A Penguin, A Nun, and an Ostrich w/ Shia Labeouf and David Mamet

Summary

Podcast Summary: Bad Friends Episode – "A Penguin, A Nun, and an Ostrich with Shia LaBeouf and David Mamet"

Release Date: June 2, 2025
Produced by 7EQUIS
Hosts: Bobby Lee & Andrew Santino

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Introduction to Guests

In this special episode of Bad Friends, hosts Bobby Lee and Andrew Santino welcome acclaimed playwright David Mamet and actor-director Shia LaBeouf. The conversation kicks off with playful banter, immediately setting a humorous and relaxed tone for the episode.

Notable Quote:
Bobby Lee [00:00]: "You two are bad friends."

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Discussions on Friendship and Respect

The hosts delve into their relationships with David and Shia, highlighting mutual respect and camaraderie. They share anecdotes about their interactions and the unique dynamics that come with collaborating with such distinguished guests.

Notable Quotes:
Andrew Santino [00:54]: "You have a beautiful woman with you."
Shia LaBeouf [01:12]: "We're one dwarf."

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Behind the Scenes of "Henry Johnson"

A significant portion of the podcast focuses on the collaborative project between David Mamet, Shia LaBeouf, and the hosts—the movie "Henry Johnson." They discuss the challenges and triumphs of transitioning from stage to screen, emphasizing the importance of creative independence away from traditional studio constraints.

Notable Quotes:
David Mamet [12:00]: "A lot of movies. Most of the people who make movies never see their movie with a live audience."
Andrew Santino [28:23]: "So then it was like, how do we get Dave a channel? How do you get Dave his own Dave Mamet channel?"

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The Evolution of the Entertainment Industry

David Mamet shares his insights on the declining power of the traditional studio system and the rise of independent filmmaking. He emphasizes the necessity of talent, compelling ideas, and direct audience engagement in today's digital age.

Notable Quotes:
David Mamet [16:14]: "What does it cost to make a movie? You can make the 500 grand movie for $100 million."
Shia LaBeouf [18:13]: "You're so David. This guy, this guy in the white shirt is a film student cinephile."

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Personal Stories and Lessons Learned

The episode takes an intimate turn as Shia LaBeouf and David Mamet share personal stories about overcoming struggles, including addiction and professional setbacks. These narratives provide listeners with profound insights into resilience and the transformative power of supportive relationships.

Notable Quotes:
Shia LaBeouf [25:58]: "Without that, I'd be dead."
David Mamet [24:23]: "You saved my life."

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Creative Processes and Writing Insights

David Mamet offers valuable advice on writing and directing, emphasizing the importance of knowing one's lines and maintaining discipline during rehearsals. The discussion touches upon the complexities of crafting engaging plots and the delicate balance between dialogue and story progression.

Notable Quotes:
David Mamet [39:00]: "It's very hard to write a plot because it's an equation."
Andrew Santino [36:11]: "He doesn't know my lines? I'd say, learn your lines."

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Humorous Interludes and Collaborative Jokes

The hosts and guests engage in lighthearted humor, creating memorable moments that showcase their chemistry. From playful insults to improvised jokes, these segments add an entertaining flair to the deep conversations.

Notable Quotes:
Shia LaBeouf [40:37]: "A penguin and a nun and an ostrich go into a whorehouse."
Bobby Lee [56:23]: "That's why you are."

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Final Thoughts and Future Projects

As the episode concludes, the group reflects on the significance of creating their own content and supporting each other's endeavors. They express excitement for future collaborations and the ongoing success of their independent projects.

Notable Quotes:
Bobby Lee [51:55]: "We wanted to make our own. And then we found that we had our own audiences that liked it."
David Mamet [51:12]: "I really did. I got tired of being dead."

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Conclusion

This episode of Bad Friends offers a captivating blend of humor, personal stories, and industry insights. With the participation of David Mamet and Shia LaBeouf, listeners gain a unique perspective on the evolving landscape of entertainment, the importance of creative independence, and the enduring value of genuine friendships.

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Transcript

[Bobby Lee]

You two are bad friends.

[Andrew Santino]

Who are these two idiots?

[David Mamet]

White dude and an Asian dude.

[Shia LaBeouf]

You two are disgusting. We're bad friends.

[Andrew Santino]

You know, it's really not good. People come on these things. And don't wear the cans because they're. Because whatever reason.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, some people don't like them.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah, but David Mammon's wearing cans.

[Bobby Lee]

So you like the way they feel?

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, when David Mammon wears cans, everybody cans. Whatever. David. Mama. Do we do.

[Andrew Santino]

Do you want to wear your cans?

[David Mamet]

I. I might be better without him because I'm definitely none of us.

[Andrew Santino]

This show's gonna be crazy if anybody cannot wear cans. Yeah, yeah, it's him. It's Dave, ma' am.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Exactly. You want to take yours off now?

[Andrew Santino]

No.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Okay.

[Andrew Santino]

Just a regular guy.

[Bobby Lee]

We're just a normal. He's a normal guy like us.

[Andrew Santino]

Just a regular. No, it's Dave Mammoth. Let's see him.

[David Mamet]

You never call. You never.

[Andrew Santino]

Because I don't want to mess it up. Yeah, we got a good thing going. You know when you. When you got a good relationship with somebody who you really respect and then you never want to talk to him.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, I was. Yes. Except for the respect part. A good relationship. I never want to talk to.

[Andrew Santino]

I understand.

[Bobby Lee]

Only when we need to talk.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

We're like a really smooth married couple.

[David Mamet]

Do you fight about the kids? You gotta fight about the kids.

[Bobby Lee]

He's never around.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

I just take care of all of. He's never around.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Well, we adopted David.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Shia LaBeouf]

We're one dwarf.

[Bobby Lee]

One little tiny.

[Shia LaBeouf]

You gotta have one dwarf.

[Bobby Lee]

Little black dwarf kid.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We gotta. We got lucky. That's winning the lottery, right?

[Bobby Lee]

It really was. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Shia LaBeouf]

And he started to see. He's so small.

[Bobby Lee]

He's so tiny.

[Andrew Santino]

Who are you talking about?

[Bobby Lee]

Our adopted child.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Our adopted child.

[Bobby Lee]

Ladies and gentlemen of Bad Friends fans, it is an honor, a privilege, an incredible moment in our time with this show. We have two unbelievably well respected, accomplished.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Please remember their names.

[Bobby Lee]

Please remember Shia LaBeouf.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

And David Mamet.

[Shia LaBeouf]

What a duo.

[Bobby Lee]

What a duo.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, yeah. Abbott and Costello. We'd rather not have that.

[Bobby Lee]

That is nothing like this. So not close. He does this a lot. He does.

[David Mamet]

What happened to Garfunkel?

[Bobby Lee]

Nobody gives a shit.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Is he alive?

[Bobby Lee]

No one.

[Shia LaBeouf]

He's alive, Dave.

[David Mamet]

I don't know.

[Bobby Lee]

Is he really alive? Is Garfunkel still alive? And that's how dark and mean this is. And you know what happens on the show? We shouldn't say anybody's name. We talk about people on this show and within how long? Six months, they die.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

So we did that to the Pope.

[Shia LaBeouf]

People think J.D. vance killed him.

[Andrew Santino]

No, no, no.

[Bobby Lee]

We did.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, yeah.

[David Mamet]

Oh, yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

No, but I'm not kidding. We literally just talked about the Pope. We were just. Just talking about him, nothing negative. And then, boom, he dies. So all of our fans are like, please don't talk about people anymore on the show.

[Shia LaBeouf]

May I read it for. For the room?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Can you read it?

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yes. Our Count Fockel is alive. He was born on November 5, 1941.

[Bobby Lee]

Isn't it incredible that you're David Mamet? Such an incredible writer. I'm a terrible reader, a Pulitzer Prize winner.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

You can't even read four words without anything complex inside of it.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, well, give me a complex word. I can say it right now.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah, but that's his genius.

[Bobby Lee]

Give him a complex.

[Shia LaBeouf]

I'm a genius, right?

[Andrew Santino]

I know you.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, I know you, too.

[Andrew Santino]

I've given you so many compliments. If I give you another one today, it'd be uncomfortable.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, please don't.

[David Mamet]

I gotta do it. The best T shirt I've seen in 80.

[Andrew Santino]

Oh, the T shirt.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Oh, really?

[David Mamet]

Where'd you get the tea? It's magnificent.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Well, there was a not dwarf, but he's a small man. Dean Del Rey, we know a small man who collects T shirts. And I was over at a house, and he goes, you want this for 50? And I go, yeah.

[David Mamet]

Have you gone to a vintage fair lately?

[Andrew Santino]

$50.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah. Is that too much?

[Andrew Santino]

That's too much.

[David Mamet]

No, man. No, no, no.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah.

[David Mamet]

If you go to a vintage. Fair enough.

[Andrew Santino]

He's big on the fashion. He spends on.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Look at that.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, but this is a remake, David. This is an original, a print. That's a lithograph.

[Shia LaBeouf]

I love Exile, Main Street. I love Let It Bleed. I like the band. Yeah, yeah, that goes. It's called Maid Worn.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, he go. So he goes to these. There's a company called Maid Worn. They do this. It's like fake retro shirts.

[David Mamet]

It's not great.

[Shia LaBeouf]

You know, I knew when you were going to. Come on, you were going to do this.

[Bobby Lee]

You see those shoes, Bobby? Those are actually worn. Those are earned. That's earned. Worn.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Well, these aren't earned. These aren't earned. And these are called Golden Goose. And they come.

[Andrew Santino]

Bobby.

[Bobby Lee]

He likes pre worn. He loves.

[Andrew Santino]

I understand it, though. Yeah, I get it.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Well, you. Well, explain it to me, Shia. Well, if you understand it.

[Andrew Santino]

I know you very well, Bobby. I feel like I grew up with you, in a weird way.

[Bobby Lee]

You did?

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah, in a weird way.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Well, I met your dad first.

[Andrew Santino]

Well, the. I met. So Radford hall used to do these big comedy things, like where they'd bring in all the comics.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Can we talk about sobriety?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

So I met him in a recovery. Basically, we're in a big. Radford Hall.

[Shia LaBeouf]

I remember. Okay, you were with a hottie.

[Andrew Santino]

I was.

[Bobby Lee]

Let him finish.

[Andrew Santino]

My father and my. And. And Bobby was like the headliner for three years in a row. And I remember the first year at Radford Hall, I. He wasn't looking forward to it. And then Bobby got up about two minutes in, his dick came out and all the drunks in the hall loved him. And it's been like that for three years. And then I think. I think on the third year, I remember. I remember went up to Bobby and I. I tried to talk to him. You were very busy and you had a beautiful woman with you. But I remember telling you, you're my favorite comic. And then I said it to you three or four times. From then on, I saw you. Elijah's thing.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was really nice for you to show up to that.

[Bobby Lee]

You took your dick out in front of all these people.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah, yeah. So it was that kind of party.

[Bobby Lee]

Never done anything like that before. That's like a big. That's.

[Andrew Santino]

Well, this was. This was. This is 2004 or something like that.

[Shia LaBeouf]

2004.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, let me tell you something. He's still doing that bit. He's still using that fucking bit.

[Shia LaBeouf]

David, I have to say to you.

[Bobby Lee]

Any male nudity in any of your films, David? Any male nudity?

[David Mamet]

That's a very good question. I don't know. I don't think so. I mean. Yeah. Again, do I look like you look at attractive people bringing each other up? Yes. But on the other hand, it's a cheap way to get out of a scene that you don't know how to fit.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Right?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, that's right.

[Andrew Santino]

I think if you're well endowed, you can't do male nudity. I think it's only good if you're three inches and under and then you. Then you can get away with it.

[Bobby Lee]

That's what I say to him all the time. The only reason he gets away when we do live, because it's brave.

[Andrew Santino]

Because then it's brave. Well, because then it's brave. You look at Bobby do that and you go, that man is so brave to do that.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, I think, I think you're. I think you're close. I think if your penis is too big and you show your penis on a live show, it's rude.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah, it's rude.

[Bobby Lee]

I think if your penis is too small, it's fun. Yes, but if you have a regular penis, that's brave.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Am I regular?

[David Mamet]

Am I regular?

[Bobby Lee]

You are.

[Andrew Santino]

You're regular. Oh, thank God.

[Bobby Lee]

He is a right.

[Shia LaBeouf]

My dad used to say I was small the whole time.

[Bobby Lee]

Well, your father was an alcoholic.

[Andrew Santino]

My dad did beat you with golf clubs.

[Bobby Lee]

So what does he know?

[Andrew Santino]

My dad did that.

[David Mamet]

Guys, am I having a.

[Andrew Santino]

Sorry. Sorry. Yeah, sorry.

[David Mamet]

When I was a kid, I started doing this. They'd say, what do you think about Mark Twain? Now we're talking about your dick.

[Andrew Santino]

Sorry. Yeah, that's my fault. I'm sorry I brought it up.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Mamet]

Things change, right?

[Bobby Lee]

What do you think about Mark Twain?

[David Mamet]

I love him.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

What about Mark Twain's dick?

[David Mamet]

Sloppy kisser. Did you know that?

[Bobby Lee]

Mark Twain.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Did you know him?

[David Mamet]

Sloppy. A little bit before my time. He met General Grant and General Grant said the motherfucker stuck his tongue. But he stuck his tongue down my throat. That's what he said about Mark Twain.

[Bobby Lee]

Made out with Grant.

[David Mamet]

What? Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Wow.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Wow.

[Bobby Lee]

He said he was a kisser.

[David Mamet]

Yeah, that's right.

[Bobby Lee]

Great writer. Shit kisser.

[David Mamet]

Wow. Yeah.

[Shia LaBeouf]

That's incredible.

[Bobby Lee]

Is that a thing from a kiss hello is. A kiss. Hello is polite. You have to receive it. What if you don't? What if you're not in the mood for a kiss hello?

[David Mamet]

Exactly. So you gotta turn your head. But that's always. Don't you find that? That's always. You feel like it's a put down. You're gonna say, oh, I guess it's the thing. We kiss this person and they turn their head a little bit, right? You want to die, right?

[Shia LaBeouf]

Well, the other day, I was. I was. I went on the date with five. Five times this girl, remember? The hot supermodel. And the fifth time I went in to have a kiss and she turned her head shot. Oh, guys. Oh, my God.

[Andrew Santino]

Is this the girl that I met at the movie theater?

[Shia LaBeouf]

No, no.

[Andrew Santino]

Somebody new.

[Bobby Lee]

He's got a new.

[Andrew Santino]

He's amazing.

[Bobby Lee]

It's a. It's a rotate. It's like.

[Shia LaBeouf]

What do you mean, Shia? You don't.

[Andrew Santino]

You never was. Never like that.

[Shia LaBeouf]

You're in a relationship?

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Oh, you're married.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah. Never, never like that, though.

[Bobby Lee]

It's bingo balls for him. It's like the rotating. He just pulls a new one and then.

[Andrew Santino]

You weren't like that either.

[David Mamet]

What?

[Andrew Santino]

You're a bit like me. You're a little bit prude, like. Right. It's like one girl for a long time. And you know, you're not dating five.

[David Mamet]

Six women to fight. A long time.

[Andrew Santino]

A long time. Years and years.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Mamet]

Well, yeah. I've been married to the same wonderful broad for 35 years.

[Andrew Santino]

But even in your young life. In your young life. In your young life, you weren't doing this five, six different days, were you?

[Bobby Lee]

A Cox when you were young? I feel like you were.

[David Mamet]

It was the 60s.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Okay, all right.

[Bobby Lee]

Everybody was free.

[Andrew Santino]

That's an easy answer.

[David Mamet]

William H. Macy, my great friend, we grew up together, used to say in the 60s, you were terrified that somewhere there was some woman you hadn't had intercourse with.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Wow. Wow.

[Andrew Santino]

Different time.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah. Afraid if I was in that time, I'd still be like, not doing.

[Bobby Lee]

Nothing would change.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

It's probably harder to get late.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Oh, that's probably. Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Little Korean boy.

[Shia LaBeouf]

I'll be the first incel. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they'll go, watch out for that guy.

[Bobby Lee]

Talking on a new Reddit.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

Knock now. What are you talking about? Yoko Ono, was it? Come on. Every. There was a whole thing going. Everybody was like, I gotta give me one of those.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Asian women were fetishized back then for sure, but not Asian men.

[Bobby Lee]

Not Asian men.

[Shia LaBeouf]

We were.

[Bobby Lee]

This is a new. This.

[Andrew Santino]

Maybe you're right.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, yeah. We were like, oh, yeah, that guy.

[Andrew Santino]

You're right. This is new. What's going on for you now?

[Bobby Lee]

It's heavy.

[Andrew Santino]

You're at the cutting edge of this new thing going on.

[David Mamet]

What's the new thing?

[Andrew Santino]

Well, he's got five, six different beautiful women a week. He dates. No, no, no. Chaya, you just said that.

[Shia LaBeouf]

I know. Dates.

[Andrew Santino]

Dates is dates, not sex.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Not.

[Andrew Santino]

Okay, you mean just like. Like a corned beef sandwich?

[Shia LaBeouf]

Let me think about that.

[Bobby Lee]

He loves corn.

[Shia LaBeouf]

I do love it. I don't know how you got that, but. Yes. Just like that.

[Andrew Santino]

Got it.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

Well, because I figure where you hang out, you probably hang out at the places where you're very famous. Yeah, yeah. He's the type to go to the corned beef sandwich spot next to the stand up club so he can get that social currency of the. Hey, Bobby, good to see you again. Want a corned beef, Shia?

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Shia, it's so good to have you here.

[Andrew Santino]

I'm pretty dead on here, right?

[Shia LaBeouf]

You're on fire.

[Bobby Lee]

Pretends that is not the case. But you see the idiots in the Booth nodding this is 100 him.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Okay.

[Bobby Lee]

He will position himself for specifically in places where he knows he will be recognized and he knows he will be fawned over. He love. He loves it.

[Shia LaBeouf]

I want to say something because I tried. You guys interrupt me before, but if I may get this information.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, go ahead, please.

[Shia LaBeouf]

If I may, my brother and I.

[Bobby Lee]

Ask you something real fast.

[Andrew Santino]

What's up?

[Bobby Lee]

Go ahead. Go ahead, Bobby. Sorry about that.

[Shia LaBeouf]

You're really gonna mad today. I'm stuttering.

[Bobby Lee]

All right.

[Shia LaBeouf]

I got some muscles now.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, dude, go ahead. He's on Ozempic. So he's on this kick now.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah. You do look thinner.

[Bobby Lee]

He does. Yeah. Stand up and show him. Do the thing.

[Shia LaBeouf]

All right.

[Bobby Lee]

Take to lift up the shirt. He's got. He lost a bunch of weight.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[David Mamet]

Oh, real good. Yeah, real good. Looking good.

[Andrew Santino]

Good.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Okay.

[David Mamet]

Looking good. Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

You didn't need to rub.

[Shia LaBeouf]

I didn't. That's one of my powers.

[Bobby Lee]

Talk about your brother.

[Shia LaBeouf]

No, but my brother has a favorite movie. Glenn Glary Glen Ross.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

No way.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

I would have never pegged that.

[Shia LaBeouf]

It's our favorite movie.

[Andrew Santino]

I. I see you liking it.

[Shia LaBeouf]

In fact, there's an Asian lady that's at the coat. I worked with her before.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, in the movie?

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah. In the movie there's a Asian lady that gives people like I think Pacino.

[Bobby Lee]

A coat or like a coat at a coat check.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah. Yeah. And I worked with her once and I kept bombarding her with like. What was it? Like this and that, you know, I.

[Bobby Lee]

Mean, how embedded in the zeitgeist's coffees for closers. It's like a. It's such like a. Yeah. It's a thing that literally everybody knows.

[David Mamet]

Yeah. I wrote this play, Glenn Glengarry, Glenn Ross. And I did it as a movie and I put in this extra scene for Alec Baldwin. It says coffee is foreclosures. It's all everybody remembers about the stupid.

[Bobby Lee]

Funny how why did. Like. Why? It's. It's weird when things get picked out like I did. I work with Pete fairly. Same kind of thing. And fairly says the thing that you think people will pick out of it is probably the thing that they least will recognize and the thing that you can't believe they took like the coffees for closers. You never thought that that was like a. A moment that people would steal and then. No, it would be like used over in other things forever. Because it is. They put it in fucking like Family Guy or other shows will reference it.

[David Mamet]

Yeah. That's great. And what everybody loves Everybody loves everybody, adores shy you.

[Andrew Santino]

And.

[Bobby Lee]

Yes.

[Andrew Santino]

Not everybody.

[Bobby Lee]

Yes, everybody in this fucking room.

[David Mamet]

So my work.

[Shia LaBeouf]

My producer calls today.

[David Mamet]

My producer calls up. He says, dave, you've been doing this forever. I don't want to tell you your business, but don't forget to plug the movie.

[Andrew Santino]

Let's do that then.

[David Mamet]

The movie's called We'll Do It Later.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah, okay, we do it later.

[David Mamet]

We'll do it later. But here's the thing. In the movie, he's got a line. He plays a prisoner. And the other guy. Evan. Evan Johnny guy, who is the guy who he's turning out is now is punk. Says, but how do you know all this shit? And his line is, baby, I do this for a living. So that's everybody's talking about.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah, I was going to say. I think you're being humble. I think Dave does know. I think, you know, when we're doing the play, he's there. It's not like Dave's gone and the play's dead. And then we're just putting it up. He's in the crowd. He's. He's not watching us for the most part. I mean, I don't know what you're watching, but what I'm. What I. What I. When I'm backstage watching you watch, it's a whole lot of, you know, he's in the back. He's all the way in the back watching the backs of heads.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Wow.

[Andrew Santino]

And so, like, when heads start to, like, start looking around and stuff, he's got to fix his script. At least what it feels like. The stuff that gets revised and we don't get much of it, and it happens pretty quick, and it happens pretty early in the process. But he'll come to the first five, six, seven different shows. He'll watch the crowd move around. You'll get these little revisions, and that'll be the last of it.

[David Mamet]

See, that's the thing. A lot of movies. Most of the people who make movies never see their movie with a live audience. None of. None of the executives do. What they're doing is completely theoretical because you got to sit in the. In the audience and say, where did the attention fade? Why? And how can I fix it? Because if not, what the hell are you doing?

[Shia LaBeouf]

What? Focus groups. That's why they're there, right?

[Andrew Santino]

You know, but it's so rare.

[David Mamet]

No, focus groups are bullshit.

[Andrew Santino]

That's for marketing department.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Oh, I see. I see. Okay.

[David Mamet]

Yeah, focus. I'll tell you good focus groups here, because what you do with the focus Group is you ask the people to become critics. So you're bringing out the worst in them, just like you bring out. Think about it, think about it. We go to a restaurant, right? And we have a pretty good time. And then the chef comes out and said, we're gonna sit down for half an hour and we're gonna talk. What did you like? What would you like different? Well, I don't want to feel stupid, so I'm not gonna say I had a good time.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah, you gotta have something.

[David Mamet]

Yeah, maybe a little bit more salt in that thing. So there was a guy called. There was a guy called Joe Farrel. Invented this, like in the 70s, 80s. I was doing a bunch of studio movies. This thing where the people would sit in a watch the movie on a screen and they'd have dials. And if you put the dial this way, it means I liked it. And you put the dial that way means I don't like it. And they would have graphs and graphs and graphs and all the p. And a production and advertising money would get allocated based on the graphs. And Joe Farrell made this huge amount of money with these stupid fucking grants. And I was talking to one day, I did a movie and I said, well, you know, Joe, I guess the numbers aren't quite as good as as they could be. And he said, well, how good would you like them to be? All a scam.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, we can make the dials only lean one way.

[David Mamet]

No, that he's gonna snow. The dials are a fucking scam.

[Bobby Lee]

Right.

[David Mamet]

He's. If you like. A smarter man would have said, Joe, wait here a second. Oh my God. Is this your $50,000? In mine.

[Shia LaBeouf]

All right.

[David Mamet]

He was just bribeable.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Wow. Brilliant.

[Bobby Lee]

It is fucking. Yeah, gross, but it's brilliant. Yeah, but that's the throes of this business. You've seen a hundred thousand times. You've seen all those tricks. You've seen them come and go, Right?

[David Mamet]

Yeah, exactly. So. But the thing is that the bit we just did this movie, very cheap, very effective.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Let's talk about it.

[David Mamet]

Oh, no, but the thing is, we made it with ourselves because Shia said, we just did the play to plays over. Let's do a movie. So now the complete bit, the business has completely changed and the studio system is just completely over. Yeah, it's just dead. Doesn't exist anymore because the technology has changed. Right, right. Which is kind of great. It's. It's. Unless you have an interest in the old technology and you want to spend $250 million remaking a bad version of Snow White. And, you know, you could take all the people who saw it and stick them in a fucking school bus.

[Bobby Lee]

Right.

[David Mamet]

But nobody's taking responsibility for that because they're all bureaucrats making bureaucratic decisions.

[Shia LaBeouf]

David. David, did you see Snow White?

[David Mamet]

I didn't see it.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

He doesn't watch movies.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Oh, he doesn't. Oh, you don't watch at all?

[David Mamet]

There was a lot of old movies. Anti. Semitism in it from this one girl. But if I want to see that, I'll just go to Colle Be.

[Bobby Lee]

Is. Is that true? It's. It's got a bunch of anti.

[David Mamet]

One of the girls came out and she said, you know, free.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Oh, oh, the main girl, Rachel Zag.

[David Mamet]

Snow White girl. She apparently also said that the prince was stalking her.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, that's what I remember that we're.

[Bobby Lee]

Going to make Snow Red where he's a murderer. He stalks her and actually gets her.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

And he uses the dwarves as little slaves. We wrote it.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

I don't know if we're ever gonna make it. Yeah, yeah, but we're gonna. We're gonna. We'll try. Yeah, but you've. You. When you say that the. The studio system is so. And you guys made this movie now, and you did it for cheap. When you say cheap. What is cheap now?

[Andrew Santino]

The same amount. Amount to play. It'd just be like mounting the play in Chicago instead of spending that money mounting in Chicago. We just filmed it with Dave.

[David Mamet]

Yeah. Because the secret is, what does it cost to make a movie? You can make the. You can make the 500 grand movie for $100 million. And you can do that make $100 million movie for. For 500 grand.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

The reason that I'm curious, I don't. I get. I don't need to know the number, not the pride. It's just we're creating our own a lot now. Right? Like, we built this little world. We did an animated show. We did a game show. We're doing it on our own. And they always want to know how much. And we don't really divulge because we don't really know.

[Shia LaBeouf]

We don't know.

[Andrew Santino]

We'll tell you.

[Bobby Lee]

Like, we'll tell you what would cost us one week.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Meaning, like, the actors are very prepare.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. One week is incredible. Shut the up. He's taking shots at us. He's saying we're not prepared.

[Shia LaBeouf]

You know what? You.

[Bobby Lee]

Dude, dude, you'll go back to Spain.

[Shia LaBeouf]

You win.

[Andrew Santino]

Different genius, dude. Different genius. I couldn't do this. No way.

[Bobby Lee]

See? Shy.

[Shia LaBeouf]

I love you. Thank you so much, by the way.

[Bobby Lee]

Let me call him out.

[Shia LaBeouf]

We have allies, you know What? We have allies, my friend.

[Bobby Lee]

Right? These are our dogs.

[Shia LaBeouf]

You want to get destroyed.

[Bobby Lee]

You're so David. This guy, this guy in the white shirt is a film student cinephile. He's a. He wants to be a director. And.

[Andrew Santino]

And I knew that she was gonna.

[Bobby Lee]

Let me tell you something. This guy, that's a director, he loves. He loves him.

[Shia LaBeouf]

He's a director.

[Bobby Lee]

It's a real one.

[Shia LaBeouf]

That's a real one, right? From the old school, right?

[Bobby Lee]

He loves and respects you.

[Shia LaBeouf]

You don't got it.

[Bobby Lee]

And he brought. He brought your book and. Show him the book. Show him the book.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Oh, my God.

[Bobby Lee]

And here's what something he said to me.

[Shia LaBeouf]

He said, did you bring the lube too?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Because he wants you to roll it and put it up his asshole.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah, yeah, but he writes good books.

[Bobby Lee]

He asked me would. Would it be okay If I have Mr. Mama sign that book? That's what he said with that accent. That's.

[Shia LaBeouf]

That's his accent.

[Bobby Lee]

Say, it would be okay. It would be okay for me some mama to sign the book.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

And I said, I'm gonna tell you something. If you're good on your good behavior. Yes. Now you up.

[Shia LaBeouf]

You're not getting.

[Bobby Lee]

You're not getting.

[Shia LaBeouf]

You're not getting.

[Bobby Lee]

Shove it up your ass right now.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Without the lube, without the loop, Mr.

[Bobby Lee]

Mamet will not sign. No, he will not sign.

[Shia LaBeouf]

He will not sign.

[Bobby Lee]

By the way, this is. Sorry to enter. You enter in this world of chaos. We love these guys.

[Shia LaBeouf]

We love them.

[Bobby Lee]

This guy went to the hospital four days ago. The guy in the yellow shirt. He called me at three in the morning. I'm throwing up blood. I know. This is so great. Call you.

[Andrew Santino]

I was throwing up blood. Why?

[David Mamet]

What?

[Shia LaBeouf]

They don't really know, actually. But McCone over here took me to the hospital.

[Bobby Lee]

Coney picked him up.

[Andrew Santino]

Whoa.

[Bobby Lee]

He was sick as a dog. He called me. He had to go to the hospital in the middle of the night.

[David Mamet]

Wait a second. One guy's in the hospital, the other guy. Does everybody over there have a disability?

[Bobby Lee]

Yes.

[Shia LaBeouf]

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[Bobby Lee]

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[Shia LaBeouf]

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[Bobby Lee]

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[Shia LaBeouf]

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[Bobby Lee]

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[Shia LaBeouf]

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[Bobby Lee]

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[Shia LaBeouf]

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[Bobby Lee]

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[Shia LaBeouf]

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[Bobby Lee]

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[Shia LaBeouf]

I don't think so.

[Bobby Lee]

I hope it doesn't anytime soon.

[Shia LaBeouf]

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[Bobby Lee]

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[Shia LaBeouf]

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[Bobby Lee]

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[Shia LaBeouf]

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[Andrew Santino]

That's so good.

[Bobby Lee]

David. The man in the back. Can you see that gentleman in the back? What do you think his disability is? I bet you could put it together just looking at him.

[David Mamet]

Oh, dude. Well, he's got very good taste in clothes. And he's got that he. Harris tweed jacket on. Yeah, he's got on the hat. Wearing it in the correct direction.

[Bobby Lee]

That's right. That's right.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Oh, my God.

[Bobby Lee]

So his disability seems lower than the other two is what you're saying. He seems to be a little bit more put together.

[David Mamet]

Well, I don't know. Come on, mystery guest, come in and sign in, please. What is your disability?

[Bobby Lee]

I'm just a little slow.

[David Mamet]

You what?

[Shia LaBeouf]

He's a little slow.

[David Mamet]

Good.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Good. You got a thumbs up.

[David Mamet]

I hope that he wins the race.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

Smart to rock that jacket today day, though.

[David Mamet]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

He did that deliberately.

[Andrew Santino]

Of course he did.

[Shia LaBeouf]

How do you feel about that?

[Andrew Santino]

About the jacket?

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, David Mamet's coming. I'm gonna.

[Andrew Santino]

I mean, I respect it. Hats off, but, you know, it's like a weak point.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

You win a weak point.

[Bobby Lee]

That's right.

[Andrew Santino]

Okay. Awesome. There you go. Congratulations. Dave didn't give me any compliments on my outfit today. I don't think you ever have a second.

[David Mamet]

This for the first time. You didn't look.

[Andrew Santino]

He's very fashionable.

[David Mamet]

You didn't look like you. This first time.

[Shia LaBeouf]

You.

[David Mamet]

It didn't look like you dressed from the dryer in the. In the dark.

[Andrew Santino]

No, no. I knew you were coming. I wanted to be respectful. I tucked my shirt in.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Dude.

[Bobby Lee]

Are you really dead, dude?

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

And he got a belt.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Dude.

[Andrew Santino]

I put. I even tucked my belt in. That's how serious I'm taking this.

[David Mamet]

I was talking to Jay Moore yesterday. Jay Moore podcast. Yeah, he loves the movie. He loves you. And he talked for like a half an hour.

[Andrew Santino]

I love Jay.

[David Mamet]

About the way you tucked your shirt.

[Andrew Santino]

I love Jay.

[David Mamet]

That thing. So.

[Andrew Santino]

So Jay's a big part of my.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Like, you know, what a change.

[Andrew Santino]

That dude saved me in a lot of. A lot of nights. He saved me, that guy.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Dude.

[Andrew Santino]

People don't talk about it, but he's a big.

[David Mamet]

No, he was talking.

[Andrew Santino]

He's a big, big. He's very.

[Shia LaBeouf]

He's a good changed. I've never seen anyone change that dramatic.

[Andrew Santino]

He's.

[Shia LaBeouf]

He used to be terrible boy.

[Andrew Santino]

He's. He lives service now and his life reflects it.

[Shia LaBeouf]

He's the nicest, most.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Mindful, open.

[Andrew Santino]

And his life changed so positively, like, miraculous.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Miraculous.

[Andrew Santino]

Everything went up yeah, man.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Great to watch.

[Shia LaBeouf]

It really does work.

[David Mamet]

Work.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[Shia LaBeouf]

When you see that, you go, it works.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah. He's that example for me.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

You know, when. When I was. I was doing this play, I was still low. I would drag him to meetings with me. He would show up to meetings. Well, he's love stories, so our room's got stories for days. So he would just go in there to listen to these stories with me.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

Sometimes I wouldn't want to go by myself. I said, dave, come with me, you know?

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

That's the kind of cat he is.

[David Mamet]

So in my life, I was going through a real, real difficult. Really difficult.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah. We met at a good time.

[David Mamet]

You saved my life. And I would go to the meetings and the guy. One guy would say, you know, my wife left me and she took all my money. And then I realized that she'd given me very bad disease and I couldn't even go dating anymore. And I bought a gun and. But. And people in the room were laughing.

[Andrew Santino]

To tears. To tears.

[David Mamet]

Am I lying?

[Andrew Santino]

No. It's the only way.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah. Yeah. It's the only way.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Because we were late.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[Shia LaBeouf]

You. I mean, it's that, you know, I mean, I've been in and out since I was 17.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[Shia LaBeouf]

I had 17 years. One at one point, like.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah, I know you. You were in the rooms when I first came in. Yeah, at Moore park, before Radford.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah. Yeah. So it's like. But at 17, what a gift as a kid.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[Shia LaBeouf]

To get that. Yeah. I wouldn't be here without it.

[Bobby Lee]

How did you.

[Andrew Santino]

How did you even get in? Like. Because your dad wasn't. It wasn't family.

[Shia LaBeouf]

No, my dad was a violent alcoholic.

[Andrew Santino]

Sure. Among other things.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Thanks.

[Andrew Santino]

That up? Well.

[Bobby Lee]

You sure?

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah, you're welcome. But. But he didn't bring you in the rooms.

[Shia LaBeouf]

No, I went to. I mean, when I was in high school, I went to a bunch of rehabs.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[Shia LaBeouf]

And then the. I think the third one, it clicked.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[Shia LaBeouf]

And I met this old Korean man by, you know, kid. Dan.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, Dan.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah. Yeah. And when I was a kid and he had 17 years, at that point, he was at this long white hair, tattoos, full Korean. He was adopted long ago and he was my sponsor. It was my junior year in high school when I met him and I just gave him a, what, 50, 60 year cake or whatever. Yeah. I mean, he's still like a part of my life.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[Shia LaBeouf]

I mean, but. Yeah, without that, I'd be dead.

[Andrew Santino]

I think, like, Elijah's like that for me. I got a bunch of these, like, jay, there's like, 40 guys I would tap and say, oh, man. If not for them. Yeah, that's the beauty.

[Shia LaBeouf]

I mean, that's why you're here. As lies. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

While you guys were shooting the movie or the play is when you were going to these meetings?

[Andrew Santino]

Well, no, when we. When we know, when we were filming. We were filming. When we were filming, we always grind mode. And then I would catch my meetings when I can get him at night. Usually he's way overwhelmed trying to mount. Especially the way we did it. It was just. There was no, like, extra time.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

But before all that, you know, there. Because he is who he is, and. And maybe it's just my thing. There's a getting over Dave Mamet process.

[David Mamet]

You know?

[Andrew Santino]

I mean, you got to get over it. You just got to get over it. It'd be like being asked to play Batman. Like, you just got to get over and get to the work. Work. It's like you can. You can scare yourself to complete mute. You can terrify yourself. First day he walks in and you know you're about to be in a play that he wrote. It's one of the scariest moments of my life for, like, the first table read. So, like, I showed up to the table read. I don't know really what I'm doing. I never did a play. I know it's a David Mamet play. What I know is, like, that's the pinnacle. Like, get every word, every punch. So I show up at the table read. I'm off book. That's not normal normally, you know, you're reading.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, we know.

[Andrew Santino]

I'm scared.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

So. So that fear helped me, but the fear had to wear off at a certain point. And I don't know if it. It ever wore off during the play. But we became friends in the midst of that. Like, close, close. Like, closer than I'd been with most any director I'd ever work with.

[Bobby Lee]

You also the only one off book?

[Shia LaBeouf]

No.

[Andrew Santino]

No. Well.

[Shia LaBeouf]

So nervous. He was so nervous.

[Andrew Santino]

So, like, Evan has done plays before. Plus, Evan and him already have a relationship I didn't have with Dave. I met Dave through fan letter. You know, I've been trying to get the Dave from for 10 years, you know, and, wow, there'll be a project that pops up, and I'll. Yeah, I'll do anything. What do you want me to do? And. And then it'll come. It'll go, you know, or somebody will take it from him. Like, we were gonna do this JFK movie, and they just took it.

[David Mamet]

Play Oswald.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah. And I was psyched because that's gonna be so great. Yeah, Oswald, that's. That's one of the great roles, you know, you could ever have. So. And in the midst of grinding on that, they took it from him. And then he fell into a dark spell because it's like somebody taking your baby from you. And. And then. And then it was. And our play was still up as all this was going on, so it was a matter like, me and Evan, like, ah, we got it because he's captain. We got to get captain back up. You know, we got to get his spirits back up. So we almost threw it out. Like. Like, no way. Maybe he'll bite. Because usually we throw ideas to him. He doesn't. Has no. No interest. Right. He'll say something like, yeah, no, I hear you. Unless it's. Unless it's to the work. If it's about the work.

[David Mamet]

This was such a great idea because we did the play. It was great. And. And we could have run it forever, except you can't ask the actors to come in and work for 19.95 a week.

[Andrew Santino]

We would have, though. We were loving.

[David Mamet]

But anyway. And so Shy and Evan come and say, let's do a movie. So I say, no, we can't do a. What are you talking about? Takes forever. And we have to go and talk to the. In the Valley and say, no, no, no, no, no, dude, we're gonna. We're gonna do it ourselves. We're gonna raise the money ourselves. We're gonna do it ourselves. How? So I say, how we gonna do it?

[Shia LaBeouf]

It?

[David Mamet]

I say it. I don't know. We're just going to do it. And so, like, a lot of the great things in my life, I got dragged into it kicking and screaming.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah. Yeah, he wasn't.

[David Mamet]

Turned out to be the best. The best thing that I've done in. In decades, the most changed my life.

[Andrew Santino]

We were prepping this behind his back, actually.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Oh, wow.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah, we were prepping the thing, trying to get it mounted. Obviously, we couldn't hire nobody, but we're trying to get everything. Me and Evan trying to get it. Most. Mostly Evan trying to get everything sorted so he could come in and sort of, you know, turnkey, go, go. And then he had to pick his dp and then that was his whole thing. But I remember there was like a month where we were trying to sneakily get this thing prepped and mounted behind his back because he thought, oh, no way you could do it. And I kept, like, pushing towards Louis CK Content. Kept saying, oh, man, Louis CK Boy, Dave. Louis CK Matters. Dave, you know, he matters for a bunch of reasons, but he should matter for us a lot right now. He's kind of the guy. He's doing it, and he's. He's winning independent, you know, He's. He's pushing through all the BS and he's getting to the crowd. You know, he's getting. And you. Like, I just came off a Coppola land. This is a guy who's got power. He can make the entire industry flex. Like, he'll make them all turn based on.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Did you like the movie?

[Andrew Santino]

No, but. But I love him, you know?

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah. And we fought all through the thing because it wasn't my dream, and I was trying to learn his dream, which you're always trying to do when you're on a movie. You try to learn your guy's dream. Sometimes those dreams aren't easily accessible. Sometimes you feel like you're not old enough to get to the dream. With me and him, it felt like that felt like, oh, you know, shit, I don't know about. About, you know, because I'm a baby and you don't live the life, you know? So I would acquiesce to him, but I remember he could. He could make the industry move, you know, because he had that kind of power. And then I look at his accomplishments, and then I look at Dave's accomplishments, and I don't see this drastic divide. I feel like, you know, I respect the stuff Dave did as much as I respect the stuff Francis did. But Francis had the shot to get to the audience. They kind of made a clear path for him, you know, he was, like the darling of the industry.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Right.

[Andrew Santino]

And so I don't know how many resident geniuses you boys have, but I don't have any, you know.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

The fact that I know Dave feels like some kind of miracle. So then it was like, oh, well, if I could just work on Dave's stuff forever, that would be a dream come true.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Oh, wow.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah. So then it was like, how do we get Dave a channel? How do you get Dave his own Dave Mamet channel? Yeah, that's how the conversation start.

[David Mamet]

Dragged me into it. So what we discovered is you don't need Hollywood. You don't need a bunch of money. You need some talent. You need an idea and need a telephone.

[Andrew Santino]

Funny to hear you talk about talent, because that's very funny to hear you Talk about talent. Anybody who's a David Mamet fan, talent's not a big David Mamet word. Persistence, you know, like, just like grinding, throwing water at the same mark on the stone for long enough, and eventually it'll happen, I think, even with you. Because I feel like with you, you, it's like I have to be careful. I can't really tell you all the way how I feel. I respect you too much. You know what I mean? I kind of have to. Through Evan. Evan. Because Evan and him are. Have. Have something I didn't have. You know, I'm not spending every week and all the time, you know, with Dave like that. So Evan was good at translating things that I couldn't. Like, you know, like I would just come off too thirsty. I think I would scare you, because I'd be too ambitious. Too thirsty. Because when I say stuff like, dave, I'll do anything you ever want to do. I think you're the greatest writer. It almost sounds like.

[David Mamet]

No, it's not bullshit. Listen, the first moment. The first.

[Bobby Lee]

No, he goes, it's not bullshit. I am the greatest.

[Andrew Santino]

Best response ever.

[David Mamet]

Listen. From the first moment. We had a mutual friend who eventually sold both of us out. And he. My mutual friend, was having a lunch with Shia, and I'd always admired Shia's work very, very much. And I sat down and my mutual friends all sit on Shia LaBeouf. Dave. And out. I say, hi, Shia LaBeouf. Why have such. I so admire you. And Shia says, that's not necessary.

[Bobby Lee]

Huh?

[David Mamet]

And it just. It was shocking. It's like you. It's shocking. It's like I saw into who this. This wonderful man is in. In a second. I'm a human being. You're a human being. It's a pleasure to meet you. Remember that.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Shia LaBeouf]

What's the movie called?

[Andrew Santino]

Called. Oh, Henry Johnson. Henryjohnsonmovie.com. that's how you get it out now.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah. Everyone can watch it now.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[David Mamet]

Yeah.

[Shia LaBeouf]

And then what? Can you give us a brief synopsis what it's about? Or.

[Andrew Santino]

I mean, I. David. Better at it. The way I see these two.

[David Mamet]

Life. These two lifelong friends, an old guy and an old woman. They've been high school sweethearts and they both grown old together, but they meet again and their lives seem to be older, but they go on a road trip.

[Bobby Lee]

Trip.

[David Mamet]

And I'm kidding.

[Andrew Santino]

No, no. This is. This is not automobile. It's some other thing going on in his head. That's not the thing. Me. We made Together.

[Bobby Lee]

I was like, this isn't it.

[Andrew Santino]

No, it's about, like, empathy. It's about. It's about, like, overdosing on empathy. If I was going to put it in a sentence, that's what I. What I read when I read it. It was. It's about overdosing on empathy. It's about how empathy can actually. You fully. If you. If you overdose or, like, you know.

[Shia LaBeouf]

You sometimes, you know, the dog eating trade in China. I'm just giving you an example of empathy. When I think the movie's about.

[Andrew Santino]

Hold on, wait, we're getting a dog eating now?

[Shia LaBeouf]

Just let me see you through.

[Bobby Lee]

He doesn't eat breakfast.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, yeah. And it's like, I. I hate these people that, you know, I mean, do this to these kind animals. And then I go to China. Right, right. And I'm like. And I'm like, oh, my God, look at this puppy. And the puppy goes and eats my face.

[Bobby Lee]

Right?

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, like that.

[Andrew Santino]

Just like that. Just like that.

[Bobby Lee]

How do you think about that?

[Shia LaBeouf]

No, am I right or no?

[Bobby Lee]

No.

[David Mamet]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's a. So we did this thing as a play. We're doing it as a movie, and it's about a guy who is so compassionate that he ruins everything around him and everyone takes advantage of him. He ends up going to prison and he ends up getting his life changed by the boss, Khan over there. And then some happens.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Wow.

[Bobby Lee]

Some shit happens.

[David Mamet]

Yeah.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Pull up the site just so we have it.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

For everybody.

[Shia LaBeouf]

What is the shit happens? You get like. Like a little fondled or What?

[Andrew Santino]

What do you mean? Me?

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

No, no, no, no, no, no. You mean. Oh, you went right there. Huh? It could have been a. It could have been 5,000 things.

[Shia LaBeouf]

That's the movie I want to see anyway.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay. How long, Shia?

[Andrew Santino]

How long?

[Bobby Lee]

When you're done filming this, how long does it take you to kind of clear your head out of it?

[Andrew Santino]

Well, I never done a play, so I still. I run these lines in my shower still.

[Bobby Lee]

You do?

[Andrew Santino]

Oh, yeah. They're so tattooed to your head. I don't know. I mean, I never. I never prepped anything like that. Lines never really mattered to me. And now, you know, after working with Dave, they kind of. I don't know. They don't matter to him either. I didn't know that walking in, though, you know, walking in, I thought, you better get every fucking comma right.

[David Mamet]

Well, but see, that's the trick is the best thing in the world, if you're rehearsing a Play is tell everybody. Show up learning your lines. Don't show up if you're not letter perfect. And most actors don't know that anymore because they've been badly trained and badly rehearsed for you and they want to sit down and talk about where they went to school and what their character for lunch and all this bullshit. So Shia, because he don't know any better, knows better than any of them. Just show up learning the fucking lines. Because if the actors show up in a rehearsal late, day one, learning, knowing their lines, what do you do? You block the play. It takes you three days and then you put it on.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, yeah, that's it. Do you say anything with, like, someone like me, right? I don't know my lines ever, you know?

[David Mamet]

Say what?

[Shia LaBeouf]

I never know my lines.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Shia LaBeouf]

But would you yell at me?

[David Mamet]

No, I'd say, learn your lines.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Oh, that's it.

[Andrew Santino]

And you would.

[Bobby Lee]

No, he wouldn't.

[Andrew Santino]

No, you would.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

Yes, you would. I'm telling you, Bobby, you would. And you'd be great.

[Bobby Lee]

Even the magic of Mamet couldn't get this guy.

[Andrew Santino]

No, no, I can. I think lines of both of you. I think the both of you be great.

[David Mamet]

Wait a second. But you're a stand up comic. Yes, I like. Wait a second. Two guys go into a.

[Bobby Lee]

Whorehouse.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Whorehouse.

[David Mamet]

Of course it's a whorehouse. But you're gonna grow up on the, The. On the bar. The bar, yeah. Well, you got to know your lines, right?

[Bobby Lee]

Gotta know your lines.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Oh, I gotta.

[David Mamet]

If you're telling jokes, you gotta know your line.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

Not even lying. But you memorize the bit. You know what I mean?

[Shia LaBeouf]

We memorize where we need to get to. Right. So it's like exactly. The world, the words around it. As long as we can get to the joke.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[Shia LaBeouf]

What actually makes it funny. Yeah, that's fine. But you guys do line by, like, word by word, right?

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Only, only, only because it's better. If I could add, if I could. If I could ad lib better lines, I would.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

And have on every other show. Yeah, but when.

[Shia LaBeouf]

When you're with him, of course, it's like Aaron Sorkin him. Yeah, yeah. You don't. Yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

There's no need to help.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, yeah, I understand. I understand. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is it hard to. I mean, I just. I'm gonna sound stupid. I. I just need to throw it out if. Because I'm dumb, you know? I mean, it's just that. Is it hard to make them write a Movie.

[David Mamet]

Hey, listen, if you had Stormy Daniels on, would you say. Would you say. Where do you get your ideas?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, we actually. She's coming on after this, isn't she? She's later.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Well, yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Is it hard to write a movie? Dear David Mammon, is it hard to write a movie?

[Shia LaBeouf]

I'm not Hotoi Shanani or whatever his name is.

[Bobby Lee]

From the fucking Shohei Otani.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, whatever his name his name is, write it down. I can't hit it every time, dude. You know what I mean? I'm sorry, dude. I just throw it out there.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, don't throw either.

[Shia LaBeouf]

All right.

[Bobby Lee]

Underhand. Ask him what you really want to ask him. Be honest.

[Andrew Santino]

That's not a bad question. There had to be some that'd be. I got you. There had to be some harder than the others.

[David Mamet]

Well, it is very hard.

[Bobby Lee]

Sh.

[David Mamet]

I'll tell you. I wrote this, a play a long time ago called American Buffalo. And it was a series of sketches about these thieves I was hanging out with with playing poker. And they were really good. And I did it off Broadway, a bunch of sketches and a guy called Ulu Grossbard, who was a great director. You should see his movie Straight Time. Ula Grossbaard comes to me and says, if you find a. If you can figure out the plot, I'll put it on Broadway. So I went from being an out of work cab driver to I had to sit down and figure out how to write a plot, which is very difficult. And then he put it on Broadway. So I said, oh, I get a. I know what keeps the asses in the seats. A plot, which means making the audience wonder what happens next. That's a plot. If you can write a plot, the dialogue doesn't have to be good, which we know because we see films in translation, right? We want to know what happens next. So it's very hard to write a plot because it's an equation. And the mind always wants to come up with the easiest thing, right? But the easiest thing is not the. Probably not the best thing, because if you can beat yourself to the punchline, the audience can beat you to the punchline. So in comedy, what you got to do is you got to beat the audience to the punchline. Make. Give them enough to wonder what happens next. Right. A penguin and nun and a rhinoceros go into a whorehouse. Yeah. They want to know what happens next.

[Bobby Lee]

I do.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah. I do really want to. So what does happen?

[David Mamet]

What.

[Shia LaBeouf]

What does happen?

[David Mamet]

You. You know.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You climb inside the penguin Fucks the.

[Bobby Lee]

Nun and the rhinoceros eats them. Oh, no, that's not it.

[Shia LaBeouf]

No, no. I was saying we climb inside the rhino.

[David Mamet]

But let me tell you something. A penguin, a nun and an ostrich go into a whorehouse.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Where's a rhino?

[David Mamet]

An old brick.

[Bobby Lee]

He's taking tickets.

[David Mamet]

And they say the whorehouse is an old brick building on a quiet residential street. The kind of street where maybe your grandfather and grandmother were. I want to know what happened in the whorehouse. I don't want you to tell me about how it was built.

[Bobby Lee]

Right.

[Shia LaBeouf]

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[Shia LaBeouf]

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[Bobby Lee]

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[Andrew Santino]

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[Bobby Lee]

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[Bobby Lee]

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[Shia LaBeouf]

But do you ever write with other people, though? Or do you just.

[Andrew Santino]

Okay, I'm trying to help you, bro. Trying to help you from the slot, you know.

[David Mamet]

Yeah, a couple of times I wrote with other people, but at some point I stopped doing it because even when I wrote with them, I said, you know, thanks a lot. Go sit down.

[Bobby Lee]

Tell us about your time in Chicago. Can you, though? Because we talk a little bit off air about when he was talking about, you know, prior to Steppenwolf and prior to. Prior to every theater in the city.

[David Mamet]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

What were you. What were you doing?

[David Mamet]

I was. Well, I was. I got out of college and I was unemployable because I didn't know anything. I didn't know anybody. And the idea that someone was going to support me, meaning my parents, was unheard of, I mean, both in my generation and in my family. So I came back and I got a bunch of jobs. I worked at everything in the world because you could always get a job in Chicago. And I got involved in theater and I saw some stuff that I found very provocative. So I started writing plays about it. One was, as I said, I used to play in this poker game with a bunch of theaters and I really. And then I used to work in a boiler room selling land over the telephone. Boiler room. Used to be you put 20 guys on a phone in a room and they have to call up the people and say, oh, you know, Mr. Lee, I see that you were interested in land because you wrote in for our brochure about land in Arizona.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Well, it's kind of like Glengarry now, or.

[David Mamet]

No, exactly.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[David Mamet]

So I saw these things that interested me, and then I started writing, reading Chekhov's plays. Anton Chekhov.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Is that the Star Trek guy or.

[David Mamet]

The other one?

[Bobby Lee]

Star Wars. Not Star Trek. Star Wars.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Okay.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Shia LaBeouf]

I just threw it out.

[David Mamet]

Check off in Star Wars.

[Bobby Lee]

No, no.

[David Mamet]

Hey, wait a second. I got a question for you people. How do you. How do you remember the difference between Star Trek and Star Wars?

[Shia LaBeouf]

I can tell you a million things about it. What are you talking about?

[Bobby Lee]

He can tell you. He can tell you. He's obsessed with Star Trek.

[Shia LaBeouf]

A completely different world, Richard.

[David Mamet]

Star.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Star Trek is based in Earth. On Earth, like the society that we live in, but like hundreds of years from now.

[David Mamet]

Yeah.

[Shia LaBeouf]

And then we have a. What's so funny? It's a crew. The Enterprise. It's a crew of explorers from Earth that explore.

[David Mamet]

William Shatner. Yes, it's William Shatner.

[Shia LaBeouf]

It's Shatner. Yeah. Did you like him?

[David Mamet]

Well.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah. Cause I'm mad at him because he fucked me once. No, not literally, but in a job.

[Bobby Lee]

How?

[Shia LaBeouf]

Oh, my God, it was the worst. I get a call from the Billboard Awards, remember? They used to have these stupid award shows, these annoying award shows.

[Andrew Santino]

I don't remember that.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Okay, we want you to do a sketch with William Shatner because they knew I was a Star Trek fan. And I go, yeah, I'll do it. So they fly me in. It's basically a scene with me and William Shatner at a poker table, right? So I'm sitting there waiting for William Shatner, right? And he comes in and there was another guy that they hired too, from la. I forgot it was a black guy guy. I love black people. Anyway. Anyway, Willie shepherd goes in, he goes, you're out, you're out. And then they dragged me out of the tent and he goes. He just rewrote it just now. So I got back on the plane and flew back to la.

[Andrew Santino]

Wow.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

Whoa.

[Bobby Lee]

William Shatner. No blacks, no Asians. That's his way. How we know who he really is?

[Shia LaBeouf]

No, Ura. And no.

[David Mamet]

No. But wait, I got a question about William Shatner, okay? It just occurred to me. He's reading his newspaper out in the back by his swimming pool, right? And his wife, who was an Olympic, like an AAU swimmer, is swimming around the pool. Swimming around the pool, swimming around the pool. And she comes over and apparently, according to him, he put his foot accidentally on her head and she drowned. She died.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Mamet]

My question is, what was he reading?

[Shia LaBeouf]

I'm sober, I'm a good guy.

[David Mamet]

But speaking of. Wait, wait, wait. Speaking of Louis ck, dude, speaking of Louis ck, we talked about Louis that when we were doing this JFK movie, I know him from around, right? And he was considering playing Jack Ruby against his Lee Harvey.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Wow.

[David Mamet]

How awesome would that be?

[Andrew Santino]

You guys know him too, huh?

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

Nice guy.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Also, you know, I get so nervous around him, dude.

[Bobby Lee]

Also one of the greatest comedic writers that we've ever seen.

[Andrew Santino]

That's what I'm saying. It's to be the same thing that I initially like. It's the same kind of thing.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Sure, sure, sure.

[David Mamet]

So wait a second. So I called up Louis, who was starting this new thing, right. We're going. Going right to the people and call up Louie, because I knew he was doing it. I said, what's the secret? He said, there's no secret. Call up my guy. I call up the guy. The guy says, yeah, there's no secret. You go online, henryjohnsonmovie.com you put up an Instagram, wherever the fuck that thing is, and you. And you go out and you talk to people like people buy your. Buy your product. That's the secret.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yes, that's it. Is that you don't. You don't have an Instagram.

[Bobby Lee]

Crack that code.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Louie learned very early on when he did the first iteration of his Louis show. I don't know if you ever saw it.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

But it was almost mocking Multicam. It was like a clever kind of spin on multicam, and I don't think people got it right. So then when he did. Yeah, Lucky Louie. That's what it was. And then when he did his second iteration of it, which was Louis on fx, he kind of just. Just stopped all the. And was like, I'm just going to give you my world my way, without any directional notes from a studio and a thing. And the deal they made with him was he got to write it, direct it, produce it, and. And edit and push it out the way he wanted so they didn't touch it.

[Andrew Santino]

Right.

[Bobby Lee]

So he was really the groundbreaker for tr. To be fair. What we do too, like this podcast shit, it's because of those formats, because he was like, fuck it. Nobody tells Us what to do. And if you did, I don't want to work with you. So every time FX was like, you can't do this or you could do this, he was like, I'm telling you again, either I'm gonna do it, or it just doesn't happen. That's okay. So we kind of did this because this was our answer to, you know, him and I going through the business and either not getting roles or auditioning a lot and getting tired and being like, we want to make our.

[Shia LaBeouf]

I've had enough waiting in line.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, he's waiting.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Do it anymore. Audition. Audition. I'm done. I'm done.

[Bobby Lee]

He's done.

[Shia LaBeouf]

I think Rogan and Mark Marin also paved the way they did of, like, having in this format be something that we can just be like, you know, like Hollywood.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. But we wanted to be goofs. We just wanted to be goofs. We wanted to goof all the time.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

Which is hard to do now. It's not easy to do. It's not. It's not easy to do.

[Bobby Lee]

Well, I think we. We just don't take our. It's just. This is. This was a fantasy town. I mean, we painted this to look like a child's room.

[Andrew Santino]

It's so hard to do. You can't actually talk about it without kind of destroying the magic of.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

You know.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, we don't want it.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, we don't want it. Yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

We keep it. We keep it.

[Andrew Santino]

Wrong.

[Shia LaBeouf]

This has been such a blessing, you know?

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah. For me, too. Too.

[Bobby Lee]

Well, thank you.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah. You. You.

[Andrew Santino]

I told you.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, you told me.

[Bobby Lee]

I told him. The bond that was kind of crazy for David, that you may not know, was that Bobby went to rehab when his dad died. And we started this show because of his. Because his dad passed away, and then he got clean again, and we just wanted something to, like, around and go make something. And we started this. And then the pandemic hit. And terrible to say, but it was the greatest thing that ever happened to us.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Because then we could just be free. Free. And we got up a little, so.

[Shia LaBeouf]

No one was making anything. We were like, you know, we were.

[Bobby Lee]

In the studio every week and just doing our.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

And we had no rules and. No, there's nothing.

[David Mamet]

I got tired of being dead.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Mamet]

I really did.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah.

[David Mamet]

I got sick of it, you know.

[Bobby Lee]

Right.

[David Mamet]

Covert Head. And the theater died, and I got blacklisted. Nobody wanted to do my plays, and nobody wanted to do my movies over there. I just got tired of being dead. And somebody called up and said, let's do the play. And then we did the play, and he said, let's do the movie. And now I'm not dead anymore. No, we're about to do another movie.

[Bobby Lee]

Many more movies, it sounds like.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

What's crazy is that he has that feeling, you know? I mean, it's like.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, it's. Yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

You know what I mean? Which is comforting to hear.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. But don't we all feel that?

[Andrew Santino]

Well, that's the thing. You think guys like that don't.

[Bobby Lee]

No, I know. I think the older I get, the more I learned that everyone has that weird feeling.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Like it's gone, it's over. Yeah, but it's not. He says that. That weekly.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah, but that's almost a stick, you know, you're not going nowhere.

[Bobby Lee]

Thank you.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

God shy. Be here every week.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah. No, I'm not dead.

[Andrew Santino]

I'm not either.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Did you know Picasso?

[David Mamet]

Picasso? Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

No, you don't. He did. He did die in the. In the 80s, right.

[Shia LaBeouf]

That's what I'm saying. That he could know Dolly. He could have known.

[Andrew Santino]

Did you. You ever hang out with Sam Shepard? You guys ever go, hey, you know, man, I like your. Hey, let's. Nothing. Never in passing like, oh, no, we.

[David Mamet]

All want each other dead, man.

[Andrew Santino]

Wow.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Wow.

[David Mamet]

Worse than actors.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Wow. Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

I don't know.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[David Mamet]

Say, okay. The money that you're making with your shit is taking food out of my children's mouths.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah.

[David Mamet]

I hope you die.

[Andrew Santino]

It is sport. It's sport.

[Bobby Lee]

It is.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Well, comics used to be like that, but then we realized because of the New York. New York comedy scene, that we banded together, you know, I mean, and we just live within our ecosystem and we help each other by doing each other's podcasts. They all grow. Yeah, right. So we. I think 10 years ago, it was dog eat dog.

[Bobby Lee]

I mean, what if the difference became we all were fighting for the same slice of pie and the business blinded us to think that there was only one slice for us.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

And then once we kind of cracked this code, we were like, oh, fuck, we can all eat and we can eat different shit. We don't have to eat the same fucking. I don't even like that kind of pie.

[David Mamet]

That's just like Chicago in the 70s. All these little theater companies. Parties sprang up, right. And we each had our own flavor in it. We each had an audience and we worked with each other.

[Bobby Lee]

It's exactly what we are now. Literally what we've discovered that we were like, oh, we don't even want to eat that anyway, so we'll make our own. And then we found that we had our own audiences that liked it. And so the gatekeepers, as they were slowly kind of, you know, off, they didn't have power. Well, they had. They had less and less power because we weren't singing for our supper anymore. We were like, we're gonna go cook our own food. I don't. I don't want to do it anymore. And so comedy did used to be that way. It was cutthroat. We hated each other because, you know, back. Back. Carson was the spot. Those guys wanted to slit each other's throat for us Tonight show, doing Letterman, you know what I mean? Getting those, then getting a Comedy Central half hour or maybe getting an HBO special was impossible as a young person. So I think it just cracked. It recently cracked, which is what you guys are doing with the movie. Same thing.

[David Mamet]

Completely. It's over. I say it's like the Erie Canal. Right. However great the Erie Canal was in 1825, you can't put enough money into it to make the Erie Canal work again. When the railroads come in.

[Bobby Lee]

Right.

[David Mamet]

You can't put enough money into Snow fucking White, Right. To make the studio system work again. When the Potter verse exists.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah.

[David Mamet]

Nobody. Nobody's watching.

[Bobby Lee]

Right.

[Shia LaBeouf]

You know what's watching?

[Bobby Lee]

What's the last great thing that you've watched that's new.

[David Mamet]

Last great thing that I watched was new. I liked Casablanca up.

[Shia LaBeouf]

That was pretty good.

[David Mamet]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Here's looking at you, Ken.

[Bobby Lee]

He just learned about it yesterday. Who do you think. Who do you think is someone that. You don't have to dance this if you don't want to. Who's someone that you were excited to work with that let you down and then vice versa? Who are you? Who, Who, Who?

[Shia LaBeouf]

He's got to say that name.

[Bobby Lee]

Well, he might do.

[David Mamet]

No, I don't think I. My first react. You're talking about actors.

[Bobby Lee]

Anybody, Anybody in one?

[David Mamet]

Well, all. All the producers let me down. Every one of them.

[Bobby Lee]

That's right.

[David Mamet]

A bunch of.

[Bobby Lee]

Trash. Hate.

[David Mamet]

But at least back in the old days of the studio system, you got betrayed by a better class of people. Right, Right.

[Bobby Lee]

You got politely.

[David Mamet]

Exactly.

[Bobby Lee]

So, okay, I'll give you the opposite version of that then. Who's someone that you kind of were not. Were surprised by Or, or, or, yeah, you were happily surprised that you. You worked with them and you thought, I, I, I respect and like them, but you were blown away by their work.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Work.

[Bobby Lee]

Well, I Shy sitting right there.

[David Mamet]

But I've worked. I've worked with the greatest actors over the last 50 years, including shy has never worked with a better actor. Yeah, ever.

[Shia LaBeouf]

What about Jing Hackman?

[David Mamet]

Same thing. Never work.

[Bobby Lee]

Shut up.

[Andrew Santino]

For real.

[Bobby Lee]

Shut the up.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[Shia LaBeouf]

What about peace, you bastard.

[Bobby Lee]

Shut up.

[Shia LaBeouf]

How come you never mentioned the Asian lady either? His wife?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. You didn't talk about her.

[Shia LaBeouf]

It's always she.

[David Mamet]

What about. Wait a second.

[Bobby Lee]

Surname? He went on a big grand.

[David Mamet]

So I never work with a better actor than Gene.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Oh, yeah.

[David Mamet]

So Gene introduced. The first time I met him. He introduces me to his wife. Betsy was a concert violinist, an Asian woman. And he says, this is my wife, Betsy. I met her in a massage parlor.

[Shia LaBeouf]

I would have laugh so hard.

[Bobby Lee]

Well, that's why she killed him recently. That was that. That joke lasted long enough.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Like, how did you give Al Pacino notes? Did you give him notes?

[David Mamet]

I never give anybody notes.

[Shia LaBeouf]

All right.

[David Mamet]

Never give you a note.

[Andrew Santino]

No, not notes.

[David Mamet]

No, no. Here's the thing. You work with great actors. If you know what you're doing, what you get on opening night in the theater is the cast and the script. That's it.

[Shia LaBeouf]

All right?

[David Mamet]

The direction, the staging through. Nobody fucking cares. So when you work with actors who know what they're doing, you say, okay, like, how do we rehearse the movie? Except for blocking, we. I've never rehearsed a movie.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Wow.

[David Mamet]

Wow, right? You work and say, you know what you're doing? You got any questions? Then let's play the stupid fucking scene. Right? That's all that there is.

[Bobby Lee]

Did you ever have a big fight with Pacino?

[David Mamet]

A big. No, no. I had a big fight with De Niro though.

[Bobby Lee]

What happened?

[Shia LaBeouf]

What happened?

[David Mamet]

Well, it was just over the phone, he was doing the Untouchables, right? And I wrote the Untouchables. And he calls me up, he says, I got some questions about the script. I said, whoa, whoa, hold on. Aren't you supposed to ask the director about the question? And. The director. No, no, the director, Brian De Palma should talk to you. He should talk to me. I said, you have questions about the script? I said, yeah. I said, did you read the script before you took the part? He says, yeah. I said, why? The script got worse because they're paying you 2 million bucks for a week's work slam. So we didn't talk for years and years and years. And then I ran into him. So he was very. I did like. He did like four or five movies that I wrote, De Niro. And he Said, you know, blah, blah, blah. He said, you know what? I called you one. You called me one. I have the greatest respect for you. I said, bob, I have the greatest respect for you. So we go to have him do a reading of some film. I think it was the Edge, that was originally eventually played with Sean Connery. No, Alec Baldwin. It was Anthony Hopkins. Hopkins and Alec Baldwin. Yeah. So one of the great secrets about when anybody asks you to do a reading is they're never going to do the movie, Right? Never.

[Bobby Lee]

Right.

[David Mamet]

Because they use the reading unconsciously as a way to get out of doing the movie. And so the movie star, the main guy's going to mumble and everyone's going to audition at the reading. So it's garbage.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah. Yeah.

[David Mamet]

So anyway, we do the reading, and I talked to Bob afterward. I said, what do you think? He said, it's good. It's really good, but it's just not for me at this moment. It's just not it. I only have so many of them, and it's gotta be it for me. It's gotta be great for me. Yeah, it's gotta be great. He said, do you? Do you? Is that okay? I said, of course. He said, are you mad at me? I said, of course not. He said, are you sure you're not mad at me? I say, no. He says, good, because I got this piece of shit I'm supposed to shoot on Monday. I wonder if you could take a look at it.

[Andrew Santino]

But Wag the Dog. They came in for the table.

[David Mamet]

Reid wagged the dog. Yeah. But I wasn't there.

[Andrew Santino]

You didn't come in for the table?

[David Mamet]

Fuck, no.

[Andrew Santino]

It was just Hoffman and De Niro.

[David Mamet]

Whoever it was. We did Wag the Dog. Barry Levinson called me up. He said, I got this idea. It's in a book. The President gets in trouble, he's got to go to war. I say, oh, I got it. He's getting in trouble because they caught him in the closet fucking a Girl Scout. He says, yeah, go write it. So I go write it, and two months later, they were shooting it.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Wow.

[Bobby Lee]

Two months.

[David Mamet]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

That'll never happen again. That kind of.

[David Mamet]

It was great.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Do you like the new. I mean, you know, the Bill of Burr. I mean, the Glenn. Glenn. I mean, have you seen it yet with.

[David Mamet]

Yeah, I think they're great.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Okay.

[Andrew Santino]

The reason that will never happen again is because those conversations aren't happening like that.

[Bobby Lee]

Correct? Yeah, they're gone.

[Andrew Santino]

You never have elevens and call a guy up and be like, hey, like, two crafts People be able to have that conversation unadulterated without any of the keepers, you know, the minders and.

[Shia LaBeouf]

God, you're a bright kid.

[Andrew Santino]

All right, stop it.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Oh, my God. I. You know, when I. Even. Since I've met you back in the day. You're a bright kid.

[Andrew Santino]

Hey, thanks, folks.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, he's a great grown man.

[Shia LaBeouf]

No, but he's.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah, he always know me as a kid. I met him as a kid. I met him on a razor scooter.

[Shia LaBeouf]

He was riding bumblebee.

[Bobby Lee]

You don't dare refer to me as that.

[Shia LaBeouf]

No, you're not as bright as Shia. There's no way.

[Andrew Santino]

I think also because you'll physically. You'll harm him.

[Bobby Lee]

I do want to.

[Andrew Santino]

I know that, but it's hug love.

[Bobby Lee]

It's love. It's. It's. I love him.

[Shia LaBeouf]

You have rage. Love. It's rage.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay, be honest. David doesn't know us well enough to know how much do I love you, David?

[Shia LaBeouf]

Have you been in a fist fight?

[Andrew Santino]

Yes, he has.

[Shia LaBeouf]

For sure. Yeah, for sure.

[David Mamet]

I was. I've been very.

[Andrew Santino]

He's like a black belt dude.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, Yeah.

[David Mamet]

I am a black.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah, he's a jujitsu black belt.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Really? Wow.

[David Mamet]

But I actually got. Yeah. When I was a kid, I got in fights, but the only fight I actually got into, you know, outside of the mat in boxing, as I was walking down Fifth Avenue, these guys were playing three card Monty. And so, as my great friend Ricky J. The great magician said, three card Monty's not a gift game of skill. It's not a game of chance. It's not a game. So the guy says, okay, put your money down. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. The red you got ahead, the black you get back. 20 gets you 40. 40 gets you 80. 80 gets you little 80. Where's the red card? Where's the red card? He does this thing, right? And so he says, oops, we'll take. That's not the red card. That's gone. Where's the red card? So I know where the red card is. It's where you're not supposed to look. So I take it and I go over there and I turn the card over. Over. Which you're not supposed to do because they never let you win, Right. In Three Card Monty. Because if you say, I want that card. Oh, he upsets it and you have to start again. So I turned the card over and the guy punched me in the face.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Really?

[David Mamet]

Yeah. That hurt on Fifth Avenue? Sure.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[David Mamet]

It was Fifth Avenue and right near Right near Rockefeller Center.

[Bobby Lee]

You swung back.

[David Mamet]

No, I just. I was in. They disappeared.

[Bobby Lee]

Ah, right, right. Took your money and ran.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Wow.

[David Mamet]

Yeah.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Did you know Kurosawa?

[David Mamet]

I didn't know I saw him once. He was at the. The. The premiere of. Ran at. You were at the premiere Ran, yes, in New York.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Oh, my God.

[David Mamet]

And he was there. He's a beautiful man. Big maze, like six, four, I think he was there.

[Bobby Lee]

He was that big.

[David Mamet]

Yeah. It's a big man. Yeah.

[Shia LaBeouf]

He had black feet, too. Something, right, happened where he was in the snow or something?

[Bobby Lee]

No, he had frostbite.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Frostbite? Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

[David Mamet]

Well, he got it on deer.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah. Did you. What's. What's your favorite Kurosawa film? I'm a huge fan. I know. I bring it up a lot. Go yourselves.

[Bobby Lee]

He does love Kurosawa, I think.

[David Mamet]

Let me. Let me say four of them, right? There's a certain way.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yes.

[David Mamet]

Stray Dog. Because it's got. Takashi Shimura was the greatest actor who ever lived.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah.

[David Mamet]

And then Seven Samurai.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yes.

[David Mamet]

Which is perfect. But then, God forgive me, I think he screwed up the end of Rashomon because he had an extra scene after the movies.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Oh, I. Really?

[David Mamet]

Yeah. These guys trying to hit. A lot of them were guys going like diapers, trying to hit each other with sticks or swords.

[Shia LaBeouf]

All right, right, right, right, right. You see High and Low?

[David Mamet]

Sure.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah. Yeah.

[David Mamet]

Not only did I see High and Low, I rewrote it. But that I was. Who was it saying? Scorsese came to me and says, you know, high and low. I say, yeah. He says, you want to redo it? I say, yeah. He said, what do you think of the movie? I said, it's a great movie, but they missed the ending. They. They. It has the wrong ending. So I figured up the ending and I wrote it to Scorsese, and Scorsese wrote it back with a bunch of scribbled notes. Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. And then a bunch of stuff happened. I think Spike Lee did another version of.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah.

[David Mamet]

I don't think it has anything to do with my script.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Hey, Andreas.

[Bobby Lee]

Wow. Yes, director.

[Shia LaBeouf]

This is a director I know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. Andreas, behold your eyes. Right. Yeah. Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Did you bow to him on the way in? Yeah, you better.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Whatever he wants. You do whatever he wants. Foot stool. You're the foot stool. Okay.

[Bobby Lee]

He wants to spit in your mouth. He gets to spit in your mouth.

[Shia LaBeouf]

He spit your mouth, right?

[Bobby Lee]

He did.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Wow. Wow. So can I ask you something?

[David Mamet]

Yeah.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Mr. Mehmet, do you enjoy yourself on this podcast.

[Bobby Lee]

He wants to know.

[David Mamet]

Yeah, I've had a great time, you guys. I mean, come on, get out of here. Okay, here's one for you, Andreas. I'm a man who enjoys talking to a man who likes to talk. It's Sidney Green street in Casablanca.

[Bobby Lee]

Way to go up.

[Andrew Santino]

He's not ready.

[Bobby Lee]

Hit him again.

[Andrew Santino]

You're not ready. Not ready.

[Bobby Lee]

And this is why you are.

[Andrew Santino]

You're not ready.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, hit him again. Hit him again with something else. Give him another one, please.

[David Mamet]

Okay. Fiddle. DD I'll worry about it tomorrow.

[Andrew Santino]

Who's that?

[Bobby Lee]

God, this feels so.

[Andrew Santino]

You're not ready.

[Shia LaBeouf]

You're not ready at all, dude.

[David Mamet]

That's that. That I believe the last line of Gone with the Fucking.

[Andrew Santino]

Come on, dude.

[Bobby Lee]

Come on.

[Shia LaBeouf]

The fucking. Fucking thing. Maybe you could be boom operator for that. Thank you. Yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

By the way, he's gonna go home tonight, talk to his wife.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Oh, he's gonna kill himself.

[Bobby Lee]

He's gonna kill himself. Yeah, he's in like.

[David Mamet]

Wait a second.

[Bobby Lee]

David Mamet. Insult me in front of the truth over and over.

[David Mamet]

I got 12 million people watching.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Okay, okay.

[David Mamet]

Yeah, well, that happened.

[Andrew Santino]

You're not ready.

[Bobby Lee]

He wrote it. He wrote it.

[Shia LaBeouf]

He wrote it.

[David Mamet]

It's in state and Maine. Alec Baldwin one is in a car with Julia Styles and he's drunk. He turns the car over. The drunk, out of their mind. She's underage, crawls out. He looks at the car about to blow up and he says, well, that happened.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, we. We all know. You know, I mean, I don't know, man. I. I apologize. D. How do you not know that?

[Bobby Lee]

Just for good measure.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Just for. To sink it in for everybody. Please go see the movie right now. It's. It's available now. Right now.

[Shia LaBeouf]

We command as a duo.

[Bobby Lee]

Henry Johnson.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Watch it right now. You watch it right now, dude.

[Bobby Lee]

Please go see Henry Johnson. We're gonna put the link in the description down below because it.

[Andrew Santino]

Thank you.

[Bobby Lee]

It means a lot. Support our friends and our family. That's kind of the big thing about our fan base. They do like to support our family. We love that.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Continue on and please go watch henry [e-mail]. we. We really appreciate you guys coming. This means.

[Shia LaBeouf]

That was so fun, enlightening, and amazing. Yeah. And you, Andreas?

[Bobby Lee]

No, no, no.

[Shia LaBeouf]

As well. Enough. Oh, yeah. I love.

[Bobby Lee]

Had enough.

[Shia LaBeouf]

I love you. And we'll do your zombie movie.

[Bobby Lee]

Thank you. Oh, he's got us a zombie movie. He wants us to. What do you think about zombie movies?

[David Mamet]

I love him.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, yeah. Train to Busan. You ever see that one?

[David Mamet]

Which one?

[Shia LaBeouf]

Train to Busan? No, the Korean one.

[David Mamet]

But I thought it was really interesting that we have all these things about zombies and vampires because it was a. It was about a culture that was dying, right. America, Western culture is not. No longer dying anymore. Anymore. It's like, it's like the Japanese have a term, a matsu or matsuko means pine. Pine tree. But it also means vigorous old age. So that's what I think we're looking at now.

[Andrew Santino]

And you thought you were looking for a dismount? Yeah, we're digging a new hole, baby.

[Bobby Lee]

We gotta be honest with you.

[Andrew Santino]

We're digging a new hole.

[Bobby Lee]

Rolling. I thought you guys.

[David Mamet]

You're really gonna have to cut out the line about William Shatner's dick.

[Bobby Lee]

No, no, but now we need to keep going to make up for it. Old, old, Old. Old Korean. What is it? Old. And what's the pine tree?

[David Mamet]

Vigorous old.

[Bobby Lee]

Vigorous old. Vigorous.

[David Mamet]

Vigorous old age.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Vigorous old age.

[Bobby Lee]

Can you say the word one more time in Japanese?

[David Mamet]

Matsu or matsuko. Matsuko means pine tree and it's also a name.

[Bobby Lee]

Is that true?

[Shia LaBeouf]

I'm Korean. You dude.

[Bobby Lee]

Really?

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, yeah. Oh, David, you know a lot of Koreans or no?

[David Mamet]

Do I know when a lot of Koreans are. I don't think I know a lot.

[Bobby Lee]

Of Koreans of the Asians. How do Koreans rank of your Asians?

[Andrew Santino]

Oh, they're up there.

[Bobby Lee]

Are they up there? Tip top. Japanese, Chinese, Korean. You like Koreans up there or no?

[David Mamet]

I like them all.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah.

[Shia LaBeouf]

He likes all the.

[Bobby Lee]

We lump them all.

[David Mamet]

You know what Koreans are? Koreans are tough.

[Shia LaBeouf]

They are.

[Bobby Lee]

What.

[Andrew Santino]

I'll tell you like this. The difference for me is you get off the plane in. In Japan and no music is playing in the corner car. Right, right. And. And maybe they'll ask you if you'd like to listen to your music in the car in Korea you're listening to their music and they don't give a. What you're listening to.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, I like that.

[Andrew Santino]

And there's something about that.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, I like that.

[Bobby Lee]

They tell you what, you're in my.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah, I like that. Then you know you're in Korea.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Koreans are the.

[Shia LaBeouf]

We're the best.

[Bobby Lee]

That's Bob's mom, by the way. That's his mother right behind him. That's his mother. His beautiful mother.

[David Mamet]

Beautiful.

[Bobby Lee]

That is her.

[Shia LaBeouf]

She has cross eyes.

[Bobby Lee]

She does. She's cross eyed in real life. I'm trying to fix it, guys.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Thank you. So much. Can somebody. Before you guys go look, this is like a dream of mine. So we have a script for you. For you to.

[Bobby Lee]

That's gonna be it, guys. Thank you so much. Oh, oh, oh, okay. Give me the. Give me the. Who did this? Is this your.

[Andrew Santino]

Whose script is.

[David Mamet]

Oh, wait a sec. Wait a second.

[Andrew Santino]

This is like a make a wish show.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, we have. We have enough time. We just want to make sure you guys don't.

[Shia LaBeouf]

We have all the time in the world.

[Bobby Lee]

We have nowhere to go.

[David Mamet]

So, anyway, so my mother, rest in peace, was ill for a long, long time. I mean, there was a woman who was her caregiver, and she saved. She elongated my mother's life by years and loved my mother and Just marvelous. And made a lot of personal sacrifices. And my mom died, and this woman came up to me and I said, I. I don't know how to thank you for your. I mean, it's. I. It's beyond what I. It's godly what you've done. It's beyond generous. If there's anything in the world that I could do for you. Anything ever that I could do for you. And she said, well, my. My nephew wrote a film script. I said, anything but that.

[Shia LaBeouf]

Can one of you guys are looking at that camera? Go. Thank you for being a bad friend.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah, thank you for being a bad friend.

[Bobby Lee]

Love that, dude. Thank you guys. So good.