Parker Posey | SmartLess

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 5:00: Kenny Rogers, Gender Reveal, Planet of the Apes, Princess Leia
2. 5:00 – 10:00: Hollywood, Chateau Marmont, Easter Island, Party Girl
3. 10:00 – 15:00: White Lotus, Brian Bates, Easter Island, Fallout
4. 15:00 – 20:00: Discovery, For the Love of Kitchens, HBO Max, Thailand
5. 20:00 – 25:00: Party Girl, Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss, Hollywood, New York City, New York
6. 25:00 – 30:00: Hollywood, Thailand, White Lotus
7. 35:00 – 40:00: Abby Hoffman, First Love, Fatal Love, Monroe, Louisiana, New York City, New York
8. 40:00 – 45:00: Ashtanga Yoga, Ayurvedic Institute, Dr. Vasant Lad, Surviving Cancer
9. 45:00 – 50:00: Thailand, Digital Detox, Theta State, White Lotus
10. 50:00 – 55:00: Best in Show, Thailand, White Lotus, A Mighty Wind
11. 55:00 – 56:01: Sexiest Man in Winnipeg, SmartLess

Notable quotes from "Parker Posey | SmartLess"

• Smartless, smart, less smart less.

  about SmartLess · at 0:31

• Wait, did I ever give me the CPA? Did I ever tell you when I think I told you this when I went on tour with Kenny Rogers and call a country western star when I when he would call people up there in the 12 days of Christmas from.

  about Kenny Rogers · at 2:50

• Sean's notes. Well, no. Well, it's what hap really happened yesterday. And I got my tarot cards read for the first time ever. Have you ever had that? Yeah.

  about Tarot Cards · at 4:15

• Podcast. How have you not been on a show already? Are you sure this isn't your second appearance? Hollywood. You don't have to live in Hollywood to be on the show. I know, but…

  about Hollywood · at 7:51

• Jealous of that film. That cast that but you had to go to South Africa for it, right? Easter Island. Easter Island. Easter Island. It's called Wild It's called Wild Horse 9…

  about Easter Island · at 8:55

• Home, repack your bags and then go to Easter Island or was there a job in between? I'm speaking of the White Lotus show. Oh my god. Oh, that's a good question. because there's…

  about White Lotus · at 10:33

• Could barely put a sentence together. I was so wiped from almost seven months of work in Thailand. what that heavy lift was and what that long distance run was that it's like…

  about Thailand · at 18:45

• Know what it is? It's like when people point you out in a place as cool as New York and New York City and you're not cool anymore.

  about New York City, New York · at 24:01

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Kenny Rogers — Person · 2 mentions · first at 2:54
• Brian Bates — Person · 2 mentions · first at 10:54
  Universal Studios for a while and just relax. Do you know what? I'm really loving Matlock. I'm loving Kathy Bates and Between. You are? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Have you watched I bet…
• Princess Leia — Person · 1 mention · first at 3:14
  The audience, whatever. And this one woman walked up there and she had like big almost like Princess Leia like things on the side of her head and backstage. Yeah. Cinnabons.…
• Sam Rockwell — Person · 1 mention · first at 8:50
  Color of your hair. I dyed the hair. I dyed the hair for a movie I did with Sam Rockwell and John Malovich, a Martin Mcdana film. Jesus Christ, I'm so jealous of that film.…
• Helen Mirren — Person · 1 mention · first at 11:12
  And it's She's just fantastic and I'm I'm I'm into that. I'm also in I watched 1923 with Helen Mirren. Oh, yeah. I haven't I haven't seen that yet. How was that week ago? It…
• Abby Hoffman — Person · 1 mention · first at 37:01
  Who had AIDS. And this was played by a woman named Alex Odair who I love and adore. She's Gabby Hoffman's older sister and she's just brilliant and a great person and woman and…
• Dr. Vasant Lad — Person · 1 mention · first at 42:05
  Institute and I sat in on some classes with a Ayurvedic teacher named Dr. Vasant Lad who is like one of these leading Ayurvedic people in the country and if you know Andrew…
• Alex Auder — Person · 1 mention
• Amanda Anka — Person · 1 mention
• Andrew Weil — Person · 1 mention
• Greg Mottola — Person · 1 mention
• Jason Bateman — Person · 1 mention
• Javier Bardem — Person · 1 mention
• John Malkovich — Person · 1 mention
• Lev Schreiber — Person · 1 mention
• Marcel Marceau — Person · 1 mention
• Martin McDonagh — Person · 1 mention
• Parker Posey — Person · 1 mention
• Sean Hayes — Person · 1 mention
• Simone Inzaghi — Person · 1 mention
• Steve Zahn — Person · 1 mention
• Walton Goggins — Person · 1 mention
• Will Arnett — Person · 1 mention

Books & papers

• White Lotus — Book · 8 mentions · first at 10:37
• Party Girl — Book · 4 mentions · first at 7:29
  Coming, but once you do, she's the only thing you want to watch. Indie Queen, forever party girl. It's a totally original and someone I love very much.
• Wild Horse 9 — Book · 2 mentions · first at 9:07
  For it, right? Easter Island. Easter Island. Easter Island. It's called Wild It's called Wild Horse 9, right? Wild Horse 9. Easter Island is the furthest place you can go in…
• Best in Show — Book · 2 mentions · first at 50:20
  No. Days and confused party girl. You were queen of the indies. All the waiting for guff and best in show. White Lotus. You were you killed in that show.
• Sexiest Man in Winnipeg — Book · 2 mentions · first at 54:45
  Out. That's a animated show. check it out. Fantastic. We also have our new doc that just got released. Sexiest Man in Winnipeg. Listen, we got a lot of things going on. Okay. Sure. Sure. Sure.
• Top Gun — Book · 1 mention · first at 2:36
  Single morning if it's long, he goes, Hey, Mav, which is Tom Cruz Maverick and Top Gun. Well, that's a good thing, isn't it? No, I know. But he's does he chase you around the…
• Planet of the Apes — Book · 1 mention · first at 3:49
  In the barber and I commented on the woman. I go and I looked in the mirror and I go just Planet of the Apes today if you can.
• Matlock — Book · 1 mention · first at 10:54
  Universal Studios for a while and just relax. Do you know what? I'm really loving Matlock. I'm loving Kathy Bates and Between. You are? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Have you watched I bet…
• Fallout — Book · 1 mention · first at 14:07
  Into him. He has completed 18 months of non-stop travel and work. He did Fallout. He did Righteous Gemstones.
• For the Love of Kitchens — Book · 1 mention · first at 17:33
  Partnership, these two people that are so lovely and have this really beautiful show and yeah, it's called for the love of kitchens. So Dval is their thing. But see, I don't…
• Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss — Book · 1 mention · first at 23:00
  Like I'm obsessed with Parker Posie and I grabbed you and I took a photo and of course I was in a movie called Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss and I wear the merch like an idiot.
• Promises, Promises — Book · 1 mention · first at 23:30
• First Love, Fatal Love — Book · 1 mention · first at 36:49
  It was a short I was a junior in college and it was a short called First Love Fatal Love for HBO about a woman and a young person in high school who had AIDS. And this was…
• The Eye — Book · 1 mention · first at 41:19
  Ietic? Is that it? Ayurveetic. Okay. I when I was doing I did a movie called The Eye with Jessica Alba. And it was based on a Korean film. Yay, Jessica.
• Surviving Cancer — Book · 1 mention · first at 44:19
  And I saw someone sent me a docu a doc called I think surviving cancer which had an interview of all these people who said I'm not doing chemo. I'm just going to see what happens with my diet when I change it. And anyway,.
• A Mighty Wind — Book · 1 mention · first at 50:46
  Of a mighty wind. And I was Oh, really? So, you just make all this stuff up. you completely improvise. It was It's really cool. And then you were showing me the song that.
• Twisted Metal — Book · 1 mention · first at 54:25
  Counting paper clips. They're working, man. They're working away. We got Twisted Metal season 2 coming out this summer on Peacock.
• Super Team Canada — Book · 1 mention · first at 54:36
  Asked. you are. This is a This is a behind thescenes tour hard rock tour. Super Team Canada. We got Super Team Canada coming out that's already out. That's a animated show.…
• 1923 — Book · 1 mention
• The Daytrippers — Book · 1 mention
• The Righteous Gemstones — Book · 1 mention
• The White Lotus — Book · 1 mention
• Waiting for Guffman — Book · 1 mention
• Will & Grace — Book · 1 mention

Companies & orgs

• Discovery — Company · 1 mention · first at 15:16
  Kitchen, right? Let's get We're going to get together with the gang over at Discovery and they're going to pay for it twins. Well, I'm already That's a great idea because and…
• North Carolina School of the Arts — Company · 1 mention · first at 35:42
  I was a ballerina and my dad I auditioned I went away when I was 12 for North Carolina School of the Arts to dance and I loved ballet and I auditioned for the dance program and…
• Ayurvedic Institute — Company · 1 mention · first at 41:57
  What's going on? You seem different. and I was in New Mexico for like three weeks and I went to the Ayurvedic Institute and I sat in on some classes with a Ayurvedic teacher…
• Anna Purna Cafe — Company · 1 mention
• deVOL Kitchens — Company · 1 mention
• Kamalaya Wellness Sanctuary — Company · 1 mention
• Magnolia Network — Company · 1 mention
• Portillo's — Company · 1 mention
• SUNY Purchase — Company · 1 mention

Products & tech

• SmartLess — Product · 2 mentions · first at 0:36
• HBO Max — Product · 1 mention · first at 16:30
  Backwards. He did. Yeah. Wait, it's a real thing. Devo. Yeah. What the They had this show on HBO Max called For the Loveth Kitchens. And there are these groovy English people…
• Peacock — Product · 1 mention · first at 54:27
  Man. They're working away. We got Twisted Metal season 2 coming out this summer on Peacock.
• Pop-Tarts — Product · 1 mention

Concepts & topics

• Tarot Cards — Concept · 2 mentions · first at 4:20
• Gender Reveal — Concept · 1 mention · first at 0:25
• Ashtanga Yoga — Concept · 1 mention · first at 40:54
  I want to go through your hobbies, if it's okay to call them hobbies. Pottery, sewing, ashtanga yoga, which I have no idea what that is. Ayurveetic medicine.
• Digital Detox — Concept · 1 mention · first at 47:38
  Those plaques that Mike visited this place for White Lotus, a digital detox. Please no cell phones at the table and all of that. There was a communal table and I mean I got to…
• Theta State — Concept · 1 mention · first at 48:04
  The show, right? The hypnotic where you're in between consciousness and you're in a theta state, I think it's called, too. And I had waking like moments and dreams and I saw…
• Ayurveda — Concept · 1 mention
• Hypnosis — Concept · 1 mention
• Indie Film Movement — Concept · 1 mention
• Mime — Concept · 1 mention
• Nomadic Lifestyle — Concept · 1 mention
• Peabody Award — Concept · 1 mention
• Reiki — Concept · 1 mention
• Sound Bath — Concept · 1 mention

Places & events

• Hollywood — Place · 6 mentions · first at 7:55
• Thailand — Place · 6 mentions · first at 18:51
• Upstate New York — Place · 2 mentions · first at 8:05
  Someone didn't ask me. It was I don't live in Hollywood either. Just invite me. I just did. I'm in upstate New York, but I'll come over. It looks like you live in a very…
• West Village — Place · 2 mentions · first at 8:12
  But I'll come over. It looks like you live in a very handsome apartment there in the West Village. I want to say the West Village called the Chateau Marmont and Sunset. Oh, you…
• Easter Island — Place · 2 mentions · first at 9:00
• New York City, New York — Place · 2 mentions · first at 24:05
• Chateau Marmont — Place · 1 mention · first at 8:15
  Live in a very handsome apartment there in the West Village. I want to say the West Village called the Chateau Marmont and Sunset. Oh, you are in LA. And when I Yeah, I'm in…
• South America — Place · 1 mention · first at 9:24
  17m island with the heads with the That's the thing, right? The cult of the It's off the coast of South America, right? So, it's not South Africa. It's South America. Yeah.…
• Sydney — Place · 1 mention · first at 9:33
  South America. Yeah. Yeah. It would be like if you flew from like Lima, Peru, and you wanted to go to Sydney, Australia, you'd fly right over it.
• Portugal — Place · 1 mention · first at 9:40
  Okay, guy, cool it. Everybody's got property in Portugal. Are you familiar with the Southern Hemisphere? It's smart. I wasn't. I wasn't. My parents would play a game with me in the car and they'd be What's the capital of.
• Hudson Valley — Place · 1 mention · first at 13:51
  Really? It was too much. Yeah. I didn't know that. Good for you. So yeah, it's a big switch, but like Hudson Valley type deal. Yeah, the Hudson Valley type deal. Oh wow. [ __ ]…
• Monroe, Louisiana — Place · 1 mention · first at 36:28
  Movement and dance and all of that. And so where did you grow up? Where was your childhood? Monroe, Louisiana. And so after born in Baltimore, raised in Louisiana and then…
• Laurel, Mississippi — Place · 1 mention
• Lima — Place · 1 mention
• Peru — Place · 1 mention
• Sunset Boulevard — Place · 1 mention

Sponsors

• Episode Sponsor: Discovery — Sponsor · 1 mention

Full transcript with timestamps

0:06 Hey guys, I got some wonderful news to share with you. Oh, congrats. Who's the dad? Uh, nobody's the dad or the mom. Uh, we're giving birth to a new episode today. What? Yeah. Oh my god. I didn't even know we were pregnant. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh my god. Cigars for everybody. Boy or girl? It's a We don't know yet. Oh, gender reveal coming. Ew. Boy, you about to explode. Welcome to Snarless. Smartless, smart, less smart less. Oh, good. He's into the hair. Um, I'm I'm wearing a hat today. Are you going to get a haircut at any point? Are you gonna keep letting it get letting it get because I'm gonna work I'm gonna grow mine out again? I think I'm gonna I'm gonna keep going for a little bit for the summer because I'm not really planning on doing too much uh this summer. You're going to let it be long in the summer. Hang on, Sean. No one's talking yet. Um do you want it Don't you want it short during the summer though,

1:10 Will? It's hot. Yeah, I know. It does seem It does seem counterintuitive. Sean, can you mute your mic? Sean, he did say Sean, he did say that we weren't talking to you yet. I know. No, I know. But let me know. just give me like a hand signal or like touch your nose or something. I think that he's going to get to you and he you'll know when he's ready. I mean, I don't want to speak for you, Jason. Okay, so go ahead. But the hair, go ahead with the hair. Yeah, I think I don't know. I'm just going to for the summer time going to Sorry.

1:34 Thank you, Jason. Uh Sean, even the Yes, even the chuckles. Sorry. Sorry. Chuckles. It's a good Oh, bluff. Um, wait, but Will, what would it look like if you cut your hair? You would look so different. Would you ever want to just cut the back? I'll cut it for you. No. How about just cut the top and leave the party um in the rear? Oh, no, no, no. I was thinking about like or just going I want to go for like Italian soccer manager like that guy's Simone Ingrazi tiny pony. No, no, just kind of like that sort of Euro kind of long and then you know what I mean? And then No, you look you look like Javier Bard. No Country for Old Men. Well, that's not a compliment. With the hard That's not a compliment. No, if you if you comb it forward, that's what you would look like. And you'd shoot people with a cow thing. Whatever he did with that thing was that thing. Sean, has your hair ever been crazy? Has it always

2:25 uh been what you got? Um, my hair has been what? Really long. You know, when I grow it really long, Scotty says every single morning if it's long, he goes, "Hey, Mav, which is Tom Cruz Maverick and Top Gun." Well, that's a good thing, isn't it? No, I know. But he's like, "Uh, does he chase you around the house?" Is he saying what do you say when when you go to Skevo? When you go to Skevo, what do you say? Just give me the accountant. Is that what you say? Wait, did I ever give me the CPA? Did I ever tell you when I think I told you this when I went on tour with Kenny Rogers and uh call a country western star when I when he he would call people up there in the 12 days of Christmas from the audience, whatever. And this one woman walked up there and she had like like big uh almost like Princess Leia like things on the side of her head and backstage. Yeah. Cinnabons. And I was so stoned during that whole tour. And why

3:25 wouldn't you be? And it's true. Why would not I By the way, what was he charging per ticket for the Kenny Rogers 12 Days of Christmas? That's a great question. I don't I don't remember. I I don't remember. probably pretty steep. It was well was stadiums. It was like huge. But anyway, I was I go I said I was backstage acting like I was in the barber and I commented on the woman. I go and I looked in the mirror and I go um just Planet of the Apes today if you can. Cuz it look remember the planet of the ape girl women had that hair on the side. Yeah. Yeah. We got it. That's why we laughed. Thank Thank you. It was the laugh was the indicator that we got. I mean, you don't need to explain past.

4:07 Don't sell past the sale, you know. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Um, yesterday, uh, Will, I had lunch with our friend. Um, this is from the prepared section of Sean's notes. Well, no. Well, it's what hap really happened yesterday. And um I I got my tarot cards read for the first time ever. Have you ever had that? Yeah. Have you ever I've never done it. But anyway, so our friend does this for a living, this person that Will and I know, and she and I got my tarot cards read, but that's the whole story. I'd never had it done before. I don't really remember, but I had a a world card, a judgment card, and a a guy that was hanged like Did you go all in when you saw your hand? No. Yeah, exactly. Have you Have you ever had it done? Have you ever been hypnotized? No. With a stopwatch? I wonder if they still do that. No, I've never been hypnotized.

4:54 No, I have. Have you really? Yeah. I Yeah. Uh I forget. Is it ongoing? Well, I snapped out of it a couple hours ago. Um, but this was this was like uh I don't know 15 years ago. It was part of I I was into some heavy therapy at the time. I was trying to, you know, fill some holes and mend some mend some breaks in my in my brain. Sure. Um, and it worked. It worked pretty good. I was I was I was surprised cuz I was pretty skeptical as one would be going into uh hypnotherapy, I think they called it. What was what was And can I just to get to the nuts and bolts of it? What was your involvement? Just showing up.

5:32 Amanda did everything else. Found the person, made the appointment, drove you there, without a doubt. Yeah. Yeah. She did everything except just lay me back easy on the sofa. Well, no. And then she was hypnotized. She did everything. It was her. It was her. Um, but it was uh it was what uh I was very curious of like what would that be? Do you just kind of zonk out? Um, and it was it basically took me to the place right before you fall asleep. And so I'm in that space and a bunch of memories easily came back. It was like right there at my fingertips and I was able to talk freely about all of these things that I guess are under a layer. Yeah. I would just go straight to sleep. I wouldn't be able to speak. I know. But that's that's that's that's the hypnotherapist talent. They can they can kind of keep you just like floating right there on the edge, I guess. Yeah.

6:24 you remembered all of it and as if it Yeah, I guess. Yeah, I mean I did retain some gain from it from it, I suppose. Um, so yeah, I guess it's a it's a valid form of therapy for sure. Never. Much better than getting dealt a hand of cards. I mean, what's going on, Sean? I mean, that was kind of interesting, but I don't really remember anything. No, the tarot cards. There's a that is also super valid. And um who am I to say back? What are you doing? Yeah. No, you walking it back. these these these people. You owe somebody money or something.

6:58 What's going on? Well, but guys, speaking of hypnotic, wow, world class. Thank you. My guest today studied ballet as a kid, has some legit mime skills, plays the mandolin. No, plays the mandolin as an actress. She's played a deranged vampire, a real life prosecutor, an actor playing a reporter, a sociopath in outer space, and of course, a dog owner with a lot of feelings. You might not always see her coming, but once you do, she's the only thing you want to watch. Indie Queen, forever party girl. It's a totally original and someone I love very much.

7:32 Double P. Parker Posie. Double P. Um, I'm getting out of the I was hypnotized by happy to be awake now. Hi, fellas. It's kind of over to you podcast. How have you not been on a show already? Are you sure this isn't your second appearance? Hollywood. You don't have to live in Hollywood to be on the show. I know, but I I I don't Well, someone didn't ask me. It was I don't live in Hollywood either. Just invite me. I just did. I'm in upstate New York, but I'll come over. It looks like you live in a very handsome apartment there in the West Village. I want to say the West Village called the Chateau Marmont and Sunset. Oh, you are in LA. And when I Yeah, I'm in LA. Actually, out of all of us, you're the only one who's actually in Hollywood right now, as it turns out, despite your Where are you guys? We're elsewhere. You know, we're the Wills and Seami Valley. Sean is in Chadzsworth. Yeah. And I'm in Brea.

8:36 Sean's in. Sean's in. What is going What? We get a bang for our buck better. Parker, you look gorge. I I like the color of your hair. I dyed the hair. I dyed the hair for for a movie I did um with Sam Rockwell and John Malovich, a Martin Mcdana film. Jesus Christ, I'm so jealous of that film. That cast that I mean, but you had to go to South Africa for it, right? Easter Island. Easter Island. Easter Island. It's called Wild It's called Wild Horse 9, right? Wild Horse 9. Easter Island is the furthest place you can go in the world being furthest away from anywhere else. It's a 17m island with the heads with the That's the thing, right? The cult of the It's off the coast of South America, right? So, it's not South Africa. It's South America. Yeah. Yeah. It would be like if you flew from like Lima, Peru, and you wanted to go to Sydney, Australia, you'd fly right over it.

9:36 Okay, guy, cool it. Everybody's got property in Portugal. Are you familiar with the Southern Hemisphere? It's smart. I wasn't. I wasn't. My parents would play a game with me in the car and they'd be like, "What's the capital of Denver?" And I'd say, "Colorado and they would just think that was hilarious how stupid I was at geography and knowing where things were." And I would like do this thing in my my grandmother naughty. She'd have this world, this globe. You know those globes that you would love to spin it. You know, I'm gonna go here.

10:09 And I would just play that for hours and say, you know what? I'll know where I am when I get there. And if I'm lost and I don't know where I am, I'm going to ask somebody and they're going to tell me. They're going to give me directions. Yeah. And before the phones, I knew where to go. And I'd ask people like directions and I was fine. Yeah. Uh, did you come did you come straight from Southeast Asia um home, repack your bags and then go to Easter Island or was there a job in between? I'm speaking of the uh White Lotus show. Oh my god. Oh, that's a good question. Um, because there's been so much traveling that I wake up in bed and I don't know where I am. It takes me too much. You need a nice sitcom over at Universal Studios for a while and just relax. Do you know what? You know, I'm really loving Matlock. I'm loving Kathy Bates and Between. You are? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Have you watched I bet you could

11:01 do a nice arc on there. Just let them know. Oh, I just like that cozy formula and it's She's just fantastic and I'm I'm I'm into that. I'm also in I watched 1923 with Helen Mirren. Oh, yeah. I haven't I haven't seen that yet. How was that week ago? It was It's great, you know. I I love the costumes and the learning about history and geography and um but it sounds like you're good about watching stuff. Are you do you do you gobble up everything? Yeah. Doing all this is the awards push of Emmys and you know from White Lotus. I've never been a part of the machine. Yeah. Right. That has you know had that happen. You're taking a look at the competition. Yeah.

11:44 Yeah. And how how do you how do you think how do you think your chances are are are holding up? Do you think Kathy Bates is the horse to beat? I do. She's the one horse to beat. I wonder if there's a horse named after her. You know, there's a horse named after me or like a Posie Parker and Yeah. I lived with um a woman named Marsha Bril in the West Village. She was an 86y old born and bred New Yorker Jewish lady who bat on the horses and she'd go, "Go ahead, make my day. Go get them. Make my day." And she would smoke and she was 4 foot 11. And my friends would come by and they'd be like, "She's fabulous." Like she is like having a stiff drink at 5 and was an editor. You'd go to the OTB with her or she'd just uh watch it on on TV on like a little perfect, you know, black and white little box TV from the 80s downstairs around the kitchening, but that that those times are no longer.

12:48 Um, but yeah, I'm open to LA. I want to I want to I'm using this podcast to for you guys to tell everyone that I'm moving to Hollywood. True. No, you're not, are you? But you're not You guys aren't here. You're not in Hollywood. Well, we're in Hollywood. We're not Hollywood. I'm in the process of moving back to New York. So, you know, I'm I'm going the other way. Is everyone just not because I'm going back. You are okay. I don't really know where to be. And I think that's from being in so many stories and and I should figure it out and stop this like Wait, but Parker, you've been going back and forth for years and years and years. If you wanted to move out to LA, you you would have. But you you kind of t you're in you're on both all the time and all over the world. I'm in a farmhouse. I'm a lady. I'm a steward of the land on this upstate New York. So I don't I c couldn't carry both the city and the

13:40 country. And so now I'm like this. So you got rid of the city, you know, putting bird seed in the feeders. Yeah. Really? It was too much. Yeah. I didn't know that. Good for you. So yeah, it's a big switch, but like like Hudson Valley type deal. Yeah, the Hudson Valley type deal. Oh wow. [ __ ] Gogans is close by. I just saw him last night. I ran into him. He has completed 18 months of non-stop travel and work. He did Fallout. He did um Righteous Gemstones. He did White Lotus. And I saw him driving up in the parking lot and I I was meeting some friends at well friends were picking me up at 5:35. It was 5:30.

14:21 Walton drives up and Walton and I see him in the car and I swear he like started crying. He was like, "I'm done. I'm done. I just finished all of this, you know, mountain of work." He gets to relax. He's got a beautiful house. We've seen it in magazines. Um, yeah. My house isn't like that. My house is really crunchy granola suite. Yeah. But you love it. The renovations. I'm trying to renovate and get a new kitchen because there's the insulation, you know, the pipes freeze and all that. and I love a project. But so my house has been this this thing that I've this being, you know, I don't look at my I don't look at my house like mine like I just want to give to it cuz it's an old farmhouse. So I guess what I'm saying will is like and you guys I'm trying to figure out just where to land in a community. Let's shoot it. Let's shoot it. Let's cover it. Let's shoot the Renault of the kitchen, right? Let's get We're going to

15:15 get together with the gang over at Discovery and they're going to pay for it twins. Well, I'm already That's a great idea because and that's what I tell the contractors when they come over. I'm like, I want to Can you Are you open to me filming you with my phone? I would love to do like a home improvement show. I love this world. Put this on. Yeah. Dress like dress like you're from 1920. Do the hokeyp pokey. Dress like you're from 1923. Could you do that? Can we Let's do a period Renault. Yes. And get me a hamburger sandwich. Yeah. And then what about um you you so wait. So Parker, you you also So I'm pitching all that stuff to like dead eyes. You tell you told me that I mean I read that you like Deval kitchens cuz speaking of renovating your place. What's a Deval kitchen? I had to Google. Deval is loved spelled backwards. Stupid Sean. Stop. So just throw away my notes. Why don't you just look at the word and you see what

16:17 it would be backwards? I didn't know it was that. It's not a real thing. Is it a real thing? Spell out loved and put it. Go to the mirror. Just look at stuff backwards. He did. Yeah. Wait, it's a real thing. Devo. Yeah. What the They had this show um on HBO Max um called For the Loveth Kitchens. And there are these groovy English people in their 50s, our age. Yeah. and he was making furniture in the 90s and shopping around antique stores and refurbishing this and building that and meeting all these cool guys and you know making a living and being kind of a vagabond artist and making cool stuff. Yeah. And you know that started way back then right like in the 70s people were making their own furniture and the nomadic life and all that then it goes out of style and then it came back but now I think there's a resurgence. People are like, "Let me see things get fixed and built and give me the reveal. Let me see how it's made."

17:14 And so I I love a reveal. And um so so yeah, they she didn't become a creative director on the show um Dval until she was in her 40s and her kids were grown. And so there this partnership, these two people that are so lovely and have this really beautiful show and um yeah, it's called for the love of kitchens. So Dval is um their thing. But see, I don't know if I would I said bye to the renovation because it's so expensive. I should just like sell sell it and move somewhere else. Like no, just keep working. Just keep working. Just keep making money and then it the money then the price won't matter, right? You just keep It's different for women. Women don't get paid what the guys I don't know if you've heard about that big discrepancy.

18:00 There's a big discrepancy, darling. It just is. In these little indie movies, you don't make money. Well, but you know what? You should be doing an endorsement. You should be applauded for I I guarantee you you've been tempted or or offered or presented with some very ugly lowhanging fruit that you have avoided, right? Some big like, "Hey, Parker, be the star of this big shitty studio movie." And you're like, "Yeah, I'm good. I I I I like working with cool people on cool things. Is it true? It's got to be true. You know, it wouldn't be true now. I'll be honest. I It was true when you were when you were younger. It was true. It was true when I was younger. But no, it still is true. You know, I had to turn something down that would have paid me a lot of money after White Lotus. And I could barely put a sentence together. I was so wiped from almost seven months of work in Thailand. what that heavy lift

18:54 was and what that long distance run was that it's like you know after you were you go through something there's like a reverb that I need like three months three or four months to to settle down and get back to myself. Um and then they're dangling this big paycheck and and still you were like and I said I can't I can't Good for you. We'll be right back. And now back to the show. You know, it's amazing, Parker. I I I remember you. We don't know each other, but I lived in New York uh in the whole '90s when you were doing all the greatest films. And you're one of those people who's doing the kind of stuff that I wanted to do. Like I just like admired you so much and do continue to still. And we're we're about the same.

19:45 Maybe I'm 55, but but we're like You guys both play really young though. That's why you both I would see you around and stuff and I wasn't working and I was desperately but I'd see you around in the city and then doing stuff and we had a lot of mutual and I'd be like I just I want to do what she's doing. I want to do work you're working with great directors you're working with great performers you're working with great writers all the time like consistently year after year all the films kicking and screaming party girl whatever it all these great movies that you did all the Chris Guest stuff. Yeah.

20:19 And then all the and then and then you add the Chris Guest stuff. I mean you you got to be really proud. You have a incredible body of work. You I just like but it's Yes. I I am you know I'm I can't say that I'm proud. That doesn't really I feel so blessed. I feel so lucky. I mean not lucky fortunate. It's not luck. You had some good fortune but it's it's not luck. I I hate to break it. Yeah. Yeah. That is there. I see what you mean. But yeah, it is a thing. And um I mean I want to write another book. The last seven or eight years have been so um I'm just full of stories, you know, and I know I'm a story maker and I'm here to to share what I'm living and and what I'm learning. Wait a second.

21:06 Listeners, we have a we you know, we hate the term storyteller on this show for the obvious reasons, but you No, no, but you just said story maker. I think that's a that's okay. We like that story maker. We're going to allow it. We're going to allow it. Great fix. Thank Parker, I'll tell you why. And by the way, you could get away with all of it because you have the credibility. There are too many people now in in this town. And by this town, I mean LA and and and New York. I can consider who who have been that term storyteller has become this thing and they refer to themselves as a storyteller or like influencer. I'm so I'm so I barely can do Zoom right now. Like I've listened to a few of your I am so feeding the bird feed, you know, putting the seed in the bird feeders. Like I didn't even know the storyteller thing was a thing that people are saying. But think about it when you hear people say it all the

21:56 time. You'll go for lunch and people like as a storyteller you're like you made an episode of a sitcom. [ __ ] up. Exactly. Like what are you talking about? And why are you referring to yourself in the third person as this as this ab abstract object that's full of creativity? Like go [ __ ] yourself. Right. Right. Now you deserve sitting in a chair. Yeah. Yeah. [ __ ] [ __ ] it. Like but you but you you're right. Jason's right. And you say story maker and you are full of stories and you you deserve it and there's a there's a you have that you can back it up. It feels good to be supported by you guys, you know, like when my fame hit in the '9s, it's being famous and having that kind of success that I couldn't really explain and I still don't really understand it.

22:46 Like, look at the screen. Look at that. That's Sean P. H. at me and you in 1998 and you had no idea who I was and I was like I'm obsessed with Parker Posie and I grabbed you and I took a photo and of course I was in a movie called Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss and I wear the merch like an idiot. Oh Shan, I didn't know you were in that. Yeah, exactly. I did it. Um I saw I was Billy in Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss. Yeah, I thought you were so incredible in that play. Oh my god. That was Which one? Hang on a second. Are we talking about Are we talking about uh stop? What's What's the double word one? What's the double promises? Promise. That's it.

23:30 That's it. Promises. Promises. But then Parker Yeah. speaking about being famous twice. But but so but being like like I just had that photo at the ready because I wanted to show you because that was you at you know just becoming Parker Posie in the '9s and being labeled the indie queen which I did you take that as a the literal it girl? Yeah the literal it girl. Did you take did you take that compliment well or did you not want You know what it is? It's like when people point you out in a place as cool as New York and New York City and you're not cool anymore.

24:09 So it's like you're you're you're you're I felt like I was called a name in a way where I was trying to be or my path was more like oh Greg Matah did a did a you know a reading of his movie that he was trying to get financed and then I introduced him to Lev Shriber who was in party girl and then we do the day trippers a year later because he couldn't get the original script that he wanted finance finance because the budget was too, you know, it was such a community back then, right? And um I felt like um uh when it got exposed that uh right when I got exposed and the whole indie uh movement got exposed, it also got co-opted by the studio system. That's right. And then it became this other thing and all of a sudden I wasn't viable to get a movie financed and it was such a head trip because and then I would have to audition for Hollywood movies when I'd carried the lead in independent movies

25:10 that were shot in 23 days and all of a sudden I'm in a fluorescent lit room like sweating and feeling like I'm being gas lit, you know? like I can promise I can do and memorize these lines and the script and I will have trust me you know and I wasn't so I had like a good 20 years of that you know after and then working with great aur and and doing these you know not getting paid a lot but um being able to um you know work in the world wealthy with respect yeah my creat creativity and feeling satisfied. I imagine it's Yeah, it's a weird thing.

25:54 It's like it's a mystical thing. I think my life and people's lives can have a mystical kind of quality if they're paying attention of like and it's a I think it's a healing thing. I think I evolve. I grow. I I'm kind of a hippie like that. Well, let me ask you this. Are you at a spot in your career and then and then we're going to talk about your personal life. That's going to be great. That's going to be a whole lighting change and a music change, but um uh professionally costume change. Are you at a place right now that you that that you had the the the balls to even imagine and dream and and and hope for?

26:29 Is this is this the career you thought you were going to have or the career that you hoped that you had? It's a lot there. Wow. That's a lot, JB. Yeah. What the [ __ ] man? That's a good question. you know, when you do a lot of traveling and um you're not home. I haven't been home for more than 5 days since February, right? It's so much more interesting than than your career or where you thought you would be in as far as like at you know the success that something like White Lotus gives you. Right. Right. That I feel so blessed. I feel so protected. I feel in my flow and that is I feel like I've I've learned I've been through a lot you know from 45 to 56 was a lot and um like what do you mean what's what's a lot like like good or challenging? My like my dad had prostate cancer for 20 years from Agent Orange in Vietnam. I'm sorry. I'm talking like a prolonged grief like a anticipatory grief. I think I had a lot of grief with

27:35 my career and going like I don't quite understand it. Um as a woman you get older and then you know and the culture changes so you have that and you you have good ideas that you pitch that are educational and and kids would love them and they don't get made. You know, there's a lot of disappointment in the in the culture right now more than ever. Now more as an artist and you're just kind of like but this is such a powerful medium. I don't understand why more in the is being you know on the screen you you know what how if the arts are going to be subsidized in New York is it going to be the apex of creativity then how what can we make to form something that will be that and will hold that for our playwrights or our writers who are born to tell their that have that soul and I've read enough scripts and I've seen enough plays to know that there is that like divine spark dark when you read something that

28:36 is um like our town or something that is so and you know we used to be a culture that aimed toward that and I I I hope you know I I'm an optimist like I will be that you know to Moscow to Moscow check off character till the day I die like I believe in you know and being in Thailand for so long and coming back to America was so inspiring. I mean, everyone I'm like, uh, you know, I'm like, this country and these people and these trees and this nature, like, do you know how lucky we are, right? Like, we got to like shape up in like this this way that has been so what what would you do now that you sit here? I love hearing you talk. Is that too much tooting my like is that are you kidding?

29:21 I love that. I love that. If it was if you had 20 more minutes on that, did you just toot? If you had 20 more minutes on that, we would be good. Yeah. Having said all that, when you sit so sitting where you are today with all that information like having all that stuff and you tooted, would you what what would you is there anything that you would have done differently? Was there a moment? Was there a thing? Is there something you look back on and go ah she just tuted. Do you know what I mean? Stupid. Like would you would you have done anything would you have done anything differently? Well, I know because you're just all learning about, you know, you're you're changing and you're like, I mean, I think I I I could have been easier on myself. I think I could have not worked so hard and I could have deserved more and or felt like you were deserving more. You mean That's right.

30:17 But wait, but but Parker, I want to go through things in your life that kind of I read about that fascinate me. I didn't know you were a mind. You were trained in mind. That was a lie. training was. It was a total lie. Oh, I didn't know that. God, I was like I had to put a resume and and and yeah, I I'm a fan. But I saw Marcel Maro in New York like on his 80th birthday perform. Yeah. And I cried my face off cuz you thought it was amazing that he was moving boxes that weren't there. Yes. Yes. I've never Now, where just anything that can reach like a fouryear-old and a 100y old like what that did like it was just so artful and fantastic. Jason has a question about mine. I'm not making fun of mine.

31:01 You're not getting me to make fun of mine. But I lied about my still going cuz I I feel like it's so sort of kit now that you could actually make a run at it. If you had if anyone out there has some mind skills, I bet you could really make yourself a nice living nowadays because it's kind of ironic and you could probably pack some uh some theaters, some large theaters. Maybe not arenas, but I think you could do you could do a theater. Is it Is it still going? I mean, your overhead's low. You need something black. Something black and tight. No props. You're not allowed props. No words. And just white either.

31:36 Go get after it. You need a spotlight. stripey stripey t-shirt and his mom and some leggings. Yeah. Yeah. I'd go see a a mime show. Okay. So, wait. So, Parker, you were named after the model Susie Parker, correct? Yeah. There are two parts of the story. Um they did love my parents, you know, fell madly in love and and and married married young and my dad was drafted and um the you know, the twins were born and um Yeah, you have a twin brother, which I didn't know. my brother and my my um my mom had a friend when she was a little girl who my mom was 12, like 11 or 12, like is still a Girl Scout. And one of her friends had her sister had a baby and named her Parker. And my mom whose name is Linda with a Y. She always hated it. Linda with a Y. Why did my mother Linda with a Y? And she does. Oh, there's a little butterfly outside. No way. Let's stop for a second.

32:40 Um, and um, so um, my mom said, "If I ever have a little girl, I'm going to give her a strong name like Parker." But then she met my dad with this name like Posie. And I almost died at birth. My dad was like there. Wait, wait, wait. Let's not gloss over that. Hang on a second. We stopped for the butterfly but but you don't stop for the plow through the death. Were you were you almost dropped? Um or or was it a Were you still in the in the oven? I was still in the oven. Um I was uh born premature. I was my you know and a week before on Halloween my mom got the news that she was having twins. And so the story was that I was in her ribs and they didn't even know where I where I was. God. So I was out at like Eve speaking of the Bible, right? Like Eve came from Adam's rib. Keep going. Yeah.

33:37 There you go. Wow. There you go. It's all coming together. And so um yeah, I I was like not even three lbs. And um Wow. And so the doctor came in um saying, "Your your your boy is fine, but we don't know about your girl. We need a name." And so we're just gonna park her right here. And so I'm gonna park her right here. And what's the middle name? And my middle name is Christian because they they wanted the help of of Jesus and God and anyone else who would listen. And um and so yeah, my dad would tell this story that he was in the hospital with this six-pack of beer like kneeling and praying as he's like looking at me in an incubator with these like these and he's like, "Please God, please let my little girl live." And at that moment, I screamed. No way. And so my dad So I was like, "Okay, now my dad my dad talks to God all the time." So it was like such a crazy story to tell like a little kid.

34:41 You know how you tell. So I got a lot of that mythologizing. Yeah. That's cool. As a kid, which I And then he also said and I looked at that beer can and I said, "My my girl is the size of this beer can. She's like a beer can with legs." Mhm. And that was like Yeah. I was like, "And look at me now." So, were you were you treated like the sort of the the the golden child? There was all because you kind of like against all odds, you kind of came to life and all that stuff. No, no, no, no. They were I think that's often the case, isn't it?

35:16 Like sometimes people I mean, I was definitely daddy's girl. My dad I describe as a comedian without a venue. Like he was really funny and really a performer, you know. And um tell me about that time because about your dad calling you. You were in the summer program. I I didn't know you were in ballet. Okay. I didn't know you I was a I was a ballerina and my dad um I auditioned I I went away when I was 12 for North Carolina School of the Arts to dance and um I loved ballet and um I auditioned for the for the dance program and um I didn't get in and I was devastated and my dad called the dean of the school and he said, "My daughter's going to be devastated. What do I tell her?" And he said, "We loved her so much and she almost got in because she's so much fun."

36:06 You just tell her she's an actress. And that's how it all started. Oh, for no way. Really? Wow. Yeah. And so I went back to NCSA for acting and it was there I did clowning and maybe that's why I, you know, I made fun of Mime back then, but I, you know, I have respect for Mime and I appreciate Mime. And I did movement and dance and all of that. And um, so where did you grow up? Where was your childhood? Monroe, Louisiana. And so after born in Baltimore, raised in Louisiana and then moved We moved to Laurel when I was 12, so I was already like out the door. What was your first pro gig?

36:42 It was a short I was a a junior in college and it was a short um called First Love Fatal Love for HBO about a a woman and a young person in high school who had AIDS. And this uh was played by um a woman named Alex Odair who I love and adore. She's Gabby Hoffman's older sister and she's just brilliant and a great person and woman and she wrote a book too and she's just wonderful. And Steve Zan Steve Zan had 10 lines in that. I had 10 lines had 10 lines. I was 20 I think. Wow. Wow. And then what? And then you went you did that you graduated from where were you? And then you What about you? I want to hear like little stories like when did that all click for you guys? No, but when what how did you get to New York? You're in the chair.

37:28 Yeah, you're in New York. You're in the chair. So when you moved to New York, um so at NCSA when I was there at 16 because I I went for the summer programs and I just loved it. Um one of the teachers there named Molly and she had this big cow she was a modern dance teacher and she had this big cow patty bun on her head and wore like, you know, leotards and character skirts all day long. She'd been wearing them for like 35 years, right? Love them. And I love the modern uh dance teachers. Um she said you know you may want to try auditioning for Sunni purchase for drama and um because these schools accept different types of actors. Yeah. And so I wanted to so it was the I auditioned for NCSA Giuliard and Sunni Purchase and Purchase was the school I got into.

38:16 That's amazing. Wow. And your roommate was I started and I I was going to I was living in New York City the jun um 1989 90 of my junior year. Wow. And freelancing with a a manager. I know. Gosh, it's wild to think about how long I've been doing. That was the year I moved to New York. 90 same year. Where did you live? Oh, everywhere. We'll be right back. And now back to the show. Parker, you've talked a lot about um your, you know, you described your family as like these fabulous southern characters that you uh emulate sometimes and stuff like what it what is your favorite things to go to when creating characters that emulate your family?

39:07 like a lot of my Midwestern stuff like I do that too like our mid we call pop instead of soda you know there's portillos which is a very you know popular Midwestern chain obviously the pizza this is insane character work you're doing I just want just as a quick aside how do you [ __ ] how do you keep track of it all just as a quick aside where did you anything about 50° Are you in character right now? Who are we talking to? Who are we talking to right now? I know. I got to chat. I got to I got to go to zero. Soda you call pop. Pop. Yes.

39:47 Can I get a pen? Um, cinnamon rolls with chili is very Midwestern. I put ketchup on steak. Um, my mom used to say like my mom used to say, "What if you were to play somebody from the Northeast?" Who? Me or Parker? What are you putting on your steak? I know you. What would you call soda then? I don't know what they call seltzer, right? Selzer. Oh, do they call it seltzer? Now you're in it. Don't they call soda? If you were if you were in the south, you'd call everything a coke. Yeah. Coke. Anyway, I didn't know if there was any. Yeah, the south is a different, you know, I just Yeah. I Did you read plays? Did everyone read plays as a young actor? Always. So, is that Well, you were already on that TV show, Jason. Dumb dumb stuff. How cute were you on that little show? I mean, pretty cute. I was like, cute.

40:39 He's really cute. He's very cute. He's still very cute. Very cute. Don't Don't kid yourself. Let's go slow through this section. Okay. So, listen then, Parker, I want to go through your hobbies, if it's okay to call them hobbies. Pottery, sewing, ashtanga yoga, which I have no idea what that is. Ayurveetic medicine. I have no idea what that is. Like what are all those things? Stupid. So stupid. Oh my god. What are those things? What's What's Ietic? Is that it? Ayurveetic. Okay. I I when I was doing um I did a movie called The Eye with Jessica Alba. And um it was based on a Korean film. Yay, Jessica.

41:26 Um, it was based in a a Korean film, a horror film about a woman who's blind and gets a chance. And so she, my sister Jessica gets her eyes does, you know, gets a surgery where she gets these eyes back and they're the eyes of a murderer. And um, it was a great part because uh, as her sister because all I had to do is like, what's going on? You seem different. you know, and I was in New Mexico for like three weeks and I went to the Ayurvedic Institute and I and I sat in on some classes with um a Ayurvedic teacher named Dr. Vasant Lad who is like one of these leading Ayurvedic people in the country and if you know Andrew While I think his name is or with the with the with the big gray beard. Yeah, that guy.

42:19 And um so what do you know about it? Yeah. No, I know. And um I sat in on some classes at the institute there and um I met this um I hung out at the Anna Perna cafe which is like the Indian cafe and found the yoga classes but heard from this guy Pash that there was a um there was an Ayurvedic school and I should go because this Dr. Vant lad is incredible. So I sat in on some classes there. It was really cool. Um what do they teach? What is Ayurvedic? It's a science. It's a science um of the body and like we're born into these bodies that tell us what our um psychology is and what our diet, how we should eat and um and then the there's three different there's it's pitha, vata and kafa. So, everyone falls into these different categories of of if there's like if like I burn through energy, you know, like when I'm working, I'm like I'm I'm quick to to grasp things, but I can easily forget them.

43:23 Yeah. And so, it's like a way of your body. You're designed in a certain way. We're incarnated into these bodies to have this kind of experience. And with these bodies, they are teaching us how to be centered and aligned and and open and and there's certain programs that that benefit each type of body. That's right. Yeah. And certain foods. So there were people who had cancer who did the Ayurvedic um there's a it's called uh patcha karma I think. And um it's really interesting and through diet um they've healed themselves and then they're like okay we're opening a a restaurant in Hawaii and I'm going to serve Ayurvedic food because this is healing people more than my chemo did you know. So when my dad had cancer, I tried to get him to, you know, be more um to be healthier.

44:15 And I I saw someone um sent me a docu a doc called um I think surviving cancer which had an interview of all these people who said I'm not doing chemo. I'm just going to see what happens with my diet when I change it. And um anyway, it's kind of that is I like all I've met two people in my life who in the last 20 years who had uh different forms of cancer who were who did similar things who who changed not just their diet but their lifestyle removed stress and did all that stuff and were able to completely eliminate the cancer. The one this one guy uh had been a firefighter and he developed lung cancer. True story. And he ended up being JB. He ended up being the one of the coolest guys I ever met. He quit his life. He moved to Carmel and he became a caddy at Pebble. No way. And he's one of Yeah.

45:08 this guy Ryan. And he's one of the coolest people I've ever met. And he's like, I just I wake up every morning and I walk. My wife does it. We make all this stuff and we and I've changed my life and I like being a caddy. I'm out here in the thing. He plays golf as well. He's like, and I've just zero stress. This is what I do now. Zero stress. He he refused the chemo and he beat it. Now I again I know I I don't know if it works but he he really did it and he went full full boore. He went he he leaned into it and in addition to beating the cancer and I think he was predisposed to be this way. He had an incredible energy about him. He was a he was an incredibly empathetic kind person and he had he had an aura about him.

45:48 Like really pretty pretty amazing. That's Or you can wake up every morning and eat a pop-tart and uh stress out about your bottom line. Right, Sean? And and answer emails like a like a crazy like a gopher. Yeah, that's me. Parker, before you hit send, you get a reply from Sean. I agree. Do you Pop-Tart shot? I do sometimes. I have a couple boxes in there with a glass of milk. With a glass of milk, but I have to cut down on the sugar just because it's not I don't have to cut it all the way out. I just have to cut it. last night. I didn't have a dessert last night for the first time in like 10 years. And did you wake up feeling a little snappier? Uh, I did actually. I slept a little better. Yeah.

46:29 Yeah. Now, um, Parker, when you were in Thailand, did you see a lot of the Arydic um, folks and and and and some of your yoga practice? I bet was uh there was Oh my god, I did it all. I was so excited. I bet like I bet that was a dream for you. You must have loved it there. It was a dream. I I heard about this place called Camellaya. Um Mike's lawyer's wife, she I I I just struck up a conversation. We we had all just landed there like a week, you know, and she said, "I'm going to this place called Camellayia. It's for women of a certain age and you know, I'm going to go there for two weeks and get this all sorted out." And then I saw her two weeks later and she was just like, "Oh, really?" And what do you mean just exhausted? No. Transformed. She was like, "It changed my life." Yeah. Wow.

47:18 Wow. She had she got grounded. She was centered. She was like it opened up a lot of healing. And so this place and these um it's very you know there's an Ayurvedic uh chef there and um it's a wellness center and has one of those those plaques that Mike uh visited this place for White Lotus, you know, a digital detox. Please no cell phones at the table and all of that. There was a communal table and I mean I um I got to I got to stay there for 6 weeks. Oh my god. Wow. And um I did Raiki, I did sound baths. I I went to that liinal space you were talking about earlier in the show, right? The hypnotic where you're in between consciousness and you're in a theta state, I think it's called, too. And I had waking like moments and dreams and I saw things and it was like it it was it was founded on a on a monk's cave like 25 years ago.

48:20 This couple John and Karina met each other and then reconnected and built this this this beautiful place. So it's uh the thing about Thailand that is so special is is the or the people. Yeah. Yeah. like a right of passage as a as a you know I don't know how old as a 13-year-old is or maybe in high school is to live in a monastery and um live off the kindness of others who who are going to drop off food for you to eat. Wow. Wow. So they have it's a lot of reciprocity. Okay. At Camellaya there was a doctor named Dr. CERN. I had this mumu CF tan dress on with dogs on it.

49:05 And so she knew that and I love dogs. And so she told me about her. She showed me pictures of her dog KK. KK means crooked and tie. And uh KK had crooked eyes and his little like, you know, a mix kind of a corgi mix but a little stockier. Sure. And the dog, she showed me these this these pictures of KK with like a carrying a dead leaf, like a leaf or a branch in his mouth, her mouth. Even KK knows to bring offerings when she wants something. So she would make offerings of like a leaf or something. She'd bring it to the door for food at the back door. Isn't that the best? And then and then when you got back to thei when you got back to the United States, you're like, "Ah, this is the best country in the world." Um, so listen, van eyes, they're so kind. Like, it's so They're so pleasant with you and it's just so Well, yeah. Anyway, I can tell you guys kind of spaced out and checked out. No,

50:10 we were listening. I listen to We were listening. I love that partner. No. Days and confused party girl. You were queen of the indies. All the waiting for guff and best in show. White Lotus. You were you killed in that show. You have uh remind me the name of the movie that's coming out. It's called Wild Horse 9. Yes. And um really quick before do you remember when I came to your apartment in New York when you were practicing mandolin for Mighty Wind? That's right. Yes. And we I sat there in your apartment with you and you're like I want to see what it's like to be in a Christopher Guest movie. And you showed me the outline of best in show. Oh, no.

50:46 Of of a mighty wind. And I was like, "Oh, really?" So, you just make all this stuff up. Like, you completely improvise. It was It's really cool. And then you were showing me the song that you were making up with the mandolin. I just thought that was fascinating to me. Yeah. It's I think I kind of got what it was to learn an instrument at the end there. Like, I could start jamming with songs and then get that kind of space. Yeah, that was that was so cool. I'm so glad I I got to do Yeah. do that. You remember our Oscar winning film we did uh together called The Sweetest Thing.

51:20 Yes. I mean, was that not You just created the most fulfilling, right? We killed it. I was so excited to be working with you. Will you be Will you stay? I really enjoyed hanging out with you guys. You know, you do these things and then you don't really feel like you're hanging out and Well, we're going to come over to the chateau right now. We're going to have lunch and we're going to speed over. I have something at 2:30 and that's it. Parker, we love you very much. Thank you for being here. This is such a sweet and I hope you win. I hope you win for White Lotus cuz you deserve it. Thank you. I just hope I'm nominated. Yes. Honored to be nominated and I hope that happens.

52:00 So, thank you for sending out that Hollywood vibe. I love it. We get our votes. Thank you guys. Bye, honey. Love you. Thank you. Love you guys. Thank you. Bye. Bye. Bye. That was And then she covers up. Look at that. Look at that. She knows what she's doing. I know what I'm doing. Love her. Wow. Yeah. Really? That is so funny. She's an original. She's always just consistently exciting to watch. She was on Will and Grace a lot. Many episodes of Will and Grace. Oh, really? Why didn't we talk about that? Yeah. What happened to that? I didn't know. I I didn't know whether to be like, "Hey, remember when you were on Will and Grace?" Yeah. I didn't have any question about it. It didn't stop me. Yeah. About what did you remember when we did Sweetest Thing together? Yeah, I know.

52:44 But um Yeah, I mean she was she's always been so kind. Oh, really? Isn't she hilarious? Yeah, she's amazing. She's great. And so she's as advertised. She delivers. Yeah. And she's um I I don't know about you guys. I love all that kind of talk about like all that healing stuff and the ivoristic or whatever it's called. That's what it was. Ivoristic. Good for you. or something. I Ayurvey Ayurvedic. Ayurvedic. That's what it is. Ayurvedic. I want to learn more about that. No, you don't. We want you to learn. I do actually.

53:14 I actually do want to learn more. Why don't you go to Thailand for 6 weeks and go to the [ __ ] go to that wellness center and get yourself flushed out? Yeah. Why don't you go [ __ ] He won't even go to the 405. What do you think he's going to [ __ ] scrape some of the impacted bowels you've got right out? Can you imagine he had to go to a place that didn't have access to Jeopardy every night? be or Wheel of Fortune. The Wheel of Fortune. Never [ __ ] happening. No, I'm not going to Thailand. No. Yeah, I appreciate these almonds, but do you have any hickory almonds?

53:45 Absolutely. How about when she stopped for that butterfly? I love that. And uh you know, butterfly rhymes with Here they come. Here it comes. Butterfly. What? No, that's not even a thing, man. It's butterfly. No, keep working. Will and I will and I are talk. We'll talk for a while and you do some Google searching to come up with a buy. Will, what's going on with your mic stand? I don't know, man. Leave it alone. Is there anyone in the office with you, Will? Yeah, there are three other people here. Yo yo. Mhm. What are they doing?

54:20 Counting paper clips. They're working, man. They're working away. We got uh we got Twisted Metal season 2 coming out this summer on Peacock. Give it a plug. Twisted metal. Well, you asked. you are. This is a This is a behind thescenes uh tour uh hard rock tour. Um Super Team Canada. We got Super Team Canada coming out that's already out. That's a animated show. Uh check it out. Fantastic. We also have our new doc that just got released. Uh Sexiest Man in Winnipeg. Listen, we got a lot of things going on. Okay. Sure. Sure. Sure.

54:52 Sure. Yeah. So, Sexiest Man in Winnipeg, that's uh that's about a doctor. Is that he just got out of prison? Do you want to know the truth is it's about a guy who uh was a sport anytime you're ready. I just I can't find it. [ __ ] You can't come up with a buy. I had a whole list. Oh uh um it's the sexiest man in Winnipeg and it's about a guy who's a sports reporter who started robbing banks. True story. Well, it sounds like a lot of stories going on. It sounds like you're taking one and another one and you're comining biting them. And I'll allow it just to make the pain go away.

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What is discussed in "Parker Posey | SmartLess"?

In order: 0:00 Kenny Rogers, Gender Reveal, Planet of the Apes, Princess Leia; 5:00 Hollywood, Chateau Marmont, Easter Island, Party Girl; 10:00 White Lotus, Brian Bates, Easter Island, Fallout; 15:00 Discovery, For the Love of Kitchens, HBO Max, Thailand; 20:00 Party Girl, Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss, Hollywood, New York City, New York; 25:00 Hollywood, Thailand, White Lotus; 35:00 Abby Hoffman, First Love, Fatal Love, Monroe, Louisiana, New York City, New York; 40:00 Ashtanga Yoga, Ayurvedic Institute, Dr. Vasant Lad, Surviving Cancer; 45:00 Thailand, Digital Detox, Theta State, White Lotus; 50:00 Best in Show, Thailand, White Lotus, A Mighty Wind; 55:00 Sexiest Man in Winnipeg, SmartLess.

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How long is "Parker Posey | SmartLess"?

The episode runs 56 min; the transcript is about 10,459 words in 71 timestamped sections.

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