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When I'm on the road, Dana, I'm always pretty much staying in hotels, but there's been a shift to Airbnb and you hear about it all the time. Hotels are fine. They can be great, but Airbnb is a great alternative because you get a lot of choices of where you can stay. It's very practical. I mean, hotel can be like, oh, like when I go on the road, I go, that one's
The closest hotel is a half hour from the gig or something, but you say, Oh, Airbnb, just go, Oh, I want to go a little closer. I want to be in this area. I want a swimming pool and I want this. Yes. And I famously have said many times a place we used to go, my wife and I to get away and we stayed at some really nice hotels, but then we found this Airbnb, which we used, I think three times is always spotless. The keys are outside in a little padlock and they used to have a bottle of wine and a note. And, uh,
You have a kitchen, and it was very, very nice. The benefits of Airbnb is that space, privacy, better locations compared to hotels. You get to pick how close you want to be to wherever you want to go. You're traveling with family, your friends, you're on your own. It's great. Okay, we've got Mark Maron, Dana, who I see a lot in the Comedy Store, comedian, obviously a huge podcaster, one of the OG podcasters that...
You could always hear he's still going with it, but it was all the big names, all the interesting stuff. And I see him do stand-up all the time, and I run into him a lot, and he's a good dude. And we were just curious about, because he and Rogan and a few others kind of started in like 2009, 2008, 2009, or podcasting when it was just like a caveman thing with no audience and who would do that.
And then it grew to this behemoth. And I he he got President Barack Obama on his podcast. And to do his podcast, he had to drive way up in the middle of nowhere in the middle of L.A. And so that was a big thing. So we do talk about his his journey. It wasn't easy all the time. The podcast kind of saved him.
And he created, I think he's done 1,600 episodes. He has a lot of stories and he's very self-winding watch. Like we didn't have to prompt too much. He really had a lot of great things to talk about. So I was into it. And that hour blew by. It went by fast. He knows how to podcast. He really told some good stories, funny. And it was interesting. I would keep listening. Yeah. So check him out. Here's Mark Maron.
Yeah, all these glasses. I got other choices. I got better ones. Are you in the same house? You're in the same house. You have not moved. Since you did it? Because it looks familiar.
This is a different house, but the stuff behind me probably looks familiar because all the stuff from that original garage is in this room. Are you in the same neighborhood? You don't have to tell us your actual address. Is it Lowe's Fields? Do you want me to just send you a link to a map where everybody can... No, drop me a pic. Well, I already have a map of your house. That'll be for... It's called After Talk. Anyway, whatever. No, I'm in Glendale. I was in Highland Park. I got it. Yeah. I like that place. The old place?
Yeah, I mean, it was casual and cool. You had guitars and cozy. I still got all that. A little more spread out. Before, it was like, that was less than a thousand square feet, one bathroom. Like, if you had to go to the bathroom, you had to go into the same bathroom that I use. I live in a very small house. Everything you own owns you back. I'm not into it. You occupy a house. You live in your body. You can't fuck a house. You can't eat it.
I think you can fuck a house. It really just depends on where you enter. I saw a thing on Haney about it. Comedians don't laugh. They just think of that. What about the guy that married his car? You know. I want to start the podcast this way. Every comedian knows this about you. Where were you, David, when you heard?
That Mark Maron has Barack Obama on his podcast. Cause that was like, what the fuck? Cause this was early days of podcasting. Right. I remember being blown away by that. I think most people were still kind of like, what is a podcast exactly? And where do I got to go? Yeah, it totally was 2012. Right. So it was 16. The number of people that used to come down to the house would drive up to my driveway and literally say like, where are we? Is this part of LA? I've never been out here.
What are we doing? Yeah. I can't believe you got him out there because I can't believe you got me out there. I can't believe you got Todd Glass out there. So Obama was a bigger one. Yeah. Rich Voss was right after Obama. That was tough to get him out. Yeah. It gets hard sometimes. Was it a ratings drop so much you pulled a muscle or? We just thought it was appropriate to continue what we were doing.
Right. We did one episode where me and my producer discussed the day of having Obama on the podcast, and we went right to Rich.
And I, you know, Rich is going to pull what he's going to pull. It's, you know, somewhere lower middle. It's okay. Well, Rich is no offense to him. I was just laughing. Like whoever has to follow Obama is just going to be a tough sledding. That's right. I don't know if he, I don't know if he thought about it like that. Rich is a, Rich is a good guy. I don't think he gives a shit. So everyone had a podcast now, like literally. So you, you, it's you and Rogan, right? 2009, 2010.
So I guess there was, it was really like Corolla was there. Uh, I don't, I don't think started at the same. I think Rogan started a little after us, but, uh, like Jimmy Pardo was there. Benson Benson was probably there. Maybe Hardwick was like starting out.
I think Rogan started a little after me, but there was like four or five guys collectively not making money doing podcasts. You know, Todd Glass is good at not making money. And I think he had one early. He's a good friend of mine. Right. With Jimmy Dore. Yeah. So that's a one. But you know, I think what happened with that was he put in all that work and was very forward thinking. And I think got out right before the money, maybe. Or does he still do it?
No, I think that's Todd's whole plan in general is to try to get ahead of making the money. Yeah, that's kind of... What's funny is I used to think a podcast, because he had it in my friend's car shop upstairs, which he just rented, which was perfect. It was perfect. The odd thing about the whole undertaking was none of us really...
There was really no money to be made. You know, Adam was like doing his radio show. So he was kind of subsidized somehow. Did he get fired and said, okay, I'm just going to do it on here kind of thing. There wasn't a 97.1. Or he got fed up, mad about something. Something like that. Yeah. He was all worked up and, you know, he was going to take his stories about, you know, drywalling from 20 years ago elsewhere. Yeah.
He is a handyman. That's funny. He's good with a tool. Oh yeah. But, but I was, I was like, I got a little bit of a tsunami warning because I remember I thought Corolla's, I think I went on there a little early where I was like, before the real podcast thing was sort of hitting, which it was sort of a slow, I could get a feel for it before most people, because everyone else has just got their head doing their work and they do normal jobs. But I started to go, Oh no, is this something? And then, uh,
I said, I'm going to wait until it's a little late, then we're going to try one. Yeah, no, but the good thing about when you guys got in is somebody realized like, hey, you guys have names you can't lose.
Before, it was like, who the fuck are these guys? Well, we found a way to lose. Well, good for you. I don't think anybody really realizes the excitement when Corolla was the only game in town. I think there's a sort of baptism when one goes on to Corolla's show to be talked at by Corolla. That's a good hour of entertainment where you're there as a guest and he talks at you.
And then says, okay, well, thanks for coming by. It's something to be experienced. We're working on that. There's room for everybody. But did you have a eureka moment that you could call back on like, holy shit, maybe there's money in this? Because how long did you do it essentially for free before...
You're a trillionaire. Hold on. I'm watching my cat throw up. Don't eat plastic. Did you have a urethra moment? I did when I peed last night. I'm checking celebrity net worth. Okay. Anyway, so... I don't even know if that's right. Well... No, I'm kidding. I didn't check. What happened was...
There was like at the beginning, you, you either had, if you were going to put up a paywall, you couldn't, you couldn't get new audience. Right. So we had done a radio show. A goodbye wall. Yeah. Goodbye wall. No, but no one welcome. Let's put up a goodbye wall on ours, Dan.
You can do it. Well, that was before the... What is it called? What's that thing everyone does where they can get a pay page? Pantheon? Or what is it? Oh, Raytheon. We all don't know. You know, that... I know what you mean. Patreon. Patreon. So...
Yeah. So what we did was we had like two advertisers from the old radio days. It was sex toys. It was like Adam and Eve sex toys. And we had crazy Eddie's electron, that kind of thing. But then we had the coffee sponsor, but there was, there was really no way to, to, to make money and except for the old school radio way. And then ultimately we started working with old timey radio companies.
ad people. And then Jeff Ulrich and Scott Aukerman put mid roll together and, uh, and the earwolf network. And that created a platform to get advertisers into specifically podcasting. So everyone sort of came up together, but it wasn't until I guess, Hey, Charlie, get away from the plastic, Charlie, I'm going to throw you out stupid. So, um, that's how you talk to a cat. Is that your, your tech? Yeah.
Yeah, that's my producer. That's your IT guy. I don't know. You know, it was a slow going, but the great thing about it was everybody kind of came up together, sort of like show business. Everybody was kind of figuring it out as we all went along. And then big money got involved and then some people won and some people did okay. Come on. Dude, Charlie's here now. Charlie, give me that plastic. Hold on, let me get him out of here. Let me get him out of here. This cat is magic. Honestly, put him on Glendale Freeway.
I know. Get out. You can eat plastic and throw up. I don't care. It's showbiz, Heather. We got to get Charlie out of the room. But yeah, I mean, it took a long time to really get it together and then to make a living. It took years for my producer to come on with me permanently. He was actually had another job at MSNBC while he was kind of moonlighting and he couldn't even admit that he worked with me.
because there's a non-disclosure you couldn't you know he couldn't um oh i see yeah it was it was part of his contract with msnbc and i felt horrible about it because he's doing half the work and i and i just had to be like well i have a mystery guy that uh helps me with this i send it into the ether once or twice a week it's good more attention on you that's not horrible
Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes not for, not great for me. What's the headspace like, like when you first start doing this, I guess when it starts to emerge, you're doing, you're starting to be successful. Right. And you're going, okay, I did this interview. I get this many, this reaction. I do this interview. Holy shit. This is 10 times 10 X. Well, I think the exciting part about it was, was like, as the podcast situation grew, I
I was doing a type of interview that not many people were doing anymore. So the entertainment press sort of realized I was doing most of their job. So we got a lot of attention, but I was really focused on having these conversations and trying to, uh,
you know, make amends where necessary. I think the first hundred episodes are me just having people over so I can talk about my problems and apologize to them. And that's, and it's weird how many times you do that and people go like, I had no idea what you're talking about. And you're like, I'm a fucking idiot. So, so that was how that unfolded. But the excitement of having Robin on, because that interview seems to be like the only interview like that.
Like when he died, it was everywhere because he never talked like that. And those kind of rare conversations definitely happened. That was interesting because you did, it became very, very real with Robin and he never, you know, he had made amends to me in Mill Valley on a sidewalk just after a show. Yeah. And I didn't know why. For a bit he just stole? Sorry. I just said to him, he had some idea that I took...
I said, I tried to do you. You don't understand. I had a trunk of props. I worshipped you. And I don't know if it was from AA or something like, oh, this wasn't supposed to go this way. You know, it's supposed to be a hug. You're forgiven. I didn't. He thought I had a thing where I named my dick Mr. Happy and that he took that for me.
I know that's not true. I never did, Mr. Happy. Look where this goes on podcast. That's hilarious. That was the amends? It wasn't even like some deep personal affront. It's like, I know you might have called your dick, Mr. Happy. And, oh, that's the best amends I've ever heard in my life. He said it to me 20 years earlier at Dennis Miller's wedding. We were at the same table. I wonder, perhaps I got Mr. Happy from you. And I go, no. And then it tortured him. It stuck with him.
Well, the funny thing about that interview is I drove up there to Mill Valley to his house. And what I realized, it was the same with Mel Brooks, is that if they don't have more than two people to play to, they're not going to turn it on like that. Like it was just me and Robin. If there had been one other person there, they would have had the Carnegie Hall set. Yeah. My dick's name is Mr. Sad and a side note. And no one's stolen it yet.
Okay, that's all I wanted. Go ahead. My dick's name is, you got this. You got it. Come on, champ. My pronouns are, what's up, motherfucker? Yeah, there you go. Call her then.
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You're getting successful. I want to do a deep dive on you. Yes, but your brand of authenticity. No, I have a question for Mark Maron. Did you guys run out of SNL guests? How did I get this gig? No, this is good because you... Your story of SNL, just a quick insert, David. When we interviewed Lorne Michaels, I listened to your podcast about...
about auditioning for SNL just to get ideas of how Lorne is in that environment. So you are an SNL guy. Your journey with that is fascinating if you want to talk about it. My obsession with it. What's your question, David? I'd like to converse. This one, we can do this first or SNL first, but mine was, why did you start it? Was it only to make amends? Was that to start a podcast? Yes.
No, because, you know, I was kind of down for the count. You know, it turns out that, you know, 50 Conans don't necessarily... Don't add up to a Carson. Don't add up to a Conans. An audience. I was going to say, I saw 50 Conans on here and I was going to say, does that bump your road? Does it, you know? No, it didn't. 50 Conans? I don't even know. Like I could, I never could pull an audience and...
And, you know, I was I was going through a divorce. I was in a dark place. I just gotten fired from this radio gig. Well, it was it was a streaming gig for Air America. And there were a couple of podcasts out there. And we were like, well, let's.
Let's figure it out. I talked to my producer, who I've known since he was a kid, 24 years old. He worked with me forever and we just figured it out. But it was really desperation and wanting to stay in the game somehow because I was looking down the barrel at a lifetime of, you know, kind of, you know, be comedy rooms as a non-selling headliner and match game.
Well, maybe. Yeah, I know. I know. I have friends that are in that mid-level market and there's cruise ships and old folks homes and clubs off label clubs out in the hindrance. I was doing what you got to do tough, but I couldn't do it. There was no way I could have done it. How am I going to do a cruise ship? I can barely do like what? I don't know. But because of the podcast, because of the cosmic timing or what, everything that I have now,
came from that. Like, you know, doing the TV show for IFC, you know, drawing an audience for my comedy, acting gigs, everything happened because of that sort of act of desperation and Hail Mary pass, which had no future. There was no, I wasn't getting into a business that was like, this is going to, we're going to really make some money on this. It was like, we didn't even know how to get people to listen to it. Yeah. Yeah.
You were like Bitcoin, like no one cared. No one cared. I wasn't, yeah, I wasn't even a meme at that point. Yeah. But it worked out. I mean, you know, thank God it worked out. I don't even, I can't even explain it because I don't, I'm not like a big, not a big think. I don't think about money, David. Yeah. Oh, you don't. I like having it enough to eat. Yeah. You know, like that's, that's the, that's how my brain works is like, well, what do you have? You have money now. What do you do? I can eat wherever I want.
And ceiling money. Money is freedom. That's what it's for. Even the great Neil Young about two years ago finally sold part of his catalog and said, I can. And this is Neil Young. You'd think he'd be so rich, but he he said, now I can do whatever the fuck I want. I don't have to tour if I don't want to that. He bought his freedom. So money to me, especially as an older comedian, you want to be able to work the way you want to work.
The interesting thing about Neil Young is he really, he kind of held back on what seems to be about 50 records he never released. So he somehow or another, he can release records every year or so, you know, from 1970. And it's amazing.
If you're spending three, four million a year, then you need a lot of money to cough that up. But I was going to ask you about your library, because is it 1,600 episodes or something? Something like that. Yeah, it's like about 1,600. But Neil came over once. That was interesting with Neil.
Oh, you interviewed, oh, you had Neil. What's he like? Tell me about that. I didn't hear that one. Well, because I, you know, I'm enough of a fan to know enough about him. I'm much better if I'm not a big fan of somebody in terms of interviewing. Mm-hmm.
And I didn't know what to expect. He was out pushing. Remember when he made that, he was partnered up with a company that made that thing that was supposed to compete with the iPod? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sound, he's a sound fanatic. It wasn't Sonos, it was something else. No, it was like a box.
yeah like a portable box oh what was it called so they send me this thing and they send me these fancy ear headset and it's it picks up a bigger spectrum of sound and you know when people have to re-record for but it uh what is it called doesn't matter so they send me great look it up they send me the thing
And I listened to it. I'm like, all right, whatever. I just want to, I'll talk to Neil Young. So, so he, they sent me the thing and there, and I was told that like, when they get there, you're going to have to give it back. And I'm like, all right, whatever. So Neil Young's coming over.
And I'm nervous because it's fucking Neil Young. And like, I, I know that with somebody like him, because I'm not a huge fan, every Neil Young nerd in the world is going to be listening for, for new information or call me an idiot for not knowing something. That's something I've learned with, with guys like Springsteen, these guys interview. So Neil comes over with his like 80 year old posse. He's got,
He's got two guys with him that, you know, must have been in their 70s. Elliot, his manager who passed away, and another guy. It's always the manager is even older than the old guy.
Oh yeah. Yeah. Except for, uh, George Shapiro, who was Carl Reiner's cousin younger, but still old. I don't even know if he's still alive. Was it called Pono? I think he passed away. Pono. Yeah. Pono. Pono music, digital service. Pono music. Yeah. So they come over and Neil walks in and you remember the house. You said it like, it's just two rooms. He's looking at my records. He looks at a guitar I have out. He goes over and he plays the guitar and he's looking around and, and I say, uh,
All right. So I guess you guys can have back the, the Pomo and the headphones and Neil just, you know, just those, uh, no, you can keep them. So I'm thinking I'm in this guy likes me. Right. So we go out to the garage and I decided the way to, the way to start with him is just, I have an old amplifier that I think he uses one similar to it. So I figured that would get things started. Right. So I get Neil out there and I'm like, so, uh, you probably recognize that amp there, right? He's like,
No, I don't know what you're talking about. And I'm like, fuck. And then it was just, well, he did though, but I didn't know. No one told me he likes to fuck with interviewers. So he's making me work my balls off. And it wasn't until I got him laughing that it opened up, but it took like 15 minutes and it was like, it was hard. But then like all of a sudden he pops open. He's talking about doing Pilates with the Daryl Hannah and, and all this stuff is coming out. And then apparently he goes,
home and at his house dan rather is waiting to interview him for dan rather's podcast i don't know access or whatever that was right yeah cable yeah and my buddy brendan's friend works for rather and apparently neil young walks in and he comes from my house he kind of he says i just did a really great interview and dan rather off camera of course says what made it great he goes uh
The guy was fearless and he wasn't afraid to fail. And I'm like, Hey, that's good. That's a good blurb. Wow. But he tested me. He definitely tested me. Wow. That would freak out that we, we had, um, David and I, a similar thing with Paul McCartney. And I don't know.
If you have, or with your personality, but podcasts regret, like, why did I interrupt him then? That was the best part. Why did it take me so long to get there? And I'll be kind of in my head really for a couple of weeks. Sometimes McCartney bothered me for probably a month.
I, uh, I get what I get is like, fuck, I forgot to cover the most important thing they're known for. Yeah. But, um, but I interrupt all the time and people sometimes get on me, but it's like, but for me, it's like, it's gotta be a conversation and I have to be part of it. So suck it up or don't listen. But McCartney was funny. I had to interview him in front of a crowd. And that was really one of the best moments I've had talking to somebody, uh,
because I talked to a lot of these guys who are like, you know, pushing a record and, and a lot of them like Roger Waters or like, I've interviewed a lot of Thomas Dolby, whatever. They think that the record they're out promoting is their best shit. Right. And it's like, all right, I'll play along. So. So, so,
So with McCartney, he's out selling, it was at Capitol Records, it was an event, but the record that he had had out was Egypt Station or something, which no one bought. But I said to him, I said, so Paul,
You know, a lot of artists who were in your age group, they they really think that they're doing their best work now. Do you do you feel that way? And without missing a beat, he goes, well, I was in the Beatles. So that's a pretty high bar. It was so funny. That's that's very. And I was the guy that told them that Manson had died. He didn't know.
I think for me, there's a lot of us. Where are you in this? I mean, I wanted to ask you musically, but also movies. But with music, is there somebody you haven't had yet? Or who is your true North Star? Was it Springsteen? Now?
Well, Roger Waters, Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon. For me, Paul McCartney of Beatle was kind of the... Beatle was great. And I met Ringo recently, who I'm sure you've met. He's pretty sweet. No, we would love to interview Ringo. Yeah, I met him at some odd listening party that I got invited to by T-Bone Burnett of Ringo's new country record.
And that crowd was pretty interesting to see these like 75 year old hippie girls who are still kind of hippie girls, but they're 75. Yeah. But who had the country album Ringo? Yeah. Just put it out. Yeah. Yeah. T-Bone Burnett produced it. And I think he, he now Beyonce did. I think she got a little more press, but, but no, for me, the North star, I've had most of them. Springsteen wasn't Springsteen was funny because, you know,
And I just saw him because I did a bit, a little part in that, that movie they're making about him. But I, I went to Jersey, dude. I went to his house in Jersey.
like Christmas week. And he just put that book out and, you know, it turns out he's a very dark dude, very hard on himself, but all this stuff, but like, you know, he's got this thing he does publicly. That's the other trick getting around people's public personas. Cause you know, Bruce is sort of like, Hey, me and the guys went down the boardwalk. So, yeah,
Saw some pussy, wrote a song. Yeah. We know all about that. Yeah, yeah. It's the underbite. I get there. And like I said, he's up in his house. I'm waiting in some sort of like this other structure that's got his guitars, his motorcycle in it.
And I'm waiting for Bruce. And he, yeah, he has no idea really. I don't think who I am because he's walking down. He's walking down from the house. His publisher and publicist said you should do this one. And he's walking down from the house. I just see him coming down a little Bruce. Yeah. And he's holding the book and I'm like, Oh, he doesn't know what he's getting into. So he sits down and I'm just trying, I want to break the ice quick. Cause again, I don't, I'm not, I love Bruce, but I'm not a huge Springsteen fan. So,
So I said to him, I said, so what's going on up in the house? We're out of preparation for the holidays, cooking and presents. And he goes, correct. And I'm like, can I talk to that guy for the whole hour? Whoever the guy that just went correct with that tone, I want that springsteen. And how did you do that? Did you achieve it? Yeah, I kind of reeled him in because like I –
by inserting myself into the conversation, they kind of, they're forced to kind of reckon with me unless they're complete douchebags like Ben Kingsley. So, and I don't mean to name drop, but I love, I love sexy beast. Yeah. Fucking unbelievable. It was the worst interview. Like I should have told him to leave. It was that bad. And I don't know why I didn't because he's hung up on me. I'm being called a, a,
uh, sir, sir, Ben. So I, and I didn't do that at the beginning. And I wish I said, I wish I just said, sir, Ben, we don't have to do this. We don't have to do it. Uh, but anyway, with Bruce, I kind of pushed in, you know, and I, to the point where I was relating to him and his experience with audiences and stuff. And I just remember there was this moment where, you know, we were talking about what you get from an audience and how like it, it,
It's like not enough sometimes. And he was like, of course it isn't. So I had him locked into a real conversation, which again, I heard from another person. I got some notes on that too, because Paul Wilkenfeld, you know, the bass player, he
She's a little prodigy. She plays with everybody. Oh, played with Jeff Beckett one time? Yeah, yeah, tall. Oh, yeah, yeah. And she hangs around the store a lot and stuff. Well, she was going on a press tour and she, I guess, was somewhere with Bruce. And she was asking for advice on how to handle interviewers.
And, and Bruce told her that no matter what they want to talk about, you just talk about what you want to talk about. Just, you know, bulldoze. Yeah. And then she said, well, you know, my friend Mark Marin interviewed you and he said, yeah, he pushed. Oh, that's good. Well, you know, I think Arnold Schwarzenegger would say that he'd say,
you'd ask him a question like what happened with those maids and he goes this movie is unbelievable he's like because you can't use anything but what he says and he doesn't even acknowledge your question I love it Arnold can never go negative he had one movie I guess last action hero he's on Matt Lauer well the box office wasn't quite no people love the
movie and it's a great hit all over the world. You know, he can't ever go negative, but the best dance he does is around his dad probably being a Nazi. That's the great dance because he'll always preempt that with like, you know, I have many Jewish friends, you know, like, okay. Yeah.
He taught us to salute. And for us, it was just, if you want a candy bar, you do the salute and he gives you a little chocolate in your hand. We didn't know what it was about. Things like this and all these things and these people and what they say and all this stuff. Does he ever talk about the maid? We love Arnold. He has a relationship with the kids, you know, and I think you, after a certain point, you just kind of focus on that because whatever the transgression was, he's,
He's owned it and, you know, he's good with the kids. Once everything came out and he finally goes, all right, let's go bench. Exactly.
In the kid, I was like trying to meet him in the middle. Like I work out. Yeah. You're my dad. Look at my face. Yeah. It is what you can't run from that kid. You have to move on. It's a lesson. I mean, one of my brothers, I've got three older brothers and we always say, what would Arnold do? Only for the positivity of it. It is what it is. And you have to move on. And I love everybody. And it's rather than negative and whiny, but it seems to me like,
Anxiety is like a theme or depression of artists in some ways. So you go with that. Did you, cause Springsteen's old book is about that. Oh yeah. Well, that was the great thing about talking to Arnold is that he won't let you do that. No,
he's got a switch in his head like he won't even hear it like you know and he's very charming like he you know oh yeah like he you know he gets on he sits down he goes look at your pecs you know he goes right into it and you kind of feel flattered you're like oh thank you somebody's skipping delt day you know what he said to us
he goes, how do you guys stay so lean? You know, because you're little. And the whole thing now is to get little because the little dogs live longer than the big dog. I'm literally quoting him. You're so little. The whole time, he's not listening to our questions. He's just staring at our physique going, hmm.
Look at that rib cage. I need to get small. When you get older, you have to be small because the heart and all the things has to work harder and all the things and all the people. I think his heart kind of blew up, didn't it? He's got some, he had some work done in there.
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And decided to take this interesting cinematic risk that, you know, you know, failed miserably, apparently. But I didn't see it. Did you? I heard about it. I couldn't get through the poster.
I didn't see it. I just, I, I couldn't take when I, the, I think that's one of those things as, as I backtrack, I think it's one of the things where great movie Dana was about to say some comments, but the same thing, great movie. And then it's, it's just crazy if you can do literally anything you want. And he just goes, let me just try this will work or won't work.
The interesting thing is, is he, he had a, you know, he'd rebuilt a good franchise possibility by really exploring that character in the first one. So weird. And, you know, it was, I don't know if he was nice to me and that was an exciting day because, you know, I got to do like a little scene with Robert De Niro and, and,
You know, I thought that movie was pretty good, that first Joker. But who the hell knows why? You know, he's a gambler, dude. You know, he just is like, you know, fuck it. Sure. Let's let's do it. And yeah, I don't know. What's his net worth? I mean, he has freedom, I think. If he got a back end on The Hangover. Dude, he got a back end on everything. He's like, I think, known for forgoing a director's fee. Super back end guy. Yeah, for a high percentage of the back end.
But that scene with De Niro was like, that was a great moment for me because I know that De Niro's not, he's not going to remember me. I'm just one of those guys that he's met a hundred guys that do two lines with him, right? You're forgettable, yeah. Yeah, and I know it's painful, but we're chatting and whatever. But it's one scene where we do a walk and talk, and I'm supposed to be like his producer. Those are hard, by the way.
They are kind of at home. It got cut out, but, uh, but you know, we, you know, Todd's there and Bob's there and it's like, you guys just want to go, you're ready to do it. And I'm like, yeah, let's, yeah, let's do one.
so we do this walk and talk and I'm like, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I
Oh my God. Remember Bob's your boss. I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. I got it. But you got to appreciate the fact that Bob handled it correctly on set. He wasn't told the director like, Hey, you know, I think he said, you know, he's, he's not really him. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. When you tell him,
Tell Mr. Marin. Yeah. Yeah. I had a girl say it to my face. She said, it was just an old movie. And then I had to kiss a girl. I won't say who. I had to kiss her. And I said, hey, before. And I don't know. I've never done this on camera. Like she goes, just kiss me like I'm your girlfriend. Just anything. I don't care. And I said, all right. So I just kiss her. Not.
Not crazily. I just kiss her, but I touch her cheek and kiss her and they go cut. And we're like, okay. And the director comes up and she says, she's not even one foot away from my face. She goes, can you tell him not to touch my face? Wow. And him was me. She did the correct way. She told the director, but I just made me think of that. Cause I was like, I was horrified. I'm like, oh, cause you know, kissing someone is so
too, it's so scary. And you just don't want to do it. That's interesting though, right? That's interesting because she said, kiss me like you're my, my girl, like she's your girlfriend. But apparently the intimacy of the hand touch was not something she anticipated, or maybe she just has never had a, a, a boyfriend that she let touch her face. Yes. And I, and I wasn't like a super French-a-thon. I was just trying to like give her a little mega, you know, just to open it, just kiss a little bit. It's nothing crazy. It's,
Yeah. Cute little movie. Nobody gets hurt. And you never know what's going to happen with those things, you know? So you kissed Bob De Niro. I got like, I did. So that was off camera. That was crazy. Hey, I'm ad-libbing. Yeah. Yeah. I'm improvising. Can we improvise? But were you scared? I did a quick scene in the old days with William Dafoe and my very, very old days in a part that Dana turned down and during SNL and well, Paul Schrader was the director and
And I was almost sick from nerves because I'm good. And Willem Dafoe, super cool. Did one scene, same thing. He wouldn't remember in a million years. But of course you get to your nerves just ramp up. Mine were, it's De Niro. It's still no matter what. Oh, totally. I felt okay about it because I don't know. Like, I think I'm getting better at acting, but the benefit, I talked to Willem Dafoe, not a great time. Not a great time.
Not a great time. I don't know if I said some. We've had some toughies on here too. Some are toughies. Yeah, I don't, I don't know if I said something to piss him off, but it was like, come on, dude. You know, it's like, just roll with me. Give me something. For fuck's sake. I got to look at your face for an hour. So. He's got a lot of character in his face. He's a great character. It's not, it's not a negative thing necessarily. It's intense. Not necessarily. It's an intense face to stare at for an hour. But, but,
But no, in terms of nerves, I think doing the podcast helped me a lot in humanizing these people. Because like, you know, after a certain number of celebrities you talk to, you're like, wow, they're just people. And some of them, you know, aren't even that interesting. So knowing that...
It's true. And it's not a bad thing, but I seem to qualify a lot of things. That's not negative. No, it's positive. The qualifier. Mark Maron is the qualifier. That's what happens when you go, hey, Bob, if you ever want to buzz over to the Glendale, why don't you pop in? I'd like to talk to him, but he's one of those guys I can't get. There are certain directors that are hard to get. He's got more chatty.
Who are we talking about? I missed it. Bob De Niro. Oh, but like in terms of nerves, I was more nervous when I had to... I just did an indie where I had to play the lead. And that was a real...
I was nervous about that because, you know, I had, I knew I had to carry the movie, but I'd learned a lot of lessons from a lot of actors and I was pretty confident. And then I had to do a scene with Sharon Stone and it, it, it was a life changing, terrifying thing that was kind of amazing. And I was nervous to do a scene with her. Yeah. And I,
She's kind of intimidating. She's a big star. That's a big star. Big dude. Big star. It was crazy. I think I got to save the story for when and if the movie ever comes out because I told it and I don't want to necessarily spoil anything. But she did the movie because she likes me. And it's one scene. And it was great. And Lily Gladstone was in it. Alan Ruck.
Michael McKean played my manager. Love him. Yeah. What's his name? Jason. Is it Jason? No, it's not Jason. No, the kid from, oh, now I feel bad.
He was so fucking funny. Silver Spoons Bateman? No, you know the one that used to do the Apple commercials was involved with Drew Barrymore? Justin Long. Justin Long. Oh, Justin Long. Funny fucker, that guy. Yeah, I like him. Oh my God. So fucking funny. But I was nervous about that, but I just did the best I could. That's all you can do, right? Does anybody call you after your podcast? Who is asked for the most to be taken out? Don't people go take this out, take that? Or do you say no?
No, no, I'm not. I'm not in the business of sandbagging people. It's not our jam. That's our business. Well, that's good. I hope I gave you enough. Just a sandbag. You can have a little sand. Not enough for a bag. Almost always, I would say always.
It's only because they said something about somebody else that probably couldn't have even been taken in a negative way. Sure. It's never like them. Yeah. Like, just like, you know, I didn't have to say that about, you know, we're kind of friends. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It comes off funny. And then later they go, what if they get mad or whatever?
Yeah, yeah. And people do get mad. Everyone's talking too much. That's the problem with everyone having a fucking podcast. It's like, you know, actors are just coming out with like, well, 20 years ago. It's like, oh my God, we can't get out from under this thing. No one shuts up anymore.
I see ones and now it's like full sex life. People just have nowhere else to go. So now it's like, here's everything in my life. Here's about my plastic surgery. Here, follow me and my camera into my plastic surgery and my kidney operation. What are we doing? Yeah. Or people talking about moments they had with people like 20 years ago. Not even that. Just like awkward moments. And it's like, why'd you even have to do that? I mean, what was the point? Yeah.
But some people are like, it almost seems like they're making up horrible things because they're running out of content. I know. They have a big announcement and you're like, it happens to be your 100th episode? Yeah.
Well, we know what would trend and get pickup. I don't. Really, I don't. You never really know what they pick up. Sometimes you do an interview and there's nothing. But if you have someone on and they're being very revealing and you know that you're getting a scoop, they have not talked about this. Like Robin, it's going to trend. But they've been on five podcasts by the time they get to us. Right. Well, no, that's a problem. But with Robin, trending hadn't happened yet.
So, and it was quite a lot of hoops to jump there just to get him to do it. And, um,
You know, it just worked out because I was a comic and I'm also like a dark side and there was no one else there that we got this conversation. And thank God we did, because it seems to be the only one. He literally talked about depression, addiction, suicide at the end. Both him and Jonathan Winters did riffs on suicide at their NTV interviews. And Jonathan Winters, that was crazy. I went to Santa Barbara to talk to him. How did he pass away?
Jonathan Winters. He passed away in character, which is weird. So it's not clear whether he really dies. He was actually Ma Frickard and they buried him in the dress, which I thought was inappropriate. He's a guy that my dad used to tell me now, this is common. And he was funny. And then when Robin was like, oh, this guy, but I couldn't appreciate it growing up. I just thought he was funny. I didn't know how good, you know, you can never really tell. I thought they were all those characters like.
What John the Winters did was very specific and very detailed. It was not just ad hoc. He was out there, dude. He was like out there. I had a beautiful moment with him in his house.
And I always tell the story. I don't know if it really lands. So that's a good setup. Yeah. But give us the unlandables. Okay. We're at his house. I'm already in. I'm all in. John, the winners and you're talking to him. You know, he's like, he's got this sort of weird, you know, childlike, you know, thing that, you know, he, in his house, they had moved his bedroom. Cause he was kind of hobbling around with a cane and he wore a like
like a Union Army colonel's brimmed hat. But we were walking down this hallway. He wanted to show me
He said, I want to show you the planes. What that ultimately was is that he has this four-poster bed in this bedroom and hanging from the ceiling are all these model airplanes. That's the destination we're heading towards. We're walking down this hallway past just pictures from a career in show business. There's Jonathan Winters in every star you could imagine. Then he stops and he points to this old-ass picture of this boy with a puppy.
And he goes, I miss that dog. And I was like, oh, my gosh. You know, like this whole life of entertainment. And that's what, you know, the dog. He's a little kid. Sweet, right? Yeah.
That's supposed to be sad, David. That's kind of interesting. I know someone who had dinner at Danny Kaye's house. Yeah. And he was very quiet during the dinner. And they're letting everyone out. It's the same kind of thing. Hall of Fame wall, Danny Kaye pictures. Someone asked one question. Then it was two hours, photo by photo. Here I am with Jack Benny. Here I am here. Here I am here. Do you ever watch those?
Have you watched any of those? Not the Dean Martin roasts, but there's footage somewhere. I don't know where I found it. Some streaming service of actual Friars Club roasts.
that were done. Oh yeah. I might've seen one. It's always the same guys and it's not a great day as Henny Youngman's always there. And there are, they literally have him on and you can tell the reason they have him on is just because he doesn't roast anybody. He just does his horrible jokes. So they just, they just have him on to bust his balls. What was so interesting about so many of those is just how horribly unfunny some of them are.
the one who always got me and i i'm curious about old timey here we go again was always as a kid was don rickles the best just the funniest uh and and and dry like weird no joke like get that a cookie put him in the corner oh yeah pack him a nice he doesn't know the show started there's no real jokes it's the rhythm ever it's just or the camera goes
And the sense of mayhem that he doesn't know exactly where he's going. Yeah. If you wrote it all down, you couldn't find a funny joke in there. Look at this. Is that that suit come with two pairs of pants and a hockey puck? What does that mean? Yeah. It sounds like a Johnny, Johnny, the show started. Okay. You know, funniest fucking guy. Ed's over there going, Oh,
Yeah, that's it. He was very funny. Give him a cookie. Yeah. The funniest line he used to live when he did those roasts and there were some of the old Hollywood guys there like Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart. He would say, Jimmy, I talked to the family. You're doing fine. That's so funny. I know. You just can't be Jimmy. Do you know where you are? Yeah. You ever see that? The Clint Eastwood roast. He said one of the funniest things.
And the most honest saying I ever heard, it was the best. It was one of those, you know, AFI big, you know, it wasn't a roast, the tribute. So he gets up and he says, you know, he opens with, I don't know why I'm here. I thought this was a tribute to Merv Griffin or whatever.
But they've had a whole evening at this point. And he says, what a wonderful evening. He says, Clint, your son played bass. We sat through that. Such a rip. So good. Everyone kind of laughs. They had to cut to the kids who took it well in the moment, but probably not great.
And like that everyone was drunk was funny. They were like, he goes, oh, I had a few drinks backstage. He's so funny. When he, that, that older Rick goes on Letterman with Denzel Washington. That is, that's so funny. What does he say? And look at the black guy over here. Yeah.
Well, you know, it was a little post that, but he just kept busting on Letterman, mumbling. He just he wouldn't let up on Letterman. Like Letterman opens with like you and Frank have been friends a long time and both your wives are named Barbara. Right. And Rickles goes, what are you, a detective? Yeah, I've seen that.
It's the best. That's so awesome. Yeah, those old roasts. The Dean Martin, those are the coolest ones. Those are good. Yeah, they're great because it was like everybody in Hollywood. It felt like Hollywood was like a nice little town full of these special people. And now they just let anyone in. Have you been roasted on the...
Any of these roasts. Comedy Central. And or would you do it if you haven't volunteered to be roasted? I don't mind being roasted. I had one of the worst nights of my life on the dais of the Chevy Chase Road. Oh, that's a famous one, right? Because that was one of the really nice. Oh, you were at that one?
Yeah, I was one of the guys. And, you know, all I can say, I could say more. But after that, I was in a room at that that fucking Hilton in New York with my buddy Sam, almost on the verge of tears, thinking like, I can't do this. I can't do comedy anymore. I can't do it anymore. It was so fucking I bombed so hard, so hard.
And I'm not good at that. I'm better at that. So you roast Chevy. And I think back then I was thinking, wait, this is the first roast I'm seeing where not everyone is great friends with them. So it's a very odd vibe. I don't think they could have gotten, they couldn't get people. Yeah, we didn't know that back then. I mean, I just thought, I used to see Dean Martin and they go, hey, there's my buddy over here. And there comes Red Buttons. Yeah. But to go-
I had pretty good jokes, but by my nature, if I'm insulting somebody, I really mean it to... It's hostile. And I don't have the... By my nature. I don't have the distance necessary to make it funny. But I had good jokes. And thank God, they sweetened the fuck out of it. But in the room, I tanked hard.
And so did a lot of people. How big a crowd? It's not a big crowd, is it? No, it was like 2000. I just remember Chevy, the pain on Chevy's face watching it. He didn't want to be there. He didn't want to be there. And his pain. Because it's, oh, is this what they think of me? It's like me doing an impression to someone. If they get upset, it's like, oh, is this how I'm coming across? It's the ultimate mental game. I mean, David, you did one, right? I did one. I wouldn't get roasted because
It's actually good money. Oh, you never got roasted, but you were the emcee. I said I'd host one. I don't even know why. Because all you have to do is be in the vicinity and you're fucked, you know? Yeah. So, I mean, I remember that. I found that out because I was watching one. And they go, speaking of anal warts, Andy Dick's here tonight. And then they put in the crowd and they put a spotlight. He goes, wait, me? What?
I came to watch. I'm not even on the fucking dais. Like, I didn't know it was fair game. They're like, no, we know where you're sitting. We got a camera ready for you. We got 20 guys writing jokes about everyone in this fucking room. I got lucky because I was the host, so I was going to get it. But who came in at the last minute? We had a fallout and Coulter.
And so afterwards, Jeff Ross said, you know, you had, you had probably the most jokes that you were going to get hammered with that you weren't ready for. And at the last second, everyone shifted those to Ann Coulter. And I was like, Oh, thank God. I only got some, they all sting. I hated them all. Uh, I'm not good at getting roasted. I'm like, it's like a thousand stabs, you know, death cuts. But Jesus and Coulter, that's why giving the evening cancer.
Where were you? There's our trender. There's our trender. Thank you. Thank you, Mark. She came up with her book. That's it. And she was Teflon. She walked up with her book and just started plugging it. In fairness, I don't think she knew what she was getting into. She thought it was like some sort of promotion. She brought her book up the day I said, and everyone's basically saying, hey, fuck you. It was pretty...
Pretty rough. So, uh, diplomatic word for her. I can't think of it. Yeah. Yeah. But Jewel was there getting funny jokes by Jewel. Anyway, overall, it was a pretty fun roast. Um,
And we can talk. I can take a shot. I don't mind getting hit. You know, I don't think I'm in the position. It's so everybody wise to ever get roasted as an evening. But I don't mind. Here's a couple minutes roasting. No, I have a glass jaw. I can't. I was out there going. And then I wrote it down. I hate you now. I hate you now. I hate you now.
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I don't read comments. David reads comments. Do you read comments about your podcast much? Are you good with that? Or you're kind of... I don't. Like, I seem to be pretty disengaged from Twitter. You know, I don't do the other ones that much. I'll look at Instagrams and occasionally I'll look at, you know, messages or posts on Instagram. But I don't, you know, and I do get emails sometimes, but I...
I got out of that because they all, you know, a troll that's worth his salt is going to really hit you where it hurts. So, you know, and, you know, when you read them, the part of your brain that lives in this real, the real world we live in goes like, well, that's just part of it. But the, the, the, the really is sort of like, Jesus Christ, is that fucking true? And, and then you've got to process that. I don't have, I can't detach from it, but they land, but not for that long.
Yeah, someone. You know, I think I look to see if there's enough feedback, positive or negative, sometimes you can try to have constructive criticism.
If they say, yeah, you're always doing this, or you always do this, or I wish you would change it. And then you go, God, enough people said that. Something's up. But if it's just random, I get a lot of snipers just randomly, almost 100% of the time, if I answer them or I DM them. No, no, don't do that. Say, do we got a problem? They always go, oh my God, I'm your biggest fan. Or they're nicer. That's right. But some might just come kill me. So it's really a dangerous game to be honest.
Do you listen to your podcast? No. Have you ever? Yeah. Cause Conan told me a while back, never has heard an episode. So I took that advice. Cause I would get too much in my head in the part. I hear it. I don't listen to it. I can't watch my producer. He gives you notes. I can watch my own special. No, but my producer, like since we're still audio and that's our game, he's very meticulous, very brilliant guy. But the weird thing about not listening to the podcast and only having memory is
of the conversation, like, you know, that, that, that's fleeting. You know, you can only remember certain things from conversation. So, so if I ever have a question about something I discussed with somebody, my producer has become like, like my active memory. Cause he spends a few hours with it and he remembers everything. And he's like, well, you talked to so-and-so about that. I have no recollection. And so I really need him just to be, you know, my, my functioning memory of these things. Yeah.
Yeah. Um, I'm, I was just curious earlier today, like when we talked to guests and stuff like for you are as consuming art or like movies or are you into that? I mean, movies or music or totally is, um,
Patton Oswalt, we started talking about movies and he just... Oh boy, that's a long conversation. Yeah. Yeah, okay. We don't have to go. I don't know what you're... But I remember it was The Killers from 1958. Oh yeah, here we go. Anyway, 2001 in space. Try to guess your favorite movie. Okay. Hmm.
That would be tough. Or your top movie that you've seen more than once. Bad News Bears. Yes, of course. Here's a question. If you could only watch one movie tonight, would it be 2001 or Planet of the Apes? Original. Those are my only two choices. What, did you let Patton Oswalt get in your head? I know, that's left over. I didn't talk to the producer. I already asked that question. Okay, you give us one. Two movies, Three Days of the Condor or Alien.
Oh, wow. Yeah. Well, you kind of have to go with Alien on those two. I mean, three days of the Condor is great. But I would imagine you'd probably get a little more... If you really kind of...
alien and didn't overwatch it, it could probably be still pretty jarring. Whereas three days of the condor, you're kind of like, all right, I know it's jarring. Well, that's what I said. Who? Was it fade down away? Yeah. Condor. Where are you? Condor in the pocket. I didn't know what that movie is about. And I watched it honestly a year ago. I, I always heard about it. Oh,
Oh, it's a weird name. I'm like, why would I go to this movie? It's too weird. Fun, cool movie. I like watching movies. Alien changed movies. Alien changed movies. Yeah, that was great. I've been watching a lot of movies. I'll go to the theater to watch movies. Like, I like going to the movies because I'm pretty close to the Americana. And I'll go see shit and...
I watched the old movies. Like, I just watched The Conversation again because I didn't really get it the first time. I should watch that again. Gene Hackman, 1975. Yeah, well, look at you with the fucking Google. No, no, that's all here. Okay.
No, but like, I remember seeing it years ago and I was like, this is slow because I didn't lock in. But like Gene Hackman doing almost anything. He's kind of amazing. It's unbelievable. I talk about him all the time. Yeah. That he's a freak. He was. There's never a bad move. Chewing gum. He's so great. Hoosiers, everything. I did watch the Tom Cruise movie where he's the.
The Firm. The best. The movie's great. It's great. And he's fucking crazy. Yeah. If you haven't seen the movie, The Firm, it's like a surefire great movie. Go ahead. It's like a Sidney Pollack movie. I mean, people don't realize that there are these movies that these geniuses made. So that's a full on, just because it's a Grisham book, doesn't mean it's going to be hacky. I mean, Pollack did that movie and the cast was crazy. Crazy cast. Doesn't mean it's going to be hacky. Yeah. True. True.
Well, what was the other one? I mean, Coppola directed The Rainmaker. And that's another one. That's fucking great. Another John Grissom book. Yeah, but that's like, it's Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Mickey Rourke. I thought that was McConaughey. That's not McConaughey? No, that's another one. That was, it was earlier. But The Firm is, The Firm is great. Terry, Terry Keeney. Yeah. It's great. And Wilford Brimley. Wilford Brimley's heavy. Oh, Wilford Brimley. He's unreal. So good. He's the heavy man. How old were you?
I know. It's great. Gary Busey. Her old names are so good in movies. Gary Busey. Good. Gary Busey's in it. And what's her name? The genius actress. Holly Hunter. It's not Jean Triplehorn. Oh, Holly Hunter. Jean Triplehorn, yeah. Triplehorn. Is she in it? She's the love interest. Yeah. And Tom Cruise being Tom Cruise. Fucking Ed Harris is in it too. It's an insane cast. And Hacker. Yeah.
And then Ackman leading the charge, him trying to seduce his wife down in the Caribbean. And then she, and he knows she's conning him. I mean, it's, he's effortless. It's just so fascinating to watch Dean Ackman, you know, kidding dude. But what else did I watch recently? I tend to watch like lately I've been like, I just want to watch the beginning of this to get a couple of laughs, you know, and then I'll be up till two in the morning watching the whole fucking movie. Hmm.
I watched the other guys the other night just because I wanted to watch the beginning to get a laugh from those two. Will Ferrell. Is that a car chase beginning? It's so fun. Yeah, that thing with The Rock. And what's his name? Mark Wahlberg. No, The Rock and what's the... Sam Jackson. Sam Jackson jumping off the roof. That is hilarious. And the two of them together. When Wahlberg focuses, man, he's good at comedy. He can do it, dude.
he's good in a lot he does a lot of stuff yeah how's this movie with you and Theo Vaughn what's that about uh Busboys is uh it's a beating we're doing it right now it's tough it's hard to do because it's small budget indie but it's super fun because is it small budget indie yeah well it's just us we put it together we put money in and we just said we just want to go try it and yeah and then decide what to do with it that's scary
Like, yeah. Yeah. Don't go get shit. Don't go around. He seems like he's got enough juice. I mean, if someone will see it, but I thought Bert had enough juice too, to put his little movie over the top of it. I don't think it got there, but I mean, you know, people will watch it. People like Theo. They like what comedies are just live streaming now are, I mean,
- We don't know, we might do it straight to video. I mean, straight to consumer. - Straight to video, yeah. - Or straight to video. The '90s are calling. - We're going, okay. - So old. That reminds me of like one time I was like, this is in the last five years.
I was at the comedy store, right? And out of the darkness, like Steve Kravitz just emerges. Steve Kravitz. Yeah. He's still here, dude. I saw him the other night and he's okay. You know, he's okay. Oh, good. It was funny. Yeah. He was funny. But like, I just remember he was like, it was like, you know, he's 70 something now, but it was just a few years ago. And he's like, I don't know how the business works anymore. Like, Hey, where do I set my tape?
And I'm like, maybe the 1985. Maybe you send the tape. Maybe to the Denunzio brothers at the funny bone. Isn't that somebody? Yeah. They used to watch your, I used to send my tape, the funny bone, my half inch VHS. And they're like,
They must have a pile of tapes. I'm like, it's been a whole day. Are they going to watch it or not? They don't give a fuck. Oh my God. I remember there was a booking agency in Boston called Boston Comedy Company. Barry Katz used to run it out of the basement apartment in a building in Alston.
And one of the women who would get tape submissions and she was dating somebody like we knew, like we got hold of a couple of the tapes. And there's this one tape of a guy that's clearly in his basement or in his bedroom. And he's doing jokes and he's got a friend dropping a phonograph needle onto a laughter track on a record. Oh, wow. So he would do a joke and he'd literally hear the needle drop. Oh, funny. And he'd pull back up and go...
That's a good idea. That's like an analog lo-fi world. Kind of something charming about that. Well, Mark, before you let go, I got to ask you about one movie and then we'll ask Dana if he has any wrap ups. But, uh,
You've been very nice to talk. I see Mark at the comedy store now and then we always have a little chat, a couple of laughs and then we get our $48. We get the fuck out of there. Yeah. And I, Oh, someone said today that to Leslie, you were very, very good and they loved you in it and they heard I was talking to you. So, Oh, well that's nice to hear. I definitely, I did the work on that one. Like, cause like, I don't know how, like I, I always wanted to act, but I know I'm okay at it and I got better, but,
But I still never, I'm still like, it's not necessarily an exciting job. I mean, there's a lot of waiting around, which makes me crazy. For sure. But like, I was trying with that movie. I didn't want to do it. And the director kept bothering me because I was still kind of fucked up. It was during COVID. You know, Lynn had passed away. And, you know, they were...
the guy kept bothering me, you know, and it's, it's the role is like this kind of, you know, slightly beaten up Texan guy. And I'm thinking like, you get, there's like nine, nine or 20 fucking cowboy character actors. You can get to do this. What, why me? And, you know, finally he gets through, he gets me on the phone. He's like, well, I really liked the last season of Marin. I'm like, oh, so you do like me. All right, I'll try. And I told him,
I don't know about the accent. He said, don't worry about the accent. And then I realized like, dude, if you're going to do this, you know, take a risk. No one's going to see this movie. It's like it shoots in like two weeks on film out in the desert here.
So I worked with a dialect coach and this is funny. You'll probably get it, Dana. Yeah, you will too, I guess, because it's just a reference that no one fucking gets, but I'm talking to the dialect coach and I'm like, how do I do a Texan accent? She's like, well, there really is no Texan accent specifically, but I think we'll do Lubbock. And I'm like, okay, Lubbock. So he sends me, you know, the phonetics. And then she sends me some tapes of what I think are the Lubbock accent. And it's just like, like,
a few like behind the scenes Grammy interviews with Mac Davis. And I'm like, this is the only, the only example of loving Mac Davis. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I love Mac Davis for sure. Yeah. He's a good, he's a funny actor too, but, but yeah, well, I appreciate someone saying that. Cause I definitely put the work in and I was willing to fail with the accent, but I think I did. All right. And the only reason I had confidence to do that was before I interviewed James Kahn, I was watching movies and,
of early movies of his and all these guys try accents and very few of them are any good at it. So I'm like, well, fuck it. If he's going to take the hit, I can take the hit, you know? Yeah. The Australians are great at accents for some reason. And a lot of the Brits are, but the Americans, I don't know.
you know secondhand compliments are the best like when David hears someone say to him you were great in the movie right that's the best way to hear it because you know they're not saying it's legit she was like oh my god oh by the way you see my special is fantastic yeah yeah it's nice to hear my life said somebody said that no that's a fictitious well you know you do specials you do a podcast and you're a damn good actor you've got a series I'm just saying I mean I don't know any other you're like a
triple and an author. Yeah. You know, I do what I can. I do what I can at the level I do it at. And, uh, it's, uh,
you know, it's, I'm glad I've had all the opportunity and I, and I keep trying to get better. What can you do? It's just how much joy can you get out of your incredible life? Yeah. Well, the joy thing, that's a whole other thing. I mean, forget about that. Less miserable, less miserable. And in terms of like talking about SNL, I didn't get it. Oh, okay. Thank you for the people that waited till the end.
All right. Well, that's so perfect. Thanks, buddy. Down to a podcast. Take care, man. See you later, guys. I'll see you, bud. That was a blast. Thank you. Yeah, it was fun. This has been a presentation of Odyssey. Please follow, subscribe, leave a like, a review, all this stuff. Smash that button, whatever it is, wherever you get your podcasts. Fly on the Wall is executive produced by Dana Carvey and David Spade, Jenna Weiss-Berman of Odyssey, and Heather Santoro. The show's lead producer is Greg Holtzman.