Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast - Mini #244: Gilbert and Frank Give Thanks

Episode Date: November 28, 2019

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with 24 layers of croissant flakiness twisted with fancy donut fun. Get ready to go all out for less. Give me that fract, colossal obsessions Give me that fract, colossal obsessions Give me that fract, colossal Obsessions. Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried and Gilbert Gottfried. I'm here with Frank Santopadre. And this is Gilbert and Frank's amazing Colossal Obsessions with the recently departed Raybone. How are you ever going to live this down, Paul?

It's changed my life. You go for a job interview, they say, are you the recently departed Raybone that I've heard on the call? Yeah, we feel terrible. We're heartbroken. May we tell you face-to-face, we're heartbroken over your death. There're heartbroken. May we tell you face to face, we're heartbroken over your death. There's the theme.

Ferdarosa's got it queued up. The trusty Paul Ray. Did you ever think you were going to have your own theme music? Well, I wondered. I wished. I hoped. I could only hope. This was a wish as a child? I cajoled. Gilbert just used the word cajoled. And Grandpa Al Lewis.

And Puddin, what's her name? Yeah. He's got them all dialed up. Could we get serious once in a while? Sure. Sure, sure, sure. This is the Thanksgiving show. This is, in a way, a continuation from last week's mini episode.

Is it fair to say this is our turkey for the listeners? It's funny you say turkey because we're bringing back Kevin Allman's book, TV Turkeys. Oh, wow!

It's not even... Wow. It turned into, like, a classic CERN show. You have the Jackie puppet on there? Call Billy. He'll do it live. We'll do it live!

This book was sent to us. Fucking ponderous. Ponderous. This book was sent to us by Josh Chambers, a loyal fan. TV turkeys. We did a bunch of shows from it previously. This is the one you went looking in hoping to find thick of the night. And it was there.

And there it was. And you weren't disappointed. That page lit up with batteries on it. We're going to do two things. We're going to talk about two more shows from the book, one that gets a lot of mention on this podcast and one that I don't think we brought up very much, but it's podcast-themed.

There's a motif in the other one that fits this show. And then we're going to do some thank yous. We're going to do a continuation of the Patreon thank yous that we started last week. Yes. We did A through J. We thanked everybody who supports the show on Patreon. And tonight we're going to thank people whose names start with K and end in Z. I don't think there are any Zs.

If you are a Patreon contributor, have your tape recorder running. Yes, do it now. Do it now, like you're Bob Bergen recording his call to Mel Blanc. And then because it's Thanksgiving and we're giving thanks, we're also going to thank various teams.

We're going to thank all the people that helped put this podcast together. There are a lot of them. All of them? All of them. Yes, all of them. Let's start with All of them. Yes, all of them. Let's start with this, Gil. This is from the TV Turkey's book.

Yes. An outrageous look at the most preposterous shows ever on television. This, again, sent to us as a gift, turned out to be a great book. Here's a show. What if I said to you a show that starred Ted Bessel? Ah. It was created by Gary Marshall, of all people. Okay.

Ted was coming off a pilot because he had done that girl for our friend Billy Persky. Yes. Bill and Sam wrote a pilot for him called Bobby Parker and Company that didn't fly. So Gary Marshall came to him with a show where he was supposed to co-star with an animal the show was called Me and the Chimp oh jeez

do you have any recollection of this show there's been so many shows with similar titles yes this was a show about a man who hates animals forced to live with a chimp oh jeez. Oh, Christ. Fred Silverman at CBS saw a test

film and wanted to capture the kiddie audience that wasn't watching Flip Wilson over on NBC. So they decided they would make a show about a man and a chimpanzee and capture the kiddie audience. So poor Ted Bessel, who Bill describes as a very serious actor.

And it's funny. We've all been raised on shows where, like, cute, lovable chimps. Chimps are the most vicious animals. They bite your finger off. Has been established on this show. They're both. There have been two cases at least. One man, one woman who got their faces ripped off by chimps.

Yeah. And we've had several guests on this show, as we've pointed out. That's all part of attracting the kiddie market, right? Yes. Savagery of chimps. I think the lead chimp in that series, wasn't it Connie Lingus? Connie Lingus. He was one of the Connie Lingus chimps.

His name was actually Buttons. Buttons the chimp. On the show. Mike Reynolds, Ted Bessel played Mike Reynolds, a dentist who discovers a chimp hanging in a playground drainpipe. He names him Buttons. Oh, jeez. It's irresistible, isn't it?

He called the actual chimp rude, dirty, and untalented. That's what we say about Paul. That's what we say about Paul. There was a show that I auditioned for and didn't get it called Mr. Smith. Oh, that was Ed Weinberger's show. Yes, yes. The orangutan, the talking orangutan. It's a good thing you didn't get it.

It was up between. It was up between, there were like, in some scenes there'd be the real orangutans, and then others, the most phony orangutans you've ever seen. Like something, like those gorilla suits in the Three Stooges movies. One more realistic. Crash Corrigan in a gorilla suit. For a little context here, I have another chimp altogether who saved one of the longest-running television shows in the business. It was just about to go under. Was this J. Fred Muggs in the Today Show? Yes.

J. Fred Muggs in the Today Show. Yes. He's come up before. Excellent. I hope all you chimp lovers and monkey lovers who like to, including you, John Fodiatis, and Eric Reiner, are enjoying this chimp-themed discussion. You know who you are. Yeah, J. Fred Muggs.

Never attacked anybody, as far as we know. You may wonder why me and the chimp didn't do better, particularly when you hear how exciting the episode titles were. Can I just give you a few? Hit me a few. Hit me with a few. Mike's Day with Buttons. Mike's Day with Buttons. See. Mike's Day with Buttons. Mike's Day with Buttons.

See that? Mike's Day with Buttons. I really want to watch. The Lost Flashlight was another one. Apparently the chimp was getting paid a grand a week. Probably more than the actors. Actually named Jackie. Buttons was the character.

Jackie the Chimp. In case you're taking notes on this. Yes. I assume most people are. Me and the Chimp was, I think Ted Bessel went into directing. Yes. Shortly thereafter. Never worked with a chimp again. But, you know, again, Gary Marshall did some pretty good things,

but Me and the Chimp was not one of them. It's in the book. There's some great stuff in this book, too. You know what's weird with Gary Marshall? Yes, what? Especially his movies and the TV shows. Here's a guy raised in New York. Italian, by the way.

Yeah. Everyone thought he was a Jew because he's a producer, and he talks like that. But I always felt like here he is. He was born and raised in New York. And whenever I watch his movies or TV shows, it feels like it's made by someone who just knows about New York from watching TV. Yes. Or a guy from Milwaukee where a lot of his shows were set. A guy from the Midwest. But he grew up here. Yes. Or a guy from Milwaukee where a lot of his shows were set.

A guy from the Midwest. But he grew up here. Yes. In the Bronx. He always came across like some guy who had no idea what New York was

other than what he saw on TV. That's weird. But he did. He will forever have our admiration for putting The Odd Couple on television. Yes.

Emma Jerry Belson. Here's one you're more familiar with, Gil. I saved the best one for last. The year was 1986. It lasted for one year. There were 179 episodes of I Love Lucy. There were 156 episodes of The Lucy Show. And there were 144 episodes of Here's Lucy.

And then... Life with Lucy? At the age of 75 came her big comeback, Life with Lucy. And she still... See, it's that thing when comedians get old and she's this like... She was 75. Yeah, she's a wacky lady and getting into hijacking, you're going, no, no. She doesn't come across as wacky Lucy anymore.

She comes across as, uh-oh, maybe she has dementia. Yeah. Part of the reason she got that was because she had been well-reviewed in a movie called Stone Pillow. Yes. Oh, she was the homeless woman. That's correct. That's correct. Oh, there it is.

Paul brought audiovisual guides. That's right, show and tell. She played Lucy Barker. Yeah, look up the picture of Lucy in the Stone Pillow. Well, we've discussed the Stone Pillow on this show with Billy West. Should we tell Paul his printer needs toner? His printer needs a lot of toner. Yeah, why does Lucy have stripes all over her? She was

Lucy Barker living with her daughter's family. She dragged Gail Gordon out of retirement. He played Curtis McGibbon, which would have been a good name for the chimp on Me and the Chimp. She had a dead husband. He was her dead husband's business partner.

She was conceived as a physical fitness nut. That's how they could explain her doing these calisthenics and all the stunts where she would get on a runaway ladder in the hardware store.

Oh, jeez. The press was banned from the tapings. Never a good sign. There were no preview episodes for critics. So they must have known what they had on their hands.

It's kind of like when you watch any of those, like Abbott and Costello, the Stooges, the Bowery Boys. If they hit each other or something, you go, oh, no, you're going to hurt them. She was paid $100,000 an episode, 13 of them taped, only eight of them aired. Oh, God. How about that? I want to see the complete collection. There must be a DVD collection of Life with Lucy. They brought in John Ritter to do a guest shot to try to revive the show.

Wow. It did not take. Something online said that they refused to show it to the press, as you said. Yes. Maybe the real mistake was they should have refused to show it to the public. Yes. Life with Lucy. But there are some other good ones in this book.

There's Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell. Oh, yeah. We've gone through all the McLean-Stevenson versions, and you're in the picture, and my mother, the car, and they consider Hogan's Heroes to be a turkey. Oh, yes. You're still doing that bit in your act? You're not still doing the Hogan's Heroes thing? Yeah. Believe me.

Arnie Kogan. Thank you, Frank. Let's thank some Patreon people. And Gilbert will read some of these names too. We'll go through as fast as we can. No John Machida references tonight, Gilbert. Carla Haler, Kelly M., Kevin Lauderdale, Kevin Peterson, Kai K.I., Christopher

Johansson, Laura Pinto. We love Laura. Laura Rushford, Lex Passeris, our friend who used to direct Golden Girls episodes, who's very generous with our show. Liam Kerens, El Pick 4, Lucifer Sam, Marjorie K. You played Lucifer Sam, did you not?

In a movie? Marjorie K. Bill Shelton, Sam Did you not? In a movie? Oh, yeah Marjorie K Hill Shelton Mark Arnold Mark Marchione Mark Rogers Marshall N. Armentor That's a great name

Matthew Snyder Here's some Gilbert's gonna read He slaps Look, he's got his glasses at the ready What a pro Yes, okay Wanna thank those people?

Ah, Matt Day Matt Rogers Or Roggins or Roggins, Matt Roggins. That's Matt Regina. That's an A. I had two names to say, and I

fucked up both of them 12 times. Oh, wow! Wow! Matthew Allen. Good. Matthew Martin. Martin.

Mayor Martin. Medea Monarchy. Monarchy. Medea. Medea's high school reunion. Yes. Medea Monarchy. Medea's horrible.

True. Very true. I monarchy. He is horrible. True. Very true. I have to agree with Diane Cannon. Yes. We will return to Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast after this. Baseball is finally back. Get in on Major League action and swing for the fences with BetMGM,

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Gilbert knows none of this. And if he recognizes four names on here, it'll be miraculous. But I'm going to read the names of these people. These are behind-the-scenes people, some Earwolf people. It's not a secret that this is our last mini-episode at Earwolf, so we'll thank them. But we'll start with the Listener Societies. Eric Fusco, Rob Spentek, Peter Senn.

You guys feel free to weigh in if you have opinions. Peter Santamaria, Alan Bernard. He sucks. Wow. And Josh Chambers, who put the Listener Societies together. Gilbert and I do not have a lot to do with it, but it's brought a lot of attention to the show. And there are a lot of passionate conversations on there. And it's led to a lot of fun art and other things.

The artists who do so much odd work. Yes. From Wade Snook to Ralph Castaneda, who does those very strange things on Facebook. And he's very persistent and consistent. Jonathan Tesler and Mark Macho, who's designing some merch for us. Steve Hanna, who does those wonderful things. He just carved us into those pumpkins. Yes.

Did you see that? And then who was it who did the one of Jacqueline Bissett with a bunch of dogs where I'm there like in an imposed dog outfit. I didn't put his name on the list, so now you've basically tripped me up, but I will thank him on social media because his name is escaping me, but that was great. Yes, so many.

Brendan Bliss, who made those wonderful animations. Oh, who did the Thanksgiving one? Steve Hanna. Yeah. He'll probably have another Thanksgiving one coming. And of course, Drew Friedman, who is a friend of this show and generously allows us to use his art. We're going to thank some publicists and behind-the-scenes people here.

Paul, you may find your name on this list somewhere. Stay tuned. I don't expect to. Paul Baldessari, Liz Camlett, our friend Jeff Abraham and Danny Duraney. They've been great to us. A.J. Fuhrman, who brought us Danny Houston. You're on the list under fondly remembering. Another moment of tenderness.

Harlan Bull, Laurie DeWall, Anthony Turk, Rob Cotto, our friendly Kernis, who brought us Bob Einstein, Rye Levy, who brought us Dick Miller, Ryan Romanesco and Michael Jensen, who brought us Kenny Loggins and Stephen Bishop, and people who help us with booking. People ask, how do you book the show? Through the kindness of friends and publicists.

Fanny Cohen, Bill Porcelli, Dara's friend, has been great to us. Matt Beckhoff brought us Bill Macy. Stuart Hirsch, Lisa Birnbach, and Vinnie Favale, who turned us on to Erwin Winkler Steve Forrest and Adam Karsten and also sometimes

guests on the show previous guests on the show earlier guests on the show like Beverly D'Angelo yeah helped got us

Treat Williams and Bierko got us Beverly Richard Kind has been a big help to the show booking many people Patton Oswalt Kathy and Paul Schaefer

Jackie Martling has been a big help, my friend Donald Berman Mark Malkoff and of course a guy you might know whose name you must never say on this show Gino Salamone his lawyers are standing ready Gino does a lot for us.

No, he doesn't. He helps tremendously with bookings. He's brought us a lot of people. I won't go into the list. Helping me with research is Krista Rose. Christopher Bly has been helping with Twitter, doing some good stuff. Our photographers, David Simon and Eric Kornman. Yes.

Do these names mean anything to you? Not at all. Not at all. I want to thank some of the people who've done great mini-episodes, Kevin Daugherty and Dave Milstein, who brought their record collections and other things. Gary Gerani did the wonderful Universal Horror episodes. Yes, yes. Our friend Michael Weber, Daryl Mayeski, Rupert Holmes came in here and sat for the trivia show.

A lot of fun. And our friend Mike Giacchino, who sat in on the Dennis Murin episode. I'll get through this quickly. Freelance engineers Alex Brazell, Rob Spiewak, Kim Page, Abe Oleksnianski. Say that one. Oleksni, never mind. Oleksnianski. Dave Mackey here at Earwolf

Chad Eaton who did I believe the Robert Wagner episode do I have that right Dara? I don't know Mike McBeardo does our Facebook McBeardo McPadden there's a name you know Gilbert's nodding off

John Bradley Seals our webmaster Greg Pear does a wonderful job Whitney Mallon and John Beach John Bradley Seals our webmaster Greg Pear Twitter Greg does a wonderful job Whitney Mallon and John Beach absolutely

who've done voiceovers for this show quickly the Earwolf team Chris Bannon Colin Anderson Josh Richmond Andy Slater our friend Kelsey Butterworth

all the LA engineers Tiffany Square Jared O'Connell Ashley Warren Harry Nelson and three people that I have personally come to rely on putting this show together every week. And that's July Diaz and Katie Baker in LA, who've been true pros.

And our friend Dave Seidel, who's not here tonight, who we love, who brought us those keyboards. Or you wouldn't have been able to sing with Charlie Fox. I know. And Neil Sedaka. So you should personally be thanking these people. And last but never least. Oh, I didn't say the music people.

John Murray. John Murray, John. The wonderful listener mail theme. One of the two Johns. And John Fotiadis' trippy strawberry alarm clock listening mail that Frank just put on last week's mini. They do a lot for the show. They compose original music for it. John

Fokiakis. Fokiakis! Now Gilbert's on board. Our friend Seth Saltzman, who's been generous to the show and sat in and worked with Mario Cantone patiently to provide music for the Christmas episode and he'll be coming back for the

next Christmas episode. And Seth. And coming back for the next Christmas episode. And Seth. And, of course, Joe McGinty. We have to. There's a name you know. Okay. Gilbert has recognized six names. Yes.

On this list. Last but not least, we have to thank the peerless Frank Verderosa. Does that mean I have no friends? Yeah. No peers. It means you have no peers peers there's one other person that we forgot to thank who's that she's been a big inspiration to gilbert through a lot of what we've done sandra bullock turned on right now. Oh my God. You are brilliant. Come here.

I will fuck you. Yeah. I mean, we can't leave her out. Hilarious. And of course, Raybone. Paul Rayburn.

No. So special thanks go to you and Frank for being part of this insanity. I have a tear in my eye.

For so long. Gilbert, is there anyone you'd like to thank? Oh, well, I guess she's sitting in the other room. Should you thank your wife who came up with the idea

for this show? Yeah. We should thank Dara. Well, we are the collective we, so we don't... I didn't include you. I didn't include thanking myself either.

But Dara is the person who... The restrooms here are the collective we. Yes. Yes. Dara was the person, as we climbed toward 300 shows, who heard Gilbert and I in late-night phone conversations discussing the cinema of Simon Oakland and Stuart Whitman. And she called me and said,

isn't there something you can do with this nonsense? Yeah, this useless information. There's tons of fascinating, useless information. And that's how it led us here. So those are some humble thanks, Thanksgiving thanks, giving thanks to all the people. I hope I haven't left anybody out. I'm sure I have.

If I have, call me or write me on Facebook and let me know, including the person Gilbert brought up who did the artwork of the Jacqueline Bissette. And I did not list that person because I can't remember who it was. But a lot of people, a lot of the kindness of individuals goes into making this show. And last but not least, we will read some more names of people who've generously supported us on Patreon. And I'm even going to let Gilbert read some more. Oh, no.

Are you up for that? Michael, Michael Barrows, Michael Berezny, Michael McGuire, Michael Shianamea. He's a big friend of the show. Michael Anthony Mandrake. You think that's a real name? Mike Bershenny, Mike Brady, Mike Cavanaugh, Mike Erickson. the show michael anthony mandrake you think that's a real name mike burschini mike brady mike cavanaugh mike erickson uh mike erickson is the person who named his dog after me so he gets a special thank you my mother is still trying to wrap her head around a note of sympathy

mike's a note of sympathy for the dog mike swanson mike k morty weinberg nancy neil wilson nicola nina cursive not a real name, Noel, Norm from Georgia, Oliver Clinton Mattson, Perry Drew, Patrick McCarthy. Patrick McCarthy got us, oh God, which guest did he get us? He got us John Astin. Oh. Yes, which was a big get. We were after him for a while.

For a long time. Patrick is a comedy writer living in L.A. and happened to be working with Sean Astin on a movie and said, I think I cracked the code. And we finally got Sean Astin on the show. So a special thank you for Patrick. And a special thank you to all these people who've helped with bookings, because some of them have.

Paul Byrne, Paul Ekstrom, Paul Soar or Sour, Paul Sherman, Pete Nelson, Peter Bacco, Peter Serafin, Philip Katz, Philip Lezebnik, R.W. Lovejoy, Randy Janney, Randy Wood, Ray, Ray Gastini, Ray Haluska, or Haluska, Reed Hawkins, Richard Hausman, Rick Sherry, Ricky Wilson, Rob Angelos, Rob Ellenstein, Rob Freeman,

Rob Martinez. I feel like I'm Jerry on the telethon. Oh, yeah. Here's some for you. This should be fun. Timpani. Robert Garrison. Robert... Lalonde.

Lalonde. Lalonde. Lalonde. Lalonde is French. Robert M. Herschel. Robert Martin. Rock... Rock Roll Martian.

Rock Roll Martian. Very good. Quickly. Russell Griller. Russell Couser. Russell Morris. Rusty Bowden. Rusty Lerner.

I never heard. Rusty Hammer is not on here. Rusty Wainio. Sam Barber. Sam Weisberg, who asks a lot of questions. Sarah Ryan, a loyalist. Bless you, Sarah. Scott D. Miller.

Also, Sean Liu, a loyalist. Sean Moore, Sarah. Scott D. Miller, also Sean Liu, a loyalist. Sean Moore, Sherry Guthrie, Sharla Vitale, Sean Robert Garland, I'll get through these. Simon Linder, Stan Schwartz, Steve, Steve Birch, Steve Hoffman, Steve Whalen, Steven Antonuccio, Steven Craig, or Craggy,

or Craggy, Tara Sketchley, Terry Rindahl Jr., we're coming to the end. Thad Komorowski, or Tom Kuo, or Kuo, Thomas Montoya, Tara Sketchley, Terry Rindahl Jr. We're coming to the end. Thad Komorowski or Komorowski, Tom Kuo or Kuo, Thomas Montoya, Tom Brennan, Trent Coleman. Gilbert, you get the last batch. Ah. Uh, Trevor. Good.

That's good. Keep going. Trond Smervik. Trond Smervik. That's not a real name. Keep going. Tronsmavik. Tronsmavik. That's not a real name. Vanessa Kennedy. Will Harris.

William E. Lee. Lee. Yeah. Oh, okay. That's an easy one. Zach. Zach Cruz. Zach Cruz. You're very good with names.

Was there an Italian anywhere in there? There's a couple. You would have been the worst Miss Frances of Ding Dong School. The lady at the end of, what was it, Romper Room? Oh, yes. She reads the names of the kids that are watching at home. You would have mangled every name. Frank, I saw you bringing up some pertinent music there to go out on.

So it's been a ride. We're almost ready to say goodbye to our friends at Earwolf. And, Paul, do you have anything to say? To the friends at Earwolf? Anything. Anything about anything. Anything about anything. I want to see Life with Lucy.

That's your takeaway. He wants to see well oh it's not we'll have to we'll have to thread it in but Frank it just came up on the screen

and Frank made the perfect choice I'd like to see Gilbert work with a chip did you hear the episode were you here before when the wonderful Marsha Mason was in here

and she thought Gilbert could do serious drama it's been brought up on the show before that's right she said with a straight face she thought he could do Shakespeare. She thought he could do Lear. I've said this before on the show.

Say it. Somebody out there needs to write a serious part for Gilbert in his own voice, not the put-on voice, something dramatic and sinister, and he will fucking nail it. You mean like as a killer or an evil character? Like a mob boss, but like... A mob boss? Gilder in a chair in his own voice with the right writing

will be fucking amazing. I think he's on to something. Everybody keeps hiring him for the same thing. I'm usually up for the same parts as Paul Cervino. Do you see yourself? Have you ever played anything close to a dramatic part? No, I don't think so. Everybody sort of casts you as...

Yeah. Yeah. But you've played like darker, edgier characters like in Ford Fairlane. Oh, that's right. Right. Yeah. What did you play on that crime series you did with Jackie? Oh, my God.

Yes. Yes. And who were you on Silk Stockings? Okay. Silk Stockings. With Charlie Brill. The one with Jackie, we were playing like we robbed some, we mugged some old lady who was like just through gambling.

So you're a mugger? Yes. So you were a nefarious character? Yeah. gambling and so you're a mugger yes so you were you were a nefarious character yeah and then me and jackie turn on each other and there's a big fight between the two of us and it is the most obvious stuntmen like they're like seven feet tall muscle bound guys that are supposed to be me and jackie the joke man that's hilarious like pounding each other and throwing each other over their backs and jumping from high places.

Who did you play on Silk Stockings? Silk Stockings? Well, I was closer to. A cadaver? Who were you? Who were you? No, I auditioned for the cadaver. I was like some guy, some sleazebag.

Yeah, a sleazebag. You play a convincing sleazebag. Yes. We, again, want to thank all the Patreon people that we thanked last week and this week. It means a lot to us, your support, and you're going to love the new Patreon even more than you've loved the old Patreon. But we really do appreciate it. I didn't see Paul Rayburn's name on there, by the way. I went through the peas with a fine-tooth comb.

And as for the credit list and everybody who's helped the show, been hands-on with the show, if I forgot your name again, I apologize. And I'm going to blame this on Gilbert. So that's, I believe, a wrap on the mini episodes. Oh,

geez. They are going to change going forward. There will still be bonus episodes and there will be bonus content, but we're making that up

as we go. Thanks for the memory. I do guarantee it will be something you can mispronounce. That's how you love it. That is a given. So, Frank has a nice piece of music, I think, selected for us. If you want to take us out, you can mispronounce. That is a given.

So Frank has a nice piece of music, I think, selected for us. If you want to take us out, Gil, you want to say goodbye and you want to thank that man sitting across from us. Okay, so this has been. It sure has. Really, it really has been.

Gilbert and Frank's amazing colossal obsessions. I'm Gilbert Gottfried, and sitting beside me is Frank Santopadre and Barry this morning. Do you have a name? Raybone and Shell. You know, it's a saving. I'll see Julie Andrews again. That's what carries me through all this.

Frank, anything you'd like to say? I'd like to say... Tuck that in at the end. I'd like to say... So long, farewell, I'll be just saying goodnight. I hate... Tuck that in at the end. It's been a blast. We still actually have a couple of more full-length episodes to record here.

Mario will be here for the Christmas show. And we have the wonderful Mary Lou Henner coming. Mario, I think this is going to be the fourth Christmas show? If not the fifth. We've lost track. It's a real podcast tradition. But this is the last traditional mini episode that we'll be recording here.

So the show is going through changes, good changes. We're terribly excited about them, and you guys will find out what they are very soon. As soon as we do, Darius. As soon as we know. So, Gilbert, take us out. Yeah. The Miami Beach audience is the greatest audience in the whole world. We'll see you soon.

As saccharine as it may sound, as corny as it may be, my God, what a good day for mankind. Thank you. When you walk through a storm Keep your head up high And don't be afraid of the dark At the end of the storm Is a golden sky And the sweet silver song Of a lark Silver song of old love Walk on through the wind

Walk on through the rain Though your dreams be tossed and blown. Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart. And you'll never, never walk alone You'll never walk alone Walk on, walk on With hope in your heart And you'll never, never walk alone Good night. God bless you.