BONUS Ask Marc Anything #5

Episode 734305 • Released January 3, 2023 • Speakers not detected

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00:00:07OK, hey, folks, it's time for Ask Mark Anything.
00:00:11This is the I've been told this is the fifth installment of me answering your questions that you've sent in.
00:00:19There's a lot of them.
00:00:20Let's see what I can do.
00:00:21Let's see what I can handle.
00:00:22Let's see if I can get through it all.
00:00:24You've had many New York comedians from the tough crowd on your show, but not Colin Quinn.
00:00:28Is there something unresolved?
00:00:30Yes, there actually is something unresolved.
00:00:33I do not know what it is.
00:00:34Look, I've known Colin many years.
00:00:37I did tough crowd a lot.
00:00:38I don't know if it was because he liked me or just because there weren't that many left leaning comics around at the time.
00:00:45But I texted him a few years ago and I said, look, hey, man, I'd like to have you on my show.
00:00:50Do we have a problem?
00:00:52Is there something?
00:00:54Is there an issue?
00:00:56And he said, I think there is.
00:00:57And I said, well, do we do you want to try to resolve it?
00:01:00He said, I don't know.
00:01:02And that was that.
00:01:03So I don't really know what it is.
00:01:05There is a memory that sits with me that I imagine it could still be the foundation of the resentment.
00:01:11Two things.
00:01:12I middled for Colin many years ago, probably in the early 90s at Cobb's Comedy Club.
00:01:21And I just remember like the middle that that doesn't matter.
00:01:25I did very well.
00:01:26But that's not the issue.
00:01:28Years later, I was at the Comedy Cellar.
00:01:29I wasn't really in at the Comedy Cellar.
00:01:31I kind of knew Colin to say hi to.
00:01:34And, you know, he stopped by the table.
00:01:37I was sitting with somebody and he said he had been working on a one man show.
00:01:41And I said, I literally said, why?
00:01:44You can't hack the road anymore.
00:01:45And he just he bit his knuckle and he got very mad.
00:01:48And he said, you don't know me well enough to say that.
00:01:51And it was real anger.
00:01:53And then I married a woman he dated.
00:01:56My second wife dated Colin for a while.
00:02:00But I don't know if that has anything to do with it.
00:02:02That marriage didn't end well.
00:02:03Maybe she confided in him and decided I was an asshole.
00:02:07There's many factors.
00:02:09But those are the ones that stand out in my head.
00:02:11I just don't think the guy really likes me that much.
00:02:13And he doesn't see any reason to change that.
00:02:15So that's that.
00:02:18What specifically were the differences between your two HBO tapings?
00:02:22I was at the early show, and I was wondering what I missed.
00:02:25Well, nothing, just a normal thing.
00:02:27The second show is going to be a little looser and a little more comfortable.
00:02:31There wasn't a lot of difference in material.
00:02:33I think that your crowd was probably a more lively crowd, like over-the-top, good crowd.
00:02:39The second show I had to work a little harder for, but I was a little more grounded on that one.
00:02:43But in terms of shows...
00:02:45I don't think it was that much different.
00:02:47And you were definitely in the more lively crowd.
00:02:49But we are primarily using the second show for the special.
00:02:53Love the show, Mark.
00:02:54Was wondering what you felt about Freddie Prinze as a comedian and more so his impact on being one of the early Latino comics.
00:03:00I've seen footage of him.
00:03:01He was great.
00:03:03It's very exciting.
00:03:04There are guys that have come after him in the Latino world.
00:03:09that owe a lot to him, and he definitely opened that door.
00:03:12And look, he was a great comic that died too young, and the story of him dying is terrible, and we've talked about it on the show.
00:03:21If you want to listen to the Alan Bursky episode, they were best friends, and the rumor was he used Alan's gun, but we cleared that up.
00:03:29He did not.
00:03:31Given the amount of high-quality podcasts that deal with topics you're interested in, have you considered having podcasters on as guests?
00:03:37I don't really listen to any podcasts.
00:03:39I don't listen to really anything but music.
00:03:42But I think we've reached out to Karina Longworth to talk about old Hollywood.
00:03:49Maybe I'll get up to speed with that, but maybe it's just a conversation.
00:03:52And back in the day, we used to have podcasts.
00:03:54All the guys who were starting podcasts at the time that I was have been on this show.
00:03:59So, you know, you're Paul Kilmartin, Doug Benson, Adam Carolla, Joe Rogan, Chris Hardwick, Jimmy Pardo, Kevin Smith.
00:04:11Jay Moore, everybody in that original crew, Jimmy Dore, all the guys who were doing podcasts at the beginning have all rotated onto this show.
00:04:21They've all been on the show back in the day.
00:04:24Are you going to do another series like Marin?
00:04:26I loved it.
00:04:27It doesn't seem that way.
00:04:28I sold this series with Sam Lipsight to FX, but they're not going to do it.
00:04:32But it wasn't like that.
00:04:33It was a different story.
00:04:34You've spoken recently a few times about how food is the only addiction you can't actually abstain from.
00:04:39As a sober person, what advice do you have for developing a healthy relationship with food?
00:04:44I struggle with that all the time.
00:04:47And I find that if I can muster up the discipline to sort of cut out the sugar and cut out the carbs, that I can roll with that for a while.
00:04:55But I go on the road or I go through periods where I just can't stop with the sugar.
00:05:01It's hard.
00:05:02But usually what I do to get back on track is to either get an app –
00:05:08Like Fitness Pal or one of the other ones to count calories or Noom.
00:05:13Or I just do a full sugar detox for as long as it takes me to lose a lot of weight to where I don't look healthy.
00:05:21And then I start eating again.
00:05:23So I don't know if that's a healthy approach, but that's what I do.
00:05:25What did you think when the drunk woman interrupted you at the Nashville show just before talking about your grieving process?
00:05:31Did it throw you off?
00:05:33I've been doing this a long time.
00:05:34You know, I can handle people talking.
00:05:37It was not, sometimes a weird thing happens with people in my audiences is that if they've had a couple of cocktails or they've already got some sort of parasocial relationship with me, they just start talking to me like it's just the two of us.
00:05:49And it's annoying.
00:05:50And I did have to shut her up and shut her down and, you know, try to make her realize the situation.
00:05:56But it was alcohol.
00:05:57And, you know, I think we got back on track.
00:05:59Yeah, it's annoying.
00:06:00But I mean, you know, I've been doing it a long time.
00:06:03I can,
00:06:03I can move past it.
00:06:08Midweek late night food choices aside, have you changed your opinion on Columbus?
00:06:13What did you think of used kids records?
00:06:15I don't mind Columbus.
00:06:17I don't have a problem with Columbus.
00:06:18I don't remember going to used kids records.
00:06:20Maybe I did.
00:06:21It doesn't stand out in my mind much.
00:06:23Yeah, there was an interesting story, but the crowds were great.
00:06:26And I think we had another good meal there.
00:06:28But that the late night thing that was got a good story out of it.
00:06:31Have no problem with Columbus.
00:06:33I loved your talk with Abigail Disney and your subsequent discussion of documentaries with Brendan.
00:06:38Just curious where you see Werner Herzog's docs falling on the journalism propaganda continuum.
00:06:44I think Herzog does point of view documentaries from his beautiful and sort of dark point of view.
00:06:51I think that he does documentaries as an expression of the way he sees the world.
00:06:57I think propaganda is an odd word for it.
00:06:59I don't think he's
00:07:00aspiring to do anything but what he's interested in.
00:07:04But I think it is fully his, it's an auteur approach, which is what we talked about.
00:07:12I don't think his agenda is anything but to explore what interests him.
00:07:16So I don't know.
00:07:18I don't see it as propaganda.
00:07:20How often do you get recognized in public?
00:07:22Can you describe a typical interaction?
00:07:24Well, fairly often, but not as often as somebody that can't live their life.
00:07:28And my fans are usually pretty polite and they understand the dynamic that they know a lot about me.
00:07:32I don't know a lot about them.
00:07:34Most of them are gracious.
00:07:35Most of them are not annoying.
00:07:38Sometimes everyone wants a selfie, but they always say that they don't want to bother you.
00:07:42that it doesn't bother me.
00:07:44It's not that big a deal.
00:07:45The best interaction I can have with a fan is when I'm walking down the street and someone's walking towards me with earphones in or ear pods and they look at me and they point at their earphones and they nod their head.
00:07:58That's the best.
00:08:00that they're listening to me right then.
00:08:02Do you know or have any history with Tina Fey?
00:08:05Will she ever be a guest on the podcast?
00:08:07She's been invited.
00:08:08I have no history with her.
00:08:09I think I've met her once.
00:08:11Do you ever edit before sending raw WTF conversations to Brendan to edit?
00:08:16Are you fucking kidding me?
00:08:18Are you kidding me?
00:08:20Wow, you do not understand how this show works.
00:08:23Also, do you ever make timestamp notes while talking with guests?
00:08:28So that Brendan knows where the higher low points are in a conversation he's about to edit.
00:08:32No, I don't touch anything.
00:08:34Brendan, no, he gets the raw stuff.
00:08:37That's his thing.
00:08:39I do my thing.
00:08:40I'm not even going to assume that I would know where or what to do with either of those things you ask.
00:08:47That's Brendan's half.
00:08:50And he's a genius.
00:08:53What's the most uncomfortable conversation you've had?
00:08:56I don't know, man.
00:08:58I don't know.
00:08:59There's been some rough starts.
00:09:01I think Patricia Arquette was a rough start.
00:09:04Nick Cave was a rough start.
00:09:07But usually they level off.
00:09:09I don't know that there's been any tremendously uncomfortable conversations that lasted the whole time.
00:09:17Have you been talking to anyone seriously about being in a play?
00:09:20I have not.
00:09:21I'm waiting for offers.
00:09:23Why do you hate Sacramento so much?
00:09:25I've been listening for years and you've never had a nice thing to say, nor have you done a show here.
00:09:29I did do a show near Sacramento, didn't I?
00:09:32Didn't I just do a show there recently?
00:09:35You've talked about the time Paul Mooney outed the entire audience as racist.
00:09:39But that's about it.
00:09:41He didn't out them.
00:09:42It was just an understanding of what he was doing.
00:09:45That's a good story.
00:09:46Now that you do theaters, you can avoid Punchline and Laughs Unlimited.
00:09:49Never did a Laughs Unlimited.
00:09:51The whole town isn't a strip mall, you know.
00:09:52I know.
00:09:53It seems okay.
00:09:54I dated a woman from there that was not a good experience.
00:09:57But I do feel like I did a show in Sacramento.
00:09:59Am I wrong?
00:10:00Am I out of my mind?
00:10:02I feel like I did a small theater in Sac.
00:10:06I don't know.
00:10:07Do some research, but I think I did.
00:10:09What's it going to take to get you to interview Trey Anastasio from Fish?
00:10:13He's an interesting dude, and I feel like you could go in blind with no Fish knowledge and still have a great interview.
00:10:17I guess, but that I feel would be disrespectful, and I'm not going to dive into Fish at this point in my life.
00:10:25I don't have room.
00:10:26Would you ever consider talking to Dick Cavett?
00:10:28I think you both have a similar interviewing technique.
00:10:30You both are great listeners.
00:10:31Yeah, I mean, I feel like I did interview him on Air America once.
00:10:35I'm open to it, but I think he's in New York.
00:10:36I think he's old.
00:10:38I don't know.
00:10:39I'm not adverse to that.
00:10:41I've met him a couple times.
00:10:42He's a character.
00:10:46What's the change to the purple logo on the full Marin?
00:10:50Well, it's so people can differentiate between the free feed and the WTF plus feed.
00:10:56When you subscribe to WTF plus, the free feed doesn't automatically go away if you're subscribed to it.
00:11:01So if they look identical in your app, it's confusing.
00:11:05When your time on earth is done, do you want to be cremated or buried and why?
00:11:11I think I want to be buried in a wood box like a Jew.
00:11:16I don't know.
00:11:17I just want to decompose like normally.
00:11:20They got this new thing where I think you die and they put you in a box with some organic stuff and you turn into compost.
00:11:30I think that might be good.
00:11:32I want to be composted.
00:11:34I don't want to rot in the box and have the grave sag.
00:11:36It's the creepiest thing about graveyards is the sagging turf on top because the coffin has given way.
00:11:43Who is your biggest celebrity crush?
00:11:50Right now?
00:11:55For years, it was Anne Hathaway, and that really hasn't gone away, to be honest with you.
00:12:02I also, Mandy Moore had a profound impact on me.
00:12:07I don't know if, kind of crushy, but Anne Hathaway still, still Anne Hathaway.
00:12:14Is that okay?
00:12:16Have you ever considered making an audio version of Waiting for the Punch?
00:12:19I think that hearing selections spoken by the actual participants would be a great audio book.
00:12:24We actually did that for the first chapter.
00:12:27It's episode 852.
00:12:29So you can listen to that now if you want.
00:12:31As for doing more, it's always possible to do that, but it takes a lot of time.
00:12:37A lot of time.
00:12:37We thought about it, you know, as we thought about doing it when the audio book came out.
00:12:42But it's like it's a massive bit of lifting for Brendan.
00:12:49What newish artist band have you discovered this year and wanted to go deeper in their catalog?
00:12:56Well, I definitely took a liking to that Silk Sonic stuff, which was Anderson .Paak and Bruno Mars.
00:13:04Is that who it is?
00:13:06I got Wazeblood's first couple albums years ago, and she's got a new one that I just bought.
00:13:12I'm looking forward to that.
00:13:14I liked the Lizzo record.
00:13:17I bought that.
00:13:18That was pretty good.
00:13:19I enjoyed it.
00:13:22I liked that second Billie Eilish record a lot.
00:13:26And who's this Paramore person?
00:13:30I've never heard of her, but she comes up on my Instagram feed.
00:13:33I'm curious about her work.
00:13:36Sharon Van Etten is not new, but I had to listen to a lot of her stuff to talk to her.
00:13:41That was good.
00:13:42You know, rabbit holes, though.
00:13:46Have I been...
00:13:47move to go down a rabbit hole.
00:13:50No, but those are the kind of pop artists that I've sort of got hip to.
00:13:53There's been some jazz and stuff, but they're old timers.
00:13:56And I kind of, you know, constantly move records through.
00:13:58So how's that?
00:14:00Is that all right?
00:14:01I'm 41 years old and you are a huge part of my current sobriety.
00:14:03It will be three years in March with no booze.
00:14:05So thank you for validating so much for me that I could actually conceptualize a life that
00:14:09without alcohol.
00:14:10Can you talk a bit about the first few days, weeks, months of your sobriety?
00:14:14I know you have spoken a lot about the cocaine psychosis.
00:14:17What were some of the struggles with alcohol specifically?
00:14:20Dude, it took me so many times.
00:14:21The first time I got sober was in 19...
00:14:25And, you know, I had 23 years sober last August.
00:14:32So it took me 88, 98, 2008, 2018.
00:14:36Took me 35 years to get 23.
00:14:40So a lot of in and out.
00:14:41But when I finally locked in, you know, it was rough because you're just totally obsessed with drinking.
00:14:47So what I did was I just, because of the nature of my life, I went to like two or three meetings a day.
00:14:52I found a crew of guys that had the same amount of time as me and women.
00:14:57I was dating a woman who was sober.
00:14:59So I just lived and breathed sobriety, did 90 and 90 and just locked in and went to a meeting every day on, you know, for the most part for five years.
00:15:10So, you know, the quality of life just shifted and a lot of it revolved around
00:15:14Meetings and being with sober people.
00:15:17Totally.
00:15:19Was there a particular moment or situation that cemented for you that sobriety is the way?
00:15:24Love the show.
00:15:25Yeah, I mean, you know, I was about to die.
00:15:27Really, I was doing coke.
00:15:30regularly.
00:15:31I was fat.
00:15:34I was sweaty.
00:15:34I was bloated from booze.
00:15:37And I was bitter.
00:15:39And I had surrendered to the fact that I was stuck in a marriage that I didn't want to be in.
00:15:44And my career was going to go nowhere.
00:15:46And I just had to suck it up and live with that.
00:15:48And Coke and booze was the way I was going to go.
00:15:51And then someone stepped in from AA and said, you know, I can help you.
00:15:55And primarily because of her and the fact that I was in love with her
00:16:00And I wanted to be with her.
00:16:02I would have followed her anywhere.
00:16:04So I followed her into sobriety.
00:16:06And now she doesn't like me at all.
00:16:10But I am grateful that she got me sober.
00:16:12I ended up marrying her.
00:16:14And that didn't go well.
00:16:16But nonetheless, despite however horrible I was or however horrible that relationship became, I am grateful that she got me sober.
00:16:24So took a woman.
00:16:27Please share the story of your crazy drug-fuels night with Tom Rhodes.
00:16:31Well, there's only a couple that I think you're referring to.
00:16:33There was the one where I just went over to his house, and I had a bunch of Coke and no one to do it with, and I woke him up to come do Coke with me, and we went out in the park, and we did some blow, and then I left him.
00:16:46And he had to go back home and be awake by himself with his girlfriend.
00:16:51He likes that one.
00:16:52I think that he said...
00:16:54What did he say about me?
00:16:55Not a very nice thing.
00:16:56He said, you're the kind of guy that if you were drowning, you'd take the lifeguard down with you.
00:17:05Not a great thing.
00:17:06There was another night where it was me and Jack Boulware, and we were staying at the Beverly Laurel Motor Hotel before they redid it.
00:17:14And that was where I used to stay when I came to L.A.
00:17:17and party.
00:17:18I don't remember where we ran into Tom or what it was, but it was like...
00:17:24Oh, that was the funny one.
00:17:25It was like, yeah, we told him to come over and we were going to hang out and have a drink.
00:17:31That's what we said to him.
00:17:32We said, you know, come to the hotel.
00:17:33We'll have a drink.
00:17:35So, you know, me and Jack went back to the room and then Tom shows up like an hour later with a boom box.
00:17:40And he's just like, let's go.
00:17:42And he put the boom box down.
00:17:43We're doing blow.
00:17:44We're drinking.
00:17:45It goes on for hours and hours.
00:17:46There's wrestling.
00:17:47There's insanity.
00:17:49There's rock music.
00:17:50And after a full night of drinking and blow, I said, I got to crash.
00:17:54you know I think I'm ready to crash and Tom goes I thought you said we were having a drink that was funny do you ever have guests that cause you to think wow this person is way more of a jerk than I expected how do you soldier through an interview with someone you don't like
00:18:13I don't know.
00:18:13I kind of put that aside and try to understand the person.
00:18:18You know, a lot of times I find out people are jerks after.
00:18:21After I have an amazing, pleasant conversation with them.
00:18:25I hear like, that guy's an asshole.
00:18:27I'm like, I didn't have that experience.
00:18:28So, you know, I'm always looking to like the people I have on, even if I'm judgmental of them.
00:18:34And I'm always surprised.
00:18:35So I don't really interview people that I think are jerks.
00:18:41like you say, wow, this person is more of a jerk than I expected.
00:18:46See, I don't know that I'm going to have a lot of jerks in.
00:18:49Or if I do, I think like, well, they're probably not really a jerk and I'm probably projecting something.
00:18:55So, but either way, I'll soldier through anything.
00:18:59We're going to sit here for an hour no matter what.
00:19:02I don't care who you are.
00:19:04Could you ever see yourself writing musical comedy bits or using your guitar up on stage while performing stand-up comedy?
00:19:12And that's an old school thing with me.
00:19:15We used to call them...
00:19:17Back in the day when comedy was just, you know, comedy clubs and comics and there was no alt comedy and there was no, you know, you just, you do stand up or you don't.
00:19:27There was a, there were these two segments.
00:19:29There was prop acts and there were guitar acts.
00:19:32And you didn't really want to mess with either of those.
00:19:34I remember Kennison, who played guitar as well, just could never figure out, he always used to say, I could never figure out a way to get it in there.
00:19:40But he ended up doing Wild Thing, which was,
00:19:42embarrassingly funny.
00:19:43I'm not sure he intended it to be funny, but, but there was no way to integrate it.
00:19:46If you come from that old school thinking, like, you know, you can't be a guitar act.
00:19:50See a lot of what happened was, especially in new England, once they shut down happy hours, um,
00:19:57There was this influx of guitar acts into comedy because they were happy hour acts.
00:20:02And look, there is a history of musical comedy and there's people that have done it.
00:20:05But I come from this sort of road school 80s thinking around this, around pure comedy.
00:20:14And it's just there's no way to do it.
00:20:17Don't want to be a boat act.
00:20:18That's another one.
00:20:20But sometimes great comics end up on boats.
00:20:23But prop acts and guitar acts, they were no-nos.
00:20:26And I guess it's still in my head.
00:20:28What is your favorite 1930s to 50s film noir?
00:20:31Do you have a favorite director from that era?
00:20:33I've watched a lot lately.
00:20:35But I'm a big fan of Out of the Past.
00:20:39And I like The Killing as well, oddly.
00:20:42But I've watched quite a few recently.
00:20:46Um, but I, out of the past, I love, I love Bob, Bob Mitchum in it.
00:20:50I love Kirk Douglas in it.
00:20:52I think you say his name Jacques Tournier, maybe.
00:20:55Uh, but, uh, but I, I'm, I'm real partial to that movie.
00:21:00Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas.
00:21:03Uh, I, I, I've always, uh, loved that movie.
00:21:06Also Sunset Boulevard, if you can consider that a noir, uh, is kind of a great movie.
00:21:12Why hasn't Dennis Leary done a WTF?
00:21:14I thought I'd missed the episode when I saw him as a guest on Marin.
00:21:17Yeah, he was... The production company that he used to be involved with, his production partner, Jim Cervico, produced Marin.
00:21:27I think Dennis just doesn't want to get involved in the conversation about his joke theft in the 80s.
00:21:33And he knows that there's really no way not to really talk about that.
00:21:38So I think that's probably why.
00:21:43What did you eat while you were in Nashville?
00:21:46I was in and out in Nashville.
00:21:49And I ended up just going to a food hall, sadly, down the street from where I was staying.
00:21:55If you had the chance to interview Warren Zevon, what would you ask him?
00:21:58I would ask him to forgive me that I don't know because I don't know a lot of his music.
00:22:04Like I know the Werewolves of London record.
00:22:07I know a few of the songs that he wrote that other people did.
00:22:11But I'm not a big Warren Zevon guy.
00:22:13But I know I should be.
00:22:14So I would apologize for not being.
00:22:16I would say, Warren, could you just cut me some slack?
00:22:20I haven't dug into the catalog as much as I should.
00:22:22But I know you're great.
00:22:24And he would probably say, no, no, I won't.
00:22:28And go fuck yourself.
00:22:30Enjoy every sandwich.
00:22:34What is the weirdest or funniest pre-show ritual you've ever seen another comic do?
00:22:37I don't know if there was anything weird about it, but there was something interesting about comics who needed to drink before they got on stage.
00:22:50Because it requires a certain amount of timing.
00:22:52And I was always sort of impressed with it.
00:22:53I remember I was with Hedberg.
00:22:57on his first Letterman.
00:22:59You know, I was backstage with, we had the same manager, and I think Todd Berry was with us.
00:23:04And I just watched him time it.
00:23:05You know, he had to go on, and I think he drank an entire half pint of Jack Daniels, literally so it would hit him when he got out there.
00:23:17And I've always been somewhat impressed with that.
00:23:19It was always very hard to balance drugs and alcohol to make your performance better.
00:23:23If you needed it,
00:23:24To be on stage, you had to learn how to time it.
00:23:28Alan King in his dressing room at Conan always required a half pint of Tanqueray, I believe it was.
00:23:35There were just dudes that knew they needed it to lube them up.
00:23:39I was never like that.
00:23:40I just like being high.
00:23:41So I've done it.
00:23:42There is a difference.
00:23:44between just being a high person and also like, I need this to be on stage.
00:23:50I wanted to be on stage on every drug and booze, so I knew what it felt like, but I didn't need it.
00:23:58What's your favorite what?
00:24:00What's my favorite boot brand?
00:24:02I would have to say that I'm fairly committed to whites out of Spokane.
00:24:06Is that how you say it?
00:24:08Spokane.
00:24:09Whites boots out of Spokane, Washington are the boots I tend to, what do you call them, fetishize?
00:24:17Is that it?
00:24:18I started with Red Wings.
00:24:19I got Brian the Bootmaker from downtown.
00:24:21He's made me a couple.
00:24:22But whites, there's something about whites, man.
00:24:26As a longtime listener going back to the early years, I love your podcast, but was also wondering, do you write songs with lyrics?
00:24:32I do not.
00:24:32I wrote one song about Lynn that I played on this show.
00:24:35It's at the end of the Michael J. Fox episode.
00:24:38That's episode 1176.
00:24:41But that's, I don't write lyrics.
00:24:44Have you tried to get Questlove on the show?
00:24:46Yes, a lot.
00:24:51Second part of the question.
00:24:52What stops you from getting deeper into hip-hop or getting more hip-hop guests?
00:24:56I'm relatively deep into hip-hop.
00:24:59That's not even true.
00:25:00I mean, I try to listen to new hip-hop.
00:25:03I'd like to have Tyler, the Creator, on or Kendrick Lamar on or Jay-Z on.
00:25:09You know, I would... It's just... It's not... We're not... I'm not in their rotation.
00:25:14We've tried to get Kendrick on.
00:25:16I mean, I just...
00:25:17Look, I'm not I can only do what I can do.
00:25:20And I ran into Krestov the other night at the comedy store and he said hi.
00:25:24And I always like it felt OK.
00:25:26But I mean, I tried to get him on to talk about the movie.
00:25:29And, you know, I don't know.
00:25:30I'm not magic, folks.
00:25:33What happened with the Bono interview?
00:25:36Look, man, that I thought that was going to happen.
00:25:38I mean, it got pretty far along and like beyond like this is tentative.
00:25:43And, you know, it was very close.
00:25:45It felt like to happening.
00:25:47And what they told us, I mean, after I went to see the show, the one man show here, is that he stopped doing long form interviews while he was out here because he wanted to save his voice for his stage show.
00:26:01Um, I don't know.
00:26:03So I'll believe him.
00:26:05It's fine.
00:26:06We've been talking with them and there's a open communication about doing it in the future, but I'm not, I'm not, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna make myself crazy or go above and beyond, you know, when someone strings along for a while, even whatever the reason, even if it's a good one, uh, for not making it happen, you know, you're sort of like, all right, well, I'll meet them halfway when it happens.
00:26:30It seems like you have to be fucked up to understand what Courtney Love is saying, honestly.
00:26:34What was the conversation about?
00:26:36She just has a lot of narratives going on in her mind at all times, and she just kind of bounces from one to the other.
00:26:43I've had other guests like that.
00:26:45There are people, their brains are just like bingo cages and it's just sort of they're pulling up numbers, man.
00:26:51And if you kind of know what they're talking about and you receive it and it clicks and you understand what fragment they're referring to, then you can get it.
00:26:59If not, you don't.
00:27:01But yeah, it wasn't hard to understand.
00:27:05It just there was no follow through with a lot of it.
00:27:09But she's Courtney Love, man.
00:27:11One of a kind.
00:27:13Okay, I'd like to hear about your guitars and amps, how many you have, your favorites, your opinions on gear, why you prefer some over others, when and where you acquired them, and how long you've had them.
00:27:25Oh, my God.
00:27:26That sounds like an entire show.
00:27:29So, to be honest with you, I've accumulated some stuff.
00:27:32I've got, over the years...
00:27:35All right.
00:27:35I would say that the one I started out with, I have a Vibreverb, a Fender Vibreverb.
00:27:39It's probably a 2004 Vibreverb.
00:27:42It's an old tweed version of it, a reissue that I don't use much.
00:27:47It's too clean.
00:27:48It's too big.
00:27:49At some point, I bought a Fender Blues Junior, which is a great amp.
00:27:53It's a...
00:27:54It's got a secondary gain on it, so you got a lot of control.
00:27:57It's all tubes.
00:27:58It breaks up pretty well.
00:28:00I bought that when I was at Air America the second time.
00:28:03I actually made them buy it for me when they had me relocate.
00:28:07And then at some point, those were the two.
00:28:10And then I accumulated, or I got...
00:28:14I got a Fender... I got a Headstrong Deluxe, which is, I think, a reissue of maybe a 58 Fender Deluxe, but not Fender.
00:28:23It's like a kind of... It's his version of it, but I think it's historically correct.
00:28:29I don't play it much because it lags in a live situation.
00:28:33I didn't know this until I started playing with a band that sometimes amps lag, and they get thin, and their sound drops out.
00:28:39So I don't play that one much.
00:28:41Then I bought a 53...
00:28:43Fender Deluxe and a 65 Fender Champ from Howie over at Rivington.
00:28:52And I spent money on those.
00:28:53And I don't generally spend money on gear.
00:28:56But I'll tell you, those two amps are the best.
00:28:59I had Austin Hooks tinker with them a bit but not disrupt anything, just clean them up and tighten up that wiring somehow.
00:29:06I don't know about electronics.
00:29:08But right now, I primarily play through the 53 Deluxe.
00:29:13So those are the amps.
00:29:14Then this guy, Ed Phil, who was a guitar player in a band.
00:29:17I can't remember the name of the band, but he is part of the Boston kind of punk scene back in the day.
00:29:22He sent me this Frankenstein amp that he made, but it's not, I got to solder something.
00:29:27I haven't gotten around to it, but those are mostly, those are the amps.
00:29:31But like I said, I play primarily through that 53 Deluxe cranked up and I kind of like it dirty like that.
00:29:38Now guitars, that's all other thing.
00:29:41What have I got here?
00:29:43I've got like a 86 or maybe a, yeah, like an 86 telly that I, I got when I was on comedy central doing short attention span theater.
00:29:53They had a prop room that all this stuff left over from other shows.
00:29:58And I think the Higgins boys and Gruber used to use the, the guitar as a prop.
00:30:02They had something painted on the back of it.
00:30:04So when they were going through it, I just stole it.
00:30:06And I took the thing off the back.
00:30:07I scraped it off and it's an okay guitar.
00:30:10I've got like an 87, is that possible?
00:30:13Maybe an 87 Stratocaster.
00:30:18That's not great that I've had forever since I bought it, but it's not, it wasn't a good year.
00:30:23And the rest of the guitars, I've got another, I have a Mexican Tele.
00:30:29Tobacco one with a white binder on it that my friend, I don't know if we're friends, but he's a guy I know.
00:30:34Yeah, sure we are.
00:30:35Alex Miller has it, and I've not been able to get it back.
00:30:38I don't know if I'll ever get it back.
00:30:40But the guitar's in rotation here.
00:30:42Well, I had that gold top.
00:30:44I had a 56 reissue gold top that I got for doing a gig for Fender, and I broke the headstock off of that.
00:30:51That was two P90s.
00:30:52I love that thing.
00:30:54Skills, Vivino's guy, glued the headstock back on.
00:30:57We'll see what happens.
00:30:58I've got a 335 Tobacco Sunburst 335 Memphis Gibson that I got from Peter Lenheiser at Gibson because I pestered him for two years to give him one saying that I would play it on TV.
00:31:11I just want free guitars.
00:31:13And then I did a thing for Brendan Small and Gibson and for shooting it, a video thing, I got a...
00:31:19A black Les Paul Deluxe because my buddy Dave in high school had one of those.
00:31:23So I have one of those.
00:31:25And I got the gold top when we premiered it at the NAMM show as print payment.
00:31:30That's a good way to go.
00:31:31I've got a TV Yellow reissue of a Les Paul Jr.
00:31:36TV Junior, it's a single cutaway with a single P90.
00:31:39I play that a lot.
00:31:40Right now I've got the bass string off it and tuned to an open G for Keith style.
00:31:45I've got a J45 acoustic that I bought that's pretty new, Gibson.
00:31:52I've got a Gibson FJN acoustic, which was a model of guitar made in the 60s.
00:31:57that has a very weird, short, fat neck.
00:31:59I think it was designed, and it's got flamenco pick guards on it.
00:32:03You don't see them around much.
00:32:05They only made them for a few years, and Jackson Brown seems to buy all of them.
00:32:08I don't know why, but it's like a classical guitar neck, and it's short and fat.
00:32:14I think the idea was to transition classical guitar players to a more dreadnought folk body, but I got one of those, and it's kind of an amazing guitar.
00:32:22I've got a little K acoustic, like a Sears guitar,
00:32:26that I only play blues on, but I don't play it much, it just is hanging around in my den.
00:32:32But the guitars I play,
00:32:35I bought, when I was with Dean in Rhode Island, I think at Empire Music, is that what it's called?
00:32:40I bought a 1960 Les Paul Jr., a double cutaway single P90.
00:32:45Great guitar, I play that.
00:32:47I got a Banker custom, his Leslie model, which is basically a Les Paul Jr.
00:32:53with two P90s that were wound with the actual pickup winder that was at the Gibson factory back in the day.
00:33:00That thing's a great guitar.
00:33:02I've got this Stratocaster, this Relict custom shop Stratocaster that's sort of astounding.
00:33:08I think it's a late 60s model, and I don't usually buy Relict stuff.
00:33:12But that was, you know, that debacle up there where, you know, Emerald City Music just completely iced us and belittled us.
00:33:24And in sort of a reactive way,
00:33:28I went over to, was it Thunder Road?
00:33:31Is that what it's called?
00:33:32Thunder Road Guitars.
00:33:33And I bought this Strat and it's great.
00:33:37What else is there?
00:33:39I've got Jay Mascus sent me one of his tellies, the glitter, the glitter, the blue glitter telly.
00:33:46I don't play it too much, but I like looking at it.
00:33:49I think that's most of them.
00:33:53There's another telly around, I think.
00:33:54There's a Nash telly that is a swim line.
00:33:58Is that what you call them with the F-hole?
00:34:00So yeah, I use that.
00:34:01I love that thing.
00:34:02I use that on the HBO music that we're going to use for my special.
00:34:07There might be another guitar or two somewhere.
00:34:09I feel like there is, but I think that's most of them.
00:34:13But like most of them...
00:34:14I paid for the banker and I paid for the junior and I paid for the other junior.
00:34:20But the rest, and I paid for the strat.
00:34:22But most of them I try to do deals.
00:34:25I don't use any pedals.
00:34:27I've been sent a lot of pedals over the years.
00:34:28I've played with them a bit, but I don't have the patience.
00:34:32I have one of those things where you play and you can record over yourself.
00:34:36What's that called?
00:34:36I don't even remember.
00:34:38I never learned how to use it because I don't have the patience.
00:34:40And like, I don't know, pedals, I don't know.
00:34:42I just go straight into a tube amp.
00:34:44So does that answer it?
00:34:46Is that enough gear stuff?
00:34:47And I play with very thick picks.
00:34:50I play with an Ed King pick from V-Picks.
00:34:54V-Picks, it's pretty interesting, V-Picks.
00:34:56You should go check that out.
00:34:58I play with a fat, fat, large triangle pick.
00:35:02Ed King was the original guitar player for Lynyrd Skynyrd and the guitar player for Strawberry Alarm Clock.
00:35:07And apparently he played with pieces of shell.
00:35:11Until the guy at VPIC made him a signature pick.
00:35:14I've also got a Billy Gibbons signature pick, but I don't play with that.
00:35:17But I think that kind of sums up where I'm at.
00:35:20I'm very into P90s through tubes, cranked up, no pedals.
00:35:27Dig it.
00:35:30All right, there you go.
00:35:31That was Ask Mark Anything, and I think I addressed almost all of these, and it was a pleasure.
00:35:37I hope they keep coming, and I hope I gave you the answers that were satisfying to you.
00:35:45All right.

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