HOW ARE YOU?

>> HI, JAMES.

HOW ARE YOU?

I'M DOING OKAY, I'M HANGING IN THERE.

>> James: WHO ARE YOU SHELTERING WITH AT THE TIME?

>> I'M IN LOS ANGELES SHELTERING WITH THE USUAL.

I'VE GOT MY WIFE AND MY SON AND OUR TWO PIT BULLS AND TWO GUINEA

PIGS AND OUR TWO POT BELLIED BIGS AMY AND SNORTINGTON.

>> James: AMY AND SNORTINGTON.

YEAH.

>> James: POT BELLY PIGS.

DID SOMEONE TELL ME YOU HAD A ZONKY.

>> YES, I HAVE A DONKEY NAMED CHILLY BEANS AND A ZONKY NAMED

DEREK.

>> James: EXPLAIN FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW WHAT A ZONKY IS.

>> A ZONKY IS YOU TAKE A DONKEY AND THEY CAN THE SP SPERMATAZOWA

>> A ZONKY IS YOU TAKE A DONKEY AND THEY CAN THE SP SPERMATAZOWA

A ZEBRA AND YOU HAVE A DONKEY WITH STRIPES.

>> James: I LOVE A PET WITH A REGULAR NAME.

>> DEREK, PLAIN AND SIMPLE.

>> James: THE OFFICE IS HUGELY POPULAR, BUT SEEMINGLY BECOMING

EVEN MORE SO DURING LOCKDOWN WITH PEOPLE CONSTANTLY BINGING

THE SHOW.

I WAS WONDERING IF THE SHOW WAS STILL BEING MADE TODAY WHAT

WOULD DWIGHT BE DOING DURING HIS LIFE?

>> THAT WOULD BE GREAT.

DWIGHT DURING A PANDEMIC WOULD BE FANTASTIC.

IF THE SHOW WERE STILL BEING MADE TODAY, I WOULD BE GETTING

PAID A LOT OF MONEY, BUT DWIGHT, OH, MY GOD SO MUCH GOING ON

RIGHT NOW.

SO PANDEMIC, YOU'VE GOT DWIGHT FIGHTING THE PANDEMIC, YOU'VE

GOT DWIGHT BUILDING HIS OWN VACCINE, HIS OWN I CAN'T BODIES,

MAYBE -- OWN ANTIBODIES, MAYBE DOING TESTS ON PEOPLE IN THE

AWEDOFFICE.

HE WOULD BE IN ON 5G CELL TOWERS, HILLARY CLINTON,

ANYTHING YOU CAN POSSIBLY IMAGINE, HE WOULD BE ALL IN ON

THE CONSPIRACY THEORY, YEAH.

>> James: YOU'VE LAUNCHED A NEW YouTube SERIES CALLED THE

IDIOT'S GUIDE TO CLIMATE CHANGE, WHICH FEELS LIKE, WITH

EVERYTHING THAT'S HAPPENING IN THE WORLD, PARTICULARLY HERE ON

THE WEST COAST, IT FEELS LIKE IT'S THE PERFECT TIME TO LAUNCH

SUCH A THING.

WHAT'S THE GOAL OF THE SERIES?

WHAT DO YOU HOPE PEOPLE WILL TAKE FROM IT?

>> YEAH, IT'S A LITTLE SERIES I DID ON MY DIGITAL MEDIA CHANNEL.

I TOOK A TRIP TO GREENLAND AND ICELAND TO LEARN THE SCIENCE

ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE.

I'M THE IDIOT IN THE SHOW.

THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO DON'T BUY CLIMATE CHANGE, DON'T

THINK IT'S HUMAN-CAUSED.

WE'LL NEVER CHANGE THEIR OPINIONS.

AND THERE ARE PEOPLE CONVINCED AND BEHIND THE SCIENCE.

THIS SHOWS WE SPECIFICALLY DID, IN A LIGHT-HEARTED WAY, IT'S

ZANY AND GOOFY, FOR THE PEOPLE WHO WERE ON THE FENCE, WHO WERE

UNDECIDED, MAYBE THERE'S A KID IN NEBRASKA AND HIS UNCLE IS A

SCIENCE DENIER BUT HIS FRIENDS AT SCHOOL ARE FOR

ENVIRONMENTALISM AND HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT TO THINK, SO THERE'S

THAT NARROW GAP OF PEOPLE THAT I FEEL WE NEED TO REACH BY

ESPECIALLY STRESSING THE SCIENCE.

AND THE SCIENCE BEHIND THESE EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS, YOU

KNOW, THE WEST COAST IS BURNING, THERE'S MORE HURRICANES COMING,

AND WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE ARCTIC WITH THE GLACIAL MELT IS

JUST OUT OF CONTROL, AND I DO BELIEVE WE CAN REACH THAT STRATA

OF PEOPLE.

>> James: WELL, I MEAN, I HOPE YOU DO.

YOU HAD GRETA THUNBERG ON THE SHOW.

WHAT WAS IT LIKE SPENDING TIME WITH HER AND TALKING TO HER?

I IND HER QUITE INCREDIBLE.

>> SHE'S AMAZING.

SHE'S ONE OF THE MOST -- I NEVER GET STAR STRUCK.

I MET MICK FLEETWOOD FROM FLEETWOOD MACK AND I WAS A

LITTLE STAR STRUCK.

BUT GRETA THUNBERG, I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY.

17 AND SO BRILLIANT.

SHE WAS SO GAME TO BE A PART OF THE SHOW AND WE ACTUALLY WROTE

COEDY FOR HER.

SHE HAS ACTUAL JOKES IN THE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO CLIMATE CHANGE.

IT'S AMAZING.

WHAT SHE'S DONE AT 17 YEARS OLD IS AMAZING.

>> James: WHAT DID YOUNG RAINN WILSON AT 17 DO?

>> SCHOOL OUT, 330 FRIDAY.

CALL MY FRIENDS ON REGULAR PHONES.

MEETING FOR DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS AS SOON AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE,

USUALLY BY 5:00 P.M. FOR A MARATHON SESSION OF D&D ROLL

PLAYING REENACTMENTS TILL MIDNIGHT.

NEXT DAY MEETING NOON TILL MIDNIGHT ALL SATURDAY, AND

SUNDAY POST-CHURCH A LITTLE LATER 1 TO 6:00 AND THEN

HOMEWORK 6:00 TO 9:00.

MARATHON SESSIONS.

VATS OF FRITOS AND DR. PEPPER AND PIZZA DELIVERED AND NOTHING

BUT ELVES AND SWORDS AND SPELLS.

>> James: DO YOU STILL PLAY NOW?

>> MY SON IS IN INTO IT, TOO.

I WANTED TO DO A GAME WITH HIM.

HE'S 15 YEARS OLD.

HE DOES A DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS PODCASTS.

HE LIST TONS OTHER PEOPLE PLAYING DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS.

>> Reggie: HARD CORE.

IT IS HARD CORE.

YOU ONLY HAVE 27 HIT POINTS, DO YOU WANT TO USE YOUR BOW AND

ARROW AGAINST THIS ORK?

OH, I CAN'T USE A BOW AND ARROW, I HAVE TO USE A SPELL AT THIS

JUNCTURE.

I TOOK HIS LITTLE EARPHONES AND HE'S LISTENING TO THIS FOR

HOURS.

>> James: I KNOW REGGIE IS ENJOYING THIS.

I REGRET BRINGING IT UP NOW.

THIS ALWAYS HAPPENS WHEN YOU BRING UP DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS.

NO ONE WHO PLAYS DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS CAN JUST GO I ENJOY IT,

I LIKE IT.

THEY ALWAYS GO TOO DEEP.

IT'S LIKE ME IF I TALK ABOUT PREMIERE SOCCER.

I CAN SEE PEOPLE GLAZE OVER AS I START TALKING ABOUT IT.

LET'S TALK TO YOU ABOUT THIS, CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR

BRILLIANT NEW SERIES "UTOPIA."

>> "UTOPIA" IS A NEW SERIES COMING OUT SEPTEMBER 25 ON

AMAZON.

IT'S ABOUT COMIC BOOK NERD KIDS WHO FIND A GRAPHIC NOVEL THAT

WITHIN IT ARE THE KEYS TO THE DESTRUCTION OF THE UNIVERSE.

I PLAY A SCIENTIST, A VIER VIROL WHO HAS MAYBE THE ANSWER TO SAVE

THE WORLD.

>> James: YOU FILMED THIS SHOW BEFORE THE COVID CRISIS.

WHAT DID YOU THINK WHEN SO MUCH OF THE SHOW IS KIND OF ABOUT

WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW IN REAL LIFE.

WHAT DID YOU THINK WHEN THIS NEW STORY HAPPENED?

>> IN ALL SERIOUSNESS, IT'S SO NUTS, JAMES, IT'S CRAZY.

LIKE WE FILMED A SHOW ABOUT A PANDEMIC AND ABOUT, LIKE,

VACCINES BEING RUSHED TO MARKET AND VIRAL SCIENTISTS AND EVIL

BILLIONAIRES AND CORPORATIONS AND GOVERNMENTS, AND THEN FOUR

MONTHS LATER AFTER WE WRAPPED IT STARTED COMING TRUE.

I WAS TEXTING THE CAST AND THE CREATORS DEWY AND FLYNN, LIKE,

OMG, I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS HAPPENING.

BUT I THINK IN THIS TIME OF CONSPIRACY THEORIES, PEOPLE WILL

BLAME JEFF BEZOS OF A GLOBAL PANDEMIC TO LAUNCH HIS OWN TV

SHOW.

>> James: THAT'S WHAT DWIGHT WOULD POST.