Speaker 1: First of all, you don't know me.
Speaker 2: We all about that high school drama girl, drama girl,
Speaker 2: all about them.
Speaker 3: High school queens.
Speaker 2: We'll take you for a ride, and our comic girl
Speaker 2: shared for the right teams drama queens up girl fashion,
Speaker 2: but your tough girl, you could sit with us. Girl drama, queens, drama,
Speaker 2: queise drama, Queens drama, drama, queens drama Queens.
Speaker 3: Guys, we have been chopping at the bit to talk
Speaker 3: to this man. We are sure as hell going to
Speaker 3: get to know the real Robbie Jones. We're playing twenty
Speaker 3: three questions with this handsome devil muscle. Wait waies, honey,
Speaker 3: all right, you guys at home, you're gonna have to
Speaker 3: deal with this flirting for a little bit. It's been
Speaker 3: a long time since we've seen this man.
Speaker 1: Wait what.
Speaker 3: Robbie, But Robbie for everyone who's playing ketchup, like we
Speaker 3: all got to grow up together in this really magical way.
Speaker 3: Like where are you right now? You're in Santa Clarita.
Speaker 3: You're a family man, which is very exciting. Yes, well,
Speaker 3: you were so good with kids, like we always knew
Speaker 3: that was the trajectory for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've so just briefly. We moved to Santa Clarita
Speaker 1: right before the world completely shut down. My daughter was
Speaker 1: starting to walk and it was like, oh, it's time
Speaker 1: to get some space. We need a yard, we need swings,
Speaker 1: we need you know, we need the whole thing. So
Speaker 1: we moved to Santa Clarita, started renting a home and
Speaker 1: it was perfect. Everything was was like working good. And
Speaker 1: then it was like, okay, the owner wants to sell
Speaker 1: the place. We were like, awsome, do you want to
Speaker 1: buy it? We bought the place and now we live here.
Speaker 1: We're like residents. We live here. This is my house.
Speaker 1: I wish you would.
Speaker 4: Yeah, problem that is now your broken dishwasher?
Speaker 1: Yes, number four from me, and we have we're in
Speaker 1: the coldest act. There's kids everywhere. We have child number two,
Speaker 1: little Hendrix. He is running around here talking his face
Speaker 1: all and my daughter is in kindergarten right now. She's
Speaker 1: at school and we are just nesting.
Speaker 3: Sandra's just happy. She's good, She's hanging at home.
Speaker 1: Sandy is loving thanks calling her Sandra her gunment.
Speaker 5: Sorry my name's Sandy, all right, but no, she's she's
Speaker 5: doing great.
Speaker 1: She's loving this whole mother journey and just maybe t M.
Speaker 1: I just waned my my second child, so he's done
Speaker 1: with Nannie.
Speaker 3: God, that feeling is so good when you're just like
Speaker 3: free the leashes off as the mother and you're just
Speaker 3: like anyone can feed this baby now.
Speaker 1: Like.
Speaker 3: We are one of that reality her flowers or something.
Speaker 3: That's a big damn deal, Robbie.
Speaker 1: All the time at this house. Okay, this is the
Speaker 1: Jones residence.
Speaker 3: So that Robbie, you know, we have been raving about
Speaker 3: just our personal experience with you and what a gentleman
Speaker 3: you are and how fun you were to work with
Speaker 3: as an actor and a co worker. And so this
Speaker 3: is our opportunity to ask you questions from the proost
Speaker 3: questionnaire so that the audience can actually get to know you,
Speaker 3: because you plead a character who a lot of parts
Speaker 3: of that character were very different from who you are,
Speaker 3: maybe a little abrasive, and so you'd like to get
Speaker 3: to know this sweetness underneath. Ladies, who wants to kick
Speaker 3: this off? I will, I'll go do it.
Speaker 4: Robbie, Oh friend, what is your idea of perfect happiness?
Speaker 1: Wow? You just went straight for the deep philosophical You
Speaker 1: just went for the bag.
Speaker 4: Could be I mean, maybe it's just like a big
Speaker 4: Mac and a Vanila milkshake and a quiet you know, car,
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be Philo, No, no. You know
Speaker 1: what's interesting. I've been discussing this a lot with friends
Speaker 1: and family lately, and I feel like where I'm currently
Speaker 1: at now and my life with these beautiful healthy kids
Speaker 1: and life and house and family, mother, father, everybody's still here,
Speaker 1: everybody's healthy. I feel like I'm really living in true happiness,
Speaker 1: I mean like ultimate happiness. And yeah, it has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with work, has nothing to do with money,
Speaker 1: or has nothing to do with anything. It's just like
Speaker 1: when I wake up in the morning and my son
Speaker 1: is like that act, can you play basketball with me?
Speaker 1: I'm like, yes, sir, deils here and I'm like, this
Speaker 1: is really where it's at. Like what else in the
Speaker 1: world is. There's nothing more important, nothing that makes me
Speaker 1: happier than just being here with my family and kids.
Speaker 1: And I just find myself really like being at home
Speaker 1: a lot. Even when I was working, I was like, man,
Speaker 1: can you guys give me on the first light back
Speaker 1: home because I don't want to miss anything.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's just a big answer with COVID and
Speaker 3: then our strike, like pretty much back to back. Do
Speaker 3: you feel like it really changed your view about what
Speaker 3: accomplishment and like what fulfillment is. It did for me,
Speaker 3: That's why I ask.
Speaker 1: It really put things in perspective for me, like if
Speaker 1: that makes sense. It was like, for the longest time,
Speaker 1: you spend like the majority of your energy kind of
Speaker 1: chasing this thing, this career, this this this, this whole
Speaker 1: kind of actor thing. And as much as I love
Speaker 1: and I'm so fulfilled by my job, when it's shut
Speaker 1: down and the world shut down and it's just you
Speaker 1: and just your wife, just your daughter at the time,
Speaker 1: it's like you look around and go, man, nothing else
Speaker 1: is really that important, Like nothing else and that that
Speaker 1: it was kind of a moment for me. I'm sure
Speaker 1: you guys are all actors. You have these same feelings
Speaker 1: where it's like, man, I want to get back to work. Man,
Speaker 1: I want to get back to work. Man, I'm miss working.
Speaker 1: But I was I was kind of praying for this,
Speaker 1: like like when is this breakthrough thing going to happen?
Speaker 1: And I and when are this? When is this gonna
Speaker 1: When is this gonna happen? And when is this gonna happen,
Speaker 1: and I can't at this revilization. Just one day I
Speaker 1: was like, man, God has already blessed me with with
Speaker 1: all of that. Everything I've been praying for is already here.
Speaker 1: So it's like so cool to just be living in that.
Speaker 1: And that perspective shift from me happened, like you said,
Speaker 1: kind of during the pandemic and I was like wow, wow,
Speaker 1: like look at us look beautiful.
Speaker 6: Yeah that's great.
Speaker 7: Okay, Well if if the opportunity to reflect like that really,
Speaker 7: you know, allowed for a perspective shift. And I'm very
Speaker 7: interested to hear your answer to question too, because it
Speaker 7: is what is your greatest fear? That It was like,
Speaker 7: you know, tmmo over here, just want to get into
Speaker 7: all your feelings.
Speaker 1: The perspective shifting. I love the set up. That was great.
Speaker 1: H My greatest fear, I think has developed since I
Speaker 1: have had children, and I think I try not to
Speaker 1: have fear of anything, but if I'm being honest and
Speaker 1: being transparent, my biggest fear is not being the dad
Speaker 1: that I want to be for my kids, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. And to say like, oh, I have
Speaker 1: a fear of not being a good dad like that,
Speaker 1: that's kind of too general, So I'll just say, like
Speaker 1: I want to be. My fear is not being the
Speaker 1: dad that both of my kids need me to be,
Speaker 1: as like they both need to be parented a specific way,
Speaker 1: and I just am like, man, am I doing it right?
Speaker 1: Am I getting this right? So that's kind of like
Speaker 1: a that's what keeps me just like every day, like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I got to stay on top of this, stay on
Speaker 1: top of that, be here for that, be here for that,
Speaker 1: you know, pour into them in these different ways so
Speaker 1: I can kind of like put that fear at bay.
Speaker 3: You know, weird raising little girls in this generation because
Speaker 3: all the stuff that we were told, like go kiss
Speaker 3: your uncle, go like hug up the stranger. Now we're
Speaker 3: just raising like monsters. But we're happy about it. We're like,
Speaker 3: you don't touch anybody you don't want to touch, and
Speaker 3: also say no whenever you want. It's just a totally
Speaker 3: different thing now completely we're making it up as we
Speaker 3: go along.
Speaker 1: Robbie, I'm glad you said that, yeah, because I feel
Speaker 1: like I have some amazing parents, so I have a
Speaker 1: lot to kind of gleeve from and pull from them,
Speaker 1: and I pick their brains all the time. But like
Speaker 1: it is so different from when they were raising us,
Speaker 1: so only so much can apply. And like you said,
Speaker 1: I got a little five year old girl. Same, it's
Speaker 1: five handfuls. Forget me. What is a handful in all
Speaker 1: the good ways, but then all the ways that are
Speaker 1: challenging too.
Speaker 3: So well, is she you? Because my five year old
Speaker 3: is my husband. She is absolutely half No, no.
Speaker 1: No, she's your way, her own thing.
Speaker 3: That means she's probably you. That means you don't want
Speaker 3: to admit.
Speaker 1: I got my parents here, and I asked them all
Speaker 1: the time, like are these was I like? This? Was?
Speaker 1: It was? Was I like her? Was she like me?
Speaker 1: Or are they like me? They're like, uh, funny, yeah,
Speaker 1: good for her.
Speaker 3: That means you're doing it right right.
Speaker 1: Here's the individuality. Okay, okay.
Speaker 3: Question number three, my friend, if you could be the
Speaker 3: best in the world at literally anything, cooking, spearfishing, whatever,
Speaker 3: best in the world, what would it be.
Speaker 1: It's a great question. Man. You got on the fence
Speaker 1: because my passions and my loves basketball and acting.
Speaker 8: And I always was like, ooh, I want to be
Speaker 8: so good at best. No, and then I'm like, oh,
Speaker 8: I want to be the best actor in the world.
Speaker 8: But I see what happens to all the best actors.
Speaker 1: Yet at the same time, I feel like it's about
Speaker 1: who you are. So I'm going to pick I want
Speaker 1: to be the best father. Did you see what I
Speaker 1: did right there? Yeah?
Speaker 3: You did a mad and switch.
Speaker 1: Also it this way, okay, have to take out Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean those are two professions that can sometimes get
Speaker 3: in the way of being a good parent. I mean
Speaker 3: we've all kind of experienced the guilt of having to
Speaker 3: leave our kids and you know, just being distracted. There's
Speaker 3: a there's a lot that can go wrong in either industry,
Speaker 3: whether it's sports or the entertainment industry, and so prioritizing
Speaker 3: your kid that's a big deal.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 4: What is that not to This is an answer that
Speaker 4: could go on forever, But I'm like, if you could
Speaker 4: truncate it into a few things that you think of
Speaker 4: when you think of the best father in the world,
Speaker 4: just practically, what would that actually look like.
Speaker 1: Well, for me, it's about being intentional and being present
Speaker 1: and listening a lot, and I think personalizing your mode
Speaker 1: of fatherhood to each individual child and not just being like,
Speaker 1: oh this is how I am, so this is how
Speaker 1: you get me child? Number one and child number two.
Speaker 1: Like child number one might have completely different set of
Speaker 1: needs than child number two. I think being an amazing
Speaker 1: father is being the father that child number one and
Speaker 1: child number two both need individually and making sure that
Speaker 1: that happens in real time. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: This one wants to read and talk all the time.
Speaker 1: This one wants the place, sports and be outside all
Speaker 1: the time. So how do I find a way to
Speaker 1: be outside and be inside reading? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: It's like, Oh, it's a balance. That's why it's great
Speaker 1: to have, you know, my wife or a partner or
Speaker 1: whatever that you're raising a child with, so you guys
Speaker 1: can kind of fill in the blanks.
Speaker 4: You are someone who I think of a lot as
Speaker 4: in the moment. It's one of the things that makes
Speaker 4: you a really enjoyable actor to watch. You're so present,
Speaker 4: You're so immediately reactive and thank you to what's happening
Speaker 4: in the moment. So, okay, here's the question number four.
Speaker 4: You're in your home, you're in the moment, it's time
Speaker 4: for bed or it's time for waking up. What is
Speaker 4: the one thing that is next to your bed that
Speaker 4: is this weirdest item that you have. What's the weirdest
Speaker 4: item you keep next to your bed? Ah boy, well,
Speaker 4: well yeah, I didn't see that one coming.
Speaker 1: I didn't see that will come at all.
Speaker 7: Nobody ever does.
Speaker 1: Robbie man, you know what's weird that's next to my bed?
Speaker 1: I probably should clean up. You guys ain't going this
Speaker 1: is you won't see it. Give it our contact lenses, right, okay?
Speaker 1: And our glasses at night when I'm super lazy, I
Speaker 1: have disposable contact lenses. I just throw them off the
Speaker 1: side of the bed like I'm about to go to sleep,
Speaker 1: and I just and there's literally a nasty little kind
Speaker 1: of a machine.
Speaker 3: Sculpture like a contact lens graveyard.
Speaker 1: It's just a nasty little pile of contact. That's such
Speaker 1: a good way to put it, a graveyard, discarded misfit contact.
Speaker 4: You've just made some people out there feel so much
Speaker 4: better about their own habit of doing the exact same thing.
Speaker 1: You can't be It's so true, and I'm I've admitted
Speaker 1: that to you ladies. Thank you.
Speaker 3: Do your kids play with them in their mouth? Oh
Speaker 3: my god, My kids play with fake eyelashes, They play
Speaker 3: with discarded contacts. Kids love grown up trash they do.
Speaker 1: Right, it's weird. I'm like, no, dad has room, please
Speaker 1: mama room, Stay out of that. It's not baby proofed
Speaker 1: in here, please stay out.
Speaker 3: Oh that's hilarious, Robbie.
Speaker 1: It's the truth. It's weird, but it's the truth. I
Speaker 1: like it.
Speaker 3: It does, yeh. Because it's so specific.
Speaker 7: It's so specific and honest. I find it interesting.
Speaker 1: I'm talking to soul. I can't believe it. It's been years.
Speaker 7: I missed you.
Speaker 1: I missed you too. See how I'm looking into the camera.
Speaker 1: I'm not even looking at the zoom little square.
Speaker 7: I know, so we can make eye contacts.
Speaker 1: Yes, look at that contact. Though it's a little wide.
Speaker 3: It's close.
Speaker 7: It's as close as we get on these.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's real. Okay, back to everything.
Speaker 7: Okay, Okay, we're shifting to question five. Which living person
Speaker 7: do you most admire?
Speaker 1: Okay, which living person do I most admire? I'll probably
Speaker 1: say my mother. I'll probably say my mother. She's one
Speaker 1: of the most fascinating people I've ever met, and I've
Speaker 1: known her my whole life. She gave birth to me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: as I feel like as I've gotten older, and like
Speaker 1: I said, as I've had a family and all this
Speaker 1: good stuff. I've gotten to know her as an adult
Speaker 1: man as opposed to just being her son. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: that discovery of who this woman was as she was
Speaker 1: raising me, and the things that were going on in
Speaker 1: her life and finding out things that I was too
Speaker 1: young to handle, you know, at a certain point in time,
Speaker 1: and you know, the things that she's gone through since
Speaker 1: she was a child. I held that, you know, as
Speaker 1: a kid, you're not equipped to handle some types of
Speaker 1: traumas and things that happened to But my mom is
Speaker 1: a very very very strong woman. And she's so cool.
Speaker 1: She's the coolest cool man. Y'all would love my mama.
Speaker 3: Yeah, is so cool.
Speaker 1: She runs around with the kids, be tackling them, playing around.
Speaker 1: I mean, she's she's so happy to have these little grandkids. Anyways,
Speaker 1: I love my mama and I admire her the most.
Speaker 1: And I'm trying to truncate.
Speaker 3: Okay, don't know as a boy, mom like keep going,
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 1: I'm a daddy's boy for sure. I mean my dad,
Speaker 1: oh big time. He coached me in high school. I
Speaker 1: grew up with my daddy's best dad in the whole world.
Speaker 1: I come from really good parents.
Speaker 3: My dudies, But yeah, you could tell though, like because
Speaker 3: you're so you're so comfortable in your own skin and
Speaker 3: you go out of your way to make everybody else
Speaker 3: feel good, and that's usually indicative of you coming from
Speaker 3: a place of security and support.
Speaker 1: Thank you for saying that. I'm sure they will be
Speaker 1: happy to he said that.
Speaker 7: They did it.
Speaker 3: They did it, They raised a winner, made him. Do
Speaker 3: they feel that way? Do they just kind of walk
Speaker 3: around like we did that.
Speaker 1: I don't want to speak for them. They tell me
Speaker 1: they're proud of me and they love me, because I
Speaker 1: think they're supposed to. But I hope they believe it
Speaker 1: and they mean it. I think they do. But I
Speaker 1: think I think they love their son and their grandkids
Speaker 1: and all that. I'm sure of it. So sweet.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, now that we're living the dream here, question
Speaker 3: number living a dream? Question number six is what is
Speaker 3: your greatest extravagance? Where does Robbie Jones get fancy on me?
Speaker 1: You are ready for this? Let me think of something now, because.
Speaker 3: Simple he owns a home, he's got a handsome scarphone.
Speaker 3: Right now?
Speaker 1: Did you see what I did for you? Later? Yeah?
Speaker 3: You dressed up.
Speaker 1: I didn't dress up I just I just threw a
Speaker 1: little color in there. I'm seeing the queens now, the
Speaker 1: drama queen. I can't come in here playing next.
Speaker 3: Nope, okay, I gotta have a little something fancy. A
Speaker 3: man of extravagance.
Speaker 1: Saying with my neck today. All right, I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: you all one more chance to get a look at
Speaker 1: it now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're gonna need a headshot to post with this episode.
Speaker 1: Let me stop. What is my greatest extravagance. I'm not
Speaker 1: really into jewelry like that. I'm not really into you
Speaker 1: know what. I don't know why this didn't come to
Speaker 1: me immediately. Food, Like I'm I'm a I'm like, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't call myself a foodie, but I'm borderline kind of
Speaker 1: really really into just like amazing food, and I don't
Speaker 1: like to even waste meals on mediocre food. So like,
Speaker 1: whatever it is, oh yeah, let's get it. I want that.
Speaker 1: I want to try it. We go to the restaurant,
Speaker 1: get order them, order all. Even if I can't finish it,
Speaker 1: if it's good, I want to taste it and say
Speaker 1: I taste it, and then I'm gonna come back and
Speaker 1: get some more. When y'all ain't looking you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, like, yeah, yeah, so easy, easy. I'm a
Speaker 1: food person. One of the quickest ways tomorrow man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, is there a favorite? Is there like a favorite
Speaker 3: food that?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yes, what is it? Oh?
Speaker 6: So well fancy? He's looking at us like, are you kidding?
Speaker 1: Are you girls?
Speaker 6: Actually?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Stop? What do we talk about?
Speaker 3: You get one last fancy, fancy fancy meal. That should
Speaker 3: be part of our twenty three questions last meeting.
Speaker 7: I really should.
Speaker 3: What's the fanciest be all end all thing.
Speaker 1: You understand me. You understand where I'm about to go
Speaker 1: right now?
Speaker 7: Can't take us along.
Speaker 1: A lot of it is gonna be homemade, like I
Speaker 1: told you my mamamh she throws down, Okay.
Speaker 3: What's your mom's name?
Speaker 1: Betty?
Speaker 3: Of course? Yeah, She's like, you bought Pie Cross peasants.
Speaker 1: You know what. I'm gonna just cut out all the fluff,
Speaker 1: all the amazing restaurants, all that, and I'm gonna just
Speaker 1: go straight to my mom's peach cobbler. And I was
Speaker 1: just gonna eat a whole pain.
Speaker 4: Last meal peach cobbler. Mama's Yes, Betty's pea.
Speaker 1: Sweet potato pot. She has the best sweep potato pie
Speaker 1: all this planet. And she's kept this recipe secret for years,
Speaker 1: and she's just she's just blessed us with it. She
Speaker 1: blessed me and the family with it and said keep
Speaker 1: it to your Wow. She said, pass it all yo kids.
Speaker 1: Oh honey, I've become the sleep potato guy. Potato. She
Speaker 1: was a sleep potato provider, the sleep potato high provider. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you bless me with that. So now I have taken
Speaker 1: over the mantle stamped her approval. Ah my sweet potato.
Speaker 4: Pies like I was on the resume, Robbi, I'm coming
Speaker 4: back up to La in two weeks.
Speaker 6: I need you to make me some sweet potato pies.
Speaker 1: You understand media Thanksgiving time. In two weeks, it's already
Speaker 1: going down.
Speaker 3: Joy me, sign me up.
Speaker 7: I am so happy that, like I'm like, he's close.
Speaker 7: Santa Karta is not that far from me.
Speaker 1: I thought you were in New York.
Speaker 7: Yeah this week, I don't live here.
Speaker 3: I'm just working.
Speaker 7: Oh, I'll be home soon, honey, And I'm coming over.
Speaker 4: You got a little little too, ten Pasadena.
Speaker 7: I'm coming ready.
Speaker 1: Am I going to see Sophia in person? At something
Speaker 1: I paid.
Speaker 7: My way through school by taking care. There are other
Speaker 7: people's children. I got a sick baby. Sway you hand
Speaker 7: me that, baby boy, I'm ready to go. I will
Speaker 7: earn my keep in pie.
Speaker 3: Can I make your T shirt that says I earned
Speaker 3: my keeping pie?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I'm like, I will train, I will baby sit your
Speaker 7: children if you feed me sweet potatoes.
Speaker 3: All right, Robbie off the cuff. What's your current state
Speaker 3: of mind?
Speaker 4: Go?
Speaker 1: State of mind?
Speaker 6: Current state of mind?
Speaker 4: Tail?
Speaker 3: Well, some people take it into.
Speaker 4: Their life and it's like my place I'm in my
Speaker 4: life right now. But you kind of already answered that
Speaker 4: because you're in perfect happiness right now.
Speaker 1: I'm depressed. Oh oh no, I'm really going through it. Guys.
Speaker 4: It's this I think I think we replaced that one
Speaker 4: with the last.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Sure, once you got me talking about sweep potato
Speaker 1: pie a peace you already know my state of mind.
Speaker 1: Come on now, hungry I love that that part.
Speaker 3: Hungry?
Speaker 1: Yes? Oh not h u h. I'm hungry. I did any
Speaker 1: breakfast this morning, and I'm talking about sweet potato pie
Speaker 1: and peace pop. I'm hungry.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you need to get an instacart order of ingredients
Speaker 3: to your house asap.
Speaker 1: Actually speaking, yes, what.
Speaker 7: Do you most value in your friends.
Speaker 1: That's a great one. I've come. I've come at a
Speaker 1: crossroads with that. I feel like several times over the
Speaker 1: past few years, I feel like consistency m hmm is
Speaker 1: like huge for me. Everybody doesn't appreciate that, but like
Speaker 1: I try to be that, and I appreciate that. Like
Speaker 1: I don't like the wishy, washy, flaky kind of friends,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like you can be my associate,
Speaker 1: you can be some that I you know, I like
Speaker 1: we cool, but like I like, I appreciate in a
Speaker 1: friend somebody who's just consistent, Like you don't let a
Speaker 1: long time go by between us just checking on each
Speaker 1: other or just say how you doing? Okay?
Speaker 4: It's so hard in this industry. I mean, do you
Speaker 4: find that to be Do you find it hard to
Speaker 4: even do that yourself? As an actor and someone who's
Speaker 4: traveling a lot, and you know, you're so present and
Speaker 4: in the moment with where you are.
Speaker 1: No, And that's why I feel I'm like, that's why,
Speaker 1: because I've been you all have been so busy to
Speaker 1: where you can't you don't even know up from down.
Speaker 1: You got lines, you got you've got to push call
Speaker 1: time and I mean all kinds of crazy stuff. They're
Speaker 1: forcing calls and this and that, and I've worked fourteen
Speaker 1: hours and then I got to turn around to work seventeen.
Speaker 1: It's just like crazy. But the people that are important
Speaker 1: to me, Hey, how you doing today? Just want to
Speaker 1: say what's up? Or like responding, just what the because
Speaker 1: texting makes things so much is easier. Sometimes you can't
Speaker 1: always call because your attention is spread everywhere. But just
Speaker 1: a simple reach out, a simple just responded. Like I'm
Speaker 1: learning that that's not a real thing anymore. Just people
Speaker 1: don't respond, They don't respond like they use to.
Speaker 3: We're in this new season in our lives, you know,
Speaker 3: like we all met when we were in that frantic,
Speaker 3: like hustle phase of young adulthood. Do you find that
Speaker 3: the majority of your friends are like your lifelong childhood friends,
Speaker 3: like people that have known you forever, or have you
Speaker 3: found your people in adulthood.
Speaker 1: It's a mixture of both. I have I have like
Speaker 1: my closest friends are people that I've known my entire life,
Speaker 1: or like close family. It's my best friend, my best man,
Speaker 1: he lives. He moved out here too, with him and
Speaker 1: his wife and two kids.
Speaker 3: They do nice.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. We've known each other since we were born.
Speaker 1: He's one day older than me, and I've known in
Speaker 1: my whole life. We used to be cousins by marriage,
Speaker 1: and it's now we're just best friends. We've been best friends.
Speaker 1: I'm the best man and his best man in mind. Anyways,
Speaker 1: he moved out here, so we're right in the street
Speaker 1: from each other. I'm the godfather of his kids. He's
Speaker 1: the godfather, you know how it ghost. And then my
Speaker 1: one of my other closest friends is cousin. And then
Speaker 1: I have a great circle of friends of just people
Speaker 1: that I've met since I've been in LA and a
Speaker 1: couple of friends from back home and Sacramentos, and then
Speaker 1: people from college. Some of my best friends are like
Speaker 1: some of my teammates from college. So I have a
Speaker 1: kind of like a sort of like a medium sized
Speaker 1: group of people that I'm like cool with, and then
Speaker 1: there's kind of like a smaller group that I'm like
Speaker 1: really really tight with. How about you, guys, I know
Speaker 1: you're asking me questions. How do you guys do the
Speaker 1: whole friends thing? I need to know because you guys
Speaker 1: are busy podcasting, acting, raising kids, being wonderful. How do
Speaker 1: y'all do it?
Speaker 4: It is hard, and especially I think I can't speak
Speaker 4: for anybody else, but for me growing up in this
Speaker 4: business where you're it's all transient all the time, and
Speaker 4: part of being an actor is being is, as we said,
Speaker 4: being so present in the moment that you're in, and
Speaker 4: you want to bond with the people that you're working with,
Speaker 4: so you get to know them well. So there's a
Speaker 4: rapport on set, and there's an ease in communication when
Speaker 4: you're actually the cameras rolling or the curtain goes up
Speaker 4: or whatever it is, so you immerse yourself. I immerse
Speaker 4: myself so much into those relationships that it can be
Speaker 4: hard to I'm it's hard for me not to like
Speaker 4: out of sight, out of mind. I compartmentalize so much
Speaker 4: into the space that I'm in that it does take
Speaker 4: effort for me to What it really takes is getting quiet,
Speaker 4: which I don't do as much of as I should
Speaker 4: and would like to, because when I get quiet and
Speaker 4: shut everything else out, then all the people that are
Speaker 4: in mind heart kind of come up. It's like, oh,
Speaker 4: I want to reach out of this person's right, this person,
Speaker 4: their mom. I have to find out how they're doing,
Speaker 4: and I want to check on this person's kid and
Speaker 4: like what's happening with that relationship with that person. And
Speaker 4: it's just, uh, it's just a matter of me being
Speaker 4: self disciplined enough to get quiet and do that. But
Speaker 4: I love that it's a it's a natural place that
Speaker 4: you are in. It seems like all the time, I
Speaker 4: think that's so great. I don't I don't know what
Speaker 4: about you girls.
Speaker 6: How you guys here?
Speaker 1: Yeah, ladies. I'm curious.
Speaker 3: I've with the same kids that I've known my whole life,
Speaker 3: Like I went to school with the same kids, preschool
Speaker 3: all the way, you know, through graduation, and then we've
Speaker 3: all stayed super close so much so that like my
Speaker 3: grown up friends know who those kids are. Like we
Speaker 3: were just in Willing Did this past weekend and I
Speaker 3: was doing a book event and a boy that I
Speaker 3: used to date senior year in high school was there.
Speaker 3: He just like came to be supportive and awesome, and
Speaker 3: I freaked out. I was so happy to see this
Speaker 3: person hadn't forever come fly into the house, and I'm like,
Speaker 3: I just wanted to do it. And Sophia knew exactly
Speaker 3: who I was talking about because she's I mean, it's
Speaker 3: blew my mind. And so for me, that's the kind
Speaker 3: of thing that I'm trying to replicate with my kids
Speaker 3: because I know now as an adult how rare that is.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, oh, if I can give them that
Speaker 3: like foundation of friendship and these lifelong kid relationships, it'll
Speaker 3: help them be a good friend as a grown up
Speaker 3: because you just have that shorthand you know, I don't
Speaker 3: actually have to talk to everybody because we just like
Speaker 3: know each other so well that we see each other
Speaker 3: do shots and everything's cool.
Speaker 7: I also think, you know, I find it really a mixture.
Speaker 7: Like you were saying, Robbie, you know, I think that
Speaker 7: that transient nature of this job that you were talking
Speaker 7: about joy is.
Speaker 6: Just true for all of us.
Speaker 7: And it's interesting. I was having this conversation because we
Speaker 7: were all in Wilmington this weekend, and you know, everybody
Speaker 7: was working on different days, and so on Saturday, because
Speaker 7: I knew i'd see Stephen on Sunday, but I you know,
Speaker 7: I guess you guys were with James on Friday, and
Speaker 7: so we all went to Tower seven and like got our
Speaker 7: favorite you know, right Field Beach Tacos and a bunch
Speaker 7: of people from our crew came and met us, like
Speaker 7: Jane and Aaron, and you know, a bunch of friends
Speaker 7: from town, my friend Mary and Kelly, like the folks
Speaker 7: who I lived with in Wilmington, and you know, they're
Speaker 7: the kind of people in my life who whether I
Speaker 7: talk to them twice a year or twice a week,
Speaker 7: like like you were saying, Hell, you're just close, because
Speaker 7: you've been close.
Speaker 1: Forever, and yeah.
Speaker 7: I think one of the things I struggle with and
Speaker 7: that I've had to just accept as a as a
Speaker 7: source of discomfort in my life is that when I
Speaker 7: am present with the people around me, I will always
Speaker 7: be absent from the people who aren't there but who
Speaker 7: I love. So if I'm focusing you know, and catching
Speaker 7: up with my friends in la who I didn't see
Speaker 7: for eight months while I was working in Toronto, I'm
Speaker 7: not talking to everybody from Toronto or Wilmington. But when
Speaker 7: I'm in Toronto or Wilmington, I'm back with those people.
Speaker 7: And it's like I've had to figure out this sort
Speaker 7: of balance of the blessing and the curse of being
Speaker 7: present and being so lucky that I've lived in so
Speaker 7: many places that I have so many disparate groups of friends,
Speaker 7: and I think in this stage in my life where
Speaker 7: I'm just finally fucking done being a people pleaser, I've
Speaker 7: also gotten really clear about who's good for me and
Speaker 7: who deserves me being good for them, And like, there's
Speaker 7: four of us from junior high and high school that
Speaker 7: are tight, and we got to a point where we
Speaker 7: were like a bunch of those girls we grew up with,
Speaker 7: we're fucking bullies and we don't need to try to
Speaker 7: be nice to them because we're nice girls. Like my
Speaker 7: girlfriend Janny said that she was like, nice girls don't
Speaker 7: have to be nice to mean people, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 7: I put them on a bumper sticker, Like I love
Speaker 7: that idea, And who tell your daughter, Like it is
Speaker 7: okay to be like I respect you, but you're not
Speaker 7: for me. It's okay to get to a point where, like,
Speaker 7: when there are morals and boundaries that matter to you
Speaker 7: and they don't matter to other people, to be like cool,
Speaker 7: care about you, wish you well. Don't have time because
Speaker 7: I don't have time for everyone I love who I
Speaker 7: trust with, like my future and the future of people
Speaker 7: I care about, And that's I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's been an.
Speaker 7: Interesting thing to like to realize I love more people
Speaker 7: than I have time for. And also if I don't
Speaker 7: have time for all those people, I certainly don't have
Speaker 7: time for people who just like I don't wait anymore.
Speaker 7: And I don't know if that's turning forty or what,
Speaker 7: but it feels so nice to be.
Speaker 3: Like I'm good. I love it. I'm like I'm good.
Speaker 7: And then what if I talk to you all the time,
Speaker 7: or you know, I haven't spoken to you in a while,
Speaker 7: and we're hugging each other, We're hugging ourselves to hug
Speaker 7: each other on so because we love each other and
Speaker 7: we're always going to love each other. And I, I
Speaker 7: don't know, I cherish the sort of discernment and the
Speaker 7: the trust in the in the friendships that it's given
Speaker 7: me to be like, these are the people who you know,
Speaker 7: I'll just like, I'll show up for at the drop
Speaker 7: of a hat forever. Where are we going?
Speaker 1: What do we do?
Speaker 7: And I like that.
Speaker 1: I love that. I love hearing you guys a really
Speaker 1: long answer. I think it's fantastic. I'm here to listen
Speaker 1: and learn because I'm I'm trying to figure all that
Speaker 1: out myself. I like to think I'm a certain way
Speaker 1: and I like to be a certain way, and I
Speaker 1: try not to put too many expectations like on these friends.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I appreciate consistency, But at the same time,
Speaker 1: you guys each have a perspective that that makes me
Speaker 1: put all that into a different kind of viewpoint, because
Speaker 1: I know I've been victim to taking things personally when
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, I can be I can respond matter
Speaker 1: how you know I mean, And then I don't think,
Speaker 1: like what did they have to do this morning? What's
Speaker 1: their weaknd or like why are they going through this month?
Speaker 1: That might you know what I mean. So I'm constantly
Speaker 1: I'm constantly trying to do better at that even though
Speaker 1: people I love, I have to have grace for just life. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, it just means your relationships, you prioritize the people
Speaker 3: who prioritize you, and that's the right thing to do,
Speaker 3: you know, Like that's a relationship, whether it's a marriage
Speaker 3: or a friendship. You prioritize the people who prioritize you,
Speaker 3: and then you're in a healthy space together. So let's
Speaker 3: flip that on its head with our next question. Robbie
Speaker 3: Jones on what occasion do you lie to people?
Speaker 1: See, that's a tricky question because this is going to
Speaker 1: sound so self righteous and so years. But like, I
Speaker 1: like pride myself on trying to be honest, even to
Speaker 1: a fault, like even if I was gonna hurt somebody's feelings. Yeah, So,
Speaker 1: like I think the only time where I would maybe
Speaker 1: like fowl a punch or hold you know, yeah, just
Speaker 1: kind of like I like to. I've been known to
Speaker 1: just like withhold information.
Speaker 3: All right, it's not it's lined by omission that part.
Speaker 1: I've done that. I've done that. But I've never been
Speaker 1: the type of person where I could just create this
Speaker 1: whole alternate scenario to replace the one that actually happened
Speaker 1: to save myself some embarrassment or discomfort or whatever. So
Speaker 1: if I were to omit, it would probably be something
Speaker 1: I don't maybe something to like to protect protect somebody
Speaker 1: that I care about, but it would even but would
Speaker 1: have to be something so weirdly specific I can't. I
Speaker 1: don't know, like I don't even like telling my kids
Speaker 1: about the Easter bunny or like.
Speaker 3: Oh, I know, right, I don't even like.
Speaker 1: I don't even like lying to my kids. I'd rather
Speaker 1: know it's just fun and we're having a good time
Speaker 1: with no pretend this so you can have a real
Speaker 1: like Santa Claus isn't real, guys, you know what.
Speaker 3: I mean, Like eighth grade and he still is on
Speaker 3: the Santa Train. I will let him believe that forever.
Speaker 1: Right, I let it rock, I let my okay, okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if they ask you out right, and I'll just
Speaker 3: be like, I'll omit, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So I'll answer a different question that part. I'll do
Speaker 1: that when it comes to like my kids or something
Speaker 1: like that, I'll just kind of like, huh.
Speaker 3: It's not always the right time to talk about everything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's the only time I can really think
Speaker 1: about it. Most of the time. I'm gonna bush it
Speaker 1: if you ask me you really want to know, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think that's what people appreciated me because they
Speaker 1: know I'm gonna shoot from the hip if you really
Speaker 1: want to know. I'm not the type of person that
Speaker 1: forces my opinion or forces my belief or forces my
Speaker 1: like I'm not going to lead with just brutal honesty,
Speaker 1: because that's right.
Speaker 3: It's unkind.
Speaker 1: It's unkind. It's unnecessary. Yeah, I think it's very unnecessary,
Speaker 1: especially if you care about somebody. But if somebody is like, yo,
Speaker 1: how do you really feel about this? What do you
Speaker 1: really think about this? And I'll be like, yeah, do
Speaker 1: you really want to know what I think about this?
Speaker 1: I always try to get people to disclaim it, like
Speaker 1: you really want to you really want to know what
Speaker 1: I think? Sure, you don't have to want to know,
Speaker 1: friend of mine or person who's asking, but if you
Speaker 1: want to know, I'll give you my honest thoughts.
Speaker 6: I do love that, So I like that.
Speaker 3: Okay, what is one thing that you'll never do again?
Speaker 1: Whooh h There are lots of things I'll never do again.
Speaker 1: The first thing that comes to me is going to
Speaker 1: be so weird and trivial. But there's this When I
Speaker 1: was living in Vancouver, there's this mountain range and it's
Speaker 1: called There's It's like a hike of sorts, but I
Speaker 1: feel like it is it is evil. Yeah, and a
Speaker 1: couple of my castmates wanted to go and do this
Speaker 1: thing called the Grouse Grind. It's famous, Like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a hike and we're gonna just it's gonna be exhilarating.
Speaker 1: And like, oh yeah, let's do it. So they convinced
Speaker 1: me to go. And I'm pretty athletic. I like to
Speaker 1: think I'm you know, I'm equipped.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: I did that thing, and as soon as I got
Speaker 1: to the top, I was like never, never, never ever.
Speaker 1: I was like I thought I was done. About seven
Speaker 1: to eight times during the whole thing, I saw the
Speaker 1: sign or like one eighth of the way. I was like, what,
Speaker 1: So that's the first thing that comes to mind. That's
Speaker 1: very trivial.
Speaker 7: I like to know what the first thing is that
Speaker 7: comes to minds that's okay, So what what do we
Speaker 7: get for our eleventh question, which is what is the
Speaker 7: strangest purchase you've made or almost made? Strangest?
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, that's a good one. I'd like to think
Speaker 1: I'm not a person who buys weird stuff.
Speaker 3: It might be normal for you.
Speaker 7: You're on the zoom with three women who buy a
Speaker 7: bunch of weird shops.
Speaker 3: You're safe. Here, m a lot of taxidermy in this house.
Speaker 3: Can you see my wallpaper?
Speaker 1: Come on?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're a homeowner. Now, what's the weirdest thing you've
Speaker 3: purchased for your home?
Speaker 1: Geez? This is a great, great, question. I'm so stuffed, ladies.
Speaker 1: Can we come back to it?
Speaker 3: You know what, maybe will buy you the strangest thing,
Speaker 3: Like we're going to get you a little like ceremonial
Speaker 3: earn to put all your contacts in.
Speaker 5: And earn you just keep it open at the bottom
Speaker 5: of your contacts in.
Speaker 1: I'm stuffed. We can we can circle back.
Speaker 3: So now we're going to ask you a real highbrow question.
Speaker 3: Who are your favorite writers? Songwriters, novelists, scriptwriters, whatever you want?
Speaker 1: Ever wrote the song? Are you familiar with the song
Speaker 1: called so Beautiful by music soul Child?
Speaker 3: Mm hmmm, let's google this music soul Child. Hold on, now,
Speaker 3: this is what we invented iPhones for.
Speaker 1: S i Q music. Yeah, it was a big song
Speaker 1: and it does something to me, and it just it.
Speaker 1: It does all the things. And there's amazing writers of books,
Speaker 1: are amazing writers of all kinds of stuff. But like,
Speaker 1: whoever wrote that freaking song?
Speaker 3: Mm hmm, that's it.
Speaker 1: I found it. There you are, that's it.
Speaker 3: It's just songwriters Lee Houston or late And then to
Speaker 3: leave Johnson who is that? That's his real name? That's
Speaker 3: music so Trial's real name.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, I found it I'm about to jam. Is
Speaker 3: this a slow jam?
Speaker 1: It's a it's a mid temple love jail. It'll get you,
Speaker 1: it'll take you to where you want to be.
Speaker 7: I just muted myself on the zoom so I could
Speaker 7: listen to it.
Speaker 1: It's a vibe. Okay, come on now.
Speaker 6: Yes.
Speaker 7: Also, I haven't listened to him in years. What a
Speaker 7: great flashback? My god?
Speaker 1: Right right? Yeah, So that's okay, there you go.
Speaker 3: All right, Robbie. What's your greatest regret?
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know if I had any control
Speaker 1: over this, but I feel like I regret not starting
Speaker 1: to play basketball soon.
Speaker 7: How were you?
Speaker 1: Because I didn't really. I started playing basketball kind of late.
Speaker 1: I tried it when I was a little kid. My
Speaker 1: dad was a coach and he was never pushing the
Speaker 1: sport on me, never pushed it on me, and I
Speaker 1: wanted to play. And when I started out, I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe I was like four or five and it's just
Speaker 1: a bunch of kids running around with a basketball. And
Speaker 1: then they were co ed teams, so the rule was
Speaker 1: you have to pass it to the girl before you shoot.
Speaker 1: So as a four year old or five year old,
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't want to pass it, I shoot,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So I was like, I
Speaker 1: don't like basketball, So I was off basketball. Played soccer
Speaker 1: from like age six, so I was like fifteen, that's interesting,
Speaker 1: and I didn't really start playing basketball, so I was
Speaker 1: like a teenager. Wow. Yeah, and my dad. The reason
Speaker 1: why I was able to increase my skills faster is
Speaker 1: because my dad was a high school coach. So once
Speaker 1: I decided to play basketball, I was like in seventh
Speaker 1: or sixth grade, and then he just would bring me
Speaker 1: to practice with me. So I practiced with him and
Speaker 1: his high school players. At like sixth grade. I was
Speaker 1: just getting beat up and kicked around, and he just
Speaker 1: let it happen. And I had to get better faster.
Speaker 1: But I feel like if I had a start to
Speaker 1: playing basketball earlier, I would have been better and I
Speaker 1: might have been able to touch that ultimate dream, my
Speaker 1: first dream of hitting the NBA. I mean, I played
Speaker 1: professionally overseas for like six years, but I never touched
Speaker 1: the NBA where I wanted to get. So that was like,
Speaker 1: that's kind of like a back of mind, Like, man,
Speaker 1: what if I had to start it earlier, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean?
Speaker 3: Yeah, But how awesome that he didn't force it on you.
Speaker 3: It might changed how much you love it, Like you're
Speaker 3: able to love it now because it wasn't, you know,
Speaker 3: pushed on you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I fell in love with it by myself. And
Speaker 1: he was like, I'm never gonna I'm not waking you
Speaker 1: up to go to the gym. I will help you
Speaker 1: be the best player you want to be, but I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not pushing you to do this stuff. Okay, there
Speaker 1: can we wake up at six of the morning to
Speaker 1: go all right, I'll set there, let's go do it.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 7: Okay, slightly different twist, but also could be something silly.
Speaker 7: What is something that you really dislike?
Speaker 1: Well, first thing that comes to minus onions.
Speaker 3: All kinds red, white, yellow, shallots.
Speaker 1: Green, raw onions of any type. Don't give me no
Speaker 1: onions on a burgers unless it's carbon But I can't
Speaker 1: taste the onion. I told you am borderline kind of
Speaker 1: a food.
Speaker 3: No, He's like, do the extra step. I am Betty's son.
Speaker 3: Take the extra step, Caramel. I hate that you, Robbie.
Speaker 4: When I order a cob salad and somebody decides to
Speaker 4: sprinkle raw red onions all over the top, of it
Speaker 4: like that that is an ingredient, that is not a seasoning.
Speaker 1: This is myn with the food industry told you to
Speaker 1: sprinkle green onions on top of everything. It's like, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: you touched a nerve raw onions.
Speaker 3: Of every question we've asked you, that was the fastest answer.
Speaker 1: I was, like, you've been in a restaurant. You order
Speaker 1: something on the menu that doesn't have onions in the
Speaker 1: ingredients at all, and you're like, this is going to
Speaker 1: be bomb. They bring it out and sit it to you,
Speaker 1: sit it on your your your face, and it has
Speaker 1: green onions just caked all over the top of this thing.
Speaker 3: That a little garnish for you. Okay, I have question
Speaker 3: number fifteen, and this is this is warm and fuzzy.
Speaker 3: Who are What is the greatest love of your life?
Speaker 1: I'm trying. I'm trying to encapsulate it all because I
Speaker 1: think being a father has been the greatest love of
Speaker 1: my life, and I've been able to express the greatest
Speaker 1: amount of love in my life and being a husband
Speaker 1: and all of that. So I don't want to leave
Speaker 1: any I feel like I tell my wife all the
Speaker 1: time and when we're texting, and I just kind of
Speaker 1: like send a world like the world emoji, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: you're my world, or you guys are my world. So
Speaker 1: I feel like just being a father and a husband
Speaker 1: has been the greatest love of my life. And I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm able to express the greatest love, the
Speaker 1: greatest amount of love from my life. So yeah, don't
Speaker 1: y'all make me cry on this podcast. Listen, don't y'all
Speaker 1: do it?
Speaker 3: We do all the feelings.
Speaker 1: Here, I got all those covering up. I'm not sure. Okay,
Speaker 1: don't you make me cry on this car.
Speaker 3: He's going to have to tap his eyes with that scar. No,
Speaker 3: but it's so nice, you know, like Carson mccullors, the
Speaker 3: author said, they are the we of me, you know,
Speaker 3: like when you find the weave me, that kind of
Speaker 3: unit that feels so whole. That's a beautiful feeling. That's
Speaker 3: what people spend their whole life looking for. You know,
Speaker 3: you found a baby.
Speaker 4: Yes, well you answered this already because it was the
Speaker 4: first one. You said you were living in perfect your
Speaker 4: perfect happiness right now. So the question is when and
Speaker 4: where were you hat But I guess my adjustment to
Speaker 4: this question for you would be other than now. When
Speaker 4: and where were you happiest man?
Speaker 1: There was some really crazy having moments. I'm going, you
Speaker 1: know what, I'm going to personalize this for you babes.
Speaker 1: The first day on set. M hm, this this wonderful
Speaker 1: lady right here down here in the corner of my screen.
Speaker 1: I don't know which one you're pointing to you your face?
Speaker 3: Joy.
Speaker 1: Oh, my first day, I said Paul Johansson, it's directing.
Speaker 1: Joy was in the classroom, I believe, opposite me and
Speaker 1: I had This was my first time ever being on
Speaker 1: TV over what what this is my first acting job.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I'd.
Speaker 1: Done commercials, I'd done I did. I did commercials for
Speaker 1: like three years and this was my first job as
Speaker 1: an actor. First day on set, first time being directed
Speaker 1: by a director, first time people putting touch ups and
Speaker 1: what is the whole everything? My first day and I've
Speaker 1: been you know, studying it, grinding it, just fell in
Speaker 1: love with acting and just and I was like, this
Speaker 1: is so amazing, Like this is so cool. And then
Speaker 1: the top of it all off, Joy was so cool.
Speaker 1: She was so cool. And the craziest thing about it
Speaker 1: is I was watching because I'm a sponge. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to soak it all up. I've never been here for
Speaker 1: I don't even know all this. Yeah, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: she's full on reading a novel in between takes. Joey
Speaker 1: would have a book and I'm here running lines in
Speaker 1: my head. She's reading a book and they're like, okay,
Speaker 1: first team, and she's like it goes right there and
Speaker 1: just starts delivering everything at just perfect amazing, just joy,
Speaker 1: you know her, just just joy. And I'm like, this
Speaker 1: is so cool.
Speaker 3: You just blew our minds.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to tell you. We would just talk and
Speaker 1: chop it up and Enjoy was just like she was
Speaker 1: just always so nice and warm and answer any questions
Speaker 1: I had. Paul was so cool. I was like, man,
Speaker 1: what a first gig? Like you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: I love that, Glad I got to be a part
Speaker 4: of that. And Hillary's right, you did blow our minds.
Speaker 4: We all were like we couldn't leave. This was your
Speaker 4: first gig and.
Speaker 3: I'm just learning that now. It is just blowing my
Speaker 3: mind in this moment. There's an idea of working way
Speaker 3: that what I have watched on the show is your
Speaker 3: first like acting gig. There's just no way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Rob Lobby yeah, yeah, I sat down with with
Speaker 1: with our with our with our epse name. We shall
Speaker 1: not mention Baltimore anyways, I want you didn't.
Speaker 3: Ask, Robbie.
Speaker 7: But the point is, really and it's so special. I'm
Speaker 7: sure so many people at home are having the you know,
Speaker 7: same reaction you just said, Hill, like you are such
Speaker 7: an undeniable talent. And you know, we've talked so much
Speaker 7: about how we all felt so robbed, and we assume
Speaker 7: that you know, the creative team behind the show, we
Speaker 7: shan't mention really regretted, you know, their decision about the
Speaker 7: timeline of your character, because it all happened to me too,
Speaker 7: So that that's the that's the least specific I can
Speaker 7: be about that.
Speaker 3: But we talk about it a lot, a lot.
Speaker 7: A lot when when you know we're we're doing the
Speaker 7: other job we have to do. But god, yeah, you're
Speaker 7: I mean your talent, which is ironic because the literal
Speaker 7: next question is about talent. Question seventeen is which talent? Well, no,
Speaker 7: I'm just like it is actually bizarre, but question seventeen
Speaker 7: is literally which talent would you most like to have?
Speaker 3: Outside of the one we know you could act? You're
Speaker 3: so talented, like what's the thing that you can't quite
Speaker 3: do so great that you want?
Speaker 1: I wish I could play the.
Speaker 3: Piano, me too, That's my answer.
Speaker 1: I'm a drummer. I play music my whole life. I
Speaker 1: play the drums, and I've always wanted to play the piano.
Speaker 1: I try. I could pick it up, play a few
Speaker 1: little things here and there, but like, I've always just
Speaker 1: wanted to like be that guy who's like, oh piano,
Speaker 1: Oh no, let me just let me try for a
Speaker 1: second and then just let me just wait. What's almost
Speaker 1: that that you like? You know what I mean, just
Speaker 1: like just sit out and just oh, yeah, this is
Speaker 1: thank you. I've always wanted to be that guy. And
Speaker 1: you know that's that's that's the answer I'll give you.
Speaker 1: But that that's true. It's very true.
Speaker 6: M okay good.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I love that. I could see you being like Lionel
Speaker 3: Richie right, just like energy at a party. That's when
Speaker 3: I see you play. Yeah, Hello, that's who you're going
Speaker 3: to grow into you're looking for. That's what I want.
Speaker 3: That's what I want.
Speaker 1: For me. Thank you. Impersonation.
Speaker 3: Well, if you could change one thing about yourself, what
Speaker 3: would it be?
Speaker 1: I would change for my body? Fattest interesting, right, what
Speaker 1: because you know how much I love to eat. Well,
Speaker 1: it's a struggle, a full time struggle.
Speaker 3: Sweet potato over here.
Speaker 1: Now that I'm trying to tell you now that I'm
Speaker 1: when I was playing basketball every day all day, I
Speaker 1: could eat all whatever I wanted and it would just
Speaker 1: fall off, king, king King, Oh me, yeah, oh, I've
Speaker 1: been to the gym. You know what I'm saying now,
Speaker 1: the guy who doesn't play basketball and the guy who
Speaker 1: is just being daddy and acting and whatever, like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is full. I gotta watch what I eat. I got,
Speaker 1: I'll just have I have a bite of that. It's amazing,
Speaker 1: take it away, you know, I mean as opposed to
Speaker 1: the guy who eat the whole pan, or the whole plate,
Speaker 1: or the whole you know what I mean. Because every
Speaker 1: time I start to eat, you see it right here,
Speaker 1: my face goes from from this to like full moon,
Speaker 1: and then I get this nice little this little kind
Speaker 1: of like gut action will start to fill in like
Speaker 1: that pandemic gut.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what we all become character actors, right, It's crazy.
Speaker 1: It took me that the whole year just to just
Speaker 1: get back to normal. During the whole pandemic. I was like,
Speaker 1: what is this thing? I've never felt this flap of Yeah,
Speaker 1: chushion back here.
Speaker 3: No, we're growing into new people, Robbie. We can be
Speaker 3: whatever we want now. If you want to be like,
Speaker 3: not basketball, Robbie, you want to be sweet potato Robbie,
Speaker 3: I want that for you, just playing piano, eating.
Speaker 1: Just being super und No, not for me. So I've
Speaker 1: been I gotta I gotta stay in the gym a lot,
Speaker 1: a lot a lot to just kind of be what
Speaker 1: you know and are familiar with the routing that you've
Speaker 1: gotten used to.
Speaker 3: So question number nineteen, what do you consider your greatest achievement?
Speaker 1: Probably not discussed this. I mean, yeah, these children. Yeah, family.
Speaker 1: There's nothing on this planet that I have done that
Speaker 1: I'm more proud of that I've been a part of
Speaker 1: that I am more happy about. Like I had no cluel, guys,
Speaker 1: I always know I wanted to be a dad and
Speaker 1: all that good stuff, and I have a great dad
Speaker 1: and I was like, I'm gonna be a cool dad
Speaker 1: or whatever. But like once the first one came out, yes,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, yeah, this is amazing. Give her please,
Speaker 1: I oh, she was just a low load for bread.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my gosh ah. It was like
Speaker 1: an instant connection and like, I don't know, my whole
Speaker 1: world has just completely completely shifted, like priorities, mindset, minute
Speaker 1: by minute, second by second thoughts. It's just they're a
Speaker 1: part of every single thing and that goes into my
Speaker 1: whole being. And I had no clue I was going
Speaker 1: to appreciate it so much and love it so much.
Speaker 7: So that's so cool.
Speaker 1: That's I love it. That's that's I'm most proud of
Speaker 1: my family, and like it's thank God for a healthy,
Speaker 1: beautiful one kids, healthy kids. Thank God.
Speaker 7: That's beautiful. Okay, so we get to the end of
Speaker 7: this beautiful life. If, if, and when you are to die,
Speaker 7: and if you had the option to come back as
Speaker 7: a person or a thing in your next life, what
Speaker 7: would it be.
Speaker 1: I'll come back.
Speaker 7: I love it.
Speaker 3: Two.
Speaker 1: That's an amazing question. I never thought about that, but
Speaker 1: seeing everything kind of through my two year old son's eyes,
Speaker 1: I would come back as Hendricks River Jones, my son.
Speaker 3: That's his name.
Speaker 6: Prob me.
Speaker 3: That name is so sweet.
Speaker 1: I will come back as Hendricks. I promise I'll come
Speaker 1: back as him. He is the sweetest nicest, coolest, just
Speaker 1: funniest little kid. I'm like, there are a lot of
Speaker 1: kids out there impartial to mine, of course, but like
Speaker 1: this kid, he's he's been here before or something like, yeah,
Speaker 1: he gets it, he gets it all. We take him
Speaker 1: to the doctor or take him to whatever, and the
Speaker 1: people are doing little stuff and they're like, oh, oh,
Speaker 1: he's he understands it all. He gets it all. He's
Speaker 1: he's or my aunt, she's a speech there speaks pathologist,
Speaker 1: and she came over and she was like just hanging out.
Speaker 1: She was like, oh, he's advanced. You don't know. And
Speaker 1: I was like what. She was like, kids don't talk
Speaker 1: along the way he talks age two. They can't articulate
Speaker 1: those thoughts like does he talk about that all the time.
Speaker 1: I was like yeah, yeah, And she's like, oh, I
Speaker 1: don't see that, Like that's just like that's just not
Speaker 1: your average two year old, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And I was like, Wow, that's amazing. And just to
Speaker 1: see the way his brain works, I'm like, I would
Speaker 1: come back.
Speaker 3: You know what I love about podcasts though, I just
Speaker 3: want to interject, like interject the same way we didn't
Speaker 3: know what streaming was gonna mean the same way we
Speaker 3: didn't know like what the advancements in our industry were
Speaker 3: going to do. I just love the idea that this
Speaker 3: podcast could be listened to thirty years from now and
Speaker 3: your kids can hear you talk about them in this
Speaker 3: way like that, to me just is such a nice
Speaker 3: little time capsule. So I just love that you're able
Speaker 3: to articulate like all that affection that you have for them.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's so good.
Speaker 1: Is that?
Speaker 3: Then?
Speaker 4: I wonder if the answer to this is fatherhood, but
Speaker 4: maybe it's something else. Is there anything in your life
Speaker 4: that comes so naturally to you you just know it's
Speaker 4: exactly where you're meant to be.
Speaker 1: Uh, pardon, that was very sweet too.
Speaker 3: Oh we made him crud. We did it, We did.
Speaker 3: You were so stoic. I just moved on. I didn't
Speaker 3: realize you were like having in a moment.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I was not having moment. There is some
Speaker 1: wind kicked up, and here in the middle of this
Speaker 1: it's dusty. In the dust. You don't close these windows up,
Speaker 1: invisible person, you sweet man, Please ask me that question again,
Speaker 1: because I was lost in the so good.
Speaker 6: And it's so true your kids are going to be
Speaker 6: so grateful.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The question is there anything in your life that just
Speaker 4: comes so naturally to you, you know as soon as
Speaker 4: you do it, this is where I'm meant to be.
Speaker 4: Every every moment that you're doing it, you're like this,
Speaker 4: this is exactly right.
Speaker 1: Funny enough you would think it's fatherhood, but I feel
Speaker 1: like acting is that way.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And that's not to even pat myself on the back
Speaker 1: or be like, oh man, you got this thing. But
Speaker 1: like from my first from my first acting class, when
Speaker 1: I was like watching people on stage and doing stuff
Speaker 1: and then when I kind of like took my first
Speaker 1: stab at it, like was I good? No, But like
Speaker 1: it just felt like this is where I'm supposed to be,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, This is what I'm supposed
Speaker 1: to be doing. I thought it was this other thing,
Speaker 1: but like, oh my god, this is the thing. This
Speaker 1: is the thing, This is the thing, this is that,
Speaker 1: this is where all my life energy, This is where
Speaker 1: the fulfillment, this is where like oh like what this
Speaker 1: is crazy? I want to do this all the time.
Speaker 1: And that's that was like the energy I like, I
Speaker 1: was like ooh I want to I messed up. Nothing
Speaker 1: ever kind of made me go like Ooh, I don't
Speaker 1: want to ever try that again. I was just like, oh,
Speaker 1: I want to try it again, now you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. So this thing, the acting thing I've always
Speaker 1: like since I started off. I enjoy it. I love it.
Speaker 1: What about you guys? Quick? I know the next question?
Speaker 1: What about you guy? I'm so god? What's that thing?
Speaker 3: I like doing community service projects? It is just the
Speaker 3: I love pta. I like doing fun like I like
Speaker 3: being the community lady. It's the place I belong. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I liked it.
Speaker 7: I feel that way about advocacy. If it's not for us,
Speaker 7: I don't know what we're doing here, you know. So,
Speaker 7: so to use, like to use any version of a
Speaker 7: platform or privilege or leverage or a microphone that I
Speaker 7: have for equity, feels like where I'm supposed to be.
Speaker 6: It's good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've reached. There's something about man. I grew up
Speaker 4: in theater. Every time I set foot on the stage,
Speaker 4: and I've been moving my body and singing and acting
Speaker 4: all at the same time, that whole try effecta I'd
Speaker 4: be split between that and motherhood. They both feel extraordinarily
Speaker 4: natural to me, just in my body. When the first
Speaker 4: thing that comes to mind when I think of what
Speaker 4: where do I feel immediately like, Oh, it's.
Speaker 3: In my body. This is it, this is my comfort zone.
Speaker 6: It's those two places.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 3: Robbie, we have two questions left with you, Darling. All right,
Speaker 3: this is a wish fulfillment. One a wish fulfillment. You
Speaker 3: can live anywhere in the world. You take the wife,
Speaker 3: the children, take your friends with you wherever. Where are
Speaker 3: you guys going.
Speaker 1: One place that I thought I could live and would
Speaker 1: want to spend a significant amount of time that's not
Speaker 1: here in the States, probably be Barcelona.
Speaker 3: Barcelone and the food something to look out everywhere.
Speaker 6: It's great.
Speaker 1: It's beautiful.
Speaker 3: The cobblestone streets, yeah.
Speaker 1: It's beautiful. And the paperman, the culture. Some one of
Speaker 1: my best friends just moved there with his wife a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago and they're having a second child
Speaker 1: out there, and he's from the They just moved there
Speaker 1: and they're just having a great time living in Barcelona,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, that would be cool. Possibly Barcelona.
Speaker 7: Good answer, okay, okay, And question twenty three final, what
Speaker 7: is your most treasured possession?
Speaker 3: Hmm, Aside from the urn full of contacts that we
Speaker 3: are going to give you.
Speaker 1: You are stealing my answers. I don't like that. I
Speaker 1: don't like you. I don't like you. Man, Now what
Speaker 1: am I going to say? I think a younger version
Speaker 1: of me would have said some person, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't own anybody. I learned that. That was a
Speaker 1: young lesson that I learned, Like, these people don't belong
Speaker 1: to you. Your mind, No, you're not. See. I don't
Speaker 1: want to get through philosophical but I feel like the
Speaker 1: things that I that I can pass on to my kids,
Speaker 1: like whether that's just like my sense of morality or
Speaker 1: my sense of spirituality, or my beliefs or my faith
Speaker 1: in God, or you know, like to properties that I
Speaker 1: own or you know, monetary wealth or you know, just
Speaker 1: the things that I can take and be a steward
Speaker 1: and pass on to my children. I think those would
Speaker 1: be the most valuable things. And right now it's just
Speaker 1: kind of more about like beliefs and way of treating
Speaker 1: people and things of that nature.
Speaker 6: That's my favorite answer so far.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's your legacy.
Speaker 1: There you go, And legacy is different for every person,
Speaker 1: but I feel like that that that's one way to
Speaker 1: describe it. I guess My legacy is my most prized possession,
Speaker 1: if you can call it that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because that's what you've amassed, and your experience and
Speaker 4: your mind and your heart.
Speaker 6: I mean, those things are a part of you.
Speaker 3: Works for me. You baby, this afternoon with Robbie Joe,
Speaker 3: what a date.
Speaker 1: You're just saying that because of my scarf.
Speaker 3: Oh you looked handsome. You gave the sweetest answers. You
Speaker 3: better go kiss those babies and your pretty wife and
Speaker 3: tell them that we're grateful for them because they have
Speaker 3: you in this blissed out place that we get to
Speaker 3: celebrate with you.
Speaker 1: Blessed out. Oh beautiful, that's you, baby.
Speaker 4: I'm so happy to spend time with you today. Robbie,
Speaker 4: thank you so much.
Speaker 1: It's great to see you guys. It's lucky you wonderful,
Speaker 1: wonderful people.
Speaker 3: Well listen, when everyone's on the West Coast, I'm coming
Speaker 3: out because I want pie.
Speaker 1: We're co pie party, and man, it's great to see
Speaker 1: you guys. I hope to see you guys. Really sold
Speaker 1: so much love. I love you guys, and hey, here's
Speaker 1: to the happy life, Happy live.
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Speaker 3: thanks for listening.
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