[SPEAKER_14]: Michael Mera, Radio Entertainment.
[SPEAKER_13]: Hi, I can get it again.
[SPEAKER_13]: And now he'll be a quiet winner.
[SPEAKER_13]: We will start the show.
[SPEAKER_06]: T-M-O-S, classic.
[SPEAKER_06]: Friday, flashback.
[SPEAKER_06]: We welcome the one, the only, Mr. Gilbert Godfrey put your hand to have a free cover.
[SPEAKER_15]: Hi, Gilbert.
[SPEAKER_15]: Yeah, well, now I'm technically a guest.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, you are technically a guest now and and you are a hardworking man because you know what this is the this is the holiday week you know leading up to the the Christmas holiday we are working Gilbert is working and good for you and I will tell you I've seen the trailer for your film Gilbert
[SPEAKER_06]: the movie that by the way is getting an amazing review on Rotten Tomatoes and I just can't wait to see this because what I got from the trailer was that the the film shows the the real side of you that you're you're just a you're a nice guy you're a chill guy people would not understand that if they saw you like doing a a roast for George decay where you come across is nothing short of being a maniac
[SPEAKER_15]: Yeah, it's a lifetime check rotting tomatoes.
[SPEAKER_15]: It got a hundred percent.
[SPEAKER_15]: Wow, it's yeah.
[SPEAKER_15]: So I was very happy about that.
[SPEAKER_06]: How did the movie start?
[SPEAKER_06]: How did that come about where they?
[SPEAKER_06]: It looks like they follow you around and just kind of document your life and the behind the scenes life of a really a hardworking comedian.
[SPEAKER_06]: How did the movie come about?
[SPEAKER_15]: Yeah, it started with this, the filmmaker Neil Berkeley came up to me and he said, I've always dreamt of doing Gilbert Gottfried documentary.
[SPEAKER_15]: And I said, well, you should set you dreams a lot higher than that.
[SPEAKER_15]: Maybe you should start off with a Yakov Schmernaw.
[SPEAKER_15]: Great choice here.
[SPEAKER_15]: Yakov.
[SPEAKER_15]: What a country.
[SPEAKER_15]: This is true stories.
[SPEAKER_15]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_15]: In America, you make documentary.
[SPEAKER_15]: In Russia, that you mentally make you.
[SPEAKER_16]: What a country.
[SPEAKER_03]: In America.
[SPEAKER_03]: You put film in camera.
[SPEAKER_03]: In Russia you put the camera in the field.
[SPEAKER_03]: What a country in America.
[SPEAKER_03]: You put on makeup.
[SPEAKER_16]: In Russia, mix up with you.
[SPEAKER_02]: You, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you,
[SPEAKER_02]: Stop it yourself.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my God.
[SPEAKER_02]: Stop it in America.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's Convoy.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh my god, what are you smoking this morning Gilbert?
[SPEAKER_06]: What the hell is going on?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my god, in a minute, you could take a nap green.
[SPEAKER_03]: In the rush, you had a nap green.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_07]: You are you are oh god.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh you're killing me.
[SPEAKER_04]: I swear.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't want to hear about the movie anymore Gilbert.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't care.
[SPEAKER_06]: I just want to talk to you.
[SPEAKER_04]: Gilbert now.
[SPEAKER_04]: Stop it.
[SPEAKER_06]: How many in the room think he's got a f**k for y'all club spirit?
[SPEAKER_06]: I think so.
[SPEAKER_06]: Gilbert Gilbert Gilbert Gilbert Gilbert you've been doing it long enough where you have you've toured with everybody then right you've had to come across every comedian in every comedy club in in the world you've been there you've done it you ever have a fist fight with y'all coffe smear it off
[SPEAKER_03]: You're not right.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're not well-gilled.
[SPEAKER_06]: I hear something.
[SPEAKER_06]: I will give you the fact that I got when I was doing a little research on Mr. Godfrey.
[SPEAKER_06]: A lot of people just don't think of you as living that normal life of a husband and a father.
[SPEAKER_06]: And you have, well, you have two kids, right?
[SPEAKER_15]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_15]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_15]: It's basically a criminal activity.
[SPEAKER_15]: Twice.
[SPEAKER_06]: That is, and you look like you, it's so sweet.
[SPEAKER_06]: I take it you live in New York City, right?
[SPEAKER_15]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_15]: Yeah, it's like, yeah, people, people are more comfortable with Michael Jackson.
[SPEAKER_15]: Yeah, Michael Jackson was watching takes of me gone.
[SPEAKER_15]: How does he have that many kids?
[SPEAKER_06]: Where did he get those girls?
[SPEAKER_06]: It's amazing because Michael Jackson is dead when he was saying that, which is strange too.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's just truly...
[SPEAKER_06]: So these specialities able to do that, Gilbert.
[SPEAKER_06]: I didn't mean to insult you.
[SPEAKER_06]: I just was sitting there going, wow, you know, there you are, living that normal life.
[SPEAKER_06]: I picture you on the road.
[SPEAKER_06]: It shows you on the road.
[SPEAKER_06]: One of the things they mentioned is you're kind of tight-fisted when you're on the road.
[SPEAKER_06]: There's one shot of you.
[SPEAKER_06]: You're in like one of those homestead, hampton comfort, whatever, where they give you the free breakfast and this has nothing to do with you, Gilbert, but I just it was it was a an image that was just blazed into my brain.
[SPEAKER_06]: No one looks good eating cereal out of one of those styrofoam bowls they treat you in those.
[SPEAKER_15]: God is that that yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's sad.
[SPEAKER_06]: It looks sad to me.
[SPEAKER_06]: Gilbert, you're eating your cereal with a plastic spoon out of a styrofoam bowl, and I said, you know what?
[SPEAKER_06]: I've seen thousands of people in those little motel hotel things where they're eating the free breakfast, and everybody looks sad in that amount.
[SPEAKER_15]: It's suicidal.
[SPEAKER_15]: If you would just want a billion dollar lottery,
[SPEAKER_15]: Right.
[SPEAKER_15]: And you had a hotel breakfast in the lobby.
[SPEAKER_15]: You killed yourself.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's terrible.
[SPEAKER_06]: But you do it.
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, you're out there.
[SPEAKER_06]: You're working.
[SPEAKER_06]: You're constantly on the road.
[SPEAKER_06]: You're doing it.
[SPEAKER_06]: You have to.
[SPEAKER_06]: There has to be a part of you.
[SPEAKER_15]: This is something else.
[SPEAKER_15]: It's like these people who go to those hotel breakfast.
[SPEAKER_15]: And I have to because it's there.
[SPEAKER_15]: Yeah, I get it if it's a free breakfast.
[SPEAKER_15]: I'm going for but they'll be there and they're pajamas.
[SPEAKER_05]: I've seen that.
[SPEAKER_15]: Yeah, and it's oh there's no you know, you know, I like they used to do commercials for airlines and and they'd have everybody happy
[SPEAKER_15]: at the air line and they're all hugging each other and lying against them.
[SPEAKER_15]: And no one's ever liked that and a nail port.
[SPEAKER_15]: And it's like that's what, you know, these hotel breakfasts are like,
[SPEAKER_15]: You know, you're walking around.
[SPEAKER_15]: It's like a cancer ward.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's how sad.
[SPEAKER_15]: It's sad.
[SPEAKER_15]: I don't want to, you know, sound like an old fart Gilbert, but I mean, I remember back in the day where
[SPEAKER_06]: you know when people would this probably going back to like I'm fifty eight it's going back to one my father was uh... when they were air travel was just starting to come into its own and people would dress in hotels and they would dress to go on a plane and you're absolutely right now when you see people
[SPEAKER_06]: My I picked my daughter up down here in Florida at the airport over the weekend, and there were more people that were getting off that plane in there would appear to be their pajamas than I've ever seen before.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's not pleasant.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's the same thing with those hotel breakfast.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's where that's the way people are nowadays.
[SPEAKER_06]: Everybody's wearing their jammies.
[SPEAKER_15]: Yeah, it's like airports.
[SPEAKER_15]: I mean, airplanes used to be this thing of like, uh, yeah, people, it was like businessmen.
[SPEAKER_15]: who were on airplanes, you know, this was in the average person.
[SPEAKER_15]: You know, this was like rich fans, you know, powerful businessmen.
[SPEAKER_15]: And then that's, of course, when they would have like the hotbook and stewardess is sexy, I would fit.
[SPEAKER_05]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_15]: Yeah, that all changed.
[SPEAKER_06]: You know, the documentary Gilbert that's by the way, I got to give it a plug because I we've been having too much fun talking to you.
[SPEAKER_06]: I want to make sure Gilbert will premiere on Hulu.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's on December, twenty-nine.
[SPEAKER_06]: We are not lying about the reviews this movie has got strong
[SPEAKER_06]: you can get the trailer at Gilbert movie.com and it's basically a documentary about Gilbert's life and his career and the fact is you've been doing this a very very long time and it's your relationship with your sisters, your parents and how is your relationship with your family?
[SPEAKER_15]: I don't know, they both changed their names.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm gonna do it again.
[SPEAKER_05]: In Russia, people changed names.
[SPEAKER_06]: In America, change names.
[SPEAKER_16]: In America you change your name.
[SPEAKER_16]: In Russia, they change you.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't know why that is going to be much terrible.
[SPEAKER_06]: Did you, did you, was it comfortable for you when you were having the cameras follow you everywhere and because it was friendly for you would be horrible.
[SPEAKER_15]: Every second of doing it was horrible.
[SPEAKER_15]: because it's funny it's like it's something I never wanted and yet the guy said I'll follow you at the camera and I'm too much of a pussy to say get away from me yeah he's a nice guy Gilbert is a nice person very nice guy so he followed me around and then watching the film for me was horrible because you know I'm okay watching myself
[SPEAKER_15]: in an episode of a sitcom as unique the plumber, but not as much.
[SPEAKER_15]: Watching myself as myself was like, you know the first time you hear your voice recorded
[SPEAKER_15]: And you go, oh God, that's not how I sound.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm sure that happened to you, Gilbert.
[SPEAKER_06]: I might not have that.
[SPEAKER_06]: You know, is it, did it make you sad?
[SPEAKER_06]: Cause a word that I've heard describe the documentaries kind of melancholy words behind the scenes.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's a lonely life on the road.
[SPEAKER_06]: What surprised you when you saw the footage in this documentary, the behind the scenes stuff, the stuff that's not when you're performing.
[SPEAKER_06]: How did that make you feel?
[SPEAKER_06]: What was the biggest surprise with that?
[SPEAKER_15]: Well, the biggest surprise for me in the documentary was when I would look at myself and I go, do I really move around like Red Fox and Sanctuary?
[SPEAKER_15]: What are you talking about?
[SPEAKER_15]: The only thing missing was you big dummy.
[SPEAKER_06]: Rob, I know you had a question.
[SPEAKER_06]: You want to get a question up?
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, regarding the documentary, even though it was uncomfortable to watch yourself portrayed on the big screen, do you think it was a fair portrayal of you after having seen it?
[SPEAKER_15]: Yeah, it seemed to be, yeah, because I mean, they put in, I had no, I, well, it's not like I didn't, I mean, I just didn't get involved.
[SPEAKER_15]: So I didn't tell them, you know, don't put this in it, I'll put that.
[SPEAKER_15]: And so he was, he was open.
[SPEAKER_15]: Yeah, so yeah, I think it was.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, no, that's another call.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's that Yakuph Smirna is on the other line, Gilbert.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's Yakuph's lawyer.
[SPEAKER_15]: In America.
[SPEAKER_04]: You get that lawsuit in the Russia lawsuit against you.
[SPEAKER_06]: Gilbert Gottfried is our guest.
[SPEAKER_06]: Listen, the website is Gilbertmovie.com.
[SPEAKER_06]: If you want to find out about the movie.
[SPEAKER_15]: Gilbert Gottfried.com, you'll get my whole schedule.
[SPEAKER_06]: But did you enjoy, did you enjoy seeing the other, a lot of the documentaries other comedians talking about you?
[SPEAKER_06]: You've got everybody from, you know, Gapigan, Wippie Goldberg, Jeff Ross, that had to be satisfying, because I know that a lot of the other people in the industry, you're well regarded within the circle of comedians.
[SPEAKER_06]: Was that, was that a pleasant part of that?
[SPEAKER_15]: You know, the weirdest part of that was, you know, they were going to a bunch of different comics.
[SPEAKER_15]: You know, asking them to be in it.
[SPEAKER_15]: Then, you know, some, you know, say yes.
[SPEAKER_15]: Others like would go like, well, I'm on the road or whatever.
[SPEAKER_15]: And the best excuse, I got the best reason for not unhearing.
[SPEAKER_15]: Hey, the yes, Jim Carrey.
[SPEAKER_15]: And Jim Carrey, he was an honest pun.
[SPEAKER_15]: He was on trial for killing this ex-girlfriend.
[SPEAKER_15]: With chose the extreme that people will go to, not to appear in a Gilbert Gottfried.
[SPEAKER_15]: Better that than having to say something nice.
[SPEAKER_06]: I Gilbert, I have to ask, I wanted to ask you one question and I wouldn't be able to get out of here without doing this.
[SPEAKER_06]: Where does the courage come from?
[SPEAKER_06]: Gilbert, you know, like if you if you've been living in a box and you don't know this Gilbert got free known as one of the edgiest comedians working today.
[SPEAKER_06]: has been for many, many years.
[SPEAKER_06]: And he's a, as we know, a little bit of a guy, Gilbert, where does the, where does the edge?
[SPEAKER_06]: Where does the irreverence, you know, you've lost gigs over it?
[SPEAKER_06]: Where does that kind of courage come from?
[SPEAKER_06]: Where do you get that from?
[SPEAKER_06]: I, I, I, I'm astonished with, with some of the material that I've heard you, some of the historical material you've used.
[SPEAKER_06]: Where does it come from?
[SPEAKER_15]: Well, I think this a thin line between courage and stupidity.
[SPEAKER_05]: I made a career of crossing that line.
[SPEAKER_06]: Have you ever gotten in trouble with some of your material?
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, outside of losing the gig like everybody knows about the app like thing and the you have to.
[SPEAKER_06]: But has anybody like in audience?
[SPEAKER_06]: There's a clip where they're walking out of the audience and you're doing some truly wonderfully filthy material upon stage.
[SPEAKER_06]: What's the, have you ever had a real problem with somebody in an audience getting violent or anything like that?
[SPEAKER_15]: I might, my favorite thing was,
[SPEAKER_15]: someone said, someone yelled out from the audience, hey, I've got my ten-year-old daughter with me.
[SPEAKER_15]: And I said, oh, do you often take up places that you're of alcohol?
[SPEAKER_15]: And it was really worse, like guys taking his little kid to a, you know, so it's, yeah, I have that, oh my, one of my favorites,
[SPEAKER_15]: When the aristocrats came out, at one of the screenings, a woman in the middle of the aristocrats stood up and angrily started leaving and she said, this isn't the aristocrats.
[SPEAKER_04]: Look at her half a movie.
[SPEAKER_06]: Listen, and if you see that movie, Gilbert is known to have the best version of that joke.
[SPEAKER_06]: And that's a lot of heavy weights in that movie, and Gilbert, you're known for yours.
[SPEAKER_06]: We can't tell it on this show.
[SPEAKER_06]: But the fact is that
[SPEAKER_06]: And it holds up to me as the very the very best with that.
[SPEAKER_06]: But you've been doing it a long time.
[SPEAKER_06]: Do you have any regrets looking back as far as, you know, with some of the stuff that's happened well documented?
[SPEAKER_06]: Any regrets or are you happy with your life and the way your career's gone?
[SPEAKER_15]: Well, you know what gets me these people who talk about their lives and go, but I've got no regrets.
[SPEAKER_15]: And I always think, boy, I've got nothing but work.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, that's something just in.
[SPEAKER_08]: By Pelican.
[SPEAKER_08]: Breaking news by Pelican.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yes, actually in the jaw.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, he's in Florida.
[SPEAKER_06]: Does he say it's a living?
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, like on the footsteps.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's jumps.
[SPEAKER_06]: Right.
[SPEAKER_06]: Stamps.
[SPEAKER_06]: Copy.
[SPEAKER_06]: To make it easier to read.
[SPEAKER_06]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right.
[SPEAKER_06]: Very good.
[SPEAKER_06]: I just wanted to say that please put that back in the pelican and it'll find its way up here.
[SPEAKER_06]: I appreciate that.
[SPEAKER_06]: So Carla, this is how my wife rolls and this is this is her life.
[SPEAKER_06]: They usually roll out, right?
[SPEAKER_06]: If you've got the wives.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, if you look at trending.
[SPEAKER_06]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_06]: He said, yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, that was just so harsh.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, he's been in swords like that guy and Raiders a long time ago.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, he's usually due.
[SPEAKER_06]: But Mike, not always.
[SPEAKER_06]: Do you realize that come September, Mrs. O'Mara and I will be celebrating not only nine years of marriage together, but fifteen years together as a couple.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think at a certain point I have to get a little credit for that.
[SPEAKER_07]: What's the delta?
[SPEAKER_07]: What's the difference between you and age-wise, you and your wife?
[SPEAKER_06]: Twenty-one.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's when you get credit.
[SPEAKER_06]: When we're together, twenty-one years.
[SPEAKER_06]: The length of the, well, that's, I might not live for it.
[SPEAKER_06]: But if you do it, six years, I can do six years.
[SPEAKER_06]: That'll be twenty-one.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's a hard time.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: I got to stop eating nachos, but I can do six years.
[SPEAKER_06]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_06]: I mentioned this that with a guanami, it comes for free chips.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: And maybe you need to remove them.
[SPEAKER_08]: Remove them from your life because if you add the six years.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, what if they what if they just made it more difficult?
[SPEAKER_08]: What if they raise the price of margaritas?
[SPEAKER_06]: So it's more of a difference.
[SPEAKER_08]: Not for dinner.
[SPEAKER_06]: Really?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, for dinner.
[SPEAKER_06]: Carlos in.
[SPEAKER_06]: I came back from playing golf, Kyle wanted to go out because she'd been with little crumb cruncher all day long, you know, after school.
[SPEAKER_06]: And she was kind of spent and so daddy came in and said, there's some not shows here and like, all right, see you later.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I didn't feel like getting up and making anything healthy.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I crunch crunch chip chip cheese cheese cheese cheese cheese cheese and that cheese is not vegan.
[SPEAKER_06]: So shut up with the emails.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't need that.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't need that right now.
[SPEAKER_08]: You know what I love about you is a vegan Mike those vegan are out volunteering the fact how big they are.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm not a vegan.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm not a vegan that way.
[SPEAKER_06]: I can't do it.
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't I go off veganism to learn from the lifestyle and that's the best way to be.
[SPEAKER_06]: I need to get more vegetarian and vegan in my life.
[SPEAKER_06]: Right.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm not a religious vegan and that that's a fact.
[SPEAKER_06]: Jack.
[SPEAKER_08]: So you will be having an Easter ham.
[SPEAKER_06]: We're going to be going to an Easter dinner.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, good.
[SPEAKER_06]: Did dinner with the little guy.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's all we're doing.
[SPEAKER_06]: No family around here for Easter.
[SPEAKER_06]: So we're just going to do a little Easter dinner.
[SPEAKER_06]: And let me just give the one.
[SPEAKER_06]: Please don't want to get everybody's Easter plan because we're going to run out of time.
[SPEAKER_06]: The so Carla comes back and she says.
[SPEAKER_06]: Look at this vacuum.
[SPEAKER_06]: My God.
[SPEAKER_06]: She's been in the market for about three weeks for a new vacuum.
[SPEAKER_06]: Our vacuum.
[SPEAKER_06]: Really, if you continuously vacuum, Beluga's hair off the floor, that has a cumulative effect on your nasal passages.
[SPEAKER_06]: because it's that turbo funk of pug that just permeates the entire vacuum cleaner.
[SPEAKER_08]: What it is, it's concentrated pug dander and the air from the vacuum blows through the filter through the pug dander and shoots it into the sky.
[SPEAKER_06]: where you yell at that you can eat so yeah she said come over here and smell this vacuum I said that's like pug ass that's what that is that's what that's and you can't there's nothing all the disinfectants all that you could you could put the pine tree air fresheners down inside of that thing forever and it wouldn't take pug funk out of the fog
[SPEAKER_06]: And by the way, I bought that vacuum cleaner.
[SPEAKER_06]: It was a shark and it was so Carla goes to the the mart and she's going to pick herself up a Dyson because she heard that they were on sale and so she she sees the the sale price that is like
[SPEAKER_06]: two hundred and twenty nine dollars or something for this this really really nice vacuum cleaner and uh... and then she sees a sticker on it says a hundred and ninety nine dollars and then she takes it to the uh... counter at walmart and the counter rings it up is like two hundred and forty five two hundred and fifty dollars
[SPEAKER_06]: And she says, no, I saw this and she said, uh, and she gets a cashier who's really not into being a cashier and really not into doing any serious problem solving, which, by the way, consumers, a consumer tip from Michael Meredith, you.
[SPEAKER_06]: If you find a cashier like that, you have the advantage.
[SPEAKER_06]: Of course, they don't care.
[SPEAKER_06]: Then never, never underestimate the, uh, the apathy of the retail worker because that's a way to get to the customer.
[SPEAKER_06]: it's a win for the country if you if they're not if they're not you know if they really don't care so much as they might have happened and they just want to be mean to you that's right in front story and it's up but this person just didn't care and Carla says uh...
[SPEAKER_06]: I had one ninety nine.
[SPEAKER_06]: I thought it was one ninety nine.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's the price.
[SPEAKER_06]: I understand.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't understand.
[SPEAKER_06]: And immediately the cashier says, I'll get my manager and gets the mail manager.
[SPEAKER_06]: Thirty five, forty-ish mail manager comes over to something wrong here.
[SPEAKER_06]: Dennis comes over with his bow tie and
[SPEAKER_06]: Carla gives him the the baby browns and that says well she rang it up as to forty but the price on it was a two ninety nine he doesn't go to the scanner he doesn't go to the he says he looks at Carla with kind of like a little little smirk on his face and just ringing up his one ninety nine she's in the car she's out there bingo how often does that happen with a fat
[SPEAKER_06]: She comes up and said look at my one hundred ninety nine dollar refrigerate.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm not my refrigerator my vacuum cleaner.
[SPEAKER_07]: So that's and she was thrilled for guys They trundle you down the aisle.
[SPEAKER_07]: They look at it, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: They figure it out.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's wrong.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's been played.
[SPEAKER_06]: We get a bomb later.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, yeah, you're not have the extra fifty bucks dead beat like what's the story?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, exactly I never get the whole vacuum not like that No, no, no, okay, but I'm pretty lady.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm pretty up pretty
[SPEAKER_06]: It works out for you.
[SPEAKER_06]: And what's great is it's right next door.
[SPEAKER_06]: The world's greatest convenience store where she got a vacuum and that fantastic and they said we just need your name.
[SPEAKER_06]: Just write your name down here and she wrote Mrs. Stephen Hawking.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I'm going to go on that with nostalgia corner, right, without the knowledge that because no one's communicating with me, what's going on?
[SPEAKER_06]: But what's wrong?
[SPEAKER_06]: You mean about the flight?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I just have to tell you what's going on.
[SPEAKER_06]: I just have to tell you what's going on.
[SPEAKER_06]: But go ahead.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm going to go ahead.
[SPEAKER_06]: Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Rob's view.
[SPEAKER_06]: I take my Rob.
[SPEAKER_08]: All it takes is a little confidence.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_08]: In nineteen sixty nine Robert Redford and Paul Newman paired up and starred in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance.
[SPEAKER_08]: It was a huge hit.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: Big big hit.
[SPEAKER_08]: Thanks to their amazing chemistry Hollywood began immediately to search for a vehicle to reunite them on screen.
[SPEAKER_08]: They had such a good, you know, your chemistry.
[SPEAKER_08]: Good chemistry nice pairing.
[SPEAKER_08]: The unlikely source is a book that came out in nineteen forty.
[SPEAKER_08]: It was called the big con who was a hit novel in nineteen forty right before World War Two James Con.
[SPEAKER_08]: No, no, C-O-M.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: And this introduced America to the idea of people that were crooked and would cheat people.
[SPEAKER_08]: And the injuries of the words like payoff, shill, snake oil cells, the rag, the convincinger, and also it introduced us to a word called the sting.
[SPEAKER_08]: Now the sting, according to the parlance of the underworld conworld, is the moment that you part a mark from his money.
[SPEAKER_06]: And the movie, the sting, justly used in now, in most recent times, is a an operation by law and force.
[SPEAKER_06]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_06]: But this is somebody.
[SPEAKER_08]: It was originally, it was the moment he could get the money away from the nested.
[SPEAKER_08]: No.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's stung.
[SPEAKER_08]: I stung.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's stung.
[SPEAKER_08]: The sting came out in nineteen seventy three.
[SPEAKER_08]: The tagline on the movie was all it takes is a little confidence and it was a big big hit.
[SPEAKER_08]: Somehow it just hasn't seemed to have the attention anymore.
[SPEAKER_08]: So I want to call attention to one of my favorite movies of all time.
[SPEAKER_08]: I've never seen it.
[SPEAKER_08]: Probably in my top ten maybe top five of all time starting with the cast.
[SPEAKER_08]: I mean of Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw before he made Jaws.
[SPEAKER_08]: Charles Durning, Ray Walston, Eileen Brennan, Harold Gould, Dana L. Carr, and James Earl Jones' dad, Robert Earl Jones, is in the movie.
[SPEAKER_08]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_08]: And the plot is to set everything in motion, a small town grifter, Juliet, Illinois outside of Chicago.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's a guy up for some money.
[SPEAKER_08]: He doesn't realize the money belongs to a big mob boss in Chicago and spends the rest of the movie trying to seek revenge because the mob boss kills his partner.
[SPEAKER_08]: And it's a great.
[SPEAKER_08]: There's a million plot twists and there's so much fun getting lost in the plot.
[SPEAKER_07]: Are you rooting for the grifters or...
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, the small-time griffer is Robert Redford.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's absolutely rude for him.
[SPEAKER_08]: But it is, uh, the plot is almost in consequential because there's so much going on, you almost can't follow it.
[SPEAKER_08]: It is so much fun.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's set in September, nineteen thirty-six.
[SPEAKER_08]: What they did that was so clever.
[SPEAKER_08]: And this is weird to put in perspective.
[SPEAKER_08]: When it came out in nineteen seventy-three, it was
[SPEAKER_08]: thirty seven years it was evoking a time thirty seven years ago that they were going back thirty seven years period peace period peace right but now it's been forty six years since the movie come out yes so it's even more evocative of the nineteen thirties when you watch it how did they communicate the fact that it was set in that time without you going over the top was this loop late in days this was based on during that time or was it more uh... gaysersing i believe it was amber this is after the prohibition
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay, but Al Capone probably still had full effect.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: They did it with really a beautiful production design.
[SPEAKER_08]: They didn't go black and white, but they did use muted colors, kind of like if you would see on like Saturday evening post covers.
[SPEAKER_08]: And so it's sort of implied the old stuff.
[SPEAKER_08]: They used old cinematic techniques.
[SPEAKER_08]: Like if you ever seen in a movie, when instead of a cut, it sort of looks like a page is turning.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's called a wipe.
[SPEAKER_08]: And that was never used by the time that this movie came out, but they started using that technique again to give the notion of a nineteen thirties movie.
[SPEAKER_08]: Also, because movies were so low budget in the thirties, these detective films and stuff, they didn't use a lot of extras as it was just wasted money.
[SPEAKER_08]: So you'll note in the sting not a lot of extras.
[SPEAKER_08]: Whenever times like you see like James Cagney or Edward G. Robinson gets shot in a gangster picture, they're always by themselves.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's not because they were trying to make any sort of comments because they didn't want to pay for extras.
[SPEAKER_08]: And they have big budgets.
[SPEAKER_08]: So no extras and also at the front of it, one of the neatest things before the movie even starts, the Universal logo, they use the Universal logo from the nineteen thirty.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's cool.
[SPEAKER_07]: And so I mean, I love him's love nuances.
[SPEAKER_07]: I know that I usually dog on the segment, but I love the nuances when you see an old school open to an actual.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right away, you will feel like a nice person.
[SPEAKER_06]: I like the room where the plane's supposed to land at eight thirty and you're wiping your daughter up.
[SPEAKER_06]: And she's still in the cell phone waiting area.
[SPEAKER_06]: Of course.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's what I like.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's what I, that's the part.
[SPEAKER_06]: I really.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a stressful time.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's the holidays.
[SPEAKER_07]: Speaking of cars, if I'm not mistaken, in Cannonball.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, the twenty century fox is that the one where they have the car run off it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, come on.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm like, that's different.
[SPEAKER_08]: That is different.
[SPEAKER_08]: Very creative.
[SPEAKER_06]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_06]: So how long have you?
[SPEAKER_06]: So the sting is one of your all time.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_06]: And the artist, the movie.
[SPEAKER_08]: And what else is cool is they had a hard time.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's Elsting.
[SPEAKER_08]: To give the look of nineteen thirties Chicago Chicago would change so much.
[SPEAKER_08]: They use a great use of location shop.
[SPEAKER_08]: But there's a guy named Albert Whitlock.
[SPEAKER_08]: He's the king of what is known as the mat painting.
[SPEAKER_08]: And what he would do is they'd get a shot of Chicago and then paint out what shouldn't be there and add in what should be there.
[SPEAKER_08]: And you can't tell.
[SPEAKER_08]: It looks like nineteen thirties Chicago so cool.
[SPEAKER_08]: What you're hearing is the music from the sting Marvin Hamillish.
[SPEAKER_08]: single-handedly caused a resurgence in ragtime music in the seventies even though this movie music is from like nineteen hundred it was a very evocative of the air and the uh... music i started with the entertainer actually was a top ten hit based on the music from the movie now there's some great scenes in the movie just every time you turn there's a star
[SPEAKER_08]: The sting is actually planned in a whorehouse above a merry-go-round, which is a really great set.
[SPEAKER_08]: And the madam of the whorehouse is Eileen Brennan.
[SPEAKER_08]: This is a scene with her, and Charles Durning, Charles Durning, one of the great character actors.
[SPEAKER_01]: How's all time here?
[SPEAKER_01]: Which way are the rooms?
[SPEAKER_10]: Who told you this guy was in here?
[SPEAKER_01]: Nobody.
[SPEAKER_01]: You just know what kind of woman he likes.
[SPEAKER_01]: You have to check all the joy houses till I find him.
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, maybe I could help you if you tell me his name.
[SPEAKER_01]: I doubt it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Which way are the rooms?
[SPEAKER_10]: Right through there.
[SPEAKER_10]: But I wouldn't go in there if I were you.
[SPEAKER_01]: What are you going to do, call a cops?
[SPEAKER_10]: I don't have to.
[SPEAKER_10]: You'll be busted in on the chief of police just up all.
[SPEAKER_08]: So, Robert Shaw is the big-time gangster that they're up against.
[SPEAKER_08]: There is the best card game sequence ever.
[SPEAKER_08]: Won't spoil it for you.
[SPEAKER_08]: But, I will not tell you the ending, because the ending is a mind-blower.
[SPEAKER_08]: Wonderful.
[SPEAKER_08]: If you don't understand it the first time, don't worry.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's just a lot of fun to get there.
[SPEAKER_08]: But here's the set-up to the ending.
[SPEAKER_08]: Robert Shaw plays Doyle Lanigan, and he's actually limping in the movie, which they wrote into the script, because he broke his ankle-playing handball right before they shot.
[SPEAKER_08]: So they wrote into the character that he had a lip, and that was sort of his thing.
[SPEAKER_12]: I have a hundred thousand dollars to win.
[SPEAKER_12]: I have the host.
[SPEAKER_12]: Lucky down.
[SPEAKER_12]: It's place for horseback.
[SPEAKER_12]: It's Riverside.
[SPEAKER_12]: Hold on, sir.
[SPEAKER_12]: Get the manager.
[SPEAKER_11]: What's your problem?
[SPEAKER_11]: I'm putting half a million dollars on Lucky down to win third race at Riverside.
[SPEAKER_11]: I can't leave that often time.
[SPEAKER_11]: But like that could break us.
[SPEAKER_11]: Not only are you a cheat.
[SPEAKER_11]: You're a gutless cheat as well.
[SPEAKER_11]: Really act.
[SPEAKER_11]: Forty-one.
[SPEAKER_11]: Pick all of it.
[SPEAKER_08]: He was so loved by the producers of the sting that the guys that who was, which Robert Shaw was so loved, that the producers of the sting would go into produce jaws brought him in to play Captain Quint based on the story behind that one too.
[SPEAKER_08]: So that is the setup to the climax.
[SPEAKER_08]: You've got to see it to believe it adjusted for inflation.
[SPEAKER_08]: This is the nineteenth highest grossing film of all time.
[SPEAKER_08]: And also the first time it aired on television.
[SPEAKER_08]: This will blow your mind.
[SPEAKER_08]: It aired on network television.
[SPEAKER_08]: It got a sixty one share.
[SPEAKER_08]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_08]: That means that of all televisions and use sixty-one percent of them were worth going back to watch Rob.
[SPEAKER_06]: A hundred percent.
[SPEAKER_06]: That is a movie that I remember from when I was a youngster and I think I should as an adult I should go back and review it.
[SPEAKER_08]: Ily highly recommended and it's just it's a star power storytelling surprises.
[SPEAKER_08]: Share Beauty watch the sting you will be glad.
[SPEAKER_08]: Awesome.
[SPEAKER_08]: I think today is the last day of preseason baseball.
[SPEAKER_08]: The season starts tomorrow, right?
[SPEAKER_08]: Season starts tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_08]: MLB, baby.
[SPEAKER_08]: So some more shenanigans while these a preseason games that don't count a pitcher for the Giants.
[SPEAKER_08]: Derek Holland.
[SPEAKER_08]: Didn't interview in the dugout yesterday as Kermit the front.
[SPEAKER_09]: The thing is here.
[SPEAKER_09]: We're trying to watch a great game of baseball.
[SPEAKER_09]: There is the young Giants.
[SPEAKER_09]: They are one to never.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's been exciting the year.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's a little cold.
[SPEAKER_09]: But that's all right.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's good going on from here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Kermit doesn't wear any clothes, so that's a little tough at AT&T part.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, yeah, see, it's cold out there as well.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, just super-nated.
[SPEAKER_09]: There's a lot of kids that are watching.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's awesome.
[SPEAKER_08]: I like that.
[SPEAKER_08]: Now, this is a trend I don't get.
[SPEAKER_08]: I guess it's sort of like a white noise thing.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's supposed to be soothing.
[SPEAKER_08]: People record their music that they listen to from another room.
[SPEAKER_08]: So when you play it, it sounds like you're like at a club, but you're in the bathroom.
[SPEAKER_08]: So you can hear the music, but it sounds muffled like it's from another room.
[SPEAKER_08]: Here's an example from YouTube.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's the song, Mr. Brightside by the killers.
[SPEAKER_08]: And so when you play it like this, it's supposed to be soothing.
[SPEAKER_07]: I kind of get it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, I like this.
[SPEAKER_07]: But then you just get this reminds me of.
[SPEAKER_07]: This reminds you of college.
[SPEAKER_07]: Like there's a party in the other.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I'm like not me or go my algorithm.
[SPEAKER_05]: I have one.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's you.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is that dynamic.
[SPEAKER_07]: He was never invited.
[SPEAKER_07]: No.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I was always the one trying to get some last minute homework done while there was a party going on.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's like it go down.
[SPEAKER_08]: But to be fair, the weekends I worked every weekend to safely.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'll produce.
[SPEAKER_08]: So walk a walk a walk.
[SPEAKER_06]: By the way, I had that just after the dawn of my show.
[SPEAKER_06]: I had that technology.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, you did.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, it's called a bath tell.
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, really.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, come on, you know, it'll sound like it's in the next room.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, special.
[SPEAKER_07]: You didn't have a sad college life, Rob.
[SPEAKER_07]: You every time you mention that you worked every weekend, it's like, you're some sort of night that we have the, no, I'm not saying that it was sad.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm just saying the reason I didn't go the parties is that I would, you know what, because the parties would cook up like if that's seven o'clock.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, and why would he cook up at eleven in college?
[SPEAKER_08]: You could have worked in London.
[SPEAKER_08]: And you know, I really defer to you.
[SPEAKER_08]: You went to a lot of colleges.
[SPEAKER_06]: I do know.
[SPEAKER_06]: Not at Maris College, but when I went to American University, I almost missed one party.
[SPEAKER_06]: But at the last minute, my schedule changed and I went to it, which kept my record.
[SPEAKER_06]: Everyone.
[SPEAKER_06]: I went to every single perfect attendance record.
[SPEAKER_08]: See, I like good music.
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't want to hear that muffled music.
[SPEAKER_08]: I want to hear like Beethoven played on a three-D printer.
[SPEAKER_08]: The exciting thing is is that the guy then used his three D printer to print a life for himself.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, and by the way, that's that's eventually what we'll be using all our three D printers for pretty is a novelty novelty gifts.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I bought a new three D printer and Spencer's
[SPEAKER_06]: This is a novelty gift.
[SPEAKER_06]: Now here's my here.
[SPEAKER_06]: You get you get to hear Beethoven and here's your here's your troll.
[SPEAKER_06]: You're plastic troll.
[SPEAKER_08]: All right.
[SPEAKER_08]: You ready for sexy.
[SPEAKER_08]: You're ready for sexy time.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm ready.
[SPEAKER_08]: All right.
[SPEAKER_08]: Everybody sexy time wolf blitzer reading the tweet of stormy Daniels technically.
[SPEAKER_13]: I didn't sleep with the polis twelve years ago.
[SPEAKER_13]: There was no sleeping.
[SPEAKER_13]: Ha ha.
[SPEAKER_13]: sexy.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, well, way to go.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I asked a phrase on political persuasions, by the way, we'll have another political sort of persuasions this week.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I asked Franks about, well, let's just say he's one of the nicest guys in the in the business.
[SPEAKER_06]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_06]: One of the nicest took all the reporters out one time to dinner and said any questions you have about the business.
[SPEAKER_06]: Go ahead.
[SPEAKER_08]: We tried to make it unseemly.
[SPEAKER_08]: And we couldn't.
[SPEAKER_06]: He's just a nice guy.
[SPEAKER_06]: Two nice.
[SPEAKER_08]: All right.
[SPEAKER_08]: We closed.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's been a while since we've had one.
[SPEAKER_08]: So let us close with the Michael Marisho, nine one one.
[SPEAKER_08]: Call of the Weas.
[SPEAKER_08]: Jesus Christ broken to a pizza hut.
[SPEAKER_14]: I point now in one word as your emergency.
[SPEAKER_14]: Yes, this is Jesus Christ and I just broke into the pizza hut.
[SPEAKER_14]: I broke the window and I'm here.
[SPEAKER_14]: Jesus is here.
[SPEAKER_14]: Now he's back.
[SPEAKER_14]: He's back to earth.
[SPEAKER_14]: All right.
[SPEAKER_14]: And you don't work there?
[SPEAKER_14]: No, I just broke in.
[SPEAKER_14]: Had a pizza.
[SPEAKER_14]: I'm Jesus.
[SPEAKER_14]: And what was your name again?
[SPEAKER_14]: My name is Jesus.
[SPEAKER_14]: What's your last name, Jesus?
[SPEAKER_14]: Christ.
[SPEAKER_14]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_14]: And what do you look like?
[SPEAKER_14]: I look like Jesus.
[SPEAKER_14]: What else do I supposed to look like?
[SPEAKER_14]: Why do you do that?
[SPEAKER_14]: Because I'm Jesus.
[SPEAKER_14]: I can do whatever I want.
[SPEAKER_14]: What do you live in?
[SPEAKER_14]: I don't.
[SPEAKER_14]: I don't from heaven.
[SPEAKER_14]: Do you break a front window?
[SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, I broke the door window, sir.
[SPEAKER_14]: And you eat a pizza?
[SPEAKER_14]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_14]: Adam Mountain Dew.
[SPEAKER_14]: That's what you did.
[SPEAKER_08]: Happy cancer, everybody.
[SPEAKER_08]: He has risen.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's your magic on him.
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