Review: Live In Concert (1979), Richard Pryor

[00:00:08] Speaker A: Yeah. Then it means get your goat. That goat. What the. Does that sense? Does that make goat. [00:00:14] Speaker B: What sense? Does that make your goat? [00:00:16] Speaker A: I'm gonna get your goat. [00:00:20] Speaker B: So, anyway, bird in the hand is with two in the bush. [00:00:22] Speaker C: Yep. [00:00:23] Speaker A: You want to see if I'm actually right? See, I'm gonna say they lost three to the. Yeah, I'll just say they lost three to the. [00:00:29] Speaker B: Who are they playing? [00:00:31] Speaker A: Athletics. [00:00:32] Speaker B: Athletics. [00:00:35] Speaker A: They won the last seven innings. They didn't get a hit. [00:00:37] Speaker C: I thought. I thought athletics. [00:00:39] Speaker A: They did get hit in the last nine. [00:00:41] Speaker C: I thought athletics was over. [00:00:44] Speaker A: No, they're in limbo, right? Well, not in limbo, but they're in purgatory. They're in between homes. [00:00:50] Speaker B: Are they going to Las Vegas, too? [00:00:51] Speaker A: Yeah, but they've been booted from Oakland. [00:00:55] Speaker B: So Las Vegas now has a hockey team, a football team, baseball team. Is that it? [00:01:00] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm surprised. Basketball? Not yet, but that'll be coming for sure. That's a great Vegas sport. Basketball. [00:01:07] Speaker C: Who the hell is going to hockey? [00:01:08] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:01:09] Speaker C: Who's going to watch these sports in Vegas? Right. [00:01:11] Speaker B: Well, people that are there, for instance, [00:01:13] Speaker A: going to see Siegfried and Roy. You go see the. The Los Angeles or the Las Vegas Spinners. [00:01:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:01:20] Speaker A: I don't know what they'll call. [00:01:20] Speaker B: There's a. The Las Vegas Golden Knights are in the Stanley cup championship again. [00:01:24] Speaker A: They won it a couple years ago. [00:01:26] Speaker B: Yeah, they did. And they're playing the Carolina Hurricanes. They what? The record right now, it's two and two. Two games to two games. And there was a streaker at the game yesterday. Went out on the ice. Yeah. Wow. [00:01:37] Speaker A: I missed that. I fell asleep. [00:01:39] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:01:40] Speaker C: I hate to have been the person that had to boost them over the. Over the. [00:01:44] Speaker B: Boost them over the glass. Yeah. Right. Here's a streaker. Yeah. [00:01:49] Speaker A: Get your nut bag caught on the top of that glass, like going over the top. [00:01:53] Speaker C: We feel like Ms. Pat. [00:01:55] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:01:55] Speaker C: Ms. Pat getting hit in the face with her. Now, did she say her uncle was uncircumcised? [00:02:05] Speaker B: Yes. [00:02:05] Speaker C: Part of it. [00:02:06] Speaker A: Right. Yeah, I thought that, too. Yeah. Whenever I think of circumcised, I think of. [00:02:13] Speaker B: Whenever I think of Cecil, I think of British Cecil. [00:02:16] Speaker A: What would they say in England? They would say Cecil. There would be no Cecil. [00:02:20] Speaker B: You. [00:02:20] Speaker C: What do you say, Cecil B. DeMille or Cecil B. DeMille. [00:02:24] Speaker A: Cecil. [00:02:25] Speaker C: No, you don't. You're lying. [00:02:26] Speaker A: Well, I don't say Cecil B. DeMilla in Everyday Conversation. [00:02:30] Speaker C: You're a film. Not. [00:02:31] Speaker A: I know, but never does. His name. [00:02:33] Speaker C: You probably mentioned him this morning to one of Your youths? [00:02:36] Speaker A: Yeah. No, I'm not that erudite. [00:02:42] Speaker B: These pistachios are amazing. [00:02:43] Speaker A: Weren't they amazing? [00:02:45] Speaker B: So good I could eat them fast enough. [00:02:46] Speaker C: Is it Cecil Fielder or Cecil Fielder you hear? [00:02:51] Speaker A: Both. What do you mean? [00:02:54] Speaker C: Nailed. [00:02:55] Speaker A: No, take that. It's Cecil Fielder. To me it is. There's another Cecil for. [00:03:02] Speaker B: Who are these Cecils? [00:03:03] Speaker A: Y speakers. Cooper. Cecil Cooper. Same spelling from the brewers from the [00:03:07] Speaker C: 80s who always used to take the piss out of Cecil Field. Was it Letterman? Someone had like. Because he's a big lad. [00:03:14] Speaker A: Hold on. My daughter's calling, you wanna. Can you put this through? [00:03:18] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, I can plug it in. [00:03:20] Speaker A: We'll put her on. Hold on. I'm just gonna tell her. [00:03:23] Speaker B: Hey. [00:03:26] Speaker C: Hung up. He's too slow. [00:03:30] Speaker A: Let's call her. Just call her. Her back. She'll answer. Probably. [00:03:33] Speaker B: Then you got to put it on speaker because. [00:03:35] Speaker A: Oh, just put on. [00:03:36] Speaker B: Last time. [00:03:36] Speaker A: You can't just plug in. [00:03:38] Speaker B: The sound doesn't go back to the phone. I found out last time that Emma couldn't hear us. [00:03:42] Speaker A: Oh. So, okay. You want me to put on our speaker? [00:03:47] Speaker C: Oh, is that why that guy just kept talking and we just. [00:03:53] Speaker A: So what's the point of that? What are you waiting for over that? Hey, hon, you're on the air. In the podcast. Just want to let you know so you don't say, like, something really bad. What time? Yeah, that should be all right. All right, thank you. All right, bye. I don't want to dress it up. I just want to play like it always does, you know, That's. That's just a slice of life right there. [00:04:31] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:04:33] Speaker B: So who are these Cecils? [00:04:37] Speaker A: I think you have the options, like tomato or tomato. You can say Cecil or Cecil. Right? There's no right or wrong on tomato or tomato. We sit here and argue about it all day. [00:04:47] Speaker C: Let's call the whole thing off. [00:04:51] Speaker A: I'd have to check the spelling on Cecil. Yeah. [00:04:54] Speaker C: C, E, C, I, O. Yeah, yeah, [00:04:56] Speaker A: they're all the same. Tomato. Tomato. All right, move on. [00:05:00] Speaker B: Socile. [00:05:02] Speaker A: No, Cecil. [00:05:04] Speaker B: Chuck. [00:05:05] Speaker C: Cecil. [00:05:08] Speaker A: Was he a MMA guy? Chuck. Cecil. [00:05:10] Speaker B: Oh, I don't know the Chuck. [00:05:13] Speaker A: There's a Chuck. Cecil. I don't know. Have to look that up. [00:05:18] Speaker C: Second, Cecil Parkinson, disgraced British politician. [00:05:22] Speaker A: Don't know. [00:05:23] Speaker B: How's your new pet snake? [00:05:25] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. You went to the pet store last week. [00:05:27] Speaker C: Yeah, he died. [00:05:30] Speaker B: Oh, no. [00:05:30] Speaker C: What happened on the way home? [00:05:32] Speaker B: Well, did he catch the mice that you were buying him for? Remember there was mice in the apartment or the house and that's why you Needed the snake. [00:05:40] Speaker C: No. [00:05:41] Speaker B: Oh, [00:05:43] Speaker A: so this is why I couldn't do improv. I can't do it. [00:05:47] Speaker C: I can't. Yes. And that. Because I've got cats. [00:05:49] Speaker B: Oh, and they would catch the mice. [00:05:51] Speaker C: Dedicated podcast fan base. [00:05:53] Speaker B: That's why this snake died, because it starved to death. The cast had already caught the mice. [00:05:58] Speaker A: I can't do it. [00:05:59] Speaker C: See, like, how about them? [00:06:01] Speaker A: I did one. [00:06:02] Speaker C: How about them? Cubs? [00:06:04] Speaker A: Yeah, how about them? Well, what a streak they've been on. [00:06:07] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, that's right. That's what we're talking. [00:06:08] Speaker A: Doing. Doing. Unbelievably. [00:06:11] Speaker B: Are they really. Are they terrible, though? The White Sox are good now. [00:06:16] Speaker C: They were terrible a week ago, but since then, fire again. [00:06:21] Speaker B: Oh. [00:06:22] Speaker A: Oh. [00:06:23] Speaker B: Is that what's happened in this past week? [00:06:25] Speaker A: Finally, after that Hayes series, they turned it around against the Giants. The Giants came in, we ran them off the field. Finally. Now they're back. Guys are getting healthy. Got Boyd back now, and Edward Edwin Cabrera is coming. Is now back. And so, yeah, they're finally turned around. Should be. Should be a good run here. [00:06:45] Speaker C: Well, they ought to beat the Giants. I mean, they're Giants. They're an American football team. They don't know the rules. [00:06:52] Speaker A: Come on. [00:06:52] Speaker C: Cubs is going to beat them. [00:06:54] Speaker A: Come on. I see. This is why I can't do this kind of comedy. It's like Laurel and Hardy shit. I can't do it. Can't I. It's too hard to go with your ideas. I don't. I'm a lone wolf here. I can't act with you. [00:07:11] Speaker B: But the Sox are good again, right? [00:07:13] Speaker A: Yeah, they've been good. They're fun. They were young. [00:07:15] Speaker B: I've been to two Sox games already this season. [00:07:18] Speaker A: Really? [00:07:19] Speaker B: Yeah. I had a dynamite. I didn't expect this. A dynamite turkey club sandwich. At the Sox game, I was with my buddy Alberto, and we'll do a thing a lot of times where if we're both buying a sandwich at a place, we kind of agree ahead of time, which two are the top two options of sandwiches? One gets one sandwich, one gets sandwich B. And then you swap halves. You know, have two kinds of. So I had gotten the corned beef. I got that. What do you call it? I think it was just a corned beef sandwich. [00:07:47] Speaker A: At the Socks. [00:07:47] Speaker B: Yeah, they've got Manny's. The 100 level. They do have a Manny's, but that's on the 200 level. And you need a 200 level ticket to get in. They will not. I have begged the person. Just let me go get A sandwich. I'll be right back. You can. I'll leave my shoes. [00:07:58] Speaker A: That's the same if you're up top there too, right. You can't go down to the concourse. [00:08:02] Speaker B: You can. That's the thing. If you're in the 300, you can go the 100. So that's the trick right there. That's what you do. I realized two times ago, you buy a super cheap $10 ticket for like up in the 300 level, then you go down to the 100 where all the really good posh concessions are. Yeah. And there's this, like this little standing area where you can. They got a little ledge where you can put your sandwich, you can put your beer, whatever you got. You know, you're all. And you. You're just watching the game. And sure, you have to stand, but I mean, who cares? You know, you're right there in the action. So that's what you do. You buy the cheap ticket up top, and then you just go stand in the little area in the bottom and have a good concession. So anyway, I got in the corned beef sandwich, and Alberto had gotten the turkey club. [00:08:43] Speaker A: What the hell are they selling sandwiches at a ball game? [00:08:45] Speaker B: Yeah, I know. And it was like. It was legitimate, too. Like the nice soft bread, the crispy lettuce. It had avocado and bacon on it. It had some kick to it too, whatever spices they used. [00:08:56] Speaker C: Isn't it? Because though I thought, Reinsdorf, who's the socks owner? Is it still Reinsdorf? [00:09:02] Speaker B: I don't know. Yes, everyone hates him, but I don't [00:09:03] Speaker A: know who he is. [00:09:04] Speaker C: Still, Reinsdorf was a food guy. [00:09:07] Speaker B: Must be, because they've always had great concessions. No matter how the socks are doing, you know, you're in for a good time, culinary wise. [00:09:12] Speaker A: So much better than Wrigley. [00:09:14] Speaker B: Oh, definitely. [00:09:14] Speaker A: Food at Wrigley blows. [00:09:16] Speaker B: I saw it blows. [00:09:18] Speaker C: That's why you need to smuggle in your own hot dogs. [00:09:21] Speaker A: We're gonna do it. [00:09:22] Speaker B: Let's. [00:09:22] Speaker A: Let's get that on the. [00:09:23] Speaker B: Please do the thermos thing. [00:09:25] Speaker C: You've been wanking on about it. [00:09:26] Speaker B: I really want to know how this goes. [00:09:28] Speaker A: I gotta find the right thermos, though. [00:09:30] Speaker B: A hot dog. [00:09:31] Speaker A: I'm gonna get you out today. I'm gonna go next door to the Thrift and see what I can find over there. [00:09:35] Speaker C: I wonder if there's such a thing, because Hammer, Cash, Lemma went bust White. Someone must have made us. Someone must have made a see through thermos flask. They must have done, right? Why not why make a see through phone. [00:09:51] Speaker A: So you want to see through thermos so you can see the hot dogs. [00:09:53] Speaker C: Yeah. Then if they go, you ain't bringing that. And you've got, you know, hooch in there. You just hold them up. It's just hot dogs. [00:10:02] Speaker B: They're gonna say, why do you have hot dogs in your hooch? [00:10:05] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:10:07] Speaker A: I don't think they'd. I don't think they'd stop us, but even if they did, I think they'd just look in there, see those hot dogs floating around. They assume you're not. It's not vodka. You're soaking them in so you can drink that afterwards. [00:10:17] Speaker B: Hot dog infused vodka. Yeah. [00:10:19] Speaker C: Or it'd be funny. [00:10:20] Speaker B: Good for Bloody Marys. [00:10:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:10:21] Speaker C: Like, you can't come in and just eat them now. Like you do, like with a wall. Just standing at the gates of Wrigley, [00:10:29] Speaker A: shoving, then throwing the thermos in the bush. [00:10:33] Speaker C: Yeah. Flip off the old scrote at the door and then walk in the stadium. [00:10:38] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:10:39] Speaker C: Oh, dear. [00:10:41] Speaker A: I. I mean, they gotta be. Listen, I appreciate the. The leniency or the. The casualness about me bringing in my food and everything there, but listen to. They got to take a look at what people are bringing in, I think. [00:10:55] Speaker B: Yeah. Right. [00:10:56] Speaker A: If it's that easy. [00:10:59] Speaker C: One time I was there and Jesus Christ in the bleachers. God knows why, but. And the bleachers was empty. It was like a million degrees, baking hot sun. So it was empty. And I saw this one of the ushers, young lad, kick these, like, Lincoln Park Trixies out. He busted them with. With miniatures, like airplane. [00:11:22] Speaker A: Airplane bottles or the pink Whitneys And I'm like, how. [00:11:26] Speaker C: Yeah, that's. What's the name of the gang? [00:11:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:11:29] Speaker C: And I'm like, I can't believe the ushers are even looking at that. [00:11:35] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't. I mean, how they get. Well, they just saw them drinking it. [00:11:39] Speaker C: Yeah, obviously. Someone's obviously seen them sneak in it, whatever. But I can't believe they'd even be to give a. At that point. [00:11:47] Speaker B: You know, there's somebody that really cares about their job and somebody that's been there long enough. They're like, I don't give a. I've seen worse. [00:11:53] Speaker C: This is a young lad, though. [00:11:54] Speaker B: I mean, right, That's. That's one. He's trying to make his mark, you know, he's trying to. [00:11:58] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:11:58] Speaker B: Show like, hey, I can. I care about this. I'm gonna kick people off. [00:12:02] Speaker C: This should be an amnesty. Once you've made it into the stadium with it. [00:12:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:12:06] Speaker C: Fair game at that point. [00:12:08] Speaker A: Then you're free. [00:12:09] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:12:09] Speaker A: To use it. Yeah, as you want. [00:12:11] Speaker C: I love that story. Did we do it on here already? About. It's a Blackout Diaries story about these two girls that were going to Lollapalooza and they figured out they could bury a bottle. [00:12:25] Speaker A: Yeah, we talked about that. Yeah, we did. I loved the week before. [00:12:29] Speaker C: Yeah. That's genius. [00:12:31] Speaker B: Wait a second. I was just talking about this recently. How does the story end? Because I wonder if this slipped into my subconscious, because I used to talk about doing this with my buddy before Riot Fest. Every year we would talk about. Let's. Why don't we just show up super early, dig a big hole in the ground, hide all of our liquor bottles, whatever else we want there. And the only reason we never did it is because we assume that if we had done that, we'd show up the day of Riot Fest and they'd have put the porta potties on top of the hole. [00:12:57] Speaker C: I think these gals bought. You can have to ask Flannery, because he probably knows who they were. Successful, though, they did the bury. I think they just never dug it up. [00:13:07] Speaker B: Oh, well, then. [00:13:08] Speaker C: Because they didn't. The opportunity didn't present. Too much foot traffic. [00:13:13] Speaker B: Yeah. I always just assumed that there's gonna be a Ferris wheel sitting on top of wherever I buried everything. [00:13:18] Speaker A: Just had a horrible thought, like, somebody could do that with a gun. [00:13:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:13:22] Speaker A: You know, why are you putting this out there and giving people these kind of ideas? [00:13:27] Speaker B: You just did. [00:13:28] Speaker A: You said, the gun. You did you open it up with the liquor in the ground. [00:13:33] Speaker B: Yeah. It's your fault. [00:13:35] Speaker A: Horrible. [00:13:36] Speaker C: What about you could. [00:13:39] Speaker A: Do you remember? [00:13:41] Speaker C: Do you remember in not. Not in the Line of Fire. Yeah. In the Line of Fire. [00:13:45] Speaker A: Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich. [00:13:47] Speaker C: How does Malkovich smuggle the gun? That's like. [00:13:49] Speaker A: It's like, made of, like. It's made out of, like, wood parts, isn't it, or something. Classic parts. He assembles it. [00:13:55] Speaker C: Yeah. Oh, and the bullet was just his. His keychain or something? [00:14:00] Speaker A: Yeah, it was a weird bullet. [00:14:01] Speaker C: So it didn't go through the. Oh, it didn't go through the metal detector because it was like a rabbit's for key ring or something. So that's how he smoked the bullet in. [00:14:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:14:13] Speaker C: That. John Malkovich is a smart guy. That was a great film. [00:14:17] Speaker B: What's it called? [00:14:18] Speaker A: In the Line of Fire. Clint Eastwood directed. [00:14:21] Speaker C: Rene Russo, Smoking Hot. [00:14:24] Speaker A: You know, I never understood the appeal with a Rene Russo and never found and this, I'm not bad about it. I just. [00:14:31] Speaker C: You like old abroads. [00:14:32] Speaker A: I do. I always have. I'm married to one, so. [00:14:36] Speaker C: Rene Russo is primo to me. [00:14:40] Speaker A: No, I. I don't find her. And it's. I'm not saying she's an unattractive woman. I'm just. I don't. There's no attraction there whatsoever. None at all. And I have trouble seeing what other people see in Rene Russo. But you seem to be very hot and bothered over here. Maybe it reminds you of some kind of sex story you'd like to tell. [00:14:59] Speaker B: She was in major league. [00:15:01] Speaker A: Yep. 10 cups. [00:15:03] Speaker C: What about Ellen Barkin? [00:15:05] Speaker A: Now, Ellen Barkin's a different. A different situation. [00:15:11] Speaker C: Yeah. You've bought. You've boxed. [00:15:13] Speaker A: I don't know that I've boxed anything done around. No, I don't think I've gone any rounds with Ms. Ellen Barkin. [00:15:22] Speaker C: Ellen Barkin in DOA? Oof. [00:15:25] Speaker A: Yeah. Andy Garcia. Is that the DOA? [00:15:27] Speaker C: No, it's one of the quades. [00:15:29] Speaker A: How about Ellen Barkin Sea of Love with Al Pacino? [00:15:32] Speaker C: I'm sure you've didn't see that. I think I only ever saw Ellen Barkin in one movie, funnily enough, [00:15:40] Speaker A: and that's the one. Do you know why I would think you would have then chased down all her other sex films? [00:15:45] Speaker C: Nah. [00:15:47] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:15:47] Speaker C: Is she always at it like knives? [00:15:49] Speaker A: She's a. Yeah, she's a femme fatale. I feel like in many, many a film. Yeah. Still working today. Still doing well for me, it seems like my Ellen Barkin. Right. This is clearly. You have an Ellen Barkin thing or Renee Russo or many women you seem to drool over. Mine would be the lovely Beverly d' Angelo from Vacation. She's a very. [00:16:16] Speaker C: She's got a very big face. A lot of face. [00:16:20] Speaker A: It's just. It's something about. I don't know. Yeah. Like my wife, she has a very sexy sexual appeal for me. I don't know. I don't want to go into specifics, but I bet. [00:16:31] Speaker C: I bet you got a real stonko when she stripped off in the European. Was it European when he films her in the shower? [00:16:40] Speaker A: You know what? I think it is really for me, and it's probably for all of us. Like when we saw something. I was probably 10 or 11 and just sexually awakening when I saw Vacation and saw her naked in the shower. [00:16:50] Speaker B: And that's it. [00:16:51] Speaker A: Forever, you know, Then that stays with you forever. And she's. [00:16:54] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:16:55] Speaker B: Has Begain construction given us any. [00:16:58] Speaker A: Well, I know he's Sally. I haven't heard, but. I haven't heard. [00:17:01] Speaker B: But over the course of this past [00:17:02] Speaker A: tracking the sex stories. I'm trying to work them in naturally to our conversation. [00:17:05] Speaker B: Has he brought it up over the course of this past week, since last week when you brought up two sec. Two individual sex stories. [00:17:13] Speaker A: He, he, he did not. [00:17:15] Speaker B: He's not paying off, huh? [00:17:17] Speaker A: He didn't pay anything out and he. But he did not say. [00:17:19] Speaker B: Maybe it was that you only did one. I miss, remember? [00:17:21] Speaker A: He didn't comment. You know, no news is good news from that end. [00:17:26] Speaker B: If you want something. [00:17:27] Speaker A: If he's getting his sex stories, then he's. He'll stay quiet. [00:17:31] Speaker B: Well, we want him to be vocal with his. His givings. [00:17:37] Speaker C: Oh, he should have done. [00:17:38] Speaker B: Oh, I'm getting a caller. Hello, caller, you're on the air. Oh, wait. [00:17:47] Speaker D: Batting. [00:17:48] Speaker B: Okay, can you hear me? [00:17:50] Speaker A: What's going on? [00:17:50] Speaker B: You're reporting live from the floor here where a baby is batting. [00:17:54] Speaker D: Batting at wooden toys. [00:17:57] Speaker B: Batting at wooden toys. [00:17:59] Speaker A: Is this the fellow with the Saab automobile? Sounds like the father. [00:18:06] Speaker C: Live from the 18th century. [00:18:08] Speaker B: Yeah. Are these wooden toys from the 18th century? [00:18:11] Speaker D: They're from. Yeah, they're actually from the. The 18th century. They're antiques. And she's just beating the Christ out of them because babies, they got no respect. [00:18:23] Speaker A: I'm just. I love the sound quality on this doll. You can hear him crystal clear. [00:18:27] Speaker B: Yeah, well, that's because he's speaker sounds. I had to have you on speaker. See, no, he's gonna cry any second. [00:18:34] Speaker A: No, that's terrible. [00:18:35] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:18:37] Speaker D: Every time I call into this show, this kid gets pissed off. [00:18:40] Speaker B: What is it about you calling the show that makes the kid upset? [00:18:43] Speaker D: Probably because she's like, I hate these bits. My dad does. [00:18:46] Speaker B: Well, is the purpose of your call today to do bits about babies batting toys? [00:18:53] Speaker D: My purpose of my call today is. Is to ask you guys what you think about the current basketball finals. Oh, I don't know anything about basketball, but I just want to know what you guys think. [00:19:05] Speaker B: Bill, you seem like a basketball guy. [00:19:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:19:07] Speaker D: Oh, yeah, I'm Basketball Jones. [00:19:09] Speaker B: No, not you. This other. This guy Bill here. [00:19:11] Speaker A: Is his name Bill? [00:19:12] Speaker B: No. What's your name? Is it Bill? Yeah. [00:19:16] Speaker D: Oh, it's Basketball Jones. [00:19:17] Speaker B: Basketball Jones. Oh, okay. Yeah. So Bill's a big basketball guy. Well, he loves basketball. [00:19:24] Speaker A: Sorry. [00:19:24] Speaker B: Go ahead, Bill. [00:19:25] Speaker A: Watching the finals. Went out on Friday night to watch him with the boys. From my. You know, I play basketball in the morning Even though I'm 50 years old, still able to play the Game of basketball at some level. [00:19:39] Speaker B: Okay. [00:19:40] Speaker A: And it was without with those guys when we watched the game the other night, and I thought the Knicks looked great. It was a big win for them. [00:19:46] Speaker B: Oh, yes, that's right. The Knicks are in this one. And that's a big story, isn't it? [00:19:51] Speaker D: Do you think they can beat the old. [00:19:56] Speaker A: It's gonna go seven for sure. And I think the spurs win in seven. Who's got home court? [00:20:02] Speaker B: Who's got home court? [00:20:06] Speaker D: You know, I think home court's a state of mind. [00:20:09] Speaker B: I thought. I thought Basketball Jones would know the answer to a question like that. [00:20:12] Speaker A: I think it's the Spurs. [00:20:13] Speaker D: I think, you know, my parents were hippies. [00:20:16] Speaker A: It is according to Billy Joel. [00:20:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:20:20] Speaker A: All right. [00:20:20] Speaker B: Well, there you have it. There's the answer prediction. Yep. [00:20:24] Speaker A: Spurs and seven. Nick's looking good, though. [00:20:28] Speaker D: Spurs and seven. [00:20:29] Speaker A: Spurs and seven. [00:20:31] Speaker B: Caller, what are you driving nowadays? [00:20:33] Speaker D: What am I driving? [00:20:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:20:35] Speaker D: I drive a 1990 Saab 900. [00:20:39] Speaker B: Oh, boy. [00:20:40] Speaker D: It's got a rust hole in the floor. [00:20:43] Speaker A: Oh, you can drop your Texas catheter through that hole. [00:20:45] Speaker B: You can drop your Texas catheter through the hole. Are you familiar with what this is? We talked about it last week. Are you a regular listener? [00:20:52] Speaker C: You know what? [00:20:53] Speaker D: I can't say that I am. [00:20:54] Speaker C: Do you. Do you. Do you drive it like Fred Flintstone with your feet through their hole, just punting it alongside? [00:21:05] Speaker D: Yeah, It's a hybrid. [00:21:06] Speaker A: Now, a car like that doesn't need to go through admissions exp inspection either. [00:21:12] Speaker D: Somehow it doesn't. But, you know, if you look at the rules. Should I. I think it should. [00:21:17] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:21:18] Speaker A: Things shouldn't be on the road, but. [00:21:20] Speaker D: But they never asked me to do it, so I just never do it. [00:21:23] Speaker A: Yeah. It doesn't make sense, teacher, when the homework's too. [00:21:27] Speaker D: I'm not going to remind the teacher that they. They planned a test. [00:21:30] Speaker B: No. [00:21:31] Speaker D: You know. [00:21:31] Speaker A: Yeah. All right, well, there's no lame. [00:21:35] Speaker D: I'm Basketball Jones. [00:21:36] Speaker A: All right. Basketball Jones. [00:21:37] Speaker B: Well, thank you very much for calling Basketball Jones. [00:21:40] Speaker D: Hey, no problem. [00:21:46] Speaker A: Dropped him. Yeah, cut him off. We got to cut him off sooner. [00:21:49] Speaker C: Still on. [00:21:50] Speaker B: No, it's not. [00:21:50] Speaker A: He's gone. He dumped it. [00:21:51] Speaker B: He's gone. [00:21:52] Speaker A: That guy called in a couple weeks ago. Yeah. He has the number? [00:21:56] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, I put the number. It's 1-800-podcast. [00:22:00] Speaker A: Yeah. Right. [00:22:01] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:22:02] Speaker A: Let's get that number out there for [00:22:04] Speaker B: everybody, 1-800-podcast, and we'll start getting some legitimate calls. [00:22:09] Speaker A: These are plants. [00:22:10] Speaker B: You think so? You think Basketball Jones planned this was [00:22:15] Speaker A: a phony phone Call. [00:22:16] Speaker C: It reminds me of. No, the phone. [00:22:19] Speaker B: Phony call. [00:22:21] Speaker A: Maybe we could make some calls and we could prank some people. [00:22:24] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:22:25] Speaker A: Who do you want to prank, Jerky Boy style? [00:22:27] Speaker C: You can't prank anyone anymore because everyone's got caller ID and they. Yeah, but you'd have to buy a blocker. [00:22:34] Speaker A: You can block your number, can you? Yeah. [00:22:38] Speaker B: Star six, seven, whatever. [00:22:39] Speaker A: You do something. Then when you've seen when calls come up on your phone says no caller id. [00:22:44] Speaker C: Yeah. Then you don't pick them up though. [00:22:46] Speaker A: Right. Some people might think it's a distress call. If you have kids, you like fuck [00:22:52] Speaker B: twice in a row. Yeah. [00:22:53] Speaker C: God, I would love to make a phone prank album. It's the last thing on my to [00:22:58] Speaker A: do your bucket list of life. Yeah, that's it. A phone prank album. Nothing else. You want to do Taj Mahal? Nothing like that. [00:23:05] Speaker C: I've already done the Taj Mahal. [00:23:07] Speaker B: That's all that's left. [00:23:09] Speaker A: European Euro Trash. You've heard that expression? [00:23:14] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:23:14] Speaker A: That's what you are. Euro Trash. [00:23:16] Speaker C: Euro Trash used to be a great TV program and then 90s. Yeah. Presented by Antoine de Con and Jean Paul Gaultier. They went around Europe showing like bizarre people doing bizarre things. [00:23:31] Speaker A: It was called Euro Trash. [00:23:32] Speaker C: You'd like it. Yeah, it was called Euro Trash. [00:23:34] Speaker B: I want to watch this. I'm gonna put this up on my illegal fire stick. [00:23:37] Speaker C: Get it on YouTubes. [00:23:38] Speaker B: Oh, it's on YouTube. [00:23:40] Speaker A: Speaking of which, that illegal fire stick, you know when you recommend a special to us. [00:23:44] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't look ahead of time. I don't know yet if it's on there or not. [00:23:48] Speaker A: You should consider the platform or even if there is a platform because not all of us have this descrambler box that you've if anything purchased from. [00:23:59] Speaker B: Don't you guys have Netflix or Hulu or something? [00:24:01] Speaker A: I have some of these. [00:24:02] Speaker B: I'm limited to my illegal fire stick that doesn't have. I don't look to see what. Where these are available. And a lot of times I don't. I don't get them. This last time I got lucky and the time before that. [00:24:12] Speaker A: I don't understand what this illegal fire stick provides you with shows, but it doesn't have channels or doesn't. [00:24:18] Speaker B: Yeah, has channels, apps. That's where I watch the 247 Seinfeld channel. [00:24:21] Speaker A: So you can get pretty much anything. [00:24:23] Speaker B: Not anything. A lot of times, a lot of the more current stand up that we. We've done. I have not been able to get on the illegal fire station. What About Spice. Then I got to scramble. I got to find somebody's Netflix or Hulu password, and you two both turn [00:24:36] Speaker C: your nose up at Daily Motion. [00:24:38] Speaker B: No, I like Daily. [00:24:38] Speaker A: That's what this was. [00:24:39] Speaker B: Yeah, that. [00:24:40] Speaker A: This is unwatchable. [00:24:42] Speaker C: Did you get an advert for bloody spot hero? Every 27 seconds, I ended up watching an hour of Richard Pryor and two hours of Spot. [00:24:52] Speaker A: I didn't get Spot Hero. It's interesting. We've talked about this before, I think, on the algorithms and the ads. What one do we get? Who is it I was getting anyway? [00:24:59] Speaker B: It wasn't on Netflix, though. This one. [00:25:02] Speaker A: No, this was not on anything other than Daily Motion. Like, you couldn't get it. YouTube. I would have paid for it on prime or somewhere. Couldn't get it there. So I, you know. An hour before, I'm, you know, Showtime. [00:25:15] Speaker B: You should have told me. You could have come over. We had a whole week. [00:25:18] Speaker A: Yeah, well, I didn't know. But you did. But you. You made it seem like it was available on Netflix and it is not. [00:25:22] Speaker B: Well, I said. I did a Google search, which you could have also done. And I said it almost looks like it's available on Netflix. [00:25:29] Speaker A: And I had the same experience, Mark, where every I. At first, I was like, I wrote down, every five minutes, there's ads popping up. And then I started to watch the clock, and it was every three minutes. You'd get to see three minutes of his act, and then you'd have to sit through a minute or two of commercials, and then you'd come back and then three minutes. [00:25:45] Speaker B: Get yourself a fire stick. I'll teach you how to do it. It's like 60 bucks a year. [00:25:50] Speaker A: Does it get every. [00:25:51] Speaker B: What is spice? Is that Spice tv? Pornography? [00:25:54] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:25:54] Speaker B: It's like, it's got lots of porn channels once. It does. Yeah, One time for free. Yeah. And they pop up when you're not expecting it, when you're searching for something else and you have a party full of people over, it gets all that Playboy tv. They think it's your recent searches. It's not. Yeah, like all of them. Like, it's just. There's a shitload of porn on there. [00:26:12] Speaker A: Not. Not in a dirty way. Listen, we all have. I want to watch Internet. I don't. Not looking for that. I want the old, like, shows like Playboy tv. Like, the softer. You don't see all. Everything. [00:26:24] Speaker B: Sure you can find that. [00:26:25] Speaker C: I've got a Playboy VHS calendar with Pammy Anderson on it, if you want. [00:26:31] Speaker A: Calendar? [00:26:33] Speaker C: Yeah, they call it like a calendar. Because it's just 12 clips of women rolling around going, I like puppies in there. And then, you know, remember this stuff. And it would be like, you know, january is this. [00:26:45] Speaker A: Yeah. And you'd see him in the nude. [00:26:47] Speaker C: Yeah. But no hamburger shots. [00:26:49] Speaker A: Just say what? [00:26:50] Speaker C: No hamburger. [00:26:52] Speaker A: Hamburger shot. [00:26:52] Speaker C: Just a wisp of pube. [00:26:54] Speaker A: You're not a hamburger. I don't think I've heard this expression, but I love it. Hamburger shot is a shot of a woman's vagina. Because the vagina, you're saying with this euphemism, looks like a hamburger. [00:27:04] Speaker C: I never thought of it that way. [00:27:05] Speaker B: Well, that's gotta be why for sure. That's not. [00:27:07] Speaker A: Because it kind of does look like a hamburger. A woman's vagina. Never thought of that. [00:27:12] Speaker C: No. [00:27:12] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:27:15] Speaker C: I mean, I have first heard the. The expression hamburger shot over 30 years ago. [00:27:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:27:22] Speaker C: And then we. Me and my friend. [00:27:24] Speaker B: This is like. [00:27:24] Speaker A: It's a great term. [00:27:25] Speaker B: This is like when I just finally got take off your page pants and jacket two episodes ago. [00:27:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:27:28] Speaker B: That finally dawned on me. Was that because I was too young to understand it back then, weeks ago. This is now happening with Mark and hamburger shots. [00:27:35] Speaker A: Never heard that. Is that a British expired. Is this British talk? Yeah, I've never heard. I would have heard that one. [00:27:42] Speaker C: I can't remember where I read it, but it was something like, yeah, I'll do nudity, but no hamburger shots. And then me and my mate. Me and my mate thought it was hilarious. [00:27:53] Speaker A: Yeah, it's great. [00:27:53] Speaker C: So we would just say, you know. Oh, yeah, yeah. There's a Pamela Anderson video with no hamburger shots. Meaning I didn't think of it that way. [00:28:07] Speaker B: Yeah, Yeah. [00:28:09] Speaker A: I just never thought to refer to the vagina as a hamburger. But now that's what I want. Hamburger shot. That's all My wife's hamburger. [00:28:21] Speaker B: See? [00:28:21] Speaker A: My wife's hamburger. I'm gonna say that so many times now. [00:28:25] Speaker C: I've unleashed. Yeah, unleashed a beast. [00:28:28] Speaker B: Oh, that sponsorship. [00:28:29] Speaker A: Once I find the one that I really like, I'm gonna beat the hell out of it. Hamburger. I had a similar one recently. I'm not gonna say the names of the people involved because they'd be embarrassed, but a friend of mine was in a public locker room recently, and a guy wandered in and asked him where the weight room was. This. Is it a Chicago park district? You talk about, like, how some have workout centers or whatever. So this is at a Chicago park district place. And he goes, there's no way in this one doesn't have it. There's no weights here, bro. He's like, what are you doing? He's like, I was playing basketball. I was just getting changed, right? And the guy said, oh, well, I might want to play basketball. Let me get your number. The guy's like, meaning, like, he wanted to join our league or when we play. So the guy gave him his number. My friend gave him his number, and within like, an hour or two, started receiving salacious texts. [00:29:31] Speaker B: No way. Yeah. [00:29:32] Speaker A: One of which was, yo, bro, I saw you in that locker room, and I wanted to suck you up. [00:29:37] Speaker B: No. Are you serious? [00:29:39] Speaker A: You use the term suck you up? [00:29:41] Speaker B: Suck you up. [00:29:42] Speaker A: Yep. [00:29:42] Speaker B: That's a new one. [00:29:43] Speaker A: I know. [00:29:44] Speaker B: It's off. It's not. It's off. Yeah. [00:29:46] Speaker A: Suck you up. So now I've been saying that a [00:29:48] Speaker B: lot around suck you up. [00:29:50] Speaker A: Hey, after the kids go to bed, how about suck you up? Like I think you can say to a woman, yeah, it's very versatile. Suck you up. And then the guy sent pictures of him with his wang out for no way. [00:30:07] Speaker B: Unsolicited. [00:30:08] Speaker A: Unsolicited. Well, he did solicit the phone number, and then guy gave it to him. [00:30:12] Speaker B: Yeah. No, this guy. Yeah. But the solicited. Yeah, yeah. [00:30:16] Speaker A: Unsolicited. [00:30:17] Speaker B: Wow. [00:30:18] Speaker A: So be careful who you give your number out to in a public park district locker room. [00:30:24] Speaker C: As you say that out out loud, doesn't it become obvious? [00:30:28] Speaker A: Yeah, it does. Yeah. [00:30:31] Speaker C: Be careful giving your phone number out to random unknown strangers in a public [00:30:37] Speaker A: dressroom in a park district locker room. [00:30:39] Speaker C: Yeah. I'd never thought of that as a. As a dangerous thing to do. But. [00:30:43] Speaker A: But if a guy said that to you, I was like, hey, let me get your number. I might want to play you. Would you be like, nah, man, that's cool. I'm not gonna. [00:30:51] Speaker C: I mean, I don't care about my number. Reason to force someone into giving you their phone number is for bad things to happen. [00:30:59] Speaker A: Yeah. If anyone asks for your phone number, it's. [00:31:01] Speaker C: It's. [00:31:03] Speaker A: It's not good. [00:31:04] Speaker C: Do you. It reminds me of that scene in Coffee, Coffee and Cigarettes where Alfred Molinar and Steve Coogan. [00:31:11] Speaker A: Alfred Marinara. Did you just say. [00:31:14] Speaker C: I said Molina, didn't I? [00:31:15] Speaker A: Yeah. I think I. [00:31:17] Speaker B: Isn't Alfred Molina Alfredo Marinara, isn't it? [00:31:20] Speaker A: Alfred Molina. You said Marinaro, like Ed Marinara from. [00:31:24] Speaker C: No, I said Molina. [00:31:26] Speaker A: Molinar. [00:31:27] Speaker C: Stop twisting my words. [00:31:28] Speaker B: Let's go to Olive Garden. [00:31:29] Speaker A: I don't remember that scene in that movie. That was their venue. [00:31:33] Speaker C: Coogan and Molina are talking, and Molina's trying to Be like really friendly to Steve Coogan. And Coogan's being a dick and just keeping him at arm's length. And out Molina goes, hey, we should exchange phone numbers. And Coogan says something like, he does something that immediately backfire, you know, like, oh, I haven't got a phone on me. And. And then the phone rings. But anyway. And then what it turns out is, is Molina has some acting gig that would really be beneficial to Coogan. And now the tables are turned. Having tried to keep him at arm's length, he's trying to kiss he himself. [00:32:15] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw that movie in the theater when it came out, but I haven't. I don't think I've seen it since. [00:32:20] Speaker C: I wish more people did vignette movies. I like vignette movies. Cuz if there's one you don't like, [00:32:28] Speaker A: it moves on to the next one. [00:32:30] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:32:31] Speaker A: But then it's. Then I always feel gypped, like we're not getting a movie, you know, like you're, you're just seeing like little short stories. [00:32:38] Speaker C: Yeah, I like, I like. I read a lot of short story compilations. [00:32:42] Speaker A: Do you? [00:32:43] Speaker C: Yeah, because I want, I want closure. [00:32:46] Speaker A: I don't want a story. You want it all and you want it to be over and then you want to go to the next one. [00:32:50] Speaker C: Yep. [00:32:51] Speaker A: Yeah. You're voracious. You have a voracious appetite for storytelling. [00:32:55] Speaker C: No, I just like to not get trapped into something. [00:32:59] Speaker A: Ah, yeah. Yeah. Maybe we should do a book club in here. [00:33:04] Speaker C: Like, I, I think there's this. I know I've talked about this for this, like, why has no one done a new Kentucky Fried movie that's like a classic. [00:33:15] Speaker A: I never really. I don't think I ever watched that movie. [00:33:18] Speaker C: You get. [00:33:18] Speaker A: I know the movie, but like, I don't think I've ever watched it. I think I've seen parts of it, but never like, was interested to watch it. It's good. [00:33:27] Speaker C: It's. It's one of the best. [00:33:28] Speaker A: Who's in it? [00:33:29] Speaker C: Well, it's a series of vignettes. [00:33:31] Speaker A: Oh, it's vignettes. [00:33:32] Speaker C: So like Howard Hessman is in a sketch. [00:33:37] Speaker A: Kind of like Creep show, the movie. You like that? Creep Show? [00:33:40] Speaker C: They were a little too long. [00:33:42] Speaker A: Okay. [00:33:43] Speaker C: But yeah, Kentucky Fried Movie is a series of sketch vignettes by the people behind Airplane. Right? Oh, the Zucker Brothers. [00:33:54] Speaker A: Really? [00:33:54] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:33:55] Speaker A: How many? [00:33:55] Speaker C: There's one sketch in here that I was on the floor crying with laughter where there's this couple. You like it because it's A sex scene. There's a couple getting it on, right? [00:34:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:34:10] Speaker C: They're starting to get, you know, we doing all this. And what it is is the. The premise of the sketch is the news reader can see them. And so he's reading the news and then he looks up as they're starting to get more heated, and he just starts, like, stumbling on his words, like. Yeah. And then the next thing, he goes like this off screen, and one of the Zucker brothers comes in and, like, all of the tech people come into the TV picture and they're watching this couple, like, having it off. And then. I just can't explain why it is getting sucked up. [00:34:47] Speaker A: Yeah, it is getting sucked up. [00:34:49] Speaker C: Hilarious. I can't believe a movie nerd like you is not much. Kentucky Fried Movie. [00:34:55] Speaker A: Hey, there's movies. [00:34:56] Speaker C: You know Bill Bixby, cameo. [00:34:58] Speaker A: He's in there. [00:34:59] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:34:59] Speaker A: As the Hulk. [00:35:00] Speaker C: No, no, just he's. [00:35:03] Speaker A: Well, we all have gaps in our knowledge. [00:35:05] Speaker C: That's like, you're a con, you're a film nerd, you're a comedy lover. I mean, that's. [00:35:11] Speaker B: How about Wet Hot American Summer? Have you seen that one, Bill? [00:35:14] Speaker C: Shite. [00:35:16] Speaker B: Did you watch a TV show, the [00:35:19] Speaker A: State or Reno 911? [00:35:21] Speaker B: No, no, they had a. They had a show about movies. Yeah. American Summer Series. Yeah. [00:35:27] Speaker C: No, that was kind of like the 90s alt. Royal families. [00:35:32] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:32] Speaker C: Flexing. [00:35:33] Speaker B: Right. [00:35:34] Speaker C: Did not like it. [00:35:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:35:35] Speaker B: That does not seem like a Mark Erie jam. [00:35:38] Speaker C: No, I mean, I went in with a lot of resentment, like. [00:35:42] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:42] Speaker C: To the player hating. [00:35:45] Speaker A: What, you. You don't like any of that stuff? The State or those comedians? Is that what you're saying? [00:35:50] Speaker C: I once saw. What was the one with Michael Ian Black and two other guys. [00:35:55] Speaker A: I think he's from here. Michael Ian Black. [00:35:56] Speaker C: I saw them. Metro Michael Black and whoever those two others were. [00:36:02] Speaker A: Thomas Lennon or something. [00:36:04] Speaker C: Yeah. Not Thomas. [00:36:05] Speaker A: Joe latrulio. [00:36:06] Speaker C: David Wayne. [00:36:07] Speaker A: David Wayne. [00:36:08] Speaker C: And it was tedious. I think it was. Stellar sketch. Right? [00:36:13] Speaker A: Was Rob Riddle in that group, too? No. [00:36:17] Speaker C: I don't know. There was three of them. I left before the end and I never do that. Yeah. [00:36:23] Speaker A: I was a brilliant. The State and all that. [00:36:25] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:36:27] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, I'm gonna see Kentucky Fried Movie. That's my homework. [00:36:31] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:36:32] Speaker A: This week. [00:36:32] Speaker C: You should see it. [00:36:33] Speaker A: If it's got the Zucker Brothers, I'm in. I love Airplane one and two. [00:36:37] Speaker C: They. They all make little cameos in it as well. [00:36:40] Speaker A: Yeah, they always. Yeah, yeah. They're very meta. I think that's what you're describing there. When you the people looking in the. In the camera. [00:36:48] Speaker C: There's no bear, there's no fat to trim from their comedy, which is what I like. [00:36:54] Speaker A: Yeah. And it's absurd. I love absurd. [00:36:57] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:36:58] Speaker A: Yeah. All right. [00:36:59] Speaker B: Well, speaking of movies, Bill, have you been keeping up with the rewatchables? [00:37:03] Speaker A: I still have not seen or listened to rew. [00:37:06] Speaker B: I thought you were okay. I thought you were already a fan. [00:37:09] Speaker A: No, we talked about it. I think you told me about it. [00:37:11] Speaker B: I just recommended it. I thought you were already listening. [00:37:13] Speaker A: I hate Bill Simmons. That's the only problem. [00:37:14] Speaker B: Oh, you're not going to like it. Then listen to it. [00:37:16] Speaker C: What was the one that you sent me, gave me the tickets for? [00:37:21] Speaker A: Oh, that was cinema on C or on Cinema. [00:37:26] Speaker C: Is that still going Heider? [00:37:28] Speaker A: Yeah, that's on. It's still on. What else? [00:37:37] Speaker C: I forgot to make an agenda for [00:37:39] Speaker B: this week, cuz you're burying your snake. [00:37:42] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. 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All those things you said are right, and. And I think it's really the future for a lot of people. Cbd. [00:38:44] Speaker B: You heard how relaxed? [00:38:46] Speaker A: Have you heard about it? Cbd. Now they have cbg. [00:38:51] Speaker B: There's a whole bunch. What, cbg? [00:38:52] Speaker C: Yeah, it just come out last week. [00:38:54] Speaker A: Did it recently? [00:38:55] Speaker B: Yeah, they came out with cbg and then. [00:38:57] Speaker A: I don't know how recent. [00:38:57] Speaker B: Last week, yesterday they came out with CBGBs. [00:39:00] Speaker A: CBGBs? [00:39:01] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:39:02] Speaker A: Listen, I. I think. I know you're against this kind of thing, but I think CBD would be good for you. [00:39:09] Speaker C: You're not willing to try walking around ripped to the tits like you? [00:39:13] Speaker A: Are you at all ripped to the [00:39:15] Speaker B: tits after having my tits? My tits are so ripped right now. [00:39:18] Speaker A: There's no such thing. It's for stress, anxiety, inflammation, Pain, those things it covers. And there's no psychoactive properties to it at all. [00:39:32] Speaker C: Wait, are you fully down the wormhole of alternative medicine? How did the cupping go? [00:39:39] Speaker A: Thank you for asking. No, I got acupuncture for the first time. Yeah, it's very mystical. It's very. It's either complete hokum or it is. There's really something to it. [00:39:52] Speaker C: Is it all candles and medieval loot music? [00:39:55] Speaker A: There was some weird stuff. [00:39:56] Speaker B: I'll send you the picture. [00:39:57] Speaker A: There was a picture. Picture on the wall of like. It was like an African art and had a woman with big African breasts out prominently, which I thought was an odd choice for the decor. But nevertheless, it was a table. Something of like a massage, like table where you put your face into the thing. [00:40:16] Speaker B: You know, like the hole, the donut. [00:40:17] Speaker A: I've never done that, I don't think. [00:40:19] Speaker B: Oh, really? [00:40:20] Speaker A: Maybe. Yeah. I don't get massages. I've never gotten. Well, I've gotten one. [00:40:24] Speaker B: I love a massage. [00:40:25] Speaker A: No, I don't. Because I don't like feeling good. Because it reminds me of how bad I always feel. You know what I mean? Like, this is so good. I normally feel so bad and I just leave depressed that I don't really. [00:40:39] Speaker B: That's too bad. There's so much. I love them. They're so great. Yeah. [00:40:43] Speaker A: But then. Then it's gone. [00:40:45] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:40:45] Speaker A: And then you walk out. You don't have that. [00:40:47] Speaker B: Again, I've the totally opposite experience. I walk out with a huge smile on my face, ready to take on the world. [00:40:53] Speaker A: Well, you probably go to a different massage. [00:40:54] Speaker B: Why would you say that? [00:40:56] Speaker A: Walking out with a big smile on your face. [00:40:59] Speaker C: We drifting towards happy endings. [00:41:03] Speaker A: Maybe that's what put words in anyone's mouth. That's what the wall walking out smiling was. [00:41:08] Speaker C: The wall maybe to help you. [00:41:10] Speaker A: No, I didn't know none of that. A lot wasn't really explained to me. So I was left with a lot of questions. She asked me what my issues were with my back. And then she had me lay on my stomach. I'm in my undies. Just my undies. And with a little, like, sheet. [00:41:26] Speaker B: Over the towel. [00:41:27] Speaker A: Yeah. Over me. And then she, like, felt for where the knots were in my back and that. And then she started putting these needles into me and didn't say anything. All of a sudden I feel a pinch here, pinch there, one there. And they don't. Not hurt. I mean, they don't hurt, but, like, you feel a needle going into you. [00:41:47] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:41:48] Speaker A: Sometimes more, sometimes less. And then I lay there For, I don't know, half hour or so. And the heat is on you. There's like a heat lamp right on. On your back or on. On you as well. And then you walk out and you feel something. It feels similar to, like, if you've ever been made love. And after the afterglow of making love and you walk out and you're kind of, like. Kind of dippy, which is why, I guess people smoke cigarettes after making love. I never understood that. Like, neither did I. Make love. You exhaust yourself, and then you lay back and what you want is a smoke. I don't. I don't understand. [00:42:23] Speaker B: Yeah, maybe I'll try that with the tv. [00:42:25] Speaker A: Isn't it? [00:42:25] Speaker B: That's just. That's not real life. I've never seen somebody do that in real life. No, I've never been with a television or movies. [00:42:33] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't want to get into my. [00:42:35] Speaker C: Well, in the 70s, it would have been a higher percentage because everyone smoked, right? [00:42:40] Speaker B: Yeah. Or now very few. [00:42:43] Speaker A: Anyway, you get this acupuncture, and you walk out and you feel a lightness, [00:42:48] Speaker C: like, in your wallet. Yeah. [00:42:50] Speaker A: Yeah, that too. [00:42:52] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:42:52] Speaker A: I don't want to talk about that. Nicely done. But as I was driving home, I felt like I couldn't feel the tires in the car. It was, like, dreamy and floaty and very tired from it. And then when I got home, I [00:43:09] Speaker B: was hearing things that sounded like sirens and seeing a lot of flashing lights. [00:43:13] Speaker A: No, none of that. [00:43:14] Speaker B: So that Mitch Hadberg thing. Come on, guys. [00:43:16] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. And then I got home, and I was very cranky and angry, but my back that night did feel better. So I. I'm going again this week for a more longer session, and I'll let you know. I think there's something to acupuncture. [00:43:36] Speaker B: Are you gonna get your front done next time? [00:43:38] Speaker A: I don't know. I don't know how she works. I don't know what history. She just says, all right, roll over, and then starts putting the needles on. [00:43:46] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:43:47] Speaker C: Should ask to see a certificate that's on the wall next to the pawn. [00:43:53] Speaker A: So you. You clearly, from these last couple remarks you've made, feel like this is hokum. [00:43:59] Speaker B: What? [00:43:59] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:44:00] Speaker B: Is that the impression that you get? [00:44:01] Speaker A: Yeah, that's reading between the lines. Wow. [00:44:04] Speaker C: Yep. [00:44:04] Speaker B: Very subtle. [00:44:06] Speaker A: Tell me why. [00:44:06] Speaker B: What? [00:44:06] Speaker A: You know, you clearly think I'm being taken for a ride. [00:44:10] Speaker C: Well, because no medical. No medical journal will endorse it now. [00:44:18] Speaker A: My insurance won't pay for it. [00:44:19] Speaker C: I'll say that one thing is. And I always Say this. When it comes to medicine, two words. Placebo effect. [00:44:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:44:28] Speaker C: That is proven. So you could do any old shite and get a placebo effect. [00:44:35] Speaker B: Right. [00:44:36] Speaker C: So maybe there's that for it. [00:44:38] Speaker A: Yeah. And. And sometimes I'll argue in favor of the placebo effect. Hey, if it makes you feel better for even if it's whatever, then that's maybe worthwhile. But I did read some stuff about they. They did do a double blind and the people who got the actual treatment versus the people that got some non acupuncture treatment, the people that actually got the treatment did feel better. So. And that wasn't a journal. And there is more and more research coming out about this fourth or fifth network we have in our body. We have the endocrine system, the circulatory system. It's called the interstitium. And it's that space that the acupuncture hits right underneath the surface of the skin. That is its own pathway for transmitting signals to the body. Right. And I think there's a lot that's not known about it, and I think acupuncture is. [00:45:36] Speaker B: Looks like the journal of the American Medical association have published studies and clinical guidelines validating its efficiencies for treating chronic pain, migraines and chemotherapy induced nausea. [00:45:50] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:45:51] Speaker C: Are you reading that from the American Acupuncture Professional site? [00:45:56] Speaker B: Yeah, I texted an acupuncturist and said, hey, give me some info on this. [00:46:00] Speaker A: No, that's some of. Some of what I read too. Listen, the Journal American Medical association is no rag. That's a legitimate medical journal. That might be the gold standard. So I. I'm. Listen, I'm not. I'm not arguing either here nor there. I've not had enough experience to know, but I think it's perhaps glib and ignorant of you to dismiss it out of hand versus, you know, probably. [00:46:27] Speaker C: That's my brand. [00:46:28] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Very glib. No, what have you been called? [00:46:33] Speaker C: Smog? [00:46:33] Speaker A: Smug. [00:46:34] Speaker B: Smug. [00:46:34] Speaker C: Arrogant. Glib. Let's add what glib to it. [00:46:37] Speaker A: Remember when Tom Cruise and Matt Lauer had that interview that. That really contentious interview where he was. I think Lauer was asking him like, you know, pointed questions about Scientology that were kind of loaded or whatever, and Cruz had a couple of them and then finally had. Had it with it. He's like, you're being very glib to our. And they got squared off. Oh, yeah. [00:47:02] Speaker B: Who do you think would win in a fight? Physical altercation between the two of them? Cruz, because he does all his own stunts. [00:47:07] Speaker A: But how about Matt Lauer just disappearing from society after. He's another one we talked about with Louis CK and the exposing themselves. I think he exposed himself. He was in that. That Me too. Wave. [00:47:20] Speaker C: Was he the guy that had the lockable. [00:47:23] Speaker A: Yes. Hit the button. [00:47:24] Speaker C: Hit the button to lock the room. [00:47:25] Speaker A: Yeah. And then he'd step out from behind the desk and drop trowel, I think, what on people in the women in the office. And that's what got him the boot. But you never. You don't hear a peep from him. [00:47:36] Speaker B: Can you imagine getting that call? You're like. You're somebody in construction. You build things. Like, wait, what do you want me to build? Yeah, what do you want done? [00:47:44] Speaker C: Why would you need this? But to do that, you got to ask yourself. [00:47:51] Speaker A: Well, you're having a very private conversation, and you just hit the button. [00:47:56] Speaker C: Closes the door, I guess. Yeah. You could say, well, I'm locking it so no one can bustle in. [00:48:01] Speaker A: But, yeah. Yeah. [00:48:04] Speaker B: And I don't. I don't have the time to get up and go across the room. [00:48:10] Speaker A: It's under the desk. [00:48:12] Speaker B: Okay. It doesn't need to be under the desk. [00:48:14] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:48:15] Speaker A: I honestly. When I worked in Hollywood for a year at Paramount Pictures, I had an office, and I was in no kind of Big Wheel, but, like, it had the. There was a button on the desk that would close the door. [00:48:29] Speaker B: What? For real? [00:48:30] Speaker A: If it locked it as well, it would already have to be locked, but yeah, even I had one of those. [00:48:34] Speaker B: Really? Yeah. Oh, well, okay. I guess that changes everything. [00:48:39] Speaker A: I was a junior executive, so, you know, it was nothing to, you know, [00:48:44] Speaker B: the door, it closed like. Like Ron Swanson's door on Parks and Rec. [00:48:48] Speaker A: I don't know. I didn't see it. [00:48:50] Speaker B: April Lud. [00:48:51] Speaker A: The door would be held open, maybe by some kind of magnet or something. The magnet would release and it would close the door. Huh. [00:48:58] Speaker C: I wonder if that's a common thing in corporate America. And I've just never. [00:49:03] Speaker A: It might be. I've not spent enough time there to [00:49:06] Speaker B: know, but never had an office job. No. Ever? Not. Not even close. [00:49:11] Speaker A: Yeah. I've never had that job like that. A traveling job where I get to travel. Like, I always envy my friends. I get to trap on business. They hate it. [00:49:19] Speaker B: If they hate it, they say, well, you see the hotel room, you don't see anything. [00:49:22] Speaker A: It seems so exciting. [00:49:23] Speaker B: Yeah, right. [00:49:23] Speaker C: I had a mate who worked for Rolls Royce, and he was going all around the world, and we'd say, oh, what did you think of? You know, I just sat in the hotel and got drunk every night. The other guys. [00:49:33] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess if you just waste it like that, you're not going to enjoy it. [00:49:36] Speaker A: Yeah, I'd be running around as much as I was eating all the food. They had that, trying everything. Supposed to be good there, you know, [00:49:42] Speaker B: Wouldn't get any sleep, mind you. [00:49:44] Speaker C: It is hard, I will admit. I have traveled a tiny bit and like, I walked in one time, this is on Wednesday, and they said, can you go to Sweden, to Stockholm on Friday? Which sounds like, oh, jet setting, blah, blah, blah. And I was just like, oh, what a pain in the dick. But I went there and then I did a week and I was dreading it because then it was like training people and doing this stuff and I didn't even bother to extend to the next weekend. I just got Jeff out Friday night. I should have extended. [00:50:18] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:50:19] Speaker C: And I just was like, nah, just get me home as soon as possible. [00:50:23] Speaker A: That was from here? You went there? [00:50:24] Speaker C: Yeah. But you know what? I did do stuff, though, admittedly. [00:50:28] Speaker A: Like what? [00:50:30] Speaker C: Just, you know, went around, had a [00:50:32] Speaker B: look at a gander, got some acupuncture. [00:50:34] Speaker C: Heather's got a friend there, so I went and met her. What else did I do? [00:50:42] Speaker A: What did you do at the hotel? [00:50:45] Speaker C: The hotel was like this boutique type thing. It was full of young, attractive Swedes, so I pretty much kept myself to myself. [00:50:52] Speaker A: Any boxing going on there? [00:50:53] Speaker C: No box. I tell you. I'll tell you one thing. Stockholm's like a really cool place and it's got, like islands and stuff. So I did a walk one night, you know, I walked the old city wall or whatever it was. And then I went in this sports. I, you know, I thought, you know what? I'm in Sweden, I'll buy like a sports jersey. Because I was still that. [00:51:13] Speaker B: Yeah, right. [00:51:13] Speaker C: That tall at the time. Right. [00:51:15] Speaker A: So, like the soccer jersey. [00:51:17] Speaker C: Yeah, or whatever. So I walk in there and I'm looking at all this wall of, like, Swedish soccer jersey. I think I was looking for speedway stuff, even though I knew probably wasn't going to find it. So I'm looking at it and this humongous Viking wanders in. I mean, he's two feet taller than me. Big bastard Swede. And he. And he looks. It looks. He literally looks down at me and I'm looking at these football jerseys or something. He goes, hey. And you could tell he was like, well, in the bag. Not even half in the bag, three quarters. He nudges me in about, you know, sends me sprawl and he Goes E. That's the thing. Hey off. Hey off. I don't know why he said it that way. And I thought oh my God, he's going to beat the out of me cuz he thinks I'm an English football fan or something. And I. I think I scuttled away to the corner of the shop like a frightened crab and then waited for him to leave. Jesus. [00:52:23] Speaker A: It's a good description of the frightened crap. [00:52:26] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:52:26] Speaker B: Did you buy the jersey? [00:52:28] Speaker C: I never bought anything in Sweden. [00:52:30] Speaker A: I would think because Sweden stop me and correct me at any point. The Swedes are kind of like Hitler's idea of the perfect race. [00:52:38] Speaker B: Right? [00:52:39] Speaker A: Wasn't. Didn't you view the Swedes? The Norwegian? [00:52:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:52:43] Speaker A: Blonde, blue haired, physical Nordic specimens. [00:52:46] Speaker C: Right. [00:52:47] Speaker A: You would think they'd be better at international sports Sweden because a very small population. But the men are as you described, very. [00:52:56] Speaker C: Oh yeah. [00:52:59] Speaker A: What do you call it? Manly Swedish. [00:53:02] Speaker B: Did you try the chocolate when you were over there? [00:53:05] Speaker C: Yep. [00:53:06] Speaker A: Toblerone. I love Toblerone. [00:53:09] Speaker C: Switzerland. [00:53:09] Speaker B: Oh yeah. That's what I just realized it as I was asking. [00:53:12] Speaker A: Swedish better. [00:53:13] Speaker C: Nordics not very good. Chocolate. No. Nordic chocolate not great. No. [00:53:18] Speaker A: Swiss is good. [00:53:18] Speaker C: Swiss, yeah. [00:53:19] Speaker A: Swedish is. [00:53:20] Speaker B: What are they known for their pancakes? Is that like the. The cold salty fish that was Sweden's known for. [00:53:25] Speaker A: Name five Swedes. Go Stefan Edberg. [00:53:28] Speaker B: Go Peter Forsberg. Good. [00:53:32] Speaker C: Yeah. We just going to do hockey players. [00:53:34] Speaker A: I don't know anyone else. Vitus Garolitis. I don't know if he is. [00:53:39] Speaker C: He's like stuff up. [00:53:41] Speaker A: Guillermo Vs Beyond Borg be Borg. Yeah, Borg and Edberg. [00:53:47] Speaker C: Yeah, just tin. [00:53:48] Speaker A: Peter Forsberg. Peter Stormari. [00:53:53] Speaker C: No, he's Danish. Swedish. There's gotta be a Swedish. [00:53:57] Speaker A: The Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgard. [00:54:00] Speaker B: How about the chef? [00:54:01] Speaker A: Bill Skarsgard, the chef Swedish. That counts. Swedish chef from Muppets. [00:54:06] Speaker C: See, I only know like Skarsgard. Per Johnsson, Swedish ride. Anders Michinik Swedish speedway rider. That's all I know. [00:54:14] Speaker A: I couldn't tell you the Swedish from the Swedish. Swiss from the Nordic. [00:54:19] Speaker C: The Swedes are big and physically perfect though. It's very intimidating place to be. You just feel like a gargoyle walking [00:54:26] Speaker A: around Finland as well. Right. We. That's a fourth. [00:54:30] Speaker C: Fins are more like Russian adjacent. I feel like I watched a Finnish movie the other day about a meteorite that land. Did you see that one? [00:54:40] Speaker A: No, but I think there's a. There's a vignette in a Jarmusch movie about Finland. [00:54:45] Speaker C: Is there? [00:54:46] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:54:48] Speaker C: Huh. [00:54:49] Speaker A: That's why you like Jarmish. [00:54:50] Speaker C: I do like Scandinavia, I'm not gonna lie. And not just for the racial purity is what you're gonna say. [00:54:55] Speaker A: Which one is the one? Which of those countries is the one that's supposed to be so happy? Where they say you're like, that's. They have like the happiest Dane. [00:55:03] Speaker C: Denmark. [00:55:04] Speaker A: Denmark. [00:55:05] Speaker C: Denmark, I think so. [00:55:07] Speaker B: Seem like a happy bunch. [00:55:08] Speaker C: Yeah, they're fun. I mean, I know a lot of Danes through Speedway. [00:55:12] Speaker A: They're fun, nice people. [00:55:14] Speaker C: It's funny because in their own country they're very sort of bottomed down and very proper. Take them out of their own country and they're effing maniacs. All the Nordics are like that. [00:55:25] Speaker A: Yeah. They like to party outside of the holy. [00:55:28] Speaker C: I went on a ferry once, was it to Norway, and it was like a full on. Just. It felt like being in like a Viking ship. Like they just barely pulled out a port and they're already annihilated. Drunk. [00:55:45] Speaker A: Big drinkers. [00:55:46] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:55:48] Speaker B: What do they drink? What's their spirit? Oh, yeah, right. Vodka, probably. [00:55:55] Speaker C: No, I don't think. [00:55:56] Speaker B: Not a lot of vodka. [00:55:57] Speaker A: Brandy. Those Austrians, they love that brandy, you know. [00:56:02] Speaker C: Remember that long drink that we had that was finished? [00:56:07] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't know what was in. [00:56:08] Speaker A: No, schnapps. Schnapps. Austrians love schnapps. That's what I meant. [00:56:14] Speaker C: But anyway, I do like. You gotta go to Scandinavia. It is a place. I know you hate anything that is in America. Yeah, but you might like Scandinavia. [00:56:24] Speaker A: Yeah, I probably would. Yeah. Would they like me over there as an American? [00:56:28] Speaker C: They'd think you are one of them. You're so gaunt and like, you know, pale. Yeah, that's pale. You're not pale though, are you? [00:56:37] Speaker A: I try to keep, you know, good color. [00:56:39] Speaker C: Yeah. You're always out in the sun. [00:56:41] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't get enough vitamin D though. [00:56:43] Speaker C: They might think you're Peter Stormer. Just on a weekend visit. [00:56:46] Speaker A: He's a Dane. [00:56:47] Speaker C: He's a Dane. [00:56:49] Speaker A: All right. Well, we. We barely came up with five Swedes. [00:56:52] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:56:53] Speaker A: Bjork, Edberg, Forsberg. Swedish chef. Who was the other one? Some bike rider. [00:56:59] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:56:59] Speaker A: Nobody. We don't know him. So you can. How about a woman? A Swedish woman? Swedish fish. [00:57:06] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, the fish, you know, those are. Those are. Those are made in New Jersey. [00:57:11] Speaker C: She's dead now, but Twiggy. Twiggy's English. The one from Rock Set. What was her name? [00:57:20] Speaker A: Ace of Bass. [00:57:21] Speaker C: Ace of Base. [00:57:22] Speaker A: They're Swedes. [00:57:23] Speaker C: Yeah, [00:57:28] Speaker A: They're Norwegian. [00:57:29] Speaker C: Yeah. Oh, we're almost an abba we're all missing abba. Yeah. [00:57:35] Speaker A: I'm sure there's a ton. I know. We'll go home and I'm like, that. [00:57:38] Speaker C: The cardigan. Remember the Cardigans? Love fall. [00:57:41] Speaker A: No. Yep, sounds familiar. [00:57:42] Speaker C: Really good version of Iron man they did for me. [00:57:45] Speaker B: Really? [00:57:45] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:57:46] Speaker A: Swedes. I'll be thinking about Swedes all day. [00:57:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:57:55] Speaker A: Trying to come up with Swedes. Never stopped with that when we did Australians. I kept thinking and thinking, trying to. [00:58:01] Speaker C: There's a million Aussies now in the movies in there. [00:58:04] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:58:05] Speaker C: I started watching that Babylon film. God, it's long and decadent. Like, half of them are Australian. [00:58:14] Speaker A: Margot Robbie. [00:58:15] Speaker C: Margot Robbie. [00:58:17] Speaker A: There's Pitts in it. He's. [00:58:19] Speaker C: He's pits a Yang from Missouri. Yeah. But I looked up a load of, you know, like these ant. Because I was thinking, this is clearly filmed in England because there's a lot of English people in there as well. But remember who was all sheer volume of Aussie actors. Unbelievable. [00:58:35] Speaker A: We. We got to see that movie at a special screening at the Music Box before it came out. And the director was supposed to be there. [00:58:42] Speaker C: Your ass must have been numb. [00:58:44] Speaker A: Yeah, right. Yeah. And then the director bailed at the last second. We still saw it. And I remember seeing that movie, like, movie is crazy. It's amazing. And then a week later, the reviews came out like, this movie sucks. I was like, it does. I thought it was amazing. [00:59:00] Speaker C: Well, you. That's because there's so much shagging in it. Yeah, you do. You'd have been loving it. [00:59:04] Speaker A: Stop saying that on this program. That anytime anything sexy, you love it. Like I'm a pervert or some kind of horn dog. Like, I'm just panting. [00:59:16] Speaker B: I. I was looking up a Boeing. They don't have one. Yeah, I know. I like. I have golf club. [00:59:25] Speaker C: Can you convert? Can you grab. Can you. Do you have a CD ripper? And then you could. Because I got. No, I got a CD with Boeings and everything on it. [00:59:33] Speaker B: No way. [00:59:34] Speaker C: Yeah. It's cartoon centric. [00:59:36] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:59:39] Speaker C: And it's got the. The point. Yeah. [00:59:44] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Let's get that. It's on a CD though. How's he gonna with that over there? [00:59:48] Speaker C: That's what I'm saying. He's got to rip it and then transfer the mp. [00:59:52] Speaker B: I haven't had a CD ripper in a very long time. [00:59:55] Speaker A: You don't even have a CD drive and anything. You know, like. No computers have CD drives anymore. [01:00:04] Speaker B: Speaking of computers, we're about an hour in and we've got 34 minutes left on this. Speaking of Babylon, we've been Babylon. We can. Babylon passed our time. If we don't get to the special. [01:00:17] Speaker A: Let's change the show into reviewing specials each week too. We just come in and we just. We're gonna do three hours. We don't know what we're gonna talk about. [01:00:25] Speaker C: You'd love that, wouldn't you? [01:00:26] Speaker A: Three hours? Yes. Just. Yeah, maybe we'll have comedians in there too. But it's just three hours. We just end for the three hours talk because then you can really stretch out. [01:00:37] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:00:37] Speaker A: See where it goes, you know, take the calls, bring in guests. [01:00:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:00:42] Speaker A: Really open it up. Open up the format. [01:00:45] Speaker C: Then you lose the hook. [01:00:47] Speaker A: Yeah, we need that hook. It's bringing so many fish in that hook. Were we talking about today? Who do we pick? [01:00:55] Speaker B: Richard Pryor. [01:00:56] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, that's right. Richard Pryor. You've heard of him before, Mark. [01:01:00] Speaker C: Yes. [01:01:01] Speaker A: Being from England, does he make a big splash over there? In the 70s and 80s? [01:01:06] Speaker C: So I told you my Richard Pryor story, right? Never heard of him. Massive comedy fan, 16 years old. And we used to hang around with this guy who's a bell end, but his name was Prior. Not first name, obviously, last name. So one day we walk in and he's. I've said this before. And he goes, oh, there's this amazing American comedian we should watch. And his name's Richard Pryor is. His name was Prior. And that was the only reason he looked him up. And we sat through about half a Dynamite Chicken and said, get this shit off. This is a black. [01:01:40] Speaker A: That was a movie. Dynamite Chicken. [01:01:42] Speaker C: Yeah. Is this comedy special. [01:01:46] Speaker B: Wait, is it a stand up? [01:01:48] Speaker A: Yeah, Dynamite Chicken. I didn't come across that in my research when I was looking for specials. You sure about this? You're thinking the Kentucky Fried Movie? [01:01:57] Speaker C: No, Dynamite Chicken. Maybe they changed the name. They might have changed it because he has all those specials with racially offensive names in them. [01:02:06] Speaker A: Yeah, those are showing up in the algorithm. [01:02:08] Speaker C: So they might have been renamed for England because that's not going to fly in England. [01:02:13] Speaker A: Why? [01:02:14] Speaker C: You can't have racial slurs in a bloody film title in England. [01:02:20] Speaker A: Okay, all right. I took them to be racist, the same as Americans. Either above racism in England. [01:02:27] Speaker C: They're not above it, but they're not gonna flaunt it. [01:02:30] Speaker B: According to this, this is a 1971American comedy film. [01:02:35] Speaker A: Dynamite Chicken. [01:02:36] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:02:36] Speaker A: Gene Wilder in there? [01:02:40] Speaker B: No, it's Richard Pryor, Ace Trucking. Oh, Ace Trucking Company. [01:02:47] Speaker A: You work for them. [01:02:47] Speaker B: Paul Krasner. I don't know what's going on now. [01:02:50] Speaker A: Don't be doing it on the phone anyway. [01:02:52] Speaker C: Maybe it wasn't on. Maybe he'd watched it. Anyway, we get this special, we watch it. We are halfway through and we go, turn this off. This is just a black man shouting over and over, Right. And after that, the Richard Pryor door kind of closed for me. Apart from the Gene Wilder body films. [01:03:13] Speaker A: Is Gene Wilder British? [01:03:16] Speaker C: He seems dead. [01:03:18] Speaker A: Yeah, I know he's dead, but is he. Is he. Or was he ever British? [01:03:22] Speaker C: No. [01:03:23] Speaker A: He seems British, though. Doesn't he like the way he looks? He looks like a British guy. I always thought him to be British. This is fair skin and is like hair that hair that. [01:03:37] Speaker B: That. Your microphone back up. [01:03:38] Speaker C: Yeah. Your microphone is nowhere near. [01:03:40] Speaker B: You can't hear me? No. [01:03:42] Speaker A: Oh, I want to say, for the record, I hate Gene Wilder. I hate him. [01:03:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:03:51] Speaker A: Always hated Gene Wilder. Hate his guts. [01:03:55] Speaker C: All right. [01:03:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:03:56] Speaker A: I hate him as an actor. Never thought he was funny. [01:04:00] Speaker B: He texts this to me like once a week. [01:04:02] Speaker A: I did, yeah. I told you. [01:04:03] Speaker B: I hate Gene Wilder. [01:04:05] Speaker A: I'm like, Bill, I just hate him. I hate the way he looks. I hate the way he talks. I never thought he's funny. I thought he ruined Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Hate Blazing Saddles. Hate all his movies that he's in. And I don't know why a talent like Richard Pryor, who I find to be a great talent, would. Would team up with a piece of shit like Gene Wilder. [01:04:32] Speaker C: Maybe it was the Mel Brooks conduit. Because Wilder was a Mel Brooks guy. Right. [01:04:38] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:04:39] Speaker C: So, Anyway, this can't. We got 20 minutes left, so I'm gonna get the ball rolling. [01:04:49] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:04:50] Speaker C: Why was half the audience not even in its seats? [01:04:54] Speaker B: Right. [01:04:55] Speaker C: Found out Patti LaBelle opened. [01:04:57] Speaker B: Yeah. Right. [01:04:59] Speaker C: And then there was an intermission. [01:05:00] Speaker B: Yeah. So everybody got up. [01:05:02] Speaker C: But wouldn't you think. [01:05:03] Speaker A: Why did they direct. [01:05:04] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:05:05] Speaker B: Ring the bells. Get everybody back in your seat first. [01:05:07] Speaker C: When the director go, well, we're not gonna start now. [01:05:10] Speaker B: It was very slap dash anyway, you know, I mean, that guy was up front taking pictures and then shook his hand before the show started. Like, there is no security, there's no organization. [01:05:19] Speaker A: Where was this? [01:05:20] Speaker B: Oh, it was a Long Terrace Theater in Long Beach. Yeah. [01:05:23] Speaker C: And they kept. It just seemed odd to me because. And I had to look up the chronology because I was like, well, maybe he was just nobody at the time. He was massive by the time this was on. So the resource and stuff now, maybe. I don't know. Did he get abandoned by the Comedy industry because of the shenanigans. [01:05:46] Speaker B: There was an incident. The Hollywood bowl incident was shortly before this. [01:05:50] Speaker A: What was that incident? [01:05:51] Speaker B: He was. He went to perform at a Hollywood bowl event that was. I don't remember what they called it, but it was supposed to be for gay rights. And they called it something else initially, which sounded like it was kind of including everybody that wasn't given a shot, you know, so he thought, okay, I'm. I'm representing the black community. And he went in for that, then got there, found out he felt like it was kind of a bait and switch, so this is for gay rights. And then he felt that the crew was being racist towards some of the. The other black comic that was there. I think it was a comic, I don't know. And halfway so. And he started this set where he was. He got the audience in the palm of his hand and then he turned on him and he started using homophobic slurs. And I think I remember hearing them ridiculing them. Yeah, and. And really kind of pointing out the, The. Just some of the cracks in the. In the foundation of the people that were trying to put this show on for gay rights showing, like, hey, this, like you think this is for you, but it's like they're taking advantage of you too. So anyway, he really turned the night around. Nobody had a good time after that. He was. He told everybody to kiss his ass. He got off stage and he was [01:07:05] Speaker A: all juiced up on coke, probably. [01:07:06] Speaker B: That's what they said. They said he was. Yeah, it was a combination. It was a cocktail of alcohol, cocaine and his own. Well, they didn't say cocaine, but they said drugs. But I think we know what that means. And. And his own feelings provoked this attack. [01:07:20] Speaker C: And. [01:07:21] Speaker B: And so he was trying to make a comeback from that at this point. [01:07:25] Speaker C: I think he was a live wire anyway, though, right? Because I read. I read in wiki he went in the army, and I was like, wow, that's a surprise. But they said the. Virtually the entire time in the army spent in jail because him and a few other guys beat some guy up who they felt had racially disrespected. Yeah, something or something. So he's went in the army immediately, sent to jail, and then left when he came out. So he's obviously got a. You know. [01:07:55] Speaker A: Well, he also mentioned in the special that he had had a heart attack and then that he had been arrested for some gun situation. Right, like where. [01:08:04] Speaker B: Yeah, well, yeah, he. He shot that. He shot that car. Well, he. Yeah, it was New Year's Eve, new New Year's Day. And he chased his wife's friends out into the street and then shot at their car, as they were. And then he got in his own car and started ramming them. [01:08:17] Speaker A: Jesus. [01:08:18] Speaker B: Yeah, it was a whole episode. [01:08:19] Speaker A: He makes light of it. [01:08:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:08:22] Speaker A: And then of course, the famous balls on fire. [01:08:26] Speaker C: Infamous. [01:08:27] Speaker B: Which we think hasn't happened yet at this point. [01:08:29] Speaker A: So. Yeah, he's got a checkered past. [01:08:31] Speaker B: Yes. [01:08:32] Speaker A: Richard Pryor, so. But we all come to Richard Pryor. You know, we're different ages here. Mark being in his 60s, me 50, and you in your 40s. Still, you were 16. I was exposing probably through the Gene Wilder movies, and I would want to watch it, but then Gene Wilder's face would show up on the screen. I'd have to turn it off. So I never really saw him that way. Then I saw the Toy as a kid. Do you remember the movie the Toy? Yeah, with Jackie Gleason. And that was a big movie in my youth. [01:09:03] Speaker C: That's Superman 3, where he was. [01:09:05] Speaker A: Yeah, that one too, I think. Is it three? No, it's three, I think. I think it's three. [01:09:09] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:09:10] Speaker A: Yeah, he was in Superman 3. And then, anyway, we go through all his movies, but I never really watched his Stand up or what I had seen of it. I didn't really like as a kid, but I did like Eddie Murphy. And going back on it now, looking back on it now through a different perspective, fucking Eddie Murphy is Richard Pryor, or really owes a huge debt to Richard Pryor because so much of his act is, I think, borrowed from or gleaned from Richard Pryor. His cadence, his whole thing. And. And when you realize that, then I think maybe I have a less of appreciation for Eddie Murphy. [01:10:00] Speaker C: Well, if you. The first thing that struck me going through this was, holy shit, this is the basis for nearly all black comedy. [01:10:10] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:10:10] Speaker A: You could. You could extrapolate beyond Eddie Murphy too. Right. [01:10:13] Speaker C: I mean, just the entire. What he's talking about, how he's doing, doing it. I don't know. I thought this was maybe earlier in his career, you know, this was like a conversion to storytelling. Stand up. Right. But obviously it had happened before, but I don't know. Did Richard Pryor get it from, you know, Red Fox? [01:10:35] Speaker A: Yeah, everything's derivative in some way. Something. [01:10:40] Speaker C: But is Prior deemed so important? Because he was the first one that said, let's not just be joke machines, let's be storytellers. [01:10:50] Speaker A: I don't know where he. Where the credit falls, you know, in terms of storytelling, stand up and how he ushered that or if he did Usher that, I don't know. But I would say he's the first one. One of the first things I jotted down was that he's got to be one of the first to openly make fun of white people. Right. Like that. I know we saw some of that with all in the Family and the Norman Lear films of that. Of this era. But, like, he's. He's out up on stage attacking, really giving it to white people. Right. Like, is there a comedian before this that would do that? Like, really make fun of white people? Might be just Flip Wilson shit. I'm not talking about that, you know? [01:11:34] Speaker C: Yeah. I don't know. I'm not a Yankee. [01:11:36] Speaker A: That, to me, is groundbreaking. Right. Like, breaking through that unspoken, like, deferential barrier the black comedians probably had to have back then where they could do their act. But, like, listen, don't take it too far. He just. He skewers white culture. And it's great. It is so well done. [01:11:53] Speaker B: Because you have to be great to be able to. [01:11:55] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:11:56] Speaker B: To do that. [01:11:56] Speaker A: I wish it is so well done. [01:11:58] Speaker C: I wish I hadn't done that voice, though. I'm still. He's still hearing it. [01:12:02] Speaker A: The white man voice. [01:12:03] Speaker B: I like white man. [01:12:03] Speaker A: I think he's really good. [01:12:04] Speaker B: Yeah, that. I got a kick out of that. [01:12:07] Speaker C: It's just like, God, it's still here 50 years later. Richard Pryor, you're responsible. [01:12:13] Speaker A: And really in Chappelle, too. You know how much Chappelle would say he's an influence on him. But, like, Chappelle's white man voice and everything is very similar to that. And Eddie Murphy, too. [01:12:23] Speaker C: That's funny. At one point he started doing a voice and I was like, that sounds like John Wayne. And then later on, he actually directly says John Wayne. [01:12:32] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [01:12:34] Speaker C: But a nice tie in with the Lawrence. [01:12:36] Speaker A: Yeah, that's why. When he pulled it out. Yeah. [01:12:39] Speaker C: But that was a week ago, I guess. [01:12:41] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [01:12:43] Speaker C: Glad to see. Still wearing. [01:12:45] Speaker B: Glad. Yeah. It looks. It looks. Still looks good on you. [01:12:47] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm wearing it every day. I've been wearing it brand new the past two weeks. So. Yeah. So, like, to see. And I never really. I think I'd seen some of. Live on Sunset Strip that made heavy rotation on HBO in the early 80s. So, like, if you had HBO or you saw HBO, you'd see a lot of that special. So I'm sure I. I watched some of that, but, like, I don't. I hadn't seen this one, I don't think. And I. The way he comes out and I know there was that thing, people weren't sitting down, like, and he just makes that part of the act, right? Like, that seemed like genuine, just riffing and being funny in a room where you're just playing off everything that's happening in a room. [01:13:26] Speaker B: And it was unbelievable. It almost seemed like he was backstage and they're like, no, don't go out yet. And he's like, fuck it, I'm starting. Yeah, you know? [01:13:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:13:33] Speaker B: And they're like, no, people aren't back [01:13:34] Speaker A: from their seats yet. [01:13:35] Speaker B: He's like, nah, I'm starting now. I'm gonna make this part of it. [01:13:38] Speaker A: And none of that, I don't think was prepared at all. [01:13:40] Speaker B: And he was brilliant in that. [01:13:42] Speaker A: And that made me think of, like, that's. That is the pinnacle of comedy to me. If you can walk into a room like that, a huge room or a stage, and you. You can just be funny with nothing [01:13:54] Speaker B: that you forgot, naturally take control. [01:13:55] Speaker A: You can naturally just play that room from right there. Improvising. That is fucking the best, highest form of comedy. [01:14:06] Speaker C: Could I be devil's advocate for a second? [01:14:08] Speaker A: Sure. [01:14:08] Speaker C: If you're Richard Pryor, you're already a mega star and you walk into the room. [01:14:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:14:14] Speaker C: It's easier than if you're Joey Shit Balls to nobody to get them laughing, but. Because they're just. Yeah, they're just primed. Because when he came in and started that, I didn't think that was particularly funny, to be honest. [01:14:30] Speaker A: Yeah, I thought it was, but I see what you're saying. It's kind of fish in a barrel. [01:14:35] Speaker C: Yeah, right. [01:14:36] Speaker A: But we're not the fish in the barrel watching it 40, how many years later? 50, 60 years later, we're just. We're appreciating it from. From. For what it is. And I actually did think it was funny, but I, I. Rather than say on stage and doing that, a person who can enter a room or a situation and just take over and be funny like that, that is the highest the art form can get to me. Because it's. It's real, it's true. It's in the moment. It's created right there. That's. That's what I was always thinking about and trying to chase was, can I make comedy right now without having ever really thought about it or prepared it? And most of the time you fail at it. [01:15:19] Speaker C: Right. [01:15:22] Speaker A: But people who can do that and do that well in almost every situation, that's. That's Impressive. And I thought about Stuart Lee when watching this, like, his ease with the audience and just. He just seems like he is himself and he's saying whatever he wants to say and it's going to come out funny. Right. Maybe it is all prepared. Right. I know the bits are thought out in advance, but it just seems with like within the bits with Richard Pryor and Stuart Lee and other great comedians, the bit is just a shell. And each time he performs it, it's going to be different. [01:15:53] Speaker C: Right. [01:15:54] Speaker A: It's not wordsmithed out like Jerry Seinfeld or like a lot of comedians where they're just repeating a script, you know? So I thought. I don't know if he introduced the storytelling, but this form that he's. He's using in a. In this special, and he's probably been doing it for years, but maybe not during Dynamite Chicken. It is. Is just having all these loose themes and he's going to talk about them. Some work better than others, but it's. It's going to be as honest as it can be without. [01:16:23] Speaker C: Is that why he's such a Matt Rife fan? [01:16:26] Speaker A: No, Matt Rife blows because he. He's maybe trying to do this or achieve comedy in the moment, but it's. It's forced, you know, it's not earnest, it's not genuine. So if it weren't for the ads that I had to sit through, everybody [01:16:49] Speaker B: that really had to disrupt the. [01:16:50] Speaker A: It really disrupted, like, it made it almost impossible. [01:16:53] Speaker B: And it's already a long special. [01:16:55] Speaker A: It's longer. [01:16:56] Speaker B: 20. [01:16:57] Speaker A: And. [01:16:58] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:16:58] Speaker A: And so that made it really hard. But even still, just having it on. And sometimes I was watching it, sometimes I was listening to it. I thought this was brilliance, this absolute brilliance, this comedy. It was physical. I know you don't like physical, but, like, it was physical in a way that I thought was. Was again, not forced, but just like him flopping. [01:17:19] Speaker B: Wasn't gratuitous. [01:17:20] Speaker A: Wasn't gratuitous. It was in the moment type stuff. [01:17:23] Speaker C: It seemed like I didn't watch it. [01:17:25] Speaker A: Oh, you just listened? [01:17:26] Speaker C: Yeah, I had it on a. On a Bluetooth speaker because I was stitching. Had the sewing machine out and I was stitching baseball hats for here. [01:17:35] Speaker A: Oh, really? Stitching them. What do you mean, stitching? What, like the patches or something? [01:17:39] Speaker C: Yeah, stitching the patches on. [01:17:42] Speaker A: Look at you. You're a renaissance. [01:17:44] Speaker C: I was like. So I was like. And then like, you couldn't really even watch it, right? Well, I would run into the office every now and again when I realized Something physical was happening, but it was already so broken up with adverts and listen, I think it's coming in and God knows what else I have to deal with. [01:18:05] Speaker A: I think I was a little judgmental. Maybe I didn't say it outwardly, but, like, I feel like you should sit down and watch these specials and take notes and. And I. That's what I've been doing for the most part, but I think I enjoy them. The last one, I sit there like a comedy auditor, you know, Then if I just have it on and I'm moving around doing stuff, I thought I [01:18:24] Speaker C: would not watch this one because it was released as an album. It won a Grammy. Oh, was thing right. So I was like, well, if it won a Grammy, I can surely listen to it then. [01:18:35] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [01:18:37] Speaker C: Can you tell you. I'll tell you what. When I left, he had no sweat stains. When I came back, I'm like, Jesus Christ. [01:18:46] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, those. Those just. Those grew the entire hour and 20. [01:18:51] Speaker A: That's my picture of him with the sweat stains. I was like, holy Lord. And then when I came in and saw you today and I saw that sweat stand in your back, because immediately I thought of like, this guy's working hard, like Richard Pryor. [01:19:01] Speaker C: But yeah, soaking through shirts. It didn't grab. It didn't gradually spread on me. [01:19:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:19:06] Speaker C: Like, I think I watched the first five minutes on thing and then I came back right at the end. I was like, [01:19:14] Speaker A: huh, yeah, he worked hard. [01:19:15] Speaker B: Yeah, he. [01:19:16] Speaker A: He wore. He gave people their money's worth. [01:19:19] Speaker B: How about the people in the front row dressed? The. The sharply dressed people. [01:19:25] Speaker A: I didn't. I couldn't see because my eyes weren't on it the whole time. But also I had it on the phone because I couldn't get it on the tv. [01:19:31] Speaker B: Oh, that's too bad. [01:19:34] Speaker A: So I missed some of those. [01:19:35] Speaker B: You know who I'm talking about then with the guy with the camera, the beginning. [01:19:37] Speaker A: Yeah, I saw that guy. [01:19:38] Speaker B: Yeah. Can you imagine that? [01:19:40] Speaker A: I thought he was a photographer. He looked like a photographer. [01:19:42] Speaker B: No, he was just some dude that had front row seats and brought a camera. Yeah, a little point and shoot with him. He just had the balls to get up there and just start taking pictures of the guy. And after he gets called out, he still doesn't go back to his seat. He's still there trying to take. [01:19:56] Speaker C: I would imagine Richard Pryor's crowd at this point is pretty. Pretty Jeff. And wild. [01:20:05] Speaker A: Wild. [01:20:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:20:06] Speaker C: I would think there are people that know this is. [01:20:08] Speaker B: Wasn't even a wild Sort of act, though. It was just like, get out of here, dude. [01:20:12] Speaker C: No, but his life was wild. [01:20:14] Speaker B: His comments, I mean. I mean, the, the act of taking the pictures, like, it wasn't like this guy was doing anything wild. It was just. He was just audacious. [01:20:22] Speaker A: To me, it didn't seem like that big of a deal, but when I looked, it looked like those seats in the front were empty and he was just alone up there. [01:20:27] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:20:29] Speaker B: He ends up in back in one of those seats. One of those seats in the front row. Yeah. Sitting next to his probably embarrassed girlfriend. [01:20:35] Speaker A: It's funny how Pryor says though, like, what the hell are you gonna do with that picture of Richard Pryor? I don't give a shit. [01:20:40] Speaker B: That's what I think about all the time now when I see people with phones in their hands, they're like, like, you'll be watching like the NBA finals and everybody's like running out of the locker room and people have got their phones in their hand. Like, you like, these are like thousands of dollar seats and this is a once in a lifetime experience. You're gonna watch it through a three and a half inch screen. And don't you see the cameras around? You can watch this at any time on a camera. What are you gonna do? Show this to you? You're gonna send this to somebody. They're gonna watch it on their phone. Who cares? Fucking look it. Look, it's right in front of you. [01:21:03] Speaker C: Well, they're gonna text the picture. [01:21:04] Speaker B: Exactly. And for. And then you just missed it. You missed the whole thing. [01:21:07] Speaker A: And you know what? On the receiving end, nobody wants that video. [01:21:10] Speaker B: Nobody wants. Nobody's gonna look at it. [01:21:11] Speaker A: Nobody wants to video concert. [01:21:13] Speaker B: Right. You're not gonna play it. Yeah. Because you're doing something and you're busy and that person texts you the photo and you go, oh, great, thanks. Meanwhile, you just missed this whole experience. [01:21:21] Speaker C: Thanks for sending me a really bad audio clip of Ray. [01:21:24] Speaker B: Yeah. Something that great. Something that I could look up and see professionally on YouTube anytime I want. For free. [01:21:30] Speaker A: Yeah, nobody wants that. Nobody wants, like, hey, look at my vacation. Right. Like, hey, look at the show I'm at. That you're not at. [01:21:36] Speaker B: Yeah, right, Exactly. Fuck you. [01:21:38] Speaker A: All right. [01:21:38] Speaker B: Yeah. Right? Yeah. Okay, great, good. I hope you have a good time. [01:21:41] Speaker A: But now I think about, I did that with the Mike D show. I sent that video a couple people and they didn't respond. And I don't blame. Yeah, they didn't want this. [01:21:50] Speaker C: No. Sometimes I will. In defense of the people that do that, Sometimes it's like I've sent texted pictures of a concert I'm at to a mate of mine who's in New Hampshire because it's an old, like, 90s act. [01:22:08] Speaker B: Sure. [01:22:09] Speaker C: And I'll. Like I said, I was at super. [01:22:11] Speaker A: Who's this mate? New Hampshire. I'm from New Hampshire. [01:22:14] Speaker C: Mr. Greg. [01:22:15] Speaker B: Do you know Mr. Greg? [01:22:19] Speaker A: Are you talking about the stand up comedian Greg? [01:22:23] Speaker C: No, I'm talking about Mr. Greg. He used to do the sound at Red Lion. So you've met him, I'm guessing. [01:22:30] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, I kind of do remember him. He's in New Hampshire. Where in New Hampshire? [01:22:36] Speaker C: I think one of the Manchesters, but there's about two. [01:22:38] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, man. [01:22:38] Speaker A: That's where Sandler's from. No, I was thinking of Greg Mills. [01:22:41] Speaker C: No, no, Mills. Where the hell is Greg from? [01:22:45] Speaker B: Well, while we try to say running lower end. [01:22:49] Speaker C: All right, I text him a picture of Supergrass because I'm like, hey, can you believe it? Caught by the force. [01:22:54] Speaker B: But when you do that, is it a. Is it a quick picture? [01:22:57] Speaker C: Yeah, it's just click. [01:22:58] Speaker B: Yeah. Right. You're not missing the show because you're watching it through your phone. Right? That's a completely different thing. [01:23:02] Speaker C: Yeah, that's mental. All right, carrying on. [01:23:06] Speaker A: Well, do you think that he introduced the. The term not. I'm sure that existed, but the way he said it like this, this. I think he was the first one to say this. [01:23:18] Speaker B: He might. Maybe he popularized it. [01:23:19] Speaker A: Yeah, he popularized such a part of the lexicon. Now. [01:23:24] Speaker B: I like how he says Jack. I want to start saying that. [01:23:26] Speaker A: That was going to be my rating scale. [01:23:28] Speaker B: Oh, really? [01:23:28] Speaker A: It was how many Jacks? [01:23:30] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [01:23:31] Speaker A: I'd like to start saying it too. [01:23:32] Speaker B: Like, let's start. [01:23:32] Speaker A: Let's. [01:23:33] Speaker B: Let's give it a go. [01:23:33] Speaker A: Yeah. So we're going to, we're going to work in suck you up, Jack. [01:23:37] Speaker B: Yeah, I was like, looking for somebody to suck you up, Jack. [01:23:41] Speaker A: Someone come suck you up, Jack. [01:23:45] Speaker B: This is gonna be great. [01:23:48] Speaker A: Well, what else do we say about Richard Pryor that, you know, that you couldn't already say? I mean, is he's on Mount Rushmore? Yeah. If there's five faces on Mount Rushmore of comedy, is Richard Pryor one of them? Go yes or no? [01:24:07] Speaker C: Not for me personally. [01:24:08] Speaker A: Not for you personally, but I'm not talking about personally. I'm saying, like, does he make Mount [01:24:12] Speaker C: Rushmore as an important figure of comedy? He would be up there in the top five. Yes. [01:24:18] Speaker B: Yeah. I feel like whenever I listen to a podcaster or Somebody with a large audience that's in the comedy world and they mention all the greatest comics ever. His name is in the conversation. [01:24:29] Speaker A: So why is he, in your opinion? Not necessarily. You agree with it, but what, what makes him such a great comedian? [01:24:38] Speaker C: I personally don't think he's an amazingly great comedian, but looking at this, he is clearly the foundation of modern black comedy and that makes him. [01:24:53] Speaker A: But would you also call him the foundation of just modern, modern long form stand up comedy? [01:24:59] Speaker C: No, because I'm English, so I don't. [01:25:02] Speaker A: So would you say American stand up comedy, not black? [01:25:05] Speaker C: Well, Stuart Lee says there's only, there's two art forms that America invented, jazz and stand up comedy. So if Stuart Lee says it, I know it's right. I have to agree. [01:25:17] Speaker A: Okay, yeah. It's hard for me to know because he's. He. My comedy consciousness was birthed after him. So I think he's so great because he's so what? I mean, he's great. His material is great, his delivery is great. His physical comedy is great. His does impressions, voices, his body parts talk, all that. He does so many different things. But it's. To me, it's because he's natural. He's just so natural. [01:25:45] Speaker C: Right. [01:25:45] Speaker A: Like he can stumble over things or like stop mess up what it just, he's going, he's, he's genuine. Seems like, you know, more than any fucking comedian, like even in admitting is his vulnerabilities or the things he's, you know, his insecurities. Right. Like he lays all that out. He's, he's, he's as real as a comic as I've ever seen. [01:26:13] Speaker C: Massively ahead of the curve, socially wise. I mean, he talked about how rape is dehumanizing. And this is in the late 70s where they were. Most comedians would have been joking about it as a. Just a thing that happens, right. Talks about police brutality, talks about obviously working class issues and blah, blah, blah. So is that possibly ahead of the curve there? [01:26:38] Speaker A: Right, yeah, yeah, no, I mean, I was writing down like George Floyd, like the way he talked about police brutality. Yeah, I mean all this stuff is not irrelevant now. It's timeless type of stuff. Unfortunately, some of it. Yeah. [01:26:54] Speaker C: I'm assuming in America still at this point you could get arrested as you walk off stage for saying something the cops don't like. [01:27:02] Speaker A: Yeah, probably at this point. Yeah. Well, I don't know. And they kind of go out with Lenny Bruce and they tuck tail after that 70s. I mean, late 70s. [01:27:11] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:27:13] Speaker A: I love the. You'll say Because I love all things sex. I thought the sex humor that he did, you know, was so good. I mean, it wasn't terribly dirty, but it just really. Well, but like, you know, the making love with a woman and. Yeah, I just thought that was great. Being men, being macho. [01:27:37] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Is that. Is this where everyone started? I remember when I was a kid and like, everybody that would have been in their 20s when this came out would say, and I know macho man, Randy Savage was one thing, but the macho man thing, like, I remember, like, my dad and my uncle saying it, you know, Is this what popularized that? Was it special? [01:27:55] Speaker C: It's too late. Because Village People had a song called. [01:27:59] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [01:27:59] Speaker A: Yeah, that. [01:28:01] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [01:28:03] Speaker A: The term was around already. Yeah, I. I laughed out loud at different points. I laughed really hard. [01:28:11] Speaker B: Yeah, so did I. [01:28:11] Speaker A: A lot of the stuff. [01:28:12] Speaker B: That's some long repeating laughter. [01:28:15] Speaker A: Yeah, that doesn't happen a lot. [01:28:17] Speaker B: No, it doesn't. It's very rare. [01:28:19] Speaker A: But I think too, like the. The community we reviewed last week, Ms. Pat, right, owes a debt. Not a debt necessarily, but you could see the influence of someone like Richard Pryor just in terms of how vulnerable her material is or not. They keep saying that, but, like, how real and raw and like, you know, characterizing their life is. I think she borrows from that as well. [01:28:45] Speaker C: Well, if you. If you're a comedian, you. That's what I always tell younger comedians when. Then they just get absorbed into comedy. So they're just going to open mics and hanging out and talking about comedy, and it's like you got nothing to talk about on stage. I'm not saying run around setting fire to your balls and, you know, doing. But I'm saying, you. Comedy just has to be the offshoot of it. Because you look at Ms. Pat and you look at Richard Pryor and you think, yeah, they led the same existence. [01:29:21] Speaker A: Yeah, but I. The difference, I think, is their willingness to lay it all bare. Whereas today's comedians, younger comedians that I've seen, they want to talk about their problems, their whole. And the whole act, like, about how bad their life is, but they never get really to the rawness of what's making them so miserable. Right. It's just. It's not. It's just whining, right. It's not really admitting or acknowledging these things. And back then, like, someone like him, he. He was doing it then, and Ms. Pat does it. That's the thing I liked most about her was it was raw. This is raw. Eddie Murphy special raw, right. Supposed to be raw. All right, Jack. [01:30:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:30:08] Speaker A: What do you say, Jack? [01:30:09] Speaker B: Hey, Jack makes me think of also what's his name? God damn it. What's the Seinfeld episode where Jerry has the friend that has cancer? Well, everyone thinks he has cancer, but he doesn't have cancer. Jon Lovitz plays the guy. You know the one I'm talking about with the wig? [01:30:28] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah. He's got the fake wig. [01:30:30] Speaker B: He's calling everybody Jack. He's like, watch this. Jack [01:30:33] Speaker A: Lovetz is great. We gotta get a Lovett's in here. I get to pick today. [01:30:37] Speaker B: Yeah, that's right. [01:30:38] Speaker A: I think you're gonna be very excited. [01:30:40] Speaker B: We've got two minutes left on here. [01:30:41] Speaker C: Yep. [01:30:42] Speaker B: All right. [01:30:43] Speaker A: All right, let's give it jacks. Out of five Jacks, how many jacks is Richard Pryor live? Yeah, how many? I love Jack speeds. How many Richard Pryor live in concert, 1979 Jacks. Do you give it? Well, this was Christian's choice, so we'll start with Mark. [01:30:59] Speaker C: I'll give it three Jacks and a Jill, which is three and a half. [01:31:02] Speaker A: Three and a half out of five Jacks. Okay, that's. You're gonna have to explain that rating for me anyway, because I feel like it deserved better. What didn't hit for you with this special? Because One and a half. [01:31:20] Speaker C: I just think I like the freneticness of it. [01:31:22] Speaker A: Frenetic? Yeah. [01:31:23] Speaker C: Yeah. Okay. [01:31:25] Speaker A: It was scattered. I wouldn't call it frenetic. I don't think he had that kind of fast pace. Yeah, but it was scattered, I guess. A little scatological. I like that. [01:31:34] Speaker C: I'm not doing it just to be uppity. [01:31:36] Speaker A: Yeah, all right. [01:31:37] Speaker C: It's my honest. [01:31:38] Speaker B: All right. [01:31:39] Speaker A: Bill me. I'm. Listen, I don't know any. Any certificates are going on the wall today, but this is as good of stand up comedy as I think you'll ever see. If you had to put one example of it into a time capsule for the Martians. Right. Or the aliens that take over the world. I think this is it. This could be it. [01:31:59] Speaker C: The Library of Congress have put it into there. [01:32:01] Speaker A: Oh, is that like a big thing? Like. [01:32:03] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:32:04] Speaker A: I wonder how many are actually in the Library of Congress. Yeah. This is certainly not without flaws, but to me, it's the imperfections, the warts, the scatteredness of it, the beauty and truth here that make it so good. I'm giving it fucking five Jackson six gels. [01:32:31] Speaker B: So that's eight and one. [01:32:32] Speaker A: Willie's remedy Smoke. I'm giving it all the Jacks. [01:32:38] Speaker B: Yeah. I'm giving it the same score. The reason being for something very similar. I've given two perfect scores so far to Seinfeld and to John Mulaney. And. And I was never a Richard Pryor watcher growing up. I. And I'm glad I never watched a special until now because I wouldn't have have gotten it like I was able to get it when I watched it today. I just wouldn't have understood it, and I would have passed it off and I never would have been able to appreciate it. And to give this special anything less than a five would just say. And I. I really. I'm surprised to give it a five because I wasn't going into this expecting it, but to give it anything less would be to say that I didn't enjoy it as much as a Seinfeld or a Mulaney, and that's just simply not the case. [01:33:21] Speaker A: Yeah, I agree with you. I think when I first was exposed to Richard Pryor, maybe you too, Mark, at 16, I couldn't appreciate this humor for whatever reason, you know, and now I see it in a whole different way. I mean, we watch a lot of comedy now with something different every week. This was. This was needed for me. [01:33:42] Speaker B: Yeah, right. [01:33:43] Speaker A: To. To have my faith restored in it. So maybe every so often we've got to reach back into the greatest hits archives, the vaults. [01:33:51] Speaker B: Right. Or whatever. [01:33:52] Speaker A: For. For ones that, you know, hold the standard. [01:33:55] Speaker B: We need your recommendation in 15 seconds. [01:33:57] Speaker A: I already gave it. I give it all the j. [01:33:58] Speaker B: No, no, no, no. Not your rating. 30 seconds. [01:34:00] Speaker A: Next week, we're going to be watching Kumail Nani Night Moves on Hulu, and I'm bringing a special Gu. [01:34:18] Speaker C: Lord. [01:34:24] Speaker D: As honest one.