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:50.320 But we decided to do a series leading up to 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:54.479 the release of the book called Feeling Thorny, and so it's, uh, 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:57.280 it's sort of like, you know, you know, I think 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:59.080 you guys are wise enough, you get it. But they're 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:01.640 an intimate look. They're one on one interviews with some 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:03.719 of your favorite guests that are on and we're going 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:05.919 to do more of them in the quarantine. But the 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:09.240 first person up we just adore and I didn't know 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:10.719 him even though I worked with him. I did a 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:13.440 movie with him years ago, but I didn't really know 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:16.520 him before the podcast. And what's been so fun about 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:18.520 the podcast, I think for all of us is I 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:22.880 feel like I've made all these friends, both like in 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:25.600 person and you guys, I feel like our listeners were 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.120 the best listeners. But and I don't you feel like 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:31.000 we're on this weird little team of like you're you're 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:33.120 in a lot of podcast but this is a very 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:36.400 special little world that we created. Yeah, I would say 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:40.200 this is my favorite team. And it's just and if 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:43.200 it's your cup of team, you know, you guys get it. 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.680 And so I just so Our first one that we're 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:50.200 going to release is Rob benedict Um and it was 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:52.960 so interesting getting to know him. I mean, we have 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:55.760 a few coming up. We have Wells Adams, who was 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:59.080 you know, on The Bachelor as a regular. We did 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:02.360 one with Paget Rooster Um. We did one with Aaron 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:04.839 Folly and Lauren Lobkis. We did one with my boss 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:08.960 from Instatiable Um. She was the first female showrunner I 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:11.680 ever worked with and she really wowed me. Lauren Guss 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:16.640 And I'm just curious about like how people found their 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:19.440 voice owned who they are. And I think, you know, 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:21.359 even if you're not a performer, I think this is 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:24.479 hopefully this will be interesting for anybody. So I hope 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:26.479 you guys really enjoy these. Will be airing them on 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:29.640 the weeks that they're not you know where they have 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:32.039 reruns because we want you to have some fun new 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:35.000 content to listen to when they're torturing us with a 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:39.880 re repeat of Bachelor Goat. And I'm gonna do another 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:43.080 giveaway right now. Um, since you guys have been so sweet, 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:45.520 so don't forget to email in receipts of the book. 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:50.480 Please get the book. It's really fun, little miss little Compton. Um, 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:52.080 all right, so I'm gonna send a T shirt to 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:58.039 this person. This is gonna go married demanding you're getting 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:03.280 a T shirt? YEA exciting you guys like these this. 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:05.520 We had a lot of fun doing these. Feeling thorny, 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:09.040 wasn't it interesting? And it was interesting to learn more 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:11.560 about people in their background and where they came from 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:14.720 outside of the back. It was interesting. I actually found 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:18.000 what was interesting was how like how Wells and Rob 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:20.960 had slightly similar there was aspects of their stories that 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:25.200 were similar, which surprised me. I mean, I mean that's 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:28.160 what that's what we're learning about everyone. It's pretty yeah, 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:32.800 pretty cool. So we hope you will enjoy a more 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:36.640 intimate look into the players of the podcasts, and we 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:38.920 certainly enjoyed doing them, and they'll be a bunch of 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:41.600 them coming up. But ladies and gentlemen are very first 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:50.000 feeling thorny, Rob Benedict, you know what it is. Yeah, 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:59.880 hard to get a little closer. Yeah, yeah, yeah, wanta 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:06.640 on wan gonna be hot. Energy are gonna be super real. 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:30.360 She wants to get with Thorny. Yes, sexy. This is 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:34.600 a very sexy offshoot off. We except this rose feeling Thorny. 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:37.960 We're only the best of the best are invited into 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:42.160 my tent, into my lair to really it's like, we 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:44.520 know we've heard you talking about you're just like a 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:48.840 five heads. We know how you feel about James Taylor 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:51.400 or somebody coming out with a guitar, But now is 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:54.480 a time to really like, let's just like take some 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:58.120 ayahuasca and get to know one another. You guys, you've 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:00.760 been waiting for it. You're like, who is who is 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:07.439 it going to be Bachelor of the your that's Bachelor 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:10.600 of the your skip fourteen fifteen, Bachelor of Your sixteen, 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:20.640 not seventeen nineteen. Robert. Hi, Okay, exciting. So nice to 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:24.000 see you. I mean, and it's so it'll be so 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:27.800 odd to have a real conversation with you. I'm like terrified. No, 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:29.760 this is great. You've got no notes because there wasn't 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:32.160 an episode last night. I have no notes. I mean 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:34.240 I do have notes, sure, but I mean you're not. 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:35.959 We're not going through an episode. No, we're not going 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:39.880 through a No. It is it's like it's like we 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:41.760 can go anywhere we want. We can go off roating 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:45.200 for those listeners at home. I'm doing this in case 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:48.640 you don't know. I have a book coming out this fall, 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:52.439 so called Little Miss Little Compton that you can pre 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:55.880 order right now, you know what, And I'm begging you 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.920 please pre order it. I desperate. All I want in 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:00.960 life is to be on the best seller list. Apparently 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:03.680 you need eight thousand sales. It's all about the pre orders. 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:07.160 Get one, get one for your sister. Just order it now. 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:09.880 Forget you ordered it, and think of it like ambient Santa, 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:12.160 Like you take some Ambi and order a few and 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:14.520 a few months later it'll arrive. You don't know, Yeah, 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:16.400 do it. I'm gonna do it. Are you gonna do it? 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:18.000 And I'm excited to read it because I haven't read 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:20.440 it yet. I think it's really good. I'm exciting. I 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:22.000 think I think I actually did a good job. I 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.679 can't believe now is the Bachelor podcast in there? Yes 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:29.720 it is. Excited, Yes it is. I actually so. It 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:32.480 was an interesting thing writing it, and also in a 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:35.760 weird way, I feel like the podcast has helped me 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:37.920 get a little more honest and get to know people more. 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:41.920 It's surprised. Who would have ever thought a Bachelor podcast? Do? 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:44.240 I feel like I have like a real intimate group 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:46.400 of friends from this me too, for sure. I mean 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:48.000 people for me, you know, I don't you work with 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:50.480 people like Debbie Ryan like for me. I know we're 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:52.400 through this, but I feel like she's a really good friend. 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:55.080 But I feel like, honestly, I feel like that's how 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:59.560 and Paget and every but all of you, I knew 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:01.880 what about the same level, Like I knew a little 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:04.560 and I liked and then this was a way to 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:07.920 come in and to have almost like we have. We're 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:09.920 on a sports team where we play or we play 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.199 like chess, or like when you travel with somebody and 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:14.079 all of a sudden you become better friends because you 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:16.720 go through that experience together, or worse friends. Sometimes we 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:20.200 travel and that Okay, starting right there. Have you ever 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:21.760 had have you ever gone on a trip with a 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:24.400 buddy that you're like, I feel like this happens more 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:27.120 with women, but like, have you ever been like, we're 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:28.800 gonna go do this and then you start traveling with 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:30.760 somebody and then you see that they're like really uptight 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:34.480 or something. Um, I always dread it if I have 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:37.520 to travel with someone that I don't know that well, yeah, scary. Yeah, 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:41.000 And um, certainly I've had some bad trips with like 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:44.439 you know, girlfriends and stuff. But um, the thing that 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:46.200 comes to mind is my friend when I was a kid, 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:48.839 I like, my best friend is this guy, Trevor. And 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:51.040 Trevor is like my family's best friend. He's just he 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:52.960 grew up with me and my brother. He was like 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:55.720 a brother boy wasn't in our family, brother from another mother. Yeah. 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:58.160 And when we when I moved to l A, he 0:11:58.160 --> 0:11:59.560 he came out to visit me and we took a 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:02.320 roach together and just he has really bad habits that 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:07.560 he never really knew, like what littering you know? Yeah 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:15.920 he had, yeah he had, he would yeah he would 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:18.920 like blows nose in a in a cleanex and throw 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:22.360 it out the window and I yea, yeah yeah are 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:24.640 you doing you can't do that. We had a huge 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:27.880 fun end. Would I would pick up his for sure. 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:30.360 I have to say I do as a comedy choice. 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:33.280 Like watching Anchor Man, I did always find it so 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:35.520 funny when they were just literally like, littering is such 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:38.200 a funny comedy device. Mad Men did it too, did they? 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:40.839 They had a picnic and then they just like just 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:44.360 it is like do I do think in a script? 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:48.600 I am appalled at littering. It's and it happens you 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:50.520 drive behind someone in l a we can do it, 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:53.800 and you're scared to say something Oh oh yeah, no 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:57.640 you can't because you'll go psycho. Now. You grew up 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:03.920 in Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, many brothers and sisters, youngest of four. Yeah, yeah, 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:07.320 I've got an oldest sister's like late fifties, and then 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.360 another sister and then a brother was three years older 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:13.440 than me. Wow. Yeah, so I'm very much younger child, 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:17.240 youngest child. Yeah, and um, I know you were at 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:19.040 your brother was like an athlete. Your brother was like 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:23.320 basketball six ft four and he was like star athlete 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:27.080 in high school. So I was, you know not, I 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:30.200 remember because I remember when we did sketch Fest, remember 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:34.440 that photo Anna, Yeah, with your girl. So were you, like, 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:36.920 were you like super popular like during because I feel 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:39.760 like my brother, my brother and I were both also 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:42.280 the smallest. We were tiny. I was too young for 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:45.400 my class and we both grew really late. I was 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:48.840 really tiny, and I was really popular. I used I 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.199 just used it to my advantage because I was always 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:55.320 the littlest in my class. And um, and I just 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:59.200 used humor as my kind of my thing. And it's 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:01.280 interesting because like, I don't know, do you think with 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:04.080 I feel like some of those with guys, like the 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:07.959 humor makes you popular with girls, it makes you neutered 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:10.800 and well liked. Friend zone Yeah, I mean I was 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:12.880 definitely friend zone. I wasn't popular like all the girls 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:15.960 wanted me. I was everybody's friend. But you had a 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:19.480 cute girlfriend, well, yeah she was. She was my neighbor 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.400 and so like for about five years, like literally from 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:25.640 like second grade on, it was like she's my girlfriend, 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:27.560 but like nothing ever happened. She was just my girlfriend. 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:30.120 That picture is so cute. Yeah, and she's a foot tall, 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:32.280 like a foot taller. I loved it. She grew and 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:37.200 I didn't. It's interesting that like that. I don't know 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:40.360 that many people that were popular early on. I did 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:42.080 pretty well. Like as a kid, I was, you know, 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:44.400 and in high school too, like yeah, I know a 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:46.400 lot of my friends like you know, fun high school. 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:49.080 I hated high school. Like for me, I did pretty well. Yeah, 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:53.360 how was college was? It was there? It was? It 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:55.680 was like it was because there was a reset button. 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:57.400 You're like, wait on, the popular guy from high school 0:14:57.440 --> 0:14:59.680 be popular in college? Did you popular all the way 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:01.520 they were? No? No, no no. I was popular with 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:05.440 my I guess with my groups, but no, no in college. Like, um, 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:07.320 first of all, I went to Northwestern, so it was 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:09.520 like a lot of smart people. Yeah, and I was 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:13.440 valedictorian in my high school and you know, big shot. 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:15.000 And then I went to college and I was like 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.400 everybody was valictoria the high school, so like you're you're 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:19.480 not important, and that is a very I feel like 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:23.880 Northwestern in particular, Um, it's almost like an ivy and 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:25.320 but I feel like there's more of a love for 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:27.560 like people who go to I feel like it's more 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:31.440 Ride or Die Northwestern Number one. Like if you particularly 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:34.440 and were part of that whole theater crowd, did you 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:37.840 do like improv of miyow and all that stuff? But yeah, 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:40.760 I know for those of you, So Chicago was like 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:43.480 a huge I actually started doing like comedy and improv 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:46.240 in Chicago. And I remember there was a kid I 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:48.440 was nineteen and there was this kid, Ed Herbsman, who 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:51.640 was also nineteen, and he he was at Northwestern. We 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:53.640 were the two teenagers and he was part of the 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:55.840 Miao Show. And so like the Miya Show. Is this 0:15:55.960 --> 0:16:00.600 prestige like very hard to get into, very prestigious good 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:05.240 college improv? Yeah, our mutual friend Bruce was show was 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:09.240 he was it intimidating to like as far as acting 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:12.600 and stuff goes, Like with the talent level at Northwestern, 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:16.760 did you feel intimidated? Um No, that was one area. 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:19.080 I didn't quite feel intimidated. We all were coming into 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:23.560 it at the same level of inexperience and um no, 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:25.680 you know, you in college you have that weird sort 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:28.960 of like confidence about certain things. And that's one thing 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:32.000 I always was like with my acting stuff. I always felt, 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:35.360 you know, really confident with that and that and you know, 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:40.400 and I found my group within the theater school theater school, 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:42.680 and then I also found my group within the fraternity system. 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:46.240 That's so interesting. But um, yeah, but I wasn't like 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:48.200 in high school. I just was a really good student. 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:50.440 So sorry, that's so loud? Am I crazy? Is the 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:54.440 typing like crazy? I think we're good. I'm like, I 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:57.520 feel like we're with Okay, okay, okay, I I feel 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:01.640 like we're at CNN. I know, like it's okay, okay, okay, 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:03.760 just writing down everything about it's okay. We can do 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:05.280 it at the end. We could do the gist at 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:08.879 the okay, so I know you're actually joining in scientology 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:11.359 right now, we're getting all of your secrets. This is 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:13.880 our e meter And then tell me and then tell 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:17.160 me more. Have you watched that Leah Remini scientology thing. 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:22.440 It's fascinating. What made her quit? Why did she stop? 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:24.920 Did you just have it like a come to Jesus moment? 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:27.680 Because she was deep in Yeah, I read her book. 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:31.240 It was because of the basically she was starting to 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:33.480 slowly question things. And then there was kind of a 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:36.760 showdown at the Tom Cruise wedding. Uh, and a lot 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:39.399 of it we started with Katie Holmes. Yeah, there was 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:42.200 some stuff went down and they were trying to get 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:44.320 her to pull Jennifer Lopez in and she kind of 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:50.639 was like, you get and shows more about Scientology than 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:52.480 Wait a minute. So they were trying to get her 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:54.879 to get j Lo at the Tom Cruise wedding. Yeah, 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:57.119 so they were like, invite ja little Tom Cruise wedding 0:17:57.119 --> 0:17:59.080 and then it was like Tom Cruise would like to 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:00.720 take Tom Cruise and kid would love to take a 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:04.240 walk with Jennifer Lopez and he was Mark Anthony after 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:07.720 the wedding or something. It was like it was being 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:10.560 weird about and so Scientology turned on her and started 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:12.919 to be like, you're being bad. You're being a suppressant 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:16.800 person because you're not basically giving us full access to 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:18.680 Jennifer Lopez. It was like, and that was just one 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:20.640 of the things, Like other things were happening as well, 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:23.240 but she started to be like that's weird, Like should 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:27.240 I know that's what? Should I read the book? Should 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:28.679 I read the book? I mean, if you would like, 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:30.399 it's a good book. It takes you. She started in 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:32.399 scientology when she was like a child, right, so she 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:35.520 was she it was like her family. Oh my god, 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:38.600 you don't think so okay, okay, because your scientology chapter 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:41.119 is it is amazing. It's amazing. You know what. I 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:48.399 just liked to like suit cants on my shoulder. Oh yeah, 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:56.440 I did a sexual time out. So I we were 0:18:56.880 --> 0:18:59.600 part of my My book is about my family. And 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:02.879 then I'll about coming to l A and I know 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:05.399 a little bit about you, but like and we've I 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:08.240 feel like I've gotten to know you more. Um at 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:10.840 festivals and stuff like that. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah when 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:14.120 you travel, um, but you're your did your dad It's 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:15.880 like I had a very tricky dad and you find 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:17.920 out out about it. I had a great mom, tricky dad. 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:22.160 Your dad? Did he leave? Was that? So when I 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:28.640 was like twelve, Um, he just started not being around 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:30.800 as much. And like I was again, I was very 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:34.560 much the youngest not told anything. Which has become an 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:36.920 issue in my later in my life is like I've 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:40.240 had I have trust issues because I don't believe you 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:42.199 when you tell me something. Because lots of like my 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:44.399 mom and my older siblings were like, it's fine, Robbie, 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:48.480 don't worry about It's fine. And then before I know what, 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:50.560 I'm hearing my mom talk on the phone. I remember 0:19:50.640 --> 0:19:53.119 listening on the second floor listening to my mom on 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:57.000 the phone and the first floor talking about my dad's affair. 0:19:57.080 --> 0:20:00.760 My dad's had a fair so I adults don't think 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:03.360 kids kids know what's going to get in and when 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:06.879 you're little like kids no way more than people realize. 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:08.919 And I asked my mom, I said, what's going on? 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:11.760 And my mom will never gets said, your dad just 0:20:11.840 --> 0:20:15.000 has a very close relationship with somebody who works with 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:17.000 And you're like, I'm not an idiot. Yeah, yeah, and 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:19.000 so and this is this weird is a twelve year 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:22.240 old there's just this weird sort of like um fear. 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:24.240 I guess it settles in in your chest. You're not 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:26.479 quite sure what it is or what she means. You 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:28.040 know what she's not saying, but you don't know what 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:29.919 she's not saying. Were you close with your dad at 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:33.280 that point? Yeah, that's the thing. Is my from zero 0:20:33.359 --> 0:20:35.680 to ten, I I thought I had an ideal life, 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:38.879 like we had this great house. Columbia, Missouri is a 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:41.720 great town. It's like a university town. So it's the 0:20:41.760 --> 0:20:44.880 Austin of Missouri. Wow. Okay, yeah, it's it's this one 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:47.720 little liberal nook in the middle of Missouri, which is 0:20:47.720 --> 0:20:50.760 a very red state. Now. Um and so we had 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:52.919 like R. E. M. Came to play like you have 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:58.240 this liberal thinking college. Everyone goes to colleges University of Missouri. Okay, 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:01.160 so it's the state school. Great so um So anyway, 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:06.320 so so you had this idea like football or baseball 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:08.879 catch on the front yard, you know. And of course 0:21:08.960 --> 0:21:13.480 then after he turned asshole, there are things that you're like, oh, yeah, 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:15.440 I guess that was kind of One of the things 0:21:15.520 --> 0:21:18.200 is my dad thought I was too short, and he 0:21:18.800 --> 0:21:22.080 made me go to this growth doctor. Um. And that 0:21:22.119 --> 0:21:23.639 was all through my teenage years. I had to go 0:21:23.640 --> 0:21:25.840 to this growth doctor because he wanted me to be 0:21:25.840 --> 0:21:27.600 as tall as my brother. And then he also teaches 0:21:27.600 --> 0:21:29.800 you that something's wrong with you. Totally totally did you 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:32.200 take it in big time, big time my whole life. 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:33.720 I mean, it's still walking room and think I'm the 0:21:33.720 --> 0:21:35.760 shortest guy in the room. Think about it. I just 0:21:35.760 --> 0:21:38.879