Hello, everyone. This is another episode of the three questions I'm Andy Richter and I am talking today with Ralph Machio.

Where am I talking to you from?

I'm in New York City right now. You're from New York. You're an East Coaster to begin with.

Oh, he's been. Any kind of Hollywood life, that was sort of... That was the unusual part.

I wouldn't say unusual as the word, but I guess the longest I've lived in LA was I would say 80-81.

I was on a TV show called Eight Is Enough. I was nine. Eight is enough to fill our hearts with love.

Exactly. And so I lived out there, I did 22 episodes of that, and then I stayed there the following year.

I figured maybe I should take some acting glasses and learn how to do this thing.

And then the... Yeah, you were doing fine without him.

And then I did... And then the outsiders auditions came up. And then as soon as I did that film, then I moved back to New York.

And I spent chunks of time with movie times or hitting a tarmac, pitching from behind the camera times or audition pilot season.

Why do I have to do this again to get nowhere at times? Right.

I'm not one of those chunks. But yeah, home has always been New York. I do enjoy my time in Los Angeles. It's much sweeter now than when I'm pounding the pavement to nowhere.

Sure. So were you born in Long Island or from Long Island? And established family there.

And parents are still here and still with us. And my kids are in their 20s and my daughter's 30, which is just stupid.

Because I'm late 30s now. And then we just... So it's home base. And for me, it's like...

The Mets on a Playoff run. Now I'm heading out of town to do a book tour. I'm like, did I tie? Could I have time this worse?

It's one of my big sports. That always brought me home too. The sports weather is the islander's my hockey team or the Jets.

Okay, the Jets. You can watch them lose from anywhere. It's from any place in the world.

But I used to love going back. That would be... Often be the inspiration of when I got done with a movie or a project.

I would... Wait, no, they're the Stanley Cup Finals. I got to go home.

So that's how I avoided the pitfalls of the darkness. The slow seduction of the crash and burn.

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