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Speaker 1: Our Way with yours truly Paul Anka and my buddy

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Speaker 1: Skip Bronson, is a production of iHeartRadio. Hi, folks, this

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Speaker 1: is Paul Anka.

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Speaker 2: And my name is Skip Bronson. We've been friends for

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Speaker 2: decades and we've decided to let you in on our

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Speaker 2: late night phone calls by starting a new podcast.

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Speaker 1: And welcome to Our Way. We'd like you to meet

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Speaker 1: some real good friends about us.

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Speaker 2: Your leaders in entertainment and.

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Speaker 1: Sports, innovators in business and technology, and even as sitting

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Speaker 1: president or two.

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Speaker 2: Join us as we ask the questions they've not been

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Speaker 2: asked before, tell it like it is, and even sing

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Speaker 2: a song or two.

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Speaker 1: This is our podcast and we'll be doing it our way.

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Speaker 3: I don't know where you are.

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Speaker 2: You're always traveling somewhere, so I'm not sure where you are.

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Speaker 3: All right, okay? Cool?

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Speaker 2: Well, you know today we have Kevin Neil and who

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Speaker 2: I know through my wife Feet because she was at

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Speaker 2: Saturday Night Live all those years and I got to

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Speaker 2: know Kevin. And he's a blast. He's very dry, he's funny.

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Speaker 2: I love when he sort of gets you, you know,

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Speaker 2: you don't even know. He'll say something and you say, yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's right, and then all of a sudden, you say,

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Speaker 2: wait a second, he's fucking with me and.

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Speaker 3: He's a lot of fun.

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Speaker 2: But we have to get him talk about you know,

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Speaker 2: he was the host of Weekend up Date on Saturday

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Speaker 2: Night Live for so long.

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Speaker 4: Yeah I remember that. Yeah, yeah, what about the hiking thing?

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Speaker 4: I enjoy watching that. That's pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he's got that YouTube series Hiking with Kevin.

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Speaker 2: I think he's done. Believe it or not, I think

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Speaker 2: he's done one hundred episodes. I just troned in a

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Speaker 2: few weeks ago. I was watching. He had Brian Cranston

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Speaker 2: on me, and he gets some pretty significant guests to

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Speaker 2: go hiking with. You should all kidding aside, you should

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Speaker 2: do that with him. I think it'd be fun for you.

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Speaker 4: They'd come and hike my property with me.

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Speaker 3: You know, you know the back ways. You can help

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Speaker 3: him out.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, the good trails. No, but that's gonna

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Speaker 4: be funny. Seems like a good guy in terms of

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Speaker 4: articulating comedy and what he's doing and all that stuff.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, people love him. He's you know, he's had so

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Speaker 2: many television shows. Weeds, you know, with Mary Louise Parker

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Speaker 2: was enormously successful. I mean he's had just a great

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Speaker 2: another one of these people that came out of SNL

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Speaker 2: and you know, wound up with a great career beyond it.

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Speaker 2: If I've known him going back to like the late nineties,

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Speaker 2: when I when I was hanging around Saturday Night Live

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Speaker 2: while Edie was working, and I was just you know,

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Speaker 2: taking it all in.

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Speaker 3: And then I started to play golf with him.

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Speaker 2: He was a golfer, so that became the common denominator,

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Speaker 2: and so we started to spend time there. We also

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Speaker 2: talked to him about he was like, may not get

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Speaker 2: this right, but he was like the honorary mayor or

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Speaker 2: something of Pacific Palisades, a suburb of LA where he lives.

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Speaker 3: We should sort of hit.

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Speaker 4: On that too, well, read up on him. Jordan's gonna

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Speaker 4: send me some stuff and I'll read up on him

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Speaker 4: and we'll have fun as usual.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I think I think you'll enjoy it.

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Speaker 4: Man, Thanks for re call, and I'll talk to you

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Speaker 4: another hour after dinner.

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Speaker 3: That'd be great. I'll think of something clever in between.

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Speaker 3: Please talk to you later.

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Speaker 2: I love you too.

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Speaker 5: Hey, how's it going.

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Speaker 2: Here's the man? Hey, k man?

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Speaker 5: Hey, what's up? What's up?

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Speaker 3: Heah?

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Speaker 1: I wish every they were working up, but they ain't nowadays.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, you above ground, you're above ground.

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Speaker 5: Your friends with Linda Thompson, right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a blaster of the past.

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Speaker 5: She's a buddy.

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Speaker 2: I knew her in her unhappy days with Foster.

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Speaker 5: She's many unhappy days.

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Speaker 1: Yeahs unhappy days with Elvis. Elvis, we understood. She's a

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Speaker 2: After every podcast that Paul and I do, I get

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Speaker 2: a note from her. She's so sweet. Yeah, she's wonderful,

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, she really is. She really is such a

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Speaker 2: First of all, I have to start with your friend

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Speaker 2: the Edie Baskin said, you must tell Kevin that I

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Speaker 2: just adore him. So check that box.

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Speaker 6: Done well, I adored too. So talk about talent. She

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Speaker 6: is so talented. What a photographer.

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Speaker 2: She's great.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, and a nice person and a tall person.

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Speaker 5: Is she taller than Ski?

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Speaker 1: Of course we can evade that subject. You tall people.

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Speaker 6: You know a lot of people see me, Paul, and

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Speaker 6: they don't realize I'm this tall, and it really boggles

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Speaker 6: their mind because it's it's funny when you have the

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Speaker 6: idea of somebody's height in your head and you see

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Speaker 6: them in person and it's not accurate. It really takes

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Speaker 6: them aback a little bit. And people mention that a

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Speaker 1: When I meet people Kevin, they don't think I'm missed

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Speaker 1: tall either. No, that's five three or four.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: I went to the doctor.

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Speaker 1: I was talking to Steve about this, a mutual friend,

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I heard that happens.

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Speaker 1: As you get older. You guys don't have to worry

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Speaker 2: But speaking of older, you know, I forgot Kevin is

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Speaker 2: the younger looking seventy year old. I know, no joke,

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Speaker 2: no joke. Yeah, I get that. He get deally young

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Speaker 6: Skip, I look young on the outside but the inside.

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Speaker 6: I just had my fourth joint replaced, which one from arthritis.

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Speaker 5: Oh my name, I left knee. But it's it's a genetic.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 6: I tell people from playing football stuff, but it's really

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Speaker 6: it's from my mother. She had a lot of but

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Speaker 6: she did play football, so she's got an excuse.

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Speaker 5: I had a cage fighter. She's a cage fighter too.

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Speaker 1: Paul Love that woman. I want to meet her. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think I can handle her now, it probably could.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 6: It's funny, you know, whenever I'm talking to somebody around

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Speaker 6: my age, it always becomes about medical issues.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 6: I'll be talking to somebody and then I say, can

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Speaker 6: we please just go without talking about your blood pressure

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Speaker 6: or you know your cholesterol, or that you know your

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Speaker 6: neuropathy and the feet for just one minute.

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Speaker 2: That is so true. And it's also the drug, the

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Speaker 2: latest pill, right, Oh have you tried such and such?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh no, I've got a better one. What's yours?

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Speaker 2: Everybody's got one?

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Speaker 6: Well, the truth is I don't have room in my

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Speaker 6: pill box for one more pill. If I'm prescribed another pill,

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Speaker 6: I tell the doctor I said, okay, but I have

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Speaker 6: because it's like a suitcase now, you know, when you

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Speaker 2: Don Olmyer used to say when people would say that

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Speaker 2: Don Omyer they wanted him to meet someone, Don would say,

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Speaker 2: I used the lifeboat theory. What's that if someone gets

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Speaker 2: into the boat, someone's got to get out of the

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Speaker 3: Same deal, Same deal.

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Speaker 2: I love Quincy. Quincy.

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Speaker 1: I think he told me a couple of years ago.

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Speaker 1: He's hanging in. He's unknown. I'm getting old. I'm getting diseases.

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Speaker 5: It's true. That's part life though.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of getting old, I have to tell you I

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Speaker 2: was looking at your tour schedule and I saw that

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Speaker 2: I remembered that you were born in Saint Louis, but

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Speaker 2: you grew up like me. You grew up in Connecticut,

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Speaker 2: and ultimately I know you went the Sacred Heart, which

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Speaker 2: Hedie Baskin lived when we were Wirfield, right when we

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a beautiful area there.

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Speaker 6: I was born in Saint Louis and people see that

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Speaker 6: There for three weeks because my father graduated from Slough

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Speaker 3: I split.

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Speaker 1: You know, did I see that you lived in Germany?

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Speaker 6: Kevin yeah, I lived in Germany for like years, four

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Speaker 5: For a while.

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Speaker 1: I did ice fresh noodle, cell kraut, ondre leider, jovo

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Speaker 5: Me to do the words rhyme in GERMANO and another language.

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Speaker 2: Not like they do in our language.

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Speaker 1: It's like would be like vice versa noodle gizl from

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Speaker 1: German gizl Monika. Yeah, they they'd rhyme them up at

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, because I know the Beatles did that too

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Speaker 6: for a little bit, a little bit on their album.

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Speaker 1: You know, I saw them Kevin in Paris when they

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Speaker 1: were just doing covers. I went to see a friend

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Speaker 1: at the Olympia Theater. You probably know, it's the great

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Speaker 1: classic house, and and I went in to see, uh,

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Speaker 1: this friend of mine and the announcer because they always

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Speaker 1: had opening acts ladies and gentlemen, stous and these four

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Speaker 1: I'm going, what the hell is this? And I'm a kid,

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Speaker 1: you know, I was blessed that I was over there

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Speaker 1: and that's where I first met those guys. And you

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Speaker 1: to my agent, Norman Weiss, and Uh, I'd say these

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Speaker 5: So I thought, California is that's going to be my place,

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Speaker 3: Oh really yeah.

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Speaker 5: Oh? So nice? And would you tell him? I said, Hi,

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Speaker 2: They didn't come after you. Everybody went there to audition, right.

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Speaker 6: No one comes after me, nobody, you guys, air, this was.

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Speaker 5: Well what happened to a lot of people.

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Speaker 6: he said, Laurenn's looking for a one more cast member.

442
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Speaker 6: I told her about you, and I think he's going

443
00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:43,919
Speaker 6: to want to see your audition tape. And I'm like,

444
00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:45,800
Speaker 6: Bill Murray's in the kitchen, you know.

445
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Speaker 3: What I mean.

446
00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:48,320
Speaker 6: I wasn't even acknowledging that other stuff because I knew

447
00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:50,440
Speaker 6: I wouldn't get it. I knew I wasn't gonna get

448
00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:52,760
Speaker 6: rejected because I knew I didn't new characters. You know,

449
00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:55,520
Speaker 6: I'm just a stand up, a really really good stand up.

450
00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:57,880
Speaker 6: So I sent my audition tape in two weeks later,

451
00:20:57,920 --> 00:20:59,600
Speaker 6: get the call from Dana VI. I'm back, got to

452
00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:01,760
Speaker 6: Laura Mike Gus he was in the kitchen. Steve marn

453
00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:05,320
Speaker 6: no yeah, anyway, Lauren, like you tape, they're gonna fly

454
00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:07,919
Speaker 6: in the front audition, I said, Steve Burns in the kitchen.

455
00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:11,240
Speaker 6: I just wasn't buying into it anyway. I fly in

456
00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:14,080
Speaker 6: pre airline ticket. Brian Kraston took my seat, so that

457
00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:14,800
Speaker 6: wasn't so good.

458
00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,440
Speaker 5: But I do my little.

459
00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:20,119
Speaker 6: Audition and I fly back, and two weeks later I

460
00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:22,040
Speaker 6: found myself sitting in a high rise in Beverly Hills,

461
00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:24,159
Speaker 6: across from LORNI. He's offering me a job in SNL

462
00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:26,560
Speaker 6: and I told him, let me think about it over

463
00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:28,520
Speaker 6: the weekend. That's how I rolled it. That's how I

464
00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:30,880
Speaker 6: massaged the deal. Do you know what I mean? And

465
00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:33,159
Speaker 6: he said, you think about it over the weekend. We'll

466
00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:36,360
Speaker 6: see in New York on Monday. And the rest is

467
00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:37,480
Speaker 6: what happened.

468
00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:39,959
Speaker 2: But think about the cast that was there with you.

469
00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:43,360
Speaker 2: So Chris Rock who we spoke about, Adam Dana Carvey,

470
00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:46,280
Speaker 2: Chris Farley, Rob Schneider, you know.

471
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Speaker 5: What, Phil Hartman, Yeah, Phil Harmon Skip.

472
00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:51,280
Speaker 6: When I first came on, this must have been the

473
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Speaker 6: smallest cast ever is eight. I think there was eight

474
00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:56,280
Speaker 6: of us, and then as time.

475
00:21:56,119 --> 00:21:58,199
Speaker 5: Went on, more and more people came on.

476
00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:02,639
Speaker 6: Farley came on, Sandler Mike Myers, so it became maybe

477
00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:06,399
Speaker 6: thirteen people. But now if you watch it, the intros

478
00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:10,320
Speaker 6: take maybe about five minutes because they're introducing everybody and

479
00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:13,440
Speaker 6: featuring guest starring.

480
00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:14,600
Speaker 5: And the man off the Street we don't even know

481
00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:15,080
Speaker 5: who he is.

482
00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:17,080
Speaker 2: It's so true.

483
00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:20,480
Speaker 1: Anybody who are all struck with Kevin between your Hiking

484
00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:23,040
Speaker 1: Show and SNL, anybody.

485
00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:25,800
Speaker 2: That you are really yeah, yeah, you know.

486
00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:28,000
Speaker 6: First of all, Paul I felt like I was just

487
00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:30,680
Speaker 6: an outsider on the show. I felt like I had

488
00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:35,240
Speaker 6: imposters syndrome. I felt like I'm not really qualified to

489
00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:37,840
Speaker 6: the Ennis Show because I don't do characters or accents.

490
00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:41,040
Speaker 6: But Lauren got me because of the chemistry between I

491
00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:43,639
Speaker 6: had with Dana and Dennis Miller and Jan Hoaks with

492
00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:46,520
Speaker 6: my girlfriend at the time, so he was doing it

493
00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:48,679
Speaker 6: based off of that. But I've seen you know, it

494
00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:52,280
Speaker 6: was mostly musicians that I was all struck by. Steve

495
00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:54,040
Speaker 6: Martin was I was always a fan of his, so

496
00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:56,040
Speaker 6: when he came out, I was excited in Bill Burray.

497
00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:58,880
Speaker 6: But as far as the musicians, I mean, I saw

498
00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,800
Speaker 6: Roy Orbison was on, you know, I was always a

499
00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:04,360
Speaker 6: fan of James Taylor's and so I got to meet

500
00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:09,119
Speaker 6: him and we became friends from that, Mick Jagger, Path, Richards,

501
00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:12,520
Speaker 6: Paul Simon. I get to see all these dinosaurs, all

502
00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:15,359
Speaker 6: these musicians I grew up. You know, they're my soundtrack,

503
00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,800
Speaker 6: my life, and and and just to be able to

504
00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:21,400
Speaker 6: hang out with them have lunch. I mean, what a

505
00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:25,320
Speaker 6: great experience that was for someone who didn't even belong there.

506
00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:29,240
Speaker 1: En off point Andy Kaufman during your time Improv.

507
00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:32,320
Speaker 6: Andy Kaufman was and it was one of my influences.

508
00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:36,560
Speaker 6: It was Andy Kaufman, Steve Martin, and Albert Brooks. Those

509
00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:41,520
Speaker 6: three guys right there were my inspiration and I met

510
00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:46,159
Speaker 6: all three of them. And Andy Kaufman, I love. He

511
00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:48,320
Speaker 6: really influenced me a lot because the way he kind

512
00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:51,120
Speaker 6: of misdirected everything and kind of fooled the audience.

513
00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:53,119
Speaker 5: So I met him.

514
00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:55,680
Speaker 6: I would see him at the Improv in Hollywood because

515
00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:58,159
Speaker 6: I was a partender there for two years, and I

516
00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:00,359
Speaker 6: would meet all these comics that I used to see

517
00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:02,320
Speaker 6: that I highlighted their names as the TV guide here.

518
00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:04,520
Speaker 6: They were all of a sudden, you know, ordering a

519
00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:08,000
Speaker 6: white wine from me, and Andy Kaufman would come in

520
00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:10,399
Speaker 6: and you know, I watched him do his act in

521
00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:12,560
Speaker 6: the back room, and then, I mean and I was

522
00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:13,680
Speaker 6: too shy to go up to him.

523
00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:14,760
Speaker 5: I was too intimidated.

524
00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:17,000
Speaker 6: And then one day he was standing out one night,

525
00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:18,520
Speaker 6: he is in front of the air problem and against

526
00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:22,120
Speaker 6: the wall, and I knew he was into TM transidental meditation.

527
00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:24,720
Speaker 6: So I went up there and I asked him about it,

528
00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,440
Speaker 6: and he talked to me for about a half hour

529
00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:30,280
Speaker 6: and didn't look at me that much. Was just kind

530
00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:32,480
Speaker 6: of looking at the traffic going by, and I wasn't

531
00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:34,240
Speaker 6: listening too much to them. I was just looking at

532
00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:36,520
Speaker 6: his face and looking at the moles on his face.

533
00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:40,560
Speaker 5: But it was a great experience. I was so happy

534
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:41,080
Speaker 5: about that.

535
00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:43,680
Speaker 2: And how about Jim Carrey, Man, did he do a job?

536
00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:47,120
Speaker 5: Jim Carrey's great. I mean, so did he do a job?

537
00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:50,400
Speaker 1: He was amazing in that phone. Yeah, he really nailed it.

538
00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:51,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, Yeah, he's great. Man.

539
00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:54,560
Speaker 6: It's just there's so many great comics out there, and

540
00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:56,040
Speaker 6: I've seen so many great ones.

541
00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:58,040
Speaker 5: Gary Shanling was a good friend of mine. He was

542
00:24:58,280 --> 00:24:59,040
Speaker 5: one of my mentors.

543
00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:00,239
Speaker 2: Knew Gary up.

544
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:02,879
Speaker 5: Harry was great. You know, Bob Stage It's is.

545
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,600
Speaker 6: Richard Lewis always it's sad when you start seeing all

546
00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:08,440
Speaker 6: these people fall along the wayside. I'm sure you've seen

547
00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:13,960
Speaker 6: that throughout your life with singers and.

548
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:15,720
Speaker 1: More more recently, Buddy, more recently too many in the

549
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:16,399
Speaker 1: Bowling Alley.

550
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:19,600
Speaker 2: Now. Yeah, So when you were on the show, you

551
00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:22,960
Speaker 2: were the host of Weekend Update, which you know, was

552
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,639
Speaker 2: always one of the favorite parts of the show for me.

553
00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:28,399
Speaker 2: That and the fact that going back to the music,

554
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:33,360
Speaker 2: as you know, keV Thursday's the music guest rehearses on

555
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:35,720
Speaker 2: the set and for those of us who are lucky

556
00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,399
Speaker 2: enough to be in there, you got to see something

557
00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:40,919
Speaker 2: that was very special, up close and personal. But my

558
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:45,040
Speaker 2: favorite Kevin has to be when you were in the

559
00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:48,920
Speaker 2: Hans and Franz skip based upon you know, Schwartz and er.

560
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:51,280
Speaker 2: Have you ever crossed the paths with him?

561
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:51,600
Speaker 4: Oh?

562
00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:53,479
Speaker 5: Yeah, sure, yeah.

563
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:58,000
Speaker 6: So we were obviously basing our characters on on Arnold Schwarzenegger.

564
00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:01,719
Speaker 6: So so when we heard he wanted to come on

565
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:03,560
Speaker 6: the show and being a sketch with Hans and Franz,

566
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:06,000
Speaker 6: Dana and I looked at each other and we thought, geez,

567
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:07,480
Speaker 6: doesn't he know we're making fun of him?

568
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:08,560
Speaker 3: Doesn't he know that?

569
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 5: And then we realized.

570
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:12,280
Speaker 6: We figured, maybe he's coming on the show to rough

571
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:15,600
Speaker 6: us up a little bit, right. So that day came

572
00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:17,520
Speaker 6: and they got us. They said, Arnold's in his dressing room.

573
00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:19,920
Speaker 6: He wants to talk to you guys. So we were

574
00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:21,959
Speaker 6: like two kids going to the principal's office. We were

575
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:23,840
Speaker 6: blaming each other. You came up and I know I did,

576
00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:26,120
Speaker 6: you did. I said not to do it, and now

577
00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:28,520
Speaker 6: it's too late. We get to his dressing room. His

578
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:30,960
Speaker 6: name was on the door. His name was so long

579
00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:32,560
Speaker 6: it went onto the wall a little bit.

580
00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 5: We knocked on.

581
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:38,080
Speaker 6: That's right, We knock on his door and we open

582
00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:40,080
Speaker 6: it up. And I'll never forget this scenario. It was

583
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:42,359
Speaker 6: full of cigar smoke. We could barely see him sitting

584
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:46,199
Speaker 6: across the room, and he had a big cigar in

585
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:48,720
Speaker 6: one hand, and on the other hand he had the

586
00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:50,360
Speaker 6: script that we wrote for him.

587
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:53,399
Speaker 5: And he looked up to us through the cigar smoke

588
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:55,600
Speaker 5: and he goes, I know, fellows, now, how am I

589
00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:56,800
Speaker 5: supposed to do the accent?

590
00:26:58,160 --> 00:26:58,439
Speaker 3: Right there?

591
00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:00,000
Speaker 5: We knew he had a sense of humor.

592
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 6: That he's been using a lot of those Arnold you

593
00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:06,000
Speaker 6: know slogans, like even when he ran for governor.

594
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 5: He was quoting all those lines.

595
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:11,919
Speaker 2: He's so terrific. I have to say he. We have

596
00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:13,960
Speaker 2: a place up in Sun Valley, Idaho, and I know

597
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,600
Speaker 2: him a little bit through there, and I would go

598
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 2: to the gym early in the day because I don't ski,

599
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 2: and all the skiers were up on the mountain, so

600
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:24,240
Speaker 2: I had the whole gym to myself. And one day

601
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:28,879
Speaker 2: two guys came in wearing sports jackets with earpieces, and

602
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:31,240
Speaker 2: sure enough, next thing you know, the door opens the

603
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:34,719
Speaker 2: governor of California comes walking in. So as I see him,

604
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:36,840
Speaker 2: I take the pin on the machine where I'm lifting

605
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:38,280
Speaker 2: weights and I put it all the way down at

606
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 2: the bottom. And I don't want to I don't want

607
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:43,919
Speaker 2: I don't want to look wimpy. And I watched him

608
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,879
Speaker 2: start to work out, and he's lifting one plate on

609
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:50,639
Speaker 2: every machine, pull down one plate, press one plate, and

610
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 2: I'm thinking, what's this about. So as he was walking out,

611
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:55,920
Speaker 2: I said, I have to ask you a question. Why

612
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:59,280
Speaker 2: do you only lift one plate? And he said, oh,

613
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 2: I'm own. I said, oh, toning interesting. So that night

614
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 2: we're at a party together and I walked up to

615
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:07,399
Speaker 2: him and I said, Governor, I have to ask you

616
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:10,199
Speaker 2: a question. Do you think maybe as you try that

617
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:14,439
Speaker 2: toning thing? He grabs onto my bicep and he goes, first,

618
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:23,920
Speaker 2: you need something to which it's just it's just so him.

619
00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 2: He's so great.

620
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah he was. I was at one of these

621
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:30,200
Speaker 5: openings for playing Hollywood. I guess he was co owner

622
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 5: of or something. And because.

623
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 6: He's the kind of guy who you know, he's heard

624
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 6: a joke and he tries to repeat it and he

625
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 6: doesn't really have the delivery. But this one I remember,

626
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 6: he goes, you know, my wife, she just had some

627
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:45,440
Speaker 6: plastic surgery.

628
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:53,280
Speaker 7: Yeah, I cut up her credit cards. Yeah, you know,

629
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 7: black belted shopping. She has black belted shopping.

630
00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 6: I got to tell you, my friend Brad Garrett open

631
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:00,800
Speaker 6: up for Frank Sinatra once or twice.

632
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 5: And I know Tom Dreesen does.

633
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 6: It a lot or did it a lot, but Brad

634
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,720
Speaker 6: said he was doing it. And at the end, uh,

635
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 6: he said that they would tug on the cable to

636
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:13,680
Speaker 6: let you know when Frank is ready to come on,

637
00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:18,000
Speaker 6: you know, the Mike cable. And so he said that.

638
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:21,080
Speaker 6: As he was wrapping up his act, he said, folks,

639
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:24,440
Speaker 6: stick around, there's more. Come, there's more. Act to come,

640
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 6: you know, and he gets off stage as a joke

641
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 6: and the guy that you know, Frank's guy goes, what

642
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 6: do you mean this more show to come?

643
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 5: They came here to see Frank, not you. You know,

644
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:38,440
Speaker 5: he didn't realize it was a joke, right right, and

645
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 5: then he would go off stage.

646
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 6: And and uh and Frank's got you know, he didn't

647
00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 6: get it.

648
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:48,080
Speaker 1: That was probably Jilly Jilli was the right hand guy

649
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 1: with the that's right.

650
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was the tougher. He was a cool guy though.

651
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 1: But doesn't doesn't Brad have a place up in Vegas

652
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:56,320
Speaker 1: in one of the hotels Jim Jim.

653
00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's got a little comedy club up there. It's

654
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 5: really good. Have been there, I've worked at. It's really

655
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 5: probably the nicest comedy club I've ever seen.

656
00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:04,479
Speaker 2: Oh cool because we've set up.

657
00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:06,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm looking to go in there. A friend of

658
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:08,040
Speaker 1: mine knows him well. I've been planning to go in

659
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:09,680
Speaker 1: and see him. I think MGM Hotel.

660
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:12,760
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, it's really nice. Tom Jason though.

661
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 6: Tom Reson is a friend of mine.

662
00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 5: I've known him forever and I did I did a

663
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:18,200
Speaker 5: show with him once and we.

664
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 6: Talked all about his opening for Frank and all the

665
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 6: stories about Frank Sinatcha. I'm sure you've got tons of

666
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 6: them too, But it was really interesting and so many people.

667
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 5: Viewed that show.

668
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:31,600
Speaker 6: They were so interested in it, and he thanks me

669
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 6: to this day, you know, for putting that out there.

670
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 1: Do you have a dream guest? Do you still have

671
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 1: Nike with? Oh, other than Skip and Eye, that sounds

672
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 1: like a comedy team.

673
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 2: And who you still like to get on there with you?

674
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:51,160
Speaker 6: Well, I'd like to get Steve Martin, but I wanted

675
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 6: to get Carl Reiner as was friends with him, and

676
00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 6: mel Brooks would have been great.

677
00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 5: But these guys are I think a little past the

678
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:00,840
Speaker 5: the heike.

679
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, but there's you know, there's a lot of

680
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 6: I throw on a wide net there, Paul, you know,

681
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 6: because I'm not afraid to ask people, from Taylor Swift

682
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 6: to Oprah, you know, I just throw it out there.

683
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 6: I guess Taylor Swift would be good since she's so popular. Now,

684
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 6: really you think, I mean, I don't know if I

685
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 6: could connect with her on anything.

686
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 2: I think you fly something. I'm your latest hike with

687
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 2: Nick Aferman. I thought it was great, but one of

688
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 2: one of the things that stood out for me. Really

689
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 2: made me laugh is when you asked where he was from,

690
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 2: when he said Minooka, Illinois, and you said, even the

691
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 2: people who live there haven't heard of it.

692
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 1: About Jack Black. We had Jack Black on. Yeah you've

693
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 1: gotten interrupted by all those people.

694
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean we couldn't even Here's what I learned

695
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 6: is don't do these hikes with the big celebrities on

696
00:31:58,280 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 6: a weekend because that's when.

697
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 5: All the people are out there hiking.

698
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 6: So I typically go on a weekday, like around nine o'clock,

699
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 6: and it's before many people are out there, you know.

700
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 6: And I used to I used to live in the Palisades,

701
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 6: Skip and I lived near Temescal Canyon and it's one

702
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 6: of my favorite canyons out there.

703
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 5: And I was on that show Weeds at the time,

704
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:16,320
Speaker 5: and I.

705
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:18,480
Speaker 6: Would bring my script with me early in the morning

706
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:20,560
Speaker 6: to learn my lines while I was kind of hiking

707
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:23,320
Speaker 6: up the canyon there and the sun was just coming

708
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 6: out right, and so it would be interesting because one

709
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:29,760
Speaker 6: time I went up there, I hiked, I got thirty

710
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 6: minutes up and I heard this deep growl and I

711
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 6: knew it wasn't a dog or anything, and I knew

712
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 6: it was a mountain lion. I could feel it in

713
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 6: my chest and I scurried up the hill.

714
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 5: I came back like.

715
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 6: Two hours later, and you know, everybody's hiking around and

716
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:46,640
Speaker 6: I felt safe. But the next day, I swear to you,

717
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 6: they caught a two hundred pound mountain lion right there

718
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 6: in sunset and tamescal and I know that was the one.

719
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 5: It had to be the one.

720
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 2: Oh man, are you guys going to reboot that weeds?

721
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:56,280
Speaker 5: Weeds? Weeds?

722
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,480
Speaker 6: I hear tell of that, but I don't I'll believe

723
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 6: what I see it. I don't know how they would

724
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 6: do it since weed is legal now, you know, it'd

725
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:05,400
Speaker 6: have to kind of really take a big turn.

726
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 5: Ye.

727
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 3: That's right.

728
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 2: So how about your stuff as being a visual artist,

729
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 2: because I know you were talking to eighty about, you know,

730
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 2: what you do with the caricatures. Maybe you could explain

731
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 2: that for a secondents, Do you have a book out

732
00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:15,720
Speaker 2: now too?

733
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:15,960
Speaker 3: Right?

734
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:18,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, I wrote a book about a year ago.

735
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 6: It's a collection of my caricature paintings of celebrities and

736
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 6: a lot of them are my friends. And then there's

737
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 6: an anecdote on the opposite page about how I know

738
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 6: them or an experience we had together, and if I

739
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 6: don't know them, it's just musing.

740
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 5: About, you know whatever. And it was a lot of fun.

741
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 6: Writing it, and people really like it a lot funny,

742
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 6: you know, Skip, I was going to I brought I

743
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 6: usually bring a book with me to a club and

744
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:44,600
Speaker 6: just kind of show it and they'll put up on

745
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 6: a screen or something. And I forgot my book last week.

746
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 6: I was going somewhere, so I called Barnes and Noble

747
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:53,240
Speaker 6: in that city. I said, do you have a book

748
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 6: called I Exaggerate by Kevin Neelan And she goes, hang

749
00:33:58,200 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 6: on a second. I mean, I'm sorry, who is it by?

750
00:33:59,920 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 6: I said, Kevin Kneeling. She said, let me go check

751
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 6: I Exaggerated right.

752
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:05,000
Speaker 2: He go yeah.

753
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:07,280
Speaker 6: So she goes back two minutes later she goes, yeah,

754
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 6: we do have the book, and shall I hold it

755
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 6: here by the cash register? I said, yeah, please do that.

756
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:14,320
Speaker 6: She said, who should I hold it for? I said,

757
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:22,319
Speaker 6: Kevin Kneeling. But anyway, you know, Skip, I used this

758
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:24,400
Speaker 6: doodle all my life. I would just but there's always

759
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 6: like quick little doodles or really kind of rough caricatures

760
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,080
Speaker 6: of people, and I never really fully committed to it.

761
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:31,960
Speaker 6: And then when Instagram came along, I saw some really

762
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 6: good illustrators, real good character artists, and I thought, wow,

763
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 6: that's really good.

764
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 5: They're really good.

765
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 6: And I used to have two pictures in my bedroom

766
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 6: hanging up, two really great caricatures of my parents, and

767
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:44,239
Speaker 6: they're framed, and every night I would lie down and

768
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:47,360
Speaker 6: look at those and kind of subconsciously study how the

769
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:51,960
Speaker 6: artist went about doing it, what he exaggerated. And I

770
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 6: think that was probably my greatest lesson, because I've never

771
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:57,360
Speaker 6: really taken any real lessons on how to draw, and

772
00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:00,560
Speaker 6: it's kind of doing characters have really in my life

773
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 6: because wherever I go now, I look at people and

774
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:06,040
Speaker 6: I see their outstanding character traits. It's like going through

775
00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:08,399
Speaker 6: a funhouse with all the mirrors, so I could never

776
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:10,960
Speaker 6: see anybody normally anymore.

777
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:12,840
Speaker 2: Do you see it as a bit of an escape

778
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 2: for you, Kevin?

779
00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 5: Definitely, definitely. When I'm drawing. I don't know if it's

780
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 5: like when you're writing a song or something, but I

781
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 5: just I forget to have lunch. I forget. And I

782
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:27,240
Speaker 5: was going through a period of claustrophobia for a while.

783
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 6: It's kind of an anxiety claustrophobia, and I couldn't be

784
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 6: in a room where I knew I couldn't get out,

785
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:35,799
Speaker 6: or I felt like maybe I couldn't get out, and

786
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:38,399
Speaker 6: I would sometimes and I would think, oh my god,

787
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 6: my career is over. You know, I can't get on

788
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 6: an airplane. But for some reason, I could fly. I

789
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:44,280
Speaker 6: could be in an airplane, but if it got stuck

790
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 6: on the tarmac, I would really start to get anxious

791
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:50,319
Speaker 6: and get that feeling of clustrophobia. But if I took

792
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:52,279
Speaker 6: out a sketch pad, which I always kept with me

793
00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:54,799
Speaker 6: and a pencil, it would totally take me out of

794
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:57,840
Speaker 6: that and I would just escape into whatever it was

795
00:35:57,480 --> 00:35:58,680
Speaker 6: I was drawing.

796
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 2: So yeah, good, definitely fascinating work. I used to hang

797
00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 2: out with.

798
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 1: You know, Stella and Warhol did a few on me,

799
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:08,879
Speaker 1: but I'd get to go down and hang with them

800
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 1: when they were, you know, creating, and it's just a

801
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 1: fascinating process to watch, especially the modern painters. You know,

802
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 1: you'd sit there and they'd see all kinds of colors

803
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 1: and they'd be throwing this and doing that. I saw

804
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:23,240
Speaker 1: it so much, I said, I think it was Stella.

805
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:25,280
Speaker 1: I said, how the hell do you know when you're finished?

806
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 1: But it was fascinating watching those guys create, you know,

807
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:31,960
Speaker 1: and then buying the stuff back in the sixties when

808
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:34,160
Speaker 1: it was cheap as opposed to later on.

809
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:36,400
Speaker 5: Do you have any paintings that you bought that you

810
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:39,399
Speaker 5: really are Oh?

811
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:42,839
Speaker 1: Had I had a whole collection, you know Stella Dacooning

812
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:46,560
Speaker 1: and I had. I had a whole collection. I built

813
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:49,200
Speaker 1: a house around it when I lived in Carmel with

814
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:52,080
Speaker 1: my wife then May she Rest in peace, and we

815
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 1: had forty foot ceilings and we bought and bought and bought.

816
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:55,280
Speaker 2: Skip.

817
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 1: I think you got a taste of it near the end.

818
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,360
Speaker 1: I think it turned Steve on Steve Whinn when he

819
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 1: started buying. But when I got divorced, I gave her

820
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:06,319
Speaker 1: everything and said goodbye to it all. And she deserved it,

821
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:09,279
Speaker 1: you know. She was, you know, very involved in it

822
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:10,759
Speaker 1: with me, but I gave it all to her. But

823
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:13,840
Speaker 1: we had major, major pieces that we started selling for

824
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:14,279
Speaker 1: the years.

825
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:17,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, Kevin showed me this work. It was on his phone.

826
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 2: I'm telling you this is not like a hobby thing, Paul.

827
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:23,480
Speaker 2: You should see these. These are spectacular. I mean I

828
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:26,799
Speaker 2: couldn't get over these caricatures because when I first heard

829
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 2: that he was doing them, I thought, well, it's a

830
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:30,920
Speaker 2: little thing he's doing on the side wherever going around.

831
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 3: They're great.

832
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 2: I mean they're really great.

833
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 1: Do you offend anybody seen them?

834
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:36,800
Speaker 3: Sure?

835
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:39,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, go for it.

836
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:40,520
Speaker 2: The truth, the truth.

837
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:44,799
Speaker 6: You know a lot of times people ask me, have

838
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:46,319
Speaker 6: these people seen their caricatures?

839
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:47,839
Speaker 5: At that point, they hadn't seen them.

840
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:50,239
Speaker 6: And I never knew that they had seen him because

841
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:51,360
Speaker 6: I didn't have him in a book.

842
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:53,839
Speaker 5: But then when I put him in a book, and

843
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 5: you know, I had to go out and promote the book.

844
00:37:57,800 --> 00:37:59,840
Speaker 6: So I would take a few of the paintings with me,

845
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 6: but out of courtesy, I would ask these people, do

846
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:05,239
Speaker 6: you mind if I use your if you're painting to

847
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:07,240
Speaker 6: to help sell my book? And you know, Jim Carrey

848
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 6: was fine with it, Steve Martin was fine with it,

849
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:13,480
Speaker 6: and I uh, I sent Christopher Walkins to his agent

850
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:14,480
Speaker 6: and he hated.

851
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 5: Christopher Walkin hated it so badly.

852
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:20,799
Speaker 6: He goes under those circumstances, could you use this to

853
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:21,720
Speaker 6: promote your book?

854
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:24,160
Speaker 5: But it's in the book?

855
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:26,280
Speaker 1: So is that the one that makes you laugh the most?

856
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:30,759
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's my favorite, one of my favorite one. But

857
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 6: you know you're speaking of painting.

858
00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:32,560
Speaker 3: Skip.

859
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:35,840
Speaker 6: I went to Lakhma in New York a couple of

860
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 6: years ago, and they had Starry Night by Vincent and.

861
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,399
Speaker 5: Everybody was crowded around it, and I.

862
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:45,279
Speaker 6: Took my cell phone out and I went up next

863
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:47,440
Speaker 6: to this the middle of the group, next to a

864
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:48,040
Speaker 6: couple of people.

865
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 5: I said, is this a famous painting here? And yeah?

866
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:55,000
Speaker 5: I go and what is it called? And the woman

867
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:58,719
Speaker 5: was so so offriended next to me.

868
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 6: She goes, it's starry It's Starry Night by this Ben go,

869
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:04,400
Speaker 6: that's like not knowing who you know? The Mona Lisa

870
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:06,920
Speaker 6: is And I said, okay, and how much is it?

871
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 6: How much are they selling it for? She goes, it's

872
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 6: not for sale. I said, well why is it? What

873
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:15,840
Speaker 6: do you think it would be worth? It would be millions.

874
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:17,920
Speaker 6: I said, is that because the frame? Because I don't

875
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 6: think the painting is that good? Maybe the frame alone.

876
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 5: To be that much? Did a child paint it? Is

877
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 5: it like a finger painting?

878
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 6: She was so incensed she just huffed off and she

879
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:29,879
Speaker 6: walked and I videotaped the whole thing.

880
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:33,799
Speaker 2: Wonder why these sickos that want to go and throw

881
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:36,080
Speaker 2: a suit? Yeah, yeah, yeah, throw things at the Mona

882
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:40,920
Speaker 2: Lisa where it's like behind such an incredibly impenetrable piece

883
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:43,880
Speaker 2: of glass that you can never impact it anyway. But

884
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:46,800
Speaker 2: why they choose to do that, it's just bizarre.

885
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 6: Well why they choose to do it is because it

886
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:52,879
Speaker 6: draws attention to their cause, because you know, had they

887
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:55,839
Speaker 6: not done that, they wouldn't have gotten the attention. And uh,

888
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:57,880
Speaker 6: I just feel bad for the makers of the suit

889
00:39:58,080 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 6: because that gives them a bad wrap.

890
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:01,080
Speaker 2: We don't like the soup.

891
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:02,960
Speaker 5: We don't like.

892
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 2: We don't like the soup.

893
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:09,640
Speaker 6: I read a book on leonardoo da Vinci, which my

894
00:40:09,719 --> 00:40:11,719
Speaker 6: son kind of laughs at because it took me like

895
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:13,680
Speaker 6: a year and a half to read it, big book,

896
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 6: And I took me so and to read it because

897
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 6: I was fascinated by his life and it's all everything

898
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 6: about him and his paintings in his process. And do

899
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:28,160
Speaker 6: you know that the Mona Lisa took him eight years

900
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:30,279
Speaker 6: to paint and he would just.

901
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:31,760
Speaker 5: Carried around in his wagon.

902
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:33,839
Speaker 6: When he moved to Milan, he would have it with him,

903
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:35,839
Speaker 6: and then he went to Rome and he just would

904
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 6: just keep touching it up and just keep painting it.

905
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:41,160
Speaker 6: So I don't even know if it's finished to this day.

906
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 2: That's funny. So just to pivot for one second. You

907
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 2: were talking about Tom Greeson, and Tom Dreeson's a very

908
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:50,839
Speaker 2: avid golfers, you know, played all he could and kept

909
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:53,839
Speaker 2: by Paul. Kevin and I played a lot of golf

910
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:57,560
Speaker 2: together over the years. But now that we're both banged up,

911
00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:00,319
Speaker 2: maybe not so much. But need to get I need

912
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:02,399
Speaker 2: to get him back on the golf course. That's where

913
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:03,600
Speaker 2: you have a lot of fun together.

914
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 5: Golf.

915
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:08,960
Speaker 1: I used to and then I uh, I was a caddie.

916
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,320
Speaker 1: Maybe it's because of that for many years in Canada,

917
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:15,319
Speaker 1: and then I golfed and pucked around, played a lot

918
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:18,239
Speaker 1: of tennis. But you know, when you're writing, well, you know,

919
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 1: just so much time in the day. And then I

920
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:24,120
Speaker 1: had a young child, he's eighteen now, and my time

921
00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:25,320
Speaker 1: was very special.

922
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:26,880
Speaker 2: No, I don't you know.

923
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:30,480
Speaker 1: I got as frustrated as you all do. But I

924
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 1: had the benefit of you know, Steve Winn built his

925
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:37,360
Speaker 1: place in Las Vegas. Steve and no, the answer is

926
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 1: a big no. I'm pickleballing and I'm playing tennis now.

927
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:42,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, pickle balls become so popular.

928
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:44,360
Speaker 6: My friends started playing that about fifteen years ago, and

929
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:47,000
Speaker 6: I shook my head thinking this guy's given up. He

930
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:49,000
Speaker 6: has given up. He's playing like, well, he's gonna play

931
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:54,759
Speaker 6: shuffle board later. But yeah, the thing with golf is

932
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 6: I love it. I'm horrible at it. But you know,

933
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 6: when I go golfing, I go because I want to golf.

934
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:04,799
Speaker 6: But then when I'm golfing after nine holes, I think

935
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:06,680
Speaker 6: I should be home doing something else, you know, I

936
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 6: should be writing or whatever.

937
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:12,799
Speaker 5: You know, it's never it's never like I'm a more

938
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 5: of a nine hole guy.

939
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 2: But you know what the truth is, We're all driven

940
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:21,279
Speaker 2: in our own way. You know, thinking of Paul, Paul's

941
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:25,839
Speaker 2: in his eighth decade of performing and he's leaving to

942
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:30,760
Speaker 2: go out on tour again. It's just it's so inspirational

943
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:33,719
Speaker 2: and incredible to just keep going. You know, you look

944
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 2: at people that you know sort of call it a

945
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:38,480
Speaker 2: day early and say, well, you know, I had a

946
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:41,719
Speaker 2: great career, see you later. And I love I love

947
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:44,400
Speaker 2: the fact that Paul is still filling up these venues

948
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:47,279
Speaker 2: and it's just phenomenal that he gets to do that.

949
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:50,799
Speaker 1: So, hey, you stand still, they throw dirt on you.

950
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:52,680
Speaker 1: So as long as you can do it, you love

951
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:54,799
Speaker 1: a passion, you do it. You know you don't look

952
00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 1: at life that way.

953
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:57,799
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, how lucky are we that we have

954
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:00,680
Speaker 6: this passion where we don't want to retire?

955
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:02,359
Speaker 5: You know, we just love what we do.

956
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:04,319
Speaker 6: I mean, if I retired, I still be doing what

957
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:17,759
Speaker 6: I really it's just not for money. So you have

958
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 6: an eighteen year old son, Paul, I have a seventeen

959
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 6: year old son, and I know what you mean.

960
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:23,920
Speaker 5: You want to be home with them as much as

961
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:26,480
Speaker 5: possible before they go off to college or whatever.

962
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:29,080
Speaker 6: I'm writing a bucket list now of all the things

963
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:31,239
Speaker 6: I haven't donn my son yet that I want to

964
00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:33,680
Speaker 6: do because he's going to be leaving the nest pretty soon.

965
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 6: I mean, it's everything I go into it, you know,

966
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:40,320
Speaker 6: a salmon, a salmon fishing trip in Alaska, going camp

967
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:43,000
Speaker 6: and white water rafting, going here and going there.

968
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:45,160
Speaker 5: And I don't think I'm going to be able to

969
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:46,239
Speaker 5: get them all in, you.

970
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:46,799
Speaker 2: Know, Southern kep.

971
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:50,640
Speaker 1: Like I got five girls when they hit that eighteen mark.

972
00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:54,000
Speaker 1: And when they did, boy do they go out and

973
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:56,279
Speaker 1: get it. They just leave you. You know, they love you,

974
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:58,640
Speaker 1: but they leave you. Look they look back at your

975
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:00,960
Speaker 1: times like you're an alien. So I'm putting in a

976
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:04,360
Speaker 1: lot of years with him. I'm committed to that, and

977
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:07,879
Speaker 1: I do everything at home in my studio. And somebody

978
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:13,239
Speaker 1: recently said kids are overrated. Maybe, but I'm having a

979
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:15,359
Speaker 1: great time with him, great time with him.

980
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:18,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you need time.

981
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 5: You got to make the time sometimes.

982
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:23,400
Speaker 2: Speaking of time, weren't you getting involved in spending some

983
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:26,760
Speaker 2: time with politics and Pacific Palisades? You were like running

984
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:27,720
Speaker 2: for the city council.

985
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 5: I never ran for anything.

986
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:33,000
Speaker 6: They asked me if I would be the honorary Mayor

987
00:44:33,239 --> 00:44:37,279
Speaker 6: of the Palace, and I said, what is that involved?

988
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 6: They said, all you have to do is ride in

989
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:42,840
Speaker 6: the Fourth of July parade and then h Christmas. You

990
00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:45,279
Speaker 6: just ride on the fire truck with Santa Claus. And

991
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:47,319
Speaker 6: so my son was younger at the time. I thought, yeah,

992
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:48,759
Speaker 6: that'd be kind of cool. He'd like to ride in

993
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:51,839
Speaker 6: a parade. So I said, that's all I have to do.

994
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:55,759
Speaker 6: That's fine. So immediately after I became honorary mayor, I'm

995
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:59,320
Speaker 6: getting all these calls, Hey, man, they're using cuesticide on

996
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:01,359
Speaker 6: the side of our Well, could you do something about that?

997
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 6: You know there there's a round up. Can you do

998
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:06,040
Speaker 6: something about Hey? Can you throw the first ball and

999
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:08,400
Speaker 6: at the polo match. You know, can you judge your

1000
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:11,000
Speaker 6: beauty cuts. I'm just here for the ride. I just

1001
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:12,960
Speaker 6: want to be on the ride in the parade. But

1002
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:15,280
Speaker 6: it was great, you know, do it for two years

1003
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:17,840
Speaker 6: and then I handed it off to Bully Crystal and

1004
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:19,200
Speaker 6: then he took it really there.

1005
00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:22,319
Speaker 1: Speaking of mayor's I was living in Carmel, so that's

1006
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 1: Clint Eastwood country.

1007
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:25,080
Speaker 2: So we're buddy.

1008
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:28,600
Speaker 1: Things were starting to fray a little in Carmel and

1009
00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:33,279
Speaker 1: a run for Meyrit Paul I said, okay, I'll support you.

1010
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:36,719
Speaker 1: So we take him down to the city hall. You know,

1011
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:38,919
Speaker 1: he start doing his speeches. Nobody could hear him because

1012
00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:43,440
Speaker 1: he talks so softly. So I said, hey, Clint, I

1013
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:46,399
Speaker 1: got an idea. I'll pay for it. You know, I'm

1014
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:49,200
Speaker 1: a big sound nut, and I flew in a sound system.

1015
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 1: I think they trucked it down from San Francisco, so

1016
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:54,200
Speaker 1: that when we got him on the steps of the

1017
00:45:54,239 --> 00:45:56,719
Speaker 1: city Hall and he had to give his speech, everybody

1018
00:45:56,719 --> 00:45:59,160
Speaker 1: could finally hear him because he had no idea what

1019
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:02,600
Speaker 1: he was saying was running. But he was a cool

1020
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:04,640
Speaker 1: He was a cool guy. He was a great mayor too.

1021
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:06,160
Speaker 1: He put her all back together up there.

1022
00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:06,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, he did.

1023
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:10,160
Speaker 2: He did. Was he like ninety and working in nineties

1024
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 2: and he's doing new films, you know, pursing directly.

1025
00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:14,479
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1026
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:16,600
Speaker 1: And he doesn't want to hear about age either man.

1027
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:18,880
Speaker 1: He says, keep the keeping the old man out. He

1028
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:20,240
Speaker 1: got nothing to do with anything.

1029
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:20,759
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1030
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:23,239
Speaker 1: I think he because close to the family and has daughter.

1031
00:46:23,239 --> 00:46:25,960
Speaker 1: I think it went to Africa for this current film.

1032
00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:27,880
Speaker 1: I think that's where he was and he's backing.

1033
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:32,200
Speaker 6: Friend of mine is a huge Clint Eastwood fan, kind

1034
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:34,480
Speaker 6: of looks like him a little bit. And he married

1035
00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 6: his daughter and he loves Clint Eastwood, and he married

1036
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:39,840
Speaker 6: his daughter I think to be close to Clint Eastwood.

1037
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:45,160
Speaker 6: And the marriage Ollie lasted six months and Clint said

1038
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 6: to him, he said, he didn't have to marry my

1039
00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:49,640
Speaker 6: daughter to go golfer with me.

1040
00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:51,040
Speaker 5: I would have golfed with you.

1041
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:54,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's married.

1042
00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:57,719
Speaker 1: Well now she's really involved and they're they're putting up

1043
00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:00,680
Speaker 1: a shelter because she's into animals and save and all that.

1044
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:04,120
Speaker 1: We've been helping and contributing. But she's put together a

1045
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:07,839
Speaker 1: real nice complex for saving animals. She's a good girl

1046
00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 1: and she's married well.

1047
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:11,680
Speaker 6: That's goods. I know, like Doris Day up and Carmel

1048
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:12,800
Speaker 6: used to love animals.

1049
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:13,799
Speaker 2: Who's a neighbor up there?

1050
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:15,880
Speaker 5: That's beautiful up there.

1051
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:17,680
Speaker 2: I was just there a couple of weeks ago talking

1052
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:20,239
Speaker 2: about when things wind up or wrap up? Do you

1053
00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:25,120
Speaker 2: think Saturday Night Live we were together at the fortieth anniversary.

1054
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:27,960
Speaker 2: Now the next year is going to be the fiftieth anniversary.

1055
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:32,600
Speaker 2: It's hard the fathom that show that originally got in

1056
00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:35,520
Speaker 2: order for maybe like four episodes, it's going on for

1057
00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:38,600
Speaker 2: fifty years. You think Lauren will call it a day

1058
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:40,200
Speaker 2: or do you think he'll just keep going?

1059
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:42,279
Speaker 6: Well, you know, the last time he called it a day,

1060
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:46,440
Speaker 6: the show almost ended because it was out out of

1061
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:51,040
Speaker 6: his control, and so he came back and it took

1062
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:52,719
Speaker 6: a year or two for to kind of get back

1063
00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:54,600
Speaker 6: in good graces again with the audience.

1064
00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:57,760
Speaker 5: So I think it's going to be a difficult decision

1065
00:47:57,840 --> 00:48:00,279
Speaker 5: for him to make. I saw him about a year going.

1066
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:04,239
Speaker 5: He look great, looks fine. So I don't.

1067
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:07,160
Speaker 6: Know that just because something is a round number, I

1068
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 6: don't think people should call it a day unless that

1069
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 6: round number is one hundred and it's his round number.

1070
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 2: Well, this has been a blast. Man, Have you come

1071
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:19,279
Speaker 2: on and just just just so multi talented, you know,

1072
00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:23,080
Speaker 2: making people laugh and no, you're right, you're right, right, Hey, Heyki,

1073
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:26,840
Speaker 2: when you're right, you're right, you got it, nailed it, Paul, Yeah,

1074
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:28,880
Speaker 2: what do you think we Kevin and I drag you

1075
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 2: out on the golf course. We make you play golf

1076
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:31,239
Speaker 2: with us.

1077
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:34,200
Speaker 1: Yell, drive there you go. I want to see my caricature.

1078
00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:35,200
Speaker 1: That's what I want to see.

1079
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:37,400
Speaker 2: Hey, I have to whip one up, one up.

1080
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:40,120
Speaker 5: I stopped doing characters with my friends too risky.

1081
00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:41,840
Speaker 2: Okay, I won't be your friend.

1082
00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:47,319
Speaker 1: I want to see'd be my next seat.

1083
00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:50,040
Speaker 6: I'm sure you got a couple of characters at some

1084
00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 6: of those restaurants.

1085
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:52,680
Speaker 5: Oh boy, the wall.

1086
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:59,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've got Nunzie, Johnny Lips. There were some funny people.

1087
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:01,440
Speaker 1: And with Sinatra, I'll tell you, I don't know how

1088
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:03,200
Speaker 1: I got out of all that clean, but there were

1089
00:49:03,239 --> 00:49:05,000
Speaker 1: some characters, real characters.

1090
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I'm sure man, donle oh, I.

1091
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:09,640
Speaker 1: Love don you know we used to. He used to

1092
00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 1: when he came to town. We were all working Vegas

1093
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:14,959
Speaker 1: back in the sixties. He'd be working the lounges, which

1094
00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:18,920
Speaker 1: were back then as important as the clubrooms themselves. But

1095
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:21,680
Speaker 1: he'd take on Frank and he put down every him

1096
00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:25,759
Speaker 1: and Shaky Green would tear everybody apart. And you know,

1097
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:27,839
Speaker 1: he was just kind of new to all of us,

1098
00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:29,880
Speaker 1: but we all knew he was a sweet guy. But

1099
00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:32,319
Speaker 1: he tore Frank apart one night to get back to

1100
00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:35,600
Speaker 1: got back to Frank one night and after the show

1101
00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:38,760
Speaker 1: one of the sands he was at the Sahara. He said, okay,

1102
00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:42,400
Speaker 1: we're going over to the Sahara to see Rickles. So

1103
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:44,560
Speaker 1: I think it was about eight of us, and his

1104
00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:48,480
Speaker 1: right hand man was Jilly. So we sit down ringside

1105
00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 1: in these lounges which only held about two hundred people,

1106
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:54,880
Speaker 1: and Don was going on at midnight. We're sitting ringside

1107
00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:59,360
Speaker 1: and Frank said to Jilly, okay, Jilly, go get the papers.

1108
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:03,000
Speaker 1: He went out to the news step he brought back

1109
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:06,279
Speaker 1: eight la times. We're all sitting there and franksis put

1110
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:08,840
Speaker 1: him under the table. So he put him under the

1111
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 1: table and then Don still had that torriodor or whatever

1112
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:17,719
Speaker 1: that instrumentally had that brought him on, and he came

1113
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:20,759
Speaker 1: on and Frank say, okay, now we all picked up

1114
00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:24,239
Speaker 1: the papers, opened him up, and we started reading them

1115
00:50:24,560 --> 00:50:28,160
Speaker 1: while he was doing his accenting ringside, Hey, jolly was

1116
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:30,239
Speaker 1: the want of the Dodgers playing no more. I don't

1117
00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 1: know if we never put the damn papers down. Well,

1118
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:35,640
Speaker 1: Don sweated, as you know, but man, it was the

1119
00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:38,640
Speaker 1: funniest thing. We wouldn't put those fucking papers down.

1120
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:39,960
Speaker 2: He was going nuts.

1121
00:50:40,360 --> 00:50:42,520
Speaker 1: But that's what it was back then, you know, it was.

1122
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:45,960
Speaker 1: It was close. It was the all of them mafia

1123
00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:48,640
Speaker 1: guys you worked for. Everybody knew who you worked for,

1124
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:52,200
Speaker 1: and everybody would get together and just the town was

1125
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:55,560
Speaker 1: way different than it is today, much much different, until

1126
00:50:55,680 --> 00:50:57,680
Speaker 1: Hughes came in and then Steve Wynn came in and

1127
00:50:57,760 --> 00:50:59,560
Speaker 1: it became very very corporate.

1128
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:01,000
Speaker 2: Brickles was loved.

1129
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:04,000
Speaker 1: He was a sweetheart. He was really a very very

1130
00:51:04,080 --> 00:51:06,080
Speaker 1: warm guy off stage, he was a good guy.

1131
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:06,520
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1132
00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:07,880
Speaker 5: I had a chance to meet him.

1133
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:11,680
Speaker 6: About a year or so before he died at a

1134
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:13,759
Speaker 6: party in the backyard. We were sent at the same

1135
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:17,239
Speaker 6: table and he was so curious about the younger comics now,

1136
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:20,239
Speaker 6: and I think he was so confused that what was

1137
00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:23,680
Speaker 6: funny anymore, you know, And he wanted to know about

1138
00:51:23,719 --> 00:51:26,359
Speaker 6: the comics and who's this guy? What does he do

1139
00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:29,280
Speaker 6: you know it was interesting to see that that older

1140
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:35,520
Speaker 6: generation trying to kind of understand the newer what makes people.

1141
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:38,440
Speaker 1: And not understand because it's a huge when I look

1142
00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:41,480
Speaker 1: at the landscape today and what it was back then.

1143
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:44,319
Speaker 1: But you know, times change and everything is fitting to

1144
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 1: the time. But no one would ever think it would

1145
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:49,359
Speaker 1: get to where it is today. I mean a lot

1146
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:51,920
Speaker 1: of us musicians look at a lot of the music

1147
00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:54,560
Speaker 1: that's out there go what's going on here? But you know,

1148
00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:56,840
Speaker 1: he got to roll with it and understand it and

1149
00:51:56,880 --> 00:51:58,080
Speaker 1: not be too judgmental.

1150
00:51:58,360 --> 00:51:59,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's true.

1151
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:01,759
Speaker 6: I don't think Rickles could have an act now that

1152
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:05,320
Speaker 6: people would you know, approve.

1153
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:08,880
Speaker 1: Him definitely, not that they'd be on him within his

1154
00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:09,800
Speaker 1: first ten minutes.

1155
00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:10,239
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1156
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:12,640
Speaker 6: I think Brad Garrett is probably the closest to that

1157
00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:15,640
Speaker 6: now and he kind of gets oh yeah, he's very Uh.

1158
00:52:16,080 --> 00:52:17,879
Speaker 5: He reminds me of Don Rickles a lot.

1159
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:19,960
Speaker 1: Well, you know who a lot of that was lifted

1160
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:21,680
Speaker 1: from was a guy named Jackie Leonard.

1161
00:52:21,719 --> 00:52:22,600
Speaker 2: Do you remember that name?

1162
00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:23,239
Speaker 5: Oh?

1163
00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:27,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, well Don, it was down and Jackie Leonard and

1164
00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:30,000
Speaker 1: Jackie was doing the same kind of stuff that Don

1165
00:52:30,120 --> 00:52:32,360
Speaker 1: was doing. Don just took it do another.

1166
00:52:32,160 --> 00:52:34,920
Speaker 6: When I first started out Paul I was opening up

1167
00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:35,879
Speaker 6: for Jackie Vernon.

1168
00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:40,040
Speaker 1: Oh sure, big Jackie, Jackie, you're open for another comment

1169
00:52:40,239 --> 00:52:40,800
Speaker 1: that's wild.

1170
00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:42,360
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, that's how it works.

1171
00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:44,440
Speaker 6: And he would do that slide show thing, you know,

1172
00:52:44,840 --> 00:52:48,560
Speaker 6: there was a make believe slideshow and every day we

1173
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:50,640
Speaker 6: were like in Houston. I remember, he would call me.

1174
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:52,799
Speaker 6: He goes, come on, let's go. We'll go to a pharmacy.

1175
00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:55,760
Speaker 6: He loved going to pharmacies and he get a shopping

1176
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:59,719
Speaker 6: cart at the pharmacy. And he would take anything by

1177
00:52:59,719 --> 00:53:02,360
Speaker 6: anything if it came with something free, you know, like

1178
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:03,839
Speaker 6: if cologne comes with an.

1179
00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:04,960
Speaker 2: Umbrella, I'll get that.

1180
00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:05,719
Speaker 5: I'll get that.

1181
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:08,000
Speaker 1: Well, you know when I started, you know, back in

1182
00:53:08,040 --> 00:53:10,040
Speaker 1: the fifties and we started doing the circuit, you know,

1183
00:53:10,080 --> 00:53:13,560
Speaker 1: it was Copa, it was Vegas Fountain Blue. We had

1184
00:53:13,600 --> 00:53:16,200
Speaker 1: to have a comic on the show, I mean whatever,

1185
00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:19,160
Speaker 1: and whoever wanted it. So I went through everybody, I mean,

1186
00:53:19,320 --> 00:53:22,160
Speaker 1: Joan River's name and then Jackie Mason. They threw that

1187
00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:24,240
Speaker 1: out of me. I said sure, And I was opening

1188
00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:26,319
Speaker 1: at the Copa and I was there during prom time,

1189
00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:29,399
Speaker 1: which is like three shows a night, and they're lined

1190
00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:32,680
Speaker 1: up around fifth avenue these kids. So on opening night,

1191
00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:36,359
Speaker 1: Jackie and I are, you know, getting ready to our

1192
00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:39,239
Speaker 1: opening show, and we'd do it. It's a huge hit,

1193
00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:42,640
Speaker 1: a rave reviews everything else, and Jackie was what he

1194
00:53:42,719 --> 00:53:44,879
Speaker 1: turned out to be, you know, very aggressive and very

1195
00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:48,520
Speaker 1: right on it. And the next night he decides to

1196
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:53,279
Speaker 1: walk through the front door of the Copa with the kids. Now,

1197
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:57,000
Speaker 1: normally not many people remember the Copa. It was a

1198
00:53:57,120 --> 00:54:00,160
Speaker 1: side entrance that you'd go up into a hotel, dress

1199
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:02,440
Speaker 1: in a hotel and come down into.

1200
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:03,920
Speaker 2: The club because there was no dressing rooms.

1201
00:54:04,239 --> 00:54:07,719
Speaker 1: So Jackie decides to walk in the front door with

1202
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:11,480
Speaker 1: at least a thousand kids, and he's walking past them,

1203
00:54:11,520 --> 00:54:13,480
Speaker 1: you know, he's all puffed up because he was a

1204
00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:17,719
Speaker 1: hit the night before, and mister Podell, Jules Podell, who

1205
00:54:17,760 --> 00:54:20,080
Speaker 1: was the guy for the mob, sat at the chair

1206
00:54:20,160 --> 00:54:24,240
Speaker 1: at the entrance in the lobby watching everything. So Jackie

1207
00:54:24,239 --> 00:54:27,600
Speaker 1: walks in, he's there with the kids, and he walks

1208
00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:30,040
Speaker 1: by Podell who's sitting there. He says, hey, mister Podell,

1209
00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:33,040
Speaker 1: good to see you. Potel looked at and said, get

1210
00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:34,320
Speaker 1: back in fucking line.

1211
00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:34,760
Speaker 2: Kids.

1212
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:39,480
Speaker 1: He didn't know who the hell Jackie was from whatever,

1213
00:54:39,960 --> 00:54:42,319
Speaker 1: but I'll never forget that. Jackie and I always used

1214
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:46,080
Speaker 1: to laughter that get back and fucking wank. But the

1215
00:54:46,160 --> 00:54:48,680
Speaker 1: Copa was the place, you know, it was like a basement.

1216
00:54:48,719 --> 00:54:50,320
Speaker 2: It wasn't anything like we see today.

1217
00:54:50,719 --> 00:54:53,920
Speaker 1: But all the comics started to see, all of them.

1218
00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:58,480
Speaker 6: It seemed like it was a very accepted practice to

1219
00:54:58,520 --> 00:54:59,280
Speaker 6: work with the mafia.

1220
00:54:59,320 --> 00:55:00,480
Speaker 2: Back choice.

1221
00:55:00,560 --> 00:55:05,240
Speaker 1: You had your choice, we mean, except yeah, anywhere we worked,

1222
00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:08,520
Speaker 1: whether you had a record deal, anything in show business,

1223
00:55:08,680 --> 00:55:11,560
Speaker 1: right down to getting cement in New York, you worked

1224
00:55:11,560 --> 00:55:14,880
Speaker 1: for the guys. When I first met Sinatra, you know,

1225
00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:16,680
Speaker 1: it was always write me a song, Write me a song.

1226
00:55:16,719 --> 00:55:19,520
Speaker 1: But I was intimidated, you know me. I was on

1227
00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:22,960
Speaker 1: Puppy Love and all that crap. And we were at

1228
00:55:22,960 --> 00:55:26,920
Speaker 1: the Fountain Blue in the late sixties working for the boys,

1229
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:29,160
Speaker 1: and it was a lot more glamorous at that club.

1230
00:55:29,600 --> 00:55:32,759
Speaker 1: But Frank was he was in town doing a movie,

1231
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:35,360
Speaker 1: and I was singing in the Lauren Room, and he

1232
00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:40,240
Speaker 1: was in town doing a film Lady in Cement, which

1233
00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:42,759
Speaker 1: with the people we worked for, could have been a documentary,

1234
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:48,400
Speaker 1: you know. So we constantly, we constantly were working between

1235
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:50,880
Speaker 1: those three places, and the boys would show up, I

1236
00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:53,440
Speaker 1: mean after my show, I'd sit with Mari Lansky and

1237
00:55:53,440 --> 00:55:55,920
Speaker 1: his wife. I'd finished the show to go down to

1238
00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:58,920
Speaker 1: the barn. I'm sitting with Mari Lansky and loved it.

1239
00:55:59,040 --> 00:56:00,160
Speaker 2: You know, it was a very.

1240
00:56:00,120 --> 00:56:02,080
Speaker 1: Gracious to me. But it was always the boys. You

1241
00:56:02,160 --> 00:56:04,560
Speaker 1: worked for them, that was it, no choice.

1242
00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:06,200
Speaker 5: How about Joey Gallow Do you ever mean.

1243
00:56:06,120 --> 00:56:08,239
Speaker 2: That the Gallows? I met him in New York once.

1244
00:56:08,840 --> 00:56:11,520
Speaker 5: Do you ever read You ever read Johnny Carson's lawyers.

1245
00:56:11,160 --> 00:56:13,840
Speaker 2: Pushkin Henry Bushkin? Yeah, I knew Henry.

1246
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:15,600
Speaker 5: He wrote a book about Johnny.

1247
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:17,799
Speaker 1: No, it was you know, there was some friction there

1248
00:56:17,840 --> 00:56:19,400
Speaker 1: at the end. But if Henry was good, he was

1249
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:21,120
Speaker 1: his lawyer, and I knew them very well. We were

1250
00:56:21,120 --> 00:56:23,879
Speaker 1: all in the same office and he did very very well.

1251
00:56:23,880 --> 00:56:28,600
Speaker 1: By by by Johnny. I think they're they're big turning point.

1252
00:56:28,840 --> 00:56:33,239
Speaker 1: They bought a TV station in Las Vegas, and I

1253
00:56:33,280 --> 00:56:36,040
Speaker 1: think it was Channel five. But you know when they

1254
00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:38,440
Speaker 1: first bought it, you know, back when TV was in

1255
00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:42,880
Speaker 1: its infancy stage in a sense, when when Howard Hughes

1256
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:48,279
Speaker 1: took over Las Vegas and we were all working there, Uh,

1257
00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:51,160
Speaker 1: the only channel we'd watch after the show was this

1258
00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:55,560
Speaker 1: Channel five that was the only channel estayed on late.

1259
00:56:55,600 --> 00:56:59,839
Speaker 1: We'd watch movies and hang and so when Hughes took over,

1260
00:57:00,239 --> 00:57:03,200
Speaker 1: we never knew when he was in town. Nobody knew

1261
00:57:03,239 --> 00:57:08,200
Speaker 1: it'd sneak in. It's upstairs, downstairs. So one night we

1262
00:57:08,560 --> 00:57:12,360
Speaker 1: all go back and we're watching television and they started

1263
00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:16,200
Speaker 1: playing this film on Channel five, the one that Carson

1264
00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:20,400
Speaker 1: later bought years later, and it was ice Station Zebra,

1265
00:57:21,360 --> 00:57:25,560
Speaker 1: remember that with the English actor. We watched it and

1266
00:57:25,680 --> 00:57:27,920
Speaker 1: about ten minutes later the film couts back on again.

1267
00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:32,280
Speaker 1: And then the next day, you know, we finished kibbitzing

1268
00:57:32,320 --> 00:57:34,240
Speaker 1: in the casino and drinking, we go back and the

1269
00:57:34,280 --> 00:57:38,880
Speaker 1: goddamn films on again, Ice Station Zebra. Timus later it's

1270
00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:43,400
Speaker 1: on again. So we all said, going on, justinadra all

1271
00:57:43,440 --> 00:57:47,360
Speaker 1: of it. One of the ice pas Zebra, and we

1272
00:57:47,400 --> 00:57:50,720
Speaker 1: started checking on it. When Howard Hughes came to town,

1273
00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:52,040
Speaker 1: and every time he was there and he were sitting

1274
00:57:52,080 --> 00:57:55,600
Speaker 1: up in his room, that was his favorite movie. And

1275
00:57:55,640 --> 00:57:57,920
Speaker 1: he bought the channel and he called the kid that

1276
00:57:58,080 --> 00:58:00,320
Speaker 1: was on doing it and say play it. I get

1277
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:04,760
Speaker 1: play it again my stations. That's how we knew he

1278
00:58:04,840 --> 00:58:07,840
Speaker 1: was in town. And then Johnny later bought the station.

1279
00:58:08,080 --> 00:58:08,400
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1280
00:58:08,480 --> 00:58:09,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, he was a character, Howard.

1281
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:12,919
Speaker 6: I just remember all the stories about him just being

1282
00:58:13,640 --> 00:58:17,880
Speaker 6: you know, was held up in his room with the

1283
00:58:17,920 --> 00:58:19,000
Speaker 6: long aisles.

1284
00:58:18,600 --> 00:58:19,480
Speaker 5: And the long well.

1285
00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:20,000
Speaker 2: I knew him.

1286
00:58:20,120 --> 00:58:22,200
Speaker 1: I used to see him walking at the Beverly Hills

1287
00:58:22,200 --> 00:58:25,440
Speaker 1: Hotel and my friend Ben Silverstein who owned it. You know,

1288
00:58:25,520 --> 00:58:28,080
Speaker 1: they have course catered to him and I was in

1289
00:58:28,160 --> 00:58:30,080
Speaker 1: the bungalow next to them, and you know, you'd see

1290
00:58:30,120 --> 00:58:32,200
Speaker 1: him at night and he went back door the restaurants.

1291
00:58:32,400 --> 00:58:36,360
Speaker 1: But Ben's bitch all the time was his hues would

1292
00:58:36,360 --> 00:58:38,800
Speaker 1: wake him up, like it three or four in the morning,

1293
00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:42,200
Speaker 1: say I want a banana cream pie in one hour,

1294
00:58:42,760 --> 00:58:44,280
Speaker 1: and they'd have to go out and get him a

1295
00:58:44,280 --> 00:58:46,680
Speaker 1: banana creep pie.

1296
00:58:46,720 --> 00:58:50,120
Speaker 2: So, Kevin, just just one last question. So you've been

1297
00:58:50,120 --> 00:58:53,560
Speaker 2: on TV seemingly NonStop for over thirty five years, which

1298
00:58:53,640 --> 00:58:57,560
Speaker 2: is extraordinary, and yet you're still incredibly active on the

1299
00:58:57,560 --> 00:58:59,760
Speaker 2: stand up circuit. So I'm just curious, how does that

1300
00:59:00,040 --> 00:59:03,320
Speaker 2: continue to fulfill you doing stand up when you've had

1301
00:59:03,360 --> 00:59:08,040
Speaker 2: this extraordinary career on television. What is it that is

1302
00:59:08,080 --> 00:59:10,200
Speaker 2: that that keeps you going? I know what keeps you

1303
00:59:10,240 --> 00:59:14,560
Speaker 2: going doing television series whatever, But what you know, why

1304
00:59:14,560 --> 00:59:16,400
Speaker 2: does that, why does that motivation?

1305
00:59:16,480 --> 00:59:18,560
Speaker 6: Well, stand up comedy was my first love. It's all

1306
00:59:18,600 --> 00:59:21,680
Speaker 6: I ever really wanted to do. And the acting is

1307
00:59:21,760 --> 00:59:25,600
Speaker 6: kind of secondary that came that came along, and you know,

1308
00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:28,200
Speaker 6: I was open to it, but I never stopped doing

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Speaker 6: stand up. I always love doing that. So when I

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Speaker 6: continue to do that, and if I don't do it,

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Speaker 6: and I'm sure that, like Paul was saying, you feel like,

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Speaker 6: you know, you're really you're.

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Speaker 1: Missing, out of touch, out of touch, not fulfilling yourself.

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00:59:41,640 --> 00:59:44,880
Speaker 1: The passion is not being fulfilled. Very true, dark hole

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Speaker 1: between the artists and the audience, even you know, with music,

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00:59:48,680 --> 00:59:52,000
Speaker 1: even comedy, which is your love. When you're with them

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00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:54,640
Speaker 1: and they're giving you all that love back, it's there's

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Speaker 1: nothing like a skip.

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Speaker 2: So that's why, that's why when comedians that performing readibly

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Speaker 2: large venues, you see them just in a little comedy club,

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01:00:03,920 --> 01:00:05,920
Speaker 2: you know, trying out stuff and whatever. It's just to

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01:00:06,040 --> 01:00:08,080
Speaker 2: keep it going all the time, stay fresh, right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: And there's a lot of a lot of singers, for example,

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Speaker 6: write songs about being on the road, and as much

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01:00:14,160 --> 01:00:16,280
Speaker 6: as they say they hate it, it's their life and

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01:00:16,320 --> 01:00:17,160
Speaker 6: they're used to it.

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Speaker 5: And I think that is part.

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Speaker 6: Of the passion that comes with it, and being with

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Speaker 6: all the guys you know, and the girls and traveling,

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01:00:26,080 --> 01:00:29,080
Speaker 6: and it's a lifestyle for sure, and when you stop

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Speaker 6: doing it, you really feel.

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Speaker 1: The only thing you have to be careful back then

1334
01:00:32,880 --> 01:00:34,880
Speaker 1: was the messing around when you finish the show and

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01:00:34,920 --> 01:00:37,800
Speaker 1: got in trouble. So my rule was do the show

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Speaker 1: and go back to your.

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Speaker 2: Room, hell alone.

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01:00:42,160 --> 01:00:48,160
Speaker 1: Exactly the temptations out there. You know, as a teenager

1339
01:00:48,280 --> 01:00:50,680
Speaker 1: when I started, they weren't reporting all that stuff.

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Speaker 2: It was insane.

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01:00:52,640 --> 01:00:54,800
Speaker 1: It was insane when you go from a little town

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01:00:54,800 --> 01:00:57,400
Speaker 1: in Canada, you hang with the rat pack in Vegas.

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01:00:58,040 --> 01:00:59,760
Speaker 1: You know, the show was the fun thing, but then

1344
01:00:59,800 --> 01:01:03,919
Speaker 1: the real fun started after the show. So I tried

1345
01:01:03,960 --> 01:01:06,280
Speaker 1: to tell everybody that was up and coming, do your

1346
01:01:06,320 --> 01:01:08,040
Speaker 1: show and go back to your room.

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01:01:09,840 --> 01:01:13,600
Speaker 2: Watch channel it's around. I love it when Paul tells

1348
01:01:13,640 --> 01:01:16,040
Speaker 2: me that when he was young, the girls used to

1349
01:01:16,040 --> 01:01:18,440
Speaker 2: throw their underwear up on the stage, and now they

1350
01:01:18,480 --> 01:01:19,400
Speaker 2: throw their canes.

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01:01:19,760 --> 01:01:21,480
Speaker 1: No, they throw support stocks of course.

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01:01:21,600 --> 01:01:25,680
Speaker 5: Talking let me ask you this, Paul, if you were.

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01:01:25,560 --> 01:01:29,000
Speaker 6: Your compression socks inside out where your feet can explode

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01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:29,920
Speaker 6: or else?

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01:01:31,520 --> 01:01:35,840
Speaker 1: Okay, close, I just don't wear shoes. I'm giving any

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01:01:35,920 --> 01:01:36,960
Speaker 1: one barefoot from now on.

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Speaker 5: No.

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01:01:37,440 --> 01:01:39,800
Speaker 1: But you know, you start to realize, you know, I'm

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01:01:39,800 --> 01:01:42,760
Speaker 1: eighty two the people that you had at your audience

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01:01:42,880 --> 01:01:46,560
Speaker 1: last year. You know, we try to do account who's

1361
01:01:46,560 --> 01:01:49,560
Speaker 1: not here anymore? Let alone. I send my production manager

1362
01:01:49,720 --> 01:01:53,480
Speaker 1: out and say, okay, how many wheelchairs are here tonight?

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01:01:53,720 --> 01:01:54,680
Speaker 1: Things have changed.

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01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:57,320
Speaker 6: Sometimes I go out on stage or i'm behind stage,

1365
01:01:57,320 --> 01:01:59,439
Speaker 6: I'm looking out the audience and I see all these

1366
01:01:59,440 --> 01:02:02,800
Speaker 6: old old people. Oh man, these people are so old,

1367
01:02:03,080 --> 01:02:05,200
Speaker 6: and I think, wait a minute, I'm older than they are.

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01:02:07,440 --> 01:02:10,760
Speaker 2: This has been a blast, Kevin. You're just such a

1369
01:02:11,080 --> 01:02:13,800
Speaker 2: super guy to do this, and we'll love being with you.

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01:02:13,840 --> 01:02:16,600
Speaker 2: And I can't wait for more hiking with Kevin. I

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01:02:16,600 --> 01:02:17,760
Speaker 2: think it's just the greatest.

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01:02:17,840 --> 01:02:20,080
Speaker 5: I just love it. I'm addicted to it.

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01:02:20,120 --> 01:02:21,640
Speaker 2: I'm fit, Kevin. I'm fit.

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01:02:21,720 --> 01:02:22,439
Speaker 5: Yeah, you are fit.

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01:02:22,480 --> 01:02:24,280
Speaker 2: You look I'm fit on my camera.

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01:02:24,360 --> 01:02:25,680
Speaker 5: I don't know what you're fit for, but.

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01:02:27,480 --> 01:02:28,400
Speaker 2: We'll find something.

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01:02:28,680 --> 01:02:30,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll find out trail.

1379
01:02:30,120 --> 01:02:34,680
Speaker 2: It's downhill, Okay, we'll start at the bottom. Thanks keV,

1380
01:02:34,880 --> 01:02:35,720
Speaker 2: appreciate it, man.

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01:02:35,760 --> 01:02:36,480
Speaker 3: Thanks a million.

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01:02:36,600 --> 01:02:38,240
Speaker 5: All right, guys, thanks for having me.

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01:02:44,000 --> 01:02:46,800
Speaker 1: Our away with Paul Anka and Skip Bronson is a

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01:02:46,840 --> 01:02:48,760
Speaker 1: production of iHeartRadio.

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01:02:49,280 --> 01:02:53,680
Speaker 2: The show's the executive producer is Jordan Runtogg, with supervising

1386
01:02:53,760 --> 01:02:56,680
Speaker 2: producer and editor Marcy Depina, who.

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01:02:56,560 --> 01:03:00,600
Speaker 1: Was engineered by Todd Carlin and Graham Gibson and mixed

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01:03:00,640 --> 01:03:02,480
Speaker 1: and mastered by Doug bum.

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01:03:02,880 --> 01:03:05,280
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01:03:05,360 --> 01:03:05,960
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01:03:06,320 --> 01:03:13,320
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01:03:13,440 --> 01:03:17,080
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