Jason Bateman

But how do you feel that it's – are you proud of this sort of industry that you've kind of created?

But it's morphed away from something that was really, you know, this one-hour conversation or longer.

I mean, obviously, Rogan still does that.

Dax does it.

Oh, they do like three hours.

I don't know who's watching that shit.

It's hard to do that really well.

I remember your assistant there working at a table just fucking stuffing envelopes.

And that was a result of your numbers being such that his team took notice of you and suggested, recommended to him that this might be a good spot for him to hit?

Wait, which college did he go to around Highland Park?

That was for Sean.

Sorry, Mark.

Throw the baby some candy every once in a while.

But, you know, I mean, look, the fact that you, A, were able to book him says a lot about the spirit and the content of your show.

But your ability to get him to do a personal interview and to get him to be forthcoming really speaks to –

I think what makes you so great at what you do, and are you comfortable trying to maybe kind of speak to that and maybe dissect that a little bit?

Because this one-hour conversation, there needed to be at some point a confidence from you about me just freestyling and then having somebody sit down and me just kind of pop back and forth with them and have a conversation as opposed to being an investigative journalist.

needs to be compelling and I need to assume that that's going to be entertaining.

What made you think that your hot takes on things and your personal kind of, the way in which you can drive a conversation would be something really compelling because it is.

Yeah, what gave you the right to think you could do this, Mark?