WEBVTT - A Fond Memory: David Dastmalchian Disobeys Bridger 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:10.520 And I invited you. 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:17.959 Here THOUGHTA mad myself perfectly clear. When you're a guest 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:24.040 to my home, you gotta come to me empty. And 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:31.440 I said, no, guess your presence is presents enough. I 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:36.760 already too much stuff. So how do you dare to 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:38.280 survey me? 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:49.680 Well, if you think I'm just going to let you 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:53.400 listen to the podcast, think again. I have to remind 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:57.520 you of the upcoming live show. It's in June June 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:02.200 twenty sixth, seven thirty pm Dynasty Typewriter right here in 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:06.039 Los Angeles. Or you can get the live stream. You 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:09.840 can buy tickets or the live stream at Dynastytypewriter dot com. 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:12.200 And you know, the live stream is great. Let's say 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:14.800 you can't make it to Los Angeles, you don't live here, 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:18.320 you're on the no fly list, or you know, you 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:21.679 have a funeral that Wednesday night. You can watch it 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:25.880 live over the internet as it unfolds, or for seven 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:28.959 days after. I believe that's how it works. So that's 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:31.120 a great deal. I mean, what a bargain. It's going 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:33.640 to be an enchanting evening. You're going to have an 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:37.160 early dinner. Maybe you go to Cassell's Hamburgers. You know, 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:40.679 have a Pattymount. They're so delicious. There, you park, you 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:44.760 go into the beautiful Dynasty Typewriter theater. You watch this 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:50.120 beautiful show kind of unfold. Maybe it awakens something in you, 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:54.400 Maybe it sets something off, nothing violent or scary, maybe sexual. 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:56.680 The show is very sexy. Maybe it sets something off 0:01:56.720 --> 0:02:00.080 in that category. Who knows, but it does open something 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:02.560 in you, and you know, suddenly your life path might 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:04.640 be clear. Maybe it's not too late to go to 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:08.079 medical school. Maybe I should forgive dad, you know, one 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:10.280 of these things. That's that's the sort of thing you 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:14.200 can expect to happen only in a live environment. So 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:16.480 you've got to get a ticket at Dynasty typewriter dot 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:19.120 com or in the live stream. That's an option. We're 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:22.440 giving you every possible option. There are no excuses not 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:27.080 to watch this thing. I expect you there. Wow, this 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:29.880 is essentially two episodes of this podcast. You're getting you're 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:34.640 getting this just rambling me talking, listening to me, just talk, 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:37.040 and then you're going to get the rerun. It is 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:39.680 a rerun, but it's a good one. So I mean, 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:44.040 what a deal this episode is for you? And I'm 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:46.200 going to kind of ease you into the episode. Now, 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:48.880 I don't want to just throw you in Dynasty typewriter 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:56.480 dot Com. Okay, welcome to. I said no gifts. I'm 0:02:56.520 --> 0:03:01.080 Bridger Wineger where, of course, in the backyard, I'm you know, 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:03.519 I've said I was not going to take the backyard 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:06.520 for granted, probably a few months ago, and then immediately 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:09.360 started taking it for granted. And then, you know, so 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:11.919 we're trying to return to a place of being happy 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:14.200 in the backyard. I love it. I love being here, 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:17.680 and I hope by the time this podcast reaches you, 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:21.560 egg prices have stabilized. I feel like that's a big 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:25.160 issue for all of us right now. It's got to 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:28.960 repair itself. The birds have got a whatever is happening 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:30.960 with them. Maybe they're healthy now or what have you. 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:33.760 Let's try not to think about the super volcano and 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:37.400 Wyoming for the next hour or so, and let's get 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:40.680 into the podcast. I think today's guest is so terrific. 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:44.760 I'm so excited to have him here. It's David Desmalchin. Hi, David, 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:46.080 welcome to. I said no gifts. 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:47.440 Thank you for having me. Rachel. 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:48.600 I'm happy to have you here. 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:51.440 I love this And by the way, you doesn't look 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:54.600 like you've taken this space for granted at all. It's gorgeous, 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:56.640 it's lovely. I could just sit here for hours. 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:59.880 Well, let's make this our like first five hour episode. 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.720 It's gonna be. We're gonna say. I like to be 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:04.600 the biggest in everything I do. So when I have 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:08.200 the biggest gifts, the biggest podcast, the longest interview you've 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:10.360 ever given, I don't care if you're in pain and 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:12.080 misery by the end of this, I'm going to sit 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.080 here as long as I feel like because it's beautiful. 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:18.239 There's like children playing, there's birds chirping. You've really created 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:19.280 quite a space back here. 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:22.800 Well, I appreciate that I can take almost no credit 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:25.000 for it, but I'm trying to maintain. 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:27.560 This is Hollywood. Bridger, take the credit, Cake the credit. 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:29.799 It's a good fact. Since Bridge's not taking the credit. 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:31.680 Everyone who's listening, I'd like you to know that I've 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:35.840 actually been the one responsible for creating this incredible space. 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:39.240 We'd like to thank David, my contractor, for finally coming 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:41.560 on the podcast. He's done a beautiful job with the home. 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:45.440 He acts, he writes, he contracts. I wish I could 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.000 contract My wife would think that's so hot. She loves 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:49.480 it at what I do, But I do. I think 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:52.480 if I could fix one thing in my home, if 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:55.279 she would just be like, the clothes would be ripped 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:58.400 off me. In a second. I come in so excited 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:00.159 about the new comic book that I've written. You know, 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:03.599 I get a very very loving and supportive pat on 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:06.640 the back. But if I could one time fix a 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:10.120 leaky uh. We have a leaky uh skylight that has 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:13.279 been leaking forever. It's like your garage, is it better? 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:14.160 Did you fix it? 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:19.320 David? The situation with the water is I mean, I'm 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:21.480 hearing this, hearing a leak in your home. It is 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:23.560 setting off so many trauma along. 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:25.880 Trigger alert, trigger alert. 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:28.239 It's too much for me. I mean, I'm it's also 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:32.160 comforting to know that another person has the misery of 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:33.760 water coming in. 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:37.560 The misery the misery. Luckily we're Angelino's, so it's a 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:41.279 short pick of time in which then we quickly relegate 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:42.680 it back to the backs of our minds so we 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:44.360 don't think about it anymore. And then the next year, 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:46.240 two years later, it comes from and go oh, I 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:49.159 was supposed to fix that, and now I'm finally doing it, 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:50.880 and you know how I'm doing it. How I'm going 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:52.360 to give you the trick? Are you ready I need? 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:54.640 Because I think you need the same trick as I 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:57.560 have called delegation. You pay someone else? 0:05:57.640 --> 0:05:59.400 Who are you? But how do you decide on who 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:00.000 to delicate? 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:02.320 I'm a rule of threes guy, Okay, I believe in 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:03.920 a rule of threes. I get three quotes and I 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:07.599 always go with the cheapest one. Wow, And so is 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:09.880 it necessarily the best candidate for the job? 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:10.520 Is it? 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:12.320 The guy who showed up with the ladder that looked 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:14.679 like it was duct taped together and his pregnant wife. 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:17.040 This isn't a made up story. His pregnant wife who 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:19.400 he was making climb the ladder up to my roof 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:22.200 to take a look around, that's a true story. But 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:25.440 their price quote was about one third of everyone else. 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:29.240 So I thought, well, I do have homeowners insurance and 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:32.520 umbrella insurance for liability. God, she doesn't look safe up there, 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:34.960 But I'm saving so much money. 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:37.840 Why does he have his pregnant wife doing the ladder work? 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:40.440 You tell me, you tell me, He looked awfully busy 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:43.200 on his phone. I was like, this is this is 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:45.240 not my place. It's not my place. I stick to 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:47.200 my lane. I'm upstairs writing comic books. 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:49.680 Well, he's very active on social media, I'm sure, and 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:53.000 trying to get those likes and so well. But that's 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.040 a great trick. I mean, I have had quite a 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:57.440 few people come through. I've kept no information they've provided, 0:06:57.480 --> 0:06:59.600 so I don't know what the quotes are. Are you 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:02.120 getting a yelp to find them? Where are you finding 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:02.680 these people? 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:05.520 The second bit of advice I'm gonna give you today, 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:07.560 and this is the second of seventeen pieces of advice. 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:10.880 I want you to take good notes everyone who's not watching. 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:13.280 He's got a giant feather quill pen and a large 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:17.000 yellow roll of paper. It's like a scroll of David 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:21.680 dust Mulchin's notes for Bridger. Number two is I'm gonna 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:25.040 keep going back to this theme. Delegation, delegation, delegation. I 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:29.160 have a wonderful assistant, my incredible assistant, Jennifer. Who I 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:34.160 say jen here? I am full grown adult homeowner a 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:38.320 leaky skylight for this isn't an exaggeration. Everyone, don't spill 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:41.640 your coffees out there. Six years but I forget about 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:42.680 it until the next race. 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:46.120 It's really the rain goes away and you forget. 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:49.120 And guess what, each time it gets worse. And so 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:51.240 now we have a miniature pool which my children love, 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:54.920 on the second floor of the house. Jennifer, you know 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.720 I could use the Google. Sure, I'm sure I could. 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:02.600 But I'm busy, Bridger, I am. I have coffee and 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:06.600 comic book writing moding around the house. I'm getting I'm 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:09.560 testing out inner tubes. There's so many cool new inner tubes. 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:12.280 You'd be amazing tubes for what for floating in my pool? 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:14.480 Oh? Horse, of course. 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:16.560 And I do have a pool in the backyard. But 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:18.000 who needs a pool in the backyard when I can 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:21.360 have one steps away from my bedroom? So delegation, that's the. 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:24.240 Goal of the delegation. Yeah, that's a I mean, I've 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.120 got my boyfriend. Maybe it's time to shove some of 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:28.120 this off on him. 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:30.920 Yes, And I'm sure yelp, I'll ask Jennifer, I tell 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.520 you what VI is it? YELP? I don't know. I 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:35.000 really can't think about it. 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.040 It's hard for I'm getting on yelp and I'm hard. 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:38.800 Do we believe in yelp anymore? 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:42.160 Do we know? Because we know that if like if 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:47.360 I was selling hot dogs and I created a Yelp 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:51.840 account and I had the resources to delegate let's say, 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:56.040 ten of my employees to create fake Yelp user accounts 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:58.520 and go on and say, because you can tell, Oh, 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:01.960 it's so easy to tell performers. Yes, I can smell 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:05.760 performance a mile away. I hope everyone listening cant. This 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:07.600 is like John Waters smell a vision. I want you 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:10.480 to lean close to your laptop or whatever listening device 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:13.040 you're using. Can you smell the performance I'm giving today? 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:16.280 Trust me, it's not as powerful or difference as the 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:19.480 ones you see on Yelp. Sometimes it's desperate and you 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:21.120 get this was the. 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:22.360 Best hot dog. 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.960 This is not my aunt's hot dog stand. I would 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.760 never create a fake Yelp account to tell you how 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:32.600 incredible the condiments. I can't stop thinking about them. We 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:36.240 went on our anniversary to get a massage at next 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:40.360 to this hot dog place. Sometimes the stories are so conclude, 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:41.319 so you get what I'm saying. 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:43.920 Of course, Yeah, I think there was a period when 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:46.880 he help. Maybe it must have been twenty ten. It's 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:48.640 been years since you could get on there and be 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:51.760 like I trust this and screened for the Truth? Did 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:52.840 they screen for the truth? Oh? 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:55.080 I think it was like screen forty And then who 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:57.520 was it? Elon musk to No, was it was it 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:00.200 Mark Zuckerberg? No, I'm just kidding. Someone took it over 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:02.079 and realized why would we want to do that when 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:06.240 we can monetize this thing so powerfully? Because we all 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:08.720 know as performers. This is rule number three of David 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:12.600 Desmalchin's notes to bridge. Your illusion is so much more 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:13.520 fun than reality. 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:16.680 Sometimes I love just a we love a little bit 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:18.640 of magic, a little bit of smoke and mirrors, even 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:22.040 if it's with a yell review of Chipotle. Oh god, 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:23.680 you know, it's so much fun. 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:28.520 For my anniversary, we went to Chipole, this guacamole romance. 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:31.760 We finally rekindled that spark. 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:33.800 I felt like the server knew me. 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:37.480 Uh so you I mean, this leak and we'll get 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:39.600 away from water. But I do want to just like 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:43.319 when the rain began, was it like, let's brace ourselves, 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:44.480 let's get a pail out. 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:48.079 And no, no, bridger, come on you, you have to 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:50.439 understand this has been for years and years, so it's 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:55.200 not until and that only is making that because there's 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:57.680 now a puddle that it seemed, and I was organizing 0:10:57.720 --> 0:10:59.680 old scripts from the attic that I had had in 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:02.360 the giant tupperware boxes. I was trying to make space 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:05.360 and clear things out so that I could delgat the 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:09.079 responsibility to my assistant to pick up these heavy boxes 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:10.640 and take to a storage unit that I don't know 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:12.240 where it is, because why should I. She's the one 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:14.120 who found it, and I think she found it through yelp. 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:18.920 But the boxes were underneath where the water was coming. 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:21.120 So what did I do? I just took some of 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:24.920 the good don't take the good towels, David, My poor wife, 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:26.840 she got the good towe We just had our bathroom redone. 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:29.480 And why would you put the good towels? And what 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:31.360 are the towels going to do when you keep throwing 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:32.720 a towel into a pool. 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:35.840 Good luck every towel in my house, the good towels, 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:38.000 the bad towels. We used to dry the dog. It 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:42.319 was every towel it exists. And now when I'm drawing 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:46.080 myself off, I'm thinking this was used to mop up floodwater. 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:47.720 What is happening in my life? 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:50.640 And here this is the Hollywood way of solving this problem. 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:53.600 As well. Besides delegation. I'll tell you a quick sidebar. 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:57.880 I was having a really tricky time. Gosh, was this 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:01.120 almost two years ago? Yes, my gosh, it was the 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:04.199 August of two thousand and twenty one, so a year 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:07.360 and a half ago. I separated from my family on 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:10.120 it job, going through some really difficult times, a lot 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:13.680 of stress, both personally professionally. One of the exercises that 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:17.600 I work through in therapy is, you know, using the 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:20.240 power of our mind to go to places that help 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:22.400 us to regulate, get our breath, back to a place 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:25.600 of calm, trying to get ourselves, you know, back to 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:28.480 our present state of being. And this magic that I found. 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:32.000 I was in the lovely little island of Malta working 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:34.800 on a film, and I was so stressed and my 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:39.120 physically exhausted. We were working these crazy hours in crazy schedule, 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:41.600 and when I would ever get a little break, I 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:47.199 bought myself a cheap little scuba mask from the not school, 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:50.199 you know, a snorkeling thing from the little shotski shop 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:53.040 on the way, and I would go float in the 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:57.400 water and watch the little fishes and just get zen 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:01.600 and present and breathe through the know of course snorkeling too, 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:04.600 because you don't want to breathe underwater. And that's now 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:08.160 my place I go to when I feel like I'm 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:12.800 getting bumped out of my uh presence space. So the 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:16.480 great thing was I walk in. There's the water trickling 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:19.120 through the thing. There's the pool in the floor, the 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:21.240 new floors which we just had redone by the way, 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:25.360 beautiful floors, and I just, you know, I laid down 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:29.640 in that pool and I floated and I didn't think 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:32.160 about a thing. And my poor wife walked in and 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:34.760 discovered me there and thought, he can't even. 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.560 And how many snorkeling masks did you end up buying? 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:41.880 I bought three because I thought that the first one 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:44.720 was the right size. It was it didn't save the receipt. 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:45.840 This was like a chosk. 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:47.760 This was like a save the receipt in Malta. 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:49.600 Yeah, this wasn't a hey can you look at my 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:51.240 chase app? Because I bought that the you know, it 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:52.960 was like okay, and it was what ten dogs? So 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:55.840 I got another one. And I was laying by the 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:58.480 side of the water one day, terrible mood, trying to 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:01.920 get zent and really angry at the world, and I 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:03.559 was just trying to do all I could to get 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:06.240 to a good space. So laying there, and then I 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:09.520 got fascinated by how much litter there was on this 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:12.120 beautiful beach. So I went to clean all the litter, 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:14.280 and I accidentally put that mask in with the litter, 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:17.200 which I then tossed out. Third mask is now at 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:21.080 my home in Sherman Oaks. Okay, and it's a good one. 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:22.360 Okay, hold on to that. 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:22.840 Yeah? 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.200 Will I mean, were you able to enjoy Malta at all? 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:28.000 I'm so curious about maybe because of the Maltese falcon. 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:31.120 There's some sense of mystery there, Bridger. 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:34.240 They're flying over us right now because they knew I 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:36.320 was about to talk about this, and TMZ has been 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:39.120 dying to know my thoughts on Malta. They want the 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:42.560 scoop tip four. Whenever you've got a big tip and 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:44.680 you go on a podcast, you save it till you know. 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:46.920 TMZ is hovering overhead. 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:49.960 This is essentially the Madonna Sean Penn wedding all over 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:53.480 so many helicopters circles. 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:56.880 This is justin Bieber's junk at the hotel room window. 0:14:57.080 --> 0:15:01.920 I have basically never I didn't know anything about Malta. 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.760 I'm a big fan of film noir and I love 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:08.000 classic cinema, and so the Maltese falcon as you mentioned, 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:11.760 is my only familiarity. I honestly, I thought it was 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:15.360 maybe somewhere near Morocco in the Mediterranean. Didn't really know, 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:17.520 and this is near cosa Blank, I'm not sure. So 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:19.240 when I got the opportunity to go, we'd been filming 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:21.440 in Berlin and then we went to Malta because it 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:24.920 was a film that's set aboard a giant sailing vessel 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:26.880 in the eighteen hundreds, and they have these big, beautiful 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:30.800 pools that have been built for movies to put boats 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:33.480 and their infinity pools, so the way that you shoot them, 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:36.920 it looks like you're at sea, even though you're really 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:41.200 in a safe, controlled environment where they can cause storms 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:44.440 and it's very neat. I love movie magic, so I 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:47.800 did have a little bit of downtime. It was one 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:50.200 of these things, you know, the COVID stories that will 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:52.520 tell the tales for the rest of our lives. But 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:54.200 it was one of these where it's like in the 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:58.400 height of COVID, so they reserve this entire hotel for 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:01.320 just us. Wow, which was one And I did have 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:03.240 my wife and kids with me at first, so they 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:05.680 were having a blast because the whole staff was meant 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:07.720 to bubble with us, so they weren't leaving and coming. 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:09.360 Everyone was living there with this U. We're eating all 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:11.440 of our meals together and going right to set and 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:14.240 coming back. There's a big, beautiful pool, a big indoor 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:19.560 heated pool. It was our place, right and it was nice. 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.240 It was very nice. Apparently wasn't nice enough for some 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:24.600 of the members of the production company who then moved 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:31.880 into the very crowded public No, yes, tourist jammed luxury 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:34.560 hotel right across the water. And I'll never forget standing 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:36.840 there and like looking at me, so all this is 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:38.720 for this nothing. And by the way, when I was 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:41.840 laying on that beach, just you know, getting myself present. 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:46.200 This is one of the many little nudges that I 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:48.560 received from that experience that put me in such a 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:50.480 wonderful mood that I had to go float with the 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:52.720 fishes because I thought, I thought we were all supposed 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:55.320 to be living in this bubble together. But I don't know, 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:57.720 maybe someone's wife didn't think it was nice enough, or 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:01.400 things so then all of a sudden, God, yeah, but hey, Bridger, 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:02.680 this is note five. 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:05.720 This is Hollywood, this is Hollywood based. 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:10.160 It's Hollywood, baby, So all all bets are off, All 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:13.520 bets are COVID rules laws. They'll put the fear of 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:15.360 God in you about one thing. Then you find out 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:17.960 they're on their private jets, go into Austin texts for 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:21.200 a concert. It means nothing. But this is Hollywood, baby. 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:26.119 If someone's even mildly uncomfortable, it doesn't meet their standards suddenly. 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:29.520 By yeah, which is why I want to be the boss. 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:32.160 You know, I love being the employee, but it would 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:33.760 be nice to be the boss once in a while. 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:36.360 I mean, David, it's really interesting that you bring this up. 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:39.520 This is, you know, kind of rule breaking behavior. Nothing 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:43.919 applies to me. I'm in Hollywood. I'll do whatever the 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:47.720 hell I want because this podcast is called I said 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:51.359 no gifts. Oh, I was really looking forward to having 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:54.080 you here today. I was really thinking we would have 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:57.160 a good time. Thought David's such an interesting person. We're 0:17:57.200 --> 0:17:59.080 gonna have fun, We're gonna chat. 0:17:59.240 --> 0:17:59.840 I'm nervous. 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:06.200 Well, we'll bond over our mutual leaking homes and then 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:10.640 maybe move on. So I was a little I don't 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:14.560 want to say upset. I was a little shaken when 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:16.480 you pull up to my house and get out of 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:20.159 your car and you're holding a i'll say it, a 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:21.360 massive bag. 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:24.160 May I ask you? Is it the biggest bag? 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:24.360 Thing? 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:28.800 Is the biggest bag we've ever gotten? The next guest 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:30.600 is gonna have to buy me a car to be. 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:33.320 So triumphant today. Everybody listening, I want you to know 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:36.360 I haven't smiled like this since I saw the Muppet 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:40.359 Movie in kindergarten. I am grinning so broadly right now. 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:42.520 All of my teeth, which I just got cleaned, are 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:45.720 really shining in the sun of this beautiful backyard oasis. 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:47.680 We may have to circle back to the Muppet movie 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:50.439 and dental work. I love both of those topics. But 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:52.520 right now I'm not letting you distract me. I'm keeping 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:57.080 my eye on the ball. It's a PJ Masks gift bag. 0:18:57.160 --> 0:18:58.480 This is clearly a gift for me. 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:01.960 There's no question none whatsoever. I know you well, you 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:05.359 know me extremely J Masks. It is part of the 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:07.480 zeitgeist at the moment, and I like to tap into 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:10.119 things like that. It's like there's pickleball, PJ masks, and 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:11.680 I don't know a few other things that I feel 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:14.159 like all the hip kids are into these days, Am 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:14.399 I right? 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:16.680 PJ masks, everybody's doing runch. 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:18.520 Avocado toast and PJ masks. 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:22.200 Well, I mean the truth is out. Should I open 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:23.240 it here on the podcast? 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:25.800 I would be very happy if you did. It's gonna 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:27.119 be a bit of a thing I want. Can I 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:27.919 tell a quick tale? 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:28.560 Of course? 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:30.800