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🗓️ 11 November 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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On this week’s episode of Mom’s Car, we welcome acclaimed director of Parenthood and sweetest man Larry Trilling. Larry, Dax, and Best Friend Aaron Weakley talk through attending Santa Monica High School with the entire cast of The Outsiders, catching the directing bug making Super 8 films in middle and high school, directing the first Comedy Central original movie Porn and Chicken, learning how to motivate blocking with storytelling, and the gang discuss their top-five favorite movies and shows of all time.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Mom's Car. Today, and this is a long time coming, I think I talk about Larry Trelling more than any other director I've ever worked with. |
| 0:11.3 | He directed something like 60 of the hundred and some parenthoods, and he's just the sweetest, sweetest, sweetest man I've ever worked with. |
| 0:22.0 | And it's such a joy to have him in the car today and to get to introduce him to my best friend, |
| 0:26.1 | Aaron. |
| 0:26.7 | And we just had the most lovely, pleasant time. |
| 0:29.6 | He's so smart and he's so thoughtful. |
| 0:33.2 | And I just love him to death. |
| 0:35.3 | Please enjoy Larry Trilling. |
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| 0:43.1 | You know what's not smart? |
| 0:44.3 | Not checking the coffee lids secure before you take that first sip. |
| 0:48.4 | My morning coffee ended up all over me and let me tell you that smell does not come out easily. |
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| 2:00.9 | Thank you. So what state were you just in? I was in Vancouver, British Columbia. Oh, were you by Whistler? I actually drove up to Whistler for the day, rented a car, and drove through Squamish and into Whistler. Have you been? Yeah, I went when I was probably 21, I was dating a girl that had moved to Bellevue, Washington, and then we were both snowboarders. It was very cool. That's beautiful. All I remember is it was illegal to sell cold beer. So all of the liquor stores had these cooling tanks in front that were like ice cold water and you'd spin the beer in there to cool it down. That is insane. Yeah, there's another one of these systems where you're like, |
| 2:05.0 | oh my God, so you can do it. It's just you've got to do it in a really complicated manner. |
| 2:10.3 | Spins the beer around, flattens it. Either you can't have cold beer, you can't. Can't have a workaround. What is the point of that law? I guess to discourage people from pounding them in the |
| 2:16.2 | store. I guess. |
| 2:17.7 | Well, you know, remember the South always had the workers, the tall boy cans. |
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