Patton Oswalt
speaker
1,066 appearances
7 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 8 Jun
Patton Oswalt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Brian Regan is the king of looking at those moments in life where you're like, this is an absolute waste of time. This is something that you block out because it's something you got to do so I can get to the creative stuff. And he realizes, no, there's actual real life happening right here, like ordering a dozen donuts. There's kind of cosmic significance to this. And he would explore that.
So I, because I'd watched so many movies and see so many movies would follow the same rhythm and the ones that didn't and the ones that went other places made me so,
happy that i would remember those moments and then try to put those moments into my writing into my comedy now i do comic books and a lot of those are about because i read a lot of comic books and there's a lot of superhero comics that look at part i'm like show the parts that you're not showing that would be so much more fascinating how does this person like live with these powers and what would that be like so i always want what is going on in the margins or what is
How does real life actually... There's a great movie called The Matador. Pierce Brosnan and Greg Kinnear and, oh my God, Hope. She was in Ghost World. I'm blanking on her name. This is so embarrassing.
Yeah, with age.
This was also said, 20 minutes from now, I will come up with her name. Well, you'll do it during this.
I want to come up with it. Anyway.
There's a great moment where the first half of the film, Greg Kinnear's on vacation. He meets Pierce Brosnan, who's a hitman, who's kind of like losing his mind and on his last job. And then they hang out together and Pierce Brosnan... kind of takes him on a hit, doesn't kill somebody with him, but shows him, here's how you would kill somebody. And literally walks him through this sequence.
It's so well done. And that's the first half. And then Greg Kinnear goes back to his suburban life in like Ohio somewhere. And then Pierce Brosnan is in some kind of trouble. He either botches a job or something. I forget what that part of it. And he goes and finds Greg Kinnear to go hide out with him. And...
comes in the house and Greg Kinnear's like, oh, this is the guy that I was telling you about. And you see Pierce Bros' character like, I better think of some, like, you can see him almost about to go, I am a carpet salesman, you know? And then Hope goes, oh, this is the hit man you hung out with. And like a lesser movie would make it like, yeah, he's a carpet.
And then they got to do all this bullshit. No, you would go home and go, I was in Mexico on this business trip. And this guy, he was a hit man. And he showed me how to, I didn't kill anybody. But he like, that's what he does. It was really weird. And you would just go back to your life. And like, no, obviously, neither of you are going to report it. I don't want to be killed.
But it was just a weird thing. And then she goes, oh, yeah, that's that hit man you were with. And then the movie proceeds from there. it goes in such a totally different direction. And it just made me so happy. Like moments like that, where you're like, oh, or there's an issue of Animal Man where a villain comes to Animal Man's house and he's wrecking the place.
And then he's about to kill Animal Man. He goes, oh, because Animal Man, the guy is in his boxer briefs. And he goes, go put your costume on. I'm not going to shoot you in your underwear. That's stupid. And then the wife comes in and goes, what are you doing? What, did you wreck someone's house? Get out of here. And the villain goes, oh, frick this. And he just leaves.
He's just like, this is real. And that's kind of how that would go. Like, you're in my house in this stupid costume. You're breaking things? Leave. I'll call the cops. And he's, all right, fine. And he just leaves. Like, that was so...
More moments like that, I think we keep being pushed toward, oh, you gotta have the big moments, the big epiphanies, the big, dramatic, Instagrammable stuff, but the real growth and the real, real deep memory stuff happens in the uncinematic, clumsy moments. That's where you actually, if you can slow down
And look at how both you and other people around you are acting in the boring moments, in line at a bank, stuck in traffic. You learn so much more about yourself in those moments if you're able to slow down and pick that up and not go, dude, we're wasting time. I should be having experiences. You are having experience.
whether it's comic books or movies were you escaping something in childhood or were you just enjoying creativity dreaming imagination i didn't have a bad childhood i had a fun shot i had a really fun childhood friends my parents were great um we would we would go on adventures and do weird stuff but it was just like i get to have this fun reality and then there's all this then there's augmented reality there's also like
If I'm sitting here, I can read a book and it's a whole other world or I can watch a movie. And like, why would you not add to that? I mean, if you wanted to, you could eat. Raw starch, raw protein, some citrus and fluid and saline and lib. But you're like, no, you can also have this and this and this. And some of it's bad for you, but it still tastes good and you'll recover from it.
Like there's shitty TV. There's terrible movies. There's awful concerts to go to. There's bad people you're going to encounter. You can recover from that.
And also just people create stuff. I get to read it. This is great. We get to, as people, we get to do this. This is a great thing that humans do. All animals do is run around and try to survive. Every second they're just trying to survive. And we can sit and just, I'm on another planet right now. And all I got to do is open this book.
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