Your hand? Your hand? Your hand?
That’s going to make a big difference in public school.
My God. Right.

In five minutes, I’ll give you one minute.
Thank you. That stuff was trash.
I actually pulled it out of trash.
Hey, one tree is trash. Another tree is good.
So look at that. It’s worth it.
It makes me very good.
It’s not trash. It’s a safe thing.
That’s good. It’s been—
Thanks for calling out on the road.
Oh, good. Thank you.

I haven’t been watching. I’ll be honest.
I haven’t been watching.
I don’t know if it’s like a defense mechanism—
like I don’t want to watch it end or something—
but I usually watch it, and I’m not.
I’m not doing it.

Oh, sorry.
I’ll watch.
I’ll get around to it.
I just—
I guess I’m just not ready to see it.
It’s too soon.
It’s too soon.
It’s too soon.
Yeah.

But I’m glad people like it.
I saw the Heather stuff.
There was a poem that I was very precious about.
And I really wanted the—
with Chris—
that I had a little hand in the writing of what Harry says to Heather
when he’s saying, you’re too wonderful a person to be with a human.

You need somebody who can appreciate everything you are.
And it was so—
I wanted it to be so heartfelt.
And then—
in this moment of just love—
she says, tell me a poem, and do it in your language, because it’s so beautiful.

And then he does give a beautiful poem about their love,
but he does it like that.
And that’s the perfect thing that this show can do—
to have you in a heartfelt moment
and then have absurd, absurd silliness right beside it.

I call that moment kind of like a Friends allegory.
I don’t know.
’Cause there’s the question when your partner comes out, like—
okay, I’m not going to babble about that.
Okay, I would go off the whole five minutes.

But I do have a burning question
that’s kind of like—esoteric.
You know the scene where you go to the show
and it’s like that beautiful moment where you connect with everyone?
It really reminded me of Northern Exposure.

Oh yeah. Yeah.
I wasn’t sure if the show was at all inspired by it.
People— it isn’t.
But that connection has been made before.

Because Northern Exposure was a show that had some certainty
and very interesting, esoteric moments.
The native influence—
as there always has been in the show with Asta and with her father—
but this was next level.

This was something—
I had never been invited into a powwow before.
I didn’t know what a powwow was—
and that they have them in like a gymnasium.
It’s a place where you would go to—
and they’re very big deals.

They’re dance contests, in a lot of ways, is what it is.
There are people dancing. Somebody wins.
But it is such a community.
And they come together and they’ll be like, all right—
we’re celebrating this person because they just graduated high school.
We’re celebrating— oh my God—
just the community and the love and the singing—
the rhythmic drumming—
and the—like the—just the—
you’re in a trance.

I was floating home on those days.
Oh my God, I love this.

That was your first powwow?
It was my first powwow. Yeah.

There’s many different layers to Harry.
How do you keep track of when he’s pretending to be something
and pretending to be pretending to be something?

Yeah, it gets layered.
Scene by scene, man.
It’s all—yeah.

When I was the mantid this season—
so it was a mantid pretending to be Harry,
and in the same room as Harry,
who is kind of Vanderspiegel pretending to be Vanderspiegel—
and then I was pretending to be a director at the same time.

It was a lot of pretending.
It’s a world of pretend.
The whole thing is.
So—it all fit.

That’s the episode your wife helped on?
Yeah, yeah.
We’re trying to be on the channel?
Yeah. Yeah.

Carissa—
’cause I can’t watch the monitors.
I would go to her and say, did this moment work? Did this moment work?
And she—because we’re married—she can be like, no, it’s stinky.

No—she would be like, yeah, I think you’re gonna want another one.
That’s how she would say it. Bless her.

And she also had—because she has a good eye—
she’d be like, it’s not even that you need another one—
the camera was off. The camera needs to come down.

So it was—she was there with me the whole time, the whole way.
And when I was directing, you know, they said,
well, Chris will be there. And Robbie will be there.

Robbie is our producing director,
and he directs a lot of the episodes.
And so you’ve got all these people that’ve got your back.

Okay.
Well—Chris got sick.
And Robbie got sick.
And nobody was there but Carissa and I.

And it was so much fun.
It was scary for just a second.
And then it was like—
we’re kind of in charge.
We’re the only ones who made it through.
And so—it was pretty great.

By Robbie, you mean Robert Duncan McNeill?
Yeah. Yes. From Star Trek.

That’s great.
Thanks. Thanks. Thanks.
Thanks. Thanks. Thanks.
Thanks. Thanks. Thanks.
Thanks. Amen. Amen.
Thank you.