From KCRW, Santa Monica and KCRW.com, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. One good thing by having done this show since 1996,

it's always fun when certain guests

return. One of my favorite guests is Christopher Guest, whose newest project is writer-director

and creator for HBO as a series Family Treats. It's good to have you back here. Thanks.

I wonder if you're moving to Southern California, provoke this thing, and you start paying attention

to the way people tend to be kind of confessional because the kind of orientation that associate with Southern

California in the 70s of people being remarkably confessional. I just wonder if there's

something though you'd observe. No. The difference between New York and Los Angeles?

No, no, no, nothing quite so profound. No. No, I think I've always looked at things the same way, wherever I am.

Okay, okay.

Yeah, I grew up mostly in New York, a little bit in London, but no, not at all. In fact, in cities, for me, because of the nature of how people are out on the streets and walking around, I stand and watch people. And here, because

you're in a car, it's actually much less observational. I guess what I find so fascinating

about family trees, it's not about Brits who don't want to talk. They can't help talking

about themselves. That's true. I think having found Chris O'Dowd, who I think is this remarkable voice and actor for anything,

but for this in particular, because he's so vulnerable and accessible, he's smart and

he's funny, but you just get enveloped by this person.

And if he were a typically English person, perhaps, that would be more difficult, perhaps.

That would be harder to crack.

I guess I will ask you here how you ended up getting Chris to do the show because he's the center of the show

and unusually for you he's the kind of the font of common sense and generally you don't find

anybody with common sense in these pieces that you do yes that is a departure i think what's happened

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