Hi, everybody. Welcome back to the three questions. I'm your host, Andy Richter. This week, I am talking to the actor and filmmaker Jake Johnson. You know Jake from TV shows like New Girl and Minks and movies like Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse. Be sure to check out Jake's directorial debut, self-reliance, on Hulu, and listen to his advice podcast. We're here to help.

Here's my conversation. It was a good one with Jake Johnson.

So I'm doing a call-in show,

which is like the first date is like in two weeks.

So I have to, so like classic me, I'm like,

I guess I should figure out what I'm going to do. I guess I should figure out what I'm going to do.

I guess I should figure out what this thing is.

So I do a call-in podcast now.

Oh, right.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And it's a trip.

Now, how do you, do people call in and leave messages or do you let people know? We do it.

So we experimented at the beginning. So I wasn't sure. I thought like, well, let's just take any. But the problem when you take any is you're kind of beholden to whoever the caller is and their tone. Right. And certain tones, I don't want to be in those talks. Right. Of course. So we now have, we have an email, they email the show, and our producer kind of... Screens them first. Kind of screens them. Doesn't quite do like the pre-interview. Yeah, yeah. But we'll say like, this feels like our show. So it's live to us. Right. But it's not truly live live. Oh, I see. So it is like a thing where they have, you call them, you tell them by your phone Tuesday or whatever. Okay. And so they email in and now we, you know, you get hundreds of emails. Yeah, yeah. And then from that, because at the beginning of our podcast, we would have things, you know, ours is we're here to help. It's an advice thing. Yeah. So we would get people calling in and being like, I've never been more depressed in my life.

My wife left me.

I'm, you know, drinking a lot.

And my buddy Gareth and I would be like, oh, exactly.

One thing you could think about is, that's all, folks. And then we would say, and we'd be looking at each other being like, what the fuck? And then my buddy Gareth, no kids, a cat doesn't want him. They would be like, some do go like, you know, my son has big anxiety about school. And Gareth would go, let me tell you. And I was finally like, this, we're out of line, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We need calls like, I put too much cream on my hands and my hands are mushy. And then we go, let me give you an hour of advice. Although, in your defense, what the fuck are these people asking you for? Yes, agree. You know what I mean? Like they, they should,

they are. But they are, you know, but not to, not, not to blame the victim. But let's blame the goddamn victim. But you get into a spot where, and I don't know if it's just years of being an actor or I've always been this way. But whatever the tone is, yeah, you go like, well, that's the tone I've always lived in now.

Yeah, yeah.

So they'll go like, you know,

like this has been happening.

I'm really, been this way. But whatever the tone is, you go like, well, that's the tone I've always lived in now.

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