From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

Welcome to the Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. My guest is best-selling author, game show host, comedian, but more importantly, an Emmy

award-winning actor for his performance as Christine Baskets in the show Baskets, Louis Anderson.

His new book is, Hey, Mom.

Hey, Louie, thanks for me.

Hey, Elvis.

How are you?

I'm doing well.

How are you?

Good.

What a good name to get, I mean, a lot of pressure when you get Elvis.

Not as much pressure is being a family of 11 kids. Now, I'm from a much smaller family. I'm only from a family of nine kids.

Oh, are you? Yes. What number are you?

I'm right in the middle.

Oh, so that's why you're in show business, right? That's what I always wonder if that's, that, you know how they say that middle thing?

I think, you know, like, hey, what about me?

Hello?

Well, I think it's touching that you think of this as being show business, but anyway, I think

what's really...

Oh, I think that NPR is definitely in the, uh, in the lane of show business. I listen to, um, PR all the time and

people give it another gravitas, you know. If you've been on MPR, they, they sneak up like next year and go,

I said, I hurt you on Elvis. One of the things you say the book,

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