And if it weren’t for one fateful job interview in 1985, he might be running his own Mrs. Fields Cookie Shop today. Rain Wilson, welcome to the show. Thanks, Josh. Thanks for having me. Of course. What made you uniquely unsuited to be a Mrs. Fields cookie chef on the A in Seattle? I didn’t pass muster. I went through a rigorous application process. They talked to me a lot about the spirit of Mrs. fields cookies and I tried to play along and then they said, “Yeah, we’re going to need you here at like uh 5:00 in the morning to start baking the cookies. I needed money. I didn’t have any money. I was like, “Okay, I’d love to.” And I went through a whole series of of hurdles and um I got rejected. Maybe I would have stolen the recipes and created Mr. Rain’s cookies. Why did you refer to the hiring manager as quote a real life Dwight Shrew? He was very efficient. He wasn’t very good at interpersonal skills or emotional intelligence and he took his job way too seriously. I mean, he should have been like, “Let’s just make some GD cookies
