The Three Questions with Andy Richter - Ravi Patel

Episode Date: September 16, 2025

Recorded just before Andy began rehearsals for “Dancing With the Stars,” actor Ravi Patel joins Andy Richter to discuss getting ripped for “Special Forces: World's Toughest Test,” working together on “LEGO Masters Jr.,” the fourth season of “Animal Control,” and much more.Do you want to talk to Andy live on SiriusXM’s Conan O’Brien Radio? Tell us your favorite dinner party story (about anything!) - leave a voicemail at 855-266-2604 or fill out our Google Form at BIT.LY/CALLANDYRICHTER. Listen to "The Andy Richter Call-In Show" every Wednesday at 1pm Pacific on SiriusXM's Conan O'Brien Channel. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Hi, this is the three questions with Andy Richter. I'm Andy Richter, the host. And today I am talking to my good friend Ravi Patel. You know him from TV shows like Animal Control, Master of Nun, Grandfathered, and Pursuit of Happiness. Lego Masters Jr. is airing now. I'm even on it. And Animal Control will return for a fourth season. He's also on Season 4 of Special Forces, World's Toughest Test, this fall. So here is my conversation with Ravi Patel. Next week I start my involvement in a in a non-disclosed dance competition. Really? Wow, I wonder which one it is, Andy. Yeah. Good thing they got you in an NDA. It's, it's fatty.

dance party on BBC TV. Yeah, you just got yourself fired. No, it's, and so, yeah, no, I, I'm like just, I'm lay in bed just thinking like, oh. You're not looking forward to it. No. What? Why? But you're so, like, elegant.

I don't think of myself as such. And I, and I actually, a friend of mine that's a, that's a real dancer. choreographer Broadway for years and years like helped me had a little help session and I just was like terrible but you know what that's not going on to be a dancer I know I know I know but it's just like it's it's years of it's all kinds of like psychological shit of just like not want like just being divorced from my own body and now having to use it in a way yeah so this is getting into a bigger issue yeah oh absolutely I'm not I'm not unaware of that.

Yeah, this could be kind of a bottoming out for you in a good way. I don't think I'll bottom out, but I definitely. Well, that's unfortunate. I also have, I also have, I said yes to this. And then I had been. Was it because of the money, Andy? Yeah, the money's great. The money's great.

Whenever they say this, but why did you? Why did you do it? I tell them, I go, well, I got paid. Well, they did, they were asked, I did press for Lego Masters. And they're like, why, why did you do it? I'm going to say, why the fuck are you here? Why are you here? Why did you do it?

Why is anyone here? Yeah, because I love spending hours a day with children that aren't mine. Oh, no. But, but yeah, I just, I also have, I also worry that my body won't hold up. Yeah, I think it's a sign, though, because you should do something at your body. Absolutely. And that's exactly. Maybe outside of the show.

What, see, I'm talking to the guy that went on the fucking special forces thing. Like, I'd rather blow my fucking brains out to do that. Best experience in my life. Best experience in my life. See, you got a weird life then, man. It was unbelievable, I did. A sad, sad life. Dude, it was so fun.

Yeah. Oh, my God. And by the way, the reason why I did it was because as I entered middle age, I was like, I need to, I need to turn the direction my body's headed in. So I use that as like a marker. I got a trainers. I was working out like 11, 12 times a week. Oh, wow.

It was remarkable. And then it ended up being really fun. Like seven of the 20 people on the show live in Nashville, which is where I live. Yeah, yeah. So we're all like best friends. Most of them are former football players, which is the only kind of friend I've ever wanted. It's like, I've never, you know, I lived in L.A., you meet all these famous people. I could never, I couldn't care less.

Right, right. But the only celebrities I really have wanted. I cared about her football players. And now we're all like, play pickleball together. Are they all like two feet taller than you and stuff? Are they all like giants? Well, most people are, Andy. It didn't need to be brought up.

But I mean, no, we're talking about NFL players. We're talking about Americans. Would dwarf me. The average height is much higher than myself. Yeah, but I, you're huge. They're huge. But you know what, Andy, we're exercising together. And that is like a moment of triumph.

Have you seen the movie, Rudy? That's me every day right now. You're like their water board. Nobody sees it coming. That's pathetic. No, you're the water boy. you're the one worried about going on a dance show that's not even exercise

you're just dancing oh it's actually apparently it's exercise I hope we can figure out a way to use some of this you know you can always reference it as an undisclosed dance well I can't but I seriously cannot I can't disclose

I know I know you haven't we don't know what it is I we're in the golden age of production and media there's a million dance shows. I bet there's 500 just on YouTube. And I shouldn't have committed myself to tape scene. That might be when you're at, Andy. You might be doing five-minute YouTube reality shows.

I don't know. You know what? That sounds fine. No, you know what? That's not the fucking bottom. Well, you need to get a bottom, Andy. I have YouTube people on here, and I'm like, and I think to myself, why wouldn't you go and work for a real TV? And then I realize, because it's a step down.

But these people make so much money And have so many viewers on their YouTube thing And I'm still the dumb old man That thinks like, oh honey I'm so sorry You're on YouTube And it's like fuck you I have 8 million viewers a week

Those people are rich It's nuts People in L.A You know, it's gotten Hard and sad for a lot of our friends Oh really? Yeah, it has it? I wouldn't, I'm not familiar at all

Yeah But what it's not like There's less stuff being made Yeah being made by different people in different places. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a ton of stuff being made.

And, like, there's more stuff being consumed than ever before, but they're in different places. Yeah. A lot of YouTube, social media. Yeah. It's wild. Oh, there's whole things like, you know, I take my daughter, I have a five-year-old, I take her to matinees and, you know, of like, just did kids movies now.

It's in the summertime. You got to do something. That's what I assume, by the way, I want you to know. Yeah, yeah. That it was going to be kids movies. Yeah. But, yeah, no, I didn't. I really tried to get her to see weapons, but she wouldn't.

She was like, nah, it doesn't. It looks too scary. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But there's this ad that I've seen a number of times, and it's just some young dudes that yell a lot in, like, basketball shorts and tank tops. Oh, that's an Adam Sandler movie. Stadium. No, no.

Oh, okay. It's like called The Hero Tour. And it just looks like six or seven YouTube. guys, like fresh out of college, doing like bungee jump dunk contests in stadiums packed with children. Yeah. And it's like, what the fuck? What is that? Yeah, that's all it takes. When did that happen? There's, there's an audience for everything. Ah, it's unbelievable. And they're all huge. Yeah, I know. Or like Mr. Beast. Like I, you know, Mr. Beast, like I, you know, Mr. Beast, I hear about Mr. Beast after it's like, oh, no, he's the biggest, he's, you know, he owns television now.

Did you see his show? No. It's amazing. I've watched. Oh, his. Is it like a TV show or even YouTube? He did a show called Beast Games where it's like the biggest, baddest, clearly most expensive reality competition show. Yeah, yeah. It kind of starts like it's got the vibes of. Aren't they like like Squid Game? Aren't they like Locked in Glass Cubes or something like that? I don't, I didn't get to the Glass Cubes part of this show, but there's a lot of people and, you know, they're falling in places and being eliminated very quickly and it's pretty high stakes.

Yeah. There's tons of money being handed out like lots. Right, right. People are just getting millions and it's just, it's wild. Right, right. Yeah. It's still, they must be grinding up people and making sausage or something. Yeah, if I went pitched meat like beast games, I think they'd give me like $5

prizes to hand out. That's the thing. I don't have any. I don't know how it always just seems so magical. These people stumble on these things, you know, like if a number of years ago, if I had the thought like, I should do a podcast about murders, I would have told myself, shut up, you know. Go make dinner. What are you talking about?

I just don't have that brain. I feel like everything we do is about stumbling. Huh? I feel like everything we do is about stumbling in this career. Yeah. There's a lot of stuff. But you are, I think you're very sort of entrepreneurial minded. Are you not?

Yeah, I am. I mean, I think I. When we work together, just you like, like you moving to Nashville just seemed like, as a business move, I decided to move to Nashville so I can have more house. And does that impact you? Like, do you think that impacts you in any way negatively? Well, being entrepreneurial? No, no.

Living in Nashville, it's kind of, I changed topics. I mean, negatively in the sense that I, you know, I'm not around people who live in L.A., which I miss. Yeah, yeah. I'm away from my friends. But, like, it's not, it's not hampering any opportunities for you work by. No, zero. I mean, when I moved there, I was rarely working in L.A. Yeah.

I was always flying somewhere off in Atlanta. I mean, the first three things I filmed after I moved there, we're in Atlanta. Which I get, instead of flying, I would just get in my car and drive. Right, right. It's three and a half hours door to door. That's nice. And yeah, I would. And shit, you can go home whenever you want.

And there's so much shit filming out there. And now things are going, things are leaving Atlanta and going to UK. Like, yeah. I'm sure. I hear there's stuff coming back here, but I think, I mean, of course the minute I got there, I got on a show in Vancouver, which is a pain in the ass from Nashville. Yeah. It would have been great from L.A.

Yeah, yeah. But it hasn't. No, it hasn't. I don't think it's hampered. Yeah, yeah. I never work here. I still never. I don't think I've shot one thing since I've moved away. I come here for like things like. Oh, you mean in Los Angeles? I guess I've done some like live like game show type things. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Now the entrepreneurial thing. I mean, because your, your folks are kind of business people, right? My parents are. I'd say my whole culture is where all which is like very entrepreneurial, hardworking immigrants. Yeah. Parents own their own business. businesses. I've started businesses. Yeah. And was that something just was sort of like, you know, like the Wellendas have trapezes around. You just had. Yeah, we're like the Willendas. LLCs. Yeah. We've just come out of the womb with some LLC. No, I think, honestly, I think I'm just really hardworking. And I'm, I've got a desperation because I think, like, I don't think I'm talented and like I have, I'm not thinking I'm not talented, but I don't think I'm talented. But I don't think I'm talented. enough to not work really hard. I think the reason why I'm doing well and barely staying alive is because I work my ass off. And I feel like most of my friends, we all have people who clearly just lucked into success in this stuff that does happen. Yes, yes.

But I do think it's like playing poker for a living where you can get better and better in poker, you're always going to still be playing poker and need to catch cards as well. Yeah. But you can get better at poker. And that's what I feel like. I mean, I try as hard as I can to get. to just busting my ass. But you know, it's stressful when you have kids.

You're like, oh, God, no, I've got to pay for all these fucking people. Oh, I remember Alec Baldwin saying something about, this is years ago. He said something about, you know, I would turn down commercials because I was a movie star. And he said, like, five minutes after having his first child, he's like, get me a jello pudding pop commercial. Oh, yeah. I had a meeting because, you know, the show I'm on Animal Control Fox. and we uh so i met with the unscripted team i asked to meet with them because i'm just trying to do yeah as much as possible and they're like so tell me what what what what do you like ruby what's your like

perfect gig and i said yeah yeah i'm glad you asked that i want to be on a show where i make as much money in as little time as possible that's the show i want to be on like you know like it ends up game shows i don't care what it is i will love it right but that's what the show i want to do Yeah. Yeah. Well, they laughed and then we'll see. Yeah,

right, exactly. No, the game shows is, that's pretty much it. Or, or, or,

uh, come up with a animated series that you do a voice for and then let everyone else run. Man, I cannot book those. I cannot book those for the life of me. No,

and I've auditioned for so many. Yeah. I think I've done maybe like, I don't know, five or six animated gigs. I've never been a regular on one. Yeah. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

It's a very, well, It's a very, the problem is. It's a craft, Andy. Is that what you're going to tell? It is a craft. And the thing that you find out, because from being on the outside of the anime, because I have done some, not a ton. I mean, I did have like, I did a voice in Madagascar and then was able to do that same voice.

They did two spin-off series from the movie series. And then a couple of other things that, like, Amy Poehler produced a Nickelodeon. show that I did a voice for that I don't think I necessarily would have gotten if Amy Polar hadn't been the EP on it. But it did put me in the same room as the 10 people that do all animated work in town, which when you're on the outside of that, you're like, fuck, why, come on, you know, like, loosen it up. Like, there's got to be other people around here who can do voices. And then you get in a room with these people and you realize, oh, fuck, they're, like preternaturally gifted at this shit like where because often when you're doing a show

you'll do your your main voice and then they'll have like I don't know like a security guard and a gym teacher and they'll be like you got a voice for that and I maybe have five or six voices these people have 50 yeah and just bit bat boop boop and it's it's unbelievable this small gene pool of people because they're amazing you know and they're amazing it sucks yeah over and over again. Absolutely. Yeah, yeah. So I need a friend.

And also casting, you know, it's, it all, there also is some laziness to cast it. I know when I was in New York and I was, and I was, early on in the late night, like in the 90s, mid-90s, I was doing a lot of voiceover work in Chicago or in New York. And you saw the same people. And there I think that was a little bit of just like, who you know. Yeah, there's like, you know, because there's like four flavors of voice like, like, or like, you know, detached, you know. And they have people that, they have like three people each of those flavors. And then they just, you know, it's like, we need the, you know, over-excited guy.

Okay, well, you got Bob, Gary, or Mike, you know. Right, so I need to get a flavor. Yeah. Specific flavor. Might be too late. Is it too late? Yeah, I don't know. Oh, no.

I don't. I hope it's not too late. I don't know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I hope it's not too late. I know. well um your your sister is a director too and i mean and so you your parents hardworking business people screwed them big time yeah you they came up with two showbiz kids what the

fuck is up with them yeah well we were bad indians yeah i don't know you know i've thought about it because it's kind of my sister and i never talked about neither was really talks at all we didn't talk as to your childhood i hope she's doing i hope she's doing well we we we we Neither. I mean, I never wanted to be an entertainment. I never thought about it. Yeah. And then my sister left her job in finance to come be a writer and kind of independent. Well, I guess not independently. It's because because she was here after I got laid off, I came here and I was just like, I don't know, working to bars and tutoring. And I had gotten into a law school I was going to go to. And then I got asked to audition for something. My sister's friend thought I was funny. And the cast director came out and was like, oh, you should be an actor. And right around that same. time my sister was producing an arts festival here and they needed a was she her first she was her first she was her first she's older than me okay yeah and they they asked me to fill in as an emcee because the guy hosting it who is asaf mondvi if you know him uh-huh he had to take off to do a movie or something and so they needed

like a fill in at the last minute and i did i i emceived this show and i did like 20 30 minutes of kind of improvised stand-up between acts and i got like a bunch of calls and i was a full-time actor like three weeks later wow nuts Can't you tell my loves it grows? Wow. And what was the job you got laid off from? Investment banking. Wow. Yeah.

And how old were, how long had you been in investment banking? About four and a half to five months. Oh, just far. Oh, okay. No, that's all right. Yeah, yeah. I got a severance. I couldn't believe it.

I'm like, you're going to pay me. I was going to quit anyway. They're like, yeah, you get three months. I'm like, what? And then I lost it all on a riverboat. I'm not kidding. And not even gambling. You just leaned over the rail.

It fell out of my pocket. I don't know where it is. I jumped into the water, jumped into the water, looked everywhere. Well, how was it for you being an investment banger? I sucked at it. I was horrible at it. Did you like it at all? No, it was the first time.

The best thing about it was that it was the first time I had to, like, think about my life. Yeah. Because I had, like, only, like, kind of coasted on just being smart enough to, like, past things and smart enough to cheat and scam and but I hadn't be grades wise and stuff yeah yeah yeah and all I really did in college

was like work out play basketball and get drunk like I didn't really I didn't even go to most of my classes yeah and when I was college I like changed UNC Chapel Hill I actually changed my transcript to get to get

that investment banking job I don't think you could get away with it today but I literally like went to, like, a kinko's and, like, wide out part and, like, changed my GPA. Isn't that crazy? Isn't that crazy? That is kind of crazy. And I was, like, good enough of math, or I could, like, fake it with, like, the case study, the interview questions.

And as soon as I got there, I'm like, oh, yeah, I'm definitely not qualified for this job. And I hate, I hated it. I was like, oh, this can't be my life. Yeah. And so I'm really grateful that I got that because it just got me thinking about, oh, I want to do something that's, you know, where I feel something. Right. Did you share that with your folks?

Like, did you tell them I've made a terrible mistake and I hate what I'm doing? Or did you feel too like? We went on a family trip to the beach and we were at a waffle house and I had been laid off like for like a week or two. And I told them, hey, I've been laid off. I'm not going back. The bears look like they're making the playoffs for the first time in 10 years. So I'm just going to follow them like they're fit. They didn't know who fish was.

Bears and fish. I'm like, you fucking losers. What are the salmon running? How uncooler are you? Yeah. And I went, I got a one-way flight to Chicago and went to that game. The Bears lost. And I lost all my money on the riverboat that night.

Life began again. In Joliet? In Gary. And Gary? Yeah. Wow. Even sadder. Yeah.

Yeah, quite the sad paradise. Yeah. Well, the team I was going to follow lost, I guess I'll go dump my money into Gary. Yeah. Yeah, it was sad on a lot of ways. Yeah. Are you a gambler? Like, has it been a... Well, yeah, Andy. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I mean, you can't, you know, if you had said, oh, and then I ate six pies, I'd be like, you're a pie eater, right? You know? I mean, is it... I couldn't afford that many pies for that time. I mean, is it something? Has it been something that's ever... No. Yeah, yeah.

No, I mean, I still gamble, but not like where it's like a problem. I mean, I do a little football. I put bets on football here and there. If I go to Vegas, I'll go nuts. Yeah. But I don't really... Yeah. If I pay poker every now and then.

Yeah. But it's not like a big part of my life. I also don't... My wife sees everything. She's, like, really intrusive in terms of... She just sees everything. Right, right, right. Like, I was in Boston.

And you're not good at hiding things like that? I don't even, I'm not, no. I mean, I've become, yeah. I mean, I've realized since I've been married, I've become increasingly, uh, incapable of doing like basic things because my wife does so much for me. Like I, I, and one of them is like she handles all our finances. So like I was at dinner a few weeks ago and it was like a big group and, uh, I was like, oh, I'll, I'll, you know, pay for you guys can send me some money if you want.

you know it was like 1500 bucks and i was like it was 9 30 in night and my wife usually was a bad by nine i said i'll bet you money that she texts me in the next five minutes and goes what the fuck is this charge and surely enough i hold up my phone or them she's on it she got pinged yeah so i can't get i can't get away like i got invited to a game two weeks ago a poker game and it's a thousand dollars to buy it yeah and uh i like just told my buddy i go man i don't know how i can't know how i can get the thousand dollars like i don't know how to i was like i don't i don't embezzle it from my household yeah yeah like i don't know how to get i was like i don't know how to get at thousand and i and i and i kind of like tried bringing it up with my wife and i was like yeah i just i just feel like i haven't played

poker in a long time and you know there's this game you know hunter's throwing a game and she goes oh you should go i'll go yeah but you know it's i don't know it's like a thousand dollars and she's like what she is yeah yeah i see where you're not going i was like yeah exactly right yeah i feel the same way honey yeah you didn't even even say anything this is sad i'm a grown man no it's not it's not sad it's the it's the reality of being married and having kids and going from like yeah i mean yeah you you you know there's always a child in you and you just and that you sound like her by the way No, no. But I mean, but I say that about me, too. And I mean, and like I, I'm, you know, I'm remarried. And I, the, my first marriage, uh, neither my ex-wife or I had any good financial sense. I have married someone with excellent financial sense. And that was like one of the first turtles of our relationship was like basically showing her my finances, which was like underwear. that I had filled with ship and just kind of letting her know about like this is what you're coming

into this is how I've lived you know and and it's and it yeah I can't there's it's it's the same way I can it just and she still married you yeah no she did she did and she handles everything she does a good job oh she does a great job and but I mean but it still is like I still and I'm it's not like I'm going out and trying to do playing a thousand dollar poker games and stuff but yeah but there's no I mean there's no sort of

like I can't do crazy things without anyone knowing or spend tons of money without anyone knowing it's probably a good safeguard I even like if I buy her a gift that's kind of expensive I have to like brace myself and my wife would get mad at me if I got her

expensive yes yes because she will and I have to open this yeah no oh yeah By the way, you know I said I'll take literally anything? This is the one flavor that I can't stand. You want to go get them another one? No, it's fine. It's fine.

It's fine. We're good. I just can't believe it. It's just comical. No, I don't think anyone likes the coconut. Are you kidding me? Do you like the coconut? No, it's like drinking.

It's horrible. It's like drinking. I like coconut. I don't feel bad if you go get me. I like, I like, I'm going to drink this stuff, but it is like drinking copper tone. You know, it tastes like some kind of suntan problem. It's absolutely awful. Yeah, yeah.

Sorry, Laquois. Neither one of us want to put, yeah, yeah. I'll do your pample moose. This is a high risk, like, you could have just gone with like a lime. Isn't the lime? You know what? I think it's probably racist. He thought, he thought Desi, give him coconut.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, brown people love coconuts. Yeah, yeah. Brown people love coconuts. That's what it was. That's actually is. slur that has been used on me. A coconut is someone who is brown on the

outside and white on the inside. Oh, yeah, I've heard that. Which is not entirely inaccurate. You got me. Yeah. Okay. And as some white people in the room might attest to, coconuts are delicious.

Depending on how you use them. Let's see. Oh, well, so let's get back to... I have a question. Three questions? Yeah, yeah. Have we done any of them yet? Yeah, where do you come from where are you going and what have you learned?

Okay, I didn't know. I was just curious. Yeah, you know, I know. It was like a segment thing. No, no, no. It's not. It's all. Okay, great, great.

No, it's just a gimmick to frame a conversation. The, the sort of inspiration for this was I had just got divorced and I had been approached like, hey, do you want to do a podcast? And I had a number of times. Was it because of the money, Andy? No, no, honestly, because I didn't think it was, at the time I was doing the Conan show. Right. So it was purely just to say yes to doing things as opposed to saying no to things. And I had been approached to do podcasts before, but I felt like I had friends that kind of were like really in on the ground floor of podcasts.

And I would have felt like, you know, Johnny come lately, TV boy comes in and says, I can do it too, which I mean, anybody can fucking do it. Well, everyone does. I'm the only person I know that doesn't have a podcast. And I can't believe I don't. Why don't you? You know, I want one. I just, I just don't know when or how it would fit in my life. Do a gambling podcast.

Yeah, you could definitely do it. Who's my audience there? Gamblers? Oh, yeah. Just degenerates connecting with this. Degenerates. Yeah, yeah. You could do a combo.

Welcome to one question with Ravi Patel. A combo. Are you making ends meet? A combo of gambling and panty sniffing. Yeah, that's a niche. That's the kind of degeneracy. That's probably a YouTube game show as well. The wages.

No, I'm sure that. Well, there's got to be a million fucking sports book kind of. Oh, there are. Yeah. And fantasy. There's tons of. Yeah. That's.

No, I have ideas for podcasts. I just don't like the idea of recording something regularly and then putting it out there. It just feels like a lot. It is, you do, you are making a commitment to. Yeah. having to, you know, do regular, regular intervals of doing this. But you know what? You do end up like.

But I'm envious that you have it. Oh, thank you. I enjoy doing it very much. And I have the thing that I really kind of feel, I have learned how to interview people and make an hour of, of interview that is, I think, you know, there's a lot of times we end this show. And I'm like, hey, that was pretty good. You know, like, that was actually, that wasn't just fucking two people laughing at themselves, which is a. what I find a lot of podcasts to be. Yeah.

And when I said yes to doing the podcast, I kind of wanted it to be a little bit introspective. Like I wanted to be funny, but I also like to talk to people when they're like, why do they think they are the way they are, both in the good and bad ways, you know? Right. And that's kind of just this,

the concept was just sort of a framework for that. I would imagine you were, you probably had a lot of the, intuition in you just from so many years doing Conan Show. Yeah, and therapy. Honestly, those are the two things. I'm not kidding. How therapy?

Therapy, because therapy, you, is all about, why am I the way I am? Inner life. Yeah. Why am I the way I am? Or here's a way about me that I don't like. What can I do to sort of rewire that, you know? Yeah. And I think that people that have been in therapy, it is a very particular language that you get used to speaking. And it's an interesting language to me. Like there's, you know, like when I run across people that that are without introspection, there's like, it's wild. How do you do that? Like, how do you just not? Or people that are just like, like, I'm amazed by people that are like, no, I've never even thought about having a therapist or I've always been. Like, what the. What the. What? What? How do you, don't you like, listen to the news?

Just this morning, I was texting with this friend in Nashville who's like very Southern. Yeah. And she's got like a huge following and she wants to make this movie. So we've like been going back and forth in the movie. And I was as she really wants to play one of the characters. And I was asking her about her life. And I was like, tell me what, you know, I'm just, you know, I'm like, why don't we start with something that is you? And we'll work our way from there towards the character, which is the best.

way she hasn't acted a ton yeah yeah so i was trying to explain to her hey the if you really want to knock it out of the park and be good be great right out of the gate let's write something that is in your wheelhouse and that you're attached to that you have a depth of experience to pull from from your real life that's most actors work is trying to put themselves in the role right and so i was asking her questions about herself i think i asked like what is um what's like an insult that you've heard more than once in your life that cuts you to your core okay because she was saying all these like oh i think it'll be fun to do this and that and that yeah and i was trying to figure out you know because characters have to have flaws right of funny things and she goes and she basically asked

me to stop asking personal questions because she said that um she was just raised southern and that we just doesn't talk about these kinds of things i said okay and i didn't know it was just bizarre to me because i think in l.a and new york yeah it's like all we do is talk about Our feelings, because we're all in therapy. And I think you're right. It does change your length. I mean, I was at dinner last night with a friend. She was talking about her marriage.

And just intuitively, I'm like asking all these questions and not because I'm nosy, but because she's my friend and I'm interested and I want to help her. Exactly. And the way you help is by understanding to start. And also you're connecting. Yeah. And if you have an idea of like, hmm, it sounds like you could use this advice. You can get to it by asking a question.

Yeah, sure, absolutely. No, in fact, she even told me, she's like, you should be a therapist. But she mentioned it at first I was like, oh, I'm sorry, man, no, she's like, no, seriously, she's like, this is, I'm sorry, I really appreciate you asking all these questions. She's like, I haven't talked to any.

But, you know, that's, it is so, it was really joined to me when that girl this morning said that. It's also, I don't even know that I can do this with you. Like, I don't want to work with someone who. It's kind of anti-artistic, too. It is. What do you think art is? I explained to her, I go, hey, just so you know,

like, anytime I've written anything, the process of writing for the most part is you're sitting around and you're just sharing stories about your life for the most part. You're not just sitting there be like, oh, and then this happens and then what would be great is after that, this.

I mean, unless you're writing, let's say, South Park, but if you're writing something original and creating something new, then usually it's like you're telling a lot of stories and finding ways that they can imbue themselves in the script. Yeah, no, there's not a lot of, well, I mean, I don't know, maybe there is, but just, you know, like, just polite Southern conversation.

Like, that's not a very compelling place to begin a TV show, you know. No, and then I actually, the character I pitched for is just like, what about like your classic kind of fake Southern housewife who offers her husband a sandwich and a blow a job while he watches football all weekend and has all these walls off? And she's like, oh, that'd be so funny. I was like, yeah, that sounds great. Let's see. I'm good.

And I was like, and there's so. so many of them in Nashville. It's such a good. It's very Nashville. I love that she won't tell you what an insult is, but she's like, oh, a blowjob. Sure. Yeah, no problem. You don't have talking that kind of. That's a whole thing. I know, I know. Loves Jesus and Trump and SEC football. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How is it living? This is terrible. Truly. It's a, it's a, it's an experience that only gets worse. Really? Yeah. No, I'm kidding. No, oh, the Laquois. No, not you?

Oh, you thought it was you? No, no, no, I was saying like, I was getting into, like, what's it like living in Nashville in a Trump presidency? Well, it's wild because when we first moved there, we overcorrected. We were really excited about moving somewhere. We're like, we want to live in a suburban, master-planned community, and we want to do middle class. Yeah. Because that was like, that's how I want to raise kids. Yeah, yeah.

So we went to this wonderful neighborhood. I have some friends in L.A. who live there. And it's on the outskirts of Nashville. It's pretty much the furthest you can go until you hit just farmland. Beautiful. And it's good, good mix of people. Like diverse wise or no? No. Oh, okay. No. I mean, it's not diverse. And because it's so rural, you know, you have, like, I could look out my, my back porch and one of the neighbors had a Trump sign that's like two stories high off of his back porch. Jesus. off the back porch so it's not like that there's obviously there's republicans now more than ever

there's trump supporters republicans i don't really i don't have a problem i was actually kind of excited about getting outside of the la bubble and being around a mix of people with different ideologies but in a place like that there's people who are kind of like the SEC mom they're they they see god and and and and politics as like the same they same way they look at the rolling tide like they're like it's it's an aggressive tribal you know they want to beat it down your throats and you know one of the guys organized like a golf cart parade with for like Trump like on a rent it didn't even make it was so it was sad it's so sad yeah yeah it's like three golf cars right or not or they wrote so there's like things like that but and and and there's times

where it you know works it way it's like it's not a great place to not be white And so that part sucks, but I also, and how do you, how do you feel that? Do you just feel that like in the grocery store, you get weird side eyes or what? No, what happens is you get like weird, like really bad jokes a lot of times or you know, people will say things that are just, you know, I don't even want to say they're not aggressive. They're more like passive bordering on, like it's sometimes it's just ignorance, but it's the kind of thing that you should. I didn't have to put up with in 2025. Like, I'll give me an example of that. Like, when we moved there, my wife got me, like, a tennis.

Like, we did, like, a couple's tennis lesson or pickleball lesson for, like, my birthday or something like that. Yeah. And it was tennis. And the woman was like, wow, you got a really good swing. Do you play cricket growing up? You know? And I was like, oh, that's weird. That's an odd.

Like, clearly, you've been talking to me. Do I have an accent? Like, what? That's, like, the most bizarre thing to ask. It is. Yeah. Yeah, there's not a lot of cricket in North Carolina. And that's not racist.

She's trying to connect with me. Right. She's trying to like, hey, you know, I think if I ask him about cricket, maybe we're going to connect and be a little closer. Yeah, yeah. You know? And honestly, that's like sort of elevated. But that's insane.

That's kind of elevated knowledge because you're here. It is elevated with this. You know, it's like to think that like an Indian person, oh, cricket, they love cricket. Like that takes some knowledge. Yeah, but that's why she said it because she wanted to use it. Yeah. She's like, I got this. cricket thing that I've been hanging on to.

Yeah, yeah. And here, you're finally in front of me, I get to pull this file. Yay. Yeah, it's fine. I've always been afraid at the airport to say it to somebody. I knew if I hung on to this cricket thing one day, I'm going to ask, maybe we'll be best friends. Maybe I'll finally have it. I grew up in India as my friend with an American accent.

All that cricket in North Carolina. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But honestly, the neighbors are the best. like better neighbors in L.A. Progressives are the liberals are the worst neighbors. They're not loyal people. Honestly, you can offend a liberal in a heartbeat and they'll turn on you, like even if you're family.

Right. They'll be like, fuck you. Yeah, yeah. But conservatives are very loyal and they're the best neighbors, like the nicest people. Like my neighbor's Dale and Suzanne, Dale had a barbecue business and it was just a wonderful place to live. So overall, I love living there. We moved closer into the city. is just a great place

to have a family but it does suck there's not a good diversity in Nashville at all I mean I grew up among in Illinois where

Yorkville Illinois which is about 60 miles west of Chicago oh by Aurora have we made this connection I think we have I was born in Freeport

and I also lived in Rockford which is very close to that yeah yeah can't you tell my loves it Yeah, you lived in two dismal places. Some of the worst that Illinois has to offer. It's only gotten Saturday.

Port and Rockford, yeah. No, but ours was the Kendall County was the county I grew up in. And my grandfather was the chairman of the Republican Party of Kendall County for 29 years. And it was the most Republican county in Illinois. And nobody's Republican in Illinois. anymore like i've like a couple of cousins that are yeah very religious who are a republican but nobody's republican anymore and and there is this like there is this weird thing among among conservative people and it's strange it's like my grandmother my mom's mom's mom was super bible

beatery religious but but if it came down to it like she had a there was a relative a a niece of hers that had a baby out of wedlock with an African-American man. Nice. And it was a huge fucking scandal. And I was a little tiny. I was like maybe five at the time. But my grandma went up there because there was a new baby. And she said like that she was offended that everyone was kind of being hands off about

this baby. And she's like, this is a baby that needs care and like was taking care of this baby. and so she had these like prejudices that she would that you could point out like hey you don't feel that way about you know about the Mexican guy that works at the grocery store and she's like well that's different yeah like and and I would see it the house that we bought in Burbank was owned by a gay couple these two guys one of them worked at Disney for years and years and one of them was a real estate agent and and it was a very Republican neighborhood, very kind of westerny, horsey. Neighbors across the street, we had, when we moved into the house, we had like a big hedge wall around the front of the house. And another neighbor told us that the reason that was there was because the neighbors across the street put up a Prop 8 sign, like an anti-gay marriage sign, like looking that they sat at their breakfast table and could see. So rather than confront them about it, he just built a

hedge wall to block it out and they still those people like they still these this gay couple still house set for these people when they were out of town like they still had a very close friendship with these people that were yeah like denying their basic existence and it's just bizarre how complicated people can but i respect that i think that's the way you have to do it i mean i think well you don't have to be against gay marriage no but what i'm saying but what i'm saying is life is too short to, like, I think you should accommodate the people, even the ones you hate, even the ones who, like, stand for, I know that's crazy, but, well, first of all, if you live in Nashville, you have to. Yeah. There's nowhere. Like, you wouldn't, it would just be, you

wouldn't talk to anybody. You'd be pissed off all the time. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. But I also think that's part of the reason why I wanted to get out of L.A. because I grew up having to reconcile a lot of different values and a lot of prejudices. And I think that it hardens you. Yeah. It gives you perspective. And I think even the story you just told like not that like I think prejudice is something that a lot of people just keep because they're convenient until they aren't. Once once prejudice becomes inconvenient for people, a lot of times they drop them. It's really about what their personal space is like. Yeah, yeah. And if they end up having, you know, a half black baby or, you know, a gay son or whatever it is, all of a sudden it's extremely inconvenient. Absolutely. And usually they

have to bend or, you know, because it's just like exhausting. And so that's why it's good to be in places where you're mixing because it forces you to be around these inconveniences and drop a lot of your, like at the end of the day, everyone's just trying their best. And everyone I know has something about them that's stupid. Extremely stupid. Yeah. And that's marriage and you getting to know someone and finding out what their stupid, stupid things are and deciding that you have to live with it forever, which is such a long time. Yeah. I mean, I agree with you in theory and probably largely in practice too there's people but but i mean it is a really hateful time and it is you know it's it is like i know what you mean i mean and having and growing up and even today i don't

i i don't have a lot of i don't actually have any like super trumpy relatives but i definitely have relatives who will say stuff yeah that i just feel like okay i could i could ruin thanksgiving right now or I could just shut up and I do understand like like you can't I can't I should say I can I can't be like a righteous yeah justice warrior all the time it's it's hard not it's really hard not to be I mean I usually talk I mean that's a very southern thing in Nashville it's like a lot of people just don't want to talk about politics yeah but if people talk about I talk I I talk to him about it I mean not but I'm not right I try really hard not to be right it's really hard though because I can think I'm not being righteous, but in the way I'm talking to them, I can tell that I'm actually

condescending or leading them. Right, right, right. It's really different. Or basically, like, letting them know, you know, your beliefs are stupid. Your beliefs are stupid and mean and kind of evil, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've also stopped reading the news. That helps a lot.

Yeah, I have kind of, you know what? That's what I told myself, like, when Trump won, I was like, okay, no more. Yeah. And, I mean, what I, and mainly what I meant is no more cable news, which was easy, because that like it's cable news had gotten the last five years it's gotten it's just sufferably extreme and just like just so charged it's the worst kind of entertainment and it is entertainment that's what it is first and foremost and that's why it's so fucked up and awful i mean dude i did i did uh i did i did real i did bill marsh show real time it's like i don't know i don't know how many years ago

many years ago and i was really really excited to do it like it felt like it was my super bowl i read like i just studied like an indian for this thing like every book every guest book and had you been a fan of the show for yeah that's why it was a comment i want to i want to be on this thing and i want to i want to i want to be smart i want to yeah i want to enjoy it i want to get in a good conversation all that stuff and i studied so hard that you know after the show i found myself like really sad because i felt so connected to all the news yeah because you get a to it. There's like something in it that's not unlike whatever you're getting from social media, whatever that hit is. And it was actually a gift because I had it like an existential moment

where I thought, hey, how do I want to spend my time? Yeah. Like what am I gaining by knowing a lot about the news? And in LA, by the way, there's a lot of pressure to know everything about the news. It's kind of a contest. When you walk into a room, people talking about current events and, you know, various political, especially as you get older. It's, and on sets, it's like a huge thing. You love, you know, and I just, I'm like, man, you know what? I don't want to spend, I'm, fuck that. Yeah.

This is not fun. Yeah. I'm not, if I was in the game and, like, thought I could make some sort of meaningful contribution to the world by knowing more news than maybe I would do it. But for me, there's no ROI. And I think the way I'm helping the world in my own other ways or better use of my time. Yeah, no, I, yeah, no, I agree with you. And I certainly have been more, I mean, I still vote and I still give money and, you know, but like I used to, you know, be involved publicly in different things and certainly would talk about it.

You know, in the old days of Twitter used to really engage and feel like, you know, it was part of my job as someone with a fair amount of followers. Same. to convince people that like, you know, from, you know, like simple things like, you know what, common sense gun laws are good for us. And they're good. And there's,

and most of the things that people say, like, why they're not good are easily disprovable. And then, you know, and then I started getting like literally little drawings of me with bullet holes in them. Yeah.

mailed to my house and just like, you know what? I'm a comedian. You know, like, The gun one is the hardest one to stay away from. It's so infuriated and we're so reminded about it constantly. You cannot get away from it.

There's a bomb threat at my daughter's school issue. I mean, it's just like constant, man. It's so fucking insane. Yeah. And also when you're a celebrity, like you get asked to do so many of these, like, any time there's a national election, you get asked to do various promotional events. And, you know, you do feel compelled for all the reasons you just said. You're like, oh, I have an influence.

I have a responsibility. and then you get wrapped up in it all again. Well, and I, and the way I felt after Trump was elected last time, it's like, I just was like, I'm disgusted. I'm just disgusted. I mean, I definitely feel it's like I do and do and do for you kids and you're, I get no thanks for it, you know, and I did feel like I was, I was involved. I tried and you know what, fine.

If this is what you want, you know, if this is the world you want. And I, you know, I can't keep that up. forever. And I, and even though I don't watch cable news, I still end up finding out all the fucking awful shit that's happening anyway. You know, I'm, there's not a lot that I'm like, oh gosh, that's a surprise, you know. No, nothing's a surprise. You hear everything. Yeah. Let's talk about special forces, world's toughest test. Okay. What'd you do that for? The money. The money. No. No, I mean, to be honest, we were joking about this before.

Like, you know, like I was doing, was that on my client? Yeah, yeah. It's like, why, what do you mean? Why? I work on TV. I mean, look. Why are you here building this house? To be honest, a lot of these kinds of things I would, I would absolutely do for free.

Yeah, I didn't have a family. Like, I think I love games. Yeah, me too. Crazy experiences. This one specifically, I was so excited. I probably wouldn't have done it for free because my wife was terrible. Everyone in my life didn't want me to do it.

My agency didn't want me to do it. Were they afraid you're going to get hurt? Yes. Are you like repelling off of things in that kind of stuff? Yeah, you're like jumping out of helicopters. Oh, wow. You're like, you know, like they simulate like a fuselage sinking in water and you have to escape from it.

Oh, that sounds fun. Crawling in like tight, dark tunnels. Oh, neat. blood up and down your arms. Oh, cool. And it's just, it was, it was awesome. You're like rescuing a comrade. You're fuck up.

In a small village, we had to carry this 200-pound dude on a cot over cobblestone through. It was just like, the most intense thing I've ever done, it was, I just felt so lucky that I got to do. They were really, they hated me because I was like, I had such a good attitude about everything. I was like, how great is this? Who hated you?

So they have like these, these like, basically drill sergeants. They're DS directing staff. You call them staff. You go, yes, staff, yes, staff. And I would get in trouble with that because sometimes I forget to call them staff. I'd be like, yeah, dude. And I'm like, oh, but I also just was always having fun. I cracked a lot of jokes.

So I'm a little worried about how this thing gets edited because I'm definitely, like, I got in trouble a ton. And I also was extremely overconfident. Got in trouble in the sense that, like, the DS yells at you? Yes, all the time. They yelled at me a lot. Yeah, yeah. They yelled at me a lot.

Like, you know, and I also, like, I realized I reverted to who I was as a kid in school growing up. I was just such a smart ass because I also don't like, like, misuses of authority. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That really bothers me. So when someone's trying to control me, which they were trying to do, I think what I was trying to tell them is, like, you can't control me. And they didn't. Yeah, yeah. It was, like, we finished this one challenge.

And they're like, I can't believe of all people, you're the first to finish this day. And I go, that's on you, Steph. And I got in trouble for that. Everyone got in trouble for that one. Well, why? There's just a lot of smart. You mean like they yell back at you for being a smart out? Because that's the thing.

It's all about discipline. And that's not my thing. And like we were doing a, we do these things where they bring you into a room. Like you're sitting at a big table like this. Three of them on one side and you're there. And they're like trying to scare the shit out of you and ask you questions. And I was basically saying, yeah, I'll probably go home soon. And at the time, I had the best, you, like, pass or fail everything.

And I had, like, the best record of everyone in the movie. And so they were like, why would you leave? And I said, I was like, well, you know, we just, we have two babies at home. My wife had to move, like, our move was while I was doing this. And the night before I sent my, like, I had my last text with her, she told me one of them sick. And I was like, I just feel like, I mean, how long can I play G.I. Joe while she's at home doing her own special forces. I feel kind of like a jerk. And the guy's like, well, do you know what that's exactly the kind of sacrifice we all had to do?

You know, we had to, we didn't get a change to go home to our families. And so that's what you need to do. And I go, no, I'm an actor. I'm making a t-shirt. I don't give a shit. But if you were in war, I go, listen, if you have me on your side and you're going to war, you're losing. I would still go home. That's when I would, that's when I know that this is going in the wrong direction.

You're like, good news. We got Patel at the front of the line. He's going to kill him with his B-class bits. Yeah. Oh, man. But, dude, it was so fun. I mean, it was just insane. And we all became super close because we're living in, like, they really simulate the experience.

There's no, like, I thought it was going to be like a reality show where you shoot things and then you go off to your hotel. Right, right. You know, I thought there'd be a lot more snacks. There was like no snacks, Andy. Oh, fuckers. Yeah. Yeah, we've had snacks together. Absolutely.

We were staying in this tent, like a dirt floor. You got this little box. Are you pooping in front of each other? Pooping in a bucket. Yes, in a bucket. In front of each other. There's like a door that you can close, but you're looking at each other because the door only comes here.

You're looking at people while you're doing that stuff. Not enough money in the world. Well, I'll tell you the number later and then you can tell me. I think there might be, Andy. Well, all right. I think there might be enough money in the world. Yeah. Are you hovering?

Are you, do you have to hover over the bucket? I hovered, but you know what? I'm already a good hover. I fly a lot. I fly a lot and, you know, I don't ever, you know, I hover in those. Okay. All right. People were surprised because I guess most people weren't hovering.

I'm like, what the fuck is wrong with you? It's fucking insane. I don't have the knees for hovering. I couldn't, you know. I trained a lot for this. Yeah, yeah. I would need to like take in a walker with me. Yeah, this is another sign that you have some work to do, Andy.

Is anyone else here worried about him? Andy's physical condition. This is the second reference. I mean, I am. I'm on your side. I'm worried about my physical condition. But I go, Andy, is this next thing you do going to be the bottom? And he goes, no, I don't think so.

So when is the bottom? Huh? When is the bottom? The physical bottom. Oh, the grave. Of course. It's always the grave. It's going to be too late.

Andy. You can't go working out when you're dead. Listen, think about the rest. In peace. So much. Just napping, just all napping. It's not quite napping. It's dead.

Oh, it's great. It's great. Yeah, yeah. Everyone will be so sad. Unless you're natural, then you're napping with God. Is there like, do they inset? It's getting better. All right.

We're back on the coconut lacquois, folks. It's getting better. Sorry. His standards are shifting. That's what's happening in the last hour. Which is the key to success in Hollywood. Did, was there a cash incentive? kind of like to staying into the show?

No, which I think was, I think that's stupid of them. Yeah. Because I would have said, like, I'll do most things for any amount of money. If they had said there's a thousand dollars extra, I would have probably said. Yeah, yeah. Because I did a show like that called Stars on Mars, which was like a Mars simulation and the outback of Australia. It's in like Australia. Yeah, yeah.

Someone just told me that like Natasha. They might be redoing it. Someone just told me that someone who's friends with Natasha Lagerro or someone like that. Yeah. was in it. It was a couple summers. Yeah, it was a couple summers ago. And they did not, there was no like extra money if you stick around.

So there was like the first five or six, like, you know, the actor that plays McLevin and Natasha Legerro and a couple of NFL players are like, uh, please I want to be voted out. I would like to go home now. I would like to stop sleeping in a dorm with Lance Armstrong.

Is stars on Mars basically survivor with celebrities? Yes. And like goofy space games. Like you go out and you have tasks and, you know, challenges while you're wearing space helmets. Space suits? Space suits and space helmets. Do they have something that like simulates the gravity? No, no, there's nothing like that. So you're trying to jump, but it's just hopping?

No, you're just walking. You're just walking. You're just hot. And I did like my first two or three. Yeah, when it was actually, it was their winter. So it wasn't bad. Okay. because it gets to like 120 degrees there.

Okay. But like I didn't like my first two or three challenges in this helmet and was like, I feel like I'm asphyxating in this helmet. And and I was like, this can't be good. And there was a couple times where like I was having to run and I was like, I got to slow down because I'm not getting enough oxygen in this fucking helmet. It could be that you're in terrible shape. No, no, no.

Well, I'm not in great shape. I'm not in great shape. Well, you've said it. I'm just repeating what you've said. After, like I say, like this third challenge, there was a, there was a segment like a producer as I'm going out and the things all fogged up. And she's like, oh, your mask is all fogged, love. Isn't you a fan working?

And I was like, I was like, fan. There's a fan. She's goes, yeah, yeah, there's a fan. I was like, it's never worked. And she was like, oh, my God, I'm so sore. And then they start the fan. And it's like, oh, yeah, okay, this is doable, you know. Okay, so the only Mars of it was that you were wearing a spacesuit and the things you were doing are spacey.

Yes, it's all spacey related. What was the hardest part of it, the suit? Or was there like a challenge that was nuts? I mean, the challenges were just, it was frustrating. It was just frustrating. The interpersonal shit was frustrating. And it was also, it was frustrating because, I mean, I'm just going to sound like a dick, but I'm like. Go for it, Andy.

I'm like a pretty clever, handy guy. Not as smart as you, these people. Yeah. And I mean, and there was like you had to like, you know, in the middle of like solving something. There's a time crunch and you're like, look, just do this. And they're like, you shut up. Like, all right. Well, then let's fuck it up then.

Dumb actors and athletes. Yeah, yeah, that kind of shit. But you've, it sounds like you've done a lot of these shows. No, that was the only one that was kind of like that, like a will vote you off kind of thing. that I've ever done. I do tons of game show stuff. Yeah. Which I love.

I love the fact that it's like I can't believe that one of those people that, you know, like when I was a kid. Yes. Just people that I knew from like game shows. Yes. And I felt like that doing Hollywood. I'm sure you've done Hollywood squares. I had not done Hollywood squares. Yeah.

Well, I'm sure you will this this year. And it's, I mean, it was surreal because I'm like, yeah, you're on Hollywood Shadows Stevens. Yeah. Yeah. It's amazing. Yeah. Well, and we were, you know, I guess it's still. still on. We're going to air this. Lego Masters Jr. We did that together. So wait, that was one of, I had so much fun. Did you? I thought it was pretty fun too. Yeah. You did. Yeah. I thought you were like such a good teammate. Oh, thank you. You really were. Like, you were like, and it shows in the show. Like, you are like a good guide to them and sweet to them and you guys were working together well. I loved it. I mean, I thought, no. I grew up a massive Lego fan, singular. See, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I,

I never was, but I mean, in having kids, I totally, like just little puzzle kind of things. I'm right there. And I have, you know, with my ADD, it is weird where little things like that, I can hyperfocus. Yep. And it did. And it did. It was interesting, too, like when you compare it to this, Stars on Mars, like I was kind of like, I'm not going to, you know, how they talk about the game. Like, and survive it.

Like, oh, the game. I play the game. I was like, fuck the game. I don't care about the game. You know, I'm like, I'm here to help them make a TV show. So I'm here to, you know, be funny or, you know, or give ideas and make a TV show because that's what I do for a living. Whereas when we got on Lego Masters Jr., within 10 minutes of meeting those boys and starting to work,

I was like, I'm not making a TV show. I'm making these boys win this competition. That's right. These are my boys and they're going to fucking win. That's right. And leave me alone. Like, so many times, you know, we'd be building. And you aren't.

I don't know if people realize this. We just built Lego all day. It's crazy. How many days in a row? We were surrounded by Lego and some of the builds would be like six, seven, eight hours. Yeah. It was insanity and super difficult. And the kids are all so talented.

Yeah. I knew that your team had a very, I thought you had a great team because your kids were a little older. Yeah. Which is a huge, I think that's like a big deal. Yeah. Every year when you're young, whatever. And they both were really brilliant kids in different ways. Yeah, mine were brilliant, too, for sure.

But they would come up and want to interview us while we're building, and I would just be like, get out of here. Get the fuck out of here. I got to build this fucking tune town. Get out of here. They're like, but Andy, you love to make television. Yeah, no, no, not today. I want to win. I want these boys.

You know what? I got in trouble. You did? What did you do? Yeah, I got in trouble because I think it was the first one. In fact, I think you guys won the first challenge. And I felt like we should have. one and I was just like yeah we're going to win this and as we were walking out dummy me like

i've been wearing a mic for most of my professional life right and have always been protected by sound people that liked me so i could say shit whatever i wanted you're supposed to turn the mic off yeah yeah they hadn't turned it on well we're just walking out and as we're walking on i said to the boys see boys it's all rigged like to them it's just and the next morning i show up to work and two producers immediately were in my trailer. You can't tell the boys that it's rigged. And I was like, they know I'm kidding. And I was like, but it is kind of rigged by the way.

That's, that would should have been in the show. Yeah. That's like the real competition of it. Yeah, no. It was fucking hard. It was hard. It was hard. It was hard.

It was hard. It was long kind of days. Yeah. Seeing kids lose was really rough. No, and then there's so many pieces. You're running around this giant room. I would have to. to go run and look for people.

I'm like, I don't know what I'm looking for. And he's like, go get the blah, blah, I'm like, I don't know what that is. Yeah, yeah. I had one box of, like, I had a box of Lego is this big for like 10 years. That was all I played with. And a million times. Yeah, yeah. It was more like a puzzle I was putting together every time, different.

Now that it's just a different time. I think I'm old enough that I don't even feel like there. I had Lego when I was a kid. I think I had, I had, I had Lincoln logs and tinker toys. Is this like the Rogan show? Can you guys look up when Lego? it was you begin in the in the u.s it might have been i mean i it might have been available but i don't think i just i we never had them i don't know if you know lego strikes me as something that would

have been around since like the 50s or 60s yeah well the u.s in 1961 okay i mean i i just don't i don't remember having them yeah well maybe it didn't we might not my my family's very anti-dain they hate the Danes Yeah Aurora, Illinois You know, I've kept you here For a long time And I know you just land

You in fact you came straight from the airport Came straight from the airport Straight from the airport In your country music gear Yeah, I really wish you dress like You know Like a cowboy? Yeah like

Conway Twitty Man, what did that be off-putting? Nuddy suits Snap Pearl buttons But I do I appreciate so much you coming by. It was great to catch up. Dude, I think you're the best.

Oh, thank you. I had so much fun doing that show with you. I did, too. I thought, you know, it's always fun when you meet someone. I mean, I was a fan of yours. Obviously, I'd seen the show. I was on Conan for so many years. I mean, like, when I was a kid, I would see you on Conan because I'm, how old are you?

Don't rub that in. How old are you? 58. 58, so I'm 46. Uh-huh. So when I was, you know, like a teenager. When did you, when did you start that show? Uh, it was 93.

93. 93. Okay. Yeah, so I was in high school at night. Okay, okay? So, but my point is I watched you growing up, and one of the things that happens in this town is you meet people that you knew as a fan, right? And then usually it's quite disappointing. And I, you know, I'm like, oh, this guy's lovely.

Oh, thank you. Thank you. The best comment I give you is your normal. Oh, thank you. You know what I mean? Like, it's a normal thing. And that's always the most exhilarating thing for me. It's what I strive for, honestly.

Honestly, it really is because it is like there are so many weird people. Weird people. And from years of sitting on a talk show set and just when somebody would sit down that you just feel like, oh, my God, I can just. Yeah. This is a, this person that just sat down is the person that they are. There's not like this whole facade or this, you know, like invention of a personality in front of it. And there are, it is, I mean, I don't know if it's just because it's the. bullshit business, but it's like there are few and far between people where you're like,

oh, no, that's a real normal person. And it's even, like, the most thrilling is when it's like, like somebody pretty big. Oh, it's the best. Oh, then it's like, oh, my God, you don't, you can be a complete fucking asshole. Well, you know, because that person either like was brought up so well, they're fortified or they did a lot of work because, you know, because the reason why this happens is because fame. Yeah.

is toxic. Yeah. And it does. It makes for a weird, really weird life. Yeah. An isolating life. So much of your, I mean, like, I think in general, high achieving people of any kind are, you know, attach their self-esteem to their achievements.

But in this business, it feels like it's like 10 times of that because of the, how much of other people's validation you need. Yeah. Like the status thing, where you, where you are on the ladder and the other people you know on the ladder and how much they can help you. And it's all just like, like, it never, it, there's not an interaction in this town that is disconnected from that thing. Yeah, yeah.

Even with your friends. I mean, it's just, it's just always there. Yeah, a little bit. And it's, and I think with some people, it, you know, it, it, it, uh, it's more corrosive than others, especially when it happens to them young. It's crazy. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Well, Ravi, thank you for coming in today. Animal Control is coming back for a fourth season. Thanks, dear. Special Forces, World's Toughest Test, will premiere September 25th, and you are starring as a mastermind impersonator in the true crime thriller movie Kiss of the Con Queen that is being released November 6. I did not know that. I did not know that was coming out. That's exciting. You found something out.

Well, Robbie, thank you so much. It's great to talk to you. This is fun. Again, only did it because of the publicity. Right. Of course. I understand. No, I'm kidding. It's whatever you can get. I understand. There's got to be something in it for it.

Well, Smartless said no. I don't know. That's a quid pro no over here. Dude, you're the best. Oh, man. Thank you, dude. Thanks all of you for listening. I'll be back next week, hopefully.

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