Hollywood Handbook - Cecily Strong, Our Close Friend

Episode Date: March 17, 2026

The Boys help CECILY STRONG realize that hosting the White House Correspondents' Dinner again could potentially fix everything. Get a Hat Pack Hat here! Check out Sean and Hayes’s bonus shows at Patreon.com/HollywoodHandbook Listen on the iHeartRadio App!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Has this been happening Go ahead Where So last Last record we did Cessley Uh huh I showed up in the studio

I did not remember how I got there Mm-hmm To the studio To the studio And it was a different studio And I don't even I don't know why that was But it wasn't this room

It was a completely different place No one explained to me I didn't know how I I got there, didn't know how I got into the room I was in. You didn't either? Wait, you too. At that studio, no. Oh, okay.

This one, I have bits and pieces. And I'm actually afraid of recovering the rest of the memory. Today you just have bits and peep, piece. Bips and pepice. I have bits and peopis of the day. And I, and I, some people will go, oh, don't you like wish that you knew all the details of it? I actually don't want to. Because whatever happened to Brame here was unpleasant.

I just watched an HBO Max series called The Curious Task. Curious Case of. And there was a woman who poisoned people with this drug that they've only made in the USSR, you know, if you remember. And they would forget what happened. She used it to kill people. So you might have been poisoned.

Okay. Was the woman, my lovely wife? She's caught. So it's not her. I mean, you can have a wife that's incarcerated. Oh, believe me, I know. You can have a couple of them because they don't really compare notes. If it's different jails.

Yeah. Unless you're like, you have to, the challenge is to not be such a good husband that it really like gets around the jail system, like the prison system, you know what I mean? Yeah. That you become like basically famous for being the best husband in the prison system. Imagine this. Imagine this.

That's your goal. But imagine you have two, you basically are one of these, you know, men with two different families, but you have two different prison lives. And then one of them is getting transferred into the prison. Yeah. That the other one lives out. This is an HBO Max series.

I mean, really think about this. What are we going to do, you know? An HBO Max Paramount Plus. Yeah. Skydance series. Yeah, I brought up. I am so excited for that murder. I brought it up. Here we go. No, it was a big debate. So people don't hear before we start

recording. It was a big debate. Are we going to get into it? And I got the email too, saying they asked that we don't do it this episode. But it's on my mind. I can't be anyone but myself. Yeah. It feels a little weird to me. You know like when your friends become friends. You know, when you have like your two, like, day ones. Well, it's kind of like when your prison wife gets transferred to the same prison. I mean, isn't that a better example where you go, these two are now comparing notes about me. Yeah. Now I have to go into that office.

Crap. I'd like to think I'm the same person no matter who I'm talking to. But the fact is, we're in sales. Definitely, we're in sales. Yeah, exactly. You're an actor. You're a writer. or you're selling ourselves, yeah.

You're really a salesperson. Mm-hmm. And I have been known to, when I'm in the Warner Brothers office, say, those fucking idiots at Paramount don't know their fucking ass from their elbow. They don't know what they. And then I go over to Paramount and go, you should have heard what Warner Brothers said about you. Oh, my God. I stormed out. I said, I won't sell this show here.

They wanted it. I said, I won't sell it to you. You talked about my friend that way? Mm-hmm. And I left. So now they're going to, yeah, probably find that out. I think that's what they do first. They sit in a room and they're like, all right, spill.

Who's talked about us? Let's clear the air from the things that you said to Sean. Which one of your friends has talked about us? That's T. My thing is, do the fobs work? You know, that's the only question for me. If I, if I beat my paramount fob, does the gate open for me? Can I get into WB with like with this other fob?

That's been really frustrating. Are you double fobbed over there? Yeah. And they're both blue. Yeah, this is confusing, huh? This is my basin set of keys. So when I'm in the basin, like this gets me into the basin studios. When I'm in the valley, I use my valley fobs.

But how can you tell the difference? Right. I think you should be doing two colors. Well, no, this is my, this is my basin set of keys. So these are blue. So these are blue. But they're, but they're different fobs. Yeah.

My valley fobs. Yeah. Oh my God. Yeah. I just got the one blue. What color are your fobs? Black. Black fobs.

Obviously, yeah. Yeah. Cessaly. How do we move on? from that. We got to fix this. We got to fix this. Have you seen the news at all? The news is so crazy. It's crazy out there. Yeah. I've been. All the everything going on. I've been, don't tell me. I've been this. Exactly. Don't even tell me. I can't with the news. Right. Then. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. You know, because I still got to do a job. I still got to go,

I'm still a salesperson. I got to get out of bed. I got to keep a smile on my face. And this is not a political show. Not traditional. This is a place where people can get away from the... We don't take a position. This is good. This is bad. You guys are. This person is dead.

This person's alive. This person's alive. Because he stands outside of that. He's one of us, honestly. That's right. He's not corrupted by all the, you know, horse trading that goes on in these political rooms. He's just a guy who just basically tells it like it is.

a talented singer. That's right. Even under that mask. Do you believe it? And I knew it was her. Well, I mean, he's a musician in his own right. I don't know if you recall, but he had a rap single. Wait, do you have that track?

Can you play? I'm a celebrity, get me out of here by Spencer Bratt. And specifically the line where he says, this is ringtone rap, because that's a bar. It doesn't hold up today. But at the time, ringtone rap was huge. Yeah, yeah. And so, you know, we don't want to weigh in on this stuff. Never.

Like, this is good. This is bad. Never. But it's really bad. But we can agree this. It's crazy. It's so crazy. I'm with you.

Yeah. Too crazy for me. Who's going to solve it? I'm on threads. I'm looking at it. You're putting in work on threads. Yeah. Yeah.

Your miner's helmet every day. The thread count is high. Egyptian cotton's looking up at you. It's Egyptian. I like that. Thank you. No one's done that yet. Thanks.

Yeah. Thank you. But when we go back and we think like, what happened? Yeah. When did this all get so crazy? What was actually the last thing that was kind of like holding it all together before it all went sideways? Yeah. Mm-hmm.

Are you asking me what my point is? He's saying when he looks at it. When I look at this and I actually do. did research and I looked back and I was like when did all this start? Yeah. It was after Cessley Strong hosts White House Correspondence dinner. Doesn't it feel that way? My God.

If we really get green. Wow. Yeah. Right? Yeah. And look at the timing of that. Next year, Cessly Strong does not host White House Correspondence Dinner. Trump lands.

Everything is crazy. Everything gets nuts. The year after that. Not good, not bad necessarily, but very crazy. Yeah, right. Cesslerng does not host White House correspondence there in 2017, 2018, 2019. We continue to not learn our lesson.

2020 happens. 22, 22, 23, 24, 25. What are we doing? Does he have to keep going, Sally? I get it Is it starting to host again? Well, we want someone to fix it. We have to go back.

Oh, we have to go back and I don't host. No, we have to go back. No, sorry. We have to go back to what you were hosting today. This is a back to the future. I thought we were going, we were time traveling to get me to not host the dinner and then hoping that would be the change. We have to go back.

It's not back to the future. It's more lost we have to go back. We have to go back to the island that we were on. To the podium. Which was the podium. You're on an island up there, huh? Just you and the mic. I didn't watch loss.

And I know I'm the only person. And I'm not proud of that. But I just wanted to say that for this conversation. Okay. Okay. Watch it and come back. I'm just going to go on pause. Okay.

Okay. She's nice. She's so nice. Yeah. Not what I was told. You know what? I just, my TV is broken. It's messed up.

You just looked over there and you can. could see that it was visibly broken. Yeah. I'm just looking at it now. There's a big crack. That sucks. Yeah. For God, I got angry.

You don't want to go to the store. The news. It wasn't you were angry at the poisoning woman. Or for the people that tried to incarcerate her. Well, they've succeeded. She's incarcerated all this. Poisoning them for no reason. I doubt it.

I hate to say it. There's more than one side to every story. It's robbery. Yeah. Robbery. Okay. Okay. Her stuff back or their stuff? Their stuff. Like what kind of stuff though? Yeah. I guess money, cash. Some valuables. Yeah, maybe some jewels. Okay. Okay. I'm going to have to be watched to learn a little more. I wish I could remember the name of this drug.

Mm-hmm. Well, you know it was from the U.S.S.S.R. I want to drop this into a conversation. The drug name. And now I blew it. Yeah. Sputnik. The name of the drug. I call Sputnik. If we get you back at that podium this year, don't you think?

Can we just sort of like what kind of, what kind of shed? I'm dying to do it again. I know. I know. It's, they say it's the best room. Yeah. In the country. Well, it's only gotten better.

It's the friendliest room. It's only gotten better. With all the crazy news. I mean, there's so much material there for you. You know what I would do? Something about like Mar-a-Lago face. Yeah, okay. You know how it's... I think it would be...

Yeah. This is actually a great way to... Mar-a-Lago face. It's workshops and stuff. Yes, please, because I do not want to... I don't want to fumble this opportunity. Let's set tones here. Because we know who's listening.

Yeah, I mean, like a lot of... It's a very popular show. So, like, a lot of people are doing it. The show's only gotten... bigger recently. Yeah. Yeah, great. And this is a new studio for us as well. This is right. Mm-hmm. So that's even more people are listening. Which we also, we've been getting some feedback, and I do want to get to the dinner. We've been getting some feedback that the appearance of the studio is very drabs. People are making some kind of mean comments about it.

Oh. And I'm wondering, what's the solution here? Is it? Grateful Dead posters? Oh. She has a big plant. You know what I mean? She's got a plant. It's a fake plant, too. Industry plant. Yeah.

The plant is AI? The plant's AI. There's a Peloton. Hmm. Yeah, not to brag, but there's a Peloton back there. Careful. New York City apartment. Peloton fake plant.

Big COVID. Yeah, I'm that girl. It's guilty. You know, I love. that you own it. Yeah, you gotta. So it felt like a no on the Grateful Dead poster, so I will keep workshopping. But let's get to the material.

Uh-huh. What I'm drinking at. No. Fish cup. Yeah. And it's two trains going into, going through a tunnel. I guess, yeah. And that's why it's Madison Square Garden.

Welcome, this is a fish cup. I use this to drink my juice. Right? I use it to drink my, um, just some water. Mm-hmm. Okay. All right. My podcast, I'm in trouble, but I can go back to the, back to the tool shed and figure that out. Cyllable-wise?

Yeah, because I was doing sort of a farmhouse parody and juice slotted right in there with just the one. If I go, if I make that water, I've got to go tinker with some of the lead up. And by the way, fully capable of doing that. Parities. And thank you for the challenge. Yeah, great. You know what I mean? I go, oh, like, some people, and I know you're like this too, some people go, oh, I got more work to do.

Me, I go, oh, more work to do. Yum, yum. I'm licking my chest. Yes. Yes. And that's a knife and fork. Is that what you're. Yeah, yeah, yum, yum.

Yum, tasty stuff. Yeah. You know what I said? You could lick your fingers. Fire the menu. Ooh. You ever do that? You ever go to a restaurant?

I say fire the menu. fire the menu. I haven't. No, I haven't. What do I mean when I say that? I'm to eat it all. Tonight I'm to eat it all. Uh-huh.

When works on the menu. Yeah. It's work. Yeah. But is it work if you love to eat it? But kind of fun with real food, too. And then they bring it all and just like after one thing, you're just kind of like, I'm full.

I didn't know this was a seafood place. Yeah. I don't like seat food. I'm allergic. I'm sick. Yeah. I don't like this food. Yeah.

If you say that to a waiter, I think they, I don't think they would like it, but I do think they would have to do something. They love your honesty. I don't like this food. They got to respect that. Oh, is it like, was it cooked in cream or something? I just don't like it. And they're like, thank God, finally someone real.

What is somebody? Because they don't like it either. They must know. know, they're carrying around all the time. They've tried it. Every waiter likes every item on the menu. I doubt it. I don't think so.

They probably have to pretend they do, but if you're really being straight up with them, I bet they give you a little wink back. They want it. Yeah, they're like, finally. I can actually talk. I told them to lose that. I told them to get that out of here. Take the corn beans off the menu, you know.

And that's the kind of humor. It's observational. Yes. It's relatable. It's for the dinner, for White House correspondent's dinner, you know what I mean? And so we're talking about Mar-a-Lago face. I think we would want to talk about it like... In a positive one?

It's cute. Like it's good. Definitely. I want all positive stuff. Okay, good. Just good vibes. Yeah. To unite people.

People are looking for that. I miss it. They're looking for really like fun, joking in that room. And just people. They want to see these people laugh and be complimented. I mean, even you saying unite people, reminds me of a joke I saw on a t-shirt once that says like bad spellers of the world untie.

And I feel like that could be so funny to say at the White House correspondent's dinner. And you just, you know, you're high-fiving whoever. Wait, it's U.N. T-I-D-T. They've transposed two of the, yeah. And we need to be sensitive to the L-D community. Did you put a T at the end as well? Did I?

Untied? I mean, that's even really bad spelling. Yeah. Yeah. So that could be really bad spellers of the world. Oh my God. Yeah. Untighted.

Yeah. Yes. No, that could be great. So we've got our opener. Hold for laughs. Yeah. Talk about, I mean, like, it might help for us if you can talk about, like, this room, why it was the warmest room you've ever performed in.

why you're just like standing up there like thinking I wish I could be here forever with these people. Yes. I feel like this is my family now. I mean, it's just you're, they're the big stars that you want to see. Yeah. You network a little bit. I mean, we're all guilty of it. Yeah.

You're going to meet people and you're going to rub elbows after. So it helps if you do a good set. Yeah, sure. Because you're going to the Vanity Fair party. Wow. Let's be real. Yes. Yes.

And really, you know, they're all, they don't mic the audience, too. So, because I don't even like feedback, honestly. I don't want to hear any laughs or cheers. It's distracting. I know what the material is. You know, I know what I'm prepared. And then I can just keep going. Yes.

Yes. I can't, I don't want to be interrupted by laughs. my job, right? Yeah, because I'm like, we've got 25 minutes. Let's go. It's not a two-hander. You know, this material was written for one person to perform. So I don't really need all the, like, trying to time out what's going on for you.

Are you, because if you're laughing, you're not listening. Exactly. If you're laughing, you're not listening. And I don't want it to inform my performance or my delivery, how I think of the jokes. Oh, yeah. You want to be pure. You're an artist up there. We always say, you know, because we do, we've done this podcast for a while, people go, oh, do you guys do stand up or, you know, do you ever perform on stage? And we go, no, no. The medium for us is we do this to silence. We know it's funny. We know it's good. We leave. We never talk to anyone who has heard it. And you get, you can see like little comments on the, on the, on. the podcast platform. Don't read the comments. Yes,

we read them all, right? Don't read them. Those people are jealous. I love it. You like the comments. I just got a little big. I love the comments.

Okay. Well, I look at most of them. Yeah. But they're jealous. Do you want to have a chance to, we just had William H. Macy on and he did. Yeah, I saw that. He did want to speak to the commenters directly.

Do you want a chance to just like kind of make your, introduce yourself. Just say, like, would love to read some really good comments. The kind of stuff you want to read comments about, just like what your... Just areas. You don't have to dictate the actual language they use. I mean, what are we saying? What are we calling it?

The Egyptian. The thread count? Yeah. The high thread count. Yes. Walk like an Egyptian. I would love to kind of play on that for my squad. Yeah.

You want the country and a... Yeah. On this is what I like to. Yeah. I would be like, hey, Egyptians. Yes, okay. But I don't want it. I'm not talking about Egyptians.

Okay. I'm talking about my threads fan. So let's make that clear. Hey, Egyptians. Not you. Hey, Egyptians. I'm talking about my threads spam that heard us talking about the high thread count. So anyway, I'd be like, hey Egyptians, what's up?

It's your girl says. I'm here. Hollywood Handbook. Please leave us a comment. We love the feedback. This is so good. We should just use this for. Yes, we should just get this from everyone.

Let's give them an Egyptian hello like we do. And so what is that in your mind? Like what is the Egyptian hello in your mind? Because it seems like you're very confident. It's like ratio. It's like ratio them. Ration us in the comments. Yeah.

That's good. Racial. I'm learning a lot of this stuff. Yeah. Well, you have to. You have to learn this stuff. I mean, when we were coming up and I don't want to say how old I am, but it wasn't part of the game, was it?

Nope. Nope. The ratio was the Egyptian hello. You didn't have to define that. The only ratio we knew about was ratio from friends. Am I right? Yeah. Her ratio sans.

Horatio sans. I kind of like ratio. That's our favorite Horatio. Oh, that's a, yeah, ratio. Yeah. Ration. Yeah. So I'll do one too.

Oh, you're doing ratio. I love that ratio from Friends. I guess ratio the Cuba Gooding Jr. movie? Sure. Oh, yes. And we all had to do one. And you guys had used two of them. My friend went as radio for Halloween once.

I thought it was a great costume. Famous friend? She's kind of famous. Okay. Okay. Good for her name is Rashida. She was on jury duty. A lot of people watched jury duty.

Yes. The new one's coming out. Are you on it? No, no, no. Okay. Because they sneak people in there and they surprise us with them. Egyptian fam, get to Amazon and tell them. Yeah, let them know.

Hey, tell freebie, right? Put her on jury duty too. I know it's out, but I'm sure there's something. But still, they can't. get you in there and just. I'm sure there's something. Marsden this thing. Please.

Like Jeff Bezos can't make something happen. I think not. No, he's got a, he's got some little, uh, the, uh, techniques. Yes. Yes. He could do. Yes. He could do.

He could make things happen. Yeah. Hollywood handbook. Hollywood handbook. Is it distracting? So you're performing. in front of the news basically, right? The news has to come.

Yeah, we're back to W.H. CD. Should we anticipate different, like, reactions from, like, my understanding, and I don't know how distracting this was, is that David Muir snaps instead of clapping or laughing. And so, like, you do a joke, and he does a little, like, a cool snap. It's very cool. He's got to give it up.

Yeah. But if you get Muir, you're like, I'm good. Okay, if you get that snap, I'm good. Because everyone's looking to him. They're watching him more than you. And then they go, hey. Yeah. Yeah, Wolf Blitzer's like, oh, you got Muir.

That's nice. And I hear he has a kazoo that he uses to react with. Yeah. He didn't end up. Did not end up busting out the kazoo for you. Yeah. Is he kind of reaching for it in his shirt pocket? I'm okay.

I've been. Yeah, he does it when he's like, I'm about to like this. But he teases you a little bit. Yeah, exactly. And that actually can be the carrot at the end of the fishing rod. Too slow. Oh, no, he hits you with the too slow. That's slick.

It sucks, honestly, though, too, when you're on stage to see that. It sucks if you never. if you never get him but if it is a prelude to breaking it I got Muir as I always say that's the carrot on the end of the fishing pole for us

I have been working on something because you give this great acronym WHCD and can we do anything with that

welcome to the WHCD which of course stands for stands for. We've done, we're doing wordplay. We've done bad spellers on tight heat. Yeah. And now we're doing,

right, something with this WHCD. And you've been working on this? I've been thinking about, we've got to have something for this. Okay. And I've been working a little bit. So now you're putting me on the spot.

I would say that I don't. You just said you'd been working on it. Well, I wasn't listening during all the David Muir's snapping stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I was going through. Because you weren't adding much there.

No, and that's not always, you know, indicative of me not listening. Sometimes it is me not having something, which I also don't now. And I'm going to try to get through. So it's WHCD. And I think it would be we have conquered democracy. Wow. Wow. Look at that.

And that could really, you know, you could really see it a couple different. Of a tie. Sure. Yeah. But also maybe it should be sillier. We have conquered democracy. The occasion is serious. Oh, sure.

But maybe it should be sillier. But I could see that really playing well. What if you spelled conquered wrong? That's what I would think is it undercut. Or like Concord Massachusetts. It undercuts the bad spelling thing. Yeah. Because you.

Or grapes. Maybe it's spelled out in grapes. Conquer grapes. We have conquered democracy. We have conquered democracy. We have conquered. democracy. Because we brought wine.

And everybody's dressed. Yes, that's right. And we use the grades to make your, your wine. Are you enjoying the wine? I'll say we have conquered democracy. Greg Bovino's in that. You say Vino. Greg Bovino's in the crowd.

Give it up, you know. Yeah. Yes. Give it up for Vino. Our father, our second. Can we give it up for him? I guess you did already. In Bovino Verite.

In Bovino Verite. Yes. Yeah. Yes. Greg Befino Verite. That's really good. So we have now almost a minute of material. And it's nice because you definitely want to, you know, you want to call out people that are in the crowd.

Yes. It's like crowd. Well, it tells the cameras where to go to and he's being a good sport. Bavino's like this. Uh-oh. Not me. Yes. Yes.

And you're like, I knew this was coming. What is she going to say? What do you do for work, sir? say. Because he got fired. I'm that guy. I, yeah, I knew I was supposed to sit in the front.

Oh my God. I know she's got some for me. No. It's something about being short. That's awesome. And I'm like, no, it's about wine, dude. It's about wine. It's an acronym.

It's really fun. And people are there to have fun and just like, yeah. It's not the night. It's not the night for the nasty stuff. No. Like, you know, influencers are there. And it's like who's who.

They call it nerd prom. Yes. You know. Yes. Which I wouldn't say that. You wouldn't say that. I wouldn't say that. Are you worried about offending?

Are you, you're thinking that? I don't want to hear anybody's feelings. You're thinking about the nerds. I think. You're thinking about that word. You know, we used to talk a lot about nerds as cool. the jocks and the bullies are pumping our gas and we've taken over the world and we stopped

but it doesn't mean that that doesn't still live in our hearts I'd say like election 24 right yeah and we do like we do have a nerd who listens to the show yeah a huge one yeah it's like a really like like a like a nerd a huge nerd you ever watch Survivor No. Oh. Sorry.

There's this kind of Cochran who won the show once. Anyway. Oh, okay. That's cool. I just don't want to say nerd prom. He's a really nice guy. I don't want to say nerd prom. And his mom is, yeah, nice too.

The Survivor guy. Just so I can look it up. Yeah, Cochran, C-O-C-H-R-A-N. Cochran? Yeah. Sounds like. Well, and that you could make as a job. joke, I think.

Because that's kind of a cool joke. You think he's heard it? Yeah, probably at school, right? I guess if people were talking to him there. He's in class, learning about cock rings, and they're like, I'm learning about it in class. You're a cockering. He's crazy about school. He's a nerd.

He's a nerd. Yeah, school nut. So I just don't, I don't want to go after him. You know, we're doing this. You're your guy. He was on the show 10 years ago. And then I'm going to make this episode during, you know, one of our most exciting. March.

Yeah, times. It's Trimont. It's March. Yeah. We've got Cecily Strong here. We're talking about like solving some huge problems. Huge problem. The W-H-CD.

And then I'm going to stop down to pick on like this guy, like call him a nerd. Like just not, doesn't make sense. It's not a good way to use the episode, you know. Yeah. Okay. Well, let's edit that out when I said. like you know nerd prom yeah

should you come out like bad bunny oh you're just like bad bunny and you look at President Mr. Trump and say boo what was that

do we both do a noise what did you say like you say boo like it's it's scary to him you know I was thinking like because that's the sound that he makes

I don't listen to this stuff I respect it like I love it. People should be able to do different songs. I love. I love you to a lot of celebrate a role with my baby. And I just know

the one part I can kind of sing along is like that part. And she really likes that and I say it into her foot. That part. Yeah. That part. That part. It's important for the baby to remember. This is like Thank you for reminding me of this, that you are still the talent. Yeah.

And so they are the microphone at best, and they're lucky to be that. You're part of the show. You are not the show. The show, honey. No. You're the audience in the front seat and your foot is the microphone and you are being used to amplify the voice of the talent. and to inspire the talent. Yeah.

I think it's like whoever has the most teeth is going to be the star. That's a good, like, rule for me right now. Signal boost. Signal boost that. Please signal boost that in the comments. All my Egyptian friends and listeners. Well, now signal boost is what? And now signal boost.

It's like the people's mic. Yes. Okay. I'm because I'm still learning. I'm doing a lot like this so that you can see my hands. Well, I, yeah. I just want you to know. No weapons.

This isn't like a normal. I don't normally talk with my hands up here, but I've wanted you to see. Yeah. A high 10 we could give each other in a way over the Zoom screen and let people know. There's a connection here. All done. Oh. Jeff.

Isn't that? Yes, chef. All done? This is all done. Yes, chef. Here's the thing about All Done, though, that I've also learned from these babies. They'll do that. But they're not.

They're actually not done. They haven't even started. So it's. They start with All Done. So they'll do the All Done. It's like, no, you're not. And they mean this. Yeah.

And you're like, you mean this. You mean this. And it's actually going to be more right now. It's actually more right now. This is not, it's no all done. No, all done. You ain't all done. No.

You ain't all that. and you ain't all done. This is why they're not the talent. Yeah, it's called show business, not show babies. Yeah. We teach them the more and the all done. It's like, we tell you. Yeah.

You know? You don't tell us. Yeah. People are so concerned with having their babies communicate with them, but I go, they should just be listening right now. At this point, they should be listening. There's very little they can tell me. I know nothing.

Yes. Yeah. It's mainly a listening thing. All the words she's going to know, it's going to be from me. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And won't it be nice when she's in her 30s, you're on stage performing? I'm dead.

No, no. Cessaly, don't say that. I'm just saying it. It's an older parent. I love dark humor. You know, we all do. Right, right, right. I'm sorry about that, you guys.

There's a line we don't cross. You are on stage. I'm looking at the email you sent and I'm sorry. I'm not. Self compassion. No dark humor. Number one. You are.

Self compassion. Yeah, I'm looking at that. Yeah. Right. You're playing Annie on stage in 2059. Yes. And we're announcing it tonight. I love this.

Yes. And your daughter is sitting in the front row and just kind of unconsciously lifting her foot. So she's like, she's 18. No, wait, I'm using my age. Sorry about that. I just added 18. I just added to my age. 2059, I acted like I was going to be 59.

I don't need to explain this. I don't need to explain myself. Must be that new math. I don't know what just happened inside my head for that mistake. So of that new math. 2029 is in 33 years. in 33 years. So she's going to be just about 34.

Yes. And you are on stage performing as the character. I'm playing nanny. Yes. And her foot is just rising subconsciously. Oh, the microphone. Because you're singing at her foot is the microphone. She needs to help mommy. You see her barefoot.

Wow. The conditioning. Could be nice to have her at the correspondence dinner, too. Mm-hmm. Oh, even just for her. her to watch and realize who the real talent is, you know. And maybe teacher to snap her foot. And just for her to feel the energy of that room.

Oh, yes. Oh, yes. The letter C, mommy cook, as they say, you know. Yeah, I'm that'd be, this. Yeah, Muir does this, you do this. Mm-hmm. All done, folks. All done. All done.

Mm-hmm. Yep. And that's my time. I just cooked, all done. Mm-hmm. All done. That could be really. powerful. So we've got the ending. We've got two jokes. I don't know if the WHCD was a joke.

Bad Bunny fits. Right. What's the bad bunny look that you feel like would sell it for you? You know, I guess I'm just, I'm really, I'm just picturing only the, the white outfit from the Super Bowl. That's kind of the only thing that's coming to my mind right now. So maybe something like that. or like a t-shirt that says Puerto Rico. Doesn't he have big shoulders? I think so. Aren't you from the city of big shoulders? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

All done. All done. Gotta be something there. With the shoulders, yeah. And you say, hey, Puerto Rico, this is our thing. Yeah. She said to sis now. Chicago's here.

to collect. Yes. Yes. That's good. Yeah. Kind of safe. Get your own idea. Are you open to joking around about your name?

I would love that. Yeah. I mean, your last name is a word. Strong, hello. I've been trying to. I haven't been really listening for a while in the episode. I've been trying to figure something out with your name, which I feel like there has to be something.

Again, I don't know if this is it. So I have a question. Did you just miss all the Puerto Rican stuff? Wow. Even a lot of, you didn't even know there was Puerto Rican stuff. Even hearing that happened. Because usually on like, I'm, I'm nervous.

Yeah. Like you usually have a lot you want to do. It's one of my pet interests. But I did miss it and I will have the great pleasure of listening to this episode alone in my car and chiming in with all of the little jokes and observations I. could have made about Puerto Rico. I'd be like, well, why didn't I say that? No regrets.

I don't say why didn't I say that. I say, oh, if this ever comes up again, I'll say this. Because we do have the same six or seven conversations on the podcast over and over. Okay. I guess. Yeah, 13 years. So the. So you're doing the podcast, 2059.

Yeah, we're doing it. What's your first, what's your first, um, discussion. How are you opening the show? The first episode, Jamie, where you go, I go, I go, here's our guest. I'm in New York doing Annie. Yeah, well, I say, here's our guest.

You can catch her right now on Broadway and Annie. Oh my God. Don't sit next to her, uh, daughter. If you, if you, if you, if you don't want to smell any feet, but ladies and gentlemen, this is, uh, uh, uh,

Cessley Strong. Any relation to Boston's strong? Ooh. Ooh. Ooh, that's nice. So that I've got, I've introduced you. I said, you know, I say this is, of course, a return guest. This is her second time on the show. We say roll the clip.

We go all the way back for everyone. It's getting hologramed in a people's apartments. Because that's probably how podcasts are then. You've hopefully watched Lost in the interim. Like Blade Runner 2049, which at that point will have been 10 years. ago. Ten years, the old news. Yeah. Ana de Armas living robotically in your apartment. Do you see that movie?

Have you seen that one? No. Wow. No. What is it about media that you find so distasteful? Well, like I said, I will watch the HBO Max show, Curious Ks of. The curious case of. I'm really, I'm a real

docu series, some reality kind of person. Not Survivor. And not Survivor, unfortunately. Yeah. Not Lost, not Blade Runner. Not Lost, not Blade Runner. She didn't seem that familiar with Annie when we brought it up. Can I just say?

Oh, I know, Annie. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Delt anything out. Yeah, you're in Annie and the look on her face was, uh-oh. No, that was like. I punched the 12-year-old inside me. Like, no, we're not doing that now. You have a freaking reputation.

The Egyptian thread hive is on here. Please do not sing Annie. Do you want to say goodbye to them? Like, most of our guests, like, don't really say goodbye to the commenters. Yeah. You can feel that. I think we know. The commenters are really kind of hurt by.

They're leaving comments, but there's a little bit of a... Okay, goodbye, I guess. A stung sort of undertone there. And so, yes, if you could give them a farewell, I know you did the all done signal with your hands. A lot of people who leave the comments are not the people who subscribe to the video tier. Really? Yes. How do you find that out, even?

I live in this world. You're like IT. Yes. I am grinding on the subscription names. And I'm cross-referencing that with all their social media accounts. Yeah. And like, what's that? IP address, right?

IP address. I just really love the fans. I just really love our fans. Like, I would have none of this, this tiny water, but I wouldn't have any of it without them. Think about that. Say, fans, thank you for getting through this with us. I love you. See you at the WHCD.

I'll see you at Annie, 2059. I'll see you at MSJ for Fish next New Year's. But more importantly, I'll see you on threads, Egyptians. And maybe say just like a little good night because they're about to go to bed. Maybe the getting through this with us felt a little bit. It's cute negative to me. So maybe just like a little good night. They're also kind of worried.

They have this thing. They're worried that their ears are going to get too hot. They also. But they know. like I talk about a lot of personal stuff with them. So they know what I mean. Just on the side, just another like in other forums.

But I guess for like everyone else. Yeah. Oh, okay. I guess like good night. Sleep well. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

And I hope things are less crazy when we wake up tomorrow. And we're working for that with this podcast. Okay. So they're saying that you actually shut the door too loud when you were leaving the room. and they're mad. That actually made them really upset. Oh. And they're crying.

No, no, that was, I wasn't mad. That wasn't mad. I actually, that was an accident. I kind of slipped. And I'm so sorry, I just shut it so hard. Now they're worried about you. Do you want to know if you're okay? And what you slipped on.

No, I'm okay. There was water on the floor, I think, because it was raining. Inside? Because it was raining outside, and I walked in. With the boots. With the galoshes. Yeah, my glosses. I took them off by the floor, but when I take them off, you pull them off your feet, you know, and they kind of goes everywhere.

You know, let me take a crack at it. Bye. Okay.