Scobie didn’t assist himself when Discovering Freedom got here out by claiming to be six years youthful than he actually was in an interview, earlier than being “discovered” by somebody on the web. “I’m 42,” he tells me after I ask in regards to the episode. “I work in an business the place I’m surrounded by people who find themselves, let’s say, conservative with telling their age, significantly in tv,” he explains, saying it was “par for the course” to “swipe” a number of years off. Scobie says he had a “little insecurity” about turning 40, and gambled that “nobody would ever know” or care about him sufficient to verify. “You study from these errors. I can’t do far more than personal it,” he says sheepishly.