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Like no time passed! I hope we can make this profitable donations, media, etc. Truly inspiring. I love the YouTube videos too audio is my most accessible format. I love the story about you paying for school writing theses! It brought it all together, that is unfathomable to me, but now I know how you can write and storytell like you are unstoppable.

The brain! So great to have this show. From the Actor that had been in everything; comes a delightful podcast of stories about Tobolowsky; from mute man himself. Keep them coming please! The series has a nostalgic yet humorous tone to it, which invites members to also revel on the simple traditions of their own youth. It may not be as entertaining as the whistling belly button trick remember that from the movie?

Search Query Show Search. Show Search Search Query. Play Live Radio. Next Up:. Available On Air Stations. All Streams. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email. Larry D Moore. And Stephen Tobolowsky is a truly great storyteller. You may know Tobolowsky as an actor from Groundhog Day or Glee or Deadwood — he's become famous for not being famous, in that he has literally hundreds of credits at the Internet Movie Database and he's the star of very, very few of them.

But for 50 episodes now, he's been the star of an exceptional podcast called The Tobolowsky Files. The project grew out of the documentary Stephen Tobolowsky's Birthday Party which you can watch in full on Hulu or IMDB , which consists largely of him telling stories from his life — both his personal life and his life as an actor who has worked with a remarkable range of folks. The formula is simple: Chen introduces Tobolowsky, and they have a couple of minutes of chat, and then before you know it, Chen has dropped out and you are just hearing a story.

In the most recent episode, "The Primary Source," Tobolowsky talks about having been in a band with Stevie Ray Vaughn when the latter was just a kid people were starting to think was really good.

Other things he talks about: having his back waxed on the set of Californication , the dangers of self-Googling "on a single day, I read articles where I was described as being alternately 'lanky,' 'pudgy,' 'doughy,' 'balding,' 'utterly forgettable,' and 'constantly irritating'" , and a remarkable sequence of events surrounding the death of character actor Trey Wilson, with whom Tobolowsky worked on Great Balls Of Fire. The show is funny, it's fascinating, it's filled with little bites of wisdom you'll take with you "belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate" , and more than anything, it's surpassingly generous.

That's incredibly important, because what storytellers can't be is vain. They can't be the hero every time out. In fact, they can't be the hero almost ever.