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Speaker 1: episode description. Hi everybody, I'm Susie Esmond.
Speaker 2: I'm Jeff Darland.
Speaker 1: And today we are doing season four, episode three, the
Speaker 1: Blind Date.
Speaker 3: Yes, and we have the blind date with us. Please
Speaker 3: welcome Moon.
Speaker 2: Zappa, Moonzapa.
Speaker 4: Hi, everybody, Nice to be with.
Speaker 2: You, Happy to have you here. Hello, It's an honor.
Speaker 1: Moon, and it's nice to see your face out of
Speaker 1: a burka. Having just watched the episode, Moon is an
Speaker 1: old friend of mine who I love very nice. We
Speaker 1: have never met because I wasn't in any of those
Speaker 1: scenes with you, so we have never met, and it's
Speaker 1: love to meet you.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: How did you get this part? I think I just auditioned.
Speaker 4: I think I just came in and you did gave.
Speaker 2: I plowed her through, which she was.
Speaker 3: So good that she got it.
Speaker 2: Jeff, No, no, no, Look, if she wasn't good, I
Speaker 2: could not push her through the thing was she was
Speaker 2: great and sometimes that still doesn't work. But when you
Speaker 2: have somebody who's your friend in the room and you
Speaker 2: kicked ass, you got the part. It's done.
Speaker 3: So did you audition in a Burka Moon?
Speaker 4: No? But the thing is what I remember is Jeff
Speaker 4: had said he tried a few times to bring me
Speaker 4: into audition for a few different roles and nothing just
Speaker 4: worked out prior to that. And so then when I
Speaker 4: went in for that role.
Speaker 5: I drove all the way from Hollywood to Santa Monica,
Speaker 5: which is like saying I left the planet to go.
Speaker 3: To It depends on.
Speaker 4: That's true.
Speaker 2: And well, Susie, you want to talk about time of
Speaker 2: day from Hollywood to Santa Monica, Yeah, you're good around midnight.
Speaker 1: I live in New York at four o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 1: You can't go on the Cross Bronx Expressway any time
Speaker 1: of day.
Speaker 3: The crossbro Expressway is a fucking nightmare.
Speaker 5: But all right, So nowadays you just have to treat
Speaker 5: everything like it's.
Speaker 4: You're going to a festival and your camp out before
Speaker 4: you go anywhere.
Speaker 3: It seems so you drove all the way.
Speaker 4: I drove all the way and then uh, yeah, I
Speaker 4: just remember that the process.
Speaker 5: Of like being given a kind of a note and
Speaker 5: then improvising a little bit.
Speaker 2: By the way, if I may, the notes that we
Speaker 2: give to actors are not the actual scenes.
Speaker 3: Right exactly.
Speaker 2: There's something not even resembling the scene, just something totally different.
Speaker 2: Because Larry doesn't want any of the stories.
Speaker 3: You just want anybody knowing.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, So there's these slips of paper, you know,
Speaker 2: where it's just this little scene that has nothing to
Speaker 2: do with what we're going to film.
Speaker 1: And you know what's interesting to me rewatching these episodes
Speaker 1: because I mean, I haven't seen this episode in nineteen years. Same,
Speaker 1: what's interesting is once it's cast, nobody else could have
Speaker 1: done that part.
Speaker 3: I mean, yes, of course somebody else could have done
Speaker 3: that part.
Speaker 2: No, but she did it with a spin that was
Speaker 2: fucking beautiful.
Speaker 1: Y that once you inhabit that part, it's like, you
Speaker 1: can't even think of somebody else doing that part except
Speaker 1: for Moon playing haboos.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, some of my favorite things in the
Speaker 5: world are matchmaking and matchmaking gone wrong. And outside of
Speaker 5: professional life, is there anything funnier than people trying to
Speaker 5: make love happen?
Speaker 3: It's just it happens all the time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly, And then to have the fun of getting
Speaker 5: to have you know, whether you like a personality or
Speaker 5: don't like a personality another personality is just a fun adventure.
Speaker 5: And then to do it as though you are from
Speaker 5: another country, which I think is riskier and riskier these
Speaker 5: days and entertainment.
Speaker 1: Yes, it is so, and it's interesting watching this. Certain
Speaker 1: things I don't know if they could be done today,
Speaker 1: but exactly.
Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, that's true. I disagree on some levels,
Speaker 2: but in terms of content not so much, because we're
Speaker 2: a reverent and politically incorrect. Not to be reverent and
Speaker 2: politically incorrect, it's just the way that turns out. But certainly,
Speaker 2: with Moon's part, we would have.
Speaker 3: Had to have hired and who would have ever known?
Speaker 2: No, no, but nonetheless a Middle Eastern actress. Yes, we
Speaker 2: would have definitely had to but that's not a bad thing.
Speaker 1: No, But luckily Moon was hired because you were just perfect.
Speaker 1: So let's start the episode. We start out with Larry
Speaker 1: vacuuming Michael's apartment. This Michael is a real fucking primadonna.
Speaker 2: Isn't also just Larry vacuuming?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Fur, this dude is funny on its own. Boom hilarious.
Speaker 1: And Michael's got his headphones on and he's listening to music,
Speaker 1: and you know, Larry's telling him he should get a
Speaker 1: cordless vacuum. He's like, what what, he's not even he's
Speaker 1: listening to his music. And then Larry says him, you
Speaker 1: need to get yourself a new girlfriend. He's tired of
Speaker 1: doing his errands in vacuuming, and and Michael says, it's
Speaker 1: your fault that I don't have a girlfriend, which it
Speaker 1: really is in Larry's fault.
Speaker 3: It is Michael's fault for being so petty and superficial.
Speaker 2: That's another thing about Larry's character. You can convince Larry
Speaker 2: in the right moment that it's his fault. I'm talking
Speaker 2: about the character.
Speaker 3: Oh he's always willing to take blame.
Speaker 2: Yeah no, no, no, not from you, but like.
Speaker 3: From no, I mean, I don't mean me, I mean one.
Speaker 2: No, no outsiders who aren't mean. But what's all so
Speaker 2: beautiful about this is when he talks to him and
Speaker 2: he criticizes him about his blindness and his expectations for
Speaker 2: a woman. Do you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 3: Well, he says to him.
Speaker 6: You know what, you better get yourself a new girlfriend,
Speaker 6: all right, because this isn't gonna last that much longer. Yeah, well,
Speaker 6: whose fault is it that I don't have a girlfriend anymore?
Speaker 2: Larry?
Speaker 6: Hey, I did your favorite. The problem is it's hard
Speaker 6: to even fix you up. You're so particular.
Speaker 3: I would like to be an attractive woman, Yes, I wouldn't, not.
Speaker 6: Long as you have to be good looking. But she's
Speaker 6: going out with a blind man, so just to wait
Speaker 6: on hand and foot.
Speaker 3: So what matters to women is what's on the inside
Speaker 3: of a fella.
Speaker 6: Okay, first of all, you've got nothing good inside of you. Okay,
Speaker 6: let me just make that clear. You're the most superficial
Speaker 6: man I've ever met.
Speaker 2: Be that blind or sighted as.
Speaker 5: It meant, it's just not fair that people get to
Speaker 5: see her and I don't.
Speaker 6: So he's saying, it's not fair that everybody knows what
Speaker 6: she looks like except you.
Speaker 1: Right, you're the most superficial man I've ever met. He
Speaker 1: says to You're the most superficial man I've ever met.
Speaker 2: And he says, how would you know how beautiful they are?
Speaker 1: Yeah, he wouldn't, And then we cut to Larry doing
Speaker 1: his lines to himself, saying, you know, Max BIELI stock,
Speaker 1: I did summer stock in the winter, you know, hilarious. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And he's in his car and he's going into a
Speaker 1: parking lot and the what is that called the arm,
Speaker 1: the wooden arm comes down on the way in the front.
Speaker 3: Of the hood.
Speaker 2: I can't remember what those are called. Whatever, the thing
Speaker 2: that comes down at a parking.
Speaker 1: So he goes into reverse and he reverses through that
Speaker 1: tired thing that do not reverse will cause tire damage,
Speaker 1: which you know you always see.
Speaker 3: You wonder is it really going to cause tire damage? Yes,
Speaker 3: it does.
Speaker 2: Those spikes Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: And then Ben and Christine have to pick him up
Speaker 1: so he can't open the back door. And Ben is
Speaker 1: taking Christine to yoga and Larry goes off on a
Speaker 1: ridiculous riff about yoga and yogurt and they related.
Speaker 2: And dot and they're pulling in. He's still on the.
Speaker 3: Road, still carrying on.
Speaker 1: It reminded me of the last episode at Ben's birthday
Speaker 1: party when he's talking to Katie Huffman in that same way,
Speaker 1: and in the first episode with mel when he's trying
Speaker 1: to pick up the beautiful girl and he's talking about
Speaker 1: bowling balls, this is just digging, digging, digging holes.
Speaker 2: But every single time, all I think of Sari Moons.
Speaker 2: Sari's my girlfriend. And when I watch those episodes, I
Speaker 2: thought of us, because I do that naturally, which you
Speaker 2: might know. And I thought to myself, poor, poor Sarry
Speaker 2: to have to deal with that, because I really great, Jeff.
Speaker 3: I'm so glad that you're learning something from doing it.
Speaker 2: By the way, I am. And Larry off camera doesn't
Speaker 2: do that, but I do. I'm the one who does that.
Speaker 1: No, Larry is the opposite of that. He's very comfortable
Speaker 1: with silence.
Speaker 2: Yes, as you know, Jeff is not well. No, on
Speaker 2: a conscious level. I am on the subconscious level, No
Speaker 2: fucking way, yeah, because obviously I act out.
Speaker 1: So they drop Christine off at yoga and Ben says,
Speaker 1: when you come sit up front, Larisa, I'm good, I'm good,
Speaker 1: I'm okay, I'm good.
Speaker 3: And Ben's like.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to drive you around like I'm your chauffeur.
Speaker 1: And Larr's what kind of person? It is so insecure?
Speaker 1: And I agree with Larry on this fun.
Speaker 2: Right the way I wrote that to Larry not wrong,
Speaker 2: especially because it's a very short run.
Speaker 3: Very sure what are you just going, yeah, we're not. Yeah,
Speaker 3: what's the big fucking deal?
Speaker 2: Right, that's a rare occurrence of Larry being right.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think he's almost always right, Jeff, he's almost always right.
Speaker 2: No, I feel that he does not have the common
Speaker 2: courtesy to just let him. Like, you're with your shirts
Speaker 2: with all the the watch McCall's, the bedaz yeah, bedazzled shirts.
Speaker 2: All he has to say to you is, hey, those
Speaker 2: those are lovely and then move on. Yes, but instead so, yes,
Speaker 2: he's right, they're bullshit shirts. But he doesn't have common courtesy.
Speaker 3: He doesn't have common courtesy.
Speaker 1: However, Yeah, when it comes to a moral or ethical issue,
Speaker 1: he's almost always right.
Speaker 2: Well, that's the reason people like the show because they
Speaker 2: can associate with and also say I wish I could
Speaker 2: say that. Well they could. I would have liked to.
Speaker 1: Have said that, right, say what people think, but will
Speaker 1: not say.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's the magic.
Speaker 3: So then they continue.
Speaker 1: Ben calls him a grown man baby a little baby
Speaker 1: wants to walk, just like ridiculous. It devolves into a
Speaker 1: ridiculous fight. You're the baby, you're the baby. Bit bit
Speaker 1: bit bit bit bit bet. Cut to that Larry walks
Speaker 1: into the kitchen of his house singing and complains that
Speaker 1: to Cheryl, your little cousin finished all the grape nuts
Speaker 1: and how much longer is he going to be there?
Speaker 1: And he wants to borrow Cheryl's car. She says, okay,
Speaker 1: but will you take it to the car wash? And
Speaker 1: then Cheryl's little cousin Stewart enters, and this broke my heart.
Speaker 2: I know it's it's uh Anton Yelhun.
Speaker 1: Anton Yelchin, who played at the I thought it's yelkin.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's pronounced yelkin, it's a ch but maybe it's you.
Speaker 2: Of your options. Maybe his family said everyone can pronounce
Speaker 2: it correctly.
Speaker 1: Maybe, but he was a really talented kid. He was
Speaker 1: played check Off in the Star Treks and.
Speaker 2: Actually was not just a good actor. The kids were
Speaker 2: remarkable and.
Speaker 3: He was remarkable in this part, remarkable.
Speaker 2: In this part, and as people if you know or
Speaker 2: don't know, he passed away, and you know, not only
Speaker 2: was he sweet and a wonderful actor, his mom was
Speaker 2: sweet too. See when you work with children, as I've
Speaker 2: done before, Daddy daycare, etc. You know, Wizards of Waverley
Speaker 2: Place and my other credits check out IMDb for the
Speaker 2: full list of credits, and then you can see children
Speaker 2: not children anyhow. Point being, it has everything to do
Speaker 2: with the parents when they're on set, because so many
Speaker 2: of these parents are so overbearing and they're living their
Speaker 2: life through their children that their children grow up to
Speaker 2: be drug addicts and assholes. And I'm not exaggerating, and.
Speaker 1: It's said, well, we know that, but Jeff his parents
Speaker 1: were professional figure skaters. Yes, so they know about being
Speaker 1: in the public eye, and you know when they came
Speaker 1: from the Soviet Union.
Speaker 2: But his mother, who was with him was such a
Speaker 2: wonderful woman. I remember during daddy daycare, it was the
Speaker 2: grandma and the mother who came El Fanning, the Fanning family,
Speaker 2: and those girls have grown up to be remarkable women.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, basically, I'm saying, don't let your kids
Speaker 2: in show business if it's about you now. But a
Speaker 2: narcissist is not going to know that. Let's keep going.
Speaker 1: Well anyway, it broke my heart to see him because
Speaker 1: he died way too young, and he was so talented.
Speaker 3: It was a horrible way that he died, and talented.
Speaker 2: And sweet that's a double bonus. You know, he hangs
Speaker 2: with Larry in this. Oh he doesn't give in. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: he does not give in, which is remarkable.
Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead, and he shows Larry a card trick
Speaker 1: and it's actually a very good cart trick and Lars
Speaker 1: has had you do that. No, no, magicians don't tell
Speaker 1: people how they do their tricks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you're not really a magician. Oh yeah, I am. Well,
Speaker 2: because you do one trick that a magician to a trick?
Speaker 6: You were you a magician before you knew how to
Speaker 6: do that trick?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 6: Really, well who taught you how to do the trick?
Speaker 2: A magician? Okay, so you weren't a magician.
Speaker 6: A magician taught you how to do the trick, right, Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2: So I'm not a magician.
Speaker 6: Now you're a magician, So you teach me how to
Speaker 6: do it?
Speaker 1: I can't just because he said I am a magician,
Speaker 1: I can't teach you. He's like a magicians don't tell
Speaker 1: And he's like, you know, if a magician taught you,
Speaker 1: Larry says, a magician taught you, so you could teach me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you're not a magician. I love that whole run
Speaker 1: with him.
Speaker 3: A magician.
Speaker 2: By the way, the great line is why did the
Speaker 2: magician tell you because I'm a magician? No, no, no,
Speaker 2: because he knew I was a magician.
Speaker 1: Right, which is just And the magician can tell I'm
Speaker 1: a magician and you're not.
Speaker 3: He says, yeah, yeah, So I just love that. And
Speaker 3: what Larry leaves.
Speaker 1: Cheryl says to Stuart, her cousin Stewart Anton, you guys
Speaker 1: are a lot alike.
Speaker 3: And he says, yeah, except he's not a magician. I mean,
Speaker 3: he was just spot on this kid. Everything.
Speaker 4: He said.
Speaker 2: Right, we'll be.
Speaker 3: Right back, stay tuned.
Speaker 7: Okay, we're back.
Speaker 1: And then you and Larry are going into Mel's office
Speaker 1: and Larry asks you if you're going to the Halloween
Speaker 1: party and if you're wearing a costume, and you say,
Speaker 1: of course, and he's not gonna wear a costume, but
Speaker 1: of course you're going to wear a costume. And then
Speaker 1: before you go into the office, Larry tells Jeff that
Speaker 1: last night he was, you know, in the bathroom taking
Speaker 1: care of a few things. J Jen, Larry, that's what
Speaker 1: I meant, Jeff tills Larry and Jenna, what is it?
Speaker 3: Jenna Jamison?
Speaker 2: Jenn. At that time, she was the number one porn.
Speaker 1: Star, shorn star. She was in your head? She pops out,
Speaker 1: and guess who popped in?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Cheryl, Cheryl, what do you mean?
Speaker 2: He's yeah, she was there. I couldn't believe it, you know,
Speaker 2: I just boom, she was there. You can't control it.
Speaker 2: Pops in? She pops in, She pops in? Well, why
Speaker 2: did you pop her out? I tried popping around. She
Speaker 2: wouldn't pop out. Was she insisted on staying? Not exactly.
Speaker 2: I want to be here with you, Jeff. I couldn't
Speaker 2: pop around. I'm out of control that. Besides, my bench
Speaker 2: is kind of thin. I don't really have a lot
Speaker 2: going on there. Oh your bench? Just what was she
Speaker 2: on your team? Now my team? She popped in?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 2: He using my wife for I tell you, be flattered. Flattered.
Speaker 2: I'm fucking nauseous.
Speaker 1: Larry is not happy about this, and I don't blame him.
Speaker 2: No. I teased this in an earlier episode where we
Speaker 2: were seeing the house that Larry used to shoot we
Speaker 2: used to shoot in. We filmed this scene before I know.
Speaker 2: It was really funny and I got right to the point,
Speaker 2: but too harsh. Larry said, we have to go into
Speaker 2: this more conversational Hu and softer for this kind of scene.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 2: When he told me that, I was like, oh man,
Speaker 2: that that scene was so funny. And then we redid it,
Speaker 2: and he always goes you see, you know, and I
Speaker 2: course I see, so this one it's more of a
Speaker 2: conversation and I'm more of an innocent like I didn't know.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: Well, also you thought he'd be flattered. Yes, what you say,
Speaker 3: which is hilarious.
Speaker 2: Nuts, that's the least. Oh that was beautiful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and let Larry says, I'm nauseous, and You're like,
Speaker 1: it didn't really happen. It'll never I'll never intentionally use
Speaker 1: her again. But you are right, you can't control who
Speaker 1: pops in.
Speaker 2: Uh well, yes we see that later on.
Speaker 1: You know, yes we too, And Larry's like, next time
Speaker 1: she pops in, pick up your pants and get out
Speaker 1: of the room. So they walk into Mal's office. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking about it. How I would feel if
Speaker 1: somebody told me I popped into there. I guess it
Speaker 1: would depend on who it was. How would you feel, moaned?
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, don't people are using us all the
Speaker 5: time with whether they tell us or don't tell us, right, Yeah,
Speaker 5: but how do you feel about right, So at.
Speaker 2: Any point, I just can't picture someone using me.
Speaker 3: Someone is someone is Well, by the way, I used
Speaker 3: to do a joke.
Speaker 2: It never worked, but I thought it was really funny.
Speaker 2: No matter what, somewhere someone is masturbating to that show,
Speaker 2: seeing the news, doesn't.
Speaker 3: Matter what ever, it is somewhere in the world. Yes,
Speaker 3: so correct.
Speaker 2: Under that, guys. Yeah, I guess I popped in a feture.
Speaker 1: You know, I used to have a website which I
Speaker 1: don't even have, but on my website was a contact thing.
Speaker 1: This is many many years ago, and I had to
Speaker 1: take it down because it was all these men sending
Speaker 1: me all these s and m things.
Speaker 2: Which is funny for this episode exactly.
Speaker 1: But they would send me things like baking me to screaming.
Speaker 1: You know, who knows who's turned on by what, but
Speaker 1: they would send me these things baking me.
Speaker 5: We also never know anything we're about to say or
Speaker 5: think or do. We are always surprising ourselves an never
Speaker 5: know anything about anything. Forget the jerking off part.
Speaker 3: The jerking off is just the extra special cherry on
Speaker 3: the cave.
Speaker 2: Well, by the way, I want to say, if you
Speaker 2: know the other person and there's a seduction and an
Speaker 2: attraction when you tell the other person that much more
Speaker 2: so women telling men that you thought of them. That
Speaker 2: I know. For if someone came up to me and
Speaker 2: I was attracted to them, and they told me that
Speaker 2: they thought of me, I would have been like, oh,
Speaker 2: how about wow?
Speaker 3: Yeah, an attractive woman, you would have been flattered.
Speaker 2: No, No, any woman I'd be flattered, would it to
Speaker 2: be attractive? I'm not a blind man.
Speaker 1: I was not flattered that men wanted me to scream,
Speaker 1: yell and spank.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about people, you know. Yeah, that's online crap.
Speaker 2: Someone's sitting in their basement wanting us and m with you,
Speaker 2: and their mom's upstairs making eggs salad.
Speaker 5: But if it is someone you know, then the next
Speaker 5: time you gather with them, then it is a little
Speaker 5: bit a little ick.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, no ick, if you feel ick, I imagine
Speaker 2: that there's someone that you really dig and they say,
Speaker 2: you know, in a non creepy way.
Speaker 1: Just I was just gonna say that, Jeff, it can
Speaker 1: feel creepy.
Speaker 2: It's all how you approach it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: If you were a victim to the pop in and
Speaker 5: you're you were victimized by your own subconscious and.
Speaker 2: That's all it different. But I would never my character
Speaker 2: would never tell Cheryl.
Speaker 1: Just saying, but I have no interest in real life
Speaker 1: in knowing anything about who or what.
Speaker 3: My husband fantasizes about. I don't want to know.
Speaker 2: Well, by the way, my girlfriend thinks I don't because
Speaker 2: she doesn't like it me thinking about anyone but her.
Speaker 2: By the way, yes, but now she won't anymore because
Speaker 2: I've said it.
Speaker 3: All right, well whatever, it's a fantasy.
Speaker 4: That's what text scrolling is.
Speaker 2: For text rolling.
Speaker 4: Text scrolling when.
Speaker 1: You love someone's phone, that's a bad idea.
Speaker 2: I don't want to want to talk.
Speaker 1: Anytime you look at you look at your partner's emails
Speaker 1: or phone, you're getting information you should not have.
Speaker 3: And it's a bad.
Speaker 2: Idea, an utter invasion of privacy.
Speaker 5: It shouldn't because if there was trust, then you wouldn't
Speaker 5: need to exactly.
Speaker 2: Yes and no. Because even though I don't do stuff
Speaker 2: like that, sexting or what have you, I would not
Speaker 2: want anyone bringing it.
Speaker 1: No, because it's privately Google in the government.
Speaker 2: Right, Oh yeah, why I don't use Google. I use
Speaker 2: Perplexity because it eliminates there's no tracking, like you look
Speaker 2: up what's the best way to make porridge, just saying,
Speaker 2: but it'll give you all the information and there's the bottom,
Speaker 2: all the sources, so you can see.
Speaker 3: What's really what is perplexity?
Speaker 2: Perplexity. It's an app, and.
Speaker 3: I discuss it after I want to find out people.
Speaker 2: Well, I remember, I just want to go back in time.
Speaker 2: So I'm in New York and uh, a friend of
Speaker 2: mine tells me I need to get somewhere. He goes,
Speaker 2: have you tried Uber? And I was like, Uber? What's that?
Speaker 2: And he goes, don't tell anyone. And I was using
Speaker 2: where it was a new thing, And I remember being
Speaker 2: on stage at Caroline's in New York talking about Uber.
Speaker 2: Nine tenths of the audience had no idea what I
Speaker 2: was talking about. So what I'm basically saying is I'm
Speaker 2: ahead of my time.
Speaker 1: Oh you are an innovator baby, Okay.
Speaker 2: But Perplexity. I recommend it, and I don't think it'll
Speaker 2: affect my usage. If people use it.
Speaker 1: I hope that we have enough listeners that it makes
Speaker 1: a difference.
Speaker 2: No, I don't want it to make a difference. I
Speaker 2: want them to enjoy it, but if it scruise me,
Speaker 2: I don't want it to make a difference.
Speaker 1: So you and Larry walk into Mel's office and Joanne
Speaker 1: played by Rachel Harris, is they're not happy to see
Speaker 1: you if she doesn't like you.
Speaker 2: But all done, I've always avoided her. I go sit down,
Speaker 2: I say hello, here to see Mel. At this episode,
Speaker 2: Larry thought it'd be good if I got the shit
Speaker 2: to establish that it's not.
Speaker 3: Just him, right, So you go into By the.
Speaker 2: Way, I go on a lot of tangent on the.
Speaker 1: Show, and I ignore them, and by the way.
Speaker 2: She ignores them. And sometimes we fight because she ignores
Speaker 2: them because sometimes I actually think they're interesting. The last
Speaker 2: one who knows.
Speaker 1: So you go into the room and there's Mel and
Speaker 1: Norm and Rudy and Mel ask Any complaints that Larry
Speaker 1: says he's not happy with the toilet paper in the
Speaker 1: rehearsal law, which.
Speaker 2: By the way, brilliant. I went to someone's house one time,
Speaker 2: and I do this. I used to bring pop tarts
Speaker 2: and toilet paper to a party like here, I've brought
Speaker 2: something people are always really happy about that pop tarts
Speaker 2: are delicious. Who doesn't need toilet paper? I did it
Speaker 2: as a joke the last time I did it, and
Speaker 2: I didn't check the toilet paper. I bring it and
Speaker 2: a relative of this person looks at me and goes,
Speaker 2: it's single ply, and it was being dead serious, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, what, I don't like single.
Speaker 3: Pl but I do.
Speaker 2: Do you read I.
Speaker 3: Prefer Scott tissue single ply.
Speaker 2: I've never met you want to prefer single There.
Speaker 1: You go to save the planet or you like the texture.
Speaker 1: Now I just I'm used to it. It's one of
Speaker 1: those things. That's what I'm used to, is what I
Speaker 1: grew up with. That's what I'm used to.
Speaker 2: By the way, I buy recycled toilet paper, which is
Speaker 2: just as soft, but it might be two or three
Speaker 2: I know it's at least two ply, if not three ply.
Speaker 2: And so I'm upset with you keep.
Speaker 1: Going Okay, So apparently he was Ben's books Fuck, Bad
Speaker 1: and Beautiful, So you shit a lot. In Florida, Mel
Speaker 1: tells Larry that Ben gave him an ultimatum and said
Speaker 1: either Larry or me, and Mel picked Larry and Ben
Speaker 1: is out.
Speaker 3: Ben Stiller is out of the producers.
Speaker 1: Mel picked Larry and Norman Rudy do a tag team
Speaker 1: on Larry on this You couldn't sit in the front
Speaker 1: of the car, you didn't bring a gift to the party.
Speaker 1: They go on that you didn't shake hands, you wouldn't
Speaker 1: sing the birthday songs.
Speaker 2: It's really funny that Ben would tell them this is.
Speaker 1: The right little detailed the skewer. Well, the skewer was
Speaker 1: major because of his eye. And Larry says, you know what,
Speaker 1: it was a blessing in disguise. And Mel says, how
Speaker 1: about David Schwimmer? Okay, maybe, uh huh, And then you
Speaker 1: guys leave and Norm says to him, you're making a
Speaker 1: terrible mistake.
Speaker 3: He's mentally challenged that.
Speaker 1: Maybe with yeahous, Mel says, there's something about this middle
Speaker 1: aged ball guy that is thrilling.
Speaker 2: Well, by the way, Mel's undying belief in Larry David
Speaker 2: for this role.
Speaker 3: Well we find out why.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because he's great. Yeah, but also a piece of
Speaker 2: trivia that I'll give now because I don't know that
Speaker 2: I'll remember it. Larry was so good that he was
Speaker 2: offered to really do it. Yes, that's how good Larry was. Yes,
Speaker 2: in portraying it, because he's perfect to be Max bi
Speaker 2: Alstock And no, he was actually offered and you know,
Speaker 2: I guess he didn't want to do it. I know
Speaker 2: he didn't want to him, not because it wasn't good.
Speaker 2: I think he was just the thought of it was overwhelming.
Speaker 1: Well, also to do for he did a straight play
Speaker 1: eight shows a week, and that was brutal. To do
Speaker 1: a musical eight shows a week, Oh my god, that
Speaker 1: is exhausting.
Speaker 2: Do you know they put out feelers for me for hairspreads?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah?
Speaker 2: And not only did I not want to do I
Speaker 2: love the show, but not only did I not want
Speaker 2: to do it. Part of it you had to shave
Speaker 2: your eyebrows, and I'm sorry, I'll shave my head for
Speaker 2: a part. No eyebrows. Sorry, eyebrows have to.
Speaker 3: Stay, all right, Well, you have your standards, Jeff.
Speaker 2: But the idea of me walking on the street during
Speaker 2: the day without eyebrows or penciling them in, no, thank you.
Speaker 3: That was missus Burkerwitz, my kindergarten teacher. I remember that
Speaker 3: about her.
Speaker 1: Her eyebrows were gone and it was thick brown pencil
Speaker 1: and it struck I remember, five years old.
Speaker 2: It's a clown. Look, yeah, it's very scary.
Speaker 3: So now Larry takes the car.
Speaker 1: He sees guys in the street holding up signs for
Speaker 1: a car wash, Cheryl that has him to wash the car.
Speaker 1: Ten and these guys are clearly mentally challenged. What are
Speaker 1: you supposed to say mentally challenged? Mentally is that the
Speaker 1: at least I believe so it changes all the time,
Speaker 1: changes all the time.
Speaker 2: What we did hear that was a mistake? Was we
Speaker 2: cast to people who are not mentally challenged?
Speaker 1: Yes, Judah Friedlander And why do you think it was
Speaker 1: a mistake, Jess.
Speaker 2: Because that's not right. You don't want someone now, Look,
Speaker 2: I'm not saying the elephant man or my left foot.
Speaker 3: You have to hire somebody or else or Dustin Hoffman
Speaker 3: and Rainman.
Speaker 2: Dustin Hoffman and Rainman. That's a different kind of thing
Speaker 2: for this. It should have been all mentally challenged people.
Speaker 1: Well, you know what, I think it worked well, Yes
Speaker 1: it worked.
Speaker 2: But I'm saying, and it's not that you can't do
Speaker 2: this today. I just think and we're usually good, Like
Speaker 2: I mentioned two people who were in wheelchairs, we you know,
Speaker 2: had people who were really in wheelchairs. And by the way,
Speaker 2: when you see the scene encanters later, the people who
Speaker 2: are actually mentally challenged do a great job with dialogue.
Speaker 2: So I'm just saying that it's improvised, so I forgot
Speaker 2: the reasoning why we did it.
Speaker 1: But we'll be right back. Stay tuned, and we're back.
Speaker 1: So the car wash is a complete fiasco.
Speaker 3: We see it. It's just a nightmare.
Speaker 1: And it's all finished, and Larry's driving and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden he runs out of gas and he calls, Shaul.
Speaker 3: You let me you lift the car. No guess of
Speaker 3: the car. And then my sunblock is missing. My sunblock
Speaker 3: is missing, and I have to pee. He has to
Speaker 3: pee really bad, so he goes. He goes to a tree,
Speaker 3: but then a woman walks out the door, so he stops.
Speaker 1: And then he's knocking on door after door and people
Speaker 1: are shutting the doors in his face and just saying
Speaker 1: no and no, and it's about five or six of
Speaker 1: them and finally, but go ahead, es sorry.
Speaker 2: Look, I know we're getting the moon right now. But
Speaker 2: I want to say something. This is something I fought
Speaker 2: against because when you have to pee bad, you can't
Speaker 2: go to a half dozen houses. You got a one
Speaker 2: or two and then you're taking your chance in some
Speaker 2: bush somewhere. That to me, I know that's not what
Speaker 2: Larry would do. I mean he would It's a tough thing.
Speaker 2: But I always wanted to get to Moon quicker because
Speaker 2: I hate unrealistic shit, even for the purpose of comedy.
Speaker 2: If it's that blatantly unrealistic, And what would have been
Speaker 2: bad about h having to pee going to one or
Speaker 2: two houses and the people's reactions were not that funny,
Speaker 2: and then going to one or two houses and then
Speaker 2: be it Moon's and all right, let's get to Moon.
Speaker 1: I disagree because I think it heightened it and it
Speaker 1: didn't bother me at all.
Speaker 3: But then he comes knocks on a door.
Speaker 2: Well, by the way, disagree to disagree?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Then he knocks on a door and a woman
Speaker 1: answers in a burka with the most rgeous hazel eyes
Speaker 1: I've ever seen, which are really pronounced because that's all
Speaker 1: you see.
Speaker 3: Oh my God, may help you.
Speaker 6: My Cob is out of gas and I'm just desperate
Speaker 6: to as a bathroom.
Speaker 7: Come in, Please come in, be my invited guest.
Speaker 5: Come in.
Speaker 1: You're kidding, please come in, Please do come in.
Speaker 3: Oh my God, and she's uh, come in, come in.
Speaker 1: That that accent was so beautiful, Boone, Did you base
Speaker 1: it on anything, No, it just.
Speaker 3: Just popped out.
Speaker 4: Being in That just made it up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And did the sweetness come for you? Did we
Speaker 2: tell you to be sweet or did you Did that
Speaker 2: just come out of your character? Was that an adjustment
Speaker 2: or no?
Speaker 5: I think he was asking me to be friendly. And
Speaker 5: by the way, do you talk about the importance of
Speaker 5: just a philosophy of yes? And is the possibly the
Speaker 5: most important thing we should all adopt?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and improv Yes, and it is.
Speaker 2: You really did it, and which made him so happy.
Speaker 2: But it was also such a beautiful surprise, and you know,
Speaker 2: I believed it completely. See that I believe that she
Speaker 2: would invite him in that she's she was trusting. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was just so it was actually joyful and fun to.
Speaker 3: Watch and so delighted to have him.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then he needs gasoline that my wife left it empty,
Speaker 1: and then I love that. But oh, you were married.
Speaker 1: That's a disappointment. You know, I thought I had finally
Speaker 1: met someone. You thought he was your soulmate that just
Speaker 1: knocked on the door. It was so sweet, But the way.
Speaker 2: She said, oh you're married, that is such a disappointment. Yeah,
Speaker 2: was just so blatant and beautiful at the same time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a there was a sweetness to you
Speaker 1: that was just very infectious.
Speaker 2: That was the thing that I picked up watching this
Speaker 2: was her character's kindness and sweetness because and agreeability. Just
Speaker 2: the whole thing was pretty great. And by the way,
Speaker 2: may I also say for our listeners, yes, I'm get
Speaker 2: excited with Moon. It's not because she's here. If she
Speaker 2: wasn't here, I'd be just as excited. I don't stick
Speaker 2: my head up anybody's ass. It wouldn't fit number one
Speaker 2: and number two. I like being honest. I just said
Speaker 2: I didn't like the knocking on the doors. So what
Speaker 2: I want to say is Moon was that great.
Speaker 1: She was terrific, Okay, And Larry says, he, well, we're
Speaker 1: very superficial people. We like to know what women look like.
Speaker 1: So it's going to be tough for you to meet somebody.
Speaker 1: And then and then he gets an idea. They see
Speaker 1: the light bulb go on us and he says, I
Speaker 1: think I got a guy for you. And it's a
Speaker 1: literal blind gait as you say yeah.
Speaker 3: And next oh, you go to Cantor's.
Speaker 2: She's driving him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're driving to get gasoline. And then you're he
Speaker 3: says you want deli.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he says, you want to go to lunch, and
Speaker 2: she says, yes, that'll be lovely. Do you like Deli? Sure?
Speaker 2: I love Deli? Exploring, heighten, exploring, heighten. Look what you're doing?
Speaker 3: Car wash?
Speaker 1: Guys are there at a table eating and he says,
Speaker 1: how did you do today?
Speaker 3: And the shm if they seed his sun block?
Speaker 2: Hello? Wow? Remember me? Yeah, the guy with the really
Speaker 2: clean car? Yeah? Yeah, blue car.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: You guys did quite a good job on that car.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. No, how'd you do today?
Speaker 4: Good?
Speaker 1: Very good?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we did good today. You didn't. How much money
Speaker 2: did you make?
Speaker 4: We made one hundred dollars?
Speaker 2: We had ten cars? Wow? Pretty good? Congratulations? Good, good good.
Speaker 3: Hey, guys, let me ask you a question.
Speaker 2: Did you happen to see.
Speaker 6: Any sunblock on the passenger seat in my car?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I never saw any sunblock at all?
Speaker 2: Is that right? Don't you get a feeling by the
Speaker 2: way in the way that they replied that they kept
Speaker 2: the money?
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know. What do you mean they kept
Speaker 1: the money?
Speaker 2: In other words, when he asked them, the look on
Speaker 2: their faces was very mischievous, like they were keeping a secret.
Speaker 3: Well, because it was about the sun block. The secret
Speaker 3: was about no.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, I'm saying when he said how
Speaker 2: did you do today? And the last guy says one
Speaker 2: hundred dollars. But they were playing it with smirks on
Speaker 2: their face and they were trying to hold in laughter,
Speaker 2: which Larry didn't notice. And obviously you didn't notice.
Speaker 1: Keep going, well I did. I thought it was about
Speaker 1: the sun block. No, because we know nothing about the
Speaker 1: sun block.
Speaker 2: They did that after that.
Speaker 3: And well, then I didn't notice that.
Speaker 1: And then Larry and Haboo sit with them, and Larry says,
Speaker 1: weren't there four of you? And then Judah Friedlander shows
Speaker 1: up with the sun block all over.
Speaker 2: Oh, hold on, hold on, hold on. At first they
Speaker 2: say it was just the three of them, and then
Speaker 2: they say, yeah, there was a four.
Speaker 3: Well they were lying, yeah, yes, no, no, I.
Speaker 2: Know that, but there was a build up to Judah
Speaker 2: showing up with it all over his face. I've known
Speaker 2: Judah for years. We performed together many many times. I
Speaker 2: was so happy that he did show i'lbeit against what
Speaker 2: I thought was right.
Speaker 1: And then they said relied and they laugh, left, laugh
Speaker 1: and giggle.
Speaker 3: It's just a delightful scene.
Speaker 1: And then Larry is they're passing food and he drops
Speaker 1: food on Habous's burka, and Larry says, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: get this cleaned. And then Larry tells a joke. They're
Speaker 1: all laughing, and while this is all everybody's hysterical. She
Speaker 1: no no, no, no, no no no, but he insists
Speaker 1: on it. It's we see the whole interaction.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 2: But also what was great about this and thoughtful was
Speaker 2: he didn't touch her douse. That would have been terrible, right.
Speaker 1: Right, keep going, They're all laughing, yucking it up, yucking up,
Speaker 1: and Norman Rudy walk in and see all this.
Speaker 2: It's quite the visual. If I'm sitting at a table nearby,
Speaker 2: I'm inherently curious on that one, like what's going on there?
Speaker 3: How was doing that scene?
Speaker 4: Moon? Uh? Yeah, I mean I just first of all,
Speaker 4: I just mostly remember Larry Humming. He was like a
Speaker 4: weird radio station in between the takes.
Speaker 3: So yeah that he whistles, whistles.
Speaker 2: Later years he would sing. He went from homing to singing.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, well, and then just you know, you,
Speaker 5: as a professional, you just try to stay in character
Speaker 5: and just see how the character feel about the circumstance.
Speaker 5: And then and if you're you know, I would imagine
Speaker 5: that if that's normal to you, then you're just used
Speaker 5: to the weird thing.
Speaker 1: It must have been fun to play, really fun, Yeah,
Speaker 1: really fun. I could see that. I could see you
Speaker 1: having a good time in your eyes. This is the
Speaker 1: only place I saw it.
Speaker 5: Right, It's freedom. My dream jobs are where you don't
Speaker 5: have to wear makeup.
Speaker 1: So oh yeah, well you don't have to wear makeup
Speaker 1: or memorized lines exactly by the way.
Speaker 2: I would go with Sam's costume if it wasn't most
Speaker 2: of the time of suit, although I do wear suits. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I did a Steven Soderberg movie called Full Frontal, and
Speaker 2: you wore your own clothes and did your own makeup,
Speaker 2: no kidding, And that I loved that was like, you know,
Speaker 2: how to thank him for that? Was? That was to me.
Speaker 3: The wardrobe, I don't care well, I love my wardrobe.
Speaker 3: I mean on curb.
Speaker 2: Gardrobe is another story. Yeah, that's actually a story on
Speaker 2: its own.
Speaker 3: But the not having to learn lines to me is
Speaker 3: the highlight.
Speaker 2: Relaxing, so delightful, I mean, holy Molly. And then by
Speaker 2: the way, Moon's character, who wouldn't love a friend like that?
Speaker 2: Who just she's so lovely no, no, but game game
Speaker 2: to do anything. Yes, let's go to a pottery shop,
Speaker 2: let's go make Dradle's, let's go buy as many raisins
Speaker 2: as we can. These are things I might like to do.
Speaker 3: It's surprising she doesn't have a guy. She's such a
Speaker 3: great gal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Next we're at Michael's and Larry is telling him about
Speaker 1: haboos and Michael is like, you've leveled the playing field.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great line.
Speaker 3: Level the playing No one knows what she looks like.
Speaker 1: Everyone is blind now, Larry says, and lack but says,
Speaker 1: I do have to go with you to chaperone, which,
Speaker 1: of course, because she's Muslim and very strict and has.
Speaker 3: To be done.
Speaker 1: So next we are back at Larry's house and Stewart
Speaker 1: is doing card tricks in his bedroom in his Superman costume.
Speaker 1: It's Halloween and Larry's trying to guess the trick and
Speaker 1: he demands to know, and Stuart.
Speaker 3: Is just like, you know what I mean, a magician.
Speaker 1: He's just so matter of fact and non plus you
Speaker 1: know you're not a magician, Harry.
Speaker 2: But what's beautiful about this? With the trick and everything?
Speaker 2: Larry's getting furious at this kid.
Speaker 3: Really, Trick is not a magician, he says to him.
Speaker 1: He tells him, when you come back with the Halloween candy,
Speaker 1: I'm taking half of it.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's like a real you know, nasty.
Speaker 2: By the way, Anton at no point laughed. Larry's hilarious
Speaker 2: and even at that age, so focused.
Speaker 3: So see that he was probably about twelve or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember, by the way, sitting with
Speaker 2: he and his mom at our wrap party. They were
Speaker 2: just delightful, I mean really yeah.
Speaker 1: And then from the background, Cheryl calls Larry. And then
Speaker 1: Cheryl is in her costume. She's in a dream of
Speaker 1: Genie costume, looking very fetching and hot.
Speaker 7: Look at this happy Halloween.
Speaker 1: What do you think?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, huh isn't she like correct?
Speaker 4: That's great?
Speaker 6: Oh look at Andy Divine over here?
Speaker 1: Use I am sure now you look hot?
Speaker 3: Thank you, Susie.
Speaker 1: What are you wearing?
Speaker 2: What is this?
Speaker 1: No outfit?
Speaker 2: No costume? She could wear a burlapped bag and looked
Speaker 2: fetching and.
Speaker 3: Hot and hot. And then Jeff and I walk in.
Speaker 1: Jeff is dressed in a cowboy Andy Devine look, and
Speaker 1: I am in full Dominatrix garb And I'll tell you
Speaker 1: something funny about that day that I recall.
Speaker 3: And I was wearing these spike heels and I couldn't walk.
Speaker 1: I had to basically be carried and placed down because
Speaker 1: they were like these.
Speaker 3: Thigh high patent leather boots and spike heels.
Speaker 2: I don't remember you if you remember when I saw you,
Speaker 2: I couldn't function.
Speaker 5: I was.
Speaker 3: It was quite the outfit.
Speaker 1: But what I remember most about that is the crew
Speaker 1: guys were so solicitous to me when I was in
Speaker 1: that outfit. It was like they could completely change. They
Speaker 1: were like, Susie, can I get you anything? And I
Speaker 1: was like one of them. You know, I've been working
Speaker 1: with them all these years. I was like one of them.
Speaker 1: They were like my brothers. And all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: I'm in this black patent leather with a whip.
Speaker 3: I had a whim and by the.
Speaker 2: Way, what else did you have? Domin ponytail?
Speaker 1: I had a ponytail Dominatrix outfit and they were all like, Susie,
Speaker 1: do you need anything? But they was like how men
Speaker 1: are so visually oriented and completely change on a dime
Speaker 1: by a visual It's amazing.
Speaker 2: Audio wise change on the dime. All we need to
Speaker 2: hear is someone who might be having sex, someone who's
Speaker 2: they're going, oh, you know even that, like, are they
Speaker 2: having sex? No, it's both men. Just react.
Speaker 3: It's ridiculous. I'm telling you.
Speaker 1: It was so noticeable that I'm in a dominatrix outfit
Speaker 1: and all these guys that I saw every day are
Speaker 1: my ass Oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I never knew this. And by the way, may
Speaker 2: I knowing that crew, I'm actually.
Speaker 3: Surprised, I recall. I recalled that. It was like, wow,
Speaker 3: look at this.
Speaker 7: We'll be right back, stay tuned, Okay.
Speaker 5: We're back.
Speaker 1: And then Jeff kind of very surreptitiously looks at Cheryl's boobs,
Speaker 1: you know, because she's wearing something very low cut.
Speaker 3: And then right away Larry notices it and he's like,
Speaker 3: all right, that's it, you're changing.
Speaker 1: And he brings out how Boos's burka, which he had,
Speaker 1: and it's in the dry cleaning thing, you know, with
Speaker 1: the plastic and just back for the drive cleaners.
Speaker 3: You're going as an Islamic fundamentalist.
Speaker 1: Then four of us are in the car, and the
Speaker 1: fact that it's not realistic to me that Cheryl actually
Speaker 1: listened to him.
Speaker 3: But whatever it was for a purpose.
Speaker 1: The four of us are in the car, Larry and
Speaker 1: Cheryl in the back, and these kids. What did he say, hey,
Speaker 1: oh sama or something like this obnoxious kid throws an
Speaker 1: egg at Cheryl in the burkup, which she ducks and
Speaker 1: it goes into Larry's face.
Speaker 2: Now I want to give a little background on that. Okay,
Speaker 2: that night, Larry was really sick. I mean we shot
Speaker 2: that at like six o'clock in the morning. If I
Speaker 2: read run yes car at Sam Vicente, I remember Jay.
Speaker 2: But hold on, though, Larry's up all night and he's
Speaker 2: sick as a dog. I mean, he's really sick. He
Speaker 2: usually contains that no one knows. We knew he was sick.
Speaker 2: He was a cold sweat the whole thing. And the
Speaker 2: egg thing didn't work. It missed, it hit the wrong place.
Speaker 2: You had to have done and I'm not exaggerating, probably
Speaker 2: eight nine times getting the egg thrown at his face
Speaker 2: and almost well, and you always had to get one safety.
Speaker 2: So once it hit, we had to keep trying for
Speaker 2: it to hit. And it wasn't the kid throwing it,
Speaker 2: that was just there was no car on the other side. Obviously,
Speaker 2: but I forgot who was maybe door, I don't know
Speaker 2: who was tossing it into his face from a very
Speaker 2: short distance, one after another, and Larry feeling the way
Speaker 2: he did. Wow.
Speaker 1: And also, even if you're feeling well, who wants raw
Speaker 1: egg on their face?
Speaker 3: It's a salmonila nightmare? Who wants that on you?
Speaker 2: Well? By the way, don't forget Rocky put a raw
Speaker 2: egg in his drink and he didn't pretty good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not from the raw egg people.
Speaker 2: By the way, can I tell you I would have
Speaker 2: bet everything I own that you're not part of the
Speaker 2: raw egg people?
Speaker 1: Now, not me, my paranoid self. Okay, So the kid
Speaker 1: throws the egg on Larry. Next we cut to Michael
Speaker 1: and Larry Or at Haboose's front door. The blind date
Speaker 1: is happening and it's raining, and Larry has an umbrella
Speaker 1: and Haboos answers the door. Her abuliant is that the
Speaker 1: word abuliant? And oh you're beautiful to Michael and date
Speaker 1: with two handsome men, and she's so excited and what
Speaker 1: shall we do?
Speaker 3: Shall we take a walk?
Speaker 1: And you know, she's thinking of things to do, and
Speaker 1: Larry says, well, you could walk because I have an umbrella,
Speaker 1: and he goes to open the umbrella and he pulls
Speaker 1: off her burka somehow at the point of the umbrella,
Speaker 1: and you see Larry's face.
Speaker 3: He's just disgusted, but she's.
Speaker 2: Also horrified at the exact same time.
Speaker 3: Of course, she's hard to great and this really bothered me.
Speaker 2: What would he mean?
Speaker 1: It really bothered me that they were so judgmental of
Speaker 1: her looks.
Speaker 2: But if I may, that wasn't necessary.
Speaker 3: What wasn't necessary?
Speaker 2: Well, the blind man obviously can't be but Larry being
Speaker 2: so judgmental, although maybe that was showing that even Larry
Speaker 2: is shallow in that situation.
Speaker 1: But Moon with the table, what the fuck of these
Speaker 1: two guys to be so goddamn judge meant all like
Speaker 1: it's Brad Pitt and Paul Newman standing.
Speaker 2: Well, by the way, that's the joke. But Moon in
Speaker 2: that moment, because I was standing behind Moon watching and
Speaker 2: I was standing behind Larry when we did both sides.
Speaker 2: But the noises that she makee when she was upset
Speaker 2: were hilarious.
Speaker 3: How did you feel about that?
Speaker 2: Moon?
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, if you're playing somebody who's ugly
Speaker 4: and wants to be accepted as they are, and it's
Speaker 4: you know, it's I think that's always an interesting circumstance.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, beauty.
Speaker 5: Really is in the eye beholder, and it's just a
Speaker 5: funny setup that, you know, like you said, I if
Speaker 5: somebody's blind, why does it matter, But that.
Speaker 2: He's sent the umbrella hit you on one or two takes.
Speaker 2: I remember that because.
Speaker 1: It's very it's almost as though Larry's reaction was almost
Speaker 1: as though you were deformed or something. Yeah, that's how
Speaker 1: I took it, you know what I mean, Like it
Speaker 1: was so extreme that you were just figured and he was,
Speaker 1: you know, shocked and appalled by that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And that's how I took it too,
Speaker 5: that I was undtable, undatable even for a blind man.
Speaker 1: All right, Then we're back at Larry's house and Stewart
Speaker 1: is showing Judah Friedlander, who's at Larry's house, the trick,
Speaker 1: and Judah figures out the trick. So this mentally impaired
Speaker 1: person figured out the trick that Larry couldn't figure and
Speaker 1: Judas says, anyone could figure that out.
Speaker 2: Well, by the way, here's another thing for Judas performance.
Speaker 2: And he did look mentally challenged. But part of it
Speaker 2: is is yeah, you know, putting the time and you
Speaker 2: can see his tongue pushing out his bottom lip, and
Speaker 2: it was just, you know, he was in character, that
Speaker 2: was for sure. But yeah, yeah, that was really funny.
Speaker 1: And then then we see Larry in the bathroom. No, no,
Speaker 1: where's Arry Chelsea's I don't know. I think he's in
Speaker 1: the bathroom. We see Larry in the bathroom fantasizing he's
Speaker 1: walking backstage in the theater. Katie Huffman comes out in
Speaker 1: some feathery kind of a thing and calls him into
Speaker 1: her dressing room pink feathers, and you know, you feel
Speaker 1: like the seduction is gonna happen.
Speaker 3: And then all of a sudden, who pops in.
Speaker 2: In your outfit by the way.
Speaker 3: In my dominatrix outfit? Yes, and Lars, where's the other one?
Speaker 3: Where's the other one? I want the other one?
Speaker 1: I was like, you got me, baby, Yeah, you went nuts.
Speaker 2: It was awesome.
Speaker 3: It was so much fun. That was such a fun
Speaker 3: scene to do. I'm just like, it was just so
Speaker 3: much fun. And that was it.
Speaker 1: That was it, And that was the sad story of
Speaker 1: Haboos and Michael that they could have been a lovely couple.
Speaker 3: But you know what, I think he wasn't good enough
Speaker 3: for Haboos.
Speaker 2: Well, of course he wasn't. Michael's a jerk.
Speaker 3: Michael's a superficial asshole.
Speaker 2: Shallow blind man who writes it.
Speaker 5: Is interesting though, because it's true that, you know, which
Speaker 5: is in the beginning of the podcast, that you guys
Speaker 5: got in on the ground floor with the freedom to
Speaker 5: be inappropriate, and then in fact it's it's you know,
Speaker 5: that's what's your what the show is, it'said tension a right.
Speaker 2: Imagine an NBC show where one of the care there's
Speaker 2: criticizes rightly, mind you a blind person the letters. To
Speaker 2: my knowledge, we don't get letters. Do you know? The
Speaker 2: only show that we got some pushback on is when
Speaker 2: Larry peas on the Jesus and the.
Speaker 3: Bed doesn't pee on the Jesus. No, it bounces, splashes.
Speaker 2: Splashes, But we got complaints on that.
Speaker 3: That was the only one that I remember.
Speaker 2: Also, yeah, yeah, but most people love it.
Speaker 4: But looking back in this way, it is interesting too.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: It is like analyzing a dream when you when you
Speaker 5: think about it, because when you improvise a show and
Speaker 5: then you reflect on it as though it was intentional,
Speaker 5: because it's your you're reflecting on the improvised moments, and
Speaker 5: so it's it's it's just an interesting, weird exercise and
Speaker 5: considering now like it makes me think of how composers
Speaker 5: must have played.
Speaker 4: Music before there were recording devices. There's no way to
Speaker 4: capture it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but you're you know, you play the music in
Speaker 5: real time and in a forward linear way, and only
Speaker 5: the audience is like, what was that? And then you
Speaker 5: can't hear it back as the composer or as the audience.
Speaker 4: But we've advanced to be able to look at the stuff, and.
Speaker 1: That's what this whole exercise of doing this podcast has
Speaker 1: been for us.
Speaker 3: Moon We're looking back.
Speaker 4: But also just that there's all these just talking about
Speaker 4: the psychological parts of it, and the surprise is about
Speaker 4: how you arrive at something.
Speaker 2: By the way, originally cast in that role was Bette
Speaker 2: Midler and she quit same day. Then Ben Vereen came in.
Speaker 2: Then it was Susie What.
Speaker 4: Is that true?
Speaker 3: No, what do you mean that's true?
Speaker 2: Ben Vereen? Ben Vero? But what do I know?
Speaker 4: What people like and what they now?
Speaker 3: It was always made from day one? No one else
Speaker 3: was ever cast.
Speaker 4: And why and how did you both get the jobs.
Speaker 4: Did you both audition?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: What for this?
Speaker 3: Neither of us are auditioned. We both knew Larry No,
Speaker 3: I the show.
Speaker 2: Mine's different because I came up with the idea for
Speaker 2: the show, and I approached Larry. And it's always good
Speaker 2: to tell a genius your idea, and the show turned
Speaker 2: into what it did. And by the way, if I
Speaker 2: was left to my own devices, even though they told
Speaker 2: me I could make a show like I got the
Speaker 2: green light on my own failure, failure, failure from the
Speaker 2: get go. I told the genius and now here we.
Speaker 3: Are, and Larry just called me up one day and
Speaker 3: offered me the part.
Speaker 2: Yes, we talked about he'd see that exactly, the roast.
Speaker 3: Of generals for years I knew.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we all knew each other.
Speaker 3: You know, all stand ups back in the old days
Speaker 3: in New York catchurizing stars.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, but that's how we got our Neither
Speaker 2: one of us had to audition. Yeah, and s Cheryl
Speaker 2: had audition, which we discussed last episode of the one
Speaker 2: before JB had to audition. Yeah, Ted didn't have to audition.
Speaker 2: He's Ted dancing well, by the way, just in life,
Speaker 2: whatever he does, you just go oh he's Ted Danson.
Speaker 2: We're going to.
Speaker 1: Discuss it coming up to the next episode. We have
Speaker 1: another guest start. I'll tell you something. Going through these episodes,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of people who died over all
Speaker 1: these years.
Speaker 3: It's it's horrible what.
Speaker 2: You're talking about. I know, Bob Einstein and Anton, hopefully a.
Speaker 3: Bunch of others, a bunch of others.
Speaker 1: But anyway, we're going to get to that next episode.
Speaker 2: Are you doing. The show's about positivity.
Speaker 3: Yes, positive death is not negative?
Speaker 1: Death is reality yet negative, Susie, And everyone lives on
Speaker 1: exactly and everyone's gonna die.
Speaker 2: But let's deal with more pleasant things, Susie.
Speaker 1: Don't We loved having you with us and I I
Speaker 1: once more admired your performer, Twista.
Speaker 3: I think was a tour de force in that.
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, it's an exercise for an
Speaker 1: actress to not use their face. You could only use
Speaker 1: your voice and your eyes. So that was another you
Speaker 1: know trick is so to speak, that was working.
Speaker 2: So what a thing to come up with, because I
Speaker 2: have to say, if I'm playing somebody who asked to
Speaker 2: wear a mask, what voice do I use? How do
Speaker 2: I play this? It's a very difficult like I always say,
Speaker 2: I'm a comedian who acts, so have low expectations. But
Speaker 2: I'm a decent actor. But I'm a comedian who acts,
Speaker 2: and uh, Moon, I would say it is a writer
Speaker 2: performer who acts. Am I correct? That's sure?
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I was surprised by how many people really
Speaker 4: loved the performance.
Speaker 2: And we thank you for coming, and thank you for
Speaker 2: adding positivity and not discussing death.
Speaker 1: It's not I have no problem. I don't find death negative.
Speaker 1: I find it's.
Speaker 2: Negative, but it doesn't need to be brought up. It's
Speaker 2: a Curb your Enthusiasm podcast. Let's not talk about people
Speaker 2: who died.
Speaker 4: Didn't but didn't he doesn't he talk about death in
Speaker 4: a bunch of episodes.
Speaker 2: By the way, that the number of times, and I'm
Speaker 2: not there's no exaggeration. I think three times we have
Speaker 2: filmed in the cemetery in the middle of the night,
Speaker 2: and I always walk around singing thriller.
Speaker 1: I do thank you for coming, Moon and audience. We
Speaker 1: will see you next week, thank.
Speaker 2: You, and I promise you next week there'll be no
Speaker 2: death talk. Bye, Susie. Oh they will be oh you
Speaker 2: don't and who's going to tune in I Love a good.
Speaker 4: People get comfortable with death.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well next week is one of our favorite people
Speaker 1: who is no longer with us, so we'll get to that.
Speaker 1: Oh all right, Bye, by thanks everyone, by thanks moon, bye,
Speaker 1: thank you.
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