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Speaker 2: I am Susie Esmond and.
Speaker 3: You are who Jeff Garland.
Speaker 2: I knew that.
Speaker 1: And this is season five, episode six, the Smoking Jacket.
Speaker 2: I got mixed feelings about this episode.
Speaker 3: It's a weird episode.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's some very funny things in it.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, And by the way, it's not me
Speaker 3: disliking the episode. It's just a bit strange. And when
Speaker 3: we get to the different things that are strange, I'm
Speaker 3: going to ask you questions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, good.
Speaker 1: So we start out it's Larry's birthday and he's blowing
Speaker 1: out candles, which is very nut like him. He doesn't
Speaker 1: like the happy birthday song, like the blowing out of
Speaker 1: the candles. And it's Larry, Cheryl and Jap, it's the
Speaker 1: three of you. And you say to him, what did
Speaker 1: you wish for? And he says it's personal, and you say,
Speaker 1: I know what you wish for, and you are absolutely
Speaker 1: correct on this. You wish that Louis Lewis would die.
Speaker 1: Now we set up, let's just establish. We set up
Speaker 1: in the last episode that Lewis Lewis, who is Richard
Speaker 1: Lewis's cousin, is in a coma and he's not expected
Speaker 1: to survive. But if he doesn't survive, he will be
Speaker 1: giving Louis one of his kidneys, and he's a relation,
Speaker 1: so that means they'll probably match. We don't know for sure.
Speaker 1: And Larry denies it. He said no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1: And Cheryl agrees with you. She thinks that that's what
Speaker 1: he wished for as well. And he absolutely did wish
Speaker 1: for that. I'm certain of that. And then Jeff gives
Speaker 1: a gift and when he gives you the you hand
Speaker 1: him over the wrap box and he smacks you.
Speaker 2: I love that scene. He smacks you, and he's like,
Speaker 2: it's good to have a big friend.
Speaker 1: To smack, and he starts smacking you know, and he
Speaker 1: tells Cheryl to smack you.
Speaker 2: It's just funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And then you guys fight over the wrapping because
Speaker 1: he's kind of being a little feeble trying to get
Speaker 1: it unwrapped, and you want to grab it, unwrap it.
Speaker 1: And I always feel used to feel that way with
Speaker 1: the kids. They were like such poor unwrappers. And I
Speaker 1: always wanted a Christmas just grab everything and just do it.
Speaker 2: But it didn't.
Speaker 1: And you got him a green sports jacket, like a
Speaker 1: bright kelly green, like the Masters.
Speaker 3: Like the Masters, exactly right.
Speaker 2: Not a particularly great looking color, no, but it's the Masters.
Speaker 3: Otherwise it would be insane.
Speaker 1: And Larry loves it. It's the best birthday he ever had.
Speaker 1: And then he says to Cheryl, I don't you don't
Speaker 1: have a gift. What's up with that?
Speaker 2: You don't have it?
Speaker 1: And Cheryl says, she has a gift. It's on hold.
Speaker 1: She just has to confirm it, and you're gonna love it.
Speaker 1: And doorbell rings and who's there? Cousin Andy comes in
Speaker 1: with all his luggage, came to visit.
Speaker 3: Completely unexpected for me remembering, and then as the episode
Speaker 3: went on, I was like, oh, yeah, that's right he was, Yes.
Speaker 2: Of course I didn't remember.
Speaker 3: Anyway, his enthusiasm when he comes in as actually Richard
Speaker 3: being very enthusiastic. Yes, Richard's so happy to be doing
Speaker 3: the scene. He's probably waiting when the door's closed, like focusing, focusing,
Speaker 3: But he's so damn happy.
Speaker 2: He does love doing the show. I know that.
Speaker 1: And he comes in with luggage, Happy birthday, has your dad,
Speaker 1: and Larry establishes to him that NAT's starting to forget
Speaker 1: things and he's not what he used to be and
Speaker 1: he's having memory problems. And cousin Andy says, at least
Speaker 1: it's not the hip, which wade me laughed. At least
Speaker 1: it's not the hip, because once the hip goes, it's
Speaker 1: all downhill from there. And you tell Larry and Andy
Speaker 1: that you're invited. Hugh Hefner invited you to a party
Speaker 1: at the Playboy Mansion. Does the Playboy Mansion still exist, Yes.
Speaker 3: But I don't know in what way. I believe it's
Speaker 3: still owned by Hugh Hefner. And by the way, as
Speaker 3: we go on with the talking about this episode, I
Speaker 3: will tell you my adventures at the Playboy.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to hear.
Speaker 1: And Larry says, you said you want to go, and
Speaker 1: he says, no way, she won't let me, you know,
Speaker 1: meaning Cheryl, and Andy says, I'd love to go, and
Speaker 1: he grabs a magazine off the little phone table there,
Speaker 1: and he goes into the bathroom and it's an US magazine.
Speaker 1: And before he goes into the bathroom, Larry says to
Speaker 1: ask him if his parents ever mentioned that he was adopted,
Speaker 1: anything about the adoption, But to Andy's like, no, no,
Speaker 1: you're crazy, No, you weren't adopted.
Speaker 2: On and on and then we.
Speaker 1: Hear a flush and Richard comes out and he puts
Speaker 1: the magazine back on the little phone table and he says,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go say hi to Cheryl.
Speaker 2: You imitate him, You do a good Richard.
Speaker 3: In the other room with charyon Yeah, and I want
Speaker 3: to go to the Playboy mansion.
Speaker 1: And Larry is looking at the US magazine that he
Speaker 1: just brought out from the bathroom that he put back
Speaker 1: on the table, and he's completely grossed out by it.
Speaker 1: And he takes a tissue and he takes it and
Speaker 1: he picks it up with the tissue and he throws
Speaker 1: it in the garbage, and.
Speaker 3: Then he throws the tissue in the garbage. Now this one,
Speaker 3: if you know the show, you know this is leading
Speaker 3: to something because it's not nuanced. It's really it's a
Speaker 3: piece of the scene. So you know it's going to
Speaker 3: come back later. That rarely happens, and I'm sure Larry
Speaker 3: didn't give a shit when he was writing. It's why
Speaker 3: I don't have a problem with it. But usually they're
Speaker 3: little teeny things that get bigger and bigger, or this one,
Speaker 3: it's something's going to happen. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Alarms went off.
Speaker 1: Next Larry's at the hospital and Louis Lewis is in
Speaker 1: bed and the doctor is there, and Louis Lewis isn't
Speaker 1: a Coleman.
Speaker 3: Who's the doctor?
Speaker 2: The doctor is played by I wrote it down James
Speaker 2: Pickens Junior.
Speaker 3: Which I have run into so many times. And do
Speaker 3: you know what TV show he's been on for many years? Don't?
Speaker 2: If he's still on, I don't.
Speaker 3: What's that hospital show?
Speaker 4: You are?
Speaker 3: Another shond around? He was on Great he Is, or
Speaker 3: was on Grays and Enemy for many years, and that's
Speaker 3: after this show. I like to think it's because the show, because.
Speaker 1: He's somehow I don't think so, But that's okay. And
Speaker 1: Larry tells him. The doctor asks him who he is,
Speaker 1: and he's like, I'm friends with his cousin.
Speaker 2: It's so lame, you know, that's a.
Speaker 3: Thing of beauty and the doctor is kind of hesitant
Speaker 3: and he goes, oh, okay.
Speaker 1: Well in this episode later on, if I recall, the
Speaker 1: doctor is not happy.
Speaker 2: But in this episode, the doctor there's.
Speaker 3: Some funny shit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it goes on.
Speaker 3: Actually, one of the things that is mentioned to me
Speaker 3: most often is in I believe the next episode, I'm
Speaker 3: not positive.
Speaker 2: I think so too, And I know what it is.
Speaker 3: Yes, I mean people always yes.
Speaker 1: Yes, of course, okay, And he's not doing well. It's
Speaker 1: an irreversible coma. And Larry says, how long you think
Speaker 1: it's going to be doctor says it could be days, weeks, months,
Speaker 1: could be a year.
Speaker 2: And Larry's like, are you leading to a days or months?
Speaker 1: I mean if you have to pick one, you know,
Speaker 1: so you have a gun to your head, you have
Speaker 1: to pick, and the doctor can't pick.
Speaker 2: And larryus what I'm so the.
Speaker 4: Mustache in a coma, the mustache.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this mustache, it continues to grow.
Speaker 3: Oh, there's a lady who really know.
Speaker 4: A couple of times, the hospital has a barber.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's a nice lady. She clips his mustache.
Speaker 4: She just works within the hospital or.
Speaker 3: In the hospital. Yes, we just try and keep them.
Speaker 4: Comfortable and you know, seems a pity though that these
Speaker 4: people like they languish like this one.
Speaker 3: The soul is crying too. Oh yeah, I guess you
Speaker 3: could look at it that way.
Speaker 4: And he's got all these organs he could be donating,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: What happens to the mustache and the coma and.
Speaker 2: It continues to grow, and there's a nurse who comes
Speaker 2: and clips it.
Speaker 3: And Larry was playing Lewis Lewis.
Speaker 2: No, I don't.
Speaker 3: He was in an improv group with Fred Willard and
Speaker 3: I cannot remember the name. They were out of the committee. No,
Speaker 3: not the committee. The committee was Dell Close. But he's
Speaker 3: in an improper He was the guy in the seventies
Speaker 3: who his whole stick was. You can call me Ray, okay,
Speaker 3: I know, I forget the gentleman's name.
Speaker 2: Well, he does a great comma.
Speaker 3: And passed away recently.
Speaker 2: Actually, he's terrific in a coma.
Speaker 3: Well, by the way he is, he's a great look.
Speaker 2: Yeah for Lewis Lewis.
Speaker 1: And Larry says, you know, it seems a pity that
Speaker 1: he's languishing here when the soul is trying to you know,
Speaker 1: as though Larry gives a shit about his soul and
Speaker 1: he could be donating his organs. And then the doctor
Speaker 1: leaves and Larry somehow is fussing with the cord, you know,
Speaker 1: the what do they call the tubes, And all of
Speaker 1: a sudden you see the curtain from the next door
Speaker 1: person pull open and there's a kid sitting there. That
Speaker 1: is Gary Rosenmeier, who's actually been in a lot.
Speaker 2: He's done a lot well.
Speaker 3: By the way, I also want to say, he's really
Speaker 3: good from the get go, but his performance grows and
Speaker 3: grows and grows during the episode.
Speaker 1: It does, and watching him, I was thinking, you know,
Speaker 1: we've had a lot of We saw it in the
Speaker 1: Larry David Sandwich episode, that kid who catches Larry, you know,
Speaker 1: spilling the coffee, how great he was and Anton lesser.
Speaker 2: We've had a lot of kids who were really terrific.
Speaker 3: And by the way, in those moments, he reminds me
Speaker 3: of W. C. Fields.
Speaker 2: Oh really, yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 3: Now. Bob Whitey used to tell Larry all the time
Speaker 3: that he reminded him of W. C. Fields. Bob Whitey, one.
Speaker 2: Of our directors, would tell that Larry.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you would tell Larry this to Larry. But I
Speaker 3: concur but especially when he's with kids.
Speaker 1: And he says, and he says that, the kid says,
Speaker 1: his name is Wilson, and the kid says, I urge
Speaker 1: your conversation.
Speaker 2: So what you want this guy dead or something.
Speaker 4: Listen, that's a very serious thing you're saying. You're practically
Speaker 4: calling me your murder. Okay, I'm not pulling any plug,
Speaker 4: So come on, enough of that.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm willing to overlook this whole thing.
Speaker 3: Oh are you boy?
Speaker 4: That's very nice of you.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 4: I appreciate this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you grant my wish? It to make a wish
Speaker 2: foundation turned down.
Speaker 4: You'll forget about this, you agree? What was this wish
Speaker 4: that they wouldn't grant?
Speaker 2: I want to see naked woman?
Speaker 4: You want to see a naked woman. That's your wish.
Speaker 4: They wouldn't grant that wish.
Speaker 1: Of course, not imagine going through your whole life without
Speaker 1: seeing a naked woman. Hey I almost did so he says, Well,
Speaker 1: I can't really help you, But the kid says, hey,
Speaker 1: I sneak out all the time.
Speaker 2: So whatever that's established.
Speaker 1: Next we're home and Cheryl has a package that arrives
Speaker 1: for Andy, for cousin Andy, and it turns out it's
Speaker 1: from Nat and it's his smoking jacket, and Larry believes
Speaker 1: that was a birthday gift for Larry because Nat always
Speaker 1: promised Larry he could have the smoking jacket, and he's
Speaker 1: confused and he's got to mention he doesn't know what
Speaker 1: he was doing.
Speaker 3: By the way, we do discover later on by NAT's
Speaker 3: reaction that Larry was right.
Speaker 1: Yes, but Larry sets up that when they were younger,
Speaker 1: they would always give Andy a gift to on his
Speaker 1: birthday so they wouldn't feel left out, and he ends
Speaker 1: up having a big fight with Andy.
Speaker 4: He didn't send me anything for my birthday. He only
Speaker 4: accept the fact that he sent me again, promise me
Speaker 4: this jacket.
Speaker 3: Oh did my father? Oh Larry, you're unbelievable. You can't
Speaker 3: accept the fact that your father sent me a love.
Speaker 4: Because why he has no reason to send it you
Speaker 4: it's my birthday.
Speaker 1: Because he happens, and Cheryl suddenly cuts in and says,
Speaker 1: have you seen my US magazine? Larry tells her he
Speaker 1: threw it out, and Cheryl's very upset because she had
Speaker 1: written an important phone number down on the magazine, and
Speaker 1: Larry's like, well, he took it to the bathroom and
Speaker 1: contaminated it.
Speaker 2: Then he goes back to the fight with Andy.
Speaker 1: He promised me the jacket and they get into a
Speaker 1: big fight.
Speaker 2: Day. This is my jacket. This is my jacket. This
Speaker 2: is my jacket. A lovely scene.
Speaker 5: We'll be right back. Stay tuned, and we're back.
Speaker 1: And then Larry and Jeff and Oscar are taking a walk.
Speaker 1: Oscar are dog and Larry complains about the jacket. And
Speaker 1: then you asked Larry if he's going to the Playboy mansion.
Speaker 1: He says he can't, he's in the doghouse. And then
Speaker 1: it's established that if you're in the doghouse already, you
Speaker 1: might as well get your money's worth. You might as
Speaker 1: well have the double transgression theory. Yeah, which I think
Speaker 1: is a great theory.
Speaker 3: By the way, I'm going to tell you the truth.
Speaker 3: This took only a few takes to film. We were
Speaker 3: walking down the street in one of those areas between Brentwood.
Speaker 2: Samaelopian and I could tell it was Brentwood.
Speaker 3: Yes, and so this is one of those scenes that
Speaker 3: I tell people about and I probably mentioned on the show.
Speaker 3: If it's just Larry and I or you and Larry. However,
Speaker 3: it is when it's just one of the two of us,
Speaker 3: if you will, it just goes by so fast, it's
Speaker 3: like we're done. I think the record is there was
Speaker 3: one at a golf club, and I pointed out when
Speaker 3: we show that episode, I think we filmed it for
Speaker 3: twenty minutes, you know what I mean. And like literally
Speaker 3: we've talked about dinner table scenes which take the entire day.
Speaker 1: Very long time, yes, because there's a lot of choreography.
Speaker 1: And actually the last episode of this season was the
Speaker 1: longest day we ever had.
Speaker 2: But we'll get there.
Speaker 3: In terms of a dining room episode or just it.
Speaker 2: Wasn't a dining room episode. We'll get there.
Speaker 3: Hold on, it's longer than the episode when we filmed
Speaker 3: at the hospital when Larry dies.
Speaker 2: That is that's the law. That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: That's the end of this season.
Speaker 3: Oh I think you said the end of last season.
Speaker 3: This season. Yeah, by far. By the way, it was
Speaker 3: also though, the reason we did it, because.
Speaker 2: We don't ever do that, because it was a set.
Speaker 3: No, it was the last day of shooting for this Also, there.
Speaker 2: Was there was a lot had to happen.
Speaker 3: We can control the environment, like.
Speaker 1: For example, all those Shelley in the hospital scenes was
Speaker 1: shot that day.
Speaker 2: That happened much earlier.
Speaker 1: It was sometimes when when we have a location like that,
Speaker 1: like a hospital setting, you know, you take things from
Speaker 1: from different episodes and try to get everything done for
Speaker 1: the location, especially that happened during COVID.
Speaker 2: That was very difficult during COVID location.
Speaker 3: But this episode is we're talking this is two.
Speaker 2: Thousand and five.
Speaker 3: Yeah, confused.
Speaker 1: So Larry's wants to know if he could ask Wilson
Speaker 1: to go the kid because where else is he going
Speaker 1: to see naked women?
Speaker 2: At the Playboy mansion it makes sense.
Speaker 1: And he comes home and Andy is on the phone
Speaker 1: in the smoking jacket, lounging with his leg and let
Speaker 1: Larry's like, what is this? My father promised me this
Speaker 1: for years, that when I was eleven years old or whatever.
Speaker 2: And Andy's just like, can't you move on? He was
Speaker 2: so great?
Speaker 1: And He's like, we're going to the Playboy mentioned and
Speaker 1: Andy begs, begs to go to the Playboy mention and
Speaker 1: Larry says, you can go to the Playboy mention. You
Speaker 1: got to give me the jacket back, take it to
Speaker 1: the dry cleaner, and then you got the four of
Speaker 1: you you, Larry, Andy and Wilson pull up in the
Speaker 1: Playboy mansion and a.
Speaker 3: Says looking and watching is so fucked and funny.
Speaker 2: That's right. And a voice get to the door.
Speaker 3: I've never seen quite that crew and curb, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course the there's a voice that says, speaking
Speaker 1: to the rock, which.
Speaker 3: Made me look And that's Larry Charles's voice.
Speaker 2: Oh is it? Okay? I didn't know that. I didn't
Speaker 2: recognize it.
Speaker 1: And then you're at the mansion and you pass the
Speaker 1: gorgeous old Mercedes, and that we see a shot at
Speaker 1: the pool and his topless women everywhere, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden Larry walks in and they all cover their
Speaker 1: breasts and scream and run away. They freak out seeing Larry.
Speaker 3: Now let's talk about that.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: We never find out why which killed me. I don't
Speaker 3: know if it was on the cutting room floor, whatever
Speaker 3: it is. We have no idea why all these playmates
Speaker 3: what the reason was? I do not, but there's no
Speaker 3: this is a big thing for him.
Speaker 2: I agree. I totally agree. It was like why I.
Speaker 3: Just pissed it him And Larry says, I don't know,
Speaker 3: but I thought we would find out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but we don't. We don't. So that's a little
Speaker 2: bit of a top fiver of what the fuck?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I understand that, yeah, because I had the same reaction.
Speaker 2: You know, I can't even imagine what the reason what
Speaker 2: it was.
Speaker 1: But usually, Jeff, when something like that happens, it is
Speaker 1: later revealed if it's not revealed in the moment, but
Speaker 1: it's not in this episode.
Speaker 2: Then Larry needs to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 1: He flushes, he walks out and he sees Hugh Hefner
Speaker 1: and two playmates, Bridget and Holly, and they're real there.
Speaker 3: They were on that reality show.
Speaker 2: I don't I haven't watched.
Speaker 3: Well, there was a reality show on e with Hugh
Speaker 3: and his three ladies, what it was called.
Speaker 2: I thought he had more than three, didn't you.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, there are plenty of playmates, but in
Speaker 3: that show there were three, ok, the's three blonde women.
Speaker 1: And Larry asks him what's that animal running around? And
Speaker 1: Hugh tells him it's a flamingo And Larry's like, he's
Speaker 1: not very good at identifying birds. He can identify sneakers,
Speaker 1: he knows there's all kinds of sneakers, but not birds.
Speaker 1: And he sees after he's wearing the smoking jacket that
Speaker 1: looks exactly like his father's nats and he tells him,
Speaker 1: my father has the same jacket.
Speaker 4: And you know what, this smoking jacket. My father's got
Speaker 4: the exact same smoking jacket.
Speaker 3: My doubt it. Doubt it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well it's an original.
Speaker 3: I haven't be imparted from Italy.
Speaker 2: Really, it's a ROSSELLI what of a kind?
Speaker 3: I don't know, you know what?
Speaker 4: I got it right out in the car, boy, I'd
Speaker 4: like to see it, would you sure?
Speaker 3: Could I go get it?
Speaker 2: Sure that?
Speaker 4: Stay right here, Okay, I'll go get the smoking jackets.
Speaker 3: Stay right here.
Speaker 1: And while he's there, we pass Andy flirting with the girl,
Speaker 1: which is not realistic to me, not rich your kind
Speaker 1: because of any.
Speaker 3: Half that moment, because he's later on he's been married
Speaker 3: for a long time to his wife. Yes, so at
Speaker 3: this point we're not even mentioning a wife like.
Speaker 1: He's No, the wife has not been mentioned yet, and Lisa,
Speaker 1: who plays his wife, is amazing.
Speaker 3: Yes, but when she is entered into the show, it's
Speaker 3: as if they've been married for years. And by the way,
Speaker 3: I actually do believe because it's funny. Cousin Andy standing
Speaker 3: over a centerfold flirting.
Speaker 2: No, I believe he's flirting. It's later on. Well, anyway,
Speaker 2: we'll get to that.
Speaker 3: But even later on, I believe that keep going.
Speaker 1: Larry goes to the car to get the jacket, and
Speaker 1: Wilson is in the car sulking, you ruin my wish.
Speaker 1: They ran away from you and we still don't find
Speaker 1: out why. And he's like, can me the jacket? And
Speaker 1: he fights with the kid, and you know, we see
Speaker 1: him hold.
Speaker 3: On with he's wrestling, but then the next shot is
Speaker 3: we see him coming in. There's no resolution there, so
Speaker 3: we have the resolution when.
Speaker 2: He comes in right and hef claims that it's a knockoff.
Speaker 2: It's not really a Roselli and he.
Speaker 1: Tries it on and Larry's like, wait till my father
Speaker 1: hears that you have to put on his mach and
Speaker 1: he goes to look, goes to look in the mirror
Speaker 1: at it, and he closes the door.
Speaker 3: Nobody looks in the mirror and goes, hey, it's close,
Speaker 3: but no, not yet.
Speaker 2: It's a knockoff. It's a Korean knockoff.
Speaker 1: And he closes the door because he's now going to
Speaker 1: go to the bathroom wearing Larry's smoking jacket, and Larry
Speaker 1: is with Holly and bridget.
Speaker 4: I noticed they got some uh what they got some
Speaker 4: monkeys out there?
Speaker 5: Huh Yeah, don't got.
Speaker 3: Much pockets in there. Huh too many pockets there.
Speaker 4: We don't need pockets. I couldn't live without pockets. Look,
Speaker 4: not a dentist, but I enjoy discussing dental hygiene. Then
Speaker 4: monkeys they'll attack you. They'll they'll claw you to death.
Speaker 4: I'd say gum stimulation very important, blossing or are people, though,
Speaker 4: let's face it, who do have a foot on a problem?
Speaker 2: Are you saying I have dirty feet?
Speaker 4: Your name is one again?
Speaker 2: I forgot Bridgie.
Speaker 4: You are Holly, Holly.
Speaker 3: Maybe we should go bowling sometime. I don't think you
Speaker 3: want to go bullet with.
Speaker 4: Let's pretend to be ventriloquist.
Speaker 3: This is a really funny feeling. I was a few
Speaker 3: feet away. You know. We shot about twenty five of
Speaker 3: those awkward conversations.
Speaker 1: Larry talking about dental hygiene, which is one of his
Speaker 1: favorite topics. As we know, pockets maybe he has, and
Speaker 1: maybe they want to go bowling. Then he talks about
Speaker 1: maybe ventriloquists.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Oh, by the way, the ventriloquism one is hilarious, yes, well,
Speaker 3: ventriloquism is always hilarious. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then finally we hear a flush and Hefter comes
Speaker 1: out of the bathroom and you see Larry is grossed
Speaker 1: out and he hands Larry back NAT's jacket where hef'stracket
Speaker 1: is over the banister or something. It's hanging somewhere, so
Speaker 1: it's over a chair, over a chair, okay, and Larry
Speaker 1: switches them because he's grossed out that he went to
Speaker 1: the bathroom in NAT's jacket.
Speaker 2: Then we cut to Sheryl's the Playboy Mansion, you know.
Speaker 1: And she's all pissed off about it, as he knew
Speaker 1: she would be, and she's like, you know, I got
Speaker 1: you a birthday president, and the birthday present is that
Speaker 1: she got lunch and a round of golf with Gary Player.
Speaker 1: And Cheryl's very upset by the way.
Speaker 3: I once was invited to the Playboy I got two
Speaker 3: things to say, because we just covered it. I was
Speaker 3: invited to the Playboy mansion once for a party and Marla,
Speaker 3: myley ex wife, my wife at the time, wanted to go,
Speaker 3: and I was like the only way in my head,
Speaker 3: I'm like the only way I'm going is without her.
Speaker 3: Otherwise I am not going. You don't bring your wife
Speaker 3: to the Playboy mansion, not that any action will happen. Now,
Speaker 3: the other side of the coin, when we were filming
Speaker 3: at the play By mansion, we.
Speaker 1: Were told to wait so so Jeff that it was
Speaker 1: really the Playboy Mansion.
Speaker 3: Were we filmed? Yes, Oh yes, that's the way.
Speaker 2: I just want to establish that.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: You see behind them stairs that lead upstairs. When we
Speaker 3: were told don't go anywhere except where we're filming backyard this,
Speaker 3: I of course completely ignored that. I said, fuck that
Speaker 3: my time in the Playboy Mansion, and I went upstairs.
Speaker 3: Heff's room the end of the hallway. But along the
Speaker 3: way these ladies, the three girls, had their each of
Speaker 3: them had a room, and they had stickers all over
Speaker 3: their doors like a dorm room. Really, oh, they all
Speaker 3: had stickers. One of them was from Philadelphia, all this stuff,
Speaker 3: and I thought, that is hilarious. Here's this palatial mansion
Speaker 3: and they've done this.
Speaker 5: We'll be right that. Stay tuned, Okay.
Speaker 3: The Playboy Mansion was very worn. It was like if
Speaker 3: it shoddy, not quite shoddy, but on it way to shoddy.
Speaker 3: And you can see that not one piece of furniture
Speaker 3: from the seventies was replaced. It's all the original stuff.
Speaker 3: I went into the screening room, the couch, it all looks.
Speaker 3: What it basically looks like is that I've gone in
Speaker 3: a time machine to the nineteen seventies and I find
Speaker 3: myself in an empty mansion. Another thing that I did,
Speaker 3: and this is the creepier one. There was a house.
Speaker 3: There was this next playmate contest with playmates or best playmate.
Speaker 3: There was a house adjacent to the thing, and these
Speaker 3: are real playmates and they're all living in this house.
Speaker 3: And it turned out a friend of mine, years later
Speaker 3: I found out, was literally as a playmate living in
Speaker 3: that house. But I remember looking at it like a
Speaker 3: little kid, going, I wonder if they go by the
Speaker 3: pool naked, I wonder what they do. It was just
Speaker 3: a bunch of wondering and yeah, I said, it's creepy.
Speaker 3: That's about as creepy as again. But I reverted back
Speaker 3: to my twenty year old self, which men are apt
Speaker 3: to do. You know, women get mad at men for
Speaker 3: a myriad of things, either either women who are distant
Speaker 3: and see something or women that are up close men
Speaker 3: are boys, you know, you hear that, But we really
Speaker 3: do revert in our minds to how we would react
Speaker 3: to something, especially in a situation like that. Now, for
Speaker 3: the record, I did not see any playmates. I saw nothing.
Speaker 3: Then I wandered over to where I've already seen or
Speaker 3: we's seen on TV and in pictures, where the pinball
Speaker 3: machines were Playboy pinball machines, And it was like there
Speaker 3: was an old old screen TV projected TV, and there
Speaker 3: were all these beanbags and areas where you could lounge
Speaker 3: and make out with each other all around again pure
Speaker 3: nineteen seventies. So I'll be damned if I didn't give
Speaker 3: myself a tour of the Playboy mansion. But the fact
Speaker 3: that we started at the grotto so happy. Ask me
Speaker 3: how much money let's say it's filled with playmates, how
Speaker 3: much money would take from me to go in the grotto.
Speaker 2: How much money would it take for you to go.
Speaker 3: To Not to have money in the world, because the grotto,
Speaker 3: the amount of jism that's floating around that grotto, no.
Speaker 2: Thank you, you could get pregnant.
Speaker 3: No, But I just thought, this is the most unsanitary
Speaker 3: place maybe on earth. And by the way, speaking of Laura,
Speaker 3: there was this one area you could walk to on
Speaker 3: the inside of the grotto, and I took pictures of her.
Speaker 3: I don't know where they are right now. You know
Speaker 3: she's fully clothed, but of her relaxing in the grotto.
Speaker 3: It was very fun to do that, so.
Speaker 2: Basically Laura as one of our executive producers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but what I'm saying is, I'll be damned if
Speaker 3: I didn't have a good time and do all the
Speaker 3: things that I would have wanted to that I would
Speaker 3: have never been able to do at a party.
Speaker 2: You know what, You took advantage of the situation.
Speaker 3: Now, I took advantage of it. And another interesting tidbit.
Speaker 2: I didn't really get a moment just tit.
Speaker 3: I know because of what we talked about. Oh that
Speaker 3: was on our promos.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Anyhow, another interesting tidbits for the first time using the
Speaker 3: word tidbit is that I wanted to talk to Half.
Speaker 3: I'm from Chicago, I know the Playboy mansion in Chicago,
Speaker 3: all this stuff. I wanted to ask him about the
Speaker 3: mansions and his time in Chicago and what he's just
Speaker 3: some nice questions. Yeah, I know a guy like that
Speaker 3: would love to answer but he was kind of He
Speaker 3: was very nice, don't get me wrong. And I didn't
Speaker 3: meet him, but he was very unavailable.
Speaker 2: I'm firm he had boundaries up.
Speaker 3: Well, he had boundaries, but also there were security boundaries.
Speaker 3: There was a lot of boundaries around half.
Speaker 2: Can I say something, Yeah, not a great actor.
Speaker 3: By the way, one or two lines fantastic, passable, yes,
Speaker 3: but the rest yeah, but I bought it either way.
Speaker 1: So now we're back and Cheryl has bought Larry a
Speaker 1: birthday present, which is golf with Gary Player and lunch,
Speaker 1: and she's very upset. She wants an apology that she's
Speaker 1: doing all these amazing things for his birthday, and he's
Speaker 1: off at the Playboy mentioned and he feels like one
Speaker 1: apology should cover both, because again it's the double transgression theory.
Speaker 1: And she said, you said when you were a kid
Speaker 1: you loved Gary Player. And Andy then shows up with
Speaker 1: Nat and Andy tells him they add a date last
Speaker 1: night with Bobby Sue, who was a playmate.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and by the way, it's an actress. It's not
Speaker 3: a real playmate.
Speaker 1: And Nat starts telling them that he's not happy in
Speaker 1: the home because they steal from him in the home
Speaker 1: that somebody stole his smoking jacket, and Andy says, no,
Speaker 1: you sent it to me, and he's like, why would
Speaker 1: I send it to either of you?
Speaker 3: And you buy that that shows that he sent it
Speaker 3: to It was addressed to Andy, but he was sending
Speaker 3: it to Larry.
Speaker 1: But he's even taking it back from Larry because he's like,
Speaker 1: why would I send it to either of you? And
Speaker 1: you know, Larry gets the jacket, and Larry gets the
Speaker 1: jacket and Nat says, this is not my jacket.
Speaker 2: Mineus a Rosellie. This is a knockoff.
Speaker 3: It's not it's not my smoking jacket.
Speaker 6: It's not I'm sorry. My jacket is a Roselle jacket.
Speaker 6: Take a look at this thing. Take a look at
Speaker 6: the seams here. It's a schmucker. Man, it's not mine.
Speaker 6: There's a knockoff of my jacket. What how did you
Speaker 6: get a hold of this dress? This is a knockoff.
Speaker 6: It's a knockoff. It's a cheap, cheap, And this.
Speaker 4: Is not a Roselli.
Speaker 3: This is not a Roselle. How did you get it?
Speaker 2: Now? This jacket at this point is Hefner's jacket.
Speaker 3: It's Hefner's jacket. That's because of the pooping. Larry took
Speaker 3: Heffner's shack exactly.
Speaker 1: He says, this is a cheap knockoff, is what he says.
Speaker 1: It's a cheap knockoff. And Larry says, don't worry about it.
Speaker 1: I'll get your jacket back. Hef took it, and then
Speaker 1: Larry goes back to the mansion and hef comes down
Speaker 1: the stairs wearing the jacket and Larry wants to switch
Speaker 1: and there's a hole.
Speaker 2: This is a Roselli. That's a knockoff. This is a Roselli.
Speaker 1: You know, all this back and forth, it gets to
Speaker 1: the point where I don't know whose jacket is who.
Speaker 2: And then Hefner leaves and then.
Speaker 3: I think that premise is hilarious.
Speaker 2: Yes it is.
Speaker 3: And he's wearing the jacket he's Larry's and goes, oh,
Speaker 3: that's the knockoff. He tries it on, he hands Larry
Speaker 3: at back. Larry takes the real half jacket and both his.
Speaker 2: Father and that says that's a knockoff.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So my feeling is they're both knockoffs's.
Speaker 2: Or maybe they're both originals. Who knows? Was that a
Speaker 2: real thing of Roselli smoking jack?
Speaker 3: I could have it I could. I can look it up.
Speaker 2: I think it's probably made up, but anyway.
Speaker 3: No, I don't think it is.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: And then we're back at the hospital with Lewis Lewis
Speaker 1: and the doctor and Larry's concerned, is is there any change?
Speaker 1: And the doctor tells him that he's quite impressed with
Speaker 1: his dedication to visiting Lewis Lewis, and Larry says, well, it's.
Speaker 2: My friend's cousin. I have to and he's an organ donor.
Speaker 1: Very nice of you, and then doctor leaves and Wilson
Speaker 1: shows up. How's it going with the wish And Larry says, look,
Speaker 1: I took you to the mansion. What else do you
Speaker 1: want me to do? And what was he going to do?
Speaker 1: And now I forgot what he was going? Wilson goes with.
Speaker 3: Him, Yes, well, goes, I have an idea.
Speaker 2: I have an idea. What was this idea?
Speaker 1: I don't even know that? And we get to Larry's
Speaker 1: house and he forgot his cell phone. He wants to
Speaker 1: go back into his house, and that, of course means
Speaker 1: that he starts talking about it. His wife is in
Speaker 1: New York and if she can't get in touch with him.
Speaker 1: Twenty four to seven. It's constant contact all the time.
Speaker 1: And they go upstairs and they walk in and there's
Speaker 1: cousin Andy having sex with the naked Bobby Sue.
Speaker 2: And she gets up and Wilson gets his wish.
Speaker 3: And by the way, the look on his face is.
Speaker 1: Oh, he's pure Yes, he's pure joy. And then Wilson
Speaker 1: is back in the hospital, seems to be with his
Speaker 1: mother and somebody who's from the Make a Wish Foundation
Speaker 1: and they say, Wilson, have you thought about another wish?
Speaker 1: And Wilson's wishes is that he wishes that he can
Speaker 1: have Hefner's smoking jackets, Roselli Roselli smoking jacket. He wants
Speaker 1: He's Rosellie smoking jacket. And then we cut to We're
Speaker 1: a Gary Player's house and it is the real Gary
Speaker 1: Player and Larry's wearing his green jacket and Gary Player says,
Speaker 1: it looks exactly like the green jacket I have from
Speaker 1: the nineteen sixty one Masters where he beat Arnold Palmer,
Speaker 1: and he says to Larry, would you like to try
Speaker 1: the jacket on? So Larry takes his green jacket off,
Speaker 1: tries on the Master's jacket.
Speaker 2: Gary Player tries on Larry's jacket.
Speaker 6: Wow, cannot get over how similar this jacket is today.
Speaker 3: Do you mind if I just go and have a
Speaker 3: look at this at the mirror?
Speaker 4: This is the one you beat Palmer at sixty one?
Speaker 3: Right? Absolutely, come on, look at that.
Speaker 4: Hey, it fits you.
Speaker 2: Gonna have to excuse me a minute.
Speaker 1: And then Gary Player, wearing Larry's jacket, walks into the bathroom.
Speaker 2: Great closure and very close was a great It was a.
Speaker 3: Real great runner and a great end. And Gary Player
Speaker 3: had a lot of enthusiasm, diddy yeah, and he was available.
Speaker 3: And there were three pain playmates there. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: What free playmates a Gary Player's house.
Speaker 3: And well that's it for episode six, season five, right,
Speaker 3: what's up next?
Speaker 2: Episode seven?
Speaker 3: And which one is that you remember?
Speaker 2: I don't. Is it the Sator? Maybe I don't remember.
Speaker 3: No, it is it is because my HBO Max thing
Speaker 3: or whatever went to the next episode and it was Larry,
Speaker 3: Larry inviting a sex offender to a sator to a sator.
Speaker 3: And then I get in a lot of trouble for
Speaker 3: doing something, leaving and doing something.
Speaker 2: At the same Oh, yes you do. And we'll get
Speaker 2: to that next week.
Speaker 3: We'll see you next time, and thank you for listening, everybody.
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