WEBVTT - Mailbag 2023 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:07.480 Hello, friends, I'm back and if you're listening, he well, 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:08.840 so are you. 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:11.120 And it's a good thing that. 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:14.000 We're both here today because guess what, I have an 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:18.239 extra special episode of Off the Beat. Oh yeah, and 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:22.720 it's your host, Brian Baumgartner. Now, if you follow at 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:27.240 off the Beat on Instagram, like I have very politely 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:30.080 asked you to many many times, or even if you 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:32.880 follow me, you might already know what's going on here 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:39.520 on social media. I asked all of you, my wonderful listeners, 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:45.240 to send in your questions for a little mailbag episode 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:51.480 of Off the Beat. That's right, ask me almost anything episode. Boy, 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:55.200 you guys delivered. I got so many great questions. There's 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:58.720 sadly no way that I could answer all of them. 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:01.840 I do wish I could, truly, I'd love to get 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:05.080 to all of them. For example, what a day? Four 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:10.440 fifty asked? How are babies made? Now, this is an 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:13.759 important question. It's very important for you all to know. 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:17.320 I'd love to be the one to teach you. However, 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:21.000 that would make this a very very different podcast. So 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:25.200 I encourage you to ask your parents. Some of your 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:30.280 other questions I just truly cannot answer. As in it's 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:38.000 Sid asked how to stay sane? Sid, Listen, We're in 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:41.840 the midst of a one hundred day actor strike that 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:45.720 was preceded by a nine hundred and seventy four day 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:50.040 writer strike. I wish that I could stay saying I 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:51.760 wouldn't have chosen to be an actor. I don't know 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:54.000 what I would have chosen to do, but truly, if 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:57.760 you figure that one out, how to stay sane? Well, 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:00.760 you have an open invitation to come on this podcast 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:02.720 and tell each and every. 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:03.360 One of us. 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:07.280 Luckily, many of you ask questions that I actually can answer, 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:10.640 so I'm excited to do just that. Let's start off 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:16.400 with one from z f d A l WO eight. 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:25.440 The question is hello, Brian Well, yes, hello, indeed one down. 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:27.760 I am on a roll. 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:39.160 Bubble and squeak. I love it, bubble and squeak, bubble 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:42.960 and squeak. I could get every mon lift over from 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:44.200 the nine before. 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:57.600 A lot of you, when submitting questions, ask me some 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:04.200 very thoughtful questions about me, about my career and my journey, 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:11.320 like Amanda Bashuk, who asked, first or worst job you 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:12.000 ever had? 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:15.600 This is? This is? This is a good one. 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:18.760 Maybe I'm going to start asking this in my interviews 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:23.680 of other people. First job, ever, I was a host 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:26.919 at a restaurant. I wasn't smart enough to be a server, 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:30.800 I don't think, and I wasn't qualified enough to be 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:33.760 a bartender. I was a host at a restaurant, The 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:38.240 Black Forest, in a German restaurant that I believe to 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:43.360 this day still exists in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I had a 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:46.400 good time at the Black Forest in I would say 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:50.080 my worst job I have referenced this before was an 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:54.320 office job. I was a paralegal at a law firm. 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:58.640 I think that there are high level paralegals that really 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:03.360 deal within important things for lawyers. What I remember doing 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:07.280 was counting pages. This is not a joke. I would 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:12.280 count pages. So they worked on huge corporate cases and 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:16.360 there would be documents that would be into evidence. And 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:19.760 when you submit these documents into evidence, you have to 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:22.440 make sure that the entire document is there. So they 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:26.799 were numbered and I had to ensure that every page 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:31.120 actually was there before they were sent to the I 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:33.960 don't know the court or whatever. So yes, that I 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.640 would say that was my worst job was counting pages 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:42.360 as a low level paralegal in a law firm. This 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:47.560 move asks do you have any regret concerning your choice 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:50.799 of career, Like, have you ever dreamed about a football 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:54.640 career or something else? Well, listen, if I could have 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.920 had a football career, well, I. 0:04:57.839 --> 0:04:59.440 Don't know if I would have done that. I think 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:00.600 I'm too off for that. 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:04.760 What I wanted to be was the first basement for 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:08.719 the Atlanta Braves. That's what I wanted to do. That 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:11.640 was my dream when I was a kid. Some kids 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:17.080 dream of being you know, firemen and women or I 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:19.320 don't know. I wanted to be the first basement for 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:23.240 the Atlanta Braze. It was a very very specific dream 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:26.320 of mine. I think I needed to expand it. Maybe 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:28.919 just professional baseball player. Maybe that would have been a 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:33.320 little more attainable, but not really. No, I don't have 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:37.680 any regrets. I feel incredibly lucky to be doing what 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:41.120 I'm doing now and to have worked with the people 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:43.840 on the projects that I have had the opportunity to 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:48.320 work on thus far, and I hope for many many more. 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:50.560 Have No, I have no regrets. 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:51.320 I'm glad. 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:55.159 In fact, I can say today in twenty twenty three, 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:58.200 I'm glad that I was not the first baseman for 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:04.400 the Atlanta Braves. Thomas Lendon three asks a very insightful question, 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.960 does your fame hold your life back? 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:09.560 Thomas? 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:13.400 I saw your question come across. We have a great 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:16.800 team here at Off the Beat that actually selected these questions, 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.320 and I knew this would be one that they were 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:22.960 going to select. It's a difficult question because do I 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:26.400 feel like it holds my life back? No, it just 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:31.560 makes my life different. Eric McCormick, the great actor who 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:35.440 has become my friend. Eric McCormick, I believe this was 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:39.680 his quote, asked what was the downside for having will 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:44.880 and grace end? And his answer was it's going to 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.840 be harder for me to get reservations at restaurants. 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:48.360 Now. 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:50.799 I don't think that's true for him now. In fact, 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:53.880 having worked on a project with him and having had 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:57.880 him arrange some reservations, I think he still doesn't have 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:02.440 trouble getting reservations. So there are some certain perks on 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:05.760 the outside. There are also certain downsides, which I think 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:09.560 is true for everybody, regardless of their line of work. 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:14.920 I never want to complain about certain things that are 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:19.840 not so fun about my chosen line of profession or 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:22.200 fame or or whatever. 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:22.360 You call it. 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:24.880 But most of the time I have to tell all 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:28.960 of you it's about the approach and the timing. I mean, 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:32.160 if I'm out to dinner with my family and we're 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:38.720 sitting down and someone comes up and interrupts that meal 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:41.240 and wants to take a picture, I mean, this is 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:45.120 obviously not fun. This is not a positive thing. This 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:47.800 would not be a positive thing I don't think for anybody. 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:51.960 But most of the rest of the time, I feel 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:55.920 like I signed up for it. It's a part of 0:07:56.560 --> 0:08:00.240 my chosen work and whatever the celebrity or fa that 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:03.760 came along with it, and I choose to try to 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:07.680 make every interaction that I have with so many of 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:11.120 you and others positive. I live by this, and I 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:14.080 think I've talked about this on the podcast before. I 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:17.880 honestly believe it's just as easy to be nice as 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:20.880 it is to be an asshole, So why not be 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:24.760 nice and try an attempt to spread some love? And 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:29.960 ultimately it's people who are very kind and appreciative of 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:34.080 the projects that I've been a part of, whether it 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:37.680 be this podcast or a television show, and so I'm 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:41.440 grateful buy and large for the interactions and look, I 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:46.520 have said this The greatest gift that I believe I 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:50.120 was given from the Office is the human connection that 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:53.360 I have been able to have with people who feel 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:58.320 the need to tell me what that show has meant 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:01.240 to them. And I do consider that a gift, and 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:07.880 honestly am often overcome with emotion when those of you 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.600 do come up and talk to me and tell me 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:14.920 about your experiences with the show and how it maybe 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:19.439 helped you through a bad time or relationship or medical issue, 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:23.439 or if you were a service member serving overseas and 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:25.880 the show helped. This is a gift that you all 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:30.040 give to me. So thank you, by and large most 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:33.160 of the time for coming up and saying hi and 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:34.559 having such kind words. 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:35.240 Thank you. 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:40.160 MAXI Byrne asks was there ever a role that you 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:46.000 considered turning down after auditioning or offered a role, and 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:48.040 if so, why did you turn it down? 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:49.120 Now? 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:52.920 I don't know that I've talked about this specifically. There 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:56.720 was a period of time after the Office where I 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:59.720 had the opportunity to play a lot of. 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:04.280 That were Kevin. 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:09.840 Malone adjacent, very similar in terms of in terms of 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:14.880 the type of role, and I decided that I did 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:17.440 not want to do that. Now, let me be honest 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:21.920 without naming anything specifically in this regard, most of them 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:26.040 were not written by Greg Daniels and Mike Sure and 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:29.640 Mindy Kayling and bj Novak and Paul Lieberstein and all 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:32.760 of the great writers that we had, so they were 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:36.319 never quite the same, which was part of it. But two, yeah, 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:40.960 I did. I wanted to distance myself. I found myself 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:47.120 saying yes almost instantly to a drama regardless of what 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:49.640 I thought of it, just wanting to play a different 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:54.560 type of character. And I found myself saying no to 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:59.560 a lot of roles that were like Kevin Malone. To 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:04.040 answer your question slightly more specifically, I didn't turn this 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:08.959 role down. But when I was offered the role of 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:14.640 skip Wick in Electric Jesus movie I shot, I don't know, 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:18.560 three or four years ago. I was concerned about it 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:22.720 because the movie was called Electric Jesus and I have 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:27.160 my own relationship with spirituality and religion, and I wasn't 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:31.240 quite sure. I wasn't quite sure if this was a 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:32.400 movie that. 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:33.120 I wanted to do. 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:38.120 I knew the role after reading the script was incredibly 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:42.400 interesting to me and something I definitely wanted to play, 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:46.240 but I felt like I needed to be sure about 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:50.480 the movie and the message that the director, who also 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:53.960 was the writer, the message of the movie from him 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:56.360 and how he saw that character within it. So that 0:11:56.640 --> 0:12:00.360 was that was something that was that was very important 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:03.400 to me. And we had a long conversation Chris White 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:08.160 and I about what he saw, his feelings about religion, 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:12.960 his experience with organized religion and spirituality, and what he 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:16.600 felt like the message was of this movie or what 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:20.720 was his reason for making it. And you know, we talked. 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:23.520 I don't know, we talked for a couple of hours, 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:27.960 and after my conversation with him, I was very very 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:30.280 sure that I did want to do the movie. So 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:33.240 that doesn't that wasn't something that I turned down, which 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:36.160 was your question. But you know, that was really important 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:39.880 to me on that film, asking those questions and making 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:41.240 sure that it was something. 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:42.280 That I wanted to do. 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:48.600 Tupac's White son, Oh Boy, asks if you could be 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:52.960 a superhero in a movie, Yeah, who would you be? 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:57.440 I like the bad guys? Is that wrong? I feel 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:00.400 like the bad guys in the movies are way way 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:05.920 way more complex and interesting at least to play. I 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:09.320 don't know Superman, he has the most power. I do 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:12.400 get asked periodically, like what would be the superpower that 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:15.720 I would most want? Teleporting? The idea that I could 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:19.120 teleport from place to place, that would be. 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:22.200 That would be an amazing thing. 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:24.520 But that has nothing to do with acting as a 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:28.520 superhero in a movie. Look, I'm not supermany. Let's be clear. 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:32.719 He has the most power. I think Batman's pretty complex, 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:35.720 I would say, but you know, really, for me, I 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:39.080 would rather be Lex Luthor or I don't know, the 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:42.640 Joke or the Penguin than one of the superheroes. I 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:45.439 don't know, call me crazy. I think they're they're more interesting. 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:49.760 As a kid, you know, when we used to not 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:54.240 watch screens all the time and we played Imagination Land, 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:57.280 I was always the bad guy because I thought they. 0:13:57.600 --> 0:13:58.440 Were more interesting. 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:04.640 On hid Trey Diez America asks which president do you 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:10.479 see yourself portraying in a biopic? And why is he LBJ? 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:16.200 Because you said so, my friend, because you said so, 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:20.080 We're gonna go to a little fast round here some 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:24.240 quick answers, hopefully to some questions. At least that's what 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:25.440 my producers tell me. 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:27.040 This is a rapid. 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:31.240 Fire round of mailbag. The crazy Dude forty four says 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:35.680 what's your favorite scary movie? Exorcist the original, that's the 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:40.000 movie that scared me the most. My favorite is The 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:44.760 Shining by far easily top ten movie for me all times. 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:48.640 D D one one two nine asks favorite girl scout 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:52.920 cookie thin mint d D. I'm a traditionalist. I also 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:56.400 like those samoas. You know they try to do the 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:58.840 new ones. Doesn't work for me. Just give me some 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:02.600 thin mints, and if they were in the fridge, even better. 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:10.840 Tony Santo Spirito asks what's your favorite adult beverage. It's whiskey, 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:16.640 my friend, and if it's black market rye, it's even better. 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:20.480 I'll take whiskey over just about anything else. I also, 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:24.440 let's be honest, I do like the red wine as 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:32.560 bigger and bolder as possible. Nice cab franc or Cabernet savignon, 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:37.520 nice brunello from Italy. I should be drinking wine, right. 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:41.280 Why am I not drinking doing this? I'm answering the 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:44.400 questions I should also be drinking. No, it's the middle 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:48.720 of the day and I'm being safe and responsible. M 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:55.120 Y Souf Top five favorite songs, Oh boy, actually, top 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:58.840 five favorite songs Your last meal on Earth. And if 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:02.360 you could have a fast chain restaurant built into your home. 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:03.000 What would it be? 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:06.560 That one's easy in and out. If I could have 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:09.440 an in and out at the house, that would be 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:12.160 But then people there would be a line down my driveway. 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:13.120 That wouldn't be great. 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:15.800 But I think the point is what would I want? 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:20.760 And it would definitely be that I'm going backwards. Last 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:25.479 meal on Earth? Well, now I'm thinking about Gabernet Savignon. 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:30.960 I would say, a nice big Napa cab with a 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:39.240 beautiful steak, some very small cut up fingerling potatoes and 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:41.880 broccoli on the side. 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:43.720 That would be my last meal on Earth. 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:46.360 And you can't talk to me about whether or not 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:48.440 it's healthy or not, because guess what, it's my last 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:49.120 meal on Earth. 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:51.000 So I can have what I want to. 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:53.520 And then finish it off with an with an in 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:56.960 and out, and then it would definitely be my last 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:00.960 my last meal on Earth. Top five My favorite songs. 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:04.760 Oh Boy, here we go. I'm an enigma wrapped in 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:08.359 a variety pack. I like a lot of different types 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:11.480 of music. I like to say, oh, I always say, 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:14.080 but this is not what I always I stole this 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:17.720 from someone, but now I say it very regularly. By 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:21.240 the way, I did not win on Jeopardy. In case 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:23.720 you missed it, I was on Jeopardy. I didn't win 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:26.879 on Jeopardy. And here, my friends, is the reason why 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:29.200 a great person once said to me that I don't 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:32.199 remember who it was said that your brain has the 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:37.080 capabilities of remembering one of three categories. You can't do 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:43.520 more than that. One are sports facts, teams, statistics, just 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:44.919 sports information. 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:46.600 That's the one that I have. 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:52.960 The second is songs, song lyrics, song titles, albums, artists. 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:57.040 I love music, but I'm not good at that. It 0:17:57.080 --> 0:17:59.399 could be a really recognizable song that I could be 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:01.800 singing along too, and someone would be like, who sang? 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:04.480 And I don't even I can't even pull it. And 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:07.199 then the third is useless trivia. See that's why I 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:10.119 didn't win at Jeopardy. I don't have the useless trivia. 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:14.280 And by the way, over three rounds, no sports categories, 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:19.160 absolutely none. I think it was rigged against me. Don't 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:21.800 tell anyone I said that, but I think it must 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:25.359 have been because they all knew I liked it. Anyone 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:27.679 who says that Jeopardy, by the way, that there's a 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:29.639 way to cheat. There's no way to cheat. 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:30.399 You know. 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:34.120 I was once the captain of Family Feud and we won, 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:36.879 and it was me and Oscar at the end and 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:42.640 we won the big money. Much less serious over at 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:46.440 Family Feud. By the way, Jeopardy they're very serious over 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:49.480 there on Jeopardy. They don't mess around. They'll take you 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:52.040 to court if they think that you were messing around. 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:54.360 They told us, anyway. 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:54.800 What was it? 0:18:57.080 --> 0:19:01.080 Top five favorite songs? So this is for me because 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:04.760 I like a lot of different things, no particular order. 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:08.920 As you may know, Willie Nelson is the person I've 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:10.919 seen in concert the most, and I would say is 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:14.560 my number one favorite person. I'm gonna give two for him, 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:17.399 but it just counts as one always on my mind. 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:22.199 And of course Georgia that's song one, which is the 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:25.800 two and one Bob Dylan, Like a rolling Stone, I mean, 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:28.040 I think for me, the songs that pop into my 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:31.320 head are the ones where if it comes on, I'm 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:33.280 going to try my best to sing it because it 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:36.960 just it transports me and it makes me feel differently. 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:41.400 So like a rolling Stone is on there, Purple Rain, 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:45.119 Prince that's got to be on there. Greatest Concert I 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:49.240 ever saw By the way, Prince, all due respect to 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:55.680 Taylor Swift, Prince, you can't you can't beat it. Don't 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:59.040 Stop Believing. But I think that one for me is 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:02.240 about the Pranos. I'll be honest, which everyone knows is 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:06.720 my favorite television show. I was never on Don't Stop 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:10.359 Believing because it obviously ends The Sopranos. I got to 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:15.560 put that on my list. Bohemian Rhapsody Queen the craziest, 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:23.159 most courageous, bold insane song ever do. I think that 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:29.080 was five. But I can't leave off Lennon's Imagine. 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:31.000 Because it makes me cry always. So there you go. 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:34.640 There's my top six or seven favorite songs of all time. 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:43.280 Chris Lee Photography. Second favorite food to cook after chili, Well, 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:46.679 this is easy because it really probably is my first 0:20:46.720 --> 0:20:51.960 favorite thing to cook. I am fortunate enough weatherwise that 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:57.080 I live in southern California, so grilling season goes all 0:20:57.440 --> 0:21:01.520 year long, and if I'm home, I would say that 0:21:01.560 --> 0:21:06.000 I'm at the grill four nights a week. Yeah, four 0:21:06.200 --> 0:21:10.280 ish nights a week, depending that's on average. I love 0:21:10.320 --> 0:21:15.320 to grill, and it doesn't matter what it is. Vegetables, meat, 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:21.200 the beef, chicken, sausages. I love to grill, and this 0:21:22.280 --> 0:21:24.440 is not really intended to be a plug. I do 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:26.200 have a grilling cookbook. 0:21:26.720 --> 0:21:27.800 I mean, what are these these? 0:21:28.280 --> 0:21:31.800 It's just a master at transitions today. A grilling cookbook, 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:37.280 seriously good barbecue cookbook that's coming out this spring, just 0:21:37.320 --> 0:21:39.840 in time for next grilling season. 0:21:40.160 --> 0:21:40.640 Check it out. 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:42.440 I'm compiling recipes right now. 0:21:42.560 --> 0:21:43.520 I hope you saw. 0:21:43.680 --> 0:21:47.159 If you have a great barbecue recipe, get it to me. 0:21:47.440 --> 0:21:52.960 It's the deadline is rapidly approaching or passed, but try 0:21:53.000 --> 0:21:56.159 it out. You can find I'm sure the link on 0:21:56.200 --> 0:21:59.159 my Instagram to get your recipe if it's not too 0:21:59.240 --> 0:22:02.200 late into the book. But yeah, I love to grill. 0:22:02.359 --> 0:22:05.560 And I will say this also because I haven't talked 0:22:05.560 --> 0:22:09.560 about this. During COVID, there was a big movement for baking, 0:22:09.920 --> 0:22:12.360 and I was never a baker and I still am. 0:22:12.400 --> 0:22:17.160 Not spoiler alert, but I started doing the pizza thing 0:22:17.640 --> 0:22:23.560 and making my own dough, experimenting with that, with doing it, 0:22:23.680 --> 0:22:27.560 letting it sit multiple days. So I really did enjoy 0:22:27.880 --> 0:22:30.399 the therapeutic nature of that. I mean, it takes a 0:22:30.440 --> 0:22:32.520 long time. You got a plan ahead, and usually I 0:22:32.560 --> 0:22:36.520 am not great at planning ahead. But if you haven't 0:22:36.520 --> 0:22:40.439 gotten into the dough making for pizza craze, I know 0:22:40.600 --> 0:22:43.919 my old co worker Jenna Fisher's she's on the baking 0:22:44.000 --> 0:22:47.600 train there. I was doing the pizza dough. I really 0:22:47.640 --> 0:22:53.520 do enjoy that as well. And that ends our rapid fire, 0:22:54.160 --> 0:22:59.760 our rapid fire questions. I didn't rapid fire it very 0:22:59.800 --> 0:23:03.920 well at all. Sorry, producers, don't fire me. But let's 0:23:03.960 --> 0:23:07.080 take a break. I'll catch my breath and we'll be 0:23:07.160 --> 0:23:08.000 back after this. 0:23:25.840 --> 0:23:26.400 Here we are. 0:23:26.760 --> 0:23:30.800 We're back, and we've come to another very popular category 0:23:30.880 --> 0:23:31.720 of questions. 0:23:31.960 --> 0:23:33.520 Yes, chili. 0:23:34.240 --> 0:23:37.240 Now I get a chili comment or a question regardless 0:23:37.280 --> 0:23:39.800 of what I post. So if I post asking for 0:23:39.880 --> 0:23:42.919 any questions, well I'm no doubt going to get some 0:23:43.040 --> 0:23:47.440 chili questions because your mind's they go straight to beans. 0:23:48.119 --> 0:23:52.760 I'm ed seven three five two four says who has 0:23:52.840 --> 0:23:55.639 made the best chili you have ever tasted? 0:23:56.160 --> 0:23:57.680 Besides yourself? 0:23:57.920 --> 0:24:00.440 Well, I've told this story before, but I don't think 0:24:00.480 --> 0:24:03.399 on here. I'm here in my office and I actually 0:24:03.400 --> 0:24:08.000 have the seriously good chili cookbook written by yours truly, 0:24:08.040 --> 0:24:10.679 one hundred and seventy seven of the best recipes in 0:24:10.720 --> 0:24:15.400 the world. Page eighty six in this Bible of Chili Recipes. 0:24:15.720 --> 0:24:18.280 I was at the World Championship Chili cook Off, where 0:24:18.280 --> 0:24:20.639 I just was last month, by the way, but this 0:24:20.760 --> 0:24:22.600 is back a couple of years ago one of the 0:24:22.640 --> 0:24:25.920 inspirations for this book. I was there. I was asked 0:24:25.960 --> 0:24:28.720 to judge. I went to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and 0:24:28.760 --> 0:24:32.879 there was a smoked white chicken chili that mister Chuck 0:24:33.119 --> 0:24:39.560 Edwards made. That was transformative because I thought of chili 0:24:40.000 --> 0:24:42.760 as why do you need a bunch of recipes. It's 0:24:42.840 --> 0:24:47.159 either mild, medium, or hot. And his chili opened up 0:24:47.240 --> 0:24:52.720 for me what chili could be. It's a white bean 0:24:53.480 --> 0:24:54.520 chicken chili. 0:24:55.119 --> 0:24:57.240 But it was just delicious. 0:24:57.520 --> 0:25:00.919 And so when I decided, and I had the International 0:25:01.000 --> 0:25:04.320 Chili Society who puts on the World Championship Chili cook Off, 0:25:04.920 --> 0:25:07.720 when they agreed to let me use or include some 0:25:07.800 --> 0:25:11.960