The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds - 153- The Past Times with Marc Maron

Episode Date: December 5, 2025

Dave Anthony reads a paper to co-host Gareth Reynolds and ex podcast host Marc Maron SOURCES OFFICIAL MERCH TOUR DATES   Aura Frames - Use Code: Dollop

I can't wait to see Vancouver this time of year. The brisk refreshing air, autumn leaves scattered across Stanley Park. I'll get to hang out at Granville Island Public Market and try the local delicacy, candied smoked salmon, and best of all, I get to see a crowd of adoring fans at the Rio Theater. While daydreaming of fall travel, I realize my home could be working for me. I'm talking about hosting my home on Airbnb. Might as well, right? Otherwise, it will just be sitting empty while I'm gone.

While you're off living your best life, your home could be bringing in some extra cash. Whether you're off for a work trip or a family vacation, why not make the most of it? Hosting on Airbnb is smart and a practical way to help cover travel costs. Your home might be worth more than you think. Find out how much at Airbnb.c.a. slash host. Welcome to the past times. It's a podcast. You know me, I'm the funny guy. Each week we go through a newspaper from a random date in history picked out by Dave Anthony.

I, Gareth Reynolds, have never seen it and neither has this week's guest the great Mark Maron. Mark Thank you. Thank you. Here we go. Is it happening? Showtime. It's a pleasure to be here with the clown and the crank.

You're the other crank. What a great title for the alt title. It's the clown and two cranks at this point. Alt title for everything we do. What's going to happen? A clown and two cranks. That's a strong. Every morning radio show. Wow.

The cloud and the crank is very good, honestly. Are you more excited to do podcasts now, Mark, since you stopped doing yours, or is it still just you'd rather not be doing it? It is something that I couldn't want to do less. Yeah. But I find myself, well, I mean, look, it's odd to not have a podcast, but it's surprisingly relaxing. Yeah.

Oh, I can't imagine. Yeah, and I don't, I don't mind, I don't mind showing up on other people's podcast. I did a round of them for a while and started a massive amount of shit everywhere. Oh, Mark. That got all the way up to King Rogan, who decided to criticize me for talking shit about comics and then talk shit about me for an hour. It was really something.

Don't think that we haven't been gleefully watching the way you went out with a flame thrower. It was awesome. Yeah, going down shooting, I guess. Yeah, but then once you were done, then he started firing shots when you no longer had a cannon. It's very funny when, yeah, it's very funny when they all start talking shit after you've signed off. The day after. The day after was the day where he's like, you know what, I'm actually going to be honest about Mark.

Very brave. But no, you were, I mean, you were cooking. And a lot of, I mean, some of, like, where he started teeing off a little bit was where your special panicked. you'd have the bit about Theo, which was just hilarious. And then that apparently, you know, great bit. The whole special is great. Everyone should go watch this special. But what happened to busting balls.

It's like what comics have always done. You bust someone's balls. But the funny thing is that Joe in the middle of his, you know, strangely, the funny thing about that was that he did research, you know, it was not like off the cuff. Like he took some time to go through the history of. me and look and some of it like oh he said I was you know sad he said I was I think selfish he said I was jealous you know these are these are real surprises to a lot of my fans yeah it's tough to hear but but you know the only thing that upset me is like some of the

research was off and and you know which is indicative of people who do their own research in general but like i got i got upset with some of the facts because they were not they were not real everything he said that's fine but a couple of the facts were off i mean that's pretty much rogan show at this point i mean one of the one of the things he brought up was like talking about vaccines at like the store and shit it was just all nonsense i did look it up mark has one of the lowest ivermectin rates of audience members of a touring comedian i mean that is true i don't know if you want to respond to that, but well, I don't think I was doing

it right. I just, you're just supposed to put in cereal or something. I don't know if I was doing it right. Are you eating Ivermectin now? Is that what you're starting off with? Is this kind of a road-induced snack? Yeah. There's no reason why, I don't know, it's like statin. You know, you just, yeah, everyone's on it and everyone, you don't need

a intestinal lining. It's totally pointless. No, usually I just do like I shake up, like I just did my protein drink with the protein powder, creatine, and Ivermine. You talk about how there's no moon landing. Yeah, I get it. There is no moon landing.

I don't know. There wasn't a moon landing. Didn't she see Capricorn 1? That's a factual movie. A lot of movies that we think are just written are actually documentaries. But no, I honestly, Mark, like the way that the level of honesty that you were just throwing out there was so refreshing. And I think so many people were like, oh, my God, you just kind of.

of, yeah, I think the whole, this all did need a calling out. And I don't know. I just loved watching it. And I think a lot of other people did too. But my basic problem is like, look, whatever my problems are with, you know, certain comics in terms of what they do, like that I still believe, you know, they can do whatever you want. But there was this idea that there was this large tribe, the great monoculture of free thinkers,

were, you know, deciding what comedy was or what good comedy is. And because there's so much, you know, noise coming from them, it was just starting to be annoying because it's completely subjective. And their group think on it was, you know, at best, boring. Yeah. I agree. I also think there's a huge difference between where you want to punch and punching up let's go but I think to what you were saying it's sort of like this level of sort of punching down

and fighting for the R word and all this other stuff has just become so fucking stupid so anyway the thing is you went out like a champ when the person when the person you're bullying is crying and saying okay okay that's usually when you stop as that's right if you're a professional bully yeah but if that's all you have in your quiver then that's all you have in your quiver They don't have any other... Yeah. Like, what are they going to do? Some interesting thought-provoking comedy?

Well, not enough comedians are using quiver. The edge, man. Right off the bat. You know. Quivers are out. There's a... There's an app. There's an app called quiver that most people are using.

Yeah. No, I think Dave's been brave with the quiver stuff lately. Yeah, a lot of quiver stuff. Well, anyway, Mark, thank you for being here. And we're going to go through an old newspaper. I know it doesn't sound excited. that's because it isn't. But...

How old? Well, that's what we're going to guess right now, Mark. You get to start with the guess of what year you think... You could guess blindly as to what year you think this paper could be from. It's probably not going to be from the 1600s. It'll probably be 1800s or 1900s. Right, that's what I'm thinking. Random guess.

Random guess. 1907. Oh. I'll guess August 10th, 1930. You're wrong. It's August. August 10th, 1930. Did someone tell you what it was?

Yeah. You looked at it. No, Preston sent it to me. See, Mark, Dave's been screwing me over in the guessing game for a long time. What happened to the last episode? I won, but because you were mad because the guy was a Dodgers fan. This is the crank, Mark. You don't like the Dodgers?

I should know this. Oh, Mark, don't, Mark, don't do this. Mark. Let's not even. Mark, Mark, he'll... Look, I don't even know what they just won, so I'm the wrong guy to engage. It doesn't matter. They won the World Series.

It doesn't matter. The owners funding. That's the big one. The owners funding the camps that they're sending the immigrants to. So I'm not a big fan. Really? I told you, Mark. Is he then training them for baseball?

Yeah, they're training camps. It's a lot of cone drills. You take the money that you make off of immigrants working for a dollar day in a camp, and then you can use that money to buy players to play baseball. I can't clown. Or maybe they're looking for pictures, you know. See, the crank is here. It's true.

It's possible. Yeah. All right. August 10th, 1930, the Albuquerque Journal. That's where I grew up. That's right. Whoa. That's probably why this happened.

First headline. I've been to Albuquerque. But did you, like, did you plan this because you knew marks from Albuquerque? Let's pull from where he grew up. That's what happened. Yeah. No research did that. Yeah.

Researcher really good. Yeah, it is true. Okay. I mean, it's the minimal catering we do. Okay. He falls into bad luck two times a day. His bond of $130 for drunk and driving is forfeited. Then he falls on the courtroom floor. Hmm. It's a good headline. When did driving drunk become illegal? I mean, 90s. Can I hear that headline again? Yeah. He falls into bad luck two times a day. His bond of $130 for drunken driving is forfeited, then he falls on the courtroom floor. Wow. It might not be his bottom at all. No, he'll dry out and sell, and he's right back at it, that guy. Yeah, I mean, they're just falling down in court.

That's not, that's not, that's not, that's not, that's not a bottom. That's not a crime. There was, there was nowhere to send them at that time. I think AA was pretty new, so they just sort of weighted it out and then gave him his keys back. Well, this is before we have. Dodger camps where we could send the problematic citizens, right

Dave? Yeah, that's right. I'm surprised driving drunk is illegal at this point. That's what I mean. I feel like it took us a while to be like wait a minute. These guys are crashing a lot. People, like it didn't, not until the mid-80s were people like, we shouldn't be doing this as much.

What a run. The effort of V. Van Gleason from 1027 North 6th Street to do the right thing got him deeper in trouble in police court Monday afternoon. A rain on a charge of drunken driving Monday morning, Van Gleason posted a $130 bond for appearance at the afternoon session, but failed to answer when his name was called at the time. The bond was in forfeited.

He was sleeping. He was out. That's my name. That's crazy. These guys are talking about me. That's a rough place to pass out. Yeah. What the hell?

As the courtroom cleared at the close of the session, Van Gleason was seen solemnly sitting at the end of the bench. Oh, he's just like, he just didn't know where he was. He's like, this is a weird church. He had remembered that he was supposed to be there for some reason or another. Oh, to know you're supposed to go. This is like a nightmare. Oh, God, now I know I'm here. Imagine that probably maybe one of those guys who's so drunk that you like,

blackout, but you come to and you're still just like, you're still just somewhere. Oh, those are the worst. How did I get here? Yeah, no idea. Yeah. Someone's just referencing something that happened at night. I remember napping while the car was moving. What is happening?

And now I wake up here. Junk again declared Chief Pat O'Grady after one look. Let's see you stand up. Oh, that's rough. Well, the ultimate test. But it's interesting. thing back in the day they did the sobriety test at the courthouse it was not at the traffic stop yeah they just that would be great oh that would get me back and i would be going

i always think that whenever you watch those court shows like the people are just hanging out watching that would get me in there oh my just chilling the cue started to obey but made a slight mistake of starting backward instead of upward I don't think that's possible. It is. So you push with your feet, but you go, whoa, and you go backwards. That's called fall. He fell over.

He's falling backwards. Yeah, he fell. Wow. So they actually said falling backwards was starting standing backwards. Yeah. That's quite gymnastic. Yeah, I guess he had a word count that guy. Yeah.

That's a perfect excuse. You fell over. I started falling backwards. I started standing backwards. I started from staining backwards. The long bench tipped back, and as... He tipped the whole bench. And as the struggles, Van Gleason overbalanced it,

one end went down and the other up. Like a seesaw. Yeah. He was deposited on the other side to keep the game going. Yeah, that's right. We flank them on the bench. He was deposited on the floor in front of... The magistrate who had been halted on his way out by the strange proceedings.

There's another charge against this man now, said the magistrate. Van Gleason was booked for drunkenness. In court. And taken to a downstairs cell to regain his composure for another appearance attempt Tuesday. That's tough. So they sever them up to tomorrow. It is tough to be arrested in court while waiting to deal with your last arrest. But that's a pretty great way to go to court.

Yeah. all while still being drunk. Yeah. Oh, yeah. This guy was so hammered. They got him into the squad car and to the courthouse and he was still fucked up. He fucks up the bench. They let him dry out and then they're going to bring them back in for another charge of property damage because the bench.

I don't think you could be arrested twice in one day. I don't think that. That should not be legal. That feels like double jeopardy to me. But Dave, your dad used to show up to court drunk, right? My dad would show up to court drunk, yeah. he had the he went uh he had he liked to drink uh lunches and he i should say he's a lawyer and dead and dead and he uh he went to court after having one of his lunches and uh was so hammered

the judge is like you know we're going to continue this till tomorrow because your attorney is just shit-faced really tracks a lot you got that right let's do it now We're here to party. You imagine your public defender is hammered? You're like, what the fuck? No. I had a low bar, but what? Can I appeal now?

Yeah, shut up. He was probably just like, so you want to go get a cup hop? Yeah, yeah. Let's just finish this day, dude. What kind of warrior with your dad? Drunk. He was a defender. He started out.

He was at first a deputy district attorney. and then he switched to defense. He was just like an ambulance chasing guy at the end. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was bad. He was a bad lawyer. He had so many.

He had all complaints against him. And, like, it was, yeah, it was, if you had and looked at this. And when did the problems with you two start? Yeah, that's a good question. When I was on Marin. Oh, wow. No. Wow.

How dare you? No, the problems between us started when I was, when I was 20. I'd say. Yeah. But didn't you write you a letter? Didn't you write you a letter about Marin or something? Are my crazy? He wanted, I went on Mark's show, and a lot of it was about my dad.

And then he contacted Mark because he wanted to do a rebuttal. Oh, my God, Mark. One more episode. Well, I said that would be fine if he could sober up for the appearance. And it's just I never heard back from him. that was the last I heard from him it was too much to ask yeah well he's in the ground now but he's getting drier

he's finally drying out I know that was that was I think the day we refer to the day Dave was happy I know the day the happiness started I texted Dave that day and I go I'm really sorry man and he goes you killed him he just died no bits for a day dude no

he did the same thing with sickler I think he reached to Sickler after I did Sigler's podcast and did the same like there's a lot of lies in there I would like to correct the record really yeah yeah did sick or tell him to file a brief my dad my dad after he read the book after he read the attempting normal book his whole side of the family got so so mad at me and I honestly gave no shits about it. And my dad was furious about how, you know, about stuff I said about him in the book. And I said, what do you want?

Money? And he goes, yeah. How much? I said, how much money do you want? And my dad goes, $100,000. And I said, I said, I'll send you five. Do you take it? Yeah, I sent it to him.

And they said, we're not going to cash it. They cashed it. I'm okay. I'm okay with my dad now because it turns out there's a there's a cure for bipolar and it's a dementia. Oh, shit, yeah. You've got some great stories about your dad. Yeah, I saw your picture.

Revelled them right out. Just a sweet little sponge of a man now. That's amazing. That is so funny. Wow. He still got fire in his belly, but it only lasts about 40 seconds at a time. It doesn't make sense. And then he turns and goes, who are you?

Yeah, yeah. He's not at the Who Are You yet. It's kind of amazing because it's been a while, but he still knows who I am. Wow. Is I mad at you? No, he's not mad at me. He's very, he's very in awe and very proud and loves me. Well, now you can tell him you sent him the $100,000.

Yeah. What'd you do with that $100,000? I thought it'd go further. Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot about that. No, they do start to say very interesting things because their brain's a little mushy and there's no filter. So out of nowhere, like the other day, he said, you know, all white immigrants smell bad. And I didn't even know what to do with that.

It was such a new twist on. What do you say? Are you agree? Or you like peculiar take on racism? It might be time for stand-up. That's a pretty good opener. That line's like strong. It was great.

He goes, you know, he goes, life is tough. And if you make too much out of it, it's tougher. And then he says, he says, there's things you really need to forget. And I'm like, all right. Oh, my God. Well, that's working out for you. Yeah, that's perfect. It's very close to some deep thoughts.

Yes. No, they're very close. He said one time he says, he says out of nowhere, he goes, you got to take the consequences or make your own. Like, holy shit. So is he kind of just becoming like a fortune cookie almost? Like you're just like,

that's actually pretty good. It's like a thought for the day calendar at this point. Yeah. Oh yeah. Exactly. I just say I got to go out there and keep them going with them. All right. Next one.

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I'll get to hang out at Granville Island Public Market and try the local delicacy, candied smoked salmon, and best of all, I get to see a crowd of adoring fans at the Rio Theater. While daydreaming of fall travel, I realize my home could be working for me. I'm talking about hosting my home on Airbnb. Might as well, right? Otherwise, it will just be sitting empty while I'm gone. While you're off living your best life, your home could be bringing in some extra cash. Whether you're off for a work trip or a family vacation, why not make the most of it?

Hosting on Airbnb is smart and a practical way to help cover travel costs. Your home might be worth more than you think. Find out how much at Airbnb.ca.com. Okay Till's wife tongue slipped. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.

So his wife said something. Yeah. They don't want to use his first name because okay sounds. better. Okay. An East St. Louis man who was about to lose his furniture because of non-payment, outsmarted collectors. That's a turn of phrase back then.

He's about to lose his furniture. Right? Yeah. He's furious. Because of non-payment, outsmarted collectors until his wife's tongue slipped. It's just like a woman. This is exactly what my wife would do. Yeah.

The couch is in the garage. Grace! No! Jesus! the chairs are in the yard and back what is not you idiot the man after learning that his furniture was to be taken applied for a smallpox placard saying his children were ill oh my god it's like a fake vax card but for smallpox yeah you would just put a little card out front that said you know smallpox in the house yeah and that people wouldn't go in

Would you ever shout it into a microphone before a show? Yeah, oh, yeah. Smallpox in the house. There's smallpox all over the bed, the rug, the couches, the dining room table. Oh, you guys take them. They're real poxy, though. Yeah, yeah. These kids have been rolling around in them.

Suit yourselves. Good luck. They don't have smallpox. Grace. Oh, so you actually had to apply for it. Like, you couldn't just put one up. The application was granted, and the placard was interned. posted in front of the house.

Okay. Yeah. So he got to lie about... This is the slowest repo company I've ever heard of. Honestly. And the guy's like, hold on. I'm applying for a smallpox placard. Could you come when the pony delivers it?

Sure. Yeah, we can do that. Collectors failed to go in. Finally, however, the man's children were found playing in the street. And the wife was asked for an explanation. Ah, the children aren't sick. we just placed the sign in front to frighten off collectors. Oh, my God, the whole plan.

She's not good at the plan. She's not good. Well, at least she was being honest, and that's not nothing. Well, it's not great right now. I mean, that's not going to give you a chair. Yeah, the kids got nothing to sit on it. Yeah, I mean, I love honesty, but good Lord. Yeah.

We don't have a table to eat off of. You got to take that one. That was a good story. Yeah, it feels good. It just shows America's always had, like, good instincts. That's right. And Americans. Tree sitting record comes to city today. Charles Walker at 1 p.m. will reach 431 hour mark.

What? Crown now held by a Texas lad. To sit in a tree? 431 hours. Hours. Over four days. I'm pretty good at math, Mark. I'm terrible at math. It is over four days.

It's definitely over four days. If that would happen today, it would have been, you know, heralded as David Blaine's most amazing feat. Yeah. Or a protest. A tree sitter. Yeah. But that 40?

But that a year? That's a year. That's over a year. He's in the tree. Or is it hours? No. 431 hours is. Oh, okay. Okay. It's like what, but this was, so there was a period where adults sat in, uh, did pole sitting and then, and then kids started doing it. It's a hell of a time. Yeah, there was. So it's almost 18 days. Which is a long time for a kid to be in a tree.

Yeah, but like it's not even like, you know, the first few days, it's like, wow. But by a week, people are like, oh, fuck, he's still up there. It's ridiculous. Yeah. No, it is. It becomes a problem. It does become a problem. Yeah.

What are we going to do? Albuquerque boy tree sitters. It's not. Albuquerque boy tree sitters with the added inspiration of a bicycle as a prize for the winning local. What? So some business was like, okay, we'll give a kid a free bike for whoever can stay up, the pole the longest.

And so all these kids are trying to win the bike by sitting up. So it's a company behind it. And everyone's like, yeah. Makes sense. What a way to spend this summer. Yeah. Back then, you were like, whoa. Yeah.

School's out. I'm heading up into the tree. And if your parents. I mean, that is a dream for parents. Like, it's better than camp. You're like, we can go check on him. Although you're worried your kid's going to fall out of the tree. You just toss a sandwich up there every couple days.

Yeah, throw the sandwich up, yeah. Yeah, well, the kid who won fell out of the tree and he couldn't use the bike. So it was a sad story. Where's the follow-up story? Well, it's a little depressing. The continued tree-sitting Sunday without any break in the monotony, Charles Walker 14 will reach 431 hours at a new world's record if he is still a Top is Perch at 421 Luna Boulevard at 1 o'clock Monday.

Three others up. The record of 430 hours is held by Doral Gaither of El Paso. At least that is the longest record now known of. Known of. Gaither was reported to have descended at the end of 402 hours. Wait, at the request of El Paso health officers. Oh, wow. They did a health check.

But it took more than 18 hours to dislodge him from his perch. he wouldn't come down. So they dislodged him. I wonder how they did that. I mean, they probably just grabbed him, but still. Through water at him or put a hose on him? Sure. Hose him out of the tree.

Three other local tree sitters, Louis Mera, Adam Kerriga, and Henry Gagos were reported to still be resting in their arbor abodes late Sunday. So there's kids all over the fucking town up in trees. I don't hate it. I also like the term arbor abode. Sure. Way better. And also, at least you know where your kid is.

Yeah. You can just go check on it. I mean, that would be ideal. That, like, I've never wanted to be a parent, but I could pull off a tree kit. You're worried your kid's going to fall out of the tree. No, I'm not. Crack his head. No, I'm like, I'm just going over there.

Yeah. Throw up a bag of chili every few days. Toss him a Gatorade. There would be emulator. The adult flagpole sitter, Duke, Neil, has yet failed to take his seat atop the pole. he had especially erected for himself in front of the Heights dance hall on Central Avenue. So this guy put up a pole and everyone's waiting for him to go up and he's just not going up. Probably because the other kids are getting the attention right now.

So why would you do it while they're going on? Yeah, it's different when you're a man. You don't want to be the second guy up the tree after the other guy's been up there a long time. Yeah. No. Well, yeah, like somebody killed before you. And you're like, ugh. No.

Oh, my God. Oh, wait, Neil twice attempted to scale the 80-foot pole Saturday evening and erect his seat at the top, but failed in both attempts. Oh, so he can't even get up there. He announced that he would climb up Monday evening and take his position. 80-foot's a pretty tall pole to shimmy up. What the fuck? How old are these kids? I mean, what do you?

This is an adult now. Now we're talking about the adult who's going to go. I wish it was the drunk guy from the first story. Well, now that's, you're not allowed to do that. There were laws. That should be the fad. Drunk guys going on a pole sitting? Fuck, yeah.

Jesus. A lot of guts on the street. Neil had two close calls near the top of his pole Saturday. Once he was compelled to drop a bucket of paint, he was applying to the pole in order to keep him from falling. What? Yeah, he's painting it. To stop from falling? No, he had to drop the bucket or else he was going to fall.

Oh, but I guess the idea of why would you paint it? Is that part of the thing? I mean, is that the incentive to get up the pole? Is it like, you know, you got to paint the pole all the way to the top and sit there? Make it your own? You do make it your own. The paint's kind of a non sequitur. They just threw that in there.

It's a bit strange. Yeah. Or maybe it wasn't a paint bucket. Maybe it was a shit bucket. And they just don't want to say that. It's paint. Don't worry. It's just brown paint.

That adds a whole other dimension to it. Where are these guys taking a dump, they're just sort of like, get everybody, look away. look away promise cover your eyes they did they crapped in buckets and hoisted it down and they peed in a tube that went all the way down to the oh my god but they uh just and there was just people rallying around this like just yeah you know people loved it watching because it's it's 1930 there's nothing to do so the guy watching people shit come on we're going to the we're going to the pole guy he's shit this a whole list of depression era sporting events that aren't very honestly there was a guy there was a guy there was a guy

that walked backwards across the U.S. and the whole town towns came out when he came through and they're like, there he comes. That I get that. Literally, if they were like, there's a guy who's walking backwards, he's going to be in your town. I'd be like, I will go check it out. Yeah.

I mean, I'm sure he's just like, it's a pretty small time investment. Yeah, it's like 10 minutes. There he goes. Into the hills. It's just in absolute agony. I'm doing Fallon. So you walked across the country backwards? Yeah.

I can't even believe that. Why'd you do that? That'd be so crazy. I walked forwards when I'm tired. The other time a rope around himself and the pole broke and he slid from the top of the pole to the base but was uninjured. Bull shit. The pole broke? Oh, my God.

So he's not good at him. Where's the lawsuit for that? Yeah, right? Whoever let them put the poll up, like whoever the business? Yeah, the business. Businesses would hire people to sit in a poll in front of their business to attract customers. It really is remarkable. It was a better time.

Now you've got to have an Instagram. Times are different, huh? Okay, this is the Instagram of the poll sitting. Oh, my God. I'm down to start pole sitting again. So Preston put in a follow-up the next day. Oh. Charles Walker comes down off tree perch says he got tired sitting after breaking record.

He did a day? No, he did. Oh, he did the full. He did the one that did the four. 19 to 331. Okay. He did 432 and a half hours aloft. Yeah.

After 432 and a half hours of loft or 18 days and one and a half hours, Charles Walker, 14, Albuquerque's first boy tree sitter descended to Earth at 3.30 o'clock in Monday afternoon. Descently. He didn't come from. space. He descended to Earth. I mean, honestly. Was it previously a woman's sport?

No. No. No. It was men. But women started doing it, and everyone's like, what are we doing now? Well, I don't mind coming out. I am opposed to that. Yeah, it's disgusting. I mean, they'll get hurt. Their wounds will explode. You know how it works. Yeah, the higher up a woman goes into tree,

the more her womb's in danger. Biologically speaking. yeah uh now she takes ivermectin the lad climbed from his perch and astonished his mother by walking straight to the bathtub oh because she's like she's like he never wants to take a bath but he's like jesus christ that was a nightmare i'm sick disgusting i have small dirty i mean imagine how much you you i always think that tired got tired of using the bucket my pants spilled the bucket just i just just people looking up there and you're wiping your ass like Crazy.

Crazy. If there's like a crack in the stall at the airport, I'm like, this is hell. Yeah. It's like a day at the zoo, and you're in the monkey cage. You just got to sit. I would wait until, I mean, when you're just like, nobody's coming. Let's get that bucket. Yeah, it's nighttime.

Time to shit on the ground. Oh, it's perching at night on your bucket. Oh, yeah, you shit, yeah. And you wait to hear it hit the ground. You're like, there it goes. Oh, okay. Yes. And people just, we're trying to walk by, and they,

just see like a mound of crap and flies around your pole? He must have been up there a while. That looks like a dinosaur shit. What do those people do who spend like two years in a redwood tree to keep it from getting cut down? Buddy, what do you, I mean, they're just, don't they build like nice tree houses or something? They usually have a, yeah, like some kind of, no. And they have like little, uh, they do have like little toilets they put in bags.

They do? Yeah, I think so. Yeah, they have like, it's like the illusion of a toilet. Wow. Or they'll just crap over the side. Yeah, I can get some of those. Is there a lot of line? You want some for the table?

Yeah, I can get some for the table. You want some for the table? Just want a lifeline to validate your perception or idea of what they shit in in the redwood tree. You know what? He thinks it's like a friend Jack. If I heard Garrett explain it correctly, he says it's like a toilet in a bag. No, no, you guys, you know what? It's just what he said.

Look at the two cranks connecting while the clown throws out some real shit, okay? there's a bucket and you put a little thing. You ever see the chairs you could crapp in? Go ahead, Dave. Chairs you can crappin? Are we talking about like an old person's home? You never go to a parade and shit? What?

It's one of my fetishes. Shitting in a parade? Well, being on the side and having a chair you can crappin. Dave wrote, he went way out of his way to write in a shit bucket into Marin. I mean, it was a whole episode. Yeah. Well, I did. Yeah.

Yeah. There was a shit bucket with a toilet seat attached. to the top and that was one of Dave's great contributions to the show so he saved the show was the shit well no I've always I've always wondered what Dave's process

what the process must have been like for you to I'm sure it was Dave finished yelling and then you agreed to write it on the board Dave was the only guy who wasn't sleeping in the writer's room that's because his dad was a drug lawyer that would be amazing if it wasn't true but it's true

that's so funny that that How did Dave stick around so long? He was awake. Yeah. He was awake. He was awake. One hour is waiting for somebody to say something. That was anything.

Just say something. Yeah. What I would love to see some of that. When Dave's the only one talking. There was one guy that would put her cup and go, Dave's on the board. Yeah. So you had a guy who only had a kid.

edgephrase about an idea that wasn't his. We were on a budget. But the show was great, but it doesn't seem like it really had a fair shot. We had a bunch of guys in there, and somehow or another, we got a show out of it. Great show. But Dave was, you know, on top of it, you know. Well, he rode himself in a lot at the end, though. I mean, that's how you do it, you know.

I got a little Dave heavy towards the end, in my opinion. No, I know. I know, it just, it was, like, he was, I mean, I think in some conversations, Dave sort of claims it was kind of his show at last in the third season. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Brad Pitt would probably say that, because that was his favorite character. I mean, Mark, how true is that? You know what I mean?

It feels like I'm talking to your dad. No, it's true. But the, Brad Pitt like Dave. Yeah, Brad Pitt like Dave, but I think the main reason was there was a scene where Dave just farts and it goes unsaid. Yeah. And he just sits there and farts and no one responds. to it. Yeah, the scene was Mark, Mark is very vulnerable and says how much he cared about, you know,

my friendship and stuff and my response is just to fart. It's just farted. And I think that sent Brad over the edge. And, uh, well, Dave, really helped him out. He was in a dark place. It really was. It took him out of the dark place. Oh, Dave's his favorite character.

He saved, he saved Brad Pitt's mental life. No, there was a, there was a time there. And he's doing better than ever. So a lot of people do claim that Dave, Dave's fart was his positive 9-11. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Well.

He was my least favorite character, if that helps anything. I'm actually, I do a course on that now, a mental health course. Maybe you just go back to the iPad. All right. About farting? The best Dave's story is that he is that Joe Kessler, the, the DP, I gave everyone a shot to direct because, you know, I just didn't care. And I thought, like, well, why not? and no one's watching this.

So everybody got to direct an episode. And Kessler, the director of photography, he wanted to get everything possible into his episode. There was a crane, there were close-ups, and it was like, it was crazy. And there was one scene where Dave was in a bedroom. It was a shot where I think he was doing something with his wife, some sort of S&M thing.

And they were like in the bedroom, like in position, like on top of each other. and Kesswer had moved on without Dave knowing it was cut and he was just like in that room going what are we doing you know do you remember that yes what was that just his name smart what's her for yeah Amy smart my favorite moment from the whole show was when the uh your personal assistant who made bacon in his apartment took a shit in your room. Oh, is that

in an episode? No, it was real. It was actually behind the scenes. We were shooting in a hotel of Mark at his own room. He went in there and took a shit. Oh, yeah. I'm like, what are you doing? Mark like lost his wife. There's so many places in their shit. You know what? That is, when you become one on the call sheet, it really is just people being like you get to shit comfortably like you're gonna everyone the idea of violating that space

you get your you get your own quarter trailer yeah you're you're not gonna have to sneak off to shit like an animal or like a guy in a tree the best shit story was Michael Lerner that was were you on for that one were you there for that Michael Lerner you know the guy who played the studio head in Barton Fink you know great character actor from the 70s

you know he was cast as my staff as my mom's boyfriend. And he was just an animal. Like, you know, first of all, you know, Sally Kellerman, playing my mother, should not have been shooting the season because she was way into dementia and barely knew shit where she was. And Bob Kat, he kept trying, having to feeder line per line. And he, I don't know how he pulled it off, but he shot around it.

It was very sad. But that didn't deter Michael Lerner from trying to fuck with everyone's head in every scene so he could steal them. Like, you know, like he would lean into me. Like, Sally Kellerman is just sitting in there going like, I don't think I like him. And, uh, and, and, and, you know, we would do a take and learner would go, like, is that the way you're going to do it? No, I mean, I'm not saying anything, but okay, if you're going to do it that way to me. And I'm like, you fuck.

And then he would just ham it up. But the best part about him was like he wanted to take everything home. He was like, we were on a set in what was their condo. He's like, can I take this plant? I'm like, what are you talking about? Yeah. Is it a prop? I'm like, no, can I take the bathroom?

No, you can't take the bathroom? What about these shoes? No, what are you doing? I can't take the shoe. So in the condo, he's got a trailer. Fucking Lerner has a trailer. And in the condo we were shooting in. It was so small that video village was in the bathroom of the condo.

And on lunch, Lerner went in there and took a massive shit. And we all came back and you're like, What happened? They're like, I think Michael Lerner took a shit. He's got a trailer. It's right out front. What kind of fucking monster? Oh, my God.

I loved him, though. I do like that guy. But I feel like he also couldn't shut the door, so he was shitting with the door open, as I recall. Well, video video. It's a precarious spot to decide you're going to lay waste. He was a real character, man. The scripty was still in there from what I heard the whole time.

And he was telling him about how he should have won the Oscar for Barton Fink. That's what was going on. He was shitting. He said, don't go. Don't go. Just going to me. Did you see Barton Fink?

You know, he was nominated for an Oscar for that. Hold on a second. Give me the toilet paper. They must have moved it to put the cameras in. Can we run through the scene we're ending the day with real quick? What? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't go.

Don't go. Don't go. I need somebody here. It won't come out. Shitting in Video Village is phenomenal. It's amazing. It's amazing And just the

Sort of like Can I take this shirt? No I don't care You know what he did take though It was shit He did take a shit He left the shit

He left the shit behind Because we wouldn't let him take the plants In the apartment Can I take this plant? It's fucking unbelievable All right back to this Rest in peace Rest in peace

Absolutely With Dave's dad Well Yeah Charlie stated that he was sick of tree sitting as he stretched his legs in front of his home following the bath. Before he descended Monday, the lad had stated that he felt sick and dizzy. He's probably not getting enough food up there. Well, that's a big downside.

Which is like learning how to walk again after a fucking week in a tree. It is. It is reintroduction to ground society. Yeah, your body doesn't like to sit in one position for a long time. No. It's a long time. No, it's like an astronaut. He was like an astronaut.

They had to put him in a quarantine. He was atrophied. His mother stated that she was glad Charlie had come down. She, too, has become sick of tree sitting. Charlie readily recuperated once he was back on Earth again, and his mother reported him to be all right Monday evening. In Robinson Park, Louis Mera, the next in line of the tree sitters, passed 401 hours at 1 a.m.

Mera was given a rub down by dynamite Tommy Sanchez. Well, now, hold a minute. Dynamite's not supposed to be around people of that age if memory serves. Hey, what are you getting dying up there? Hey, kid, you need me come down there and give you a little rub. You got astronaut penis. Let me fix it. There was no registry for sex offenders during the tree-sitting era.

You're going to find out why they call me dynamite in a sec, kid. Is there a grown man up there? How are, yeah. I don't think he's supposed to be up there. We're going to fix you real good. He'll be right. He'll be a good. Grown men don't need.

rug downs. There we go. Don't worry. I got magic hands, all right? Yeah. Sanchez is the Santa Fe flyweight prize fighter. What? There's a boxer going up there to massage the kid?

This is not a good scene. It's a weird setup. Monday afternoon and he announced that he was prepared to stick it out for a long while yet. I'm going to live up here with the kid. I'm going to be up here with the kid. It was sharing a bucket. Me and the kid. I'm a massage.

All the kids are up in trees. There we go. I'm getting the kids back to normal. You know, law doesn't apply this high up. So I believe I'm okay to date the children. What parent is like, yeah, no, go up in that tree for four days. And also let that grown man rub you down. 20 days.

Yeah, 20 days. Well, when the grown man's dynamite Sanchez, you know. Dynamite Sanchez. Hey, my kid got a lot. It got a leg rub down from Dynamite Sanchez. Well, the cops can't arrest him up there. No, it's free. Yeah, he signed a picture for us.

It was great molesting you. Dynamite. Lewis's refueler. Jesus Christ. So, yeah, the guy is assigned to give them food, bring them food and water. Oh, there is a guy assigned to it? Like a city employee? No, it's just probably, you know.

Some weirdo who's like, I made sandwiches for the boys. Yeah. Lewis's refueler, Arthel Ruskowitz, went to Walker's Tree Monday afternoon to offer congratulations upon establishing a new record. Adam Kerriga at 8th and Taft is 16 hours behind Mira and Henry Gallegos in Old Town are also still going strong. Boy, this is very, it is an epidemic. I wonder if he was in the big tree in Old Town. There was a famous historic tree down there.

they really it probably was yeah it probably was yeah is it a big tree very yeah there was a restaurant down there that was he had a tree growing in the middle of it I love those yeah yeah I don't know if it was that tree old town's very old yeah old town is one of the first towns in America like 1400s oh really oh wow that's crazy Mexican town yeah oh we don't get Gareth can't understand we don't talk about the before white times on this show mark we kind of we don't love David, especially. Another claimant

for the world's record, Walker was believed to have established raised his head Monday. He is Jimmy Sugontas of South Bend, Indiana, who had passed 432 hours at noon Saturday, and is believed to still be in the air.

Still be in the air is a weird way to put it. He's in the air. He's in the tree. This guy came from Indiana to the big tree-sitting event in New Mexico? No, he's in. What's happening is there's four kids in Albuquerque, and they're the only ones. And now this kid in Indiana is trying to beat the Albuquerque kids. They've got to get Dynamite Sanchez out there to Indiana.

You'll get a couple more friends up in those trees. I'll make a drive. I'd love to go there and have a look at these kids' legs. With three Albuquerque contestants still battling for the bicycle, Tom Morrow. It's all for the bite. I forgot it's for a bike. bike yeah tom morrow's offered to the champion local sitter it looks like tree sitting will take its place on the sport page besides football news this fall jesus that would be an awful thing like that's just insane yeah just give them the bike at some point they should all get a bike it's been 400 hours dynamite should be buying the kids a bike honestly for their silence kids have to be falling all the time right kids definitely fell yeah where are those stories yeah that's the story about those yeah the ones that can't ride the bikes

any more yeah he was a great boy until he tried that record he fell into the wrong he fell in with the wrong crowd and he started trees sitting yeah what

what are you concerned imagine well no it's just like carrying an injury from childhood your entire life you're walking with a limp and your story is well yeah but yeah I almost had the record for sitting on a pole 40 hours away from a free bike

You believe that Kids Couldn't have kids This foot doesn't work But No my legs don't work Back in the day though That was something

You know if I didn't have to lower that shit bucket I probably would have made it I'd tell you it Probably the greatest rub down I ever got though From dynamiteiteite They gave him a chair about 10 years after that Yeah but I was in touch with them all the way through Oh yeah

He's a great guy. He's a great guy. Uncle Diamond, I called him out. Yeah, yeah. Kevin Spacey's listening to this going, what a time. Oh, man. What a time. Trees.

Dueless can't hit each other, but put shots in spectators. Okay. That sounds bad. This is from Mexico City. When a report spread in the suburb of Takubaya, Takabaya. Beautiful. Yeah, don't worry about it, Dave. Yeah, that's cute.

That two young and prominent men were to fight a duel, a curious crowd assembled at the designated spot. Hey, these guys are shooting wildly. Let's gather around. Let's go check it out. This could be an interesting way to spend a day. The duelists arrived, emptied their pistols at each other, but the only two casualties were bystanders who were critically wounded.

Well, don't stand behind them. You get a great view. Yeah, yeah. I want to see. I want to be right at them. We're able to see down the barrel. It looks like I'm in the duel. It's amazing.

The duelists who the police said were Pedro Castro Jimenez, lieutenant of the presidential guards, and Rodolfo Martinez Torres were arrested. So you can't, if you kill bystanders, dueling's illegal? No, you're mostly then dueling was illegal. It was 1930, so you're not allowed to do it. But sometimes you've got to shoot a guy.

Like, I get it. If anybody gets it. now they're just they're they both just they're just murderers in there yeah they both live to tell the tale of how they shot innocent people how long until dueling's back on the white house lawn oh soon someone will propose it soon yeah it's exciting well they're just going to yeah it's not even going to be dueling they're just going to shoot democrats and that's right it's different i mean look senator every day we can get the count right yeah but now we don't have to release the upstead files i mean people watch it because it's

It would be a Republican shooting and a Democrat who's just, like, talking them out of it. Hey, that's not how we do things. Can I see some ID? All right. Actress isn't drug addict, says officer. No, I've heard that story before. Yeah, right? Come on.

Federal narcotic inspector believes Mary Nolan suspect probably has been falsely accused. V.H. Despain, federal narcotic. inspector said Thursday night he was satisfied after an examination that Mary Nolan, screen actress, is not a narcotic addict, and will return three search warrants for Ms. Nolan's various apartments to the U.S. Commissioner with the suggestion that the case be dropped. So they paid off the studio paid off the cop. Fine. Right?

Get the movie made. Yeah, it sounds right. Is that from Albuquerque? No, this is a Los Angeles story. Yeah, that was... Yeah. Cover of. Yeah, Miss Nolan was in a hospital under treatment for severe case of sunburn

caused when she fell asleep in a rowboat at Arrowhead Lake. Now, were there any signs of drug abuse? I haven't heard any yet. Getting a third-degree burn in a rowboat passing out. Yeah. I, a drug addict, she said. I never heard of such a thing Such a report is utterly without foundation

It is ridiculous It is too preposterous for words I am stunned I can scarcely believe anyone could say Such things about me And then she kept talking and talking And they rethought You know it reminds me of a friend of mine once

Who actually did do drugs This guy was out of touch, dude The affidavits on which The search warrants were issued Were made by Ms. Carolyn Clark and Miss Claire Anderson and nurses, one of the affidavits said Ms. Nolan's arms were full of punctures from hypodermic needles.

Oh, well, that's just rowboat stuff. That's from an oar. Yeah, that's called taking the boat out. That's just oar arm. Yeah, it is called taking the boat out. I'm going to go take the boat out. I don't know why that hasn't been used as drug code. Hey, what are you doing tonight?

I'm probably going to take the boat out. And molesting is called climbing. I'm going to go to the tree for a little while. Yeah, yeah, yeah. how about last one last one yeah school of dancing must stop false advertising claims 100% I agree the Arthur Murray School of Dancing of New Work has been ordered by the Federal Trade Commission to stop advertising that it has taught uh boy this is not all the not all the letter

are there. Is that a problem? That has taught dancing to former presidents of the United States, senators, governors, and members of European royal families. Wow, that's amazing to be like presidents learn to dance here. Just like everybody makes. Yeah. Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium said, I never went there. They are the best. The school has also been directed to cease advertising that it had been selected by the U.S. Naval Academy to instruct the Academy's dancing teachers when such is not the fact.

They were like everybody. A Navy, Navy Dance Squad's awesome. That's amazing. But, you know, if you can do it, do it. Without question. Because they didn't get sued. They just got told to stop, so. Yeah, because they were making

up, like, the Navy has dancers. Like, they thought they really had a, like, they thought they had a shoe. They nailed that one. And it's like, what are they going to say? It doesn't even exist. The Army love that. They're like, ah, ha, ha, ha, ha.

Told you that. Yeah, those Navy quiz. Well, Mark, thank you for joining us. We know you're a busy guy. So thank you very much. Not as busy. But thank you. You know, a little less busy.

People should go watch Panicked, which is, again, an unbelievable special. And check out Stick on Apple, which is a, I, when I did your podcast, you were talking about how you said you basically were like let me fly home all the time and I'll do it and they called your bluff and so here you are yeah they were like no problem I'm like god but this one this season it's a miracle dude because like I was nervous about it it was too late to shoot in Canada and they were thinking about Atlanta and I'm like I don't really like the actor's life I don't like to be away that long so I'm like fuck Atlanta for four months I was going to lose my mind but they got the they got the tax credit we're shooting here man oh that's great oh way it's fucking great

that's awesome it's the best it might even be fun i just come back home to my house well if you need a guy to come on set and rub down or anything like that um dynamite's always around well they're probably auditioning people for things why don't you do you have representation gareth or i would love to mark i would let's talk offline but i would really love to get my hat in the ring i really i've always wanted to touch owen wilson so you do you know do you now show business work Do you have people that make calls for you or anything? Mark, I'm 45. I'll do literally anything you ask me to at this point.

I just want to hold my insurance for as long as possible. So I'll eat ass. You just tell me where to go, buddy. I'll just follow the yellow signs for crew parking. We change your name to dynamite? 100%. Mark, I'm already on a website. Thank you, Mark.

Thanks, love you, appreciate it. All right, thanks, buddy. Thanks. Hey, Dullab fans. I know you love the dollop. You love listening to the dollop. Do you want to watch the dollop? You're like, Gareth, what are you talking about?

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