we'll be out there in moab in 120 degrees. day 100. season the this great? this is fantastic.ryone's dying, he's wearing a wool suit, nothing bothers him. >> he plays what part? >> johnny is tonto. >> some people say, what do you mean the lone ranger and -- they want to be critical of everything, you dealt with that much in your career? you work with every big actor there is? >> always, you always have naysayers. we have the native american community that's behind us. someone will say, how come johnny's not native american? but he is. >> you worked with him in pirates, the whole series. >> right. >> you have a who's who, tom cruise, eddie murphy. james cannes, richard gere, gene hackman, bruce willis, denzel washington. ben affleck. everybody. >> i'm lucky. >> and you come from a pretty humble beginning. your dad was a clothing store manage summer. >> yeah, he was a salesman, and i grew up in detroit, in lower middle class family. first came to new york. decided to follow my dream, and make movies. i moved to california. they were paying me $500 a week or less. it was 200 to c

[laughter] >> host: paul in moab, utah. good afternoon to you. >> caller: good afternoon. do you have a new -- you have a new fan, mary roach. i'm going to go out and read it. you're fascinating. thank you. >> guest: thank you. >> caller: my question is about science fiction and what wonderf you have some favorite authors, anything like that. and secondly, are you a fan of futureama? >> guest: i haven't seen, i know what it is because it comes right after -- doesn't it come after "the colbert report"? >> caller: yes. >> guest: yeah. so, you know what? i haven't watched it. i should because when i've left it on for a while, i go, oh, this looks pretty trippy and fascinating. my favorite, ray bradbury. i loved ray bradbury. there was this particularly haunting short story, and i'm hoping it's ray bradbury and that i don't have the wrong person. oh, there was a couple. there's one called the veld -- oh, i won't go into that one, but the one that was amazing was this one where the alien, it was this beautiful woman, and she had her hair for the whole story draped down over hal