And the Hey, it's Andrew Clavin with this week's interview.

Today I'm interviewing David Mamet, and I want to warn you before we start that I am a fan.

I was, you know I love the theater, and I was at one of the early the early

production of Glen Gary, Glen Ross. It opened in England but I saw it's

early American opening with Joe Mantania Speed the Plow that had Madonna in it and Ron Silver and

Montana again. Only Anna, I saw it in London, just terrific, terrific plays. He's also of course the screen, a very accomplished screenwriter with two of my favorite pictures, the Untouchables and the verdict and he's a director as well with House of Games. His new book is about Hollywood is called Everywhere an Oink, an embittered

dyspeptic and accurate report of 40 years in Hollywood and I'm about 70, between 70

and 100 pages into it and it's the best of his books I've read it is absolutely

hilarious and I highly recommend it and just one other note which is I have to say I owe

David personally because many years ago maybe 20 years ago he wrote a piece that shocked the literary world in the village voice

announcing that he was no longer a brain dead liberal and this made me so delighted that I wrote an op-ed in the L.A. Times

celebrating his decision and Andrew Bright Bart who I had never met called me up and

said you are the only person in the conservative movement who knows how important it is that David Mamet wrote that column and that was how Andrew and I became friends.

David, thank you so much for coming on. It's a genuine pleasure to see you.

You're very welcome. Glad to be here.

What's up?

So I'm loving the book.

The book is really hilarious.

But before I get to that, I do want to ask you,

go back and ask you, what was it that woke you up to Leftism? What was it that

that changed your mind? Well it was the leftist that woke me up because I at

that point whatever the hell that was my rabbi was saying we have to have political

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