00:00:00 - “High in the Morning” by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
00:00:50 – Intro by David Chen, introduces Stephen by referencing his role as Professor Sheffield in the television series “Community”
00:03:17 – Stephen and David reference the films “Night of the Lepus” and “Watership Down”
00:04:02 – Story 1 in-cue: “I think I like movies because it’s one of the few times you get to see a story from the beginning to the end.”
00:08:14 – Stephen mentions, “…so now he’s working for a company that was making porno films…”
00:08:53 – Stephen references the film “Mississippi Burning”
00:10:47 – Stephen mentions, “I could have started working for that porno company…”
00:12:03 – Stephen references the films “Breaker Morant” and “Tender Mercies”
00:13:43 – Stephen mentions, “…or setting the restaurant on fire.”
00:16:52 – Story 1 out-cue: “Even when that path is just a walk around the block on a lovely night.” Music fades up, “Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13” by Ludwig van Beethoven
00:17:12 – Story 2 in-cue, music fades down: “One of the great acting teachers I’ve had was Ed K. Martin.”
00:19:03 – Stephen mentions, “…from being a rabbi to being a porn star within a year…”
00:21:09 – Stephen references the film “True Stories”
00:21:23 – Stephen mentions, “Unfortunately, I picked cocaine.”
00:22:13 – Stephen mentions, “You have to remember, cocaine addiction wasn’t even a problem on the charts at that point in history, it was just party drug…”
00:22:24 – Stephen mentions, “Cocaine was just a substitute the 1980’s came up with…”
00:22:45 – Stephen mentions, “…that were a direct result of my using cocaine. There’s the story of the orgy with me naked in a red derby mopping up the floor, an evening where I tried to flirt with strange women in our hot tub with blood running out of my nose and running down my chest.”
00:23:10 – Stephen mentions, “…where I met my drug dealer. I paid him, I had a hit in the alley…”
00:24:12 – Stephen mentions, “…I will lock your ass up…”
00:24:17 – Stephen mentions, “I was a heroin addict.”
00:25:33 – Stephen mentions, “…I always ended up buying and using more cocaine.”
00:27:13 – Stephen mentions, “I had to stop taking cocaine…”
00:28:06 – Stephen mentions, “…I had to spend the same amount of on myself every week that I spent on cocaine…”
00:28:15 – Stephen mentions, “…how hard it is to spend $800 a week on yourself when you’re not buying cocaine? It’s brutal. Well ok, the first week it’s possible. You buy a bottle of good cognac and two bottles of French wine, done. But then you have to drink it. It’s hard to drink that much cognac in one sitting. After a couple snifters you’re too drunk to get in the car to buy drugs.”
00:28:56 – Stephen mentions, “…smoking black market Cuban cigars to even think of cocaine.”
00:29:08 – Stephen mentions, “I hadn’t bought any coke, which was good, but I was smoking cigars, eating gourmet French food and drinking vintage single malt scotch nonstop. I won’t like; I still had the urge to buy cocaine but by then I was friends with the guy who owned the liquor store…”
00:33:52 – Story 2 out-cue: “He woke up the next morning and took his woman by the hand and he set off for points unknown with change on his mind.” Music fades up, “High in the Morning” by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
00:34:24 – Story 3 in-cue, music fades down: “One of the most predictable aspects of the human personality is the desire to make other people change.”
00:35:10 – Stephen references the film “Blade Runner”
00:35:22 – Stephen mentions, “…the smell of urine and alcohol was overwhelming.”
00:43:09 – Stephen mentions, “…with a glass of chardonnay in his hand.”
00:47:58 – Stephen mentions, “I got home that night and poured myself vodka…”
00:48:27 – Stephen mentions, “…just as I was dependent on cocaine.”
00:48:45 – Story 3 out-cue: “Starting tomorrow, I would choose my gods wisely.” Music fades up, “Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13” by Ludwig van Beethoven
00:49:24 – Outro by David Chen: “That was ‘The Metamorphic Man’…”
00:50:16 – Music fades up, “Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13” by Ludwig van Beethoven
00:50:55 – End.