Mohr Stories 514: David Mamet

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🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet joins Jay to talk about his new movie Henry Johnson, working with Shia LaBeouf, what's true and false about the urban legends surrounding the Glengarry Glen Ross movie, his love of The Honeymooners, and much more. Watch David's new film ⁠Henry Johnson at: henryjohnsonmovie.com Follow David on Instagram: ⁠@davidmamet Read David's book: True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor Subscribe: On ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠ or your preferred podcast platform. Follow Jay: On all socials @JayMohr37 Visit: ⁠⁠JayMohr.com⁠⁠ for upcoming show dates. Music: "Rise" by Lady Owl

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0:00.0	Put your name on it. Just put your name on. That's all I can. Be a man.
0:04.3	Poor woman, put your name on it.
0:05.9	I'd like to hear about it, potheads.
0:07.8	How the fuck you're going to know how to be great if you don't study greatness?
0:11.3	Look at the game change.
0:12.8	Don't nuts.
0:13.5	Oh, yeah.
0:14.7	You know, you're not a bad looking man, Mr. Gals.
0:16.8	But you are blinds. You are in that chair. There's something wrong with us. Something very, very wrong with us.
0:24.7	Oh, hey, buddy. Oh, yeah.
0:32.5	All right. More stories. David, welcome. I've been wanting to talk to you ever since I read true and false,
0:39.1	which meant a lot to me. I love that book so much. So thanks for writing it, for starters.
0:45.5	I love all the blurbs on the back, especially Alec Baldwin's. Alex, yeah. I agree with almost nothing
0:51.4	in this book, but I encourage you to read it. Well, he actually does agree with a lot of what I says.
0:55.9	I work with him.
0:56.6	Yeah, yeah.
0:57.1	He knows what the fuck he's doing.
0:58.8	The book is just about what are you actually doing, go do it?
1:02.0	And that's what it's about.
1:03.2	Yeah, I love, well, the first quote in the book, and of course, I'm going to get to
1:06.7	Henry Johnson movie.com. This I watched, actually, let's just talk about it right now.
1:11.7	I watched the movie this weekend.
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