I'll describe your side to the bathroom later on in the show.

Oh, my God.

Welcome back to where everybody knows your name.

Today I'm going to be talking with my wife, Mary Steenberg.

It is incredibly hard to... Today I'm going to be talking with my wife, Mary Steenbergen.

It is incredibly hard to come up with something that reflects how much I love her in a, you know, intro to a podcast.

But oh boy, do I ever?

This is going to make her squirm.

She's an amazing actor, composer. She's my best friend, an extraordinary grandmother. The list goes on and on. I should just let her, you know, speak for herself. But, all right. Sorry. See, I'm tongue tight. Honestly, I didn't know how much we'd have to discuss, seeing that we know each other so well, but boy, it was a lot, actually, so much that we divvied up this conversation into two parts.

Today's episode focuses on her upbringing and early years in Arkansas up until she started getting cast in films.

The next episode is on everything after that,

especially me. This is hard. Anyway, here you are, Mary Steenberg.

Hello, Mary.

So weird.

Oh, you have no idea how weird this is going to get.

Oh.

Because I'm excited and nervous and all of that stuff.

Well, I've never been interviewed by my husband before.

This will be at first. Can I just start off? Here's my, here's my little thing to myself today.

One of my favorite moments you and I have had was on a dance floor early on in our relationship,

and I started to get intrigued about how well I was dancing.

And you very sweetly came up in the middle of the dance and whispered in my ear,

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