BONUS The Friday Show - Here's to You, Tim Robinson
Marc:When my wife and I are like thinking about booking a flight and oh, it's an early morning flight.
Marc:Oh, man, there's a 430 in the morning now.
Marc:Yes.
Guest:Oh, my God.
Marc:All the time.
Marc:Also, oh, there's a New Mexico.
Marc:Hey, Chris.
Marc:Mac, what's up?
Marc:I owe you an apology.
Marc:Okay.
Marc:First of all, you never need to owe me an apology.
Guest:Well, I feel like I do.
Guest:I feel like I owe it to you.
Guest:And because of that, I owe it to the listeners as well.
Guest:Because what I said to you was heard by our listeners and it was wrong.
Guest:So I have to take accountability for this.
Guest:Now, you know, in the last couple of weeks, we've done the listener comments.
Guest:In fact, last week was all entirely listener comments and it was done ahead of time.
Guest:We actually there's a little behind the scenes secret.
Guest:We did not record an episode last week.
Guest:That was done two weeks ago.
Guest:So we've got a lot of catch up to do this week on WTF stuff.
Guest:But a comment did come in.
Guest:Anonymous comment.
Guest:This listener did not put their name on this.
Guest:But.
Guest:They wrote, FYI, amniotic fluid is comprised mostly of urine and sweat produced by the developing fetus.
Guest:So when you said during our Madam Web episode that there was a bunch of piss on the floor...
Guest:And I made fun of you for thinking that piss comes out with baby.
Guest:You were totally right.
Guest:And I was wrong.
Marc:That's right, motherfucker.
Marc:I'm right.
Marc:There's piss in there.
Marc:Yeah.
Guest:And it's funny because I saw that and I was like, oh, no.
Guest:And then when it looked it up and sure enough, it's like, you know, what do you think the baby's doing?
Guest:It's peeing right in the fluid.
Guest:Right.
Guest:So here's just in my quick defense.
Guest:And I know I don't like an apology is an apology.
Guest:I shouldn't have to, like, try to take the apology away.
Guest:Right.
Guest:But I will say in my defense, here's why I said what I said so quickly.
Guest:I was so eager to judge and say that that got nothing to do with piss.
Guest:Is that when you're having a baby, when you're going through those like first baby childbirth things, they are so on edge about piss.
Guest:They make you so crazy about anything bad related to piss.
Guest:Like, so if you have a-
Guest:A bladder infection or UTI, urinary tract infection that they're like, you got to get that handled right away.
Guest:That could be fatal to the baby.
Guest:Right.
Guest:So it's like, but of course there's a difference between the mom's urine and the baby's urine, which is floating around in.
Guest:Right.
Right.
Guest:so so once i got that cleared up in my head i was like all right i wasn't being a total jerk by stomping on him with this but like of course you're totally right there's there if if the water broke there's pee in the water and the story yeah okay can i ask what where was dawn when her water broke
Marc:oh did not happen no she didn't have didn't have a moment she got a c-section or something no it wasn't that it was uh she was just told yes told time to go right you should go get the baby out yeah gotcha all right yeah see for someone who does not have a child i'm just like well what happens when when your water breaks what if you're just driving a car one day and your water then that's them's the brakes yeah yeah
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:In fact, I was told that that was almost the case with me as a, as a baby.
Guest:Oh yeah.
Guest:That, uh, yeah.
Guest:My mom's labor pains came on, they got in the car and she was like, it's coming.
Guest:It's too late.
Guest:We, we met, we left too late.
Guest:And I like was, you know, by the time they got her out of the car and into the hospital, like it was like within 10 minutes I was delivered.
Guest:So my dad was like, oh yeah, you almost, you were almost delivered in the car.
Marc:Wow.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:How about that?
Marc:So, like, do people, like, prepare, like, their bed?
Marc:You're supposed to.
Marc:With, like, one of those waterproof, like, covers that you put on a bed?
Marc:I guess that's your prerogative.
Marc:Because then you just got piss on your bed.
Marc:And, like, what are you going to throw out the bed now?
What?
Guest:yeah well that is a question i do you know i remember being like real little very little and pee in the bed at my grandparents house and i never thought about it until i got older in life i was like wait a minute did they like throw that mattress away like i pissed right in the bed like just bang like i can't imagine that it was cleaned easily so yeah i don't know i
Marc:Maybe there's turned it over like in Seinfeld, like that Larry David wrote.
Marc:How do you not tell me that Mark was in D.C.
Marc:and he did a Q&A, I won't tell John Oliver, with Larry David?
Guest:how i couldn't i couldn't tell you it was sworn to secrecy oh my god so tell me everything okay like so were you setting up to like maybe go to dc to like i would have if if they were going to do the podcast but once it became clear that that was not an option i was just like you know i quite frankly i did way too much prep for it right i bet i
Guest:Like, like, no, just on the sense that I already knew it was done.
Guest:But then Mark was so panic stricken about it.
Guest:I was like, I'll help you out.
Guest:Like, it would it would be like if you called me and were like, can you help me with this work thing?
Guest:And I'd be like, well, I don't work at your job, but I'm happy to help you because you're a friend.
Guest:Like, that was the same thing with this.
Guest:Like, this is not a thing that I had anything to do with.
Guest:But it's like, if Mark's going to go do his job with this guy, like I can help him out because I know how he does that job.
Guest:Right.
Guest:So yeah, it was just basically the same premise that we do when we set up a guest interview.
Guest:Only the interesting thing with this is that Mark is not a Seinfeld watcher.
Guest:So I actually had to become a little like Seinfeldologist and-
Guest:And figure out like, what's the best way to teach a crash course in Seinfeld?
Guest:So I gave him like five episodes that I had him watch.
Guest:And it's really actually pretty funny that he would be watching it and would text me stuff like, this is pretty classic, great structure of an episode.
Guest:And he was talking about like the marine biologist one.
Guest:oh yeah like he was like this is really this is really classic sitcom structure like he was he was very like i think i don't know that he's you know i'm not sitting there with him i don't know he's laughing out loud but he was just like he was talking about how he appreciated it was the first time he's really watching seinfeld and he appreciated how much of it was callbacks that it was structured in a way that callback jokes worked and that's probably the first act
Guest:Yeah, that's right.
Guest:That's like the best version of it.
Guest:And it wound up being a really great story to have Larry tell that apparently like that was like a last minute late night writing session that they they had to do pull together 24 hours before they were going to shoot that scene.
Guest:They didn't have the ending.
Guest:They had, they wasn't working what they had.
Guest:So they, they got that on the spot.
Guest:Larry came up with the idea of the golf ball in the shower and was like, Oh, perfect.
Guest:A golf ball and a blow hole.
Guest:They like fit, right?
Guest:You can go right in the blow hole.
Guest:So they go in the, and they just had this late night jam session and wrote that whole thing, the George monologue and everything.
Guest:And they knew that Jason, because he is a,
Guest:a trained actor, Broadway, Tony winning actor at that point that they're working with him.
Guest:They're like, you're a quick study.
Guest:Right.
Guest:And he's like, yeah.
Guest:And they're like, can you do this monologue?
Guest:And it's like a page of dialogue.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:And they're like, can you do this?
Guest:And we'll just shoot the rehearsal.
Guest:Cause we just, we don't have time.
Guest:We're, we're in a time crunch with the end of this episode.
Guest:And he was like, of course, no problem.
Guest:So what you see in that episode was the, was the first take.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:wow yeah he was angry my friends like that whole monologue of george's holy shit rehearsal take that they just rolled on and and it worked because they got everybody's genuine reaction like seinfeld if you watch that clip seinfeld is looking at uh uh george as he's telling the story and he's just like eyes are wide mouth agape and
Guest:And that was like his actual reaction.
Guest:Like he's like, he's reacting like, is he going to be able to deliver this whole thing right up to the punch?
Guest:Right?
Guest:Because it's like, it's a high wire act.
Guest:They're in real time with an audience.
Guest:And like that, it always stuck out to me that that's the only time
Guest:We're maybe not the only time.
Guest:I don't have every episode of Seinfeld cataloged in my brain, but there's an audience member that when he pulls the golf ball out of his pocket and opens his hand, a woman shrieks.
Guest:She's like, ah!
Marc:Yes, I remember that.
Marc:And it's like, it's all genuine.
Marc:Like nobody knew what was going to happen.
Marc:That's amazing.
Marc:Wow.
Guest:So wait, so did you not, so you didn't know all this, but you... No, I just kind of pushed him in the way of where are stories that you could talk to him about?
Guest:Because, you know, he was panicking at the time that he wasn't going to be able to ask him any personal questions and he was just going to have to sit in the...
Guest:TV stuff.
Marc:Right.
Marc:Well, can I ask?
Marc:So, by the way, I feel like Larry David will never be on your show.
Marc:And that's fine because apparently there's something in his personal life that he does not want to talk about.
Marc:Right.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:I don't I don't even know that it's his full personal life, but he he's said multiple times.
Guest:I heard him say it on Bill Simmons once that he's like, I don't go in for the Barbara Walters moments.
Guest:Right.
Guest:What is this line?
Guest:Like what?
Guest:The gotcha moments?
Guest:Is he talking about a gotcha?
Guest:I think he's probably in his head a bit about if certain things in his life, which I'm not going to say this is it at all, but I'm just going to use as an example, you know, bringing up someone's childhood and their parents.
Guest:If it's something they have put away, they don't deal with it.
Guest:They don't think about it.
Guest:It might make them cry.
Guest:Right.
Guest:And I think he just doesn't.
Guest:want to go there um mark did say there was one moment during this event in dc that he said something about like were you did you were you uh were you a happy kid like related to something else they were talking about it wasn't like we're gonna get into your childhood here but he was saying like well you what kind of kid were you were you a happy kid and he was like no so
Guest:so i you know i i wonder if it's that kind of thing and that because larry knows what type of show it is i do think though you know the idea that he's never going to come on the show i think it's more likely now than it ever was because he's comfortable with mark so he might get to a point where he's like you know what mark's not gonna screw me on this you can have a conversation it'll be fine and if there's something that's uncomfortable for me he won't put it in the episode or whatever like i think part of it's a trust thing and he trusts him now so it might be closer or it just might never happen because he doesn't want to do it and
Marc:Right, right.
Marc:Well, it's amazing to hear that you had to do all this sort of extracurricular activity to for something that just was like, oh, it's actually not going to pan out.
Marc:Does that happen often?
Marc:Like, I'm sure you can't get into specifics, but are there guests where you do a ton of prep and they just bail at the last minute?
Guest:There's only been a few, and ones I'm thinking of, like Robert Plant, that was an annoying one.
Guest:Oh, really?
Guest:Yeah, that bailed and then didn't happen again.
Guest:But sometimes they just don't happen, and then I just pocket the info, and then they happen later.
Guest:Like Ice Cube was one.
Guest:Ice Cube, like, canceled the day of one time, and it was really annoying.
Guest:But then we had him on again.
Guest:But, yeah, that's...
Marc:That ice cube, every time I think of it, I just think of ice cube in the house with the cats.
Marc:Are they okay with me?
Marc:Totally different from, who was it?
Marc:Malcolm McDowell?
Marc:Yes, Malcolm McDowell.
Marc:Yeah, he's hanging out, petting the kitty cats.
Marc:Couldn't be more different.
Yeah.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:But so it sounds like the Larry David thing went great.
Guest:And, you know, it's funny.
Guest:People probably heard Mark and I'm not going to betray any confidences here either.
Guest:But you heard him mention on the monologue of Thursday's show that, you know, he's got something going in his career that he has to make decisions on.
Guest:And it's very stressful.
Guest:And that I will tell you this.
Guest:You know, just as a person who works with him and therefore can be like a kind of counsel on certain things.
Guest:When he was talking to me about this decision and he had anxiety and nerves about it and whatever, I was like, OK, I just want to point out, though.
Guest:You just did this thing with Larry David and it was a tremendous success and you actually had fun.
Guest:You really enjoyed it.
Guest:Larry enjoyed it.
Guest:You guys are texting like teenagers afterwards about all your little jokes.
Guest:And...
Guest:Like you are in a panic, a total like white hot panic before it happened.
Guest:So I was like, you know, I know it's hard for you to, you know, compartmentalize and to see how certain things now are not how they're going to be in the future.
Guest:It's, you know, it's a hard trait for him, but I want you to like take with you the feeling you had.
Guest:after the larry thing and maybe apply that to this and that definitely helped him like he he he is feeling better now about the decision he had to make because i think he's been able to kind of put the anxiety on the shelf a little bit
Marc:Gotcha.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:And I'm sure coming from you, his like close closest confidant, you know, and business partner.
Guest:So, you know, I think the business partner is the is the is the key because like, look, I don't believe I'm like Mark's greatest friend.
Guest:I think he's got, you know, people who are very close to him in his life.
Guest:Jerry Stahl, Sam Lipsight.
Guest:Like these are like his friend friends.
Guest:Now,
Guest:he and I have an amazingly close relationship, but it's because of our business and our, our work that we do together.
Guest:And you know, I'm, I'm, I'm happy to call him a friend, but I also know that we have to maintain business.
Guest:We need to maintain production.
Guest:And so part of that is like, I can't, sometimes you can talk to your friend, like,
Guest:Like, you know, what the fuck is wrong with you?
Guest:And are you an idiot?
Guest:You know, like kind of slap your friend around a little bit.
Guest:And they, you know, I know that I always have to talk to him both as a friend, but as a professional, the fact that I have to temper that.
Guest:helps quite a bit because like he knows when he's hearing from me, he's hearing it.
Guest:Um, it's like straight talk without hyperbole.
Guest:It's like, this is the way it's going to be for like, and I don't care personal.
Guest:I'm going to remove myself from this decision personally.
Guest:Here's what I think as a person that does business with you, will this matter to our business?
Guest:No, it will not.
Guest:So take that off your plate, you know, in terms of the decision you're making.
Guest:Will it matter toward your life in X, Y, and Z?
Guest:Well, I'll take you back to when we've done things like that.
Guest:Like when you were in glow or when you made Marin or when you've been on tour and no, it has not made a problem with your life or with other things that we've had to do.
Guest:So like I can talk to him with that perspective and he can move forward with his decisions without thinking I have an agenda there, you know?
Guest:Right.
Guest:Sometimes too, your agenda with a friend is to just make your friend feel happy, to feel good.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Right.
Guest:And for me, I'm like, no, I just want us to make sure we're making the right decision for the show.
Marc:Right.
Marc:You're also a guy who thinks first and talks second.
Marc:You know, like you're you're you're very meaningful in your your, you know, thoughts and commentary.
Marc:So.
Marc:So, yeah, you're you're you're a trusted advisor for all that know you.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:It's like it's like Tom Hagen in the in the Godfather.
Marc:Yes.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:Definitely.
Marc:Definitely.
Marc:And and yeah, this can can I just say you've been on and I know you and Mark talked about it, but you guys have been on a run of episodes that have just been delightful.
Guest:They're very they're very like they feel very comfortable.
Guest:And even the ones like, you know.
Guest:I would say that the Alejandro Escovedo episode from this week was one of the heavier ones we've had in a while.
Guest:Like I, you know, got to the last like 50 minutes of that talk and was like, oh man, this is like...
Guest:He's had some hard times, this guy.
Marc:Such hard times, yeah.
Guest:Right.
Guest:And the emotion in his voice was palpable.
Guest:Even a person who's as far removed from some of the really tough points that he's had can be.
Guest:And I still found it very...
Guest:rewarding and um enjoyable to listen to that episode despite it being hard and like that to me is a sign that we're kind of um firing on all cylinders and i don't like i i'm always wary about it i'm not like a you know big shine my own car kind of guy
Guest:So I'm like, okay, let's make sure our heads are in the right place.
Guest:But I feel very confident saying that these are good episodes.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:And Tig, I love Tig.
Marc:I just listened to her on This American Life this past week.
Marc:She had a crazy story about being locked in a bathroom, which was nuts.
Marc:But I love her.
Marc:I loved her on the show.
Marc:Again, it made me actually listen to the first time.
Marc:That Tig was on your show.
Marc:So that was great.
Marc:And I just love the interplay between Tig and Mark.
Marc:It's just great.
Marc:I also love that, like, Mark fucked up with a pronoun.
Marc:And Tig's response was just like, yeah, you know what?
Marc:That's okay if you fucked up.
Marc:But, you know, you know that you messed up.
Marc:And it's okay to then correct yourself.
Marc:I was so happy that was in the episode.
Marc:You were so happy.
Marc:I was like...
Guest:I was like, oh, good.
Guest:I'm glad he messed that up because because it was actually like he was there was nothing I had to do when he spoke to May Martin.
Guest:That was like, oh, that's you know, that didn't that didn't happen.
Guest:He was he was very conscious of the correct pronoun usage and it just wound up happening naturally.
Guest:So it's I thought to the benefit of.
Guest:the listener that you can hear a moment where he actually does screw up right and he does say the wrong thing and that it doesn't have to be a big deal it's just like okay like that was great story she was able to rope in about her what was it stepdad or or her or maybe it's her her wife's father i can't remember who it was i think it was her stepdad uh tig's stepdad
Guest:But, yeah, great story about him just being like, I'll call anybody whatever they want to be called.
Marc:Exactly.
Marc:Like, come on, guys.
Marc:I mean, what are we doing?
Marc:You know, it's that simple.
Marc:Like, you want to be called Scooby-Doo?
Marc:I'll call you Scooby-Doo.
Marc:You know, like, I don't care.
Marc:Like, that's great.
Marc:Oh, my God, you just reminded me of something.
Marc:What?
Guest:There was this...
Guest:There's this person, I met her in my freshman year of college.
Guest:This is a very nice woman.
Guest:I see her from time to time still.
Guest:Her name is Janet.
Guest:She's like Janet.
Guest:Her name is Janet, but she's like Janice from Friends.
Guest:Remember the girlfriend from Friends?
Guest:Exactly.
Guest:And so I would say her name like Janet, like they were saying Janice, right?
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:And when she met me, she was like...
Guest:i keep calling you brandon i'm sorry you're you're i know that's not your name but it's what's in my head it's brandon i was like janet you can call me shithead i don't care it's whatever whatever you're comfortable with she to this day calls your shit calls me shithead in the most joyful way like i'll see her at a wedding or something she's like shithead
Guest:That's crazy.
Guest:I'm like, what are people around us thinking?
Guest:Like, I'm the last shithead you imagine walks in the room.
Guest:Like, you see this guy, like, that's a shithead?
Guest:What the hell is going on here?
Yeah.
Guest:um also uh mark hooked up with the with the guy i did not know that he was a little concerned about that what what was he ever concerned about when he when they talked about it he uh he was like do you think that's gonna be okay like that's not gonna be weird is it like that i that i revealed that and i was like
Guest:I think he talked about it kind of once before, but maybe not in detail.
Guest:Like, I don't think he talked about it in detail.
Guest:I do.
Guest:I always had a memory of him talking about like, yeah, you know, when you're in like college and it's like you're with like the theater crew is like you're always going to, you know, wind up hooking up with whoever.
Guest:So I don't think he ever mentioned it in detail.
Guest:And I just think he was feeling a little vulnerable to have revealed that.
Guest:Yeah.
Marc:But like, yeah, whatever.
Marc:It's fine.
Marc:Yeah, that's fine.
Marc:I kissed a guy once, or I guess a guy kissed me.
Marc:Do you ever kiss a guy?
Marc:I have not, other than family, which sounds weird, but... Stop freshing your uncle.
Marc:Dear God.
Marc:No, we are very...
Guest:We were a very big family kiss group, especially the McDonald's side of my family.
Guest:It's very much like men hug men and give a kiss when they see each other.
Guest:But never in a romantic way have I done that.
Guest:But I always...
Guest:I always think back to when Mark talked to Mel Brooks, uh, he was talking about coming home from the war and, uh, uh, you know, he said, talking about how he remembered, you know, in times square, he was there when it actually happened.
Guest:And Mark was like, did, uh, did you kiss anybody?
Guest:You know, like the famous photograph and Mel Brooks who at the time was eating.
Guest:So I always remember this, have this in my head.
Guest:I didn't like take a bite of something.
Guest:He's like, Hmm.
Guest:A gay guy tried to kiss me.
Guest:I was like, go nuts, pal.
Guest:Whatever you want to do.
Guest:That's great.
Guest:That is so perfect.
Marc:Oh, man.
Marc:So, yeah, that's interesting.
Marc:I didn't know that about Mark.
Marc:I know he had, like, a teacher that was obsessed with him.
Marc:Like, I knew that story.
Guest:And that teacher kissed him, but this was different, right?
Marc:Gotcha.
Marc:Okay.
Marc:Gotcha.
Marc:But, yeah, there was so much good stuff in that episode.
Marc:They were talking about all this vegan shit, like vegan milk and all this oil.
Marc:I don't know what the hell they're talking about with oil.
Guest:The oil stuff was, like, a little bit like the do-your-own-research crowd, you know?
Guest:I was very close to cutting it out because I thought, like, is this shit irresponsible?
Guest:But I thought that in the spirit of it, it it was I was I would be hard pressed to think people took it too seriously or anyone is severely altering their lives out there because of their goofy talk about oil.
Guest:It was borderline for me.
Guest:I will absolutely say that, that I was like, I might take this out because I think it might be, we might be toeing the line of irresponsibility here.
Marc:And, uh, funny to hear on Thursday's episode that, uh, Mark may have eaten some cheese.
Guest:Uh, that was another, that was another one.
Guest:I was ready to cut it.
Guest:Cause like, I, I thought he's, I thought his monologue, if you, Hey, anyone out there, I know you don't, sometimes these things stack up.
Guest:If you haven't listened to Mark's monologue from the Thursday episode, the episode with Dina Hashem, which is a good, great episode overall.
Guest:Hmm.
Guest:But that monologue was one of his best in a long time.
Guest:And I think it was due to the direct result of having all these moments of anxiety that then resulted in non-consequence, right?
Guest:Or good consequences.
Guest:And so he was really reflective.
Guest:And I just found that it was a helpful... I'm not a person who suffers from tremendous anxiety, but I have people close to me who do.
Guest:And I thought it was a tremendous insight for...
Guest:anyone who is suffering from anxiety or those close to people who are to hear someone articulate what it's really like to be panicked all the time and be at 60 years of age and still coming to grips with the fact that like, this has been something that has dominated your life.
Guest:I thought that was, you know, a really great thing to air.
Guest:And I was happy that it was in there, but so he ends this great monologue with this and then starts talking about the cheese.
Guest:And I'm like, yeah,
Guest:I, you know, I don't know if I, you know, should keep this because I feel like it ended on a nice note.
Guest:Like maybe this is a producer cut.
Guest:People who enjoy his vegan trajectory can listen to this.
Guest:But then he's talking about how it's like, don't worry.
Guest:It's not like I'm just like did a blow.
Guest:I'm sitting there with like my cheese Jones.
Yeah.
Marc:Yeah, I I'll never forget.
Marc:I was in Coney Island with my vegan girlfriend and we're getting like ice cream or, you know, an ice for her.
Marc:And I got I got we actually got gelato instead of like an icy.
Marc:And she's eating milk.
Marc:Oh, it's all dairy.
Marc:Yeah, milk.
Marc:Yeah, just milk.
Marc:And she's just like, she's eating this, and she's like, this is the best thing I've ever eaten in my entire life.
Marc:This is amazing.
Marc:We have to go back, and I need to know what's in it.
Marc:And, like, she eats all of it.
Marc:And the guy's like, oh, yeah, no, there's milk in there.
Marc:And she's like, oh, okay.
Marc:Well, I'll never have that again.
Marc:I'm like, really?
Marc:That's the best thing you've ever tasted?
Marc:And you're like, nah, never going to have that again in my life?
Marc:Are you serious?
Marc:Like, what?
Guest:what what what and i get that was like the beginning of the end for for my time with that for that relationship that's so funny though back to back full circle that's like that seinfeld episode where they're eating the look the no fat yogurt yes and they're like oh this is so good
Marc:By the way, Mark has some fear of planes, huh?
Marc:Because he mentioned the plane stuff in the Thursday's episode.
Marc:And then in the first TIG episode, he had a crazy plane story where he was, you know, racially profiling some guy.
Marc:And, like, he thought that, oh, that guy overtook the plane.
Marc:And what's he going to do?
Marc:You're talking about the old TIG story.
Guest:Yeah, that became part of his that became part of his act.
Guest:He did that.
Guest:He did that on a there's a John Oliver stand up special for Comedy Central.
Guest:It's like John hosting a bunch of comics.
Guest:I think Mark's on it.
Guest:Janine Garofalo's on it.
Guest:And he does that whole story about the flight from Cleveland.
Guest:And it's in his book.
Guest:He put it in Attempting Normal.
Guest:I think he says to the stewardess, I'm having an incident in my head.
Guest:Like, I think that's the phrase.
Guest:And, uh, and yeah, I, but I will say this, whatever he's talking about, about the, the, the crippling fear he used to have, he hasn't had it for a long time because I've been flying planes with him since 2006.
Guest:And I've never seen that happen.
Guest:I remember one time we were on a flight that hit some pretty wiggy turbulence and I could tell he was like uncomfortable, but he wasn't like Grodin in midnight run or anything.
Guest:It wasn't like, these things go down.
Guest:So, yeah, he's whatever he's had to do to get himself to the point where he's like surrendered himself to the, you know, the gods of air travel.
Marc:He's been able to do that.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:And I really loved Dina Hashim Hashem.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:Hashem.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:Fucking rules.
Marc:Like, I know it's a very small sample size, but Muslim comics are kind of great.
Marc:Like, yeah.
Marc:I love, and I mean, Mark touched on this, but it's like, yeah, you know, I wouldn't know about this lifestyle.
Marc:You know, like maybe I could watch a documentary.
Marc:But it's like, you know, you just need stand-ups from all these different, you know, areas or backgrounds.
Marc:And like, Dina was so good and so funny.
Marc:Like, I can't believe she does like the drums and stuff.
Marc:But yeah, really loved that episode because I thought she was really something different.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Yeah, well, you know, she used to open for Mark, and it kind of makes sense why.
Guest:Like, there's a good matching up of sensibilities there.
Guest:And yeah, you know, it's another one of those talks with a comic where you're like...
Guest:These things go in unexpected directions, right?
Guest:And that's one of the things that's been happening when Mark has talked to comics from the start of this show is that they don't have A to B to C story arcs.
Guest:comedians are all over the map right so like and they're always there's it's just not a there's not a clear-cut path to success or to the to the job of paying off at any time which is like kind of where she's at she's releases this special and is like yeah i'm not crazy about how i am in that special it's like her first special and she can't like feel that that's her up there you know yeah and
Guest:And I just think that that's part of the kind of secret magic of talking to comics, talking to comics, because they get that about each other, you know?
Marc:Right, right.
Marc:Yeah, they can see that.
Marc:And so Mark's never been entertained the idea of being in a joke band, because I kind of love that idea of Mark being in a joke band, like a Tenacious D type of band.
Marc:Yeah, no, I can't ever imagine it.
Guest:Ha!
Guest:i mean i'm fine with you he'd be funny with you know somebody to play off of like that but i can't ever imagine it happening no he's too self-conscious about the playing right you know right here's the thing though too about tenacious d kyle gas is a great guitar player like he is one he is one of the greats i saw him in uh seattle they opened up for weezer one year
Guest:Oh, I saw that show, not in Seattle.
Guest:I saw it in Baltimore.
Guest:Oh, my God.
Guest:Yeah, it was Jimmy Eat World, Tenacious D, and Weezer.
Marc:Great fucking concert, by the way.
Marc:Yeah.
Guest:Goddamn.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:uh and and that's why like they can do a concert like that because like jack is just dancing around and you know doing his jack black thing all over the stage and kyle holds it down like they didn't have a full band it was just the two of them and uh you know they they were despite that they're they you know had a full band on the album that they were touring in support of at the time and he's just a killer killer guitar player
Marc:So we got to talk about David Crumholz.
Marc:Yes.
Marc:This guy is a character.
Marc:He always is.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:I mean, just because you have character doesn't mean you are.
Marc:But this guy has some fucking stories.
Marc:And his fucking grandmother fucking taking the piss out of his dad.
Marc:Olive Pitt!
Marc:I mean, that is unbelievable.
Marc:Yes.
Marc:Like, couldn't you imagine Don doing that to Owen?
Marc:Like, when he's a fucking adult with, like, a child?
Marc:Like, oh, my God.
Guest:I can't believe.
Guest:I just can't believe that that story came out of him just very quickly skipping over the fact that his, the parents split up when his mother bludgeoned the father with a frozen steak.
Guest:That was the moment where I was like, all right, we're through the looking glass on this one, people.
Guest:This one's going to some weird places.
Marc:This guy's grandmother would have her son sit for a portrait for hours and then be like, all right, all done, and turn it over, and it's just a dick and balls.
Marc:Like, who possibly does that?
Marc:How?
How?
Guest:I will say David Krumholz was not the guy I expected to turn into clickbait from his appearance on our show.
Guest:Did that happen?
Guest:Sure enough, you know, I have my Marc Maron Google alert set in case, you know, he gets arrested or anything and I go bail him out.
Guest:I see the rap.
Guest:With the headline, this is about two days after we air the episode, the headline, David Krumholtz apologizes to Rihanna for being wildly drunk while filming This Is The End.
Marc:That's amazing.
Guest:I mean, of all the people.
Guest:Like, I get it.
Guest:Like, Rihanna is, like, a popular person, and I imagine their numbers on it are, like, they direct you to, like, do whatever you can about Rihanna.
Guest:And, like, apologies, that must do well.
Guest:Drunk.
Guest:All these things that, like, you know, can rack up search engine stuff, right?
Guest:Right.
Guest:Okay, all makes sense.
Guest:But then you read the... I'm going to read some of this here, because it's...
Guest:Which has now also been picked up by other places, which just like part of me hates it so much.
Guest:But in this case, I find it amusing because it's so innocuous.
Guest:Like, really?
Guest:This is the thing they chose?
Guest:Damn.
Guest:David Krumholtz was apparently having too much fun in his brief time filming 2013's This Is The End, the blockbuster rapture comedy from writers Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and Jason Stone.
Guest:Now he's apologizing to Rihanna for being a wildly drunk scene partner.
Guest:Then they get to Krumholtz's quotes.
Guest:I was incredibly drunk in one of the scenes in the movie, and I regret it.
Guest:I no longer drink.
Guest:They put me next to Rihanna, and I was wildly drunk, and she knew it, and I knew she knew it, and she was wonderful, and I wasn't mean to her, but I was just a drunk around her.
Guest:This is my way of apologizing to Rihanna.
Guest:Now here's where the real investigative work comes in.
Guest:Ooh.
Guest:It's unclear what circumstances would have placed Krumholtz next to Rihanna in the opening 20 minute party scene, but they were definitely in the vicinity of one another while the pop star memorably slaps a wasted Michael Cera and sings an impromptu take your panties off with Craig Robinson.
Wow.
Guest:listen the person who wrote this his name is Benjamin Lindsay Benjamin Lindsay I look I I know this is your job I like I've always said my heart goes out to you the same way it does to Alexandra Daddario in the White Lotus like this is this thing that aspiring journalists have to do so I will give him some credit for at least structuring this in an entertaining way to me
Guest:But this is so ridiculous.
Guest:Hang on.
Guest:I got to keep going on to this because the next part made me laugh out loud.
Guest:Marin was the first one to mention the movie, chuckling while recalling Krumholtz's ultimate death after Jay Baruchel fails to save him from the fiery pit.
Guest:Very funny, Marin said.
Guest:My whole weight.
Guest:Is that it?
Guest:Yeah, that was it.
Guest:That was his moment.
Guest:that's amazing yeah it goes on to talk about also like the their conversation about uh david getting off twitter and it's just now it feels like they're just trying to stretch the length of this thing out i don't know if they you know have to have these things be of a certain life or something yeah exactly but uh yeah uh that was how our show made news uh a week and a half ago so um you know congrats to everyone involved
Guest:I guess particularly Rihanna because she got an apology out of it.
Marc:I guess it's the Rihanna factor because this guy has a weed disease that if you smoke weed, you die.
Marc:And the most info he can find on this particular disease is on a Facebook group.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:Now, Brendan, Brendan, Brendan, I'm pretty sure his grandmother is fucking with him.
Yeah.
Marc:From the grave.
Marc:Yeah, it's from the grave.
Marc:This is not real, right?
Guest:Well, I will tell you, this was also very close to being cut out of the show.
Guest:Because I was like, wait a minute, this doesn't exist anywhere other than Facebook?
Guest:Like, I can't put this information out there.
Guest:But then I was like, well, no, he's not saying out there to other people.
Guest:go find out about how you're near death because you smoke weed.
Guest:Like he's just saying, I have this thing and it's weird.
Guest:And I found out about it from Facebook and I'm like, okay, this is hilarious.
Guest:This is staying in the show.
Marc:He is a character, man.
Marc:How about, how about his Christopher Nolan stuff?
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:Where, first of all, it's a bit Michael Lerner.
Marc:Just fantastic.
Marc:Oh, you had to fart.
Marc:You had to fart, did you?
Marc:You farted?
Marc:Just like his grandmother is fucking with him.
Marc:Chris Nolan knew he could just fuck with...
Guest:Well, that must be why they get along, because he's like, ah, yeah, this is very familiar to me.
Marc:Oh, my God.
Marc:What a character, man.
Marc:Also, what did David do on Twitter exactly?
Guest:I saw him on there like a couple of weeks ago, or maybe a month now, two months, and he was just totally, like, he was doing, like,
Guest:here's what stuff that happened on the set of these movies.
Guest:So like talking out of school and it wasn't anything terrible, but definitely stuff.
Guest:A publicist would be like, Hey, Hey, maybe cool.
Marc:You jets on that stuff.
Marc:Oh, I see.
Marc:Gotcha.
Marc:All right.
Marc:Well, I'm, I'm sad.
Marc:I will not know the Bill Murray story that, uh, George Clooney told him.
Marc:Uh, but I'm, I'm, I'm excited to know that that's out there.
Marc:Uh, also I'd love to smoke some Brad Pitt weed.
Marc:Um,
Marc:I know weed will kill him, but if he has any, I would love to smoke the Brad Pitt weed.
Guest:There you go.
Guest:David Krumholtz, can you give your death weed to Chris Lepresto, please?
Marc:Right.
Marc:Is it only Brad Pitt's weed that will kill him?
Marc:Like, I don't know.
Guest:Brad Pitt hands it to him in a baggie that has little skull and crossbones on it.
Yes.
Marc:You smoke that, you die.
Marc:Also, I was looking at David's IMDB, and do you know that he played a fake Drew McIntyre on Monday Night Raw?
Marc:Yes, I saw that clip.
Marc:I didn't see the clip.
Marc:Is it good?
Marc:No.
Marc:It's weird.
Guest:I don't know why he was the guy.
Guest:It's very strange.
Guest:What a weird, weird thing.
Guest:Yeah, because it's like, well, that's him, the famous actor playing, pretending to be a wrestler to taunt the other wrestler.
Guest:It was very strange.
Guest:Well, I did also want to mention that based on the Ask Mark Anything episode from this week, that was bonus for you full Marin listeners.
Guest:And by the way, thank you for all the questions you sent in.
Guest:There are so many that that will feed multiple Ask Mark Anything episodes.
Guest:So if you didn't hear your question in this week's episode, you'll hear it probably in the future, maybe next month.
Guest:But I did want to mention, in case anyone was interested, he said he would be talking to Billy Strings, the musician, and that has already happened.
Guest:And that is going to be airing in May.
Guest:So if you were kind of interested and perked up when you heard that, that's when that's happening.
Guest:In fact...
Guest:All of our guests for the next about three and a half weeks are locked in place.
Guest:So I can tell you right now, here is the week ahead, the weeks ahead and the schedule you're getting in advance.
Guest:So next week is the Carol Burnett episode, which we had mentioned a few weeks ago.
Guest:And then also the comedian Alex Edelman, who has a Broadway show that he's now touring.
Guest:He had it out in L.A.
Guest:and it will be.
Guest:I saw that.
Guest:You did.
Guest:Oh, OK.
Guest:The one about about the like Hasidic neighborhoods and that.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Yep.
Guest:OK, so that is coming up next week, next Thursday.
Guest:Then in two weeks, the 15th, that's the Malcolm McDowell episode.
Guest:And then on Thursday, the 18th, the comedian Jimmy Carr.
Guest:And on the 22nd, Paula Pell from Girls 5 Eva.
Guest:And, you know, she's a longtime SNL writer and, you know, a good friend of Tina Fey's and Amy Poehler's.
Guest:Really one of the funniest people alive that most people don't know is one of the funniest people alive.
Guest:Hmm.
Guest:And that proves true in this talk.
Guest:Mark absolutely loved this talk.
Guest:So I'm looking forward to that one in particular.
Guest:And also that week will be Tammy Faye Starlight, who was brought up in our bonus episode about the origins of Luna Lounge.
Guest:Tammy Faye Starlight is a cabaret singer who was one of the people who was there in the 90s when Mark was doing that club and all the surrounding areas in New York City.
Guest:And she's still doing it.
Guest:She's got a show at Joe's Pub and just kind of came up in that talk.
Guest:And then she was around.
Guest:So it was like, hey, let's have her in.
Guest:Let's talk about that history.
Guest:And then let's wrap up April, April 29th with Susie Essman from Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Guest:So all of these things are locked in on the board.
Guest:They're not moving.
Guest:I shouldn't say that so much, actually, because Susie hasn't happened yet.
Guest:So there's a chance that like if illness happens or whatever, that we don't air that one.
Guest:But but all the others have happened already.
Guest:But so that is our schedule for April.
Guest:You're the only ones to know that here on the full Marin.
Guest:Uh, hope you enjoy.
Guest:Also, I would like to flag in case you don't hear enough of me on this podcast and you would like to hear more.
Guest:I will be next week on the podcast called die hard on a blank.
Guest:I was invited on by the hosts, Liam and Phil, when they heard our episode here on the full Marin about die hard on a blanks, right?
Marc:Awesome.
Guest:And so they do a show where every episode is them looking at an action movie from the 90s.
Guest:Some of them are very specifically diehard Anna movies.
Guest:Others are kind of like influenced by them.
Guest:And yeah, they gave me a list of movies I could pick from in terms of being the guest.
Guest:And I chose Sudden Death.
Guest:Die Hard in a Hockey Arena with Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Guest:So next week I will be on that show talking about sudden death.
Guest:And it was a great time.
Guest:It was a lot of fun.
Guest:Oh, great.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Oh, I can't wait.
Guest:Very cool.
Guest:Now that was on Tuesday.
Guest:I recorded that.
Guest:But Tuesday was a big day.
Guest:Big day for us.
Guest:We both separately, not together, although we saw each other there, went to a very entertaining evening at the Beacon Theater in New York.
Guest:Would you care to tell people what it was, Chris?
Marc:We saw I Think You Should Leave live at the Beacon Theater.
Guest:With Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin and a host of guests.
Marc:Yes.
Marc:So Brooks Whelan was the host of the night and he also opened.
Guest:Yes, he was one of the guys who was on SNL with Tim Robinson.
Guest:That's right.
Guest:And he is a writer on I Think You Should Leave.
Guest:So yes, he was the host.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Who else was out there?
Marc:Well, it was Seth Meyers, which, to be honest, he kind of stole the show.
Marc:Oh, he was the MVP.
Marc:Yeah, he he was great.
Marc:I mean, he just he just brought so much to it.
Marc:But there was there was Seth Meyers.
Marc:There was also two actors from I think you should leave Patty, Patty Harrison.
Marc:Oh, Patty Harrison was there.
Marc:Right.
Marc:And Sam Richardson.
Marc:Yes, Sam Richardson.
Marc:Of course, Sam Richardson.
Marc:And there was also, who was the guy from the, you know, I don't want to be around anymore.
Guest:Oh, right.
Guest:From the Carl Havoc sketch.
Guest:Yeah, he's definitely, he's one of the writers on the show as well.
Guest:Gary Richardson.
Guest:And then they had another guy who was in character.
Guest:He was in character as like a local New York improv actor.
Guest:Yes, Bruce Buckles.
Guest:Bruce Buckles, right.
Guest:Yes, right.
Guest:Was definitely not really a guy named Bruce Buckles.
Guest:And in fact, I believe is an old sketch buddy of Tim's.
Guest:But he was playing this character on the stage.
Marc:I got to say, he was he was good.
Marc:Like, you know, it was.
Guest:it was a solid it was they need to when they do these in other cities have other people do similar things right like characters up there with them because ostensibly uh the the show was them uh just showing clips of sketches that didn't make it into uh i think you should leave uh which as someone who makes bonus content i know that trick very well
Marc:Yes.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:So the structure of it was all the guests are sitting in a living room, a couch, you know, couches, and there is a big TV and they just show a sketch that didn't make it onto the show.
Marc:And then they ask the guest, should we have had that on the show or were we right to cut it?
Marc:And that was basically the framework for the show.
Guest:for the live show and gotta say there was not one sketch that was like oh yeah thank god they didn't you know they didn't know they were all funny and i think a lot of it was helped by you know you had a thousand whatever the beacon holds two thousand people in the in the theater who are laughing uproariously at stuff and you know it's infectious uh but what i found the most interesting was seth meyer's
Guest:kind of you know living up to his decade as the head writer of snl giving great analysis as to why some of these sketches were cut like he nailed the reasons why you wouldn't include some of them in the show it was fascinating to me and funny like the whole thing really paid off on that level like as you know it's from especially from my perspective somebody who who
Guest:It has to think about those things.
Guest:What stays, what goes.
Marc:Right.
Marc:Right.
Marc:And like his analysis was so, first of all, all in the moment, cause I don't think he's ever seen any of these, but he's like, Oh, this one kind of reminds me of the, um, you know, one that did make it into the show.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:And like, he's, he's just, he's just really smart.
Marc:Just a really smart guy.
Marc:Uh, by the way, the last guest that they brought out was Paul Rudd.
Marc:Yeah.
Guest:Last guest.
Marc:Like five minutes.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:What are we doing, guys?
Marc:Maybe you start with him or something.
Marc:But he was great.
Marc:And that comedian, that improv comedian was great.
Marc:He had a great line.
Marc:He's like, oh, my God, this is insane.
Marc:If my mom knew, she would blow her brains out right now.
Guest:it's just such a great line but uh but yeah he had a very long hug with uh with yes very very long well i will say i mean part of the joy of going to this thing was that for now i guess it's been four years five years almost that i think you should leave uh has been on and
Guest:It has become a thing in my life that has taken over a lot of my personality.
Guest:Yes.
Guest:And I realize there's just times where it's like brain worms.
Guest:Something normal is happening in the world, and I filter it through this lens of I think you should leave because that's just what the comedy does to you.
Guest:It's so idiosyncratic that you can't help but think of it
Guest:in these very specific moments and so like you know you and I Chris have been into the show since it came on and we've been doing this with each other with other friends where we just like see something in the world we'll send it to each other and then make the joke based on what it is and I think you should leave that that reminds us of right like you know triples is the best or whatever you know and yeah or or Mitch McConnell frozen on the stage like I don't want to be around anymore yeah
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:Or I can't work the body.
Guest:Right.
Guest:It's just it.
Guest:It gets into my head so much.
Guest:And and that's a great thing.
Guest:Like, I'm happy for it.
Guest:But it did make me think about it in terms of my life.
Guest:Like, oh, man, I bet there's other giant chunks of my personality that are driven by other things like that.
Guest:You know, there are some people they consider themselves like huge fans of something.
Guest:Right.
Guest:So it's like, oh, I'm a I'm a Star Wars guy.
Guest:Right.
Guest:And so all their things in their lives are like Star Wars.
Guest:You always know what kind of gift you can get them or, you know, Trekkers.
Guest:That's the that's like the big one.
Guest:Right.
Guest:No, I think that's the derogatory version.
Guest:Oh, God.
Guest:I think they don't like Trekkies.
Guest:I think they call themselves Trekkers.
Guest:I seem to remember that from the movie Trekkies.
Guest:Right.
Guest:But anyway, my point is, like, there are certain, like, fandoms where you just want the thing to envelop your personality all the time.
Guest:And with this, it's like, I never... I don't think, like, oh, I think you should leave, guy.
Guest:But I absolutely, like...
Guest:Have it in my brain like 80% of the day most of the time.
Guest:And I think like the other things in life where that has happened for me, it's like The Simpsons.
Guest:Oh, yeah.
Guest:Like, that's probably the biggest one where so many times in my life I catch myself saying things.
Guest:And I'm not saying things to make a Simpsons reference.
Guest:I'm saying things to like...
Marc:just talk to a person and i say the thing that was in the simpsons in the same spirit that it was in the simpsons exactly if i'm having a good day i'm like oh everything's coming up millhouse you know it just just comes off my head without without trying oh i've had you say to me before oh well there's your answer fish bulb i mean but classic i mean that is a deep cut for me i think but one that is a mainstay in my vocabulary
Guest:mine that i realize i say way too much is if i'm talking about something and how like i'm setting up a plan like for my family we're gonna do this we're gonna do that and i say and nothing could possibly go wrong oh i mean possibly go wrong that's the first thing that went wrong
Marc:When my wife and I are like thinking about booking a flight and, oh, it's an early morning flight.
Marc:Oh, man, there's a 430 in the morning now.
Marc:Yes.
Marc:Oh, my God.
Marc:All the time.
Guest:Also, oh, there's a New Mexico.
Guest:Anytime I'm looking at a map and I see New Mexico, I do that.
Guest:But that's just like what I think you should leave.
Guest:Like now, anytime I need to say that something is interesting, I say it's interesting.
Guest:The ghosts.
Guest:The ghosts.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:And it's also, it's like one of these things where he doesn't matter.
Guest:Then the person you're talking to would have no idea what you're saying.
Guest:It's like, they know that there's something weird and funny just happened.
Guest:They might just not know what it is, which is fine by me.
Guest:Like, but I don't know.
Guest:Was there anything else that kind of you developed your personality around when it comes to that type of stuff?
Marc:Well, first of all, it's illegal for you to ask me that.
Um,
Marc:but to be quite honest, like I am basically like, I don't know if you watched like the Michael Bay transformer movies, but I'm basically bumblebee where I'm talking only in references of previously published material.
Marc:Like it's, it's kind of bizarre, but like my entire personality or like anytime, like someone at work, you know, asked me to do something.
Marc:I'm like, Oh, you know,
Marc:as you wish and like you know if they catch the the princess bride reference or not is is on that it's incidental right that's that's exactly it it's got to be like a thing that it doesn't matter that you're quoting something it's now just part of how you work your way through life yes and like if someone says something like completely obvious i'm like oh you think so doctor uh from boogie nights
Marc:That's a great one.
Marc:That is a very good one.
Marc:But whenever I'm talking to my friends about, oh, where do you live?
Marc:Like, oh, blah, blah, blah.
Marc:Like, oh, that's the flay of the neighborhood.
Marc:Ah, squid and the whale.
Marc:But like, that's the thing.
Marc:I'm not like a squid and the whale guy.
Marc:I'm not like Princess Bride guy.
Marc:I'm just a pop culture sort of sponge.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Well, I think what your I think what your thing is there, what would it see if this makes sense to you?
Guest:What you're latching on to with those type of lines is knowing that, like, it's similar to I think you should leave that.
Guest:That's a weird turn of phrase, the fillet of the neighborhood.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:So you know that when you say that, it's always going to get some kind of reaction.
Guest:Right.
Guest:It's just like it's like with with, you know, Tim Robinson saying you hit me in the cup.
Guest:Like what?
Guest:Like I've said it a lot of times to people and they're not like, oh, that's a Tim Robinson line.
Guest:But they're like, that's a funny thing to say because, you know, you brushed up against the cup and you went, hey, you hit me in the cup.
Guest:Right.
Guest:Or like people can change.
Guest:Right.
Guest:Like these these things that don't need to have a context to sound slightly askew and kind of turn, you know, a person's ear toward you.
Guest:Like what?
Guest:What was it that guy just said?
Guest:Fillet the neighborhood.
Guest:Yeah.
Marc:And it's almost a way of me sort of like sniffing out to see if someone is on.
Marc:Yes, exactly.
Marc:A fellow traveler.
Marc:And like if they pick up what I'm throwing down.
Marc:And I got to say, as a kid, I loved Ace Ventura.
Marc:And, you know, I used to, you know, you know, say like, can I ask you a few questions?
Marc:And like, all right, Ethan.
Marc:Glad you got one of those ones.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:Yeah, like, I guess I just saw the guy from Reacher also did this as a kid.
Marc:Oh, really?
Marc:Yeah, the guy from Reacher is like 6'10".
Marc:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Marc:And like, he's like a wall.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:And he's like, he used to impersonate Ace Ventura as a kid.
Marc:So he's like a... Yeah, so he's a fellow traveler as well.
Marc:But I will say, the one that I probably do the most...
Marc:The most mileage on.
Marc:The one that stuck with me my entire life.
Marc:It actually happened yesterday when I was on the phone with PSE&G.
Marc:We lost power.
Marc:So I had to call PSE&G.
Marc:Oh, my God.
Marc:That's a bummer.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:PSE&G is the utility out in New Jersey there.
Marc:Yes.
Marc:Sorry.
Marc:Thank you.
Marc:And the guy's on the phone with me.
Marc:All right.
Marc:So like, so, you know, so what?
Marc:You have partial electricity and like, oh, well, what about this?
Marc:And my response to him was like, yeah, yeah, that's fine.
Marc:Everything else is tip top.
Marc:And like, and I'm just like, oh, God, I'm just saying a Quentin Tarantino line in like to this PSE&G electrician guy.
Marc:And Quentin Tarantino's lines have made it
Guest:into my vocabulary at a point where i just spew them out without any regard like they are part of me now i do notice that a lot with you but i'm gonna i'm gonna point something out to you and see if you notice this in yourself because i would say as much as you uh send tarantino vibes out into the world i would say i equally have gotten from you since as long as i've known you and
Guest:things that are from tough talking Italians.
Guest:So really like a Bronx tale, he's a mush, put him in the bathroom, right?
Guest:Like any new year's, I get a text from Chris that says, Hey, take last year and give it back to the Indians.
Yeah.
Guest:Like all, you know, Godfather lines, Sopranos lines.
Guest:And I feel like it's similar to the Tarantino thing where you're almost like parodying yourself through references.
Guest:Like it's your way of being like self-deprecating.
Guest:Like, yeah, I know where I'm from.
Guest:And so I will quote.
Guest:Double down.
Guest:Yeah.
Marc:Yes, exactly.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:You gave me this task and I got to say, trying to self-reflect was such a gargantuan sort of leap because I'm just like, oh my God, I don't know.
Marc:Like, do you self-reflect?
Guest:Well, you wind up becoming like Carl Havoc.
Guest:Like, you're like, I don't even want to be around anymore.
Guest:You're all depressed.
Marc:I'm like...
Marc:Why would anyone want to hang out with me?
Marc:Am I even a person?
Marc:Yeah, I'm like a 360 machine where you press a button.
Guest:I'm like, oh no, I broke him.
Guest:I sent him into a spiral.
Guest:Well, I will say this, though.
Guest:I was able to reflect and I felt okay with it.
Guest:I felt okay with coming up with the idea that my personality is taken up with equal parts Simpsons and Tim Robinson and...
Guest:The big one that I had to come to grips with was like, oh, that's been through my whole life is Mel Brooks movies and Mel Brooks comedy in general.
Guest:And it's just like, you know how many times I just like, I start talking like Gabby Johnson from Blazing Saddles.
Guest:Like, oh, darn it, Herman.
Guest:And like...
Guest:darth helmet in space balls there was a time where like i i was showing my son space balls and the point where darth helmet goes fool you my son goes dad that's where you got that from like because i say it to him all the time
Guest:that's not a brendan original or dad original yeah no oh speaking of that i noticed something you said to me today that i was like there is no way chris got that from anywhere else other than me and it is that you we were talking about the mets and you called them the drizzling shits yes
Guest:and what is that i introduced that to you because that was something that i heard stone cold steve austin call his match one time in a in an interview he said we were out there and it was just the drizzling shit and i was like i've never heard that and i'm using that now for the rest of my life
Marc:that's the thing that's the thing it's the sometimes it is very like oh that's a phrase i am stealing that and using that for the rest of my life other times it'll just seep into yourself you know it's like you know it's like who are you who are you calling me from a cell phone yeah yeah
Guest:yeah i i do think there's there's a lot of this is um you know it might seem a little bit like arrested emotional development but uh oh by the way arrested development's another thing where oh yeah you know those things come up all the time how much should a banana cost michael five dollars like i that one i say about prices in grocery stores all the time uh
Guest:But still, I think some people might even be listening to this right now and be like, oh, this is just a bunch of people who can't see themselves personally and they have to live through fantasy or whatever.
Guest:And I kind of get that.
Guest:But I take it a step further and realize that in a lot of ways, this is...
Guest:kind of like a love language and it makes, it's like, it's the same thing that exists.
Guest:It's that scene in city slickers where they're talking about why, uh, being able to, uh, converse about sports was important to them and important to them in their relationship with their dads.
Guest:And like that, they, uh, you know, that they, they find a way to kind of,
Guest:uh equalize their emotions by having these conversations and i do think a lot of times it's like for i like sports you like sports we talk about sports together but what we really like is like good movies and funny shit and it's definitely like a reason why i do the job that i do because i've always been uh entertained by the type of people we have on our show including mark and so if i can
Guest:extend that as part of my personality and i'm like you know using that with other people who get what i'm saying or don't get what i'm saying but think it's funny that's great to me and i do think that's a big reason why i think you should leave has been such a popular thing for people like in it's it's it's cross-generational like it's our age and
Guest:It's millennials.
Guest:It's Gen Zers.
Guest:Like there are lots of people who love this show.
Guest:And I think a big reason for it is they find connection with it.
Guest:They find connection with other people.
Marc:And popcorn.
Marc:That is a big reason.
Marc:Did you ever read that article about that woman saying that her boyfriend just talks with Tim Robinson voice?
Marc:Yes.
Guest:She was all freaked out about it.
Guest:And I was like, I want to talk to the boyfriend.
Guest:I got some things to share with that guy.
Guest:Well, listen, if any of this is relatable to you, but you want to share your pop culture love language, please let us know.
Guest:I would be dying to know about ones that we haven't brought up because I'm sure there are tons that are just outside of our sphere.
Guest:Like, you know, especially if you're like...
Guest:you know, of a different gender, like I guarantee there are other things that connect with you in ways that didn't for us, you know, like I know for my wife and her friends, it's clueless.
Guest:And so, you know, there's, there's gotta be other things out there and I would love to know them.
Guest:And I'd love to talk about them on another episode of the show.
Marc:And Brennan, I love you, but I'm going to mace you in the face, which is for Wes Anderson.
Marc:That's always good for brothers.
Marc:Yes.
Marc:Can I just say before we go, everyone, be safe with the eclipse.
Marc:Don't look up at the sun without glasses on.
Marc:Oh, yeah.
Marc:So you're going, right?
Marc:Yeah, I'm going to Lake Placid.
Marc:I mean, I'm not going to the sun, but I'm going to Lake Placid to see the full.
Marc:Don't go to the sun, please.
Marc:Go to Lake Placid.
Marc:You're like right in the line of fire, right?
Marc:Totality.
Marc:The line of totality, baby.
Marc:There you go.
Marc:My second ever total eclipse.
Marc:So, yeah, really hoping it's going to work out.
Marc:20 inches of snow there, by the way.
Marc:Oh my goodness.
Marc:Looking forward to that.
Marc:All right.
Guest:Well, yes, everyone be safe.
Guest:Don't look at it.
Guest:Dig yourselves out and we'll find out what it looked like next time or didn't look like if you're being responsible.
Guest:But until then, I'm Brendan and that's Chris.
Guest:Peace.