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Andy Richter is joining us. Always a lovely, hilarious, super smart guy and one of my favorite podcasters. Let's bring in Andy.
If you were doing 75 movies, what would happen to the Andy Richter call-in show, which premieres June 26th and airs every Wednesday on SiriusXM on Conan O'Brien's radio? It's a call-in show. So do you get it? You know, because as you're aware, SiriusXM bought Team Coco. Yep. And they want to have the Conan O'Brien channel have, because now it's all podcasts.
that are being played on the radio. And they would like to do more radio programming that could then be used as podcasts. Yes. So they just wanted me to do something extra, something more. And I didn't want to do more of the podcast that I already do because it just, there's plenty of it already. And somebody said, you know, like a call-in show. And I was like, oh, that sounds like fun. You know, I mean, I go into the,
the real grown-up studios at SiriusXM and I sit there and there's people in a booth that send calls and, um,
And it's just fun, silly conversations. You know, I'm a big Howard Stern fan, and I always love it when people will call in and they'll be like, have stories about, you know, walking in on their adult father masturbating. Yeah. And just those kind of stories are just, the kind of stories you tell at parties, I think, are always fascinating. People have lots of them. So we just have different topics like,
bad parenting or dating disasters. And then people call in and I have a guest host with me. I think we've done four of them so far. I've had, because we're taping them. When I turn on Sirius, I do all the time. That's all I listen to. I haven't listened to- Me too. I haven't listened to terrestrial radio in-
eight, nine years. My wife put it on in the car the other day when we were on a, you know, kind of longish drive. And it was just commercial. Like, she was trying to find something to listen to. And it was just like, you know. It's insane, isn't it, that we lived with that? It was just like, Tustin Dodge. And then, you know, it's just everything. One thing after another of just ads and ads and ads. I do love when on Sirius, when they do, they still have DJs.
Yeah. But they don't do any of the old DJ jargon that I miss, like a two for Tuesday. Yeah. I mean... I think some of them... Or double shot. You know, we got a double shot coming up. Yeah, yeah. Of Aerosmith. I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't some channel playing two for Tuesdays, you know? I mean, you know...
There has to be. I'm sure somebody has used the word rocktober at some point. Oh, rocktober. Boy, that was such a big deal. Yeah. On Howard, they do cocktober. They do penis-themed bits, and they call it cocktober. That's amazing.
Has Howard's voice changed? I feel like it's changed. It has changed. So I'm not crazy, right? No, you're not crazy. I think at some point, and I also think there's something technical that's being done to his voice, like with compression, so that he doesn't have to push. So he can kind of just kind of sit back and talk. And it sounds more sort of forced. But when you listen to old tapes of him do, he talks like this. He talks real fast and he talks kind of high and up more up in his nose. And I think his time is going on.
He, you know, self-critiqued and made some adjustments, and now he's very much down into here. You know, he talks in a very purposeful way down in sort of his throat, you know. Yeah. Have you ever been on there? Yeah, I have. Oh, yeah. I started the first time I was on Howard. He was still at WABC in New York. Oh, wow. NBC. NBC, wherever he was in New York.
In the 80s, I started my relationship with Howard. I did dial-a-date. Oh, wow. Really? Did you go on a date? And I fucking went on the date. Wow. And how was that? I didn't really realize it was a bit. But, you know, I'm like a Midwestern people pleaser. So, I was like, there was never even a thought that I wouldn't actually go on the date. Yeah, yeah. So, Gary Bababooey and I went with the girl who won the dial-a-date.
And once someplace in the Upper West Side, I remember it like it was yesterday. And, you know, I dutifully did my date and that, you know, that was it. And then I've obviously gone on a bunch ever since. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A bunch of dial-a-dates. Yeah, yeah. I try to do a dial-a-date two or three times a year. The cash cow for you.
This podcast thing is just for fun. The dial-a-dates are where the real money's at. Yeah, let me just tell you something. This is where it all happens. But yeah, so Howard is fun. I listen to him all the time. But radio, radio, I'm so becoming so middle-aged white guy. It's really kind of like, I mean...
I remember when I used to get in the car with my grandpa and he would have on like Glenn Miller. And I'd be like, he's so old. And then I do the math. That would have been like early 70s. Yeah. And so in the early 70s, he was listening to music from the very late 40s. Yeah.
So like 25-ish years. Yeah. So now here I am in my car listening to music that's 25, 35 years old. I've become... Shit, I listen to mostly 50 and 60-year-old music probably, you know? It's insane what's become of us. Yeah. Are you a yacht rock guy like me?
It's okay. It's okay. I mean, my real go-tos are old soul music and old country music. That's great. So I listen to Smokey Soul Town, which used to just be Soul Town, but then they attached Smokey Robinson to it. Just like there's...
The Roadhouse, which is old country music, is now Willie's Roadhouse. That's Willie Nelson's Roadhouse. Yep. And there's a station called The Groove, which is kind of like the funk disco station. I listen to that a lot. I listen to The Groove a lot. Yeah. And then my wife...
My wife is nine years younger than me. She was born in 76, and she's very much, she works in the music industry, and she's mostly just a music fan. And she still loves kind of the music of her, her youth is not that much, you know, it's nine years. It's not a big deal. But she loves like kind of the new wave. There's one called First Wave, and she listens to that station a lot. Same.
I'm first wave, new wave, yacht rock, 80s, classic vinyl. Yeah. Yeah, that's all mine too.
With an MSNBC thrown in there and the radio show too. The old time radio thing. Sometimes on a nighttime drive. Yeah. Listen to an old radio show. I love those. I know it's corny and silly, but I do love them. I like chill. Yeah. Chill is really great. Like the spa music. Chill actually has, it's more of a, it's not spa music.
It's kind of deep house. Oh, okay. So it's like the perfect long drive. If you're doing a moody drive at night where you're thinking about maybe killing yourself. Right. It's the perfect- Or dumping a body. Yes. Yeah.
That's what you're listening to. Yeah. No, I've had satellite radio for before it like right when it came out, I was first on XM and got XM because it was the more popular one at the beginning. Yes. And then Howard went to Sirius and then it was all Sirius from that point out. But like my daughter who's 18, she grew up.
In the car, bopping between 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s. Like, that was kind of what she listened to. And her musical tastes are... I mean, she, you know, she likes current things, too. But she still listens to, like, a lot of crotchety old music, which I feel... I mean, I didn't force it on her. That's kind of, you know, where she went to. Because I don't like it when people force music on their kids. It's like...
let them find their own stuff. You know, like these dads that are like, my kid will only listen to Pavement. And it's like, take it easy. Take it easy. I'm like, you are going to love Bruce Springsteen like I do or you are no son of mine. Yeah. But it is, that is the great, the great thing about it is because there are so many different channels that, that,
you can be exposed to it and discover it on your own because back in the radio day, you were, you know, you were, all you had was whatever was on the playlist. Yeah. Yeah, no, you had to, I mean, that was, when I was a kid and I liked podcasts,
what was then called New Wave Music. It wasn't being played on the radio in Yorkville, Illinois. I had to, you know, there was plenty of albums I bought from reading about them. And, you know, there was a, on one of the UHF channels, which I have to explain to young people what that even means, UHF channels. Exactly.
There was an afternoon video, music video show that was like New Wave Videos that was hosted by Richard Blade. Of course. And I used to watch it every afternoon because it was the only outlet. I mean, MTV had just started, but we didn't have cable yet.
So it was my only outlet for that music. And I watched it like I was watching the news, you know, like catching up on the latest things, you know? Yeah. Not only, not only watching the news, but watching the news as broadcast from the moon. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, this is like, dude, that's Neil Armstrong. Yeah. Richard Blade is, I still listen to him. He's on Sirius. I actually, he just, I actually got to be friendly with him through a Sirius XM podcast.
gathering and I met him and he was very excited to meet me, which I couldn't, you know, it's like when somebody that you grew up with knows who you are and is like, oh, it's so great. I'm like, what? You're not supposed to know me, you know? And I actually just went out to his house because he got his star on the Walk of Fame and he invited my wife and I. And I was working that day, so I couldn't go, but he had like a little party for himself afterwards. And he's just...
He's like way nicer than he needs to be. He's like one of those people, you know, where you're like, you're like, is this? No, this is not an act. You're just like a deeply nice guy.
kind person, you know? And they're not exactly few and far between, but there's more. They're in the minority, that's for sure, in show business. For sure. I love that thing where somebody you idolized, like when they know, you're like, how do you know? Yeah. I would be starstruck by Richard Blade, for sure. Yeah, yeah. It was very, my wife was very impressed.
That, you know, I scored points there, which I, you know, it's nice every once in a while. I don't want my wife to be too impressed with me. Just like I've never wanted my kids to be too impressed with me. I just don't. I think that's a recipe for disaster. Yeah, I always like this. My father was my hero. I don't think my...
Really? I don't think my kids think I'm their hero. Right, right. Maybe they do. I don't know. But yeah, I never get that kind of thing. Sometimes I almost wish, like I will hear going again back to Howard and he'll, you know, it's such an engine in some people to like either prove their father wrong or impress their father. And I just never had that. And so sometimes I feel like,
I have been missing like that kind of overdrive gear that ambitious people have. And I'm not, you know, I'm not like without ambition, but I certainly am not like, oh, I got to be do it. I got to make it. I got to, you know, I got to eat the world. I have to just kind of chew it up and spit it out. I'm just kind of like, I don't know if something fun comes along, I'll do it. You know?
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Yeah, I have the ambition thing in me. I do. I don't know where I got it from. But I also, through years of work, therapy, have gotten to the point where I...
am cool in my own company. Do you know what I mean? Where I like, I'm cool chilling. I'm cool with nothing to like do. You know, I'm not like a workaholic in that sense. Yeah. Like I know, I have, I know people who legitimately on vacation, all they're doing is checking their phone. You know, they, they moving around, can't, can't.
Can't let it down. I definitely can do that. For sure. You said you don't know why you have the ambition drive, but do you really not? I mean, with the work, didn't you kind of, can you sense some source of it? I think it comes with being, I don't know. It's like, I'm also really competitive. Yeah. But on the other side of it, I'm not envious and I don't
I don't compare my insides to other people's outsides. Like, I don't look at other actors and go, I want that. I don't. I never have. I don't. I don't look at people who have something that I, I don't have that. Thank God. Yeah. Like, I'm like rooting for people and happy for them.
but I definitely want to get up and get at it and get mine for sure. I see. I mean, listen, that's why I have two, three, three shows on the air at the same time. Oh, wow. I have Unstable on Netflix. I have Nine Mile and Lone Star on Fox. I have The Floor on Fox at the same time. Oh,
Oh, that's right. Your game show hosting about. I forgot about that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Don't you have? Do you have one or have had one or am I making this up in my mind? I have done. I have. I have hosted. I mean, I've hosted a bunch of different. Yeah.
pilots and, you know, had a couple kind of go to air. But I also play in a lot of game shows. I mean, because... Which is like one of the things that, you know, I didn't... I never sat and thought like, oh, I hope someday I get to be on a game show. But I'm really excited about the fact that I get to be on game shows. That and doing voices for cartoons. I just...
I can't even believe that I feel so lucky and I feel like I pulled some kind of scam in order to make money doing these things. And, you know, I was on one of them that's in New York. Like they do, I don't even know if they still do it, but Alec Baldwin used to do Match Game. Yeah, sure. And Michael Strahan does Pyramid there, I think. Yes, that's right.
And it's in the same studios they've been making game shows forever. And on the walls, you'll go by and you'll see like Katie Carlyle on the wall. And you know it's been in the same room. And that was really where I felt like, holy shit, I am a TV professional. I am like... Yes. These are the people that I used to see on TV when I was a kid and go...
I don't know if I went anything. I just was like, yeah, that looks like fun. And it is fun. It is really fun. I did the, when I was a kid,
The very first TV series I was ever on, I was 15. I played like the sun. And the network did some sort of boondoggle where all the young people of that season's new shows competed on a celebrity version of, so long ago it was, the $10,000 pyramid. Oh, wow. Yeah.
And Dick Clark was the host, and it was in that same theater that's in New York. Yeah. It's the same place where Alec was doing the $100,000 pyramid. Wow. It was $10,000. Yeah, yeah. Can't get a car for $10,000. Yeah. See, I hosted...
They were trying to do the pyramid. I don't even remember what the dollar amount was, but it was like, I don't know, 10, 12-ish years ago. And what they wanted was because one of the CBS, yeah, CBS, CBS game shows or soap operas was going off the air. So they wanted a three-hour game show block of Price is Right, Let's Make a Deal, and then Pyramid.
And I was going to host the pyramid. And I was, I mean, talk about a money tree in my yard. And so I hosted it. It was fantastic. It went really super well. I loved every second of it.
Betty White came on and was a celebrity guest. And I don't know if you spent much time with her, but she was just the greatest. The greatest. She was the greatest. Just the greatest. Everything you would want your Betty White to be. That's right. That's exactly right. Yeah. And different celebrity guests and stuff. And they don't just do one. We did like four or five of them. Yep. And it was between us and...
some Emeril cooking game show that everyone was like, don't worry about that one. That's not going to, nobody's, nobody's, nobody's betting any money on that. And then the third thing was, uh,
This new talk show with women sitting around talking called The Talk that was hosted by the network president's wife. That's the one you worry about. And yeah, because that's the one. And they didn't even shoot a fucking show. They put up a camcorder in a conference room and had the five of them sit around for 20 minutes and chit chat.
And that's what they bought it on. And Nina Tassler, who ran the network at TCA's, they were saying like, she was being, after they picked that, because I heard that everyone was like, let's make the game show. Let's make the game show. And Les Moonves was like, no, no.
Julie needs a fifth job, you know? So they go with that. And she's at like the television critics association thing, which is where they, for people out there, where they pitch the new shows to the press. And they're asking her about this. Like, wait, it's just women sitting around talking about today's issues. And I guess she got mad and was like,
Look, it's just the view, okay? It's just us doing the view, all right? Like she got pissed because it wasn't her show and she didn't feel proud of the idea. And I kind of always loved her for that. That's really funny. Yeah, yeah. It's like, guys, do I have to paint a picture for you? Yeah, it's, yeah. Like surprise, surprise. One TV network is ripping off another TV network. Yeah, has that ever happened before? Yeah. I love...
doing the floor. I'm doing seasons two and three back to back. Oh, wow. How many a day do you do? We can do three, but that really takes it out of you. I mean, you can't... That's not sustainable. So, you'll do two a day and then finish the week with three. I see. So, you're doing 11 a week? Are you shooting five days and doing 11 a week? That's right. Okay. And what I love about it is that
There's so much going on at the same time. You've got the gameplay, keeping track of who's won what, keeping the momentum going, sort of editing in your own head about what's entertaining and when to move on. Okay, we've had enough of that talk. Let's move on to the game. And then being able to counterpunch and riff and ad lib on your feet. Right.
and find ways to be funny, but then also when to give it a sense of importance and drama. I didn't realize it would be as challenging in the way
the way that you want it to be as an actor performer. As opposed to just a job where you go and there's cards and you read them, you know, as a prompter and you just read it and then you get your check and go home. No, it is not that. If you take it seriously, it's pretty, I mean, it's a very particular kind of television. It's a very particular kind of entertainment. And if you take it seriously, it's rewarding and it's fun. And I mean, and I got nothing against
a half hour, an hour of television time being taken up with the game show. That is completely like one of the basic things that you want from television is game shows that you're sitting at home. Like with, you know, like we'll sit and we'll just, my family and I'll watch, uh,
you know, family feud, which is ridiculous. And the whole family will watch it. And it's a wonderful way to pass the time. You know, we're not, it's, it's not, you know, it's, it's not the crown. I'll tell you one thing. I'll go one step. I'll go one step further. I think it's more important than ever because it's,
everything in entertainment is so siloed. It's like when we started talking about Sirius. If you want country, you listen to country. If you want R&B, you listen to R&B. If you want hip-hop, you listen to hip-hop. But everybody's in their own little corners listening to what they like. Game shows are one of the few things still around where everybody can watch together regardless of what their tastes are. And I see it when I'm out
traveling the world, the reoccurring theme is, oh, my family, we all watch it together. Well, I can tell you what, they're not listening to music together.
They're not, you know, and they're not watching regular TV together. Somebody's watching, somebody's watching the bear and the mom's watching Bridgerton. Yeah. The dad isn't watching any of it because he hates it and he's only watching sports. Yeah. That's what it's like. And they're all on four different devices too, you know. Yeah. Yeah. 100%. Yeah. I mean, that always makes me laugh too is like what, like my wife and I do not watch the same things. Yeah. We just do, we would never watch the same TV shows ever. Yeah.
Like she, like it has to be powdered wigs and hoop skirts for her. Which is really funny because she's like a girl from the Valley. Yeah. She's like a true LA Valley girl. And she, you'd think like she was British aristocracy. Yeah. Yeah. With the stuff she watches.
And, and I, you know what the truth of it is? I don't watch anything. Do you get to a point where you're like, I feel like I, you know what it is when you've read so many scripts. Yeah. You watch five minutes of it and you go, I know, I know this. Yes. Absolutely. I know this. I love it. I love it. And I won't be watching it. Yeah. No. I love it.
Love it. Don't need to see it. I don't need to see it. I know I love it. I watch things and all I can hear is like the writer's room. You know, I can hear the jokes being pitched and I can hear, you know, like, you know, the reason this character is that way is because they're trying to do this. And I, you know, I'm, I am with you. I, especially comedy. I don't watch much comedy at all. You know, there's some really, really good stuff that I'll watch, but a lot of it is like,
you know, or, you know, like English stuff that I didn't know about. I mean, I have friends who are in comedy who watch almost nothing but English comedy, which is like, that's a bit too much because they'll recommend something that's English and I'll watch it and I'll be like,
Look, without the accent, this is just another stupid, stupid kind of middle-of-the-road comedy. Let's unpack this for a minute because I'm kind of obsessed with it. There's an English comedy that my friends keep telling me to watch. Black Oleander. Is that making sense? Or Black Adder. Black Adder. Yes. Black Adder. Yeah. Is that any good? Because I kind of sniffed around it and I was like, I don't know.
I don't know. I tried. It's Mr. Bean. It's the guy, I think. I think it's the guy that played Mr. Bean. I might be wrong. Sean, is that right? Yeah. It's the guy that played Mr. Bean. And it's kind of...
You know, it's like period humor. And I don't mean menstruation people. I mean, it's like... Yeah, come on. Get your mind out of the gutter. It's kind of like, you know, like Robin Hood-ish kind of, you know, that sort of period humor. And it's okay, you know? So, the English have a word which I'm obsessed with. And it's such a great word. But it describes...
Because, like, why do I love certain English comedies like you can't believe I love them so much? And then other English comedies that are beloved, I'm like, I don't get it. Yeah. And that's because those are twee. Twee. Yes, absolutely. Isn't that the greatest word in the world? Twee is a fantastic word. It is a bullseye. It's a fucking bullseye. Yeah.
It's a little twee, isn't it? And England and UK entertainment can be twee. Like when you go through the Brit box, it's all just like, you know, old people riding buses from one dairy farm to another, you know? Yes, yes. Oh, my God. Does anything ever happen? And we'll try those shows because my wife lived in England for 10 years, so she definitely has a soft spot for shows.
all things UK, but we will try some of them. And we're just like, Oh my God, this is just dull. You know? Yeah. And a little, a little bit of a case of the cute. Yes. Yes. There's nothing I hate more. And then this isn't it. We're moving on. So anybody in the UK and I love the UK. I've worked there. I love it. It's the best. And this is no longer about the UK. This is about entertainment in general. My, the, the,
My least favorite thing, my least favorite tone, my least favorite flavor is cute. Yeah. I hate it so much. Yeah. And look, sometimes we all have to toil in the cute minds. Right. But that's the one that makes me craziest of all. Yeah.
Absolutely. I'd rather work in the pretension mines than the cute mines. What mine are you working in today, Andy? Yeah, I got a couple hours I got to put in in the pretension mine, but then I'm working on the sounds like comedy, looks like comedy, feels like comedy, isn't comedy mine. Right, right, right, right. ♪
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Yeah, well, that's people. I mean, I haven't watched a minute of The Bear, but I hear all my friends complain about how it's not a comedy. Like, why is that a comedy? It's not a comedy. They don't make comedies anymore. Voted for comedies. I make a comedy with my son on Netflix called Unstable. Season two, August 1st. Plug. It's comedy. Did he create it or did you create it together? We created it together.
created it together. Oh, nice. Yeah. It's created, it's around, are based on his Instagram trolling of me. Oh, nice. Yeah, he is so merciless with me on his Instagram, it became kind of a thing. And we kind of went, people really seem to like this. Yeah. What, is there any there there? And if so, what would it be? And so that was the birth of it. But it's a comedy. It's like,
Funny. It exists only, it has no pretension other than to be funny. Right. And, you know, you've got a whole genre now that started. The first time I remembered it was when I was on Parks and Rec and Amy Poehler would lose consistently the Emmy to Edie Falco on Nurse Jackie. And I'm like, I love Edie Falco. She's not funnier than Amy Poehler. Yeah. Yeah.
And Nurse Jackie is not funny. Yeah, yeah. And now it's morphed to The Bear, which I watched and love, but that's a perfect case of, I watched it, I get it, I personally don't need to see it. I know what it is. It's beautifully executed, amazingly written, amazingly acted, but I know what, I know it. And, and,
Not a comedy. Yeah. Succession. Now, listen, I would buy... That's a push, but Succession made me howl. Yeah. I get Succession as a comedy, even though that's not a comedy either. It's not. But I at least understand that as... It's pretty comic. It was pretty comic. I mean, it was played so straight that I think that it's... You're not exactly sure what the intention is, but that was one that my daughter...
who's very much a cineast, a cinephile. She's 18 and she's going away to college and she's very much into... And I went to film school too. So, you know, she's trying to get me to watch these old Russian movies that I slept through back in 1987. And, you know, like, oh, you're going to... Hard house stuff. I don't... And I'm not even... Like, I'm not...
I'm not a dummy, you know, but I do need things to happen in movies, you know. I do like it when things happen in movies. Call me crazy. She wanted me to watch Succession, and I tried, and it just bummed me out. That's funny. I loved it. This is, I mean, I understand the purpose of, and I don't even want to be, because, you know, like when I started developing things, and they'll be like,
They would say to me, like, you're so likable, likable, likable. And where's the likable character? And people need to identify with somebody and they need to be likable. And it always felt like, do they really? I mean, can't they just be funny, you know? But that show, I think, and it was an interesting kind of experiment. And I'm not familiar with...
any other show that did it as much, there was nobody that you could latch onto. Even the most innocent, benign person was kind of an asshole. For sure. Kind of corrupt and kind of shitty. And it was, and I don't know, it was just like,
you know, I got divorced a few years ago. I don't just don't know if I was in the frame of mind for it. It was kind of during COVID that she was doing all this. And I was just like, I don't want to watch awful people be awful to each other. Right. And then she sort of started to force me to watch it with her. And I could always, I always was like, this is brilliant. This is fantastic. This is really good. And it's hard. It's hard for me to continue watching it. And they were like,
Like her favorite episode. She's like, oh my God, this episode is so funny. And I was like, this is the episode where they all turn on each other and fuck each other over. And I was like, I get why you like it. But I said, I feel like.
I just got out of divorce mediation. I don't, you know, I don't feel good. I feel through the ringer. And I haven't even watched the last season and she's disappointed in me, but I just have never gotten around to getting into the last season of it. When you're young and you haven't suffered heartbreaks, bummed out,
all the fucking shit that life heaps on you, that's when you can be a 15-year-old Rob Lowe and have your favorite movie be Star 80. Yeesh. Hey, mom and dad, come sit down and watch this with me.
Right? I mean, multiple running over to like 15-year-old Charlie Sheen's house. Dude, put on Star 80. Oh my God. Hey, you know what? We're going to do a two for Tuesday. Star 80 and Midnight Express. Really? There was one night.
In New York, and I think the bar was called Babyland. It was on the Lower East Side, and it was baby-themed. It was just kind of a tavern. It wasn't like a nightclub or anything, but you literally sat in cribs that had one side dropped down that were modified to be like banquets. And there's just like baby-themed shit around the place.
My ex-wife and a couple of friends of ours go in there one night, and it was like after some—it was actually—it was after the Off-Broadway Play Awards, which my wife was in a show that won something. And we went into this bar. In the bar—
No music playing on the screen. Bad lieutenant. Oh, my God. Top volume. There's like four men in the bar all gathered around one screen just watching the scene where he pulls the girl over in the car. Yeah. Pulls a girl over in the car like and at top volume. And we're just like men. Oh, men are great.
Aren't men great? Those movies. So we got a three-pack for you. Bad Lieutenant, Star 80, Midnight Express. Yeah. Nice. But see, I love those movies.
I did too. I loved violence up to an age and then I couldn't do it anymore. Isn't that weird? Like just pointless orgy of violence. I was always on board for that when I was young. How about Faces of Death? Did you ever get your hands on one of those? I did. And that was a little too much, even for me, like back then as a kid. And I just kind of knew like, nah, no, that's like, okay.
okay, I'll smoke your weed, but I'm not going to do your heroin. Right. Yes. Yeah. 100. Yes. Yes. Yes. It's like, that's too much. That's too much. I have an obscure comedy one for you that I just, when I grew up as a kid, I kind of missed the Beatles, right? Like they were still around and still a big deal, but they weren't,
I didn't discover them, right? Because I'm big when you were too young. When I was, yes. So they were shoved down my throat from the day I was born. By the way, today I love them. I love them. Yeah, me too. I think they're the best band that ever lived. Me too. Not even close. I love them. But I grew up going, all right, the Beatles. Yeah, I get it. Jesus Christ. And I felt like every five seconds, there was another cringy twee.
tweet yeah documentary on the beatles playing yeah so then i discovered the ruddles yeah yeah yeah that is okay so everybody out there it's lauren michaels and the monty python people producing a fake version of a documentary on the band called the ruddles which is basically the beatles it is the most brilliant hilarious thing and do you know this it to this day remains
the lowest rated piece of entertainment ever put on a television network. Oh, really? That was on a U.S. network? I didn't even realize that. It was on NBC. It is the absolute lowest ratings anything has ever gotten on an American television network is The Ruttles. Oh, that's great. And when you see it, you'll know why because it's so specific, but it is brilliant. Yeah. Well, that's, you know, when Spinal Tap came out,
There were people who, like, a big criticism was, why did they make this movie about this shitty band I've never heard of? That's the best movie. Like, they didn't really understand. No, no, it isn't a, you know, it isn't a real band. It's for sure got to be the best comedy ever made, right? It's really funny. Yeah, it's really good. My favorite are the throwaways that aren't even on camera. Yeah. During the famous Hello Cleveland thing.
where they're running around in the boiler room, getting lost, trying to get to the stage. Yeah. And they run up against the janitor. Uh-huh. And they say, we're lost. We need to get to the stage. And he says, you're going to go down that hallway. There's some stairs. You're going to go down the stairs. And then there's a little jog. And off camera, he goes, well, we don't have time for that. A little jog. A little jog. Okay.
I haven't seen that one in a long time. It's amazing. Yeah. Like I say, I don't watch a lot of comedy. Lately, my wife and I have been going back and looking at old Key & Peele's. And those are really good. That's a really solid sketch show. Chris Pratt turned me on to them on Parks and Rec. Pratt was an early adapter to Key & Peele. Yeah, yeah.
So good. Well, Andy, our time is up. Oh, no. I know. We need to, well, listen, every two years, you and I need to do this. And we will. And we will. And we will. And we won't be twee. There'll be nothing twee about this conversation. Right.
Thank you, brother. Thank you. It was great seeing you. We will do it again. Three questions. Don't forget to watch Andy Richter Call-In Show coming up June 26th, every Wednesday. I'll be listening. All right. Thank you, Rob. And thank all of you out there for listening. Thank you guys for listening. Thanks to Walmart for sponsoring today's Lowdown Line. Hello. You've reached literally in our Lowdown Line.
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Hey, Rob. This is Karen. I'm calling from New London, Connecticut, and I want your opinion on color. I'm interested to see how you feel about accent walls and pops of color around the house. I take you as a beige cream sort of genre, and I'm just wondering if you have any bold colors around and how you like to paint and if you do accent walls. Side note, my little one has been watching...
911 for a while now. She calls it the helper shows. And she once saw a magazine with your picture on it in the grocery store and started screaming, Rob Lowe, Rob Lowe, Rob Lowe's here. And the entire store thought you were in New London shopping at the grocery store because this little girl was screaming your name and she's a big fan of yours as we all are. So again, pops of color, accent morals. What are your thoughts? We'd love to know in New London, Connecticut. Thank you for your time.
Oh, thank you for calling the loo down line. Give your daughter a big squeeze-a-roon. For me, that's the cutest story ever. Okay, so here's my thing on color. I love... I'm kind of a shade person. Like, not monochromatic, but staying within the shades. I'm super worried about things clashing. And when it comes to walls...
when we're not talking about a painting. Paintings are a different thing. Painting, you know, Jackson Pollock, throw that stuff on the wall. But like, I think subtlety is the key. I just went through this with my wife and I are building a new house and we sweated the shade of white like you wouldn't believe. So I think be judicious with color
And then when you do it, less is more. You know, I've seen the purple walls, the green walls. You know, it can kind of give you a seasickness. But that's just my personal choice. But thank you. That was a really good question. So hopefully I answered it for you. Thank you. Next week, more fun and games here on Literally. Tell a friend and I'll see you next time. Thanks.
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