Michael Shannon

But yeah, they're definitely interested in it.

And they've been unbelievably gracious about the whole thing.

So what's next for you?

Oh, goodness.

Well, we are going to do yet another REM tour.

These tours have been commemorating the 40th anniversary of a particular album.

So the first one was for Murmur, REM's first full-length album.

And the second one we did was the 40th anniversary of Fables of the Reconstruction.

So now we are going to go back out on the road,

with the 40th anniversary of an album called Life's Rich Pageant.

And that tour is in February and March.

In terms of my actual day job, I'm not quite sure what I'm doing next.

I did shoot a film earlier this year called Mr. Irrelevant.

which is a football movie in which I play the coach Bill Parcells.

And that will be coming out, I assume, sometime next year.

But other than that, I don't have anything in the can, the proverbial can.

So it's as much a mystery to me as anybody else right now.

Thanks for having me, Dick.

Oh, it's my pleasure, Dave.

Thanks for having me.