Bonanas for Bonanza - Bonanas For Bonanza Episode #72: “Broken Ballad”

Episode Date: November 12, 2025

Subscribe to The Andy Daly Podcast Project at Patreon.com/AndyDaly Actor, writer, comedian and podcaster Paul Rust joins Dalton, Mutt and Markie for Bonanza Season 3, Episode 6, 'Broken Ballad', in which Robert Culp stirs affections and Adam shows off his folk album worthy singing voice.    Featuring Paul Rust, Lily Sullivan & Matt GourleyMerch: redbubble.com/people/ADPodProject/shopMail: PO Box 9407 Glendale, CA 91226Email: [e-mail]’s website: andydaly.comRecord date: 2/24/2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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I'm bananas for bananas All right, I'm going to get started with a Eih-Ha! Oh, man, cracking open a can of schlitz early this morning. Good for you. Wait a minute, it ain't morning, is it? Oh, it's noon. This is late for us.

that guilt-free your schlitz. This is very late for us. We never do at noon. Never. I'm afraid of what happened. Mostly I'm doing shootouts at high noon, much less podcasting. That's true. This is post-meridian, God damn it.

All right. We're talking about season three, episode six of Bonanza. This is Bananas for Bananza. Hey, let me say this. Hello, friend. Come on in. The gate is open wide. Welcome to Baner's from Baner to Baner's.

We're talking about season three, episode six, Broken Ballad. Man, this episode has everything. It's got gunfire. It has a woman. It has one of the cart rides entering into a domestic partnership with another fella. It has a real brokeback mountain field. Yeah, it does. A little bit, a little bit.

We are blessed to be joined by one person and cursed to be joined by the other. You know I don't mean it except 80%. Hello to Paul Rush. Is that it? Yes. Goddam Paul Rust You're being

What's your story You have a podcast You talk about Scary movies Yeah scary movies I do it with this A fellow named Matt Goreley

I don't like the sound of that I keep hearing Stories about him Just fella Don't you know who it is I know I mean I tell lots of stories About this guy

He's always talking about his buddy Matt Gorley Well the show is called With Goreley and Rust And that's our And you're the rust of that And he's the gorley And he's the goarly of that

The goarly. I get it. And it's the two of you? It's the two of us. Yeah, it all makes sense. We've had a guest, we had a guest a couple of times by the name of Andrew Daly. Oh, I know that asshole. He's a dick.

What'd you call him, Andrew Daly? Andrew Daly. I can never get it right, I guess. I call him Dundie Duddly. Dudley Dundley, Dundley, Dudley, Dundley. Dundee. Dandrew. Dandrew.

Also with us is my niece, Markey. Hi. Hello, Marky. Hi. I'm glad that you're here and I'm glad that you watch this episode of Bonanza. Every time I see an episode of Bonanza, I think this is the one

Mark is going to love. This is the one that's going to get her. This one I thought for sure. It's tender. I hated it. What? Every second of it, I feel my life being taken away from me.

But it's tender. Tender. Tender. What do you mean? There's got people that talk to each other kindly at time. I was, well, this one I will say, I was waiting for the guys to kiss. Yeah.

And then there was no kiss. I knew you was going to say that. And it pains me to partially kind of almost agree with you a little bit there. It felt like that was coming. But we're talking about Adam Cartwright. He ain't going to, I mean, these guys are unlucky at love, but they're not going to go that far. They're not going to turn towards one another's. He might sing a little guitar song to his long loss.

It's Adam Cartwright and Eve. Cartwright. Not him and Steve Cartwright. Oh, Steve Cartwright. It's time we had a Steve Cartwright. Steve Cartwright. That implies incest, though, what you say, that's true.

Honestly, it makes the show way more interesting. Let the sibling cook up with each other already. White Lotus, come on. Yeah, come on. Is that what's happening this season on the White Lotus? It seems to be skewing that way. It seems to be not a lot going on in this season. I have only seen the first episode.

And by that, I'm a cowboys. I haven't seen any episodes. Yeah. But my friend, Matt. to see the first episode he told me. I don't watch any damn show that comes out one episode a week anymore. That's bullshit.

Well, you also go to bed at like 5.30 p.m. That's correct, because I'm up in the morning getting with them cows. Getting with them? Yeah, you got to get with them before you milk them. Yeah, I'm sorry. What the hell does that mean? What the hell does that mean?

Yeah, uh, episode of White Lotus at 10 a.m. on me TV every day. Or digital broadcast the TV channel behind the other TV channel. You know how they do that? What? Well, every channel has like sub-channels now. Oh, shit. On digital TV.

Yeah, oh, yeah. So, like, you know, Channel 13 will be showing I Love Lucy, but you go to like 13A or 13. 13. 13.2 or so like that. Yeah. Suddenly it's my mother, the car, you know. Man, that's good stuff. I'm going to have to check out them sub-channels.

But I can't believe you didn't love this one. I really thought we'd get you this time. No, not even close. All right. Literally felt the life draining. from me. Do I look older? I feel older. No, you don't look in it damned older. Tell us, how old are you now? You're still just a high schooler.

I'm 16. 16 years old. You, uh, yeah, you age from a niece to an aunt. Yeah, exactly. That's how that works, right? Yeah. When you get hold as a niece, you officially. I don't think it works that way. Paul, what's your relationship to Bonanza? Do you love it? Uh, I love this, uh, episode. Okay. You don't have to lie. You can be honest. I'm trying to do a point counterpoint here.

You could do with a little more lying yourself. Yeah, that's true. I loved it. I loved being here. Okay, but I like the sound of it. I don't know. I don't know too much. But this was my first full episode of Bonanza,

but I grew up with Bonanza being on in the house by my whole life. But never sat down to watch a full out. Why not? What else would you do it? You're telling me, in the house and bonanzas on the TV and you're not sitting down in front of it watching it with your full attention. No, it's kind of like in the best way possible, the comfort comforting din of like a golf game

going on and you hear the quiet. It's a very good comparison. Yeah. Same exact pace. Yes. And it would be like Sunday mornings and usually it would be showing like church programming and stuff. The one station that was.

showing church stuff. It would usually be like... It'd be bananas. Also, my dad, he really loved... Is he available to be on the show? Phone in. We have a hard time finding people that are familiar with it and appreciate it.

You've given Bonanza some backhanded compliments. No, well, it's a... Comforting den? That's not where they were going for. In a similar way, my dad also smoked cigarettes. And so... Wow, a real cowboy. Yeah, the smell of cigarette smoke meant, hey, dad was around.

It feels comfortable. And hearing Bonanza on the TV, that meant dad was in the house, joined himself watching some Bonanza. So there's comforting sounds. Okay, that sounds real good. You compared it to cigarettes. I like that. Yeah, it kills you.

Slowly. Slowly. Okay. All right. Fun is fun. Yeah. This is the best damn television show that they ever figured out how to get on to the television. How do they do that, by the way? You know what I mean? Beams, right? Some beams are some shit. Can you imagine me on your TV or how do they get it? Your TV is covered in tinfoil. Well, damn right it is. Because I only want certain things in there and certain things out.

with TV, you know, is such a little interesting invention and knowing how the images come on to the screen when I was a kid and they would have, you know, somebody was naked on the screen and they're like cutting it off on the chest above. No, not like blurt out, but like the camera is free. I would put my head up against the screen

and try to look down below. I thought you were to say you messed with the horizontal hold so that it would. It's just scroll up, but you'd look into the TV. How'd that work for you? Yeah, yeah. Did you ever see anything? What's down there?

Are they wearing sneakers? It's plastic. I used to moldy plastic of the TV set was what I found out was down there. Not to beat up on Quibi, but I think that is how Quibi worked, right? Because you can turn the screen and you can see the rest of the naked body. Seamus Bensi, Beverly D. Angela's waistline. Oh, man. I'm sorry that didn't work for you, Paul.

Yeah, I'm sorry. I was just going to go home and try that tonight, too. Finally. Still worth to try that. Well, let's talk about this episode aired October 29th, 1961. Breakfast of Tiffany's was still the number one movie. We talked about that last week.

You weren't here, Mark. Have you seen Breakfast of Tiffany? I've seen Audrey Hepburn picture of her. You've seen a photograph of her? She looks hot. I'm surprised you know who she is. Well, I only know because I like facts. So she's like integral in fashion.

I have no idea she was an actor, though. She's an actor. Wonderful actor. But really, Micahuna steals the show. He really does. Everybody will tell you that. Funny as can be.

He walks away with it. Is that when he's Asian? He's a Chinese man. Not Asian. He's not Asian. He's so heavily. He's more Asian than Asian people. That's true.

That's a good point. So that's why I feel like it's weird that they complain about. him because he's more Asian than Asian people. So it's kind of offensive in a way, you know. How un-Asian they are. Well, just that they're, he's so Asian. Yes. He's so, he goes so hard with the Asian that he's more, more Asian than they are.

So I don't understand it. It just seems like they should. They're jealous. I guess, I guess. That's what it is. Oh, my God. Mickey Rudy said many times, nobody ever complained to him about that performance. People only came up to him and told him how much they loved.

it. So that sounds like he said that because he was defending himself because lots of people were probably saying it was offensive. I think Mickey Rudy has few,

if any, delusions. Absolutely none. Yeah. I hope it's the number one movie for the whole rest of the time that we're talking about. And those memories

of people coming up and telling him that they like his character of breakfast activities, he's seven foot tall. Yes. With a broad chest In his memories, yeah Did you ever see Bill?

Oh, yeah. Boy, I saw that. There was a real phase in my youth where my friend Matt used to really get broken up about people like that. Yeah, I know what you mean. And he cries. Yeah, sure.

Oh, you can't not cry watching Bill. That's Mickey Rooney as a Yeah. Challenged man. That was a big truth. Complicated characterizations in the body of Lurga and Roodie up problematic. This was the era of Bill and when Sean Cassidy and who was it Christy McNickle did who they did like the first mentally challenged couple. Oh, they did.

What was the one with Sean Penn? Oh, I am Sam. Yeah. And then there's the other sister. Yes. There's also Joni, which we've talked about on this program before, which was a TV movie where this gal dives into a lake and gets paralyzed and paints with her. There's a really serious scene in the other sister where Julia Lewis's character wonders

who invented sex anyway and Giovanni Rabisi's character tells her he thinks it was Madonna. Oh my goodness. That was a trailer moment if I remember correctly. Yes, if we saw the trailer. Because no joke, I own that movie. What'd you say?

What'd you say? Cut to Paul watching covered in tears. By the way, speaking of this, this is right on subject. I watched the movie Gile for the first time ever. You ever see Gile? Wait, with Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck? Yeah. One of them streamers said, based on your past watching,

go like this one. Yeah, there's a... And it's covered in tears. Coord in tears. I only got it. Unfortunate Bartha. Yeah, that is. Unfortunate Bartha.

Bartha. The number one country song is still walk-on-bye, by Leroy Van Dach. The number one song is Run Around Sue by Dion on October 29th, 1961. He had a girlfriend at the time named Susan, but he swore the song wasn't about her. He could have picked a different name. He could have. But they are, believe it or not, still married. Him and Run Around Sue is still married.

It sounds like a frustrating way to live your life. Wow, is she still running around? Still running around. sedetary sue probably for wait so Sue and who wrote the song

Dion Dion they're both still alive and they're both still married Yep Wow Damn I'm gonna get some of that Sue Sounds like she's up for it She's up

She'll run around If she can still walk We don't know You don't need to walk To be able to run around As long as she can paint With her teeth I'm good

Okay Celebrity birthdays. He's born on October 29th, 1961, was Randy Jackson, the 9th Jackson brother, and the youngest except for Janet Jackson. Here's a fun one. Okay.

Well, first of all, he's a very big fan of our president and RFK Jr., which I respect. He's also, he's had some troubles with beating on his wives and whatnot and child support problems, bankruptcy and all. that. But here's a great story. He was married or dating a woman who was old friends with

Tina Turner. And this woman came to Tina Turner's house and said, Randy Jackson, the ninth and second youngest Jackson sibling is posing of threat to me physically. May I stay at your home? Wow. And Tina Turner said, naturally. And so she came inside. Oh, no. It's safe here. It's safe here. Oh, no. No, no. No. No. No. It's later. It's in this. And the 80s, 1980s. Right, right, right. Okay. And then Randy Jackson comes over and he insists upon seeing his lady. And Tina Turner took out a gun and shot at him. Oh. But so it says on Wikipedia, but none of them ever went to the press or press any charges because they didn't want the attention.

Well, what a story that would have been. Tina Turner shoots him Michael Jackson's little brother dead or even just shot him and injured him. I guess she missed. That would have been a hell of a Grammys that year. the police Imagine this lap would be Not even close To the biggest award shows I heard The police question her

They did go to the police actually I heard Okay all right And they questioned her Oh they did And what did she say Paul To the police And her defense was she didn't

Really fire the gun at him It was simply a test Oh I'm sorry I heard that I just I heard that So I wanted to share I think I've passed away

Wow. I think I'm hallucinating. Come back, come back, please. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Good Lord. That's what she told the police. It was simply a test.

All right. No, simply a test. She's saying it. Okay, all right. Here comes some fun facts about people who are involved in this episode. This episode was directed by Robert Butler. Who directed the pilot for Star Trek? Hogan's hero.

was Batman, Hill Street Blues, moonlighting, and Remington Steel, which he co-created. Hell yeah. Holy fucking shit. Wow, what a caller. He did all them pilots. He worked for Batman and Bond. Yeah.

He did the pilots for all those, too. Oh, the pilots. Wow. Now here I'm going to blow your mind, Marky, because I have gone on and learned. Look at this. No. Yeah.

There's literally just a YouTube link on its own. I told you you can do Hyperlink. That's what I've done. It is a Hyperlink. That's not a Hyperlink. Yeah, it is. You could, here, you know, You know what you could do.

See where you wrote Jeremy Roberts. So a listener of ours named Jeremy Roberts sent us this clip of Robert Butler, the director of this Bonanza episode, talking about his experience of directing. So you could write, like, clip from Jeremy Roberts and then highlight it and put the link on that name. You don't need to put the whole YouTube like that. What? He's the whole YouTube link in here. Oh, I was reading about this dude recently.

Yes, that's right. Yeah, the computer wore tennis shoes. Yeah, he directed that. But if you do a hyperlink, how are you? are you going to read that it says desktop and V equals G-E-U-H-H-Q-L-S-Q-Q-L-S-Q-T-T equals 30- It reminds me of your email address. You have the longest email address I've ever seen.

Good luck hacking it, you know? Good luck hacking it at gmail.com. People are going to hack my email address. You have to make your password longer. Your password is so short. My password is so simple because I got to remember it. One, two, three, four. My password's literally just eight.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Is nobody... But now what... Your email is like two-face-blown. But this is what I can do now, Fonzies' past. When I click on it, he said A was also Fonzies' password.

Oh, yeah. I'm starting to think he's not a reliable source of information. Paul lust. I don't know if Gina Turner really said that to the police at all. When I click this link... It's going to start up at the top code. Oh, wow, you did a time code. The main people, I mean, I thought were inexcusable as to deportment and honking around and you couldn't get a rehearsal.

Honking around. I mean, I thought it was kind of deplorable. You talking about that cart ride? So maybe I was sending out those vibes and trying to get rehearsals and finally just deciding to hell with it. Let's roll and see what happens. And what happened was that the guys behaved and did their thing. And as soon as the cut took place, they were honking around again. So it wasn't really a directing job.

It was getting it done. It warmed my heart to know that when the action is not being called, the boys are just honking around. They're honking around. Does that mean they all have little cars that they're beeping the whole time? What is he talking about? I've never heard that expression before. That's Robert Butler suggesting that our beloved cartwrights are honking.

around between tech what do you say after we record today we get out and honk around a bit yeah I wouldn't mind honking around we all have cars here today right? Toot, toot, beep, beep. So what do you think was categorized as honking around

probably telling stories goofing off, making jokes? It's like farting around. Yeah. Pitching butts, I bet there's touching butts. I'll bet you here's what I bet you they did. I bet you they made each other left by moving props and things around that so the prop people had to go now know this was there stuff like that

swapping toupees you know swapping two pays a lot of that stuff they're basically the dwight from the office yeah it's always prank day like jim from the office there's dwight lots of pranks well i'm sorry to hear that he had that experience john t kelly wrote this script he was a script doctor and he did a dialogue brush the final dialogue brush on planet of the apes and he is credited with line you maniacs you blew it up oh damn you god damn you all to hell john t kelly wrote that line you monkeys been honking around but he didn't do you god damn dirty apes i wish no he didn't do that but i couldn't find whether that's on his tombstone or not you maniacs you blew it up all damn you got down i'd put it if i came up with that line i'd put that on the tune yeah that's cool

not me gone to the honk after Gordley, up there just honking around. I mean, Matt Taylor. Who is this, Matt Gourley? All of us knows him. The star of this episode was Robert Culp. Yeah. From the greatest American hero and I spy.

He was wonderful. He's great. I got to show you those shows him. He was good, right? He was a, I spy. He co-starred with Bill Crosby, and the two of them every year was nominated for acting Emmys and Bill won every time.

Oh, yeah. That had got to be good on set. I know. They were dominated against each other. They, uh, he was married five times was Robert Colt. Oh. And he was dear close friends with Hugh Heffner to the point that he went to the Playboy Mansion for Thanksgiving dinner.

Oh, nice. You imagine Thanksgiving dinner at the Playboy Mansion? Yeah, I can. Turk 182. What about it? He was in it. He was in Bob and Carolyn. Ted and Alice. That's a wife-swapping movie.

That's the one I know. Oh, you do? I ain't never seen it. I know Colpe most from Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice. Is he good in that? He's really great and he's got the probably the fun part to play which is the guy who's like, I think we should get into

swinging and then they do and then the wife is into it more. And he gets jealous. And then he gets jealous. So it's a pretty funny little character. Oh yeah? Yeah, yeah. I'm going to have to see that. He's real good. I told you you should be Polly.

I know. You keep saying that. You guys should swap lives. Will you stop saying that? I think it would be good for you guys. It is not going to happen. Why? You need.

Why would it be good? You guys need excitement. Your lives are so boring. You need something to, like, jazz it up. I'm getting with cows every morning at 6 a.m. I got plenty to do. Yeah, and I'm out there honking around. Yeah.

No, I think he should be Polly. or at least like non-binary. Like, you need to switch it up. Oh. Hey, you and your friend Matt covered that movie consenting adults on your podcast, didn't you? That's right. You didn't tell the concept of that?

Oh, it's, uh, Kevin Klein gets a new next door neighbor and it's, um, uh, Kevin Spacey. Oh, really? And, uh, so the two Kevin's together, finally. Finally, Kevin and Kevin, put that on the poster. Casey, Clyde. I always thought it was funny that in casualties of war,

the two last names are five. I know. Is that weird? Great. That's the whole reason they made that movie. I know. I bought a ticket thinking the star was going to be a fox pen. Imagine how disappointed I was.

But Kevin Spacey suggests, how about we do this wild thing where in the middle of the night, we switch houses and we get in bed with each other's wives and sleep with them. And then isn't it that without their consent? Yeah, wait, I was like, how do they, because it's dark, the wives have no idea they're sleeping with a different person. The screenplay had the same issue you did, and that's why it spirals into an oozy gun fight at some point. Yeah, yeah. And actually, I think it started off just as a light comedy about two neighbors battling over Christmas decorations. And Kevin Spacey was the one who pitched this whole swapping. And his own, the most amazing Texas switch in cinema history, where he walks into the back of a semi-truck and then shoots out of it on a motorcycle.

Oh, beautiful. Yeah, yeah. Kevin Spacey. Kevin Spacey, sure. And with blonde highlights. No. Oh, my gosh. Now, the best part about consensitant adult is my memory of my fifth grade teacher telling our class that her husband read it in the night before.

And it starts slow, but 30 minutes in, it really starts picking up. I recognize you. That was my main memory of consenting. Let's all watch it and discuss it Monday morning. Oh, my God. You have got to have sex with the lights on for that very reason, because it could be anybody if it's dark. We'll just do it at high noon.

At high noon. At high noon. At high noon, you could. Afternoon delight, what they used to call it. Well, okay. Robert Cope was also in Sammy the way out seal. Now, Dabbs Greer. Please, Will Cass.

You might know him as a preacher, the Reverend on Little House. on the prairie. Oh, that's right. But he put on a lot of weight in between the two jobs. And a lot of hair. Didn't he have longer hair in that? Don't body shave him. No,

he needs to be body shame because he was a nice thin man back in the 60s. And Michael Lannan liked to work with the same crews and stuff, right? Yeah, that's right. We had a good time honking around on Banasal. Let's bring him back for a little house. That's right. He was also the minister who performed the marriage of Mike and Carol Brady on the first episode of the Brady Bunch. How about that?

Wow. He was in the movie Con Air as Old Man Under Truck. You know it's a good part when there's a preposition. The character's name. Because there's other old man in that movie that's not under a truck. Not under truck. Woman on phone. Right.

And what else? He was in, oh, wonderful movies such as Young Man with Ideas, Mr. Scoutmaster, and Million Dollar Mermaid. A million dollar mermaid? Yeah, a million dollar mermaid. I didn't look into what that's about. That sounds really good. I think that's a good prize for a mermaid. And what was his other prepositional character,

young man with? Oh, young man with ideas. That's the title of a film. Young man with ideas. It's a what? Oh, that's the title. That's the title. Ooh.

I like that title. Is he also under truck? Young man with ideas under truck. Ideas never seen to fruition. Young man honking around. That's honking around. Young man under truck with ideas. Get me out from under this truck.

That's probably the first idea. I got a lot to take care of. And give me a real part. That's a career. If you go from young man with ideas to old man under truck, that's a career. That's true. That's right. That's the Eric Roberts career trajectory.

Here's the one you're going to be excited about. Abigail Shelton was the lady in this episode. Number one, her name was totally misspelled in the credits. Devastating. And number two, she's married to the guy that wrote the episode. Oh. And number three, one of her other credits is Friday the 13th, the final chapter. Oh.

Oh, is she the mom? Spooky. Not at all. She is, okay. Friday the 13th, final chapter. I went and watched it. I just watched it. You watched the old woman under boat.

I watched. What? No, it's not an old woman under the boat. This is my favorite Friday the 13th movie. Well, it's worth the price of admission just for Crispin Glover dancing. you'd have to Yeah, he's worried he's going to be a dead fuck

Yes, there's a lot That term dead fuck gets used a lot Yeah, and nowhere else in human history That I've never heard it before or since, that's true I forgot how much boobs

was in them movies It's really like pork is but they die Who is she? I'm trying to think who she'd be in there. Oh, you do you want to guess Would it be fun for you to guess? Old woman with tits

under grave She's not the mom of them? No, she doesn't I didn't say anything, actually. She has no words. Is she like a flashback Pamela? I don't know what a flashback Pamela is, my friend.

But she's not that. Who is she? Why did you ever get married to that woman? Oh, she's just a flashback Pamela. There he is, my boy, running around with another flashback Pamela. Honking around with another flashback Pamela. How did not. raise you this way.

Oh, good golly. I can't, you know, on with Gourley and Rust, we love Friday 13th movies, and we've talked about par four a couple times, but I can't recall who is it? All right. In the beginning of the movie, they believe that this Jason Phila

has died, previous to the early movie wherein in which he was killed. This picks up right where it ends and he's a corpse. They bring him to the hospital. Oh, she works in the hospital. She doesn't work at the hospital. She's not in the ambulance? She is not an ambulance.

She is not the ambulance. She is not the ambulance. She's patient under gurney. Old woman is truck. No. She is. As they're wheeling in the corpse of Jason with the sheet over his head, there's two women holding each other and crying in the background. She's credited?

Yes, she is. Oh, you know what? People believe those characters are the. relatives of the, one of the kids killed in part three. I was thinking they was sad that Jason had died is how it looks. They're just holding each other saying, they're so sad. Jason's two aunts. Yeah.

They're upset. Sad ants. Sad ants. She is, I think, she's credited as crying woman or something like that, or woman in hospital. But, man, she's good in it. She made the movie for me. Last person I want to tell you about

Richard Rostmini Things get a little confusing here Richard Rostmini played The character's name was Jaime But they never say the character's name And he's like the other buddy of the deputy So he doesn't do much This is the only credit of his ever

That he ever appeared on screen Wow, however, here's where it gets confused He was considered to be at one time The Best 12 String Guitarist in the World That's an interesting title. Yes. Do you think he was on set to help Robert Culp with the finger picture? I think so.

He's best known for his role in the American Folk Revival of the 60s. And he designed the TASCAM recording thing. Whoa! That we record this episode with. Yeah, before we started recording, it was one question. Hey, is that a TASCAM over there? He developed the TASCAM multi-track and portable multi-track recorders and mixers. So the first Fulkey who went digital, who went electric, was this guy.

He was a guy under the guitar with ideas, really. It was him. Now, was Robert Cope really playing the guitar? No, no, certainly not. So I think maybe this guy... He was playing it, but not playing it, you know what I mean? So the guitar that we hear was probably played by this guy, and then they gave him a role also for why.

I don't know. Yeah. Show him a little bones. But here's what else I found. And here comes another YouTube. you don't consider it a high link is still there but i am proud of you for learning the timestamps well i went down to best buy for a tutorial uh-huh the geeks gave you a tutorial well i was it turned out later he told me he mainly deals with refrigerators and stoves and whatnot

i told him to show me how to do this well when i took you to the apple genius bar you got all upset and you yelled that no one's a genius right yeah and you stormed out, so I'm glad that you at least Your guys. Genius doesn't exist. They say, we're all the same smarts. Turned out all along the genius was you. That's what sometimes I do think. Could be. You also have the

philosophy that when you're at a buffet of some of the food mixes together, it's okay because it all comes out a turd. Do you know I'm trying to open a buffet restaurant called that? That would make a good country. song.

It all comes out a turn. Oh, oh boy, much going to get his guitar. With the mashed potatoes. I consider much to be the best six-string guitarist in the world. Well, the best thing I ever heard was it all comes out in turn. It was actually really beautiful. Tears to you know of your face. Literally, I'm covered in tears.

Yes. That would be the jingle on the commercial for the buffet restaurant. Yeah. It all comes down a turd. Well, I might. Have you heard? Have you heard that it all comes out a turd? Beautiful.

Eat your heart of. Gold and Corral. 20% off Father's Day. You can prove you're a father. Free hair, something like that. Free hair cuts. Yeah, free hair cuts. What was I going to play?

All right. Pernell Roberts put out an album of folks. songs. Oh, after this, where he's like, I got it. And it was a collaboration with Richard Brosemeady. It all comes together. Let's listen to his rendition of come all ye fair and tender ladies. Beautiful. This is Richard Brochmeny on the talk. Look how bronze he is. No, he ain't. He's dead. No, that's bronzing.

You know what? That's kind of nice, I have to say. This is my favorite production style. That kind of reverb. I'll be damned. I like this. I have to say, you can still make fun of it. That's beautiful.

I mean, it would be good over like a TikTok video. No. I give it up for that. What other songs are on that out? I got to look it up. What's the album called? Come all ye fair and tender ladies is the name of the album. It sounds like he's talking about chicken tenders.

Yeah. Here's another one. This song is called Alberta and Pernell Roberts and Richard Rosemite wrote it together. Oh, is this Alberta? Alberta, why you've been so long? That one. Now, Roberts, have many albums? No, just this one, and it's hard to find.

Does your hair hang low? Does your hair hang low? Is that what he said? Let your hair hang low. Alberta. What is he? Let your hair hang low. What does he mean by that? What does he mean by that?

The bold soldier, Marianne, they call the wind marion. Sylvie, Lily of the West, and the water is wide, raking a rambling boy, quiet girl, shady grove, Alberta, empty pocket blues, and come all ye fair and tender ladies. Wow.

All right, last one I want to tell you about is Robert Christopher, as Deputy Sheriff, Steve Cahill, this is fascinating. I think you're going to find this. Well, first of all, he produced a movie called Frankenstein Island, in which a group of balloonists stranded on an island

where they're captured by Dr. Frankenstein's female descendant, Sheila Frankenstein. Sheila. Wait, a group of balloonists? Yeah. What? I don't think the world of Frankenstein should ever touch the world of hot air balloons. A group of balloonists.

Yeah, a group of balloonists. How else you're going to get to Frankenstein Island? Think they got an airport? What is a group of balloonists call? Like you have a pot of whales or an exaltation of larks. A float of lords? A helium? Nerds.

But listen to this. Between acting jobs, Bob began a second career at executive car leasing and quickly rose to vice president. Up until a month before his death at 93, a longtime Hollywood Hills resident, Bob's daily routine included stopping at the executive leasing office and having lunch at Marco's restaurant West Hollywood with his close friends. Fascinating. I love that.

Yeah. That's really good. Wow, I didn't fall asleep when you were telling you that. That's right there on his Wikipedia. media page, man. You find all kinds of things. Executive car leasing. He's leasing cars to people.

Two executives or that's the name of its? I think that's the name. Oh, okay. Fascinating. All right. That's all the fun facts I have. I think they were fun facts. Now just they were fun facts.

Let's talk about this episode for a minute or two. We're going to give it the full treatment. This one starts with the classic fight over the jug of alcohol in the street establishing shot. that it's the same establishing shot of Virginia City all the time and you never notice it, do you? Every time you think it's a new one. I'm starting to smell a conspiracy. No, it's real.

I'm not joking. I looked for it this time. You did? I'm wondering if we have different versions or something like they took that shot out. Maybe. Because I'm watching mine on Plex, but you're watching yours on Google Drive, right? That's right. I don't understand this. Whoa. Mystery.

I'm starting to concern myself. I watched it on Google Drive. I don't remember anything you're talking about. It takes a certain kind of eyes to see it. Yeah, yeah. Looking at your phone the whole damn time. Well, okay. Deputy Stu is in charge.

Roy Coffey is gone. Deputy Stu has a couple of his buddies helping him out keeping the law in Virginia City. And here comes riding into town is a fella by the name of Ed Payson. He even been here in a long time. People don't like, there's three grocery stores in town. He goes to the one that happens to be owned by the father of a guy he shot last time he was in Virginia City, he could

have gone to one of the other two stores, don't you think? Yeah. But it turns... What was Robert Colp's character's name? Ed Payson. I think Robert Colp is more of an Old West name than his character is. Colp is such a good... I know, Colp is good.

I mean, it's halfway to Culper. Or Coal Pepper. Oh, Colpe. Coalpeper is a really good. You know, Robert Colpe's father's name was Crozier. Crozier Culp. Crozier Colp. Crozier Colp.

Crozier. Crozier Colpe, I never even talked to your Colt. Crozier colp I just met her All right Don't Crozier colp And everybody stay calm Don't Crozier Colour Yeah exactly

It's like don't get your panties in a wand Crozier Colp over there There's a whole other name Crozier Cordell Colp All right in the three Cs Yep All right the owner of this grocery store Don't want to sell in groceries to Robert

Colp, he hates him so much because he killed his son. And Adam, Cartwright happens to be in there and witnesses all this go down. And Adam, Cartwright buys five pounds of flour and five pounds of coffee. What's this guy making that he needs equal parts flour and coffee? I don't know, but... Teramisu. Terrami Sue. Is that where it is?

He's going up there to the piece of land that his daddy willed him to make a big batch of of terramus. It sounds like he wants to be a living, a math, word problem. Colp has five pounds of coffee and five pounds of flour He wants to have just as many biscuits As cups of coffee Mr. I had 10 miles to the pond around

How much honking around can he do? Exactly. So what Adam does is Adam says I'm going to buy that flour and coffee for this stranger. I just never, I didn't even meet him in this scene. I just heard tell of him

and witnessed him get shut down and I'm going to do it. Yeah, what do you think the, is he aware of the history at that point? And it's like, I know that this guy's on the hook and I'm trying my best to get him reacclimated. Or is it just this guy's in need? I don't like it. Seeing anybody get denied groceries. It seemed to be like that.

The latter thing. I mean, I feel like I would side with the guy whose son was murdered, but that's just me. Yeah. And he sides hard with the murder. Yes. And then even after his father makes a pretty good case about like, hey, this. Grocer, you know, we wouldn't be here without his support that first year.

Right. He doesn't really take his father's words. That's why I don't. He got a real love story. I know. Like Adam is in love with him or something. I know, kiss already. I, you know, I think once

when Andrew Daly did the, the birds episode of With Gorley and Russ, I was looking for some gay subtexts. You guys were like, I don't think it's there, Rusty. Yeah. But so when I saw this, I was like, Birds. What?

You don't know the genders of the birds. You don't. That's true. But with this, I sent some gay subtext between the two, right? Yeah, I think so, too. I mean, I hate to agree. I could only imagine that was his, even Robert Colt at one point goes like, hey, dude, why are you doing this? Yeah.

Doesn't make any sense. And it also makes more sense because have we really seen many? Adam love stories with a gal. I don't think... No, not really. He doesn't fall in his arms, right? I was thinking... All those guys, like all the Ponderosa boys,

like, what, something's really wrong with them. Like, they're all single and they all live with their dad. And it's like, they're in their 30s. They're all weathered and, like... It's like, what's going on? Men are not okay. Not all cart rights, okay? First of all. Car rights are okay.

Those guys need help. They're great men having a... And there's having a good time. out there, and they don't, I'm sure they don't believe in premarital six, so there's all three of them as virgins. I'm not sure they're going to post-marital sex. Maybe not. I bet they give each other hand jobs

and stuff. No, they got. That's the angri as you've ever made me. I bet they do. What? They're bored out there in the ponderos, they've got to get off somehow. Oh, brother. They do not. No way. The man does not have a sexual urge until the day he says I do. That is

not true. That is true. That is true. All right. Now, yeah, so it's love at first sight for Abigail or Sally and for Adam. They both fall hard for Robert Cole. Now, Adam rides up to Ed's place and he's a hired killer and all this stuff. But here's the flower and the coffee and then Ben is mad. Ben is mad at Adam for doing what he done. You're talking about that.

We do that style of recap and it sounds like you're at an auction. here we go we're back at the house and they all sit down and they say a little prayer before they eat their dinner and I did a little research it seems like the gun

the gunslinger who says I've killed but no more I'm actually putting my gun away is loosely based on the the gunslinger the Gregory Peck movie if you're insinuating that Bonanza borrowed plot elements

from another story our house how dare you know this is one of the the six stories you hear about Shakespeare's one of Shakespeare's stories Joseph Campbell I guess I'd accept that

Billy who is one of the friends of the deputy is in love with Sally but she now having laid eyes on Ed has no further interest in Billy and brushes him off she's like this guy killed my brother hell yeah I know she likes that some real sibling rivalry

there this whole brother Well, now we have a horse, whatever, who cares? Oh, Adam, why Adam late at night is going to pay a visit on Ed? We don't know. Yeah, late at night. He's just, I don't know, I just feel like it. So he rides out to go and visit Ed, and he finds Ed sitting at the fire with his guitar singing a sad song. Yeah, he said he heard the guitar playing while he was out on his walk in it.

It was a siren song. Before he was like to his brother's like, no hand jobs tonight. I'm like, okay, all right. Okay. I didn't see that part of the episode. We're going too far. This is getting bolder. Adam takes a ride out to just watch his new friend through the branches of the trees.

And if he happens to be not fully clothed, it was a warm night. Yeah. Sure. And he gets to hear Robert Colt sing the most beautiful ballad about the story of this episode. You're holding your microphone all sweet day, too. It's like you're singing. I'm, yes, I'm singing the praises of this episode. I'm all the faithful ladies.

I loved the songs. They were, songs were great. Yeah. I liked the comical one. Oh, boy. I laughed and laughed. I never stopped laughing.

What a time. Yeah, the amount of times I've laughed at Bonanza. Well, when it's funny, you can't help but laugh. Yeah, and you know it's funny because the music gets wacky. Yeah. Well, the next morning, Adam gobbles down his breakfast and rides out to see Ed. Before the rest, his father even wakes up. He must have had a most...

This is so clearly in the script. What do we know about the screenwriter? John T. Kelly. He was married to the gal that played. That's right. Yeah, okay. Well, he's married. There's no two ways around that.

He's as straight as an arrow. And her name is Sally. Uh-huh. My friend in college, who's a writer, he would always laugh when you'd read a like a writer's workshop story or a sketch somebody wrote and

you knew a man had no interest in female characters her name was Sally I have noticed that about scripts they always give women like such dated names they'll be like a 20 something year old girl named like Sharon

it's like you out of your mind where is a writer supposed to find name that you guys would find acceptable. Literally, AI, like, would rate way better names. Have you guys met my cheerleader girlfriend, Esther? Yeah.

She's hot. I think Sally's a perfectly fine name. It's a beautiful name for the character. Yeah, she's really well-developed. She really is. I mean, I guess, Nora Ephron named Meg Ryan's character, Sally. That's a pretty dimensional. So that's a...

There you go. Okay, yeah. There's one. Harry met her. It's shit. Yeah, I didn't like that when Harry met Sally Super Bowl commercial where they were making jokes

about the orgasm at the diner. And then the product they're selling is mayonnaise. Ew. You got Billy Crystal talking to orgasms and then at the end like a big container of like... It's like QPy Mayo like...

Oh. I'm going to have to check that out. I didn't see the Super Bowl. You got a little thing for

Billy Crystal was Ciddy Slickers I'm interested in a new brand of mayonnaise Yeah I'm telling you Coupie Yeah

I only know mayonnaise as a sexual aid Is it used to something else? Ew, sick disgusting moving on Yeah

Two other sexual age Anyway, he's jacking off his brother Billy Crystal and City Slick and city slickers and the first one

when he's getting drug behind the horse he wants everybody to know that he's on vacation remember when he's getting bullied he's like I'm on vacation Also when that fellow pulls up next other fella

and asks for some great Bupon that's because he's got himself a boner that's touching the roof of that car but that's mustard but don't use mustard but it depends on what you're in too.

Oh, brother. I know some guy uses exfoliant. Oh, exfoliant. That's a terrible idea. You don't want less of it. Ed? We learned that Ed first started playing guitar

to keep his fingers nimble for shooting. I like that. Don't you like that? What a cowboy. That's cool. That's good stuff. Eddie Van Halen was a great guns singer too.

Yeah. Yeah. That's right. And Billy the kid was a hell of a guitar player. Sure. Yeah, he'd wail on that axe. Yeah. And oh, man. Well, it turns out, yeah, Sally does remember her brother as kind of a dick.

And she says so to their father. And their father's still like, no. Adam rides up and see. And in the subtext world, don't you think that has something too about a dad who's in denial about what a son really was with this gunfighter? He was never like that. Oh, yeah. He was a good boy.

Yeah, right. Yeah, yeah. What's the subtext? That's right here there in the text. That he was kissing. Oh, what? Who's kissing who? Oh, my gosh.

It's a gay story. What? So it's like, this is a, I don't want to think about how my son was actually like the ex-lover of this, of my son. Or of this, uh, colpi. What? Okay, it's okay. This is why you need to be Polly. You would understand this story so much better.

I still, I have not allowed myself to understand what Polly even means. We'll get there. I send me links. No, I know you send me links and explain it to me. and I still, my brain won't accept the words. Don't accept it. Adam rides up and sees Will walk into Sheriff's Office and sharing review. Okay, man, this is the part of the episode where there's a very complicated scheme to get Ed's land away from him having to do with who's going to pay tax bill.

I like the lease office, though. That was cool to see the guy walked into a lease office. Yeah, that was really cool. Yeah. Oh, good. I'm glad you appreciate it. that. It's good.

They've got a lease office. They got a lot of TikToks for fellows of walking into lease offices. No, they've got. I think people

would die if they watched it. Makes me think of Robert Christopher working for executive car leasing. That's right.

Maybe that's what you got the idea. Maybe that's it. And stuff. Adam and Ed Ed gives him his

gun. He wants to stay out of trouble. Ed tells the story of what happened with Dave Cass. They was both drunk

and he doesn't even remember it. I guess that adds credence to you. They get drunk and maybe that's where the hand jobs were. All right. We had Casses in the town I grew up. I like that last name. Cass? You like it? Yeah, yeah. The Cass family.

Mama Cass. Remember Mama Cass? Yeah. That's right. She was a mama. Mama Cass. Daddy Cass. All the little casses. Baby Cass. Being in a debate, the merits of getting involved with Ed while Joe and Haas look on pointlessly. Yeah, no lines for them this episode. Yeah. What do you,

Grand total of words stated, said out loud by Haas in this episode. What would you say? He says, A Haas's dozen? A Haas's dozen. That's right. So that's what? 16.

He introduces the concept that there's conflicting accounts of what happened in the gun fight between Ed and Davey. All right. I felt like is Haas supposed to be kind of like the audience? Is that the person you, so when he says, hey, I think there was always something a little fishy about that. you go, well, I got, I'm accepting this because Haas is the person I. Oh, Haas would never lie if that's what you mean. Yeah. Absolutely.

You can take anything, Haas says straight to the bike. All the Ponderosa boys are so moral and boring. They're all the same character. Nope. What are you talking about? Little Joe's mama was from New Orleans. And he's little. His mom was from Boston.

Hoss is big. Joe's little. Yeah. That's literally the only difference is it's like the three little bears. It's like the size-wise. they're all different, but they're the same exact one. Oh, she's a gigantic head. It ain't like anybody else's head.

No, the three little bears, they're not, they are different. They got different sizes, but they also like different temperature porridge. And different sized beds or whatever. So they're three-dimensional because they literally have three character traits. Yes, their tastes about. Yeah, that's right. But other than that, their personalities are the same. How do you know, have you ever?

I can talk. they don't talk about anything I know they have the same person I'm already bored I'm already bored The same with the three little pigs We the big laugh around Our house was

My dad's like impressions of people Because it was like one of those impressions Where you have to say the person You're impersonating in the first few words So it'd be like Like Rich Little Yes When do that

So I'm drawing to Carson Yeah right Yeah, but it'd be like, now listen here, I'm hoss, so you better, you know, like, so he would do his impression of John Wayne pretending to be hoss? That is. All right. Well, okay. Will puts Billy up to picking the fight with Ed. That's what he does.

Billy likes Sally. All right. William, William, Bill, and Ed. Ed is not. No. I never met a William goes by Ed. That's Edward, isn't it?

Yeah, yeah. So there's sometimes Williams called Ed. I guess you can call anybody that wants them. Anybody can call themselves anything, but I never heard of a goddamn William becoming an Ed. Christ, all right. Joel, Billy Joel. He goes by Billy.

Ed Joel. Ed Joel. Hey, the guy that plays the one, the guy that wants to kill him. Has he been in Bonanza before? He has. He looked familiar to me. He has been, this is his second.

I rely on those things to be covered in the fun facts. I know, you're right. I'm sorry, I did skip him. That's Ray Daly. He has like a permanent dumb face. Yeah, he does. However, he went to Harvard University. Oh.

Yeah, I thought he was hot. Iron. Not protest too much, me thinks. Well, the lady not protest too much, me thinks. He goes to Harvard to say he's smart, but everybody knows he's dumb because he got dumbface. I guess. We have to have some dumb people at heart. He went up to accept his diploma at the graduation.

The guy, like, held back the scroll. He was like, I don't think you. And when he got the scroll, he went, he tried to eat it. Prior to being in show business, he was a consultant in Washington, D.C. on alternative fuels. Wow.

And then he was in the advertising industry. I wonder what alternative fuels. politics too. Yeah. Exactly. Well, anyway, I'll save that for later. Okay. Then what's happening?

Oh, this is the gayest scene in the episode. Ed has an apron on and he's trying to make biscuits. And it's a Mr. Mom moment. He can't make them biscuits. He's a man. And then Sally rides up and Ed says, Adam's got me tied to the stove today. I'm making biscuits.

That line is in there. Yeah, I know. Adam's got me tied to the stove. the stove today. This day it's a goddamn couple. It ain't right. It's like a nice afternoon of just doing sort of simple chores around the house. Making some biscuits. It's very nice

domestic. Yeah. Sunday reset. Sunday reset. Adam is off the property checking on some kind of stock or whatever. Anyway, but Sally thank goodness a woman showed up. She says, I'll make the biscuits. Yeah, she's like, I'll go

make those biscuits I'll go work on those biscuits and Adam's like I thought I already was thank you very much she's like my feet are so small I better get them closer to the stove haven't you heard that joke

no what's the joke why are women's feet so small why are women's feet so small why so they can stand closer to the stove oh I like that joke that's funny that's a good one it's funny it's a guy with his large He's stretched out, trying to grab up there like this.

You got that right. You got that right. Particularly a man's wearing cowboy boots. You can't get anywhere near that snow. But also it's like, what would be sure if he could also be closer to a car to be a mechanic? Like that's not wearing the line. But also, you know, you think about these guys with their big cowboy hats. Imagine cooking with something that big.

Bonkin. Bonk. Bong. Bunk. Can't do it. Can't do it. It's real sad for lady clowns who can't cook. Oh, I know.

That is devastating. Elaine Boozler. Was Elaine Boosler a clown? She was a lady cloud? She married to Bozo? Claire Bell. He took her name. Clair Cal Coosler.

I don't know what you're talking about. Lane Bozler, she's good. All right. What do we got? Adam? James. Okay. Oh, this is when they sing that wonderful song.

I wish I had a cute up to play for you. You'll just have to imagine it. Robert Colp is playing the guitar and Adam joins in and so does she. And they've got harmonies all ready to go and it's a funny song, man. Oh, so funny. And when Adam started thinking, was that like impromptu, you think? Or is it like a, this is a pop hit. Oh, he's coming in on the second version of Philly.

It's like top 40. Yeah. Yeah, it felt like it would have been in the top 40 in 1861. Now we're back in Virginia City. in. Adam and Ben, they have got all nice and dressed up. No, Adam and Ben. No, Adam and Ed.

Adam and Ed are all nice and dressed up. They're wearing their Saturday night best. They're going out for Saturday. Adam and William, yeah. Yeah. No, it's Ed. Bill. Bill.

Ed's going to say hi to Sally. Okay. Now, Adam accepts that Sally likes Ed. And he doesn't seem perturbed by it. No, that's what's funny. Yeah, he's fine with that. It's because I think he knows it. never be realized. He doesn't expect

anything with Ed. He senses tragedy. Yeah. Oh, that And he wants Ed to be happy. His is a pure love. Uh-huh. Yeah. Okay. Good. But, uh, Deputy K Hill, Billy versus Ed. Oh, well, now let's come. We get the climactic fight. Billy wants to go and fight with Ed and Ed won't take it.

He'd rather get the shit kicked out of him. And Adam's going to, this fist fighting in the streets. Right? Okay. And what else happens? That night, drunk will. Billy wants to go murder Ed and plant a gun on him. I thought was what's going to happen. Anyway, Billy rides up to Ed's property and he calls him out a second time.

But nobody's around this time. And Ed does have a gun now. And it is going to be a duel. He throws him a gun. He throws him a gun. And they do have a quick draw duel. and obviously Ed outdraws Billy before Billy can even get this. Ed is so much better.

He outdraws him so quick that Billy has enough time to say, I don't want to continue this. Freeze. Right. He says, don't forget it. I'm not even going to take the gun out of the holster. And so, but Ed doesn't shoot him. He'd like it to be over right there.

But that's when Sally rides up. And she screams. She has a few blood curdling screams for a second. Wait, no, she rides up after. he's dead. Yeah, after he's dead. I thought what happened was that she distracted the boys and to where Billy was able to shoot it.

I thought it was her fault. Did you watch this on Google Drive or where did you watch it? I watched it at this by. George Lucas took a crack at some of these episodes. Special edition. But yeah, she would be the distraction with the, I think it's described as a fetching bonnet. Oh, yeah. Those are my two favorite words of the episode.

Oh, did somebody say fetching bonnet? Yeah, he's like, oh, and you're wearing that fetching bonnet. Oh, brother. Man, that's what a fetching bonnet. You shoshed off so he can get closer to the oven. Yeah. So Ed dies. Billy shoots Ed, Ed dies.

Billy ignores Sally. She screams again. I don't know why I wrote that. But then Adam sings that beautiful song at Ed's grave. Yeah. Yeah. Beautiful. And I like how his guitar, his music actually was sometimes just score for the episode.

Sometimes you would hear a little haunting guitar play his little melody. Yeah. I think they've used that. The first little strumming thing that Ed was doing, I think they've used in previous episodes before. Oh. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, interesting.

So it's just the standard song of his. It's like, whee-oh. A European ambulance? No. What is that? Are you doing? Are you okay? Yeah, I'm fine.

It's a cultural reference. To what? To White Lotus, obviously. Oh. Obviously. Oh, are you singing that final note of Wicked? Is that what you're doing? I heard that.

This is true that I am the walrus. The melody was based, John Lennon, based on the European alarms. Really? Yeah, the... I'm Nina, Nina, Nina, Nina. Oh, me. That's true.

I'm not making a joke. I am you and you are Nina? Who's Nina? But I thought this was a real, a tragedy. What is? This episode was tragic. I have a new three. Every episode is a tragedy.

No. No. They're all devastated. Some of them are very happy all the way through. like the time of Haas frolics around with leprechauns. That's a real episode. That was a real good one.

But it seems like the idea was sort of like, hey, you can try to change who you are, change your past, become a new person. But if there's the people who remember you who you were, sometimes they get in the way of your own self-improvement, huh? Ed was a gunslinger, a hired killer, and people would call them out and he'd shoot him dead in the street. Now he don't want to live that way anymore. We'll put his guns up, but his past won't let him free.

I think it's just like kind of a commentary on how when you're really hot and like lots of like people throw themselves at you. It like actually is like really hard. Do you have that problem? Yeah. Oh, I didn't know. Oh, you do. I do, yeah. Well, you're not allowed to date until you're 21.

We said that. Good luck. Good luck with that. What are you paid? Good luck. Do you have any bows, any current bows? Um, yeah, I've multiple. Oh, really?

Get out of it. Are you Polly? Tosh, Tosh, Poyneau. You're dating Tosh.0? Um, who else, Dan? Are you Polly? Yeah. Whoa.

No, she's Mark. I am. Well, you want to hear a tragedy. There's only 359 episodes of Bonanza left to talk about this month. That's the sad stuff. We're almost down to if you'd watch one a day for a year. I have news for you guys.

You're going to be dead when this when you finish Benanza. Meaning we're going to continue watching it after we're dead. I hope so. That sounds like heaven to me. I don't want to live if there ain't no more bonanza.

Come on. Oh, it's funny that we were talking about the buffet restaurants because there's the buffet place called Bonanza. Oh, yeah. Has that been discussed before? Yeah, the Ponderos and the Bonanza

Steak House. Yeah. We've tried to open one and we had an actual phone call with the brand company that owns the licensing. But they're not related, but... We talked to a representative

of Fat Brands Incorporated about opening a Ponderosa Bananza Steakhouse. And what they... I believe his words were, you're obviously media. Yeah. And he referred us to somebody else. What?

Well, I asked him... Blue State Media. Yeah. I asked him if I could record our conversation. He said, no. And then I didn't. Tell me that when you talk to him You were talking in your

Of course In your current voice Of course What voice did we use Donald Wilcox and Mutt Gourley Called up Dan from Fat Brands Did you say

Matt Gourley? What did I say? Mut Taylor Yeah, But Taylor It was Mutt Taylor Who is Matt Gorman? Oh that's your guy

That's a podcast with Oh right But they said But there was never an association Between those two But I feel like the people Between what two The restaurant and the T-G

show. Yeah, there was. There was. So when the restaurant came about, it was like, yeah. Oh, yeah. Wow. Dan Blocker had a steak in it.

Oh, holy shit. And he ate steaks in it. It was like the restaurant spent off of a TV show. Like, you know, like today you'd see friends. Like, sir. Central Perk. Yeah. Breaking Bad iced tea.

Yeah. I don't know. What the fuck. There's probably a white lotus restaurant. Yeah. The pit. Yeah, the pit, which is a barbecue pit. Well, all right.

Any other insights on this wonderful episode? We covered it good. Yeah, that was good. Yeah. And you still say you don't like it even after you get talking about all the things that was in it. I don't know. I ain't going to get my better than this. I liked that, yeah, like this one felt like more queer.

And like... Clear? It felt more clear. No, it felt like, you know, it just becomes clear to me every day that the brothers are jacking each other off. I went to a stand-up show at the San Francisco Sketchfest, and it was a writer at the time that Brokeback Mountain came out.

And one of the stand-ups came out, a notable name. Okay. Okay. Who was it? Tell me here. Came out and he said, yeah, Brokeback Mountain. It's an interesting Western. It's the first Western where the Cowboys write each other.

Laugh, laugh, laugh, right. Then the second comedian came out, said the same joke. Oh, no. And then he was like, and nobody laughed. Oh. And he was like, did the other? Yeah, we were just talking about that backstage. So like somebody called dibs on their little hack joke.

500 other people were probably making that same hour across the country. But one of the few times I've ever seen that happen on a stand-up show. So it was that hard for you when you did that set? The rule used to be whoever did it on Carson first owned the joke, but now that Carson has retired, there ain't no rules. But just to be clear, can I still use that joke? Of course, yes, please. Like is anybody using it at this point?

Go ahead, deliver it. It's a fresh joke. The only thing about cowboys is they ride each other. Did I get it? The only thing about cowboys. He forgot the broke back part. Oh, right. So this guy broke his back, right?

No, God, damn it. And he's lying in tension like a mummy. And he says, I'm going to ride me a bull, but the bowl is a cowboy. Don't you get it? Huh? I put my spit on it. Yeah, all right. That's my girlfriend.

Don't you get it? Do something relatable. Okay. What is going on in the world with blenders? Don't you get it? Wow. Oh, man, I can't keep my utility bills low. Seems like one day I'm going to go crazy.

Don't you get it? Hey, coffee, decaffeinated, half-calf, caffeinated, make up someone's mind any time. Don't you get it? Make up someone's more. Okay? So, half-calf, hold on. 2% low-fat, non-fat, fat, fat milk. I'm drinking too much of milk anyway, don't you get it?

Oh, he hates his coffee orders. They do get pretty elaborate sometimes, don't they? Where's this stuff about oat milk? Huh? Do your stuff about oat milk. Okay. Oatmeal, but what am I going to put in? Oat milk.

That's too much oats. Don't you get it? Don't you get it? See, that was in response. All right, folks. This is the episode of Bananas for Bananas, I'd say. Right? Yeah.

Okay. That was fun. Yeah, all right. Thank you so much for being here, Paul. Thank you. And you didn't have any choice, really, Mark. Thank you anyway. Yeah, thanks for having me.

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