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

Welcome to the Treatment, the Home Edition, what these are called the 20th century, party line version.

My guests are very talented writers, actors,

producers, director in one case. They are the producers of the terrific and fascinating new

documentary, Bob Ross, Happy Accidents, Betrayal and Greed. Never a more succinct and apt title for a documentary than this. My guests are

Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone. The director of the film is Joshua Raffa, who did the

terrific film Lorena a few years back. Guys, thanks so much for coming on and tell me what got you

involved in this. Thanks for having us, first of all. I think we can say that we have the same fascination with Bob Ross that strangely spans the globe.

And I've had it since I was a child.

I remember watching him on PBS and just not understanding, like, the speed.

And like, even as a a kid I was like,

God, he's so calm.

Like even if I'm not going to paint with him, there's something reassuring about him.

And it kind of kept translating through the ages.

And then like we have two girls.

And when they were little, we would watch it.

And we had such a true fascination with him.

And then we realized we don't know anything about him outside of the PBS show.

And we just thought this like gentle soul, we wish we knew more.

Yeah, I mean, I wanted to write a movie about Bob Ross, sort of a biopic type of thing.

And I realized that that would be impossible because if you just, you know, do a simple Google search,

there's very little you're going to find out, except that, you know, he was stationed in Alaska

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