BONUS Producer Cuts - Cynthia Erivo, Mo Mandel, Steve Furey and more

Episode 733890 • Released December 24, 2024 • Speakers not detected

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00:00:06Okay, Full Marin listeners.
00:00:08Hi, it's Brendan, and this is Producer Cuts time.
00:00:11Everything you're going to hear is from the month of November.
00:00:13These were things that I had to cut out of the show for whatever reason, and on Producer Cuts, I tell you why those had to go, and then I let you hear them.
00:00:21And we're going to start off with Mo Mandel from episode 1588, and if you've heard these before, you know the deal.
00:00:28Sometimes the mic gets turned on, and Mark and the guest are in the
00:00:32And this one, you know, Mark was kind of distracted.
00:00:34He was doing something with the recording.
00:00:36And Mo told, I thought, a pretty good story, but I kind of had to lose it here because it wasn't tethered to anything.
00:00:42And then they actually started.
00:00:44So we didn't get this into the episode, but I'm glad to bring it to you now here on the Producer Cuts.
00:00:48Right.
00:00:48How is it in your ears?
00:00:51How's that sound?
00:00:52Yeah, it sounds good.
00:00:53It does, right?
00:00:54So they fixed it, I guess?
00:00:56I fixed it.
00:00:56You fixed it.
00:00:57I'm very limited, but it doesn't matter.
00:01:02What happened?
00:01:03So you were talking about how your producer, no one had told you the headphones were messed up.
00:01:06So one time, me and this friend of mine, somehow we got an action movie pitch with Jason Momoa.
00:01:12We get to pitch him this movie that we have idea for.
00:01:15Right after Aquaman comes out.
00:01:17So he couldn't be bigger.
00:01:19So we're pumped up.
00:01:20We're just pumping ourselves up for this pitch.
00:01:21We get on, and he's on his way back from set in Alaska.
00:01:27So he's just like, hey, what's up?
00:01:31I love that it's just breaking up the whole time.
00:01:34And his agent is also on the call, and they're not being like, hey, Jason, we can't really hear you.
00:01:39No one's saying anything.
00:01:40They don't want to piss him off.
00:01:41So we're just having to hear his feedback to the pitch.
00:01:44And we're looking at each other around the intercom, and William Morris is like, what is he?
00:01:49We don't know what he's saying.
00:01:50He's like, yeah.
00:01:51And then my character, I'll get in there.
00:01:54And then it ended like a half hour later, like,
00:01:56Did he like it?
00:01:57Did we get the gig?
00:01:58We talked to his agent or whoever it was, and we were like, so why didn't, like, you guys heard that, right?
00:02:03They're like, sounded good to us.
00:02:04That was on your connection.
00:02:05I'm like, no, it wasn't.
00:02:06They're already blaming you.
00:02:09Yeah, it was like, no one wanted to say, Aquaman, we can't hear you.
00:02:12Yeah, now I'm going to be nervous about the levels.
00:02:17But I think I got it.
00:02:18I think I got it correct.
00:02:20It sounds great.
00:02:20It sounds good to you and your ears.
00:02:22Well, I'm glad we solved that problem.
00:02:23Thank God.
00:02:23But the recording is really a bigger issue.
00:02:28But it looks like it's happening.
00:02:29And I'm backed up.
00:02:30And I don't know, dude.
00:02:31I'm tired of it.
00:02:32Hold on a minute.
00:02:33OK, as I mentioned, these are producer cuts from the month of November and post-election.
00:02:38You know, Mark, I think he had about two episodes to kind of really say how he felt after the election happened.
00:02:44And then I noticed it was just kind of bleeding into every monologue.
00:02:47And, you know, we're trying to give people a break from the election stuff and the politics stuff.
00:02:53I mean, obviously, it's part of Mark's life and his thoughts and his process.
00:02:58But I don't think we had to keep all of this stuff in every episode.
00:03:01And I listened back and I'm glad we took this out.
00:03:03But I also do think that those of you who are in tune with Mark, you know, you understand him.
00:03:09You might think the same things he's thinking here.
00:03:11Maybe this brings you some relief or brings you some companionship, knowing that somebody else is thinking about these things.
00:03:17I just thought we were now into episode 1591 with Josh Brolin, and he had plenty of time in the episodes before this to have talked about the election.
00:03:28I think it was time to move on.
00:03:29I cut this stuff out, but there is some funny stuff in this, and I think you'll enjoy it.
00:03:33I don't know.
00:03:33You know, I think that my brain is okay for a few reasons.
00:03:38Maybe I should share them.
00:03:39I think that I got one, at least one email.
00:03:43It's so funny when you engage with...
00:03:45With an email or DM or something that somehow that represents the world.
00:03:53One guy, one guy emailed me to say I sound a little hopeless and that there's still so much work to be done.
00:04:03Yeah, I understand.
00:04:05I'm not trying to sound hopeless.
00:04:07I'm just trying to kind of find a level at which I can exist in the world as it is in terms of what is happening.
00:04:17But I'm trying to make a distinction between what is happening on my phone and what is happening in my life.
00:04:23And I check in.
00:04:24You know, the clown show has started.
00:04:26But we've all been through this once before.
00:04:29And I know, I know, I know.
00:04:30Every time I say this, it's like, yeah, but now it's different.
00:04:33Now it's there's no guardrails.
00:04:35Yeah, I know.
00:04:36I know.
00:04:37But it is going to be what it's going to be.
00:04:39It is the clown show has begun.
00:04:42How people can take huge government jobs that are major responsibilities without any fucking qualifications at all is amazing to me.
00:04:51It doesn't shock me that Trump would appoint or nominate a Fox News host for secretary of defense.
00:05:02It doesn't surprise me.
00:05:03But that guy could be like, oh, yeah, yeah, no problem.
00:05:07What's he going to do on the first day of work?
00:05:10So what's the coffee situation?
00:05:12What do you got at pods or you got, what are we doing here?
00:05:15Is there a machine?
00:05:16Is there a place that orders to, can I just order it?
00:05:20I mean, what is that guy going to, how would you take that job?
00:05:26Christy Noem, the Homeland Security chief.
00:05:31How does she just go like, yeah, thank you.
00:05:32Thank you for the job.
00:05:33It's like, you can't do the job.
00:05:36I guess people just take jobs they can't do.
00:05:38But whatever.
00:05:38I'm not going to get hung up on it.
00:05:41This is the clown show.
00:05:43We've been through it before.
00:05:44It's the clown clusterfuck of whatever's going to happen.
00:05:48And I'm, look, I'm doing what I can.
00:05:53I don't mean to sound hopeless or bleak, but I've got to figure out a way to wrangle my brain to exist in a mode that is not going to just be this sort of constant checking of the phone, checking of the news, dopamine jacks, followed by like horrendous pain.
00:06:21Vibes.
00:06:22I'm not going to do it.
00:06:23I'm not going to, you know, I don't know how much longer I'm going to fucking live.
00:06:28And it's bad.
00:06:29I hope that this is all worth the price of milk.
00:06:33This fucking clown show and this fucking administration of pain.
00:06:38You know, just thousands of families are going to be broken up.
00:06:44Just wrestled or dragged out of their homes.
00:06:48Oh, my God.
00:06:51Christians are going to run the schools.
00:06:54I mean, I hope that price of milk comes down.
00:06:57That was worth it.
00:06:58I hope everything was worth whatever you voted for.
00:07:05Eggs are too expensive.
00:07:07Hey, it's small price to pay.
00:07:08The pain of thousands and the restrictions of thousands more.
00:07:16I just hope those eggs come down.
00:07:18Look, I'm not going to get hung up on it.
00:07:20Not going to do it.
00:07:21Look, man, I don't know.
00:07:22Culturally, it's bad news.
00:07:24You know, it's full of emboldened, unfuckable hate nerds and Nazi dorks.
00:07:32I'm very scared for women.
00:07:34It's going to get kind of rapey out there because all these guys who feel like they're part of some victory lap with a bunch of toxic fucks, you know, somehow think that that's going to get them laid.
00:07:44It's probably not.
00:07:45It just might get a little rapey out there.
00:07:47So keep your wits about you.
00:07:50More than usual.
00:07:53I hope I can say that, but I'm going to say it.
00:07:55Also, I just got, you know, a dispatch from a fan who, you know, who kind of added on to what I was saying the last episode, which I think is...
00:08:06Good to think about.
00:08:08Hi, Mark, longtime fan and listener here.
00:08:10I'm behind on the episodes, yada, yada.
00:08:12I really appreciate your opening message, November 7th.
00:08:14Okay, a bit at the end about this new majority.
00:08:19This new majority, quote-unquote, gave me pause.
00:08:23If this new majority is referring to Trump voters, I am writing to share some good news.
00:08:27They are not the majority.
00:08:28And knowing that certainly has helped me.
00:08:30Here are some breakdowns.
00:08:31And I like these breakdowns.
00:08:33Not majority of registered voters.
00:08:3564.5% equals the estimated number of registered voters that turned out.
00:08:4250.2% equals popular vote for Trump equates to 32.4% of voters.
00:08:4848.1% equals popular vote for Harris equates 31% of voters.
00:08:5566.5%, roughly the number of people in terms of registered voters that did not vote for Trump.
00:09:03He did barely get a majority of the people who were registered and did vote in this particular election, but over 35% of registered voters did not this time.
00:09:12Not majority of people.
00:09:15And she breaks down some more numbers.
00:09:1675,596,627 votes.
00:09:21Trump votes, same sources above, of 348,112,568 U.S.
00:09:29population source.
00:09:30So that equals 21.8% of the U.S.
00:09:33voted for Trump.
00:09:34Well, that's kind of reassuring, right?
00:09:39That 78.1% of our fellow humans did not vote for Trump.
00:09:45You know, sometimes, you know, I wasn't great at math, but, you know, you ask yourself, well, how does math really factor into my life?
00:09:52Well, I just got a little buzz from that.
00:09:55And that's not a bad way to look at things.
00:09:56I went and did comedy the other night.
00:09:59I guess it was.
00:09:59Was it?
00:09:59No, it was the second time since the election.
00:10:04You know, and you just, you know, I got to stay open, but I got to stay vigilant.
00:10:09You know, I got to, if I get any Nazi dorks who are going to speak up or people who are going to get riled because this is their guy and they were willing to sacrifice the stability of the world for whatever reason.
00:10:24So they could say words they want to say, which they could have said anyways, or because they wanted the price of meat to come down.
00:10:31Willing to sacrifice the stability of the world.
00:10:34Because of one issue.
00:10:38I bet you they're checked out now.
00:10:40Checked out.
00:10:40We did it.
00:10:41We did it.
00:10:42All right.
00:10:42And the same thing happened in the next episode.
00:10:44This is episode 1592 with Cynthia Erivo.
00:10:47Mark with more stuff he was thinking post-election.
00:10:51And it's stuff that I thought was probably best saved for here on The Producer Cuts.
00:10:55How's it feeling?
00:10:56How's the trauma reprieve, post-trauma reprieve going for you?
00:11:04I don't know, man.
00:11:05I've just kind of pulled out.
00:11:09I've kind of pulled out a bit.
00:11:11Not taking in any think pieces by non thinkers.
00:11:15Think pieces by people who were fucking wrong.
00:11:17Think pieces by people who blame.
00:11:20Think pieces by people who have big ideas about how everything should be fixed.
00:11:26Think pieces.
00:11:27Fuck them.
00:11:28They were all wrong.
00:11:30Everyone was wrong.
00:11:32But look, hey, I'm living my life.
00:11:35I don't know.
00:11:36It's interesting talking to people how they're putting things into perspective.
00:11:40There's nothing more disturbing than the peers that I know who were adamantly against Trump and paralyzed with fear about a presidency involving that guy and the way they're kind of
00:11:59And rationalizing it now is like, oh, yeah, it's going to be awful.
00:12:01But I think my portfolio is going to do OK.
00:12:05Oh, yeah, a small price to pay the pain of thousands.
00:12:09I hope that portfolio is OK.
00:12:11It's a good spin.
00:12:13You know, it's a nice, selfish spin.
00:12:15It's right up there with I got to get out of here.
00:12:17Now, look, I know that I am one of those people that.
00:12:23Kind of tried to plan ahead to get a little permanent residency visa for Canada, which is not processed yet.
00:12:30I don't know if it ever will, but it did buy me some peace of mind.
00:12:32And it wasn't that I was going to jump ship immediately, only when I had to run.
00:12:37And I hope that'll become apparent.
00:12:41When do I got to run?
00:12:43And then that was what that was in preparation for.
00:12:45It wasn't like, well, fuck it, I'm going.
00:12:47I'm not that self-centered.
00:12:50But, man, hey, I might do well in the market, even though I hate what's happening.
00:12:56I think that's probably the main problem with all of the side of Democrats and progressives.
00:13:05Hey, it's going to be bad, but, you know, I'll probably be all right.
00:13:10Right.
00:13:10Yeah, wait for those books to come out.
00:13:13You know, how to survive and thrive in the new authoritarian America.
00:13:21Yeah, those ought to start coming out soon, right?
00:13:25Yeah, I mean, probably within the next year.
00:13:27Everyone's working the angle, man.
00:13:30What's the angle?
00:13:31Well, now is the time for some serious reflection and hand-wringing.
00:13:37Day-to-day panic.
00:13:38That's the work you do.
00:13:40What do you got going?
00:13:41I'm just staying informed and staying terrified.
00:13:46Good times.
00:13:47Now it's really time to sort of buckle down and get that work done on a local level.
00:13:52Sure, it's always that time.
00:13:55But, you know, treating this as just another election cycle.
00:14:01Look, hey, maybe I'll be wrong.
00:14:03Maybe it's just, yeah, we'll get through it.
00:14:05You know, it's just another presidency.
00:14:08Don't feel like that.
00:14:09How to survive and thrive in the new authoritarian America.
00:14:14How to learn how to do your own gardening.
00:14:17How to learn how to clean your own house.
00:14:21Now, also in that episode, 1592, Mark did a total redo of a story that he had already told.
00:14:27And this happens sometimes.
00:14:28Sometimes he just forgets what he's already said on the mic and what he hasn't.
00:14:32Sometimes, especially he forgets if he's doing stuff on stage and he can't remember if he's done it on stage or the podcast or both or whatever.
00:14:41So this is just a time for you to hear what I hear.
00:14:44Mark telling a story again with minor variations.
00:14:47You have already heard this story.
00:14:49So don't think you're having deja vu.
00:14:51Here's the interesting moment I had with Charlie the asshole.
00:14:55Charlie the cat.
00:14:57Charlie's my youngest.
00:14:58And he's just, he is so fucking cat.
00:15:02He does all the cat things, bad and good.
00:15:05He's just a fucker.
00:15:06But he's, you know, he's a lovable fucker.
00:15:09You know, like, he's not lovable until like four in the morning.
00:15:12And then all of a sudden he's on my head.
00:15:14That's where he, that's the affection time for Charlie.
00:15:17The rest of the day, just full on cat asshole.
00:15:19But, so I had this moment.
00:15:21Where, look, I like those scrunchie balls and I usually have a lot of them around, but then eventually they all disappear.
00:15:27But, you know, the scrunchie balls and Charlie will actually fetch.
00:15:30He'll go get it and he'll fetch it and he'll play with it.
00:15:32And I like watching that cat play with a ball.
00:15:37It's part of being a cat owner, enjoying watching the cat play with the ball.
00:15:43But one thing I know about Charles is that no matter where in my house I play with that ball, if I take the ball out and I start playing with him, even if it's upstairs, within like seven, eight minutes, the ball will end up under the stove.
00:15:56I don't know how it happens.
00:15:58I don't know why it happens.
00:15:59I think it might be on purpose.
00:16:01This probably leans that way.
00:16:05But always under the stove within, you know, eight, 10 minutes.
00:16:10So I'm on my knees with the broom and the broom stick and my iPhone light.
00:16:17And I'm leaning my head on the floor and trying to get the ball out from under the stove.
00:16:24And I'm doing that, and I notice Charlie's just sitting there.
00:16:28I had this moment where I'm like, holy shit, Charlie likes watching me play with the ball seemingly as much as I like him playing with the ball.
00:16:36It was a reciprocity moment.
00:16:37It was an even playing field kind of thing.
00:16:39I'm like, okay, this goes both ways.
00:16:43Well, I hope you're enjoying this as I tried to get the ball out from under the stove with a broomstick.
00:16:51I think I'm going to hopefully, you know, the time balance is still me watching him play with the ball less than he watches me.
00:17:00Not so much play with it, but retrieve it mildly, angrily.
00:17:09And in that episode, in the talk with Cynthia Erivo, there was a little discussion about the movie Bad Times at the El Royale.
00:17:17And I just felt like if you had never seen that movie, you really wouldn't know what they were talking about there.
00:17:23But maybe some of you listening to this have seen that movie and you're like me and you really like that movie.
00:17:28So I enjoyed hearing this stuff.
00:17:30I just thought it wasn't great for a full audience.
00:17:33So this right now is about a two and a half minute clip.
00:17:36And it's really just for people who have seen the movie Bad Times at the El Royale.
00:17:41So sorry to the rest of you, but for all you other folks out there who are like me and really like that movie, I think you'll enjoy this.
00:17:47That role that you played was some amazing acting.
00:17:51Thank you.
00:17:52Because you had to draw from this faith idea.
00:17:55And then, like, that monologue you give to—what's his name?
00:17:58To Chris?
00:17:59Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:18:01That—
00:18:02That was like so crazy good.
00:18:05Thank you.
00:18:06Can I tell you a story about that?
00:18:08That was not there.
00:18:09That was not there.
00:18:10Come on.
00:18:10That was not there originally.
00:18:11And I said to Drew, Drew, I just don't think she would let this.
00:18:17I don't think she would let herself die without giving this man something.
00:18:22I just don't think she would be like, okay.
00:18:25I think she wouldn't turn to God.
00:18:27I wouldn't know.
00:18:27I think it's I think it's now.
00:18:29I think she she's had it with everyone.
00:18:32She's had it from everyone and she's had it with everyone.
00:18:35She's sick of it.
00:18:36She's sick of all of these men telling her what to do, what to wear, how she should be.
00:18:41What have all of it?
00:18:42She's over it.
00:18:43And I think this is the final moment where I think she believes she's going to die.
00:18:47And I think if she believes she's going to die, she's going to say something to this guy.
00:18:51Because there's no way the last breath on earth is going to be dictated by this man.
00:18:56So we have to give her something.
00:18:59So I wrote a little something and I sent it to Drew.
00:19:03And I was like, this is kind of the sentiment.
00:19:06And he came back and gave me this speech.
00:19:08And that's where it came from.
00:19:09It was so good because I bet you acting that with him must have been so rewarding because, like, his face just like.
00:19:19It's brilliant.
00:19:19I loved it.
00:19:21It was great.
00:19:23And he knew.
00:19:24He knew.
00:19:24And the way he bounces back from it, like, he doesn't even know what to do with it.
00:19:28Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:19:29Oh, it was some movie.
00:19:30And that kid was good, too.
00:19:32She was, you know.
00:19:33Kaylee.
00:19:34Sweetheart.
00:19:35But that was a crazy role.
00:19:37I have never seen someone do a Manson girl.
00:19:41It's so perfect.
00:19:42And she's so young.
00:19:43She's so young.
00:19:44And she was really young.
00:19:46And the complete opposite of that girl.
00:19:49Just the sweetest little sweet.
00:19:52Acted the hell out of it.
00:19:53Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:19:53Fun movie.
00:19:54Really fun to do.
00:19:55And that was the first film after all the musicals?
00:19:58OK, in the monologue from episode 1593 with Rosemary DeWitt, there was more stuff that Mark was talking about regarding the closet that he was cleaning out.
00:20:07And it segued into a discussion about his episode with Bobby Althoff, which he had just recorded maybe that day, maybe the day before.
00:20:15I forget.
00:20:16But that interview wasn't going to be airing for several weeks.
00:20:19I didn't think it was necessary to kind of like set it up here.
00:20:22And if anything, it might just be a little confusing.
00:20:24So I took that out.
00:20:26Now the Bobby Althoff interview has aired and I figured might as well leave this here for you to listen to on the producer cuts.
00:20:32So cleaning out the closets.
00:20:35It's good.
00:20:36I just got to move this stuff along.
00:20:38And you know, once you get it out, once you get that shit out of your house, whatever it is, it's like the same with sort of like buying something on a certain level.
00:20:47You know, once you own it, it's done.
00:20:49The deed is done.
00:20:50Once that stuff is gone, I'm not going to give a fuck.
00:20:53And I know that.
00:20:55But what am I holding on to?
00:20:57I held on to a fucked up old flannel shirt that I wore on my two real special.
00:21:02Look terrible.
00:21:04I'm keeping clothes that I wore on television that look terrible.
00:21:07I'm going to go through the suits next.
00:21:09I got stuff I haven't worn in decades.
00:21:12But there's this problem, man.
00:21:13Sometimes I just I'm like, those boots are I haven't worn them in 15 years.
00:21:18It's time to take them back out.
00:21:22But you can't hold on to everything with the idea that someday you'll be like, maybe I can go back to that me and live in that world.
00:21:31It's gone, baby.
00:21:32It's gone.
00:21:33Also, just aging in general.
00:21:37I just interviewed somebody who's...
00:21:41Bobby, is her name?
00:21:43Bobby Althoff.
00:21:44And it was great.
00:21:45And you'll hear it eventually.
00:21:46But she's in the new show business.
00:21:50There is it's absolutely a new show business.
00:21:52And I've spoken about it before.
00:21:54It's not a show business, not a show business hinged to what I came out of.
00:22:00The old school kind of TV model or however that worked.
00:22:05But that's gone now.
00:22:07And I realized, like, I don't know who the fuck anybody is anymore.
00:22:11I don't know half the comics that are out there.
00:22:13I don't know most of the music that's out there.
00:22:15And I got to be okay with that.
00:22:20I don't have any more room in my mind.
00:22:24And I'm just not in the loop.
00:22:25I only knew that stuff because I was around it.
00:22:27And like, I am not going to work to find out all this stuff, to figure out new ways of doing things necessarily in terms of technology and whatever.
00:22:36And it's not that I'm giving up.
00:22:38It's just, I think you get to a certain point and it's okay just to...
00:22:42work within the parameters of your tastes.
00:22:46You know, this kind of chasing, like, you know, every, like, I got to know what this is.
00:22:49I got to know who that guy is.
00:22:50I got to know all this.
00:22:51I don't, I'm, I just, it's amazing how much I don't keep up with.
00:22:56And at some point you got to trust it.
00:22:58It's not a matter of like, well, you're old.
00:23:01It's like, there's no, no age difference.
00:23:05to any of this shit anymore.
00:23:07Everything is happening all the time.
00:23:09And whatever you're trying to keep up with, it's probably a limited thing anyways.
00:23:15You know what I mean?
00:23:16So it's just at some point I'm like, well, what is within the parameters of what I dig?
00:23:22And if I learn new stuff within those parameters, fine, but I don't have to chase whatever's new.
00:23:28I don't have to chase jobs.
00:23:30I don't have to chase technology.
00:23:32I'm pulling out.
00:23:34I'm pulling out.
00:23:36I want out.
00:23:38Fuck man.
00:23:39I mean, I'm just like, I'm not on blue sky.
00:23:43I'm barely on the old Twitter.
00:23:44I just, I just promote the shows there.
00:23:46And some people are like, you got to get on blue sky, get on blue.
00:23:48I don't even know what it is.
00:23:51I don't manage my own Instagram really anymore.
00:23:53I certainly don't manage the TikTok.
00:23:56But you feel like you got to have a presence, right?
00:23:59And it's like, it's no hassle for me to have a presence if someone else is just posting old bits and pieces of me wearing the clothes I'm getting rid of.
00:24:06The guy who wore those clothes is still alive and well on your phone.
00:24:14But I just, I don't know.
00:24:16And then here's the problem with being a public person, even if it's at the level on that, which is, you know, middle.
00:24:25But like someone tells me, someone DMs me on Instagram, hey, there's somebody on Blue Sky posting as you.
00:24:32Mark Maron at Mark Maron.
00:24:35And I'm like, God damn it.
00:24:38You know, now you got to manage that.
00:24:39So some guy, you know, stealing your identity.
00:24:41It's only a matter of time before the AI, you know, trolls are going to be out there with me talking and it's not me, but maybe they'll be wearing that.
00:24:51Some of those old shirts and,
00:24:53But so I had to go deal with that and have it reported.
00:24:56And now I'm on Blue Sky now, Marc Maron.
00:25:01I've posted nothing other than I'm here and this is the real me.
00:25:06So don't be fooled by pretend me's.
00:25:08But I don't know what I'm going to do over there.
00:25:10I don't want it to take up any more time.
00:25:14And it's not that I have better things to do with my time, but doing nothing with my time is better than sitting around thinking about what to dump into the fucking world sometimes.
00:25:27Does that make sense?
00:25:29I'd rather do nothing than sit around and figure out how to waste my creative energy for the thrill of the dopamine pop that
00:25:40of whatever, likes, clicks, whatever.
00:25:45I got it.
00:25:47I got it.
00:25:48I'm reeling it in people.
00:25:51Okay, and finally, we have Steve Fury from episode 1595.
00:25:54And this was just some loose stuff.
00:25:57Clearly not stuff that would make it into the episode because just like two comics riffing.
00:26:02But when this happens, sometimes they have a good, fun dynamic.
00:26:05And even the stuff that gets cut is still fun to listen to.
00:26:09I always think it's fun, especially when it's somebody that Mark has fun with.
00:26:13But Tommy was different.
00:26:15So you dealt with Tommy a little.
00:26:17I never got it right.
00:26:18Adam's regime started.
00:26:20I kind of moved there.
00:26:22Yeah, because Tommy was doing the Mitzi system and was claiming that Mitzi was guiding him.
00:26:27Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:26:28I haven't heard a single good thing about that guy.
00:26:30I don't know.
00:26:31I miss everything.
00:26:33I really miss everything.
00:26:34I don't know if it's because... What is going on?
00:26:38My trackpad is low.
00:26:41I'm going to fucking plug in the trackpad.
00:26:45Do you edit this by yourself, too?
00:26:48I got a guy, my business partner, my producer in Brooklyn.
00:26:52Oh, shit.
00:26:52Yeah, we're old school, though.
00:26:53All audio.
00:26:54You know, we're just kind of riding it out until no one listens to us at all.
00:26:58I'm happy I came on The Downfall, just like the store.
00:27:01Just like comedy I joined.
00:27:02It's coming to an end.
00:27:03You're on the other side of it.
00:27:04Yeah, I came in.
00:27:05I finally got to you.
00:27:07I'm buying low.
00:27:08I ran out of everybody else.
00:27:09I could tell.
00:27:11Started getting door guys.
00:27:13No, I generally get to the store, guys.
00:27:16But yeah, but Tommy, I don't know.
00:27:18Fuck, I don't know what's going on there.
00:27:20There was a big shake-up.
00:27:21I don't even need to talk about it publicly, but fucking shit hit the fan there a few months ago, and I was like, I missed all that, because I'm in and out, usually, by like 10.
00:27:31And the times I've stayed after 10, I'm like, this is a whole different place.
00:27:35Yeah, well, you've always talked about it.
00:27:36It turns.
00:27:37It gets weirder.
00:27:38Well, once Don Barris comes up with a gaggle of...
00:27:41homeless people and degenerates.
00:27:45Crazy people follow him like Pigpen from fucking Charlie.
00:27:49He recruits them.
00:27:50Yeah, he recruits them.
00:27:51And then they come and go.
00:27:54So once they descend on the store, it definitely gets... But I feel like there was this whole blow festival going on that I didn't know fucking anything about.
00:28:01And I used to be pretty sensitive to that stuff.
00:28:03It was definitely...
00:28:05It was definitely a while ago.
00:28:06Yeah, some people were doing a lot of it.
00:28:08Yeah, but everybody must have known.
00:28:10I mean, I don't know where my blowdar is, but I can't tell.
00:28:15I think it would kick in at like 1130.
00:28:17That's the worst time to start doing blow.
00:28:19Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:28:21And I don't know.
00:28:22I guess somebody thought it was the 80s again.
00:28:25Yeah, and then they got that door shut on them pretty quick.
00:28:29It's crazy.
00:28:30But now it seems like it's good.
00:28:31Yeah, it seems great.
00:28:32Do you really feel like you got there after the downfall?
00:28:36Because it seems to me like the place is doing fine.
00:28:39In all truth, I think, now that I've been in L.A.
00:28:42almost 10 years, I think I got there at the beginning of the comedy boom.
00:28:47The new one.
00:28:48The new one.
00:28:49And it does feel a little weird right now.
00:28:53Comedy does.
00:28:55Comedy feels like it's going down.
00:28:57Well, I mean, I think everybody like post-COVID and then like everybody, everybody was on the road.
00:29:02Everybody wanted to go out and do shit.
00:29:04Everybody was selling tickets.
00:29:06And now like I can always tell like it's interesting.
00:29:09You know, I like always get bussed on van, you know, the photographer, you know, van.
00:29:14I'm like, how come there's no pictures of me?
00:29:16I mean, what the fuck is happening?
00:29:17You don't like me?
00:29:19Can we just do some pictures?
00:29:20Because I follow more than I used to on Instagram.
00:29:23So I see the comedy store feed, and I'm like, I'm missing the whole fucking party.
00:29:27Every night, look how fun it is over there.
00:29:29Liz Vig is your personal photographer, though.
00:29:31She be getting you good.
00:29:33Yeah, but Liz is great.
00:29:33She ever posted.
00:29:34Yeah, she doesn't do what Van does, which is like every night makes it look like it's the most amazing place in town.
00:29:41Yeah, that's pretty cool.
00:29:42Like, how is anybody not going there?
00:29:43Yeah, that's pretty cool.
00:29:44But Liz is like, she's got a— She's like an artist.
00:29:46Yeah, she's got an eye.
00:29:47Yeah, it's like one picture a week, and you're like, God damn.
00:29:50That's so fucking good.
00:29:51Yeah, she shot the promo shot.
00:29:53But I know when there's like more than one picture of Argus that it's slow week.
00:29:58He got there early.
00:29:59Vargas there just right after lunch special.
00:30:01And it's just sort of like, we're the big shots.
00:30:03And then I always miss the big shots.
00:30:05Well, you know, a lot of guys go out to Sacramento and then they do the punchline Sacramento, which I love the club, but it's in a terrible part of Sacramento.
00:30:12Dude, I've had some nights.
00:30:14Terrible parts.
00:30:15I've had some nights at that fucking hotel across from the mall.
00:30:19You know that place?
00:30:20Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:30:20Well, going up there, you're then going to go party with your buddy, the guy there, being an opener.
00:30:24I was like, well, this thing's two stories high?
00:30:25Yeah, yeah, two stories.
00:30:26The bed's above the kitchen?
00:30:27But I had some, I had like one of the best Coke nights and the worst Coke nights I've ever had there.
00:30:33Holy shit.
00:30:34It was one of those ones where I left the club and I took a bottle of like Cuervo.
00:30:40Oh, yeah.
00:30:40The whole bottle.
00:30:41And I had someone, I got the blow delivered and I'm over in that place with my feature and
00:30:46Yeah, that was the one.
00:30:48If you featured there, you're like, I got a good headliner coming.
00:30:50We can hang out.
00:30:51Yeah, we're going to hang out.
00:30:52So I hang out with Cash Levy.
00:30:54Oh, yeah, I know Cash.
00:30:55Right.
00:30:56And it was just a whole night of me going like, well, I think it started with Pryor.
00:31:00If you really think about it, you're like...
00:31:01the pontificating you're changing the world yeah the headliner who's gonna lay down the history of modern stand-up and like it went on all night and i don't even know if it was crank or if it was blow yeah that's always the problem and you know you just like you're you know he crashes and i'm up and there's pre-youtube so all you got is your dick you know and you beat the hell out of that
00:31:25You're not coming.
00:31:26You're not hard, but you're beating the fuck out of that thing.
00:31:28You fucking got to do something.
00:31:29Get that heart rate down.
00:31:32Just one more nut.
00:31:32I can go to sleep.
00:31:33I just do one more nut.
00:31:33Yeah, yeah.
00:31:34And you drain.
00:31:35It's amazing.
00:31:35You go two or three, and you wake up just ashamed of that.
00:31:40Like, you didn't even do anything bad.
00:31:42But so, like, the next day, we walk over to, what is it, Chili's over there?
00:31:47Yeah, they had one.
00:31:47Like, right across the street.
00:31:49You know, I'm sitting there having a Bloody Mary on, you know, an hour and a half sleep.
00:31:53In a jillies.
00:31:54With cash.
00:31:55And I'm like, you know, hey, dude, I'm sorry.
00:31:57I apologize.
00:31:58Yeah, I don't know what I was talking about.
00:32:00Thanks for hanging out.
00:32:02Don't tell anybody anything I said last night.
00:32:04Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:32:04It was crazy, man.
00:32:05And then he goes, he said one of those things where he's like, no, man, I always heard about you guys on the road, you know, who live like that.
00:32:12So it was kind of good for me.
00:32:13And I'm like, ah, am I one of those guys?
00:32:15Oh, yeah.
00:32:15Did I make the shift?
00:32:16The road guy?
00:32:17I don't think I did.
00:32:18But to him, I was.
00:32:23Okay, that'll do it for Producer Cuts this month.
00:32:25We'll have another bonus episode for you this Friday.
00:32:28That will be our Jack Frost episode.
00:32:31And then next week, another bonus episode here on the Full Maron to close out the year.
00:32:37Hope you are all having a very nice holiday season.
00:32:39Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, and whatever else you are celebrating or not celebrating, we appreciate you being here with us on the Full Maron.

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