>>> Rob Lowe there, host and
producer of the new fox game
show mental samurai where
contestants are challenged to
answer trivia questions while
flying around in a pod and
rotating 360 degrees.
>> First of all, is there
anything you cannot do, Mr. Rob
Lowe?
You've done it all.
And now game show host, which is
very hard to do, to navigate it
and guide it, why did you want
to do this?
>> Because I've been doing all
of this for so long.
I'm always looking for something
that I don't know how to do yet,
something where I can learn,
something where I can be
all-new.
Very few things are new for me
now.
And I'm loving the show.
It's awesome.
I'm loving watching these
contestants.
I'm a game show freak anyway.
To be able to be part of
creating something like this is
just a new wonderful experience.
>> Have you jumped in the pod?
Have you answered questions?
>> Our pod has a name, her name
is ava.
She's very upset if you don't --
that arm is a 4 1/2 million
dollars piece of equipment.
>> Is it ava with an E?
You know how actresses like to
do that.
>> Achva with an "A."
The questions are not jeopardy,
they're not crazy, crazy hard,
but it does test every level of
your intellect.
If you have a weakness, this
course will find it.
>> It is a mental obstacle
course for the mind.
You promised to bring her next
time.
>> We have plenty of room for
ava.
>> She's big and has an ego,
>> My kids are obsessed with the
show.
We went deep in our vault.
You're not new to game shows.
Let's go back to 1979.
Look who won $10,000 on pyramid.
>> Oh, boy.
>> Okay.
A donut.
>> Things with a hole.
>> Okay.
A car, a truck --
>> Things that move.
>> Bicycle.
>> Things with wheels.
>> Yes.
>> Oh, my --
>> That's my initial -- I love
game shows.
I was good.
I won the pyramid every single
time I was in that episode.
They couldn't keep me out of the
>> How old were you?
>> 15.
>> And $10,000?
By the way, that was the most
anybody could imagine in those
days.
>> Right.
By the way, when you're 15 in
1979, it was a lot of money.
>> What did you do with it?
>> I was playing for charity.
It went to an animal charity, if
I remember correctly.
But I just love like the sort of
Karen carpenter wig that I
clearly -- was wearing.
>> Look at that.
That's so good.
>> Is it Dorothy Hamil?
It's really just David Cassidy.
>> You have great hair still.
I'm not going to object identify
you with your looks.
>> Object identifify.
>> Come on, objectify.
>> That's your dad.
>> He's a good-looking dude.
I have him to thank.
When I partnered up with at kinz
and became the spokesperson, it
was great because I had been
eating the Atkins way.
Iechlt been doing it forever.
Dr. Atkins is from day ton,
Ohio, so is my dad, so am I.
>> I didn't know the midwest
connection.
>> We're Ohio boys.
Indiana.
>> Indianapolis, I'm from there.
>> Hoosier.
>> What does that mean?
Does anyone really know?
>> Yes.
>> No way.
>> Uh-huh.
>> Come on.
I've been asking for years.
You're going to tell me the
name?
>> I'm not going to tell you.
>> He's not a Hoosier.
He's a boiler maker, a big drum.
I love Indiana.
Speaking of colleges, your boys
graduated duke and Stanford.
I love on the Instagram --
>> I didn't have to pretend they
were foot ball players.
>> Rowers.
>> Any of that.
We just got in the old-fashioned
way.
>> Honestly with this, seeing
how hard your boys worked,
you're so proud of them, what
did you make when you heard the
scandal?
>> They were really upset.
They were really upset.
They were the ones who put in
the time, got the grades.
They worked -- started working
on where they wanted to go to
college for sure in the eighth
grade.
>> Oh, yeah.
>> If not earlier, right?
And, you know, so the notion
that somebody could kind of buy
their way in was like -- they
couldn't believe it.
And my position on it was we're
really lucky.
We have access, I could pay for
a tutor if they were struggling
in class.
The ability to be with them.
Not a single-parent household.
You think about the people who
don't have those kind of
advantages and those people
getting screwed over, that's why
people were really upset about
it.
>> Now you just chip in,
everybody chip in to buy a wing
and hopefully it gets four or
five kids in.
You know?
>> But as a parent watching my
girls go through it now, all the
sacrifices they're making to
study, as they should, but to
work their way in, it was
infuriating.
>> The good news it does have a
happy ending for us.
Our kids are going to do great.
Hopefully it will shine a bit of
a light on the whole admission
process which has other areas
that are really, really weird
and bizarre, and not a
meritocracy.
>> How about that, duke,
Stanford.
I'm a proud parent for your
boys.
>> I probably couldn't get into
any of those schools.
I could only play people who go
to those schools, which I have.
I played guys who went to
Stanford.
I played on the west wing, my
character went to duke.
>> Yeah.
What I love, too, on your
Instagram, your boys are so
funny.
They comment on all your
pictures.
Dad, I talked to you about
cropping.
It reminds me of you calling me
auntie.
>> Kit will put a photo up.
Nope.
If you're off to the left, you
cropped the photo.
>> Kids know, do you know what I
mean?
I'm like a fogey when it comes
to Instagram.
My son John is merciless with
his critiques of my
instagraming.
>> Did he critique this one?
This was so good.
Your parks and rec team.
It was an awesome selfie.
Blew Ellen's oit out of the water.
>> That is spectacular.
That may be my favorite group of
people you'll ever see right
there.
>> Why?
>> Every one is a comedy killer.
Every one is smart and funny and
lovable and a good person and
humble and has no ego and, um, I
just -- I'm just very envious of
all of their talent.
They've all been inspirational
to me.
I love that group.
>> Reboot?
Hold that thought.
Okay, the most entertaining
insta feeds around.
We're going to do some gram