WEBVTT - Secrets Revealed: Arroyo Grande Questionnaire 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:02.880 Every Arroyo Grande show, I ask a list of questions 0:00:02.920 --> 0:00:06.080 and my guests the Arroyo Grande Questionnaire. I decided to 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:10.160 collect their wise answers for you. Jim Cavizel, Jonathan Rumy, 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:13.119 Lauren Dagil and Moore sound off, and I solved the 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:16.720 great You mystery all on this edition of the Arroyo 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:32.080 Grande Show. Come on, I'm riting an Arroyo. Welcome to 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:35.080 a Arroyo Grande. Go subscribe to the show. Now turn 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:38.080 the notifications on. So much coming, you're not going to 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:40.800 believe what's coming in the weeks ahead. Before we do 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:46.040 our star studded Arroyo Grande Questionnaire wrap up. I saw 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:49.680 something on Dak Shepherd's podcast the other day that got 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:52.400 a lot of people talking. It was about a now 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:56.600 famous or infamous you bit that occurred on Laura Ingram's 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:59.240 show a few years ago and involved yours truly Watch 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:00.600 Anything Happened to You? 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:03.320 Yeah, okay, so you've been gone a couple of days. 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:09.080 In the meantime, I've watched two full seasons of You, 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:12.240 the show You, which reminds me I want to play 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:12.679 the thing. 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:14.640 About me exactly. 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:19.160 It's about time that we revisit that because I'm watching it. 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:21.160 It's such a great exchange. 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:23.040 Okay's Laura Ingram? 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:24.640 Yeah, do you want me to put on the tv? 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:25.880 Oh? Yeah, yeah. 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:29.040 Some of my favorite of all time. 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:32.199 And now it has extra meaning because I'm watching the show. 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:33.119 Is it a great show? 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:33.960 I love it. 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:38.440 It has really Veronica Mars vibes all fun, but it's 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:43.600 it's like Dexter meets Veronica Mars and I've never seen Dexter. Okay, okay, 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:44.720 let's watch this real quick. 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:50.440 Yeah, I was watching an episode of You whereas came up? 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:54.840 When did? I don't know? 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:55.680 It was on you? 0:01:59.080 --> 0:01:59.800 What was on me? 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:03.480 What are you talking about? 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:08.359 I never was on you. 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:11.440 We never did a measles a vaccine episode. 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:12.000 Is this a joke? 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:13.400 I don't know you're talking about? 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:15.600 It was on you? It was on you? 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:18.040 I never had Raymond. 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:27.320 The episode of show Laura, what's it called? You? 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:41.760 You on Netflix? Going to al I can't explain this 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:46.760 joke so stupid. 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:51.320 Real life it really is. 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:56.160 I still laugh when I watch it. I wish I 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:59.359 could tell you it was totally organic. But full confession, 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:01.359 well let me get to that in a moment. When 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:04.520 it first aired, it got tens of millions of postings. 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:07.720 Late night shows commented on the thing, and I still 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:11.880 get stopped at airports and asked, are you the you guy? Well, 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:15.160 let me solve the mystery. I actually wrote that back 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:17.600 and forth on a plane as I went to do 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:21.440 Laura's show live. I remember telling Laura, whatever you do, 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:24.600 don't break character and stay committed to the argument, which 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:27.680 we both did and it worked like a charm. Though 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:31.080 I have to tell you honestly, we did that live 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:34.760 with no rehearsal, no edits, without a net, and when 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:37.240 it was over because of the satellite delay we were 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:39.960 on satellite. I thought it was horrible. I thought it 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:44.760 had flopped. I was wrong. As Dak Shephard referenced, it 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:47.840 was based on the old Abbot and Costello, who's on 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:51.520 first routine Aha, And if you don't know their comic genius, 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:53.520 I'm going to post a clip at the end of 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:56.080 the show tonight so you can take a peek at them. 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:58.960 As I always say, there's nothing new under the sun. 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:02.520 You just miss the first act. Now to our Arroyo 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:05.920 Grande questionnaire. Once I started this show, I thought we 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:09.320 needed a different way to reveal the qualities of our 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:12.920 guests that the interview might have missed, little tidbits that 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:18.440 often get glastotted over. This, too, is based on something 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:22.840 that went before. It's called the Proust questionnaire, and that 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:26.800 questionnaire was answered in eighteen sixty six by French novelist 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:30.520 Marcel Proust, for whom it's name. It became a kind 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:33.960 of parlor game. Though Prus did not write the questions, 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:36.680 James Lipton and other over the years have used it 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:39.960 to cap their interviews. So when I started Arroyo Grande, 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:43.280 I decided to write my own questionnaire, which I add 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:47.400 and subtract from depending on who we're interviewing. I find 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:51.560 the answers compelling, insightful, and really like a little confession. 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:54.240 You learn a lot about the soul of people if 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:58.040 you listen carefully to their responses. With that, here are 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:01.520 some of the best answers to our a Royal Grande questionnaire. 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:07.040 Up first, Jim Cavesl, who's the person you most admire? 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:08.720 My wife? 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:13.560 Why this is my life pillar? As though it's not 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:15.200 even have to think about that? See that was a 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:15.760 bad question. 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:17.719 Well I'm starting easy. 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:18.600 I'm not good at these. 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:20.280 Who's the person you most despise. 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:23.679 I've forgiven him. 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.919 Another good answer. What is your best feature? 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:34.919 Feature? Yeah? Passion, passion, passion? 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:36.600 Yeah, I thought feature. 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:43.200 Not feature film. What's your best feature as a person, 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:44.640 as a as an actor. 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:47.480 Isn't that a feature? 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:50.120 It can be anything. It could be a quality, it 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:52.880 could be a physical trait. What's your best feature? 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:54.280 I don't know. I haven't thought about it. 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:59.720 You know what people would say, your eyes they're older, 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:03.200 but that's probably what they would say, is your best feature. 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:04.080 But they're smiling. 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:07.520 It depends on if you're the guy you just forgave 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:07.800 or not. 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:10.200 I guess irish eyes or smiling. 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:13.200 You know, it goes well, they must be up. 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:18.560 To something exactly exactly. Okay, what do you fear? 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:28.360 Well, the first thing is is is resurrection the film? 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:33.400 The greatest fear? Really? Oh yeah, anything can go on that. 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:37.000 Well, You've got to remember though, it's I was born 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:42.800 to do so, but greatest fear. I worry my children, 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:48.159 my my family. You know, I'm not the I'm a 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:51.760 good husband, good father. I'm not the best father. 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:52.279 I want to be. 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:53.880 I one of the best husband I want to be. 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:57.320 You know, those are those are other things. But I 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:59.039 do love them deeply. 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:05.760 What is the thing you know that no one else knows. 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:11.800 I've heard other actors say it before. You know you're 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:12.360 going to fail. 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:16.559 You know that it might be the great a gift 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:20.520 that you have, but you're always concerned about that. 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:22.960 I just outwork everybody. 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.120 I think that's a big thing, is that I have 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:29.320 to outwork on it and then the gift takes over 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:34.080 from there. What's your favorite book? The one I'm doing 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:38.160 right now is screw Tape Letters. It's what I'm into. 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:41.040 It's a lot of fun. Well, it's book and it's 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:43.800 very wise. Well it's very wise, but it's getting me 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:45.920 ready for the Resurrection. 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:46.760 Really. 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:47.200 Yeah. 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:49.800 Oh, I'm really studying it. 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:52.920 So I'm breaking it apart and going through it and 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:59.040 getting into the thoughts of evil, you know, the antithesis 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:01.920 of what I'm going to be playing. And there's something 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:07.280 how Jesus works is so simple. There's a reason why 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:11.440 I'm doing it. And it's during Lent. I'm fasting. Even 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:12.560 though you and I are going to go to a 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:15.400 nice restaurant after this, I'm not going to have any wine. 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:18.920 Oh okay, well maybe we won't be going to dinner. 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:23.640 What is your biggest regret. I don't really have any 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:26.880 You don't have a professional regret. No, a role you 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:30.480 should have taken. No, because there were reasons for it 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:33.120 at the time. They've worked out, but it wasn't for me, 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:37.200 you know, no regrets. I would have had a major 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:39.520 regret if I had not married my wife. 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:42.560 That would have been and that almost happened. You know, 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:43.560 I threw it away, and. 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:51.200 But I my soul was enough pointed in the right 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:55.680 direction where something from above said, you know, gave me 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:58.200 a bit of a broken heart and said she was 0:08:58.200 --> 0:08:59.240 in the plan for you. 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:03.680 Get back there, dummy, And I did. What's the best 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:05.360 piece of advice you ever got? 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:10.160 I was talking to this this old priest, and he says, Jim, 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:13.600 don't start any new addictions. 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:18.280 And so I never did. Well, that's a good piece 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:18.880 of advice. 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:20.440 What about the old addictions? 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:23.400 They're there, but don't add on to him. 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:24.280 Don't add on to it. 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:27.400 Well, because you know, you think about it, like some 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:31.360 people get into drugs and they go just one time. 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:34.240 But if I think. 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:36.680 You measure that, you go, what if I become so 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:40.839 addicted to it, how's that going to change my life? Well, 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:42.840 just look at the people that they couldn't get rid 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:48.120 of it. I was working on a movie called pay 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:51.160 It Forward, and I went down to the first avenue 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:57.160 and I was with the people that were heroin addictions 0:09:57.440 --> 0:09:59.120 and they're all going to die. And the man that 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:02.839 was working with me, he looked like he was in 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:08.000 a concentration camp. He was just getting bunt and he 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:11.600 was teaching me how to put the. 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:15.480 Out looks. And I watched all of them. 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:19.559 But I hear people talking about all the time when 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:21.760 they say this is a pay it forward program or 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:23.079 we're going to pay it forward. 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:24.600 And then, yeah, I was in that movie. 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:27.360 I played a heroin addict and I think of that 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:31.079 guy and so I always pray for him. 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:34.719 When this is over, what happens. 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:36.720 Again? 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:39.840 Now I'm thinking way too far out. I want to 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:45.959 enjoy the process. I'm so happy that my children get 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:51.280 to see, you know, their father at work. But it's 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:54.520 a continual thing. I'm not going to buy Jesus. I 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:57.560 need him to play me. It's the only white way 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:00.000 that this thing is going to work. But what happened 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:05.720 when this is over? When this is over, yeah, who knows? 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:08.920 If I'm still an actor, you know, if I can't 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:14.000 get a job. Just be a dad and be a husband. 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:18.120 Maybe play a little golf. We're going to go out 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.720 to dinner. Yeah, that's what happens when this is over. 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:23.040 Thank you, Jo, thank you. 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:25.800 Well, it's a prize winner. David Mammontt had a few 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:29.520 interesting comments. Watch this. Okay, there's a series of questions. 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:32.440 I ask everybody who's here. Oh, okay, you're ready. This 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:36.040 is the Royal Grande questionnaire. Who is the person you 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:36.840 most admire? 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:37.240 David? 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:42.680 The person I most admire today? Yeah, oh, that's a 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:48.280 very very good questions. Donald Trump, Wow, why? Probably because 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:52.280 of what we discussed a little earlier. Because he looked 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:57.840 at something that was impossible, which was the resurrection of 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:02.079 forgive me, I'm going to say it, the American dream 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.320 and said, okay, what we need to have to happen? 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:08.439 And he was treated worse than any American citizen in 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:14.320 history and nothing faced him. And something I heard something 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:20.160 about Malania said that he came down the in before 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:23.720 he ran in twenty four. She said, oh, you're going 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:26.440 to run again? He said yes, and she said I 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:29.079 hope you don't. And he said why and she said, 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:30.120 because you'll win. 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:34.880 Not great who is the person you most despise. 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:38.160 Well, I despise a lot of people, But when I do, 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:42.199 I try to remember that I should probably despise myself first, 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:46.760 because the reason I find their behavior despicable is because 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:50.599 the potential, if not the actuality, is in myself. 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:51.480 Right. 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:56.360 So yes, it's jushure, but spoken like a playwright. I 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:59.719 like that you're empathizing with the Apparently he. 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:03.000 Wrote a book, Chuck Schumer called Anti Semitism in America. 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:06.440 He did, and I thought, how dare he as somebody 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:09.959 who's dissed the Israel and just the prime minister and 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:14.280 withheld Israel? And now he writes a book called anti 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:17.960 Semitism in America? But I read the subtitle says a 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:19.160 quick start guide. 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:24.160 Is that right? It's just a quick start? Well, you 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:27.680 got to start somewhere, David, that's right. What's the greatest 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:30.839 feature and best feature in humanity? 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:33.760 Am I feature film? 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:34.840 No feature? 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:35.520 Like feature? 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:39.280 Like the feature you have the thing you possess. What 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:43.000 is your best feature or the best in humanity? 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:47.320 I think I'm very understanding and forgiving to all the 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:49.359 swindero don't understand my work. 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:54.760 And you write great books about them. Most importantly, your 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:58.719 memoirs are worth the worth the trip. What's your favorite Neil. 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:03.200 Oh, that's a I could question. My wife makes this 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:08.839 wonderful sardine pasta, sardines and bread crumbs. It was crazy good. 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:09.320 Ah. 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:11.120 Yeah, I've never had that. 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:13.160 Yeah, it's the only sardines and bread crumbs. 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:17.199 Yeah, she's been cooking out of a Sicilian cookbook. 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:21.200 Your favorite book and the last book you read. 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:26.680 My favorite book, Gully. I don't know, you know, I 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:29.760 read the works in English a Vasily Grossman last year. 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.760 She was the greatest writer of the twentieth centuries of 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:39.120 Russian and he was, among other things, the reporter for 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:42.920 Red Star, which was their stars and stripes, and he 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:45.360 was at the front all through Stalingrad. He was at 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:48.960 the liberation of whichever camp they liberated. I think it 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:49.640 was burking out. 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:51.760 And why did you Why didn't you want to dive 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:53.200 into his complete works? 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:55.320 Well, because I read one that I read them all. 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:56.280 Oh, you couldn't stop. 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:58.200 Yeah, you binge read them? 0:14:58.480 --> 0:14:59.000 Yeah? 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:00.720 Was that the last? 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:01.000 No? 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:03.240 No, no, what I've been reading lately? What have been 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:06.040 reading lately? Oh, I've been reading the works of Ross 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:10.480 Thomas lately, who was an American crime writer. He wrote 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:13.280 forty books. They're a lot of fun. And he also 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:15.280 said something one of the best things I ever heard. 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:19.080 He was an alcoholic and he was at Dan Tanis 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:22.000 or something with Ross MacDonald. It was another big drinker, 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:24.320 the red middle of the day and they sit down 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:27.080 in the red booth at rust and the water comes 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:31.920 over and says, what can I get you, gentlemen, and 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:35.720 Ross Thomas says, a couple of double martinis. And the 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:40.480 waiter says, Oliver twist, and Ross Thomas says, we'll order later. 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:45.280 Isn't it great? 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:51.280 It's great? I love it. Tell me what do you fear? 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:53.920 David mammontt you know what I think? 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:57.280 I think. I fear disgrace, I fear doing. And that's 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:01.800 what a lot of my my especially about the Victorians, 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:04.400 and a lot of my writing is about guys who 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:08.400 make one false move. How close we are to That's 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:11.360 what film wair is most mainly about how close we are, 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:13.200 just stepping off the sidewalking out. 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:15.240 Right over there, books right? 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:18.359 What do you know that no one else knows? 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:22.440 Preston Sturgis was the great comedic director. 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:24.200 Movies is just brilliant. 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:26.120 You don't even want to watch them, you want to 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:30.800 eat them. And he wrote a wonderful movie called Hail 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:37.600 the Conquering Hero, where this Eddie Bracken is dismissed from 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:39.840 the Marine Corps because he has allergies and he still 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:42.400 wants to be in the Marine Corps and he's going home, 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:45.360 but he can't tell them he's been dismissed. And so 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:47.400 these marines show up and they say, come on, we'll 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:49.160 put you in a marine uniform. You get off the 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:51.480 thing and everything will be fine. When he goes there, 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:53.920 there are these two bands. One of them is playing 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:56.360 Hail the Conquering Hero, and one of them is playing 0:16:56.400 --> 0:17:00.040 the star Spangled Banner American the Beautiful. And then I 0:16:59.880 --> 0:17:03.200 was reading a book by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, who will 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:06.840 tell you about a second who describes that same scene 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:10.080 written about eighteen eighty five. The hero gets off and 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:12.639 these two bands when playing hal So obviously I know 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:14.399 that Preston Sturgis read that. 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:15.480 Point and that book. 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:18.680 I know, But what's the But the question was what 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:20.560 do you know that no one else knows? 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:25.200 I know that. Oh, I'll tell you another one. 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:26.560 Okay, give me another one. 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:27.360 This gets a. 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:32.240 Little bit arcane. There was in reading about the First 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:35.200 World War, but flyers in the First World War, there 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:37.240 was a ditty they said, he died with his hand 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:40.240 on the throttle, and this is the reason he died. 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:46.280 He forgot to recall that iota is the maximum angle 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:50.080 of glythe right. So the question is what does that mean? 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:52.959 So I'm trying to think, what does it mean iota? 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:58.119 What does iota mean? What does it mean by what? 0:17:59.080 --> 0:17:59.280 So? 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:02.159 And iota is always written in caps, and think it 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:05.679 doesn't mean what is the maximum angle of glide? There 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:08.360 is no such thing, But there's such a thing called 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:11.760 the angle of maximum glide. So what's the angle of 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:17.440 maximum glide on an airplane? Right? It's indicated by the 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:22.639 air speed. Every airplane has a maximum angle. You're going 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:26.040 to get the maximum glide on this air speed because 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:28.720 if you if the because the increase the air speed 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:30.639 by putting a nose down, you're going to increase the 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:35.840 air speed. But yeah, wow, so and you can and 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:38.600 you can put the nose up and you'll be up longer, 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:41.760 but you're going to smash too. So I started looking 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:45.800 on pictures of old airplanes and I thought, how would 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:51.200 you find the angle of maximum glide. What would ioda mean? 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:54.199 What will be indicated on the air speed? So I 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:55.760 look on the air and there and it. 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:56.919 Is, it's indicated. 0:18:57.040 --> 0:19:01.280 Yeah, so he forgot the call that indicated on the 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:05.000 air speed is the maximum gangl So I figured that out. 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:06.240 I love that. 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:09.160 I love That's what's it good for? I always thought, 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:11.800 you know, if it's not good for anything, I'll remember. 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:13.719 You remember it, and you'll use it in a screenplay 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:17.200 or play. Well, which I will be staying tuned for. 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:19.399 What is the greatest virtue? 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:21.320 I think it's courage, don't you. 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:23.720 Honestly? 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:24.760 Uh huh? 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:26.000 Truthfulness? 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:28.680 Well, the other thing is but yeah, a lot of 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:32.200 times you need you know, perhaps it's the preliminary virtue. 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:33.920 If you don't have courage, what good is honesty? 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:36.880 Yeah that is, that's very true. But if you could 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:39.159 live anywhere and you weren't here, where would you be? 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:41.320 Why would I want to live anywhere but here? 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:45.120 I don't blame you. I like it here myself. 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:46.960 As a matter of fact, we live around here. My 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:48.679 wife likes it here. I always try to get her 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:51.640 out of southern California. I live here because I want 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:53.040 to be close to my taxes. 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:56.480 Well, you can. You can see them being used in 0:19:56.560 --> 0:19:58.439 such fascinating ways all around here. 0:19:58.440 --> 0:19:59.720 I wanted to get it. I wanted to get a 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:02.440 te should maybe me wear it today? Which said save 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:05.520 water support Karen Bass, I should have done that. 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:09.600 Next time, we'll do that. We'll do that the next one. 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:13.160 What's your biggest regret? Do you have one? Well? 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:15.159 Most of my regrets? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I did a 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:17.680 lot of stuff in my life that I regret, And 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:19.960 at some point you got to say that that God says, 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:26.639 you know, I know, you know, but they say prayer 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:33.480 and study and good works moderate the severity of the decree. 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:37.400 So there's a lot of stuff that I regret, but 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:40.080 and don't have a lot of real estate regrets. Of course, 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:40.639 who doesn't. 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:45.920 Yeah, well, especially Californians. They always have those those regrets. 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:51.320 What's the best piece of advice you ever received, either 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:52.680 professionally or personally? 0:20:53.119 --> 0:20:53.639 Oh? 0:20:53.840 --> 0:20:56.600 You know, I wrote these series of sketches they did 0:20:56.640 --> 0:21:00.760 in Chicago in a little forty seed theater with Billy Macy 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:04.840 and J. J. Johnston. It was called American Buffalo. It's 0:21:04.840 --> 0:21:06.520 a series, and then we did it in New York 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:07.520 at the. 0:21:08.160 --> 0:21:09.360 Oh that little thing. 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:12.280 No it's before it's on Broadway, something called the showcase 0:21:12.320 --> 0:21:17.520 code for a moment, actors Equity forgot that they're insane, 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:20.480 and so they said, well, anybody can do it in 0:21:20.480 --> 0:21:23.640 one hundred seat theater, ninety nine seed theater. Anybody can 0:21:23.680 --> 0:21:27.919 do twelve performances if everyone's working for nothing. So we 0:21:28.000 --> 0:21:31.920 did this play in this little twelve performance is a 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:34.680 little one hundred seat theater off Broadway. I thought it 0:21:34.760 --> 0:21:38.480 was pretty good. And Ulu Grossbard was a director, very 0:21:38.520 --> 0:21:41.800 good director, came up to me and said, if you 0:21:41.840 --> 0:21:46.119 figure out the plot, I'll put you on Broadway. And 0:21:46.160 --> 0:21:46.680