Andy Richter

Exactly.

Apparently this is a problem enough.

They declared you should not get rid of your toilet paper.

This is true now.

It's always been true.

That's why in ancient Egypt, when someone died, they would wrap that person in their leftover toilet paper.

Finally, I grew up on movie musicals, a form that died out years ago when everyone realized that in real life, people don't just burst into song.

So, I was grateful to talk to John M. Chu, director of In the Heights and the two Wicked movies, who might have single-handedly revived the genre.

But he didn't grow up singing and dancing.

Instead, he worked in his family's legendary Chinese restaurant in the Bay Area.

56 years later, my dad's still there.

He's 82.

It's called Chef Chu's, and he's there all the time.

He loves to work and loves to eat.

Wow, yeah.

And were you ever tempted to go into that business?

never not once not even a little bit i would you know a restaurant being raised in a restaurant it's great because it's a house of stories everyone's telling stories to my dad my dad's telling stories to them about me and it's the people in that restaurant because it was in palo alto and silicon valley that uh people from adobe gave me software to edit with gave me cameras gave me computers so it was a very beautiful wow yeah that and that's what i meant that you were identified pretty early as somebody with a flare

Yeah, so you went to film school, and you made a short film which got a lot of attention, and I was able to find the trailer for it online.

Oh, man.

And it's called When the Kids Are Away, right?