WEBVTT - Michael Ian Black, Our Close Friend 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:08.920 So I was thinking this morning about where we kind 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:16.720 of went wrong societally one second, and where we where 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:21.599 we diverged from the kind of righteous path and got 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:27.000 to this place we are in where it is this puritanical, 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:33.159 sort of shame based culture. And there's I mean, it's 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:36.959 handmaid Tale. It's essentially handmaid Tale. It's like I mean, 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:39.520 if you extend it, you know, to its logical conclusion, 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:43.640 and how do we fight back? And Michael, I'd like 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:46.760 you to participate because I do think that I can. 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:48.160 Actually it's important topic. 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:50.920 Well, I can pinpoint them. Do you watch this? 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:54.920 I don't. I don't own a television. I don't watch television. 0:00:56.760 --> 0:00:58.480 But have you been to at a lot of times 0:00:58.520 --> 0:00:59.520 they have in restaurants? 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:01.880 Now, I've read the Margaret Atwood novel. 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:04.880 Ah, Yeah, have you seen that? 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:08.160 Have you seen have you seen this? The novel cover? 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:10.800 Yeah, I have to book. 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:16.360 I've seen every word, see every word. 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:19.039 There's not a word in it. He hasn't seen I've 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:20.800 seen some of the names. I haven't seen. 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:23.600 Yeah, but I loved it. I loved it. I haven't 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:24.520 read it, but I loved it. 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:27.040 Yes, and it's so important and I and I and 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:27.840 it's a warning. 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:31.000 And as I look at our own and obviously the 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:32.440 artists reflecting. 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:38.000 Life, as I look at our own journey societally, what 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:41.400 I'm realizing is we have an opportunity to push back. 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:45.959 And I think that at midnight tonight, all of us 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:49.120 and anybody else we can get in on this. We 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:51.000 need to post I don't have an account on this 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:52.240 thing anymore, but we need to. 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:55.960 Post on x formerly. 0:01:55.600 --> 0:02:04.520 Twitter two words sex gifts in solidarity with the actor 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:07.840 Dean Norris who put Hank straighter on Breaking Bad, who 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:11.320 I suppose accidentally tweeted this one day. Maybe he meant 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:15.120 to type it into a search bar and everyone shamed. 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:18.560 That was the and they clowned on him and they 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:21.560 laughed at him. That was the inflection point. 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:24.040 That was the inflaction point, where from that point. 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:28.000 Forward it's it's all, oh, well, how do we put 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:30.400 that toothpaste back in the tube where you're not allowed 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:32.760 to try to search for sex gifts and accidentally post 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:34.800 it publicly and never take it down. 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:39.040 Is that what we're saying. And instead of when someone's 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:43.280 in the pit, instead of pointing and saying that guy's 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:47.079 in the pit, isn't he from breaking bad. You and 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:51.160 under the dome and you get under the dome with him, 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:54.040 get under the dome, And that's Breen. That's what Breen says. 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:59.040 Do you see that on this podcast? 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:03.959 I thought this will be a fun uh industry podcast, 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:07.120 will joke around. I didn't realize it was going to 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:08.360 get this deep this quick. 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:11.480 We didn't either. It worked like this. This is the 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:13.760 world we live in, you know what I mean. We 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:17.320 don't plan this, Mike. What we gotta do is we 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:19.960 love to go back to laughing and chopping it up, 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:24.560 but like this, like the world won't let us these days. 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:30.600 Yeah, it's so important that we you know, a lot 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.320 of people, a lot of people's attention is focused on 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:36.640 what's going on in like Washington, d C. Yeah, but 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:40.080 not enough people I feel like are paying attention to 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:44.320 what's going on in de Nors's service part that part 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:49.720 and it's timeline and does it raise uncomfortable questions? Is 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:53.080 that why people are maybe avoiding it? Yeah? Us, but 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:56.720 but but if we don't confront those questions, we don't 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:58.720 make progress, We don't move forward. 0:03:58.880 --> 0:03:59.040 You know. 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:01.000 I didn't want to look at it at first, Mike, 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:05.360 because I see myself That's why I didn't want to 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:06.560 look at it, because I seen. 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:08.520 I was looking right back on the gifts. 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:10.800 Yeah, I see myself in the gifts, Richie. 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:11.360 Are you okay? 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:14.920 So Richie, So, just so you know, because you're not 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:15.760 in the room with us. 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:19.719 So Richie just sustained. Uh, he was a grievous head injury. 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:22.320 He was trying to crawl under the monitor that we're 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:25.520 looking at you on and he he stood up too 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:29.720 early and he really broadsided this thing with his with 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:33.840 his shoulder blade and it looked really painful. 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:37.000 And so and I think he's gonna adjust the camera 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:38.279 a little bit. And now we're back in. 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:41.200 You get on camera, Richie. So, So, Michael, can you 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:43.080 want to say hi? Just so he knows that you're 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:48.960 healthy and you're fine, Okay, Michael. Michael is an end 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:51.640 path and so that actually really hurt him. 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:52.920 Chie. 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:57.400 So he's gonna put his headphones out, Richie, Michael, I'm 0:04:57.400 --> 0:04:57.719 back on. 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:00.360 He said, Will you do me a favor? 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.920 Respond the answers, yes, Richie, yes. 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:08.040 My own peace of mind. Will you go through the 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:10.120 NFL concussion protocols? 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:13.440 I'd be a lot more comfortable, Richie. Ok So we 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:16.919 got a blue tent over there. This isn't because we don't. 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:17.440 Need to see that. 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.640 Yeah, yeah, I would. I would get I would get 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:24.040 one of the team doctors out here, too sweet, and 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:27.800 get some gatorade. If we're doing the NFL protocols, let's 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:30.160 get some gatorade again. I think the blue tent is 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:32.520 a great idea. Did you get you did you consult? 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:34.280 Did you consult on those protocols? 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:34.599 Michael? 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:36.280 I know it's a passionate years. You are a bit 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:41.080 of an. 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:42.360 As you know. I went to ring during my time 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:46.919 in the NFL. And when here's the thing, here's the 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:50.480 thing that people who aren't professional football players. 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:51.320 What do they get wrong? 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:52.320 Yeah, what do they get wrong? 0:05:56.120 --> 0:06:01.240 When you suit up for an NFL coadators are gladiators. 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:05.400 We they're they're gladiators in the back of our heads 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:08.560 when we say we're going to leave it all out 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:12.280 on the field. That's not that's not hyperbole. 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:14.640 It's not a phrase that that might mean you're live. 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:21.800 That's right, and definitely and talk when we talk. That's 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:22.320 also another I. 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:24.760 Don't think he did freeze. I think he's processing. 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.120 That and I think what might be happening is he's 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:29.200 choosing his words extremely carefully, which we always encourage. 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:34.000 We do talk, and but when we go out there, 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:39.960 we know that we might not come back. Once we 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:43.280 leave the game, okay, once once guys are beat up 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:46.719 and battered and retired where they get cut, then you 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:49.359 start thinking about, oh geez, what was I doing to 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:53.480 my body? And then as an X player, although you're 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:55.400 never really out of the game, you know what I mean, 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:59.679 Once you're in, you're in. Once you're an ex player, 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:03.440 you retention starts focusing on the guys coming up, and 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:05.760 they don't want to hear about the concussions. They don't 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:09.240 want to hear about the injuries because they're still Ingladiator. 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:13.560 They're invisible. Oh that's never going to be made. 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:17.840 Right, they think. And you have to have that mind. 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:19.920 You don't want to look at that part of it, Yes, 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:23.800 because it because you can't play scared, not in this game. 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:27.760 No, this is war, guys, this is war out there. 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:31.480 And uh yeah, when I was throwing my body around, 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:33.640 when I was winning those two rings, I wasn't worried 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:36.280 about concussions. I wasn't worried about knees. I wasn't worried 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:38.280 about my miniscus. I wasn't worried about any. 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:39.000 Of it back then. 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:42.800 The damn w diad my right and I was using 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:44.520 candle left and camera right. O. 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:50.440 That's and that's Richie's job too, which is what they call. 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:53.360 It's kind of a new profession. They don't really have 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:55.320 a name for it yet. They just call it Richie's job. 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:59.120 They don't know what it is. But he sits over 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:07.720 there and he is wearing eye black. He has Bruce 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:14.800 two fourteen written on it, which is a passage from 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:18.200 a book that he wants us to read. It's a 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:18.679 good book. 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:22.480 It might be a novella of Bruce all Mighty. 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:25.640 I think it might be a novella of Bruce Almighty, 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:31.600 which he thinks is the Bible. Is that possible. 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:35.120 I know Bruce Balanche released a book not that long ago, 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:37.439 and I was curious whether that was the Bruce in question. 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:39.160 But we are thinking it's Bruce Almighty. 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:43.080 I mean, just because of it's like related to being God. 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:44.440 I don't know. 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:47.120 Bruce Blanche is also related to God. 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:49.000 I mean, I mean Jesus, he's a god of the 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:52.000 one liner. It's like. 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:59.080 You you name me a power more Almighty it comes 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:00.360 to know. 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:02.040 The wickeding hen. 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:04.679 Find it. You're not. 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:07.360 You don't get to be center square without talking to 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:08.400 the big man upstairs. 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:09.319 I don't think so. 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:11.000 M mmmmmmmmm. 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:12.920 You ever done one of these before, Mike? 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.400 One of which? One of what? 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:19.560 One of these? One of these? 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:21.040 One of these bad birds? 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:21.280 Brother? 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:24.600 A pod? Have I done a podcast with pop in. 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:25.520 Your fucking cherry hair? 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:27.840 Brother? Or what? Yeah? Have you done a podcast? 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:29.160 You ever done one of these things? 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:32.800 This is my first? Is that what you want to hear? 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.800 This is my It's that I wish more. You wouldn't know. 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:39.240 So many people coming in here and saying. 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:42.760 Oh, oh yeah, I've had my own two or three podcasts. 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.840 Oh uh a podcast? Right yeah, and you can like 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:51.800 it's okay. They want to seem like there old hands 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.120 at this whatever. It feels like it's my first time 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:55.880 every time too. You don't got to put on a 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:59.240 show for us. It's it's all. 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:02.280 Uh, here's the thing, guys, tell me the thing. Please, 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:11.280 This is obviously important for you. 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:15.560 And when I walk through your door and I wipe 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:18.520 my feet on your welcome Matt and I sit down 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:24.360 in the studio and we have this interview. My job 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:29.400 The way I see it is to support you. My 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:33.680 job is to make you, guys look as awesome as 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:35.760 you can look. So if that means I come in 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:38.520 here and I have to play dumb, what's a podcast? No, 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:40.680 I've never done a podcast. Be more than me, and 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:41.679 that's what I'm gonna do. 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:46.239 The first damn guest who understood the assignment? 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:49.400 You know what I mean? Here we do. 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.959 There's a lot of people who and we talk about this. 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:56.520 They come on to do a show Michael, and they say, 0:10:57.360 --> 0:10:58.160 what can I get? 0:10:59.559 --> 0:10:59.800 What's that? 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:00.760 What's there for me? 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:05.880 I'm here, I have a TV show to watch. 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:09.200 Yeah, can I tell? Can I talk to people about 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.840 my book or my project or my podcast? 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:18.800 Ris Ahmed, do you. 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:22.000 Come on a podcast or a television program? What have 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:26.680 you to be interviewed? What about you? It's about the host, 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:28.040 about the hosts. 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:31.320 Well, the host is there every week, so people are 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:33.559 tuning in for the host's. 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:37.719 For some random jerk off actor who you know was 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:42.160 the second supporting lead on some c W dramedy from 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:47.240 nineteen ninety four. They're there to see you, and if 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:50.240 and and and if if that actor or actually shows 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:52.920 up and they contribute a little something they sprinkle little startust, 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:55.719 so much the better. But that's not why people are 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:58.240 tuning in. They're tuning in for you, guys. That's why. 0:11:58.360 --> 0:11:59.080 That's why I'm here. 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:01.800 Say damn thing that happened to you when you were 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:03.840 on the field in the NFL, which is I'm gonna 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:07.440 do my fucking job. You could come with me, or 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:09.040 you can be in my way. But if you're in 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:10.720 my way, you're getting steamrolled. 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:15.040 Well let's let's support you in supporting us, just so 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:18.400 we're all on the same page about like what works. 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:19.360 And what does Hey one hand washed the other. 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:23.839 Everyone here, everyone here is like pretty nice. I can 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:26.360 do it the heart with the hand. 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:28.600 I was trying it. I almost had it, but my 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:29.840 other fingers were in the way. 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:33.040 Yeah. Oh, and you can do yes all the way 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:33.480 you have to. 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:35.000 You have to wrap all your fingers and then you 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:37.560 get a perfect little Taylor Swift. 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:42.280 Oh that's so good. Let's meet everyone real quick. You 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:46.079 met Richie. He might have forgotten because of uh the 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:49.600 head injuries. Yeah, uh, this is. 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:52.120 Do not let him go to sleep, don't let him 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:53.880 shut his eyes, do not let him go to sleep. 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.480 I'll try and see bloods drying up a little bit too. 0:12:58.080 --> 0:12:59.280 About who else we got to. 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:00.400 That's and there. 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:02.760 The way I knew Casey was in the booth, and 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:04.520 again you're you're you're not here, which. 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:06.440 Is fine, it's all the time. 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:09.760 The way I knew it was Casey was when Richie 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:13.000 went to get on camera. There are three cameras in here, 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:19.400 and Casey tried the other two first, yep, And so 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:21.400 I said, well, I know who's working the booth today, 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:26.199 because when he leaned in front, and you probably felt this, 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:31.480 we saw fully his back and ass, then we saw 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:33.760 just a piece of his shoulder. 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:36.880 And then we got his face. And Casey likes to 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:41.800 build suspense. He likes to build tension, and it's something 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:44.600 that can't be taught. You know that drama in the 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:45.640 podcasting space. 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:49.200 That's just classic story structure. And and we we have 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:49.880 to applaud that. 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:54.880 And can I tell you something that a reputation, So 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:58.520 let's just put a pinion that so that Michael old Michael, 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:03.960 let me rephrase that. Okay, I feel I must tell 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:04.480 you something. 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:06.560 Oh okay, no, he has no choice. 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:10.480 Then, A something you've built in your career that I've 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:17.079 noticed is that millennium Falcon. It's it's it's a little 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:22.160 like that, Michael. Usually when someone comes on the Zoom, 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:25.000 Casey and Kevin and the other producers like to make 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:28.200 sure that they're wearing headphones, that they're using a recording 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:29.520 app or something like that. 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.320 It's endless the amount of fut saying they will do 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:34.960 with these guests in order. 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:39.240 To get some sort of like quality recording from them. 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:39.760 Mm hmmm. 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:43.440 They also they forbid us from talking for a lot 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:43.680 of it. 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:51.320 Your presence has created an environment of the first time 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:53.080 ever where they have just shut the fuck up and 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:54.440 let the show just happen. 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:58.840 You have neutralized two of our greatest enemies, our producer 0:14:58.880 --> 0:14:59.360 and our engine. 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:02.400 Have you been that You have to understi Brick. 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:07.320 You have to understand something. I'm a classically trained actor, 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:12.400 so when I speak to you, I'm using the entire 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:16.760 instrument that part, right, So what does the microphone do. 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:19.840 The microphone amplifies it, you know, it digitizes its sense. 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:23.320 I don't need that because I'm classically trained. So when 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:27.440 I breathe from the diaphragm back of the house, right, 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:32.080 I'm projecting as a classical chained actor, and that projection 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:35.440 goes through the internet and out on your side. 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:42.000 You can speak in a high definition loss list vocal tone. Yes, 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:47.440 the same way, Larry Olivia, by the way, to the 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:48.640 back of the proscenium. 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:53.280 We don't need quick time because your timing is impeakable. 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:57.760 Please tell your production stat that I speak in flak. 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:01.800 I use that, uh methodology. I don't know what you 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:04.640 call it. I use I use that format, Michael, I 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:06.920 don't use them because the sound quality is better. So 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:08.200 when I speak, it's in flack. 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:11.560 Michael, will you invite me into your mind palace for 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:15.200 a moment? Who do you imagine in the back of 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:16.920 the house as you're projecting? 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:19.920 And I know these tricks because you are classically trained 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:23.640 and you're not just talking to some nameless, faceless audience. 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:24.120 Member back there. 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:24.600 You can't. 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:28.160 There's a memory you're accessing, and there's an individual that 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:31.760 we speak to, a woman, and it's a woman, and. 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:34.840 It has to be, of course who and it's getting 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:39.320 It could be your grandma, it could be a sexual partner. 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:42.360 You know, we can talk about that. We can talk 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:43.880 about that here now. 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:49.920 So now we're getting into process and craft and if 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:56.760 we may, A lot of actors are reluctant to talk 0:16:56.760 --> 0:17:00.480 about the process, because especially now in one you see, 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:02.000 they want you to see the finished performance. 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:04.879 You know, not only not only that, not only that, 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:06.399 not only that, Michael, but they want to pull the 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:09.600 ladder back up behind them, don't they don't they pull 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:10.320 the ladder. 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:10.760 Back up, Michael. 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:12.720 Where they say, where they say, where they stay, where 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:17.000 they stay. Only for me only I get to have 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:19.600 some Only I enjoy the toys. 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:21.480 And what I've always respect. 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:23.359 What I've always admired, and I know I'm interrupting you, 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:27.320 is that you go. Everybody, get in here. There are 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:28.200 plenty to go around. 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:31.880 Take the ladder and throw a rope down as well. 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:35.000 Yeah, here's the ladder. And by the way, actually I 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:37.000 built a whole fucking escalator. 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:39.760 It's not working right now, but it's there so you 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:42.080 can rest the ladder and they can grip the ladder 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:47.400 as the ladder itself is carried up the escalator. And 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:51.280 there's a rope just in case, and a rope with 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:51.960 a bucket too. 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:56.119 I guess we need to hoist something. We need a 0:17:56.119 --> 0:18:01.000 pulley system as well. So important, you guys, and so critical, 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:05.160 but you I'm so glad. No It's an important point 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:08.640 you made, and I'm glad. I'm glad you you raised it. Now, 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:12.280 I do want to just put a quick caveat into 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:15.320 what you said, because I agree with everything that you're saying. However, 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:19.359 I want to make sure the audience, your audience understands 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:22.440 that when we talk about constructing an escalator. Oh yeah, 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:25.879 those guys, you're using union labor. 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:27.560 Oh yeah, mm hmm. 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:29.800 I just want everybody, I don't want to be very 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:30.639 clear about. 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:35.000 That because otherwise they will you're extremely violent. 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:37.080 I don't, I don't, I don't want I don't want 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:38.439 them picketing my mind palace. 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:40.000 I'm not a bad actor. 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:45.680 When I am projecting. Let's say I'm at the old VIC. 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:50.159 Let's say I'm doing lear again. There's a couple of 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:54.080 things going on. Obviously, I'm in my given circumstances. Ah, 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:58.879 I'm lear, I'm addressing my daughter's Yeah, I'm going I'm 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:02.440 slowly going mad. I'm aged, I'm impurio. 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:05.280 Can we just can we just explain to the like 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:07.600 the audience, you know, trying to remember the audience he's 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:09.240 talking about Dennis Leary. 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:12.639 As you yes, as you mentioned the audience. We also 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:13.679 want to bring them in. 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:19.959 Yeah. Yes, and this is a famous uh rant that 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:23.359 he went on that has now performed. It's a rant 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:24.280 to his daughters. 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:27.040 Yeah, and he's he's he's talking about the sort of 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:28.879 modern phenomenon. 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:31.440 Of the starbucksification of society. 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:36.159 And it's a beautiful monolog. It's a beautiful piece, but 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:37.120 it is you. 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:40.800 Know, it builds to this crescendo of it's a smoke, 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:46.439 a frappa chok alup? Can I get a cup of coffee? 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:49.520 You know what happened to a cup of mud? A 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:54.560 cup of joe and just drip coffee please, And the 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:58.520 and his daughters of course are silent. 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:03.280 Oh yeah, Well, what people don't know if you've never 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:07.680 seen Leary, it's it's it's performed all over the world, 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:10.240 as you said, I think last count. It's in almost 0:20:10.480 --> 0:20:12.320 it's been translated into almost. 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:14.680 Everything, every language. Yeah, not all the good ones. 0:20:14.720 --> 0:20:18.639 But yeah, they do not they do not work it. 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:19.800 Just yeah, it's big. 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:22.600 They haven't cracked it, not for lack of trying. 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:26.439 And what people don't know is if you haven't seen it, 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:30.119 the play is performed one performer, in this case me, 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:33.120 I'm playing all the parts. So I'm playing Dennis Leary, 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:36.959 I'm playing the daughters. I'm playing I'm playing the frappuccino 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:39.200 at a certain point, and. 0:20:39.200 --> 0:20:42.120 The barista, the pretentious barista, yes. 0:20:41.960 --> 0:20:47.760 The anxious barista. There's twenty three different narratives. It's a 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:51.040 three and a half hour show. It's it's taxing, it's exhausting, 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:54.080 and so yes, I'm keeping my given circumstances in mind. 0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:58.800 But I'm also cognizant of the fact that we've asked 0:20:58.840 --> 0:21:01.480 these people, this audience to pay six hundred and fifty 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:03.720