From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment, which you can also hear at KCRW.com.

You probably know my guest, Eddie Isard, from, of course, The Chronicles of N Narnia or Oceans 12 and 13, or one of my favorite films, The Secret Agent.

He's currently about to be the host of the 25th Spirit Awards on IFC March 5th at 8 p.m. Pacific Time.

Eddie, thanks so much for being here.

That's quite right. I was just thinking why you call the treatment.

I mean, it's called the treatment because of the treatment as well, I thought it was like a medical thing. I thought,

that's a crazy name for Phil. Okay, my brain wasn't working. No, that's why he has more coffee.

Stretch a little bit more if you want. We'll get you going. It's probably dehydration logically,

but normally I don't drink enough water, but I don't think I should have to drink as much water as my body is telling me. Unless my body has said, right, this is, I'm going to tabulate you for a perfectness. And you've got to drink,

you know, because you should drink two liters of water a day. Well, see, now this has already been

an education for me, so thank you for being here. Wikipedia. I'm a walking Wikipedia. Do you trust Wikipedia? Yeah, well, you know, people change bits.

But before Wikipedia, we had nothing.

We had encyclopedia. We had books, remember those?

Yeah, who took it around an encyclopedia and said, come on, let's look it up an encyclopedia.

Even if you have one, you didn't look up stuff.

Let me ask you this then.

In the days before Wikipedia, you had to know context of facts. You would read something and you would know all the information about it.

You would have an idea.

It would be an immersion thing.

Wikipedia you just go to, and as you point out in your bit,

the most salient things about jam, for example,

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