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I'm very appreciative that you could do this interview because we're on opposite ends of the United States, and I also don't take it for granted because I know that you are not a tech savvy person.
You are not comfortable with technology.
Is that true?
Absolutely.
Somebody had to set this all up for me.
I don't have a cell phone.
You're not a cell phone?
No, I don't have a computer.
I've never sent a text or an email.
Or how do you make a phone call?
Let's say you're on a movie set and you wanna make a phone call to say to me to your old friend Conan O'Brien, How would you do it?
Well, here it home.
I have a landmine landline.
Hope you don't have a landmine.
Let's look a landline that was here when I when I when I moved in, uh, the same number.
And when I on a set, sometimes they give me a cell phone, but it's not for me.
It's so they can reach me.
That's amazing.
I'm I think so many of us have become so dependent on ours.
I'm fascinated by the idea that you don't have access even to a computer.
Do you ever have you ever googled yourself on a computer?
I have not.
My wife has has a computer and she knows about these things and you know that pretty much takes care of it for me.
It's your wife friendly.
We'll tell you.
You know what they're saying about you on the Internet?
If you needed to even know that, she says, Don't look.
Yeah, Do you?
Have you ever looked at Google Earth?
That's something that I'm not very tech savvy, but I love Google Earth.
Sometimes I like to go on and just look at my where I live just to see you ever done that.
Yes, you know, in the old days on movie sets, actors would sit around between set ups and takes and they would play cards or they'd read a book.
And now, of course, they all have their cell phones.
And I said to a friend of mine, Could you google my house?
And it was really amazing.
I could see, you know, lawn chairs and the car in the driveway.
It's really fantastic, you know?
I hope it was your car.
Yeah, that's what they say, Watch out for those strange cars.
Yeah, eso That's I'm glad that you have some familiarity with it if you're not getting If you're not on the Internet, do you get mail?
Then let's say fans want to write you letters.
They wanna right toe the great Christopher walk and they want to write.
Do you get fan mail, like through the U.
S.
Postal system?
Yes.
What kind of stuff do you do?
You read those letters, you read any of them?
I dio, uh, it Z.
That's a tricky thing because you have to be careful about acknowledging.
Sometimes I get strange things Not too strange, but just odd.
And of course, you know, if you answer somebody, you confirmed that they know where you are, so you gotta be careful about that.
Careful.
Do you get requests?
I sometimes get requests in the mail.
That is strange.
Strange requests.
Yeah, well, you know, just the ordinary come to my wedding, you know?
I mean, Arizona, you know, uh, do this.
Do that.
But did you ever get requests for money?
Sure.
Absolutely.
Because I sent you one.
Yeah, I asked you for $800.
I never heard back.
Well, you did get it because otherwise I It was money misspent.
I sent it to you immediately.
Okay, well, then I just must have misplaced it.
I occasionally think of, you know, I should write Chris for walking and see if I could get some money and just to see what happens.
And, uh, I put the cash in the envelope, so maybe something ticket?