I did Preet and Pink after that, and that really gave me a career.

Then I started being able to have sex with people.

Welcome back to where everybody knows your name.

Today I'm talking to the gifted actor, director, and writer Andrew McCarthy.

You know him from films like Pretty and Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, Weekend at Bernies.

He also is the author of a timely new book exploring male friendship and loneliness called Who Needs Friends? Meet a man of many

talents, Andrew McCarthy. Of all the people that I've ever met, my daughter was so excited

I was meeting you because the good place.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, my God.

She was so excited.

So wait.

How old is he?

She's 19 now.

But she saw it when she was the younger teenager.

Yeah, but like she's watched the whole series over and over again and like it's like big.

Mike Shore, who did arrest the writer-creator.

Arrested Development, Parks and Rec, all these amazing things,

really wrote an amazing show because it's about ethics,

it's about purposeful living,

wrapped in a nine-year-old fart sense of humor and with special effects. Yeah. It was kind of brilliant. It was great. Well, say hi to her and thank her. I will. And she knows. She has very good taste, so. Nice. She does. She has nice judgment because there are other people like, Dad guys no he's mid he's mid you know mid or

you know it's lame but anyhow oh lordy kids humbling yeah do you have how many you have

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