Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast - GGACP Classic: Gino Salomone Returns! (Again)
Episode Date: November 7, 2024GGACP continues its weeklong celebration of Gino Salomone's birthday by revisiting this memorable -- and hilarious -- interview from 2019. In this episode: Henry Winkler proceeds with caution, Majo...r Burns bombs at a breakfast, Gino looks back on his friendships with Morey Amsterdam, Bob Denver and Alan Hale Jr. and the boys try to get to the bottom of the Jill St. John story. PLUS: Chico Marx in “Psycho”! Senor Wences delivers a eulogy! Gilbert is mistaken for Pat Morita! And Gino shares a hot tub with Mr. T! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Hi I'm Gilbert Godfrey and I'm here with Frank Santopadre and our engineer
Frank Fertorosa and this is Gilbert and Frank's amazing colossal obsessions and
we don't have a guest. Wait a minute! Hey, how about drinking some water get that phlegm out of your throat too. You sound like you're underwater. The Sixth Mars Brother. Flemmy. Flemmo.
Who is here, Gilbert? Is there a guest? Wait, do you have the name written down somewhere?
Why, it's entertainer- I can't even speak. Entertainment reporter to the stars,
Gino Salomon. Hi everybody. Hi Gene. Rex Reed cancelled at the last minute.
Gino you're back for round number three. I saw Gene Shallot in the elevator. He
just he couldn't make it all the way up. But he told you a couple of puns. He did. He's saying go see Sea of Love, you'll see it and love it. See? Stolen, by the way, from Saturday Night Live.
Entertainment reporter Gino Salomon, uncompensated Gilbert Gottfried podcast talent booker,
Gino Salomon. And how about this? He's in the thriving metropolis of Appleton, Wisconsin.
I drive all the way there, an hour and a half each way to take him to lunch.
Why?
I wondered the same thing as I drove home.
I'm like, why did I do that?
And there was only one place in Appleton, Wisconsin, open at lunch hour.
Wow.
Wow. With the biggest eggplant parmesan I'd ever seen in my life.
Yes. Honestly it was a tray, it was so big. Let me ask you a question that I don't know the answer to.
Who paid? Gee, that's a tough one. Oh, that's a tough one. Ah, boy, boy. You couldn't afford it. You still do Chico, Marx, and Psycho?
You still have that in the act?
Oh, yes.
Oh, wait, wait a second.
He doesn't know his own bits.
We know his bits better.
There was Chico and 12 Angry Men.
Oh, sure, he's plenty guilty.
And you don't remember Chico and Psycho?
There was Chico's Hamlet.
Hey, you're not my father.
That's it.
Chico and 12 angry men.
Hey, it's getting late.
And oh wait, Chico and Psycho.
I think that was, oh sure, we got plenty of rooms.
That's it.
Man, Frank, the amount of new material he did on stage.
People were shocked.
Really?
Larry Hovis bits?
I'm just trying out my Richard Wittmark.
When I saw him at an infamous show at Milwaukee Summerfest, by the way, the last
comedy show ever booked because he drove the people out of there. But he sang the entire
theme of the Milton Berle show as Milton Berle. Wait, that's a, there's just one place for me.
And that's near you.
One place I wanna be.
And that's near you.
He sang the whole song.
The whole song.
And he closed down the festival.
And this is what he does when I try to hang up
on the phone during our phone calls.
He becomes Milton Berle.
So I say, listen,
I've got to go into work and he says,
G-F, I've said to you in any way, I wouldn't be able to live with myself.
What does Henry Winkler say about Gilbert when you run into him?
We can't bring that subject up.
Okay, what did Paul Williams say when you ran into Paul Williams?
Gilbert can be very inappropriate.
Gilbert can be very inappropriate.
No, and we said this the first time I was here, Henry Winkler, you know, Gilbert wants
me to go down the streets that I don't want to go down.
It's my favorite.
And I won't go down those streets with Gilbert.
All right.
Now, you brought something with us.
I can't even talk.
Is it a gift?
You brought something for us.
I love gifts.
He loves gifts.
He loves guests with gifts.
OK, speaking of that, which I'm sorry to get you off track.
OK, I'm the one who called to attention, everybody,
when he would go get a compliment and go, oh, thank you.
Oh, I want to tell you something.
We were just interviewing Chip Kidd
and who designed the Jurassic Park poster
and a million other things.
Well, you designed the logo, yeah.
And he was complimenting me at the end of the show and you were in the other room
And and I kept I kept wanting to say oh
Thank you
I was getting self-conscious
And then it was kind of like I was coming across really unappreciated
But I wanted I wanted to go full Joe Flynn.
Well here's the latest one that I've noticed and I don't ever want to picture this and
it won't leave my head. This is Gilbert having sex, okay? When you guys do one of those quizzes
where you ask him a question and then he's like he can't come up with it and then you give the correct answer he goes oh yes oh yes and it's like oh my
god that's what he sounds like during sex I never wanted to picture that but
no one's ever been able to prove that or corroborate it because he's always alone And then after sex I say to the girl, oh thank you!
And by girl he means a blow up doll.
Yes.
Before we get off on too many tangents.
Thank you Mattel.
Mattelda.
That's his girlfriend, Mattelda.
Do you, I understand you want to set the story straight, set the record straight about Robert Wagner. Yes, Robert Wagner was here and Gilbert
brought up the story that I had told him. Yes. And I can tell you. No, no, I had gotten it from him. He used your name though. Yes he did. I was shocked. So I go out to, for drinks with Robert
Wagner and Jill St. John. Okay, this is the story, this is the backstory. This is the backstory, and we're sitting there and I can tell you, I know what the
temperature felt like, I know where we were sitting in the cocktail lounge where we had
these drinks.
And, you know, when I think of Robert Wagner, I think of the prim and proper gentleman,
you know, and then I hear him swearing and I love it because he's just a real guy.
Sure.
So, he tells me, he said, you know,
one time, and Jill St. John's sitting right there, one of my, I loved her in Batman,
in the Bond movies. And he said, you know, once she broke her pelvis area and she had a cast
up beneath her breast and he said, you know, she's got great tits anyway. They looked so spectacular. So he
denies that he told me that story. I know he told me that story. He acted like totally like, no,
I've never met Jill St. John. Well, we have a clip of what he said. Ah, you're in luck. I have a clip.
Great. Now, a friend of ours, Gino, told me a story. You told him, I think Jill St. John got into some accident
where she had to have a body cast.
Like, yeah, she had some kind of body cast,
Jill St. John, and you liked the way she looked.
I haven't heard this one.
Gilbert, did you dream this?
Let me hear the rest. This is a dream Gilbert you dream this? Let me hear the rest.
This is a dream Gilbert had, Robert.
She was in a body...wait a minute.
She was in a body cast.
And I did what?
Okay, according to the story,
Geno says...
You sure we got the right actor?
Sure it was Robert White?
Who is Geno?
A friend of ours.
No, you were complimenting the way her breasts looked in his cast.
You know, I think Geno is maybe dicking around with us.
That goes on the blooper reel, Robert.
What an honor!
That to me is a great honor. I sent you a
preview of it. R.J. Wagner says you a dick in a rum. It doesn't get better than that.
No it doesn't. Now we gotta have him back. We gotta make this an ongoing thing. It was
a horseback riding action and I'll even tell you that. Next time we're going to have R.J. and Jill, and we're going to get to the bottom of this.
Now I understand moving right along, you may have a Larry Linville story.
Yes, you remember Larry Linville, Major Burns?
So I booked him near the end of his life.
Give our listeners a little context.
You used to book celebrity autograph shows.
Yes, but this was not an autograph show. It was a Catholic breakfast and fundraiser.
Okay. I go to a lot of those.
Yeah, if they were offended, boy, I can imagine what you would do. So, they have Father Mulcahy
and Pedro Burns. William Christopher and Larry Linville. So, it's a priest who's hosting the breakfast.
He brings up William Christopher, Father Mulcahy, and he gives him a gift.
And William Christopher opens it and goes, oh, thank you, it's such a pleasure being
here.
Beautiful.
Now up comes Larry Linville.
He hands him a box, he opens the box, and it's got golf towels in it.
And the priest said to Larry Linville, do you golf?
He said, no, but I'll use them to drive my balls to complete silence. There were nuns
and priests that filled us breakfast.
I love Larry Linville now.
I know too. I mean, there's a guy who committed, you know?
Wow!
I'll use them to dry my balls.
Are you saving those for the end of the show?
Oh, sure.
Oh, no, we can do it right now.
Okay.
Oh, a gift!
All right, this was for the studio.
Oh, this is a picture.
We're in an audio medium, so Gilbert's going to describe what this is.
Okay. Here, let me put on my glasses
Wow, your vision's good if you can't even see an eight by ten and know who it is
Oh, it's it's Forrest Tucker. Correct. So I bought just gotta see what it says
I don't even know what it says. I know it was autographed by him, but I thought that should hang in the studio. Perfect
I'm gonna take that home with me. Okay, you can take it home with you. If somebody here will steal it.
Yes, you can take it home with you.
And Gilbert won't appreciate it.
For the other part of the dynamic duo.
There you go, Gil.
It's a lobby card.
Milton Berle and Virginia Mayo always leave him laughing.
With Burt Lahr.
You know what's interesting?
If anyone says Gilbert's not a good actor, he's feigning interest and delight with this.
Of course.
You know what's going to happen, Frank.
Yeah, it goes in the bottom of the closet.
Right in the closet.
So this is a double whammy of Uncle Milti and Forrest Tucker.
I thought it had to be done.
You put some thought into this.
I did.
I'm taking them both.
Okay, I'm moving right along.
Yes.
The Gino Greatest Hits.
You told me on the phone that you had a Gilligan's Island booking.
You did a Gilligan's Island event that was one of your most successful.
Yes.
Over 10,000 people showed up to meet Bob Denver and Alan Hale Jr.
That is pretty cool.
It was great.
And as you've explained on previous shows, you and Alan were very close.
Yes.
And Bob. And you were close to very close. Yes. And Bob.
And you were close to Bob Denver.
What is the saddest booking story?
And do you need music for this?
Hit the music, Frankie.
This is a TV show that I don't even know if Gilbert would have watched this show, but
I know a lot of us did.
It's the beloved Green Acres.
Oh yeah.
All right.
So I get a call from... We'll get a little backdrop on, so I get a call from we'll get a little backdrop
Yes, I get a call from a hotel
They want to do nostalgia night at their lounge on the top of the the hotel
So they asked me to book Alvy Moore who was County Agent Hank Kimball and can't Kimball or County Kimball Hank
Yes, as you would say sometimes and Tom Lester who was ebb. Do you remember ever the hired hand?
Okay, I already want to kill myself say sometimes. And Tom Lester who was Eb, do you remember Eb the hired hand? Gee, Mr. Duff!
I already want to kill myself.
Gilbert, honestly, we were high up. I did want to open the window and jump out myself
because the guy gets on the microphone. First of all, there's about eight people there.
And I'm not exaggerating. Eight people. Ladies and gentlemen, here they are from Hooterville
It's Tom Lester and Albie Moore
The music plays and this is all I hear in the background
One person applauding. It was so painful
And you know, honestly, I think that was one of the last bookings I did
because I couldn't go back. How many people? Eight. I'm not kidding. In a place that
held probably 300. And they were probably just there to get out of the rain or
something. Only one person was applauding so I'm assuming. Did you stay in touch with
Al B'Mor? Oh yes. no, really good guy. Nice guy?
Yes.
Nice guy.
You knew all these people.
You knew Bob Denver, you knew Tina Louise.
No, Tina I did not know.
You didn't book Tina.
No, because remember, Tina.
Oh, Russell Johnson and Tina.
Tina was not up for making money.
I misspoke, but you were friends with Dawn.
Right, still friends with Dawn.
And Russell Johnson, and Alan Hale, and Grandpa Lewis and Butch Patrick, who we've talked
about on our previous show.
You want to tell the Al Lewis getting in the airport again real quickly for our friend
John Fodiatis?
I didn't know this happened, but Bob Denver called me and said, Bob and Al Lewis booked
at the same place.
Wow.
He said, you're not going to believe what Al did at the airport.
I said, what happened?
He said, about 400 people show up at the
gate. We walk off, they're staring at us, they start applauding and there's a silence and Al goes,
where are the star fuckers? That one's for you, John. Okay. Is there a Red Fox story? No. Now you're turning into Robin Wagner. I don't
know whoever told you that Frank, but they're dicking you around. They're dicking you around.
Is there a... Before I go on, why don't you tell us how resentful you are that Gilbert gets gifts
from fans?
It is so sickening to me and this is spread.
Every week I'm listening and I hear, oh we have some gifts for you.
Now it happened again tonight.
Frank who put in 27 hours on one guest gets a calendar and Gilbert gets this huge box
with an action figure that will never
see the light of day.
No, no, no. If anything, he'll use it as a booster seat.
Yeah, that's right. No, he'll use it, as he said, to take my Milton Berle lobby card
and throw it in the back of the closet. Now, it gets worse, okay? I'm sickened by this
all the time and he is not good to me. Everyone thinks he's such a nice guy. Now, a couple years
ago a friend of mine died and shockingly for the first time ever Gilbert on the phone call
was actually really nice and caring. The next day he started, my friend's name was John and he would call me as Signor Wences.
Yeah, yeah.
Hello John.
John, are you dead?
I'm dead!
Do you want me to put you in the coffin?
Put me in the coffin!
Should I close the lid on the coffin?
Close the lid on the coffin!
Is the coffin closed? Close the lid on the coffin? Closed the lid on the coffin! Is the coffin closed?
No, no, no, no!
No!
What would make you say he's not a nice guy?
Funny once, right?
Boy, by that 10,000th time!
Yeah, the 10,000th!
And then, one of the last times I was in New York, I took him out for dinner. And
we had a waitress. And I'm going to make this, I'm sorry it's politically incorrect, but
it's the facts. This is what happened. It's okay. It was an Asian waitress. No one's listening.
Right. Well, she was listening because she was listening to our conversation. And it
should have been played by Mickey Rooney. So Gilbert do you
want to say what happened when she was eavesdropping? Yeah yeah we were we were
sitting there and and and the waitress comes over we're talking and she says She says to Gino Don't be so mean to him Why you gotta be so mean? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA Now I'm going to say something politically incorrect. Possibly he was in mid-squint and she thought he was a countryman.
She's clearly not on Twitter.
She's not.
She thought maybe.
Well you know why you're right about that?
He was someone she served a cocktail to in Okinawa.
Because years ago, now I'm going to go against my own people.
I took him to an Italian restaurant in Little Italy and the owner sees Gilbert and he keeps
looking at him and he calls me over and he said to me in Italian, he said, is that that
Chinese guy? I had some woman at a restaurant say, I know who you are, you're Mr. Moriaki.
Who's Mr. Moriaki?
No, Karate Kid is what she was called.
Pat Morita.
Miyagi.
Mr. Miyagi.
She thought you were Pat Morita?
Yes, yes. Miyagi Miyagi Miyagi. She thought you were Pat Maria. Yes. Yes
She saw him using his hands doing wax on and wax off
All right moving right along
I'm glad your hatred for him is as strong as it is in previous episodes. I love this guy
He's one of my closest friends, but I also hate him
It's a loving hate it is is a loving hate. Who else would drive three flipping hours in a day to go have lunch with us? To Appleton, Wisconsin. That's friendship. Is
there a... We will return to Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast after this.
Well, should we get back to the Red Fox story?
Well, you and I were on the phone talking about the Red Fox Gary Shandling story.
Which I had heard Billy Crystal tell as if it happened to him.
But Gary Shandling told me personally that that happened to him.
Do you know the story?
Yeah, because Gary Shenneling told me.
He said, you know, Geller,
I was going to tell you about Red Fox.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Everybody knows this story.
We've told it before.
All right, onward.
Yeah.
But it's about Red Fox.
Oh, I know this one.
At Vegas, it comes on stage.
Yes, yes.
And there's seven people in the house.
If you don't know it, we'll tell it on a future show.
Is there a Maury Amsterdam story?
Have you prepared that one?
Yes.
Okay, great.
It was all, he was the sweetest guy.
Every time I was in LA I would call him and he'd say, come on over for a cup of coffee.
And he would tell me stories all night.
So I found out that Sid Melton used to be so annoyed when people would
confuse him for Maury Amsterdam and Gilbert was on Conan O'Brien and he did this joke
just for me because nobody else would have got it. He's talking about Maury Amsterdam
and he goes, come on, you know him from Make Room for Daddy, and he was using 6Sins credits.
Fantastic.
Love it.
Just for you, he's on the Conan O'Brien show
and playing to an audience of one.
You have to admire that.
That's big for me.
But then he would never tell me when
he was going to be on a show.
He'd tell me after.
So by chance, I happen to see that one.
What's the Morrie story?
The Morrie story?
The Morrie Amsterdam story.
That is the Morrie Amsterdam story?
No, that he used the confusion between Morrie and Sid.
I gotcha.
You want to tell the Sid Melton story again, quick?
We would call Sid and Sid would sound like he was near death, like a near death Elmer
Fudd because he would answer the phone. Yeah.
Oh.
Hey Sid, it's Gino and Gilbert.
Oh, hi guys.
He'd spring to life.
Yes.
Okay.
And he lived in...
This gets worse by the way.
Every time he tells it, it becomes more of a small house
like he was living in squalor.
It can't be sadder than Chubsy Ubsy with a pea stain.
It wasn't! It was Joe Cobb. Remember we caught a lot of controversy.
All it needs now is music by Hans Chase Solter from the Universal Horror Films.
He lived like two blocks from an In-N-Out Burger.
And it was right by the airport.
You could like walk into the airport from his house.
If you climbed out the window, you'd be at the airport.
So you'd hear, you know know the house would rumble there was no
like step up it was like the door opened right to the ground that's right you were in the living
room as soon as you open the door yeah so the minute there was if it rained his his living room
and then again Gilbert's the the investigative reporter
We did not know he was on the phone. Okay. I'm you you're Sid. Are you ready? Okay?
Sid I want to ask you a story about Danny Thomas
Okay, he didn't even get Danny Thomas out and Sid said
It's true, it's true.
It's true.
It's true.
It's true.
Great. Classic. Classic.
Do you want to do the Munchkin story?
Yes.
Okay. And then we'll move on to Mr. T.
Okay. Now this starts as a very, very tragic story.
Carl Slover, who's one of the Munchkins,
was sold by his family to one of these troops
of little people.
Oh!
I know, I know.
More heartbreak.
Oh, fuck!
And he is the sweetest guy, and here he was when I had him on the radio singing the Wizard
of Oz theme.
And if you could stand up to that mic, Carl, we'd love to hear it for our listeners.
We're off to see the Wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Your Fante is a Wizard of Oz.
If ever a Wizard was, if ever, ever a Wizard was, the Wizard of Oz is a Wizard of Oz your Fante is a Wizard of a whiz if ever a whiz there was
if ever ever a whiz there was the Wizard of Oz is one because because because because because
because
Because of the wonderful things she does
We're off to see the wizard the wonderful Wizard of Oz
see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of us. Yeah!
Very nice!
How adorable is that?
That is beautiful.
How old was the man at that point?
It is 80s.
That's beautiful.
So I was with Carl at the Hollywood Autograph Show and all of a sudden someone walked up
and it's, I've heard he's in the adult film industry.
I mean, I wouldn't know personally.
His name is Ron Jomme?
Jeremy?
Something.
Anyway, he wanted his picture with Carl Slover.
Hang on.
The hedgehog wanted his picture with a munchkin.
Yes.
And I have this picture at home somewhere and I'll try to get it.
We can put it up on the listener's society.
It's a group of my friends, Ron Jeremy and the little munchkin, the sweet little
munchkin who just heard singing.
Who was sullied by posing with Ron Jeremy.
And this is fact, I'm not being mean because I made money for these people, I love the munchkins,
but Carl, the only thing that kept growing on him was his ears.
Yeah, you sent me a picture.
Yes, so he was tiny, but his ears were almost the him was his ears. Yeah, you sent me a picture.
Yes, so he was tiny, but his ears were almost the size of his head.
But a sweeter guy there couldn't be.
And you said, I don't know if it was the mayor of the Munchkins or whatever, that you visited
one and he was complaining about how constipated.
No, it's always Jerry Maron.
Jerry Maron, the lollipop kid, he called me from Pittsburgh. He'd been there for three days. And I No, it's Jerry Maron. Jerry Maron the lollipop kid he called me from Pittsburgh
he'd been there for three days and I said how's it going he said I can't crap. But did he say it in a
cute munchkin voice? No, like that because when you haven't gone to the bathroom for three days
that's how you talk. By the way in preparation for this I listened to the last two episodes you did
and you opened a story by saying so I booked the Munchkins into Pittsburgh, and Gilbert said,
you're the only person alive.
Because they could make that situation.
No, that's not what he said.
You're being nice again.
What did he say?
He said, I would kill myself if I were you.
If I had to say that, that's my extent in show business.
I would kill myself.
Okay, moving along, A Mr. T anecdote.
Mr. T. Now, I get asked by a friend to cover some publicity dates with Mr. T.
And so we go to North Carolina and I'm carrying the gold in a gym bag. He has gold chains,
a gold knife, a gold fork, spoon, and a plate.
Okay. a gold knife, a gold fork, spoon, and a plate that he would wear around his neck, but you know, he couldn't wear it all the time. So I would carry this. They gave me $200 a day,
take him wherever he wants to eat, every day. And he insisted I call him T. I said, T, where
do you want to go? KFC. We went to KFC in a limo every day and I would pick up the order and bring it back.
We get back and it's North Carolina in the summertime. It's about, and I'm not exaggerating
that it's over 100 degrees and humid. I said, what do you want to do? He goes, let's go
in the hot tub. It's really hot. I want to go in the hot tub. So the only moment in my life that a photo I wish I had, there I am sitting in a hot
tub with Mr. T.
With a bucket of chicken?
That's in the limo.
And the limo had to have a moon roof sun roof on top because he hated air conditioning.
And then a week after it happened, I get home, there's a big box arrives and I think I mentioned this before but there's a
Black set and jacket with his head on the back. It says mr. T's t-force and my name Gino Wow
What a guy I know what a guy I love mr. T Wow
And he would always no matter what I say I take it dig Dig it, dig it, dig it, dig it. He just
keeps saying that over and over. Like the sugar smacks frog. Yes. Did Henry Winkler...
I don't know if they ever worked together, Gilbert. That's a good question. Did you sit on his lap like Nancy Reagan?
That's right. Okay. That song, that song of Mr. T. is for Mother's Day. We just had Mother's Day recently.
Let's hear it. Frank, do you have Mr. T?
Twelve. You couldn't be more than five.
You're so fat they have to jack you up to take off your shoes.
Yeah, well you're so skinny your eyes are in single file.
Well you're so ugly your ears stick out to get away from your face.
Well your mama is so-
Hold it, wait a minute, wait a minute. Don't bring anyone mother to this. She ain't here. Well, ugly, your ears stick out to get away from your face! Well, your mama is so-
Hold it, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Don't bring anyone mothering to this.
She ain't here.
If it wasn't for your mother, you wouldn't be here.
So remember, when you put down one mother,
you put down mothers all over the timing. Listen. Treat her right.
Treat your mother right.
Treat her right.
Treat her right.
Treat her right.
Treat her right.
Treat her right.
Treat your mother right.
Treat her right.
Treat her right.
Mother, there is no other like Mago.
So treat her right.
What else rhymes with mother?
I take my brother.
There is no other.
There is no other.
There is no other.
There is no other.
There is no other.
There is no other.
There is no other. There is no other. There is no other. There is no other. There is no other. No other like Muggle, so treat her right.
What else rhymes with mother?
I shame my brother.
There is no other.
So treat her right, treat her right.
M is for the moon and the miserable groan
from the pain that she felt when I was alone.
O is for the oven with the burning heat
where she stood making sure I had something to eat. Oh
When he when he gets to let her tea his face, Oh fuck, I gotta go all the way through this,
and I'm only up to T.
Dig it, dig it, dig it.
So you liked him.
I still do.
Take it up with Belzer.
Love Mr. T.
Oh yeah.
Mother, I'm a fan of Sally Struthers. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha You know somebody wrote that and probably has a gold record on their wall.
Hilarious.
Alright, we're going to close with a Sylvester Stallone story.
Okay, now of all the stereo, excuse me.
Oh wait, wait, you got to tell a story about the PR guy.
Huh?
The PR guy.
Oh, not the PR guy. Oh, why must you do this to me?
The PR woman.
Because I know it hurts you and makes you uncomfortable.
I'm glad this is on the record of how you treat me.
I go to interview Keanu Reeves for John Wick 3.
His publicist happens to be the publicist of Sunderborg.
And she's very nice when she sees me. Hi Gino. Hi. I have a big smile on my face. She said,
how's Gilbert? And I, he's fine. I think I know where this is about to go. She said, you know,
Sandy just loves Gilbert. And I must have made a wince on my face because she said,
why did you make that face?
I said, because that hurts me like you'll never understand.
It's still stuck in your craw.
It's still, it's, this is, you know,
it shows how stupid I am.
Someone else would not share that story with him.
I share it with him and then he shoves it right up my culo
with every chance he gets.
You feed the monster.
I know.
You should have learned by now.
I know.
Okay, let's do the Sly Stallone story because I know how Gilbert's going to take us out.
I know what Clippy's going to call for at the very end.
Alright, now Gilbert, do you know?
Yes.
You tell the Danny Thomas story, you tell the Cesar Romero story.
We don't know if these stories are true.
This allegedly...
Oh, I think we know if they're true.
Oh, yeah.
It's true.
All true.
This allegedly happened now, and you can find it on the internet.
Sylvester Stallone making a movie, apparently the mic is still on him or in the trailer
when he's having sex with an extra, and he keeps saying over and over again, cradle the
balls, cradle the balls, stroke the shaft.
Now, apparently all the sound guys were listening.
I was told, allegedly, that there were T-shirts made that said,
cradle of balls.
And I was shocked that that story had not been told on this podcast,
Gilbert, which tells these kind of stories all the time.
Gilbert, you're falling down on the job.
How have you not told this story?
I heard also, when I heard this story,
I heard they would say like,
okay, we're gonna do scene one, scene one.
And okay, like the other people on the set
would all start saying that and saying, okay, everyone in your spots, in your spots.
They'd say cradle the balls.
Do it again, Gino.
Cradle the balls.
That's beautiful.
Stroke the shaft.
We had Erwin Winkler here who made the Rocky movies.
We never mentioned it.
In fact, one time they had a tape of Henry Winkler. All right, we're not going down that
street. Don't go down that road. Cradle the ball straight. See what happens now, and this is for,
I was gonna say for all those celebrities out there who are thinking of guesting on this show,
you know, you're fine up until you guest and once he's used you, then you're done.
That's my life story.
In fact, we have a tape of Paul Williams saying, Crackle the bulks, Crackle the bulks.
Wouldn't you say testicles because there are more syllables? Yes! Cr-a-t-e-l-d-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t-e-t- If Frank was paying any attention, because Gino's here, he would know what clip he would have at the ready.
No, no.
Cradle my balls.
That's good too.
He takes on a whole new meaning.
He really does.
And that slow motion shot at the end.
Cradle the balls.
You know the words.
Cradle the balls.
Cradle the balls.
Hilarious.
Don't forget the shafts.
Erwin Wiggler never brought it up. What was he going to end with? I don't know where you're going on this. Create a little butt. Hilarious. Don't forget the shafts.
What was he going to end with?
I don't know where you're going on this.
Well, the piece of tape that he always calls for when Cheetos here.
Come on.
Come on, the Sondra Bullock tape.
I think we should leave Rocky going.
Hold on.
We made it almost through the whole show without hearing that.
I'm sorry I brought it up.
We could have rapped.
He wouldn't have known.
I wanted to be nice.
Oh, he mixed them. Clever fellow.
Play it by itself!
She said she'll cradle the balls.
Frank, Frank, I want one clear one of her saying,
I'm so turned on, I will fuck you.
This is Sandra Bullock saying, okay, ready?
I'm so turned on right now.
I am so turned on right now.
Oh my god, you are brilliant. Come here. I will fuck you.
Yeah.
That's Sandra Bullock talking to me in case you didn't know, Gino.
Gino, if it makes you feel better, we have a similar recording of Jim J Bullock saying
it about you. Jim J Bullock.
And Gilbert's response as I said earlier, oh yes! Oh yes! Oh yes!
You know when Rocky was done, he turned to Gino and he said...
Frank's the best.
I thought he was going for Tommy Lee Jones.
I did too, I did too.
You want to sign off Mr. God Gottfried and say goodbye to this man?
What an entertaining fellow you are, Salomon.
I adore you.
I would love to say goodbye to this man.
Give Pam our love.
Thank you.
Do you want to say goodbye to this man?
Goodbye to this man.
Goodbye to this man.
Are you dead?
I am dead.
Should I cremate you?
You can't do that. Are you dead? I am dead!
Should I cremate you? You cremate me!
Are the ashes getting in your mouth?
He's having a stroke. Gino's having a myocardial infarction.
Gino, thanks for coming, Val. We adore you.
Gilbert and Frank's amazing colossal obsessions with Gino Salomon who got me another gift.
Sucker!
Thanks, Val. Come back again. I will, thank you.