Episode Transcript: #1375 - Edward Norton
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We go. I always know the conversation is going to get off to a good start when I
meet a fellow Lenny Bruce fan. Yes. Yeah, that was a... and I... you know, there's
that line in Fight Club, the things you own end up owning you. Yeah. And I
generally am not a stuff guy, but when I came in here, I did find myself going,
this is the right kind of place to keep stuff. Yeah. And I was... I've been wandering
around looking at things and that was my favorite thing that I saw. You have that
a couple of the great Lenny Bruce posters. Yeah. One of which I've never seen. Which
one? Oh, the one with his... Yeah. Where he... it's really wild. He looks like an Indian
guru or something staring into the middle distance. That's an amazing
photograph of him. Yeah, I kind of bought as much vintage Lenny Bruce stuff as I
could find. And this place has sort of evolved into a semi-gallery. You know,
it's... I would like to have a house with nothing in it and then have this place
just filled with shit. No, I kind of agree with that. Also, I think that it's fun...
when you have people come through a space so that you're actually like sharing
the things, like it's sort of like you're letting someone come in and wander.
And some of the best museums in the world are people's individual curations. Some of
the best art collections ever made are better than any museum because they're
put together by someone and you're finding like the threads and things. Yeah. So I
think when you can assemble like things that have meant something to you,
but you can put them in a space where other people can bump into them, it's