Rundown: Episode 6, “The Price of Nothing”
Stephen tells stories of his first few jobs and their accompanying disasters.
Originally posted Friday, December 4th, 2009

00:00:00 – “All in the Show” by Stephen Tobolowsky
00:00:31 – Intro by David Chen. Introduces Stephen with a mention of his recurring role as Hugo Jarry on HBO’s “Deadwood.
00:02:40 – Story 1 in-cue: “I remember, my parents were always supportive, but always doubtful, that there would be any success at the end of this rainbow.”
00:09:00 – Stephen says, “There are not enough X’s in the Hollywood rating system to do this book justice.”
00:09:06 – Sex: “It was filled with so much graphic sex and violence it could have been written by Sam Peckinpah’s evil twin.”
00:09:12 – Sex and violence: “The whippings, the electrocutions, the group sex and that was just in the first ten pages!”
00:09:23 – Stephen mentions, “I just kept pluggin’ away at it, so to speak…”
00:09:50 – Alcohol: Stephen mentions, “…to any sort of a real goal, expect to alcoholism.”
00:10:23 – Alcohol: Stephen mentions, “It’s always tough when an employer offers to pay you in food or beer.”
00:11:38 – Stephen says, “…with a hilarious bit of fluff on how a rich man goes to the bathroom.”
00:11:05 - Stephen says “hell.”
00:15:40 – Story 1 out-cue: “I didn’t know where, or what awaited me, but I knew in Dallas I had done all I could do to define the bottom… and that’s always a good place to start.” Music fades up to “All in the Show” by Stephen Tobolowsky.
00:16:30 – Music fades out, Story 2 in-cue: “As I had mentioned my apartment in Los Angeles was a single room with a Murphy bed that pulled out of the wall.”
00:17:49 – Stephen mentions Charlton Heston and his film “The Naked Jungle” (1954)
00:17:58 – Stephen mentions, “…that they had found a skeleton holding a beer…”
00:19:06 – Stephen mentions, “That’s when I found out my apartment came with a naked man.”
00:19:12 – “Now I didn’t see all of the naked man, just enough to know he was naked… and a man”
00:19:33 – Stephen continues: “The light would come on, there was Naked Man. I tried to think of names for him but nothing suited him better than Naked Man. My friends would come over and ask if Naked Man had been in the kitchen yet […] would often pretend to watch the late night movie waiting for the naked man to open the fridge and grab some more yogurt.”
00:21:22 – Stephen mentions having played with guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughn.
00:24:50 – Stephen references Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor and Chopin
00:26:46 – Stephen mentions Naked Man, “…and I saw Naked Man, standing by his fridge, looking towards my apartment!”
00:26:55 – “In an instant, distracted by despair, I had become Naked Man’s naked man.”
00:33:05 – Stephen mentions, “…which means ‘fart, little girl’”.
00:33:52 – Stephen mentions, “…apparently I had told her to ‘sit on it and squeeze’”.
00:34:50 – Stephen mentions, “…playing the dumb gringo who can’t speak Spanish”.
00:36:00 – Stephen says, “I bid farewell to the naked man”.
00:00:31 – Story 2 out-cue: “But it was whispering in my ear to be careful, because the price of nothing was getting higher everyday”, Music: “Road to Nowhere” by Talking Heads fades up
00:37:20 – Episode outtro with David Chen, “That was ‘The Price of Nothing’…”
00:41:21 – Violence: “…and they had race riots in the school before we came and a student was actually killed”.
00:42:05 – Stephen mentions “Glee”, “Heroes” and “Groundhog Day”
00:43:52 – Stephen mentions the film “Wild Hogs”
00:45:15 – Drug reference: Stephen mentions Scott saying he was “doing some yellow sunshine”, a form of LSD.
00:47:10 – Music fades up, “Road to Nowhere” by Talking Heads
00:48:34 - End