Speaker 1: My guest is an award winning actor, producer, director, best
Speaker 1: selling author, and the host and producer of the hit
Speaker 1: Fox game show The Floor.
Speaker 2: I'm pleased to welcome my buddy to one and only,
Speaker 2: Rob Low to the show. How are you, Rob? How's everything? Man?
Speaker 3: I'm very good.
Speaker 4: It's it's it's great to talk to you as always,
Speaker 4: you know, the week leading up to the super Bowl,
Speaker 4: there's nobody I'd rather talk to than you.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that. Feelings mutual, my man. Before I get
Speaker 2: into your hit game show, though, I want to offer
Speaker 2: my condolences to your family before I do anything else.
Speaker 2: I understand your brother Chad lost his homes in the
Speaker 2: Palisades wildfire. How's everything going in that regard? Man?
Speaker 4: You just can't imagine it. I mean, it's it's unimaginable
Speaker 4: what he and all his neighbors, every single one of
Speaker 4: his friends.
Speaker 3: You know, he got out with.
Speaker 4: His his kids, his wife.
Speaker 3: They're goldfish, they're three cats. And that's it.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: So we've you know, given them lots of clothes, have
Speaker 4: been housing people looking for new housing for everybody.
Speaker 3: It's just a it's truly a.
Speaker 4: One day at a time for so many people and
Speaker 4: you just never can believe it's ever going to happen
Speaker 4: to you or your family until it does.
Speaker 2: I don't mind tackling the issue of politics or anything else,
Speaker 2: but I don't expect everybody to be like I am.
Speaker 2: So I'll ask this question in a general perspective and
Speaker 2: let you take it wherever you want to go, whether
Speaker 2: it's whether it's it's state politicians, whether it's bureaucracy that's
Speaker 2: existed for years, whatever the case may be, how do
Speaker 2: you believe a bunch of Los Angeleans and a bunch
Speaker 2: of Californians are feeling? Could you, you know, pretty much
Speaker 2: explain for us your mindset and your mentality and that
Speaker 2: of folks who live out there, how you're feeling right
Speaker 2: now in light of everything that's transpired, and most importantly,
Speaker 2: how it's been handled well one percent.
Speaker 4: And I come with a kind of unique perspective on this, Stephen.
Speaker 4: I've lived in southern California since nineteen seventy six. One
Speaker 4: of my first memories of moving to Malibu, which has
Speaker 4: burned many many times and burned in this fire, was
Speaker 4: looking up and seeing the gigantic fire roads that were cut.
Speaker 3: Into the mountains.
Speaker 4: They're gone, Wow, they haven't cut fire roads into the mountains,
Speaker 4: and you'd have to ask the policymakers, but they're not
Speaker 4: there anymore.
Speaker 3: And you know, I play a.
Speaker 4: First responder on nine to one one Loan Star, right so,
Speaker 4: and I've housed firemen on my property during the last
Speaker 4: big fire in Santa Barbara. So I know from top
Speaker 4: to bottom. You know, the culture of decision making around.
Speaker 3: Forestry.
Speaker 4: I don't know the technical querntry, but that's been.
Speaker 3: A real problem and they've screwed it up and and and.
Speaker 4: You can just look at it. Where are the fire roads.
Speaker 4: They're not there. They used to be there. We used
Speaker 4: to ride our bikes on them, BMX on them. They
Speaker 4: were great. So you know, the chickens have come home
Speaker 4: to roost on the other side of it. If a
Speaker 4: fire starts where it did during those winds, it's going
Speaker 4: to do whatever it wants to do, really and truly
Speaker 4: it is.
Speaker 3: I do know that there.
Speaker 4: Were reports of people lighting fireworks off day in and
Speaker 4: day out, not day in and day out. I don't
Speaker 4: want I don't want to over exaggerate this. I want
Speaker 4: to be really careful because what I'm about to.
Speaker 3: Say is true.
Speaker 4: There were people lighting fireworks four or five times a month.
Speaker 4: Right where that stopped. The Palisades community would report it.
Speaker 4: The Palisades have one policeman, one one and when they
Speaker 4: go one and when they go to whoever they would
Speaker 4: go to. I don't want to name names because I
Speaker 4: don't want to be wrong.
Speaker 3: City council.
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's that, But whoever they would
Speaker 4: go to, they would say, well, you're not a high
Speaker 4: crime area and our resources are limited, so that one
Speaker 4: policeman doesn't really you know, what are they going to do?
Speaker 4: Go up there and scout out the fireworks.
Speaker 3: New Year's Eve there.
Speaker 4: Was the fireworks were set off again. It lit off
Speaker 4: a brush fire about an acre. They put it out,
Speaker 4: but the working theory I'm hearing is is that it
Speaker 4: wasn't fully put out, you know, because embers. You know,
Speaker 4: you've had a fireplace, you know, if your fire goes
Speaker 4: out and you come back and look at it the
Speaker 4: next day, they're still embers. That maybe those embers blew
Speaker 4: in the wind. But my point being Stephen, is at
Speaker 4: some point, when you cut and cut and cut, and
Speaker 4: you change policy and you don't listen to experts, the
Speaker 4: chickens are going to come home to roost and they have.
Speaker 2: My last question on this subject would be this, we
Speaker 2: all know the kind of politics the state of California
Speaker 2: has leaned towards for many, many years, and we see
Speaker 2: a new president in office and how he came to
Speaker 2: California and he went right at the mayor of Los
Speaker 2: Angeles and Karen Bass. He didn't pull any punches in
Speaker 2: terms of how he talks about the Governor, Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 2: And for the first time in many many years, if
Speaker 2: not my lifetime, I feel a shift taking place where
Speaker 2: you got Californians that they look like they're sick and tied.
Speaker 2: And this was like the last straw as far as
Speaker 2: I can say, as far as I could tell, and
Speaker 2: it looks like there's the possibility of change coming to
Speaker 2: the state in that regard. Am I off and saying that.
Speaker 3: No, you're not off.
Speaker 4: I watched the roundtable from start to finish, and you know,
Speaker 4: people were being told by the National Guard and FEMA
Speaker 4: and people like that that it would be eighteen months
Speaker 4: to rebuild. That's they were actually being told, and then
Speaker 4: the mayor would say something else. So you know, you
Speaker 4: saw firsthand the rigamarole and the mumbo jumbo that that's
Speaker 4: going on, and look at I get it. It's it's
Speaker 4: unfolding in real time and people are doing the best
Speaker 4: that they can. But I think, you know, people are
Speaker 4: are ready for some accountability and you know, they're ready
Speaker 4: to have water in the reservoirs.
Speaker 3: When they need it.
Speaker 2: Frankly, yeah, I got you. Let's move on to a
Speaker 2: more pleasant topic because you've got a hit show. It's
Speaker 2: The Floor, and I want you to talk about that
Speaker 2: a little bit. Tell us about it and for those
Speaker 2: who are not familiar with it, explain the premise of
Speaker 2: it all.
Speaker 4: So the Floor, you know, steven A We Fox gave
Speaker 4: us the most coveted other than the steven A. Smith Empire,
Speaker 4: most coveted, the most coveted thing in media is what
Speaker 4: is on after the super Bowl. They gave us that slot.
Speaker 4: So I show The Floor will be right after the
Speaker 4: super Bowl, you know. And it's because the gameplay of
Speaker 4: the Floor, the game itself, the Floor is so addicting
Speaker 4: that Fox has said we got to get more. You know,
Speaker 4: people gonna love it and just become insta fans. And
Speaker 4: it's really true. You'll go from watching you know, America's
Speaker 4: favorite game to playing the most addicting game that I've
Speaker 4: come across.
Speaker 3: I love it, and I love that. Whether you're ten.
Speaker 4: Years old, eighty years old, male, female, no matter what,
Speaker 4: everybody loves the floor. They love playing that damn game.
Speaker 2: At Home Hearts filmed in Ireland?
Speaker 3: Is that true?
Speaker 4: Talk about California ready for a change. I sit in
Speaker 4: the offices at Fox. We look out at all the
Speaker 4: sound stages. They're five feet away, and it's cheaper and
Speaker 4: more productive to take one hundred American contestants and fly
Speaker 4: to Ireland do it. That's something about I don't know
Speaker 4: much about business, but that can't be very right, Yes,
Speaker 4: for a business climate.
Speaker 2: That can't. So basically, it's an island because it's cheaper
Speaker 2: than it is to do it in California. Yeah, that
Speaker 2: is insane, exactly it. Wow, I don't even know what
Speaker 2: to say about that. How could you feel good if
Speaker 2: you're to stay to California Think it's cheaper to take
Speaker 2: an entire crew over one hundred people out of the
Speaker 2: country to another place that it is to do it
Speaker 2: right there in their own backyard.
Speaker 4: That, by the way, stephen A, That's the way it
Speaker 4: is with everything. I'm I'm looking at what my next
Speaker 4: show is going to be because Lone Star is finishing
Speaker 4: in every studio, every network is telling me they will
Speaker 4: not shoot in Los Angeles, will not Wow.
Speaker 2: Wow, And how does that make you feel, considering that
Speaker 2: you've been living there since the seventies.
Speaker 3: It's outrageous.
Speaker 4: I mean, this is this is the one thing, not
Speaker 4: the one thing, but certainly it's probably America's single best
Speaker 4: export is entertainment.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: We do that better than anybody in the world.
Speaker 2: You do, still you do?
Speaker 3: And where do we do it? Hollywood? Not anymore.
Speaker 4: It's Vancouver, it's Budapest, it's Ireland, it's New Mexico, it's Toronto.
Speaker 4: But it is not Hollywood. And we have had and
Speaker 4: idiots in charge of this and letting that this has
Speaker 4: slipped away is criminal criminal.
Speaker 2: Wow. And let's not forget Atlanta. They in Atlanta too,
Speaker 2: films in Atlanta. Oh.
Speaker 4: Last time I was in Atlanta, Stephen, Eh, we couldn't
Speaker 4: get enough people to work on the crew because there
Speaker 4: were like I believe, sixty seven productions and not making
Speaker 4: that up in Atlanta.
Speaker 2: Wow. Business is thriving in other places, but not Los Angeles,
Speaker 2: California or California period. Listen, let me tell let me
Speaker 2: put a smile on your face about something in California.
Speaker 2: The Lakers, they're kind of relevant right now. I mean
Speaker 2: they're top, the top five seed in the Western Conference
Speaker 2: right now, about six games above five. Ron'dred, I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, they're not looking so bad right now, Rob,
Speaker 2: how are you feeling about it?
Speaker 4: Listen, if we'd have had this conversation a few weeks ago,
Speaker 4: it wouldn't have been this conversation.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 4: They just they turned it on. And you know, they've
Speaker 4: got Superman. You know, they've got the Ageless Wonder. Uh,
Speaker 4: you know Lebron James, and you know A d is
Speaker 4: doing his thing. And you know I would say, is
Speaker 4: is ad goes?
Speaker 3: So go the Lakers?
Speaker 4: And and they got this the kid, the point guard.
Speaker 3: God.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's exciting exciting times to be a
Speaker 4: Laker fan.
Speaker 2: You know, I've said, I was on TV the other
Speaker 2: day and somebody said to me, what should the Lakers do?
Speaker 2: And I said, whatever Anthony Davis wants. If Anthony Davis
Speaker 2: says they need a five, go get him a five.
Speaker 2: Because the way he's balling right now, you know, they
Speaker 2: go where he'll take them, because even with Lebron still
Speaker 2: being great, you need a D to be a D
Speaker 2: at his best, and he's saying, I need a five
Speaker 2: so I can play my natural position. So now it's
Speaker 2: up to Rob A Linka. All right, your your doppel
Speaker 2: gang is, they say. And then now it's up to
Speaker 2: right now, it's up to Rob A Lincoln to go
Speaker 2: out and get a five for the Los Angeles Lakers
Speaker 2: so a D can be happy. Wouldn't you say that's
Speaker 2: a good strategy.
Speaker 3: It's a great strategy.
Speaker 4: They need to take a page from my Dodgers and
Speaker 4: go out and get the best in class.
Speaker 2: Yes. By the way, speaking of your Dodgers for a
Speaker 2: real quick second, you don't have any problem with them
Speaker 2: buying every damn thing. I mean, you know you got
Speaker 2: you got shoe O Tani deferring, you know most of
Speaker 2: his seven hundred million dollars. You got them having everything.
Speaker 2: I mean, they could buy everybody right now, and there's
Speaker 2: nothing you could do about it. You don't mind it
Speaker 2: at all.
Speaker 4: Uh, here's what I Here's no, they don't. And because
Speaker 4: I'm I'm a fan and I like to win. But
Speaker 4: you know, there's a lot of guys with a lot
Speaker 4: of money.
Speaker 3: The Bets could be doing it.
Speaker 4: I believe it's mister Ruben Steam and the Orioles could
Speaker 4: be doing it. They've got it, They've got every bit
Speaker 4: as much money. They're not doing it. Why are they
Speaker 4: not doing it? Yeah, So I'm where I do.
Speaker 3: Find it tough.
Speaker 4: Is you know my friends, the Attanasio's on the Brewers
Speaker 4: and they don't have that kind of money. The Castellini's
Speaker 4: on the Reds. You know, I know all these folk
Speaker 4: and the So that's where I feel like, you know,
Speaker 4: at some point, I actually hope I'm wrong, but I
Speaker 4: feel like we're working our way to a lockout or something,
Speaker 4: because at some point it will be untenable.
Speaker 3: But it's all within the rules.
Speaker 4: I think there's gonna have to be a change that
Speaker 4: the Players Association is not gonna want that. Obviously they
Speaker 4: would get the people to play paid. So I don't
Speaker 4: know where it all ends. But the Dodgers are just
Speaker 4: being smarter and more generous. But hey, man, Stevie Cohen.
Speaker 2: Open up the check book. He is he is. I
Speaker 2: don't think he's gonna hesitate too, But then again, he's
Speaker 2: fighting with Pete A. Lonzo I don't know how that's
Speaker 2: gonna work out. Believe that's unbelievable. Why is that right?
Speaker 3: I know, I love the polar Bear. I love watching him.
Speaker 4: There's nothing more exciting in baseball than a pop fly
Speaker 4: that you're not sure he's gonna catch. There's nothing, there's
Speaker 4: there's nothing that I love him.
Speaker 2: Listen. I like him a lot. I hope he resigns.
Speaker 2: But there was some slippage last year. I mean, they
Speaker 2: would have been they were a great, great story in
Speaker 2: the post. He's like the party had kids, the way
Speaker 2: they were so feisty or whatever. But there was some
Speaker 2: slippers for him. And I don't think that's about him.
Speaker 2: I think it's about Scott Boris getting in the way,
Speaker 2: and I think that's problematic. He's got to watch himself.
Speaker 2: Don't let your agent get in the way. At the
Speaker 2: bottom line, and when all is said and done, but
Speaker 2: before I let you go, let me transition to football
Speaker 2: because we had a Super Bowl coming up, and I
Speaker 2: can't let you go without getting your take on this.
Speaker 2: The Philadelphia Eagles ramrodded the Washington Commanders, and we saw
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes once again pulling out a victory against the
Speaker 2: Buffalo Bills. It's gonna be Kansas City Philadelphia rematch in
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl from a couple of years ago. What
Speaker 2: are your initial thoughts?
Speaker 3: I have so many thoughts.
Speaker 4: I mean, you can't argue with with greatness. You know,
Speaker 4: a lot of people want to hate on greatness. A
Speaker 4: lot of people get tired of greatness. You know, you
Speaker 4: know the refs are in the tank or whatever. The
Speaker 4: hecker I'm tired of Taylor Swift and whatever. They're great, dude,
Speaker 4: And you know what, I went to Arrowhead, I want
Speaker 4: to say last year, and when you watch these guys
Speaker 4: up close, it's a whole different thing. There's something about
Speaker 4: television that does not capture his ability to see with
Speaker 4: eyes behind his head and just move to the left
Speaker 4: and extend plays. He We should be thankful that we
Speaker 4: get to watch this kind of greatness.
Speaker 3: I was bummed for Josh Allen.
Speaker 2: But you know what, they're not ready.
Speaker 4: That team ain't ready.
Speaker 2: They're not ready. Sorry, yea k you gotta catch that pass.
Speaker 2: You gotta catch that pass, just like Mark Andrews against
Speaker 2: a foot Baltimore. You gotta catch that pass. You gotta
Speaker 2: catch that two point is what you do? You get
Speaker 2: paid to do this. You get you can't mess that up.
Speaker 2: Having said all of that, Philadelphia, Kansas City, you lean
Speaker 2: into it. So I saw.
Speaker 4: Saquan play against the Rams this year, Yes, I mean
Speaker 4: I saw game. I got to see La Damien during
Speaker 4: his gigantic season in San Diego back in the day,
Speaker 4: and that's what it reminds me. It's just like you
Speaker 4: just get that energy. You can see every time he
Speaker 4: touches the all you think, oh he's breaking it to
Speaker 4: the house. You just kind of know it's gonna happen.
Speaker 4: So I think this is gonna be a great, great
Speaker 4: gat super Bowl for sure.
Speaker 3: The best two teams are in it.
Speaker 2: I think. I think that's what it's gonna take for
Speaker 2: the Eagles to beat Kansas City. Saquon has to have
Speaker 2: a big game. Even though Jalen Hurts gott of play two,
Speaker 2: it can't be it's in Jalen hurts hands against Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 2: That ain't gonna get it done. Saquon has to demoralize
Speaker 2: Kansas City as thieves Magnola's defense in order for the
Speaker 2: Eagles to win the Super Bowl Championship. What do you
Speaker 2: think about that prognostication?
Speaker 4: I agree and I think you go to that first.
Speaker 4: One of the things I didn't like about Buffalo. I
Speaker 4: didn't like Buffalo's play calling on first and second down
Speaker 4: at all. It's like when they finally got into like
Speaker 4: when they needed it, then they started calling the players.
Speaker 4: I thought they should have been playing all along. So
Speaker 4: let's not wait till the you know, the second half
Speaker 4: to go. Where's Saquon, Let's feed that man the ball
Speaker 4: from the jump.
Speaker 2: New season of the Floor premier's February ninth on Fox
Speaker 2: One and Only. Rob Lowe appreciate you, my man. Always
Speaker 2: good talking to you. Can't wait to see you. You
Speaker 2: take it easier.
Speaker 3: Right, Thank you. It's great to see you as always.
Speaker 2: All right, buddy, thank you,