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🗓️ 23 September 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So you decide to do a sock and dance for the opening of the Oscars. |
| 0:04.5 | Can't dance, really. |
| 0:05.8 | Okay, okay. |
| 0:07.3 | I mean, I didn't get footloose for a reason. |
| 0:09.1 | For a reason, right. |
| 0:10.4 | And it doesn't go well, is what you're saying? |
| 0:12.8 | It doesn't go well. |
| 0:14.8 | It doesn't go well. |
| 0:17.9 | There was an open letter to the academy the next day signed by like Paul Newman and Gregory Peck. |
| 0:25.5 | And like this was an affront to our sensibility. |
| 0:29.6 | I mean, I looked out in the audience and I saw. |
| 0:34.3 | It was the night Barry Levinson won 10 Academy Awards for Rain Man. |
| 0:37.5 | Yeah. And I literally saw him, mouth, what the fuck? |
| 0:44.6 | Didn't go well. |
| 0:46.9 | To borrow a line from Heidi Klum, in Hollywood, one day you're in and the next you're out. |
| 0:53.4 | But not for Rob Lowe he has been a fixture |
| 0:57.0 | since the 1980s and has had decades worth of iconic roles from St. Elmo's fire to the |
| 1:04.3 | outsiders to the West Wing to Parks and Rec in an industry that chews him up and spits him |
| 1:10.3 | out how has Rob Lowe stayed relevant for so long? |
| 1:13.6 | It's not just his good looks, and yes, he is very good looking. |
| 1:17.6 | It's something else. |
| 1:19.6 | The real secret to Rob's longevity is something more powerful. |
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