The Tobolowsky Files Ep. 57 – The Long Distance Relationship

The Tobolowsky Files

David Chen

Film Interviews, My Adventures With God, Interview, Tv & Film, Religion & Spirituality, The Dangerous Animals Club, Society & Culture, Storytelling, Stephen Tobolowsky

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2012

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Stephen prepares to leave his family for Broadway. Along the way he learns some unexpected lessons from his past about the future.

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0:00.0	You're going to be here. The Hello everyone and welcome to the Tobolowski files a series of stories about
0:29.6	life love and the entertainment industry as told by actor Stephen Tobolowski.
0:34.3	My name is David Chen, I'm editor at large at slash film.com and joining me today, he is the man who played
0:40.0	Mike Cracower in the 1993 film The Pickle. Stephen Tobelowski, Stephen how you doing today
0:46.0	sir? I'm doing very good. Paul Mazzursky directed that and I didn't know when I went into audition that Paul was wearing a ponytail, a little
0:58.4	ponytail in the back. It just looked like he was very handsome guy with his hair pulled back and he said you know how do you see your character? I said well I see my character is kind of a straight-laced guy not one of these kind of
1:11.7	Jerks That's like a middle-aged man who wears a ponytail.
1:16.0	I had no idea. Oh man.
1:19.0	What a really nice way to endear yourself to your future employer.
1:22.0	It was so difficult to take the
1:25.4	feet out of my mouth but I do remember on that set that I brought my youngest son
1:29.9	Robert to the set and he got to ride on the camera and the cinematographer was
1:36.7	showing him how to operate the machine. It's wonderful to have kids on the set.
1:40.4	Sounds like a blast, Tobo. Sounds like a blast. Well, Steve on the
1:45.0	Tobow sounds like a blast well Stephen it's been quite a while since we've recorded the last episode of the Toboloski files a lot of life changes have occurred for me personally I am now broadcasting live from Seattle today. I actually
1:56.2	have uprooted my entire existence from Boston, moved to Seattle, and so that's where I'm coming
2:01.6	to you right now. And it's been kind of interesting because on the one hand I've been nostalgic and homesick and kind of missing my home of Boston but also kind of looking forward to the future and the uncertainty
2:16.4	that it holds.
2:17.4	Yeah, I always feel, David, you know, why waste a lot of energy worrying about the uncertainty of the future when you can use all that energy worrying about the uncertainty of the present?
2:29.1	Sounds like a good use of energy, the most efficient use of energy the most
2:33.4	efficient you know it all remind you know I was feeling a little nostalgic myself I
2:37.6	remember this joke from my childhood I can share with you and and I warn you up front it is not funny but I remember
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