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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 and.

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Speaker 2: My name is Skip Bronson.

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Speaker 3: We've been friends for decades and we've decided to let

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Speaker 3: you in on our late night phone calls by starting

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Speaker 3: 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 of ours.

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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 a sitting

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Speaker 1: president or two.

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Speaker 3: Join us as we asked the questions they've not been

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Speaker 3: asked before, tell it like it is, and even sing

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Speaker 3: 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 4: You know, when I started, at the very beginning of

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Speaker 4: the show, it was clear that a lot of the

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Speaker 4: guests didn't even know who I was.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 4: It was like they'd come The first two years, i'd

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Speaker 4: have a sidekick sit with me for the whole week,

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Speaker 4: so like I'd have Ed McMahon there or Mike Tyson

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Speaker 4: there for the week, And sometimes the guests would come

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Speaker 4: out and they just start talking to the other person,

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Speaker 4: and I'd be sitting there quietly like, hello, I'm you

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Speaker 4: know I am actually the most of the show.

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Speaker 1: Hey, hey, what's going on? Did the rain shut you down?

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Speaker 1: No golf?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 1: No, golf got pretty funky. I couldn't play pickleball either.

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Speaker 1: It's okay, Hey, our guests coming up. Man, he had

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Speaker 1: a cool you know I saw him the other night

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Speaker 1: with Denzel Washington. Oh really yeah, a cool little vibe

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Speaker 1: to it, and it really was very very cool. He's

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Speaker 1: such a good interviewer. And I'm talking about Jimmy Kimmel,

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Speaker 1: who's going to be on with this This guy, he's

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Speaker 1: different than everybody else on the air. You know that

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Speaker 1: the others aren't talented, but this guy really holds the crown.

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Speaker 3: And his monologue is you know, if you look at

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Speaker 3: the three Late night guys with you know, he and

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Speaker 3: Fallon and Colbert. I mean, his monologue is just so good.

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Speaker 3: His delivery is great. In fact, I want to ask him, like,

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Speaker 3: how does he do this? He has memorize it. I

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Speaker 3: wonder if he uses Q cards or maybe he has,

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Speaker 3: you know, a teleprompter. But yeah, it's all so natural,

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Speaker 3: you know, it's not forced at all.

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Speaker 2: It's funny. And I also want to ask him. I

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Speaker 2: know he grew up in Las Vegas.

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Speaker 3: But why, Yeah, did his father work in a casino

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Speaker 3: and how did that all come down.

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Speaker 1: I'm just going for the human being. I mean, because

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Speaker 1: of my daughter and Amanda and Jason. I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: so loved and he gives back in terms of charity

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Speaker 1: and its children hospital, and it's so diverse in from

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Speaker 1: being a fly fisherman to being a chef, and he draws,

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Speaker 1: and he's just a great human being that's loved by

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Speaker 1: everybody in our industry and obviously by the public. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to go hit all of those little bases. I

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Speaker 1: think it's going to be very, very important.

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Speaker 3: And the way he eats the people around him. Guermo,

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Speaker 3: the guy who was a security guard, is sort of

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Speaker 3: his Ed McMahon, that's his sidekick. I want to hear

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Speaker 3: about how that first came down. Cleto is buddy who

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Speaker 3: you know, grew up went to high school with his

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Speaker 3: band leader. I mean, he's got his family, is not

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Speaker 3: Chippy and his cousins.

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Speaker 1: You know, Galero is certainly not Ed mcmahoning and wasn't

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Speaker 1: a song and dance man, No, not at all. He

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Speaker 2: Lot but his comedic timing is terrific.

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Speaker 1: He's a good talker.

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Speaker 3: When Ghirmo goes and goes to the Academy Awards and

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Speaker 3: backstage and he interviews the winners, and I mean, it's

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Speaker 2: I mean, the guy is just great.

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Speaker 1: They got this ship down, They're in the right zone,

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Speaker 1: and he's just I'm so looking for I hear so

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Speaker 1: many great things about him, and I know it all

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Speaker 1: holds up because you can't get that many people that

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Speaker 1: have all that good to say. So I'm pretty excited

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Speaker 1: about it. I really am. And I hope you are skipt.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I am.

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Speaker 3: You know, I first came across and when he was

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Speaker 3: he was really funny and smart clever. I'd like to

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Speaker 3: But the Late night show is just spectacular great. I

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Speaker 3: also asked him about you know, I know he was

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Speaker 3: he fasts two days a week, he eats whatever he

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Speaker 3: wants five days a week and then fast two days

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Speaker 2: I want to hear if that's apocry full or if

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Speaker 2: that's real.

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Speaker 3: Son'd like with the people we have on Paul, we

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Speaker 3: like to hear sort of their routine, you know, go

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Speaker 3: to bed early, go to a bit late.

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Speaker 2: Exercise, do this, do that. It'll be fun.

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Speaker 1: You want to hear and get into what most people

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Speaker 1: that are listening don't ever get to know. Yep, and

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Speaker 1: that's what I like, all right, my darling. It's time

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Speaker 1: to say good night and sleep warm, and you get

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Speaker 1: up in the morning and you just tell me what

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Speaker 1: it's about. When I get ou at eleven.

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Speaker 2: You bet you check in.

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Speaker 1: I love you, man, love you too. Take care Skip.

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Speaker 2: See you.

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Speaker 4: There. He is, gentlemen. There.

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Speaker 1: He is one of the most loved men in show business.

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Speaker 1: My daughter and her husband Jason adore him. So I

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Speaker 1: have the advantage of periphery things about this amazing human.

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Speaker 1: And I've got to tell you, I know, as happy

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Speaker 1: as I am about it, you're right in there with us.

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Speaker 1: And I go back maybe near the beginning Skip, because

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Speaker 1: his mom and dad came to see me at Caesar's

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Speaker 1: so proud of it. Was in the beginning, skip right,

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Speaker 1: when Jimmy was just putting this footprint from radio to

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Speaker 1: where we know him as probably the King of the Hill.

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Speaker 1: And I go back to Carson so I could say that.

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Speaker 1: Tell me, firstly, how are your parents.

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Speaker 4: My parents are doing great, Thank you for asking. They

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Speaker 4: are excited that I'm on with you. And I will

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Speaker 4: tell you your daughter, Amanda, who I love dearly, is

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Speaker 4: annoyed by how much I talk about you with her.

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Speaker 4: You know, to her your her dad and to me

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Speaker 4: you're paul Anka and skip your skip ronson for sure,

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Speaker 4: no question about that. But I'm excited. I'm excited to

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Speaker 4: be here. I really am. Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 2: It's correct now.

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Speaker 1: But take us back. You know you and I shared Vegas,

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Speaker 1: probably in different time periods. I know you were their

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Speaker 4: And I was there seventies eighties.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. And I was there with those

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Speaker 1: guys the rat Pack, running around a steam room nude,

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Speaker 1: guys that built Vegas. What was it to you and

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Speaker 1: how's it remained in your life?

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Speaker 2: Jimmy.

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Speaker 4: I was also running around nude, but just not really

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Speaker 1: Oh you were the guy.

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Speaker 4: I will tell you a funny story about being nude

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Speaker 4: with someone famous. When I was a kid in Las Vegas,

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Speaker 4: I used to go to this gym occasionally called Camelot. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: now my band leader, Clto, and we'd often see Sigfried

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Speaker 4: I couldn't figure out. I was like, Wow, this guy

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Speaker 4: really he doesn't work out? What is he doing here

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Speaker 4: And then years later I figured it out.

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Speaker 1: It all came to like, like.

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Speaker 4: Why is he in a place that costs seventeen dollars

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Speaker 1: Why they were good guys.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh god.

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Speaker 3: I was on the Border Mirage resort, so obviously had

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Speaker 3: you and say skip, hey, how things, how are your kids?

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Speaker 2: What's going on?

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Speaker 3: You could meet Siegfried twenty seven times. He would look

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Speaker 3: how it talks his head to one sidelight. He sort

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Speaker 4: There's always you know what's It's just like any couple.

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Speaker 4: You got one who remembers My wife is constantly saying like,

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Speaker 3: Sigfrid was smart, though he didn't want to bother with

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Speaker 2: But you know, Roy was the one. He literally would

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Speaker 4: One of the funniest things I ever saw, skip to

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Speaker 4: turn into like a Gallagher concert all of and stuff.

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Speaker 4: They were diving under the tables, and I thought it

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Speaker 4: was just the best thing I've ever seen.

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Speaker 1: Just speaking of diving under the tables a quickie. When

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Speaker 1: I worked with the boys in the early sixties, all

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Speaker 1: the mob guys, they were in a black book and

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Speaker 1: they weren't allowed to come into Vegas, and they really

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Speaker 1: monitored it well well. Whenever they would come in town,

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Speaker 1: we'd sneak them in. They'd be sitting at the San Showroom,

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Speaker 1: which was very small, and they'd be sitting ringside. Whenever

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Speaker 1: the tables, they'd all dive under the tables. That's how

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Speaker 4: You know what I do, Paul, I often will be

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Speaker 4: in control of the music if we're having a party

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Speaker 4: or dinner or something like that with with your daughter,

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Speaker 3: Was that as exciting as when your high school band

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Speaker 4: It was honestly an accident. I was a disc jockey.

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Speaker 4: thirty eight minute long on conversations with Super Dave Osborne

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Speaker 4: to talking about what was going on in sports, and

438
00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:09,800
Speaker 4: really his primary interest in sports was gambling. It was

439
00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:12,600
Speaker 4: betting on them. He was less interested in the sports

440
00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:14,840
Speaker 4: as he was with the gambling. And I think maybe,

441
00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:17,000
Speaker 4: like now, that would be fine, but back then it

442
00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:21,560
Speaker 4: was not something that you talked about in detail on television.

443
00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:24,200
Speaker 4: It was actually frowned upon because it was illegal.

444
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Speaker 3: But when he went to Saturday Night Live, as you recall,

445
00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:30,440
Speaker 3: he did Weekend Update. Yeah, and he was just fantastic.

446
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Speaker 3: But for whatever reason, Don Olmeyer, who later in life

447
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Speaker 3: became a friend of mine, we played golf together, he

448
00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:40,880
Speaker 3: hated Norm MacDonald and he forced Lauren to fire him.

449
00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:43,680
Speaker 3: He couldn't stand Norm. Just hated him.

450
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I recall, And you know, I don't know what

451
00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:48,880
Speaker 4: the real story is. And people like to attach narratives

452
00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:53,240
Speaker 4: to this, but Norm the OJ jokes rubbed Don the

453
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Speaker 4: wrong way. Because Don was a friend of O. Jason,

454
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Speaker 4: as people do with their friends, didn't believe that on

455
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Speaker 4: anything to this day seemed clear to everybody else.

456
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Man, in the beginning, when you started with the show, Jimmy,

457
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Speaker 1: like a lot of things that you go through those

458
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Speaker 1: growing pains, you know.

459
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and.

460
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Speaker 1: When it started to take hold for you, When was

461
00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:20,480
Speaker 1: that when you really decided to get some legs and

462
00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:23,040
Speaker 1: it was what you wanted to do. The passion was

463
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Speaker 1: there and it was going to be around for a while.

464
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Speaker 4: I think it may have been ten years. In Honestly,

465
00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:30,479
Speaker 4: it took me. I'm not even joking when I say that.

466
00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:33,159
Speaker 4: I think it took me a very long time to

467
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Speaker 4: even be decent at the job and to be confident.

468
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Speaker 4: You know. When I started, like at the very beginning

469
00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:43,480
Speaker 4: of the show, it was clear that a lot of

470
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Speaker 4: the guests didn't even know who I was. You know.

471
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Speaker 4: It's like they'd come they knew they were on a

472
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Speaker 4: talk show. Sometimes I'd have a side first two years,

473
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Speaker 4: i'd have a sidekick sit with me for the whole week.

474
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Speaker 4: So like i'd have Ed McMahon there for the week,

475
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Speaker 4: or Mike Tyson there for the week, or Snoop Dogg

476
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Speaker 4: or whomever agreed to do it. And sometimes the guests

477
00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:04,240
Speaker 4: would come out and they just start talking to the

478
00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:09,600
Speaker 4: other person, and I'd be sitting here quietly, Hello, I'm

479
00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,879
Speaker 4: you know, I am actually the show. I might have

480
00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:15,840
Speaker 4: some questions. It got to the point even where the

481
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Speaker 4: director of the show would sometimes I remember times where

482
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Speaker 4: I was waving at the camera, you know, the show

483
00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:26,240
Speaker 4: was live at that time, just to get the director's

484
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Speaker 4: attention to put it back on me so I could

485
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Speaker 4: ask a question if I had something to say. It

486
00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:31,920
Speaker 4: was deeply humiliating.

487
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Speaker 1: That's a growing pain, big time, right.

488
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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Well look at you now, man, look at you now,

490
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Speaker 1: and you've got that great wife of yours that she.

491
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Speaker 4: Just poked her head in here. That's Molly.

492
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Speaker 1: Yeah, produces. Well, I run into Molly and you got

493
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Speaker 1: a big time asset there. That's a good stroke in

494
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Speaker 1: your life.

495
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Speaker 4: Well, thank you very much. I agree. Yes, she's an

496
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Speaker 4: executive producer and one of the writers on the show,

497
00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:58,119
Speaker 4: and you know, hilarious and very funny. And yeah, she

498
00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:01,040
Speaker 4: and your daughter are very tight. I know that when

499
00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:03,840
Speaker 4: I'm texting my wife and she's not responding to me,

500
00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:07,280
Speaker 4: that in that time period she has texted back and

501
00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:11,720
Speaker 4: forth with your daughter Amanda forty or seventy times. I

502
00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:13,640
Speaker 4: had to call her today. I was like, hey, would

503
00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:15,160
Speaker 4: you answer my text please?

504
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Speaker 1: It's about work, that's sir. How's that dynamic work, Jimmy.

505
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Speaker 4: It works fine. We work in separate buildings, you know.

506
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:26,480
Speaker 4: We have two buildings here. One's the theater and one's

507
00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:28,560
Speaker 4: the office, and she's over in the office most of

508
00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:33,320
Speaker 4: the time. And we don't necessarily take our work home

509
00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:36,920
Speaker 4: that much. A certain extent, we do, but not too much.

510
00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,680
Speaker 4: And we met, you know, works out just fine for us.

511
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Speaker 3: But your sidekick Germo, I mean, was he really a

512
00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:56,240
Speaker 3: security guard, that's part of the bit.

513
00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:59,840
Speaker 4: No, he was our parking lot security guard, Guermo. He

514
00:24:59,880 --> 00:25:04,199
Speaker 4: was using people's cars to sleep in, and so like

515
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:06,080
Speaker 4: during the show when he's supposed to be guarding the

516
00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,680
Speaker 4: Lotti knew, you know, everybody was inside paying attention to

517
00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:11,760
Speaker 4: the show, so he would ask our announcer Dicky for

518
00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:14,960
Speaker 4: the keys to his prius so he could sleep in

519
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:18,920
Speaker 4: it while the show was happening. And I found out

520
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 4: about it, and I was kind of mad, to be honest.

521
00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:23,560
Speaker 4: I was like, what is this guy's sleeping And then

522
00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:25,480
Speaker 4: they tricked him and they said, hey, Jimmy got a

523
00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:29,359
Speaker 4: new car. I just bought a range Rover and he's like,

524
00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:31,240
Speaker 4: Jimmy got a new car. You want to hang out

525
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Speaker 4: in that tonight while the show is on. And he's

526
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:37,040
Speaker 4: like yeah, okay, which is ridiculous. And then of course

527
00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:40,560
Speaker 4: they set him up so that I came downstairs and

528
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:45,000
Speaker 4: saw him like with my car seat leaned all the

529
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Speaker 4: way back and he's taking a nap in my new car.

530
00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:51,679
Speaker 4: I was like, what is going on here? And he

531
00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:53,639
Speaker 4: was so nervous it made me laugh. And then we

532
00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:56,080
Speaker 4: decided to put him in a bit where he played

533
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Speaker 4: Michael Jackson's chef. Michael Jackson chef had written a book

534
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,520
Speaker 4: and so we had him play the part of Michael

535
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Speaker 4: Jacksons chef and he was so terrified on the air.

536
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 4: I remember, as we're doing it, is looking at him, going,

537
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:08,960
Speaker 4: oh yeah, this guy's going to be on a lot

538
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,679
Speaker 4: of times. This is funny and we're going to get

539
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:13,000
Speaker 4: a lot of mileage out of this.

540
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:15,760
Speaker 2: People love him, though. Do you ever spend time with

541
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Speaker 2: him off the show?

542
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:17,040
Speaker 1: Oh?

543
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:21,359
Speaker 4: Yes, In fact, not only do we spend time together,

544
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Speaker 4: I now I do not invite him to my house anymore,

545
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:29,840
Speaker 4: because no one accepts an invitation and doesn't show up

546
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 4: more than Guillermo. You would think the roles were reversed

547
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Speaker 4: on it because I used to have him over for

548
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Speaker 4: Christmas every year, I'd have him for Easter or whatever,

549
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Speaker 4: and then it'll be like nine thirty, I'm like, hey, Gemo,

550
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:43,080
Speaker 4: I got a spot for you. Where are I was like, oh,

551
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:47,280
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I forgot you know, or my wife or whatever.

552
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:50,879
Speaker 4: So we do spend time together, but it has to

553
00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:53,600
Speaker 4: be unscheduled because if you invite him to something, he

554
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:54,200
Speaker 4: won't come.

555
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Speaker 1: Well, I suggest you replace Howard on vacations and take him.

556
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,080
Speaker 1: I would love to get a report on that from friends.

557
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:07,639
Speaker 4: Yeah, well you know Howard and my wife Molly, and

558
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 4: Howard Stern and his wife Beth. That we went to

559
00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:13,920
Speaker 4: Italy on vacation over the summer, which was a big

560
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:16,800
Speaker 4: deal because Howard doesn't typically not just leave the country,

561
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,840
Speaker 4: he doesn't leave his house, and we were very nervous.

562
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Speaker 4: We were very concerned that he wouldn't have a good time.

563
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Speaker 4: But a miracle occurred and he had a great time,

564
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Speaker 4: and I think it might even happen again someday.

565
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Speaker 1: Sorry to hear that.

566
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Speaker 3: I grew up in Hartford. You've got your start on

567
00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:38,360
Speaker 3: local radio. So he got his start in Hertford, Connecticut

568
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 3: on a local radio station.

569
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Speaker 2: That was his first entry into the business.

570
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Speaker 1: It's crazy they have in common. They're both painters. I

571
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Speaker 1: don't know how do we define that, Jimmy will, but

572
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:54,640
Speaker 1: they both love to paint. Howard does and Jimmy does.

573
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,440
Speaker 1: And give us some clarity on that. Jimmy, that's interesting.

574
00:27:57,520 --> 00:27:59,200
Speaker 4: I wanted to be an artist when I was a kid.

575
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 4: That was my plan for my life. And I started

576
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 4: doing radio stuff and I really loved it, and I

577
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 4: moved away from that. But I don't paint. I draw,

578
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:10,959
Speaker 4: and I've always loved it. And my mother is an artist.

579
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 4: My daughter, my oldest daughter, is an artist professionally now.

580
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:18,680
Speaker 4: She makes ceramic figures and she's doing very well with that.

581
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,600
Speaker 4: It's just something that I always thought would be the

582
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 4: thing that I did. It was what I was best

583
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:27,280
Speaker 4: at as a kid, and so I like to do

584
00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 4: that for fun and with my kids. And I'll draw

585
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:35,520
Speaker 4: like obscene caricatures of the people I work with, and

586
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 4: it's mostly used for evil. You know, it's well, there

587
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 4: are likester on top of that. I know that I

588
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 4: appreciate a prank. I love it. I can't stop it.

589
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:51,240
Speaker 4: I really I just got my wife a terrible personalized

590
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:53,400
Speaker 4: license plate that she wants to kill me over.

591
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 1: Explain yourself, Okay, she wanted a license and you did what.

592
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,840
Speaker 4: She wanted one of those. You know, in California you

593
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 4: can get one of those old timey looking black and

594
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 4: yellow license plates. And she said, I like to look

595
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:11,080
Speaker 4: at that. I'd like to get one of those. I said, yeah,

596
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 4: all right, I'll take care of it. And she was

597
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:15,959
Speaker 4: not looking for a personalized plate. She was looking just

598
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,280
Speaker 4: for a regular plate of that collar. And so I

599
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 4: got her a license plate that says we be jamming

600
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 4: on it. When it came in the mail, I actually

601
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 4: like stuffed it in my back of my pants because

602
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 4: we were together and I had to like sneak it

603
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 4: out to the garage, so I felt like I was

604
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 4: sneaking a Playboy up to my betroom or something. I

605
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 4: stuffed it in the back of my pants, and suddenly

606
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 4: I've got good posture, you know. I walk out of

607
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 4: the garage and I get this screwdriver and I unto

608
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:49,160
Speaker 4: the other one and I put this on it, and

609
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 4: I'm so delighted with myself. And I called her out

610
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 4: and I said, I have something for you. And she

611
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:56,960
Speaker 4: knew something was wrong, and she's like, what's going on.

612
00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 4: I said, no, no, no, I think you're gonna like it.

613
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 4: I really think you can enjoy it. And she comes

614
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 4: out as she goes you and there's a lot of

615
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:09,360
Speaker 4: profanity and she now wants it off, but it's still

616
00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:12,080
Speaker 4: on for a while until we get her a new car.

617
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:14,840
Speaker 1: You're forced to get her a new car.

618
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:15,600
Speaker 2: That's great.

619
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:18,800
Speaker 1: Well, I love you for that, man, because I'm a prankster. Listen,

620
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 1: I think humor. Humor is the final refuge of sanity.

621
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Speaker 4: Give me some pranks that you pulled, especially like from

622
00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:26,840
Speaker 4: the old days, the.

623
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Speaker 1: Old Well, okay, I'll give you a Steve Win. How's

624
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:30,160
Speaker 1: that skip? You know?

625
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:30,840
Speaker 4: Going right?

626
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,480
Speaker 1: Okay? So Steve Wynn, his family and I we would

627
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:35,719
Speaker 1: travel all over the world together and we wind up

628
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:38,840
Speaker 1: in Italy and we go to the Chipriani Hotel, which

629
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 1: is a very I'm sure you've been there. It's on

630
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:44,200
Speaker 1: a small island in Venice. Okay, So we land there

631
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 1: and there's twelve of us. I got five daughters, he's

632
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 1: got his two, we got the wives, and we take

633
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:52,520
Speaker 1: over the hotel that night. Before dinner, they all plugged

634
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:56,400
Speaker 1: in their hair dryers and blew out the electricity. Small hotel. Okay,

635
00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 1: So now we're there for about four days. I'm getting restless.

636
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,240
Speaker 1: I want to pull a prank and I call Steve

637
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 1: in his room. He's with his wife before dinner, and

638
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 1: I call him from my room and I go, mister wuin, Yes,

639
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 1: this is Roberto Covini down the front eska. He says, yes,

640
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 1: what can I do for it? I said, well, I

641
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 1: know you're checking out tomorrow, and we're very, very hand

642
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:22,600
Speaker 1: to have somebody like you here. But you know, we

643
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 1: got a problem. It's the summertime and all the Arabs,

644
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:28,959
Speaker 1: you know, they come over here, and we got some

645
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 1: of the royalty people coming tomorrow and we need all

646
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,479
Speaker 1: You've got so many rooms, we're going to need your rooms,

647
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 1: and could you check out at six in the morning?

648
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 4: He says.

649
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 1: You got to know, Steve Winn know how this guy

650
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 1: goes into orbit? He says, Wenning econom mister Win. You're

651
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 1: in the business, you understand. But you know, if you're

652
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,160
Speaker 1: coming down, we'll feed you in the bar and we'll

653
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:53,640
Speaker 1: take it the luggage and will put it in the gondolas.

654
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:57,400
Speaker 1: You'll be very but six sixty thirty maybe. He says, Look,

655
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 1: I'm in this business and there's no way then I'm

656
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:03,480
Speaker 1: gonna get these women. And you're gonna have us check

657
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 1: out tomorrow at six in the morning. And this is

658
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:09,840
Speaker 1: something I will not entertain doing. And I don't know

659
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 1: why you're calling, but mister Uynn, you must understand these

660
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 1: are Arabs. They come every year when they we needed

661
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 1: the rooms. He said, Look, I am telling you we

662
00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 1: cannot check out now. This is where the teeth meet.

663
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 1: We cannot meet it suc warning. I said, okay, mister,

664
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 1: well in that case, fuck you. Oh he comes fucking

665
00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 1: storming down at the front desk. In that case, fuck you.

666
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,160
Speaker 1: That's just one of them. When I take it to dinner, Jimmy,

667
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 1: I've got about fifty of them. I put them one

668
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 1: on skip, which is too long because I haven't done

669
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:58,160
Speaker 1: Marley Carlo with Prince Renye, and I'm not gonna I'm

670
00:32:58,200 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 1: not gonna eat the time up, but we'll do that.

671
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 2: Would I love this shorter, Jimmy, A shorter one note

672
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:08,600
Speaker 2: what he did to me. I was at Medeo.

673
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 3: The restaurant used to be on Beverly Boulevard down there

674
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 3: downstairs and I'm in there with two other couples. I'm

675
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:18,960
Speaker 3: sitting at my table and my phone rings and it's

676
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:21,400
Speaker 3: Paul and he goes, hey, I said, He said, where

677
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:24,560
Speaker 3: do I find you? I said, I'm out to dinner.

678
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 3: He goes where. I said, at Medeo. What I'm at Mendeo?

679
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:29,760
Speaker 3: Is you're at Mendeo?

680
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 2: He said yeah.

681
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 3: He said, stand up and wave and I'll come over

682
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 3: to your table. So I said, really, I stand up

683
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:38,520
Speaker 3: and I start waving my room like this. By the way,

684
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 3: Brian Grazer is the next table looking at me, like

685
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 3: what's he doing? Trying to get a waiter or something.

686
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 3: So I said, well, where are you? He said, well,

687
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 3: you know, I'm short and I can't see so many people.

688
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 3: I can't see over everybody. Just wave again.

689
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 2: Tell me where you are. I sent him by the

690
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:57,000
Speaker 2: banquet by the end of the bar. Just come over here.

691
00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 3: Well, just stand there, just wave one more time. So

692
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 3: again I get up and I'm waving and waving, and

693
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 3: I said, Jesus Christ, where the fuck are you?

694
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 2: He said, at home?

695
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 4: I said. He had called my.

696
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:12,719
Speaker 3: House and the housekeeper hits of the phone and he

697
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 3: said where is he? And she said, well, he's out

698
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:17,480
Speaker 3: to dinner. He said, where to Medeo.

699
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,759
Speaker 4: That's a good one. I like a simple one like that.

700
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 4: That's nice. Yeah, I recently. My Aunt Chippy is someone

701
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 4: she lives in Las Vegas, and she's the reason that

702
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:31,920
Speaker 4: we moved to Las Vegas. The reason we moved to

703
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:36,440
Speaker 4: Las Vegas. My uncle Frank was a security was a

704
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 4: police officer in New York and he heard that he

705
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,359
Speaker 4: retired after twenty years on the force, and he heard

706
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:43,400
Speaker 4: that you could get a job as a security guard

707
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:47,279
Speaker 4: in Las Vegas if you were MYPD. So well, first

708
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 4: they were going to move to Florida. And they went

709
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 4: to Florida and they were staying with friends, and they

710
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 4: put a down payment on a lot, actually like one

711
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 4: hundred dollars down payment, which was a good amount of

712
00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 4: money for them at the time, and they were going

713
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 4: to build a house, track house in Florida. And that

714
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 4: afternoon there was an alligator in the pool, their friend's pool,

715
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:11,280
Speaker 4: and they said, oh, look outside, look there's an alligator

716
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 4: in the pool. And my Aunt Chippy said, I didn't

717
00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:16,839
Speaker 4: raise three daughters to have aim eetn by a fucking alligator.

718
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 4: And so Florida was now off the table and they

719
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:23,880
Speaker 4: decided to move to Vegas. They moved to Vegas with

720
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:27,080
Speaker 4: my grandparents. Everybody moves together, and my Aunt Hippy has

721
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:30,040
Speaker 4: lived there now since nineteen seventy five, and I've been

722
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:33,239
Speaker 4: pulling pranks on her since I was a boy. The

723
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:38,440
Speaker 4: most recent one. You've seen those driverless cars and Waymo cars.

724
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:40,440
Speaker 4: So in La there are these cars that don't have

725
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:42,319
Speaker 4: drivers and you can get in them and they'll take

726
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 4: you where you want to go. But Aunt Chippy has

727
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:47,160
Speaker 4: never seen anything like this. She's eighty five years old,

728
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:48,880
Speaker 4: you know, she doesn't know that this is going on.

729
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:51,799
Speaker 4: So she came in to visit and I have her.

730
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 4: I have this guy pretending to be a driver. He

731
00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:57,239
Speaker 4: loads her into the driverless car and he says, will

732
00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 4: you excuse me, I have to go to the restroom

733
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,360
Speaker 4: and I'll be right back. She's like, yeah, okay, go ahead.

734
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 4: He closes the door and the car drives away with

735
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 4: no driver and she goes berserve. We got cameras in

736
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:13,879
Speaker 4: the car, of course. Oh my god, oh my god,

737
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:18,120
Speaker 4: oh my god, was really a dream come true for me.

738
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 2: And I saw that, and when she called her daughter

739
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 2: that it was fantastic. Oh my God, that was so great.

740
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:28,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, everyone gets in on it. We got the whole

741
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:29,680
Speaker 4: family in on this prime.

742
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:33,920
Speaker 1: Okay, a quick one, Ace for Base the sign what year?

743
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 4: Oh I still say yeah, Ace of Base. That was

744
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:41,320
Speaker 4: Let's see, I was in I was working in Tampa.

745
00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:44,080
Speaker 4: I think when that came out, my daughter, I'm going

746
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 4: to say nineteen ninety one four. Oh yeah, No, years

747
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 4: are not my thing. Really, it's the tunes.

748
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 1: It's hearing the tune.

749
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:56,240
Speaker 4: It's the tunes. Yeah, it's filling the blank on the tunes.

750
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:58,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd be more impressed if you got the year. Really,

751
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:02,880
Speaker 1: I can go ahead to ahead with you that with

752
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:03,759
Speaker 1: that on the.

753
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 4: Two, well, I would think you could.

754
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, on your show.

755
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,440
Speaker 3: I get to see your show at eight thirty at

756
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:11,360
Speaker 3: night because they have the East Coast speed.

757
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:11,839
Speaker 2: Here in La.

758
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 4: So oh wow you got that.

759
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 2: Huh yeah, when you do your monologue.

760
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 3: So again with my wife having been at Saturday Night

761
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 3: Live where they obviously live with Q cards.

762
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 2: But how do you your monologue? Do you do that

763
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 2: with Q cards?

764
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:28,440
Speaker 4: I used to do with Q cards and our Q

765
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:34,480
Speaker 4: card holder had rotator cuff surgery, so she said, I

766
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 4: have to I can't hold these Q cards anywhere because

767
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 4: the QU cards are heavy, you know, right, you know this,

768
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 4: And I said, all right, well, I'm not sure what

769
00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 4: to do here. She said, well, why don't we do

770
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 4: teleprompter while I recover? And we never went back to

771
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:51,920
Speaker 4: the Q cards. It was just easier. The problem with

772
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 4: the Q cards is if you want to make any

773
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:56,239
Speaker 4: kind of changes, it's a big mess. You know, they

774
00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 4: have these white tape they put her over the words

775
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:01,360
Speaker 4: and just looks like it's all bandaged up by the

776
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:04,879
Speaker 4: time you get to showtime. So the teleprompter's easier. That's

777
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:05,520
Speaker 4: what I use now.

778
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:09,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, and everybody's using in ears now Skip on Broadway everywhere.

779
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:11,719
Speaker 4: They'll talk to you in the in ears that I

780
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 4: don't use. I don't have the concentration to hear somebody

781
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 4: talking in my ear while I'm on the air. I've

782
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:21,799
Speaker 4: had it happen a couple of times, and I just don't.

783
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:23,800
Speaker 4: I can't. I just can't do it.

784
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:27,800
Speaker 1: And skip. You're going to bed so early, it's so boring.

785
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:29,920
Speaker 1: You got to take a couple of hits of a

786
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 1: joint and then watch him at eleven thirty. Denny's really amazing,

787
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:37,000
Speaker 1: so much funnier just to hit skip. What is this

788
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 1: fucking nine o'clock. You're missing everything in the world.

789
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:41,440
Speaker 4: Paul's usually going.

790
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 2: To bed Jimmy at the same time as I'm getting

791
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:44,280
Speaker 2: up in the morning.

792
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 4: I love that. That's my natural schedule too. I think

793
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:50,319
Speaker 4: there's something about Las Vegas that I mean, obviously your

794
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:53,919
Speaker 4: career lends itself to that, but also it's so hot

795
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 4: in the daytime. It's just nice to be up in there,

796
00:38:56,719 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 4: and the nighttime in the desert is beautiful. Once that's

797
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:04,920
Speaker 4: your routine, that's your routine, right, I mean, that's that,

798
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 4: and what a routine?

799
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 1: Why would I give up finishing a show with those

800
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 1: guys at one thirty going into a steam room. Jase

801
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:16,640
Speaker 1: Seburn would show up and give us all haircups. Now

802
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 1: that's two thirty. Then the show girls would show up

803
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:24,759
Speaker 1: at three thirty, and I'm only twenty one years old

804
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 1: living this dream, saying who do I give the money

805
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:29,880
Speaker 1: back to? We wouldn't leave that place till seven in

806
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:32,359
Speaker 1: the morning, and that was like five days a week.

807
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:36,080
Speaker 1: I mean, the needle went right up the arm. And

808
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:38,920
Speaker 1: only in Vegas could you do all that the stuff?

809
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:41,920
Speaker 1: As they say, what went on in that town with

810
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:44,680
Speaker 1: those guys when the mob owned it and they were

811
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:47,840
Speaker 1: the best. To work for those guys the best. It

812
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 1: was just something I'll never forget. I don't live in it.

813
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:54,080
Speaker 1: The rearview mirror is gone, but to live during those

814
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:55,920
Speaker 1: days and you had a taste of it, Jimmy, was

815
00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:56,879
Speaker 1: just something.

816
00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 4: A very short I remember, And of course I was

817
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:03,000
Speaker 4: never in any situations as incredible as that, but I

818
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 4: do remember going to college in Phoenix and the first

819
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:13,040
Speaker 4: weekend I was out and they had closing time and

820
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:16,280
Speaker 4: I never heard of closing time before. It was one

821
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:18,440
Speaker 4: am closing time. I was like, what does this mean?

822
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 4: Closing time? We have to leave? And they're like, yeah,

823
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:21,480
Speaker 4: you have to.

824
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:23,440
Speaker 2: Leave, the bar's closing.

825
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:26,920
Speaker 4: I didn't understand it. I was like, well, this is outrageous.

826
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 4: What kind of where are we Salt Lake City? What's

827
00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:32,840
Speaker 4: going on here? I just never heard of it. You know.

828
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,880
Speaker 4: We would stay out till it got yeah, till it

829
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:38,680
Speaker 4: was morning till and the worst part of staying out

830
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:42,240
Speaker 4: till seven o'clock in the morning is when you're driving

831
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:45,680
Speaker 4: home and people are jogging and you're just like, oh

832
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:49,800
Speaker 4: my god, my life is so different from you. I

833
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 4: put a curse on you you're jogging at this hour. Yeah,

834
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:55,720
Speaker 4: I'm just about to head home and go to sleep.

835
00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:58,440
Speaker 3: But now that you don't live in Las Vegas, what

836
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:00,840
Speaker 3: time do you typically go to bed then wake up.

837
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:03,239
Speaker 4: Well, I have two little kids now, so I still

838
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:07,359
Speaker 4: stay up fairly late, but I wake up fairly early,

839
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:10,440
Speaker 4: so I'll get up around six forty five. Last night,

840
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 4: I went to bed at about twelve thirty or so.

841
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 4: I think I like to have a little bit of

842
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:17,920
Speaker 4: time with myself at night. You know, I grew up

843
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:20,400
Speaker 4: in a loud Italian family, and the only time the

844
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:23,680
Speaker 4: house was even close to quiet was in the middle

845
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:27,719
Speaker 4: of the night. I'd watch Carson, I'd watch Letterman. Yeah,

846
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 4: I'd watch NBC News overnight with Linda Ellerb. I'd stay

847
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 4: up just watching TV and drawing late into the night

848
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:37,840
Speaker 4: every night. And I still I feel like that's in

849
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:41,440
Speaker 4: one day when I don't have to get make pancakes

850
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 4: in the morning, that that will be my schedule.

851
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:46,320
Speaker 1: Once again, that's a cool family you got, And I

852
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:48,400
Speaker 1: got to ask you. A lot of people out there

853
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:51,440
Speaker 1: may not know, but I know how charitable you are

854
00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:53,799
Speaker 1: and how committed you are to that. I mean, three

855
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:55,719
Speaker 1: and four days a week. It's nothing for you to

856
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:58,560
Speaker 1: go and give back. And you know that's why you're

857
00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:00,800
Speaker 1: so loved man, and you got those two great children.

858
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:05,239
Speaker 1: It's very commendable, and I really expect you really respect well.

859
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 4: I have a lot of Catholic guilt, so you know

860
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:09,360
Speaker 4: I have to do. I have to do everything everyone

861
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 4: asked me to do.

862
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 3: I get it.

863
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:14,240
Speaker 1: I grew up in a Catholic premise, the fear religion,

864
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 1: right right, that's right. You mentioned Carson just a second ago,

865
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:20,959
Speaker 1: and I was very close to that scene. Obviously, Dad

866
00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:24,439
Speaker 1: obviously put Amanda for school, right. She used to hide

867
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:26,239
Speaker 1: the money in the drawer. She's only only my kids

868
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:28,640
Speaker 1: that take all the cash and stash it in her

869
00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 1: clothing there anyway, are you going to go for the

870
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:31,880
Speaker 1: Carson record?

871
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:35,080
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, I don't think. I mean, listen,

872
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:39,680
Speaker 4: I think those days are long gone. I mean you can't. Also,

873
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 4: Johnny figured out a way to make it pretty easy

874
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:46,680
Speaker 4: on himself, you know, as far as his schedule went.

875
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:51,239
Speaker 4: My schedule is relentless. I don't what did Johnny do?

876
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:54,160
Speaker 4: What thirty three years? Actually, I think Dave did more

877
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 4: years than Johnny did, did he really? Yeah? But Johnny

878
00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 4: also Johnny did ninety minutes yea for the first I

879
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:04,799
Speaker 4: don't know how many years, and and was on live.

880
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 4: I mean that's grueling, it really is.

881
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:09,920
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I think listen, he puts some money in

882
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 1: my pocket with that sound.

883
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 4: Sure, And I think about that a lot because when

884
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 4: I did a show called The Man Show before my

885
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 4: talk show, and I wrote the theme song for the

886
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:23,040
Speaker 4: you know with me and Adam Carolla, my co host,

887
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:25,600
Speaker 4: like we wrote the theme song, but the producers of

888
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 4: the show insisted that they be credited as songwriters so

889
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:31,719
Speaker 4: that they could get a cut of the money. And

890
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 4: at the time I was still I was too young

891
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:37,800
Speaker 4: to know that that wasn't right. And my agents also

892
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:40,280
Speaker 4: happened to be their agents, so they didn't care about

893
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:41,440
Speaker 4: the fact that it wasn't right.

894
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:41,759
Speaker 1: Right.

895
00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:45,720
Speaker 4: And I think about the fact that Johnny he probably

896
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:48,400
Speaker 4: could have he probably could have gotten away with stealing

897
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:51,880
Speaker 4: that song or or paying yell Lump and throwing his

898
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:55,040
Speaker 4: weight around, but he didn't. And I think that was

899
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:57,320
Speaker 4: I mean, unless I have this story wrong and you

900
00:43:57,480 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 4: tell me, but I think that was a big thing

901
00:43:59,600 --> 00:43:59,800
Speaker 4: to do.

902
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:03,399
Speaker 1: Well, what happened was everybody knew early in the game

903
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 1: that they wanted to always collect on copyrights. That's the

904
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:09,240
Speaker 1: big game right now. And then what happened was Jimmy

905
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:13,239
Speaker 1: I was working in England doing a TV special for Grenada,

906
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 1: and I said, who wants to listen for an hour

907
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 1: and a half of my music? You know, I said,

908
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:19,400
Speaker 1: all that teenage stuff and all that. I said, we

909
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:21,480
Speaker 1: need some relief here. I want to get a comic.

910
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:25,319
Speaker 1: And they'd send me kinescopes to London and I'd look

911
00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:28,279
Speaker 1: at them and I saw this one kinescope with this guy,

912
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 1: Johnny Carson, who'd be drinking all night. He'd show up

913
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 1: with a hangover, and he was the host of a

914
00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 1: kiddie show. They were all like six year olds, screaming

915
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:39,719
Speaker 1: and yelling. Well you get the picture. So anyway, I said,

916
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:41,960
Speaker 1: he's great. So they bring him over. We get to

917
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:43,920
Speaker 1: know each other as much as you can with Johnny.

918
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:47,399
Speaker 1: Not easy, not easy to get to know. Fade out,

919
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:49,279
Speaker 1: fade in. We go to New York. I run into

920
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:51,160
Speaker 1: him and hey, Johnny, how you been good?

921
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:51,319
Speaker 4: Good?

922
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:52,759
Speaker 1: What are you doing? He said, Well, I might take

923
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:55,239
Speaker 1: over this Tonight show for a couple of years because

924
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 1: I really need to work and bubble Okay, So he said,

925
00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:00,960
Speaker 1: I'm changing a few things. I said, would you like

926
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 1: to do the theme song? You know me open a

927
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:06,359
Speaker 1: fridge I perform. I said to him, yeah, okay, great.

928
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:07,880
Speaker 1: So I'm run in and it cost me about four

929
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:09,879
Speaker 1: or five hundred bucks and I put my vision down

930
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 1: about and I send it to him and they said, yeah,

931
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 1: I love it. Then he called me a couple of

932
00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:18,279
Speaker 1: days later, he said, Paul, I apologized, Man, I can't

933
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 1: use it. I got this guy, Sketch Henderson, who by

934
00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:24,200
Speaker 1: the way, was about twice my age, and he's been

935
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:26,400
Speaker 1: with the show before me, and he said, let some

936
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:28,600
Speaker 1: kid write this. He said, no, I'm going to do it.

937
00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:31,960
Speaker 1: I said, jeez, I'm sorry. John. I said, look, why

938
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:34,279
Speaker 1: don't you think about this. I'll give you half the song.

939
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:38,080
Speaker 1: I'll put you as half publisher, half writer. It'll say

940
00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:40,880
Speaker 1: Johnny Carson, Paul Anka, just take it and use it

941
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:44,560
Speaker 1: and you'll collect what I collect. Next day and he says,

942
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:47,360
Speaker 1: you got it. The two years went to you nowhere.

943
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:50,799
Speaker 1: It made so much money. He was on every night

944
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 1: that the societies came in and said, well, there's new

945
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:57,080
Speaker 1: regulations now, because it was earning every night. But that's

946
00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 1: how that started. I just gave him. I just gave

947
00:45:59,239 --> 00:45:59,919
Speaker 1: him half the song.

948
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:01,240
Speaker 4: Wow.

949
00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:04,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, I was that thirty four years right, thirty.

950
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:06,920
Speaker 1: Four years, thirty eight or thirty four something like that.

951
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:08,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, unbelievable.

952
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:11,400
Speaker 2: By the way, you mentioned about weight throwing your weight around.

953
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:15,760
Speaker 3: Speaking of weight, I read once I think you'll correct me, Jimmy,

954
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 3: but a while ago your.

955
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:21,520
Speaker 2: Diet regimen was basting two days a week.

956
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:25,600
Speaker 4: Was that true, Yeah, we'll do that. Or as a kid,

957
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:28,480
Speaker 4: I was very skinny. Then I got a job at

958
00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:31,800
Speaker 4: a pizza place, and you know, I was drinking, like

959
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:33,880
Speaker 4: you know, everything was free. You know, this was like

960
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 4: having like nine SODA's everything on the menu all day long. Whatever.

961
00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:42,200
Speaker 4: I started putting on some weight. And then in my

962
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:45,680
Speaker 4: twenties or whatever, I was chubby and I never really

963
00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:49,799
Speaker 4: thought about it, honestly, Like when I was twenty two,

964
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:54,279
Speaker 4: I would have fish and chips for lunch every day,

965
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:56,840
Speaker 4: and I thought it was healthy because I was eating fish.

966
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:58,480
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, this is good. It was so

967
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 4: deep from you know, like I didn't know anything. I

968
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:05,000
Speaker 4: was an idiots. Yeah, so I knew. I like, I

969
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:07,800
Speaker 4: have no self control. I'm just an animal. So I

970
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:08,840
Speaker 4: was just like, you know, what I have to do

971
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:12,080
Speaker 4: is I just have to starve myself for four months.

972
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:12,560
Speaker 2: And I did.

973
00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:16,200
Speaker 4: I starved myself. I was eating like seven hundred calories

974
00:47:16,239 --> 00:47:18,800
Speaker 4: a day or something for four months, and I lost it,

975
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:20,160
Speaker 4: the little weight. And then I was like, Okay, I'm

976
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:23,359
Speaker 4: gonna determine to stay in a certain range. I wasn't

977
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:24,840
Speaker 4: going to keep it all off, I knew, but I

978
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:26,879
Speaker 4: was just stay in a certain range. And the best

979
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 4: way for me to do it was to eat like

980
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:32,160
Speaker 4: the usual pig five days a week and just eat

981
00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:34,719
Speaker 4: nothing for two days a week. And I did that

982
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:36,759
Speaker 4: for a long time. I did that for like three

983
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:39,279
Speaker 4: or four years. And I get all these guys who

984
00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 4: were guests on the show asking me like, well, I

985
00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:43,400
Speaker 4: what do you you know whatever? And they want to know,

986
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 4: and I started like writing it out and then I

987
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:47,640
Speaker 4: would just cut. So many guys would ask me about it.

988
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:49,480
Speaker 4: I just cut and paste and send it to them.

989
00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:52,000
Speaker 4: And then the next time I see them, they're like,

990
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:53,759
Speaker 4: I don't know, I just can't. I can't do that.

991
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:56,200
Speaker 4: It's too much. I was like, I don't know. I

992
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:58,320
Speaker 4: just stick to it. And I was doing Mondays and

993
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:01,239
Speaker 4: Thursdays and then I just you know what. I'm gonna

994
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:03,640
Speaker 4: do a different version of it where I don't eat

995
00:48:03,719 --> 00:48:06,360
Speaker 4: until lunch, so I only eat lunch and dinner. I

996
00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:10,680
Speaker 4: don't eat breakfast. So each day I have about twelve

997
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:13,800
Speaker 4: or thirteen hours of not eating. And I don't know

998
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:15,839
Speaker 4: if it works. I don't I really don't know. All

999
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:19,480
Speaker 4: I know is I'm eating less than I I would otherwise,

1000
00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 4: and that seems to be the only way to stay

1001
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:22,520
Speaker 4: thin to me.

1002
00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:25,080
Speaker 1: Jimmy, that's your singer to the choir man. I've stayed

1003
00:48:25,160 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 1: like this partially what you're talking about. But we'll talk

1004
00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:32,200
Speaker 1: about that at another time. But Skippy, you got this

1005
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:36,320
Speaker 1: guy depends where we eat. Skippy. You got to understand,

1006
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:39,160
Speaker 1: this guy's a chef. Now, if I lived in his hood,

1007
00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:40,960
Speaker 1: you know where I'd run into him. At Costco.

1008
00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:42,319
Speaker 4: It's right.

1009
00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:46,520
Speaker 1: I love Cosco. Get the big fucking trailer you do.

1010
00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:49,399
Speaker 1: I oh, you have the food. You know there's great

1011
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:50,480
Speaker 1: quality at Costco.

1012
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:52,719
Speaker 4: Jimmy, I agree with you. I could you know what

1013
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:55,920
Speaker 4: people think we're crazy when you say that. They think

1014
00:48:55,960 --> 00:48:57,080
Speaker 4: it's like smart and final.

1015
00:48:57,160 --> 00:48:57,440
Speaker 1: It's not.

1016
00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:00,839
Speaker 4: It's different. And you know that you're getting good stuff there.

1017
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:02,319
Speaker 4: You know you're not getting ripped off.

1018
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:04,759
Speaker 1: So tell us about this being a chef. Tell us

1019
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:05,600
Speaker 1: being a chef.

1020
00:49:05,719 --> 00:49:09,120
Speaker 4: I love to cook. I find it relaxing. I feel

1021
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:13,719
Speaker 4: like my job is something that it's ethereal, you know.

1022
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:15,400
Speaker 4: I do a show, and that I have nothing to

1023
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:18,080
Speaker 4: show for it when I come home, as opposed to

1024
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:21,160
Speaker 4: people who build things or you know, even just dig

1025
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:23,000
Speaker 4: in a hole. You can see the hole at the

1026
00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:25,680
Speaker 4: end of it, you know. And I missed that, And

1027
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:29,319
Speaker 4: so I started cooking. My wife loves it, and I've

1028
00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:32,080
Speaker 4: gotten good at it. I really take an interest in it,

1029
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:34,480
Speaker 4: and I have a lot of friends who are chefs,

1030
00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:36,839
Speaker 4: and I pay close attention and I like to learn

1031
00:49:36,960 --> 00:49:40,560
Speaker 4: and I'll take notes on recipes. I'm very serious about it.

1032
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:43,160
Speaker 1: You know. I've got an Italian fiance and her dad

1033
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:45,800
Speaker 1: had a restaurant in Newport. She was raised there. And

1034
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:49,880
Speaker 1: we are in the kitchen cooking. This woman, besides being beautiful,

1035
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:53,000
Speaker 1: big hearted and caring, she cooks and I sit in

1036
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:54,920
Speaker 1: there and have so much fun with her because I

1037
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:57,399
Speaker 1: have restaurants in my background. But it's so much fun.

1038
00:49:57,640 --> 00:49:58,520
Speaker 1: You're absolutely right.

1039
00:49:58,600 --> 00:49:59,759
Speaker 2: Great, You're absolutely right.

1040
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:02,200
Speaker 4: I love it. I really do. I like the whole process.

1041
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:02,800
Speaker 4: It makes me.

1042
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:03,120
Speaker 1: Uh.

1043
00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:06,040
Speaker 4: You know, there's something about feeding your family that is

1044
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 4: very rewarding.

1045
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:09,080
Speaker 1: Especially when you can pay for it.

1046
00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:12,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a big part of it.

1047
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:25,720
Speaker 3: I was going to say, Paul l the bet on football.

1048
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:28,080
Speaker 3: That's one of our things we do together. You know,

1049
00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:31,239
Speaker 3: when you have a best friend, you can always play off.

1050
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:34,360
Speaker 3: So we each have a handicaper. Mine is wait for it,

1051
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:39,800
Speaker 3: James Carville. He's immediately unbelievable.

1052
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:41,120
Speaker 4: Because he didn't do such a good job predicting me.

1053
00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:42,480
Speaker 1: He did not.

1054
00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:44,719
Speaker 3: That.

1055
00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:46,000
Speaker 1: Boys, I believe that.

1056
00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:48,680
Speaker 2: But hold out. But he was six and oh in

1057
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:51,320
Speaker 2: football this week and that was more important.

1058
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:53,080
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1059
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:54,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then Paul's guy.

1060
00:50:54,920 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 1: Guy in Vegas, Jimmy, we'll.

1061
00:50:57,719 --> 00:50:59,560
Speaker 4: Believe that at that. Yeah.

1062
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:02,680
Speaker 2: Your cousin Sal is a good handicapper, isn't he?

1063
00:51:03,080 --> 00:51:05,920
Speaker 4: My cousin Sal is a great handicapper, and he is.

1064
00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:09,400
Speaker 4: My cousin Sal has been booky since he was fourteen

1065
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:14,080
Speaker 4: years old. He started selling parlay cards in junior high

1066
00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:17,400
Speaker 4: school and he loves it and he's kind of a

1067
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:20,200
Speaker 4: math genius. He really is very good. But he's always

1068
00:51:20,239 --> 00:51:23,720
Speaker 4: got lots of little scraps of paper with all sorts

1069
00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:28,920
Speaker 4: of coded materials and he bets some weird stuff. I mean,

1070
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:33,280
Speaker 4: he's now betting like every hole of golf, he's betting

1071
00:51:33,640 --> 00:51:38,319
Speaker 4: women's soccer in Bulgaria. He's betting all kinds of weird stuf.

1072
00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:40,320
Speaker 1: I like the internetternament.

1073
00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:44,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Internet has opened up a very unhealthy world

1074
00:51:44,080 --> 00:51:45,680
Speaker 4: of gambling for sal Yeah.

1075
00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:48,000
Speaker 2: But I used to follow him though. He was pretty good.

1076
00:51:48,239 --> 00:51:52,200
Speaker 4: He's very good. He's very good. He always comes out ahead.

1077
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:55,160
Speaker 4: He loves football. He and Bill Simmons do a podcast

1078
00:51:55,239 --> 00:51:58,160
Speaker 4: together where every week they guessed the line after the

1079
00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:01,440
Speaker 4: weekend games, they guess the line for next week before

1080
00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:03,239
Speaker 4: the line comes out. It's fun.

1081
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:03,719
Speaker 3: I like that.

1082
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:06,120
Speaker 4: I think that's a it's a fun way to gamble

1083
00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:07,120
Speaker 4: without gambling.

1084
00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:11,080
Speaker 1: Those kind of guys, you know, move the line so early.

1085
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:15,240
Speaker 1: Right now, Vegas is turning down by the weekend twenty

1086
00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:18,239
Speaker 1: and thirty thousand dollars players because they figured out how

1087
00:52:18,320 --> 00:52:21,640
Speaker 1: these guys are taking advantage of the situation. So it's

1088
00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:23,840
Speaker 1: really down to a science. Those guys, they know what

1089
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:27,120
Speaker 1: they're doing, and they make shower money, a lot of money,

1090
00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:29,200
Speaker 1: because you're never going to be ahead at the end

1091
00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:31,719
Speaker 1: of the day as a layman just gambling away your money.

1092
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:32,440
Speaker 1: It just doesn't work.

1093
00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:35,440
Speaker 4: No, you're never and people don't understand that. They're like, yeah, no,

1094
00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:38,600
Speaker 4: I figured it out, Like, oh really, I figured it out.

1095
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:41,399
Speaker 1: I was in China recently, Jimmy, you know, I toured

1096
00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:43,080
Speaker 1: all over the world. Is down in Asia, and you know,

1097
00:52:43,080 --> 00:52:44,880
Speaker 1: I've got a lot of friends down there. So they

1098
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:46,320
Speaker 1: said to me, you know what the new thing is.

1099
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:49,000
Speaker 1: I say, what, Well, you know all our people that

1100
00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:51,800
Speaker 1: are in gambling here. We go to Europe and we

1101
00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:55,040
Speaker 1: find the weakest teams, like let's say Italy. We know

1102
00:52:55,239 --> 00:52:57,879
Speaker 1: Italy is never going to win a fuck sucker game.

1103
00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:00,839
Speaker 1: And there's two players that are good on the team

1104
00:53:01,080 --> 00:53:03,640
Speaker 1: and they only make one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars.

1105
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:06,319
Speaker 1: And we go to them and we say, look, you're

1106
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:08,560
Speaker 1: making one hundred and twenty five we'll give you another

1107
00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:11,839
Speaker 1: two hundred thousand, just make sure you throw the game.

1108
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:14,359
Speaker 1: And they wire into two or three teams and they're

1109
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:15,400
Speaker 1: making a fortune.

1110
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:19,520
Speaker 4: Wow. Yeah, wow, Yep, that's shocking.

1111
00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:22,160
Speaker 1: It isn't because if I told you some of the

1112
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:25,040
Speaker 1: Jimmy all we used to do in Vegas. You know,

1113
00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:28,279
Speaker 1: they had single decks and Frank would play. We'd all

1114
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:30,759
Speaker 1: be sitting there and we must have leave two three

1115
00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:33,160
Speaker 1: thousand dollars in tips because these guys had families and

1116
00:53:33,239 --> 00:53:35,560
Speaker 1: dealers and got down to where I mean, I can

1117
00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:38,040
Speaker 1: tell you now we were chating. So we sit down

1118
00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:42,960
Speaker 1: and let's say I'm sitting there with the fifteen right,

1119
00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:46,080
Speaker 1: and he's got a face guard, but he knows what's

1120
00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:48,000
Speaker 1: going I say, hit me. He said, nah, you don't

1121
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:50,439
Speaker 1: want it. He turned the card over be a four.

1122
00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:54,040
Speaker 1: But they knew what to do with those decks, Jimmy.

1123
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:58,160
Speaker 1: They were called they were called mechanics, and every time

1124
00:53:58,239 --> 00:54:00,520
Speaker 1: a guy come in from Texas or where he started

1125
00:54:00,560 --> 00:54:03,120
Speaker 1: beating him, they called in the mechanic and he'd come

1126
00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:06,360
Speaker 1: in with that single deck and beat him up. But

1127
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:09,520
Speaker 1: back then, I mean it was nothing just wow. Oh yeah,

1128
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:13,239
Speaker 1: we were until Hughes came in and laid the law

1129
00:54:13,360 --> 00:54:16,640
Speaker 1: down to Frank because he did whatever he wanted. And

1130
00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:18,960
Speaker 1: that night that I was there when my Mo'm gonna

1131
00:54:18,960 --> 00:54:20,759
Speaker 1: give him the story because I love Frank. But they

1132
00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:22,640
Speaker 1: turned him down. They wouldn't give him any more chips

1133
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:25,279
Speaker 1: because sometimes we never paid. We were late. I mean

1134
00:54:25,320 --> 00:54:30,560
Speaker 1: there's late, but three years. But the cheating that went

1135
00:54:30,640 --> 00:54:32,960
Speaker 1: on back then, it was amazing.

1136
00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:35,240
Speaker 4: Man, we was awesome.

1137
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:37,360
Speaker 1: Oh my god, tell you when I see you the

1138
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:40,160
Speaker 1: great Sinatra story. I can't tell you on the air.

1139
00:54:40,239 --> 00:54:42,319
Speaker 1: But because he was the guy, man, he was.

1140
00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:44,960
Speaker 4: The Do you get annoyed when people act like my

1141
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:48,960
Speaker 4: way as Frank Sinatra's song, you know, because I do.

1142
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:52,080
Speaker 4: I'm like, well, that's not Frank Sinatra song. That's Paul

1143
00:54:52,120 --> 00:54:55,640
Speaker 4: Anka's song. And and in fact, I think your version

1144
00:54:55,719 --> 00:54:58,799
Speaker 4: is the superior, even though it was certainly great.

1145
00:54:59,160 --> 00:55:02,000
Speaker 1: Look, there's no The thing is as a writer, you know,

1146
00:55:02,160 --> 00:55:05,120
Speaker 1: writers and the people in the background, they never get

1147
00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:07,640
Speaker 1: what they deserve. I mean, okay, it makes up for

1148
00:55:07,880 --> 00:55:11,400
Speaker 1: the Olympics. They drop my name. Other times it's Frank Sinatra.

1149
00:55:11,520 --> 00:55:11,920
Speaker 4: I get it.

1150
00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:14,520
Speaker 1: Most of the time, when you hear hit songs by

1151
00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:17,680
Speaker 1: someone else, it's always the artist that's singing it. It's

1152
00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:22,160
Speaker 1: very rarely the writer. And nah, I'm grateful for that.

1153
00:55:22,360 --> 00:55:23,879
Speaker 1: It doesn't bok at the end of the day. Who

1154
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:27,560
Speaker 1: takes the check to the bank. You know, No, that

1155
00:55:27,680 --> 00:55:30,520
Speaker 1: doesn't bother me at all. Man, I only regret not

1156
00:55:30,640 --> 00:55:33,000
Speaker 1: writing your theme song. So if you stay another ten years,

1157
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:37,480
Speaker 1: you got half. Let me ask about the oscars, man.

1158
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:41,000
Speaker 1: I know, they asked you, is it always going to

1159
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:42,040
Speaker 1: be known for a couple of years.

1160
00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:44,840
Speaker 4: Well, no, I mean I think that it's something I

1161
00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:47,560
Speaker 4: would consider in the future. It just there are a

1162
00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:50,720
Speaker 4: lot of factors, and one of them is pure time.

1163
00:55:51,120 --> 00:55:54,200
Speaker 4: Is I'm still doing a show every night, so preparing

1164
00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:56,960
Speaker 4: for the Oscars is kind of all consuming for me. Yeah,

1165
00:55:57,120 --> 00:55:59,920
Speaker 4: and there's no way for me to do it halfway.

1166
00:56:00,239 --> 00:56:03,200
Speaker 4: So I knew that if I did it again that

1167
00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:08,320
Speaker 4: it would be another four months of just pushing everything like, ah, yes, no,

1168
00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:10,200
Speaker 4: I'll get to that after the Oscars. I'll get to

1169
00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:12,200
Speaker 4: that after the Oscars. So it makes the whole year

1170
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:17,160
Speaker 4: very difficult. And also, you know, superstitious, like how many

1171
00:56:17,239 --> 00:56:18,719
Speaker 4: times in a row is it going to go well?

1172
00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:21,000
Speaker 4: You know, like, Okay, I did it two years the

1173
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:24,160
Speaker 4: first time, and it went well, and then I thought, okay,

1174
00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:26,320
Speaker 4: I'll never do that again. And they came back to

1175
00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:27,839
Speaker 4: me and asked me to do it, and I said,

1176
00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:30,000
Speaker 4: all right, well I think I will do it, And

1177
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:31,920
Speaker 4: then I did it two years in a row. One wall.

1178
00:56:31,920 --> 00:56:33,719
Speaker 4: I was like, really, how many times in a row

1179
00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:35,760
Speaker 4: you think it's going to you know, It's like baseball,

1180
00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:37,400
Speaker 4: you know, like how many hits are you're going to

1181
00:56:37,480 --> 00:56:37,960
Speaker 4: get in a row.

1182
00:56:38,160 --> 00:56:39,799
Speaker 1: Plus you can't take a hit in the jaw.

1183
00:56:40,600 --> 00:56:42,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, you take one in the you're not wearing a

1184
00:56:42,480 --> 00:56:44,160
Speaker 4: cop you're totally exposed.

1185
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:47,640
Speaker 1: Hey, Jimmy, I used to sit with Carson so Done

1186
00:56:47,920 --> 00:56:51,719
Speaker 1: and he really bitch about people he didn't like interviewing

1187
00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:55,400
Speaker 1: that were really difficult, and he was very verbal with us,

1188
00:56:55,520 --> 00:56:57,520
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, I'm gonna put you on the spot.

1189
00:56:57,760 --> 00:57:01,399
Speaker 1: Can you share some that were maybe somebody that's dead

1190
00:57:01,480 --> 00:57:02,400
Speaker 1: that was difficulty.

1191
00:57:03,560 --> 00:57:07,719
Speaker 4: Well, sometimes people don't understand why they're there. Sometimes people

1192
00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:10,719
Speaker 4: come in and they're like, listen, I'm here, I don't

1193
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:12,880
Speaker 4: want to talk about this, And like it's one thing

1194
00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:16,439
Speaker 4: if it's a touchy situation and this is a guest

1195
00:57:16,520 --> 00:57:19,520
Speaker 4: you'd have on anyway. But sometimes like like we had

1196
00:57:19,560 --> 00:57:22,520
Speaker 4: Monica Lewinsky on not that long after the whole thing

1197
00:57:22,600 --> 00:57:25,240
Speaker 4: with Bill Clinton, and she's like she agreed to be

1198
00:57:25,360 --> 00:57:26,960
Speaker 4: on the show, and then she came and she's like, oh,

1199
00:57:27,040 --> 00:57:29,320
Speaker 4: and by the way, if you mentioned Bill Clinton, I'll

1200
00:57:29,320 --> 00:57:32,280
Speaker 4: get up and leave. And I was like, what are

1201
00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:36,920
Speaker 4: we going to talk about? What's left? Your handbags? You know,

1202
00:57:37,600 --> 00:57:38,280
Speaker 4: your hand.

1203
00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:40,240
Speaker 2: Painting.

1204
00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:44,880
Speaker 4: So but most of the time. The bad guests are

1205
00:57:45,680 --> 00:57:48,040
Speaker 4: they want to do well, they just don't. You know,

1206
00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:50,360
Speaker 4: there's they You know, you can have somebody who's a

1207
00:57:50,440 --> 00:57:52,560
Speaker 4: great actor and you just go like, well, how is

1208
00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:56,200
Speaker 4: it possible that this person can be a great actor

1209
00:57:56,520 --> 00:58:01,360
Speaker 4: and unable to put seven minutes together of conversation. Even

1210
00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:04,880
Speaker 4: you might say, like, just pretend you're a talk show.

1211
00:58:04,960 --> 00:58:07,400
Speaker 4: Get you know, act like you're a talk show, gat right,

1212
00:58:07,560 --> 00:58:11,000
Speaker 4: and maybe maybe that will work. But it has happened.

1213
00:58:11,120 --> 00:58:14,080
Speaker 4: It happens a lot, and it's happened recently.

1214
00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:16,120
Speaker 1: Well you handle it well, man, I try to. I

1215
00:58:16,120 --> 00:58:18,840
Speaker 1: always try to read into it when you're looking at

1216
00:58:18,880 --> 00:58:21,160
Speaker 1: it and going, you know, but you know.

1217
00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:26,000
Speaker 4: If I talk a lot, that means I'm carrying the ball.

1218
00:58:26,120 --> 00:58:29,240
Speaker 4: And it's funny because sometimes it's young people have never

1219
00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:32,280
Speaker 4: done a talk show and they're just not seasoned enough

1220
00:58:32,360 --> 00:58:34,920
Speaker 4: to be in that seat, and I wind up talking

1221
00:58:34,960 --> 00:58:36,880
Speaker 4: a lot, and then the show goes on the internet

1222
00:58:37,040 --> 00:58:39,200
Speaker 4: and all the fans complain that I talked through the

1223
00:58:39,240 --> 00:58:43,680
Speaker 4: whole thing. I'm just trying to keep us both room drowning, right,

1224
00:58:44,360 --> 00:58:46,320
Speaker 4: you know, like I'm not I don't care, I don't

1225
00:58:46,360 --> 00:58:49,200
Speaker 4: need to talk. I'm here to listen, but if you're

1226
00:58:49,240 --> 00:58:52,040
Speaker 4: a guest and you're not saying anything, the space needs

1227
00:58:52,080 --> 00:58:52,680
Speaker 4: to be filled.

1228
00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:54,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, can't win either way.

1229
00:58:54,800 --> 00:58:57,120
Speaker 3: With the Internet, there are so few of you that

1230
00:58:57,280 --> 00:59:00,560
Speaker 3: have actually hosted Late Night You ever stay in touch

1231
00:59:00,680 --> 00:59:02,800
Speaker 3: with let's say Leno and Letterman or.

1232
00:59:03,280 --> 00:59:08,080
Speaker 4: Today Colbert and Yeah, I do. I actually have become

1233
00:59:08,240 --> 00:59:11,200
Speaker 4: very good friends with all of the guys who do

1234
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:14,919
Speaker 4: the other shows because we did a podcast together during

1235
00:59:14,960 --> 00:59:17,880
Speaker 4: the writers' strike, So those are guys that you know.

1236
00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:20,160
Speaker 4: We text each other regularly. We don't talk on the

1237
00:59:20,240 --> 00:59:23,840
Speaker 4: phone much, but we text, and we've gone fishing together.

1238
00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:26,800
Speaker 4: I went fishing with Fallon and went fishing with Stephen Colbert,

1239
00:59:27,560 --> 00:59:30,960
Speaker 4: Dave Letterman. I hear from from time to time, which

1240
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:33,240
Speaker 4: is always a thrill for me because he's my guy.

1241
00:59:33,320 --> 00:59:35,760
Speaker 4: He's the reason that I wanted to do this in

1242
00:59:35,800 --> 00:59:38,640
Speaker 4: the first place. And it's different than it used to be.

1243
00:59:38,920 --> 00:59:42,120
Speaker 4: In the old days, there were two shows and they

1244
00:59:42,160 --> 00:59:44,440
Speaker 4: were both on at eleven thirty, and you had to

1245
00:59:44,480 --> 00:59:46,480
Speaker 4: pick which one you're going to watch and pick which

1246
00:59:46,480 --> 00:59:48,640
Speaker 4: one you were going to do, and there was a

1247
00:59:48,720 --> 00:59:50,960
Speaker 4: lot of competition. And now there are so many different

1248
00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:54,400
Speaker 4: ways to watch these shows. That it doesn't feel. It

1249
00:59:54,600 --> 00:59:56,680
Speaker 4: doesn't feel. It feels like we're all just swimming in

1250
00:59:56,800 --> 01:00:01,480
Speaker 4: the same pond and nobody's kicking each other. You like, Jimmy,

1251
01:00:01,520 --> 01:00:03,000
Speaker 4: I love it. Do you go a lot?

1252
01:00:03,120 --> 01:00:04,120
Speaker 1: We've been up to Montana?

1253
01:00:04,160 --> 01:00:04,760
Speaker 4: Where'd you go for?

1254
01:00:05,560 --> 01:00:05,760
Speaker 2: I do?

1255
01:00:05,920 --> 01:00:09,320
Speaker 4: I actually own a fly fishing lodge in Swan Valley, Idaho,

1256
01:00:09,480 --> 01:00:11,800
Speaker 4: and I spent a lot of time up there fishing.

1257
01:00:11,880 --> 01:00:15,400
Speaker 4: I started in Montana fishing with Huey Lewis got me

1258
01:00:15,480 --> 01:00:16,600
Speaker 4: into fly fishing.

1259
01:00:16,640 --> 01:00:18,120
Speaker 1: Oh, I love you. He's a good friend of Eddie

1260
01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:20,120
Speaker 1: de Bartolows and he's always right.

1261
01:00:20,160 --> 01:00:20,720
Speaker 4: He's alway right.

1262
01:00:20,880 --> 01:00:23,360
Speaker 1: Eddie's my buddy, but he always talks about your friendship.

1263
01:00:23,360 --> 01:00:25,200
Speaker 1: I mean, he doesn't elaborate or give anything up, but.

1264
01:00:25,200 --> 01:00:29,160
Speaker 4: I know he loves Huey, loves yes Eddie and all

1265
01:00:29,200 --> 01:00:30,200
Speaker 4: those forty nine ers.

1266
01:00:30,240 --> 01:00:32,240
Speaker 1: Guys, there's so much fun, man. I got to bring

1267
01:00:32,320 --> 01:00:34,480
Speaker 1: you in one of Eddie's when he gets them all together,

1268
01:00:34,640 --> 01:00:35,720
Speaker 1: you would have a time.

1269
01:00:36,440 --> 01:00:37,760
Speaker 4: I've heard it's a lot of fun.

1270
01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:41,560
Speaker 1: We take him to Vegas and look out, twelve of

1271
01:00:41,600 --> 01:00:45,600
Speaker 1: them at that table. It's killer. It's killer, It's killer. Okay,

1272
01:00:45,680 --> 01:00:47,200
Speaker 1: one more, are you ready before we let you go.

1273
01:00:47,800 --> 01:00:50,000
Speaker 1: Sure daft punk around the world.

1274
01:00:50,960 --> 01:00:52,920
Speaker 4: Oh, I don't even know that. I don't even know

1275
01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:55,200
Speaker 4: what I've heard of the band.

1276
01:00:55,320 --> 01:00:59,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, like the Offspring self Esteem.

1277
01:00:59,720 --> 01:01:02,120
Speaker 4: The Offspring not one. I do know because I worked

1278
01:01:02,160 --> 01:01:04,320
Speaker 4: at k Rock when that was happening. I was there

1279
01:01:04,360 --> 01:01:06,720
Speaker 4: from ninety four, I think ninety five. The Offspring.

1280
01:01:07,680 --> 01:01:11,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're in a ballpark, man, I'm impressed.

1281
01:01:11,600 --> 01:01:14,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, pretty close. Sometimes they stretch over two years, so

1282
01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:17,280
Speaker 4: it's you know, when the song hits and when it

1283
01:01:17,400 --> 01:01:19,600
Speaker 4: was released are different. So I'm going to give myself

1284
01:01:19,680 --> 01:01:20,080
Speaker 4: that out.

1285
01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:21,720
Speaker 1: You got it, man, you got it?

1286
01:01:21,880 --> 01:01:24,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then while study up the years for next time.

1287
01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:27,720
Speaker 4: And uh and I appreciate you guys having me on.

1288
01:01:27,800 --> 01:01:30,480
Speaker 4: That was a lot of fun. I definitely also want

1289
01:01:30,520 --> 01:01:32,520
Speaker 4: to follow up. I want to hear all the pranks

1290
01:01:33,040 --> 01:01:35,600
Speaker 4: and all the old stories from the old days.

1291
01:01:36,320 --> 01:01:41,560
Speaker 1: Check check with the warden. Okay, Amanda will Amanda Demanda.

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Speaker 4: We may have to cut Amanda out of this because

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Speaker 4: I think she's heard too many of your stories.

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Speaker 1: She hasn't heard any of the good stuff.

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Speaker 4: Oh she hasn't. Okay, all right, Well, if you're going

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Speaker 4: to feel inhibited by her, then we should also leave

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Speaker 4: her out of the dinner.

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Speaker 1: Jimmy, thank you so so much, man, I mean.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, Paul, thank you, Skip. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Jimmy. Thanks. I'll visit with our mutual friend Al Michaels

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Speaker 2: and tell.

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Speaker 4: Him I'm yes, give my love.

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Speaker 2: We play golf together and he said, I love you,

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Speaker 2: so I'll.

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Speaker 4: Save it here than Jimmy, thank you so much. All right,

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Speaker 4: thank you for taking care, okay.

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Speaker 1: Our Away with Paul, Anka and Skip Bronson is a

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Speaker 3: The show's executive producer is Jordan Runtogg, with supervising producer

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Speaker 3: and editor Marcy Depina.

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