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The Paul Rudd Episode

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The Paul Rudd Episode

Paul Rudd reflects on a range of personal and professional experiences in a warm, conversational tone. He expresses deep affection for McDonald’s mango pineapple refresher, calling it a refreshing and underappreciated drink, and shares his love for classic comedy films like *Clueless* and *Friendship*, which influenced his formative years. The conversation delves into his personality—described as kind, extroverted, and emotionally present—while also touching on moments of vulnerability, such as past incidents of stress, anxiety, and a near-physical altercation with a driver. He recalls humorous college memories, including a friend named Shabe who used the nickname "Shabe" with a quirky spelling, and reflects on the genuine, human humor found in improv and everyday life. Rudd also shares a passion for shows like *Antiques Roadshow*, where he’s moved by stories of history, legacy, and human emotion, particularly stories involving personal treasures and unexpected value. The discussion culminates in a celebration of connection, friendship, and shared joy, with Rudd emphasizing the importance of laughter, authenticity, and meaningful human moments. The episode is sponsored by McDonald’s, and the conversation ends with a lighthearted call to action to enjoy outdoor spaces and bond over shared experiences.

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♪ Voo, voo, voo, voo ♪ ♪ Power run ♪ ♪ Voo, voo, voo ♪ ♪ He's a stud and not a pug ♪ (audience laughing) - I know. ♪ A pug like a stud and not a pug ♪ (audience laughing) ♪ We love our pride ♪ ♪ First looks will always get you out ♪ ♪ I'm a little bit more rude ♪ - Look, I look like a fairy like this, like. - Shit, that's not good. (audience cheering) - You with us? (coughing) - Yeah. - It's everything okay? - No, but it's fine. - What happened? - It doesn't matter. - Well, whatever your situation is, could it improve with a mango pineapple refresher from the McCafe and McDonald's? - It would have to be very delicious. - You ever get a text? I feel like he got a text and just was like-- - He was sucked. - Something bad happened. - You were sucked into the vortex of your screen right there. - It worked, the boba's worked. - So it's good. - Did you know it has caffeine? - I heard. - It's just a light amount of caffeine, just the right. - We don't even have to oversell this thing. Even though I do think it's really underappreciated, how good the drinks are at McDonald's. - So good. - Me, you, Paul, skydiving. - No. - Why? - You won't go on the airplane. - Yeah, what kind of-- - I would go on the airplane? I'm not scared of going on the airplane. I love roller coasters. I love all of that. - What are you talking about? - I don't like being in the air for an extended period of time. But just going up 9,000 feet, jumping out of the airplane. - Are you kidding? - I swear I would do it. - He'll crack your skull. - I'm not gonna crack this. - I know the way you're built. I think that your body would topple because he's so front-- - I'm not gonna crack my skull. - You think he's front loaded? - I think he's front loaded. - You have a lot of hair in a big head. - I'm gonna put the stuff away. - You don't wanna leave one for Paul? - No. - I know you like it, Tidy. I know. - I like it, Tidy. He's doing it for me. - Look. - Clean. - I'm just worried about how I'd look with a cracked skull. - You're not gonna crack your skull. But I don't believe that you'd ever actually do it. - You probably have a hard dome if I had to guess. - You have a dome. - Do you know if you, if your finger, if you, if you, if you cr-- If you were to bite down on your finger, you could bite right through your finger, the same way you'd bite through a carrot. - What? - Don't do it. Don't do it. Just crack your skull. - Why would you bite your finger off? - Get it out of your mouth. - You could try it. - Yes. Oh my god. - Talk about the thing. - Hey. - Talk about it. - You ever had your skull cracked, Paul? - Talk about cracking a skull. - No. - No. I've never cracked my skull. - Well, today-- - Let me tell you. - It's gonna happen. America's sweetheart. - Wonderless. - I love you, man. - Our idiot brothers. - Who is? - Friendship. - He's hot and funny. And sweet. Can we get mad? - And you better pray to water gun. - No. - You made me cry multiple times. - Would you say that that's one of your biggest regrets? - It's definitely a regret. - Where were you? (laughing) - When did you get hot? - What? - Hot. - He was probably born attractive. - No. - What do you mean he was a sexy man alive? - Oh, he was alive. - Yes, he was. - That's debatable. - But-- - Did you win a thing that was sexiest man alive? - He was in the same thing I was in. - Oh, you didn't win. - We were just in the same issue. - Yeah, you didn't win. - No, we were. - I don't know. - I thought it was a joke when I found out. - Mine, I think, was a joke. - I don't think that no disrespect. I think you're very handsome. I don't think that his success is based on him being a hot guy. Like I wouldn't call Paul Rudd a hot guy. - No, I think you're so handsome. - I mean, you're so handsome. - No, no, he's a hot guy. - He's known as a heartthrob. - Yeah, you wake up. - Oh, no. - No, he's a heartthrob. - No, news to me. - I gotta tell you, I gotta tell you, too. One, Selena had the biggest crush on him when she worked with him. And I started thinking he's the worst guy for your girl to leave you. Because he's hot and funny and sweet. - Yeah. - And what? Stop looking at me. - Sorry. - It's a lot. - No, but I think he's known as a hot guy now, right? - Yes. - I can speak for you as a public. I would say that you're America's sweetheart. - Well, that's a different thing. I don't know how I landed on this. When I first started losing weight, I was looking for like a diet plan or something. I remember looking online and he popped up and it was him and like men's health, like a six pack. - That was a fluky thing for about six minutes. - Hell yeah. - Because of the Marvel stuff. - You got a six pack? - No. - How'd you get it? - By cutting out anything enjoyable in my life for about a year. - A year? - Yeah, I mean I stopped. It was an interesting thing to have a real regimen for the first time in my life as an adult. Like most people that really get into great shape, they're just, they are genetically prediscudial. - Yeah. - To look real natural when you did it or you were juicing. - No, I was totally. - I'm not juicing. - You weren't juicing. - Clearly not juicing. - Wait, so what did you even eat? - I had a lot of fish, I had a lot of salmon. - Yeah, I'm predisposed to be mushy too. - This is where it gets kind of bad and it messes with your head in that when you are in it. Like when you've really done it and you've gotten in great shape and you've worked out and you feel good and you really feel like my clothes fit differently and I don't, you feel good. And when you've had that for a while and then you lose that. - It really messes with your head. - Yeah. - And so you're in the box. - You're in the plastic face. - You're in the box. - You're in the box. - You're in the box. - You're in the box. - We were at this dinner and we were sitting right next to each other. - And there was candy. - And I think we were both a teeny bit nervous and be obsessed with candy. - And we couldn't stop. - Everyone else was like, take it or leave it with the candy. - Me and him were fighting over the last bits of candy. - And then that's when I found out he had a candy store. - Do you have a lot of cavities? - I didn't really. - I had a couple of cavities when I was younger. - No, my dentist name is. - What? - Dr. Tooth. - No, it's not. - It's really, it's Dr. Tooth, but I call him Dr. Tooth. - It's one oh missing. That's what I told him. I said, was it Dr. Teeth and the Muppets? - Yeah, exactly. - I go every year, once a year. - I go every three months because I don't love flossing. - Let me tell you, I never floss my whole life. - The flosses are great. - Yeah, the sticks are great. - And they're just like around my desk. I'm flossing like that. My dentist was blown away at the flossing. - Yeah. - I guess I do flossing. - Yeah. - When you put that stick in between. - It is cool. - When you put the stick in between, does the thing smell bad? - No, smells it. - I don't even know when smells it. - I'm not supposed to smell it. - Was it? - Clearly so. - Yeah, I think it stinks. - It's like rotting. - Check if you did it right now. - It's your back stone to it. - Wait, the tooth pick end? - No, no, no, the tooth. - The little floss. - The little flossing. - It takes the skull out of the tooth. - No, and now it stinks. - Is it used? - No, it will stink. - Want it? - It will stink. It will stink. - It doesn't matter. Dig in. - Dig in. - Dig in. - I can't. - I can't. - I'll fly. - No problem. - That's why your breath stinks. Not yours. I'm saying that's why people have breath smell. - My breath smells bad. - He was like, it was 7. - She had the morning. - I had the terrible halotosis. - Do you do? - I don't think that's uncommon. - Does it stink? - Okay. - It's so gross. - I have a bad smell. I smell nothing. - I hear her have her smell it. - No, I'm not smelling it. - No, I can't. - I can't. - I can't. - Well, look at this. Look at the cold out. - Don't smell it. - Don't smell it. - He made, he made. - All the time he made Ed Sheeran smell his belly button. And he almost passed out. - Look at what's on the face. - It grosses me out. - His belly button. - His belly button. - His belly button. - So stink. - I close my eyes. I can see it. No, no, it's not. - No, we don't have to smell it. - We don't have to smell it. - You have really strong nice teeth for. - Yeah, you do. - Not doing that. - You look great. Thanks, guys. - You look great. - Hey, you do. - You know, we were talking about it. He started getting some grays in his beard. And he said, "I'm gonna have to die these for my next movie." And then I said, "When do people start dying?" And like, are we allowed to talk? - Do you die your hair? - Mm-hmm. - You're like, "Oh, where?" - Wow. - He's like an ageless man. - No, and I have gray in my hair. - He is. - He's like, "Oh, no." - Wow, I was. - Another fun fact about you that you know this about yourself. - The internet says you do not age. And I don't think you do. - You can move that cookie box. You keep staring at it. - Here's the, I mean, I just keep going back for like a pinball machine. - You want to sit on the couch? - I'm just the nerves thing. - I find standing to the inside. - I take my coat off. He broke from my chin to figure it out. - Well, Paul, are you like me? Because I think you come off as like a really good extrovert. And you come off like that. And I think I come off as like an extrovert. But I actually have like, I get so nervous in certain situations. But when I get home, I'm like, pooped from like, putting on trying to do it. - Yeah. - So are you like that, you think? - I think in some ways. But you, when I first met you, I noticed that right away. Are you so kind of open and gregarious and really sweet? - But that is, isn't that the thing about extroverted people that really, it's almost like an overcompensation to get over their insecurity or introvertedness? - Yeah. - I feel like outside, like if I meet someone in the street, they're like expecting a version of myself that's like the best version of myself. So it's like, if I meet someone in the street and I'm just like, hey, what's up? Like I want to give, like I want to give that person Yeah, it's like a really good, like I want it like when you know when someone walks by and they're like I love you man or something or they come up and they slap or hug me or something and I and You want to get down your knees and go no no no I just want them to have like no I want them to have a good moment because like I know like those moments they mean so much to people and like I remember when I when I would do meet and greets before concerts and I would try to you know Like you know sometimes you can get away with doing the lowest lip version of me angry which is like Hi, like destiny to picture gone like I did the opposite and I was I just remember one time I forget I think it was in Utah and I just remember I was and I was losing my voice on the tour And I just remember I was talking to this couple about like what I'm looking for like romantically and I like I was struggling finding it and then like I talked for like a minute straight and then I finished and they were like Picture and like that like they didn't like they didn't care they wanted the picture. Yeah, yeah, so they're there for wait Do I don't see you as a guy do it do do if I get mad. Oh God. Yeah, you got a temper of course you do Really was the last thing you got really mad and I get really mad. I'll get like they're Sound times ever any mad in movies. It's just plant mad. Well, that's not that real Well, I don't get mad at like settings like this. Yeah, but um, but you get mad you have a temper. Oh, I can even see you do you know I don't know you don't even snappy. No, but I don't know I have not have a temper either. Do you none of us have it? I have a temper You have a temper really of course. No, I would not I would not she's a temper really What did you say like I never yet? Like I never yell like yeah, mm-hmm You and I know sometimes I feel like sometimes I may be suppressed some of that stuff So much because you want to be pleasant and that's and that when one thing happens and I can get a little cycle of that Yeah, even like my wife will say like calm down. Yeah, it's give you a scary You like justice. Yes, there's just you want people aren't decent. Yeah, yeah, I have to tell you two car things that just happened to me That happened to me a long time ago chunk. I've never been okay. Do you even I don't even drive? I've never told you these incidents And I don't know if I've ever really told anyone these incidents. Okay Number one very quick one. I'm a I'm maybe 18 19 I'm in New York. I'm living in New York City. I'm There's a restaurant called Cafe Jatana. It's in Soho. I'm on spring in Mott. Oh my god. I remember cafe Yeah, or Princeton Mott wherever the fuck I am. It's right there and You know, it's like I'm in a yellow cab Okay, this is back when it's like yellow cubs and I'm like I'm like we guys driving so fast my cab driver I'm like oh no, it's right here on the left and I'm like And I'm like no no sir sir, and you know how like when they drive like so quickly sometimes and I'm like right here and then like It as you like you like finally starts to slow down and I go like this and like we's like just slowing down It's like in the middle of the road and I open up my door Like to get out and as I do it another car. I'm about it's a just one thought away from me just stepping out I open my door and another cab It's like that and goes and my door goes flying off the whole door goes off and like the cab driver's like holy shit And he like comes out and then he was like He was like you have to wait you have to wait right now and I said well I'm late to this lunch and you pulled over in a weird spot. I wasn't even looking. I'm late to this lunch And I tried to get you to do the thing. He said no you have to you have to wait You're paying for this thing and I was like I was like sir I got to go to this and I'm like in it was like a such an important meeting I still even remember the meeting and I'm like sitting there surprise it doesn't happen more in New York Who is that doors and I go and then I said I said well when the cops get here just send them to my table And then and then it all worked it all worked out it was no no because it was my table was right I was I was literally it was eating outdoors I'm at the meeting and it was like I was running late for the meeting and it was like the biggest meeting of my career at the Yeah, I still remember the main was it was with bad lurman and see it was like it's such an important meeting for me No, that's those were good people to have the cops walk up And that was also come in you're in a different headspace and you kind of come in with an amazing story. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry I just took the door off the couch. Okay. Now that now the the craziest time that happened to me I'm in New York City and I never I don't really get a temper, but I'm walking across the street And this cab I have the right away. It is my right away. I'm on the walk And it's like the thing where like it's like It's the very beginning of my of when the walk life turns So it's like if you were like running a red light you would have just like tried to go through He almost hits me like I like jump out of the way like I actually have to jump out of the way And and I say and I I stand up and I go and everyone sees it It's crazy like the guy is fully a fall I go I go Fuck you you piece of shit and I and I and the guy's driving and he goes And he stops the heart in the middle of the thing and he goes And starts going backwards and I'm like and this guy gets out of the car and he's huge and I'm like Oh my god, I'm like what's gonna happen to me now like I like I would I thought I was just gonna be like you asshole And he drives away the guy gets out and he starts Full blown chasing me wow full speed leaves his car in the middle tree And he's like he's like he looks like the terminator and I'm so scared. I'm running. I'm running crazy The man chases me into a bodega and it gets to the point where I'm going like this I'm taking things and throwing them off the thing I'm running and I go call the police call the police this man's chasing me and like it gets to the point where like we're like He's like where you are, but there's like a thing between us and I'm like and I'm like call the police call the police And the guy's like I don't know fucking kill you and we're like I don't even know I still don't even know what his reaction now was that's like and and it was psycho It was so scary and like the people helped me and they kicked him out and I was and like for days I was scared. I was like am I gonna like run into this man again McDonald's mango pineapple refresher, which I love and I'm not just saying this. I truly Love this and I'm gonna keep saying it over and over but I actually love all of these I love this one a lot. Sometimes are you just saying it? No. No. You're always sincere. I'm always sincere. She won't speak like this if it's not real. Yeah, I won't do it yet. She's being excited to do this one. Can I tell you guys something? I need you to listen Did you hear it? No. Did you feel it? No. That's all. There was a small boba shooting up a straw Exploding into my mouth. I mean look you got to look at this drink like a reset. Maybe a reward Maybe it's even a way to get through the day. You want to know why? It's a reason to hang with friends It also contains caffeine. Try all the movie cafe drinks now. I'm McDonald's This episode is sponsored by Better Health. Benny, what's something that therapy has taught you about yourself? You know, I really think therapy gave me like a little like mental toolbox of How I can understand myself as I'm having a panic attack as I'm going through those moments where I really don't know I feel like my life is ending and there's no other way. I can get around it And then I have this little toolbox. It's like calm down. Take a step back. Assess the situation Everything happens within the time that it's supposed to and I just have all these little like voices now in the back of my head They tell me the right thing of what to do in each moment. I love that if you want to start your therapy journey today Sign up and get 10% off at betterhelp.com/fks. That's better HELP.com/fks I think that And I as I've grown older, I've realized this isn't remotely incest and actually it's really good writing. What? But Clueless Yeah, oh, you know, this is incest. No, it's not no. It's not it's not incest. This is always a thing in that in that movie It impacted my child brain and the way I was like, oh, time was her stepbrother Stepbrother because the whole stepbrow porn stuff. Oh, I don't even know about that It is a pretty that was pretty bold choice for Amy Heckerling But they were I think the fact that our parents weren't married or it was like she At one point my mother Inclus In my mother had been married to Dan Hadea for a while And then they got divorced so there was a moment in time where we were stepbrother and sister But we weren't blood related and we were but um, but that was a that was a talking point For sure and I know people still say it's weird. You weren't you her brother. I'm like you've been in so many in poor movies To I don't even know that everyone else like because like it was like perfect for my Childhood more than childhood. Yeah, cuz there's a man under you 56. Okay, so it's we've like grown up with your entire career There's nothing by the way. I have uh, well, I'm very. Thank you. Uh, there's it's weird when I meet somebody who I assume is just kind of a pier And they say it's a pier and they either oh, thank you. I do uh and I you All of you. Yeah, um, I'm not I'm 50 years older than you But uh, when I meet somebody and then oh my god, I grew up watching you I was a little kid myself at home. Yeah, or the was up. My mom loves you. Yeah, yeah, that's crazy No, you were like our it's not what it's like to me. It's our age like you were our age Group I'm not really you're very you're very very you're not orange I'm not you're not only not my dog not even close And and and not you're so kind so I don't mean you're actually our age, but I mean you I guess he represents the comedy male adult for us. Yeah, and and our camp. It's funny. You know when when I was kind of growing up It was the John Hughes movies like yeah, casting can - Yeah, pretty pink, and all the, you know, breakfast, club, and all that. And when we had done a table read of Clueless, and shot anything, it all been cast. And we were all kind of new. I had this one first thing I was really done. And I remember we were all talking afterward, but it's been a while since he's been a movie about a bunch of high school kids. And we grew up with all those John Hughes movies. Wouldn't it be cool if this thing turned out to be something like that, that last, never really thinking that would be the case. - Wow. - That became the movie. - It is certainly, you've been in all the movies. Like, I've been in all the movies. No, Blake, I'm saying you've probably been in more classic movies for art. - Classic comedy movies for our generation than any single human being. I don't think that's an exaggeration. - I don't think that's an exaggeration. - Which is crazy. - You and like you, Seth. - No, but he's before, you're before, he's. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, before, Seth. - Seth wasn't in Clueless? - No, no, no, I'm saying. - You grew up with all the Judd stuff. Yeah, with Seth. - Yeah, I have a question. - Sure. - Do you think, like, could you play in like, like, if someone came to you and they're like, we really want you like, Daniel De Luix more? - Yeah, I know. - Like, could you play like a British man in like, 1930? Like, do you think you have it in you? - I would like to think so. You know, it's, like, I went to acting school. - Yeah. - And I have played different kinds of parts and plays more than movies. But, you know, when you're starting off, you always think, oh, I can be a chameleon. - Yeah. - And do everything. And I don't want to get pigeon-holed. And when I was starting, I really, you know, thought, oh, this is exactly the kind of career that I want. I mean, Daniel De Luix is clearly the greatest. - Yeah. - But I loved actors that were. - Like, so different in each thing, you know? - Amazing. And I think that, that parts that I was getting cast for, and I think we're all, yeah, they kind of fell in that clueless. - I loved you in friendship or whatever it's called. - Oh, friendship. - Yeah. - Well, Tim Rosen is the greatest. - It was so fun. - I saw it twice. The, the, the, the, the, the toad scene. - Yeah. - When he's, when he's on the road, it's so fun. - Do you think you would take a role that's so different now because it's always fun to play, like, kind of dick, you know, like, not nice characters. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah. - And those of, like, just nice people, but, like, to play somebody that's-- - You put a rage. - Well, you play it by being really nice, and you see the under, and then, then, then we start, then we start getting into some real three-dimensional stuff. - Yeah. - I thought it was really cool. I thought it was really interesting though. Like, I feel like that was a leap to do, like, 'cause friendship is like, it was like, it was, it was a small, no, but like, it was a small movie. We, we worked with the guy who, who did it. - And he, yeah. - Yeah. - Oh, he's great. - Yeah. And it's, um, and I think it was really cool. I remember, I remember when I first thought I was like, oh my god, that's so awesome. 'Cause it was like a, it wasn't like, one of these big, like, like, $50 million movie. It was really cool. And I like, I thought, when I first saw that you were in that, I was like, oh my god, that's so cool. That, like, you will jump all over the map and do something that's, like, something that's, like, a super small budget, just because you'd probably read the script and thought it was awesome. - That's what happened. - And I loved him. - Yeah. - No, that, you know, I have been fortunate and that I've had a long career, absolutely. - Yeah. - But it really wasn't until the Marvel stuff that I was in big movies, even the Judd comedies. Those were the first things. - Those are big. - But that kind of became big. - I think it wasn't that big, really at the time. - It wasn't. - And such big movies. - And those movies, like, you know, Judd's movies or the comedies, they kind of broke out. But that was, no one ever thought that was gonna be the case. They were a big budget films. They were kind of, all the studios are they're making all this stuff. And it's like, all right, we'll let these guys do this. - Yeah. - You know, weird thing. And it was, they were fun to do because it felt like we were working on an indie movie in a sense. It was a weird thing to actually get into something that's so global, like, Marvel. - Yeah. - Which is why I was, that was obviously the first time I ever got in shape. I never had to do that for any of you. - I couldn't imagine. - You know, movie, I love it. I can't believe it. - Most underrated movie all the time. - Yeah, he showed up to me. I hadn't seen it until, like, what, three years ago. - It was the most underrated comedy ever. - I don't think it's underrated. I don't think it's underrated. I don't think it's two seasons. - Wanderlust. - Oh my god, I love it. - I've not seen it, and so I've never seen it. And I love, I talk about it still. I say, it's like my new favorite movie, even though it's not there. - Which is a movie. It's the one right in the mirror. - Like, that's the one where you're like, "My dick." - Yeah. - Do you know me and my friends did that for years. - Oh, yeah. - We, we, it was that movie, it's such a good movie. - And then I also liked that movie so much. I don't think it's that movie. I think it's our idiot brother or something. The one where you play like the, for some reason, that movie makes me cry. Like it, like, you've made me cry multiple times. - That's a heartbreaking one. I liked that character. - Yeah, I love that. - By the way, that's, you know, Jesse Perez did that movie. - Yeah. - Wanderlust is David, David Wayne and Ken Reno, like those guys are the greatest. And they're really friends of mine. They worked together a lot, but I love our idiot. - But Eddie brother was really, you know, because it was like fun to play a character who, you just like, you know, - I know. - I know what it is. - I know what it is. I saw the best in everybody. - Yeah, yeah. - And then I realized I could see that. - I was just kind of heart rate, you know. - Yeah, yeah. - Don't tell me anything. - Yeah. - You got to have any other hobbies? - No. - God, hobbies. - You have anything. What was your hobby? - I don't know. - You don't know. - That's the question. No, yeah. - You don't know. - No, because whenever there's time to do anything. - You have family. - I just want to sit. - I don't want shows. - You don't want shows? - I mean, not really. - What do you do? - I do crossword puzzles. - What do you do? You're off. What are you doing? What am I doing if I'm, if I'm not working? - Yeah. - Yes. Sometimes, do you find this, when you're not working, sometimes you're just the busiest with just stuff? - Yeah. - And I'm not good at kind of, I'm going to devote an hour. I'm going to go through everything I need to do. I'm going to free my day. I don't operate like that. I find that when I get overwhelmed with things, I tend to just shut down. And so if I have any time, I just want to sit down and look at the wall. - The wall? - Of the wall. (laughing) I don't want to do, somebody was like, sit. - I just want you at the wall. - I tell you, like a conversation and people are like, what's your perfect day? You know, what is your perfect day? I don't want to see a person. I don't want to do it. I don't want to, my perfect day is, I have no responsibility. - Responsibility. - None, no responsibility. - Not even speaking to anyone. - Nope. - Yeah. - I just want, I want to be in a, in a kind of a cold, like a cold dark room. (laughing) - There's a different side of you. - I know, I know what your perfect day is. Or a nice sunny beach like where you're looking at a water like that. I know what your exact perfect day is. - I want you to tell him what his perfect day is. - A sawed off shotgun. (laughing) - You know, gift giving is never easy. - No, it's so hard for me. - Until now. - Tell me more. - Canva, put a picture in there, turn it into a coffee mug. Canva will design like a coffee mug, based off the picture. It'll lay out some cool, like we're like, you know, there's plenty of options with Canva. - You know what we should do? We should take our wedding photos. - Yeah. - We'll upload it, prompt it to make it like in the perfect place. - Yeah, what item? What item would you like from our wedding photos? - I love the coffee mug or something. - Flap. - Yeah, coffee, I love coffee. - Oh, we'll use Canva to make coffee mug form. Canva makes design easy for anyone. With built in AI that lets you remove, generate, and animate content in just a click. Start designing today at Canva.com. Are you guys been sleeping lately? - Pretty great now. - Now? Since you got the heat looks midnight lux. - Yeah. You know we have helix. - Oh boy, do I know. - And so, this is not hard for us. We literally lay our bodies down on these helix. - We tested a lot of mattresses. - Is the plural of helix, helix is, or what is it? - Consider me phelix 'cause I love helix. - Go to helixsleep.com. - Slash, FKS for 27% off site wide. That's helixsleep.com/fks for 27% off site wide. And this is important. After you check out. - And do FKS. - And do FKS. - So they know we sent you because we did. - We sent you. - We sent you. - We're sending you right now. - Helixsleep.com/fks. - I have a confession to make. I'm in love with Paul Rudd. And you know what two guys do when there's a connection? They go on a date. They have a bromance. They take one ice cold white cloth each. And they cheers them to the highest level because they just know that they're bros. They know that they love each other. And they know that they want to move things forward in a direction. And what's a better way than over a few white cloths? Is that cottage cheese? I wonder if he likes cottage cheese. Paul, you eat cottage cheese? - I don't. I was just thinking about it. I'm not offering any else. - What's that? - Yeah. - Well that's a problem. - You know, I don't, I've never eaten cottage cheese. - I started later in life. - You did. - So what's a food that you discovered later in life? - This is an interest. - I just told you cottage cheese for you. - Big potato. - Oh, that's one of my favorite things in the world. - You didn't have big potatoes until later in life? - I didn't, but there's a man. Yeah, hello? Hello, why don't I understand? - Hmm. - Where are the man? - I just ordered some big potatoes and cottage cheese. - Do you like big potatoes? - I think he realizes maybe in the wrong place. - Okay. - No, I love a big one. - Okay. - A big potato, yeah. - What's the thing you found later in life? - Very late. - Brussels sprouts. - Oh yeah, I like that. - I don't really don't. - I love them. - It's just 'cause they weren't cooked, right? - And also, Brussels sprouts and avocados. - Oh, you didn't like avocados? - You didn't like avocados? Growing up, I never had avocados. - Avocados are new for me, 'cause. - What's your favorite food? Like what's your go-to thing? - My favorite food? - Like dying, you have one meal. You're dying right now. You have one meal. - I mean look, I love French fries. - You're not French fries. - That's your die? - I think French fries. - No, I mean as I would do it like. - Really? - I mean, no, it's like, oh, you're gonna pizza or you're gonna, like, there's lots of things. - Yeah, you like French fries. - You like steak. - You like steak. - I love steak. - And like a burger. - I love burger. - What about chicken sandwich with like, melted cheese? - Yeah, but I don't need the cheese. It's weird. By the way, I'm like mayonnaise. - I think you have mayonnaise? - If you have any food, sure. Yeah, I need that. - Thai food? - Yeah. - No pasta, no talent. - Yeah. - You kid me? - Yeah. - Come on, that's all I need. - You've been pulled over? Pulled over? Have I ever been pulled over? - Have you ever been arrested? - I had one time when I was, or two times when I was a teenager. One time I was in a car. I was riding shotgun and my friend, Mike was driving and we had water guns. And there's a car next to us, our friends. They had 'em too, we were just having water guns. - Our assholes. - They were just, we were just being rascals. And we were shooting at each other and a cop pulled us over. - Thinking they were real guns? - Well, I don't know. This cop was a super psycho. (laughing) Anyway, he pulled us over. Our friends kept going. So Mike pulls over and has a gun trait dance. - Oh my God. - And he comes walking around the side and he says, all right boy, slowly, real slowly, hand over that water gun, and you better pray it's a water gun. And I have, he has a gun on me. - I'm like 16. (laughing) - And so we both had him. And anyway, I had to get the gun and Mike gave him his gun. He wrote both of us up. And he gave Mike a ticket for reckless driving. And he cited, he gave me a accomplice to reckless driving. He said, it was because you squirmed into another lane. He was like, what, no, we weren't. But anyway, maybe he was just trying to teach us less. I don't really know what the thing was. But I had to go to, I wound up having to go to a court for that. And then the other time is that was in college, my freshman year, and I killed someone. - I killed someone. (laughing) - I killed someone. And that was, let me tell you something. That was hard to get. That was hard to get out of. I didn't ever, technically, technically, get out of it. - Yeah, yeah. - But. - What happened in the freshman year? - It's still a pain in the ass. I was in Lawrence, Kansas, hanging outside of a bar called The Bull. And I had a Sepuro, like a fancy can of us. And I was kind of new to drinking. I'll be honest with you. And I, cops came around and I was underage. And so I just like, you dumped it. - You dumped it. - I dumped it. And I got in the car and I think pulled this over, and he goes, he had a beer. And I was like, was I here? I was like, oh, yeah, I wasn't drinking it though. I think I gave him like the dump. I'm like, oh, I was holding it, but I wasn't drinking it. I don't even know. It was something ridiculous. But then I had to go to court. And I wasn't technically an arrest, I guess. But I did have to go do community service and work at Boys and Girls Club. - How was that experience? - That was probably fun. - No. (laughing) - You think you could. - By the way, it was kind of a rough Boys and Girls Club and they had boxing. Like one of the things they did to these kids is like, let 'em just, like, be a child. - Like, be a child. - And they, there was like one other kid, they taped out on the floor like the ring. And these kids, they'd like these big kind of old school, huge boxing gloves. And they would all just wail at each other. And then another kid who was like a counselor is a really sweet kid. He was probably about 15 years old. But big is my pinky. And he was, but he was like, really nice, really shy, really quiet. And all the kids one time they were doing this, they said, you guys should, you guys go, the counselor, like, you guys fight each other. I'm like, no, I'm not gonna fight this kid. Not gonna do it. No, they're like, come on, do it, do it. So, this kid's like, I say, I've been one year, so we got our gloves, or we stand there. And I'm saying, I'm like towering over this little kid. I'm just like, here you go, I'm gonna stand up too. - Yeah, I'm gonna stand up too. - All right, here we go. All right, where are the kids? - Kicked my ass. - Really? - Oh, yeah. - And I'm like, oh my God, this is on. And I'm, I don't think I'd ever boxed. - Yeah. - I'm like, where are I'm like, and he's, and the kids are cheering and this kid beat the shit out of me. - Can you in your face? - Oh, yeah, yeah. And I'm like, I don't know, you're like, oh, I don't know how to do this. - Yeah, and he just destroyed you. - You gotta find that kid now. - I think he kinda wiped the floor with me, yeah. But you know, he's not on your- - No, no, no, I thought, even then, I'm like, that was really funny. - Yeah. - I've ever been punched in the face without someone wearing gloves, like raw fist to the face. - Yeah. - I mean, it was a little, I mean, like, not often. I think, you know, I never was drawn to that kind of thing. - No, I can't believe people fight. - No, I really made me uncomfortable, still does. - Yeah, even thinking, sometimes I have nightmares of like seeing like best friends, like I have a nightmare where I'm going on an, I'm like with like, you've been there before, Mark's been there, and I'm going on an escalator up. And then below, I see like my best friends get in a fight with like a Rubik guys, and they're just like, getting beaten, and I'm going up the escalator. - Do you ever see movies from your friends and they suck? - A friend of mine just said, one time he said, I figured out the perfect thing to say, which is, go out and say, oh my god, I can't tell you how much I love that movie. It's not a lie. - Wow, I love that. - I can't tell you how much I love the movie. - I have no words. - No words. - What if they go, really? - Which part? - Yes. - Oh my god. - You know, all of it. - I can't even, I have no words for any of it. - I don't know, like it's, that's an awkward position for sure, and I'm sure you've been in the situation. I know that I've talked to people, and I know they feel that, but that's something I did, and I'm like, I get it, I mean, I do. Can you watch yourself? - Yeah, I mean, I think I can, but I don't really, what usually when it's done, and there's a premiere and I have to press, I'll watch it, so I know what it is. But I don't ever really revisit it. - But do you laugh out of your own deliveries? Like for me, when I'm like editing my show that she'll be like saying, she can't believe how often I'm just laughing, and she'll go in, and I'm just like watching myself forever, and she'll be like, it's great. - I can't actually watch something at the tail, I'm like, okay, that works, but you don't laugh at your own performance. - And he's not a psychopath. - No, I don't, do you fight? Let me ask you this, do you feel like you laugh enough in your life? Do you really laugh? - Yeah, I laugh a lot. - You do. - Yeah, you don't. - A lot of his own jokes, too. - We laugh so much with each other. - I've seen other great, I laugh too. - We laugh so much with each other, too. - Yeah. - And with all three of us. - That's a great way to laugh. - I mean, when you're, yes, when you're hanging out with me. I'd say we laugh more than we don't, like when we're together. - She makes me laugh more than anyone. - And so does Hailey. - And Selena makes me laugh, and we're all friends together. And it's like. - But I am like, I laugh a lot. - I laugh a lot, but I would never laugh at myself, but I am shocked that people, like, you can, you can, maybe I have once. You can watch yourself, and I would have met, if I were you, I'd be like, well, I'm just gonna sit down and pop in an old movie, but then I like to make myself. - I know do that. - Yeah. - I don't do that, but you ain't gonna do that. - I don't do that. - No, no, no, no. - Hit check. - Yeah. - I love drinking white clout with my pals. - Well, what about me? - You're one of my pals. - Oh. - I think you're my best girl, pal. - You know what? - What? - On that note, I think we should have more nights to read drink white clout together. - Should we pack a big old ice cold cooler? - Cooler, that we can carry. - Not on our back. Why are you going like this? - I'd like to carry it. And you know what I'd like to do? I'd like it to bring it to Michigan for July 4th. I'll see you there. - Well, the good news is you can get any Michigan you don't have to put it in the cooler. - Can you say sponsor, maybe? - The heart of the house. The heart of the house. - Can you say Spontaneous? - I can. - Guys, it's summertime. We gotta start thinking about our outdoor areas. - I would love to start thinking about our outdoor areas. - Oh well. - We'll start thinking. We'll start ordering from Wayfair. - There's one in particular that I sent you. You could just click, okay, I'll order it. That one, that cool one. Remember that one that has like a little cabana. - Yeah, but I already told you that I approve and I like it. - You guys are ordering cabanas? - You should have already ordered that. - Why didn't you already order it? - But I will. - You know, I thought about sexy. - It's a commitment. - I was gonna say, did you order the Wayfair thing yet? But I didn't want to let you feel-- - Yeah, I appreciate that you didn't do that. - You didn't do it? - No, but it's sitting there. It's in my cart. - I just prepped for patio season for Wayless. Head to Wayfair.com right now to shop all things home. That's w-a-y-f-a-i-r.com. Wayfair, every style, every home. - You could just be chillin' in. - To the new side. Or all going, you're like, and we, we, we do. Oh, I just leaned in, right? - When you did this. (laughs) - Repositioning, I could taste it a little. - I thought you were coming over to like, - I'm sorry, but I didn't feel like it. - Yeah, but it could be sweet to me. - Yeah, that's really nice. - I know, I thought you were reaching over to kiss her shoulder. - I thought so too, and then it was just the most - We lost. - Not just that. - But I will, like, I will sometimes kind of flip around or whatever, and I'll see something like Ankerman. - Yeah. - Come on, and not for me, but I will watch what Will is doing. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Yeah, he's funny. - You're so good. - Do you think yourself, are you self-critical? Do you consider yourself a self-critical person? - Can, can, can be, yeah. - Yeah, sometimes I think, like, okay, I don't want to do that again. - Do you have a favorite that you've done of your own movies? - One of the ones that the experience was just so fun that I think is really sweet as I love you, man. Because I love you, man, was like, I remember thinking he was very, very clever, the premise of it, and I hadn't really seen it. I love Jason Seagull, I love he's so funny, and I love working with the guy, and it was such a free, you know, experience. I was so free and fun to kind of go back and forth with him, and then John Hamburg, who directed it, was also, you know, just kind of cut from that same hilarious paid-a-mail cloth that we all learned. - I was just thinking, you know, so it was just so fun. - You have so many classic lines, in the movies too, like the iconic lines. - Yeah, right. - You got any home? - Jobin, yeah, Jobin, yeah, Jobin, yeah, Jobin. - Jobin, yeah, Jobin. - Hey, Jobin. - Was that it, was that improv? - Most of that movie was. - Yeah. - But it was, I love Jobin. - Jobin is such a dumb thing about him. - I love it, I love Jobin. - I have a friend in Greg in college. He would, it's so funny, my friend Greg meter. He would, he used to go, "Hey, what's up, Shabe?" He would call people "Shabe." And at one time, I'd be like, "What is Shabe?" And he goes, "My mix really is kind of as much sense as dude." So he goes, "I just call people "Shabe." - I like Shabe. - And then, and then he would do things. One of the things that I also loved about Shabe was the way he spelled it, which was S-H-A-Y-E-B. You wouldn't think there's an E in there, if she's Shabe. It was a Shabe, but there was an E. - Yeah. - And the only reason I knew that is because occasionally, like around the house, we'd, I'd be sitting down, I'd look really small, like just, on the corner of something, in pencil, I'd just say, "Shabe." He would just write it places. - I love Shabe. - Where is Shabe now? - He's in Colorado. - Do you talk for Shabe? - Yeah, Shabe. - He's still one of the funny horrors. - You're called Shabe, right? - No, he was, he, he was one of those guys, you know, in college, that, you know, and I have another friend named Dave Dorothe, similar, that it was so funny that people kind of would co-op the stuff that they did. And they were responsible, I feel like, for shaping the senses of humor, of a bunch of the guys, including yourself. - Oh yeah, yeah. - Do you think Shabe? - Do you think of Shabe? - Jobin, I don't know. I don't know if Jobin happens without Shabe. - I think Shabe could have been an all-star, like, actor, if you wanted to. Oh, for sure, he never wanted to. - Well, like, all-star writer. - Well, I mean, this is the, you know, this is the thing that is certainly the case, that I, like, I think of most of my friends that I kind of grew up with, or went to college with, and they're so funny and so smart. - Yeah. - And I think, oh, they could have absolutely had this kind of career. They just issues to do it, but I think many people fit into this category. And I do think that some of those appetite movies that, the people would say, they cut to like, Jason or Seth Lowe, but they're like, oh my god, those movies are just reminds me of me and my friends. - Yeah. - And I was like, it's 'cause it is. - Yeah. - And I have no doubt that your friends, and you guys would probably be, you know, funny than we are. - It's not how it really took, I feel like comedy wasn't like, like, he took it and it was like a new genre. Like, it was all of you guys, it showed, like, it was-- - He found real people. - He made it so true. - He made it so human. - Yeah, he made it so human. - It was like, the first time we saw such human like improv, I feel like it, it used to be like, more structured before that. And I feel like he was the one that kind of like paved the way for so much of like, the comedy that we grew up with. - Oh, see, you guys were right. - And Will and Adam McCay, too, was a similar. - Oh yeah. - Do you have like an opus that you haven't done yet in your life where you're like my dream, like I wanna like, you know, I have like a checklist of like things I wanna do, like that I'm, that like I haven't done yet. I do have any though, is like, oh, I wanna be like, write this movie, oh, I wanna be in a movie like this or some shit or no. - Nothing that really is the dark room. That's really, nothing that really is, like, oh, I really am, I'm gonna direct now and I said, maybe these things are all interesting to me. But I still wanna be motivated to do things 'cause I think as soon as you stop you, it's like you're just kind of wither and die. So I don't wanna retire, I still love doing what I do and I'm interested in many things, but I don't have the thing where it's like, that's what I'm doing, everything falls to the side. I'm just gonna focus on that. - I think that's a good way to be. Like I feel like you're not like, do you ever get stressed or anxious? - Oh my God, really? - All the time, oh, all the time. - I was gonna say you don't seem that way. - What is, what is, you seem like kind of, - Yeah, what's your biggest stress right now? - Is it like logistical? - I feel stressed at the state of the world. I feel stressed at the state of, I feel just the number of people who I, I think I owe phone calls or texts or emails to, people that are waiting on an answer or something and I just, I buckle under it. I feel stressed over, I'm starting a press tour, I feel stressed. - That's insane. - I feel stressed, honestly, I feel stressed over most things and it's all stressful and then I just think, all of this through the perspective of my, like families, my kids and I just find, I find all of it, I think I'm stressed way more than I think and you know, I was making a joke about Antique's road show, but honest to God, - You're heroin, it is, I love it so much. - I loved it, I've loved it for ever. - Decades. - Decades and I think one of the things that I really love about it, I mean, there are many things I could really get into I was thinking about a lot of it, but is the pace of it, the sweet, like, it's a little like the great British bake-off, is they just make, it's like, oh, sometimes can restore your faith in humanity. - Yeah, and also it's not about even the appraisals, people are like, oh yeah, you just want to see how much something is, it's kind of like the, it's kind of the last interest in the part of the show. I like learning about things, and I like learning about, oh my God, what, yeah, what is the history of limoge? Or like, oh wow, a chest or a field. Okay, so that was built in Philadelphia, this is gonna be more valuable than what it feels or like, you know, from the 1700s versus, wait a minute, are those the original finish and people, or things that have been handed down in people's families that they prize and they treasure and it's really interesting. - I loved that, I love it, I love it, I love it. - I love it. - And their back stories. - I cried, I did too. I cried the other day, I was watching a thing, and it's this thing that specializes just in like, veterans who bought Rolexes and like the 50s and work. - Can you watch it? - No, I've seen this one at this time. - This man, he bought a watch for $300, okay? He kept it perfect, he didn't do anything. And they'd say, you know, these, he goes, normally these types of watches, you know, go for $100,000 at an auction. And he's like, and he says, now notice I said normally, he said, now this is a double mint condition, four pipe, and he said, this watch. - And there's like three layers, yeah. - 800 grand, and then he was like, but, and then it went to like a million dollars, and the guy like lost, it made me cry. - Oh yeah, it made me cry. There's the man who brought in the Navajo blanket, when he's like, there was no wealth in our families, it prays at $250,000, it's not gonna be a million, I've seen an update. - Wow. - But originally owned by Tom Mix, but this sweet man, who had it his whole life, when he discovered the value, he had no idea it started to cry, and I'm a mess. But I'd even seen a Lark E. Mason, the prazer that did it, I know all their names, that's how much Lark, by the way, have met Simeon Lippin. - Oh, you did. - And he does a lot of sports and a great guy, and sometimes we'll text. - Wow. - I mean, the name drop. - Do you have any memorabilia? - I do, I love collecting historical memorabilia. - Oh, I love all of it. - Vegas, I have you kind of a hobby. - But that is a hobby. - But when someone brought in, so Lark's interest is Asian art and artifacts and historical, someone brought in like a piece of Jade or something, some ancient, I don't remember what it was, and he cried. And I, because he loved the beauty of history, I was so much, and in those moments, when I see people just no wall, no pretense, no everything that are so greatly affected by something beautiful or important or moving in some way, and they're moved, I'm a goner, I love it. I love it, and when that happens on that show, I, you love humanity. - I like, I like goodness, I like when people are good. - Yeah, I mean, you'll like the story around me. - He has to leave. - I have to go do it. - Thank you so much, guys, I know that was seem so abrupt. - No, no, no, no, it's okay. - And then we should get film the iPhone. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we gotta do it. We gotta do it. - Thank you. - We gotta do it a few pictures, they make it. - Of course. - Thank you McDonald's for sponsoring this episode. - Can you do it again? - Thank you McDonald's for sponsoring this episode.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Paul Rudd shares personal anecdotes about his life, including his love for McDonald's mango pineapple refresher, which he calls a refreshing and underrated drink with a light caffeine boost.
  2. The conversation highlights Rudd’s self-perception as a warm, extroverted, and kind person, with humor and genuine connection, while also revealing moments of vulnerability, such as his past experiences with stress, anxiety, and even a physical confrontation with a car driver.
  3. The dialogue explores deeper themes of friendship, humor, personal growth, and the emotional impact of shared experiences, including comedy films like *Clueless* and *Friendship*, which shaped his early life and sense of identity.

Summary:

Paul Rudd reflects on a range of personal and professional experiences in a warm, conversational tone. He expresses deep affection for McDonald’s mango pineapple refresher, calling it a refreshing and underappreciated drink, and shares his love for classic comedy films like *Clueless* and *Friendship*, which influenced his formative years. The conversation delves into his personality—described as kind, extroverted, and emotionally present—while also touching on moments of vulnerability, such as past incidents of stress, anxiety, and a near-physical altercation with a driver.

He recalls humorous college memories, including a friend named Shabe who used the nickname "Shabe" with a quirky spelling, and reflects on the genuine, human humor found in improv and everyday life. Rudd also shares a passion for shows like *Antiques Roadshow*, where he’s moved by stories of history, legacy, and human emotion, particularly stories involving personal treasures and unexpected value. The discussion culminates in a celebration of connection, friendship, and shared joy, with Rudd emphasizing the importance of laughter, authenticity, and meaningful human moments.

The episode is sponsored by McDonald’s, and the conversation ends with a lighthearted call to action to enjoy outdoor spaces and bond over shared experiences.

FAQs

It's praised for being delicious and refreshing, containing a light amount of caffeine, and being a popular drink among fans. It's also described as a great way to reset and enjoy a moment with friends.

He loves steak, burgers, and French fries. He also mentioned that big potatoes are one of his favorite foods, and he discovered Brussels sprouts and avocados later in life.

Yes, he was pulled over twice as a teenager. Once for reckless driving with water guns, and once in college for underage drinking, which led to community service at a Boys and Girls Club.

Yes, he enjoys crossword puzzles and has a deep appreciation for historical memorabilia. He also loves watching shows like 'Antique Roadshow' for the stories and human connections they reveal.

He considers it a meaningful and fun project he worked on early in his career, noting it was a small-budget film that marked a personal and artistic growth moment for him.

Yes, he admits he sometimes reflects on his choices and performances, saying he would never laugh at himself, but he is self-critical in moments of personal growth or reflection.

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