Mr. Peanut is My Type

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Speaker 1 Freedom!

Speaker 1 Freedom!

Speaker 1 Bring that noise back to music.

Speaker 1 Freedom!

Speaker 1 It always let you know you were listening to music from the future. Boom!

Speaker 1 Yeah, it will always let you know that. What year do you think it is when you hear this?

Speaker 1 Probably 2025. 2026.
2020. 2020, 26.

Speaker 1 20, 20, 26. 2020, 20, 20, 20.
Do you realize that eventually there's going to be year 20, 20, 26? That's crazy.

Speaker 1 Do you realize we... We passed 2020 already and Barbara Walters, I don't think, was alive to see it.

Speaker 1 Did she die? Yeah, right, yeah.

Speaker 1 Uh-oh. I don't recall.
There's a whole documentary about her. There's documentaries about living people.
I know, but I'm just saying. Name one living person there's a documentary about.

Speaker 1 I'm actually not sure anymore. Michael Jervis.
I'm actually not sure anymore. I think she's alive.
She passed away in 2022. She was still around.
She passed

Speaker 1 2020. Good for her.
It's hard when you can't remember. Good for her.

Speaker 1 But she died in 2022. 20, 20, 20, 22.
2022. 2022.
Her life was centered by 2020. But she died in 2022.

Speaker 1 One of the fate, one of the cruel ironies.

Speaker 1 One of the cruel ironies of fate.

Speaker 1 She's narrating her own documentary about her death. That's what I would do.
Yeah, why not? We should narrate our own. Or do you want inspired by the Emmys, which we recently watched? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Which, of course, were a month and a half ago. I have made a folder.
I've made a folder of photos

Speaker 1 to leave behind saying, please only use these photos when I die. Are you serious? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Did you dislike some of the photos in the in-memoriam? No, hey, those photos are fine. I'm saying I've seen the photos that people select for me.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And I don't like them.

Speaker 1 What year were they mainly in? Is there a year that you think you peaked?

Speaker 1 That I peaked, or is there a year that I oh, no, there's there, the photos that I like are from all different periods. Okay, that's what I'm wondering.

Speaker 1 There's photos from a a certain period that I'm like, please don't use these photos. Did you tell Janie? No, not yet.
Well, she has to know to go into your phone. How are you going to tell her?

Speaker 1 How are you going to break it to her? I'm going to say, honey, eventually I'm going to die. Then she'll be crying for three days.
Then I'll say three days later, you'll reappear. All of us.

Speaker 1 Yeah. She really doesn't understand that, that it happens to everyone.
Yeah. She only thinks it's going to happen to her.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I don't know where she got that idea. I think I told her that, actually.
Oh,

Speaker 1 yeah.

Speaker 1 I said, like, she said,

Speaker 1 I said, like she said.

Speaker 1 That's what I said, like she said. You know, after

Speaker 1 a year after my mom died, she said, how come we don't see your mom anymore? And I said,

Speaker 1 remember, man, that thou art dust and to dust thou shall return. And I say this to her every day.
Oh, good.

Speaker 1 When she wakes up or when she goes to bed?

Speaker 1 The first time she speaks to me in the morning,

Speaker 1 the first thing I say to her is, that is the rejoinder.

Speaker 1 Yes, yes. One of Batman's greatest foes.

Speaker 1 That's not Batman. The rejoinder.
If I were still writing Spider-Man,

Speaker 1 you'd have Batman in there?

Speaker 1 Look, I was very close to putting vehicular handslaughter

Speaker 1 in there. Vehicular hand slaughter? Yeah, I think that we came up with that on our freedom.
We came up with that. Yeah,

Speaker 1 like equally. I guess Paul did.
Like 50-50. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the three of us, 50-50, came up with that.

Speaker 1 You got 50, I got 50, Laura got 50.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's the three of away. 150.
I remember when I did that. I was like, why did I do that?

Speaker 1 I remember when I did that?

Speaker 1 By the way, we need to clear up something. Paul and I had hot dogs right before this episode.
We did. How was your hot dog, Paul? It was a delicious hot dog.

Speaker 1 I'm feeling a bit logie right now. Okay.
Logie. I had hot dog and tater tots with Hollywood sauce.

Speaker 1 And if you had to describe what Hollywood sauce is. Thousand Island dressing.

Speaker 1 Great. They don't scrape it off the Hollywood Boulevard stalls.

Speaker 1 Put it in a little cup for you and dip in.

Speaker 1 And I, of course, ate really, it was, it's practically a hot dog. It was a, it was a long, thin

Speaker 1 baguette with prosciutto and butter. That sounds delicious.
And I really didn't want to get it. I wanted something else, but they didn't have what I wanted.

Speaker 1 What did you want? I wanted these like chilled

Speaker 1 noodles that are like in a sort of a peanut type sauce or something like that with some sesame seeds. Yeah, I love peanut types.
Yeah, yeah, peanut types. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And they're allergic to peanuts, but I love peanut types. I love peanut sacks.
Mr. Peanut is my type.

Speaker 1 He's like 38, 24, 38.

Speaker 1 How long did it take him to grow up when he was reincarnated as himself?

Speaker 1 How long did it take him to grow up when he was, I don't think he had a teenage phase or anything. I don't remember seeing

Speaker 1 breaking out or anything to grow up. Sort of like when there were sitcoms and there would be a baby born and then the next year they'd be five.

Speaker 1 Do you think if they kept making the Mandalorian, we'd see Teen Yoda?

Speaker 1 A gross Yoda teen. Yeah.
Oh, obviously. I mean, there's going to be a movie.
I expect him to be grown up. All grown up or in an awkward teenage phase?

Speaker 1 They already did that with Groot, so it's hard to say. Groot had an awkward teenage phase.
He did have an awkward teenage phase. Yeah.
And that's where you're getting your great idea from, Paul.

Speaker 1 Your Groot. I stole it from Groot.
It's your Groot idea.

Speaker 1 What if, what if Grogu said, I'm Groot?

Speaker 1 Oh, that would be so Groot. I mean, cute.

Speaker 1 You're a real grootie pie. You're such a grooty pie.

Speaker 1 Welcome to Freedom. I'm Paul.
Groot, I am. I'm Lauren.
I don't think we introduced ourselves last time. No, we didn't.
So if you

Speaker 1 last week was your first episode and you're like, who are these people? If you can't figure it out. Who are these people?

Speaker 1 I've Scott. Hello.

Speaker 1 I already said who I am. Okay, okay.
I was just singing, Laura. Okay, dear.
Okay, honey. Sorry, sweetheart.

Speaker 1 Laura, what's going on? I just got sleepy from the food.

Speaker 1 Yeah, right?

Speaker 1 We have to talk about something. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Bruno?

Speaker 1 We don't do that. Bruno, if you know the movie, Bruno.
We don't talk about the movie, Bruno.

Speaker 1 We really don't.

Speaker 1 We didn't agree that. It's just something that doesn't happen.

Speaker 1 This is because the listener may be excited about something we teased last episode that is not going to happen on this episode.

Speaker 1 We proposed that we were going to take a field trip to the Beep House. And we were going to get to the bottom of the B.

Speaker 1 Palace? Oh, Beep.

Speaker 1 Oh, we didn't do it. What did you say? We We ran out of time.

Speaker 1 The bee palace.

Speaker 1 You know what? We didn't do it. We didn't get to the bottom of anything.
Sorry, we ran out of time because we had hot dogs. You know what it's like? Yeah, hot dogs really took up all of our time.

Speaker 1 Well, you were slobbing on that knob for

Speaker 1 minutes on end.

Speaker 1 Why am I the only knob slobber? He had a hot dog, too. You both did.
You both did. But I want to say this morning we had a little bit of a text confusion that was only me being confused with Paul.

Speaker 1 It was a different chain that we're on with your wife and my husband. Yes.

Speaker 1 And Mike said that our daughter is obsessed with NS. He wrote mini coppers.

Speaker 1 And then, well, hold on. Pause.
I didn't do anything.

Speaker 1 Pause for questioning.

Speaker 1 Pause for questioning. Do you care that I say you have a mini cooper? No.
Okay, great.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 Mike texted that our daughter loves mini coppers.

Speaker 1 And he said, we know someone, Uncle Paul has a mini copper.

Speaker 1 And he did not. He didn't say copper twice.

Speaker 1 He said, Paul has one. Uncle Paul.
He said, I told her

Speaker 1 Minnie Paul has one.

Speaker 1 And then Ginny said, and then, and that our daughter wanted it to be green. And then Ginny said, it is green.
And then I said, what's a mini copper? Like a snake? You have a green snake?

Speaker 1 And then

Speaker 1 I went, oh, Minnie Cooper. And then everyone went crazy that I thought you had a snake.
Now, I fucking had a bunch of. Of course, I, it was a typo.
He typed Minnie Copper instead of.

Speaker 1 Genuinely, did you think maybe Paul bought a snake? And I don't know anything about that.

Speaker 1 This is me imitating Lauren's time. And then what did I say back?

Speaker 1 What? A snake or what? And then Lauren said,

Speaker 1 You really got me. That's exactly what I said.

Speaker 1 And then Mike said,

Speaker 1 but seriously, you thought I thought that they own a snake?

Speaker 1 This is good stuff. And then I said yes.

Speaker 1 I thought you thought that, and I thought Janie agreed it was green. Yes.

Speaker 1 And then I just wrote, let me get this straight. Well, and then nothing else.
Because I do think there was a world where you, I thought it'd be crazy, but that you have a little copperhead snake.

Speaker 1 The fact that you

Speaker 1 consider Paul to be a snake snake guy, even in like the chances of it being 10%. I don't have a ponytail.
Is insulting to him.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And insulting to me on his behalf.
I don't own a bong. Okay.
I

Speaker 1 own a bong? I didn't think it would

Speaker 1 happen, but then I thought. I don't either.
Remember what? Did I tell you about when I found a bong in our garage and my brother hid it there? Yes. Great.

Speaker 1 Did you enjoy it? For a second, I thought you meant your

Speaker 1 courage garage. No, no, no, no, no.
Wait, what happened? Wait.

Speaker 1 What happened exactly? My brother would hide stuff in the garage that he couldn't, because he knew my parents would like

Speaker 1 search his room.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they were so frightened. It was a haunted garage.

Speaker 1 And so he would hide like his bong in a shoebox in a particular place. And I remember when I found it, and I was like, oh,

Speaker 1 there's a bong here. It was like good.

Speaker 1 You didn't think it was his. No, I knew it was his.
Oh.

Speaker 1 Why is it called a bong?

Speaker 1 Because you take big bongs. Just for fun.
Oh, of course.

Speaker 1 Honestly, if you don't get it, then you don't get it. I think

Speaker 1 he got caught. I think they found the bong or they figured out he was smoking pot and they made him go to a Christian therapist because they

Speaker 1 didn't believe it. Because they knew a regular therapist would be like, make him go away from Christianity.
It would be like, hey, you know what? Everyone smokes pot. Yeah, it's fine.
You're fine.

Speaker 1 It's actually great.

Speaker 1 Try to not do it in the house. It takes the edge off.

Speaker 1 Should I drive my car over to your house to show? Yeah, or we can come to your house. Is that ever going to happen? We could.
We need a little adventure on Sunday. We don't have anything planned.

Speaker 1 Please, let me see if we're free Sunday. Okay.
We'd love to have you guys.

Speaker 1 I don't have anything going on. Well, do you want to see Paul's car? Yeah.
I mean,

Speaker 1 we could pop over, you know. Oh, I have my show Sunday.
At night?

Speaker 1 Yeah, at night. But that means you're not available all day.
During the day, I'm just freaking out. So you don't have 15 minutes.
Fuck, fuck, fuck. I for sure did I fuck.

Speaker 1 You can say no, but you don't have 15 minutes where we could just pop over and just see that and just have a little interaction. No.
Oh my God.

Speaker 1 I'm saying I wouldn't enjoy it as much. Yeah, okay.
Fine. We'll do it another day.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Okay. Okay.
Do it today. We'll do it right now.
We're going to leave right now.

Speaker 1 Get an Uber for Holly. I'm going to pick everyone up.
We're going to go meet there. Just get her an Uber to meet right here because his car's here.
That makes more sense. My car is here.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Put her in a Waymo. What were you doing in your car, by the way? Because

Speaker 1 when I got here,

Speaker 1 I thought you'd be in here, and then I walked inside and you weren't in here, but I was like, but his car was out there. And you waited for me.

Speaker 1 Ten more minutes and you weren't here. What was going on? I was doing a little business.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Did you see me drive by?

Speaker 1 I did not see you drive by. I was in my phone.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 That was me. Making copies.
Faxing things. Yeah.
Faxing Instagrams. I was sending facsimiles.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I was rolling calls.

Speaker 1 Do you think the fax machine is rolling over in its grave right now?

Speaker 1 I hope that thing goes to hell. I remember when I worked at Dean Witter, the

Speaker 1 brokerage firm.

Speaker 1 I worked there for a summer. Never heard this before.
What?

Speaker 1 I never told you I worked for Dean Witter. I do.
Do they sell spaghetti?

Speaker 1 Let me think.

Speaker 1 They probably would have.

Speaker 1 If someone called up and was like, will you sell me spaghetti for $400? Oh, wait, Dean Witter's possibility. It doesn't feel like you should work there if they didn't sell spaghetti.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I worked there. They needed someone doing, as they called,

Speaker 1 what did she call it?

Speaker 1 It was one of the brokers. She wanted someone who did telemarketing.
And I had a bit of telemarketing. With the background, yes.

Speaker 1 When I say she called it telemarketing, it was basically calling,

Speaker 1 it was telemarketing. It was cold calling people in in the town we were in.
That's telemarketing, baby. And saying, hey,

Speaker 1 we have really good interest rates right now. I didn't even know what they, what that meant.
And then if anyone was interested, I was immediately supposed to transfer the call to her.

Speaker 1 And I'd go, hold one second. Like, if somebody said, what's that?

Speaker 1 We got one on the line. No, if anyone was just like, oh, what are the rates? I'd go, hold on one second.
I would transfer it to her. And it can't have been

Speaker 1 worth it to her to hire me because I would go in and I would like write plays and stuff.

Speaker 1 And I remember she very nicely sent me a floppy disc with all the plays that I was working on after I left there to my house. It was very nice.

Speaker 1 It's like, well, I found out what you were doing all day. Oh, no.
And she wrote a nice letter of support: oh, you're going to be. And then a critique of the plays.
Yes. Did you?

Speaker 1 And then a request to start. Did you feel upset when you left there and you didn't have the plays?

Speaker 1 No, because they were all dead ends that I was working on. I never ended up really doing anything with them.
But she was very nice. It was interesting.

Speaker 1 I worked with one of Bill Murray's brothers.

Speaker 1 Joel?

Speaker 1 No. The one who does not act.
Dole.

Speaker 1 Sol. Kroll.
Pole.

Speaker 1 Dole.

Speaker 1 Did you work with Dole Murray? Did you work with Dole Murray? Did not.

Speaker 1 Did you work with Wool Murray? I don't think so. Now that I think of it, no.
Did you work with

Speaker 1 Stole?

Speaker 1 Paul, are you out? Cole? Did you realize what you were going to say? It was too silly.

Speaker 1 I was going to say Cole, but we already did Cole. Cole's name.

Speaker 1 Oh, that counts. That counts.

Speaker 1 Did you work with Jaws Murray? Oh, yeah, I did work with Jaws Murray. Did you work with Jaws Murray? Yeah.

Speaker 1 I did. But the reason I bring it up.

Speaker 1 is because that was the first time I'd ever faxed anything. And

Speaker 1 once I did it once, I'm trying to remember if I can recall. Where was I the first time I faxed something?

Speaker 1 Once I did it once, I just wanted to do it over. No, once I did it once, my boss said, Hey, now you can put this on your resume that you know how to fax things.
Oh, that's so great. The bar is so low.

Speaker 1 Hey, you know what I mean? But it's still there to this day. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. So if anyone needs any fax things, I used to fax my aunt.

Speaker 1 She worked for the mayor of a town. Oh, my God.
And I would fax her. Which town, amity? I won't say say.
Because I protect her anonymity, but it was amonity.

Speaker 1 Pleasantville? It was Pleasantville. And I would text, I would fax her.
She's in black and white. Yes.
And I would, my fax is. Is she in color now? Yes.
Because she jerked off in the bathtub. Okay.

Speaker 1 Is that what happens? Scott hasn't seen.

Speaker 1 You have to see that one.

Speaker 1 Yeah. She has an orgasm.
You don't have to see that one. Okay.

Speaker 1 Lauren likes it. She'll do an episode, she says.
I haven't seen it since it came out. Did she see that? I think so.
You said you'd do an episode. I'm too busy to do an episode.

Speaker 1 We have to do it in February instead of the before. Instead of the

Speaker 1 Joan Allen is the wife. Is it William H.
Macy? Yes. And Reese Withers from VR.
Toby Maguire.

Speaker 1 Great cast. Who's in it that you forget is in it? What? People are like, oh, this person.
Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know.
Yeah, I forgot. Yeah, I forgot.
Yeah, dunno.

Speaker 1 And you know, I used to fax her all kinds of messages, and she would fax back sort of official seeming mayor letters. Oh, that's fun, like on the letter.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's so fun. And it would be like a typed letter.
Dear Lord, yes, I received your facts today. Yes, and you made me realize that you and I should connect.
Yes, yes, that's fun. Good stuff.

Speaker 1 Jeff Daniels is also in plus. Oh, yeah, he was the milkman.
He was the milkman.

Speaker 1 Everyone else?

Speaker 1 Couldn't tell you. Jane Kazmarek

Speaker 1 from Malcolm and the Middle, Marissa Robisi,

Speaker 1 Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley family. Oh.

Speaker 1 When this airs, I will have seen Rylo Kiley for a second time on this tour. Don Knotts? Oh, yeah, that's right.
Don Knotts was in his mind. Is it a TV repairman? Yeah.
Paul Walker, R.I.P. Oh.

Speaker 1 Maggie Lawson. Is this better or more or less interesting than Lauren naming countries? I think it's better because at least you have a picture of actors in your head, which everyone loves.

Speaker 1 Actors like Charles C. Stevenson Jr.,

Speaker 1 who played Dr. Henderson.
Ah, Dr. Henderson.
We love Dr. Henderson, don't we, folks?

Speaker 1 Wait, there's a picture of this guy. Patrick Thomas O'Brien looks exactly like David Hyde Pierce.
Is he two guys? Let me see.

Speaker 1 I think David Hyde Pierce split in two that one time. That guy.
Oh, yeah, but he's definitely different from him.

Speaker 1 I mean, he's definitely different from him.

Speaker 1 In name. But he's not

Speaker 1 looking like him. Yeah, but like, there's a lot of people that look alike.
That's not true. Like, maybe four people look alike.
There's a lot of celebrities that look alike.

Speaker 1 JT Walsh,

Speaker 1 Danny Strong. They look exactly alike.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 It would be funny to cast a movie and every single person who has a part, you had to cast someone else in another part who looked sort of like them.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So that, but that it was totally even.

Speaker 1 So if there were like 58 speaking parts, you would cast

Speaker 1 29.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you picked a hard number.

Speaker 1 You would cast.

Speaker 1 You're the one. Scott is beautiful minding.

Speaker 1 Beautiful mind. All right, we have to sick break.
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Speaker 1 Whoa.

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Speaker 1 Here's the thing.

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Speaker 1 They've been taunting us.

Speaker 1 I have been here and there purchasing some physical media of things that I don't want to be taken away from me forever. Should the streaming people

Speaker 1 decide to take them down. As they do.
Good job. As they do.
So one of my favorites, The Sting. The Sting.

Speaker 1 The Entertainer is here to say.

Speaker 1 I'm entertaining you all day.

Speaker 1 I have updated my copy of The Sting, so now this is extraneous, but it is a 4K Ultra HD copy. Wow.
Would one of you like this film? No, I would. You can have it.
Robert Redford passed

Speaker 1 yesterday or today. He did.
My mom told me a story about Robert Redford that I didn't know.

Speaker 1 What's that? He

Speaker 1 was in Evanston. Nazi.
By the way, is the digital code still with us or no?

Speaker 1 Probably. Open it up there.

Speaker 1 Apparently,

Speaker 1 my mom was pushing me as a baby in the stroller. Okay.
And he walked past Robert Redford. Your mom was a baby.
My mom was pushing me in the stroller. I was a baby.
Oh, okay.

Speaker 1 And she walked past Robert Redford and his son, who went to Northwestern, and I guess he did as well.

Speaker 1 And she's like, I gotta fuck that dude. No.

Speaker 1 He's so good with this. She was like, I'm in color now.

Speaker 1 And he said to my mom, now that's a beautiful little girl about me.

Speaker 1 Fucking kidding. And my mom said, I looked up and smiled at him and thought, did this just happen? And she said, by the way, he was pretty beautiful himself.

Speaker 1 And my dad said, he sprinkled some pixie dust on you about me. What? Okay.

Speaker 1 All right, dad. I guess my, he blessed me with his saying I was with his Robert Redford.

Speaker 1 Okay, dad. I thought it was a funny thing for my dad to say because it's kind of like out of character.
Of course, it's a bit more. But what he means is like, you're the next Robert Redford.

Speaker 1 And obviously, I am. And

Speaker 1 well, you started to look more like him since Robert Redford. The second he passed, my hair fell into that shape.

Speaker 1 But, anyways, he, I thought that was great that I have that connection. That is great.
A connection is made. A connection is made.
That's lovely. That's wonderful.

Speaker 1 Next up, we have no country for old man. Absolutely no country for old man.
This is the Cohn Brothers adaptation of the Core McMcCarthy meditation on the inevitability of the West.

Speaker 1 Life in the West. That's a great film.

Speaker 1 Now that's a great film. Now that's a great film.
That's a great film. This looks to be just a regular old DVD.
I don't think it's even a Blu-ray. Hmm.

Speaker 1 I own a 4K copy. I'm going to pass.
Well, I don't blame you.

Speaker 1 I'll take it. Mike likes that movie.
And, you know, we like having some physical media as well. Now, look, a million versions of this over the years.

Speaker 1 I just got the latest one, so I am not going to keep this one. This is the anniversary collector's edition of Why Did You Do That?

Speaker 1 You are a maniac. You crushed all the DVDs.
I crushed the DVDs. This is the anniversary edition of Jow's.
Happy anniversary, John. The 25th anniversary.
We're now, this is 25 years old.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we're now in the 50s. Yes.
I remember

Speaker 1 that came out in

Speaker 1 in what, 2000?

Speaker 1 Yes, it did. That's exactly right.

Speaker 1 It's been 50 years of Jaws. It's been.
50 years of Jaws.

Speaker 1 We can't believe that it's been 50 years. This has over 75 minutes of bonus footage.
That's 76 minutes or so? I will take it.

Speaker 1 Unless you want it. No, I do not.
Thank you.

Speaker 1 And finally. It feels like a nice classic to own.
Lowry. We watched this together during the pandemic, by the way.
Lowry. What a beautiful box of arabia.

Speaker 1 It's got a sort of fabric box. It is.
Yes, it's nice. I used to own that edition, I believe.
It's a good edition. Yeah.

Speaker 1 This is the exclusive limited edition.

Speaker 1 I remember how exclusive that was. You and I both owned it.
And we were the only people.

Speaker 1 It was exclusive. It was limited.

Speaker 1 One of two.

Speaker 1 So it says the anniversary edition. Oh, no, it says limited edition.
It doesn't say anything about anniversary, and I apologize.

Speaker 1 But disc one is special features. Uh, disc two,

Speaker 1 where's the movie?

Speaker 1 Yeah, give me the movie, guys. Disc one is special features.
It's like, wait, why are we starting there? Yeah, yeah, like, well, first, I want to put in disc one and watch the movie. Disc two.

Speaker 1 Maybe I think they're saying there's special features on both discs. Okay.
So it's like the film is on disc one, and then here are the special features that are on disc one. There it is.

Speaker 1 This one, one of the one of the special features, talent files. Oh, we've got files on the talent.

Speaker 1 Check out this file on Peter O'Toole. Advertising campaigns.
Wow.

Speaker 1 I love when a special feature on a disc is photos.

Speaker 1 I love clicking through photos. There's a feature in on camels.
You know what? I think I did look at those photos when I first got them. Of course.
What else are you going to do? Well, you're young.

Speaker 1 You're there.

Speaker 1 You can't get a job. Now, have you ever seen this movie, Lauren? I haven't.
Oh, it's so good. I'm going to give this to you.
And is that homework? It's not homework. No, it's a play.
I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 It's at your leisure. Thank you.
One of my favorite movies of all time.

Speaker 1 Approximately three and a half hours, maybe? It's a long one. It had an intermission.
It's okay. It's okay.
I'm not okay.

Speaker 1 I bring up my thing. You know what? Watch 30 seconds of it.
Okay. If you're not hooked, return it.

Speaker 1 You know what I almost brought in was The Music Man. Oh.
Yes. I had a regular DVD copy, but there is a Blu-ray, and I bought the Blu-ray.

Speaker 1 There's not a 4K of 4-1. Not yet.
We did watch it on 4K because we rented it, did we not? When we did our watch-along, we did rent it. I do not recall if it was 4K.
Is everything just 4K?

Speaker 1 I think everything is 4K if you rent it. Well, that's nice.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Just about, I should say.

Speaker 1 Unless it doesn't exist in 4K. You saved yourself.
But a film. A film? For sure.
Well, I'm going to treasure this, Paul. Thank you so much.
I hope you treasure it.

Speaker 1 I haven't watched The Sting in approximately 35 years.

Speaker 1 That's a fucking fun movie. Celebrate Celebrate Robert Redford.
Today. Whatever you're doing, drop whatever you're doing, except for listening to this, but including your pants.

Speaker 1 Yes, pants on the ground. Pants on the ground.
Everybody has those pants on the ground. Drop them into your drawers and listen to the sting.
Just listen to it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Here's what you do. Take your pants and underwear off.
This kind of thing drives me nuts. Face away.
Face away over the TV.

Speaker 1 And then watch the sting and leave your door unlocked. So, So, what drives you nuts? Type butts.

Speaker 1 Why? I don't like when they put the name of a different star under the picture. No, that's Matt.
Why would you do that? Because it's contractually obligated who's going to be left to right.

Speaker 1 Right, but then why don't they just have the picture be like that? But then it's like maybe the story doesn't make sense for the picture to be like that. Like, that's three separate pictures of them.

Speaker 1 They didn't pose for that. But it's just like annoying that it's the wrong person.
We should have done that with freedom.

Speaker 1 Forget what I was watching recently that talked about television contractual things on a poster. Who was television? Oh, it was a TV.

Speaker 1 I was watching a TV. That's right.
Yes. Yeah.
One of those TVs that I put up. That billing stuff is fascinating to me.
Yeah. It's so funny.

Speaker 1 Because it does feel when you, when you start talking about it, it's like, this is dumb. Well, is that one of the original stories? Doesn't it tie back to Laverne and Shirley or something?

Speaker 1 Yeah, we were talking about Laverne and Shirley. That's right.

Speaker 1 And they solved it. Because they decided to do

Speaker 1 the same time, different locations on the screen.

Speaker 1 Before Laverne and Shirley, they did that on the Towering Inferno.

Speaker 1 So Steve McQueen, and I think Paul Newman was Paul Newman at the time. And then they would do left, so they would do like low, left, but upper, right at the same time.

Speaker 1 So it's like left to right is better than upper and down, you know,

Speaker 1 lower. Yeah, yeah.
We talked about this on this show, I think. Probably.
We've talked about everyone. I think so.
Who cares? The fact that she and I both remember this. Well,

Speaker 1 I know it from a friend of mine who made a video about this. Whoa.

Speaker 1 So that's how I knew it. That really impressed Scott.
Yeah, he made a video. That's so cool.
Yes. So Penny Marshall was bottom left and Cindy Williams was top right.

Speaker 1 And that's how they equaled them out because they both had top bills. That's the towering inferno stratagem.

Speaker 1 It was perfect and it worked just right.

Speaker 1 Yes, we read left to right. But if something's up there down at the bottom and something's up there at the top, maybe you read the top first.
You leave it up to the individual viewers.

Speaker 1 At the end of the the day we both know they're equal do you remember when cindy williams left that show and they put her in a full body cast or something like that to disguise that she was gone it was a contractual dispute maybe

Speaker 1 but it wasn't her oh i know it wasn't her i'm saying that that she was in her the character of uh uh shirley was in the show but they put her in a

Speaker 1 full body cast in order to say like oh shirley's still here yeah surely she's just right here in this body cast that makes her look like a mummy diggy or they covered her head yeah It's wild that that show continued.

Speaker 1 I know. Why? Because it was so good.
After one episode? No, that

Speaker 1 one of half of your title leaves. Yeah.
Yeah. This is not like Valerie's family.
It would be like if Breaking left and they still did Breaking Bad.

Speaker 1 Right. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Which one is Breaking?

Speaker 1 Oh, I always think it's Walter White. I thought Jesse was always breaking things.
Because you would notice any scene he was in, he would bump into something and you'd hear crash. But he's also bad.

Speaker 1 I thought he was a little bad. And Walter White broke up his marriage.
Yeah, that's

Speaker 1 also bad. Yeah.
That's a good point. He was also bad.
Maybe they had like a thing like that where they both had the breaking. They were both a little bit breaking, a little bit bad.

Speaker 1 Oh, you know who else had the same billing? Shelly Long and Ted Danson in cheers.

Speaker 1 Speaking of breaking bad. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Now,

Speaker 1 a week or so ago,

Speaker 1 I went out to the theater with my good lady wife and our wonderful friends, Scott and Kulop. Oh, that's right.
I thought you were talking about a different theater experience.

Speaker 1 I thought it might be going another way as well. We had dinner after the theater.
Dinner after the theater. Yes, because it was an earlier show.

Speaker 1 It was a Sunday evening performance, and the curtain was 6.30, which is tough because we here, because of Emmy, are used to eating at approximately 6.15 or so.

Speaker 1 So it was really one of these things of like, well, I guess we'll... And you guys had packed bottles for yourselves.
Yes. And so you had those during the day.
And also, we had giant

Speaker 1 Dagwood sandwiches that we were eating

Speaker 1 while we were watching. That's right.
Bottles and Dagwood sandwiches. And so we went to dinner afterwards, and we realized we're on Vine Street.
We're right near.

Speaker 1 I looked around and I said, I think this is near where Bob Odenkirk's star is. Wow.
And Paul knows this because he was invited to the ceremony. I was there at the ceremony.
Wow.

Speaker 1 And we walked up the street and there it was.

Speaker 1 And my wife always wants to take a picture all the time. Yeah.
And said, We should get a picture. And so, so we all gathered round,

Speaker 1 took a picture with the star.

Speaker 1 And by the way, the other issue was we had the minute we had walked outside, we had called an Uber to go back home. Yes.
And it arrived within 30, 45 seconds. It was there.
It was there.

Speaker 1 And so, and Janie's like, let's get a picture, y'all. And I don't care for you.

Speaker 1 I don't care. You might be a red Nick.

Speaker 1 Better stop.

Speaker 1 And so she wants to get a picture, and we're saying, okay, one, but we got to hurry. We got to hurry.
Our star rating is in peril.

Speaker 1 And so we all gather around Bob's star. We take this selfie.
We're laughing the whole time. We're like, we only take one.
We don't check it or anything.

Speaker 1 We get into the car. We zoom off.

Speaker 1 And then we check the picture later. And

Speaker 1 we hadn't framed it with Bob's star in it at all, but it caught the

Speaker 1 perfect framing of Brian Cranston's star.

Speaker 1 Which is right above. All of us gathered around Brian Cranston.
My favorite guy, Brian Cranston. That's amazing.
Yeah, very nice man. That's amazing.
And did you text that to Bob?

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 And what year did Bob get his star? What if I just did that with a year ago?

Speaker 1 It was 2021 or two. So just one year ago.

Speaker 1 It just happened.

Speaker 1 Well, that's very nice you were invited. It was very nice.

Speaker 1 It was very kind.

Speaker 1 Bob said

Speaker 1 to me, I wouldn't be here without you.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And I was like, that's weird.

Speaker 1 He said, I knew that you of all people would appreciate

Speaker 1 every aspect of this.

Speaker 1 Like the, like how it's kind of dumb, but it's also it is like an honor. Yeah.
And it's a crazy showbiz thing.

Speaker 1 But that was a very fun day. And I got to meet Carol Burnett.
Carol Burnett. She was very exciting.
Was one of the people who sort of made a speech about him or something. Yeah.
Yeah. That's so cool.

Speaker 1 That's amazing. I was so nervous to talk to her.
Yeah. And I chickened out.
I kept saying, like, go, go ask, go ask for a picture. Go ask for a picture.
Pull her earlope.

Speaker 1 And it was fucking Ray Seahorn made it happen. Oh, really? Because Carol was about to leave.
And she's like, Carol, Carol, come here for a second.

Speaker 1 So I got a picture, which was very fun. Oh, I love that.

Speaker 1 I've done that for people and people have done that for me as well. Exactly.
It helps you out.

Speaker 1 I got to meet John Carlo Esposito, and we talked about Merrily We Roll Along. Oh, yeah.
Because he was in the original cast. He was in the original one of that? Oh, I didn't know that.
That's so cool.

Speaker 1 I remember when

Speaker 1 Brent Spiner was on my TV show.

Speaker 1 He played Data.

Speaker 1 Yes, but he was also in Sunday in the Park with George in the original cast. Really? I didn't know that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and we were talking about that for a bit, and he told me a story about how Kelsey Grammer, who was in it,

Speaker 1 left the show or something because he had an audition. I can't remember exactly what the story was, but like it was basically him.
I'm going to be on Miami Vive.

Speaker 1 No, he got on Frasier. Or no, no, Cheers.

Speaker 1 Cheers.

Speaker 1 He got that role on Cheers. He got on Frasier and they said, let's do

Speaker 1 set you up on Cheers.

Speaker 1 And then we'll roll right into Frasier.

Speaker 1 But that's so fun.

Speaker 1 I did that for our script supervisor on the Bang Bang TV show when Karen Gillen was on. She's a huge Doctor Who fan, was freaking out.
And then Karen, like,

Speaker 1 they called rap on her, and the script supervisor wasn't there. And so she was like on her way out to her car, and the script supervisor was like, oh no, I didn't get a picture.
And I like ran out.

Speaker 1 I was like, Karen, Karen, you need a picture. Stop.

Speaker 1 Stop your fucking car. Emergency, emergency.

Speaker 1 Close your take. Emergency.
Lock the gate.

Speaker 1 But yeah, other people have done that for me where it's like,

Speaker 1 this person wants to talk to you.

Speaker 1 You got to help people out. I think I was, well, yeah, I'll tell you that off Mike.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 it's a lot of fun. Quite personal, I suppose.
Show business. Quite personal, I suppose.
Quite personal, I suppose. I suppose it's quite personal.

Speaker 1 It's quite interesting to think about who it really is fascinating when you think about it. Do you have a picture with anyone, Lauren? We have many, you know, and with anyone.
Famous or no?

Speaker 1 We have many, many pictures. The one I've told before, but that comes to mind is when I chased Betty White down when she was driving away from hot in Cleveland at the end of the show.

Speaker 1 And she was running away from you.

Speaker 1 She was. And my picture is with her buckled in and me.

Speaker 1 But I am glad I have it. That's so great.

Speaker 1 I don't know why I didn't ask her when I was standing around. She's just a nice old lady.
Yeah, I know. But it's fine.
I don't want to be annoying. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 What a wonderful tribute to Golden Girls on the Emmys recently, by the way.

Speaker 1 Thank you for being here. Never mentioned any of the stars or the creator or anything.
Nope. Just sang the.
Hey, what do we like about the show? The song. The end.
Let's go.

Speaker 1 You would always turn it off. Let's get Reba and half of Little Big Town.

Speaker 1 I love watching. Let's not have four women.
Oh, no.

Speaker 1 I love watching that. That wouldn't make any sense.

Speaker 1 You're right. But I love to watch Reba's mouth.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God. I love Reba's.

Speaker 1 Bang.

Speaker 1 The single mom works two jobs.

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Speaker 1 Lauren, before we get into this next segment, would you please read

Speaker 1 the next, the L's in countries? Yeah, we'll talk about

Speaker 1 the L's. Which ones we've been to, and if we were, what did we think? I hope she says Libya.

Speaker 1 This is inspired by our Swedish friend. Latvia, no, no, Lebanon, no,

Speaker 1 Lesotho, no, I thought we already did Laos. Well, that's Swiss.
This is after that. Oh, got it.
Liberia. No, but I do have a Liberian girl.
That's right. No.
Liechtschenstein. No.
No. Lithuanian.

Speaker 1 No, but my homeland. That's right.
Luxembourg. No.
No. Madagascar.
No. No.
Malawi. No.

Speaker 1 Malaysia. No.
Maldives. No.
Mali. No.
Malta. No.
Marshall Islands. No.

Speaker 1 Mauritania. No.
Mauritius. No.
Mexico. Yes.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 Many times, maybe 10 times. I've only been once for work, and it was for a few.
I was there for like 10 days. You overthrew the government, right?

Speaker 1 The work was actually a movie called Opening Night, the Musical, and it took place in New York on Broadway and we shot it in Mexico City. Oh, they have buildings there.
It was all indoors.

Speaker 1 They do have buildings there.

Speaker 1 It was all indoors. I was there for pretty much 24 hours and really enjoyed myself.

Speaker 1 Would love to go back sometime. I would love to go back.
I just went for about a week. It was great.
I've been there several times and it's wonderful. I love

Speaker 1 people. Micronesia, no.
Moldova. No.
Monaco. No.
Mongolia. No.
Montenegro. No.
Morocco. No.
Mozambique. No.
Myanmar, no Namibia, no Nauru, no Nepal, Nepal, no, Nepal, Netherlands,

Speaker 1 Netherlands, yes.

Speaker 1 You never been to Amsterdam? No, no. Whoa, I think there's no point in the world.

Speaker 1 I love weed and I love sex work. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Performing.

Speaker 1 I really enjoy it there. And we'll move on.
New Zealand, no. Yes.
Oh, I want to go. I've been there.
It's wonderful. I was invited.

Speaker 1 I got to see Hubbiton and everything. Oh, wow.
I did not get to go.

Speaker 1 Nicaragua, no. Niger, no.
Nigeria, no. North Korea, no.
North Macedonia. No.
Norway. No.
Oman. No.
Pakistan. No.
Palau. No.
Palestine state. No.
Panama. No.
Papau, New Guinea. No.
Paraguay. No.
Peru.

Speaker 1 No. Philippines.
No. Poland.
No. Portugal.
No. Qatar.
No. Romania.
No. Russia.
No. Rwanda.
No. St.
Kitts and no. No.
St. Lucia.
No. St.
Vincent and the Grenadines. No.
Samoa. No.
San Marino, no.

Speaker 1 Sautoma and Principe, no. Saudi Arabia, no.
Senegal, no. Serbia.
No. Cheyelles.
Hey, come on. Well, I'm trying to speed it up.
No. Sierra Leone.
No. Singapore.
No. Slovakia.
No. Slovenia.
No.

Speaker 1 Solomon Islands. Somalia.
No. South Africa.
South Korea. South Sudan.
No. Spain.
No.

Speaker 1 I want to. Me too.
Want to. Sri Lanka.
No. Sudan.
No. Suriname.
No. No.
Sweden. Yes.
I have been to Sweden.

Speaker 1 And wasn't our caller from Sweden? Yeah. What did you think? I loved it.
I went there in the dead of winter, right around New Year's Eve, when I was filming in London. I went there for a little trip.

Speaker 1 Fun. And it was really fun.
It was the coldest in the world. And I would love to go there in the summer because I hear it's absolutely

Speaker 1 IKEA. I think I get it.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 That makes sense. No.

Speaker 1 Switzerland. No.
Syria. No.
Tajikistan. No.
Tanzania. No.
Thailand. No.

Speaker 1 Yes. Yes.
Yes. Yes.
Thailand. Yes, I mean, that's where I was.
Across the country. Yes, Thailand, but

Speaker 1 I was in Thailand.

Speaker 1 Timor Lest, no. Togo, no.
Tonga, no. Trinidad, no.
Tunisia. No.
Turkey. No.
Turkmenistan. No.
Tuvalu. No.
Uganda. No.
Ukraine. No.
United Emirates. No.
United Kingdom. Yes.
Yes.

Speaker 1 And I love it every time. United States of America.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Uruguay. No.
Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan.
Vanetau. No.
Uzbekistan.

Speaker 1 I went back to Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan.
Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan.
Vanu Tau.

Speaker 1 Van Nua 2. I'm sorry.
No. Venezuela.
No. Vietnam.
No. No.
Yemen. No.
Zambia. No.

Speaker 1 Zimbabwe. No.
No.

Speaker 1 So we went to like

Speaker 1 eight maybe total. Maybe.
Maybe. If that.

Speaker 1 If that.

Speaker 1 Canada. United States.
No. Mexico.
No. Costa Rica.

Speaker 1 United Kingdom. Ireland.
Because I went to Scotland and England, but those are one.

Speaker 1 I've been to. No, that's the United Kingdom.
I know. Oh, Oh, no, Australia.
One. But they're still different countries.
Thailand. But they didn't list them like that on that list.
Okay, Lauren.

Speaker 1 I've been to 12, actually.

Speaker 1 Okay, great. Shut up.
You shut up.

Speaker 1 Now, guess what it's time for? Well, it's time for a three tour. That's right.
And we all know what this is, so why even bothering? Well, I think we should skip explaining it. Are you sure?

Speaker 1 Well, maybe there's one person just like. Three trees is a game that we like to play, also known as Un Bastero.
Hmm. Now, this one we're going to play.

Speaker 1 It gets very heated between us when we play this

Speaker 1 because we're all competitive people. We're all competitive people with so much to give.

Speaker 1 So much to give. This is called The Great Debate.
It was submitted by Stephen with a Ph.

Speaker 1 And why did you have a Ph.M.

Speaker 1 D?

Speaker 1 I got a Ph.D.

Speaker 1 I got a Ph.D. in D.

Speaker 1 Now one of us is a moderator. The other two are debaters.
We all choose a word.

Speaker 1 The moderator, we all reveal our words, and we have to debate which the debaters debate whose word was closer to the moderators. And then the moderator says who won.
Okay. All right.
That's great.

Speaker 1 So let's all write down our words.

Speaker 1 And by the way, it doesn't have to be a word necessarily. It could be a thing like Bugs Bunny or Mount Rushmore, I believe.

Speaker 1 So, everyone,

Speaker 1 write down your words. Where are you writing this down? Or just in the notes app? Yeah, that's what I did.
Just think of a word.

Speaker 1 Think of a word. Just to prove that you're not changing your word.

Speaker 1 I mean, do we not trust each other? I don't trust you to not change your word. I know you're going to change it.
The person who brought up, oh, where are we writing this down? Yeah, that's an answer.

Speaker 1 Okay. I was going to do that.
Okay. So the first word.
Oh, by the way, who we have to decide who's the moderator out of this? Me. Okay.
You're the moderator. moderator.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Okay, let's all reveal our words.

Speaker 1 Paul?

Speaker 1 Combination. Mine is temperature.
And mine is popsicle. Now,

Speaker 1 let me show you something. Okay.
I showed my word. You guys just said your words.
Thank you. Okay.
I'm showing it. Thank you.
I'm also showing you this. What do you think of that? Oh,

Speaker 1 I think I have something for you here.

Speaker 1 I flipped him off. It was so fucking cool.
Yeah, he did flip me off. Paul's pretty cool.
All right, Paul, Do you want to go first? Yes. And now, Lauren, is the moderator of your word is popsicle.

Speaker 1 Is that correct? Yes.

Speaker 1 Combination.

Speaker 1 When I think of a popsicle, I think of it as a combination of many things.

Speaker 1 It's a combination of water and

Speaker 1 solid.

Speaker 1 It's a combination of flavor and texture.

Speaker 1 It is a combination of summertime and fun.

Speaker 1 You cannot have a popsicle without having many, many combinations of things.

Speaker 1 In fact, water must combine with cold in order to form a popsicle. Otherwise, you have nothing.
You have nothing. What, a stick? Which must combine with the frozen ice in order to become the popsicle.

Speaker 1 And time. I wasn't timing, but I'm just assuming that's time.
Okay. Oh, my God.
You should time me. I get a minute.

Speaker 1 Like I have? Yeah. You got a minute.
You got over a a minute, I would say.

Speaker 1 I think you're crazy. Okay.
Start. Tell me when to start.
Start.

Speaker 1 I hit lap. Just kidding.

Speaker 1 I'm just kidding. Okay.

Speaker 1 Look, when you think of a popsicle, the first thing that pops in your mind is they're cold. They're in the freezer.
When I think of popsicle, I immediately think of my freezer. They're cold.

Speaker 1 Otherwise, it's juice.

Speaker 1 I think that that is the primary thing we think about when we think about popsicles is how cold they are. And that is the temperature.
My word was temperature.

Speaker 1 And, you know, all other foods, you're like, oh, ham. You don't think, oh, that's warm or that's lukewarm.
Popsicle, you think, oh, that cold thing.

Speaker 1 So that's one of the few foods that immediately the temperature is one of the first things that pops in your mind. And I would respectfully say that that is why my word is closest to your word.

Speaker 1 30 more seconds. 30.

Speaker 1 30. Come on.
You've hit it to 46.

Speaker 1 That was even with the lap fake out. All right, 15 seconds each to rebut.

Speaker 1 This guy doesn't know what he's fucking talking about. What?

Speaker 1 What if you have a hot tamale? The first thing you think of is hot. This is not unique to popsicles.

Speaker 1 What I'm saying makes sense. Combination.

Speaker 1 Stop. I'm done.
15 seconds, you?

Speaker 1 Look, I know what I'm talking about. And what I'm talking about is how my word is the closest to popsicle.

Speaker 1 Popsicle, temperature, they go hand in hand. A lot like you and your sweetheart walking down the street eating popsicles.
Popsicles. Oh, sorry.
Sounds like a combination to me.

Speaker 1 I have to think about this.

Speaker 1 I'm going to fucking bury you.

Speaker 1 The winner

Speaker 1 is

Speaker 1 Scott.

Speaker 1 Hell yeah. That's outrageous.
Temperature is simply closer to popsicle.

Speaker 1 In your mind. Yes.

Speaker 1 And the debate convinced you of that.

Speaker 1 Or at least it didn't dissuade you. Yeah, the debate didn't ruin that.
I feel like your mind was made up, and this is a sham. It was mine to lose, but I didn't lose.
It might have been.

Speaker 1 All right, now. All right, now I will be the moderator, and you guys will be the debaters.
We'll all write down a word

Speaker 1 or a thing. Okay.
I've written down mine. Lauren is in.
Lauren is locked. Paul is locked.

Speaker 1 Paul, what is your word? Excess.

Speaker 1 Excess. Lauren.
What is your word? Bed sheets.

Speaker 1 The moderator's word is Ronald Reagan.

Speaker 1 Excess and bed sheets. Lauren, you go first.
I have a minute on the clock. I will do the minute.

Speaker 1 No, you should be focusing on this on the stimulus. Yeah, that's true.
I'll do the minute. Okay.

Speaker 1 Ronald Reagan. I didn't hit laugh.
One of the presidents we've had.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 every single president sleeps in a bed with bed sheets

Speaker 1 not a single one didn't do that

Speaker 1 maybe abraham lincoln

Speaker 1 but ronald reagan really really connected with his bed he would get tucked in every night he would toss and turn and have a nightmare about something presidential he had to deal with and wake up probably watch the day after he would watch the day after or wash the day after watch It was a mini series.

Speaker 1 His sheets would be washed the day after. Right.

Speaker 1 He was someone who, at the end of the day, said, when can I crawl into my bed? He was known for that. So I think when I think of bed sheets, I think of Ronald Reagan.

Speaker 1 And when I think of Ronald Reagan, I think of bed sheets because being tucked in as the president is one of the most important things to the day. Time.

Speaker 1 That's all I wanted to say. All right, Paul, I'd like to hear from you.

Speaker 1 Don't have time yet. Do you think the president gets new sheets every day, or do you think I'd like to think so?

Speaker 1 Right? They don't just make the bed for a couple days and then watch it. I think they get rid of the bed sheets so they don't hang themselves.
Okay, I'm going to press one minute

Speaker 1 and go.

Speaker 1 When I think of Ronald Reagan, the word excess

Speaker 1 certainly comes to mind. An excess of an overreach of power, leading us to the terrible situation we're in today.

Speaker 1 The modern GOP

Speaker 1 was enabled by Ronald Reagan, an excess of jingoistic attitudes towards our country, an excess of

Speaker 1 misguided power doing things in the public's name, secret,

Speaker 1 making deals, an excess of

Speaker 1 ambition in making a deal with Iran to release the hostages only after Jimmy Carter left office. This man has caused an excess of homelessness.
He turned out all these people. Time.

Speaker 1 Are you just going to stop in the middle of the sentence? That's what I had to do.

Speaker 1 I don't want to give an excess.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay, wonderful. As Ronald Reagan, what I've done.

Speaker 1 Lauren, you get 15 seconds

Speaker 1 to

Speaker 1 rebut, and I I can time you starting now. Nothing he said made any sense.
When you think of Ronald Reagan, you think of bed sheets. You get into bed.

Speaker 1 When you go to bed at night, you think about who else liked doing this? Ronald Reagan. The bed sheet was designed based on his body type.
He wanted it fitted over the mattress and walked in.

Speaker 1 And Paul, 15 seconds to you.

Speaker 1 We absolutely don't know for a fact that every single president has slept in a bed with bed sheets. We just don't know that.
That's conjecture. There's no way we can prove that.

Speaker 1 Most of the presidents are dead. Most of them.
Time. She was.

Speaker 1 Well, this is a tough one. I mean, Lauren is right that Abraham Lincoln slept in the buff without bed sheets.

Speaker 1 A bare mattress. Just a bare mattress and a bear man.

Speaker 1 Paul, I have to say,

Speaker 1 your word kind of lent itself a little more towards Ronald Reagan when you think of it, and yet you were able to accurately and succinctly come up with

Speaker 1 evidence to support your claim. Lauren, I don't think that

Speaker 1 when you lie down in bed, you think Ronald Reagan also did this.

Speaker 1 So, Paul, I'm going to have to give it to you. Damn it.
Thank you.

Speaker 1 All right, now, Paul, you're the moderator, and Lauren and I are going to debate. Let us all come up with our word.
Let us all come up with our word.

Speaker 1 All right, I'm locked in.

Speaker 1 Lauren, do you do the,

Speaker 1 what do you call that? The swipe method of texting? Yeah, it's called the swipe method. Jenny does that too.
I do it. It's great.
Okay. Paul, are you in? Yes.
All right.

Speaker 1 Lauren, what is your word?

Speaker 1 Joan Rivers.

Speaker 1 My word word is Pictionary. My word is cartwheel.
Oh. Okay.

Speaker 1 And I believe I start. Scott, you start.

Speaker 1 Let's put 60 seconds on the clock. I can do it if you like.
I did it. Go.
You did it.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 The word that you're thinking of is cartwheel. When I think of cartwheeling, I think of being young.
I think of playing games. I think of

Speaker 1 recess. I think of having fun.
And what is more fun than playing Pictionary? Pictionary is a game that we all love to play. It makes me think of downtime.
It makes me think of

Speaker 1 a summer's day where you're having friends over. When you were young, maybe you would be doing cartwheels.
When you're a little older, you're like, hey, let's break out the Pictionary.

Speaker 1 But it's the same kind of summery, fun feeling where you're getting together with people and you're just trying to prove what the human

Speaker 1 mind can accomplish, what the human body can accomplish.

Speaker 1 I mean, me, drawing a really great picture in Pictionary is akin to doing a fantastic cartwheel the first time you've ever done it on the hot summer grass.

Speaker 1 That's what I think of when I think of Pictionary. And

Speaker 1 I think they're both great words and they can coexist.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 Lauren, you have one minute, and your time starts now. Only one person

Speaker 1 exemplifies

Speaker 1 the feeling of a cartwheel.

Speaker 1 And that person was Joan Rivers. She brought laughs, surprises,

Speaker 1 just unexpected perspectives and zingers

Speaker 1 that much,

Speaker 1 like a cartwheel, could dance through a room, light it up, and change the alchemy around her.

Speaker 1 Cartwheels also

Speaker 1 have the ability

Speaker 1 to

Speaker 1 give us, you know, a lot of times women do them.

Speaker 1 And we'll think about women's bodies.

Speaker 1 And with Joan Rivers, you know, she was someone who was very interested in the female body and beauty. Cartwheels exemplified that as well.

Speaker 1 We

Speaker 1 can only.

Speaker 1 Time.

Speaker 1 You can finish your thought. No, I can't.
Okay.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 Scott, you have 15 seconds for a a rebuttal. Go.
I would say, how many times has a cartwheel been drawn in a game of Pictionary? Probably hundreds of thousands.

Speaker 1 How many times has Joan Rivers ever said the word cartwheel? Zero. I think you can comb through her jokes.
She has never said the word cartwheel. And yet, Pictionary.
Time.

Speaker 1 You want to finish that thought? Pictionary and cartwheel are almost exactly the same.

Speaker 1 Lauren, 15 seconds on the clock. Cartwheels are active.
Joan Rivers was active. Pictionary is a board game joan rivers moved through the world like a cartwheel she was always

Speaker 1 bringing a bag of tricks and people never knew what they were going to get time

Speaker 1 very interesting very interesting um

Speaker 1 good points made by both of you thank you i will say i don't know that even pictionary itself in its commercials would say what's more fun

Speaker 1 nothing they should shouldn't they I don't think it's bad marketing.

Speaker 1 I don't think in good conscience they would put that up. Do you think they'd be sued?

Speaker 1 Pictionary is a game.

Speaker 1 Games do feel similar to cartwheels.

Speaker 1 Laurie makes an interesting point about women doing cartwheels. I would say of all the cartwheels I've ever seen in my entire life, probably 99%

Speaker 1 of them were done by women. Well, check this out.

Speaker 1 That was upsetting. You fell right in your ass.

Speaker 1 That was embarrassing. Sorry.
Joan Rivers

Speaker 1 provoking a sense of wild fun in a way that a cartwheel does. That speaks to me.

Speaker 1 A lot of your arguments were nonsense, but they did make me think of better arguments for your case as I was listening to them.

Speaker 1 Scott,

Speaker 1 the recess argument, very strong.

Speaker 1 Games.

Speaker 1 Cartwheels. Not a game, but an outdoor activity, a childlike outdoor activity.

Speaker 1 You guys gave me a lot to think about.

Speaker 1 And ultimately, I believe

Speaker 1 you're both wrong. What?

Speaker 1 Yeah. I don't know that was possible.
Yeah, I didn't either until I heard what you had to say. Really? So neither of us was even close.
No, not even close. Wow.
That's crazy.

Speaker 1 So you guys both, you guys both got a point and I got none.

Speaker 1 Okay, Lauren. Thank you.
We're all tied. Okay.

Speaker 1 Great game. Great game, guys.
That was a lot of fun. Great stuff.

Speaker 1 Paul, you have some tour dates. You're going to be with the Thrilling Adventure Hour in England.
Yes, we're going to be in Brooklyn, the Bell House.

Speaker 1 And then we, the following week, we go to London on November 1st. We're in London at the Leicester Square Theater.
And that's next week. And that is next week.

Speaker 1 So please come out and see us if it's not sold out already. But really looking forward to it.

Speaker 1 And then at the end of next month, you and Amy Mann and Ted Leo and some other wonderful people, Josh Gondelman, Nellie Mackay, we're going out on the road with a holiday show that is sure to entertain you no matter what you believe in, happens after we die.

Speaker 1 Wow. And I'll do my thing.
I'm just doing my thing. I'm just doing just a working mom who asked you to do it.

Speaker 1 All right. See you next week.
Bye. Bye.

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