BONUS Producer Cuts - Ray Romano, Kelly Reichardt, J. Smith-Cameron, Marc freestyle
Guest:Okay, folks, it's time for some more producer cuts.
Guest:How's it going?
Guest:I'm Brendan.
Guest:I told you I'd bring you these whenever I had them, and we're starting to kind of pile them up here.
Guest:So I figured it's best to just get you the latest round of things I had to cut out of the show for whatever reasons, and I'd tell you about them right here before you listen to them.
Guest:And the first thing is Ray Romano from the recent episode Mark did with him.
Guest:And there was a story Ray told about a person, and he asked us to get rid of that story.
Guest:He didn't want to include it in the episode, which is fine.
Guest:We totally allow that.
Guest:And I'm not going to say who that person is, because that's a betrayal of Ray's trust.
Guest:But what did wind up happening, because we cut that story out, is there was a subsequent story that tied into it about Phil Rosenthal, the former producer of Everybody Loves Raymond, who has gone on to have his own shows, including Somebody Feed Phil.
Guest:I thought this was a fun thing.
Guest:It was a, you know, a story I absolutely would have kept in the episode if it wasn't for the fact that there was no in point once I cut out the previous story.
Guest:So here you go.
Guest:You know that there was a previous story here and that it led into this conversation about Phil Rosenthal.
Guest:Have you done that show?
Guest:No, I have not.
Guest:Really?
Guest:Never asked you?
Guest:He never asked me.
Guest:No, Phil Rosenthal's been on.
Guest:You know, Phil?
Guest:I do.
Guest:I do.
Marc:I...
Marc:I interviewed Phil years ago in the other place.
Marc:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Marc:And now, like, you know, I pass by the eating show.
Marc:Can I tell you how funny it is?
Guest:It's funny.
Guest:You know, I love Phil.
Guest:Me and Phil are friends.
Marc:You guys worked together for years.
Guest:I wouldn't be here.
Guest:He wouldn't be where he is without him, and I wouldn't be where I am without him.
Guest:But, you know, he's always wanted to be on camera also.
Guest:And he's a foodie.
Guest:And now he's living.
Guest:It's like God came down and said, everything you want, I'm going to give you.
Guest:And he goes on tour now.
Guest:He plays out theaters all over the world and sells them out.
Guest:Just talking about food or showing clips?
Guest:Talking about the show, clips.
Guest:There's a Q&A at the end.
Guest:Somebody moderates it.
Guest:Uh-huh.
Guest:And I did a guest appearance on one in Long Island.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:And I came around.
Guest:The crowd was into me, you know?
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:And I said to Phil, I go, I got a question.
Guest:How did this shit happen?
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:I go, I've been doing stand-up for 35 years.
Guest:You go to Poland and eat meatloaf, and you're selling out theaters.
Guest:Anyway, I stayed for the Q&A, and I learned my lesson.
Guest:I'm going, if I ever do that again, leave before the Q&A.
Guest:They didn't ask me one question.
Guest:They didn't care.
Guest:It's a whole film, and I love it.
Marc:I mean, good for him, you know?
Marc:Sure.
Marc:Whatever happened with that, when he does that thing,
Marc:Because he franchised Ray, right?
Marc:He franchised everybody loves whoever.
Guest:Well, he didn't do that.
Marc:Sony or whoever.
Marc:Yeah, Sony did it, yeah.
Marc:But did that work out?
Marc:I mean, are there still- Yes, in Russia.
Guest:I mean, he did a documentary about- I saw that.
Guest:But it still runs?
Guest:Does it still go places?
Guest:I'm not sure if it's still running in Russia, but they did every one of our episodes they adapted.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:And then, I'm not even kidding, I think they did about 200 to 300 more.
Guest:Really?
Guest:Because it was on like-
Guest:three or four times a week, you know?
Guest:You get a piece of that?
Guest:I don't know.
Guest:I don't think so.
Guest:Uh-huh.
Guest:I don't know.
Guest:I don't know.
Guest:Phil does.
Guest:If I do, it's pennies.
Guest:Yeah, yeah.
Guest:Sony took it over, and I don't know what happens.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:But it's also in other countries, you know?
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:They've adapted it, or they've written... Some of them are our shows dubbed in their language, or some of it is they've done an adaption of our show.
Guest:That's wild, right?
Guest:Yeah, it is weird, yeah.
Guest:Okay, next up was part of Mark's conversation with Kelly Reichert, the filmmaker, and if you had been listening to the show in the lead-up to that episode, you know that Mark was very excited to talk to her.
Guest:He had just watched all her films, literally all of them, and was very excited about having this conversation.
Guest:So much so that in the early part of the episode, they started talking about the course she teaches on filmmaking.
Guest:She mentioned that she does an exercise where she has the students remake an older film.
Guest:And they got into a conversation about that that went on for about eight minutes.
Guest:And it's really good.
Guest:It just...
Guest:wound up really slowing up the episode, which was already long.
Guest:So I cut it for basically time and pacing issues, but I don't think there's any reason I would have cut it otherwise.
Guest:And since we have this outlet on the full Marin to play these things, I really think people who are interested in film, filmmaking, Kelly Reichert in general, you'd really enjoy this pretty long stretch that I had to cut out.
Marc:What movies have you done?
Guest:Um, the first one, this is a long time ago when I started this class, we did the loud family because that was great because American family, there was no way for them to see it.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:And so, you know, the idea of the class is like, you know, the lies and the dialogue, you gotta don't trust the dialogue because nobody ever says what they mean, you know?
Yeah.
Guest:But it was a learning thing because they, of course, completely listened to the dialogue.
Guest:And so they haven't seen anything.
Guest:So they think like Pat Loud is really square and they make her like a mom.
Marc:So this is done the same way?
Marc:You don't show them the movie?
Marc:You just play the dialogue.
Guest:Nowadays I do because there's no getting around.
Guest:I can't find enough stuff they can't get to.
Guest:But in the early days.
Marc:It was just you hear the sound and make the movie.
Guest:No.
Guest:I would give them the – there was a book of the dialogue for the loud.
Guest:So they just had the script.
Marc:Oh, wild.
Marc:Okay.
Guest:And they didn't have any image of it.
Guest:So, like, instead of the Chelsea Hotel, which I thought the kid who got that part, I'm like, wow, he's going to go discover the Velvet.
Guest:He's going to discover Max's Kansas City.
Guest:A million things.
Guest:Warhol.
Guest:But he decided to shoot it in a...
Guest:air b&b in vermont and so it like he made it was like the squarest version of the louds ever they didn't really get that lance was gay yeah um and so when they on the last day i show them the original like yeah it was a great it was really fun but nowadays this semester we're doing the honeymoon killers and uh
Marc:Which movie is that?
Marc:I feel like I know the movie.
Marc:I'm just not good at it.
Guest:Winter Castle.
Guest:It's, you know, like a B movie, but it's shot really well.
Marc:Oh, okay.
Guest:So I did that film about—it's the first time I repeated a film this year.
Guest:And I hadn't seen it in about six years, and then I started watching it with the class.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Because we remade it once, and Luc Sante, the writer, had a good part in it.
Guest:And so now Luke is Lucy-san, and I thought, okay, this is good.
Guest:We can recast.
Guest:We can bring her back.
Guest:But as I started watching the class, I was like, oh, my God, all these women are getting killed.
Guest:Like, this is not – like, I'm just like, oh, I'm going to get in trouble.
Guest:This is bad.
Guest:So I took the temperature of the room.
Guest:I stopped the film.
Guest:I was, all right, let me just get a read.
Guest:And everyone was cool with it.
Guest:And I was like, oh, all right, maybe it's peaked.
Guest:Maybe the, like –
Marc:The sensitivity?
Guest:Yeah.
Marc:To murder and toxic masculinity?
Guest:Hitting women over the head with hammers and throwing them in trunks, yeah.
Marc:Well, I mean, right.
Marc:But, you know, maybe... I mean, that was always... The concern was, like, would it...
Marc:find a level where, you know, context means something.
Guest:Yes.
Guest:Yes.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:And you would hope.
Guest:I think, I think, I don't know.
Guest:They were like, I said, what's everyone thinking?
Guest:And they started like bidding on the women that would, I want this one.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:There's one, fair enough.
Marc:Is this undergrad?
Guest:Uh, undergrad.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:Okay.
Guest:Um, but there's sports.
Guest:Well, there was, you know, I have ones.
Guest:She was fair enough.
Guest:She was like, all right, you know, Kelly.
Guest:All right.
Guest:This is what we're doing, but she's game.
Guest:Everyone's game.
Guest:And, um, yeah, it's a fun, it's a really fun class.
Marc:And what do you think they learn from that?
Marc:I mean, what do you think you're, what are you encouraging them to sort of discover?
Uh,
Guest:Well, I'm trying that they'll sort of use the film nowadays that they... I mean, the class they take before that, the first one, they really redo scenes and they have to sort of walk in the footprint of what was done.
Guest:So they're like using a scene that's like a Cirque scene or something, which they have to make on total scrap because we're in...
Guest:It barred, and we don't have, you know.
Marc:And that's pretty high production, technical air stuff.
Guest:So everything changes, you know.
Guest:It becomes, you know, in my dream world, it becomes like a George Kuchar film because it's like... But it's teaching them, like, yeah, you don't need six shots.
Guest:You can do this in two shots.
Guest:Or why is the camera moving versus why move the person?
Guest:You know, in how is it moving?
Guest:All those things.
Guest:So when they come to the second class, they're...
Guest:They can have more room to shoot how they want, but they it just takes them through the whole thing of production.
Guest:Right.
Guest:Like a lot of film students be like, you know, I really want to direct, but I'm not into location scouting and all this stuff with like set dressing and casting.
Guest:I don't like.
Guest:OK, what you're describing.
Guest:It's the entire movie making process.
Guest:Which part are you into?
Marc:Just standing behind the camera, I guess.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:But I have to say, these kids, they're really, one thing, they're really into, they get into it because it's really everybody's film ultimately.
Guest:And they really, it's really about community working.
Guest:And I like that.
Guest:And they get into that.
Guest:Like they really help each other out and swap props and costumes or whatever it is.
Guest:And so I like that.
Marc:It's so funny because sort of approaching the Cirque movie, because Fassbender made one.
Guest:Yeah, sure.
Marc:And that was pretty stripped down, but it had the effect just because, I mean, in my recollection, she was a redhead and he sort of saturated the color.
Marc:But outside of that, the production values were not...
Marc:Totally.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:But it worked.
Marc:Right.
Guest:Completely.
Guest:And I've had like I had some Chinese girls do Far From Heaven with their friends all there.
Guest:And they made like do a little scene from Far From Heaven.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:where they made the snow come down outside the window.
Guest:And they're doing the whole scene in these really thick accents where they're just, you know, second language, English.
Guest:And that's really fun.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:Because they can sort of own it.
Guest:Yeah, totally.
Guest:Make it what it is.
Marc:It's so funny because I was just talking to Jason Wollner, you know, who did that Paul T. Goldman series.
Marc:It's a sharp wings friend.
Marc:It's a weird kind of half documentary, half fiction.
Marc:It's a weird thing.
Marc:But we were talking about there was an old show on.
Marc:On TV, Don Adams Screen Test.
Marc:Oh, yeah.
Marc:Do you remember?
Guest:What was that?
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:It was literally like they would pick – they'd have celebrity guests, probably two per show, and they'd pick an audience contestant and they would have a piece of an old movie.
Marc:That would they would reenact with the celebrity and the contestant.
Marc:They would show the clip and then have them.
Marc:They'd have it all set.
Marc:Oh, my gosh.
Guest:That's right.
Guest:That is so cool to think about.
Marc:I forgot about that.
Marc:Well, we all did.
Marc:And you can't really even find it online.
Marc:But like what an amazing exercise that would be.
Marc:It would be a great show now in a way.
Marc:Totally.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:Because I just remember like they, you know, there was a scene from the African Queen.
Marc:The one that was stuck in my mind was when they're both in the water.
Marc:I don't know what happens with the boat.
Marc:I can't remember the story.
Marc:But it's, you know, it's Bogart and Hepburn in the water having this scene.
Marc:And then they had, I don't remember which celebrity.
Marc:It was the woman, though, and the man.
Marc:And they had a whole pool set up and they had the cameras set up so they could, you know, I guess they were probably shooting it on videotape.
Marc:That was happening immediately.
Marc:But they had an entire set set up to recreate the scene.
Guest:But did you see it?
Guest:Did you get to see it?
Marc:No, I just, I'm remembering that one.
Guest:Wow.
Marc:There's one online with James Caan as Tarzan, which is kind of funny.
Marc:That's pretty.
Guest:I bet some of them could get a little, wouldn't pass the test at this moment.
Marc:Oh, no, of course.
Marc:I mean, almost nothing does.
Marc:I mean, yeah, there's always, you know, to sort of backload where we're at now into almost anything, you're going to find problems.
Marc:So at some point, people are going to have to learn how to contextualize again.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:Or else you're just going to, you know, shut down all of history in a way.
Marc:Right.
Marc:But in academia, it's trickier.
Marc:I mean, it is because my buddy's a professor.
Guest:Yeah, it hasn't.
Guest:I really haven't felt that.
Guest:I mean, I've heard worse stories than I've experienced, I got to say.
Marc:Well, yeah.
Marc:I mean, I would imagine that's sort of the usual.
Marc:I mean, that there's fear more than actual events.
Marc:And I imagine they happen in certain environments.
Marc:And I imagine that people that are coming into film studies and that kind of stuff are not necessarily –
Marc:I think there's a sensitivity that happens for whatever reason.
Marc:It's hard to generalize.
Guest:Depends where you teach.
Marc:Is it?
Marc:Yeah.
Guest:I mean, I taught at NYU for a decade.
Guest:I didn't find a lot of sensitivity.
Marc:That's what I mean.
Marc:Yeah, yeah.
Guest:But yeah.
Marc:And also people think they should say something sometimes whether they feel it or not.
Marc:And I'm not saying that's wrong, but I don't know.
Marc:It's a hard conversation to have in general.
Yeah.
Guest:OK, now, if you're the kind of person who likes to listen to WTF for Mark's monologues, I have a treat for you right now, because this is going to be from three separate monologues that he did over the course of the last month.
Guest:And it basically adds up to one full monologue section is like going to be like 13, 14 minutes or so, which is normally the amount of time Mark talks in any given episode.
Guest:And what happened here was just stuff I had to cut for time or cut because it didn't have a real cohesion to it.
Guest:But if you're a Mark fan, if you're someone who subscribes to the full Marin because you like Mark, this is basically the stuff you like to hear and you want to hear all the time anyway.
Guest:We just didn't have a place to fit it into the respective episodes.
Guest:So what I'm going to do is I'm going to lay back
Guest:As I play these three clips, I'll just kind of do a crossfade so you know where one ends and the next one begins.
Guest:But these were from episodes that posted on April 10th, April 20th, and just yesterday, April 24th.
Guest:These are from Mark's monologues about a variety of topics.
Guest:Some of them overlap.
Guest:Some of them you'll see are thematically similar, but they all come from the same source, and that's Mark.
Marc:But yeah, and I panicked and like, you know, I'm just trying to make note of my brain.
Marc:I'm making note of my brain.
Marc:I'm trying to make sure I know where shit is.
Marc:And...
Marc:I know a lot of my past is in boxes upstairs here.
Marc:But I also couldn't find my keys.
Marc:And I was panicking because I had to get to the theater because I had to pick up the tickets so I could get a seat that I enjoy at the movie theater so no one can sit in front of me in a way that makes it difficult.
Marc:And I get anxious and mad and resentful.
Marc:And I start to question my entire life because someone with a giant head sat in front of me.
Marc:And I think to myself, what kind of luck do I have that this is happening?
Marc:You know, how did my whole life bring me here to sit behind this fucking guy and I can't read the subtitles during the Italian part?
Marc:So that didn't happen.
Marc:But I was scrambling and I couldn't find my keys.
Marc:I literally knew they were, I thought they were on my bed, but I looked there two or three times.
Marc:I looked everywhere they could be.
Marc:I couldn't find them.
Marc:So I grabbed my spare set, which made me, which bothered me.
Marc:The spare fob, the key fob didn't work.
Marc:So I scrambled upstairs, took apart the key fob, put in one of those CO32 batteries, you know, kind of, you know, just mission impossible, the whole thing.
Marc:I had the battery.
Marc:I knew how to pop the fob because I'd looked it up before and I got out.
Marc:But I was so impressed that I was able to troubleshoot like that so quickly.
Marc:It's the little things, folks.
Marc:My microphone in my car for the car, for the phone in the car didn't work in my, in my Toyota Avalon.
Marc:Like I, you know, I was hearing people talking to me, but they didn't hear me when I talked and I, and you just go online and I found some guy saying like, here's what you do.
Marc:All right.
Marc:You want to, you want to take, you want to disconnect your car battery and,
Marc:Because it's almost like the microphone systems in almost a separate phone computer in the car where some things run through it.
Marc:And sometimes it freezes.
Marc:So you got to disconnect the battery for a half hour, even overnight, and then reconnect it and that should do it.
Marc:You can bring it into Toyota, but it's stupid.
Marc:Try this, just disconnect the battery.
Marc:Who the fuck knew?
Marc:You can't just turn it off to reboot it.
Marc:So I did that.
Marc:I disconnected the battery and, uh, fucking worked.
Marc:And it is, I just, I, it's such a great feeling.
Marc:You know, I guess I should, you know, do, what should I do?
Marc:Should I, should I find out what that guy's name was?
Marc:But like, isn't it an amazing feeling when you just look something up and you can fix something by yourself or figure something out?
Marc:You know, it, this is the good thing about the times we live in is that, all right, there's encroaching fascism.
Marc:And to finish a thought I started earlier,
Marc:It's one thing if you live in a fascist state, OK, because you live there and you're stuck there.
Marc:It's another thing entirely if you move there knowing it's a fascist state, but you don't think it's going to affect you or, you know, the tax situation is good.
Marc:So who gives a shit to voluntarily compromise your ethical integrity because of your personal well-being to sort of decide to move to a shit state?
Marc:that you know is repressive and probably the future of this country, that's a compromise, I don't know, a lot of people don't consider, I guess.
Marc:I guess we're all selfish.
Marc:I guess we all think we're going to be okay in the long run if we're of a certain type.
Marc:Yeah?
Marc:Ask all the Jewish industrialists in Germany in the very early 30s how they were figuring out how to work with the new administration.
Marc:Anyway, back to whatever I was talking about.
Marc:Yeah, the other side of that is, hey, sometimes you can look something up and fix it.
Marc:Huh?
Marc:Right?
Marc:I pushed myself out there.
Marc:I went down to...
Marc:Well, I went to Gimme Gimme Records, and I shot an Instagram Live over there with my buddy Dan, who owns the place, and I got about 30 records.
Marc:And I would say 18, or I would say 25 of them.
Marc:I have no idea who they are.
Marc:There's a whole world out there I don't know anything about.
Marc:I realize that every time I scroll through Instagram, I realize it when I go by records.
Marc:But this is old stuff.
Marc:So, like, I don't know.
Marc:I always thought this, I guess I'm back on this.
Marc:I always thought that was pretty keyed in.
Marc:I thought I was pretty on the pulse.
Marc:I thought I was, you know, I had a global mind and that I was somehow connected with it in a symbiotic way, kind of open, blasted open by the great zeitgeist machine and kind of had a sense of it all.
Marc:I do not.
Marc:I have a sense of very little.
Marc:And I got to own that.
Marc:Got to reel it in.
Marc:Because a lot of it is just weird ego extensions.
Marc:I got to reel it in.
Marc:I don't know if you understand that.
Marc:If you do, it's fine.
Marc:Sadly, lately, I've been thinking about weed a little bit.
Marc:It's not great.
Marc:Don't freak out, my sober pals.
Marc:If you want to email me, go to a meeting, fine.
Marc:But, like, it's weird that one of the few things I crave, like, the other day I had a thought.
Marc:I'm like, all right, so I've got 24 years sober this year if I make it.
Marc:And I thought, like, well, at 25 years sober, I'll be, like, just coming up on my 61st birthday.
Marc:And maybe I'll be all done with everything and I could just smoke a little weed.
Marc:Is that bad to think that way?
Yeah.
Marc:Is it bad to think, like, you know, keep pushing it down the pike a little bit?
Marc:Because I know I can't rationalize it.
Marc:I can't be like, well, I have, you know, it helps me.
Marc:You know, I have chronic pain.
Marc:Actually, I'm going to go get some weed prescribed by a weed doctor for my chronic pain.
Marc:You can just buy it in a fucking store.
Marc:It's crazy.
Marc:We got to go.
Marc:I don't know.
Marc:We got to hope our guy had some.
Marc:But I couldn't just go buy it in a store because I would just be using it.
Marc:But I've got chronic pain, and I think that I need to be high to deal with the chronic pain.
Marc:I have some depression.
Marc:I think it would be better if I was high.
Marc:Yeah, I'm experiencing a little bit of kind of like compulsive behavior.
Marc:I think it would be better if I was high on weed.
Marc:That's how it is.
Marc:That's how it works for medicine.
Marc:You should get prescribed weed because you should be high for life.
Marc:I know why I want to smoke weed, because I want to be high.
Marc:I'm not going to do it.
Marc:It would never stop.
Marc:It would never stop.
Marc:But I tried to get out in the world.
Marc:I went down to...
Marc:I read a book.
Marc:I've been reading some books.
Marc:I read this Warren Zanes book that's not out yet about the making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska.
Marc:It was a great little book.
Marc:Looking forward to talking to him.
Marc:Forgot what it was called.
Marc:But that's what it's about.
Marc:He wrote a book about Tom Petty, too.
Marc:So I read that cover to cover.
Marc:Now I'm reading some book on L.A.,
Marc:kind of place myself in it.
Marc:Apparently, mentally, existentially, and every other way, I'm very much attuned with L.A.
Marc:I got a sense.
Marc:I got a sense of the history of L.A.
Marc:I got a vibe about what this city really is, man.
Marc:I have no actual information other than my speculative understanding and history of the place.
Marc:That's who I am, man.
Marc:I'm a historical speculator.
Marc:And nostalgia viber.
Marc:Something.
Marc:I don't know.
Marc:All I know is I don't want to be on shows with TikTok stars.
Marc:It's not what it's about, man.
Marc:Anyway, my brain is not working as well as I want it to.
Marc:It's not performing optimally.
Marc:Optimally.
Marc:I just, I can't, like, I keep forgetting shit.
Marc:I don't want to blame the diet.
Marc:I don't know.
Marc:I was told that maybe I'm not getting the right amount of brain oil.
Marc:But look, I don't know what to tell you, but I feel like it's a little sluggish.
Marc:The machine is not cranking out the names like it used to.
Marc:It's not cranking out the words that I want, but maybe it's OK.
Marc:Maybe I just have to learn how to work with less words.
Marc:I don't know.
Marc:How are how are you people?
Marc:Are you all right?
Marc:Is everything all right there where you are?
Marc:Is everything holding up there?
Marc:The weather's been good here.
Marc:It's been nice and cool.
Marc:I'm just having this, I don't know, you guys.
Marc:I like my house.
Marc:I'm happy to own a home.
Marc:I know it's hard for a lot of people to do that.
Marc:But it's coming up on, I don't remember really how many years I've been in this house, but it's starting to happen.
Marc:Things are falling apart.
Marc:Paint is chipping.
Marc:The walls look shitty.
Marc:The outside is faded.
Marc:There's water damage around.
Marc:Rain gutters are going.
Marc:Like, arguably, my house might be too big for me.
Marc:It's not really.
Marc:I guess it's a three-bedroom house.
Marc:One is an office.
Marc:One is a guest room.
Marc:One is my room.
Marc:It doesn't feel big, but it's not a small place.
Marc:And I've either got to keep working around things falling apart or get the work done.
Marc:And I just have anxiety.
Marc:Maybe these are luxury problems.
Marc:Maybe I shouldn't be talking about them here.
Marc:But it's causing me some stress because I've been home a lot.
Marc:There's other problems with that.
Marc:But let's get back to this housing.
Marc:So...
Marc:The last time I had a house where I started the podcast, some of you remember the old garage, the old tone, the old sound.
Marc:Many of you know the old house.
Marc:People used to drive by it to see it.
Marc:That's where it happens.
Marc:Well, when that house started falling apart, I sold it.
Marc:I mean, it took a long time.
Marc:I was there.
Marc:When the fuck did I get out of there?
Marc:I was probably there...
Marc:I don't know, 2004 to 2000.
Marc:I was there for like 13 years or something, right?
Marc:Does that sound right?
Marc:Somebody get me the dates.
Marc:Get me the dates of my life, please.
Marc:This is what I'm telling you.
Marc:My brain's not working right.
Marc:I don't know if it's ever worked correctly along this stuff.
Marc:Maybe it's just because I've been spending a lot of time by myself at home doing this and that, not talking to enough people, looking at my phone too much that my brain is deteriorating in terms of how to engage with people.
Marc:Could somebody just get me a timeline of my life, please?
Marc:Is anyone out there?
Marc:But yeah, I left that house.
Marc:But there was a lot of ghosts in that house.
Marc:I mean, ghosts of me.
Marc:Me as a different man, as a different mark.
Marc:Ghosts of residues of things that were bad and good in that house.
Marc:And it was time to go.
Marc:Walls were closing in.
Marc:And to be honest with you, falling down a little bit.
Marc:So now I'm in this place.
Marc:And I've just got to, like, look, I don't spend money on anything.
Marc:I save money.
Marc:You know, I've got to, it's time.
Marc:I've got to paint the outside of the house.
Marc:I've got to paint a little bit of the inside.
Marc:I just get into these zones where I'm like, is this the way I want to live?
Marc:Is this the, like, I chose everything in the house pretty much.
Marc:Me and my ex, Sarah, she helped me out back in the day.
Marc:But I only have two color towels.
Marc:I have some blue towels and I have some gray towels.
Marc:That's it.
Marc:And I've got all these rooms or three rooms that the office is done.
Marc:It's cluttered.
Marc:It's full of shit.
Marc:And then like I started to get hung up on like, do I need more than just two sets of bed sheets?
Marc:I mean, is this like a bachelor problem or is this reasonable?
Marc:It's weird to have a big house and only have two kinds of bed sheets.
Marc:But like I don't have kids.
Marc:There's not a million things to do.
Marc:I don't spend my life wondering how I can change lighting fixtures or anything.
Marc:But I need to paint the house or I need to get out.
Marc:I need to fix the cabinets or I got to get out.
Marc:All the fucking cabinets in the kitchen are broken one way or the other.
Marc:They don't close properly.
Marc:They're missing a handle.
Marc:I mean, I just got to fix that shit, right?
Marc:The fuck is wrong with me?
Marc:Just ordered a cat door for the idiots to get in and out from the catio.
Marc:The last time I tried that, they wouldn't go near it.
Marc:But I can't just, summer's coming.
Marc:I can't have all the fucking bugs in the house.
Marc:It's bad enough.
Marc:Half of my Pendleton shirts and jacket, anything that I had that was wool, most of it has been destroyed by bugs.
Marc:And I don't know where they came from, but I do now.
Marc:I let them in.
Marc:I just freely let them in.
Marc:Open invitation to moths that eat clothes.
Marc:Come on in.
Marc:Could somebody just get me like a breakdown of the places I've lived?
Marc:And yeah, that'd be good.
Marc:Just a breakdown on that.
Marc:There's nobody here.
Marc:No one's going to help me.
Marc:Maybe that's what I should do.
Marc:I should sit down with a blank piece of paper, do some research, and just get a working timeline of my own fucking life.
Guest:Okay.
Guest:There you go.
Guest:That is unadulterated Mark.
Guest:from his monologue, stuff that was not included in the main episodes.
Guest:And I'm glad I was able to bring them back to life and give them to you here.
Guest:Now, this last thing is going to be very short, and most of it is something you already heard.
Guest:So it's a little bit of a different producer cut.
Guest:What I wanted to be able to do is give you some context about this that maybe you didn't pick up on when it played.
Guest:But if you are a fan of Succession,
Guest:This is from yesterday's episode, April 24th, with J. Smith Cameron, who plays Jerry on Succession.
Guest:And what you're going to hear right now is just a very brief part at the beginning that didn't make it into the episode.
Guest:And then you will start to hear the actual very beginning of the interview, the part that you already heard on Monday's episode.
Guest:And I just want you to listen to this if you are a fan of Succession, if you have watched this season already.
Guest:And I don't want to say too much more in case we're into spoiler territory here.
Guest:But what I will say is that this conversation happened between episodes two and three of the current season.
Guest:You got that?
Guest:Do you remember episode three?
Guest:If you've been watching this current season, there was a kind of major thing that happened.
Guest:I want you to pay close attention to how Jean responds to a kind of offhand comment Mark makes about the fate of her character and a kind of knowing response that she has to that.
Guest:Take a listen.
Marc:Yeah, I think I talked to Brian here, but I feel like it was before.
Guest:Brian.
Marc:Brian Cox.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:I feel like it was when they were working on the studio and he might have come in the house.
Marc:Oh.
Marc:I was recording upstairs in the house for a while.
Marc:Yeah, he's, you know, he seems like a lot.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:He's a force of nature, as people say.
Marc:But in this, like, it seems like in this, like I watched the second episode yesterday, I think, I feel like that was the most energy we've seen from him.
Guest:Yeah.
Marc:In all seasons.
Guest:Yeah.
Marc:Like when he just unloaded at the network.
Guest:Oh.
Guest:That was awesome, wasn't it?
Guest:Yeah, it's kind of crazy.
Guest:I like the line that Greg had about, like, it's like a scene from Jaws if everyone works for Jaws.
Guest:So good.
Marc:So why don't you just tell me how it ends?
Guest:No, I can't do that.
Guest:First of all, I don't really know because they – What?
Marc:They kill you off next episode?
Guest:No.
Marc:No.
Guest:But they – I mean I play a secondary sort of character.
Guest:And a lot of my stuff ends up in the cutting room floor.
Guest:I don't really know my story how it's being told exactly.
Guest:Yeah, you heard that right?
Guest:The way she said no twice there?
Guest:I think she was thinking that she... I think it was pretty obvious that she knew what was coming up on the next episode, and Mark did not, obviously...
Guest:And I don't want to assume what was going through her mind, but I think if I were in that position, I would be sitting there thinking, oh boy, I have quite the thing I could say right now about this next episode, and I'm not going to, because that would be bad.
Guest:So yes, she did not reveal what happened in episode three, but I think her reaction makes it pretty clear she was getting ready for what was coming.
Guest:Okay, that is it for producer cuts.
Guest:We will bring you these whenever we have more of them.
Guest:I'm Brendan.
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