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Speaker 1: Season three, episode three, Club Soda and Salt. And I
Speaker 1: am Susie Esman, and you are Jeff Garlin, and we
Speaker 1: have special guests again joining us.
Speaker 2: I am not Jeff Garland.
Speaker 1: I am John Hayman, John Hayman, John Hayman, who I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna say again for those who didn't listen last week.
Speaker 1: John Hayman is one of our consulting producers on KERB.
Speaker 1: He's an old friend of all of ours, and he
Speaker 1: was actually in season three, episode two and episode three.
Speaker 1: So here we go, Here we go, Pop Soda and Salt.
Speaker 1: So Larry comes home and role is very obviously she's
Speaker 1: gonna hummy, chummy, giddy, laughing it up with her acting partner,
Speaker 1: Brad Right.
Speaker 3: So my agent calls and and he has an audition
Speaker 3: for me for a biker. So I'm just psyched and
Speaker 3: get my Hell's Angels jacket all and my leather and
Speaker 3: I bust into the room and there's thirty actors with
Speaker 3: bicycle shorts on the spandex ones, no gloves, and I'm
Speaker 3: just going, oh, brutal, Hi.
Speaker 1: Why.
Speaker 2: Brad? And he's in tennis shorts. They played tennis together.
Speaker 1: Obviously good looking guy, good looking guy, and you just
Speaker 1: you could just feel it.
Speaker 4: You just I thought he was her tennis instructor and
Speaker 4: was one of these guys. But you know, I really
Speaker 4: want to be an actor's instructor.
Speaker 1: I thought, no, no, he's not her tennis instructor. Partners,
Speaker 1: scene partner, really acting partner. Yeah, the instructor and they
Speaker 1: play tennis together.
Speaker 5: This first scene. I don't think Larry's being paranoid.
Speaker 2: I agree, and I agree in.
Speaker 5: Subsequent scenes, I think the same thing. He's not being paranoid.
Speaker 5: Generally Larry would be there's a vibe, there's there's something
Speaker 5: going on. I mean there's not you're not having an.
Speaker 2: Affair, but she there's a vibe.
Speaker 1: Reason, Yes, that's right, suspicious, that's right, And I think
Speaker 1: it's good for him. Okay, and then you see, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, Larry's jealous and he says, I'm going to
Speaker 1: get a single heterosexual.
Speaker 2: Woman to play golf with. You know, he's going to
Speaker 2: get her back.
Speaker 1: And Larry says, he's attracted to you, and Cheryl's like, oh, no,
Speaker 1: he's not. She's being very coy. No he's not, but
Speaker 1: she knows that he is. And Larry says, you don't
Speaker 1: know anything about men, which I think is true. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think that women are completely oblivious in many ways
Speaker 1: to how much men constantly think about sex.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, yes, yeah, so you don't.
Speaker 1: Know anything about men, and then always says that he'll
Speaker 1: play tennis with Cheryl.
Speaker 2: You know, he doesn't want to play tennis with Cheryl.
Speaker 5: But well, speaking of that, I'm talking about Sari. Sometimes
Speaker 5: you gotta do what you gotta do. She always wants
Speaker 5: to go biking, skiing, all this, so sometimes I have
Speaker 5: to go, Yeah, go biking. I said to her yesterday,
Speaker 5: let's go for a bike ride. I even suggested it
Speaker 5: because I know how much that means to her, and
Speaker 5: you gotta do it. Or when your back's against the wall,
Speaker 5: like Larry's in this one, he has no choice for
Speaker 5: to say I don't want that guy playing I'll play
Speaker 5: tennis with you, But he doesn't say I don't want
Speaker 5: that guy playing tennis with you. He just very enthused.
Speaker 1: I think in the beginning of my relationship with Jimmy,
Speaker 1: I was very clear, I'm not camping on that time.
Speaker 5: Well, by the way, by the way, you and I
Speaker 5: should actually be together, and he should be with Sari.
Speaker 5: Sari's my handyman. Yeah, yeah, well I know that's what
Speaker 5: I'm saying. Jimmy's the handyman too. No, it's the complete
Speaker 5: Will you and I enjoy a good nap watching watching Colombo?
Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
Speaker 2: It's like Corse.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: Okay, So next we cut to you and Larry are
Speaker 1: at the restaurant Bobo's right, and you're drinking. You have
Speaker 1: a cup of coffee, drinking coffee, and his construction going on?
Speaker 1: Is luck going on behind you?
Speaker 2: Guys?
Speaker 1: And uh, Larry tells you about Brett, the whole thing
Speaker 1: about Cheryl's little friend Bred and now he's got to
Speaker 1: play tennis with her.
Speaker 2: And somebody comes up behind you, bumps into you, and
Speaker 2: you spill the coffee. Jeff spills the coffee. Yes, And
Speaker 2: Jim what's his name.
Speaker 5: Jim Stall Chicago, great guy, And I could swear at
Speaker 5: the top of that scene. I don't know why I'm thinking.
Speaker 5: I could swear he's talking to Tim Kazerinski in the
Speaker 5: best he is.
Speaker 1: He is, Yes, But we don't see Tim Kazerinski any
Speaker 1: other time during the episode.
Speaker 2: I don't believe.
Speaker 5: No, we don't.
Speaker 2: He comes up in the next episode.
Speaker 5: Sarah live second that guy, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he is I noticed that as well.
Speaker 1: And Jim, but Jim, I think he's Jim Jensen in
Speaker 1: this or something like that.
Speaker 5: Something we love using real first names.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And Jim talks about this an old restaurant trick
Speaker 1: club soda and table salt where you pour the club
Speaker 1: soda on, then you pour the table salt on.
Speaker 2: It will get any stain out. Okay, it does work,
Speaker 2: by the way, as a matter of fact, from that
Speaker 2: show I've done that.
Speaker 5: It works. No, it does work. But the way stop
Speaker 5: with the crinkling. I know I threw, but what were
Speaker 5: well would you do that just for that anyhow? Jim Stall,
Speaker 5: the way he plays that looking up, he looks like
Speaker 5: a really sweet doing his job manager. But here's the
Speaker 5: thing I want to say, and I wanted to say
Speaker 5: it last episode. I want to say this. The camera
Speaker 5: work on the show sucks. There's movement, but it's supposed
Speaker 5: to be cutting in between. There's a lot of shots
Speaker 5: that start on one person and shipped over to the other.
Speaker 5: Those are so unsettling. And also so many of the
Speaker 5: characters are shoulders and heads, which is not comedy. That's
Speaker 5: emotional shit you don't need. So it's like, I am
Speaker 5: so confused as how we let that happen. Maybe we
Speaker 5: didn't know better.
Speaker 4: It's funny because I did notice it, and just from
Speaker 4: working on this show for four seasons, I'm aware of
Speaker 4: all that stuff now that I never just because you know,
Speaker 4: I'm friends with the camera guys and they tell me
Speaker 4: the little technical things, you know, And it's funny. On
Speaker 4: any TV show, everyone looks at it differently. I look
Speaker 4: at the writing, an actor will look at the actor.
Speaker 4: The wardrobe person will look at what they're doing. It's
Speaker 4: not really tunnel vision, but it's what you focus on.
Speaker 4: And now working on this and also sitting behind Jeff
Speaker 4: Schaeffer direct and the way it takes are done and
Speaker 4: what coverages, and I thought, now watching it the episodes,
Speaker 4: exactly what you did. I went, wow, what the hell
Speaker 4: is going on here?
Speaker 5: So we've gotten it down to an exact SI, which
Speaker 5: really is specific and.
Speaker 2: It's actually what reason do you think that was that?
Speaker 5: What that we switched over?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say five, oh, no.
Speaker 2: After that, we'll see when we come to it.
Speaker 5: Yeah. By the way, I will let everyone know when
Speaker 5: we come to it. But it's so I'm gonna use
Speaker 5: this word. It's jarring it. And by the way, as
Speaker 5: I told you from the Hour special, I actually noticed
Speaker 5: these things while it's happening, right, I would always say
Speaker 5: to Larry, why are we moving the camera from one
Speaker 5: person to another? Why don't we have a two shot
Speaker 5: maybe and a single shot and then the next one
Speaker 5: a single you know what I mean? Why is all
Speaker 5: this movement? And by the way, I do get dizzy.
Speaker 5: I can't even go on a swing. It's true. Well
Speaker 5: from when I had a stroke, I can't do it. Yeah,
Speaker 5: And so when I watch these I get kind of nauseous.
Speaker 5: But when did the show switch to high deaf? That's
Speaker 5: another thing? Are these are these episodes upscaled?
Speaker 2: Like now when you.
Speaker 5: Watch they We were shooting with what at the time
Speaker 5: was the best which was Digi Beta okay, and it
Speaker 5: was actual tapes Digi Beta okay.
Speaker 1: So we finished the table salts, Jim does the whole
Speaker 1: table salt in club soda, and then who walks in
Speaker 1: saying we need to talk Chef Randy played.
Speaker 2: By yours truly John Hayman, and you quit. I'm out, guys,
Speaker 2: I'm out.
Speaker 5: What are you talking about?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 2: I can't do this?
Speaker 5: I can't cook.
Speaker 2: I can't cook in this restaurant. I'm no good.
Speaker 5: I suck.
Speaker 2: Well, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 5: You cooked that my house less delicious.
Speaker 2: You don't want me. I'm doing you a big favor,
Speaker 2: believe me. What is this about? What this is about?
Speaker 4: That didn't help because a lot of cooks, you know,
Speaker 4: it's frowned on when they poisoned someone. I had to
Speaker 4: quit because I used to. But now can I just
Speaker 4: I know we talked about this before this show.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 4: I am so unhappy about my alleged performance.
Speaker 5: And I will.
Speaker 4: Well except why I wasn't because I made the mistake
Speaker 4: that a lot of actors do when they come on
Speaker 4: the show. And I had stuff prepared in my head, which,
Speaker 4: as you know, that absolute thing. Yes, you can possibly do.
Speaker 4: Excuse me, is there a cough button? Yeah? By the way,
Speaker 4: the look on your face, how frustrated you were that
Speaker 4: there wasn't a cough button.
Speaker 5: Well, because it was by the way, we're in a
Speaker 5: studio in Hollywood and the iHeartRadio studios on this floor,
Speaker 5: and the studios were in there kind of look like
Speaker 5: someone's den that was turned into They're very beage, a
Speaker 5: lot of beige, but there are no we don't have
Speaker 5: a well you kind of have a thing in front
Speaker 5: of you, right, where's the front. Yeah, you're doing it
Speaker 5: on a computer. The soundship, but you know there'd be
Speaker 5: a board. You know, we have no boards. We have
Speaker 5: no cough buttons.
Speaker 4: So anyhow, if I could do that part again, knowing
Speaker 4: what I know now, when.
Speaker 5: You bump on the table, looked at it comes through
Speaker 5: the microphone, Okay, all right.
Speaker 4: I wish I could go back, that we could do
Speaker 4: this and get no what I know now right, But
Speaker 4: then I just had stuff in my head and it took.
Speaker 5: Okay, I cannot imagine you, knowing what you know now,
Speaker 5: being better than you were, because I got to tell
Speaker 5: you when I was watching it, especially the second episode
Speaker 5: when you quit it didn't do anything well yet you
Speaker 5: did you gave me Yeah, there was definitely, but that
Speaker 5: when you come up to Larry and I and explain
Speaker 5: about how it's going to be reviewed. I can't do.
Speaker 2: It celebrity celebrity.
Speaker 5: And by the way, it felt sublime, it felt perfect.
Speaker 5: And so it's a lot of times, you know, it's
Speaker 5: like body dysmorphia. You know you look beautiful, you feel
Speaker 5: like you know you're shit to yourself.
Speaker 2: But I think I think all actors do that all
Speaker 2: the time.
Speaker 5: I don't. I do well by the way scripted material.
Speaker 5: I do it all the time when I'm doing something
Speaker 5: that's really well done and it's scripted. You know what
Speaker 5: movie I haven't seen and I actually am going to
Speaker 5: see it in a few weeks Babylon. I've never seen
Speaker 5: it because A I know I'm going to hate my
Speaker 5: performance and be I might not like the movie. It's
Speaker 5: a no win situation.
Speaker 1: But when I leave set after a day, I lie
Speaker 1: in bed that night and I think, I wish I
Speaker 1: could do that over again. I always think yes, I
Speaker 1: always think, well, I always think that.
Speaker 5: Larry sometimes he hasn't done it. It's been a few
Speaker 5: years since he said this to me. He goes that
Speaker 5: scene would have been better written.
Speaker 4: Rarely, rarely we know it's the same feeling. I'm sure
Speaker 4: we've all done this. You go into an audition and
Speaker 4: you're a little tense, and you know it's an uncomfortable
Speaker 4: thing for anyone to do, and then the moment you
Speaker 4: walk out the door, you go, if I could just
Speaker 4: feel now relieved and relaxed, if I could feel this
Speaker 4: way before I went in, I would have been good.
Speaker 5: I tell you a funny story about me auditioning. Is
Speaker 5: that story. Whenever I think I did great, I've never
Speaker 5: gotten the part. And whenever I think I sucked up
Speaker 5: the room, I've gotten the part. So go figure on that.
Speaker 1: It's kind of you know, well, what that says is
Speaker 1: is that we have no sense of how we're really performing.
Speaker 5: I have a high level of self awareness. You know,
Speaker 5: I'm extra like. I'm always apologizing to you the listener
Speaker 5: when I ramble, but I forget what I was saying.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So Randy comes in. Randy comes in
Speaker 1: and says he quits I suck And Larry says, is
Speaker 1: it about the Peanuts? About the ketchup?
Speaker 2: And Randy says, no, it's a big celebrity restaurant. I'm
Speaker 2: going to get lead.
Speaker 5: That didn't help.
Speaker 1: That didn't help. Yes, that didn't help. And then Randy
Speaker 1: walks out, and then they're fucked. They don't have a
Speaker 1: chef and the restaurant is opening in three weeks.
Speaker 4: I was by the way that I was telling people, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I kind of I didn't say it full of myself,
Speaker 4: and I said, yeah, I acted with ten Dancing, Well,
Speaker 4: my acting with Ted Danson was yeah, shut up or
Speaker 4: something like that when I'm leaving, because.
Speaker 5: You know, it was a really big star that I'm
Speaker 5: sorry about that.
Speaker 4: And also, how come that guy does some fucking age?
Speaker 4: What is going on?
Speaker 5: He does look the same now as he does.
Speaker 2: It's just really the hair. I guess. Mostly we'll be
Speaker 2: right back, stay tuned. Okay, we're back.
Speaker 1: Ted walks in and they tell him that Randy quit,
Speaker 1: and Ted said, was it a peanut thing? And Jeff
Speaker 1: and Larry at the same time no. They get very
Speaker 1: very uh so it's three weeks away. Who's gonna be
Speaker 1: the chef? And Ted comes up with the idea that Josh,
Speaker 1: who cooks for them at home, is a great cook
Speaker 1: and one should come over and sample it, and then
Speaker 1: Larry goes over to see the stain and it's all better.
Speaker 2: The stain is gone.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: The thing about Josh that I thought of in that
Speaker 1: moment is somebody who's cooking for a family of four
Speaker 1: is very different than a chef. I've worked in restaurants
Speaker 1: for years. Is very different than a chef in a restaurant.
Speaker 2: You could be a really great cook, but you can't
Speaker 2: be see it.
Speaker 5: From the minute the chef is introduced career. The second
Speaker 5: he's introduced, you're like, this guy could never be a
Speaker 5: shoe in the restaurant.
Speaker 2: Wait before we get to that. Larry goes over to
Speaker 2: see the stain.
Speaker 1: It's all better, and Jim says, the trick is to
Speaker 1: get to the stain before it dries.
Speaker 2: Very important, get to it quickly.
Speaker 1: Larry and Cheryl are playing tennis and Larry's talking about
Speaker 1: getting his parents an apartment, and I'm Barrington.
Speaker 4: By the way, Larry much better at tennis than I mean,
Speaker 4: he looks like he can play tennis, and.
Speaker 5: By the way he plays, he's a pretty good athlete.
Speaker 5: Yeah he is, Yeah, I mean he really is. I
Speaker 5: mean he plays golf constantly. But yeah, because I don't
Speaker 5: want to get me playing tennis yet, do we talk
Speaker 5: about it.
Speaker 2: We're just getting to it. Now okay, so he's playing tennis.
Speaker 1: So now they're playing tennis, and Larry's hitting balls, little
Speaker 1: balls against the fence. He talks about his mother getting
Speaker 1: treatment at c Pludential.
Speaker 5: Go home on hold on him hitting balls from three
Speaker 5: feet away from a fence and almost hitting Cheryl.
Speaker 2: What I swear to you, I'm going to kill you
Speaker 2: in that hits me.
Speaker 5: So my mother was not getting that you treatment at
Speaker 5: sea to Sinai and hopefully she'll get better and they'll
Speaker 5: go home. I think I remember when we shot this,
Speaker 5: being very nervous, very very nervous, and saying, how can
Speaker 5: you can you control it? I got it, I got it,
Speaker 5: he did have it.
Speaker 1: But it's still because then again Larry's a very good athlete.
Speaker 5: Yeah. And then they run in for the Jets, I
Speaker 5: believe in the superst did well his name was his
Speaker 5: football name was Emerson Boozer, number thirty two. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Then they run into friends of theirs. Larry and Cheryl
Speaker 2: run into Melanie and Ed and you feel something's awkward.
Speaker 2: It doesn't feel right.
Speaker 5: Really feels awkward. Yeah. And by the way, not remembering
Speaker 5: what that storyline was, I thought that Larry had done
Speaker 5: something because it seemed like that the vibe was because
Speaker 5: you never feel people being mad at Cheryl, but they were,
Speaker 5: but that vibe of like Larry did something to them
Speaker 5: that he was going to find out. That's what I felt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And then Melanie and Ed leave and Cheryl realizes
Speaker 1: they never got them a wedding gift and it's been
Speaker 1: over a year and that they're harboring a grudge because
Speaker 1: they didn't get a present, and Larry's like, we flew
Speaker 1: to us Chicago, we did this, blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Then they're playing tennis and Cheryl is Monica SELLI sing grunting.
Speaker 5: Is that good? That was out?
Speaker 2: Yeah? We're playing doubles. It would have been good.
Speaker 5: You know what, you got to stop the grunting.
Speaker 4: What are you talking about?
Speaker 5: You grunt on every shot, every shot you hit?
Speaker 2: You you you make this disgusting noise. Ugh, you don't
Speaker 2: hear it?
Speaker 5: No, what do you mean though?
Speaker 3: That's how I played tennis. I didn't even know how's sooner?
Speaker 2: Well, you grunt every shot.
Speaker 5: It's really annoying it. It's throwing me off.
Speaker 2: Oh is that why you're losing?
Speaker 5: Sounds like picks? Fucking hi? How do you like this,
Speaker 5: would you like to listen to this?
Speaker 2: Huhh, I don't mind.
Speaker 5: It, okay, I don't remember that being in the in
Speaker 5: the outline, her making the noise. I think that's how
Speaker 5: she plays ten really, and Larry picked up on it
Speaker 5: and said, please keep doing that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Cut to their home brushing his teeth.
Speaker 1: Larry's always brushing his teeth, as we know, right John
Speaker 1: and Larry starts talking about he found the perfect sock
Speaker 1: and Cheryl is completely bored, which.
Speaker 5: By the way, first off, who wouldn't be bored when
Speaker 5: someone says they found I.
Speaker 2: Finally found the perfect sock.
Speaker 5: I'm not kidding because it's not exactly white.
Speaker 2: You don't want a white sock. It's sort of a.
Speaker 5: Boring you. I don't know.
Speaker 2: If you said to me I found a perfect pair
Speaker 2: of socks, I go, no kidding. Where'd you get them?
Speaker 5: What are they like?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 5: Larry David is the only comedian I know who can
Speaker 5: enter a scene and comes up with I think I
Speaker 5: found the perfect sock. I've never been anyone before, seen
Speaker 5: anyone since who does that. Where it's just it's Alario
Speaker 5: that that is like extreme you what, and that he's
Speaker 5: to share the news. It's a non sequator. No, it's
Speaker 5: a secutary. It's a nonsecuator. No, non sequatur means it
Speaker 5: really doesn't make sense. Well it doesn't. Does non secutor mean?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 5: I'm being serious here, is like that's from left field?
Speaker 5: Is that the same thing from not? Because I say
Speaker 5: non secutars all the time. Yeah, I'll see what Molly
Speaker 5: Ringwold's barbecue or whatever. You know, that's it's just nonsense.
Speaker 5: But he was being sincere.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you can be sincere and come up with
Speaker 4: a non secretary as it stands alone. Okay, it's uh,
Speaker 4: it's like a secutur, only it's not.
Speaker 5: Okay, thank you. When I want to know grammar or language,
Speaker 5: I go to John Hayman Teach English. Way you have
Speaker 5: workshops where in Santa Maka Community College, Temecula Temecula Community College. Okay.
Speaker 1: Then they are talking about Cheryl wants to go to
Speaker 1: Tony and Tina's wedding.
Speaker 5: And by the way, put a fucking.
Speaker 2: Gun to my head to get me to go to Tony.
Speaker 5: I think Tony and Tina's wedding started in Chicago, if
Speaker 5: I'm not mistaken. And I knew an original cast member
Speaker 5: who maybe had played Tina. That's just a sidebar that
Speaker 5: means nothing. But maybe it was Lake Bell. It was
Speaker 5: not like, by the way talking I'm miscasting for Tony
Speaker 5: and Tina's wedding. That would be chick se Goddess and
Speaker 5: Tony's wedding or Bill Schwartz's wedding anyhow, So again I
Speaker 5: lose my track the minute wedding.
Speaker 2: No, I'm giving you a I'm giving you Tina's wedding.
Speaker 5: The way she's talking about it, she's not even close
Speaker 5: to mentioning who's in it. And you know, damn well,
Speaker 5: it's going to want to go by yourself. She doesn't
Speaker 5: want to go to that, so there is no parents.
Speaker 1: Trying to talk him out of it. She's like, the
Speaker 1: characters mix in with the audience, you're not.
Speaker 2: Gonna like that.
Speaker 1: Well, I enjoyed theater as much as the next guy.
Speaker 1: And then Larry's like, why do you want to go?
Speaker 1: And then Cheryl says, well, because you know Brad is
Speaker 1: in it.
Speaker 2: She just throws that.
Speaker 1: Away, and Larry's very, very suspicious.
Speaker 5: And by the way, like I'm saying, it's just it's
Speaker 5: unusual for our.
Speaker 2: Show for Cheryl to be that yes.
Speaker 5: But also for Larry, like we always think this is
Speaker 5: insane what he's thinking. But plan he had for me
Speaker 5: yesterday that I carry out with you is crazy.
Speaker 2: But this is not He's right, he is.
Speaker 1: And then he's just said, you know what, I don't
Speaker 1: want to go You and Brad go out and have
Speaker 1: some beers and the Eye and the Wii. And and
Speaker 1: then she does what he does. She starts kissing him
Speaker 1: and seducing him. That's exactly what he does to.
Speaker 5: Her, right, which was great.
Speaker 1: But then Larry takes off his glasses, getting ready to
Speaker 1: have a little sex there, and he puts him on
Speaker 1: the table and he knocks the cranberry juice and he
Speaker 1: runs to get the club soda and salt.
Speaker 2: Oh oh good, all right, Oh, don't worry about you
Speaker 2: know what.
Speaker 4: It's cranberry juice.
Speaker 2: It's not going to come out anyway. Oh no, no,
Speaker 2: wait a second, wait a second, wait a second.
Speaker 5: I saw this thing at the restaurant today.
Speaker 2: Club soda and salt, guts all stay.
Speaker 1: Out, you know what.
Speaker 2: It's an old rug. Don't worry about no, no.
Speaker 5: No, no, no no. Wait till he is this, you're
Speaker 5: going to be amazed. Times are the But what's beautiful
Speaker 5: about this is she is trying to stop him because
Speaker 5: they need to replace the rug. It's a piece of shit.
Speaker 5: She doesn't care. She wants to have sex to get
Speaker 5: her way, and so she is just really upset. And
Speaker 5: all the reasons she gave would make me want to
Speaker 5: stop if I was going off to do that, or
Speaker 5: I would say, hey, can I do an experiment here?
Speaker 5: I just want to see if this really works.
Speaker 2: Well, that was Larry's point of view.
Speaker 1: He's like, oh my god, he was excited about the
Speaker 1: chance to do it exactly.
Speaker 2: And he comes running back in with.
Speaker 1: The massive to pay paper towels, and he does the
Speaker 1: whole routine, and he, you know, tells her you got
Speaker 1: to pull.
Speaker 5: This if I may so. Larry comes to the massive
Speaker 5: paper towels, which you see there's no salt and club
Speaker 5: and there's no club soda. However, in the next cut
Speaker 5: there's very few paper towels and salt and soda on
Speaker 5: the on the counter, which I just love this. But
Speaker 5: if you're really noticing those things, we have failed. Like
Speaker 5: any continuity, if you're noticing, if it's not blatant, it
Speaker 5: takes you out. It takes But here's the thing, though
Speaker 5: we were talking about this. Yes, everything happened yesterday. If
Speaker 5: you pay attention to that and you're not engulfed in
Speaker 5: what's going on the story and the action, it's the
Speaker 5: creator's fault, you know.
Speaker 1: But I still think continuity is important because you don't
Speaker 1: want to take people out of it and want it
Speaker 1: to be jarring.
Speaker 5: I don't find that anything's jarring, including a boom mic.
Speaker 5: As a matter of fact, one of my favorite stories
Speaker 5: I read about an interview with him Aldomovar. He made
Speaker 5: a movie in this one scene with this one actress.
Speaker 5: She went off, and when they were done and they
Speaker 5: needed to reshoot, she cut her hair very short. They
Speaker 5: told him we'll make a wig for He goes, no,
Speaker 5: it won't look good. I don't care. Let her be
Speaker 5: this way. Let her just be same actress, different hair lengths,
Speaker 5: he said. No one has ever mentioned it to him
Speaker 5: or question about that. Yes, because he's a compelling filmmaker.
Speaker 5: He's brilliant, you know, And so I think kurb is
Speaker 5: one of those shows that if you're not following the
Speaker 5: action and having a jaunty time, we've not done our job.
Speaker 5: If continuity takes you.
Speaker 4: Off, well, you know, It's funny you're talking about this,
Speaker 4: because when you're as a writer, when you're pitching stuff,
Speaker 4: you'll notice these things and you wonder should I really
Speaker 4: bother them? In this case, Jeff Schaeffer with, Hey, you know,
Speaker 4: this doesn't really make sense here.
Speaker 5: That's different than continuity. That different. And by the way,
Speaker 5: give me shows I was on whereas an actor, I said,
Speaker 5: this doesn't make sense. Don't logic us, Jeff. And by
Speaker 5: the way, they were all shitty shows, you know, because
Speaker 5: logic is important. And by the way, always point that
Speaker 5: out to Jeff. He does, well.
Speaker 4: It depends on how busy we are. But I'm talking
Speaker 4: about in general, not just Jeff.
Speaker 5: Give me a favor in those situations, come up and
Speaker 5: whisper it to me. I love whispering, don't. By the
Speaker 5: way you do you tell me things jokes as such,
Speaker 5: But yeah, she doesn't want to be whispered. I love
Speaker 5: being whispered to, especially with the sound of your voice
Speaker 5: in my ear.
Speaker 4: But there is there's a name for writers who only
Speaker 4: do that, and I think John Levenstein is a very
Speaker 4: funny writer. He is I believe I have the term right.
Speaker 4: It's a salad dressing writer who only comes up. He
Speaker 4: feels he's got to contribute. He doesn't have any ideas,
Speaker 4: and he goes. You know, in the scene, I think
Speaker 4: the broom was over there. You know, stuff like that.
Speaker 4: And I'm talking about when logic in the scene doesn't understand.
Speaker 4: And by the way, what movie has the most content times?
Speaker 4: I know the Godfather there's more. Guy John knew what
Speaker 4: he's shipping there. And by the way, the first ten
Speaker 4: times you watch it, you don't notice. But then when
Speaker 4: you hear about what they are and you've got to see,
Speaker 4: you see them all. But it doesn't matter. I know
Speaker 4: you've talked about it. Kids, give me one, Just give
Speaker 4: me one.
Speaker 2: I tell you one right now.
Speaker 1: In the very end, when they're they're having the reenactment
Speaker 1: of the birthday cake, they bring in the birthday cake
Speaker 1: for Don Corleon and Godfather too, they cut to another scene.
Speaker 2: The cake's gone.
Speaker 5: Oh there's one. I have another one. When they go
Speaker 5: to strangle Luca Brozi and they they're in the car,
Speaker 5: exterior of the car, it's all modern.
Speaker 1: No no, no, that that's not looking Luca Brozi strangled
Speaker 1: in the restaurant Carlow Carlo.
Speaker 5: Yeah Carlo, right outside of it. There's all these wires,
Speaker 5: it's all modern. There's nothing yes, there's nothing period about it.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get back to our show.
Speaker 5: And also, by the way, in the corner of the
Speaker 5: screen she in the easton singing.
Speaker 4: Okay, Larry finished, James con isn't Swedish, but anyhow.
Speaker 5: Go ahead.
Speaker 1: Larry finishes the whole club soda and salt routine. He
Speaker 1: goes back to Cheryl to resume having sex with her.
Speaker 2: She's done. The way the window has closed for.
Speaker 5: Me to say something is that? I mean, that's true
Speaker 5: for me, either on the instigating end or the receiving end,
Speaker 5: whoever wants it. And there's a delay in some sort,
Speaker 5: it's gone. It's gone.
Speaker 2: The moment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes you could get it back, but usually I'm just.
Speaker 2: Yes, John.
Speaker 5: They should do a lot of jokes about this on
Speaker 5: Red Skelton Show.
Speaker 2: Keeping The window has slammed closed.
Speaker 1: Cut to Larry and Jeff are a Ted's house for
Speaker 1: dinner and they meet Josh, who looks very innocent and
Speaker 1: young and sweet, Josh being Ted's personal chef, and Josh
Speaker 1: is very excited to be auditioning for them, and Larry's like,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't have told him it's an audition, not a
Speaker 1: good idea to tell us. And then the three of
Speaker 1: them are eating and Larry's clearly not happy with the food.
Speaker 1: He asked for the salt. He sprinkles liberally salt on
Speaker 1: the food. I thought that's what he was going to
Speaker 1: go for in this scene. Was that that he was
Speaker 1: going to make no pun, intended more of a meal
Speaker 1: of he didn't put any salt on this salt.
Speaker 5: I thought that's.
Speaker 2: Where it was going.
Speaker 5: Can I say something right here? Yes, the scene so
Speaker 5: John mentioned earlier, So when we filmed the scene of
Speaker 5: John actually have two stories right now.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back. Stay tuned. Okay, we're back.
Speaker 5: John and I met in South Florida comic strip when
Speaker 5: I first I've known him since I'm twenty years old.
Speaker 5: That's when we first met. So I'm on the set
Speaker 5: and James, my son, who's twenty at the time, is
Speaker 5: working on the show. And I see James talking to
Speaker 5: John at the same age that I was.
Speaker 2: Yes, John was the same age when he met James.
Speaker 5: It was really moving to me. Now. The other thing
Speaker 5: that I want to say, pretending to the show right now,
Speaker 5: is that we shot the thing with Randy quitting after
Speaker 5: we shot this. We shot that. After we shot this scene.
Speaker 5: Now I'd met Ted when we did it was the
Speaker 5: second episode, third episode. He was in the shoe episode. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: So I met Ted and I was like, oh, fuck,
Speaker 5: Ted dancing, How cool is that? But I was that scene,
Speaker 5: I was thinking, oh my god, this is Ted. Gouspum's
Speaker 5: thinking about. Now, Oh my god, I'm in the scene
Speaker 5: with Ted dancing. Oh my god him. I swear I
Speaker 5: couldn't get I didn't say it out loud because then
Speaker 5: Ted would have left. But that being said, it was
Speaker 5: overwhelming to me. And I had that with George Siegel.
Speaker 5: When I worked with George Siegel, I would think, because
Speaker 5: as a kid, I'd go to his movies, and now
Speaker 5: I'm doing a scene with him. What Well, That's how
Speaker 5: I felt.
Speaker 2: Obviously I wasn't doing a scene with him.
Speaker 5: When we had Albert Brooks, I think, right, holy shit,
Speaker 5: By the way, Albert with my comedy hero.
Speaker 1: You know. You know what I always think about Ted,
Speaker 1: not in these early years, but in the later years.
Speaker 1: It always strikes me funny that Ted Danson is such
Speaker 1: close friends with Susie Green.
Speaker 5: Not with me. By the way, it's awesome. And by
Speaker 5: the way, I don't know.
Speaker 2: If I why is Ted so close?
Speaker 5: Hears went on, Larry decided to make Ted a cad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well he is a little bit deep, a little bit.
Speaker 5: Too, but Larry, and here's the beauty of it. So
Speaker 5: he had been the cat for a while at this point,
Speaker 5: and Ted and I are talking about the scene and
Speaker 5: he doesn't quite understand why he would act that way.
Speaker 5: I said, well, you're you're the cad. You're the bad guy.
Speaker 5: He was shocked.
Speaker 2: He didn't know you really no idea.
Speaker 5: He's like on the bank. I go, yeah, you have,
Speaker 5: and this is pretty This is like for the past
Speaker 5: two seasons, you have been the nemesis of Larry David,
Speaker 5: and there has been one time where you've been right dead.
Speaker 5: Larry's been right every time. I mean he's newman.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, he wasn't in that first with the.
Speaker 5: But but the restaurant he becomes more.
Speaker 1: And even in which you weren't here for the first episode,
Speaker 1: he's a cad with the uh chest shirt chest shirt
Speaker 1: he was he started that relationship started to evolve.
Speaker 5: There there was a slow build that he didn't even know.
Speaker 2: Them before he started dating share on.
Speaker 5: Right, but he didn't even notice. It was such a
Speaker 5: slow build. It's like when you when you do a
Speaker 5: script for a network or a studio, they note you
Speaker 5: today to where you don't really notice it, but by
Speaker 5: the time you're finished with what they've noted, it is
Speaker 5: unrecognizable for what you set to set out today. God
Speaker 5: so Ted no idea that he was the cad and
Speaker 5: I love that and his reaction that conversation one of
Speaker 5: my favorites of all time.
Speaker 2: He knows it now, Yeah, so Larry's.
Speaker 5: And by the way, I still get that feeling when
Speaker 5: I'm working with Ted. We become great friends. But that
Speaker 5: being said, I still am in awe. People say, who's
Speaker 5: your favorite actor? You've ever worked with Ted Danson?
Speaker 1: There you go, Okay, I love working with Ted. So
Speaker 1: Larry says, passed the salty liberally sprinkled, and then he
Speaker 1: turns to you and he says, nice shirt. And the
Speaker 1: nice shirt is a way of saying, I'm not interested
Speaker 1: in this food whatsoever. Right, Basically, he's not following the food.
Speaker 5: And then my shirt is not so nice.
Speaker 2: It's a weird shirt for you to be wet.
Speaker 5: By the way, my wardrobe through this whole period is
Speaker 5: so insanely strange and ill fitting.
Speaker 2: Well, we had no budget.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, you can still will get a suit
Speaker 5: that fits on low budget okay, ill fitting and bizarre
Speaker 5: okay okay.
Speaker 2: And then Ted asked about does that.
Speaker 5: Every time I points, I'm not okay, We're gonna move on, okay.
Speaker 2: What do you want me to say?
Speaker 1: You want me to just say yes, it's still fitting, yes.
Speaker 2: And and keep on going with that. No, we're moving on.
Speaker 1: We're moving on, okay. And then Ted asked how you
Speaker 1: like the food. Jeff loved the food.
Speaker 2: Of course. Larry makes the face.
Speaker 5: And by the way, he makes his lemon face, and.
Speaker 1: And Ted says, you walked in here with an attitude.
Speaker 1: I just said, yeah, he makes his lemon face.
Speaker 5: Okay, but do people who are listening know what his
Speaker 5: lemon faces?
Speaker 1: I think we've discussed it before, Yes, but Larry's lemon
Speaker 1: facefore of a lemon something. Yeah, because I said, last
Speaker 1: time we had this discussion, to me, it's always like
Speaker 1: he smelled ship face.
Speaker 2: That's the face.
Speaker 1: And you you Jeff disagrees with Larry because Jeff says,
Speaker 1: you weigh like eight pounds.
Speaker 2: How do you know anything? About food.
Speaker 5: The discussion. Yeah, that's a funny discussion about people.
Speaker 2: Fat people. Who knows more about I'm clown fat people.
Speaker 1: There's a case to be made that thin people know
Speaker 1: more because fat people will just.
Speaker 5: Joke about it that in my life I have been
Speaker 5: a human vacuum.
Speaker 1: Right, So that's my point of how it in front
Speaker 1: of people eat more food, so maybe they know more
Speaker 1: about them.
Speaker 5: I don't know what your experience. And one is more present.
Speaker 2: One is more discerning. Maybe present. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The other thing that struck me is the set design
Speaker 1: of this room. There's plates hung up on the walls
Speaker 1: and there's a burgundy.
Speaker 5: Table cross house we got.
Speaker 2: This is not Ted.
Speaker 5: Dances dining room, whatever house we were.
Speaker 1: In, I know, but it is not Ted Dances, and
Speaker 1: it's we've really changed in that the set decoration has
Speaker 1: really changed over the years.
Speaker 5: The only house that I actually loved was our house,
Speaker 5: was the house we lived in in the early episodes.
Speaker 5: I thought that was a cool The cool happen really
Speaker 5: tough to get the trucks up there was on Woodrow
Speaker 5: Wilson and so hard. Where is the house up on
Speaker 5: Woodrow Wilson.
Speaker 2: In the hills, the hills and they couldn't park the
Speaker 2: trucks there. It was the problem, but it was so
Speaker 2: But it just struck.
Speaker 1: Me how different the set design is. Our set decorators
Speaker 1: now would never have that. Well, they would completely reduced
Speaker 1: by the.
Speaker 5: Way I put that off on low budget and them
Speaker 5: just using practical what they had.
Speaker 1: Right, And then Josh comes out and Ted says, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: how was everything?
Speaker 2: Did you enjoy your lamp?
Speaker 5: Wonderful? Wonderful, really wonderful.
Speaker 6: Good.
Speaker 2: Did you enjoy the plumb apricot and mint chutney?
Speaker 5: The chutney was amazing, Thank you, thank you very much. Yes,
Speaker 5: Larry something he wants to tell you.
Speaker 2: Yes, Larry, it was good. I just don't think it's
Speaker 2: it's quite right for the restaurant though. What was wrong
Speaker 2: with that? Saucy? A little too saucy? Saucy, yeah, kind
Speaker 2: of saucy. Is there anything else? Not really, I guess
Speaker 2: desserts out of the question.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 1: Also, I'll have to take this at I'll take this
Speaker 1: aert too.
Speaker 5: And by the way, this is very cattish. But I
Speaker 5: think Ted's not even aware that he's being an asshole.
Speaker 5: Oh I think he is really No, look how upset
Speaker 5: he is as he's sitting there. I don't think he's
Speaker 5: being an asshole though, he's just he's made a terrible choice.
Speaker 2: But he's throwing Larry under the bus.
Speaker 5: You don't tell the guy he's auditioning. You just tell
Speaker 5: me dinner and so. And Ted's very upset. Is he
Speaker 5: listening here again?
Speaker 1: But I also think Ted was throwing Larry under the bus.
Speaker 1: Larry has something to say.
Speaker 5: By the way you tell him is definitely.
Speaker 2: And what does Larry say? Too saucy? To saucy?
Speaker 1: But you know what, I understand his point because I
Speaker 1: hate when I go to these restaurants that try too
Speaker 1: hard that you know, the chef wants to the culinary
Speaker 1: institute and he's.
Speaker 5: Making no I'm not going to go in depth on it,
Speaker 5: but we had yesterday at lunch. I knew yesterday at
Speaker 5: lunch caterer like I don't. Their food is too food
Speaker 5: for me. I'm shocked at the crew loves them. And
Speaker 5: the crew does love them. I like them very much.
Speaker 5: They if they hit a home run for me, to me,
Speaker 5: it's either a home run or striking out looking that
Speaker 5: is dead on correct. Yeah, I mean it's like there's
Speaker 5: no way that it's pretty good.
Speaker 1: We are sitting with the two biggest critics of catering
Speaker 1: on the show.
Speaker 5: By the way, I've had how many cater I mean
Speaker 5: in the past, I've had them fired. One time I
Speaker 5: was going to have them fired and Aaron O'Malley said,
Speaker 5: the crew loves them. And I immediately.
Speaker 1: Said, John and Jeff Garland have more complaints about catering
Speaker 1: else than anybody else on set.
Speaker 5: We are the only ones I'm not. But you're right.
Speaker 5: Sometimes it's great, right, and sometimes are you kidding me?
Speaker 5: So yesterday it was asked, what do you want to said?
Speaker 5: You know what, I'm not that hungry. I don't like
Speaker 5: everything was so foodful. I go, oh, macaroni and cheese.
Speaker 5: Get me a bowl of macaroni and cheese. Simple, you know, okay, spicy?
Speaker 5: Who makes spicy macaroni and cheese? Spicy? Spicy? Spicy that
Speaker 5: seasoning seasoning season.
Speaker 4: That's why you were asking me when Crafty had it.
Speaker 4: You get is a spicy and I'm thinking she out
Speaker 4: of his mind? Whoever heard of spicy macaroni? And I
Speaker 4: gave him a taste, literally.
Speaker 2: This is what goes on on set. Everything fed him.
Speaker 5: A little thing of macaroni jokes that ketchup and pop
Speaker 5: tarts are too spicy for me. But that one wasn't spicy.
Speaker 5: I just didn't like it the one later in the day.
Speaker 5: But who makes spicy? This is what I'm saying, leave
Speaker 5: shit out of it.
Speaker 6: Okay, go ahead, okay, So you just me knowledging we
Speaker 6: should stop.
Speaker 5: I said, okay, go ahead.
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1: So Larry says it's too saucy, and you just see
Speaker 1: Josh's sad face.
Speaker 5: Josh takes he started crying.
Speaker 1: Oh god, he was so steele. See his face. He's
Speaker 1: about to cry.
Speaker 5: By the way, there's nothing more moving in any movie
Speaker 5: cleaning dramas at the premise of the great work is
Speaker 5: when someone's about to cry, that moment of trying to
Speaker 5: hold it in. That's really great acting, you know, letting
Speaker 5: it loose. Sometimes it calls for it, mostly little kids
Speaker 5: when a horse dies. And on the other side, no emotion.
Speaker 4: That guy was great. It was like you would hurt
Speaker 4: one of his children, I know, or something like that.
Speaker 2: And he really took it personally as it was personal.
Speaker 1: And Josh says, Josh the chef says, I guess dessert
Speaker 1: is out of the question, and Larry says no, off dessert,
Speaker 1: and Jeff of course, yeah, me too, yeah, calf calf.
Speaker 5: I know, by the way, I just want to say this,
Speaker 5: no matter what goes on in the show, Larry and
Speaker 5: I are idiots. I just want to make that clear.
Speaker 5: We're tone deaf idiots. That's all I want to say.
Speaker 6: Okay, now, discussion on that topic. That's true. But you
Speaker 6: know what you are, You're misassumed. You know, people listening
Speaker 6: probably going, what does she think? She thinks everyone knows
Speaker 6: what she's thinking? All right, keep going.
Speaker 1: Okay, So next week, cut to Cheryl and Larry driving
Speaker 1: and they're going to get a wedding present for Melanie
Speaker 1: and Ed and what should we get for a wedding present?
Speaker 1: And Larry is sitting in the passenger seat and he
Speaker 1: doesn't like not driving.
Speaker 2: I knew exactly what he meant.
Speaker 4: I feel like when I go, yeah, you know what,
Speaker 4: He's right, I don't feel no.
Speaker 5: Jackie Gleason, who his step son and Jackie Leeson's wife,
Speaker 5: for I have a lot of Jackie Gleeson's stories from
Speaker 5: my childhood. Jackie never drove, she drove everywhere.
Speaker 2: Did he not have a license? He didn't know how
Speaker 2: to drive.
Speaker 5: I knew how to drive, had a license.
Speaker 2: He liked.
Speaker 5: By the way, I've got it good. Sari only wants
Speaker 5: to drive. She hates the way I drive, So I
Speaker 5: get I love being a passenger.
Speaker 2: How did you feel me driving you here today?
Speaker 5: John? What kind of question is?
Speaker 2: Did you feel okay as a passenger?
Speaker 5: Do you feel safe? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Well, I'm making it because of what I said before. No,
Speaker 4: I if I was in my own car. And aren't
Speaker 4: they in Larry's car?
Speaker 2: Y seen in the problem in Cheryl's car. They're in Cheryl.
Speaker 5: That's hold on a problem here again. Now they're on
Speaker 5: a what's the driving thing called? Yeah, the process? Yeah no, no,
Speaker 5: there wasn't process. They're on the thing that you just
Speaker 5: ride as the truck drives and you okay, they're walking.
Speaker 5: They're driving down a smooth street. All the cars in
Speaker 5: the background that are driving are riding along smooth Suddenly
Speaker 5: Larry and Cheryl are driving through a gravel pit. They're
Speaker 5: shaking the car so much. And then this one, as
Speaker 5: opposed to the other one where I mentioned it, Larry
Speaker 5: and Cheryl are really bouncing around again. And by the way,
Speaker 5: I like the camera angles.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned, and we're back. So Larry doesn't like not driving.
Speaker 1: He feels like he doesn't have a personality in the seat,
Speaker 1: and he's like, you know, well, do you want me
Speaker 1: to sing or turn on the radio? He doesn't know
Speaker 1: what to do with himself. And this is of course
Speaker 1: a setup. Cheryl would rather have the radio than hear
Speaker 1: Larry sing. And we all know Larry sings all day long.
Speaker 1: He loves to sing. And a tape starts to play
Speaker 1: and Larry's like, I thought you're only by CDs, And
Speaker 1: Cheryl says, a friend loaned it to me, and we
Speaker 1: know who that friend is going to be.
Speaker 5: Who is this?
Speaker 2: It's all Green. We'll give you this tip.
Speaker 5: Bred It's good, isn't it. You want to be with me?
Speaker 5: Is that what he's saying? You want to be with me?
Speaker 5: That's what That's what he's singing about.
Speaker 2: The fact that Larry didn't recognize al Green was odd
Speaker 2: to me.
Speaker 5: By the way, if I may, I picked that song
Speaker 5: and he didn't know what I was talking about. Really,
Speaker 5: I said, this is the perfect song and you will
Speaker 5: be able to play off it, and he didn't trust
Speaker 5: it until he was in post, you know, because it's
Speaker 5: not really playing there. And you know where you ought
Speaker 5: to be with me anyhow.
Speaker 2: Al Green singing? You want to be with me?
Speaker 5: And by the way, I want to add one other thing,
Speaker 5: So Larry does sing every day? Yes, he sings, and
Speaker 5: he kills me because they're so random. Okay, by the way,
Speaker 5: that thing, instead of being a non secretary be random
Speaker 5: the socks. Wouldn't that be random?
Speaker 2: No, I don't think.
Speaker 1: Somebody random, but it's not the opposite of non secretary.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, okay, what was I talking about? Larry singing?
Speaker 5: Oh, Larry sings every day? Now? What blows my mind?
Speaker 5: To Larry David that I've known for years up until
Speaker 5: a few years back. The first time I remember him
Speaker 5: singing on the show, No, I said to him, we're
Speaker 5: supposed to go to a U two concert and I said,
Speaker 5: do you even know who they are?
Speaker 2: That was the later episode.
Speaker 5: No, he had no idea, you know, And so I've
Speaker 5: never known Larry to know he knows classical music, you know,
Speaker 5: show tunes and Fellini like, which is are what I
Speaker 5: No hold on you're saying that now, But he didn't
Speaker 5: do any of that for years And suddenly one day
Speaker 5: the songbook opens, and they're always different. I mean, they're
Speaker 5: really different in styles of everything, and the fact that
Speaker 5: he knows them. And I will say to him, do
Speaker 5: you know who's saying that song? No, I know, I
Speaker 5: do know the name of that song. No. He just
Speaker 5: for whatever reason, a part of his brain got opened
Speaker 5: and he sings all these songs because they are.
Speaker 1: You know what what I think that a musical brain
Speaker 1: and a comedic brain are very similar.
Speaker 2: There's a rhythm and timing. It's all about that.
Speaker 1: I used jazz and that's part of his you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: but his process he.
Speaker 5: Didn't have it. He never used it. He's recently tapped
Speaker 5: into it. That's my point. It's just so strange, like
Speaker 5: the last ten years ago. Do you remember him singing all.
Speaker 2: The time, Yes, I do remember him whistling a lot, whistling,
Speaker 2: whistling a lot, whistling, whistling.
Speaker 5: Yes, But he knows the words to these songs and
Speaker 5: he doesn't even know what song he's singing. All right, whatever,
Speaker 5: that was not even worth the time it took. So
Speaker 5: I'm acknowledging you. Susie should have cut me off.
Speaker 1: So Cheryl says a friend Loan to this tape, and
Speaker 1: Larry says who, and she says Brad, And then we
Speaker 1: hear Al Green singing you want to be with me,
Speaker 1: very pointed, and he's Larry says, this thing gets worse
Speaker 1: and worse, nobody.
Speaker 5: You ought to be with me. You ought to be
Speaker 5: with me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's right.
Speaker 5: When you're making someone a mixtape, there's implications.
Speaker 1: Yes, just making a mixtape is a very personal thing.
Speaker 5: But you also do it with your close friend anymore, No,
Speaker 5: but back then you did it with your close friends.
Speaker 5: Even when CDs were burned, people still did that on CDs.
Speaker 5: It's long gone now it's playless and making h want
Speaker 5: to play this is not really but anyhow to make
Speaker 5: the tape, put the album on, do the whole thing.
Speaker 5: You do that for your friends, of like, it.
Speaker 2: Takes a lot of time.
Speaker 5: It takes a lot of time, so effort. So if
Speaker 5: it's someone you don't know very well, there's a message there.
Speaker 2: Correct.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 1: Next, they're in the store and they don't know what
Speaker 1: to buy a nice bowl. They probably have all this stuff,
Speaker 1: and Cheryl says, why don't we just get an expensive
Speaker 1: bottle of wine. Larry's immediately how expensive Cheryl's two hundred fifty.
Speaker 2: They'll know the difference.
Speaker 1: They're wine connoisseurs, and so Cheryl goes to get the
Speaker 1: one and Larry prefers to stay in the store price.
Speaker 5: She's like, You're like, no, I'll just stay here. I'm
Speaker 5: not going to a wine store.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just browsing, And then the salesgirl played by lauras Sarah,
Speaker 1: Sarah's sister, comes up and says, how can I help you?
Speaker 1: And she's rather aggressive. Could we just narrow it down?
Speaker 1: And Larry's no, no, no, no, not can ring it montanga and
Speaker 1: napkin rings a ten percent off? And she starts following
Speaker 1: him around and he's just like, I'm not interested of
Speaker 1: buying anything. He's losing his patience with her. Stop following me.
Speaker 1: You've never heard of browsers. She says, please leave, and
Speaker 1: they have an altercation. Then they go to drop the
Speaker 1: bottle of wine off and Cheryl's phone rings and she's
Speaker 1: on speakerphone and it's Brad and Cheryl says, Larry's.
Speaker 5: In the car.
Speaker 6: Oh hey, hey, Larry, hey Brad, how you doing pretty good?
Speaker 5: By the way, who she said it yeah, was questionable
Speaker 5: because let's say you call me in the phone, and
Speaker 5: I'm riding with one of my sons, and I would
Speaker 5: say to you, Susie, I'm with James.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean, right, and that is protocol.
Speaker 2: You should do that.
Speaker 5: I say it much more casual.
Speaker 2: Correct.
Speaker 1: She was very pointed, Yes, very pointed and basically saying
Speaker 1: what Larry says. Then they say they're both going to
Speaker 1: Tony and Tina's. Are you still looking for a chef?
Speaker 1: And Brad says his friend Paul is the chef at Alsace,
Speaker 1: and let's go there after the show. And they hang
Speaker 1: up and Larry's just like, Larry's in the car.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he says, it's so far.
Speaker 2: Do you plan on doing any dirty talking? Larry's it
Speaker 2: dirty talking. I love that for you. It's journey talking.
Speaker 1: Larry's in the car and Cheryl says she was just
Speaker 1: being polite, and then the cop stopped them. There's a
Speaker 1: report from a young lady that you're following her. And
Speaker 1: then we see Laura Silverman pull up the sales girl.
Speaker 1: You're sick and it's revenge and when my husband finds
Speaker 1: out about this, he's going to kill you, and blah
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah, blah. Then they say, well, they're
Speaker 1: on their way to Melanie and Eds and they say, well,
Speaker 1: maybe we should have called first. No, And it's fine,
Speaker 1: it's whatever. We're in the neighborhood. It's a three hundred
Speaker 1: dollars bottle of wine. We establish and they ring the
Speaker 1: doorbell and Melanie says, we can't take it, which is
Speaker 1: the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of. My way,
Speaker 1: after a year, you can't give a gift after a year.
Speaker 5: And they're insulted.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're insulted. It's an afterthought. It's too late, you know.
Speaker 1: And Larry, immediately you had no problem with the engagement
Speaker 1: faz or the shower, and then we flew to Chicago.
Speaker 1: It cost me fifty five hundred bucks. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: this thing, too, is ridiculous.
Speaker 5: What she says, all that about he enjoyed it or
Speaker 5: he wanted to be there, something.
Speaker 2: Like that, And she says, why did you come then? Yeah,
Speaker 2: but don't you? I mean, am I alone in this?
Speaker 2: Is it ridiculous that you can't accept to give?
Speaker 4: I mean, is it ridiculous? And the show is ridiculous
Speaker 4: as a thing.
Speaker 5: As a thing, that's one of the things people love
Speaker 5: about the show. I have a life, stay fury in
Speaker 5: my mouth. Okay, well I'm explaining why it sounds silly.
Speaker 5: I'm silly, but no, people love that Larry attacks these.
Speaker 2: Rules.
Speaker 1: Yeah, these social norms that we all adhere to. That
Speaker 1: he says, I do not adhere to this, and they
Speaker 1: have a fight with that.
Speaker 5: When you look up what her name is, because she
Speaker 5: started she's really funny.
Speaker 2: Who played Melanie, Yes, and she's friends with Cheryl.
Speaker 5: She's a Groundlings actress. Cheryl produced the show with her Carrieley.
Speaker 5: I did a show with her. I guest starred with
Speaker 5: Sean Hayes on an episode of the show So Funny.
Speaker 5: It's about two older women in college. It was really funny.
Speaker 2: We'll have to look that up.
Speaker 5: Well. By the way, thank you for the effort.
Speaker 2: You're welcome.
Speaker 1: Then we're Tony and Tina's wedding, Yes, and Larry's is
Speaker 1: feeling uncomfortable. I should have won a sports coat. And
Speaker 1: Larry says, I'm going to the bathroom.
Speaker 5: This place was on Olympic Avenue, right.
Speaker 1: He's going to the bathroom, and Brad is in the
Speaker 1: bathroom and introduces himself as a Manngelo like, acting like.
Speaker 2: A whole gomba.
Speaker 5: That's the thing that they do.
Speaker 1: Yes, he's in character. And Larry's like, all right, Brad,
Speaker 1: I know he's having none of it.
Speaker 4: He sus I can't think of anything more annoying than
Speaker 4: go see it was the Chicago trial.
Speaker 5: So the Chicago Seven, the Chicago Seven has a play.
Speaker 5: And when you get there, hippies greet you and they're.
Speaker 2: Talking to you.
Speaker 5: I said to them, it's awful. I'm pro hippy and
Speaker 5: no more.
Speaker 2: No he's no more.
Speaker 5: I beg of you, no more. And they by the
Speaker 5: way they look at you hurt like the chef.
Speaker 2: He's he's having none of it.
Speaker 1: But Angelo slash Brad starts going into a whole diet
Speaker 1: tribe about yeah, she's gonna marry that jerk. Me and
Speaker 1: Tina have a better understanding. It's all euphemisms for Brad
Speaker 1: and Seff. Then that cocksucker Tony blah blah blah. One day,
Speaker 1: me and Tina's gonna end up together. She'll finally slip
Speaker 1: in the sausage by Vema.
Speaker 2: And then Larry does his Aian but point.
Speaker 5: He goes telling him that I know who he is
Speaker 5: and bullshit has not worked, and Larry goes into his
Speaker 5: own Italian thing and says, really pointed ship.
Speaker 2: Back out exactly in the Italian voice.
Speaker 5: I love that.
Speaker 1: And then we cut to the restaurant, i'l sace and
Speaker 1: you're there, and Ted is there, and Jeff just wants
Speaker 1: to order everything on the menu.
Speaker 5: By the way, no one had disagree. Let's order everything
Speaker 5: on the menu because we're testing the chef. Henman goes, yeah,
Speaker 5: let's do it.
Speaker 2: And Charff brought the three hundred dollars bottle of wine.
Speaker 5: Go to toast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and she's pouring it and telling the story about
Speaker 1: the gift and they toast to the lobes.
Speaker 2: Who is Melanie and Ed and that's why they have
Speaker 2: the lovely bottle?
Speaker 1: And a guy comes over and pushes Larry and he
Speaker 1: spills the wine on Sheriff.
Speaker 5: Not a guy, it's her husband.
Speaker 1: Whose husband, Laura Silverman's husband. Oh that's right, that's right,
Speaker 1: that's right, that's right. Laura Silverman's husband was the one
Speaker 1: who's going to kick his ass.
Speaker 4: I'm just going to say she says that earlier, right, Yeah,
Speaker 4: just way to my husband.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, And and Brad gets up to get the
Speaker 1: club soda salt and then we see that it's Laura
Speaker 1: Silverman's husband.
Speaker 5: By the way, what's what's going on in this? Is
Speaker 5: half a dozen things at once, you know, everyone's got
Speaker 5: a different It's almost like I got the horse ride here.
Speaker 5: His name is Paul Revere. And when they cross over
Speaker 5: each other. Yes, it's a comedy few.
Speaker 2: Yes, have you heard that before?
Speaker 5: I have not.
Speaker 2: Yes, well that's what that song is called too. By
Speaker 2: the way, what a few? Yeah? Yeah, yeah. So the
Speaker 2: wine is on Cheryl.
Speaker 1: We see Laura Silverman's husband grabbing Larry by the lapels
Speaker 1: and choking him. And meanwhile Brad has the club soda
Speaker 1: insault all over Cheryl's breast, rubbing Cheryff's breast.
Speaker 5: Oh none, he doesn't start right on her breast. He
Speaker 5: eventually goes to the breast. And by the way, that
Speaker 5: was like a note. That might have been the last
Speaker 5: take because he didn't want the guy, you know, out
Speaker 5: of respect for Cheryl. They wanted. And then he took
Speaker 5: Cheryl Cheryl aside and said, will you mind if we
Speaker 5: did it?
Speaker 2: And Cheryl, Cheryl, she's a game.
Speaker 5: She said, yeah, I don't give a ship, let's do it.
Speaker 5: And then he really is really rubbing on her breast. Yeah.
Speaker 5: And you see the shot of Ted Danson and I
Speaker 5: were state of shot.
Speaker 2: We're glued, Yeah, we're glued, rivoted.
Speaker 5: Larry's getting the ship kicked out of him. Yeah, and
Speaker 5: the end, the end. But that's hilarious, funny fugue. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I never heard that before. That's called a fuse.
Speaker 2: Well, there you go. It's not a non sequitur.
Speaker 5: I it's not. If she just had nothing to do
Speaker 5: with the show, it'd be a non sequitor, that would be.
Speaker 2: And John, We've enjoyed having you here.
Speaker 5: And I've had a blast here. John, maybe not a blast.
Speaker 2: You're going to come back to say that I had
Speaker 2: a blast like on talk shows.
Speaker 5: By the way, let's let's let's actually ask you this
Speaker 5: anything the rest of the day that's going to compare
Speaker 5: to this. I'm not about the day is young. I'm
Speaker 5: a pro nap nap beats everything. But I'm in are
Speaker 5: there any good games on today?
Speaker 2: Now? There's no sports now, so this is probably the
Speaker 2: highlight of my Well we have the ride home. John,
Speaker 2: Let's right.
Speaker 5: The two of you came from the Santa Monica area,
Speaker 5: Yes we did.
Speaker 1: And I'm going so John, you're going to come back
Speaker 1: later on because you're producing season nine, ten, eleven, twelve. Yeah, okay, sure,
Speaker 1: so you're coming back. Whether you liked it, whether you
Speaker 1: had a blast or not, you're coming back. All right,
Speaker 1: Bye everybody.
Speaker 5: I thank you for listening.
Speaker 2: Thanks John, thank you, Thanks Jess.
Speaker 5: I see you next week.
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