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[Applause] [Music] Ladies and gentlemen, Mono Fortuna. [Applause] Our next guest is one of today's most controversial performers, and this is his new CD. It's called Mechanical Animals. All right, folks, hang on to your stuffing. Here he is, Marilyn Manson. Marilyn, come on out. [Music] [Music] We're all [groaning] stars [screaming] now. [Applause and cheering] Which one is the young Republican? Hey, Marilyn. How you doing? I'm good. How are the folks? The folks are good. Good. You have a nice holiday. Nice Thanksgiving. Uh, I was in jail. You're in jail? Sorry to hear that. What were we doing? Arson. Really? Yeah. You set fire to something, didn't you? Yeah. Are you proud of yourself now? Do you feel like a big shot? Like a big guy? Well, they said I was mad in the post, but I wasn't mad. This is now. Where did this take place? Here? I was doing a little remodel. Rock of Rages, Marilyn Manson in Hotel Rampage. Read all about it in the post. There he is. And there's They set fire to something backstage and then there you are right there. So, what's the deal? See, what happened was I looked at the dress room and I thought it needed some remodeling. So, I did some remodeling. Then there was a t-shirt that I set on fire, right? 'Cause it was very offensive. Is this the kind of behavior really we ought to be pursuing at your age? If you were me and you were in a dress room, wouldn't you do the same? Not a chance in hell of that happening. You actually haven't seen what I done. I just But seriously, because you're not a dumb guy. You know what I'm saying? What are you trying to pull here, son? [Laughter] You haven't seen what I done upstairs yet. Oh no. Oh no. You You know I just took care of the Selma. We got a $30 million lawsuit with Neiman Marcus. Your little nickel and dime stuff. Don't worry me at all. Uh what else you been doing? Uh I bought my parents some dogs. That's very nice of you. What kind of dogs? Well, a lot of people are always afraid that I'm going to hurt animals on stage and all that kind of nonsense, but I was in Ohio and I traveled out into the wilderness of Ohio, right? And beautiful country, isn't it? I I put on something conservative like this and I went to these people's house. You're lucky to be alive. And uh [Laughter] they didn't recognize me. They did. So, they sold me the dogs and I gave them to my parents. What kind of dogs you get? These little Boston Terriers. Oh, little kind of yippy little annoying little yippy dogs. No, they don't bark, but they just fart. It's small, but it'll stink up a That's the gift that keeps on giving, ain't it? Um, everything else good? Yeah. I have a big sold-out tour. Yeah. Yeah. How many nights you on the road? Every night. 365 nights. Well, if I'm not playing, I'm just wrecking dressing rooms and things like Let me try this again. When did the tour begin, Marilyn? About a month ago. About a month ago. All right, Marilyn. When will the tour end? When I'm in jail [Laughter] or dead. Ah, that's cute. Um, do do the uh um Now, how do the kids uh the kids like you, don't they? The kids do they do they take you seriously? Do the kids It's just a just a joke. Just a goof, isn't it? You're a kind of a goof, right? Uh, everybody takes it for something different. It's entertainment. It's art. I'm trying to bring excitement back to rock and roll. And how's that going? It's going good. Yeah. You know what you ought to do because you you uh if we've learned one thing from Madonna, it's you have to keep reinventing yourself. So, I'm I'm going to suggest to you, and God forbid I tell you how to run your business because look at you, you're a million bucks now. Um, [Applause] here's what you do after the tour. You go away for a year and you record like a a country album. [Laughter] You know, you're going to you go down to Nashville and, you know, kind of a Gar Brooks kind of deal. You know what I'm saying? I borrowed this outfit from Gar Brooks. Except the problem was [Applause] he didn't have any pants that fit. So, I got I got so I had to just go with no pants. I brought some of my mom's uh my mom's bikinis with more than you were counting on, ain't it? [Applause] We'll be right back here with Marilyn Manson and ladies. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Hi, welcome back to Big Day after Thanksgiving show. Marilyn Manson. What kind of things do you do? You have hobbies, you sports, you anything? You ever do any bass fishing? I don't like sports. Don't do any sports. I have one moral. Sports. You have one what? My only moral is I don't believe in sports. Oh, is that right? None at all. No. You watch those kids used to beat me up when I was in No, the kids Oh, that must have been awful. Well, tell us about that. Would you Would you get pounded on a regular basis on your way to like is this in grade school or high school or Well, to be honest with you, if I wasn't me, I would have beat me up, too. [Laughter] That's the first reasonable thing you've said tonight. Uh [Applause] but undeniably you've been very successful and and your your family must be they must be proud. My dad my dad uh my dad comes to the shows all the time. Does he really? Now what is what is your dad's if your dad were here and you weren't here? And I would I would say uh what's your father's name? Hugh. I see. [Laughter] I'm I'm sorry. I think it's my it's my middle name. How do you think I feel? Marilyn Hugh Manson. Marilyn Hugh Manson. Yeah. Uh and if I if I were to say uh I say Hugh, what give me your impression? What is it Marilyn does? And what would what would he what is in his mind? Because he he must have something that he can, you know, be comfortable with about all this. What What would Hugh respond when I said, "Tell us, you know, what's the deal with Marilyn?" He's he's take he's more of a rockstar than I am. The other night he was at a show and a girl came up to me and she goes, "Could you get my underwear back?" Mhm. And I go, "What do you mean?" She goes, "Your your father has my underwear." And I said, "What are you talking about?" And he said, "Oh, I'll introduce you to my son if you give me your underpants." [Laughter] Meanwhile, my mom's at home petting the dogs and dad's signing girls' breasts. Yeah, I know. This is not good news for mom. What's mom's name? Barbara. Barbara. Her maiden name was Barb Wire. Is that right? See where I That's That's kind of cute, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. So Hugh and Barbara and their son Marilyn, it's a wacky world, ain't it, Marilyn? Yeah. Yeah. Now, when you're when you're on the road and and uh when you're not uh you know ruining hotel rooms and setting fire to dressing rooms and stuff, uh now, for example, did you have Thanksgiving? Was there a Thanksgiving dinner on scheduled for your tour? Well, we wanted to, but I ended up getting the lettuce and water in jail. Uhhuh. No good. Arson. Yeah. Kids don't like me. No. Paul, you got anything? Uh, everything's all right over here. Yeah. All right. I've been threatening to break all of Paul's stuff, so that dress room damage is nothing to what [Laughter] I can do to Paul. All right. Our guest, huh? You are a guest. Yeah. I like Paul. Hey, Paul's nice. Oh, I like Well, I'll tell you something. Uh, Paul is happening. Paul is still getting it done, my friend. He's been looking still. Yeah. Thanks. [Laughter] What do you mean? That's good. I could have said he's not still getting it done. No, that's right. That's right. He's still getting it done. Wouldn't you rather still be getting it done? Not getting it done. No. Well, we put it that way. Yeah. Well, sure. You think I bet Paul's wrecked some dressing rooms. Oh, has he ever? Exactly. Am I right, Paul? I've redecorated them. Yeah. With a chartreuse, you know, put up lovely pictures and matching towels and monogram things. [Laughter] Hey Marilyn, we got to go. Nice to see you, buddy. Thanks for being here. Marilyn Manson, ladies and gentlemen. We'll be right back. [Applause] [Music]
