BONUS Producer Cuts - David Mandel, Rachel Weisz, Jeff Stilson, and more Marc
Guest:Okay, it's time for some more Producer Cuts.
Guest:Hi, I'm Brendan.
Guest:I am the producer of WTF.
Guest:And if you're new here on the Full Marin and you haven't heard this before, Producer Cuts is where I play for you some of the stuff I had to cut out of the show.
Guest:And I give you a little explanation as to why I had to do that.
Guest:But first...
Guest:I did want to mention that next week on the bonus content here on the Full Marin, we are going to have another Ask Mark Anything episode.
Guest:And I have put the link in today's episode description if you want to submit a question for Mark to answer.
Guest:So just scroll to the episode description on whatever app you're using right now.
Guest:Click on that submission form and send a question to Mark.
Guest:He will answer all your questions next week on our latest Ask Mark Anything episode.
Guest:But right now for producer cuts, I'm going to bring to you three recent guests and then a collection of Mark monologues.
Guest:If you're one of the people who tunes in to WTF just to hear what's going on in Mark's life, you're going to like the back half of these producer cuts because it's a lot of stuff Mark was doing in the monologues that I had to cut out.
Guest:And now they're here for you.
Guest:But first...
Guest:We're going to go to episode 1430 with Dave Mandel, the showrunner of Veep and now the latest show, White House Plumbers.
Guest:And this is one of those things that just got started right when Mark and Dave got in the room.
Guest:Mark turned the mics on and they already start talking off mic.
Guest:And basically where the episode started is where I thought that a good starting point was making itself evident.
Guest:But the stuff they were talking about at the beginning here was kind of amusing, and I only had to lose it because they hadn't properly set up the show yet.
Guest:And so now you get to hear it.
Guest:Here's Dave Mandel and Mark from episode 1430.
Guest:I can't.
Guest:And I like free shit, so I don't stop them from saying it.
Guest:You want to wear the cans?
Guest:Yes, of course.
Guest:I was going to say working it, you know, like when I used to work in like shows and the places would just send the worst shit ever, you know, because they were hoping like, we just send it to you, you'll put it on TV.
Guest:Yeah, exactly.
Guest:Yeah, like what?
Guest:Oh, just like...
Guest:Ridiculous shit.
Guest:Really, really silly stuff.
Guest:On this last one we were doing, at one point, they put a Red Bull, they sent a Red Bull refrigerator over with loads of Red Bull in it, hoping we would drink it in the writer's room and then somehow have a character drink it.
Guest:I don't even know.
Guest:That was in the White House Plumbers?
Guest:No, that was on Veep.
Guest:That was on Veep.
Marc:I was going to say that it wasn't around.
Guest:No, no, no.
Guest:They also sent us dude wipes at Veep.
Marc:Yeah, I got dude wipes too.
Marc:I don't even know why I got sent him.
Marc:I mean, they're just wipes.
Marc:Yes.
Marc:But I don't even like, I don't like those wipes.
Marc:No.
Marc:I guess I'm old school.
Marc:I'm just a toilet paper guy.
Guest:And I also, I feel like you destroy your plumbing, but I have no proof of that.
Guest:I feel like no matter what they say about, like, that they disappear, they don't.
Marc:Yeah, I would bet that's true.
Marc:Like, if you have a septic system or old pipes.
Guest:Yeah, I think you're effed.
Marc:I think you're just effed.
Marc:I think so.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:You can say fucked.
Marc:Oh, okay, fine.
Marc:Sorry.
Yeah.
Marc:But I like EFT.
Marc:It's nice.
Marc:So I have young kids.
Marc:Oh, you do?
Marc:Do you do EFT or do you not?
Guest:They say, I try and avoid it.
Guest:I say EFT and they go, you know, they go, you know, they go that.
Guest:But I'll tell you one funny thing.
Guest:Sorry, really, before we start.
Guest:Well, we're started.
Guest:Oh, we already started.
Guest:Well, my son was a little kid.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:He learned, he didn't know quite what it meant because he just kept hearing the F word.
Guest:He one time got really pissed at my wife over like her closing a door to change or something like that.
Guest:And so she's in there changing and all of a sudden a note gets slid under the door and it just says, you are the F word.
Guest:Wow.
Guest:But like in the most like childlike handwriting and we framed it and it's on our wall today.
Marc:Oh, forever.
Marc:He's a comedy writer.
Guest:It's in the genes.
Guest:Exactly.
Guest:Once and future.
Guest:Okay, that was Dave Mandel, and then up next is from episode 1433, Rachel Weisz, and this is another case of talking right when they walked into the room.
Guest:Mark turns on his recording.
Guest:They're already talking about Lou Reed, and if you didn't know that, there's no entry point for it other than me telling you that right now.
Guest:It's also a story that Mark has told quite a few times.
Guest:You, listening on The Full Marin, have probably heard him tell this story about meeting Lou Reed, so I didn't think it needed to be in the
Guest:the main episode but uh you also might want to hear how that story goes him telling it to rachel vice and her reaction to it so here you go rachel vice and mark from episode 1430 i've just forgotten the name of the woman who wrote it she was a writer who had had many many jobs including being a cleaning lady yeah but she had grown up in new mexico and speak i'll find it and send it to you yeah yeah it's very good
Marc:Did you see this book?
Guest:I just saw it as I walked in.
Guest:The Art of the Straight Line, My Tai Chi.
Guest:What is it?
Marc:I've had it in her because Laurie Anderson was here, and she's out kind of like promoting that.
Marc:It's a book that Lou was working on about Tai Chi.
Guest:Oh, yeah.
Guest:He was really into it, wasn't he?
Guest:Did you meet him ever?
Marc:Once.
Marc:Weird story I've told a million times.
Marc:Once.
Marc:I met him once.
Marc:It was so silly.
Guest:Not on your show?
Marc:No, I didn't get to him.
Marc:But, you know, she was kind of intense.
Guest:Yeah, I started to listen to the one with her.
Guest:Yeah, it was really, really good.
Guest:I just ran out of time.
Guest:She was talking about shopping for a sheep farm, which was very funny.
Marc:Oh, yeah, yeah.
Marc:I met Lou when I was in college, and I had gone down to a record store where he was signing new sensations.
Marc:And I waited online.
Marc:And I really wanted to ask an important question.
Marc:And I ended up saying, so what gauge pick do you use, Lou?
Marc:You know, because I'm a guitar player.
Guest:Yeah.
Marc:And he goes, you got to use medium, man.
Marc:Got to use medium.
Marc:So I used mediums for a long time because Lou said so.
Guest:That's a lovely story.
Guest:Do you still use mediums?
Marc:I don't, but I have the story.
Marc:Did you meet him?
No.
Guest:I did meet him a couple of times.
Guest:In New York?
Guest:In New York.
Guest:Once at the Coney Island Film Festival.
Guest:Oh, yeah?
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:I think he and Laurie were the king and queen.
Guest:Like they have every year there's a little pageant in Coney Island.
Guest:And they were the Neptune and whatever Mrs. Neptune is.
Guest:And someone tried to take his picture and he was like, we don't do that in New York.
Guest:Oh, yeah?
Guest:He was just like, yeah, yeah.
Marc:And you met him there?
Guest:Just very briefly.
Marc:But you're like a fan, right?
Marc:Because I think you have a picture up in your house of him, don't you, or somewhere?
Guest:I do, yeah.
Guest:I'm a big fan, big fan.
Guest:Like all the way back?
Marc:Did you see that new box set that just came out?
Guest:No.
Marc:Oh, I got to show you.
Marc:Have you gotten any of that new Lou stuff that they're finding, the demos?
No.
Guest:I went to the exhibition in New York that Laurie was part of that was just at the New York Public Library.
Guest:And I listened to some of the demos there.
Marc:They're releasing them on what label Lights in the... I'll show you when we go in the house.
Marc:Okay.
Marc:But Rhino Records just put out a loaded box.
Marc:So it's got loaded, the album, and then another record in there and all kinds.
Marc:I haven't opened yet.
Marc:Well, we can look in there.
Marc:Oh, brilliant.
Guest:I'd love to.
Marc:But yeah, I was listening to them today because for some reason I was thinking,
Marc:I kind of knew you were a Lou fan, so then I started listening to random Lou stuff.
Guest:Okay, and the last guest we have a producer cut for here is Jeff Stilson.
Guest:That was just last week, and it's episode 1442.
Guest:This was just something I took out to make the episode move a little faster.
Guest:There's a point here where it kind of, like, slowed down their train of thought, and it's...
Guest:Nothing that really had to be removed other than my own general sense of keeping things moving.
Guest:So in the past, we'd cut these things out and no one would ever hear them.
Guest:But you guys are here.
Guest:Why not let you hear it?
Guest:This is Mark and Jeff Stilson from episode 1442.
Marc:Why am I spacing this guy's name?
Marc:Hold on a minute.
Marc:It's bothering me.
Marc:My brain's going bad.
Marc:Is yours?
Marc:Oh, yeah.
Marc:Yeah?
Marc:Yeah, yeah.
Marc:Like, you know, things that, you know, you know.
Marc:Fuck, it doesn't matter.
Guest:Names can be, or you get part of a name, and then it turns into Old Man Jeopardy, where you're going, you know, the guy on this show, and then pretty soon you can't even remember the show he was on.
Marc:Yeah, that's what happens when you get older.
Marc:You just go out to lunch with guys, and you say, remember, who's that guy?
Guest:Yeah, yeah.
Guest:You spend the whole time kind of figuring, trying to figure out a person together.
Guest:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Guest:Yeah, kind of bald, but not really bald, 5'7-ish.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Guest:Yeah, no, it's different.
Guest:But, you know, it's weird when you get on stage.
Guest:Do you find this, that your brain kicks into another gear?
Guest:Yeah, sure.
Marc:It's like Glenn Campbell in Alzheimer's.
Marc:You know what I mean?
Marc:The last thing to go was his goddamn fingers.
Guest:Yeah.
Marc:You know?
Marc:And I hear that.
Marc:My dad started in that Alzheimer's thing, the dementia thing.
Marc:Like, you know, when it comes to medicine, we use a doctor.
Marc:Like, he doesn't know what he had for breakfast, but he can walk you through in total knee surgery.
Marc:It's kind of wild.
Guest:My mom has dementia.
Guest:She's going to be, what, 92, I think.
Guest:She did all right.
Guest:Yeah, she's done just fine.
Guest:And, you know, what's interesting is she can only remember shit way back in the day, which is what I'm interested in now.
Guest:I don't care about the stuff that I witnessed.
Guest:That's right.
Guest:I want to hear about childhood.
Guest:And that's like yesterday night.
Marc:And there's no filter on that shit now.
Guest:No, no.
Marc:So you can really find out what's wrong with that.
Guest:And I wish, why didn't I care about this when I was younger?
Guest:Because they're your parents.
Guest:You're just trying to be your own life.
Guest:I know, but it's pathetic.
Guest:Do you really want to know the truth about your parents when you're younger?
Guest:God, she had a great life.
Guest:I mean, she had a really interesting life.
Guest:And, you know, her dad died in the war, World War II, and she's passed around from relative to relative.
Guest:So it explained her total insanity.
Guest:Oh, good.
Guest:That's what you need.
Marc:And hence your career in comedy.
Guest:No, I never I finally figured out.
Guest:Oh, that's why it's passed.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:OK, now we're going to get into a run of five different episodes where I cut some stuff out of Mark's monologue.
Guest:These are all really good examples of how I will take something out and I'll tell him, hey, you know, that thing you did, I cut it out of the episode and then he'll probably redo it.
Guest:later on in another monologue, maybe a shorter version, which is usually what I'm going for.
Guest:I'm looking for him to like kind of fine tune what he was doing.
Guest:But this first one was from episode 1431, and that was the one that Titus Burgess was on.
Guest:And this was just Mark having kind of freeform thoughts about faith.
Guest:You know, he and Titus talked about faith a lot in this episode, and it was kind of sitting with him.
Guest:And so here it was in the monologue.
Guest:I wound up taking this out, but you can hear it now.
Marc:Titus...
Marc:is also a man of faith, and obviously respect the film.
Marc:He played a man of faith, and faith is part of his life.
Marc:And...
Marc:I don't know, you know, I have lived my life as a faithless person my entire life in terms of a spiritual sense.
Marc:But I think, as I've talked about recently before, about sort of the right-sizedness issue of getting to this place where my ego just doesn't extend out into the world.
Marc:And I think that I'm, you know, on the pulse of everything that's going on when I'm really...
Marc:barely on the pulse of anything.
Marc:And I have very little control, obviously, over anything, as many of us know.
Marc:And I've just watched all three seasons of Rami Youssef's show where he struggles with faith.
Marc:And I don't know, man.
Marc:I've never been...
Marc:a person that felt empty in terms of spirituality or faith.
Marc:I never felt like I needed those answers for myself.
Marc:I do understand how it's supposed to work.
Marc:I, how a belief in the higher power is supposed to work.
Marc:And I can get with that.
Marc:I don't have a definition for it, but I can get with the idea that I am powerless and
Marc:And 99.9% of almost all things in that I can accept that.
Marc:I don't have to struggle with that.
Marc:But I guess that that doesn't always feel great.
Marc:And I guess that where faith would come in is when I'm eating and when I'm cooking.
Marc:And when I'm watching something, when I'm playing guitar, when I'm just fidgeting and festering and spiraling in my brain, that I could put that to rest a little bit if I just got in the present and said, hey, man, you know, it's OK.
Marc:You know, just just let it go.
Marc:Nothing is happening that's not inside your mind right now.
Marc:And I got to remember that sometimes.
Marc:Maybe I'm a little a little tweaked.
Guest:Okay, this next bit came from episode 1434, which was the episode with Ice Cube.
Guest:And whenever we have a guest who's going to bring in outside listeners, people who maybe never heard of the show before, I'm very conscious of that in the monologue.
Guest:I don't want it to go too long.
Guest:I don't want it to be too inside baseball, too clubby, too much like you need to know the show for a long time to get it to make sense.
Guest:And so I cut out a bunch of stuff from the monologue,
Guest:But what's interesting here is that this is a lot of stuff that wound up going back into monologues later on.
Guest:This is Mark talking about that suicide note idea he had.
Guest:He talked about this with William Shatner.
Guest:This is Mark talking about his Angelica cookbook, which he was using to make vegan chili recently.
Guest:Also a thing about a bird's nest, which came up again.
Guest:All these things I told him at the time, hey, I cut this out of your monologue, and he wound up working them back in.
Guest:So
Guest:So this was the original form of those ideas and was on episode 1434.
Marc:I came up with a joke last night.
Marc:I don't know if it's a joke because I don't know where it came from, but mornings haven't been great mentally for me lately.
Marc:And I can't really track it, but they are taking some willfulness on behalf of myself to sort of get engaged with the day.
Marc:I don't linger.
Marc:I don't lounge.
Marc:I get up and then I return to my head.
Marc:I don't, I, I, I get out of bed, maybe go to the bathroom and I get back in bed and return to my head, but I don't stay for long, but I'm in there.
Marc:Cause I usually get up before the alarm.
Marc:I get up around six, six 30.
Marc:I just do.
Marc:I get up never to never later than seven.
Marc:And then I, you know, I get, I get it going, but those, those moments in my bed and in my head have not been great.
Marc:And I, and I thought of something to me that was so funny that
Marc:And it's just the idea of a suicide note that just says, why wait?
Marc:It still makes me laugh.
Marc:You know, I mean, it might be bleak to some of you, but I just thought that was that's the question.
Marc:Why wait?
Marc:Huh?
Marc:It's also the great... It's a sales pitch.
Marc:Come on.
Marc:Buy now.
Marc:Buy now.
Marc:Why wait?
Marc:It just has that kind of pop of a sales pitch.
Marc:Did he even know?
Marc:Yes.
Marc:What did it say?
Marc:It said, why wait?
Marc:And who can argue with him?
Marc:I guess that's not true.
Marc:Maybe I really do need to fill my days better.
Marc:You know what I'm saying?
Marc:You know what I'm saying?
Marc:There's a lot of commotion in my house, a lot of action going on.
Marc:He decided to have some work done, and now I'm living in that, and I realize I get completely untethered when my house is chaos.
Marc:It's like really what keeps me in the world is just, you know, the consistency of my life here at my home.
Marc:But like, let's move on to this.
Marc:I'll tell you about that in a minute because I really need to talk about what's going on today.
Marc:You might even hear some noise in the deep background.
Marc:There's deep background noise.
Marc:I don't know if you'll pick it up, but there's some sanding going on outside on my house.
Marc:There are men sanding my house.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:Somebody, you know, sometimes fans send me stuff.
Marc:They don't send cards.
Marc:They don't send nothing, which is nice because it's really, it's not loaded in any way.
Marc:It's just, here you go.
Marc:Somebody sent me the Angelica cookbook, which, and I think I talked about it a little bit before, which is one of my favorite restaurants in New York, but it's gone, long gone.
Marc:It was an organic vegan place.
Marc:And that was before I was even vegan.
Marc:I just always felt better eating there, which I'm finding true in general with vegan eating.
Marc:Wow.
Marc:I just feel better eating it.
Marc:I like... I mean, look, I loved to roast chicken, loved a nice hunk of meat, a cowboy steak, a brisket.
Marc:I eat occasional... Not a huge pork guy, but, you know, I did my time.
Marc:I did my share.
Marc:There's something amazing about a great steak.
Marc:But there's something... Again, not proselytizing.
Marc:This is not an ideological choice.
Marc:This is just my experience with this.
Marc:There's something...
Marc:You know, constantly gratifying about eating a vegan diet.
Marc:I mean, yeah, you're like, that was an amazing steak.
Marc:And then you like sit on the couch like, whoa.
Marc:Yeah, but it tastes great.
Marc:And, you know, you think protein, you think all the things that big meat taught you how to think.
Yeah.
Marc:But again, not just not an ideological debate.
Marc:I'm just saying that in a sort of consistent, long term way, preparing vegan food and eating vegan food, knowing you're doing that.
Marc:Look, I'm gassy.
Marc:I'm bloated.
Marc:I don't feel mentally clearer.
Marc:I don't feel physically better.
Marc:I've discussed this before, but maybe I do.
Marc:Point is, the Angelica Cookbook has been sort of an inspiration to me because I remembered why I liked eating there.
Marc:And then someone just sent me that.
Marc:And someone just sent me that.
Marc:And then I got another book from somebody which came into play recently.
Marc:So now they're like right out after the interior is done.
Marc:They want to do the exterior.
Marc:And I thought I was going to wait a minute.
Marc:Now here's the problem.
Marc:There's a little fucking bird's nest.
Marc:Some of you know this.
Marc:I've talked about this.
Marc:I've talked about it in my special.
Marc:You know, I've talked about it.
Marc:There's a bird that builds a nest right in the top of the, is it the peak?
Marc:Is it the aims of the house?
Marc:Like in the front of the house where the top of the triangle, just underneath that on a rafter, this little bird has built a nest there for the past few years and then has some bird kittens and they kind of, you know,
Marc:They come, they, they, that's where they hang out.
Marc:They live there and then they leave in a few weeks.
Marc:So I've got some bird kittens up there, some chicks, I guess.
Marc:And I'm telling the guy who's painting the house, he's like, we're going to start power washing tomorrow.
Marc:I'm like, I can't kill those birds.
Marc:We can't kill the birds.
Marc:You can't kill the birds.
Marc:And obviously I'm not going to kill the birds.
Marc:And he's like, well, I don't know what to do.
Marc:I'm like, well, I don't, let's put it off for a couple of weeks.
Marc:He's like, yeah, but I might get another job.
Marc:I'm like, it's your job to have.
Marc:I don't care how long we have to wait.
Marc:I'm just not, you know, what are you going to do?
Marc:You're going to, you're going to power.
Marc:You're going to spray those little chicks, those little chicks, those little bird kittens down.
Marc:And then you're going to watch them hit the fucking walk and, and just,
Marc:Dad, you're a bird killer.
Marc:You're a baby bird killer.
Marc:Am I a baby bird killer?
Marc:I don't want that blood on my hands just to sort of, because it's inconvenient and I got to paint my house.
Marc:Now, obviously, I don't want to do that.
Marc:Obviously.
Marc:And there's no way to justify that.
Marc:And this comes, it's not even a vegetarian thing.
Marc:How many fucking chickens gave their life for me and my dumb appetite?
Marc:And then there's the other side of this.
Marc:Like, hey, man, there's a lot of birds around.
Marc:These birds are all over the place.
Marc:I mean, I don't know.
Marc:If I don't see it, you know, go ahead and do what you got to do.
Marc:Or I could call like a bird relocator.
Marc:There's got to be one.
Marc:That's more along the lines of what I would do.
Marc:But the compromise was he's just going to do the rest of the house and we're going to wait for those birds to leave, which they do.
Marc:And I looked it up.
Marc:Here's the other book that I got.
Marc:Someone sent me a field guide to California birds.
Marc:And I sat there on my porch.
Marc:I did some research.
Marc:I did some studying.
Marc:And I found out those are black Phoebes.
Marc:And I have a black Phoebe nest from the last time they were up there after I sprayed it down or had a power wash guy spray it down after they were long gone.
Marc:And I looked at pictures of their nest.
Marc:And it is that nest.
Marc:So there's little black Phoebes up there.
Marc:And I watched the whole action.
Marc:I'm a birdwatcher out there, but I didn't know there were black Phoebes.
Marc:So I'm not going to fuck with the black Phoebes.
Marc:The black Phoebes are going to have their time and they're going to send another generation of black Phoebes to a bird college.
Marc:And the painting's going to have to wait.
Marc:That is the compromise we struck.
Marc:But thank you for the Angelica Kitchen book.
Marc:It seems to be dictating a part of my life right now as where I'm at.
Marc:And thank you for the bird guide, whoever sent that, because now I can put a name to the face and a face to the bird and a personality and have an understanding of.
Marc:But you know what?
Marc:It's a very common bird.
Marc:There's a lot of them.
Marc:So, no, no, no.
Marc:I mean, I'm saying we're not killing the birds.
Marc:I would never.
Marc:It's so disturbing.
Marc:Why do I get so invested?
Marc:It's like I'm totally panicked about those birds just getting on with their lives.
Marc:I think about it like I don't want anything to happen to them.
Marc:And it must be all this anxiety has got to be all this busy brain anxiety has got to be about something else.
Marc:Maybe it's the little birdie in me.
Marc:Maybe it's the little bird I lost.
Marc:Maybe it's a little bird that died inside of me.
Marc:Huh?
Marc:Huh?
Marc:Yeah.
Guest:Okay, more stuff I took out for time from episode 1438.
Guest:And this was one of those situations where I just cut it out.
Guest:And then I'm actually starting to get to a point where I think...
Guest:Of you guys, I think of the full Marin listeners.
Guest:And I think while I'm listening to it, hey, you know, this isn't great for a general audience, but the people who are Mark fans, they might want to hear about his recipes and his music.
Guest:So here from episode 1438 is Mark talking about food and tunes.
Marc:Look, talking about food, I decided I'd do a segment on, you know, what's cooking.
Marc:What's cooking with Mark?
Marc:What's cooking?
Marc:Well, I'll tell you what I made.
Marc:I've got a recipe for that carrot ginger dressing that we used to get in New York at almost every Japanese-style restaurant.
Marc:It was a very specific orange dressing.
Marc:I got it out of the Angelica cookbook.
Marc:I made that.
Marc:I made this amazing recipe for...
Marc:For Cuban black beans, second time I made it.
Marc:Amazing.
Marc:A little labor intensive.
Marc:There's a lot of good stuff in it.
Marc:Green peppers, jalapenos, onions, garlic, cumin, coriander, oregano.
Marc:What else is in there?
Marc:Smoked paprika.
Marc:Put a little cilantro in there.
Marc:A little hint of brown sugar.
Marc:A little bit of vinegar.
Marc:It's amazing.
Marc:Quite good.
Marc:Made some of that.
Marc:I air fried some tempeh.
Marc:Did a little of that.
Marc:I finished a batch of kraut that's going to last me a month.
Marc:Might have to get another one going.
Marc:Did some of that.
Marc:Yeah, that's what I'm doing.
Marc:Made the red cabbage salad.
Marc:You know, I baked some kabocha.
Marc:Squash, some Japanese pumpkin, roasted a head of cauliflower.
Marc:I'm set for the week.
Marc:I like looking in my fridge, knowing I have healthy options, given that I'm vegan.
Marc:I think I'm getting numb here and there.
Marc:It's a B12 thing, is it?
Marc:What's happening?
Marc:What's happening?
Marc:Here's the other segment I'm working on.
Marc:It's like, what music did I listen to in the last 24 hours?
Marc:Let's go through it.
Marc:Let's go through it.
Marc:For some reason, I went on a little Irish tear and listened to U2 October.
Marc:You know what's amazing about listening to those early U2 records is that they were already huge.
Marc:You know, the sound was what it was, but it wasn't until, you know, Lenoir and Eno kind of made it almost interstellar.
Marc:Is that the word galactic that it became bigger than life?
Marc:But YouTube boy and YouTube October, that was a pretty together.
Marc:It's interesting to listen to them when they were when you can hear the fucking band playing.
Marc:Did a little of that.
Marc:Then I listened to Rory Gallagher's Deuce.
Marc:I'm trying to wrap my brain around the way that guy plays guitar.
Marc:Then I found, well, Dan over at Gimme Gimme got me this reissue of some, you know, very small pressing of a band called Stone Harbor.
Marc:Just an amazing, almost not even quite garagey, just a lo-fi psychedelia.
Marc:It's just great.
Marc:Then there's, I listened to Music for Guitars by this guy, Bill Orcutt.
Marc:Didn't know anything about it until Dan turned me on to it.
Marc:Amazing.
Marc:I listened to... I got something from Smithsonian Folkways.
Marc:They apparently have a bunch of leftover Arhuli records.
Marc:I bought the Dave Alexander record, The Rattler.
Marc:Quite good.
Marc:Some blues piano.
Marc:Nice.
Marc:Listened to Thin Lizzy's Jailbreak all the way through.
Marc:Listened to Let It Be by The Replacements all the way through.
Marc:And then I got this other... The Black Jazz Label reissues.
Marc:By a guy named Roland Wayne.
Marc:Is that his name?
Marc:Roland Haynes.
Marc:Roland.
Marc:What is his name?
Marc:Roland.
Marc:What is it?
Marc:Oh, my God.
Marc:Roland Haynes.
Marc:Second Wave is the name of the record.
Marc:Spectacular.
Marc:Crazy good jazz record.
Marc:But, you know, kind of progressive jazz.
Marc:But it's not shitty jazz.
Marc:It's just, you know, there's like two fucking Hammonds going.
Marc:So I did all that in the last 24 hours.
Marc:Filling my fucking brain and my heart with music.
Marc:That's the fucking deal.
Marc:That's getting me through these last couple of days.
Marc:That and cooking food.
Guest:Okay, another one where I wanted to get right to the guest was episode 1440, William Shatner.
Guest:And you'll notice there's no William Shatner content in these producer cuts because I barely cut anything out of that conversation.
Guest:Boy, that was a great one.
Guest:But I also did want to just get to the interview, keep the monologue as tight as possible.
Guest:And then also this particular content, it may be stuff that like general audiences, I don't know, might even be a little off-putting, Mark talking about the kind of perks he gets from doing this type of job.
Guest:But I think it's the thing that you folks who have been with him for a long time or you just really like, you know, knowing about Mark's life, you probably would appreciate it.
Guest:So here's Mark talking about the perks of being his level of celebrity.
Guest:And this was from episode 1440 with William Shatner.
Marc:I've been okay.
Marc:I had a very good day the other day.
Marc:Sometimes, you know, when you have a day kind of roll out and roll on a good day, each day seems like a week to me still.
Marc:I don't know if that's just my age, which is good, if it seems like a week or COVID fucked up my sense of time, but they're long days.
Marc:But the other night, me and my pal Jerry Stahl went out to dinner, then we went to the comedy store and... Or went to the comedy store, then out to dinner after we went to Craig's.
Marc:Now look...
Marc:I know celebrity culture gets a bad name in certain circles.
Marc:You think we're entitled babies or whatever you want to think.
Marc:Or that we don't do anything or that we're part of the problem or that we're getting away with something.
Marc:All those things might be true on some level, but I'm not asking for a lot.
Marc:Some of you who have been with me for a while have gone through the ordeal of me just wanting...
Marc:to have a little bit of a juice at Craig's so I could get a table and the sort of ordeal I went through by reaching out to several of my, uh, bigger celebrity friends to, or people who are regulars there to help me out and get a contact.
Marc:But the point is, I'm not asking for a lot, right?
Marc:I'm not the kind of guy that, uh, you know, everybody recognizes.
Marc:I'm not the kind of guy that, uh, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm a mid-level celebrity, which is fine.
Marc:And I've talked about this before, but, uh,
Marc:You know, Jerry and I went to Craig's and they now know me a bit.
Marc:We had a lovely dinner and there's I just I was thinking about what what do I really get out of my small celebrity standing and what makes a difference to me?
Marc:And I know some of you may get jealous of this stuff, but I still think it's kind of look, I'll be honest with you.
Marc:If you're going to send me records, I'll take them.
Marc:If you're going to send me records I like, you know, sure, they might end up in one of my Instagram lives.
Marc:I don't know.
Marc:I'm not I don't really do quid pro quo that often because I don't like it to be just expected that people try to send people like me things all the time.
Marc:So I'll talk about them.
Marc:But generally, I won't talk about them unless I like them, but I'll take them.
Marc:Wouldn't you?
Marc:I'm not even asking for shit.
Marc:So occasionally, I'll tell you the perks that I'm getting that really make me happy because they're pretty small.
Marc:Occasionally, usually, I may be able to get a table at Craig's, which is pretty good food, but I like the vibe there.
Marc:And it makes me feel like I'm part of the show business community, which I enjoy being part of at times.
Marc:One of the other perks that I enjoy or enjoy less now is Jenny's ice cream.
Marc:Occasionally, out of nowhere, will just send me eight containers of ice cream.
Marc:It's problematic because of my food shame and my body dysmorphia and my cholesterol that generally I can't get through them all without getting very angry or giving them away.
Marc:But they just reached out and said they've got vegan ice cream.
Marc:So to me, that's very exciting.
Marc:Lately, I have been going to the New Beverly Theater, which is Quentin Tarantino's revival house on Beverly.
Marc:And, you know, I never am on top of what's happening because I'm just not.
Marc:And I don't have an assistant.
Marc:And I just I'm just not, you know, I don't know what's playing.
Marc:But every once in a while, I'll be like, oh, fuck, that's playing there.
Marc:So I reached out once to the theater.
Marc:I said, is there any way I can still get tickets for I think it was for the in-laws?
Marc:with Peter Falk and Alan Arkin.
Marc:And they said, just come on down.
Marc:And they gave me the tickets for free.
Marc:They had seats for me and they wouldn't even let me buy refreshments.
Marc:They gave them to me.
Marc:And I was like, well, that's a lot.
Marc:But they said anytime.
Marc:So now occasionally I go see, I went and saw Sorcerer the other night.
Marc:I went and saw Blue Velvet with Kit.
Marc:We saw Sorcerer and Blue Velvet on two different nights.
Marc:And again, they wouldn't take my money.
Marc:And I thought, well, this is an okay perk.
Marc:And it's like, it's perfect for me because I want to get in the habit of going to see these old prints before they completely disappear.
Marc:But I don't think that's a high level perk.
Marc:star treatment situation, going to a little movie theater with the rest of the film nerds to see the existing prints of great movies.
Marc:So that's a perk that I enjoy.
Marc:Occasionally,
Marc:Mike over at Ship John will throw me a shirt or a hat.
Marc:I'll take it.
Marc:But also buy a lot of shirts and hats there, too.
Marc:I don't know.
Marc:I don't know why I'm telling you this.
Marc:I just don't want to feel like when I realize that I don't ask for the world, I barely ask for anything.
Marc:I'm always willing to put in the work and pay.
Marc:But there's a couple of perks there.
Marc:that I find enjoyable.
Marc:There's a few places that send me vinyl records.
Marc:I enjoy that.
Marc:I enjoy Jenny's ice cream.
Marc:I enjoy my ship John shirts.
Marc:And I like, I like being able to eat at Craig's once or twice a month.
Marc:And I enjoy going to the new Beverly to look at beat up prints or, or actually very good prints of old movies from my past or old movies that I haven't seen.
Marc:That's me winning the,
Marc:as a public person no one's given me you know cars or fancy sneakers occasionally i'll get a pair of keen shoes i drew the line at the grateful dead sandals okay last one this was from last week again the episode with jeff stilson 1442 and uh sometimes as you'll hear on this clip uh
Guest:Mark is thinking of a lot of things.
Guest:This was a day where he was cleaning out his old office, something that people have listened to for a long time.
Guest:They remember when he got that office.
Guest:So I did think this was worth putting in for you, but also just to hear what it's like sometimes when Mark is doing what I call venting.
Guest:Like he's just venting about a certain feeling.
Guest:He might not have a finger on it yet.
Guest:He's just trying to figure out how he's feeling.
Guest:And sometimes it goes on for quite a while.
Guest:This is about like eight minutes of him venting.
Guest:And as you'll even tell at the end of this, he's kind of like reassuring the listeners about it.
Guest:And I think that this is great stuff for people who really know Mark and really get Mark.
Guest:You'll understand where he's coming from with this stuff.
Guest:And it's from episode 1442 with Jeff Stillson.
Marc:So I'm trying to, you know, feel like I have, I don't know, I've been just cleaning.
Marc:You know, I'm still like, I don't even know if I'm going to use my office anymore.
Marc:I have an office.
Marc:near where my old house was because my old house was very tiny and there was not enough room to work.
Marc:There was not enough room to process stuff that was being mailed to the show in crates at that time, you know, books, records, ephemera, tchotchkes, tidbits, pieces of artwork.
Marc:There was just so much coming in.
Marc:And I also wanted to have a place to meet people because I didn't want to drive to the West side.
Marc:And if they wanted to meet me, they could come to my office near my house.
Marc:So now I've had this bigger house for several years and I just didn't need the office.
Marc:So it was now, it had become this very expensive storage space.
Marc:And it was just layers of dust and just hundreds of books and stuff people had sent.
Marc:It was depressing.
Marc:And I still was paying rent because I love the location of it and I love the space.
Marc:And I finally just leaned in and I cleaned it all out.
Marc:And I got rid of a lot of stuff.
Marc:I'm sorry if you sent me stuff.
Marc:Some of it didn't make it.
Marc:Some of it, a lot of the books went, a lot of the tchotchkes went, comic books, all kinds.
Marc:I just got, I got rid of it.
Marc:I didn't just throw it away.
Marc:It will get into the hands of somebody.
Marc:But I dusted that thing.
Marc:I cleaned up.
Marc:I vacuumed.
Marc:I bought a new vacuum just for the occasion.
Marc:And then I got some Bona and I made those hardwood floors clean, got all the dust up and I just go sit there.
Marc:There's like three boxes of stuff that I'm still kind of going through bit by bit.
Marc:And I love it.
Marc:I just love the space, but it made me feel engaged.
Marc:I'm trying to figure out what are my hobbies?
Marc:Is food shopping a hobby?
Marc:I don't think it is.
Marc:But this cleaning thing and this getting organized thing, I know it's ongoing.
Marc:But I start to realize that, especially in talking about the world burning and stuff that I've talked about many times before and continue to talk about it, is that you have to make your world
Marc:enjoyable to some degree.
Marc:And is there, where do you find justice?
Marc:Just down the street from me, there were idiot, idiot, you know, right-wing people are flying in from school to school.
Marc:They're mobilizing people that don't even come from my neighborhood to fight people, progressive people about pronouns in the school district.
Marc:And it's just sort of like,
Marc:What the fuck is happening?
Marc:But I think there are moments in my life where you just want a little justice.
Marc:You want a little balance.
Marc:You want something, you know, everybody is so game to fucking fight, to yell, to scream, to shoot.
Marc:It's like everything is so fucking on edge everywhere.
Marc:At least when you turn on your TV or your computer, you watch it or your phone, you just see everything gets heightened.
Marc:But oddly, I do find that, you know, in day-to-day life, people, you know, at the supermarket, walking past my house in my neighborhood, very pleasant and will help out.
Marc:Will lend a helping hand if necessary.
Marc:Will show up as a person.
Marc:Everything gets escalated by the frequency of the information coming at you from whatever portal you take it in.
Marc:But in my small life, I had to like, you know, really do a reality check the other day.
Marc:You know, because I'm like, like I said, one of my hobbies is food shopping.
Marc:I enjoy it.
Marc:I like buying food that I'm going to cook.
Marc:I like cooking.
Marc:I enjoy going to supermarkets.
Marc:And even if I don't buy much, I find it grounding.
Marc:I like going to Walgreens.
Marc:I went to Walgreens the other day.
Marc:There's something very sort of like, I know what happens at a Walgreens.
Marc:I know what Walgreens is.
Marc:I know what Whole Foods is.
Marc:I know what Vaughn's is.
Marc:I know what Ralph's is.
Marc:They vary.
Marc:They change.
Marc:Some of them are different than others.
Marc:They might not have a good travel section.
Marc:They might not have the flax milk that I enjoy.
Marc:But for the most part, it's a world I understand, and it's pretty consistent.
Marc:And I ground myself there as I do in my house.
Marc:And I'll go there even for a little thing.
Marc:Fortunately, I live close to these things.
Marc:And I'll hike.
Marc:I have been hiking alone and with people.
Marc:No passing out.
Marc:I don't know if I... I got to stop running down the fucking hill.
Marc:Me and Dan, gimme gimme Dan, like, you know, we're pushing our fucking post-50-year-old luck just running down these hills.
Marc:Someone's going to tumble.
Marc:It hasn't happened yet.
Marc:But I don't know, man.
Marc:But anyway, point being, I go to Whole Foods.
Marc:They got some organic blueberries there.
Marc:$5.99 a thing.
Marc:Not cheap.
Marc:Organic.
Marc:I like blueberries.
Marc:I eat them all the time.
Marc:It's one of the things I eat.
Marc:Blueberries.
Marc:And look, I've worked hard.
Marc:I can afford a few things, a few containers of $5.99 blueberries.
Marc:All right?
Marc:And it's not going to hurt me.
Marc:It's not going to throw me into any sort of tailspin.
Marc:But generally I'll pop one open a case, a little carton or whatever you call them, a little pint, whatever the fuck it is.
Marc:And I'll taste one to make sure they're right.
Marc:So I did that and it was okay, but it was, you know, it was organic.
Marc:Usually I get the Driscoll's, even the Driscoll's organic because they got a nice pop to them, but these didn't have quite the pop, but they seemed okay.
Marc:They looked right and they were, they were good enough.
Marc:And I thought, well, it's because they're organic, you know, maybe this is what they're really supposed to taste like.
Marc:So I buy three things of them.
Marc:I take them home.
Marc:I put them in the colander and I wash them off.
Marc:And then I eat a few and they're mealy and they're weird.
Marc:And they don't have any, you know, most of them are just, they don't taste right.
Marc:And I said, well, fuck it.
Marc:I'm going to put them in the fridge and see if they tighten up.
Marc:See if something changed.
Marc:But I spent the fucking day just trying to decide whether or not I was going to take, get those containers.
Marc:Because I saved them because I thought this might be something to do.
Marc:I would refill them with the blueberries, go back to Whole Foods and just be like, what the fuck are these?
Marc:You know, it's like, you know, it's an illusion.
Marc:You can't, I mean, I, I do the wrong thing and I opened the goddamn container up to taste a blueberry.
Marc:But, but if I hadn't done that, like I wouldn't have known and I did it and I still didn't know that these blueberries are garbage.
Marc:They don't have any flavor to them.
Marc:They're mealy.
Marc:They're weird.
Marc:I played it out in my head.
Marc:Was it worth it?
Marc:Could I take the hit for the $18?
Marc:But what about justice?
Marc:What about good service?
Marc:You know?
Marc:So I was like, this was my journey.
Marc:Like, there's no justice in the fucking world.
Marc:If there is, it's taking a long time.
Marc:But this is something I could do today.
Marc:I didn't have to be an asshole about it.
Marc:I could have just said, look, you know, I don't think you should be selling these because they're terrible.
Marc:And I want, you know, I want to credit my money back or I'd like to go buy some more berries of a different brand.
Marc:But, you know, that drama did not unfold because I, um...
Marc:I put them in the fridge and they did taste a little better.
Marc:But it's just like all this dumb little shit that I'm preoccupied with.
Marc:I should be creating things.
Marc:I should be doing.
Marc:I'm doing new comedy.
Marc:I'm doing stuff.
Marc:But I'm just I'm throwing things away and I'm organizing.
Marc:That's what I'm doing.
Marc:And, you know, I'm kind of like toiling about whether to return blueberries.
Marc:This is my day right now.
Marc:Cats are okay.
Marc:I think Sammy's a little under the weather.
Marc:You know, when you have several cats and you have to play, whose vomit is this?
Marc:Who did the vomit?
Marc:And you try to look at the vomit to decide whose food it was.
Marc:It's just whatever.
Marc:That's just cat life.
Marc:You know, it's just what it is, man.
Marc:And things are okay.
Marc:New comedy is okay.
Marc:Everything's okay.
Marc:The podcast has been great.
Marc:I hope you guys are okay.
Marc:Again, there's nothing you can do about the smoke, but try to take care of yourself.
Marc:Hopefully it'll blow over, but this is the way we live now.
Guest:Okay, that's the producer cuts for this week on the bonus episode here at the Full Marin.
Guest:Next week, we're doing Ask Mark Anything, and like I said, the submission form for that is in the episode description.
Guest:Just scroll to that and whatever you're listening in right now, and you can click on the link, go to Ask Mark Anything, and Mark will answer anything next week.
Guest:This is Brendan.
Guest:I hope you enjoyed this.
Guest:We'll be back whenever I have more producer cuts for you, so stick around.
Marc:Boomer Lives!