Speaker 1: Welcome to Will you accept this Rose? A production of
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio? Oh yeah, I want to get all
Speaker 1: up in you tonight. It seems so I just gotta
Speaker 1: wonder to worship when you reach name. Hello, baby boys,
Speaker 1: baby girls, baby humans, baby bunnies and monkeys out there.
Speaker 1: My name is Ard Marine, and I have a special
Speaker 1: special podcast for you guys today when we realize that
Speaker 1: ABC is literally running out of content and they're like
Speaker 1: trying to trick us that Sewn Mocy said that they
Speaker 1: didn't just air this four weeks ago and we did
Speaker 1: it with Jerry and um Rob, we were ready to
Speaker 1: do another podcast. We're like, wait, we've done this one before.
Speaker 1: But guess what in December, we clearly didn't know that
Speaker 1: a pandemic was going to happen, but I knew we
Speaker 1: were about to go into the Bachelor's season. It was
Speaker 1: going to get busy for us. And I knew my
Speaker 1: book was coming out in September and I wanted to
Speaker 1: do something special in the release for it. Um. I'm
Speaker 1: sure you guys have heard week after week me talking
Speaker 1: about it, but I did. I wrote a book. I
Speaker 1: wrote a book called little Miss Little Compton. Um. It's
Speaker 1: a memoir. It talks about my family growing up in
Speaker 1: this tiny town in Rhode Island with um an allegedly
Speaker 1: illiterate chief of police and no stoplights in a general store,
Speaker 1: and my parents never dated one another, they were co workers,
Speaker 1: and when New Year's Eve they got engaged on a
Speaker 1: dare and they got married six weeks later and they
Speaker 1: stayed married for fifty years. And it starts with that,
Speaker 1: and it talks about my time with my family, and
Speaker 1: then also that I was able to, you know, go
Speaker 1: up with no connections or anything and found my way
Speaker 1: onto an NBC sitcom by the age of twenty two
Speaker 1: and sort of how I did that, and some funny
Speaker 1: stories about accidentally kicking Courtney Cox in the face on
Speaker 1: the set of Friends. Things like that are all in
Speaker 1: the book. So, um, if you guys enjoy what you
Speaker 1: hear on the podcast, it's really my heart is in
Speaker 1: this book. It's truly if you want to get to
Speaker 1: know me, this it's all in there. And um, it
Speaker 1: was probably the most intimate thing I've ever done, next
Speaker 1: to the podcast. And I actually feel like doing this
Speaker 1: podcast gave me the bravery to kind of open up
Speaker 1: and be a little bit more honest about myself. I
Speaker 1: think that in the past, even in my stand up,
Speaker 1: I've never been super personal and just for you long
Speaker 1: time listeners and maybe for some newer ones. But I mean,
Speaker 1: the last few years personally have been wonderful and also
Speaker 1: pretty banana pants batch crazy. Um. But uh yeah, there's
Speaker 1: been a lot that's happened, and all happened during The Bachelor.
Speaker 1: I lost both of my parents during the podcast season.
Speaker 1: Both of them passed away on weekends, and both of
Speaker 1: both times I ended up doing the podcast on Tuesday
Speaker 1: because I canceled everything else but the one thing I
Speaker 1: wanted to do with my podcast, so and it forced
Speaker 1: me to be more open because I couldn't hide what
Speaker 1: was going on. I couldn't hide the fact that I
Speaker 1: was in my childhood then with my brother or my
Speaker 1: mom in the first case like so that was this
Speaker 1: was the place that I felt brave enough to start
Speaker 1: sort of telling the truth. So what was fun about
Speaker 1: writing the book was I realized I have all these
Speaker 1: interesting and wonderful friends, none of whom grew up in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, none of whom had any connections, who are
Speaker 1: a lot are large part of who you've gotten to
Speaker 1: know as our regular participants. You know, we've got Rob
Speaker 1: Benedict and Paget Brewster. Um, Aaron Foley was such a joy.
Speaker 1: Lauren Lobkis and I had never really sat down and
Speaker 1: looked at my story, and I was curious just what
Speaker 1: made them them? I know them now, but I was
Speaker 1: curious about how they grew up, where they grew up,
Speaker 1: how they got their start with their family was like.
Speaker 1: And so these episodes are a little more personal. So
Speaker 1: we decided, my sweet sweet Anna, who is here and
Speaker 1: it's been such a joy and such a gift and
Speaker 1: is in the book. Um as are you guys the
Speaker 1: podcast I you know you guys helped put Humpty back together.
Speaker 1: It's really been one of the joys of my life. Um.
Speaker 1: But we decided to do a series leading up to
Speaker 1: the release of the book called Feeling Thorny, and so it's, uh,
Speaker 1: it's sort of like, you know, you know, I think
Speaker 1: you guys are wise enough, you get it. But they're
Speaker 1: an intimate look. They're one on one interviews with some
Speaker 1: of your favorite guests that are on and we're going
Speaker 1: to do more of them in the quarantine. But the
Speaker 1: first person up we just adore and I didn't know
Speaker 1: him even though I worked with him. I did a
Speaker 1: movie with him years ago, but I didn't really know
Speaker 1: him before the podcast. And what's been so fun about
Speaker 1: the podcast, I think for all of us is I
Speaker 1: feel like I've made all these friends, both like in
Speaker 1: person and you guys, I feel like our listeners were
Speaker 1: the best listeners. But and I don't you feel like
Speaker 1: we're on this weird little team of like you're you're
Speaker 1: in a lot of podcast but this is a very
Speaker 1: special little world that we created. Yeah, I would say
Speaker 1: this is my favorite team. And it's just and if
Speaker 1: it's your cup of team, you know, you guys get it.
Speaker 1: And so I just so Our first one that we're
Speaker 1: going to release is Rob benedict Um and it was
Speaker 1: so interesting getting to know him. I mean, we have
Speaker 1: a few coming up. We have Wells Adams, who was
Speaker 1: you know, on The Bachelor as a regular. We did
Speaker 1: one with Paget Rooster Um. We did one with Aaron
Speaker 1: Folly and Lauren Lobkis. We did one with my boss
Speaker 1: from Instatiable Um. She was the first female showrunner I
Speaker 1: ever worked with and she really wowed me. Lauren Guss
Speaker 1: And I'm just curious about like how people found their
Speaker 1: voice owned who they are. And I think, you know,
Speaker 1: even if you're not a performer, I think this is
Speaker 1: hopefully this will be interesting for anybody. So I hope
Speaker 1: you guys really enjoy these. Will be airing them on
Speaker 1: the weeks that they're not you know where they have
Speaker 1: reruns because we want you to have some fun new
Speaker 1: content to listen to when they're torturing us with a
Speaker 1: re repeat of Bachelor Goat. And I'm gonna do another
Speaker 1: giveaway right now. Um, since you guys have been so sweet,
Speaker 1: so don't forget to email in receipts of the book.
Speaker 1: Please get the book. It's really fun, little miss little Compton. Um,
Speaker 1: all right, so I'm gonna send a T shirt to
Speaker 1: this person. This is gonna go married demanding you're getting
Speaker 1: a T shirt? YEA exciting you guys like these this.
Speaker 1: We had a lot of fun doing these. Feeling thorny,
Speaker 1: wasn't it interesting? And it was interesting to learn more
Speaker 1: about people in their background and where they came from
Speaker 1: outside of the back. It was interesting. I actually found
Speaker 1: what was interesting was how like how Wells and Rob
Speaker 1: had slightly similar there was aspects of their stories that
Speaker 1: were similar, which surprised me. I mean, I mean that's
Speaker 1: what that's what we're learning about everyone. It's pretty yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty cool. So we hope you will enjoy a more
Speaker 1: intimate look into the players of the podcasts, and we
Speaker 1: certainly enjoyed doing them, and they'll be a bunch of
Speaker 1: them coming up. But ladies and gentlemen are very first
Speaker 1: feeling thorny, Rob Benedict, you know what it is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: hard to get a little closer. Yeah, yeah, yeah, wanta
Speaker 1: on wan gonna be hot. Energy are gonna be super real.
Speaker 1: She wants to get with Thorny. Yes, sexy. This is
Speaker 1: a very sexy offshoot off. We except this rose feeling Thorny.
Speaker 1: We're only the best of the best are invited into
Speaker 1: my tent, into my lair to really it's like, we
Speaker 1: know we've heard you talking about you're just like a
Speaker 1: five heads. We know how you feel about James Taylor
Speaker 1: or somebody coming out with a guitar, But now is
Speaker 1: a time to really like, let's just like take some
Speaker 1: ayahuasca and get to know one another. You guys, you've
Speaker 1: been waiting for it. You're like, who is who is
Speaker 1: it going to be Bachelor of the your that's Bachelor
Speaker 1: of the your skip fourteen fifteen, Bachelor of Your sixteen,
Speaker 1: not seventeen nineteen. Robert. Hi, Okay, exciting. So nice to
Speaker 1: see you. I mean, and it's so it'll be so
Speaker 1: odd to have a real conversation with you. I'm like terrified. No,
Speaker 1: this is great. You've got no notes because there wasn't
Speaker 1: an episode last night. I have no notes. I mean
Speaker 1: I do have notes, sure, but I mean you're not.
Speaker 1: We're not going through an episode. No, we're not going
Speaker 1: through a No. It is it's like it's like we
Speaker 1: can go anywhere we want. We can go off roating
Speaker 1: for those listeners at home. I'm doing this in case
Speaker 1: you don't know. I have a book coming out this fall,
Speaker 1: so called Little Miss Little Compton that you can pre
Speaker 1: order right now, you know what, And I'm begging you
Speaker 1: please pre order it. I desperate. All I want in
Speaker 1: life is to be on the best seller list. Apparently
Speaker 1: you need eight thousand sales. It's all about the pre orders.
Speaker 1: Get one, get one for your sister. Just order it now.
Speaker 1: Forget you ordered it, and think of it like ambient Santa,
Speaker 1: Like you take some Ambi and order a few and
Speaker 1: a few months later it'll arrive. You don't know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: do it. I'm gonna do it. Are you gonna do it?
Speaker 1: And I'm excited to read it because I haven't read
Speaker 1: it yet. I think it's really good. I'm exciting. I
Speaker 1: think I think I actually did a good job. I
Speaker 1: can't believe now is the Bachelor podcast in there? Yes
Speaker 1: it is. Excited, Yes it is. I actually so. It
Speaker 1: was an interesting thing writing it, and also in a
Speaker 1: weird way, I feel like the podcast has helped me
Speaker 1: get a little more honest and get to know people more.
Speaker 1: It's surprised. Who would have ever thought a Bachelor podcast? Do?
Speaker 1: I feel like I have like a real intimate group
Speaker 1: of friends from this me too, for sure. I mean
Speaker 1: people for me, you know, I don't you work with
Speaker 1: people like Debbie Ryan like for me. I know we're
Speaker 1: through this, but I feel like she's a really good friend.
Speaker 1: But I feel like, honestly, I feel like that's how
Speaker 1: and Paget and every but all of you, I knew
Speaker 1: what about the same level, Like I knew a little
Speaker 1: and I liked and then this was a way to
Speaker 1: come in and to have almost like we have. We're
Speaker 1: on a sports team where we play or we play
Speaker 1: like chess, or like when you travel with somebody and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you become better friends because you
Speaker 1: go through that experience together, or worse friends. Sometimes we
Speaker 1: travel and that Okay, starting right there. Have you ever
Speaker 1: had have you ever gone on a trip with a
Speaker 1: buddy that you're like, I feel like this happens more
Speaker 1: with women, but like, have you ever been like, we're
Speaker 1: gonna go do this and then you start traveling with
Speaker 1: somebody and then you see that they're like really uptight
Speaker 1: or something. Um, I always dread it if I have
Speaker 1: to travel with someone that I don't know that well, yeah, scary. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And um, certainly I've had some bad trips with like
Speaker 1: you know, girlfriends and stuff. But um, the thing that
Speaker 1: comes to mind is my friend when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: I like, my best friend is this guy, Trevor. And
Speaker 1: Trevor is like my family's best friend. He's just he
Speaker 1: grew up with me and my brother. He was like
Speaker 1: a brother boy wasn't in our family, brother from another mother. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And when we when I moved to l A, he
Speaker 1: he came out to visit me and we took a
Speaker 1: roach together and just he has really bad habits that
Speaker 1: he never really knew, like what littering you know? Yeah
Speaker 1: he had, yeah he had, he would yeah he would
Speaker 1: like blows nose in a in a cleanex and throw
Speaker 1: it out the window and I yea, yeah yeah are
Speaker 1: you doing you can't do that. We had a huge
Speaker 1: fun end. Would I would pick up his for sure.
Speaker 1: I have to say I do as a comedy choice.
Speaker 1: Like watching Anchor Man, I did always find it so
Speaker 1: funny when they were just literally like, littering is such
Speaker 1: a funny comedy device. Mad Men did it too, did they?
Speaker 1: They had a picnic and then they just like just
Speaker 1: it is like do I do think in a script?
Speaker 1: I am appalled at littering. It's and it happens you
Speaker 1: drive behind someone in l a we can do it,
Speaker 1: and you're scared to say something Oh oh yeah, no
Speaker 1: you can't because you'll go psycho. Now. You grew up
Speaker 1: in Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, many brothers and sisters, youngest of four. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I've got an oldest sister's like late fifties, and then
Speaker 1: another sister and then a brother was three years older
Speaker 1: than me. Wow. Yeah, so I'm very much younger child,
Speaker 1: youngest child. Yeah, and um, I know you were at
Speaker 1: your brother was like an athlete. Your brother was like
Speaker 1: basketball six ft four and he was like star athlete
Speaker 1: in high school. So I was, you know not, I
Speaker 1: remember because I remember when we did sketch Fest, remember
Speaker 1: that photo Anna, Yeah, with your girl. So were you, like,
Speaker 1: were you like super popular like during because I feel
Speaker 1: like my brother, my brother and I were both also
Speaker 1: the smallest. We were tiny. I was too young for
Speaker 1: my class and we both grew really late. I was
Speaker 1: really tiny, and I was really popular. I used I
Speaker 1: just used it to my advantage because I was always
Speaker 1: the littlest in my class. And um, and I just
Speaker 1: used humor as my kind of my thing. And it's
Speaker 1: interesting because like, I don't know, do you think with
Speaker 1: I feel like some of those with guys, like the
Speaker 1: humor makes you popular with girls, it makes you neutered
Speaker 1: and well liked. Friend zone Yeah, I mean I was
Speaker 1: definitely friend zone. I wasn't popular like all the girls
Speaker 1: wanted me. I was everybody's friend. But you had a
Speaker 1: cute girlfriend, well, yeah she was. She was my neighbor
Speaker 1: and so like for about five years, like literally from
Speaker 1: like second grade on, it was like she's my girlfriend,
Speaker 1: but like nothing ever happened. She was just my girlfriend.
Speaker 1: That picture is so cute. Yeah, and she's a foot tall,
Speaker 1: like a foot taller. I loved it. She grew and
Speaker 1: I didn't. It's interesting that like that. I don't know
Speaker 1: that many people that were popular early on. I did
Speaker 1: pretty well. Like as a kid, I was, you know,
Speaker 1: and in high school too, like yeah, I know a
Speaker 1: lot of my friends like you know, fun high school.
Speaker 1: I hated high school. Like for me, I did pretty well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how was college was? It was there? It was? It
Speaker 1: was like it was because there was a reset button.
Speaker 1: You're like, wait on, the popular guy from high school
Speaker 1: be popular in college? Did you popular all the way
Speaker 1: they were? No? No, no no. I was popular with
Speaker 1: my I guess with my groups, but no, no in college. Like, um,
Speaker 1: first of all, I went to Northwestern, so it was
Speaker 1: like a lot of smart people. Yeah, and I was
Speaker 1: valedictorian in my high school and you know, big shot.
Speaker 1: And then I went to college and I was like
Speaker 1: everybody was valictoria the high school, so like you're you're
Speaker 1: not important, and that is a very I feel like
Speaker 1: Northwestern in particular, Um, it's almost like an ivy and
Speaker 1: but I feel like there's more of a love for
Speaker 1: like people who go to I feel like it's more
Speaker 1: Ride or Die Northwestern Number one. Like if you particularly
Speaker 1: and were part of that whole theater crowd, did you
Speaker 1: do like improv of miyow and all that stuff? But yeah,
Speaker 1: I know for those of you, So Chicago was like
Speaker 1: a huge I actually started doing like comedy and improv
Speaker 1: in Chicago. And I remember there was a kid I
Speaker 1: was nineteen and there was this kid, Ed Herbsman, who
Speaker 1: was also nineteen, and he he was at Northwestern. We
Speaker 1: were the two teenagers and he was part of the
Speaker 1: Miao Show. And so like the Miya Show. Is this
Speaker 1: prestige like very hard to get into, very prestigious good
Speaker 1: college improv? Yeah, our mutual friend Bruce was show was
Speaker 1: he was it intimidating to like as far as acting
Speaker 1: and stuff goes, Like with the talent level at Northwestern,
Speaker 1: did you feel intimidated? Um No, that was one area.
Speaker 1: I didn't quite feel intimidated. We all were coming into
Speaker 1: it at the same level of inexperience and um no,
Speaker 1: you know, you in college you have that weird sort
Speaker 1: of like confidence about certain things. And that's one thing
Speaker 1: I always was like with my acting stuff. I always felt,
Speaker 1: you know, really confident with that and that and you know,
Speaker 1: and I found my group within the theater school theater school,
Speaker 1: and then I also found my group within the fraternity system.
Speaker 1: That's so interesting. But um, yeah, but I wasn't like
Speaker 1: in high school. I just was a really good student.
Speaker 1: So sorry, that's so loud? Am I crazy? Is the
Speaker 1: typing like crazy? I think we're good. I'm like, I
Speaker 1: feel like we're with Okay, okay, okay, I I feel
Speaker 1: like we're at CNN. I know, like it's okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: just writing down everything about it's okay. We can do
Speaker 1: it at the end. We could do the gist at
Speaker 1: the okay, so I know you're actually joining in scientology
Speaker 1: right now, we're getting all of your secrets. This is
Speaker 1: our e meter And then tell me and then tell
Speaker 1: me more. Have you watched that Leah Remini scientology thing.
Speaker 1: It's fascinating. What made her quit? Why did she stop?
Speaker 1: Did you just have it like a come to Jesus moment?
Speaker 1: Because she was deep in Yeah, I read her book.
Speaker 1: It was because of the basically she was starting to
Speaker 1: slowly question things. And then there was kind of a
Speaker 1: showdown at the Tom Cruise wedding. Uh, and a lot
Speaker 1: of it we started with Katie Holmes. Yeah, there was
Speaker 1: some stuff went down and they were trying to get
Speaker 1: her to pull Jennifer Lopez in and she kind of
Speaker 1: was like, you get and shows more about Scientology than
Speaker 1: Wait a minute. So they were trying to get her
Speaker 1: to get j Lo at the Tom Cruise wedding. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so they were like, invite ja little Tom Cruise wedding
Speaker 1: and then it was like Tom Cruise would like to
Speaker 1: take Tom Cruise and kid would love to take a
Speaker 1: walk with Jennifer Lopez and he was Mark Anthony after
Speaker 1: the wedding or something. It was like it was being
Speaker 1: weird about and so Scientology turned on her and started
Speaker 1: to be like, you're being bad. You're being a suppressant
Speaker 1: person because you're not basically giving us full access to
Speaker 1: Jennifer Lopez. It was like, and that was just one
Speaker 1: of the things, Like other things were happening as well,
Speaker 1: but she started to be like that's weird, Like should
Speaker 1: I know that's what? Should I read the book? Should
Speaker 1: I read the book? I mean, if you would like,
Speaker 1: it's a good book. It takes you. She started in
Speaker 1: scientology when she was like a child, right, so she
Speaker 1: was she it was like her family. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: you don't think so okay, okay, because your scientology chapter
Speaker 1: is it is amazing. It's amazing. You know what. I
Speaker 1: just liked to like suit cants on my shoulder. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I did a sexual time out. So I we were
Speaker 1: part of my My book is about my family. And
Speaker 1: then I'll about coming to l A and I know
Speaker 1: a little bit about you, but like and we've I
Speaker 1: feel like I've gotten to know you more. Um at
Speaker 1: festivals and stuff like that. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah when
Speaker 1: you travel, um, but you're your did your dad It's
Speaker 1: like I had a very tricky dad and you find
Speaker 1: out out about it. I had a great mom, tricky dad.
Speaker 1: Your dad? Did he leave? Was that? So when I
Speaker 1: was like twelve, Um, he just started not being around
Speaker 1: as much. And like I was again, I was very
Speaker 1: much the youngest not told anything. Which has become an
Speaker 1: issue in my later in my life is like I've
Speaker 1: had I have trust issues because I don't believe you
Speaker 1: when you tell me something. Because lots of like my
Speaker 1: mom and my older siblings were like, it's fine, Robbie,
Speaker 1: don't worry about It's fine. And then before I know what,
Speaker 1: I'm hearing my mom talk on the phone. I remember
Speaker 1: listening on the second floor listening to my mom on
Speaker 1: the phone and the first floor talking about my dad's affair.
Speaker 1: My dad's had a fair so I adults don't think
Speaker 1: kids kids know what's going to get in and when
Speaker 1: you're little like kids no way more than people realize.
Speaker 1: And I asked my mom, I said, what's going on?
Speaker 1: And my mom will never gets said, your dad just
Speaker 1: has a very close relationship with somebody who works with
Speaker 1: And you're like, I'm not an idiot. Yeah, yeah, and
Speaker 1: so and this is this weird is a twelve year
Speaker 1: old there's just this weird sort of like um fear.
Speaker 1: I guess it settles in in your chest. You're not
Speaker 1: quite sure what it is or what she means. You
Speaker 1: know what she's not saying, but you don't know what
Speaker 1: she's not saying. Were you close with your dad at
Speaker 1: that point? Yeah, that's the thing. Is my from zero
Speaker 1: to ten, I I thought I had an ideal life,
Speaker 1: like we had this great house. Columbia, Missouri is a
Speaker 1: great town. It's like a university town. So it's the
Speaker 1: Austin of Missouri. Wow. Okay, yeah, it's it's this one
Speaker 1: little liberal nook in the middle of Missouri, which is
Speaker 1: a very red state. Now. Um and so we had
Speaker 1: like R. E. M. Came to play like you have
Speaker 1: this liberal thinking college. Everyone goes to colleges University of Missouri. Okay,
Speaker 1: so it's the state school. Great so um So anyway,
Speaker 1: so so you had this idea like football or baseball
Speaker 1: catch on the front yard, you know. And of course
Speaker 1: then after he turned asshole, there are things that you're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess that was kind of One of the things
Speaker 1: is my dad thought I was too short, and he
Speaker 1: made me go to this growth doctor. Um. And that
Speaker 1: was all through my teenage years. I had to go
Speaker 1: to this growth doctor because he wanted me to be
Speaker 1: as tall as my brother. And then he also teaches
Speaker 1: you that something's wrong with you. Totally totally did you
Speaker 1: take it in big time, big time my whole life.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's still walking room and think I'm the
Speaker 1: shortest guy in the room. Think about it. I just
Speaker 1: found out that the average American height of a guy
Speaker 1: is shorter than me, which is crazy. I I think
Speaker 1: I'm I'm ridiculously short. I'm actually not for American men.
Speaker 1: It's funny though, like the stuff that it's hard to
Speaker 1: shake even when you know better, you know, I mean
Speaker 1: my dad all he was so he would just call
Speaker 1: me fat and like me truly, like and just this
Speaker 1: stuff like he just would just be like who would
Speaker 1: want to marry you? Like just awful And so then
Speaker 1: you kind of know, like this doesn't sound like a
Speaker 1: happy person telling me, and he had it's also like
Speaker 1: your parents, you know, and so it's hard not to take.
Speaker 1: But I do have a theory that a lot of
Speaker 1: my favorite people have bad dad. I feel like our
Speaker 1: generation had a lot of bad dad. Yeah. Yeah. We
Speaker 1: were saying before we started the podcast that when someone
Speaker 1: says they have a good dad, you're like, wait, wait,
Speaker 1: really what Katie was saying She's got a good dad,
Speaker 1: and I was like, weird, Anna has a tricky dad,
Speaker 1: not a great dad. Yeah, it's an interesting Did your
Speaker 1: mom and I get divorced? Did you know they stayed
Speaker 1: married till the end? They were always home, he was
Speaker 1: always he was just a jerk to me. He didn't
Speaker 1: like me. Why I don't know. And honestly, like when
Speaker 1: I really look back, and I didn't put this stuff
Speaker 1: in the book because it's almost like too dark. But
Speaker 1: like he was awful to me literally from the day
Speaker 1: I got home from the hospital, like he held me
Speaker 1: in the like you know, baby's necks aren't developed, Like
Speaker 1: my first day home from the hospital, he held me
Speaker 1: in the head in the doorway, like do you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Like so I think he'd made up
Speaker 1: his mind, like he was just gonna tease. He just
Speaker 1: was just a bullet. I don't think my brother's older,
Speaker 1: he kind of you know, he wasn't a good dad
Speaker 1: to either of us, but I think there was sort
Speaker 1: of a man to man thing. I'm like, we're going
Speaker 1: to talk business. But my brother was little, and he
Speaker 1: always kept treating my brother, who is who is a
Speaker 1: straight man and not the like from the time he
Speaker 1: was five, he was like, you know, treating him like
Speaker 1: you know, you better watch out in the shower, like
Speaker 1: you're a little guy, you know what. I was like, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was just a very inappropriate was aware of it.
Speaker 1: I think she was like that was I would say,
Speaker 1: my I mean greatest lady, e our greatest mom, but
Speaker 1: her achilles heel was it was it was him was
Speaker 1: sort of like um and and like, oh he didn't
Speaker 1: mean it, you know, like that kind of you're like, well,
Speaker 1: that's kind of a horrible thing to do. And as
Speaker 1: an adult, did you ever talk? Oh? Yeah, we did.
Speaker 1: There was a year where I didn't talk to anybody
Speaker 1: in my family for a whole year, I know. And
Speaker 1: and you know, it's interesting. I think we just sort
Speaker 1: of agreed to disagree, you know. It's like yeah, and
Speaker 1: like and I also realized, like at a certain point,
Speaker 1: I realized I had to let her off the hook
Speaker 1: of like it's not my business. Uh you know, I
Speaker 1: think I kept trying to wake her up, and it's like,
Speaker 1: it's not my business to know. Like, I don't know
Speaker 1: why she disliked he rang her bell. He was her
Speaker 1: cup of tea, you know. And so and I think
Speaker 1: realizing and that's her husband, and so it's like if
Speaker 1: I'm going to go visit her, he's going to be there.
Speaker 1: And so it was also like okay, for like, he
Speaker 1: was so rude about my career, So it was like
Speaker 1: what can I talk like news? Weather, sports? You know.
Speaker 1: It was just very I'd be polite with him, but
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't share much that then he could mock. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think that what you're saying too is part
Speaker 1: of growing up. You get to a certain point when
Speaker 1: you've moved out, you're on your and you finally maybe
Speaker 1: even in your thirties, and you're like, oh, okay, oh
Speaker 1: now I have a different perspective on everything that went on,
Speaker 1: and that that was my big thing, is like I
Speaker 1: ultimately I so he so finally, so after I found
Speaker 1: out that he was having an affair, of course, sourcefully,
Speaker 1: then he just kind of started just like leaving. He'd
Speaker 1: just go. He would leave for like a week and
Speaker 1: come back, leave for a long weekend and come back.
Speaker 1: They still married, still married, And I had to tell
Speaker 1: friends who would spend the night on the weekends that
Speaker 1: he was on a business trip. My mom and always
Speaker 1: he's on a business trip. Saving face was a big deal.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, my dad want to rehab and they're like, say,
Speaker 1: we're just going to We're going to Mexico. So he
Speaker 1: drank right, um yeah, And my parents were drinkers. My
Speaker 1: parents were like mad men, just like made My mom
Speaker 1: would make my dad two scotches when he got home
Speaker 1: from wife. That was his third life. My mom was
Speaker 1: the housewife in my network. And then my dad would
Speaker 1: just go. And there were two weeks, then we come
Speaker 1: a month like then we just like yeah. And then
Speaker 1: finally my mom, um, they we moved out of our
Speaker 1: house and we moved just me and my mom and
Speaker 1: my brother because my sisters were gone. So that's a
Speaker 1: pretty big about faith. I mean, that's a pretty big
Speaker 1: zero to ten. Yeah, we moved into a condo and
Speaker 1: then he was gone. Do you ever do you have
Speaker 1: any contact with him? No? You know, So he was gone,
Speaker 1: and then he would kind of you know, and then
Speaker 1: again he would come back for a little bit and
Speaker 1: then go. And then he moved in with his mom
Speaker 1: my grandmother, um. And then he finally moved into with
Speaker 1: this woman and um, he moved in with her. They
Speaker 1: were still married though I was still married and still
Speaker 1: kind of saving face. And and then when I went
Speaker 1: to colleges, when I was like, that was fucked up.
Speaker 1: It's just weird that he was really married. He just
Speaker 1: was gone. He just was gone. And he never sat
Speaker 1: down with me and said, listen, I'm going through this thing,
Speaker 1: you know, and now that I'm a father, I'm very
Speaker 1: aware of all that stuff. And like he he never
Speaker 1: had to talk with me. I was never ever told
Speaker 1: what was going on. He just was gone. And then um,
Speaker 1: and that's when I got mad. I went to college
Speaker 1: and I'm mad. How of course how could not? Of
Speaker 1: course he did. And you know that he missed all
Speaker 1: my good stuff, missed the good stuff and the bad stuff.
Speaker 1: You know, if I had a problem with the girl,
Speaker 1: he wasn't there. And if I when I was valedictorian, like,
Speaker 1: he wasn't there. That's when when my dad died, I
Speaker 1: was surprised because he was dying forever. But I remember
Speaker 1: how much reef I had, Like I knew I tried
Speaker 1: everything that I was, like that he missed every everything
Speaker 1: I had no interest, and like just the pain of like, wow,
Speaker 1: you missed that on like a pretty great kid. You know,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm aware of. Two Like my son now
Speaker 1: is a sophomore in school. He's gonna be gone in
Speaker 1: a couple of years. Like, cherish every minute you can with,
Speaker 1: not only just if you have kids or not, but
Speaker 1: like just fucking life and just be honest. So there
Speaker 1: was this one for seven years he was gone. He
Speaker 1: was gone, but they were married and then finally confusing
Speaker 1: and nobody's talking about it. Did you talk about it
Speaker 1: with your siblings? Yeah, my brother, my you know, my
Speaker 1: my mom went to this whole period she was drinking
Speaker 1: because she couldn't handle it. My brother and I were
Speaker 1: just it was about trying to keep my mom healthy.
Speaker 1: You know. My high school career was was weird because
Speaker 1: I didn't have I didn't have a parents report to.
Speaker 1: Um my, my house is kind of known as the
Speaker 1: cool one because we could keep beer in the first
Speaker 1: because she was barely keeping it together, right, that's right.
Speaker 1: But you know we would find like out it is
Speaker 1: it's fun and you're like it's fun for your friends,
Speaker 1: and you're like, okay, yeah, it's fun if it's not
Speaker 1: your parents. Um. And then I went to college my sophomore.
Speaker 1: You're in college. She finally divorced him good and he
Speaker 1: got married like five months later to the same lady.
Speaker 1: Do they have kids? Know how? And so yeah, So
Speaker 1: then I was like then and it's not like then
Speaker 1: he was like, I'm so sorry he's this is this
Speaker 1: is not a cool dude? No, mine wasn't it. That
Speaker 1: was the thing too. I think for years I wanted
Speaker 1: like a sorry, and then I was like, oh, that's
Speaker 1: never like and I think I had stuff where I
Speaker 1: would write me too. I sent letters. I sent letters,
Speaker 1: and it was just like ammunition, I will say, like
Speaker 1: there was a certain freedom of like okay, and even
Speaker 1: in like in reading the book, like like obviously like
Speaker 1: it's a funny book, but it's also an honest book
Speaker 1: and realizing, like I think, I think when I started
Speaker 1: to become more okay, was like, all right, so I
Speaker 1: have this great mom, I have a great broad are like,
Speaker 1: why can't rather than like a four legged stool, Why
Speaker 1: can't I just be like or a four leg good
Speaker 1: share Why can't I just be a well formed three
Speaker 1: legged stool, right, rather than like a hobbly Like, Okay,
Speaker 1: it just didn't happen. And it doesn't mean like I
Speaker 1: certainly will be affected for the rest of my life.
Speaker 1: I like, I certainly have effects from growing up with him,
Speaker 1: but like just kind of like it didn't happen, right,
Speaker 1: Like it's there's so many people on the earth who
Speaker 1: do want to pay attention to you. Yeah, yeah, and
Speaker 1: you know there's people that have it worse, but yeah,
Speaker 1: you know as an actor to you, um, you know,
Speaker 1: you find yourself in going out for roles with other
Speaker 1: actors who feel like they've got a better sense of
Speaker 1: self than you. Because my sense of self was not
Speaker 1: um matured at all. I was still very much a
Speaker 1: twelve year old boy who was hurt by my father
Speaker 1: and I I I you know, I was jealous of
Speaker 1: some other kids, my age, kids in their twenties who
Speaker 1: were out here and just had this sense of like
Speaker 1: great sense of self. I am, I'm great cause my
Speaker 1: mom told me it was great every day. My mom
Speaker 1: told me to hide it every day. But like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but when you're like, I know that feelings is a huge,
Speaker 1: huge stereotype and you know whatever. But um, a lot
Speaker 1: of my Jewish friends I felt like, really had a
Speaker 1: great sense of self. I feel like it's in a
Speaker 1: lot of the Jewish culture that the mom's adore the boys,
Speaker 1: You're gonna be this boy. There's not no one better
Speaker 1: than this boy. I have friends who have Jewish friends
Speaker 1: who have sons, and they're like, no one's better than myself.
Speaker 1: And so the sun grows up with this. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's all healthy and it's not weird that you've got
Speaker 1: with this great sense of so why not me? Why
Speaker 1: not me? Where I'm walking the room going like not me, no, no,
Speaker 1: I believe me. I know. I walk in still feeling
Speaker 1: like barbed from stranger things at all times. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: and and it's a fucked up thing, right because of
Speaker 1: what we do. My whole hiding, my dad having left,
Speaker 1: hiding that, not hearing the truth from people about what
Speaker 1: was going on, my dad never telling me the truth,
Speaker 1: my dad ever apologized, your coming clean anything. Then I'm
Speaker 1: going in these audition rooms and I'm trying. I'm auditioning
Speaker 1: for this role, and I'm so parent. I'm like, what
Speaker 1: are they thinking about? What do you think about? Right?
Speaker 1: Do I suck? Do I suck on my suck? Suck?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? That whole thing that was
Speaker 1: hard for me to get over all of that, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you. I'll tell you what was an interesting thing
Speaker 1: which started to help me a little bit was I
Speaker 1: when I started doing stand up later and I at
Speaker 1: first started doing it just for money, like because Bobby Lee,
Speaker 1: who was I was on Mad TV with, and then
Speaker 1: we were on Chelsea Lately together, and which was so fun,
Speaker 1: and Chelsea Lately was really helping make stand ups careers,
Speaker 1: and but you pay it's, you know, so delighted to
Speaker 1: be a part of it in the payment you make
Speaker 1: like surrender Bucks, but like it's the fun of the
Speaker 1: exposure and people get to know who you are. And
Speaker 1: remember Bobby was like art and like you're the only
Speaker 1: one that's not capitalizing on this, Like you have the
Speaker 1: same all the day, same TV credits, but like I'm
Speaker 1: going out on the weekends and I'm making X number
Speaker 1: of dollars every weekend, Like you could be doing that too,
Speaker 1: and so like at first I was like terrified of it,
Speaker 1: but I started doing it, and then like I felt
Speaker 1: like I had to play catch up because I'd always
Speaker 1: done improv or sketch, um, So you know, it's like
Speaker 1: playing basketball or soccer, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: I'm playing baseball. Um. But like was like quickly there
Speaker 1: was a very steep learning curve because I was quickly
Speaker 1: starting to get booked in things I probably shouldn't have
Speaker 1: been getting booked in earlier. But I noticed like I
Speaker 1: had written one set that I thought was what people
Speaker 1: wanted to see, and I felt like it was actually everything,
Speaker 1: Like as I was recording them, and listening back and
Speaker 1: I would improve things. It was actually like my flaws
Speaker 1: or the things that I thought was the worst about me,
Speaker 1: that was more relatable to people that like actually was
Speaker 1: like everything I'm trying to hide is actually is what
Speaker 1: makes you a good performer, Like and that's actually what
Speaker 1: people want to see, and nobody wanted to hang out
Speaker 1: with a perfect person. Like that was such an eye
Speaker 1: opening thing, and I feel like I started getting more
Speaker 1: interesting acting roles and I was like, actually the talent
Speaker 1: is where like that what I'm trying to hide from
Speaker 1: you is like the damn it, the more vulnerable you
Speaker 1: can bet You're so so rob Is. I first got
Speaker 1: to know who you were from Headcase. You're so good
Speaker 1: on that. This was a show Ali went Worth. Was
Speaker 1: it all improvised? Yeah? Was that fun? One of the
Speaker 1: best acting experiences I ever had because of her ex
Speaker 1: husband or her brother, her boyfriend, boyfriend. But I was
Speaker 1: an agent who was trying to um trying. I was
Speaker 1: just kind of a sleazy dude, and I was trying
Speaker 1: to get clients by sleeping with her so that I
Speaker 1: could get her clients and make them my own. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, because she was she was the therapist at
Speaker 1: the Stars. You were so good on that, so charismatic?
Speaker 1: Was that was that a fun experience? Yeah? It was great.
Speaker 1: It was again it was I don't even know how
Speaker 1: I got it like that. It was one of the
Speaker 1: things where they called me, They're like, hey, is Rob
Speaker 1: available to come play with us today? So I went
Speaker 1: down and did a day where she had we just
Speaker 1: had a date and they liked what I did, so
Speaker 1: they kept bringing me back, and then even audition they
Speaker 1: started doing, and then I was just yeah, and then
Speaker 1: I was kind of a series regular for season two.
Speaker 1: What happened in that show? It just fizzles away. They
Speaker 1: we did like did she like to have seasons or
Speaker 1: two seasons? It felt like she didn't want to do it.
Speaker 1: She didn't really want to do it stuff. Yeah, she
Speaker 1: kind of had a different thing going, and you know,
Speaker 1: she's an East Coast person, married, she's very much like
Speaker 1: d C in New York and kind of wanted to
Speaker 1: be back there. So it kind of you know, story
Speaker 1: of my life. I mean, you know, like been in
Speaker 1: so many projects where it's like everything is such great
Speaker 1: potential and then just oh my god, what's your what
Speaker 1: was your favorite creative like creatively, what was the most
Speaker 1: fun job you ever had? I mean, that's one of
Speaker 1: them really because what we did, we would do it
Speaker 1: was it was Curb Your Enthusiasm. Yeah, it was so good.
Speaker 1: So we'd come in and they go Bobby Bauer who
Speaker 1: was the executive producer, who was awesome and so much fun,
Speaker 1: and he was like, Okay, so this is what what
Speaker 1: we're going to do. You're you're breaking up with her
Speaker 1: in this scene, so let's just go. So so we
Speaker 1: do it, and we and we do and we go
Speaker 1: and it would be pretty long and sad. Great, keep
Speaker 1: that part, lose that part, get to this quicker, it's
Speaker 1: tew it again, and you do it like eight takes.
Speaker 1: I mean there was a moment in time when Curb
Speaker 1: Your Enthusiasm started and there was like eight thousand improv
Speaker 1: shows and like you can tell the people like not
Speaker 1: every like there's a reason there's writers, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Like, and I felt like your show was
Speaker 1: done so well. Yeah, yeah, no, it was. Creatively was
Speaker 1: one of the best experiences. Um yeah, and I you know,
Speaker 1: had high hopes. We were also on the same network
Speaker 1: with Stars with um what was the waiting tables? Yeah,
Speaker 1: with um uh. I did an episode called Gosh with
Speaker 1: Lizzi Kaplan and Adam Scott and it was called Party Down,
Speaker 1: Party Down, and that was like the daring. You guys
Speaker 1: were the duel, Yeah, but they were like the darling.
Speaker 1: We were like the bastardstupchild a little bit. And then
Speaker 1: Stars was like, we're not doing comedy exactly after that. Um,
Speaker 1: first celebrity encounter. First celebrity encounter. So when my sister
Speaker 1: Amy she Um went to Northwestern and she was a
Speaker 1: theater major and I basically followed in her foots up.
Speaker 1: She came out at l A and I kind of followed.
Speaker 1: She's six years older than me. Um. She came out
Speaker 1: to l A. She's an actress. She's an actress. And
Speaker 1: she did you have a sister here that's an act yea. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and now she's kind that's crazy. Yeah, she does like
Speaker 1: commercials and stuff. Now she has a family and she's
Speaker 1: you know, but yeah, and she um she so um
Speaker 1: she got out here. Um. She we're from Missouri. So
Speaker 1: they someone a mutual friend called and said, Hey, there's
Speaker 1: this guy from the University of Missouri just dropped out
Speaker 1: and he's coming down l A. He needs a place
Speaker 1: to live, and I thought of you, and she's like sure.
Speaker 1: So his name is Brad Pitt and he my sister
Speaker 1: when he first moved out together for like two years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and your sister was remained in friend Yeah, was that
Speaker 1: right before you've done Louise? Did he get someone Louise
Speaker 1: living with her at the end? Yeah? He first big
Speaker 1: things he got a commercial. Was she like, holy shit,
Speaker 1: this guy's hot. Sorry I had to cut you off. Yea, yeah,
Speaker 1: she was was commercial. They were like brothers sister. They
Speaker 1: never slept together anything. It was like they were just friends,
Speaker 1: their buddies. But yeah, he was like beautiful and she
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, my god, my roommate's beautiful and he's
Speaker 1: got Yeah, so she's great. Pictures like candid pictures of
Speaker 1: them just goofing around the Apartment's amazing. I I never
Speaker 1: met her. My mom met him because my mom would
Speaker 1: fly out to see her and met him. And then
Speaker 1: he got a big, like Mountain Dew commercial, and that
Speaker 1: was like a big deal. I remember watching it on
Speaker 1: TV and going like, oh my god, that's so that's
Speaker 1: Sammy's roommate. Okay. And then when I moved out to
Speaker 1: l A finally in three, Um, I my friend Kim Williams,
Speaker 1: who was a theater major Northwestern who got got Father
Speaker 1: of the Bride while we were at school was Steve Martin.
Speaker 1: It was a big deal. Yeah, it was a really
Speaker 1: big deal. And so she kind of had a little
Speaker 1: bit of a celebrity. So we we I got out
Speaker 1: to l A. I moved out when she moved out,
Speaker 1: were and I roomed with her boyfriend and she was like, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm I've got to stickets to go see this movie premiere.
Speaker 1: Do you want to come with me? And it was, uh,
Speaker 1: what's the movie with um Patricia Arquet and and there
Speaker 1: and written by um? Uh I can I can not
Speaker 1: remember anything? It was written by Quentin Tarantino. Okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They're gunning people down and
Speaker 1: it's her in Christian Slater. Yes, I went to the
Speaker 1: true moment. Brad pitts in the movie. Brad pitt was there,
Speaker 1: and first of I saw a lot of celebrities. I
Speaker 1: was like, first like big, but I went be lying
Speaker 1: to Brad Pitt and I was just like, hey, maybe
Speaker 1: a brother. Oh my god. I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I love that. I love that with Brad Pitt, and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, it's gonna be amazing. Okay,
Speaker 1: wait a minute. Who was the thing you were telling
Speaker 1: us when we did that podcast with Janine? Who was
Speaker 1: your who did you freak out Eddie Eddie Better? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I had an Eddie Vetter. How did you freak
Speaker 1: out Eddie Vetter? Again? Um? Well? I love Eddie Vetter
Speaker 1: and I met him twice. The first time I was
Speaker 1: at La Llapaluzam when he wasn't even famous enough. He
Speaker 1: was like walking around looking at things during the festival.
Speaker 1: They played it like two in the afternoon Pearl Jam.
Speaker 1: So I went up to and I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: Eddie Vetterer, I'm a big fan, and I was a
Speaker 1: kind of take your picture and like we didn't have phones,
Speaker 1: we just had an actual camera, and he was like,
Speaker 1: I don't really do pictures, but like I'll remember you,
Speaker 1: and he kind of looked at my eyes and pointed
Speaker 1: at my eyes and he was like, yeah, I remember you.
Speaker 1: So for the longest time, I thought I would go
Speaker 1: to the concert and I would think that he was
Speaker 1: looking at it's like it's me. And then finally, when
Speaker 1: I was a grown person. I went a friend of
Speaker 1: mine knew Ben Harper, who was opening up on a
Speaker 1: solo tour, and I found myself in his green room
Speaker 1: at the end of the night, me him, Ben Harper,
Speaker 1: and like three or four other people, and I couldn't.
Speaker 1: I couldn't. Like he was in conversation, like right next
Speaker 1: to me, and I just couldn't get in there to
Speaker 1: talk to him. And all I could think to do
Speaker 1: was ask him for a cigarette, And without stopping his conversation,
Speaker 1: he just grabbed the pack of cigarettes and just slid
Speaker 1: it over to my and and from at the time,
Speaker 1: I was like, yes, you heard me, Oh my god, like,
Speaker 1: but it's me, it's me. That's why Jeanine had one.
Speaker 1: Janina like Janina put mind to waste. I mean, her
Speaker 1: story was like it was bad. She was she like hammered,
Speaker 1: something was happening, hammered. She was still drinking at the time.
Speaker 1: She was hammered, and she basically kind of tried to
Speaker 1: make out with it. That's right. I remember there was one.
Speaker 1: I remember there was one that ended really interesting. We
Speaker 1: were like friends and he hasn't and then they're not
Speaker 1: friends anymore. You know, that, isn't it? So it's so
Speaker 1: funny when you have just like an awkward encounter that
Speaker 1: like you cannot recover from. It was your first celebrity
Speaker 1: I saw. I was. I'm sure this is not my
Speaker 1: first first, but like my first in l A. I
Speaker 1: remember I was living in Zack Galfanakis's closet and we
Speaker 1: went to do karaoke at the gaslight in Santa Monica
Speaker 1: and Keith for Sutherland had just gotten divorced from Julia
Speaker 1: Roberts and he was ship face and he was singing
Speaker 1: I believe a bon Jovi song like maybe living on
Speaker 1: a Prayer and before he started singing, and it was
Speaker 1: like a Tuesday okay, and it's like there's hammered like
Speaker 1: ate from the tablets, like popular divorcing. Julia Robberts probably
Speaker 1: in the middle of a nasty divorce, screams to the crowd,
Speaker 1: never get fucking married. What there? And then he like,
Speaker 1: I remember, like we were I was a star strock
Speaker 1: And then he's like and then we were leaving, and
Speaker 1: then he stumbled out into the street and like and
Speaker 1: then years later he was one of my favorite drunken
Speaker 1: celebrity videos where he fights the Christmas tree in the
Speaker 1: hotel lobby, which is incredible. And I will say, um,
Speaker 1: somebody who shall remain nameless. He my friend used to
Speaker 1: work at a hotel in New York, and who was
Speaker 1: the guy that was married to Diane Lane and Josh Brolin,
Speaker 1: So he was staying out. He my friend worked at
Speaker 1: a hotel and his buddy was a doorman at the
Speaker 1: Greenwich Hotel, and um, so Josh Brolin was ang there
Speaker 1: and like he allegedly allegedly like stumbled over the night.
Speaker 1: I think he might be sober. Now I go like,
Speaker 1: you know, look, I'm not judging that I've done really stupid,
Speaker 1: but apparently I'm not a strong ascent. Basically, let's just
Speaker 1: say I could do his equally stupid shit. I'm just
Speaker 1: don't have the strength. Apparently he was like pounding on
Speaker 1: like some store window that was like like Caddy corner
Speaker 1: to the Gretitch Hotel. So it was like a display
Speaker 1: window that had no door. It was just like a
Speaker 1: window like just you know, clothing. He was like, let
Speaker 1: mean Gretitle, okay, like and it's like, you know, a mannequin.
Speaker 1: And then he goes and he picks up a New
Speaker 1: York City trash can, which is so heavy and he
Speaker 1: takes it and he threw it through like the plateglass window,
Speaker 1: and he was like gret and like the cops came,
Speaker 1: and then the doorman had to go like slide money.
Speaker 1: And this is all allegedly, guys, allegedly, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: this happened. Maybe who knows. Apparently, and then they had
Speaker 1: to like pay that it actually happened, and they paid,
Speaker 1: they had to pay off the I love that the
Speaker 1: hotel paid for it because I think he like stayed
Speaker 1: there a lot, and I think it was like I
Speaker 1: think they knew that they could build his room, you know,
Speaker 1: like his publicister, what his business manager would cover it.
Speaker 1: You know, that's amazing. I stayed at a hotel one
Speaker 1: time that was a pretty ritzy hotel with somebody who
Speaker 1: was my sort of celebrity friend who paid for the
Speaker 1: whole thing. And my celebrity friend I decided to do
Speaker 1: mushrooms and we did too many and having to go
Speaker 1: to the hospital. Yeah, and we and then because an
Speaker 1: ambulance came and got us since the hospital is a horrible.
Speaker 1: It was a long, really funny story. But actually my
Speaker 1: celebrity friend hates it when I tell it and I um,
Speaker 1: and but to me, it's just hilarious it happened. So
Speaker 1: then we woant up at this hospital. We have we
Speaker 1: have how do we what we're gonna do? We're in
Speaker 1: the middle of the city at a hospital. Up when you,
Speaker 1: by the way, when you o d on mushrooms, you know,
Speaker 1: the doctors like, no one's ever died on mushrooms. You're
Speaker 1: fine because you think you're dying becase you're on mushrooms,
Speaker 1: but nothing's gonna happen. They put make you eat charcoal.
Speaker 1: And then yeah, um, so we were there, we don't
Speaker 1: have we don't know what to do, and the hotel
Speaker 1: literally sent a car to pick us up. And right,
Speaker 1: that's right. That's when you see It's like, oh there
Speaker 1: are there is the Illuminati, like there is that w secret.
Speaker 1: I remember speaking of mushrooms and places you don't want
Speaker 1: to be being at outside lands when I sprained my
Speaker 1: ankle and we had to hobble to the like medic
Speaker 1: tent at the medical tent at any music festival is
Speaker 1: not where you want. You do not want to be
Speaker 1: having to seek medical attention at a music festival. They
Speaker 1: should make you look at it first to get you
Speaker 1: to not do drugs. I mean it was really like
Speaker 1: how did I end up here? And it was like
Speaker 1: we hadn't even done our show yet, and like Paget
Speaker 1: was walking around with bottles of like what is her?
Speaker 1: She like Savin Blanc and her per screaming I'm too
Speaker 1: famous for the ship. She wanted a she wanted a
Speaker 1: golf cart, and she had like a puffer coat and
Speaker 1: like stiletto heels and I'm like hobbling. It was a disaster,
Speaker 1: but still fun. I really wish I would have been
Speaker 1: there with you guys. Oh my god, I was doing
Speaker 1: a convention or something. I'm to sketch Fest again. We
Speaker 1: just got invited. Are you going? I'll tell you when
Speaker 1: it is? Okay, January, right, yeah, it's January. We just
Speaker 1: it's a Sunday. Sunday's our time slot. Sunday's our times obviously, yeah, obviously, yes,
Speaker 1: the nineteenth Sunday. Then we'll go up on the eighteen. Um, okay,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, um I okay, drugs, drugs, God, Okay,
Speaker 1: I know I was trying it in the book. I
Speaker 1: it's really rust clean always. No, I wasn't always clean.
Speaker 1: I'm just bad at it. So like I went to
Speaker 1: college in Colorado, I read a whole chapter and has
Speaker 1: read it. I read I read a chapter. Okay, So
Speaker 1: like writing a book is also like you, I feel
Speaker 1: like I've forgotten everything you really have to for me
Speaker 1: at least, I was like, what are my most humiliating
Speaker 1: stories of my entire life? And I do remember. I
Speaker 1: don't think I put this in the book, but like
Speaker 1: I would drink it like a whole bottle of Boone's
Speaker 1: Farm wine, and then like that's when I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna smoke pot. And then I would there would
Speaker 1: be like a super bong that's like ten or twelve
Speaker 1: feet long. I climb up onto some rickety homemade loft
Speaker 1: in a on a dorm room. I would take a
Speaker 1: twelve foot bong pole and then flying and like throwing
Speaker 1: up under my rug in a bowl because I felt
Speaker 1: like nobody could find me if I was under the rug,
Speaker 1: nobody would notice the lump, nobody would see me under
Speaker 1: the hair. I'm safe under hair. Nobody's gonna find me.
Speaker 1: When your cats put their head under a blanket, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm safe. My cat does that at the at the
Speaker 1: at the vet's like full under the blanket. I'm very
Speaker 1: bad at drugs. I can I get so high and
Speaker 1: I'm high for dates and I go straight past giggling
Speaker 1: and I go right to middle Earth. Yeah, I I
Speaker 1: used to be that way. I mean, I'm not good
Speaker 1: drugs either. I just keep trying. You do it that.
Speaker 1: I've had other people say that I don't have any
Speaker 1: good goals. It's just pure paranoia. I've gotten better. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've gotten better at my older age because now I'm
Speaker 1: aware of how little it takes for me. I used
Speaker 1: to just do too much. So there's there's a bottle
Speaker 1: and a twelve foot bond pool was problem. There's a
Speaker 1: way to get just a little high. Yeah, yeah, there's
Speaker 1: a way to get just a little high, just a
Speaker 1: little tipsy on even drinking, like just moderation. I didn't
Speaker 1: understand that before young rot. Well, you've got you got.
Speaker 1: You fell in love in college, so you never had awkward.
Speaker 1: You never had to date and l I never had
Speaker 1: to date. I never had a date. I I met
Speaker 1: someone in college and we got married. Did you have
Speaker 1: a girlfriend all through high school? Yeah? A couple of girls,
Speaker 1: like two girlfriends in high school. And yeah, so you've
Speaker 1: always been pretty much coupled off. Yeah. Yeah, and again
Speaker 1: I was very much like my I learned from my
Speaker 1: siblings and they always, like my brother always had a girlfriend.
Speaker 1: So like, okay, so I'm gonna always have a girlfriend.
Speaker 1: And you know what I mean, like it just remember
Speaker 1: you're my most socially So it's funny because I so
Speaker 1: how you compare yourself to the guys in the audition room.
Speaker 1: I'm like, he's not socially awkward. I get social anxiety,
Speaker 1: and I look at you, and I think that guy
Speaker 1: knows how to talk to people. Am I right? Yeah
Speaker 1: for the most part. I mean yeah, I don't really.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've always used my whatever anxiety is there.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't call my anxiety social anxiety, but I have anxiety,
Speaker 1: and I just use it in my you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. I make I used to do it more
Speaker 1: than I do now. But I'll make fun of myself
Speaker 1: in the moment. I'll come interrupt a conversation like what
Speaker 1: are you guys talking about? Oh my god, heah. I
Speaker 1: get that you're like what you drinking and drinking honestly,
Speaker 1: and that's why I do drink, as it does settle
Speaker 1: my nerves. I'll tell you what, I only I only
Speaker 1: really ease off of drinking because of I I am
Speaker 1: so out of control with sweets that like there's too
Speaker 1: much sugar and alcohol. So it's more than that I
Speaker 1: just quit sugar. But um, and I'll tell you when
Speaker 1: I quit sugar and then more than like okay, I
Speaker 1: guess I won't drink. Is like I was like, oh
Speaker 1: there's a reason there's alcal Like it is a good
Speaker 1: social lubricant. Is it's relaxing it again its end it Okay,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, tell me best of like best of
Speaker 1: what you got from like the Benedict, like best of
Speaker 1: the gifts that you were giving growing up, and like
Speaker 1: like like what were the unique things from your house
Speaker 1: that you think we're the best of? Um? Um, we're
Speaker 1: very we are very social people and good around other people. Um.
Speaker 1: My parents were in a community theater and that's where
Speaker 1: I got the sort of theater bug. Um. But really,
Speaker 1: honestly because of what happened with my dad, my siblings
Speaker 1: and I and my mom all really bonded together. So
Speaker 1: like we to this day. I'm very very close with
Speaker 1: my siblings, very close with my mom, my brother, my
Speaker 1: mom and I were I was like it's the three
Speaker 1: of us and the guy and the dead. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you just naturally do right yeah. Um yeah, And I
Speaker 1: think it's it's moved from this place of anger to
Speaker 1: like we're all just like positive. Yeah yeah, but you're
Speaker 1: close with all of them yeah yeah yeah. And like
Speaker 1: you know, my such lives here and I get to
Speaker 1: see her and my brother and I talk almost every day,
Speaker 1: I mean a text almost every day. Um. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: we're tight, It's we're good. Funny family, funny hum humor
Speaker 1: is really huge. I don't know what people talk about
Speaker 1: if they don't make jokes. Like I'm truly like, I
Speaker 1: literally don't know what people talk I don't either, and
Speaker 1: like or if you're dating, like what do people? What
Speaker 1: do people? What do you talk about? Year four? Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what you talk about? Yeah? If honestly,
Speaker 1: if you're not laughing on the first date, it's not
Speaker 1: going to work. No yeah no, um, but yeah, I
Speaker 1: know for me, humor was a big I mean, my
Speaker 1: my my uncle on one side is really hilarious. My
Speaker 1: aunt on the other side, it's hilarious. Like you you're
Speaker 1: the family has humor and like funny movies. He loved
Speaker 1: my movie. I know. I remember I was grateful to
Speaker 1: have an older brother and a funny My mom would
Speaker 1: record SNL for me when I was in like second grade.
Speaker 1: We would watch like Monty Python and Witty Allen before
Speaker 1: we knew he was totally creepy, Like I was, like,
Speaker 1: had a good education, you know. Yeah. I like when
Speaker 1: people ask me what my music influences are, I'm always like, well,
Speaker 1: I love Michael Jackson when it was okay, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: loved him. I loved him he was when I was
Speaker 1: sad to lose Um. Do you guys have any questions
Speaker 1: for Rob? How fun? I have to say it's been
Speaker 1: such a joy getting to know it's fun too. I
Speaker 1: feel like I've now known you. This isn't coming on
Speaker 1: four years, and like it's fun to actually I'm happy
Speaker 1: to get to like to get and for the listeners
Speaker 1: to get to know. What was great about my relationship
Speaker 1: with you is it like we I knew who you were.
Speaker 1: I knew who you were starting with Mad TV because
Speaker 1: our friend Bruce worked on Mad TV and then now
Speaker 1: runs RuPaul drag Ray exactly, and before that, Nicole Sullivan.
Speaker 1: The reason any us knew about Mat TV's I'm like
Speaker 1: really friends with Nicky Sullivan that she was in the
Speaker 1: original cast, So that was like mad TV was always
Speaker 1: a big part of my external life because I knew
Speaker 1: all the people had been out of it. And then
Speaker 1: so I knew who you were then. And then you
Speaker 1: and I both were in a movie that we never
Speaker 1: had scenes that we did a movie together a little
Speaker 1: help and and and then I remember talking to you
Speaker 1: at one of Bruce's Halloween party. You were addressing you
Speaker 1: had like you had like you had like short shorts
Speaker 1: and like knee high socks and like like Prefontaine. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and um, and then you asked me to do this.
Speaker 1: It was such a joy. Yeah, and it was like
Speaker 1: this is when we actually became friends. Yeah, I love it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, it's so funny. We've built a weird little team.
Speaker 1: I know it is. It's totally do you guys, And
Speaker 1: you didn't meet Heightener until San Francisco. Yeah, he didn't disappoint. No,
Speaker 1: he's amazing. He's amazing. He's amazing. He's amazing. Crew and Aaron.
Speaker 1: I love Aaron. She just got hired on one day
Speaker 1: at a time. She's a staff writer. Is that eating
Speaker 1: I know, I love I love I love Paget, I
Speaker 1: love the whole crew. It truly is like I've never been. Um,
Speaker 1: I was not on a lot of teams, and so
Speaker 1: I was like in theater clubs and stuff, but like
Speaker 1: you don't have a lot of teams. But that's the
Speaker 1: thing about is like again, I had this great high
Speaker 1: school experience with then you get to college and then
Speaker 1: you go out and you're in the real world and
Speaker 1: like your team's dwindle and then in l A you
Speaker 1: have to latch out. You have to find your team now.
Speaker 1: And this is a fun team because I actually feel
Speaker 1: like we play a weird sport. Like I feel like
Speaker 1: we all play the sport of the bat high or something. Um,
Speaker 1: we play highlight. I don't know about you, but things
Speaker 1: are getting so hot in here. I think I gotta
Speaker 1: take I'll pay your break you guys. Um, yeah, did
Speaker 1: we cover everything we wanted to cover? I feel like,
Speaker 1: is there anything you want to say? Do you have
Speaker 1: a most embarrassing, most embarrassing adolescent Did you ever, like
Speaker 1: have an epic fail of asking out a girl or anything?
Speaker 1: All the time, all the time, I was so bad
Speaker 1: at um, you know, up until when I asked my
Speaker 1: wife to marry me. Was I was? I said, I
Speaker 1: was wondering if you wouldn't mind marrying me so much? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like I screwed up the line. You said, I was
Speaker 1: wondering if you wouldn't mind marrying me so much? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: at yamashiros have in Hollywood. Wait a minute, you got
Speaker 1: engaged at Yeah? Were you done on one knee when
Speaker 1: you said I was? No. I sat next to her
Speaker 1: and there we were sitting across from each other, and
Speaker 1: I gave her this card. At the end of the card,
Speaker 1: I said, Okay, put the car down and look at me.
Speaker 1: I always wondering. I find that son deering. I find
Speaker 1: that I think that's so extra cute. I was wondering
Speaker 1: if you want am I marrying me so much? But
Speaker 1: the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to me in
Speaker 1: my life, after the shrewdest thing, I was real shaky
Speaker 1: and I started I started passing out in public, having
Speaker 1: anxiety attacks and passing out in public. Yeah. I what
Speaker 1: would make me pass out in public is the thought
Speaker 1: that I would pass out in public. So it was
Speaker 1: like a self fulfilling propose up I would be the
Speaker 1: grocery store, like, up, you're gonna right here at the
Speaker 1: checkout counter. You're gonna pass out. Um. So I was
Speaker 1: She said a friend's wedding, standing up for the friend
Speaker 1: in Chicago in front of four people in the program
Speaker 1: and said, you know, meet the men who are standing
Speaker 1: up for us. The groomsman, Bennet, he's been on this,
Speaker 1: he's been on that. He's an actor. You might know
Speaker 1: him from this or that they did that at the wedding.
Speaker 1: That's weird. Yeah, yeah. And she's steal your food at night.
Speaker 1: Sometimes she googles people she hates. She takes ambient and
Speaker 1: orders makeup palace and they arrive and she forgot. She's like,
Speaker 1: who send me this? She's been my friend for her
Speaker 1: score is two eighties. I know that part was weird.
Speaker 1: So here I am sober complus, but I'm up in
Speaker 1: front of all these people, is kind of hot, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I'm like everybody, I feel like
Speaker 1: everyone's looking at me, and I'm like, you're gonna pass out.
Speaker 1: You're gonna pass out. Um, everyone's looking at you and
Speaker 1: you're gonna pass out. This is what's going to happen.
Speaker 1: And my friend describes being behind me and scene just sweat,
Speaker 1: just form on the back of my neck. And the
Speaker 1: next thing I know, I mean literally, the ceremony had
Speaker 1: started and I'm on the ground and uh and the
Speaker 1: priest was over me, and my friend was over me.
Speaker 1: He was a doctor, and they're like, you just passed out,
Speaker 1: you know, And it was just it was awful. That
Speaker 1: was right before before it was during like during like
Speaker 1: the valves and ship can introduced you guys during the valves.
Speaker 1: So I they sat me next to to my wife
Speaker 1: and she said, um, are you okay? I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: here's the deal. You're gonna get up and you're gonna
Speaker 1: walk that girl down the aisles. I had to walk
Speaker 1: the bride'smaid down the aisle that I had. Here's the deal.
Speaker 1: I like that your wife is a practical So then
Speaker 1: I had to walk down the aisle in front of
Speaker 1: everybody like hey, I'm the guy who just passed out.
Speaker 1: Later that night, it was at the reception. I went
Speaker 1: in the bathroom to go to the bathroom and just
Speaker 1: to take a breath because I was it was overwhelming,
Speaker 1: and I heard someone someone came in and there they're
Speaker 1: pontificating about why I passed out. Oh my god, you're like,
Speaker 1: I'm right here, I can't hear you. Did they think so?
Speaker 1: I was like, I already had an iron deficiency. That's
Speaker 1: actually very kind than dabbled in math exactly, like he's
Speaker 1: a cocade exactly, like things aren't good at home. Wow,
Speaker 1: that is that's the chapter that it should be. It
Speaker 1: isn't interesting. You did stand up too. I did stand up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I did stand up. I was the opposite of you,
Speaker 1: like I did that early and um, and I did
Speaker 1: it with Zach a lot with Galvinakas did I wonder
Speaker 1: if you ever early with him in New York? Okay,
Speaker 1: I see, I did it, but I was afraid of it,
Speaker 1: and I prefer to improvince. I liked playing with other
Speaker 1: people something more like that. Yeah, yeah, no, I like
Speaker 1: this too, And ultimately that's why I stopped doing ye. Um,
Speaker 1: but I loved it for a while. I did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'd love to do it again. I still think
Speaker 1: about it. My friend John Quainton's who I did it with.
Speaker 1: We had a show together, and that's Zach would come
Speaker 1: to our show. Where was your show? Uh, the old Largo? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I bet I came and saw it because I was
Speaker 1: living in his closet. Then, yeah, you might have. I
Speaker 1: might have. He did a lot of shows there, oh man.
Speaker 1: And he would do that in the Maryland and you
Speaker 1: have five other shows that night. Um, I'm going to
Speaker 1: bring up something. You were so sweet to my mom
Speaker 1: in Nashville. J J went into the live show in
Speaker 1: Nashville and she was so sweet. I'm so thankful that
Speaker 1: I had that experience with her. That was one of
Speaker 1: my last outings with her. Yeah, and it was just
Speaker 1: me and her, it was it. And then the guest
Speaker 1: and like I got in, I just flew on on
Speaker 1: a red and I got in and took a shower
Speaker 1: in your shoe and really, I'm so happy to be here.
Speaker 1: And she said, are you though? Are you? Are you?
Speaker 1: Are you really? And then when she started going on,
Speaker 1: she started going on like some like online dates, and
Speaker 1: she was like, I don't want to go out with
Speaker 1: the guys because they're old, old men. Have you ever
Speaker 1: seen old men balls? And I was like no, She's like,
Speaker 1: you don't want to the old man ball because I would.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do the guy in his forties. I'll take
Speaker 1: your friend Rob. Rob's married. But yeah, Okay, Yeah, she
Speaker 1: liked you. Yeah, you could have been my future like
Speaker 1: ex stepfather. Like if you just had like a two
Speaker 1: weeks I mean, has that been written. That's a show.
Speaker 1: That's got to be a show where I'm your stepfather.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's actually not a bad idea. That's
Speaker 1: actually a really funny idea. And if if I like
Speaker 1: she said she would go out with you and you're like, no,
Speaker 1: let's do it, I'm like okay, ha ha ha, Like no, seriously,
Speaker 1: I'm ready, let's do that. Um, all right, let's see. Uh.
Speaker 1: So you started dating your wife in college? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: in college. How old were you when you met? I
Speaker 1: was twenty one, she was twenty and then that was
Speaker 1: a junior in college. And then we graduated. And when
Speaker 1: did you do that amazing proposal? Amazingros was when I
Speaker 1: was three, that's she was two. We got married. I
Speaker 1: was twenty four years twenty who just got married a
Speaker 1: year later? And twenty for you guys, have two beautiful,
Speaker 1: two beautiful kids. And we were married for like twenty
Speaker 1: four years and that's a successful marriage. Yeah. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was great. I mean it was great. And we split up, um,
Speaker 1: you know, a year and a half ago, and you
Speaker 1: know it, the breakups are hard, and breakups after that
Speaker 1: long or so sad and so hard. But um man,
Speaker 1: I just I'm so thankful that it's it's been very
Speaker 1: amicable between us. I remember we were at a festival
Speaker 1: and I like before I just remember that I could
Speaker 1: see it, like you being conflicted and I think probably
Speaker 1: I would imagine probably coming from a house with divorce,
Speaker 1: like like there's somehow it's like I don't want to
Speaker 1: do that and like I don't know, I just like
Speaker 1: I feel like you've had is to like to meet
Speaker 1: somebody that young, and like that's a successful marriage. Really,
Speaker 1: it really really is. And you know, uh one thing
Speaker 1: I learned from my upbringing just bringing it all back
Speaker 1: around it like the you know, the first thing we
Speaker 1: do is we sat down with the kids and talked
Speaker 1: to them doing a different whole old time. I've been
Speaker 1: so um so communicative with the kids about what's going on.
Speaker 1: Um I've been so incredibly involved in their life and they've,
Speaker 1: you know, since the split up, like they've been such
Speaker 1: a huge part of my life in a way, almost
Speaker 1: more so because you do you want to give to
Speaker 1: being around him and and as we were saying earlier,
Speaker 1: like kids aren't dumb, so like I remember in my house,
Speaker 1: like I just kept like, why is she still with
Speaker 1: like like and it's a different vibe, but like kids know,
Speaker 1: if it's less joyful, you know, and it's like it's okay,
Speaker 1: look at they did, they did. Your main job is
Speaker 1: to love them as long as there's love around. I
Speaker 1: think you love and respect your wife. Oh yeah, I said,
Speaker 1: I always will. She's the love of my life. And
Speaker 1: I always will. And I've had a bunch of friends
Speaker 1: who've gotten who've gotten divorced, and I know it's like
Speaker 1: the worst year of everyone's lives. And I will say,
Speaker 1: like down the road, like a lot of them got
Speaker 1: divorced a few years ago, and like, and I know
Speaker 1: it was horrible, even if they were the ones that
Speaker 1: wanted it, it was horrible. And then everybody is happier
Speaker 1: for it. Like there's a reason nobody takes it lightly.
Speaker 1: I don't know, no, no, no, no no. And maybe
Speaker 1: our previous generation did, but like you know, and you know,
Speaker 1: and I have a um, I've got a space with
Speaker 1: rooms for the kids, and so they're through with me
Speaker 1: half the time, and and and they're adjusting and you
Speaker 1: know what I mean that they feel loved and you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's all okay, it's like the modern family. Right. Well,
Speaker 1: you seem I have to say, you also just seem
Speaker 1: you seem very much yourself, you know, and I think
Speaker 1: there's like a piece there and you seem happy and
Speaker 1: and you know, like like something that you committed to
Speaker 1: her or something that you made twenty one, Like, that's
Speaker 1: an amazing, happy, successful run. That's a very amazing I
Speaker 1: don't know anybody else that picks somebody that young, that
Speaker 1: lasted that long. No one, not one person. Right, It
Speaker 1: is nice to see you happy. Yeah, yeah, it's good.
Speaker 1: It's I'm very hopeful. Do you do you how often?
Speaker 1: Like I know you're in a band Loud and Swain.
Speaker 1: How many albums do you have? About? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: like eight that's a lot. Yeah, yeah, we've been together
Speaker 1: since the late nineties. And do you write the music?
Speaker 1: I write the lyrics and I write sort of half
Speaker 1: the songs are start as songs that I write, but
Speaker 1: then I bring it to the band and so the
Speaker 1: credits are the music by Loud and Swain, lyrics by
Speaker 1: Rob Bennet. But and do you how many people are
Speaker 1: in the band, and has it been the same for
Speaker 1: the whole time? UM, three of us the whole time,
Speaker 1: and then the lead guitar player joined us UM in
Speaker 1: like two thou four, So that's another fun team that
Speaker 1: you're on. So so fun. Yeah, that's my extracurricular activity
Speaker 1: and you love it. I love it. I love it.
Speaker 1: And now it's it's gotten to the point where the band, UM,
Speaker 1: We've I've been able to sort of incorporate the band
Speaker 1: into what I do because the band plays the conventions
Speaker 1: that so fun to do with Supernatural, So like they come,
Speaker 1: they're kind of the house band all weekend and then
Speaker 1: on Saturday night we had this big concert. And so
Speaker 1: we've made all these bands now and it's it's been
Speaker 1: great great. I mean, like, you're so talented, You're such
Speaker 1: a delight. I wanted to do more comedy stuff. I will,
Speaker 1: I will. I'm excited. I'm excited for you to join
Speaker 1: us for our lives. UM and UM is there. I
Speaker 1: don't know when this will air, but so look up
Speaker 1: Robin by his albums, Yeah, by my albums, Loud and Swaying.
Speaker 1: We're on iTunes and Spotify and all those things. And
Speaker 1: and guys, just you don't have to pop an ambient,
Speaker 1: but just get ready to make some bad decisions and
Speaker 1: just just go online shopping. But order my book please
Speaker 1: a little miss little Compton. You can get out on Amazon.
Speaker 1: It's all about the pre order. Please by by stack
Speaker 1: it up for the next holiday season. Have it be
Speaker 1: your hostess gift. You're like a buy a ton of them,
Speaker 1: so you bring up to whenever you go visit somebody.
Speaker 1: I will if you bring him to any show I'm at,
Speaker 1: I will sign any of them. It's a really fun book.
Speaker 1: And just you know, like and you think, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean to do it. Please just do it today.
Speaker 1: I actually think I believe I can't believe it. I
Speaker 1: actually think I did a good job. I know you did.
Speaker 1: I know you did. I think it's funny and good
Speaker 1: you have. You have a good story. You have a
Speaker 1: good story to tell you story. Rob I love you
Speaker 1: very much. Um, I hope you're feeling thorny. I guess
Speaker 1: we'll play our new song out pretty thorny. Katie, Anna,
Speaker 1: you have any more questions for Robber? You good? I'm great.
Speaker 1: That was so insightful and to who you are, it's
Speaker 1: interesting thank you. I interview each of you guys too,
Speaker 1: so at some point you're ready. I know, I'm curious
Speaker 1: and their stories. You know what time it is. It's
Speaker 1: time for hard to get a little close and a
Speaker 1: little Thorny's gonna go one on one, gonna be hot,
Speaker 1: and ergons are gonna be super real, and she wants
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