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WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Episode 898 - David Mamet

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.629.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2018

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

David Mamet's love for Chicago shows up all the time in his works, including his new novel which is called, yup, Chicago. The prolific playwright-director-novelist-screenwriter talks with Marc about his Chicago roots and how he learned a lot about drama by watching the improv actors at Second City. They also talk about David's theories on acting (very few are good at it), William H. Macy (one of the very few), Eugene O'Neill (he wasn't that great), Shakespeare (he was), and marriage (you can take a mulligan on the first one).

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0:00.0

Fuck the game!

0:09.2

All right, let's do this. How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fucking years, what the fucksters?

0:15.9

What's happening? What the fuckin'ucks?

0:18.3

Where's everybody at? How you doing? What's going on? Everything all right?

0:22.3

Today you'll hear me talk to David Mammott

0:24.3

and there was some stuff going on with me that day. Before I forget I also want to tell you that our friend Brian Jones has a new batch of catmugs that you can get.

0:34.1

These are the hand-throen ceramic mugs that I give to my guests. They've got the original cat logo artwork from our buddy Dima.

0:42.6

Classics. You can go to brinearjones.com slash shop to get yours.

0:48.4

Brinearjones.com slash shop for the new catmugs. He always does a little bit of a twist on them. They're all unique, every one of them, and each batch seems to be unique.

0:59.8

I got a thing for ceramics. And I like ceramics. I like practical ceramics.

1:06.3

I actually went to a place down on Eagle Rock Boulevard that never looked open, some sort of ceramic studio,

1:13.2

and hoped that I could find some large bowls and things to put on tables and surfaces in my new house.

1:19.7

But I did not find anything. Ceramics is tricky. It's hard to find the the right ceramic art.

1:25.9

I met someone after the show in Pasadena who is a ceramicist, a thrower of pots, a thrower of plates, a thrower of clay, a wheel worker.

1:36.8

I got to get back to her and see if there's anything there that I want to get.

1:42.4

I've stalled out. I've stalled out folks.

1:45.4

Like the garage is starting to be moved piecemeal. I'm going to leave some of it intact for when I show the house.

1:52.8

And I'm still working in here. I'm still stalled. I've stalled over at the other place.

1:58.8

There's things that need to be done. I'm not doing. Yeah, I'm just not.

2:02.6

I've got to re-engage with the process of doing my house over there. I'm just going to be living in a half-done house,

2:08.4

sort of half-empty. It'd be sad. It'd be a sad story.

2:11.7

A sad story of a guy that made the big move and realized he's more like a cat in a box

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