Timothy Olyphant

Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Now, when I was younger, I do remember thinking, oh, I'd love to do that. I remember thinking comedy, stand-up comedy. I remember thinking that. And my mom said, you don't want to do that. Those people are all on drugs. They're divorced and they're on drugs.

And then at a certain point, I was like, mom, you're divorced. You know what I mean? You're halfway there. Might as well be in showbiz. So, yeah, never done it before. I had never done it.

Grew up in Modesto.

Oh, that's very kind. Well, I mean, I don't – I mean, I still – my mom lives in Modesto. I still go to Modesto. I was in Modesto just in October. So, yeah.

Wait, wait. That might be my, wait a minute.

Well, that can't be right. Is her name Bonnie? I'm forgetting a name, but the woman used to live across from my street from my mother had made in her garage. She had a home bakery.

And she was doing really well. Is that Bonnie?

No, I'm looking at my contacts. No, I don't think it's her. Okay.

No, for a second there. For a second there. I don't think. Bonnie, if I do know you, I'm really sorry because it's been a minute.

It's pretty good.

Awesome good bread.

I just finished a job in Finland and the AD made the best bread.

Homemade bread. They're big on their bread there. Very healthy, good breads in Finland. I guess Europe just has great bread in general. They do. People say like, oh, if you don't want gluten, don't worry about it so much there in Europe. Anyway, I don't understand it. And as a wrap, Giffey gave me the recipe. No kidding. He gave me a little notebook and a handwritten recipe.

Try to convert it from metric. And we haven't made it yet, but that's the plan this holiday. We're going to make the bread. Auntie. Auntie's bread. I love that. First AD.

Okay.

Yeah, you gave it a name?

Angela, ask her. Yeast gets a name, right?

Did you know? What? No. How long have you two known each other? Am I here to bring you together? Bring you closer?

Goldie.

You know, you're this close to having a second podcast.

You laugh.

Oh, my God. For sure it could happen.

This is a show. You've built a monster show here all based on one half hour comedy.

Bread.

I mean, it's huge. People love The Office. People really love bread. I mean, it's a big deal.

I'm just saying.

What are you in here twice a week? Most people. How many days a week are you in here?

Once a week? Exactly for the bread podcast?

You have a network?

What the?

God damn it. I've misspent my whole show business.

It could.

Theme song by Bread.

You know the band?

There you go.

I haven't said anything I remember about Modesto, by the way.

Oh, wow. You know, I mean, the places I've been going to lately are not places I went to growing up. And Modesto... I mean, growing up, when I think of like, where'd you go to eat when you were growing up? I mean, we went to Arby's and we went to Taco Bell, that kind of thing. It was kind of a fast food joint.

There was an incredible, I think it's still there, Mexican joint on the way out to Oakdale. Oh, I cannot remember it. God, I'm terrible. But that would be like, that was great to go out there. And I'm pretty sure that's still there.

I don't sound like, I've really drifted far from my roots.

I really have. Because we didn't really go out to, it's not a go out to dinner town.

You know?

Like my memories of food in terms of, it's like going to get Winchell's on Sunday morning, like getting donuts or something.

I don't remember like foodie places. There's a little bit of that now because almost the whole country's got into food.

Foodie places.

Yeah. So, yeah. No, my childhood memories are just, you know, it was all about just roaming around. We, you know, canals and orchards and all that. That's the end of that story. Right. Cake parties in the orchard. You know what I mean? In the canal. Yeah. That was the teenage years times. Yeah.

Swam. I grew up next to, we grew up next door to a place, which is still there, called, it was at the time called the Modesto Swim and Racquet Club. It was literally, we had an old farmhouse. We had a field and a barn, horse chickens and stuff like that. And we could just walk through that over to the racquet club.

And so my brothers and I all, we just were there all the time, just running around. You know, it was a walk to school neighborhood. Yeah. So motorbikes everywhere.

Yeah. So I swam and we all swam and played tennis. My brother and I, by the way, we're hosting a charity tomorrow, tennis charity. My brother and I, we've never done it before. First annual, OLE, is what we're calling it, the OLE. We're raising money for this really great place called the Center for Reflective Communities. It deals with teen and young adult mental health.

And so if people want to go on there, they can hit the little plus sign and donate. And where it says subject, you can put in our thing, play for good, the only play for good and donate money. And God bless you because they do wonderful work for Lord knows the young people need some help these days.

Oh, let's go. Okay. Bring it. We're playing Dingles.

Okay. We're playing Dingles and we've got like, I think there's like 16 or 17 players that are all coming and donating like 500 bucks to play. And they're like 16, 17 pros.

Maybe I shouldn't play Dingles. You can hit with some pros.

It's going to be super fun.

I'm playing.

You can come out and play a little bit and hit with some of the pros. And you can always say, okay, it's too much. I don't want to play anymore. And just hang out and there's alcohol.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It did right now. I could see it on her face.

We're doing it tomorrow.

Yeah.

Okay.

Oh, yes. Yeah, I'd seen both versions. Did I know anyone? I knew Rain.

Rain Wilson, when I first started acting in New York, he was my understudy in a play.

I'm pretty sure that's true. It was called The Monogamous at Playwrights Horizons. By the way, I'm going to go see Rain's play Friday.

Saturday, closing night. I'm going to go see Waiting for Godot on Saturday.

Yeah? I can't wait.

Let's go.

I appreciate hearing that. I was about to answer that question with the question, which was, I don't remember. Did I look at the camera?

It's all very vague, foggy to me, my experience. I don't remember.

Am I on one episode or multiple episodes? You're on two episodes. I'm on two episodes?

I just don't remember.

I'm in a deleted scene in another episode?

Oh, and what's that scene?

Oh, they put me on the screen?

Oh, so I shot and I shot that. You shot that. Yes.

I don't remember that. Oh, that's cool.

Well, do you remember- I do remember getting the Dundee though. And they sent it to my house. It was pretty great. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. I got the little trophy.

I don't know.

Yeah. Yes. I have- I have two, and this will go next to it, greatest world's best podcast guest.

I have two world's greatest dads. I've won it twice. That's so cute. Yeah. Now, I've been a father for 25 years, but I've only won – I've only got it twice.

By the way, that's a good question.

I don't know. I just like that I – for some reason, I have two of them. Yeah. Somewhere along the line, they either forgot they gave me one or they're like, oh, let's get it to them again. Yeah.

And I don't know if I am the world's greatest dad because I don't even remember who gave it to me or why or when I got it. I just know I have two. And I've always liked having the two side by side. And I think for a second that Dundee might have been there. I'm a bit of a minimalist at the house. I don't tend to keep a lot of stuff.

I mean, I turned that frown around. So I don't remember the looking at the camera bits, but it sounds like you did it really well. That's great. Okay, cool. I don't remember anything being difficult about the show. I remember other than I do remember laugh. I I'm sure I screwed up what would have been a really good scene.

Cause with Corral where I was, I just couldn't stop laughing because it was so intense and funny. And I'm, There's a little bit of disappointment still there that I could not keep a straight face.

Yes.

Yeah. So at least it's got a life somewhere. Because he's incredible.

And he's fully committed. And I'm quite certain, I haven't seen it in a long, you know, but that I'm the one busting up more than he is. I'm sure I'm busting up and that's making him then laugh. Yeah. He was really impressive.

Yeah, no, he was very committed. I have fond memories of my experience, you know, just in general. I just remember enjoying the whole thing. And you guys were all wonderful pros. Great vibe. You'd already been on the air for a while.

Sure.

I do remember that. It was so fun. What's so cute, too. That's so wonderful.

Do you remember that too? Yeah.

I remember now a lot of this is coming back to me now, but I do remember the sting. I remember that scene being in the office and her acting like she's super rich and in charge or something. And people are coming in and out.

It is a show. How long ago is that? It's a long time.

Yeah.

People still will be like, you know.

Yeah. I'll get, you know, the occasional like, hey, were you in the office? Yeah. Yeah.

That happens.

It's a huge. And also you get it from like teenagers and stuff. Yeah. It's amazing. A show that just keeps on giving.

How cool to be on a show. You guys were part of something that culturally relevant and huge.

Kind of amazing.

I mean, I don't have those kind of problems. You guys must get that craziness. People must go, hey, can you go to the airport? What's it like when you go to the airport?

Let's go. We're taking the show Office Ladies on the Road. We're going to film one.

Guys, we're going to film one.

It's in the budget. Let's go.

I invited myself on the trip, by the way.

Bread of the week.

I mean, you guys have a network. Will you please be at our next Think Tank meeting?

I like that there have been already Think Tank meetings.

They don't come often. Well, it's a holiday, so you're shutting it down. We're taking some time. In January, you get the think tank.

Okay.

Yeah, so I've told this story before, so forgive me for it. So, yes, obviously I do. But, yeah, he took a picture with – we were at an event together. We'd never met. But as soon as we saw each other, started laughing. And while we were talking, one of the Dodgers – we were at a Dodgers event, and one of the guys asked him if he was going to be in any more Hitman movies, which is a movie I did.

And he asked Josh in front of me – And it was really great. I watched him get mistaken for me in front of me. It was just wonderful. And then it occurred to me, I said, you know what? I got my whole family here. Would you? And he knew right away. He was like, I'm in. You got it.

So he took a picture with my wife and three kids. And we sent it out as the holiday Christmas card.

My mom had it on the fridge and hadn't noticed it. Didn't clock it. My brother called me, said, dude, mom had no idea. I had to point it out to her. And she said, I thought he looked taller.

It's a great story. So yeah, me and Josh are forever linked. Lovely guy. He's a great sport about it. Kind of funny. It's funny. Do you guys have one of those?

Yeah.

Okay. And have you spoken to them about it?

Because you assume they also.

Or maybe she says sometimes the paparazzis don't pay attention to me because they think I'm you.

Sometimes when I'm being ignored, I realize, oh, you guys think I'm Jenna.

Did you also say, and P.S., don't put your arm around me in public.

See?

Yeah. Yeah. Because you overstepped with somebody else. Do you get one?

But you don't have the doppelganger, showbiz doppelganger out there that you know you're being mistaken for because that's where we have the – yeah, I'll get giggles behind a counter and then I realize they don't know who I am.

They think I'm him.

Yeah. Yeah.

Thank you. Me too.

Oh, thank you.

Never kept it.

You didn't keep your dundee? So keep that in mind with the dundee. Right. I didn't keep the hat. Yeah.

No, I didn't keep any.

So yes, in that like a pair of jeans or anything that's practical.

No, I never take anything sentimental. I take things that I'm like, oh, I could use some socks. Right. Yeah. No, my kids will make fun of me. Like if I buy something, they'll be like, oh, dad bought a shirt.

Because a lot of times I will just be wearing things that have like my character name or it either says like, you know, when they put inside, it either says hero or it says like, you know, Raylan. Yeah. I'll have like a pair of jeans and inside it just says Raylan or hero. Yeah. I'll have that.

T-shirts. Yeah. Anything that's – yeah, those I take all – I always tell the customer, I always say, look, there's going to be some things missing. So I just hope it's in the budget.

But I don't – I've never taken – That's how you shop. Yeah, and I will say – because I always think to myself, what am I going to do with the hat? I mean, it's just going to sit there somewhere and take up space and I don't like having – You don't – you're minimal at home. We've learned this. I'm a bit of a minimalist. I'm a bit of the – When I first heard about that Maria Kondo.

I was like, oh, yeah, I got it.

I'm there. But she added the little thank you for your service. You ever hear that little quote that she does?

As you throw it away.

Yeah. Yeah. I love that. I've added that. I've added that. Thank you for your service. Big fan.

Big fan of that. But I did keep a hat from the show. We did a thing, it's a spoiler, but we did a thing where there was a guy, a villain with a hat towards the very end of the original show's ending. And I wore this hat. I took the dead guy's hat because he shot my hat. We had a whole story. Anyway, I took that hat. And then had it refitted so that I could just wear like a free hat.

It was a little bit along that practical thing. I was like, I'd love to get a free hat out of this. Right. But I don't want to want that hat, the hat. So I got another hat. You wouldn't recognize it as the hat from the show because you just have it – I kind of wish I did that with the Raylan hat.

Just took it and then just had it. I forget. You can just have a hat reblocked and just make it into, it's not even recognizable. And it'd be a fun fact to say, yeah, this is a Raylan hat.

Yeah.

Okay.

That would have been great because everyone on your show is so good at comedy, but not acknowledging the comedy without pointing it out, which is kind of what we were doing a little bit. Yeah.

Nothing more fun than taking someone who's like known for a sitcom and putting them in like a cool, gritty, like comedic performance on our show. That was always my favorite thing.

Okay. I'll take your word for it.

It's all a bit of a blur.

I was going to say them. I was like, wow. Wow.

Can you feel it? You had Redford, Newman. Who else did you have from The Sting? Jackie Gleason. Gleason.

Amazing.

I forgot Jackie Gleason was in The Sting.

I have.

I have.

I keep a list of things, and I want to say I watched it like a year or two ago. Same.

Really solid.

So good. Just wonderful performances. I mean, just a – that ending, it's just like you love everybody, right? Yeah. When they're all closing up shop, giving the little – On the nose.

It's so wonderful.

Okay. I'm leaning in. Everybody's leaning in. You should have teased that. By the way, put that in the front of the show. I found a little thing on YouTube I want to ask you about. But we'll get to that later. And then people will really stick around.

All right. What do you got on you? By the way, let's circle back to that thing you were saying on YouTube. Yes. See what I did there?

Oh, I'd love to sit in on the ads.

Oh, thank you.

Yeah, I read ads on Conan.

Okay.

I'm right there.

Yeah.

You didn't realize it was real whiskey.

Yeah, I remember.

I don't know. No, you're being tough on yourself.

Yeah, we committed. We committed.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yep. Don't mess me up. 30 something, I think. Go ahead.

Thank you. Thank you. But that's nice of you to say.

I agree.

We're separating.

Oh, that's lovely to hear. I will pass that on to her.

Because she's never seen anything I've ever been in.

Which part?

We met in college. Where'd you go to college? We went to USC.

junior year of college. Yeah, we were 20. And we were in a class, oceanography.

Yeah, it was like a science, you know, requirement. And I was swimming at SC. All the athletes, basically, we had, you know, the athletics got to counsel. They all said, you're taking oceanography. Like, that's your science. And it's a super fun class. And it's really popular. There's this guy, Pipkin, a professor there. It was a fun class. Anyway,

I think that was the idea. Like all the athletes were like, you should take oceanography because that'll satisfy your science. And it's kind of a big easy class and it's popular. They probably also just liked all the athletes taking the one class. So we're all getting the same tutor. We're all being tutored to get through it.

Oh.

There you go.

And you got a field trip to – Catalina Island. To Catalina. So you'd go out on the boat and go out there and go swim and snorkel in Catalina because SC's got like an oceanography institute out there.

Yeah.

She was in the class. Yeah. She used to come in late. One of the last people to come in. So I'd always see her coming in. And to your point, I began referring to her as my girlfriend. We'd never met. But I was like, that's my girlfriend. I need to save her a spot because she comes in late and she'll have to come up, sit next to me. Yeah. So, yeah, we had met taking oceanography class.

We had friends in common. Yeah, we first met. I introduced myself to her after class.

Yep.

You have.

It's been a pleasure. I appreciate the invitation.

So you guys were dominating the world with your show and just making all this and also with the lovely kind of wonderful atmosphere and feel good. The camaraderie.

As far as I can remember, I think we would be accepting two answers, either lifeguarding or swim coaching. Yeah, those are probably the two jobs I kind of did when I was growing up. I used to give swim lessons because I was a swimmer. All right, so we're going to go with lifeguarding.

I play guitar, not well, but I play it. I played it a couple of times for a movie and never got into it for a couple of different jobs, but learned it well enough for the job. And then just a few years ago, either pandemic or strike. I mean, just not long ago, my daughter, who's a very good singer songwriter. Um, she was like, dad, you should play guitar, play guitar with me.

So we started, I started playing guitar with her and that got me into it.

She's I owe her some thanks.

Oh, well, I love the Carmel, the sort of Northern California. Carmel has always been a very, they can put as many bad art galleries and cutesy, but I still, I love it. I don't care how many, that's how great that place is. They can shove, they've shoved so much bad art in that little community. And I'm still like, yeah, it's great. I love it. Can't ruin it. I just love that coast.

And I've always had a soft spot for it. And we used to go there as kids, not far from Modesto. And my wife and I always go. We honeymoon there. I love that area.

These days?

So I swim early Saturday morning. This is like the routine. I swim early Saturdays.

Still swim.

I've gotten way back into, I don't know why. It's like a thing. My wife dragged me. I've always swam. But a few years ago, I was working in Tribeca. With Alex Winter in New York. And my wife is like, oh, we found a pool. We usually do. And then there was a master's program there. And she was like, let's do master's. You kind of like are with a group and there's a coach.

And I was like, I don't want to do that. Come on. And then I did it. And I love it. I'm like, yeah. So now, yeah, swim over it. So I swim usually Saturday mornings. Lately, my wife and I share an art studio with our son. If we're really a mellow weekend, we like a Saturday in the art studio. It's kind of great. I mean, if we're just hanging in town, dog walks, our kids are, we're empty nesters.

So it's just chill time. Like we do whatever. We're done with the like taking kids to a tennis tournament or whatever. Yeah. Which is kind of nice.

May play tennis over the weekend. I play with my kid. I play with my brother. Yeah. Yes, weekends in LA are pretty chill. Sunday more like just, Sunday tend to be stick around the house.

Chores.

Angela, I'm in show business. I grew up doing so many chores. Did you guys have, like, I was a chore, you were a chore person growing up. You had chores. We had major chores, major chores. My buddies were like, dude, how, I was like, I just got to do my chores and then I'm free. And they were like, oh, yeah.

And now my kids, I don't think they, I don't think they know, they'd be like, chore, what is that? Look it up in the dictionary. I

Yes. Oh my God. You know what my chores were growing up? Load the dishwasher.

That's a routine. That's not a chore.

That's still- How do you mean that? But they're 14.

We had a wheelbarrow involved. There was something that took gasoline.

It was like chopping. We had like, you know, there was something involved. You might get like, there might be blisters.

There was a shed. We had to go out to the shed. Okay.

Keeping them grounded. Well, anyway.

Load the dishwasher.

I do remember the moments with my kids and when they were pretty old. And I'm like, could you just sweep this up and, you know, and then, you know. And I started watching, I'm not even gonna name which one because pretty much all of them had this moment where I was watching them sweep and I'm like, who taught you to sweep? What is that? Where'd you learn that? And I realized I've failed.

It's my fault. I mean, I can't blame them for not knowing how to sweep. Clearly that's something you have to kind of, at some point.

Oh my God, it was so embarrassing. I was like, that's not how you sweep. How is that? I thought that was just something you knew.

Let's hear it.

It feels like this is like right next to Whole Foods, like where you go down the aisle in Whole Foods and there's like just stuff in there that's supposed to do things. We're like, how is that even possible?

We all just lost our minds as soon as we walked in this place.

And they have to notice.

Wait, and then they're done after 15 minutes?

I got to say, I mean, I hope they turn out. I do. You know that. And by the way, I feel the same about my... My kids are already in their 20s, so I have a pretty good idea. But that seems crazy compared to how... No, I mean, I'm not saying what my... Because, you know, I got... I think there's some areas they kind of screwed up. But... They just said like, this is what needs to be done.

That's hilarious. 15 minutes, walk around, notice. I mean, the gag there is they take 12, 13 minutes to notice something. And then they're like, they only got two minutes to do it. Like, got it. Still looking around. Still looking around. I got 15. I've noticed a couple of things, but I want to keep kind of poking. There might be something better. It's amazing. Yeah.

I thought we got, I think we hit our stride somewhere where we realized if we just wrote the routines, that was the easiest way.

It's what you're doing Monday. It's what you're doing Tuesday. It's what you're doing Wednesday. Just these are the tasks.

Because otherwise you were constantly saying, you know, hey, I need you to, could you just go do this? Could you go? And they're like, oh my God, you're just going to throw that on me whenever. So it was more like- Read the board. Here's the board. These are the things that are going to be done. This is, you know, this is yours. This is your sister's. This is whatever. Yeah. Yeah.

And it was, it's, it is LA. It's not Modesto life. So it's not like they're out mowing. I mean, no, no, we were, we were like work.

Oh yeah.

Oh, that's cool. Yeah. I think just three boys and we were just out in the yard working. We had daily chores and then weekends were like,

My memory is a few hours before I was free to go hang out. Yeah. It was always my buddies making plans and then they're like, you'll join us like around noon, one o'clock when you're done. And we're going over the canal to open up to water. You'd have to let the water into the field and water the fields.

We had real chores, yeah.

Just take 15 minutes to look around.

Okay.

Oh, I'm going to go with... I guess I would go with like peanut butter. Oh, yeah. Lately, probably peanut butter, like peanut butter.

God, we have gotten to this place where we don't have a lot of, like back in the day, I'd be like ice cream. But now I'm like, I don't really do that anymore. Isn't that sad? You get to a certain age, you have memories of midnight snacks. Yeah. I remember I used to eat a pint of ice cream. Now it's like, what? That's gross or disgusting. What's wrong with you?

Exactly. So now like we don't like if I think like right now and in at the house, the only thing that we have that I will definitely reach for is I bought a bunch of I was in Finland working. I brought so much good licorice home. So I like reach for the licorice. But when that's gone, that's it. I'm screwed. I'm just like, oh, maybe some peanut butter and honey.

I mean, really, my midnight snack is probably just like bourbon. That's my midnight snack. It's just the liquor cabinet. Bourbon on the rocks. Yeah, exactly. There you go.

This was a pleasure. Ladies, if I can call you that.

Ladies, it's been a pleasure.

Thanks for having me.

It was my pleasure.

My goodness.

Hey, how's it going?

Well, it's the season.

How are you doing?

How are the ladies?

How long have the ladies been in this building?

It didn't start here. No. No, no.

I'm going to try to get more of those moments right there.

And this is their floor? This is their building? Yeah.

And this space is your space?

Yeah, way to go. Right? I'll get you too.

That's really good. Pretty good.

Yes, very.

Pretty swanky.

Who would have thunk?

Just chatting about. Here in Hollywood, there's a walk of, there's the stars.

No, I don't have a star.

You know, every now and then you have these moments. You're like, yeah, you're in showbiz.

Yeah.

You left.

Ready? All right.

But I was going to start with this. You know, first time calling last. Anyway, yeah, I've listened. I got it. I got no story for you other than they offered it to me and I said yes.

Yeah.

Let's go.

You guys are huge. They gave you the office because people are listening. You know that, right? Yeah.

I articulated it sometime in my early 20s.

My wife, I remember, I know, I may not have articulated it. I don't, well, let me say this. I do remember articulating it to my wife And we got married at 22. I just had turned 23. And she I do know that her response was, you've never mentioned this before. So that I when I so first started talking about it like 22 around there. Yeah.