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Speaker 1 (00:00):
One O two point seven Kiss FM Los Angeles. Let's
get him on. We were talking about him earlier, excited
to have him join us. John Krasinski is with this.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Jo Hey, guys, how you doing.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
We're great, we are super and we were just saying, really,
I think wonderful things because I was I just said
that I don't. We've never traveled together, we've never lived together,
we've never taken a road trip together.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
But for me, you just should.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
We should road trip together.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I'm ready, I'm down.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
But for me, you're just you're You're You're a guy
that checks all of the boxes when it comes to
what we think you are and who you are. And
I think that we're just we are we saying like
he's just the fully checked box guy.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Yeah, like literally every single box check check checked. Smart, funny,
family man, very tall.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Oh my god, guys, we got to hang out more
on us. This is really good.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Yeah, so don't let us down because we think the
world of view.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
Yeah, oh wow, thank you guys.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I was in a gym and this was a while ago,
and you had just worked out and some of the
staff was just buzzing about, you know, how hard you
work out and I said, well, what's he like in
the wild? And they said, he's the nicest guy ever,
And so I checked another box.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Wow, that's really nice. I thought that story was going
I walked in. You had just worked out and I
could still smell it, and that was going to be.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
A horror piece for me.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Nope, So all right, let's get to it. John Krasinski.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
When I heard you were and he's done everything on this,
I mean, he really worn't every hat. He wrote it,
directed it, stars in it with friends of his. Two
we're talking about if. When I heard about the concept,
I saw a billboard I think for it here in
Los Angeles, and I smiled because I remembered, I feel
like you wrote this for me. I know you didn't,
but I remembered when I was a kid having my
(01:51):
imaginary friend that lived in a wall in Atlanta, Georgia.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
No way, what was what was the name?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
It was?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
It was a spin off of El Moe and it
was a little emo. It was emo, so you know, yeah,
I know it's not the cutest, but I was thinking about.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
A hole in the wall. I was worried that you
had stuffed them in a wall, and I was like
he has a lot to say to you.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
No, And I literally I remember my neighbor across the street, Todd.
He had an imaginary friend too, and we'd pulled them
in our palms. I mean, it's this crazy thing about now,
but we'd hold these two things in our palms and
do voices and talk about them and then go talk
them away every night.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
But so guess what I did? Write it for you? Ryan?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Come on, but I do. I'm curious. I just want
to know.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
And I have so much respect for all the different
moving parts when you put together something like this. But
give us a little backstory about how you did it,
why you did it, and all that.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
I wrote a movie for my kids. I've wanted to
write a movie for my kids for so long, and
I had no idea what I was going to do.
And I would just spend hours standing in a doorway
watching my.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Two girls disappear into this magical.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
World that we as parents are not invited into, and
I just watched them be so joyful and joyous but
also so authentic. They were just so uniquely themselves in
this place. And I thought that would be a really
amazing world to write about. And then it was actually
the pandemic when I started to see my kids lights
start to go out a little bit and they started
(03:23):
playing fewer and fewer imaginary games. And I just turned
to Emily and I said, oh my god, this is
what growing up is. This is the definition of growing up.
And when they asked me, Daddy, are we going to
be okay? I said yes, And I'm going to write
a movie about it because you need to know that
that magical world you created you can go back to
you any time and you've always got someone who will
watch your back. And that's where it came from.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Is that true? So it's a fun thing.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I love that you did it so organically because it
was something that you were experiencing with I John, were
there are there things in There are things in the
movie that were specifically thoughts of your kids too, or
derived from some of your kids.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Do.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Yeah, there are two. First of all, two of the
imaginary friends in the movie are my kids imaginary friends.
So there's a pink alligator played by Maya Rudolph called
Ali that is my daughter Violet's imagining friend. And then
my daughter Hazel's imaginary friend is the marshmallow that on
fire because she is a hugely empathetic kid. And one
time we were making s'mores and her marshmallow caught on fire.
(04:21):
You do, and she was emotionally destroyed and I went.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Oh, no, no, don't worry about it. That's what he does.
He lights himself on fire, he puts himself out.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
She went really and I said, oh yeah, And that
became her imaginary friends.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
If is in theaters now debuted at number one at
the box office.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Keep up the good stuff, man, it's so great to
connect with you.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Oh man, thank you guys. It's so great to talk
to you again. Right, it's been done a long time.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I know.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I look forward to seeing you and say hello to
Emily for me too.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I will.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Thanks guys, thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
There fully delivered everything we wanted and expected. I just
loved that he could create a franchise because his kids
had a marshmallow that was on fire.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
I know, isn't that so and awsome?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
The fact that it came to.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Him during the pandemic, Like that's how long these things
take to come to fruition?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
And I think what he also, I mean, this probably
struck a lot of parents. He saw the light dim
a little bit with his kids because of it. Yeah,
and didn't want that to go out. We got to
keep moving. Thank you, John, You've made our day this morning.
Can you picture yourself at the Hollywood Bowl next month
with let's see Noah Khan on stage? Who are you
going to take manifested? And if you want to win
stand by
One O two point seven Kiss FM Los Angeles. Let's
get him on. We were talking about him earlier, excited
to have him join us. John Krasinski is with this.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Jo Hey, guys, how you doing.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
We're great, we are super and we were just saying, really,
I think wonderful things because I was I just said
that I don't. We've never traveled together, we've never lived together,
we've never taken a road trip together.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
But for me, you just should.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
We should road trip together.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I'm ready, I'm down.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
But for me, you're just you're You're You're a guy
that checks all of the boxes when it comes to
what we think you are and who you are. And
I think that we're just we are we saying like
he's just the fully checked box guy.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Yeah, like literally every single box check check checked. Smart, funny,
family man, very tall.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Oh my god, guys, we got to hang out more
on us. This is really good.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Yeah, so don't let us down because we think the
world of view.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
Yeah, oh wow, thank you guys.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I was in a gym and this was a while ago,
and you had just worked out and some of the
staff was just buzzing about, you know, how hard you
work out and I said, well, what's he like in
the wild? And they said, he's the nicest guy ever,
And so I checked another box.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Wow, that's really nice. I thought that story was going
I walked in. You had just worked out and I
could still smell it, and that was going to be.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
A horror piece for me.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Nope, So all right, let's get to it. John Krasinski.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
When I heard you were and he's done everything on this,
I mean, he really worn't every hat. He wrote it,
directed it, stars in it with friends of his. Two
we're talking about if. When I heard about the concept,
I saw a billboard I think for it here in
Los Angeles, and I smiled because I remembered, I feel
like you wrote this for me. I know you didn't,
but I remembered when I was a kid having my
(01:51):
imaginary friend that lived in a wall in Atlanta, Georgia.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
No way, what was what was the name?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
It was?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
It was a spin off of El Moe and it
was a little emo. It was emo, so you know, yeah,
I know it's not the cutest, but I was thinking about.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
A hole in the wall. I was worried that you
had stuffed them in a wall, and I was like
he has a lot to say to you.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
No, And I literally I remember my neighbor across the street, Todd.
He had an imaginary friend too, and we'd pulled them
in our palms. I mean, it's this crazy thing about now,
but we'd hold these two things in our palms and
do voices and talk about them and then go talk
them away every night.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
But so guess what I did? Write it for you? Ryan?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Come on, but I do. I'm curious. I just want
to know.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
And I have so much respect for all the different
moving parts when you put together something like this. But
give us a little backstory about how you did it,
why you did it, and all that.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
I wrote a movie for my kids. I've wanted to
write a movie for my kids for so long, and
I had no idea what I was going to do.
And I would just spend hours standing in a doorway
watching my.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Two girls disappear into this magical.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
World that we as parents are not invited into, and
I just watched them be so joyful and joyous but
also so authentic. They were just so uniquely themselves in
this place. And I thought that would be a really
amazing world to write about. And then it was actually
the pandemic when I started to see my kids lights
start to go out a little bit and they started
(03:23):
playing fewer and fewer imaginary games. And I just turned
to Emily and I said, oh my god, this is
what growing up is. This is the definition of growing up.
And when they asked me, Daddy, are we going to
be okay? I said yes, And I'm going to write
a movie about it because you need to know that
that magical world you created you can go back to
you any time and you've always got someone who will
watch your back. And that's where it came from.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Is that true? So it's a fun thing.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I love that you did it so organically because it
was something that you were experiencing with I John, were
there are there things in There are things in the
movie that were specifically thoughts of your kids too, or
derived from some of your kids.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Do.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Yeah, there are two. First of all, two of the
imaginary friends in the movie are my kids imaginary friends.
So there's a pink alligator played by Maya Rudolph called
Ali that is my daughter Violet's imagining friend. And then
my daughter Hazel's imaginary friend is the marshmallow that on
fire because she is a hugely empathetic kid. And one
time we were making s'mores and her marshmallow caught on fire.
(04:21):
You do, and she was emotionally destroyed and I went.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Oh, no, no, don't worry about it. That's what he does.
He lights himself on fire, he puts himself out.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
She went really and I said, oh yeah, And that
became her imaginary friends.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
If is in theaters now debuted at number one at
the box office.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Keep up the good stuff, man, it's so great to
connect with you.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Oh man, thank you guys. It's so great to talk
to you again. Right, it's been done a long time.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I know.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I look forward to seeing you and say hello to
Emily for me too.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I will.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Thanks guys, thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
There fully delivered everything we wanted and expected. I just
loved that he could create a franchise because his kids
had a marshmallow that was on fire.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
I know, isn't that so and awsome?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
The fact that it came to.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Him during the pandemic, Like that's how long these things
take to come to fruition?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
And I think what he also, I mean, this probably
struck a lot of parents. He saw the light dim
a little bit with his kids because of it. Yeah,
and didn't want that to go out. We got to
keep moving. Thank you, John, You've made our day this morning.
Can you picture yourself at the Hollywood Bowl next month
with let's see Noah Khan on stage? Who are you
going to take manifested? And if you want to win
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