BONUS Producer Cuts - Bill Burr, Demi Moore, Ariana Grande, James Mangold and more
Hey, everyone.
Thanks for listening here on The Full Marin.
And we have another round of producer cuts for you.
I'm Brendan, the producer of the show.
I bring you these every month where I play the things that I had to cut out of WTF.
And I tell you why.
And coming up first, this was with Adrian Brody in episode 1606.
This was a thing that happens sometimes where Mark and the guest are done talking and
And there's something else that comes up.
They say, oh, let's do this on the mics.
And then it just has no place in the actual episode.
So I would say more times than not, these don't work.
This was another one that I didn't have any place to kind of put it back into the episode.
But I thought it was good for you to hear on the full Marin.
Well, great work, man.
Good talking to you.
Yeah, I appreciate it.
This was fun.
Very fun.
Good.
Yeah.
Memory lane.
It's such a funny thing to go down memory lane.
Yeah.
You know, it's, it is most of the time.
Yeah.
I mean, funny, funny.
It's a complex thing.
Yeah.
I like, because everything, as you get older, you really start to feel like I'm, I'm 61 and like, I feel like I've lived like many lives.
Yeah.
I do too.
Right?
I do too.
And it's very hard to, yeah.
When you look back at things, I'm definitely not the same person as a few years ago.
I've shifted.
Five years ago, I wouldn't even have been looking to do anything right now.
I was painting.
I was very serious.
It's amazing.
Yeah.
Oh, can we leave that in?
Sure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
I'll use the other problem.
You'll let, you'll figure out how to put them in.
Well, valuable.
Yeah, it's true.
Yeah, it is.
All right.
I'm going to run down a bunch of things from some monologues coming up.
These are all from monologues that happened after the LA fires were raging and, um, inauguration day and,
And so a lot of this was Mark and his anxiety over those things, really venting and, you know, trying to work out his thoughts about what was going on in his life personally and in the world.
You heard all that on these episodes, but this was like the extra.
You know, sometimes it's just best to distill that down so it doesn't go on for too long.
And this is from episode 1609, 1610, 1612 and 1614.
So you're going to hear four monologue chunks in here and I'll just kind of play those all back to back.
Oh, my God.
And now, like, I don't know, today I'm just back to... It's a little calmer.
Still checking the app every hour or so or whenever I feel like it.
Not really engaging with much news.
I didn't engage with my phone much at all during this whole thing except for that fucking app to see if something was burning nearby.
Not all the bullshit devices and finger-pointing that was going on online.
I saw enough of that initial fire...
To know what that looked like.
That wind.
Can't unsee that shit.
And that's the template for like, there's wind.
That's what comes to my head.
All I see is fire.
How long is that going to last?
Well, I don't know.
It should get better next year.
Will it?
I don't know.
I don't think so.
Sorry for being a negative Nancy, but this shit is real.
And again, help any way you can.
I am.
I've talked to people, somebody who works for me sometimes, her family lost their house.
It's just fucking terrible.
And then I was, you know, like, you know, these papers, like, people are going, like, you need your birth certificate, you know, your passport, your social security card.
When was the last time you saw your social security card?
I used to have one when I was a kid.
And then I remember getting another one.
But, you know, I mean...
Yes, yes, I applied for a social security card.
I don't think you really need it, but don't quote me on that.
I think if you know your number, you're good and you have some other ID, but you kind of want one of those.
So I got one of those.
I got three cat boxes out of this to prepare.
I'm getting a social security card.
I've got a go bag now for me and a go bag for my cats.
And that's life in the big city of Los Angeles.
from here on out uh denial is irrational we are entering uh an irrational and totally new cultural landscape but it's it again it's it's kind of necessary uh a little bit to to not lose your fucking mind and stay focused on what you can do and even like this it's about you know
Control and not feeling like you have control conspiracy thinking is actually I believe a very elaborate and rooted in grievance Form of denial, but that is surrendering to insanity and it's an insanity that you can't Really come back from and and also I think it's important to know that conspiracy theory thinking is fundamentally dehumanizing because it attributes You know
Things that may be just human-based in a very sort of non-interesting way to be being part of some sort of arc of a plan of Jews, of whoever liberals to undermine...
the state of the world and uh i don't think that really has any nuance to it and it certainly takes out the empathy and humanity part of it again i know i'm just rambling but i'm trying to figure out a way to move through this and i imagine we all will
But again, I'm just rambling.
I'm trying to figure out not a way through, but a way to exist without falling into despair, suicidal depression.
a feeling of powerlessness that is overwhelming to the point of paralysis, getting lost in your phone for hours at a time, just volunteering your brain to a substance, a drug, a technology that's probably worse than fentanyl, probably worse than meth.
It certainly detaches you from reality in a way that it seems worse than those other drugs because it's filling you with bullshit.
And it's also carrying you through emotional arcs.
Look, I'm, I'm walked into it all the time too.
And again, I don't know if I can practice what I preach, but, uh, that's, I mean, that's the way it is.
This idea that, uh, you know, comedy is, you know, a certain way and it has to be a certain way for everyone.
It's just, everyone's different, man.
The comics are different.
And if, if I don't do it, I mean the real, the relief involved, uh,
in performing in these highly charged times for people that do not feel like they, they they're hearing that or, or that it's out there that they can just do that.
It's amazing.
This fear comes down on people, especially from an administration that really has no desire to unify anybody.
If you're, if you're going to unify the United States,
In the situation we're in now, that means shut up and, you know, get on board or just shut up.
That's you know, that's the story.
You know, we thrive on the fear and pain of the people we've othered and we really expect them to get in line or disappear.
So, I don't know.
It's not even that I'm necessarily a courageous person, but I can't do it any other way.
And if I don't do it the way I do it, then I feel like, what are you, some kind of fucking coward?
Just do the jokes.
Do the jokes.
And then there was talking in the room, and it was one of those nights where it's a 15-minute set, man.
And I got upset.
It's just like, just respect the situation.
All this crowd work bullshit that's on, you know, on these apps and all these comics that have made crowd work their thing.
You know, then the audience expects that they can be part of it like that.
And I just, I don't have any patience for it.
And I snapped.
I snapped like it was 1982.
Why that year?
That wouldn't even be the year.
I snapped like it was 1987.
I snapped like it was 1990.
You don't see the snapping as much as you used to.
You know, I can feel it.
I don't feel good about it.
I don't feel good when I, you know, I lash out because like, it's just, you expect this respect as a performer.
That's really, for the most part, it's a 50-50 thing in a comedy club.
I mean, you know, people, whether they're drinking or they want to be part of it or whatever, but it's a high expectation.
To just expect people to listen and roll with it.
And if you're not their bag, just suck it up for 15 minutes.
But boy, I snapped and then that came out, that weird angry tone.
I got to work back from that.
But it was exciting.
I think a lot of people, it's one thing to laugh at a comic, but it's another thing to laugh and then all of a sudden be nervous and then maybe mad and then wonder,
how they're going to manage the situation.
And wow, this seems a little sad.
And then to sort of move through all these feelings in real time, the full arc of human emotion in a, in a 15 minute standup set.
Well, I don't know that that's everyone's audience.
That's every, I don't know that that's every audience's bag, but sometimes that's what happens, man.
Especially if it's not, you know, my people.
Hey, look, I'm not trying to be negative.
I'm just trying to be rational.
And I'm trying to use that rationality or what I see is really happening as a way to help me figure out how to exist in the world.
You know, hopefully something political will provide at least some resistance.
But it seems like, I don't know what...
I don't know what they're all doing, the Democrats and whatever the organized left is in relation to this country's problems.
But I don't know.
Look, I, you know, and I went out.
I went out there to... And also, some of you may be all right.
I'm okay right now.
But there's some people that are really going to be going through it.
A lot of fucking people in this country are really going to be going through it.
They're going to be terrified.
They're going to be without work.
They're going to be without an identity.
They're going to fall into themselves possibly...
Possibly get injured or murdered.
Who the fuck knows?
But there's no empathy, no tolerance, no respect or decency coming out of the power structure of this country.
And they joy in the pain they're causing.
So, I mean, on an individual level, I mean, all we can do is be there for the people we care about and help where we can.
Alright, this is interesting.
I didn't want to leave this in the episode, especially because it would have required adding a censored beep, which I'm going to add here, and you'll hear why.
They mention a person and then kind of question whether they should have brought that person's name up or not, and it's a fun back and forth with Mark and Bill Burr from episode 1610.
I really like this, but...
Really, there was just no way to have it in the episode without it being, you know, it would cause problems, too, because then everybody would be guessing, who's this person?
I'm going to tell you right now, there's no chance that you're going to know who this person is.
It's not a person who's really a public name.
But for that reason, it's even more important that we censored it and did not put it out there.
But I like the argument that the two of them have over whether or not they should have said the name in the first place.
Well, that, you know,
That was the show that gave me an acting career because up until then they just, I was in the redhead drawer and they just kept giving me all of the fucking, you know, Richie Cunningham type of shit.
And it just was, I was not vibing with any of them.
I mean, I could do it, but you get sick of being the, that guy after a while and I'm an asshole.
So it was just like.
Well, now you're good.
You got chops and you're doing all kinds of shit.
Reservation dogs.
That was good.
Yeah.
So that's all like because of Vince Gilligan and all of those guys taking a chance.
They took a chance on a lot of comedians.
Yeah.
You know, a lot of, you know, people forget it.
I think at this point that like, you know, Bob was one of the great standouts.
Like I remember the first time I saw him was he did the A-list on Comedy Central.
Sure, sure.
And I was like, who the fuck is this?
This guy's hilarious.
Yeah, yeah.
And then right after that, Mr. Show.
Yeah.
And David Cross was another guy.
Like that first wave of those guys that started those rooms.
Yeah.
Like you guys were on, like when I went down, I used to go to, I used to go to that place across some canters.
Largo.
Largo.
Yeah.
I used to go to that one.
And then I would go to eating it and everything.
And it was like, there was so many, like some of the people like, yeah, love that guy.
Well, he became a little weird.
We're all weird, but he's out.
He's out.
Like he made a bunch of money on a, like a series of holiday in commercials and he bought a farm.
So he's kind of out there.
He's, you know, farming.
Yeah.
I think yes.
What's wrong with that?
Nothing.
That's kind of amazing.
There's very few people that decide when they're done with show business.
Usually show business decides.
Yeah.
And you're like, wait, it's over?
Yeah.
He's a little odd politically, but he's maybe slightly anti-Semitic.
I got to be, the more you're saying it, well, oh, anti-Semitic, I don't go to that word, but like, why would you say that?
On your podcast.
Don't put that out there.
Okay, we can take it out.
I'm just saying, is he, well, wait a minute.
All right.
No, I forgot you're Jewish.
So then if you're saying that, then it holds water.
But I just, if you're like a fellow Gentile, I think he might be this.
No, no, no, no.
This is confirmed.
When I feel bad, I said his name.
If you don't mind cutting that out.
We can cut it all out.
The f***ing stuff.
Yeah.
I still like the guy.
Just some people turn a certain way and, you know, you hold on to what's good and you let go of the other stuff.
I know.
There are so many people that, like, I just, you know, when I hear it, sometimes they'll say things and it's just like, have you ever just thought about, like, maybe taking a couple days off the internet?
Yeah.
No, no, I mean, like, it's a very hard.
Because no matter what you think, no matter how fucked up a thought you have, there is a website that agrees with you.
Sure, of course.
But, like, you know, we know guys, and it's like there are certain, you know, I've taken certain stands on this or that.
But, I mean, ultimately, even if you know somebody who doesn't think like you, you know, we're all still in the game here.
And, you know, there's other parts to them.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I was trying to be diplomatic.
No, I, yeah, I, listen, Hey dude, you know, it's not really my nature and I, and I can't say that I act on that all the time and I'm a fucking loud mouth and I've definitely, you know, so you're nice to animals and you play guitar and there's other aspects of it.
Yeah.
And I'm not, I'm not a fucking monster.
All right.
This is kind of a rerun in a monologue.
And because of that, I didn't want to put it in.
But this story always makes me laugh.
It's Mark telling the story about how he and Louis C.K.
watched a video of the farting preacher many years ago.
I know this story came up before.
I know that it's funny.
And I.
I just didn't want to have it be so redundant for listeners who have heard it before, but I know that people who are here on the full Marin, you like all things, Mark, you probably want to hear a different way that he told this story and the context in which he told it.
So here it is from episode 16, 15 with Demi Moore.
You got to find those funny things.
There was a, an amazing moment back in the day.
I don't know if I told this story, but it's, it's kind of helpful, especially dealing with the, uh,
Authoritarian dread.
You know, you got to get some yucks.
But years ago, back when we were starting out, probably a little after that, I was over at an earlier version of Louis C.K.
Well, yeah, I was over at C.K.
's apartment.
And he was obviously doing much better than me.
Nice apartment, Chelsea.
But I remember...
It's a good moment.
I told Knoxville this moment.
I don't know if you remember that, those VHSs were going around.
This is pre-internet.
And it was a VHS of, I think the guy's name was Bob Tilton, who's an evangelical preacher.
And someone had made this cut, what do you call it, a super cut or a mashup of all little bits and pieces of his sermons because he was a very animated guy.
And the faces would then be, there was a bunch of fart noises.
It made him look like he was farting because he made these faces that were fart faces.
And it was like, you know, there are a lot of them around on the Internet now.
But but this is the first time it was around and it was kind of being passed around on VHS.
And I remember I was with Louis and we're watching it.
And the first time you see something like that, it's really probably the funniest thing you'll ever see in your fucking life.
And I just remember like he cut it off.
He stopped it before it finished.
He's like, I got to put it away.
I'm like, what are you talking about, man?
It's so funny.
He goes, yeah, but I want to, I want it to stay funny.
So, and I, and I think that was kind of a, that was a, that was a smart thing.
Cause like a lot of times when you, you have things that make you laugh and,
You can't watch them too often.
Sometimes you can only watch them once, but you got to pace them out.
Got to treat yourself once a year, twice a year.
So two examples coming up here of stuff in monologues where I just needed to cut things down and get to the point.
The Ariana Grande episode, whenever it's an episode with someone with a very large outside fan base, I always kind of want to get to the point a little faster.
And this was, you know, about seven minutes of marks that I just felt like I had to cut out
so that we could get to the interview in a fairly decent amount of time.
And then with episode 1617 with James Mangold, there was just so much about these walnut oils and supplements.
You heard it in the episode.
I didn't think you needed all this additional material.
So this part has been cut out, but I'm going to include it here for you just so you can hear what it was that he said.
How's it going out there?
I'll be honest with you.
It's been a busy week.
I'm recording this, obviously, usually a day before you listen to it.
I'm fucking exhausted because I don't know how to go to sleep.
It's not that I can't go to sleep.
I just don't know how to go to sleep until I'm completely depleted.
And I'm doing like a lot of jobs.
Hold on.
Keys.
Keys.
Making noise.
Keys.
Keys.
Put them away.
There you go.
Make sure your phone's off.
How about that?
Come on.
Be professional.
What's with all these fucking little bugs?
The little bugs in my fridge and then the larger winged bugs that eat all of my Pendleton shirts.
Those fuckers, those fucking moths.
I mean, they just eat it.
They'll eat your fucking shirts and your sweaters, anything wool.
Nothing you don't know.
There's some things I have to keep learning as an adult.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's true.
But what I was saying, I was tired because I just stay up.
And I do I do like three lives in one day, do an interview, do the gym, you know, then break kind of then do the comedy, two jobs, not complaining.
But I can't I can't just go to sleep.
But I've been watching movies.
Anyway, I don't want to ramble too much before setting up this guest I have.
Ariana Grande.
Soon.
It's going to happen.
Right here.
But I listen to the songs.
And I like it.
I like her.
I like the songs.
I get it.
It's weird.
I'm starting to realize I don't know what I'm doing now.
With my time, I guess I'm usually working, but I don't listen to a ton of music.
Yeah, at the gym I do it.
I've been listening to generally metal at the gym, but also just nothing.
I don't know if it's because of what's going on in the world or what's going on on my phone, but lately I'm opting for just staying in the room I'm in and being sort of aware and connected to it.
And I find that time passes by even quicker that way.
Sometimes when you're at the gym or something and you listen to a song, you know how long the song is and it doesn't help you kind of get through it without acknowledging the time.
But if you just let your own brain generate based on your surroundings, sometimes the time just flies by.
Thank God I do this for a living.
Both the things I do are intensely connected to other people.
They require other people.
And they require my being present and in relationship with other people.
And I'm finding as I...
get older, but I always knew this about my life, but I think I've lost touch with it.
I need other people.
I need to be around other people, even anonymously, not necessarily talking to them, just around other people.
I've been feeling a bit lonely and a bit detached lately.
And I've been craving just, you know, my social life is limited.
I, you know, I talk to people here like today, you know, my social life is limited to talking to Ariana Grande, which is a great thing.
You know, we're not going to hang out or anything.
And it's just an interview or a conversation more likely.
Yeah.
But then like, you know, but that's part of my job and part of my life is to interact with people that do the comedy.
And that's going to go how it's going to go.
And I see my buddies at the comedy store, watch some other comics, walk around, you know, feel the history of the place and my history in it.
But lately, I've just been like, I got to go out and be around people more.
Got to do things.
I got to be around the people.
I've got to reconfigure my life.
Some people have dinner parties.
I don't know what that's about.
I've had them in my life, but I feel like it seems like right now that you should probably be around other people.
I think I've said this before just to stay out of your own fucking brain.
Like I did two shows at the comedy store the other night and I'm like, you know, what am I going to go home and do?
Just sit there and eat chocolate and watch a movie that I think I'm not going to watch all the way through.
Or why don't you just go to Cantor's, go to Cantor's deli by yourself.
Just go there and sit.
It's one of the few places that's open late.
It's its own thing.
Yeah.
You know, it's not some chain restaurant.
It's not some sort of cathedral of sadness, of just people stuffing their holes with, you know, weird fast food.
It's a real place with a real history.
And usually there's people there.
And I went there and I sat alone.
And I noticed that there were a lot of, not a lot of other people, but definitely a few people there just alone eating their, uh, deli food, but not looking sad, just, you know, out among people, get out of your phone, get out of your couch, get out of your TV.
And I'm a guy that cooks and I have a lot of stuff at home, but just to be in the living, breathing social fabric of a restaurant and
that is open late and crowded with all kinds of different people, people coming from other places, people coming from whatever they did earlier, people coming for dessert.
Looked like there was a few actual, I don't know, whenever I see a few old guys that look tough just having some food at a restaurant, I'm like, that's a mob situation.
But it's not.
It's just some old guys eating.
But I was able to just hang out
And they, you know, all the weight people there are very interesting and seem to have a history.
I ended up striking up a conversation with some guy who knew my friend Mike.
And then the table across from me, we ended up talking about the movie business.
I didn't know them, but that was my life.
I think it made me think about how I live my life.
It's always been in relation to other people.
I used to just, when I was a comic star now in New York, I would just wander around all day and I had stops I would make to talk to the people that worked at the place.
Bookstores, record stores, guitar shops.
That was like my day.
I'm going to go over to the bookstore, talk to Pete.
Then I'm going to go see Chris over at Mojo Guitar.
Maybe I'll go see Andy over at Venus Records.
And then maybe I'll go down to Two Boots and talk to Lisa.
Whatever the fuck it was, that was my day.
I got a notebook and I've got some stops to make to check in with the humans that I know kind of who work at places that interest me.
I did that my whole life.
In high school, I'd go to the Living Batch bookstore, sit around there, talk to old Gus.
I'd go over to the guitar shop next to the Posh Bagel, talk to Mike and Jerry.
I'd go over to wherever, man, the record store, talk to Steve or what was that guy's name, Don, I think.
And, you know, that was always what I did.
is wander around talking to people that I kind of knew that did things or worked at places that were interesting to me.
I guess I've been heading towards the life I live for most of my life.
Wow, the arc of a day, huh?
What day is it?
Do you know what day it is?
When are you listening to this?
My sense of time, I don't know, man.
Every day is like a week when you're self-employed and you have several jobs.
I'm just taking like, oh, my God, it doesn't matter.
Not complaining.
I make my living by things coming out of my mouth.
How can I complain?
I guess they start in my head, but then they come out of my mouth.
But what has been happening?
I'm trying to figure something out.
And I don't know about the efficacy.
Is that the word I want?
Efficacy?
I like the word efficacy.
I hope that's the right word.
I don't know about the efficacy.
of supplements.
And I know there's a whole world where you just hang your hopes on supplements.
Obviously, it's a huge business.
Nobody likes going to the doctor.
Everybody wants to believe.
I don't know.
At some point, the belief must run out.
You're not going to beat death.
And you're probably not going to beat your genetic personal, your personal genetic prophecy.
Is that the word I want?
You're not going to outrun your genetics.
So at some point, you're probably going to have to engage traditional medicine with
I mean, Western medicine to deal with the with with the last stages of decay, certainly, if you choose to do that.
But, you know, maybe you break something.
You don't want to.
There just seems to be a movement here where you're you're kind of out back with an axe.
And you want to be sort of having somebody cut you a couple of splints that you'll wrap your broken tibia with some sort of cotton fabric that you've woven yourself.
Perhaps you broke your leg cooking on a rock out there in the wilderness.
And you just kind of make do and hope you don't get gangrene.
I'm rambling a bit and I'm certainly not.
Look, I enjoy watching reels of guys cooking on rocks outdoors, but it does seem there's a lot of preparation involved.
The idea of like cooking outside on a rock or in a pan with a fire in a rock, whatever it is.
that they never really cut away to the jeep with the cooler and the oils and everything needed it's not like hey man i just caught this steak and oddly it was already a bone-in ribeye when i got here it's weird it's just a meadow full of bone-in ribeyes running around in the wild but
I'm rambling, but I do have a question, and maybe I'll get some feedback from people that aren't doctors, which is obviously what I'm looking for.
I want speculative feedback from people who believe in things that may or may not be real when it comes to supplements.
Now, I've really taken down my supplement load.
You know, I've gone in and out.
I've lived a long time.
And it turns out I've gone through, you know, a lot of different supplements.
I've gone through a lot of different things.
There are things I have in my closet where I'm like, how are these so worn out?
What period of time did I wear these?
How old was I?
Enough years have gone by where I'm like, oh, my God, these jeans are just totally worn out.
I can't even remember when I wore them.
But needless to say, I've gone through a lot of periods of commitment to types of cooking, to supplements, to pants, to boots, to shirts, to hats, to earrings when I was younger, to rings, eyeglasses.
I lock in.
I need things to be made well.
And even the stuff that isn't made well, sometimes I'll just pace myself and pull it out of rotation for a while and not wear it.
Chickpeas.
That's the other thing.
I'm telling you.
I'm telling you.
Look, I don't want this to be a food-based thing.
But I've read some stuff recently, and I've talked about it before.
I'm telling you.
Chickpeas, walnut oil, magnesium, potassium, aspartate, I think is what it's called.
I think this is the jam.
I think that's where it's at.
Flax.
I put some flax in the oats too.
Occasionally some hemp seeds.
All right.
And we're going to end this with the beginnings.
These are the beginnings of the episodes with Demi Moore and Ariana Grande and James Mangold, where you've heard me say this before.
Sometimes Mark turns the microphones on and we're really kind of waiting for an in point for somewhere where we can start the actual episode.
So
Here's the stuff that happened before the mics were turned on.
Even with the Demi Moore, you'll hear a little bit of things that I actually kept in the episode.
But overall, this chunk was taken out, and that's the same for Ariana Grande and James Mangold.
For the one that hit Laurel Canyon?
So that one, you know, my oldest daughter had to be evacuated, the sunset one.
Yeah.
But, you know, when it was getting closer to the 405 in Getty, I'm just on the other side of that.
Oh.
But having no power.
Like, that's the thing.
All of those things that we just normally don't.
You freak out.
It's like, did you have, like, stuff?
Yeah.
Like, you know, flashlight?
I mean, I had flashlight, but was I really prepared?
No.
It makes you very, very clearly aware of how prepared you actually are.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm making sure my devices are turned off.
I am.
And we're finally doing this.
I know.
I mean, this has been quite a journey.
You had COVID the first time.
Is that what happened?
Yeah.
My fault?
No.
Well, not your fault.
I mean, geez.
I know.
I was right.
I kind of remember that.
And then there was supposed to be another time that didn't happen.
And then what happened?
I think.
Well, because of the fires.
Yeah.
Right.
So it's COVID fires.
And now we're here.
Here we are.
Yeah.
How many devices do you have?
As you can hear, I'm a little bit more hoarse than I normally am because... Why?
I just had like... So much stuff?
I think respiratory.
Really?
I just think I picked a little something up and then I traveled.
I went to Europe.
You just got back from Europe?
Yeah.
And then I go back...
Tuesday?
Monday?
It's a very exciting time.
Hey.
God.
All right.
I may pull my contact out and be in glasses.
That's more my norm.
Yeah.
Do whatever you got to do.
Okay.
Here, I'll do, like, these are, like, I'll pull out all the props.
Her water bottle.
What is that?
Oh, the doggy.
Yes.
I saw that dog on Graham Norton.
She is... Real star.
She is a superstar.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
And what's the process of the contacts?
Nothing.
I just have to try to pinch it out, you know?
You just wear one?
Yep.
One contact.
Yeah.
We'll see if it comes out easy enough, but yeah.
I can never do it.
I only do it if I'm like working and it doesn't get dry.
Did you get it?
Almost.
This is like watching the movie.
And it doesn't give me full vision.
I mean, the one eye works.
What is it with the one eye?
Right.
I'm only left-eyed.
I have only partial vision.
In your right eye?
And my eyes, my brain stopped asking my right eye to work when I was a kid.
And so I had a wandering eye.
It's been that long?
Yeah.
I had a wandering eye as a kid.
Yeah.
You know, is there tissue in there?
It's empty.
All right, I'm going to put that in there.
The old contact?
Yeah.
Is that okay?
Yeah, it's okay with me.
Okay.
Yeah, I mean, so what, I mean, I got up, like, I'm still sweating from the gym.
It takes me an hour to stop sweating.
I don't know what that is.
I don't know if it's age or what.
Or just a really hard workout.
Or just a run.
I don't know what that blue line is on those Kleenexes.
I think they are, oh, I thought they were going to have some sort of like Vicks.
Oh, special ones.
But no, it's just an artistic choice.
Wait, may I use your hand sanitizer?
Sure.
Just because I'm like, I have this little weird cold thing and I'm so anxious to touch anything.
But you have so many cool trinkets that I'm like, wow.
The old garage had much more.
Yeah, this is just like weird bits and pieces.
Your little turtle was upside down and I fixed him.
That's right.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
Yeah, you're welcome.
Yeah, there's little trinkets and then some people play with them, some people don't.
I don't know how to do that stuff.
Have a second house.
No, the whole who's watching what shit and who's taking care of the pets when you're going from here to there.
It makes me, it is literally, I mean, doing what I'm doing now, it's the nightmare.
Just how am I getting my kid to school on this day?
How am I going to, just the, no one, everyone imagines, you know,
It's worse than making a movie where at least it's a block of time and you're away.
Right.
This is like, you know, this event, that event.
It's all random.
Well, it causes me a tremendous amount of anxiety.
Me too.
But you seem to have a way of managing it.
I don't know.
I manage making movies.
The selling movies is harder to manage because it's not.
Do you want to put those on?
Sure.
And you can move that in there.
Pull it in to you.
Yeah, good.
Testing, testing.
I don't hear anything.
Maybe I'm not plugged in.
Oh, is that true?
You don't hear anything?
Not a thing.
Not a thing.
Huh.
How about now?
Anything?
No.
Where are we?
That's very odd.
Hold on.
I've been having some... I'll get you.
Anything now?
There, now.
Oh, yeah?
You're up, yeah.
Interesting.
What did you do?
I just turned on the volume knob.
But I don't... It doesn't matter.
All right, that'll do it for Producer Cuts this month.
And we'll be back next month with more from February and March.
I notice sometimes I'm cutting less out that's going into Producer Cuts.
Maybe Mark is getting wise to me.
He's getting more judicious in what he says on the air and on the mics.
But whatever he says that I can't include in the episode, but I really want you to hear, you will hear it on Producer Cuts next month.
Thanks for being here.