kp: Did you get to (have to) meet Jeff Foxworthy?
jlt: No. He was prob'ly out eatin' a moon pie.

kp: Do you think there were parts that could have been yours if only you'd slept with the right casting director?
jlt: Well I thought for sure after all the positions we hit the night before...I thought the Foxworthy lady'd at least laugh. Not to horn toot, but I rocked her world. It's true, sex really does complicate things.

kp: Kris B. wants to know if you remember playing pinball with her at Emo's in Austin about 10 years ago.
jlt: I definitely remember Emo's. I love Austin. Showalter, Black, Marino and I drove cross country in '94, after the second season of The State just started to air. Emo's was where I first had Shiner Bock. I vaguely remember the pinball game. We met really cool people, I’m sure Kris was one of them. There was a girl named Shauna or Shaney who kept doing buttery nipple shots (I don't know, what's that? Kahlua, Baileys, Butterscotch goo?) with Show and I. When we finally left Austin, it was from Emo's at three in the morning.

kp: Let's talk about our adventures in TO LIFE! How scared were you in the car?
jlt: It's funny you asked this question after your one about Austin, because hours after we left Emo's, Black fell asleep behind the wheel. I neglected my proper "shotgun" duty of keeping the driver awake, and we all drove off the road at 70mph in a 15 passenger van and almost died.

kp: So, what you're saying is, these car mishaps are your fault.
jlt: I’m saying, you want to cruise with me, you bring your insurance card.

Honestly, I wasn't scared about dying, I was scared about dying in Mystic, CT. That's not how I want my story to end. Plane crash? Shark attack? Back alley brawl? Sure. Squashed at the Friendly's in Mystic? Nah. No thank you, sir.

kp: You were very gracious about it then.
jlt: Really I wasn't put out by that whole mishap. I know Caitlin wasn't either. It was too early in the adventure to get upset. I might've been concerned about getting behind in the schedule or not having time to work out the scene, but, you know, that comes with the territory. I like stuff on-the-fly. You usually get very honest, albeit sloppy, results.

kp: Did you consider it a sign of things to come?
jlt: I did see it as a sign. I thought, like Friendly's, every great meal on the shoot would end with a hot fudge sundae. Unfortunately, this was not the case.

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