BONUS The Friday Show - Wherever You Go, There You Are
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Guest:As am I. We happy?
Guest:Oh, we happy.
Guest:Why do I keep, I don't want your fucking AI.
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Guest:Like I'm in the middle of something here.
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Guest:Like everyone else.
Guest:Like think about that from the perspective of what could be happening right now.
Guest:This could be a fucking job interview.
Guest:Like they don't know that I'm just fucking around with you.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:This giant thing popped up.
Marc:Get off my screen.
Marc:Well, this guy does not know how to navigate Zoom, so pretty sure we're not going to hire him.
Marc:That's like worse than if you turned on a cat filter.
Marc:Hello, Chris.
Marc:Brendan, some news through the wire.
Marc:I've been told from sources that O.J.
Marc:Simpson has died.
Marc:Oh, man.
Marc:Dude.
Marc:I don't know about you, but my brain went into like, I don't know, like all my synapses were firing at the same time.
Marc:I couldn't land on one joke to save my life.
Guest:Right.
Guest:And so I was the same exact way.
Guest:The problem was I was doing work, professional work.
Guest:With another group of people, I won't say their names, I won't say what company this was, but let's just say it's a multinational corporation and I happen to do work with them and that work revolves around the news and my expertise in the news.
Guest:And I'm often relied on for my suggestions having to do with news stories and
Guest:And the Slack came up that OJ was dead.
Guest:And I texted the superior there, the person, I mean, I guess we'll call him my boss for this project.
Guest:And I said, I'm going to get off of Slack.
Guest:I said, I think I'll turn off Slack for the day because this is me trying to refrain from making OJ jokes.
Guest:And I just sent the gif of Roger Rabbit when he's
Guest:shivering trying not to make the two bits joke shave and a haircut and he's just like shattering teeth and like he can't contain himself that was me when I saw that OJ had died and then the bigger blow to me that I couldn't just flat out make the jokes was then as I had all the jokes racing through my head I then see Brad Williams the comedian he's been on the show
Guest:Brad Williams, a funny guy, but not a guy like that.
Guest:He's not my first stop for jokes.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:But man, he won.
Guest:He won the OJ joke sweepstakes.
Guest:Because he retweeted the New York Post headline.
Guest:which was New York Post, O.J.
Guest:Simpson dead at 76.
Guest:And then Brad Williams said, finally, O.J.
Guest:can rest knowing his wife's killer is dead.
Guest:Ha ha ha ha!
Guest:I was like, oh, that's the joke.
Marc:That is the joke.
Guest:But there are others.
Guest:There are many of these.
Marc:I mean, mine, when I first came to think of it, was like, oh, man, I hope his casket's going to fit.
Marc:And The Onion, their headline was, O.J.
Marc:Simpson allowed to remain living after coffin doesn't fit.
Marc:Oh.
Marc:which is great a drudge drudge report remember that guy a drudge as a as a siren or at least a above the fold uh a header with a big oj picture saying cancer murders oj jesus i'm allowing all of it i mean totally but that's like okay just going for it
Marc:No subtext, just all text.
Marc:No, right.
Marc:Oh, man.
Marc:But besides OJ passing away, I had a very eventful week, my friend.
Marc:I went to Lake Placid and I got to experience with my family a total solar eclipse.
Marc:And I got to say, it's pretty great.
Guest:You know, I want to load that up.
Guest:OK, because so you've you've teased that out there.
Guest:Let's hold off on your eclipse trip, because I have something after you tell us what happened with the eclipse where you were in the line of totality.
Guest:I I have a follow up for you that I think will be very helpful to our listeners.
Guest:So so let's let's hold that off until a little later in the show.
Guest:I did want to address something before we get into the WTF shows from this week.
Guest:I did want to address something that I feel you and I have have have not done a good enough job about.
Guest:We we may be slacking a little bit and maybe maybe I'm being grandiose.
Guest:Maybe I think our influence is outsized.
Guest:But I don't know.
Guest:I feel like we could do a better job with this.
Guest:And that's because this week I saw a piece in Architectural Digest about how the Westwood Village Movie Theater, I think that was what it was originally known as.
Guest:Now it's called the Regency Village in Los Angeles.
Guest:It's a historic Fox movie theater from the golden era.
Guest:And there was this headline, Christopher Nolan, Lulu Wang, and Judd Apatow among the most badass cinematic gang ever acquiring historic L.A.
Guest:theater.
Guest:And then he goes on to talk about, you know, how they're buying this.
Guest:And, you know, obviously this is something that's been happening throughout L.A.
Guest:with some of these classic theaters like The Egyptian and The New Beverly, which is also part of Quentin Tarantino's theater portfolio.
Guest:Great.
Guest:I'm so thrilled that they're preserving these bits of history and these historic movie theaters.
Guest:But I feel like our call is falling on deaf ears to make more IMAX theaters.
Guest:Yes, they're so close.
Guest:And who is going to do it other than Christopher Nolan and all these celebrities?
Marc:Right.
Marc:Get the Dennis guy who did Dune.
Marc:Get them all together in a room and be like, just look at the world.
Marc:Look at your movie theaters.
Marc:They can only be seen in 12 places.
Marc:How about double that?
Marc:Just try doubling that.
Marc:You know?
Marc:Like, there are all these movie theater houses that apparently where there are too many screens, movie theaters aren't making money.
Marc:Just how about you retrofit existing theaters so that they're not 12 screens?
Marc:Right.
Marc:But maybe they're four.
Marc:Maybe they're two.
Marc:Maybe they're one.
Marc:And you make it an IMAX screen.
Marc:How hard is this, guys?
Guest:Come on.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:And I just saw this week, there was also a piece in the Puck newsletter that there are way too many movie screens available.
Guest:in the in the country for the amount of people who are going to movies this came up because uh there was a cinema con going on this week which is like a movie theater uh trade convention and there's 38 000 screens in the country and the revenue off those screens despite movies that are hit movies the revenue per screen keeps going down
Guest:What does that tell you?
Guest:There should be fewer screens.
Guest:You know what you could do with a place, one of these big multiplex places that has 25 screens?
Guest:How about turn that into one big screen?
Marc:Right, right.
Marc:No one needs to see Kong versus Godzilla on a screen that's maybe...
Marc:three times the size as my living room like no one needs to see that you want to see that movie on a gigantic screen right and that's the reason why people would leave their house now because they have amazing technology amazing televisions that amazing sound where you can replicate a standard theater but you cannot replicate an IMAX theater like come on
Guest:Right, and you remember when... It's not like this is just something for... Because we live in New York, and like, you know, the New York IMAX, everybody can go to that one, and it's just the one screen, and it's a demand issue there.
Guest:But no, it's like... Remember when Oppenheimer came out, and there were IMAXs?
Guest:They were like, these are the IMAX screens in the country.
Guest:There were whole lists of them.
Guest:And they were selling out, like, three-in-the-morning shows, six-in-the-morning shows.
Guest:Like, you don't think that's going to happen if you put more of these theaters out?
Guest:You can...
Guest:Like, profit margins will increase.
Guest:I just don't get it.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:Like, I honestly, I'm baffled.
Marc:I really do want to, like, just ask, if I could ask Christopher Nolan one question, it would be, why aren't you just building IMAX theaters where your movies can be shown in more places?
Marc:Like, I just don't get it.
Guest:That is why I bring this up on our little show here, because not because I think necessarily that Christopher Nolan is directly listening.
Guest:But look, there's a certain amount of privacy that goes along with, you know, being a subscriber to something.
Guest:You shouldn't have to subscribe to something and have your name released as that you're a subscriber to it.
Guest:So I'm not going to, you know, betray anyone's sense of security by knowing that they subscribed to the full Marin with the knowledge that they're just going to be enjoying a product.
Guest:And so instead of doing that, I'm just going to speak right now.
Guest:to a particular person, it could be that this particular person may have been mentioned in the article that I just read as one of the purchasers of that theater.
Guest:So if that particular person who is a full Marin subscriber...
Guest:is listening at this moment please speak with your co-purchaser of the regency village theater and please mention this wonderful idea of expanding the reach of imac screens because mark is a great uh case subject right because like he he doesn't
Guest:think about going to the movies the way we do as this like this is this thing we do is enjoyment and it's a it's a big part of our lives it's not for mark but when he's been going to the movies lately he chooses the imax theater the biggest screen he can see something in and he's like oh it reminds me of what movies were like when i was a kid it's like yeah that's the that's the competitive advantage that it has right right
Marc:Right.
Marc:And honestly, I feel like I'm seeing the first McDonald's in action and seeing like the possibility that you can just have all these IMAX theaters, you know, like on location, location, location.
Marc:Like, my God, the possibility of this is so profound and will like help cinema, for Christ's sake.
Guest:All right.
Guest:Well, if we can get the seed money for this, Chris, I think we might be the ones that have to start it.
Guest:So anyone listening out there that wants to fund an excursion into show business, we have the pitch deck for you.
Guest:Yes.
Guest:Me and Chris.
Guest:Okay.
Guest:I'll help with the popcorn.
Guest:I will do my best.
Guest:All right, well, I should point out that we did have a guest on the show this week who used to work at a movie theater, which I thought was a great part of her story.
Guest:Carol Burnett goes back to that age when the movies were shown as an experience, right?
Guest:And I did love that her story was basically like...
Guest:You know, even getting up to the Carol Burnett show, she was like, yeah, I wanted to put things on the show.
Guest:That was the stuff my grandma and I went to see at the movies.
Guest:It just, it warms my heart that this thing that you and I love so much, going and sitting in a dark theater and watching this stuff, it is universal.
Guest:I know there's some people listening to this that don't get it, and that's fine.
Guest:But going to the movies and sitting in the movie theater, really, I can't think of a greater thing I want to do with my time.
Guest:And yes, I found it very heartening that Carol Burnett herself is one of those people, right up to working for a movie theater when she was a teenager.
Marc:Yeah, what incredible stories.
Marc:Like, this $50 story is something that I'm just like, what the fuck just happened?
Marc:Does she have a fairy godmother?
Marc:Like, is she Cinderella?
Marc:Like, I could not believe it.
Marc:Like, how is she the luckiest, but also not just the luckiest person, but also the most talented?
Marc:Like, she had everything clicking on all cylinders.
Marc:Like, I couldn't believe it.
Guest:That was the point my wife pointed out.
Guest:She was like, I can't believe that she had the thought, well, we'll just put on a show and then get agents out of doing that.
Guest:And she did.
Guest:And what that just tells you is like, oh, well, she had the goods, right?
Guest:Because that doesn't just happen, right?
Guest:You have to deliver.
Guest:But what I wound up taking away from that, her whole story was generally like, oh my God, like...
Guest:the world almost missed out on Carol Burnett, like three separate times.
Marc:Sliding doors, you know?
Marc:Like if one of those things doesn't happen, like we would never have had Carol Burnett, you know?
Marc:It's really something.
Marc:Also, I love that she's like, oh, Rosalind Russell, you know, I don't know if that means anything to you, but like I'm making things happen.
Marc:It's like, no, they should probably rename that the Carol Burnett, like because you are making things happen.
Marc:Like her-
Marc:whole story.
Marc:And by the way, that show that Apple is going to, you know, produce for her story about the women living in that house, sounds great.
Marc:Yeah, that does sound great.
Marc:Like, sign me up.
Marc:I'll watch all 10 episodes.
Marc:But man, I can't believe the ingenuity she had.
Marc:Like,
Marc:Like, she's right.
Marc:It's a catch-22.
Marc:It's like, oh, yeah, you know, talk to me when you're in something.
Marc:Well, I need an agent to be in something.
Marc:It's like, and she just fucking made it happen.
Marc:And not only made it happen, but it was good.
Marc:So, I mean, just an incredible human being.
Guest:Yeah, I'm super happy that that episode now exists alongside our other kind of legendary comedians that we've had on the show.
Guest:Yeah.
Marc:Yeah, that was a great bonus episode where you guys talk about the legends that you've all had.
Marc:But before we get off Carol, I love that she used to play with Paul Thomas Anderson as a kid.
Guest:Yes, I was so happy that story came up.
Guest:When Mark told me that, like when he's driving home from doing the interview, I was thrilled that those connections were made.
Guest:That's great.
Guest:I just love that he brought it up about Ernie Anderson.
Guest:I think Mark first said, because I talked to Paul Thomas Anderson, she was like, oh, yeah.
Guest:She knew what was coming because she knew the dad and she knew that he was friends with Tim Conway and all of that.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:Now, was there a lot of editing you had to do for that or did you kind of just use the whole thing?
Guest:Well, content wise, I mostly use the whole thing.
Guest:It's always, you know, you always have to be a little on top of.
Guest:Look, I'm not being I don't think I don't think I'm being inconsiderate here to say that older people, you know, have a harder time speaking at length on the microphone.
Guest:And so you have to kind of be aware of that and be gracious about it, but also you're not trying to totally alter what they're saying or what they're doing.
Guest:So I'm very sensitive, and it took me quite a few passes of that episode just to make sure it was in a way where I didn't feel like anything would be distracting from the episode because...
Guest:like Mark mentioned when he did like the interview at Shelly Berman's house, like Shelly kept like dropping the mic or, you know, his hands would, would make the mic droop.
Guest:And, you know, you want to make sure that anything that can be taken care of on your end can be taken care of.
Guest:It's just like doing makeup for someone or their hairstyle or whatever.
Guest:So yes, in that sense, there was editing, not in the sense that there was any content that needed to be edited because she's just totally on the ball and she knows how to tell her story.
Marc:Gotcha.
Marc:Gotcha.
Marc:Also, that episode, I had a little bit of deja vu.
Marc:Oh.
Marc:What?
Guest:I was wondering if I would get through it without getting dinged for this, but go ahead.
Marc:Well, I mean, so Mark was telling in his monologue his plane story again.
Marc:But it ends at a different place.
Marc:So I get it.
Marc:But why?
Marc:What?
Marc:Is this like a faux pas of yours?
Marc:Like, did you miss it?
Guest:I didn't miss it.
Guest:I just hoped no one would notice.
Marc:Oh, no.
Guest:But clearly, it was too close and people noticed.
Guest:Because normally, what I can do, if Mark tells the same story or if there's something that I need to cut, you know, you guys listen to the producer cuts.
Guest:You know that there's lots of stuff I can cut out of a monologue.
Guest:The problem is there are some times when the monologue, there's not a ton to cut down or maybe I've had to cut something else out.
Guest:And it is pretty important for me.
Guest:It's not a mandate.
Guest:We don't have to do this.
Guest:But to me, from a listening perspective...
Guest:It's important that the ads he reads within the monologue, which you folks listening to this don't know about because the ads are cut out, but I don't like the ads to be too close together.
Guest:So I don't like for him to do an ad read and then just talk for another minute and do another ad read.
Guest:I would like there to be five, six, seven minutes at least in between those ads.
Guest:That's one of the reasons we have opening monologues on the show.
Guest:It's always been the case, so that we had a place to structure the ads around, since we don't put them in the interviews.
Guest:Well, Mark got home very late from his trip.
Guest:He had just done all those shows in the Midwest, and
Guest:And so he got home and it was late.
Guest:He recorded the monologue real quickly and then he left to go to see a movie.
Guest:So normally what the case is, is he sends me the monologue and I listen to it and I say, you know, OK, you're all good.
Guest:I don't need a pickup.
Guest:I don't need anything like that.
Guest:This I knew was a time crunch because he was late and he had to leave.
Guest:Uh, and so all I did was when he sent it to me, I listened to the ads and I just make sure that I didn't even pick up on those.
Guest:And I said, okay, we've done thousands of these.
Guest:We're totally fine.
Guest:Otherwise.
Guest:Right.
Guest:And I sent him on his merry way.
Guest:Then I'm listening to it.
Guest:And he tells the same story he told in the previous episode.
Guest:So I'm like, oh, all right, well, I have to cut this out.
Guest:Well, then I realized, though, that in cutting that out, it would have severely cut down the space that I had between the two ads.
Guest:So I was like, ah, it's different enough.
Guest:There's new people here for Carol Burnett.
Guest:Right, right.
Guest:You know, maybe I'd get away with this without getting dinged.
Guest:So you saying that right away, I'm like, fuck, fuck.
Marc:I had to like go to my app and be like, I am on the right episode.
Marc:Yeah, I'm on the right episode.
Guest:That's exactly what my fear is.
Guest:That people are like, oh, I have to, I listened to this already.
Guest:And then they turn the episode off.
Guest:That's why I always take out when he repeats himself or says something again.
Guest:But I felt like it was, I felt like.
Guest:It was.
Guest:Especially for people who are like, if you're, oh, Carol Burnett is on the show and you're new to it.
Guest:If you're listening to it, A, you don't know his story.
Guest:And B, it would be a lesser experience if you're like, why does this guy do all these ads back to back?
Guest:Right.
Marc:Exactly.
Marc:That would be it.
Guest:I had to weigh the good and the bad on it.
Guest:That was my choice.
Guest:So I'll take the hit of you pointing out to me that it was fucked up.
Marc:It wasn't fucked up.
Marc:It was just, I was just had a, I had a moment there.
Marc:So I'm sorry.
Marc:Oh man.
Marc:And Alex Edelman was, was interesting.
Yeah.
Marc:Alex Edelman?
Marc:Oh, okay.
Guest:I thought you called him Addicts.
Guest:I was like, Addicts?
Guest:What's he in the Addicts?
Marc:Maybe I did.
Marc:It's recorded.
Marc:You'll let me know.
Marc:But Addicts Edelman was a... What?
Marc:Did I do it again?
Marc:You did.
Marc:I swear.
Marc:I'm saying Addicts Edelman, right?
Marc:You just did.
Guest:What is wrong with you?
Guest:What happened?
Guest:I don't know.
Marc:Let me just try to say this.
Marc:Alex Trebek.
Marc:Alex.
Marc:Alex Edelman.
Marc:Crispus Addicts.
Marc:What is wrong with me?
Guest:Oh, boy.
Guest:But yes, that guy.
Guest:You saw his show, by the way, you said.
Marc:I did.
Marc:I did.
Marc:My wife's sister bought tickets to it, and her and her husband couldn't go.
Marc:They gave us the tickets.
Marc:And it was great.
Marc:Super great.
Marc:I think it was like second row.
Marc:So yeah, it was a fun time.
Marc:My brother-in-law, who is Jewish, afterwards I mentioned to them, I was like, pretty sure...
Marc:Dan would have enjoyed this probably on a deeper level than I did.
Marc:And was it me or does Mark have a problem?
Marc:Not a problem, but like, does he resent Alex for- What are you talking about?
Marc:He flat out said he did.
Marc:He's like-
Marc:But like for being too Jewy, like, Oh, I don't think it's for being too Jewy.
Guest:I think it's, I think, I think it's Mark exactly onto himself with it is that he watches him.
Guest:He sees a young guy who is more ambitious than Mark was at that age, but that they're very similar.
Guest:And so when he sees this guy, like as he's kind of a striver and he's, you know, got some sharp elbows, but he's also got some charm and
Guest:And he's making his way.
Guest:He's got his HBO special already at this age.
Guest:He's, you know, got a show that was on Broadway and then it tours.
Guest:And, you know, Mark's not lying about that.
Guest:That stuff irritates him.
Guest:It gets it gets to him.
Guest:And I just thought that that's OK.
Guest:You know, for those of you who have been listening for a decade or more, like you, you already know this, right?
Guest:Like this is
Guest:happened many times with Mike Birbiglia's of the world and, you know, other people who Mark finds are very similar to him and yet very different in the way that they make their way through show business and,
Guest:I will go right back to the joke I made earlier.
Guest:This was totally the Roger rabbit scene of him, like trying his hardest to not, you know, level this guy with resentment the way that he has done.
Guest:It was like, it was like watching, you know, it's like in like the lost weekend or something where like the alcoholic is like trying not to grab a drink and like shit, getting the shakes, you know, or, uh,
Guest:Or in the office when Michael Scott is like, well, fine, I won't do that's what she said anymore.
Guest:And Jim is like, oh, you sure you can go all day long?
Marc:You're not me satisfied.
Guest:That's what she said.
Guest:Like, that was how I felt Mark was dealing with Alex in this episode.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:I would hear Alex say little things that I was like, oh man, that burns Mark's ass.
Guest:I know it.
Guest:I know he wants to just double barrel shotgun this guy right now.
Guest:And he was trying to not take swipes, but every now and then I would hear the little dig come in.
Guest:They were there, but he more or less behaved himself.
Marc:Yes.
Marc:Although it's like, oh, well, what are you gonna do next?
Marc:A sitcom named Jew?
Marc:Just bursting at the seams.
Guest:I just thought that would be a good show.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:I would.
Guest:If like four seasons on CBS, it'd be great.
Guest:I did want to ask you something based on the monologue that Mark had on Thursday.
Guest:He talked about how, you know, this guy who wrote into him, you know, made him understand that a lot of the kind of anxiety and panic that he has, it's almost that he is searching for it to happen because of the trauma that he's had in his life and the chaotic situations in his life.
Guest:And it's like, it kind of makes him like...
Guest:go toward that and want chaos and want things to be unsettled because that's what's familiar to him yeah and i it made sense with him saying it but either that's a thing that's only true relative to a
Guest:crystal presto are like some miraculous exception to the norm because like i feel like you do not do that at all and yet the more and more we talk and especially like what you have uh spoken about you know on this show alone having to do with like the difficulties you had with your parents growing up with the home situation like you
Guest:It sounds exactly as chaotic and tumultuous as Mark talks about, and in some ways, you know, more so or at least in different ways.
Guest:And yet I feel like you're the opposite.
Guest:You're like a guy who seeks calm.
Guest:You're like a guy who seeks, like...
Guest:a kind of sunny disposition in life as opposed to the darkness or things that are upended.
Guest:And I don't know, am I reading that wrong?
Marc:No, you know, it's not an unconscious thing that I've done.
Marc:It's something that I have pinpointed in my past and seen my parents, my grandparents,
Marc:I've seen or heard stories about what has happened, and I've pinpointed, like, I am not going to do that.
Marc:I'm not going to, you know, either have those genetics passed down to another generation, be it...
Marc:this rage, be it cheating on spouses, be it some really horrible shit that is in my family tree that I have read about and I've heard about, and I'm like...
Marc:No, I'm not.
Marc:I made a conscious decision to sort of kind of take a scalpel and just cut that out, that piece out, and just let it go.
Marc:And it's, you know, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
Marc:I mean, growing up,
Marc:I am a person who I had very little ambition.
Marc:Like, like you, you know, I, you know, you and I were on a text thread with our friend Dan and he's like, oh my God, you know, 10 years or you're 20 years since we, you know, we all knew each other.
Marc:It's like, yeah, it's all like a,
Marc:And you were like, oh, that was like a coming of age or like a starting point for all of us.
Marc:Like, oh, look, of course, Dan is a food obsessed person who has a food podcast.
Marc:And of course, Mark, great interviewer who is now doing podcasting and you, great producer.
Marc:For me, I see that and I'm like, yeah, the origin for me is I'm still here, which is
Marc:I know it gets a little dark, and my apologies about that in advance, but I am someone who at an early age just saw someone who was 40 or just the idea of being 40 years old, I'm like, nah, that's not going to happen for me.
Marc:I'm going to die.
Marc:at some point very soon and not not not in a suicidal way but just like i don't know car accident plane i don't know like 9-11 didn't happen yet but i'm like something will will prevent me from like i could never see past a certain age i'm just like you didn't have you you didn't have anyone kind of modeling a hopeful future for no no
Marc:There was no hopeful future.
Marc:So I was very much like in the present of, you know, what was happening and try not to think too much, you know, further down the line.
Marc:So it was, it was a, it was a rough, it was a tough sledding for a while, but yes, I, I managed and man, I tell you, I managed like the parents that I have, um,
Marc:are just so completely different than who I am.
Marc:And the fact that I could extract that part of their DNA from my being, and it's not always a perfect thing.
Marc:I do get moody and I do get prickly, but you know what?
Marc:I can recognize, I have this self sort of...
Marc:There's realization in the moment where I'm like, oh, wait, and I can slow things down and recover, but it is not like, oh, I'm always happy, I'm always this, I'm always that.
Marc:No, it is a constant struggle to...
Marc:weed out those feelings and those knee-jerk reactions that are sort of embedded, I think, embedded in my DNA that I am trying to just exterminate.
Marc:And it's a daily sometimes, it's a weekly most times, but it's a common occurrence for me.
Guest:Well, I mean, it's amazingly admirable, though, and it definitely shows the results of it are apparent.
Guest:So, like, obviously... Well, that's nice to hear.
Guest:Well, I mean, you know, like I said, it's what I thought of in the first place, was like, hmm, the thing Mark's describing here, that's like not Chris's disposition, and it very well could be.
Guest:And I do wonder how much Mark is onto something with the idea that instead of taking that route you took where he was vigilant about...
Guest:behaviors and about identifying the sources of them and trying to work against things that might otherwise be kind of genetically encoded into his behavior profile, I wonder how much of it was kind of surrendering to what he got from stand-up.
Guest:And, you know, after he did that monologue about that, he and I were talking about it, and I think it's, like, a major, one of those, like, kind of major life revelations for him.
Guest:Like, he's got to, he is currently really reckoning with
Guest:uh, what this means for him in terms of his relationship with standup.
Guest:He's like, am I doing this for the right reason?
Guest:Like, and is it helpful to me as a person?
Guest:I'm not saying anything he didn't say on the, on the monologue there.
Guest:He's not like, uh, imminently ready to quit standup or something, but I do think it's interesting.
Guest:And I think, uh, you know, I, I would absolutely encourage him to, uh, kind of interrogate this going forward because he's,
Guest:There is part of me that does see his relationship with standup as somewhat codependent.
Guest:And sometimes that's a totally negative thing.
Guest:So it's definitely worth him keeping an eye on and trying to work it through.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:And one thing I would recommend for him is to never stop talking to people.
Marc:Like he, I feel like he always, maybe not always, but he usually feels better.
Marc:Once he talks to someone and like gets a laugh and just, you know, like just those connections.
Marc:And I honestly think that for everyone.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:Don't stop talking to people.
Marc:Like seek out people, have conversations, like in person.
Marc:It is so useful and helpful to you, to your psyche, for who you are, you know?
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:And I mean, and the good thing for Mark is that he's of the realization that he can do that with people in his life that aren't only the people who come into his garage, that aren't only strangers, that isn't only a therapist, like time to start having those real life moments with people, you know, not pushing that away.
Marc:And you're never too old to realize stuff.
Marc:And like, that's great that Mark, you know, A, it's great that that listener wrote in with that because it's sometimes it takes that sort of like introspection and like an outsider's perspective.
Guest:Yeah.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:And like to really get the gears, you know, moving, you know?
Guest:Yeah.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:Really.
Marc:That was, that was really great of whoever sent that in.
Guest:Yes, if I was any of you listening to the full marathon, thank you for that, because I do think it helped Mark out quite a bit.
Guest:If you have any of the other reactions to the episodes you heard this week, you can send us a comment there in the episode description.
Guest:Chris, as he mentioned, had an exciting week.
Guest:I will just briefly, before you get into your week, which was much more exciting than mine, I will say that for me, I had a nice moment this week because my episode of Die Hard on a Blank was released.
Guest:That is the podcast hosted by Liam and Phil.
Guest:And they do a show just about all the kind of movies that were made after Die Hard that either fit specifically into the Die Hard format or are kind of like adjacent to it.
Guest:But I chose one that is very much a Die Hard ripoff.
Guest:That was Jean-Claude Van Damme's Sudden Death, which I had a blast talking to them about.
Guest:And then you can just go get that wherever you get podcasts.
Guest:I'll put a link in the episode description.
Guest:and definitely worth listening to not just if you enjoy movies and if you enjoy uh hearing people talk about stuff like uh you know goofy action films set in a hockey arena but uh but yeah i think it's good to get a perspective of the type of things that people in our age group like and why we like them it seemed pretty
Guest:universal talking to those guys, that the things that you and I, Chris, bring up on a fairly regular basis here, it's not just us.
Guest:There's lots of people who have these similar experiences and kind of imprinting moments.
Marc:Yeah, it really feels great to not be alone in these discussions.
Marc:So yeah, those guys were great.
Marc:And yeah, that episode, fantastic.
Marc:I will now be subscribing to that podcast.
Marc:So thank
Guest:That's very nice of you to do for them.
Guest:Thank you to them for inviting me on the show.
Guest:They invited me on the basis of listening to this full Marin.
Guest:But also this week, as mentioned, you, Chris, were in the line of totality.
Marc:Last time we'll hear that phrase for a while, I feel.
Guest:Well, for like, what, two years, right?
Guest:There's going to be one in, like, Europe coming up?
Marc:Yeah, but no more of the United States.
Marc:The United States is, like, done for, like, 20-something years, right?
Guest:20 years.
Guest:2044, I think, is the next one.
Marc:Yeah, that's right.
Guest:That one looks pretty good because you could go to, like, the Caribbean islands.
Guest:You could go to Florida.
Guest:Right.
Guest:You'll be able to be in total darkness in, like, some of the greatest places, you know, tropically in the world.
Marc:I think I saw even Egypt, if that's the case, to see the total eclipse with the pyramids in the background.
Guest:There better be locusts afterwards.
Marc:Yes.
Guest:I was thinking that this week.
Guest:Can you imagine what this is like if there was no...
Marc:news or science and there was an earthquake followed by an eclipse like there would be so many human sacrifices well like i i think this summer we're gonna have those locusts that come out every 13 years yeah so like yeah like i don't know end times like i'm sure i'm sure they actually i know that there are some right wingers uh my mom included who are prophesizing that this is the end days
Guest:I don't know how you could prophesize that something's the end days when we can look on a map right now and know when one's going to happen 44 years from now and exactly where it is.
Marc:It's so stupid.
Marc:My mom sent me a terrible YouTube clip that I had to.
Marc:I'm a good son.
Marc:I watched the whole thing and it took every fiber of my being to not respond back.
Marc:You're a fucking moron.
Marc:Like, why are you wasting your life right now?
Marc:But I was like, great.
Marc:That was great.
Marc:Please never send me anything ever again.
Marc:That was my response.
Marc:Because I can't believe that the person that gave birth to me believes some charlatan on the internet.
Marc:That because the eclipse is going to pass through a city with this name, that means X and Y.
Guest:what the fuck like how you should have just played into it and the fact that you were in the middle of the eclipse like you should have been like mom i think i got fucking superpowers now like no she she was secretly hoping that the whole the whole thing would be a bust oh it would be a bust yes oh i thought that she was secretly hoping this was it
Guest:No.
Marc:Oh, man.
Marc:No, no, probably not.
Marc:She hasn't prayed enough, I'm guessing.
Marc:But she was surprised by my photos.
Marc:She was like, oh, I'm surprised.
Marc:I saw it was cloudy and figured you wouldn't see anything.
Marc:I was like, ah, no, no, Mom, no.
Marc:We got to see the whole thing.
Guest:There's this thing called different places on the planet.
Guest:Like you can be here where it's cloudy and you can be there where it's dark.
Yeah.
Marc:Flat earthers, though, it's very hard for them to conceptualize this whole thing.
Marc:So, so yeah, it's probably a tough time for them.
Guest:I guess so.
Guest:But tell me like what, what it was, because this was your second full total eclipse.
Marc:Yeah, my wife and I, we booked a trip to the Rocky Mountains in 2017.
Marc:And we just so happened to see that, oh, it's actually the same time as this solar eclipse.
Marc:So we were like, hey, you know what?
Marc:Let's make a thing of it.
Marc:We'll go to Devil's Tower to see where Close Encounters of the Third Kind happened.
Marc:And then we'd go to the eclipse that next day.
Marc:And so, yeah, we were in a field with about a thousand other people.
Marc:We saw the eclipse in a field that day.
Marc:And I got to say, that one was awesome to be in such a remote location with all these people.
Marc:And to be in the line of totality, I honestly think...
Marc:You sound like a crazy person if you've never actually experienced it because it is such a wonderful, extraordinary thing that makes you feel so small.
Marc:And like, even if you're in the 99th percentile and like you got your glasses on, it's like, okay.
Guest:You're still not getting the full thing.
Marc:The full thing is really something to behold and something you should all seek out because it is amazing.
Guest:I'll tell you what I saw.
Guest:I saw, I mean, obviously I saw the photos you took.
Guest:I've seen other people's photos and that.
Guest:But the thing that really hammered it home for me was our friend Kevin.
Guest:He put a video.
Guest:He was up in like the Syracuse area, which is, you know, was still in the totality path.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:And he had a camera on himself and his son while they had another camera on the actual eclipse.
Guest:So you could see their reaction to it.
Guest:And it wasn't just them.
Guest:It was like the people behind them.
Guest:This guy is a guy I've known most of my life.
Guest:And he's like a smart guy.
Guest:He's a very level-headed guy.
Guest:He lost his mind looking at this thing.
Guest:What it did to people that you could see their reactions, what it was doing to their brain was
Guest:Watching this phenomenon happen was as miraculous as the thing happening itself.
Guest:Yeah.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:I mean, it's everything.
Marc:It's a full sensory thing because it gets cold.
Marc:It gets dark.
Marc:And like where I was in 2017, all of a sudden, all of these animals, these crickets started to chirp because they all thought that, oh, it's nighttime now.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:So got to rev up the, you know, the noises.
Marc:And like all these bugs, we saw lightning bugs like in the field.
Marc:And it all just happened.
Marc:And meanwhile, the sun is just being blocked out by the moon.
Marc:And it's just, it is just a beautiful sight.
Marc:So when that happened in 2017, we were like, you know what?
Marc:When's the next one?
Marc:Oh, the next one, it goes through New York.
Marc:Great.
Marc:We're going to get our whole family to experience this.
Marc:So my wife sought out a house.
Marc:She booked a house like a year in advance and was like, listen, we're all going.
Marc:She has two sisters, one brother.
Marc:They have like...
Marc:five kids between them.
Marc:And so we planned this trip around the eclipse.
Marc:And I must say, everyone was being a good sport.
Marc:I feel like they did not care.
Marc:They were like, okay, this is a weird thing that our weird aunt Erin enjoys.
Marc:Let's just make her happy by going.
Marc:And
Marc:Every single one of them.
Marc:As soon as the totality happens, it is like the coolest experience that you could ever have.
Marc:Like afterwards, we were all high-fiving.
Marc:It was like a really special moment in our lives that you can just say, oh my God, I've seen this forever.
Marc:freak occurrence this these celestial bodies like are in the sky and they for this one moment they just they just match up and block one another out i mean it was just it was just something that was just incredible i'm so glad i feel like you bought yourself some capital with this like you and aaron are now like you you've earned this is like uh you know uh it's movie night and you just you pick the right one like you know you
Guest:oh no hey you you mean you haven't seen mad max fury road and everybody's just freaking out about it like you guys did that and you guys have earned yourself uh a lot of leeway a lot of rope in future family decisions i hope so because my my brother-in-law who opted to leave right after the eclipse uh right after totality i was i i pled with him i was like listen guy
Marc:I've been in traffic after the eclipse and it's not, you don't want that smoke.
Marc:Like, please, please just stay the night.
Marc:We had the house for another night.
Marc:Just stay the night.
Marc:He's like, nah.
Guest:You're in where?
Guest:You were in Lake Placid?
Marc:Lake Placid.
Marc:He lives in Long Island.
Guest:So that's about seven hours away?
Yeah.
Marc:five five and a half hours i'd say five and a half hours he was on the road at 330 345 i'd say um and like right after the totality yeah he didn't make it home until about 130 in the morning oh like can you wait just him or he had kids in the car and everything he had three kids and his wife in the car
Marc:Can you fucking imagine that?
Guest:I can't believe there's not a news story about five dead people.
Yeah.
Marc:Oh my God.
Marc:Barely had a pop of Xanax, uh, halfway through, but like they made it, they made it home.
Marc:And like, I, I look, I've been in 2017.
Marc:I tried to get out from Wyoming to Denver and it was a fucking shit show.
Marc:My rental, my rental car overheated because I was stuck in this traffic for so long.
Marc:It is, you just don't want to do that.
Marc:No.
Marc:But he did not take my advice.
Marc:So I don't know.
Guest:So maybe the Capitol is less impressive than I thought.
Marc:Well, I mean, yeah.
Marc:Well, I feel like now he knows I really know what I'm talking about.
Yeah.
Marc:It's like a double reverse.
Marc:Yes.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:I mean, this is a guy who also on Sunday, we were all in the house together.
Marc:It was a big house.
Marc:We had a garage with a ping pong table and a foosball.
Marc:And we had a TV.
Marc:And I had nothing.
Marc:I don't know.
Marc:I didn't know what to do with these kids.
Marc:I didn't know what to do with my brother-in-law.
Marc:I was like, hey, you know what?
Marc:Let's put on WrestleMania.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:And I got to say, it went over great.
Guest:Oh, sure.
Marc:Big spectacle.
Marc:Especially with the kids.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:One of them loves Logan Paul, so he got to see Logan Paul wrestle, which was great.
Marc:And then there was a women's match where these two little girls who would...
Marc:Their parents would never let them watch wrestling.
Marc:I have wrestling on and this women match happens and they love it.
Marc:One of them is like, hey, is there another wrestling match on?
Marc:I'm like, I'm glad you asked.
Marc:Yes, there is.
Marc:And it was the Cody Rhodes and Roman Reigns match.
Marc:And that was great because another kid was like, well, is John Cena going to come out?
Marc:I'm like, I don't think John Cena is going to come out.
Marc:But wouldn't you know it, John Cena comes out.
Marc:Made her day because she doesn't watch wrestling, but she knows John Cena.
Marc:So that was great.
Marc:It was a fun time at the old Lopresto household.
Guest:Look at you.
Guest:You were like the Willy Wonka of this travel excursion.
Marc:Yeah, yeah.
Marc:It was a lot of effort.
Marc:And I was trying to be on my best fucking behavior.
Marc:And it is hard for me because I'm a bit of a cunt sometimes.
Marc:But I...
Marc:I threaded the needle, I feel like.
Marc:I mean, there were moments where like, hey, does anyone object to having Bluey on the television again?
Marc:And I'm just like, actually, I kind of object.
Marc:Like, we've had it on for like five hours.
Marc:Can we not?
Marc:Like, I'll put on fucking QVC.
Marc:Like, please do not have Bluey on the television again.
Marc:So like, you know, there are my limits.
Marc:Again, me being a prick is what happens.
Marc:But I feel like it was a really good excursion and I highly recommend it.
Guest:Well, that's great.
Guest:I mean, listen, so I teased that I was going to ask you something else related to the eclipse, but I want everybody to listen up.
Guest:And take note of the fact that you were an A-plus travel agent on this trip.
Guest:You had great advice.
Guest:You had good instincts about what people would enjoy.
Guest:And I got to imagine, nothing broke the bank for anybody, correct?
Guest:That's right.
Guest:All right.
Guest:So knowing that...
Guest:I realized that you are probably the most well-traveled person that I know other than Mark, maybe even including Mark, because you travel more internationally than he does.
Guest:And you have been doing so for as long as I've known you, 20 years.
Guest:Yeah, that's right.
Guest:So I want you, Chris Lepresto, who just laid out your bona fides here for everyone.
Guest:Everyone can see that you have a great success in your planning and execution of these trips.
Guest:What would you recommend based on your lifelong excursions as a world traveler?
Guest:What would you recommend to people with no limits?
Guest:Right.
Guest:Like you could it could be the budget trip.
Guest:It could be the luxury trip.
Guest:What are your best recommendations for traveling abroad or for traveling period?
Marc:Man, I have so many.
Marc:I have so many, and I'm so happy you asked this.
Marc:So, first thing I'll say is, cities are all the same.
Marc:Like, yeah, it's great to see Tokyo, and it's great, you know, interesting to see New York.
Marc:It's interesting to see Boston.
Marc:Guess what?
Marc:They're all the same fucking thing.
Marc:It's just a bunch of pavement, a bunch of roads, and so just try to...
Marc:go to a city and then go somewhere else in that country or in that, in that place, because they're all the same.
Marc:What really sticks out to me when I, when I think about all the travels I've been to, it's the natural wonders, you know, and, you know, natural, you know, in quotes, but like for me,
Marc:I made a point, first place I've ever been, Australia, went to Sydney, great, great city, it's like Philadelphia, but again, nothing to it.
Marc:However, you go outside of Sydney, you go to the Great Barrier Reef, you go to, I went to the most easternly point of Australia, and I went to like this hippie town,
Marc:where I stayed in a hostel, and it was like the best experience I ever had.
Marc:There are no light posts.
Marc:There's no McDonald's.
Marc:It's just a little town, and there's a beach with a lighthouse, and you just make your own sort of memories.
Marc:So I recommend go off the beaten path.
Marc:Go see shit you've never even contemplated.
Marc:But yeah, try to go to Natural Wonders there.
Marc:Also, my next tip, go at least twice.
Marc:Go somewhere...
Marc:by yourself just book a trip somewhere by yourself do not go with another person okay i say two because the first time you do it you're going to fucking fall into your old habits and you're going to be kind of shy and you're not going to fucking enjoy yourself uh at least for the beginning but then you'll start to like wander off and do your own thing but the second time you do it well you'll realize you're really your own fucking boss
Marc:Like you don't have to, you don't have to talk to somebody.
Marc:Oh, oh, you got to go to the bathroom or, oh, you're hungry.
Marc:Cool.
Marc:Let's like stop at this place.
Marc:You just do whatever you want to do, you know?
Marc:So that's what I recommend.
Marc:Go at least twice somewhere by yourself and hopefully somewhere exotic or somewhere different that you would never go to otherwise.
Marc:So yeah, I've done that.
Marc:When I was 21, I went by myself.
Marc:I went to Santa Monica.
Marc:I always wanted to go to California, never went.
Marc:I went to California and stayed in a shitty hotel and had my 21st birthday alone in a hotel room.
Marc:But yeah, that was great.
Marc:I also went to, I mean, I've been to many places alone.
Marc:I've been to London alone, been to Italy a couple of times alone.
Marc:And it's just kind of not only just the experience of being there by yourself, it's also about like kind of,
Marc:just seeing who you are, like who you really are.
Marc:You know, it's like, there's no false bravado.
Marc:There's no, you're not lying to anyone except for yourself.
Marc:So it's like, it's like, oh, do I want to go to this portrait museum?
Marc:You know what?
Marc:I don't.
Marc:And that's, that's okay.
Marc:That's who I am.
Marc:But you know, like you could do something you really want to do.
Marc:I was in Quito once, just touring around, tooling around with my girlfriend at the time.
Marc:And I got some paint squirted on me.
Marc:And I was like, oh, that's weird.
Marc:And I started...
Marc:cleaning it up.
Marc:And this person is like, this woman is like, oh, come here.
Marc:Come here.
Marc:I'll help you.
Marc:I'm like, nah, that's okay.
Marc:I'm not doing that.
Marc:And I told my girlfriend, let's just keep walking.
Marc:And like, we walked to a town square.
Marc:There are some cops there.
Marc:And I start cleaning it off.
Marc:And the cops are like, oh, what happened there?
Marc:It's like, oh,
Marc:Over there, you know, I got squirted with paint.
Marc:They're like, oh, yeah, they're pickpockets there.
Marc:They would, you know, if you would have followed them, they would have held you up and stole all your shit.
Marc:I was like, good to know.
Marc:Good note.
Marc:So, yeah.
Marc:So...
Marc:Keep your wits about you, I suppose.
Guest:That's some New York City street living shit right there.
Marc:Yeah, it's like, oh, I will not follow you to a second location, madam.
Marc:Yeah, yeah.
Marc:So yeah, that's a life lesson, I suppose.
Marc:Also, speaking of Quito, go to the Galapagos Islands.
Marc:It sounds expensive.
Marc:It sounds hard to get to.
Marc:It is not.
Guest:I want to pause there for a second and reiterate something you just said about expensive.
Guest:I don't know that you've ever taken a ridiculously expensive trip, have you?
Marc:Well, I... Well, I... So, I would have...
Marc:If I – I'm very frugal, as you know.
Marc:But I'm also a connoisseur of miles and points.
Marc:So my wedding, I paid for all of it on my credit card and was able to stagger those sort of due dates of those payments.
Marc:Sure.
Marc:at an appropriate time where I could pay them off in full.
Marc:And then with those credit card points, I would then use that for my flights everywhere.
Marc:So that does mitigate the... Okay, but that's a strategy.
Guest:And that's like, I mean, you've been doing this since you've been making like $30,000 a year or whatever.
Guest:That's right.
Guest:You're going to Australia.
Guest:I mean, when did you do this trip to the Galapagos?
Marc:Oh, man, that was 2012, I'd say.
Marc:Right, right.
Guest:I feel like you were frugal in that trip as well.
Marc:Yes, without question.
Marc:And it is very affordable to go to the Galapagos Islands.
Marc:You can just have a hotel room, and it's lovely, and it's no frills.
Marc:It has air conditioning, thank God, because it is humid as fuck there.
Marc:But go to the Galapagos Islands.
Marc:It is...
Marc:Amazing.
Marc:It is actually amazing.
Marc:Like, Darwin fucking went there.
Marc:And, like, you can see birds and animals and lizards and fucking tortoises that you've never even dreamed of.
Marc:It is...
Marc:a site, man, like, there is so much of this globe, that's the other thing, like, again, I never thought I'd live to see 40, so, for me, I'm gonna get, get on this travel, you know, while I can, so I've, I've managed to pack in all this shit into a short span, because I just figured I wouldn't be around too much longer, you know, so, so yeah, there's, there's, there's that to it as well, but,
Marc:Like I went to Thailand and I went to, by the way, in Thailand, in Bangkok, another place where I had to have my wits about me.
Marc:However, I was very cognizant of the fact that, you know what?
Marc:I'm a kind of a say no kind of guy to some things, to some ideas.
Marc:By the way, one thing you should say no to in Thailand is a ping pong show.
Marc:You can Google the rest, but just don't go to a ping pong show.
Marc:In Thailand, it is not a fun time.
Marc:But I said yes to that, which I should not have.
Marc:And my wife and I, I give a shit about it all the time.
Marc:But another thing that I said yes to was a Tuk Tuk tour.
Marc:Not a Tuk Tuk tour, just a Tuk Tuk ride in Bangkok.
Marc:And my wife and I were literally taken for a ride.
Marc:And you know what?
Marc:We didn't fucking mind it.
Marc:Like, we were right next to, like, the king's palace.
Marc:We were about to go in.
Marc:This tuk-tuk guy was like, oh, do you want to go, you know, on a ride?
Marc:Like, you know what?
Marc:Sure.
Marc:It sounds great.
Marc:And so we jump in, and where he's driving, he's like, oh, yeah, the palace is closed today.
Marc:It was not, in fact.
Marc:closed today.
Marc:He was just taking us for a ride, took us to all these shops where he wanted us to buy something.
Marc:We did not want to buy something, so we had to go to another shop.
Marc:And we knew at this point, like, hey, we're being taken for a ride.
Marc:And we were like, hey, can we just stop to get a beer?
Marc:Can we drink beer on your tuk-tuk?
Marc:So we had a beer on the tuk-tuk in Bangkok.
Marc:And you know what?
Marc:Gotta say, didn't mind it.
Marc:Didn't mind being taken for a ride.
Guest:By the way, you know who else this happens to?
Guest:People here in New York who go on the pedicabs.
Guest:So it's like, no, this is, this is a universal language of a scam.
Marc:It's yes, it is.
Marc:It is a scam.
Marc:I figured it would be a better scam.
Marc:I mean, he let us off at some weird temple thing where again, I'm like, I don't mind it.
Marc:You know, I got Google maps and luckily like, Oh,
Marc:Man, all of Mark's comments about airport stuff and 20 years ago not having technology, I can't even fucking imagine what all of my travel would be like without my technology.
Marc:Because god damn, it would just be chaotic.
Marc:Did you ever go traveling?
Marc:Did you ever have an atlas in your car and you had to help your dad navigate to some road?
Guest:No, not in that sense.
Guest:I definitely remember going on trips and looking at the maps while we were on the trips for fun, but I wasn't navigating.
Guest:It was like, oh, we're going down to Florida, so you can watch where we are on whatever road and where that corresponds on the map.
Guest:But no, I never had to be the navigator, nor do I remember anyone in my family doing that.
Guest:But I also remember you planned everything out very specifically before you left so that you knew where you were going.
Guest:There was no GPS or anything like that.
Marc:Right.
Marc:I mean, I remember printing out MapQuest.
Guest:I remember that too.
Marc:Yeah.
Guest:That was a big deal when I first went to LA for a few months, like when I was living out there to help Mark with his show.
Guest:Like it was just anywhere I went before I left, I printed out the MapQuest notes.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:Oh my God.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:That wasn't too long ago.
Marc:Yeah.
Guest:I will say two things kind of dovetail here is that like, you know, all this stuff, your advice and your wisdom about travel, but it also seems to be connected to what you've talked about in terms of maintaining your disposition and having an outlook that doesn't get mired in things that are outside of your control or kind of inherited because...
Guest:I'm always reminded of that Saturday Night Live sketch.
Guest:I think it was when Adam Sandler hosted the show.
Guest:He wasn't a cast member anymore.
Guest:It was fairly recent where it's doing the parody of those Romano tours.
Guest:And he's like giving his tour package out.
Guest:It's like an infomercial for his tours.
Guest:And it's like, you know, get all the details that you'll get on the tour.
Guest:But he's like, but I just want you to know...
Guest:If you don't do these things back home, you will not enjoy them on the tour.
Guest:The one thing we can't change is you.
Guest:If you don't enjoy wine, I am not suddenly going to make a wine tasting good.
Guest:Yes.
Guest:So I think, yes, if you want to have a good time, make sure that you are also good with yourself before you take these trips.
Right.
Marc:That's right.
Marc:That's right.
Marc:Don't, I mean, I mean, there, there are some exceptions, right?
Marc:Like, oh, well, I, I want to go to Japan and like, maybe, you know, you've, you've never tried, uh, you know, some sort of, uh, delicacy.
Guest:Oh yeah.
Guest:Yeah.
Marc:Try things for sure.
Guest:But like, don't expect the things you have absolutely ruled out to suddenly turn around.
Guest:Yes, yes.
Marc:I mean, man, I would also suggest if you're going somewhere where you're crossing the international date line, plan ahead, plan a day to just sleep.
Marc:Like I went to Japan, I went to Tokyo, and we just stuffed our bags in a locker and we like did a food tour.
Marc:And then we also went to like this robot show where it's the loudest thing ever.
Marc:Like it is the loudest fucking experience I've ever had where these robots, these Japanese robots are fighting each other.
Marc:And it's in where like in the in the stands of like this, this simulated castle or whatever.
Marc:So we're all just watching this.
Marc:It's loud as fuck.
Marc:And my wife and I fell asleep during it.
Marc:Like, I can't explain how we fell asleep, but we just fell asleep because we were so jet lagged.
Marc:So yeah, please pack in a day of jet lag because you will be tired after a few days.
Guest:Well, if anyone out there has any questions for Chris...
Guest:I guarantee there are places that you've been that you didn't even mention.
Guest:There are ideas you have that haven't come up.
Guest:If you have any questions about World Traveler, just want to share some tips of your own.
Guest:The link is there for you in the comment section.
Guest:Go ahead, check it out.
Guest:And thank you very much, Mr. World Traveler, Chris DiPresto.
Guest:That was fun.
Guest:Thanks for your advice.
Guest:Yes.
Guest:And next week, we will begin our look at Jackie Brown, not necessarily with the movie.
Guest:I want us to kind of build up to the movie by doing the look at the stuff that was happening between Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown, because there's a lot.
Guest:There's a lot, too much to get into one episode.
Guest:So we will do that first, and then we will get into Jackie Brown the following week.
Guest:So if you want to go watch that movie, you can.
Guest:I will also next week allow you, Chris, the opportunity to do something I said I would let you do back a few months ago.
Guest:You know, we've been doing these WTF Origins episodes on the full Marin.
Guest:We're going to have another one next week, me and Mark talking about Break Room Live.
Guest:And I had you do your origin story, right?
Guest:And you were...
Guest:You said it was a little draining having to go back and relive some of that stuff.
Guest:And I said I would reciprocate.
Guest:Now, I definitely know that I've kind of spoken about my past and what I've done and my work before doing WTF.
Guest:Therefore, why don't I leave it to you to ask questions and maybe help fill in the gaps of where the thing, if you don't know it, I figure our listeners don't know it.
Guest:So let's get it out there that way.
Guest:Again, if you have anything you want to share with us or anything you want us to focus on, this is your show as much as it is ours.
Guest:Go to the link in the episode description there.
Guest:And until next time, I'm Brendan and that's Chris.
Peace.