Review: I'm Telling You For The Last Time, Jerry Seinfeld

[00:00:08] Speaker A: Hey, before we get into the. The show that we're the comedian. Well, you're going to Spain tomorrow. How fired up are you honestly bringing ecstasy with you or are you just going to get it over there? [00:00:20] Speaker B: Am I? Am I what? [00:00:22] Speaker A: Are you bringing the ecstasy with you or are you just going to get it when you're there? [00:00:26] Speaker B: Ecstasy? Oh, is it. Is Spain popular for ecstasy? Come on matter? I don't know. Matter of fact, I did look up, they've got a bunch of nightclubs and I was trying to figure out if that's even worth going to. And yeah, so who knows? Maybe, maybe one night I do end up in a five story nightclub with a bunch of other Americans taking ecstasy, like I could have done in if I just stayed here in Chicago. [00:00:50] Speaker A: So you're not going there just to do that. This isn't drug tourism. [00:00:55] Speaker B: No. You can do drugs wherever you want. Why would you go somewhere else to do drugs? [00:01:01] Speaker A: I don't know. I don't go anywhere, so I don't know what anyone does, you know? [00:01:05] Speaker B: You know, right, because you don't need to because you got all the drugs you need right here. [00:01:10] Speaker A: Okay, so what are you looking. Are you going to Bilbao? To the Frank Ury Museum in Bilbao, Spain. [00:01:16] Speaker B: Is that the one with the, the black paintings? [00:01:20] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:01:20] Speaker C: I thought you were going to Barcelona. [00:01:22] Speaker B: I'm going to Barcelona. [00:01:23] Speaker C: Madrid, that's all gaudy. Gaudy? [00:01:25] Speaker B: Gaudi, yes. I'm going to see some gaudy buildings. [00:01:29] Speaker A: Gowdy. [00:01:30] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:01:31] Speaker C: And then you're gonna go to Rosas. [00:01:34] Speaker B: Oh, that's right, I have to go to Rosas. I gotta put that on my map. I do have a bunch of places on my map. So to answer your question, I'm not like. No, I wouldn't say. I'm like pumped up, excited to go. I don't even feel like it's really happening yet. I don't think that's gonna happen until I'm walking out of the airport and realize, oh my God, look at this place. You know, I have a bunch of recommendations that I've put down. I like to leave it very open so that I'm not. So I don't have to be anywhere at a certain time except for maybe one or two things. One of those being I do want to Barcelona. The soccer club is playing somebody on Saturday in Barcelona, so I want to be there next to the stadium, the pitch. [00:02:13] Speaker A: Not in the stadium. [00:02:14] Speaker B: No, I looked it up. The new camp inside the what? What's the difference between what's New Camp [00:02:21] Speaker C: Mean, that's the name of the Barcelona stadium. [00:02:24] Speaker B: They actually now it's named Spotify something or other. They. Yeah. [00:02:28] Speaker C: You know what, you know what they're doing in Barcelona these days? They're walking into restaurants and, and squirting tourists with water guns. Oh, yeah, because. [00:02:39] Speaker A: Really? [00:02:39] Speaker C: Yeah, because tourism has driven the cost. Is it tourists or. No, I think it's just transplant people. Expats who are living there now have now driven the cost of living so high. [00:02:52] Speaker B: Okay, that's happened. I, I was. I was reading. I was doing some reading about traveling and people were talking about. They were talking to people that live in Barcelona, people that were traveling to Barcelona, talking to them about the tourism and how to not hurt Barcelona's, you know, culture, finance with their tourism. One of the things that's recommended, do not get an Airbnb that has been, for whatever reason, detrimental to the Barcelona housing market. Everyone's basically said, like, as long as you stay at a hotel and you're just nice to everybody, no one's gonna give you a hard time. But, you know, if you're staying at an Airbnb and you're. And you're being an asshole, you know, everywhere you go, if you're, if you're just trying to, like, take up resources and without any care in the world of what you're, you know, where the, where, where the lid is on that, that's when. And I mean, that's just. That's every place. Somebody come to Chicago and do that, and we would all think the same thing, you know, nobody wants somebody coming and just taking all the resources. So just common sense. But, no, I don't feel any sense of, oh, my God, I can't believe I'm going. [00:03:56] Speaker A: Well, it's because you travel so much. [00:03:58] Speaker B: I think so, too. It's just. Yeah, it's, It's. It's going to be just an experience to have when you get there, and then it'll be over. The important thing is to be able to be there for the whole thing, you know, not to waste any of the moments. That's what ended up happening towards the. Yes. Be present. That's what they say. So that's what I'm hoping for. [00:04:20] Speaker A: I would be on the ceiling, excited to make such a trip. If I was even going to Milwaukee, I would be up all night in my bed. [00:04:29] Speaker C: You once told me you don't see any value in anywhere outside of America and you have zero interest in international travel. Do you confirm or deny that? [00:04:41] Speaker A: I confirm that that is True. I do believe that. I just mean if I were to travel anywhere, I'd be very excited. I wouldn't particularly want to go. I wouldn't want to go overseas because I don't like being outside of America. I feel like people want to hurt me. [00:04:56] Speaker C: Well, if you're in Barcelona, all you're going to do is you're going to get sprayed with a little bit of water. Protesters argue that the city's tourism model is unsustainable as Barcelonans struggle with rising costs and dwindling residential housing. [00:05:15] Speaker B: Hence the Airbnb. [00:05:17] Speaker C: Olay. [00:05:20] Speaker A: Yeah. Speaking of lay. Are you gonna run with the bulls? [00:05:24] Speaker B: You're gonna run, I hope. I hope so. I. I hope that's. If that's. [00:05:28] Speaker A: Is that this week. [00:05:29] Speaker B: If it comes up every week. [00:05:31] Speaker C: That's in the south, though, isn't it? That's. What's the city? Pamplona. [00:05:39] Speaker A: You're not near there. [00:05:41] Speaker B: No, I don't think so. No. Bart. What? Go ahead. [00:05:48] Speaker A: What was interesting about outside of America is every country, especially in Europe, is like the size of one of our America. Great American states. [00:05:58] Speaker B: Right. [00:05:59] Speaker A: Spain is probably the size of Rhode Island. [00:06:04] Speaker C: A little bit bigger. [00:06:07] Speaker B: Spain's a good Wyoming. [00:06:10] Speaker A: Really? [00:06:10] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Spain's got some girth to it. [00:06:13] Speaker A: I bet you $5 that Wyoming's bigger than Spain. [00:06:24] Speaker B: Okay, this is that dead air we're talking about. [00:06:30] Speaker C: Yep. [00:06:30] Speaker A: Oh. Oh, I thought you were gonna answer that. Okay. Anyway. [00:06:34] Speaker B: Well, I don't know. I. I can't look it up because, you know, once again, my little tiny pocket computer is on the table too far from my grasp. [00:06:41] Speaker C: Spain is closest in size to California. [00:06:46] Speaker A: Holy, that's big. California is our second biggest state. Isn't. [00:06:52] Speaker C: Is slightly larger and also roughly comparable in size to the combination of Arizona and Utah. [00:07:00] Speaker B: Utah is kind of like Wyoming, but [00:07:02] Speaker C: it is smaller than Texas by a good 34%. [00:07:07] Speaker B: So California's gonna be your third. [00:07:08] Speaker A: Wyoming. Wyoming is bigger. Hey. Hey, Siri. Hey, Siri. It won't do it because I'm on the phone. Hey, Siri. [00:07:21] Speaker B: Yes, what can I do for you? [00:07:23] Speaker A: Is Wyoming bigger than Spain? [00:07:29] Speaker C: I don't believe anyone's still listening. [00:07:31] Speaker B: Spain is the same size as Wyoming. Bill, you owe me five bucks. [00:07:38] Speaker A: Now I'm looking it up. No Wyoming. Smaller than Spain. I owe you five bucks. Damn it. See, this is why I don't gamble. I'm a horrible gambler, no matter what. I was so sure of that. [00:07:48] Speaker B: You can pay me in Jack's Pizzas. [00:07:49] Speaker A: Rhode Island. [00:07:52] Speaker B: Oh, Rhode Island. I mean, Rhode Island's smaller than. Than Chicago. [00:08:00] Speaker A: Well, I'm excited for you on the trip, you know, I hope. I. I mean, I know you will bring us something back, but don't spend a lot of money and on me anyway. [00:08:07] Speaker B: Oh, I'll steal it. [00:08:09] Speaker A: Okay. When do you come back? [00:08:13] Speaker B: Oh, Wednesday. So actually, we are going to miss one of our. [00:08:18] Speaker A: We'll just do a calling. We'll do. [00:08:19] Speaker C: We. [00:08:20] Speaker A: We gotta. We gotta. [00:08:21] Speaker B: I'll call you. Yeah, I'll call you. Three in the morning, Central time. [00:08:25] Speaker A: Yeah, we'll call it the same time Wednesday. Oh, they're gonna be on the plane though, right? [00:08:29] Speaker B: I don't know. I. I never know when I'm leaving or coming back. [00:08:33] Speaker A: Can we text you over there? [00:08:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:08:36] Speaker A: You have an international plan? [00:08:37] Speaker B: No, but I. I don't have a plan, but you can just like switch it on and off with the plan that I have. Turn it on for a week, pay like. I don't know, it's like $10 or something like that. [00:08:47] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. All right. It's pretty easy. Pictures or whatever. [00:08:51] Speaker B: Yeah, I will. I mean it. [00:08:54] Speaker A: All right. You got anything on your agenda today, Mark? [00:08:57] Speaker B: Mark. Anything on the old. [00:08:59] Speaker C: No, no, it's been a quiet week. [00:09:04] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, when do you go to the doctor, have that wheel looked at? [00:09:07] Speaker C: About three weeks. [00:09:11] Speaker B: There's something I keep forgetting to mention. Remember our apple cider vinegar conversations about the shot and everything? And I found a solution and I keep forgetting to bring this up, and I'm so excited about it. You know how I make a salad every morning as well? [00:09:27] Speaker A: You make it with apple cider vinegar? [00:09:28] Speaker B: I make the dressing with apple cider vinegar. And there we go. Two birds, one stone. [00:09:35] Speaker A: I gotta give it to you. I get a great recipe for dressing that's apple cider vinegar based. [00:09:43] Speaker B: Really? [00:09:44] Speaker A: Yeah. Apple cider vinegar. Dijon mustard. [00:09:47] Speaker B: Okay. [00:09:48] Speaker A: Red onion? [00:09:49] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:09:51] Speaker A: Maple syrup. It is fantastic. [00:09:58] Speaker B: I'm gonna try it without the maple syrup. [00:10:01] Speaker A: No, no. Why? You can't have me. [00:10:02] Speaker B: I don't. I. No, I. I don't want to start my day with. With sugar. [00:10:06] Speaker A: No. For sake. [00:10:08] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't like sugar. Well, I, I do. I love sugar. I mean, well, not. I don't love sugar. I like sugar, but I try to stay away from it. [00:10:16] Speaker A: Okay, I'm gonna bring that next time. All right, well. Oh, hold on. Rusnik's. He's texting me from downstairs. He's finished. [00:10:29] Speaker B: Oh, see? [00:10:30] Speaker C: Yeah, I'll bet he is. [00:10:31] Speaker B: Yeah, he was probably done five minutes ago. [00:10:33] Speaker C: That'll be a hundred dollars, please. [00:10:35] Speaker B: And it's gonna cost you more than two and a half. Jack's Pizzas. [00:10:38] Speaker A: There you go. Oh, there he is. There you are. Okay. There was no corrosion of the wires. [00:10:47] Speaker C: No. [00:10:48] Speaker A: Okay. This new. New box. No new box. Are you going to show me? It's a new G. Gfci. [00:11:02] Speaker C: Yeah. You need a special plug type if it's near water. Why is it Ground Fault Interrupter? [00:11:10] Speaker B: Isn't that. Yes, the three angled ones. [00:11:14] Speaker C: No, no, it's same thing. It's like the ones we have by the bar. You know the bar, they have a little button. [00:11:23] Speaker B: Oh, with the reset button. Yeah, yeah. Right. Like you have in every bathroom. Like. Yeah. The hair dryer will turn it off. [00:11:29] Speaker C: So if you look in our bar. [00:11:31] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:11:32] Speaker C: Like anywhere near water, you have to have the special. [00:11:34] Speaker B: Yeah, that makes sense. I worked for a bar one time where I was washing the dishes and I got too much water too close to the electrical outlet. And I watched it sizzle and smoke. And a puff of smoke came out of it and we were too busy. I didn't say anything. I said, well, that's the end of that one. [00:11:49] Speaker C: Yep. But it's. You know, if you had a regular thing, you'd have been. [00:11:53] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:11:55] Speaker C: Yep. [00:11:57] Speaker B: All right. I turned Bill down while he was having his conversation with Rizneck. Rusnek, Rudnek. Rudnick. [00:12:05] Speaker C: When I work with a Rudnick. [00:12:07] Speaker B: Trent Reznor. Well, he was talking to Trent Reznor. [00:12:10] Speaker C: Jeremy Roenick, well, he's. [00:12:12] Speaker B: Hey, speaking of which, my Buffalo Sabers won their playoff game, the Game one round one, Game one against the Boston Bruins last night, scoring four goals in under after under eight minutes left of the game, scoring four goals to win four to three, which is the first time a team has come back from down two goals under eight minutes in NHL playoff history. [00:12:34] Speaker C: Do they win the President's cup this year? [00:12:36] Speaker B: The Sabres? No, they were. They were at bottom of the league in December and that's when they fired their GM and they took off and they started winning all the games and they. They won the Atlantic. The Colorado Avalanche won the President's Trophy. [00:12:48] Speaker A: Hey, are you guys there? [00:12:49] Speaker C: Because the. Did I tell you? Some guy tried to kick it off with a Buffalo fan in the queue for the boss. You just walk. There was two. There was this Buffalo fan and his missus next to us. And this guy walks by because he just looks at me because you'll get. You'll get. You'll get kicked. You'll get eliminated in the first round. And that was it. And then. And Then the Buffalo guy just yells after him, fuck you. [00:13:18] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, what a stupid thing to say. [00:13:21] Speaker C: But I was thinking. I love. That's the thing I love about hockey, is when first seed gets bounced by the eighth in. In the first round. [00:13:30] Speaker B: Right. [00:13:30] Speaker C: And it just undermines the total. It just. No, it just underscores the total pointlessness. [00:13:37] Speaker B: Didn't that happen 82 games that happened in Colorado last. Oh, my God. My. [00:13:41] Speaker C: The Shark special. The San Jose Shark specialty. [00:13:45] Speaker B: Yeah. That's like their favorite thing to do. Yeah. My fantasy hockey league, there was one guy in it who. I mean, his record by the end of it was like 18 and 3. He was just crushing everybody every week. And one of the comics that comes here a lot, and he's a good friend of mine, we're at the game with him, Brian Laro, he's in that league. And we would just. [00:14:04] Speaker A: I love that guy. [00:14:05] Speaker B: Yeah, he's. He's. He's the best. We would just. Every week we talk about this guy that's just crushing everybody. And this guy I worked at a music school with back in the day, and. And we just. Our whole goal, by the end of it, just became just beating this guy. We just want to see this guy being taken. And I kept saying, just wait until. Because you know how the. In fantasy sports, the playoffs occur during the sports regular season because, you know, half the. [00:14:27] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:14:28] Speaker B: Half the players will be ineligible for. So it wraps up before the end of the regular season. So it wrapped up a couple weeks ago or maybe a week ago. Whatever. I said, all anyone has to do is get to. Because this guy had a team that was just stacked. It was like he drafted very well. All the players that he drafted were some of the best players on whatever team they were on. I said, all anybody has to do is get to the final round with him and wait for the coach because those teams are going to go to the playoffs, wait for the coach to start sitting those star players, and all of a sudden they're out of the game and your mediocre players will then take over and win. And I was. I was slated to go up against. I would have been in the final round with this. With the music teacher guy. But the last second I lost to. And the last week I lost to somebody. So I ended up playing Brian LaRue in the first round. So he went on to play the guy that had the record in the second round. And sure enough, what ended up happening about a weekend, you know, the guy. The other guy's crushing Brian and Brian and I are talking, I'm like, but you're hanging in there. You're not too far behind, you know. I said, if his players start getting sat, you have a real chance now. And sure enough, his players started getting sat, and Brian crept up from behind and took that lead and maintained that lead to the very end and ended up winning the entire season. And I was able to then send Brian his money for winning the season, and second place got their money back. So I zelled the second place team, and in the description, I put something along the lines of, here's the money for second place, despite beating everybody the entire season and having by far the best record, so to speak. To your point, Mark? Yes. Even though it wasn't the first round, there's something satisfying about watching the top dog go out. [00:16:15] Speaker C: It happens very often in hockey more than the other sports, I feel. [00:16:21] Speaker B: How about football? That's just one game and they're out. [00:16:26] Speaker C: Well, the Patriots did the best one ever, didn't they? Unbeaten till the super bowl supreme. I bet you still love to talk about that one, Bill. [00:16:36] Speaker A: Well, they didn't lose in the first round. They lost the Super Bowl. [00:16:38] Speaker C: No, I'm saying that's even better. [00:16:42] Speaker A: Maybe for you. [00:16:45] Speaker C: Well, it brings up that story of when I joined the. The comedy football fantasy league and created all sorts of anarchy in it. And then I realized. Yeah, and then I realized in the first week of the playoffs, I was going to lose all of my star players. So I did a trade dump that got vetoed by GM by league supremo CJ Sullivan. [00:17:12] Speaker A: You were Larry Edden. What? [00:17:15] Speaker C: I wasn't Larry yet in was Ryan Ridley. Oh, I was the Taliban. Goals. No, I used to change. That was it. I used to change the. The name of the team every week so you couldn't even figure out who it was half the time. And then I think, was it you that I deliberately. There was a. There was a team who would also change their team name. So I would change it to be one letter slightly differently, so you could almost not even visually discern them. Pretty sure it was you, Bill. [00:17:54] Speaker A: I don't know. That sounds like you, but that's why you're not allowed in the league. [00:17:57] Speaker C: Yeah. So that's why they never did figure out it was me. All right, I got 40 minutes left before I'm gonna go. I'm literally gonna walk out of this room. [00:18:07] Speaker B: And we're about 50 minutes in. [00:18:08] Speaker A: Let's do 40 more minutes. [00:18:10] Speaker C: No, I'm cutting the first 10 off. There's no way I'm leaving the first 10 minutes of this, you should cut [00:18:17] Speaker B: everything up until now. [00:18:18] Speaker C: Yeah, there's going to be some major cuts to this. [00:18:23] Speaker B: Let's get into it. [00:18:25] Speaker A: Well, hold on. You guys were going on and on. I couldn't get in to tell you. Rusnak really overcharged me, I think. How do you think so 175. [00:18:33] Speaker B: Wait, what? 1 7. Do you say 1175 or 175? [00:18:36] Speaker A: Yeah, because I was on the 175. I was on the phone with you guys. He's just whispering. He's like 175. And I got the checkbook out, man. [00:18:45] Speaker C: Dude, you need, you need to go to the police station right now because you just got raped. [00:18:50] Speaker B: Robbed. [00:18:51] Speaker A: Oh, really? [00:18:52] Speaker C: Yeah, you need it. You need a sexual assault kit. [00:18:58] Speaker B: What was that? [00:18:58] Speaker A: I thought he, I thought he would always give me a fair price. Rusnick. He must look at me like a, like a mark, like a root. Well, yeah, if somebody charged me, whatever. Cuz I can't change an outlet. [00:19:08] Speaker B: If somebody calls up and like, can you come over and flip on this light switch for me? You know you're going to charge him too much for it. [00:19:14] Speaker A: I, I don't, I don't know what regular guys that can do electrical work. [00:19:18] Speaker C: Did he drive in, do a podcast [00:19:19] Speaker B: with two of them. [00:19:20] Speaker C: Did he drive in from Crystal Lake? [00:19:23] Speaker A: He's from out of, he's not from the city. [00:19:26] Speaker C: So there you go. You're paying basically for him to drive there. [00:19:29] Speaker A: No, no, no. Yeah, but he only, he only comes when he's in the city. He's like, I'll be in the city next week at this time, I'll come back. I think that's not, Is that a really unfair price for that? [00:19:40] Speaker C: How, how long was he in you, how long was he physically in your house? [00:19:44] Speaker A: Like 15 minutes. [00:19:46] Speaker C: And, and you're asking is that fair? [00:19:48] Speaker B: Did he get any new parts? [00:19:49] Speaker C: You know what, dude? You deserve to get ripped off. [00:19:53] Speaker A: I know it's not a lot of time, but it's, you know, he's making the call. It's his extra paying for his expertise. [00:19:59] Speaker C: Give me that bollocks. You know, if there's one thing that's gonna finally make me stick my head in the oven, it's this whole I'm paying for the expertise bollocks. You do a job, it takes X amount of time. There's X amount of money needed for you to keep a roof over your head. That's it. This whole thing of expertise is. Oh, that's a whole Episode. Let's do an expertise episode of this show. [00:20:26] Speaker A: So do you think I had a position there to, like, haggle with and be like, come on, you can't charge me that. [00:20:30] Speaker B: Before he did the job. [00:20:31] Speaker C: Yes. [00:20:32] Speaker B: When it's done. Not necessarily anymore. [00:20:34] Speaker A: I couldn't do. That's why I was on the phone with you, because. [00:20:36] Speaker B: Well, who lined that up? [00:20:38] Speaker A: Yeah, I did this. Yeah, me. [00:20:46] Speaker C: No, I don't need to. You. Because you just got [00:20:50] Speaker B: doing that to yourself. [00:20:51] Speaker A: This happened to me when I had to call AAA and they replaced my battery. They charged me like, twice as much. My mechanics like you got. [00:20:58] Speaker B: Yeah, [00:21:00] Speaker A: I get everywhere. I'm tired. [00:21:02] Speaker B: Replace a battery. [00:21:03] Speaker C: You know what, though? You know, you always make fun of me for walking around looking like a tr. You know, just got dragged through a hedge that. That leads you to not getting ripped off as much because people look at [00:21:15] Speaker B: you and think, he doesn't have any money. [00:21:17] Speaker C: He doesn't have any money. And B, he knows his onions. He gets. He gets. He rolls. He clearly rolls his sleeves up and gets in there. [00:21:27] Speaker B: See, Bill, without you here, we can't exchange the glance across the room of. Is that a new British talk expression? [00:21:33] Speaker A: He knows his onions. [00:21:34] Speaker B: He knows his onions. [00:21:35] Speaker A: I was looking at you. I could see you. [00:21:36] Speaker B: My. My eyebrows went up. You could probably smell it through the microphone. [00:21:42] Speaker A: Well, I don't look like. Like I'm putting on airs or anything. I look like. [00:21:47] Speaker B: You're wearing your suit. [00:21:48] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:21:50] Speaker B: Don't wear a full tuxedo when the electrician comes over. [00:21:52] Speaker C: You're wearing khakis. You told us. Right? [00:21:55] Speaker B: No flannel. He did say he was wearing flannel. Nobody that has money wears flannel. [00:22:00] Speaker C: You said khakis. [00:22:02] Speaker B: Oh, you said slippers. [00:22:04] Speaker A: They're flannel on the inside. [00:22:06] Speaker B: What? That's got to be comfortable. [00:22:09] Speaker C: Basically, khakis are the international call sign for I am minted. Makeup. Whatever rate you want. [00:22:18] Speaker A: Rusnick. Nick. [00:22:20] Speaker C: I mean, that's what you look like. You look like an extra from 30 something. Yeah, like, which was an underrated series. [00:22:30] Speaker A: Peter Horton. Yeah, Peter Horton. [00:22:32] Speaker C: And the guy who just got arrested for child. [00:22:36] Speaker A: Timothy Busfield. Yeah. The child foreign guy. Ken Olin. [00:22:42] Speaker C: That was a good series. 30 something. [00:22:46] Speaker A: You pulled all those names out of my head. [00:22:48] Speaker C: Clearly a fan. [00:22:51] Speaker A: Yeah, I just got the guy who [00:22:54] Speaker C: was the guy who looked like Beyond Borg. [00:22:57] Speaker A: Peter Horton. [00:22:58] Speaker C: Oh, okay. Yeah. [00:22:59] Speaker A: Yeah, he did look like John Pork. [00:23:04] Speaker C: Anyway, it's going to be some big editing cuts. [00:23:07] Speaker A: Yeah. All right. Well, did you. Did you edit last week's where you said all those things that I needed to have cut up. [00:23:14] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:23:15] Speaker B: How about. Did you notice, remember, Bill, a couple episodes ago, when you got up to go to the bathroom? [00:23:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:23:22] Speaker B: And we're gonna edit that part out. Did you leave that in intentionally, Mark? [00:23:26] Speaker A: You did, I think. [00:23:27] Speaker C: There was no dead air, was there? [00:23:29] Speaker B: No, but it was you and I talking. You're like, I'm just gonna edit this out anyway. So you and I started talking about V8. It was all still in there. I was listening the other day. [00:23:39] Speaker A: See, what you guys think is dead air. That's the good stuff. That's what people want to hear. They want to hear real talk, real conversation. [00:23:46] Speaker B: Bill, did you hear me earlier when I said that a listener told me that they listened to our podcast on one and a half speed because of all the pauses. [00:23:53] Speaker A: Really? [00:23:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:23:56] Speaker A: Whoa. There's a pause, Right? [00:23:58] Speaker B: I know. I thought we're doing it on purpose. [00:24:00] Speaker C: They say that's when you're truly comfortable with a person. [00:24:03] Speaker B: Yeah, right. When you can just sit in silence. Isn't that. Yeah, they say that in some popular movie. [00:24:09] Speaker A: When we started the podcast, I was kind of aware of that, and at least I was trying to, like, talk faster and not let any dead air. But now that we're more comfortable, it's getting more folksy and colloquial, and we're just, you know, has Spinning yarns here at our own leisure. [00:24:26] Speaker C: I can't believe anyone would. Anyone would listen to this shite. [00:24:30] Speaker B: I guess if you have a really long drive and you're out of other things to listen to, you know. [00:24:35] Speaker C: Anyway, we're down to 30 minutes on the clock before I walk out of the studio. [00:24:40] Speaker B: We're down to about 20% of battery, I think, on my phone. [00:24:44] Speaker C: It's a race. It's a race between me and the battery of who loses interest first. [00:24:48] Speaker A: Listen, if it just cuts off, then that's it. That's the episode. People know what happened. Right. But I think people want to hear, like, this kind of real stuff. Like, when do you ever hear podcasts? They got the electrician coming over. You hear them dealing with the electrician. You know. [00:25:03] Speaker B: You know what you're. I can honestly say I've listened to a lot of podcasts and not. Not a once. [00:25:08] Speaker A: That's right. Kind of, you know, Zig, why the other zag do it? [00:25:13] Speaker B: Making firsts just like. First just like the Buffalo Sabers. [00:25:19] Speaker A: Yeah, right. [00:25:19] Speaker B: Scoring four goals in under eight minutes to top the Boston Bruins. [00:25:25] Speaker A: Oh, they beat him last night. [00:25:26] Speaker B: Yeah, they won. They. Yeah. It was two nothing the whole game. The fans were very deflated. I was thinking, oh, boy. Well, you know, this is. But you could tell the Sabres look like they've never been there before because they haven't, you know, they've none of them been in the playoffs before. And they did not look like themselves until they scored that first goal. And then all of a sudden, right back to normal. [00:25:43] Speaker A: Double or nothing, the Bruins are going to wipe the Sabers the rest of the way. [00:25:47] Speaker B: Okay, [00:25:51] Speaker A: I'll eat 10. [00:25:54] Speaker B: Yeah, sure. [00:25:54] Speaker A: All right. Today's comedian you may have heard of from a little known show in the 90s called Seinfeld. [00:26:05] Speaker B: What are you eating? [00:26:08] Speaker A: Mentor. Great mentor. It is the portmanteau of Jerry Seinfeld, legendary comedian from the 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, 2010s and 2020s comedy career that has spanned over 50 years. [00:26:33] Speaker B: 70s, right. Is that what he said? [00:26:35] Speaker A: Yeah, I think he started in the 70s, late 70s, late 70s. And he's still working today. This special we took a look at is his seminal special. I'm telling you for the last time from 1998 where he retires all his classic bits. Well, boys, what did you think? How did you like the introduction with the funeral thing with all those guys in there? Were you surprised by who was in Surprise? [00:27:08] Speaker C: No, I was. I wasn't totally unsurprised that there was one black guy and one woman and then all older white comedians. [00:27:20] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:27:20] Speaker C: Who? Someone told Jerry, it's the 90s. We got a D D. We're setting the. The DEI groundwork. [00:27:29] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:27:30] Speaker A: I guess that must have been the beginning of it. Who was the one? Was that Elaine Boozler or. No, Carol. [00:27:37] Speaker C: Carolifa. [00:27:39] Speaker A: That was Carol Leifer. We had Larry Miller, George Carlin. Who? I thought it was dead at this point, but. No, no, that makes sense. Right. Because this couldn't. This was 1998. [00:27:53] Speaker B: Yep. [00:27:54] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:27:54] Speaker C: Most of them were already over at that point, I feel like. I mean. Right. Paul Reiser maybe was still hot. Right. [00:28:02] Speaker B: Was mad about you still out at that time? [00:28:05] Speaker A: I think so. [00:28:06] Speaker C: Well, and then. [00:28:07] Speaker A: No, probably it wrapped around the same time as Seinfeld. [00:28:09] Speaker C: Yeah, Shandling was. I mean, that sketch is long and tedious. [00:28:13] Speaker B: It's five minutes long, labored. [00:28:15] Speaker C: But at least it's got Shand. Shandling's obviously the only highlight of it. [00:28:20] Speaker A: Shandling, Leno, [00:28:24] Speaker C: but no Letterman. Curiously. [00:28:27] Speaker B: Yeah. Who? Well, I guess Letterman wasn't. Was he considered. Is he considered much of a standup? [00:28:36] Speaker A: He was. [00:28:37] Speaker C: I think he's more. [00:28:37] Speaker A: But lost at the Show. He never really did stand up anything. [00:28:42] Speaker B: Who was the guy that. Who was the guy that wanted to steal some of the jokes from the coffin? [00:28:46] Speaker C: Shandling. [00:28:47] Speaker A: Larry Miller, the doorman. Remember the doorman? [00:28:52] Speaker B: Yeah, right, exactly. Yeah. [00:28:54] Speaker C: Shandling was taking jokes out of the coffin. [00:28:58] Speaker A: He was, yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, that's right. And he's like, yeah, right, whatever. [00:29:03] Speaker C: Larry Miller wanted to do the joke that Paul Reiser made. [00:29:08] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, yeah, right. [00:29:09] Speaker C: Are you using it? [00:29:12] Speaker B: That's good. [00:29:14] Speaker A: Oh, I was. I couldn't read my handwriting. Ed McMahon in there. [00:29:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:29:18] Speaker A: Johnny must have been dead at this point. Or maybe not dead, but not. [00:29:22] Speaker B: He was not traveling. [00:29:27] Speaker A: Hiding in the spotlight. Robert Klein, Alan King, George Wallace, the aforementioned African American gent. [00:29:36] Speaker C: Mm. [00:29:38] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, that's. This confuses me now because I saw Seinfeld at Rosemont as I said last week, but I didn't move here until January 99, so maybe he was still out pedaling this special. [00:29:52] Speaker B: He kept touring for a long time after that. He was. I remember when I moved here in 2009, he was still on tour. [00:30:01] Speaker C: Yeah, but not with this. [00:30:01] Speaker A: Well, he's always on tour. But like I feel like I saw this show. [00:30:05] Speaker B: You saw this material. [00:30:07] Speaker A: I saw this material in 99 or later. This is the end of the tour. [00:30:14] Speaker B: Yeah, he does say. [00:30:16] Speaker A: Unless I think I saw him in 99 or 2000. Anyway, nobody cares about that, right? Well, I love Jerry Seinfeld. Have my whole life. I love the program Seinfeld. I attended the fourth to last taping of the show Seinfeld at the studio. [00:30:39] Speaker B: You did? [00:30:40] Speaker A: I did. [00:30:41] Speaker B: Which episode? [00:30:42] Speaker A: On the couch. [00:30:43] Speaker B: Which one was it now? [00:30:45] Speaker A: I don't even remember. Oh, I should, but I don't. [00:30:50] Speaker C: Who was the audience warm up comedian? [00:30:54] Speaker A: It was Jerry himself. [00:30:56] Speaker C: What? [00:30:57] Speaker A: Jerry came out and warmed everybody up. [00:31:00] Speaker B: Did he do new material at the time? [00:31:04] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't remember. [00:31:04] Speaker B: To warm people up. [00:31:06] Speaker A: Yeah. Stories aren't good that I tell if I don't remember anything about them, right? [00:31:11] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess. [00:31:12] Speaker A: But I did get to take a picture on the couch. I sat on the couch. [00:31:15] Speaker B: That's pretty cool. I wish. When I got into Seinfeld I was in middle school and ten o' clock was my bedtime. That's how young I was. I had an old black and white 13 inch screen TV with rabbit ears. And it would pick up black and white. Yep. And it would pick up the local Fox station that was. That played syndicated Seinfeld at 10 o'. [00:31:38] Speaker A: Clock. [00:31:38] Speaker B: And I would. It had a knob on it that, you know, you turn the knob on it would turn the TV on, but it was also the volume knob. And I would turn the volume knob all the way down and I'd press my ear against the side of the tv because even at all the way down, you could still faintly hear what they were saying. And. And I. I'd watch. I'd watch episodes of Seinfeld of the corner of my eye on this little black and white TV with my ear pressed against the side of it. [00:32:02] Speaker A: Because you don't want anyone to know you're still up watching tv. [00:32:04] Speaker B: No, I was supposed to be in bed. [00:32:06] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:07] Speaker B: Yep. So I'd be up watching Seinfeld. [00:32:09] Speaker A: I bet a lot of us were kind of like I was when I was a kid. I had a. They had TVs that were. I'm not even exaggerating. The screen. Screen was 2 inches long. They're like little watchmen, right? But they, they made them even smaller than that. It was like a 2 inch screen. And I would do the same thing. I would watch, like with my eye right up against it to like, you know, Letterman was over. [00:32:34] Speaker C: I've still never, ever watched. I've never watched an episode of Seinfeld. [00:32:38] Speaker B: Huh. There's a lot of people out there like that. Yeah, well, really, most of them. Most of them are 25. [00:32:44] Speaker C: When it was relevant and I was still in England and I think BBC put it on at like 11 o' clock at night and they ran it against one of the big British comedies. So I was. I would go to work on Monday and there was me and these other two guys who were comedy nerds, and we would talk about, you know, do a comedy recap of the weekend. And one of them, George, this guy started getting. If you guys watch this. So Seinfeld, the American thing, it's really good, you know, and we were like, yeah, it's, you know, never gonna get to it, dude. It's the same. It's not at the same time as, you know. [00:33:22] Speaker B: Right. [00:33:22] Speaker C: Who Dares wins or, you know, Faulty powers. Yeah. So we just never got to it. And he kept coming back to it every now and again. He'd go, man, I just watched another one of those Seinfelds. It's really good. And we were just totally dismissive of it. And then by the time I come here, it's just too late. [00:33:40] Speaker B: You see, he wanted somebody to talk about Seinfeld with. That's what everybody that watches Seinfeld wants. Once you find out that somebody else watches Seinfeld, you know, you have a Lot to talk about. You can talk about the different episodes, how they've changed over the course of the years, why would George do this, etc. [00:33:58] Speaker A: I would say it's definitely in the top five of all time sitcoms. [00:34:04] Speaker B: 100%. [00:34:04] Speaker A: Along with Cheers. [00:34:07] Speaker B: Yeah. American sitcoms we're talking, right? [00:34:12] Speaker A: American sitcoms. [00:34:13] Speaker B: Yeah. Cheers. Mashed. Yes. All in the family. Yep. [00:34:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:34:18] Speaker B: What would be. Yeah, what. What's coming in at number 5 there? I guess friends for a lot of people. [00:34:24] Speaker C: WKLP. [00:34:26] Speaker B: I don't know what that is. [00:34:28] Speaker A: Yeah, no, maybe not krp, but Soap, Come on. But I'm surprised they didn't like how we co opted the Office and made it American. [00:34:40] Speaker B: Yeah, right. Yeah. Does that ever go the opposite way? [00:34:43] Speaker A: Co opting Seinfeld and making it British? [00:34:45] Speaker B: Do they ever make. Do they make like chums over instead of Friends? You know, in England I think they [00:34:51] Speaker C: did one called Mates. I mean, to be honest, most of them are so generic. It's like, it's. I remember when they were gonna. Have you ever seen the British one Spaced? Simon Pegg? [00:35:06] Speaker B: No. [00:35:07] Speaker C: It's very innovative, very off the wall. And obviously as soon as it was populous, Fox or whoever is sniffing around in America and he, Simon Pegg was utterly pissed off. He's like, look, it's just a roommate comedy. Yeah, just a comedy about roommates. [00:35:23] Speaker B: Just go make one. [00:35:24] Speaker C: Just make. It doesn't have to be a remake of sp. And I feel like most. [00:35:31] Speaker B: You tell me that King of Queens didn't make it across the pond over there. [00:35:34] Speaker C: Most things don't. You know, things like Seinfeld, they're not. They're so generic. [00:35:40] Speaker B: It's like that. But that's how like the whole sitcom thing happened over here, isn't it? You know, it was just like, hey, you're a good comedian, you can be in a sitcom. They were just looking at the money signs, you know, like we can put 21 minutes of shit on TV and people are going to watch it if it's got the right. If it's at 8 o' clock on a Thursday. [00:35:55] Speaker C: I remember Viz. Viz once ran a competition. I wish I could find it. He said, how American are you? And it like you had to answer A, B and C. And if it said like what's your idea of a funny program? And it was like A, a witty, innovative sketch program, you know, sketch thing. B, something and it's C was option C was a bunch of. A bunch of attractive people exchange lightweight quips around a couch. And that was it. That it's just like that's. [00:36:31] Speaker B: Yeah, that is a lot of them. And it is made to appeal to the masses. You know, it's not. It's not meant to be for. It's just. I mean, I'm not saying it's right. [00:36:39] Speaker C: It's cheap. [00:36:39] Speaker B: It's cheap as well. [00:36:40] Speaker C: It's like, there's the couch. [00:36:42] Speaker B: You're on this room. It's like cheap furniture. You know, it's just like, you know, you go to Ashley Furniture and it's like, here's. Here's. Here's the shit that you can put in your house that will make you. You think looks nice, but you're going to look like every other house. [00:36:53] Speaker C: All right, so. So here's the thing with Seinfeld. Since you're both Seinfeld nuts and I only know a little bit of context, who is the actual genius behind Seinfeld? Seinfeld or Larry? [00:37:06] Speaker B: Larry. [00:37:06] Speaker C: Larry. [00:37:07] Speaker B: Well, no, I think that's tough, though, because you can't. You can't have. You can't put it all on one side or the other. You need the Jerry. But Larry was. I was. If I had to pick one, if I had to say which one is a hair more than the other, I would say Larry David was the driving force behind a lot of the. I mean, I've watched a lot of things where the writers of the episodes talk about where they got ideas for the episodes, and the majority of them were just like, I don't know. I was talking to Larry one day and he told me this thing that he did, you know, so his mannerisms, his way of living life, his point of view is a lot of what Seinfeld is. And. And then. And then like. Like maybe 35 to 40% of it is from Jerry's material, but I'd say like the 70% is Larry David. [00:37:50] Speaker C: Because what I think happened is Larry David is now at the point where Seinfeld gets made. He's too old, right? He's really too old to hold down a starring role. So he. He finds this younger guy and says, well, you know, I can. I can conduit through you. [00:38:08] Speaker B: I can see how you might think that that's not the way it did go. And Larry David was not that old at this time. And keep in mind that he did go on then, after Seinfeld, when he was older, to star in a role on Curb youb Enthusiasm. [00:38:18] Speaker C: Yeah, but this is the 90s. They're looking for attractive Jerry. [00:38:22] Speaker B: I don't know. You think Jerry Seinfeld's attractive? [00:38:24] Speaker C: No, but he's presentable. [00:38:26] Speaker B: Well, there's. Okay, so now we're going from attractive to presentable. [00:38:29] Speaker C: Well, network TV is all about, you know, why do people like Kevin James get work? Because they look like every Midwest schlub there is. [00:38:39] Speaker B: So now we're down to Midwest Slope, [00:38:41] Speaker C: and now people look at it and go, oh, that guy looks like me. [00:38:44] Speaker B: Right. [00:38:44] Speaker C: This must be relatable. Larry David at this point is like an old, straggly looking bugger. I think the network looks him because, well, we can't put him in the box seat because no one's gonna watch it. [00:38:57] Speaker B: Well, he didn't want to be. He didn't want that role. [00:39:00] Speaker A: Yeah, no, no, you're way off. Jerry Seinfeld was a known commodity this time. He was a big name. [00:39:07] Speaker B: It's pronounced comedian. [00:39:09] Speaker A: He was one of the. Yeah, he was. He was in the best known standups out there. Right? [00:39:13] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:39:14] Speaker A: He says he might even be older than Larry Davis. Right. I don't know for sure, but Larry David just looks old. Larry David, Nobody knew who he was. And these guys were like buddies hooked up the idea together. Right? [00:39:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:39:27] Speaker A: They were probably looking for something for. To put Seinfeld in and, you know, they together came up with it. Just like the show. Just like they talked about on the show. One of the first episodes. [00:39:37] Speaker B: Right. Well, that's in the fourth season. [00:39:39] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:39:40] Speaker B: Or the. [00:39:40] Speaker A: Yeah. When they present the idea, it's just like that. [00:39:43] Speaker C: Maybe I have to sit down and watch one of these. [00:39:45] Speaker B: I think so. You should start watching some Seinfeld. [00:39:51] Speaker C: It's probably on the local. Whatever. [00:39:53] Speaker B: WC is on the cw. Yeah. Have you never seen a bus? [00:39:58] Speaker A: It is. [00:39:59] Speaker C: God, how can they still be showing it 30 years later? [00:40:02] Speaker B: I have a channel that plays 247 Seinfeld with no interruptions. And I, I. It's my go to still every day. I've seen every episode a thousand times, and I still watch. I'll watch the same episode over again. [00:40:16] Speaker A: You, My kids, you would be. I'm. I'm surprised. My kids gravitated towards it, and they love it. [00:40:21] Speaker B: You know, it's timeless. [00:40:24] Speaker A: I was like, oh, you got to watch this. This is so funny. They just found it and love it. And one of my kids loves Seinfeld, the other kid loves Kerber. Enthusiasm. They found the one. [00:40:32] Speaker C: You know why they like it? [00:40:37] Speaker A: Why? [00:40:37] Speaker C: Because most sitcom characters, saccharine, sugary, awful, likable. They're trying to make them likable. And this has, from what I understand, unlikable. People in it. [00:40:50] Speaker B: Yeah. It is classically unlikable people. [00:40:53] Speaker A: You might call them misanthrope. [00:40:56] Speaker C: Exactly. [00:40:57] Speaker B: Full circle over here. [00:40:58] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:40:59] Speaker A: What about the same show, Seinfeld? I know you don't know that well, but in England and you reboot it, but with Stuart Lee. [00:41:07] Speaker B: Yeah. How would that work? [00:41:09] Speaker A: Just leave. [00:41:11] Speaker C: Well, I think, and I've had this. I've had this argument a million times. British comedy gravitates more towards unlikable people. So I think Seinfeld wouldn't be that revolutionary because they won't be going, oh, he's basically a good Midwest, hard working guy. That's a bit goofy. Blah, blah. To me, that's tedious. Like the only comedy is in unpleasantness. [00:41:39] Speaker B: No, but that's not, that's not all of Seinfeld though. They are unlikable people. But a lot of it is them commenting, commentating on the world around them and society's cues and what to do in different situations, which I feel like is something that British people enjoy and can appeal to. British people have done the British way. [00:41:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:41:59] Speaker C: Well, no, what I'm saying is it's already being made. They wouldn't remake it because they're like, no, we have all comedy with unpleasant people. [00:42:07] Speaker B: I understand. And what I'm saying is that it's not just unpleasant people. It is unpleasant people. But add on top of that what more of it is. It is talking about what to do in different social situations, you know, and that seems to be. So if you had new material about. Material about that to present to British people, I think that's something that they could get behind. [00:42:26] Speaker A: Did Stuart Lee ever have a sitcom where he was the lead? [00:42:29] Speaker C: Nope. He had a. He had. He was on a show called Fist of Fun, which was him and his comedy partner Stuart Herring sort of doing. Not Stuart Herring, Stuart Lee and Richard Herring doing sort of pop culture y sort of stuff. I've got. I should. Well, if you ever managed to get your TV off the goddamn wall, I could bring you some episodes and you could watch some of his first BBC offering. And then he had Stuart Lee's comedy vehicle, which is just essentially 30 minute stand up sets. [00:43:11] Speaker B: You should have had Rusnick plug in your flash drive while he was over there, but like make it. Make this worth $175 for me, please. [00:43:18] Speaker C: 1 75. $175 for 15 minutes. Easy work. God knows what he's gonna cost to take the TV off the wall. [00:43:28] Speaker B: That's like. That's like four Jack's Pizzas. [00:43:30] Speaker C: Yeah, he's probably gonna have to bring three other guys as well to do it. Oh yeah, that was it as well. Cuz he's bringing, he's got to split it. Yeah, he's bringing in his lackey to just stand there and watch him do it. [00:43:44] Speaker B: He's got to pay him 30 bucks to do it. [00:43:46] Speaker C: Yeah. Holy crap. Yeah, no one. You got fleeced. Two guys driving in from Crystal Lake there and back. Yeah. [00:43:55] Speaker B: Plus you got to pay for lunch along the way. [00:43:57] Speaker C: Yeah, [00:43:59] Speaker B: those Whoppers are not cheap. [00:44:01] Speaker C: I'm starting to side with the guy now, actually. [00:44:03] Speaker B: You got a pretty good deal. [00:44:05] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:44:05] Speaker B: All right, [00:44:08] Speaker A: all right. So we watched this special. Why did you choose this? Other than the fact that you just want to unearth every classic comedian? [00:44:18] Speaker B: Why did I choose this? I think it's just been one of the things on, on the list in the back of my mind for a long time now. And it was finally time to dust off the old Seinfeld hour long special that I watched a hundred times. You know, I, I've had this, I've, I've got sections of this special memorized because when I was taking the bus back and forth in high. Back and forth in high school, I had MP3s of these bits. No, I had. Yeah, I burned them onto a CD and I played them, played them on my Discman. And you know, you only have the 18 tracks, so you'd hear the same thing, you know, all week long. And the whole going to the doctors bit, I've got maybe like 10 minutes of that word for word memorized. Which is kind of interesting because when we were watching, I don't know what copy you watched, but on YouTube, I realized that the, the, the DVD or whatever, the, the, the, the video version of this is different than the audio version. [00:45:15] Speaker C: Yeah, I said the CD's nothing. I mean, it's bits of. But yeah, the version I watched had Russian subtitles. [00:45:22] Speaker B: Oh, really? [00:45:23] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:45:24] Speaker A: What? Yeah, I just watched the YouTube version. What version did you watch? [00:45:29] Speaker C: Something on YouTube. [00:45:33] Speaker A: I think it was also on Netflix too. [00:45:35] Speaker B: Yeah, I can't afford Netflix. [00:45:38] Speaker A: Well, can you think of another comedian who has done something like this where they say, I'm gonna do all my classics for the last time. That's unique, right? Yeah, you know, packaging them all together [00:45:49] Speaker B: put it to rest. Yeah, I mean, he really did just want to walk away, I guess. [00:45:54] Speaker A: Well, no, he still does stand up, but he just wanted to retire all [00:45:57] Speaker B: these right from the material. I mean, that was the whole idea, you know, saying goodbye to the show, saying goodbye to the material starting anew. [00:46:06] Speaker A: Yeah. I think he continued to do the same. Almost the same kind of material, but maybe so. [00:46:11] Speaker B: Did you see the next special that he came out with in. What was it, like, 2020 is during the Pandemic? [00:46:17] Speaker A: I did see it, but I don't remember. [00:46:19] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. I remember. I mean, in my opinion, wasn't worth remembering. I didn't like it. [00:46:23] Speaker C: Is that after he started getting into it with the students and everything, you can't say anything anymore? [00:46:29] Speaker B: Probably. Yeah. He was an angry old man screaming at the ceiling. [00:46:33] Speaker C: Yeah. I never understood. I never understood him getting into that ruckus because it's like you're not. You're not like someone saying contentious things. You're talking about airline food and stuff. Why are you in all these. [00:46:50] Speaker A: Controversial comedian. [00:46:51] Speaker C: Yeah. Why are you arguing with students about what you can and can't say? [00:46:55] Speaker B: He's got a passion for the art. For the art. [00:46:58] Speaker C: But he's not that guy. That's not his hill. [00:47:00] Speaker B: Yeah, but maybe he respects that. You could be. He could be that guy if he chose to. And he doesn't want to limit anybody to not being that guy. [00:47:10] Speaker C: But he was talking about, you can't go to us, like, presumably university gigs were lucrative for him, right? [00:47:18] Speaker B: Sure. [00:47:19] Speaker C: So to me, it sounded like he was like he'd went to some university. And they said, right, can't say this, can't say that, can't say the other. And he's looking at him like, I'm Jerry Seinfeld. Yeah, tell me. [00:47:29] Speaker B: I didn't know that's how it happened. I thought he was teaching a class. Going by the context of what you said, so. So you're saying he's in class. Well, you said students. I'm assuming these are his students that you're talking about. [00:47:38] Speaker C: No, no. I mean, he's gone to a university. [00:47:40] Speaker B: Well, now I know the background. Yes. Makes a big difference. So I don't know. Yeah. I wonder what they told him. He can't say. [00:47:48] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:47:49] Speaker B: Maybe it was the bit about the taxi driver with the boron, the symbol for boron in his name. [00:47:55] Speaker A: That was a good bet. [00:47:57] Speaker B: That was right up in the beginning. [00:47:59] Speaker A: Let me ask you this. Did you laugh during this? You've seen it a hundred times. Did you still laugh? [00:48:06] Speaker B: There was one joke that got me. Because that's. It's. It's not like. It's not one of the. It's not something that he like. It was like an aside, you know, that I think I just got now for the first time in my life, or I at least had, like, a different perspective on, like, now I can appreciate it when I couldn't. I mean, I probably haven't seen this in, you know, 20 years. No, not 20. No. But, yeah, the last time I watched, I showed my uncle when I lived in Buffalo, and that was probably, like, 2006. Ish. So, yeah, probably about 20 years ago. So something that he said caught me different because I had the life experience now to understand it. Other than that, no, I didn't laugh. I did enjoy it, but I didn't laugh. [00:48:42] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Now, how about you, Mark? You've. You've seen Jerry's act. You never saw the show before, but have you seen his act before? [00:48:49] Speaker C: Yeah, I told you, I had this on cd. I listened to the. [00:48:51] Speaker A: All right, you heard the act. Yeah, yeah. Did you laugh during this? [00:48:56] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, I still laugh during this. I mean, this is the. This is the kind of the white album of 90s comedy. [00:49:03] Speaker A: Right. [00:49:03] Speaker C: Like, this is the defining thing. And there's a. There's a thing where he says he's talking about medicine. He goes, I need the maximum. Figure out what's gonna kill me, and then back it off slightly. Yeah, I mean, that's like. That's a defining joke. The one about the cows. Let us in. We're all wearing suede. That's like, you know, I mean, this is. This is a. This special is the acme of 90s comedy. [00:49:32] Speaker B: Obviously, it's funny you say that. Sorry, I feel like I keep cutting you off, Bill, because you're. You're so quiet on the other end there. But it's funny you say that of 90s comedy, which is such a. It's such a statement. Because what that. What that says is that 90s comedy is synonymous with Jerry Seinfeld's comedy. You know, like, he was so big that, you know, imitating to rip him off became almost, like, hacky, you know, no longer were you ripping off Jerry Seinfeld. You were doing a hacky bit, like he created, such as a style. [00:50:06] Speaker C: What's the deal? [00:50:07] Speaker B: I mean, what exactly. Yeah, but you also think, like. Of 90s comedy, like, 80s and 90s comedy, when that's one man, you know, that we're talking about. So to be able to define or to be able to be associated with an entire decade and a half because of your style, I think really points out the. The magnitude of the effect that he had on comedy. [00:50:31] Speaker A: No, he's the archetypical, archetype, 80s comedian with the pushed up sleeves, Matai. I mean, it's. He. Yeah. I don't know if he created that archetype, but he is that archetype. [00:50:45] Speaker B: He popularized it. [00:50:46] Speaker A: Yeah, he definitely did. Okay, I forgot what I was gonna ask you guys next. Okay. [00:50:56] Speaker C: So you know what was funny? Watching it for the first time instead of listening to it. [00:51:00] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:51:01] Speaker C: I always thought he was. He would be a very static. Just stand there and say my joke stuff. And he's. He was super physical in it. I mean, he really uses his face expressions, which was a new thing to me. [00:51:15] Speaker B: He uses the microphone as a shower head. At one point, he moves the. The cat back to the milk that he's bought too much of, the invisible cat. [00:51:26] Speaker A: So does that mean you didn't like him? Mark? [00:51:29] Speaker C: I was kind of flicking off and on. I hate to say it, but I wasn't really watching it that much. Was just. I was doing payroll over in an Excel sheet and flipping occasionally. When I knew something physical had just happened, I would. [00:51:46] Speaker A: I could see. You could call it physical comedy, but it's not physical in the sense that we kind of criticize physical comedy and that. Like, he's, you know, jumping around the stage and, you know, well, his jokes are over. [00:51:59] Speaker C: His jokes are so solid. You don't. You don't think. Always doing it because the only way he's gonna get a laugh. [00:52:05] Speaker B: Right. He's not. Depending on the physicality. [00:52:06] Speaker C: He could have just stood there and said it. [00:52:09] Speaker B: Right. Yeah. The physicality is kind of like a little extra spice on it. You know, if. If you can see his facial expression, it sells it a little bit better, but you don't. It's not required. [00:52:19] Speaker A: It's. To me, it's less physical and it's more pantomime. [00:52:22] Speaker B: Yes. I was just thinking the same thing. Yep. [00:52:24] Speaker A: I agree to go with the bits. So it's not annoyingly physical to me. It's just great. Accompanying pantomime. [00:52:33] Speaker B: Right. Yep. [00:52:35] Speaker A: That I don't think anyone does as well as he does. Okay, well, will we end this? I want to do something because I looked up Jerry Seinfeld's age while we were talking, and, you know, when you Google something like that Jerry Seinfeld age, it will say people also ask. [00:52:55] Speaker B: Yeah, right. [00:52:56] Speaker A: And then below that, it has a bunch of questions. Right. I want to do a little trivia at the end. Well, we do it right now. [00:53:04] Speaker B: Yeah. I'd say let's get to it, because we're about an hour 22 in, and like I said, I don't know how My battery life's gonna hold up, and I think Mark's gotta get out of here too. [00:53:12] Speaker A: So let's age. [00:53:14] Speaker B: I would say 66. 71. 71. All right. [00:53:18] Speaker C: Yeah, I knew that. [00:53:19] Speaker B: Okay. [00:53:20] Speaker A: Is Jerry Seinfeld a billionaire now? [00:53:23] Speaker B: A billionaire? Oh, no. I would say no. [00:53:29] Speaker A: Yes. Oh, is it? No, you're wrong. Jerry Seinfeld is officially a billionaire. [00:53:33] Speaker C: Oh, because of the syndication. [00:53:35] Speaker B: Oh, syndication. Or is it because of the B movie with how well that did. [00:53:40] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't know. Who turned down the role of George Costanza? These are in order. [00:53:45] Speaker B: Who turned down the role of George Costanza? [00:53:49] Speaker A: Hmm. [00:53:50] Speaker B: Who was not very popular, but popular enough at the time? [00:53:56] Speaker A: Danny DeVito. [00:53:57] Speaker B: Danny DeVito? For real? [00:53:58] Speaker C: Is it all short, bald guys? [00:54:01] Speaker A: Yep. [00:54:02] Speaker B: Danny DeVito turned down the role of George Costanza. That's a good one. I like that trivia question. [00:54:08] Speaker C: And it's the most obvious answer. [00:54:10] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Looking back, you know. Yeah. [00:54:13] Speaker A: Who's richer, Larry David or Seinfeld? [00:54:16] Speaker B: Seinfeld. [00:54:18] Speaker A: Yes. [00:54:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:54:19] Speaker A: Which actor threatened to quit Seinfeld? [00:54:23] Speaker B: Michael Richards. [00:54:24] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:54:25] Speaker A: No. [00:54:28] Speaker B: Jason Alexander. Does it say why [00:54:32] Speaker A: I'm not gonna open it? [00:54:33] Speaker C: To go for money. [00:54:37] Speaker B: What year? Did you say what year that was? [00:54:39] Speaker A: After the third season. [00:54:41] Speaker B: After the third season, there's almost no more George. [00:54:43] Speaker A: Or in the third season. [00:54:45] Speaker B: Oh, my God. That show would have been. [00:54:48] Speaker A: Right. [00:54:48] Speaker B: Completely different Animal without George, without Jason Alexander. You had to have Jason Alexander playing George. And if. And if Jason Alexander took off, you couldn't have just another, like, you know, you couldn't do, like the. The Dick Van Clark, Dick Van Dyke thing where all of a sudden it's a different person or. No, I dream of Jeannie. Wasn't it like that her dad or something? Was. It was Dick Clark, right? [00:55:10] Speaker C: No, Roseanne did it. [00:55:11] Speaker A: I Dream Judy. Oh, yeah. Dick Sargent. [00:55:13] Speaker B: And Dick Sargent. Right. Yeah. Anyway, you couldn't just do that with George. Seinfeld may have not existed. [00:55:20] Speaker A: Be kind of funny, though. What is the most. Was considered the best episode of Seinfeld ever. [00:55:27] Speaker B: The contest? [00:55:30] Speaker A: No. Soup Nazi. [00:55:31] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:55:32] Speaker A: Okay. [00:55:32] Speaker B: That is a good one. [00:55:33] Speaker A: And then, like, the farther down in these quiet. The farther down you go. And these people also ask, who is. Who's the richest actor in Hollywood? [00:55:48] Speaker C: Clooney. [00:55:49] Speaker A: Who is the number one richest actor in the world? [00:55:50] Speaker C: Oh, no. Cruise. [00:55:53] Speaker B: You think it's Tom Cruise, number one richest actor? [00:56:00] Speaker A: Arnold Schwarzenegger. 1.49 billion. [00:56:02] Speaker B: All right, good for Arnold. [00:56:04] Speaker A: That's crazy. He doesn't make any movies anymore. [00:56:06] Speaker B: He doesn't need to. [00:56:08] Speaker C: Well, his wealth's not coming from movies, is it? [00:56:11] Speaker A: I guess. [00:56:12] Speaker B: Is it coming from his political career? [00:56:13] Speaker A: You can go on and on. All right, well, any other things you want to highlight about this special? He. I mean, I don't. Mark, you called it the White Album. I wouldn't say that, because this is more of Elton John's greatest hit hits album. Right. It's not a original album. It's a collection of greatest hits over 20 something years in comedy, I would say. Right. So, yeah, I would say it's like [00:56:44] Speaker B: the Beatles greatest hits. [00:56:45] Speaker A: It's like the Beatles greatest. [00:56:46] Speaker C: The red one or the blue? [00:56:48] Speaker B: I was gonna say it's. It's. Yeah. Is it the red one or the blue one? Because they never came out with a combination of the two. They never came out. The yellow one. No, that's. That's. [00:56:56] Speaker A: Yeah, he is. These are classic, incredible bits. He is the great observer of our time. Right. I laughed throughout different points despite having heard these many times. Like you, Christian, I thought, well, I don't know if you think this, but that doctor's chunk with the doctors and the drugstore was the best of his bits. What were your favorite? What was your favorite chunk? Airport security, Halloween, the supermarket. What did you like the best? Dating. [00:57:29] Speaker B: I don't know. I mean, that's like. That's like asking a favorite Beatles song. You know, it depends on what mood you're in. [00:57:38] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:57:39] Speaker C: Would you say that the. The. What became known as the hackiest thing to rehash was the differences between men and women? And he really just says, all right, this is the defining men versus women bit. [00:57:53] Speaker B: Oh, that one where he says, do you want to know what I'm thinking? You know, you want to know what guys are thinking? [00:57:57] Speaker A: Men are thinking nothing. Yeah, nothing. They're not thinking anything. My favorite chunk was the doctor and drugstore chunk. Those jokes that you guys kind of mentioned. But my favorite bit in all this was when he says, honking at women is the most ridiculous thing. What is she supposed to do, kick off her heels right after the car? [00:58:20] Speaker B: I had no idea how you felt. [00:58:23] Speaker A: It's so good. [00:58:24] Speaker C: No. [00:58:25] Speaker A: Then, yeah. [00:58:26] Speaker C: I mean, you just keep going on and on about, you know, there's the. Taking a car to the moon. [00:58:31] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:58:32] Speaker C: We've already come so far. Now we got to get in a car. [00:58:35] Speaker A: Yeah, Right. [00:58:36] Speaker B: What's the point of bringing a car if you're not gonna go on a date? [00:58:39] Speaker C: Which I like about that bit is everything else. He's hitting stuff that everyone's gotta take, but that's like straight out of nowhere, no one thought of that. [00:58:50] Speaker B: Right. [00:58:50] Speaker C: Until this, until this time, as I [00:58:55] Speaker A: was listening, you know, like, especially in the first half of it all, he's not all he's doing that's minimizing it, but what he's doing, I mean, he's an observer, but he's just describing what we do every day. That's just like he takes all the things that we do and he just describes them and he does work in the joke here and there. But like, if you were to just do that as a comedian, just think about, you know, describe making breakfast. Right in there somewhere is comedy. There's comedy in everything. Right. If you just kind of get granular and describe it and then, you know, in the minutia you'll find. [00:59:34] Speaker B: Which is maybe why he spawned so many comedians, you know, so many people. Like, you know what? I can find comedy in anything. [00:59:40] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:59:40] Speaker B: What about, why do they call it a number two pencil? You know? [00:59:44] Speaker A: Right, right, Yes. I mean, he's, he's on the Mount Rushmore of stand up comedy in America for sure. [00:59:52] Speaker B: I'd say so. Yeah. [00:59:55] Speaker C: Would you say observational comedy is still the dominating one or. Because I get pissed off about how much identity stuff is up there, Whereas before, I think that's taken over from observational. [01:00:08] Speaker A: Now. [01:00:08] Speaker B: What do you mean by identity? [01:00:09] Speaker A: I agree with you. Yes. [01:00:11] Speaker C: I'm this, I'm that, I'm the other, and I'm going to talk about my identity. [01:00:15] Speaker B: Oh, that's definitely the. I mean, that's, that's, that's hot and trendy right now. [01:00:20] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:00:20] Speaker B: But I think you have to give it a little while to see if it's going to stand the test of time. [01:00:24] Speaker C: Well, no, I'm saying it's nudged observation out of the way. [01:00:28] Speaker B: Yes. At the moment. Yes. I can agree. [01:00:32] Speaker A: I would say yes. But I would say, like we watched Whitney Cummings. Hers is observational, but it's thematically observational and it's very specific. It's not every person observational. It's, you know what I mean? It drills down into one subject or one theme. [01:00:53] Speaker B: Yeah, there's a difference. [01:00:54] Speaker A: Finds the minutiae and all that, but it's not like, like this material connects with, well, maybe not everybody, but the average person, it doesn't. [01:01:05] Speaker B: It paints a broad brush to human experience. Yeah. [01:01:10] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:01:11] Speaker B: All right, we're at an hour and a half. Let's say we're gonna do our voting. [01:01:18] Speaker A: Let's vote. I'm excited because I get to pick today. [01:01:22] Speaker B: Yeah. I'll go first. I will give this. Out of four mulligatawnies. [01:01:32] Speaker A: Out of who? [01:01:33] Speaker B: Four mulligatawnies. It's. It's one of the soups featured in the soup Nazi episode. [01:01:38] Speaker C: Really? You know what, Mulligata? I. I love mulligatawny soup, so maybe I'll watch that episode. [01:01:43] Speaker B: All right. Yeah, let's start with the first one. Why not? [01:01:45] Speaker C: Curried soup. [01:01:46] Speaker B: Yeah. Yep. I. I mean, Seinfeld's my favorite all time. This. This special was something that obviously I've listened to him countless times in my life, and I have a very dear place for. In my comedic heart. I will give it four out of four Mulligatawnis. [01:02:07] Speaker A: Okay. Mark. [01:02:11] Speaker C: Yeah. It's hard to pick a fault in it, so I guess it is a four out of four. [01:02:15] Speaker B: Ooh. [01:02:20] Speaker A: Okay. Four out of four. We're going on a four point scale. [01:02:24] Speaker B: Yes. [01:02:25] Speaker A: One of my favorite jokes in here, like, the thing that also made me laugh so much, he went back to it a couple times when he's describing the human body as, you know, like the mouth and then the tube in the circle. [01:02:37] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:02:40] Speaker A: I don't know what molo gatami soup is, so I'm not comfortable using. I'm gonna give it three tubes in one circle. I'm not giving it my highest out of five because it's greatest hits. It's. I love Seinfeld. I think he's the best. I love the show. He's the greatest observational comic to ever live. But this special is. It's just, you know. You know, it's greatest hits, and it's great, but I like to see something created. [01:03:12] Speaker B: You like a B side. [01:03:13] Speaker A: Very St. Dale. This. Yeah, I like B side. And this. I was with it like it was a. You know, like it was new until about, like, 40 minutes in when he switches from the dating chunk to when he says, you know what I like about Chinese people? And then. Then from that point on the last 20 minutes, he's just throwing in bits that, you know, are just, you know, they're not connected. He's not doing a set anymore. [01:03:41] Speaker B: Right. [01:03:42] Speaker A: Doing jokes. [01:03:43] Speaker B: Good point. [01:03:43] Speaker A: Right. It's a way to get in the hits. So for me, it's whatever, three out of four. [01:03:51] Speaker C: So you're letting. You let him. Mulaney still shade him out. [01:03:55] Speaker A: Yeah. Because if. If I hadn't, then he would have taken this. Would have taken over. Yeah. No. [01:04:00] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:04:01] Speaker A: No. Mulaney reigns supreme. [01:04:04] Speaker B: There we have it. [01:04:06] Speaker C: All right. [01:04:06] Speaker A: And then next week, because I've been. I've been accused of misogyny and being insensitive towards or just being a white bigot. We'll just say that. A white male bigot. We're going to watch a comedian who I've had recommended to me a few times, most notably by the wife of begain construction. Allison began. Who said, you've got to watch this comedian. She is hilarious. She's right up your alley. She's filthy. And incidentally, the wife of Begain construction is the one who has Covid. That has kept me at home today. I don't know if she wants me announcing that, but she's got Covid right now. And this comedian we're going to see next week is Steph Tolev. [01:05:04] Speaker B: What is it? [01:05:04] Speaker A: In her 2025 special, Filth Queen. I've heard of apparently very filthy. You've heard of Steph Tolev? [01:05:10] Speaker C: Heard of her. [01:05:12] Speaker A: She is a female. She is current. She is filthy. And to check one more box. She's a foreigner. She's from Canada. So there you go. [01:05:24] Speaker B: Does that count as a foreigner? [01:05:26] Speaker C: Yeah, it's not. [01:05:26] Speaker B: That's not foreign enough. [01:05:28] Speaker C: Sure it is not foreign. [01:05:31] Speaker A: Maybe not foreign enough for you. [01:05:33] Speaker C: We should. I mean, it won't be next week because your boy here is in. [01:05:39] Speaker B: I'll be a foreigner. [01:05:40] Speaker C: But the following week, we really got to get into the stats. I rustled up a spreadsheet. [01:05:47] Speaker B: All right. [01:05:47] Speaker C: And quite alarming news coming out of our spreadsheet. [01:05:52] Speaker B: I don't know if I'm excited or nervous, so. [01:05:55] Speaker C: But we ain't got time for it today. [01:05:58] Speaker A: Oh, boy. What a cliffhanger that is. [01:06:00] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:06:01] Speaker A: We'll wait our fate in two weeks. Unless Christian can call in from. [01:06:05] Speaker B: Well, we do have. We do have one in the. We. We've got a backup in the bag. Right. So we will still have an episode next week when. If you're listening to this, there is an episode coming out next week, but we won't be together next week. [01:06:16] Speaker A: Yes. All right. Well, happy trails. [01:06:19] Speaker B: Thank you very much. [01:06:20] Speaker A: Safe. Don't take too many pills. I won't. [01:06:23] Speaker B: I. I'll. I'll do the pill identifier.com first on them. [01:06:27] Speaker A: Good idea. Good idea. All right. I miss you guys. Gong me. I want to hear the gong. It doesn't sound the same on the phone. [01:06:45] Speaker B: Lord. [01:06:52] Speaker A: As honest one.