-Our first guest tonight is an Academy
and Golden Globe Award-winning actor you know from the hit
TV series "Fargo" and films such as "Sling Blade,"
"Bad Santa," and "Friday Night Lights."
He stars in the fourth and final season of "Goliath,"
which is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
Let's take a look.
-Let's put this to bed for $10 million.
-Zax and Tillinger and Russell Drug
flooded this country with billions of pills.
You get them hooked, and you sell them more.
People die. Who gives a [bleep]?
You can always hook a new customer with a bad back.
You know, George Zax had the balls
to give out free 30-day prescriptions to new patients.
-Zax Pharma has settled.
-Yeah, not on my watch.
Your clients have been reckless.
They killed over 200,000 people for profit.
That's a targeted business plan.
Now, I may be new here.
Maybe I'm just getting up to speed.
But I'm in the mood to stick my fist up your ass
and pull out billions. You get it?
-Please welcome back to the show Billy Bob Thornton.
How are you, friend? -Hey, what's up, Seth?
-That's a hell of a clip they sent along.
Thank you very much for that. -Yeah.
Oh, that's just one of many, many gems.
-So I obviously this has been a difficult couple of years
for a lot of people, but I did not know that you had
this added negative element that you are a germaphobe,
which must have made it especially hard.
-Yeah, yeah. I've always been that way.
I've got, you know, a few phobias.
And I really didn't change when the pandemic came along.
I was already doing all that stuff anyway, you know?
It's like, you know, wash your hands constantly.
I already do. So, yeah. Worked out nice.
-You're one of those people
who already had gloves at your house?
-Oh, absolutely.
Hazmat suits. Everything.
-So, one thing that you were able to do at home,
which must have made it a little bit nicer --
You're also a musician. You have a band.
And is it true that you recorded four albums
since this thing started?
-Three, yeah.
We did three albums, which was pretty nice
because when we went to the recording studio,
we just, you know -- it was kind of a bubble there also.
And, yeah, so we have three new Boxmasters albums,
including a Christmas album
that we're putting out in November,
which is not your typical Christmas album.
It's not "Let it snow, let it snow", you know?
It's a little darker, a little sadder,
you know, than most Christmas albums might be.
-Well, I think we'd expect
nothing less from Bad Santa, you know?
-Exactly, yeah.
-Now, is that Captain Beefheart behind you?
-That is absolutely Captain Beefheart, yes.
-Do you have a lot of your favorite photos
of your favorite artists on the wall at your home,
or is he a special exception?
-Well, no, I'm actually in the recording studio
right now, in the lounge of the recording studio
that we have out here in California.
And I was friends
with a famous photographer named Jim Marshall.
And Jim photographed, you know, everybody back in the day,
and he was quite a character.
And I have a collection of Jim's photos here.
And we had a deal, Jim and I.
He would sell me one, which weren't cheap, and --
He would sell me one, and he would give me one.
So that was really cool.
And he knew that I was a big fan
of Frank Zappa and Beefheart and all them.
And so he would always give me their photos
if I would buy a Janis Joplin or whatever.
-I read an article about one of my favorite artists,
Warren Zevon, that talked about a time
that he was -- just stopped by your studio
and was just hanging out
and actually recorded some stuff there.
Was he someone that you were lucky enough to know long-term,
or was that just a one-time thing?
-No, I knew Warren since the late '80s.
When I was -- I was living in an apartment building
on Kings Road in L.A. in West Hollywood.
And Warren was my neighbor.
He lived in the building, too.
And -- You know how in apartment buildings
you have this bank of mailboxes?
You go and check your mail
before you go up to your apartment.
And the first time I met Warren,
we didn't meet through the entertainment business.
We met at the mailbox.
And I have severe OCD, and so did Warren.
And he was standing next to me checking his mail,
and I opened my mailbox and pulled the mail out,
put it back in, closed it, opened it again.
I did that three times, and he was watching.
And he goes, "You have it, too, huh?"
And I go, "Yeah, I do." So then we got to be friends.
And it became a competition on who had the worst OCD.
[ Laughter ]
And, by the way, as bad as mine is, he won.
And so...
But he ended up, on his last album,
you know, before he passed away.
He used to come to the house a lot,
and we hung out quite a bit.
And he recorded about three of the songs for his last album
in my old studio that I had bought from Slash.
And he actually did "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"
in my studio, which was pretty chilling,
because, you know, Warren knew he was dying.
And when he recorded that in the studio,
I'll never forget just sitting there listening.
I did background vocals with a couple of other guys
on that song with him.
And -- It was pretty chilling.
-Yeah, I mean, I remember, you know,
that when that album came out and listening to him
sing that song, and, obviously, you were aware
that he knew what his diagnosis was.
So I can only imagine, as sort of haunting
as it was to listen to it off the album,
I can't imagine what it was like to record it with him.
What a piece of history that is.
-No, it was amazing.
And I remember that night,
Warren had a silver ring that he wore.
It was just kind of a square silver ring.
Didn't have any markings on it or anything.
And he said, "I've worn this ring for a long time."
And he said, "I want you to have it."
And Warren had a very dark sense of humor.
And he handed it to me,
and I held it there,
and he looked at me and he said,
"You're not gonna wear it, are you?"
I said, "No, of course not."
And he goes, "I knew you wouldn't."