Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast - Mini #177: Gilbert's Christmas in July

Episode Date: August 16, 2018

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TD Insurance advisor to learn more. Insurance should be too. Contact a licensed TD Insurance advisor to learn more. Gilbert and Frank's Colossal Obsessions. Hi, this is Gilbert Godfrey, and this is Gilbert and Frank's amazing, colossal obsessions with the late Frank Ferdowicz. Whatever happened to Frank? Yeah, well, he was never able to find work again. After losing our three episodes? Yes, never able to find work again. After losing our three episodes? Yes.

Never was able to work again. And he was living in under the bridge in Jersey somewhere. We will explain at the end of this episode what we actually mean. But who else is with us, Gil? Also. Yeah? Papercliplesspless What? Raybone

I don't understand By the way they're all paper products now It's all stationary now It's paper, origami This is a tragedy in Raybone's life That he has several pieces of paper That he can't keep together because he cannot use for religious reasons. He cannot use paper clips. Does any of this mean anything to you, Paul?

Yes. Well, the paper clip story is a long and ugly reminder. Paul informed me, Gilbert, while you were taking a bathroom break, Paul informed me that... Which is every five minutes. Frank just brought Paul a paperclip. This is an engineer you can count on. That's an engineer.

He's like MacGyver. Paul informed me on the break while you were making a tinkle that his son listens to this podcast. Ah! Which is more than I can say for your offspring. I would like to apologize to Paul Rayburn's son. is more than I can say for your offspring. Yes! I would like to apologize to Paul Rayburn's son.

Yes. Anything I'm about to say. We issue a lot of apologies. Your son is 37? 38? 30, what the hell is he? Is this 2018?

Uh-huh. He's 30, he's going to be 37. Math is not your long suit. And he lives in New Zealand. He lives in New Zealand. And he lives in Auckland? Where does he live?

He lives in Wellington. Wellington. That's the capital. And he lives in Auckland? Where does he live? He lives in Wellington. Wellington. That's the capital. That's right. His wife works for the government in Wellington as a mental health advisor. There you go. And he expects to be working for the government soon, too. So I hope this doesn't get out because this takeover of the New Zealand government by American expats.

And he listens to this show. And he listens to this show. And he listens to this show. I'm flattered. Very good. And he loves it. Yeah, that's fun. And the Jew hunter in Inglourious Bastards. What's his name again?

Brad Pitt? No, the Jew hunter. He's that Nazi officer. Oh, you mean the character Christoph Waltz plays? Oh, yes. He has a son who's a rabbi living in Israel. Really? Yeah.

He's not Jewish. He himself. Christoph Waltz. Yeah. He was married to a Jewish woman at one point. They had a son who is now a rabbi in Israel. He's fun in Scott and Larry's movie in Big Eyes. Yeah, he's a lot of fun. Can we connect his son to Kevin Bacon?

Let's try it. Good Bond villain too, Christoph Waltz. We're going to do some tweets, but before we do that, since this is sort of a fan-friendly episode, a listener-friendly episode, we occasionally get gifts sent here

at Nutmeg. Oh, lavish gifts. I love those. Yes, lavish gifts. And imaginative. And Gilbert usually just walks out and doesn't open them

and doesn't read them and doesn't realize that his name is on them. And my wife keeps wondering why I come back from recordings with my arms filled with envelopes.

And these are the gifts that I collect them so they don't get thrown out. why I come back from recordings with my arms filled with envelopes. And these are the gifts that I collect them so they don't get thrown out. Frank is very nice to accept them for us. I want to apologize now to all the fans that have sent things by the time this airs. Yes. We'll have them return to them. Yes.

We'll clear that up on social media and we'll explain. When we're living in a new place, you can send them to the wife of the late Frank Ferdarosa. But this is... The Ferdarosa widow.

This is stuff that was sent to us by fans care of Nutmeg and we'll have to issue a new address. But this is from our friend Andrew Bavington and look what he sent you, Gilbert. Can you open this? I'll open it. You have the Ohio Bavington? Of the Ohio, of the Connecticut Bavingtons.

Oh, right. Yes. This is Hey Gaze. Hey guys. Hey Gaze. Hey Gaze. He's right the first time. As requested on the podcast, please find included for Gilbert a copy of

Gilbert, open that up. That is As requested on the podcast, please find included for Gilbert a copy of... Gilbert, open that up. Oh, oh, oh. That is... Oh, oh, Francis. Oh, oh, oh. He's doing Joey Ross. Just move that piece of tape out of the way.

Oh, oh, yes. And you got it. That is what you are holding in your hand from our pal Andrew Bavington. He's really botched this. It's like watching Paul open up that pack of cookies all over again. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. That took an entire episode.

The Monster Times. There you go. The Monster Times. The Monster Times. Thank you. Issue number one. Thank you. No less from 1972.

Thank you with an artwork of King Kong. How about that? And a picture of Boris Karloff. Is that a lovely gift? That is fan devotion. So you thank Andrew yourself. Thank you, Andrew. And there's some other stuff here

because you've been requesting on the show. Why isn't anybody sending me stuff from the Monster Times? Yes. And now it came. Okay, what else do we have here? I opened these last night. My wife said,

you're going to open them for him too? Can't he do anything? So basically you were like Tom Hanks on the island. Yes. Where you had these Federal Express packages that you wouldn't open. Yes, skates came. Yes. I took out my shoes.

It was a volleyball with a bloody handprint that actually did better research than Paul does. Oh, now. Now, now. Now you're just being cruel. Wilson. It was a volleyball with a bloody handprint that actually did better research than Paul does. Oh, now. Now, now. Now you're just being cruel. Wilson. Wilson. Wait till you see how I do with my new paperclip.

Okay, here's an... Apologies to Paul's side. Here's a... This was sent by Joseph Ginsberg. I'm trying to see if I can get the names on this. Joseph Ginsberg, Golenbach Eisenman. I can get the names on this. Joseph Ginsberg. Golenbach Eisenman. Oh, that's the name of the law firm. That's the law.

Don't open it. That's the name of the law firm. This is from Joseph Ginsberg. Hello. Yes, he's one of yours. Enjoy this, dear fellows. Thank you so much for this wonderful podcast. It is so delightful and to

know that one isn't the only middle-aged white guy who remembers the 70s as if i think it's a backhanded compliment as if it were yesterday this is uh p.s how has caroline monroe not come up on the podcast before unless i've missed it i think we mentioned her we talked about dr fives yeah yeah she's probably she's in the abominable Dr. Fibes. Is she around? She's around, I think. This is from your pal She didn't die with Julie Andrews? No! She was not part of the

lesbian death, the lesbian suicide pact. Open this. This is from your friend Joseph Ginsberg, class of Brooklyn College. This is so exciting. Another Monster Time! Hey, look at that! Another Monster Time! It's like Christmas morning.

It is. Dara's going to be so happy. I've never seen a child so delighted. And what is his name? His name is Joseph Ginsberg. Okay. And you'll want to thank him. He's one of your countrymen.

Oh, Mr. Ginsberg. Oh, yes, thank you. How about that? Wow, two monster times. I'm going to have to put Christmas music under this. That level of joy doesn't happen around here these days. Oh, no. Now, our friend Paul Ekstrom, who loves the show and who follows us on Patreon

and just requested a couple of weeks ago your song. I think he requested you singing the Beverly Hillbillies game. He sent us a DVD. He sent you one and sent one to me. Are you familiar with a movie called The Blood Rose? That title sounds familiar. We're going to have Mr. Ray Bone check it out. Oh, Christ.

He writes, guys, enjoy this. This is the first sex-slash-horror movie, sex-slash-horror movie, not counting Gilbertilbert's uh honeymoon video uh ever made by paul extra from paul ekstrom do you know this film the blood rose 1970 anyway he sent that so we want to thank paul and we will have our paul look that up a french painter ph Lemaire, makes a plastic surgeon, Howard Vernon, fix his scarred wife, Amy Dupere, with ill-gotten grafts. Ill-gotten grafts. Ill-gotten grafts.

Is this French, this film? I assume so. It seems like it. You can't put anything past me. Anne Dupere, Elisabeth Tessier, Valérie Boisvert. So it's a French horror film with I assume so. It seems like it. You can't put anything past me. Anne Dupere, Elisabeth Tessier, Valérie... So it's a French horror film with sexual overtones. Something you can

watch. That sounds interesting. 1970 French horror film. No Mathilde May. No. But it sounds interesting. The Blood Rose, you just said this, was widely touted as one of the first films to mix sex and horror. Now, you got something the other night from Anthony D'Ambrosio.

What did you get the other night that was sent here to Nutmeg? You opened it. It was a gift. Was it a movie? Did he get something the other night, Frank, that he actually took with him? Sent home a big, it felt like a heavy book. And it was addressed to your kids. Yes, yes. It addressed to your kids.

Yes, yes. It was for your children. To my kids. Did you open it? Yeah, it was like a social studies book. How strange. Yeah. Oh, what was the connection there? I don't know.

Okay, well, we'll thank Anthony for that. Anthony is a friend. He came to see us interview Barry Levinson. Yes. Down in Tribeca. And I want to thank a guy named Lance Laurie, L-A-U-R-I-E, who sent me some really wonderful stuff. He sent me old TV

guides and old life magazines from the Kennedy assassination. Really cool shit. Is Dan Laurie still around? Who? Dan Laurie. He was the father. Dan Lauria. Yeah, Dan Lauria. On the Wonder Years? Yes. He's around. Dan Luria. Yeah, Dan Luria. On The Wonder Years?

Yes. He's around. Oh, okay. What would happen to the man? He didn't die in a lesbian cult. No. No. Julie Andrews, Helen Reddy.

No. He's alive and well and with us, Dan Luria. Oh, good. Yeah, what? You want to invite him on? Maybe. Or you just wanted to... I once met him at some SAG protest somewhere. Oh, you did?

Yeah. Okay. That's cool. Here's... This is from... Very nice. I'm sure he is. This is from Madden Law Offices.

Is the... Are you sure these aren't lawsuits? No. My wife is always... My wife's a little tentative when I bring this stuff into the house and start opening it because she thinks it's, you know, anthrax. Once you look at it, you've been served. J. Thomas Madden.

Hi, gentlemen. Enclosed swag. Please find... I'm not going to tell Gilbert what's in there. Please find... Well, Gilbert can open it himself and find what's in there. And the second gift is for you, Paul. And I didn't open it. Uh-oh.

But he writes in the letter, please find number one enclosed. That is the gift for Gilbert. It's true that the squeaky wheel gets the grease, but the lesser known adage is the squeaky Jew gets the tchotchke. I love that. Thomas is J. Thomas Madden. Tom Madden, he signs it.

We'll call him Tom, is an attorney in Wheeling, West Virginia. Wheeling. Wheeling. I said that. Wheeling, West Virginia. Also find item two, which is an envelope for blind,

shoeless, boneless, howling Paul Raybone. He's blind, so just tell him it's a 20. Blues man Paul Raybone here. tell him It's a 20 Blues man Paul Raybone here Tell him it's a 20 And he writes

Cheers to you Frank And to Gilbert Dara Frankie V Blind Paul And all of the people Who contribute to the best Podcast in the business

Keep them coming With best wishes And regards I remain Tom Madden Tom sent you this Very nice letter Yes

So we're going to thank Tom As well My Tom has changed my life What did Tom sent you this. Very nice letter. Yes. So we're going to thank Tom as well. Tom has changed my life. What did Tom send you? To Paul Rayburn, the king of the Delta Blues. He sent you a buck. He sent me cash, and I can use cash. He sent you cash.

Let me tell you. How about that? I'd like to lodge a complaint. I've been asking for cash for many years. This is what I really needed. I haven't gotten any. for many years. Now I really need it. Is Tom familiar with the Soupy Sales Show? Yes, we'll mention that. Gilbert, what'd you get? Another Monster

Times. How about that? Another Monster Times. It is Christmas morning here in Nutmeg. So I'll put this with my other Monster Times. So you got three issues of the Monster Times. Okay. Are they different issues? Yeah. I'd like to point out I got no issues of the Monster Times. Okay. Are they different issues? Yeah. I'd like to point out I got no issues of the Monster Times.

Yes. Did you get a buck? You got three. I didn't get a buck. Okay. I just sit here like a stooge and read the letters. Wait. Wait. Is there supposed to be more in here?

No. It was a letter for Raybone. He sent him a buck. Oh, okay. And he sent you the Monster Times. Tom, thank you for the buck. You've turned my life around. I have no idea.

Very nice of you, Tom. Very nice. Last but not least. I'll give you the Monster Times for the buck you've turned my life around. Very nice of you, Tom. Very nice. Last but not least. I'll give you the monster times for a buck. I hold in my hand the last envelope. Oh, okay. We're going to do Karnak. This is from a guy I used to work with at Topps.

This is from an illustrator. Oh, wow. A gentleman named Fred Wheaton. W-E-H-E-A-T-O-N. We did Wacky Packs together and other stuff back in the – Gilbert's going to love this. He's going to plot. Yeah.

Hey, Frank, here are the promised – if memory serves, I receive them from crazy – I'm not going to give away what it is. In Pittsburgh in the early 90s, I hope they are. Oh, and he attached a Wacky Pack that he worked on. One of Drew's drawings of Shemp. This is great. This is a coupon of Howard's Shampoo from the Tops Company.

What year did we do these? 1991. This is drawn by Drew. And on the envelope, he put my Gravestones vitamins, which is a wacky pack I did. But let's cut to the chase, Gilbert. Your gift is inside. Can you open that envelope? So thank you, Fred.

Just want to say to the fans, you can't even imagine the joy on Gilbert's face as he receives these items. What did you get, Gilbert? The Chick- The Chick-Tracks. Chick-Tracks. They came. They came. Oh my God, I loveacks. They came. They came. Oh, my God.

I love these. Thanks to Fred Wheaton. How about that? Here's some guy dying and going to hell already. Let me read his letter now. He writes, Frank, here are the promised Chick Tracks. If memory serves, I received them from crazy street preachers in Brooklyn. In Brooklyn.

In Pittsburgh in the early 1990s. I hope they are as hellish as Gilbert remembers. Oh, these are great. Isn't that nice? These are great. I love these shit packs. So this ought to illustrate how passionate and how

grateful our listeners are. Thank you. Fred Wheaton. Fred Wheaton. So Gilbert makes, please, Frank never got his money, his cash, by the way. Not a single penny. Rayburn got a buck. And happy to have it.

Yeah. I got some lovely gifts from, I'm not complaining, I got some lovely stuff from, and again, we'll use the opportunity to thank Kirk Hammett for that wonderful, the shirts and the tote bag, and you got the box set of the- I'm going to lose weight just so I can fit into that shirt. Because they sent me a pack. They sent you a shirt? That's great.

They sent me old gift bags. I've got to send Kurt Hammett. I just found it. I always lose it and find it again. I've had it since I was a little kid. I sent away to famous monsters for horrible Herman the Asiatic

insect. And what came is a tiny box like about an inch long. You told him about it. Yeah, and it was a little stick with a feather on it and a rubber band. Not quite what

the drawing in the back of the magazine looked like. Right, right, right. Yeah, well, we have to thank Kirk, too. So we thank Kirk. We thank Anthony D'Ambrosio. And it's so funny because when someone first suggested Kirk Hammond to me, they said, well, you know, he's from Metallica. And I said, fuck Metallica.

And they said, no, he's like the biggest monster i can't even remember who suggested him to us yeah but he turned out to be the perfect guest oh total monster yeah that was a fun episode yeah he he knows all of it yeah only gilbert and i would interview the guitar lead guitarist of metallica and not discuss metallica for 90 minutes i asked one for my my sister-in-law's boyfriend. I don't know a fucking thing about Metallica, but you want to talk about old monsters.

We put Enter Sandman. Frank did some editing on that episode. We put Enter Sandman in there. We put a little nod to the fans. Every time Gilbert tells the insect story, I feel like the opening scene of the movie Avalon with the old man. Yeah.

Oh, yes. Yes. I came to America. And I'm picturing like 90-year-old Gilbert with people around him going, I got the insect from the magazine. Barry Levinson movie. Yeah.

Yeah, that guy played a good Nazi. Armin Müller-Stahl. Oh, that's right. Yes. He played in that movie Music Box with Jessica Lange. The Music Box was written by that crazy writer. Joe Esterhaus? Who?

I heard Joe Esterhaus. His father was a Nazi. What? Yeah. Jeez. This episode is a little all over the place. Let me thank these people. Paul Ekstrom, thank you very much for the movie.

Anthony D'Ambrosio, Lance Lorry, Tom Madden, Fred Wheaton. Who have I left out here? Oh, I forgot one. Oh. This is from Sean. I can't spell his name. Sean Orkinoto. I think it's Sean Orkinoto.

And he sent Monster Magazines on DVD. Oh my goodness! So I think those are digital episodes of the Monster Times that you can read in your computer. This is so sweet. How about that? Is that great? Yes. I couldn't believe it.

It's sitting in a stack in my lap and I almost forgot Sean. So thank you, Sean. Thank you, Joseph Ginsberg and Fred Wheaton and Tom and Lance Laurie and Anthony. And did I forget anybody else? I think I got everybody in. I just love that we've had the joy of Christmas and the sorrow of Nazis all in a 30-minute span. Yeah, well, that's us. We got Madden.

And Tom Madden, yeah. I thanked everybody. Okay. So there you go. And Tom Madden, yeah. I thanked everybody. Okay. So there you go. So you can go crazy over those. And Dara will be thrilled that you're bringing 40-year-old newsprint into her apartment. Exactly. So here's Gilbert was right on again from the New York Times.

In his book, Mr. Esterhaus reveals that his Hungarian emigre father, whom he adored, had written virulent anti-Semitic propaganda before and during World War II. Unbelievable, Gilbert. Wow. How do you do it? Yeah. How do you do it? We will return to Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast after this.

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He loved it so much, he opened Prince's Hot Chicken. Hot chicken in the window. This is one of many sounds in Tennessee with a story to tell. To hear them in person, plan your trip at tnvacation.com. Tennessee sounds perfect. Real quickly, because we have a couple of minutes to kill. We probably don't even have any time to read any tweets. Do we, Frank?

I haven't been playing with the clock. It has been 19 and a half minutes. Okay, I'm going to just read four or five tweets of my favorite tweets just to fill out this episode. These are some tweets that have come in lately. By our friend Maria Sheinfeld. Marissa Sheinfeld, excuse me. Remember Marissa? She did the book on the Borscht Belt? Yes. On the Vanishing Borscht Belt. She tweeted, I can't believe it's been a year since I got to hang with Gilbert. More info at borschtbeltbook.com. Yes, go to borschtbeltbook.com and get Marissa's wonderful and sad book. It was a year ago. Wow.

That we had her here. I was just talking about her at a barbecue. No, I was on a camping trip, and somebody was talking about there's some music festival in the Catskills now where people stay in these old hotels that have not really been touched up. They're just really gross and weird and half abandoned,

and it made me think of her book. Apparently, they're being used. Are they? That's what I heard. That's really interesting. For some obscure music festival. That is really interesting. I didn't know that at all.

People love the Sid and Marty episode, Gilbert. Yes, I know. Are you familiar? Steve Ulrich wants to know, does Gilbert know one of John MacGyver's greatest characters is in a movie called The Gazebo? That movie? I know I've seen the movie.

And it was on TCM. He wanted you to know that. I remember the movie used to play on TV, but I remember nothing about it. Okay. Three Oranges writes, I never expected to hear Sid Croft say that he worked with Olsen and Johnson. How about that? I love that. This is my favorite.

Slope of Hope. This is the tweet of the month. Frank Santopadre is a class act. Every time a guest compliments the preparation you guys did for the show, Frank never hints that he's doing 80% of the prep work.

80% is generous. 80% is generous. Jared. Jared sent some horror screen prints that I will send to you, Gilbert. Those are fun. Who else?

Who else do we want to talk about here? This is fun. Dr. Atlantis. I hope you guys talked to sid and marty about the world of city of sid marty croft down in atlanta the building that became that became cnn the giant escalator is still at the cnn offices oh geez yeah weren't they wonderful and didn't they have a great sunshine boys hey oh my it was so funny because like Sid, well is it Sid?

Who's the happy? Sid. Sid's happy and Marty's miserable. Yeah, Sid is like a little kid on Christmas Day. And Marty God, is he an angry?

Well, the best part was Sid was telling a really long story and Marty said I was born at the end of this story now and he's constantly jump jumping in yeah and going it didn't happen didn't happen like that no no come on Sid come on Sid they were dead by then yeah Johnny Ray not the singer Johnny Ray writes did, did you see this tweet? Okay, the Sid and Marty Croft episode did it, guys. I'm getting an ACP tattoo. He's threatening to get an amazing Colossal Podcast tattoo.

Plans made, design done. You guys spread so much joy. I'll send pics next week. Do we want to discourage him from doing that? I think that's a little scary. He's going to have it done in front of his shrine of Gilbert. I had a fan

come up to me on this. I had a fan come up to me after a show. Maybe the same dude. Rolled up his sleeve and he had a tattoo of Irv A. Villachess. Well, at least it wasn't you. Yeah.

And I'm not responsible. I'm glad he rolled up his sleeve because that could have gone a lot worse. Don tweets, Herman Munster singing the foot bone is connected to the thigh bone, which I can only imagine is a Paul Raybone homage. Yes. Let's see what we have here. Some other people. Can we get John Murray to record a blues track

with Paul Sing? We'll have to do that. We'll have to do that. An official release. Great episode, guys. I love the enthusiasm and the rapid fire questions. You wore them both out. That was fun. They were wonderful guests. They were a lot of fun.

I'm telling you, it says Joe Cocatana. Coca-Catana. HR Puff and stuff freaked me out as a kid. And I was born in 1968. You must have been totally jaded. Let's do this one. People are talking about Pink Lady and Jeff. Yeah.

Which we had. I've been sent a few clips. Yeah. Of this show. And I guess. It always ended with them getting into a hot tub. Yeah. And I got to say, those two look really hot in bikinis.

The two, the pink lady? Yeah. Yeah. But now it's so funny to think because I look at them and go, oh, wow, they look hot. Yeah. And now I go, oh, they're in their 70s now. Maybe we can have them on with Papillon. Oh, yeah.

Or Susu. This is a recent tweet about today's meeting. I haven't given up. If anyone has a connection to Papillon. We know how to find her. Well, I say she's in England. Yeah, she's in the UK, and she's, I believe, either a chiropractor or an acupuncturist. Or some weird kind of spiritual healing doctor.

I think she moved to the UK once she heard that we were trying to get her on the show. Yeah, and to try to get a hookup in the UK, forget it. Well, maybe. We got Hawaii with Kirk. Oh, that's right. I don't think we've done an overseas connection, have we, Frank? Those are tricky. Yeah.

Ed, this is about today's mini. I am sure there were more than one, but I grew up about three miles from the porno drive-in that Gilbert is talking about. Oh. It was in the Somerville Drive in New Jersey. Does that mean anything to you? I don't know the title of the place. Yeah.

Yeah. And Eric Ryan writes... Just that they were car crashes because when you drive on a certain road you'd look down the hill and there'd be a girl sucking a giant cock. Somebody else

wrote about that. Let me see if I can find the tweet. But I tweeted Scott Alexander sent me the poster for the Sid and Marty Croft live show at the Hollywood Bowl, and Billy Barty was in the show. And Eric Ryan writes, Billy Barty beats Gilbert out for another gig. My arch nemesis, Billy Barty.

Yep, yep, yep, yep. Last one. I think there was one other one about the... Oh, this is Harold Itzkowitz with the Paul Rayburn picture that somehow I missed. But there was one other guy asking you about that drive-in. Brett Scotchmer does these terrific pictures of Lon Chaney. Yes. These drawings of Lon Chaney Sr.

Oh, yes, yes. Which he's been sending. I heard he's trying to make like a set of cards. Yeah, trading cards. Yeah. Somebody sent us a Three Stooges, Jim James sent us a picture of a Three Stooges pinball machine and wrote there was an unacceptable lack of shemp.

Someone sent me, I wish I could remember the fucking name now. Someone sent me a photo of Chickle Marks standing with Laurel and Hardy. Yeah, I have that picture. And it's so weird because none of them are in character. Yeah, we'll dig out who it was. I know that picture. They're just wearing suits and ties, and they're not making a face or anything.

Very odd. We'll wrap with this one also about the drive-in. This is Patrick Bodale. I believe the drive-in Gilbert is referring to was the Amboy. Now we have conflicting reports. Was the Amboy drive-in

which you could see from the GS Parkway Bridge. GS? Garden State. Garden State Parkway Bridge. In an effort to bolster flagging attendance, they would show recut

R-rated versions of porno movies. And he sent a link to Cinema Treasures. The problem with drive-in porno movies is if you back into your parking spot and look in the mirror, it says objects in mirror are larger than they appear. And I can't handle that kind of intimidation. That's a little too much. You do not know of this drive-in history, being a Jersey guy?

I live in Jersey, but I wasn't raised in Jersey. Well, as we run out of time with this mini, we have to talk about a passing. We have to say goodbye. Yes. And it is not to Julie Andrews. No. We have to say goodbye to our recording space. Yes.

That has been our home for, what, Frank, two and a half years? It's been a while. I don't even remember when we started. It's been a while. I think Tom Leopold was our maiden guest. Although, I will say, in anger, they never had

snacks here. They had snacks in the first year. You cleaned them out. We haven't had Perrier in a while. They're on to you. Yeah. Gilbert used to walk into the room with arms full of Butterfingers and Twizzlers and Cheez-Its

and bottles of Perrier, and then the snack policy changed. I don't know how that happened. By the time this episode airs, we'll either be in a new group space somewhere, maybe, or I will be doing something else somewhere. Either way, I'll still be a part of the show.

Yes, Frank is staying with us. We should point that out. We are leaving that. I don't know, but you're guaranteed certain by the time you're listening to the show. The late Frank Ferdarosa. The space we're in now is going to be a scraped, cleared cement floor.

And we should point out that there are tags. We recorded two episodes last night. There are tags on everything with lot numbers that are going. Probably by the time this airs, everything will either have been stored in a warehouse until we find the new home or auctioned off. I'm not the owner of this place. I don't know what's going to happen next. And it's been your home since what? I started here in 2004. I had my own company before this this so 14 years you've been here 14 years yeah 14 years in

september yeah and and it's been the home for many of our of our podcast experiences we had jimmy webb in here uh you sang macarthur park in this room yes you sang to try we all sang dare to we all sang tie yellow ribbon atoni to Tony Orlando in here. This booth should be dismantled and reassembled in the Smithsonian. You think so? Yeah, it should. That was the chair Matthew Broderick was sitting in when Gilbert told him he fucking hated Meris Bueller.

You did wait until the end of the episode before you said that. No, that was the first thing I said. First thing out of my mouth. Patton Oswalt was in here. Who else did we... Ron and Jessica did a wonderful show. Oh, yes. She was here yesterday, and she got the news that we're shutting this space down,

and she was sad about it. Yeah, yeah. It's been a great ride. You know, Frank, one thing that I anticipate that will make this easier is Gilbert will be announcing that we're recording at Nutmeg for probably the next six months. Yeah, right. We may end up in the space occupied by the old porno drive-in if we're not lucky. But there's been some great memories here.

Oh, yeah. And also the Mario Christmas episodes. Oh, hysterical. In the Mario Christmas episodes in this room. The anniversary shows. Just drinking wine in the kitchen out there before or after episodes is always great.

Yeah. Yeah. Everybody that's come through here. Everybody that we've met. I do have to say, it's a pity that, you know, there's this uncertainty

with what's happening at Nutmeg, but they've been very kind to us. They have. Yeah, we should thank them. John used to get us wine every time we were recording and yeah yeah we want to we want to thank john's last name is john edelman john edelman we want to thank john we want to thank

everybody deal that got us in this room yeah and everybody else uh who put up with us here and and and the engineers frank please read their names well we had sam g vinko who is not only a great assistant all day but also got us set up here every night we were recording. Well, thank you, Sam. And Daniel Farrell, who also spent many nights setting us up in here for Skype and regular sessions. And they're both awesome. They're good mixers in their own right. They'll land on their

feet. And we may also be in a new space soon. Let's hope. Yeah. Or we're back to Gilbert's kitchen table. Oh, my God. When we used to do it there people would like send me tweets going like was that done in the lincoln tunnel we had some sound challenges time since we've been together i've been accumulating gear to start my own podcast which now may very well be used to record this podcast i've got my own arsenal of stuff yeah it's uh this this

this place uh we took a quantum leap forward when we came here and not only in terms of of audio quality uh and fidelity and all of those other things but uh it coincided with with us kind of turning the corner guest wise you know we got dick van dyke oh yeah i was sitting in that chair and you were up you were out in LA with Dick and I was on Skype yeah that wow and this is well I mean we should also mention the Skype episodes that were done from here Norman Lear and Carl Reiner and all the rest

I just want it's like unlike other things related to the show you've been mentioning Nutmeg for years week after week and it took a long time to die whereas other guests, you mention them once. That's it.

Oh, yes. And then they're gone within a week. So RIP. I guess you said Nutmeg's name too many times. I know. So rest in peace, Nutmeg, originally Nutmeg Post. Maybe not.

We may still be around. Maybe not. We're in the future now, and we don't know yet. We had a great time. Yes. But if in fact, by the time this episode airs, we're somewhere else. It was a good time.

No, this room where all these celebrities have been, by the time you're listening to this, there's a realtor in a suit showing some tech company in space and it's completely empty. All those celebrities and Gilbert. Yes. So that's it. I think this may be one of our last minis of the summer. Yeah. I know you're probably hearing this at Halloween.

I think it's in August. And I got to say on a different topic, just like other places I've been in. Yeah. Where I, you know, take sodas and chocolate bars. I don't believe that. And cookies. You? And I've said to people like, oh, well, you caught me.

I take stuff from these places. And at least three places have said, oh, no, you're strictly amateur when it comes to being a schnorrer at this place. And I said, oh, well, who beats me? And they would all go, Richard Kine. Yeah. I said this to you. You are one of them.

And then a bunch of other people said, yeah, Richard Kine. We love Richard. Now, I said that to gilbert once and then richard kine came in to record for a cartoon and said are you the one who told gilbert i take more snacks than him but then gilbert was in toronto and had to record something up there and gilbert comes back in and and says to me i was in a a studio in Toronto and I was taking their snacks. And the engineer said, oh, don't worry. There's somebody who takes more than you.

And he said, who? And it was Richard Kine in Toronto. Hilarious. Hilarious. Hilarious. Right, Richard, we adore you. Yeah, they say Richard Kine has me in the amateur leagues. If you and Richard K Kind hadn't been here,

there might have been enough snacks to carry us through this dark time. Yes. That's why you're closing. We thank everybody at Nutmeg. It's been a great ride. And we will ride somewhere else. Possibly a new Nutmeg. Possibly a new Nutmeg.

Possibly in Paul's basement. Or in my oven. It could go either way. Want to take us out, Gilly Gil? This has been Gilbert and Frank's amazing, colossal obsession. See you next time. When mistletoe and tinsel glow Paint a yuletide valentine Back home I go To those I know

For a Christmas auld lang syne And as we gather round the tree Our voices all combine In sweet accord To thank the Lord For a Christmas auld lang syne When sleigh bells ring and choirs sing And the children's faces shine

With each new toy we share their joy with a Christmas old anxiety We sing his praise

this day of days and pray next year this time we'll all be near to share the cheer of a Christmas auld lang syne Merry Christmas everybody and a Happy New Year In sweet accord we thank the Lord Lord, for our Christmas full and sound.