- Got these puppies.
Remember this little guy?
- It's all flooding back, it's happening.
- It's all coming back.
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- Hey guys, welcome to "Stir Crazy"
the show that's just like "Game of Thrones"
except for all that dragon stuff.
You'll know my guest today from "The Office",
his new Amazon show "Utopia" and his YouTube series,
An Idiot's Guide To Climate Change, It's Rainn Wilson.
Hey Rainn.
- (mimics cheering)I miss it.
There's no audience, there's no applause, there's no...
- Is that how they sound to you?
Like one sad.
(both mimic cheering)
Your career is remarkably eclectic.
I looked down your filmography of film and TV projects.
You've played every manner of part.
I wanna test you to see if you know your own career well.
- Okay.
- You ready for this?
- Yeah. - Okay.
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All right, so I'm gonna name a project,
you tell me if you remember the name
of the character you played. - Oh, wow.
- So let's go back to the beginning.
"Galaxy Quest" who did you play in "Galaxy Quest"?
- Lahnk.
- Very good, all right, good.
There's only one Lahnk.
- I'm gonna ace this test, go.
Let's go. - Calm down.
Calm down - Come on.
- "Entourage", you were on "Entourage".
You played, of course?
(laughs) See what happens?
You got cocky.
- I have no idea what that guy was called.
I was the fat guy who was into porn, that's all I know.
- (laughs) It was R.J. Spencer, of course.
- R.J. Spencer, of course.
- You would never have gotten that.
Do you remember your character name in "Monsters Vs. Aliens?
- Galaxhar.
- Very nice, what about the classic
"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen?"
- Oh no, he was like Dr. Morran or something like that.
- Oh, very close.
It's not a doctor, it's a professor.
- Yeah. - Professor Co...
- Coban, Colan. - Colan, Colan, Colan.
- "CSI", you of course played the indelible role of...
- Creepy guy in supermarket.
- Oh, you added the creepy.
That's not listed as creepy,
but if you interpret-
- Oh, it was just guy in supermarket?
It was guy in supermarket.
I might be confusing it with my role
in "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit"
when I played creepy janitor.
- Sahara.
- Rudi Gunn.
- Very good, you've been writing your Rudi Gunn fan fiction,
so you'd know that one.
- I remember McConaughey being like,
"Hey Rudi, we gotta get going here."
- And finally, what about in "The Meg"?
This is a pretty recent role,
let's see how your short term memory is.
In "The Meg" you played?
- Jack,
Jack Kirby.
I shot this three years ago and I can't remember his name.
What was his name?
- You're trying to save the planet.
You have a lot on your mind.
It's Morris.
It's Morris - Morris, right.
It was Jack Morris, but he just went by Morris.
And then it was just one word, Morris.
I give myself a C plus on that.
- I was gonna go with that too.
We were talking a little bit about "The Office".
I'm curious, are you the kind of guy
that keeps stuff from the set?
Did you keep anything from
"The Office" all these years later?
- I have a couple little things.
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Got these puppies.
Remember this little guy?
It's all flooding back, it's happening.
- It's all coming back?
This was the thing in season two,
we sent out to members of the press.
It's cans of beets.
This is a very prized possession.
I'm not sure about the state or condition
of the beets inside said can, however.
- So you got all the important stuff.
What else would you possibly desire?
- Oh, there's a lot of stuff, man.
I would have loved his briefcase and his desk and his car.
I thought about buying his car for a while.
I was like, I wonder if they'd sell me the Trans-Am?
- You could really freak somebody out next Halloween
if you answer the door in those glasses,
it might just change someone's life.
- I've honestly thought about what would it be like
for me to dress completely as Dwight
and go trick or treating?
And people would be like, oh my God,
the resemblance is uncanny.
And I would be like, I know, right?
Crazy. - Or worse,
they say, yeah, I don't buy it.
Not so good. - Yeah,
they're like, I've seen better.
- Did you see that Jennifer Garner just the other day
had an emotional breakdown watching "The Office"?
- That was so funny and sweet and wonderful,
and you know, I'm so privileged to have been
a part of a show that has such emotional resonance to it.
People really, it's like family to them,
they care about these characters so much.
They're so deeply committed and involved at the show.
It's fantastic.
- Congratulations are in order though,
because truly I'm such a fan of your new,
what are you doing, What are you doing?
What are you doing?
Dude, we're doing a show here. - I'm eating broccoli, what?
- You couldn't have waited like 10 minutes
until after the show to start eating?
- Okay, fine, what are we talking about?
What useless Hollywood inanity
are we talking about now, Josh?
- Well, you know what Rainn?
I was just about to compliment you on your new YouTube
series An Idiot's Guide to Climate Change,
but maybe now, nevermind, nevermind.
- No, no, no, no, no, I'm sorry.
- No, no, we're good.
- No, no, please, let's continue.
Did you like it, did you really like it?
- I truly did like it.
Despite your horrible personality otherwise,
I liked your hosting duties on this one.
Climate change is a subject that's close to my heart,
and I, of course, am an idiot.
So this checks both boxes for me.
- Perfect.
- Beyond your celebrity, there is a greater celebrity
that hangs over this series.
I'm talking, of course, about Greta, Greta Thunberg.
- Yes. - First of all,
Did I pronounce it correctly, Thunberg.
- It's like you're a native Swede.
- Is it fair to say you're a little star struck?
- I was a little star struck.
There's very few people that I've met in my life
where I've kind of gone (mutters)
I get that little like googey kind of celebrity thing.
But she's literally meeting with heads of state.
Like right now she's meeting with Angela Merkel.
How was my pronunciation on that, pretty good?
- Very impressive, yeah.
So Greta's just 17, were you saving the planet at 17?
- You know when I was 17,
I didn't know how to make a sandwich.
I mean, and these people are changing the world.
- Do you now know how to make a sandwich?
- I do, well sometimes just for fun
I put the bread on the inside.
- And you hold the ingredients on the outside?
- It's stickier, but I gotta be me, Josh.
How was my pronunciation of that?
Was it pretty good, Josh?
Am I saying it right?
- No, it's Yosh, it's Yosh.
- Yosh.
- We've known each other for like a decade
and you still get that wrong all the time.
- I'm sorry, I'm sorry. - It's okay, man.
Don't do it, don't, you're looking at it.
Fuck, come on man, don't,
you're better than that.
Just put, nope.
- How about this?
You ask me a question, if it's good,
I'll put the broccoli down.
If it's lame, I'm gonna chew.
- Some would you rather questions for you,
Rainn, If you'll indulge me.
- You've got me.
(Josh laughs)
I'm all in.
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- Would you rather on an audition every single day
of your life or never work again?
- Never work again.
- Would you rather live on a glacier or live with me
in my cozy one bedroom New York City apartment?
- Glacier.
- Okay.
- That's cause 'glaciers are,
is it about me or about the glacier?
- That's all I'm gonna say on it.
- Okay.
Would you rather legally change your name
to Dwight Schrute or Paul Poopypants?
- That's a tough one.
I was gonna go immediately with Paul Poopypants,
but I was like, if I had to,
if someone had a gun to my head,
in fact I have a drill right here, self dentistry.
- Oh, that's useful now, yeah.
- I mean, if someone had a gun to my head
and I had to choose between those two,
I'd probably go with Dwight Schrute,
because I could, I don't know,
go to some comic book conventions or something,
somehow find a way to profit off of it.
So ultimately, I'm gonna go
Dwight Schrute and not Paul Poopypants.
- Congratulations are also in order,
you have another new project "Utopia" on Amazon.
What's Rainn Wilson's personal utopia look like?
- My utopia is just frolicking with animals in nature.
- What a segue, Rainn.
I think we're about to meet some of your friends
at the palatial Rainn Wilson estate, is that true?
- Shall we?
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- This is my ideal angle.
This is the way I like to look at you.
- My nose hairs?
Okay hey, so Yosh, thanks for coming down to the,
we call this our pig palace.
This is where the pigs live.
It's bigger than your New York apartment.
- No, truly, I was just gonna say, can I live there?
- [Rainn] Look, there's a nice bed.
It's a nice soft bed for you and your wife.
Hey piggies, pig, pig, pig, pig.
You see them down there in the shade and the shadows?
Hi, there they are.
That's Snortington. - I'm Yosh, hi.
- Hey's the big fat one.
This is Yosh.
This is Amy, this is basically my wife's dream come true.
There's more space for the pigs than we have in our house.
The pigs have it better than we do.
But they're very sweet.
- How do they smell, Rainn?
- Pigs smell so good.
Do you remember the episode of "The Office"
when Dwight picked a pee corner in the elevator?
Pigs are like that.
They don't just poop everywhere.
We had goats for a while.
They'll poop anywhere and everywhere.
They'll just like be eating, they'll poop in their food,
they'll continue eating it.
They have no qualms around that.
There you go, I hope you got your money's worth.
- I did. - For your dumb-
- My what?
- For your dumb show, I hope you got your money's worth.
- Rainn, this has been a pleasure.
Congrats on everything, buddy.
- Thanks so much, fantastic talking to you, Yosh.
This has been a lot of fun and thanks for letting me
show off my beautiful pigs, that's what she said.
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