From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment, which you can also hear at KCRW.com. I'm Elvis Mitchell. If you

ever wonder what the guys from Frat House would be like 10 years later,

if you saw my guest Todd Phillips award-winning documentary from Sundance, they'd probably be the stars of The Hangover.

His news film. First of all, Todd, thanks so much for being here.

Oh, thank you for having me. And, you know, it's the first thing I thought when I saw the film,

is that this is what these guys would be doing 10 years later. It's funny that you bring that up because I was literally just talking about Frat House the other day,

talking about revisiting those guys in the movie and doing sort of like a Michael App did sort of, you know, 10 years later.

Although it's a little more than 10 years.

But because I do have a genuine curiosity about what those guys from Frat House are up to.

This feels like a companion piece to it, but a lot of the films, I mean, road trip kind of felt like a companion piece to it.

Old school felt like a companion piece to it.

You have a gift for like taking guys with their most exhibitionist,

self-destructive behavior and making comedy out of it.

It's true.

I feel like there's, you know, I grew up without a dad. I'm going to get to, but I grew up in a very female household and all my movies

deal with guys and sort of their relationships and how the awkwardness of a heterosexual male

relationship and how guys just are awkward around each other. And I've just always thought that

was a great avenue for comedy and I've always been kind of fascinated with men and their need

to belong to a group

because I just wasn't raised like that. So a lot of people always think, oh, he makes movies

like Frat House and Old School and Road Trip and Hangover and they think, oh, it's supposed

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