- What is it about a beard and a pandemic
that just goes hand in hand?
What is it?
- You just have to do it?
- Right?
- It's you know,
it's the equivalent of
it's sweatpants for your face
"Hey there human" with me Rainn Wilson
- Lemon.
Do you have any mental health tips?
What has helped you stay sane during the pandemic?
You also moved from our old house to our new house.
How do you feel
and what can you share with the people?
on "Hey There Human."
If there's one greatest issue,
one greatest lesson that I take away from this pandemic
and doing this show
it's wow!
We're all in this shared human experience
all around the globe.
No matter who you speak to their lives have been impacted.
People are the same,
similar hopes and dreams,
similar senses of humor.
I love how "The Office" is a show
that has really swept around the globe
and people all over the globe
love it and laugh at it and with it
and that's such a wonderful miracle to be a part of,
but we're in this together
and no matter who we are
no matter where on the globe we are
and that is a very special and beautiful thing.
Steve is using my Instagram
because he has no Instagram
because he's so old.
- Hey.
- Hi Steve how are you?
- I'm well.
How are you doing buddy?
- I was mocking you.
I said, you don't have an Instagram because you're so old
- I am.
You know that
- Even though you're essentially three years older than me
but,
- In spirit I'm many more years older than you.
- [Rainn] That is true.
That is true.
- A Decrepit.
- You are, look,
I feel like we should be rubbing beards.
Look at those things.
- I know.
- Right?
- Sweet.
- What is it about a beard and a pandemic
that just goes hand in hand?
What is it?
- You just have to do it.
- Right?
- It's the equivalent of,
it's sweat pants for your face.
- That's fantastic.
One of the things that we share a lot about on the show
is we talk a lot about kind of mental health stuff
and we're talking a lot about mental health tools
and tips during these really trying times.
What have you found effective for yourself?
- I don't know about you,
but there's a certain brittleness
to people right now,
and you can feel it.
You go to the supermarket.
I feel it.
Nancy feels it,
my kids feel it.
You're out on the road in LA.
People are driving crazily
- Right, yes.
- And at the supermarket, there's a tension.
How close do I get?
How close can I get to other people?
There's a level of annoyance.
That seems to be percolating right below the surface
of a lot of people
and one of the things
that we've tried to be cognizant of
is exactly what you were talking about before
its just forgiving people for that,
accepting that it's hard for everyone
and rather than exacerbate that feeling of tension
and I guess brittleness is a word I keep coming back to
because it's not like any of these
are necessarily bad people
but there's a lot of anxiety right now,
but not to feed into it,
I guess it's my point
not to brace yourself
but to open yourself to it
- I think that's so great forgiveness and understanding
of like hey,
there's a lot of people out there hurting right now.
A lot of fear,
a lot of anxiety,
to forgive,
to let go, to understand
that sometimes people are going to be reactive
in this is environment.
- And it can be disarming too.
I was thinking when I was living in Chicago
and I was working as a waiter.
It was early on.
I remember one night I had two roommates.
I came home after a long shift
and I was super tired
and cranky and some leftover,
one of my roommates had eaten
and it was like the only thing
that I was looking forward to
- And I just sort of lost it
at the end of your rope
and again with all the tiredness
and not to excuse myself,
but I was ticked off
and I kind of unleashed at them,
like, what the hell man?
Why did you do that?
And he did something and I'll never forget it.
He came
he just backed away and said,
are you all right?
Like he reached out.
It was such a significant moment for me because it,
cause I was expecting him to lash back at me
like yeah well you drank my diet Coke
and get into it that way
and it completely disarmed me
and there was a lot going on in my life.
There was a lot of tension.
There were a lot of other factors besides just being tired
or having a long shift or being hungry.
There were other things in my life
and he was perceptive about that.
- So Steve,
how incredible is it in strange
that "The Office" has this second life
that is just nuts.
How has that been for you?
This kind of strange "Office" obsession renaissance going on
- I don't know if you feel the same thing
but the people who watch the show
definitely know the show better than we do,
because maybe we watched it once.
I, when we'd all get together and we'd watch episodes.
That was most of my watching of the show.
So I don't know all the details
and when people reference lines and bits,
I don't even some of them don't really ring a bell at all.
So the trivia side of it's kind of funny
that it's great that it caught on like it did
because we all felt that it was special
when we were doing it.
We felt that we were on to something
and kind of felt like we got into a bit of a groove
as a cast and the writers were so fantastic.
Like all parts of it just seemed to be firing
on all cylinders
and it felt special when we were doing it.
- One thing that's been really gratifying for me
is like, during this really dark time
I mean, I've heard from so many people
that they've really appreciated having "The Office" there
that it has a warmth and humanity to it
kind of a family feel that makes it a special thing
and that it's helped them during this time.
So, and even to helped their mental health
we've learned more
as we've talked about mental health on the show
like "The Office" being a part of mental health healing.
- Well, if you find something
and I think comedy is so subjective
and "The Office" isn't gonna be everybody's cup of tea
for sure
but if you find something that makes you laugh
it is therapeutic.
It just is.
I, and I've said before
when something really makes me laugh hard
there's no better feeling in my book
than that pure joy of finding something funny.
- And before I let you go.
What do you have any hope for the future that you can share?
Is there any good coming out of
all of this kind of division and chaos
both in the political world but also this pandemic
and what people have been going through?
What,
is there a silver lining here?
What can we look forward to from your perspective?
- Wow,
well I certainly hope so.
If nothing else,
it's going to bring up important conversations
that we haven't had
and bring to light all sorts of things
that as human beings
we have to take care of.
- Steve I love you like a brother and thank you.
- I love you too buddy.
Good to see you best
- So long.
The great Stephen.S.Corral.
Actually, I don't know what his middle name is.
What a fun show.
I love you guys.
Please stay connected.
Do whatever you can do to stay in gratitude.
If you find your attitudes slipping
to shift to gratitude and joy,
and to spread that joy one to another
and we can do this
and we can have a second virus spreading around the globe,
a virus of joy and gratitude
and service and people reaching out to each other
and that's how we'll get through this.
So thank you so much.
You guys, bye humans
you are wonderful humans,
stay human goodbye.
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