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Speaker 1: live episode at the l A Podcast Festival and uh,

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Speaker 1: on Rodney Dangerfield. It was September nineteen fifteen. The Sophie

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Speaker 1: to our show. We do this normally, but um, it's

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Speaker 1: a stack of money waiting outside, Mr Monopolies hanging out outside? Okay, So, um,

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Speaker 1: to work up a heavy sweat because Rodney Dangerfield is

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Speaker 1: Got everything else covered? Thanks you guys familiar with the

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Speaker 1: one Mr Rodney Dangerfield. Yeah that's good. I'm glad to

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Speaker 1: hear that he's a an increasingly underappreciated comedian. Like I've

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Speaker 1: I was actually talking to someone who works here at

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Speaker 1: That's the cool thing about the guy like he that

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Speaker 1: very nice, hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark,

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Speaker 1: There's Charles W. Chuckers Bryant, and we are here at

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Speaker 1: l A Pop Fest and uh all you lovely people,

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Speaker 1: give yourselves a hand. Thank Is that better you feel

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Speaker 1: a little more? You guys happy with that too? Okay? Um, well,

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Speaker 1: now we have to start over people. How many people

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Speaker 1: have seen Back to School? Great start? So, as we

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Speaker 1: Rodney Dajerfield was just stand there and be like, you

425
00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:20,879
Speaker 1: want me to do my bit? Now, Like that's what

426
00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:23,359
Speaker 1: action means, right, do your bit? And uh So then

427
00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:25,119
Speaker 1: Rodney would just turn to the camera and like do

428
00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:28,159
Speaker 1: his whole bit into the camera. He's like, hold on,

429
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:30,439
Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta get this right here, so pretend

430
00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:33,680
Speaker 1: the camera's not there one and um, he finally got

431
00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:35,239
Speaker 1: to do it because that was the thing that just

432
00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:38,880
Speaker 1: broke him out. Yeah, and he hated making movies. Um,

433
00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:41,560
Speaker 1: Like you said, he loved performing live in front of

434
00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,000
Speaker 1: people and that's where he got his his rush. And

435
00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:46,840
Speaker 1: he once compared making movies to um. He said, like

436
00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:48,480
Speaker 1: you know when you make a kid write something a

437
00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:50,800
Speaker 1: hundred times on the chalkboard and they've done something wrong,

438
00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:53,439
Speaker 1: He's like, that's what making the movies like, he hated

439
00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:57,320
Speaker 1: doing all these takes. He hated standing around and waiting. Uh,

440
00:23:57,320 --> 00:23:58,960
Speaker 1: that's why he didn't make a ton of him. And

441
00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:02,240
Speaker 1: he felt like the live audience is like he compared

442
00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:04,479
Speaker 1: it to a heroin attic, like shooting up. You know,

443
00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:07,720
Speaker 1: like he just loved that rush. And uh, he definitely

444
00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:10,200
Speaker 1: didn't get that from movies, which I mean you got

445
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:13,200
Speaker 1: like the crew standing around looking at you, waiting for lunch.

446
00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:14,920
Speaker 1: You know, it wasn't his bag at all. It was

447
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,800
Speaker 1: not his bag. Uh. You found this um description from

448
00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:23,200
Speaker 1: Rolling Stone editor Ben Fong Torres, which I think describes

449
00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:27,000
Speaker 1: him like to a t. Do you want to read that?

450
00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:30,840
Speaker 1: S okay? So Ben Fong Torres, who was in almost

451
00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:36,440
Speaker 1: famous Uh he Uh, he had a quote he says, Uh,

452
00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:39,880
Speaker 1: Rodney Deserfield looks like a midlife crisis. There's a surface

453
00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:42,879
Speaker 1: orderliness he's groomed, and he's dressed like a businessman at

454
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Speaker 1: a convention. Gray hair slicked back over a haggard shades

455
00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:51,440
Speaker 1: of mayor daily face. Dark suit, white shirt, bright red tie, silk,

456
00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:55,359
Speaker 1: silk stockings, shiny shoes. But the neatness gives way to

457
00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:58,600
Speaker 1: what he calls the heaviness that looms over him. Life

458
00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:02,080
Speaker 1: gives Rodney Dangerfield the He's in a constant sweat. He

459
00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:05,280
Speaker 1: wipes his brow incessantly, tugs at his tie, herky jerky

460
00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:07,800
Speaker 1: as he recounts the horrors of his daily life. He

461
00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:10,800
Speaker 1: shifts his shoulders uncomfortably, and his eyes bug out of

462
00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:13,919
Speaker 1: their bags. He moves the floor, mic around as he

463
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,160
Speaker 1: roams the comedy store stage looking for sympathy, but all

464
00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:21,239
Speaker 1: he gets their laughs. I just think that's fantastic man.

465
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:25,480
Speaker 1: He nailed Rodney dangerfielding absolutely and his shirt and tie

466
00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:30,080
Speaker 1: that came about because well, he hated clothes in fashion. Yeah,

467
00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:31,720
Speaker 1: let's just go ahead and say that. I think it's

468
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:35,000
Speaker 1: time he was a slab. He was a slab, he

469
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:37,199
Speaker 1: said in interviews how much he hated clothes, so he

470
00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:40,560
Speaker 1: never cared about clothes and fashion and was comfortable in

471
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Speaker 1: a robe. Basically and uh. But for one of his

472
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:46,480
Speaker 1: first acts, he put on the red tie in the

473
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:49,119
Speaker 1: black suit and like dressed all dapper, and when it

474
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Speaker 1: came for the second performance, he was like, well, they

475
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:54,560
Speaker 1: liked me in that, so I'm just gonna wear that.

476
00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:57,520
Speaker 1: And that became his stick. Was you know, this very

477
00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:00,639
Speaker 1: dapper looking guy who's always a very will put together.

478
00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:03,800
Speaker 1: In fact, I just saw earlier today, um, when he

479
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:06,840
Speaker 1: gave out a Best Makeup award at the think eight

480
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 1: seven Academy Awards. Yeah, and he and he walked up

481
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:12,639
Speaker 1: and he said, hey, nice tuxed to everybody, right, and

482
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 1: he went underneath torn under shorts. You get this feeling

483
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,280
Speaker 1: that like that was the dead truth. Yeah, probably had

484
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:24,040
Speaker 1: like holy underwear. You should look at it too. Man.

485
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:27,680
Speaker 1: That's great because he basically does five minutes of stand

486
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:31,000
Speaker 1: up at the Academy Awards and it gives out an award.

487
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:34,639
Speaker 1: So iron Man versus dirty dancing. Yeah, take some notes

488
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:38,440
Speaker 1: and then some danger fields stuff. Um, should we take

489
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Speaker 1: a break here, Chuck, take an ad break? Yeah, yeah,

490
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512
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:16,320
Speaker 1: told you that would work. So he makes Caddy Shack huge,

513
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 1: huge hit. Um, he's allowed to kind of just do

514
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,639
Speaker 1: his thing in that movie. And I'm sure most people

515
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 1: have seen that classic comedy, which Josh said would stink

516
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,480
Speaker 1: if it weren't for Rodney Dangerfield and m Bill Murray.

517
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:29,840
Speaker 1: The rest of it. It's like a tepid coming of

518
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:36,880
Speaker 1: age dramedy sucks. Ted Knight he was fine, but I mean,

519
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 1: you can watch too close for Comfort and get just

520
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 1: as much as you want. You know, I just don't

521
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 1: think it needs to be in the movie. I think

522
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 1: it was Bill Murray and Rodney Dangerfield That's what made

523
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:50,440
Speaker 1: Caddy Shack a classic. Chevy Chase tada. You know how

524
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 1: I feel about Chevy Chase. My father raised me to

525
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:57,239
Speaker 1: hate Chevy Chase. Did he really? He really did? Your

526
00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 1: dad didn't like him? Oh man, still does not like

527
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,600
Speaker 1: Chevy Chase. Why. I just didn't think he's funny or

528
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 1: he thought, yeah yeah, something about Chevy Chase sticks in

529
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 1: my dad's crawl and he passed it on me. Isn't

530
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 1: that weird? It is totally weird. That's what you get

531
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 1: when your dad's not a vaudevillian. They pass on weird

532
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 1: stuff like that to you, you know. So, Uh, he

533
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 1: makes Caddyshack. It was a huge hit. Now he was

534
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:26,240
Speaker 1: a legitimate Uh, he was sought after for movies. Uh.

535
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 1: And then a nineteen three he wrote a movie called

536
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 1: Easy Money. Uh. Where's anybody seen that? Anyway, it's actually

537
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 1: pretty cool movie. It's not bad. It's a little weird structurally,

538
00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 1: which kind of makes sense that he wrote it, because

539
00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 1: he clearly did not how to write it right a scratch,

540
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 1: you know, how to write a bunch of good jokes though.

541
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 1: So he played Monty Capelletti, an Italian American drunk pothead,

542
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,520
Speaker 1: uh baby photographer because because this is back in the

543
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 1: early eighties when anyone of any ethnicity could play any

544
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 1: one of another ethnicity, right, because he was Hungarian born,

545
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 1: but hey, play an Italian guy. It's cool. Uh. So

546
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 1: in the movie, his mother in law was the inspiration

547
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 1: for twin beds and uh hated her son in law.

548
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 1: And when she died, she said, all right, you can

549
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 1: have all this money, Um if for one year, I

550
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 1: think like ten million bucks, if for one year you

551
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 1: quit gambling and boozing and smoking and uh and doing drugs.

552
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:24,440
Speaker 1: So easy money was you know I had Joe Pesci

553
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 1: it was it was okay, right, Like the first half

554
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:30,200
Speaker 1: of this movie is just a series of vignettes to

555
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 1: where he just completely screws everything up and like that

556
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 1: your stomachs all upset and everything, and like you're really emotional,

557
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 1: and then nothing comes of it whatsoever. Right, and then

558
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 1: finally halfway through the plot arrives and then it gets

559
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:48,520
Speaker 1: kind of good. Actually, yeah, I agreed. Yeah, a lot

560
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:50,800
Speaker 1: of build up, not a lot of payoff in that one.

561
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 1: But one Roger Ebert uh like the movie, even though

562
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:58,280
Speaker 1: it was a little weird, and said, uh, basically the

563
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 1: movie was about watching Ronney danger beale. He said, Rodney

564
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:04,200
Speaker 1: Dangerfield gloriously playing himself as the nearest thing we were

565
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 1: likely to get to W. C. Fields in this lifetime. Uh.

566
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 1: And Rodney himself said that it was that was pretty

567
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 1: much me on screen. That's as close as you can

568
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 1: come to my real life in Easy Money. Yeah right, Yeah,

569
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:21,200
Speaker 1: he's a maybe photographer. So nineteen six is when he

570
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:24,240
Speaker 1: finally makes back to school, which was his biggest hit.

571
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:29,000
Speaker 1: I think it costs like million to eleven million a

572
00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 1: gross swell over a hundred million um, which in nineteen

573
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 1: eighties six. I mean today that's still good money. And

574
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:40,440
Speaker 1: today dollars, that's a hundred fifty billion dollars. It's inflation

575
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 1: for you, right. Uh. And uh, this one he played,

576
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 1: he he had the idea. I think he got a

577
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 1: story credit of a guy, a father that goes back

578
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 1: to school. He was a big loser in life, so

579
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 1: he goes back to school with his son to get

580
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 1: his degree. And he and he told that idea to

581
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:56,560
Speaker 1: Harold Ramos and he was like, that's good. But what

582
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 1: if he was rich. What if he was wealthy and

583
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 1: had it all and still goes back to school like

584
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 1: knowing what he knows now with a lot of money,

585
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 1: And and Riney was like, Okay, that's the movie. Yeah,

586
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 1: it's a good idea, and it actually, I mean that

587
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 1: was a huge movie when it came out. It was

588
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:14,960
Speaker 1: the sixth biggest movie of n six. That was behind

589
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 1: Top Gun, Platoon, Karate Kid, to Star Trek four, and

590
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:25,080
Speaker 1: there's one other one that's written down somewhere and here,

591
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 1: but they were big movies. And it was like the

592
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Speaker 1: six highest grossing movie of the year. And it's Rodney Dangerfield,

593
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 1: right yeah, And so he has hit it big at

594
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:38,120
Speaker 1: this time and is a huge, huge movie star and

595
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 1: in the in the biggest comic. I think they did

596
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:42,800
Speaker 1: a survey in the late seventies right before his movies

597
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 1: with college students that said that they were Rodney Dangerfield

598
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 1: was their favorite comic and he was sixty one years old,

599
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 1: fifty eight years old. Same thing basically was when he

600
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 1: hit it big as a comedian. Fifty eight years old, right,

601
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 1: and like, college kids are like into this guy. And actually,

602
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 1: if you've seen if all you've seen back to school,

603
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:06,960
Speaker 1: if that's all you've seen of Rodney danger Phil, you

604
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 1: don't quite have the the understanding of what he was

605
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 1: actually like. He was pretty edgy comic actually, and pretty hilarious,

606
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:16,680
Speaker 1: and college kids loved him. In the seventies, he hosted

607
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 1: Sarah Live in when when he was I think like

608
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 1: sixty or something fifty nine, um, and he started to

609
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 1: blow up like at about age sixty. Isn't that crazy? Uh?

610
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:29,480
Speaker 1: Should we tell a few more of his favorite jokes?

611
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: I think it's high time now to you guys. We'll

612
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 1: go over a few of these. Uh. He has a

613
00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:37,600
Speaker 1: great joke about his psychiatrists. I told my psychiatrist that

614
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 1: everyone hates me. And he said, I was being ridiculous.

615
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:47,479
Speaker 1: Everyone hasn't met me yet. Classic. Uh, let's see. Uh,

616
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:50,239
Speaker 1: I like this one. It's a little brow, but I

617
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:54,040
Speaker 1: like it. You know what classes when you were alone,

618
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 1: you far you say, excuse me, that's class. That weird.

619
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Speaker 1: So if you haven't noticed, a lot of his jokes

620
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:08,040
Speaker 1: were they were self deprecating for himself, but also about

621
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:10,880
Speaker 1: his family. He talked about his wife was dumb and fat,

622
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:14,520
Speaker 1: and his son it was stupid. Uh. And even when

623
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 1: he wasn't I mean, it was all a character. So

624
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:18,439
Speaker 1: even when he wasn't married, he was telling jokes about

625
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 1: his wife, which must have made it a lot easier

626
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 1: when he went home. And I probably so. But one

627
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:27,279
Speaker 1: of my favorite wife jokes was, I tell you my

628
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 1: wife can't cook at all? How can toast have bones?

629
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:36,239
Speaker 1: And and your impression is getting better as well. I'm

630
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:40,319
Speaker 1: drinking whiskey, so I'm not saying that all of us.

631
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:44,680
Speaker 1: Let's see, I've got one. Um. So this is so

632
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 1: like I said, it's a little weird, and I like

633
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 1: that in a comic, just just bizarre stuff. Um. He

634
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 1: was talking about the bar that he was doing stand

635
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 1: up in that night. Says what did joint. I asked

636
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 1: the bartender for a double and he brought out a

637
00:34:57,040 --> 00:35:02,320
Speaker 1: guy who looks like me. And those days, man, where

638
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 1: comedians just wrote great jokes, set up punchlines, set up

639
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:10,279
Speaker 1: punchline over and over. Yeah, I'll tell you a drink

640
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 1: too much. The last time I went to the doctor,

641
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:13,719
Speaker 1: I gave him a yurine sample. I had an olive

642
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:20,719
Speaker 1: in it. Classic. And then another thing I've learned about

643
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 1: Rodney Danger Hilman. You go back and listen to his stuff.

644
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 1: He wasn't like mean, He was self deprecating. Even when

645
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 1: he was targeting like his family, mostly non existent family,

646
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 1: all of it reflected back on him and basically what

647
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:35,719
Speaker 1: a loser he was, right, um, And he didn't have

648
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 1: very many mean jokes. He didn't tell like many gay jokes.

649
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:41,839
Speaker 1: He he didn't tell racist jokes anything like that. Which

650
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:44,719
Speaker 1: and this is like in the seventies when like everybody

651
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:47,400
Speaker 1: was telling jokes like that, Right, But he did have

652
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:51,040
Speaker 1: this bat joke that stuck out to me. Are you fat?

653
00:35:51,400 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 1: Do you look at the menu and say, okay, I

654
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:07,320
Speaker 1: love love getting laughs from Ronnie Daserfields chocks we should

655
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 1: just do this was about to say, I think we

656
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:11,879
Speaker 1: have a new act. You should know one day talk

657
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:17,560
Speaker 1: about a rush. I got one more. I'll tell you

658
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 1: I was dating a woman. She called and said, come

659
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 1: on over. Nobody's home. I went over and nobody was home.

660
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 1: Good stuff. I have a new career reading Rodney Dangerfield chokes.

661
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 1: That's the whole. No one's done that cover comedians, Oh Man, Sharknado,

662
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 1: and now this you're all aware of? Chuck predicted Sharknado.

663
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 1: Right he did. You're welcome. Okay, no more, you got

664
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:52,879
Speaker 1: any more? You like the one about his dog, tell

665
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 1: that one? Okay, all right? My dog is lazy. He's

666
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 1: so lazy. He doesn't chase cars. He just lays in

667
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:06,399
Speaker 1: the driveway taking own license plates. All right, So now

668
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 1: we're in Uh, it's a nut stop last. In the

669
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 1: early nineteen eighties, he's making these movies. He won Best

670
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:17,279
Speaker 1: Comedy Album Grammy for the album No Respect, beating out

671
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 1: Richard Pryor, Monty Python, Gilda Radner, and father Guido Sarducci. Uh.

672
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:26,279
Speaker 1: And in nineteen eighty two, the Smithsonian Institution put his

673
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 1: red tie and his shirt uh in the Smithsonian Uh,

674
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 1: the American History National Museum of American History. Uh. Right,

675
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:38,640
Speaker 1: along with Jimmy Dranny's hat, Archie Bunker's recliner, and Charles

676
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 1: Lindbergh's plane. But the joke Bridden, he said, was he

677
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 1: got a feeling after they left they were just gonna

678
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:49,240
Speaker 1: use the shirt to wipe down the plane. Always self deprecating. Yeah, Andy,

679
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:51,160
Speaker 1: And when he handed him the shirt, he said, this

680
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:53,440
Speaker 1: is a big, big deal. I only have two shirts,

681
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:57,840
Speaker 1: which may have been true. Uh. And also in the

682
00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 1: nineteen eighties, Um, who remembers the Miller Lete commercials from

683
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties tastes great less spelling. That man back

684
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 1: there has his hand up the best, right. They were

685
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:11,239
Speaker 1: great commercials. They were named it was like named the

686
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 1: eight best advertising campaign in history. Uh, from McCann ericson

687
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 1: the ad agency. And uh I went and watched a

688
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 1: ton of them earlier today, and uh I remember them

689
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 1: all from being a little kid, and it was weird.

690
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:26,839
Speaker 1: They were. Um, for those of you who haven't seen them,

691
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 1: the premise was you would get a bunch of ex

692
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:35,800
Speaker 1: athletes and then Mickey Spillane and Rodney Dangerfield and some

693
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 1: other random pop cultural icons at the time and to

694
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:42,080
Speaker 1: sell Miller Lite and you know, getting a big argument

695
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:44,280
Speaker 1: about tastes great and less felling. At the end. Rodney

696
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 1: would usually come in as the ship who does something

697
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:50,880
Speaker 1: wrong to spoil everything. It was just such a weird

698
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 1: like Bubba Smith and Dick Buckus and baseball players. I

699
00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:59,280
Speaker 1: don't know, it was so strange, but they were huge

700
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:01,320
Speaker 1: and they he was the one who could score the

701
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 1: weed for everybody else. They him. They led him on

702
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 1: uh January. Um, if anyone remembers his hit rap single

703
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:17,439
Speaker 1: rapping Rodney, have you guys heard this? Really? It's something

704
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 1: else it is And it was a big hit. Actually

705
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:23,960
Speaker 1: it was a top sixty hit, just pretty big, top

706
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 1: top fifty nine, Chuck, give it its du That means

707
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:31,920
Speaker 1: it was number fifty nine. Yeah, yeah. So um it

708
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 1: was right behind Uptown Girl. And it was Rodney Dangerfield

709
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 1: rapping about being old, which sounds really bizarre now, but

710
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:43,040
Speaker 1: like legitimate rappers at the time, like say the sugar

711
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 1: Hill Gang, we're rapping about like having dinner at your

712
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,719
Speaker 1: friend's mom's house. So it wasn't that far off the

713
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 1: mark for the time. You know, it's like being nice

714
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 1: to your family. That's what raps were about. It the

715
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:57,440
Speaker 1: good old days. Uh. He was on the Simpsons, I

716
00:39:57,480 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 1: think a couple of times. Whitney, Um, yeah, I don't

717
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:04,719
Speaker 1: know if he was on more than once. I think

718
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:08,360
Speaker 1: he's on twice. But in he played Mr Burns, illegitimate

719
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 1: sun herb who got no regard, no regard at all.

720
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:15,160
Speaker 1: I wonder why they didn't say respect to day Not.

721
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 1: I think there was just a joke, messing around. Okay, yeah,

722
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 1: the man himself was there. I would have been surprised

723
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 1: if he was like, look, guys, just one thing, I

724
00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 1: don't want to say respect? Maybe not? Can we just

725
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:28,799
Speaker 1: avoid on trying new things here? Trying to branch out,

726
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:30,440
Speaker 1: which actually he did branch out. He was actually a

727
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:33,919
Speaker 1: really creative guy. Um. He had a live Broadway show

728
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 1: that ran for a couple of weeks in called appropriately

729
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:42,040
Speaker 1: Um Rodney Daingerfield Live on Broadway exclamation point. For a

730
00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:47,600
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. He wrote a romance novel, uh called

731
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:50,640
Speaker 1: La Contessa. And if you google the image for this, um,

732
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:55,040
Speaker 1: it's it's disturbing. Yeah, it's basically like uh, your typical.

733
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,880
Speaker 1: It was like it's fabio basically with a woman, except

734
00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 1: it's got Rodney Dangerfield's face on it. Uh. And and

735
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:05,320
Speaker 1: it's available on Audible. Oh is it really Yes, it

736
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:08,640
Speaker 1: is with Rodney Dangerfield reading it. No way, I I

737
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 1: kid you not what I joke about. What's on Audible?

738
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 1: Well his I looked up earlier to see if his

739
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:18,440
Speaker 1: autoback autobiography was on there. It is not. It's the

740
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:22,279
Speaker 1: only Rodney Dangerfield thing on there. It's awesome because it

741
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:25,320
Speaker 1: has the album mark too, so you get that for

742
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:31,239
Speaker 1: free with the audiobook he wrote. Uh, and I guess

743
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:33,880
Speaker 1: he didn't direct it, but he produced and wrote the

744
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:38,440
Speaker 1: movie Rover danger Field, the animated UM classic about a

745
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:42,680
Speaker 1: dog who gets no respect. And then, uh, Mr Oliver

746
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:45,160
Speaker 1: Stone called him up one day and said, I had

747
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:47,840
Speaker 1: this role for you in a movie UM called Natural

748
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:51,480
Speaker 1: Born Killers, and it's about this sadistic father who was

749
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 1: molesting his daughter raping his daughter, and I think he'd

750
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 1: be perfect for it. And Rodney didn't get it at first.

751
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:01,279
Speaker 1: He was like, do you want me for for this

752
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:04,920
Speaker 1: kind of role? He's like you'll see yeah, And uh,

753
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:07,520
Speaker 1: did you guys see that Natural Born Killers? You can

754
00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 1: get the scene on YouTube. It's when Oliver Stone did

755
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:13,239
Speaker 1: the phony sitcom. That's how they portrayed that that part

756
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:15,799
Speaker 1: of the movie. Uh. So they have a laugh track,

757
00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:19,839
Speaker 1: and it's it's really disturbing. It's like three layers of bizarre, right,

758
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:22,680
Speaker 1: So there's so it's like Rodney Dangerville is a sadistic,

759
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 1: ancestuous molester um, but it's Rodney danger Fields. That's the

760
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:31,400
Speaker 1: weird part. And then there's a laugh track to just

761
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 1: throw you off that little extra bit. You know, it is.

762
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:37,080
Speaker 1: It's very jarring. It was pretty well done. But the um.

763
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:41,120
Speaker 1: The notable thing about that is that Oliver Stone let

764
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:44,160
Speaker 1: Rodney Dangerfield rewrite all of his lines and he got

765
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:46,040
Speaker 1: a lot of critical acclaimed for it, but he was like,

766
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:53,319
Speaker 1: Rodney Dangerfield, we had no idea And he's like, seriously, Uh,

767
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:56,640
Speaker 1: if you go today and just google um the Rodney

768
00:42:56,719 --> 00:43:00,239
Speaker 1: Dangerfield of you can find a whole list of things.

769
00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:03,959
Speaker 1: He's such a cultural icon that phrase itself has become

770
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:07,239
Speaker 1: a thing now, like Petit Sara is the Rodney danger

771
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 1: Field of California wines, or the Memphis, Tennessee City Council

772
00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 1: is the Rodney danger Field of local government. Seriously, that's

773
00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:20,560
Speaker 1: the thing. Evan saw. A guitar pre amp was known

774
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:24,600
Speaker 1: as the Rodney danger Field of guitar preamps. My favorite

775
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:27,920
Speaker 1: is a palladium is the Rodney danger field of precious metals.

776
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:35,880
Speaker 1: That's stupid. We're not making this up, so chuck right

777
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 1: about now, let's uh, let's step back a second, press

778
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:42,239
Speaker 1: pause on this and have a beautiful little message break.

779
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:05,279
Speaker 1: Uh So, here's some more examples of the lack of

780
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:08,880
Speaker 1: respect and and here's sort of the thing. The irony is,

781
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:12,480
Speaker 1: he got nothing but respect from his peers throughout his career. Um,

782
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:16,960
Speaker 1: but outside of that that was still just Doses Pepper

783
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:19,880
Speaker 1: throughout his life. And examples of times where he didn't

784
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 1: get any respect, like when he sued Star magazine. They

785
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 1: published a story about him being in Las Vegas and

786
00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:29,920
Speaker 1: said he would drink like tumblerfuls of vodka and smoke

787
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:32,960
Speaker 1: pot all day long in duke cocaine, which was all

788
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:36,400
Speaker 1: completely true on but he knew that they couldn't prove it,

789
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:39,399
Speaker 1: so he sued them for libel and the court ruled

790
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 1: in his favor. Right, Yeah, so that's respect. Right, So

791
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 1: they awarded him one dollar for his damage to his

792
00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:50,600
Speaker 1: reputation and one dollar for personal distresss Yeah, and then

793
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:57,120
Speaker 1: the judge went, yeah, sorry, live stream people, he did uh,

794
00:44:57,200 --> 00:45:00,680
Speaker 1: he did get awarded forty five tho dollars for presumed

795
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 1: damages and uh, I did a little more research today

796
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:06,759
Speaker 1: on that he um. Apparently he blew it all on

797
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:10,719
Speaker 1: cocon weed. Apparently Star Magazine showed that they didn't turn

798
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:12,880
Speaker 1: a profit, so he couldn't go after him for uh.

799
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:15,200
Speaker 1: He couldn't appeal for more money, so he tried to

800
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:17,440
Speaker 1: go after their parent company and it went all the

801
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 1: way to the Supreme Court and they said you you

802
00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:26,839
Speaker 1: didn't start the suit that way. They were no respect. Uh.

803
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:30,400
Speaker 1: And even in death, as we mentioned earlier, Rodney Dangerfield

804
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:32,759
Speaker 1: is dead. Why didn't I know that? Oh? I have

805
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:35,320
Speaker 1: an example for you, hold on before he dies. He

806
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:38,320
Speaker 1: was on Howard's during the year he died, and somebody

807
00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:41,440
Speaker 1: watched that interview. Yeah, man, that's depressing. He's eighty one.

808
00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:44,279
Speaker 1: He's clearly like at death store, but he still has

809
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 1: this his sense of humor about him. Um. But somebody

810
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:50,560
Speaker 1: called in to Howard Stern and said, hey, Rodney, it's

811
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:53,760
Speaker 1: Bob Hope. I'll see you in fifteen minutes. And Howard

812
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 1: Stern is like, well, that's not funny. Bob Hope is dead.

813
00:45:57,280 --> 00:45:59,239
Speaker 1: So they were saying like that Bob Hope was calling

814
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:01,400
Speaker 1: from behind the grade even with see Rodney Dangerfield in

815
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:04,640
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes and if you can't get respect from a

816
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:08,400
Speaker 1: caller on the Howard Stern Show, where can you get respect?

817
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 1: So it's actually in that interview, which I said, is

818
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:14,760
Speaker 1: it's like forty five minutes long and it's completely depressing,

819
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:18,360
Speaker 1: so don't go watch it. Um but uh, and not

820
00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 1: just because he was old, but Howards trying to talk

821
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:21,800
Speaker 1: to him about his childhood and stuff, and well, he

822
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:24,600
Speaker 1: had just written his autobiography and really just laid it

823
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:26,919
Speaker 1: all out there, like he'd alluded to the rough life

824
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:28,840
Speaker 1: that he had had in interviews and stuff like that,

825
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:31,719
Speaker 1: but he published this book right before he died, and

826
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:34,360
Speaker 1: it was it was rough. Well. I think the saddest

827
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:37,520
Speaker 1: thing to me about his mom was that despite being

828
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:41,120
Speaker 1: completely neglected emotionally and getting no love at all as

829
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 1: a child, he still wanted to be like a good kid,

830
00:46:45,160 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 1: and he still worked to support her and like apparently

831
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:49,640
Speaker 1: came home and showed her his report card. He worked

832
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:51,400
Speaker 1: hard to get good grades. She wouldn't even look at it.

833
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:54,320
Speaker 1: She just like signed it without looking. And Uh, that

834
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:56,759
Speaker 1: was the saddest part is he he still sort of

835
00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:59,800
Speaker 1: defended her in that interview. Uh like right before he

836
00:46:59,920 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 1: was he was dying, and then he made up with

837
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:05,759
Speaker 1: his dad before his dad died apparently, Um, even though

838
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:07,400
Speaker 1: he never saw him, he said he forgave him for

839
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:10,160
Speaker 1: all that stuff. Oh yeah, yeah, really sad stuff. Though.

840
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:15,440
Speaker 1: You want to hear some more jokes? Uh, well, well, actually,

841
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 1: why don't you tell him how he died? Okay, Well

842
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:22,000
Speaker 1: in this interview. In the same interview, he's telling Howard Stern.

843
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:24,520
Speaker 1: Howard turns like he's about to go in for um

844
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:28,200
Speaker 1: for the should I pretend there's not a siren in

845
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:32,000
Speaker 1: the background. Um, he's going in for surgery, and Howard

846
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:34,440
Speaker 1: Stern asks him, like, are you afraid you're gonna die?

847
00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:37,160
Speaker 1: And he goes, you know what, dying in surgery would

848
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:39,200
Speaker 1: be the best way to go. Like I would go

849
00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:41,759
Speaker 1: to they drug me up, I go to sleep, and

850
00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:44,000
Speaker 1: then I just wouldn't wake up. That's like as good

851
00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:46,480
Speaker 1: as it gets, right, So he goes in for this

852
00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:51,359
Speaker 1: very surgery. He falls into a coma during surgery, almost there,

853
00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:54,200
Speaker 1: and then he wakes up. Then he has a heart attack,

854
00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:59,000
Speaker 1: then he dies. That's how Rodney danjer Phield went after

855
00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:00,680
Speaker 1: that life that he had. That's how he went. He

856
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:03,040
Speaker 1: was so close to going the way that he wanted

857
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:07,520
Speaker 1: to go. And no, no respect. You want to hear

858
00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:10,640
Speaker 1: no respect. A year after he died, CNN tried to

859
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:13,239
Speaker 1: get in touch with him to get his reaction about

860
00:48:13,320 --> 00:48:18,400
Speaker 1: the passing of Johnny Carson and and and if you

861
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 1: read his obituaries, a lot of them, a shocking amount

862
00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:24,239
Speaker 1: mentioned that he was well known for his role in

863
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:27,000
Speaker 1: The Scout. He wasn't in the Scout. I got to

864
00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:30,200
Speaker 1: the bottom of that. Oh oh late on me. He

865
00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:33,600
Speaker 1: was going to be in The Scout. The role was

866
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:38,320
Speaker 1: originally intended for him and Sam Kennison, and he didn't

867
00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:40,759
Speaker 1: do it for unknown reasons, and it ended up going

868
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:43,719
Speaker 1: to Albert Brooks and Brendan Fraser. But it was one

869
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:46,120
Speaker 1: of those things. I think we're one of those internet

870
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 1: neat things on the Internet where someone prints something that

871
00:48:48,239 --> 00:48:50,839
Speaker 1: everyone else's copies and bays it. So I think one

872
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:53,760
Speaker 1: person wrote that because everything else I saw was worded

873
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:57,040
Speaker 1: the exact same way, like list his movies as The Scout,

874
00:48:57,160 --> 00:48:59,719
Speaker 1: which he was never in. No, he wasn't. No thanks

875
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:02,480
Speaker 1: for looking into that, man. That's what you get when

876
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:06,760
Speaker 1: you hang with Chuck. But he did find love again.

877
00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:11,319
Speaker 1: Um in a in a situation in everyone probably thought

878
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:13,680
Speaker 1: was like a typical gold digger. He was sixty one

879
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:16,319
Speaker 1: years old. Uh, and he married a thirty year old

880
00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 1: woman who was really hot and blonde in l A.

881
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 1: But Um, by all accounts everything I looked into, it

882
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:26,960
Speaker 1: was not that, Like she really really loved him and

883
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:29,360
Speaker 1: was great for him and they were super happy together

884
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:32,359
Speaker 1: um or as happy as he could be. And um,

885
00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:34,920
Speaker 1: it turns out that it wasn't that kind of a

886
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:37,120
Speaker 1: deal after all, which made me feel good. Yeah. Like,

887
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:39,480
Speaker 1: for example, when he died, she made sure that his

888
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:43,279
Speaker 1: funeral wasn't until five or dusk because he always asked

889
00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:45,960
Speaker 1: her not to schedule any appointment for him before five pm,

890
00:49:46,560 --> 00:49:49,680
Speaker 1: so she made sure his funeral didn't come until after that. Uh.

891
00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:52,200
Speaker 1: And his funeral was a really big deal. Everyone basically

892
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:56,360
Speaker 1: came out in droves. Um. His pallbearers included Jim Carrey,

893
00:49:56,440 --> 00:49:58,960
Speaker 1: who he took Jim Carrey on the road for two

894
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:01,040
Speaker 1: years when he was a stroke glin comedian and he

895
00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:03,399
Speaker 1: opened for him in Vegas and Jim Carrey was getting

896
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:06,040
Speaker 1: booed off the stage. Everyone hated him, and Rodney stuck

897
00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:08,279
Speaker 1: by him for like a full two years, and Jim

898
00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:12,200
Speaker 1: Carey never forgot that. Chris Rock, Tim Allen, Larry David,

899
00:50:12,239 --> 00:50:15,560
Speaker 1: George Carlin, Jay Leno, um Adam Sandler, and then your

900
00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:21,560
Speaker 1: boy Michael Bolton. Michael Bolton, he was supposed to sing,

901
00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:23,640
Speaker 1: wasn't He was, but he was too choked up to

902
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:27,479
Speaker 1: sing at Rodney danger Field's funeral. Apparently they were really, really,

903
00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 1: really tight friends because Michael Bolton's song Everybody's Crazy was

904
00:50:32,719 --> 00:50:34,920
Speaker 1: in Back to School, and I guess he parlayed that

905
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:37,080
Speaker 1: into a trip to the set where you got to

906
00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:39,040
Speaker 1: meet Riding dajer Field and they became friends for the

907
00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:41,319
Speaker 1: rest of the life. So Michael Bolton was too sad

908
00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:44,680
Speaker 1: to sing at danger Field's funeral, and you know, everybody

909
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:50,120
Speaker 1: was disappointed. I bet there were a couple of people

910
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:55,160
Speaker 1: there that were like, Yeah, it's okay, Michael, we know

911
00:50:55,239 --> 00:50:57,480
Speaker 1: you're upset. You don't you don't have to do this

912
00:50:57,600 --> 00:51:01,480
Speaker 1: if you don't want it's everybody will understand. And that's

913
00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:06,400
Speaker 1: what they said to us before we went on. So

914
00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:09,239
Speaker 1: we're gonna close this with with a final nice little

915
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:13,440
Speaker 1: cherry on top about um Rodney Dangerfield and sort of

916
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:16,759
Speaker 1: his outlook on his lack of respect with when it

917
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:20,719
Speaker 1: comes to the Academy of Motion Pictures motion Picture sciencests. Yes,

918
00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:23,360
Speaker 1: what it's called, as you guys call it in l A,

919
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:27,439
Speaker 1: the Academy. Right. He applied for membership because he wanted

920
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:29,200
Speaker 1: to be in the Academy and he had the credentials.

921
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:32,000
Speaker 1: He was in movies, and uh, they said, no, no,

922
00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:33,799
Speaker 1: you you had to be in like at least three

923
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:37,399
Speaker 1: major roles. He had thirteen under his belt by this time,

924
00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:39,839
Speaker 1: including Natural Born Killers, for which he received a lot

925
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:43,319
Speaker 1: of critical praise. Right, and they turned him down like jerks. Right.

926
00:51:43,719 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 1: He even got a letter from Malcolm McDowell Roddy McDowell,

927
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 1: which one was Malcolm McDowell, he's the good one. Are

928
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:56,560
Speaker 1: they brothers? I don't know, are they no relation? But

929
00:51:56,760 --> 00:52:01,360
Speaker 1: Roddy okay, was Roddy? Was Roddy with it was Malcolm McDowell.

930
00:52:02,239 --> 00:52:05,200
Speaker 1: Was Roddy McDowell and Clocker Gorings or Malcolm McDowell. That

931
00:52:05,320 --> 00:52:08,040
Speaker 1: was Malcolm McDowell. Oh well, okay, good, because I felt

932
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:11,080
Speaker 1: a lot better about this than Ron McDowell. Wasn't Planet

933
00:52:11,120 --> 00:52:14,600
Speaker 1: of the Apes. Yeah, so okay, good. I'm glad that

934
00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:16,400
Speaker 1: those two were separating. My mind, because I was like,

935
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:20,719
Speaker 1: I really liked him in Clockercorns. Good. Roddy McDowell, who

936
00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:25,719
Speaker 1: everybody hates, wrote a letter to Rodney Dangerfield, this rejection

937
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:29,560
Speaker 1: letter that said that he um had not he had

938
00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:32,280
Speaker 1: not had enough of the kind of roles that allow

939
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:35,680
Speaker 1: our performer to demonstrate a mastery of his craft. Basically,

940
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:38,360
Speaker 1: you're just playing Rodney Dangerfield and we all know it,

941
00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:41,200
Speaker 1: even though he had all the credentials to get in right. So,

942
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:45,080
Speaker 1: Rodney Jsfield, He's like, let's see what years it? What years?

943
00:52:46,680 --> 00:52:50,360
Speaker 1: What's new? What's on the horizon? Well, the internet. I

944
00:52:50,440 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 1: think I'll build the world's first ever entertainment website. And

945
00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:58,600
Speaker 1: he built his own website and realized that this would

946
00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:00,680
Speaker 1: be a great place for his fans come like vent

947
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:03,040
Speaker 1: their anger. And it was, as a matter of fact,

948
00:53:03,120 --> 00:53:06,840
Speaker 1: like this guy like think about that, and um, his

949
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:09,360
Speaker 1: bands came on and we're like, to heck with the

950
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:13,760
Speaker 1: Academy that kind of stuff, and um, the Academy actually

951
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:17,640
Speaker 1: relented and said you're in, man, You're in, Rodney, come

952
00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:20,640
Speaker 1: on in. That's right, And what do you say? Nope, yep,

953
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:29,879
Speaker 1: he said, thanks, but no thanks. He still has a website. Uh,

954
00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:32,520
Speaker 1: Rodney dot com and if you go to that. I

955
00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:35,560
Speaker 1: just found this out earlier. There's a section called jokes

956
00:53:35,760 --> 00:53:37,919
Speaker 1: and had audio clips. I was like, oh, this is great,

957
00:53:38,560 --> 00:53:42,480
Speaker 1: but it's not him. It's some dude reading like as

958
00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:45,880
Speaker 1: bad as me, really just saying his little one liners

959
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:48,080
Speaker 1: over and over and it's not in front of people.

960
00:53:48,160 --> 00:53:50,799
Speaker 1: It's like dead quiet and it's just some dude saying

961
00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:53,399
Speaker 1: his jokes. It's really weird. I can't tell you how

962
00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:59,000
Speaker 1: much I'd love the cover comedian idea. Just you know

963
00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:01,440
Speaker 1: how stealing for other comics is such a taboo. We

964
00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:03,279
Speaker 1: just need to just to get out in front of

965
00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:06,759
Speaker 1: the Yeah, mix up a little like Mitch Hedberg and

966
00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:10,279
Speaker 1: rich Little Little Mind do a little Stephen right there

967
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:13,560
Speaker 1: in the middle. Yea perhaps, Yeah, I like so that's

968
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:17,560
Speaker 1: Rodney Dangerfield everybody, that's our show. If you want it anymore,

969
00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:22,040
Speaker 1: you're s O l R. Yeah, you can clap if

970
00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:34,719
Speaker 1: you want it. Hey, that was fun, right, that was

971
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:36,480
Speaker 1: a lot of one. Yeah, we had a great time

972
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:38,840
Speaker 1: and big thanks to the l A Podcast Festival for

973
00:54:39,440 --> 00:54:41,920
Speaker 1: having us out and um, yeah please have us back.

974
00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:43,759
Speaker 1: We'd love to. Yeah, it was really cool. We got

975
00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:46,359
Speaker 1: to see other shows and Uh, we did our own

976
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:49,640
Speaker 1: and had a nice little crowd there, very supportive, nice

977
00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:51,960
Speaker 1: kind people all the way around. And look for the

978
00:54:52,080 --> 00:54:56,320
Speaker 1: next l A podcast best coming, I would imagine next September.

979
00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:00,480
Speaker 1: Hopefully we'll be there. Yeah, keep keep your ears out

980
00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:02,080
Speaker 1: for it. We'll mention it whether we are or not,

981
00:55:02,120 --> 00:55:04,480
Speaker 1: because we're that kind of guys. That's right. No listener

982
00:55:04,560 --> 00:55:06,360
Speaker 1: mail for me, buddy. No, but if you want to

983
00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:08,400
Speaker 1: get in touch with us, you can tweet to us

984
00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:10,560
Speaker 1: at s y s K podcast. You can join us

985
00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:13,120
Speaker 1: on Facebook dot com, slash stuff you Should Know. You

986
00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:15,560
Speaker 1: can send us an email to Stuff Podcast at how

987
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:17,920
Speaker 1: stuff Works dot com and has always joined us at

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Speaker 1: our super awesome home on the web, Stuff you Should

989
00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:27,960
Speaker 1: Know dot com for more on this and thousands of

990
00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:38,560
Speaker 1: other topics. Is it how stuff Works dot com? Mike, I,

991
00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:42,960
Speaker 1: my psychiatrist said, you're crazy. Oh, hold on, already mess

992
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:46,680
Speaker 1: it up. No, no, no, that's right. My psychiatrist said

993
00:55:46,680 --> 00:55:48,520
Speaker 1: I'm crazy. I told him I wanted a second opinion.

994
00:55:48,560 --> 00:55:52,560
Speaker 1: He said, okay, you're ugly too. Yeah. He wrote that joke. Man,

995
00:55:52,719 --> 00:55:56,680
Speaker 1: everybody knows that joke. It's a good joke. Uh. When

996
00:55:56,760 --> 00:55:59,480
Speaker 1: my wife has sex, she screams, especially when I walk

997
00:55:59,520 --> 00:56:03,919
Speaker 1: in on her. Boy he wrote a lot of jokes

998
00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:06,640
Speaker 1: about his wife's cheating on him, like hundreds and hundreds

999
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:10,000
Speaker 1: of boats because he wasn't married. Uh. If it wasn't

1000
00:56:10,040 --> 00:56:15,560
Speaker 1: for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all. Gross.

1001
00:56:17,200 --> 00:56:19,919
Speaker 1: The football team from my high school was tough. After

1002
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:24,040
Speaker 1: they sacked the quarterback, they went after his family. That's

1003
00:56:24,040 --> 00:56:27,520
Speaker 1: a good, clean joke. That's good, it's nice. Uh what

1004
00:56:27,640 --> 00:56:30,360
Speaker 1: else we got here? I solved my drinking problem. I

1005
00:56:30,440 --> 00:56:32,400
Speaker 1: joined a A. I mean I still drink, I just

1006
00:56:32,520 --> 00:56:37,799
Speaker 1: use a different name. I'm getting old at my age.

1007
00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:44,919
Speaker 1: Shooting up means using an anema bag. I think there's

1008
00:56:44,960 --> 00:56:46,759
Speaker 1: one more about a dog that I Oh, Yeah, what

1009
00:56:46,880 --> 00:56:49,040
Speaker 1: a dog? I got? What a dog? His favorite bone

1010
00:56:49,120 --> 00:56:54,879
Speaker 1: is in my arm. I think that's it for me. Yeah,

1011
00:56:55,160 --> 00:56:56,800
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure. I want to say that I have

1012
00:56:56,880 --> 00:57:00,560
Speaker 1: another one hiding in here somewhere, but I can't find it. Yeah.

1013
00:57:00,880 --> 00:57:03,560
Speaker 1: Go to the YouTube, folks. Yeah, make sure look up

1014
00:57:03,920 --> 00:57:09,320
Speaker 1: Iron Man versus Dirty Dancing. You will love it. And

1015
00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:12,680
Speaker 1: that's it all right, Thanks everybody, Thank you very much too.