Jason Bateman

And it was a converted Nepali house, and at the top was this monastery, this prayer room.

Below was the monks' accommodation.

the eating area, and then a small teaching area.

And I might have got the height or numbers of levels wrong, but I was basically very much on the bottom.

And it was really, we were high up in what, 4,000 meters, something like that.

And you open the window and it was sort of coming into autumn and winter there.

So the clouds would literally roll in like dry ice through the window.

And it was absolutely extraordinary.

Wow.

Wow.

And pretty basic.

My dad reminded me, his panic, this is pre-cell phones, I'm that old, and the internet as well, I'm that old.

And it was a moment where I'd written in tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny scrawl on a blue airmail letter home one weekend.

Don't worry, Dad, all the cold is solved now in my room as I have a gas heater and I've managed to block all the vents.

And he was reading it going, oh my God, he's going to die of carbon monoxide poisoning.

Yeah.

I didn't, but you know, might explain a few brain cells less that I have now, but it was very basic, but very romantic, very hard, very lonely, very elating, very inspiring, and spiritually mind-blowing, and utterly mundane.

How do I clean myself?

He's talking to his dog licking its balls.

We all want to know, Sean.