Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast - Mini #152: Gilbert & Frank Read Listener Tweets

Episode Date: February 22, 2018

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Starting point is 00:01:11 Hi, I'm Gilbert Gottfried. And I'm here with Frank. Lord. Santo Padre. It's really, yeah, I'm catching it. It is cold and flu season. And this is Gilbert Gottfried. And now, fuck me again.
Starting point is 00:01:42 This is Gilbert and Frank's Colossal Obsessions. And, you know, if you speak to any current rock musician on who their greatest influence was, it's the old, blind, black, blue singer, Paul Raybone. I wondered where you were going with that. It's not Blind Lemon Jefferson. Yeah. It's Paul Raybone. Yeah, Paul Raybone.
Starting point is 00:02:16 And he's 175 today, but he still was happy to come. I gotta say, Paul, he's on the mend. He just had, you don't mind my telling the folks, you just had some minor surgery. That's right.
Starting point is 00:02:30 And you come in here very fashionable, wearing your slip-on shoes. Well, that's because that's the only shoes I could get over my healing knee. Oh, is that what it is? Okay. Okay. I thought you were going to be in much worse shape.
Starting point is 00:02:44 I thought you knew all right from the start that I was a fashionable guy. Where is this coming from? People are picking up on the Paul Raybone, black jazz musician thing, by the way. I think you got something there, Gil. You hear him talk, and that Louisiana drawl is really... We're having biscuits and gravy after the show tonight. Yes. We haven't done a Twitter episode in a while. We like to let our fans hear their name on the show.
Starting point is 00:03:14 We like to communicate with them. This is the modern-day equivalent of what I guess would have been a viewer mail episode in the days when people sent letters. Letters, we get letters. Like the old Letterman show. But we do it via twitter but first i have a story about one of our previous podcast guests now uh bill macy now uh before my my last story was that bill macy was at the screening, one of the screenings in L.A. Oh, yeah. For my documentary, Gilbert.
Starting point is 00:03:50 And he started gasping for air and he had to be rushed out. And we thought, oh, well, that's it. He's gone. And so we called Darren. I called him the next day and he said, you know, he was feeling fine. He wasn't in the hospital. And we said, well, can we stop by your house and bring you something? And he said, I'm not at the house.
Starting point is 00:04:19 I'm at the casino. He's indestructible. And so, the latest story is Bill Macy, who's 80... He's gonna be 96. He's gonna be 96. Bill Macy, who's going to be
Starting point is 00:04:37 96. Right in our demo. He's one of our younger guests. Was rushed to the hospital with pneumonia. Now we think for sure. Yeah, when you told me that, I thought, ah. Yeah, we think, well, we'll just have to send the wife a bouquet. And so we call him.
Starting point is 00:05:03 He's home. He was in the hospital for a day. He's home. And all he wanted to talk about was that the nurse touched his dick. God bless that man. 96-year-old Bill Macy, very excited. Six-year-old Bill Macy, very excited. He said that they wanted him to pee.
Starting point is 00:05:38 So they stood him up, helped him, and they held the bedpan under. This is also what takes place on every Gilbert Gottfried relationship. Yes. Amazing, colossal podcast recording, but that's neither here nor there. And Bill was going, and, you know, I felt funny, and all the people in the room, as I wasn't able to pee. So the nurse takes two fingers and puts them around my dick and bends my dick, and I start peeing. And I was amazed.
Starting point is 00:06:10 And I said, how did you do that? And she said, I'm a fucking nurse. I'm a fucking nurse. That was her response? Yes, I'm a fucking nurse. Hashtag me too. There you go. That's funny.
Starting point is 00:06:26 Oh, God. So Bill Macy, nothing will slow him down. Okay. I just got a future flash forward of, never mind. When Gilbert's 96. I don't want to go there. Like next month. Yes.
Starting point is 00:06:43 Maybe. Well, so did you call Gino Conforti for his birthday? Yes. That's good. Yeah. He's a delightful guy. I called Gino. He's 86, but he sounds 40 on the phone.
Starting point is 00:06:54 Yeah. And he sounds vibrant and young. Loaded with energy. Full of laughs and energy. My God. I'm so glad we do this show and we get to talk to these people. Gino invited me to LA. He said he'd take me to dinner.
Starting point is 00:07:04 So maybe I have to go. Take him up on that. So we have some tweets. Raybone is on his trusty flashback, his wayback machine. Would you like to play the harmonica? I'm going to play us out at the end. Should I start with a tweet insulting Paul just because it's on theme? Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:07:24 Okay. This is from Why do you even have to ask? This is from Troy Moore. Troy Moore and he says, Ha ha, you credited Vito Scotti with the Godfather when you could have credited him with Gilligan's Island.
Starting point is 00:07:38 Was that some Rayburn research? Where does this guy live? Alright. This I love. Oh, well, you can look up where he lives. This is from Automatic Slim. I love these Twitter names. Fantastic episode with Mark Evanier.
Starting point is 00:07:58 Nothing makes me giddier. I said nothing than Gilbert doing Herve Villachez, and they sent a cartoon of you, of Herve Villachez with your face on his body. It's disturbing. I'll send that to you. I'll send that to Dara. I remember we were getting into that whole talk about. And no guest we ever had knew more about Herve Villachez than Mark. He worked with them one day. And Herve Villachez was a real mean scumbag because he felt he didn't get everything that Tom Selleck got.
Starting point is 00:08:36 He thought, aside from the Tom Selleck money, he should be getting the Tom Selleck, you know, I should get all of the pussy that Tom Selleck gets. Tom Selleck gets billions of dollars and plenty of top pussy. I should get the Tom Selleck pussy. Did you see the Ricardo Montalban interview where he talks about how Hervé wanted everything that he got? Like if he got a bigger trailer. Oh, no, we got to find that.
Starting point is 00:09:11 Oh, it's great. When I was editing the episode, I was so fascinated. I looked it up. And he wanted everything that everyone else had. Yeah, apparently. Montalban's trailer and Selick's purse. Ivan Maltoban's trailer and Dan Selick's pussy. That is art. Bike Burr.
Starting point is 00:09:39 I don't even know how to say this name. Bike, the word bike, and then B-R-H. Use a famous action hero. Bike Burr. Yeah. If you look at the end credits of a lot of sam raimi films we discuss this you will find people credited as fake shemps yes yes this comes up the whole fake shemp thing uh we had that explained to us in detail by three stooges expert eddie deason and i forget i think it's joe pal. I think it's Joe Palmer. I think it's Joe Palmer.
Starting point is 00:10:05 Yeah, who is the fake chimp? I'm not sure. Gary, a codename Gary Seven says, I'm not sure. I'm not the only one who's pointed this out. But Mark Evanier is the zealig, or maybe more appropriately, the Forrest Gump of the entertainment world. He's the lives he's led and the people he's met. That guy has a story about everybody.
Starting point is 00:10:24 Yeah. Yeah. Wasn't that a led and the people he's met. That guy has a story about everybody. Yeah. Yeah. Wasn't that a fun show? Oh, it was. This is from William Lanham. I sent him your autographed Superboy. Oh.
Starting point is 00:10:33 For those of us, for those of the fans that didn't know that Gilbert wrote a Superboy comic. Yeah. Back in when? In the 90s?
Starting point is 00:10:41 Yeah. A while ago. Maybe even the 80s. Was it the 80s? We autographed it and sent it to you. You were playing. Oh, it was the knick-knack. Knick-knack.
Starting point is 00:10:51 It was a knick-knack. We autographed it and sent it to William Lanham. Let's see what we have here. Dave Mackey says, I loved the Howard Morris story at Hanna-Barbera where he told Joe Barbera to go fuck himself. And Joe Barbera said, I took your advice.
Starting point is 00:11:13 Sam the Sens fan, I assume senators. Frank, I am ashamed to say I've never seen a Marx Brothers film. Shame on you. If I can only watch one, which one should it be? Oh, Duck Soup. I was going to say Night in Casablanca. Yes. Or Go West.
Starting point is 00:11:32 Go West, for sure. Go West. Whatever you do. You know what? Have you guys seen, I'm sure you have, A Night at the Opera? I've never seen that one. Is that a good one or not so much? Do you listen to this show? Yeah. And go see The Big Store. Don't see The Big Store. a good one or not so much? Do you listen to this show? Yeah. And go see The Big Store.
Starting point is 00:11:48 Don't see The Big Store. How about The Story of Mankind? The three of them are in that. Yes, and not together. There are three of them in it, not together. They had all three Marx Brothers but in separate scenes. Yeah, yeah. Crazy. Bad idea.
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Starting point is 00:13:13 H.C. Marks writes, hearing this story by Evan Neer made me laugh so hard I almost crashed my car. I don't know what story that was. Hope he makes at least two more appearances. So a lot of people loved the things people send us. This guy, Ken S, sent a picture of Alan Ladd's wallpaper, and it was chicken patterned. You see this? Are you on the Twitter account, Paul? Because a lot of people are.
Starting point is 00:13:39 Because according, and I believe it. Yes. According, and I believe it, according to Ronnie Shell, Alan Ladd, a great leading man. Yes, short leading man. Yeah, short leading man, very handsome. And what he was into was he'd gather women around him, and he'd stand naked in the middle holding a chicken, and the women would start twirling around singing, you simply got to fuck that chicken. You sound a little like Francis Bavier. It's romantic.
Starting point is 00:14:23 It is romantic. It's like a mixture of Francis Bavier and Margaret Dumas. Yes, I give you credit because we've had these long-standing stories on the show, like the chicken, like the oranges and Caesar. Yes. All this stuff. But some people have said that your Jim Neighbors story from the set of Best Little Whorehouse may be giving those old stories a run for
Starting point is 00:14:46 their money, and that's quite a compliment. That we should add a new classic story. And if you missed that, why don't we split? That'll use up the whole show. A couple of people also liked your George Burns story that you
Starting point is 00:15:01 shocked and upset Phil Rosenthal with. Ken S. Ken S. Ken S. Ken Shaq. You're going to fuck Dolly Parton and then fuck me up the ass? It is beautiful. Who says this show is not a tribute to old show business?
Starting point is 00:15:26 It is beautiful. Ken S. says he sent a picture of Doc Severinsen, who is 90. Look at this. This is Doc Severinsen. Wow. Doc Severinsen is still with us. Yes. And playing at 90, he is playing the trumpet here at Santa Anita Racetrack.
Starting point is 00:15:43 How about that? Well, he would be fun to meet. Ken S. sent that. Let's wait a while and then find him on the show. Dane Girard, or Dane Giroux, says, God bless all of you
Starting point is 00:15:55 and your George Burns stories. Yes, all of them. Yes. Phil told a beautiful, sweet George Burns story, and Gilbert told one that was not so. Less sweet. Beautiful and sweet. sweet George Burns story and Gilbert told one that was not so less sweet
Starting point is 00:16:05 beautiful and sweet Eric Ryan says the Phil Rosenthal is so smart and enthusiastic about what's good about Hollywood and his Math House story is a classic what an outsized and talented character so yeah so people like the Mark
Starting point is 00:16:21 Evanier episode which is gratifying to us every now and then we just do an episode with somebody who's just got, you know, someone younger, someone under 70, as Phil is. Phil's my age. And Mark, who's not an old man, to come on and just tell stories and anecdotes, you know. It's a fun little kind of something different that we do. And Greg, Phil told that wonderful Jerry Lewis story. Oh, yes. About when they wrote the movie for Alan Arkin and they wound up with a meeting with Jerry. And Jerry said, I see this for Jerry 3.
Starting point is 00:16:59 What else do we have here? Holy smokes, Gilbert, did you know that James Mason did commercials for Thunderbird Wine? No. Thunderbird Wine. And he sent a YouTube link, which I will send to you. This is just strange. You know the Photoshop stuff? Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:20 That people send. And somebody Photoshopped your head on Ken Norton's body from the movie. I saw that. I saw that. Oh, let's see. Um, two, two,
Starting point is 00:17:33 two. I can cut out the, uh, I can cut out all the vamping. Uh, Cynthia Dagnall. These names are hard to pronounce. Danielle Myron hyphenated Danielle Myron.
Starting point is 00:17:43 Please pitch the movie night series you introduced in this podcast Phil so that we can see what a magical life you lead he invited us
Starting point is 00:17:52 he invited us to his pizza night yes Phil Rosenthal where he had Peter O'Toole come and all of these wonderful people
Starting point is 00:17:59 come to the house Paul you were listening to that episode weren't you I think Paul nodded off four minutes ago. How can you tell? I did.
Starting point is 00:18:11 No, I got a treat for you here. Go ahead. I just called up the James Mason Thunderbird Wine. Uh-huh. And the title of the commercial is Thunderbird Wine Has an Unusual Flavor. How about that? Is that good? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:25 Yeah. Yeah. Gilbert, you could do those. You could call Thunderbird Wine and James Mason's gone. You could take the gig with your James Mason impression. This is very interesting. This was sent to us by Rick Dennis,
Starting point is 00:18:36 who writes a lot to us. Oh, Dennis. Oh, Dennis. In case you guys are wondering about his health, Gene Hackman is fine and riding an e-bike. There's Gene Hackman. Oh. Renting a bicycle at 88.
Starting point is 00:18:49 Jeez. How about that? Or buying a bicycle. How about that? On a bicycling website. Gene Hackman looking good. We'd heard the worst about Gene Hackman. But he does think he's Martha Washington.
Starting point is 00:19:01 Really? That's the only thing wrong. I just saw, I turned in a dial the other day, and what's the one with Will Smith, Enemy of the State? Enemy of the State, yeah. Great movie. Yeah. Well, I don't think he made any, really many bad movies, Gene Hackman.
Starting point is 00:19:17 A couple toward the end. Maybe Welcome to Mooseport. Oh, yeah. But, not to, here's time for a little math out love. This is from Mikey Anastasio, and he sent a picture of Walter playing the piano in the nude. Oh, geez. Have you seen this picture before? I think that's from Pete and Tilly, the movie he made with Carol Burnett.
Starting point is 00:19:39 I'm jumping around here trying to find some good ones. Some of these I don't even understand. We love Phil Rosenthal. The guy backed up a Brinks truck and unloaded half a ton of priceless gems and Hollywood gold, says Joe. Coca-Cola. And he can get dinner with his parents. And he invited you to a film screening at his home. How about that?
Starting point is 00:20:01 We've got to go. Yeah. Somebody else wrote that he was one of the few guests whose parents were still living. Ray Gustini writes, TCM is doing a late night Capra marathon. I know that you guys love Capra. A hole in the head, I have to say, is pretty bad. That's the one with Edward G. Robinson. Oh, and Frank Sinatra.
Starting point is 00:20:24 And Sinatra. Yeah. Yeah, is pretty bad. That's the one with Edward G. Robinson. Oh, and Frank Sinatra. And Sinatra, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought Robinson was funny in that. You did? Yeah. Oh, it's pretty bad. Maybe Robinson's good, but the movie's pretty bad. Oh.
Starting point is 00:20:36 Yeah. The song High Hopes came from that movie. Oh, wow. Which John F. Kennedy, I believe, uses as campaign song. Did you know that, Ray Bone? I did not know that. I did not know that. This guy, I believe, uses as campaign song. Did you know that, Ray Bone? I did not know that. I did not know that. This guy, I love this Twitter name.
Starting point is 00:20:48 His name is two-thirds of my face is a cat because his avatar is his cat covering his face. People put a lot of thought into these. If I had known as a kid in the 80s that George Burns had an open-door policy, I would have bugged my parents for a one-way ticket to Hollywood until they were glad to get rid of me. Phil's story, again, about George Burns just going into... Yeah, you could just walk into his office. Mm-hmm. Now, Ravi K. Bhatia, this is about the swimmer, Gil.
Starting point is 00:21:17 Ah. And did you know this? He said there was an SNL bit called The Man Who Loves Swimming, and it was a Burt Reynolds-John Cheever combo mashup funny to no more than 37 people on earth you being one of them wow i assume did you know about that no stephen manhattan writes uh i'm watching my comfort movie we did an episode about comfort movies way back yes we talked about hello about Hello Down There. Oh, with Richard Dreyfuss and Ken
Starting point is 00:21:46 Berry. And he sings the love song to the goldfish. Little goldfish. He says, my comfort movie is Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe.
Starting point is 00:21:53 Oh, Jacqueline Bissett, George Siegel, and Robin Morley. Very good. What more do you need? And look at Gilbert
Starting point is 00:22:01 ripping out the cast. Just like that. Chris Kilgore wants you to know that gilbert's riffing lewd acts for diseases on the norm mcdonald podcast is a top 10 comedy moment of the internet age i assume that was an offshoot of the Catherine Zeta-Jones bit? Yes. Eric Conner, who recently provided a Producer of the Month episode, Gilbert or Dara, someone retweeted me. Does this mean they know I exist in the universe? If so, even after a wife and two kids, it is finally a life worth living.
Starting point is 00:22:45 By the way, my six-year-old recently did a Gilbert impersonation, unprompted. The word proud doesn't cover it. Could take that a couple of ways. How about that? Here's somebody you can look up, Paul. Stanley Myron Handelman. Do you remember him, Gilbert?
Starting point is 00:23:00 Absolutely. Michael Gelman wants to know, says, I actually ran into Stanley Myron Handelman. He stepped into an elevator in the apartment building that I lived in in Riverdale in the Bronx. We smiled at each other. No words were exchanged. He was really an original. Did you know him personally? A funny comic who was on a lot in the 60s.
Starting point is 00:23:20 I've seen, I think I saw him a handful of times on stage where it stopped into like, I don't know, like catch or the improv. Very funny. Yeah. He was a Brooklyn guy. Brooklyn guy. Yeah, he passed away. 2007. His daughter is a comic named Stephanie Wilder, and she's funny too.
Starting point is 00:23:39 Yeah. Anything else on Stanley Myron Handelman? I'm just trying to work you into the show, Paul. Merv Griffin. Because I see your eyes see your eyelids getting heavy. I remember he used to wear that newsboy. Yes. Yes.
Starting point is 00:23:51 He was sort of, what, a kind of a Schmendrick character? Yeah. Yeah. Almost like a poor man's Woody Allen. Yeah. A little bit. He was like tall, skinny, hunched over, and hand-in-way of talking. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:07 Here's one. Are you ready for one quip from him? Yeah. I just got up from a sickbed. I don't know what's wrong with it. It just lies there. Do you remember a comic named Billy Braver? Did you ever work with him?
Starting point is 00:24:22 Yeah. I worked with him in L.A. He was another one of those guys. Oh, yes. Short in stature, kind of schmendricky. braver did you ever work with him i worked with him in la he was another one of those guys oh yes short in stature kind of schmendricky i i i remember stanley myron hendelman had a joke he goes uh you know one time i was in a restaurant and fred astaire was sitting at a table a few feet from me, and they brought his bill, and he didn't have his wallet. And he said, could you lend me some money? I'll pay you back.
Starting point is 00:24:56 And I gave him some money, and he said, I'll pay you back. And then years went by, and I saw Fred Astaire, and I said, you know, Fred, you never paid me back the money I lent you. And he gave me a whole song and dance. Oh, God. As corny as that was, it was worth the wait. That's funny. He was a funny guy. Okay, I will urge our fans to find and look up Stanley Myron Handelman.
Starting point is 00:25:34 Yeah, very funny. H-A-N-D-E-L-M-A-N, who has left us but was a funny guy. Marshall Armentor. Marshall Armentor. I'm ashamed to say this this and others have told you but showtime had those aerobic interstitial segments yes that you were talking about we were talking about with phil i was too young to know what they were yeah and and uh i looked them up and yeah it was it was basically like porn yeah like aerobic porn yeah oh leotard porn
Starting point is 00:26:07 yeah these girls would be in like their little spandex outfits all doing like their deep knee bends and whatnot we thought it was hbo i guess i guess it was i guess it was early showtime there's plenty of them on youtube for anybody who wants to pursue this. Yeah, they're still around. Three Oranges writes, Frank, I almost wrecked my car this morning when I heard Gilbert follow up Phil's sweet, heartwarming George Burns story with his other George Burns story. Let's see This is the person who photoshopped your head On the Mandingo A picture of you from SNL with a Jufro
Starting point is 00:26:53 From I don't know what year that is Oh it's the devil The devil is his Twitter handle Tweet of Serpent I had to do a bit of digging but I found Gilbert auditioning For Mandingo Let's see What else And I had to do a bit of digging, but I found Gilbert auditioning for Mandingo. Let's see.
Starting point is 00:27:08 What else? What else? What else? James Stieber. I always loved Matthau in A New Leaf with Elaine May and, of course, the late Doris Roberts. So there's another connection to Phil. Let's see. Slappy J.
Starting point is 00:27:26 Slappy J says, have you guys ever thought of getting Eddie Deason on the show was this week soon enough for you yes we are here to make your dreams come true our friend John Fodiatis at Empty City Square says I think I once shared a cubicle sitting between Jerry 1 and Jerry 3
Starting point is 00:27:42 hey can we plug John's new producer of the month? Let's do that. It's really great. Isn't it good? That's really solid. We're going to have to open the next producer of the month episode with it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:54 John Fodiatis, a man of many talents. Uh, and he does, he's an architect. He's a fan of this show, but he also composes theme songs. It's,
Starting point is 00:28:04 it's, uh, it's his listener mail theme song that you hear at the end of this one. At the end of this one, yeah. Absolutely. Thanks for that, Frankie. And if you go to Patreon, you can hear that theme whenever you want. Yes, you can.
Starting point is 00:28:18 Steven Manhattan. I'll just take us through a couple of last ones because I think Rayburn ordered out. through a couple of last ones because I think Rayburn ordered out. Stephen Manhattan says, I'm still catching up but listening to Tony Orlando
Starting point is 00:28:30 curse Ed Gilbert when he couldn't find the right key. Maybe the best thing ever. That doesn't sound possible. Doesn't sound possible. I think that was a little musical instruction.
Starting point is 00:28:44 Yeah. We'll end with this. Trinity. Yeah. That was going on there. We'll end with this. Trinity, these names, boy, oh, boy. Trinity Vidiori. Vidori. Vidori. How would you pronounce V-I-D-A-U-R-R-I?
Starting point is 00:28:59 Vidori? Vidori. Vidori. Vidori. It's pronounced Worcester. Vidori. I'm thankful we live in an era where a Robert Mitchum series and a Peter O'Toole series would probably get made on all the platforms we have now. Oh, yeah. Because that's interesting because now with Hulu and Netflix and Amazon and all of these things, you might see Phil was trying to set those shows up, especially in the O'Toole case.
Starting point is 00:29:23 I mean, the Mitchum thing got on the air, but it was not very good. Okay, I lied. I'm going to find one last one. That's a picture of Gilbert. Rick Dennis, again. Three more names for you guys for your never-ending list, because we love it when people pitch us the names of people to book. Dwayne Hickman.
Starting point is 00:29:45 Oh. Dobie Gillis. Dwayne Hickman. Oh. Dobie Gillis. Yeah. Still around. Wow. John Davidson. We have asked John Davidson to do the show on numerous occasions. Dara knows him.
Starting point is 00:29:54 He still works and he's busy, but. Yeah. Let me not be the person to point out that he did Mark Malkoff's podcast. Oh, geez. But turned us down. Dara, what is that about? John Davidson. Can we repeat the question, please?
Starting point is 00:30:09 John Davidson, Darrow. We're getting requests. He will not do the show. He said, let me just be a fan. He's intimidated, I'm told. He's intimidated. We're told he's intimidated. By the length of Gilbert's piece.
Starting point is 00:30:21 By Paul, I think. By Gilbert's manhood. Yeah. Wait a minute. what was the link there exactly he'd like huh he'd like to help Gilbert
Starting point is 00:30:29 the way the nurse helped Bill Macy and hashtag me too me too the last person being pitched by Rick Dennis is Dennis Franz
Starting point is 00:30:38 from NYPD Blue oh wow how about that what do we think of Dennis Franz I mean we like him but I think he's one of those that just somewhere along the way said,
Starting point is 00:30:49 eh, I got enough money. Exactly. I'm just going to play golf and take it easy. Exactly. He'll do it, but he has to be able to show his ass at least once. Is that true? Is that a fact? I didn't realize that.
Starting point is 00:30:59 Somebody pitched me today. Was it you, Frank, that pitched Burt Young? Yes. Did you have Burt Young in here? No. An old girlfriend's father had a birthday. It was a picture with him and Burt Young. And I said, well, if they know him, I can reach out.
Starting point is 00:31:14 You think of Burt Young for the show? Oh, that would be good. He did a lot of stuff. Yeah. Rocky. There's decent people trying to sleep. Hope of Greenwich Village. He doesn't look like a chatty Kathy to me.
Starting point is 00:31:25 He doesn't look like the kind of guy that's going to come in here and have a party. But we'll try. We'll try. And we do appreciate all guest requests, don't we, Ray Bone? We do. Shall I play a few choruses on my bone? Go for it. We play the Jew's harp.
Starting point is 00:31:40 This is only going to get worse. Yeah. We love to hear from you. We love the tweets. We love the mail. We hope you guys love hearing your name on the show. Send in requests. Send in ideas.
Starting point is 00:32:00 We're only joking when we say that we don't want your guest requests. I want to hear them even though Gilbert has contempt. This is Gilbert's standard response when I call him and I say, hey, how about this person? That might be good. It's how he feigns enthusiasm. He humors me. The way you two work together, it's like one person. I know.
Starting point is 00:32:24 It's magic. It's magic. It's seamless. I get a list of names. I'm excited. I say to my wife, he's going to get so excited by these names. I call him up. Gilbert, Richard Donner. Richard Donner's going to do the show. Oh.
Starting point is 00:32:39 That might be good. Adolph Eichmann. That might be good. He passed.ichmann. Oh, that might be good. He passed. He passed. I think I got Rudolph Hess. Shall we? Okay.
Starting point is 00:32:55 Can you tell we're sleepy and punchy tonight? Yes. This has been Gilbert and Frank's amazing colossal obsessions. And old black blind Paul Raybone will play us out with one of his harmonicas. You know, I'm tempted to go out on a Paul Raybone harmonica. We have to play John's Listener Mail theme. Thank you, Paul Raybone. Thank you, Frank Verderosa.
Starting point is 00:33:33 Thank you, Dara. I'm not thanking you. See you next time. That sounds good. Listener Mail. Listener Mail. Listen out loud If you want to know about By Beyonce's you Or Lon Trainee Jr
Starting point is 00:34:04 It's something we're used to. Colossal obsessions, these things that we've studied. Like why Groucho helped Chico, cause he needed the money If you have a comment On Cesar Romero And those oranges thrown by Those young caballeros You can ask what you want Anything on our biz
Starting point is 00:34:44 But please keep it short We won't want anything on our beds. But please keep it short. Just like having finishes. Listen up, man. Listen up, man. Listen up now Yeah, we'll answer your questions And that is a promise Even the ones
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