Hey pal, hey neighbor.
How are you?
How are you.
I'm good, I'm good.
I saw your wife this weekend.
I know.
When I go out of town, you guys have all the fun,
and then when I come home, you're just too busy for me.
You're too-- you're out of town all the time.
I got to earn a living.
You're always on the road.
You're doing-- you're doing a lot of stuff.
I am, that's true.
Last time I saw you, you were kind enough to-- we
both live in Montecito, and we have had a terrible time,
and it's still pretty bad there, and you were kind enough
to go and do a taped piece.
And it's still-- we still need help.
We do.
And your kickstarter campaign really made a huge difference.
And so much-- so many viewers have donated
to our little community.
And I was just actually out walking the devastation
yesterday, and it is slow going. .
But the sort of feeling is good, but it's a lot.
Yeah, the spirit is good.
It's a great town, nobody is leaving,
everybody is staying put because It's a great place to live.
So you're on, we're talking about how busy you are.
One of the things you're doing, in addition
to the hundred things you're doing,
is you're doing this one-man-show.
And you started, you tried it once, you loved it,
and now you're out on the road.
Well and part of it is like I've always admired people like you.
And when I was on "Parks and Recreation" with Aziz Ansari,
I'd be like, hey Aziz, come up and let's
have a Jacuzzi Friday.
Oh no, dude, I'm doing two dates on the road.
And I was like, wow, that would be
so fun to go out in front of an audience
and present something to them.
So "Stories I Only Tell My Friends Live"
is out touring the country.
I'm going to be in New Jersey this weekend,
and in Washington, DC.
And it's-- here's what I tell people.
Yeah.
Think of it as a TED Talk, but a little less pretentious
and a lot less smart.
So what are you talking about?
Like what?
It's a little bit, I wrote two books.
And so it's really in lieu of a third book.
That's the material.
So it's a little bit of war stories
behind the curtain of 40 years of doing this craziness.
And raising boys, and you know, crazy marriage stuff.
And it's just storytelling, and it's
funny and a little emotional, and people
seem to really like it.
That's so great.
It's really fun.
That's so fun.
Are you able to sleep?
I know sleep is very, very important to you.
I sleep better on the road.
I sleep better on the road because I'm not with my wife.
And it's just that people, it's the truth.
I mean, I love her enough to speak the truth.
And what it is, is she's obsessed
with playing "Family Feud" till 5:00 and 6:00 in the morning,
on the iPad, and wakes me up, like honey, honey, quick,
name five foods that are gross.
I'm like, I just want to go to-- so the answer is yes.
My sleep on the road, (KISSING SOUND) love it!
So, yeah, you sleep better.
So let's talk about this.
This guy posted, this is hilarious.
So this guy, you took a picture with his wife.
This is backstage at my show this weekend.
So and he says, my wife's face on our wedding day compared
to when she met Rob.
[AUDIENCE LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS]
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Yeah, well.
But they're still together.
Unless they just got married the day before that, I don't know.
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah.
They survived it.
So your sons, Matthew and John Owen, smart as can be.
John Owen is about to graduate, right?
John Owen graduates from Stanford in a month.
Yeah.
And--
[AUDIENCE APPLAUDS]
Thanks, cool, right?
Matthew is in the middle of his law school finals.
Right.
So there's a lot of pressure around the Lowe house
right now.
And so what is John Owen going to do?
So Matthew is the lawyer in the family.
I figured I can get somebody cheap to do my legal work,
if one of my sons--
and then John Owen was the youngest published author
in stem cell research when he was an assistant at the Eli
Broad Stem Cell lab.
That's what got him into Stanford,
now he's graduating with straight A's.
And now he's come to me and told me
that he wants to be an actor.
[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]
Which is-- which is look, let's face it, that's great.
Because I think we can all agree that what society needs
is one less scientist who's going to cure
cancer and one more actor.
I mean, really, that's what we're looking for.
He's made the right choice.
Oh, without a doubt.
For society, 100%.
Right, he will, he will contribute to this.
I need more guests on my shows.
That's right.
Exactly.
So and you were talking about 40 years of doing this.
But it's been 35 years since "The Outsiders,"
35 years since that movie.
It's crazy, right?
It feels like a billion years ago
and it feels like yesterday--
I bet.
--at the same time.
I bet.
It's great to have--
those are my frat brothers, basically.
Like--
Yeah.
You know, I didn't go to college.
So that's my fraternity.
Those are my first roommates.
Those are my frat brothers, really.
Well, you didn't go to college, but you're smart as can be.
You have done everything you can to educate yourself
in every kind of way.
And the proof is those boys that you have,
you've done a good job raising those kids.
Thank you, they love you.
They had so much fun on your show.
My boys did the show about what, about a year ago?
And they were funny, I thought.
They're great.
There they are.
Yeah, we had so much-- they gave me such grief.
It was unbelievable.
Because you were doing that show where you go and find
haunted places and find ghosts.
It was called "The Lowe Files," and it was basically
"Anthony Bourdain, Parts Unknown,"
if you put it into a blender with "Scooby Doo."
And we literally went and looked for Sasquatch.
We didn't find Sasquatch, but you know, we tried.
Yeah.