00:00:00 - “Morning Mood (Morgenstemning)” by Edvard Grieg/Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 Op. 46
00:00:30 - Intro by David Chen, introduces Stephen by referencing his role as Robert in the film “Keep My Grave Open”
00:02:15 - Stephen mentions, “…I was murdered in a shower with a samurai sword.”
00:02:38 - David references Tobolowsky Files Episodes 47 and 48, “The Metamorphic Man” and “The Zen Story”
Story 1 in-cue: “As I look back over my life, I am amazed how much easier it is to tell stories of first love…”
00:05:13 - Stephen references the film “Grease”
00:08:54 – Stephen mentions, “…had the amazing quality of being both highly alcoholic and yet you never got drunk.”
00:10:57 – Stephen mentions, “…if you mean it will get your very drunk, yes it is smooth…”
00:15:23 – Stephen mentions, “…to prepare for another night of heavy drinking, which there was.”
00:17:09 – Stephen mentions, “Stein held up the empty liquor bottle. ‘This is our bottle of gelde (sp?). We may need you to buy some alcohol for us.’ I was disappointed. ‘You want me to make a beer run?’”
00:17:28 – Stephen mentions, “…we will need to buy beer, wine, whatever they got. And of course another case of gelde (sp?)”
00:17:41 – Stephen mentions, “…people are fucking (CENSORED) here constantly, no one cares. But drinking is another matter.”
00:17:56 – Stephen mentions, “So you want me to drive to the liquor store?”
00:18:09 – Stephen mentions, “You could go into a liquor store and buy alcohol, no one would care.”
00:18:26 – Stephen mentions, “…where there was a large state run liquor store.”
00:19:23 – Stephen mentions, “…that a lot of wine.”
00:19:29 – Stephen mentions, “We arrived at the liquor store. It looked like Hitler’s bunker.”
00:19:53 – Stephen mentions, “If we were buying porno it’d be easy.”
00:20:04 – Stephen mentions, “And don’t forget the gilde (sp?)”
00:20:20 – Stephen mentions, “…I heard I could buy some alcohol here?”
00:20:30 – Stephen mentions, “…maybe twelve cases of wine, twelve red, twelve white, a case of vodka, a couple cases of beer, case of cognac, do you have any gelde?”
00:20:59 – Stephen mentions, “…formed a human chain loading the liquor in Stein’s car.”
00:27:11 – Stephen mentions, “…both naked having sex in a hot tub on stage. The courtiers are laughing and drinking champagne, some are snorting coke…”
00:27:36 – Stephen mentions, “…made uncasual by the fact they’re completely naked and getting out of a hot tub…”
00:30:20 – Story 1 out-cue: “It exists silently everywhere we go and becomes visible only when we see that tomorrow means more than yesterday.” Music fades up, “In the Hall of the Mountain King (I Dovregubbens hall)” by Edvard Grieg/Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 Op. 46
00:31:26 – Story 2 in-cue, music fades down: “It was the day of the ‘Hamlet’ cast party at Stein’s house. I was carrying cases of wine and depositing them around the living room…”
00:32:03 – Stephen mentions, “I arranged about eight bottles of vodka in an artistic cluster on one of the tables in the living room. I put out beer, I put out cognac…”
00:32:40 – Stephen mentions, “…when he saw the table with the mountain of vodka.”
00:34:12 – Stephen mentions, “…was already on his second vodka…”
00:36:13 – Stephen mentions, “…there will be more vodka and cheese later…”
00:37:18 – Stephen mentions, “After about an hour of goat cheese and vodka…”
00:38:06 – Stephen mentions, “…happened to take a nap during a mass murder.”
00:38:09 – Stephen mentions, “He was drunk as I had ever seen any man who was still able to stand.”
00:38:29 – Stephen mentions, “…and get a little glass of wine and a nightcap…”
00:38:38 – Stephen mentions, “I said, ‘Vodka?’ Stein shook his head, ‘Long gone’.”
00:39:29 – Stephen mentions, “…was a bottle of Camus cognac that was only half empty.”
00:40:32 – Stephen mentions, “…as the gayest staging of ‘Guys and Dolls’ that could be imagined…”
00:49:06 – Story 2 out-cue: “And somewhere in the distance, between everything and nothing, a dear friend showed me the future.” Music fades up, “Solveig’s Song (Solveigs Sång)” by Edvard Grieg/Peer Gynt Suite No 2. Op. 55
00:49:55 – Outro by David Chen: “That was ‘A View from the Mountain’…”
00:50:01 – David references the film “Stephen Tobolowsky’s Birthday Party”
00:52:34 – Muisc fades up, “Solveig’s Song (Solveigs Sång)” by Edvard Grieg/Peer Gynt Suite No 2. Op. 55
00:53:04 – End.