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Literally! With Rob Lowe

Rainn Wilson: This Beets Everything (Re-Release)

Literally! With Rob Lowe

Stitcher & Team Coco

Society & Culture

4.712.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

This week, we're looking back at Rob's 2022 conversation with "The Office" star Rainn Wilson! Find out how "The Office" was almost cancelled before its third season, Rainn and Rob's approach to acting for comedy vs drama, and what updates would be added to a second edition of "The Bassoon King." This episode originally aired in August 2022. Make sure to subscribe to the show on YouTube at YouTube.com/@LiterallyWithRobLowe! Got a question for Rob? Call our voicemail at 323-570-4551. Your question could get featured on the show!

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0:00.0

Rain, we're both wearing hats.

0:03.1

You've got kind of a fishing, what would you call it?

0:05.2

Is your podcast about hats?

0:06.7

Oh, so they didn't tell you.

0:07.8

Oh, they didn't tell me.

0:22.9

Hey, everybody. welcome to literally.

0:30.8

Rain Wilson, Rayne Wilson. It doesn't get more iconic than the beloved Dwight Shrut, but he's so much more than that. He's an amalgam of many different things.

0:40.1

He's not just a comedy icon, as you're about to see when it starts to rain. See what I did.

0:50.2

How have you been? I love you. You're the best. Thanks. Good to see you.

0:55.8

So you're one of my favorite funny men in the world, but you're also a great dramatic actor.

1:00.1

Oh, you're very kind. I need to tell you how much I loved Baxter by the way.

1:05.2

Oh, thanks. Yeah. You and 17 other people watched that, and I really appreciate that.

1:11.2

I, if only I'd been in Nielsen family.

1:14.1

I know.

1:15.0

Because, dude, I think Nielsen families represent 500,000 people.

1:20.1

I think that's the way it's broken down.

1:21.5

At least it was.

1:22.5

Wow. That's the way they do it.

1:23.8

Wow, that's incredible.

1:24.8

Well, it's interesting because Backstrom, for those of you don't know, was a 13-episode arc I did on Fox as a disgruntled, alcoholic, self-hating police detective, who's also brilliant at solving crimes, of course. And we got canceled after the 13 because our ratings, we were just right on that cusp, you know, but we like got canceled like a 0.9, but then next year all the shows got like a 0.8 and a 0.7 and a 0.5. And now there's like network shows that have like, I don't know what the viewership number is. Oh, dude, 0.9 is a big, big, big, big hit now.

2:02.6

Yeah. Yeah. And that was about seven, eight years ago. We got a point nine. And we should have stayed on the air. We would have done great.

2:10.8

That's happened to me a bunch of times that I was in a show that was the, that people thought was the ratings were not good.

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