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You know Robert Patrick from his role in Terminator 2 as the bad Terminator, but he's been in dozens of movies and TV shows, including his current roles on Reacher and the Peacemaker and an amazing turn in the Sopranos. I thought. And look, I, you know, we all know this guy is a sort of, you know, heavy in the movies. And the reason he's on the show is I ran into him at LAX and we started talking, and he knew me and I knew him, and he was excited to meet me, and I was excited to meet him. He told me, gave me a card for. He's a he. He's part owner of a Harley dealership. And, you know, I thought, like, well, this guy would be interesting. So he's on the show today. How you doing? You holding up, man? It's going to be a rough week and then maybe a rough rest of time, right? One outcome horrendous. The fucking worst. How are we going to deal? The other outcome, manageable. And at least a little wiggle room to try to still maintain humanity at a level of tolerance and decency. But only half of us, the people I'm talking to here, I mean, I know who you are. You know who you need to vote for. Vote for Kamala. I mean, what the fuck is the question? I mean, I don't know. What. What do you. What can I tell you to do? I'm getting texts from people like, do you have any ideas on how to handle this. Well, it's out of your hands. It's out of your control. I would say try to maintain your sanity and not, you know, fall into a fucking pit of anxiety and fear and terror and turn it in on yourself and, you know, decide that you don't know if you can handle it or manage it or just kind of like preemptively despair or do something dramatic, use it as an excuse to relapse or to, you know, suicide yourself because you've turned this in all on yourself because of your afraid. Look at you. We're all afraid, at least half of us. And some people are very at risk. Marginalized people of one kind or another are at risk for their lives because of the anger out there and the intolerance out there and the violence out there. There are many people, LGBTQ community, the immigrant population. With the amount of propaganda put out by the tech oligarchs and their minions in the new media platforms, what is happening has never been so in this country, so shameless and so apparent. Fascism is good for big business. And the minions who have now, you know, kind of created their own show business industrial complex and are toeing the line for these fucking fascists and humanizing them and normalizing them, you know, they're of it, but they're, it's all part of the grift. When there's an autocrat, you want to suck up to them so you can be, you know, get in the money line. You know, there are decent, tolerant, empathetic people out there. There's more of them than the other if they haven't crumbled into themselves. I'm hoping for the best or at least the better. I guess the only thing you can do is try to convince the people that, you know, who are making a statement by not voting or voting for Jill Stein or whoever, that it's just, I don't know, is it time for those kind of personal statements? I know I going to get flack from full on lefties who are like, the two party system, it's all corrupt. What about Israel? What about corporate rule? What about. I know, I know, I know, I understand all that and you can keep fighting the good fight, but, and I said this the last time, you know, if fascism takes hold, that fight becomes a very different fight and your sort of, you know, ideological righteousness even has less of a voice, but maybe you can carve out a little place for yourself and live with yourself. But look, I don't know what to tell the people that are Panicking and panicking at me because, you know, I'm in the middle of my own panic. I voted. I sent it in. I did my bit. I've supported publicly who I support. You know who it is. I've said it before. Vote for Kamala. It's not a big. It's not a big leap. I don't know what undecided means, really. You know, you vote for a blustering, full on, shameless, proud fascist, or you vote for somebody who has at least the cultural and hopefully the political interests of what the country really looks like in place. Billions of people have had to adapt to this kind of political shift in their countries, in this planet. Billions. The big issue becomes, when you have a world run by a handful of autocratic fuckheads who are in cahoots with each other, what happens to Europe? I don't know. What happens to the Middle East? I don't know. But if the idea is not some sort of global alliance for fighting against fascism, and it becomes a global alliance of fascistic and autocratic leaders, I don't know whether everyone does, and I don't know what culture looks like. But we'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. Just don't hurt yourself, for fuck's sake. Yeah, I'm back at it this week. Got two more weeks on this movie. Last week was kind of amazing. I worked with Lily Gladstone last Thursday and Friday, just me and her, one on one. She plays my therapist. And it was. It was a. It was a high point. It was a high point in the life of my creative life and my life in general. I love Lily. We had a nice time, and I think we did good work. But onward. Onward we go. It's not over yet. Jesus, I'm. Yeah, I don't want to, you know, in the midst of all this chaos and fear. I don't want to say that, like, I think I'm doing my best work and I might even be enjoying myself. And I'm telling you, that experience I had with Sharon Stone last week has changed my approach to creativity, to comedy, to how I enter into the moment of how I take the stage. It's so rare that you have some sort of creative breakthrough, personal breakthrough when you're old. And it was. It's just mind blowing. And I applied it the other night at Dynasty. Just sort of. How can I explain it? Look, I know I'm a good comic. I've been doing it a long time. But there is part of the job of comic where, you know, it's sort of when you take the stage, it's sort of like, I gotta get them. I gotta, you know, I gotta, you know, go in strong. I gotta use this bit and that bit. But if you work improvisationally, like I do, to sort of build your stuff, you know, sometimes I'll start riffing only because I'm so tired of my other stuff and I gotta get something new out and, you know, I just start to kind of go for it and see what happens. But then something happened. After kind of breaking myself open with Sharon Stone in that moment on that. In that scene, like when I go on stage now, it's sort of like, just trust yourself, stupid. Don't worry about the fucking audience and getting them. I mean, I'm operating at a different frequency than most comics. I'm just, you know, I. I just have a different presence. And it's sort of like. You don't have to apologize for that or overcompensate for it. Just trust yourself. I mean, Jesus Christ, you must be funny. Come on, Mark, just go up there and open yourself up and just let it happen. Be funny. And the freedom of mind will come if you don't worry about the audience judging you. Yeah, you would think I would have nailed that already. And I kind of do, but it's usually with a fury, not with a sort of openness. So that's kind of happening. And I, you know, I have to thank Sharon Stone again for it. Quick observation. I had an interesting cat observation. So, look, I. You know, I've got this cat who's an asshole. Charlie. He's a good cat, and, you know, I love him, but he's like a classic asshole. He's not a bad cat. He just does everything that cats can do to, you know, annoy you and make them amazing. It's that weird line. It's like, could you be just a little less cat in every way breaking shit? Yeah, he's just one of these, you know, people come over, he's like, he's a great cat. I'm like, yeah, you're here. When friends come. When people come over, he's like, Mr. Charm. You know, when they leave, you know, I gotta pull them off the fucking ceiling or the drapes or, you know, from under something, or stop him from eating plastic or knocking cans over and glasses over. And not coming in from the catio because he thinks it's fun. It's just. I love it. I love watching Charlie play with a little scrunchie ball. Yeah, those little scrunchies like, and you throw it and he'll fetch it, man. And I just, you know, you just love watching a cat go crazy with a scrunchie ball. I do. I don't know what you like watching your cat do. I like to own it and fetching it and watching him play with the ball. But within like eight minutes, the ball is always going to end up under the stove. And it doesn't matter what part of the house it's in, somehow or another he'll get it under the stove. And so like I'm down there yesterday, you know, he got it under the stove and I got the broom out. So I'm using the whole broom handle and the light on my phone to kind of, kind of maneuver this ball out from under the stove. And he's sitting there just watching the whole thing and you know, I got it out from under the stove and I look at Charlie and I had this moment where I'm like, oh my God, he likes watching me play with the ball as much as I like to watch him playing with the ball. There's a reciprocity there. This isn't a one sided thing. I'm not getting the ball for Charlie. Charlie likes watching me fucking get the ball out from under the stove. See that? Same level shit. Same level shit. This episode is sponsored by Squarespace. And one thing we know about Squarespace, after using them to power our website for more than a decade, is that they never stop improving things. When you sign up for Squarespace, you'll always get the best platform to create your online presence. 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