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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?

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.

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