Threedom - Mr. Peanut is My Type

Episode Date: October 30, 2025

Scott, Paul, and Lauren discuss miscommunications, Paul’s DVDs, and pics with celebs before playing The Great Debate. Send Threetures and emails to [e-mail] us a voicemail asking us a question at hagclaims8.comFollow us on Instagram @ThreedomUSA.Unlock every episode of THREEDOM and THREEMIUM, ad-free, on cbbworld.comGrab some new Threedom merch at cbbworld.com/merchSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Yeah, it would always let you know that. What year do you think it is when you hear this? Probably 2025. 26. 2020, 2020, 6. 2020, 26. 2020, 2020. Do you realize that eventually there's going to be year 20, 2020, 26?

That's crazy. Wow. Do you realize we passed 2020 already in Barbara Walters? I don't think it was alive to see it. Did she die? Yeah, right? Yeah. Uh-oh.

I don't recall. There's a whole documentary about her. There's documentaries about living people. I know, but I'm just saying. name one living person there's a documentary about i'm actually not sure anymore michael j fox i'm actually not sure anymore i think she's alive she passed away in 22 she was still around she passed 2020 good for her it's hard when you can't remember good for her but she died in 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 her life was centered by 2020 but she died in 2022 one of the fate

One of the cruel ironies One of the cruel ironies of fate She's narrating her own documentary about her death That's what I would do Yeah, why not? We should narrate our own documentaries Inspired by the Emmys which we recently watched Yeah

Which of course were a month and a half ago I have made a folder I've made a folder of photos Oh good To leave behind saying Please only use these photos when I die Are you serious? Yeah

Did you dislike some of the photos in the in memoriam? No, hey, those photos are fine. I'm saying I've seen the photos that people select for me. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't like them. That's wild.

What year were they mainly in? Is there a year that you think you peaked? That I peaked or is there a year that I... Oh, no. The photos that I like are from all different periods. Okay. That's what I'm wondering. And there's photos from a certain period that I'm like, please don't use these photos.

Did you tell Janie? No, no, yet. Well, she has to know to go into your phone. I'm going to tell her. going to break it to her. I'm going to say, honey, eventually I'm going to die. Then she'll be crying for three days. Then I'll say, three days later, it happens to all of us. Yeah. She really doesn't understand that, that it happens to everyone. Yeah. She only thinks it's going to happen to her. Yeah. I don't know where she got that idea. I think I told her that actually. Oh, yeah.

I said, like she said, um. I said like she said. That's what I said like she said. You know, I said like she said. A year after my mom died, she said, how can we don't see your mom in anymore? And I said, remember, man, that thou art dust, and to dust thou shall return. And I say this to her every day. Oh, good. When she wakes up or when she goes to bed? The first time she speaks to me in the morning, the first thing I say to her is, that is the rejoinder.

Yes, yes. One of Batman's greatest foes. It's not bad, actually. The rejoinder. If I were still writing Spider-Man, you'd have Batman in there? Look, I was very close to putting vehicular hand slaughter in there. Vehicular hand slaughter? Yeah, I think that we came up with that on a three episode.

Yeah, we came up with that. Yeah, like equally. I guess Paul did. Like 50-50. Yeah. Yeah, the three of us, 50-50 came up with that. You got 50, I got 50, Lauren got 50. Yeah.

That's the three-in-way, 100. I remember when I did that. I was wondering that. Woo, hoo, ho, ho, honey. I remember when I did that? Uh, ooh, ooh, ooh. By the way, we need to clear up something. Paul and I had hot dogs right before this episode.

How was your hot dog, Paul? It was a delicious hot dog. Mm-hmm. I'm feeling a bit loggie right now. Okay. Logie. I had hot dog and tater tots with Hollywood sauce. And if you had to describe what Hollywood sauce is.

Thousand Island dressing. Great. They don't scrape it off. the Hollywood Boulevard Stans. The Scrib the Hallibbleau. Put it in a little cup for you in and dip in. And I, of course, ate really, it was, it's practically a hot dog. It was a, it was a long, thin baguette with prosciutto and butter.

That sounds delicious. And I really didn't want to get it. I wanted something else, but they didn't have what I wanted. What did you want? I wanted these, like, chilled noodles noodles that are like in a sort of a peanut-type. sauce or something like that with some sesame seeds. I love peanut types. Yeah. Yeah. Peanut types.

Yeah. And I'm allergic to peanuts, but I love peanut types. I love peanut types. Mr. Peanut is my type. He's like 38, 24, 38. How long did it take him to grow up when he was reincarnated as himself?

How long did it take him to grow up when he was? I don't think he had a teenage phase or anything. I don't remember seeing him like breaking out or anything. It's sort of like when there were sitcom and there would be a baby board, and then the next year they'd be five. Do you think if they kept making the Mandalorian, we'd see Teen Yoda?

Like Grok as a teen? Yeah. Oh, obviously. I mean, there's going to be a movie. I expect him to be grown up. All grown up or in an awkward teenage phase? They already did that with Groot, so it's hard to say. Grude had an awkward teenage phase.

He did have an awkward teenage phase. Yeah, and that's where you're getting your great idea from, Paul. Your Groot idea. You stole it from Groot. It's your Groot idea. What if, what if, Grow Goose and I am Groot. Oh, that would be so

Groot, I mean, cute. You're a real Grooty pie. You're such a grudy pie. Welcome to three to my, Paul. Groot, I am. I'm Lauren. I don't think we introduced ourselves last time.

No, we didn't. So if you... No one cares. If last week was your first episode and you're like, who are these people? If you can't figure it out. Who are these people? I'm Scott.

Hello. I already said to who I am Okay, okay I was just singing love Okay, dear Okay, honey Sorry sweetheart Lauren, what's going on?

I just got sleepy from the food Yeah, right? Now, we have to talk about something. Yeah. Bruno? Because We don't talk about Bruno I can't believe you would say that.

The movie Bruno. We don't talk about the movie Bruno. We really don't. We didn't agree to that. It's just something that doesn't happen. This is because the listener may be excited about something we teased the last episode that is not going to happen on this episode. We proposed that we were going to take a field trip to the Beep House and we were going to get to the bottom of the Bee Palace. Oh, we didn't do it.

What did you think I said? The Bee Palace. you know what we didn't do it we didn't get to the bottom of anything sorry we we ran out of time because we had hot dogs you know what it's yeah hot dogs really took up all of our time well you were slobbing on that knob for minutes on end why am i the only knob slobbering he had a hot dog too you both did you both did but i want to say this morning we had a little bit of a text confusion that was only me being confused with Paul. It was a different chain that we're on

with your wife and my husband. Yes. And Mike said that our daughter is obsessed with and as he wrote Minnie Coppers. And then, well, hold on, pause. I didn't do anything. Pause for questions. I'm listening to you.

Pause for questioning. Do you care that I say you have a Minnie Cooper? No. Okay, great. So Mike texted that our daughter loves mini coppers and he said we know some uncle paul has a mini copper and and he didn't say copper twice he said paul has one he said i told her minnie pa has one and then janey said and then and then our daughter wanted it to be green and then jenny said it is green and then i said what's a mini copper like

a snake you have a green snake and then and then i went oh my Mini Cooper and then everyone went crazy that I thought you had a snake. We fucking had a ball. Of course I, it was a typo. He typed mini copper instead of Cooper. Genuinely, did you think, maybe Paul bought a snake

and I don't know anything about this. This is me imitating Lauren's day. And then what did I say back? What? A snake or what? And then Lauren said, You really got me. That's exactly what I said.

And then Mike say, But seriously, you thought I thought that they own a snake? This is good stuff. And then I said yes. I thought you, I thought you thought that, and I thought Janie agreed it was green, yes. And then I just wrote, let me get this straight. Well, and then nothing else. Because I do think there was a world where you, I thought it'd be crazy,

but that you have a little copperhead snake. The fact that you consider Paul to be a snake. guy even in like the chances of it being 10% I don't have a pony too is it is insulting to him I and insulting to be on his behalf I don't own a bong okay I didn't think it would happen but then I thought I don't either remember did I tell you about when I found a bong in our garage and my brother like hit it there yes great how did you enjoy that for a second I thought you meant your current garage no no no no wait what happened wait what happened exactly My brother would hide stuff in the garage that he couldn't because he knew my parents would like search his room.

Yeah, they were so far. It was a haunted garage. And so he would hide like his bong in a shoebox in a particular place. And I remember when I found it and I was like, oh, there's a bong here. This is his water pipe. You didn't think it was his. No, I knew it was his. Oh.

Why is it called bong? That's a great question. Just for fun. Oh, of course. Asked answer. Honestly, if you don't get it, then you don't get it. I think he got caught. I think they found the bong or they figured out he was smoking pot and they made him go to a Christian therapist because they didn't believe.

Because they knew a regular therapist would be like, make him go away from Christianity. It would be like, hey, you know what? Everyone spoke spot. Yeah, it's fine. You're fine. It's actually great. Try to not do it in the house. It takes the edge off.

Should I drive my car over to your house to show? Yeah, we can come to your house. Is that ever going to happen? We could. We need a little adventure on Sunday. We don't have anything planned. Please. Let me see if we're free Sunday.

Okay. We'd love to have you guys. I don't have anything going on. Well, do you want to see Paul's car? Yeah. I mean, we could pop over, you know. Oh, I have my show Sunday. At night?

Yeah, at night. But that means you're not available all day. During the day, I'm just freaking out. So you don't have 15 minutes. Fuck, fuck, fuck. I've shown it I fuck. You can say no, but you don't have 15 minutes where we could just pop over and just see that and just have a little interaction. No.

Oh, my God. I'm saying I wouldn't enjoy it as much. Yeah, okay. Fine. We'll do it another day. Okay. Okay. Do it today.

We'll do it right now. We're going to leave right now. Get an Uber for Holly. I'm going to pick everyone up. We're going to go meet there. Just get her an Uber to meet right here because his car's here. That makes more sense. My car is here.

Yeah. Put her in a Waymo. What were you doing in your car, by the way? Because when I got here, Lauren got here, saw your car. I thought you'd be in here. And then I walked inside and you weren't in here. But I was like, but his car was out there. And we waited for 10 more minutes and you weren't here.

What was going on? I was doing a little business. Okay. Oh. Did you see me drive by? I did not see you drive by. I was in my phone. Yeah.

I was making copies. You're faxing things. Faxing Instagrams I was sending facsimiles Yeah Mm-hmm I was rolling calls

Oh Do you think the fax machine Is rolling over And it's grave right now I'm fucking I hope That thing goes to hell I remember when I worked At Dean Witter

The what Brokerage firm Um I worked there for a summer Never heard this before What I never told you I worked for Dean Witter Do they sell spaghetti

Let me think They probably would have if someone called up and was like will you sell me spaghetti for four hundred dollars it doesn't feel like you should work there if they didn't sell spaghetti um yeah i worked there they they needed someone doing as they called uh they what did she call it uh it was one of the brokers she wanted someone who did uh telemarketing and i had i had a bit of telemarketing background yes when i say she called a telemarketing it was basically calling it was telemarketing it was It was cold calling people in the town we were in.

That's it. Telemarketing, baby. And saying, hey, our, we have really good interest rates right now. I didn't even know what that meant. And then if anyone was interested, I was immediately supposed to transfer the call to her. I'd go, hold in one second. Like if somebody said, what's that? You'd be like, we got one on the line.

No, if anyone was just like, oh, what are the rates? I'd go, hold on one second. I would transfer it to her. And it can't have been worth it. it to her to hire me because I would go in and I would like write plays and stuff. And I remember like she very nicely sent me a floppy disc with all the plays that I was working on after I left there to my house. It was very nice.

Well, I found out what you were doing all day. Oh, no. And she wrote a nice letter of like support of like, oh, you're going to be. And then a critique of the plays. Did you feel upset when you left there and you didn't have the plays? No, because they were all dead ends that I was working on. I never ended up really doing anything with them. But she was very nice.

It was interesting. I worked with one of Bill Murray's brothers. Joel? No. The one who does not act. Noel? Soul? Kroll?

Pole. Dole? Did you work with Dol Murray? Did you work with Dol Murray? Did not? Did you work with Wool Murray? I don't think. Now that I think of it, no.

Did you work with... stole all are you out did you realize what you were going to say was too silly I was going to say Cole I was going to say Cole but we were dead Cole

and Cole's doing a K Oh that counts Did you work with Did you work with Jawsmarry? Oh yeah I did work with Jawsmerry Yeah I did But the reason I bring it up

Is because that was the first time I'd ever faxed anything and once I did it once I remember if I can recall where was I the first of my facts once I did it once I just wanted to do it over no once I did it once my boss said hey now you can put this on your resume that you know how to fax things oh that's so great the bar is so low hey it's still there to this day oh yeah yeah so if anyone needs any fax things I used to fax my aunt she she worked for the mayor of a town oh my god and I would fax her

Which town, amity? I won't say to protect her anonymity. But it was aminity. Pleasantville? It was Pleasantville. And I would text, I would faxed her. Yes. And I would, my faxed her.

Is she in color now? Yes, she is. Okay. So what happens? Scott hasn't seen. You have to see that one. It's something like that. Yeah.

Yeah, she has an orgasm. You don't have to see that one. Okay. Lauren likes it. She'll do an episode, she said. I haven't seen it since it came out. Did she see it? I think so.

You said you'd do an episode. I'm too busy to do an episode. We have to do it in February instead of the before. Instead of the. Before. Joe Allen is the wife. Is it William H. Macy? Yes.

And Reese Withers. From E.R. Toby McGuire. Mm-hmm. Great cast. Who's in it that you forget is in it? Well, I forget. You're like, oh, this person.

Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I forgot. Yeah, I don't know. And I used to fax or all kinds of messages, and she would fax back sort of official seeming mayor letters. Oh, that's fun, like on the letterhead. Oh, that's so fun.

And it would be like a typed letter. Dear Lord. Yes. I received your facts today. Yes. And it made me realize that you and I should connect. Yes. That's fun.

That's fun. That's fun. That's fun. Jeff Daniels is also in Pleasantville. Oh, yeah. He was the milkman. He was the milkman. Everyone else?

Couldn't tell you. Jane Casmeric. from Malcolm and the middle Marissa Rabisi Jenny Lewis of Rilkele-Kiley fame When this airs I will have seen Rylo Kiley for a second time on this tour

Don Knott's? Oh yeah, that's right, Don Nott's was in it to TV repairman Paul Walker RIP Maggie Lawson Is this better or more or less interesting than Lauren naming countries? I think it's better

because at least you have a picture of actors in your head, which everyone loves. Actors like Charles C. Stevenson Jr. Who played Dr. Henderson? Ah, Dr. Henderson. We love Dr. Henderson, don't we, folks? Wait, there's a picture of this guy, Patrick Thomas O'Brien,

looks exactly like David Hyde Pierce. Is he two guys? Let me see. I think David Hyde Pierce split in two that one time, right? That guy, oh yeah, but he's definitely different from him. I mean, he's definitely different from him. In name. But he's not looking like him.

Yeah, but like there's a lot of people that look alike. That's not true. Like who? Maybe four people look alike. There's a lot of celebrities that look alike. J.T. Walsh. Danny Strong. They look exactly a lot.

Yeah. It would be funny to cast a movie and every single person who has a part, you had to cast someone else in another part who looked sort of like them. Yeah. so that but that it was totally even so if there were like 58 speaking parts you would cast 29 yeah you picked a hard number

you would cast Scott is beautiful minding God is beautiful minding Beautiful mind All right we have to take breaks He's got a beautiful mind Pop quiz hot shot. You know how some things are just better together?

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I have been here and there purchasing some physical media of things that I don't want to be taken away from me forever should the streaming people decide to take them down. As they do. Good job. As they do. So one of my favorites, the sting. The sting. the entertainer is here to say

I'm entertaining you all day I have updated my copy of this thing so now this is extraneous but it is a 4K Ultra HD copy Would one of you like this film? You know I would You can have it Robert Redford passed He did yesterday or today

My mom told me a story about Robert Redford That I didn't know What's that? He was in Evanston. By the way, is the digital code still with us? Or no? Probably. Open it up there.

Apparently, my mom was pushing me as a baby in the stroller. Okay. And he walked past Robert Redford. Your mom was a baby. My mom was pushing me in the stroller. I was a baby. Oh, okay. And she walked past Robert Redford and his son who went to Northwestern, and I guess he did as well.

and she's like I gotta fuck that dude no he's so good she was like I'm in color now and he said to my mom now that's a beautiful little girl about me

are you fucking kidding me and my mom said I looked up and smiled at him and thought did this just happen and she said by the way he was pretty beautiful himself oh and my dad said

he sprinkled some pixie dust on you about me for I guess Mike he blessed me with his saying I was with his Robert Redford yes okay dad I thought it was a funny thing for my dad to say because it's kind of like out of character of course but what he means is like you're the next Robert Redford and obviously I am and um well you started to look more like him since Robert Redford his past my hair fell into that shape but anyways he I thought that was great that I have that connection that is great a connection is made a connection is made. That's lovely. That's wonderful.

Next up, we have no country for old men. Absolutely no country for old men. This is the Coen Brothers adaptation of the Cormick McCarthy meditation on the inevitability of death. Life in the West.

It's a great film. Now, that's a great film. Now, that's a great film. That's a great film. This is, looks to be just a regular old DVD. I don't think it's even a Blu-ray. Hmm. I own a 4K copy. I'm going to pass. Well, I don't blame you.

I'll take it. Mike likes that movie. And, you know, we like having some physical media as well. Now, look, a million versions of this over the years. I just got the latest one, so I'm not going to keep this one. This is the anniversary collector's edition of, why did you do that? Fell over. You are a maniac.

You crushed all the DVDs. My question DVDs. This is the anniversary edition of Jow's. Happy anniversary, Jaws. The 25th anniversary. We're now, this is 25 years old. Yeah, we're now in the 50s. Yes.

I remember that came out in, uh, in, in, in, in what, 2000? Yes, it did. That's exactly right. And so. It's been 50 years of Jaws. It's been 50 years of Jaws. We can't believe that it's been 50 years. This has over 75 minutes of bonus footage.

That's 76 minutes or so. I will. We'll take it unless you want it. No, I do not. Thank you. And finally. Feels like a nice classic to own. We watched this together during the pandemic, by the-lawrence.

What a beautiful box that has. It's got a sort of fabric box. It's, yes, it's nice. I used to own that edition, I believe. It's a good edition. Yeah. This is the exclusive limited edition. And I remember how exclusive that was.

You and I both owned it. And we were the only people. It was exclusive. It was limited. one of two so it says the anniversary edition oh no it says limited edition doesn't say anything anniversary and i apologize uh but disc one is special features uh disc two where's the movie yeah give me the movie guys one is special features it's like wait why are we starting there yeah yeah like well first i want to put in disc one and watch the movie maybe i think they're saying

there's special features on both discs okay so it's so it's like the film is on disc one and then here are the special features that are on disc one this one one of the special features talent files oh we got files on these things check out this file on peter o'toole advertising campaigns wow i love what a special feature on a disc is photos i love clicking through photos there's a featurette on camels you know what i think i did look at those photos when I first got this. Of course. What else you're going to do?

Well, you're young. They're there. You can't get a job. Now, have you ever seen this movie, Lauren? I haven't. Oh, it's so good. I'm going to give this to you. And is that homework?

It's not homework. No, it's a treat. I'm saying it's at your leisure. Thank you. One of my favorite movies of all time. Oh, okay. Approximately three and a half hours, maybe. It's a long one.

It's okay. I'm not too great. Well, yeah, well, thank you. You know, watch 30 seconds of it. Okay. If you're not hooked. you know what I almost brought in was the music man oh yes I had a regular DVD copy but there is a Blu-ray and I bought the Blu-ray there's not a 4K of not yet we did watch it on 4K because

we rented it didn't did we not when we did our watch along we did rent it I do not recall if it was 4K is everything just 4K new I think everything was 4K if you rent it well that's nice yeah I just about I should say unless it doesn't exist in you saved yourself but a film I A film? For sure. Well, I'm going to treasure this, Paul. Thank you so much. I hope you treasure it. I haven't watched the Sting in approximately 35 years.

What a flair to be a lot of years. It's a fucking fun movie. Celebrate Robert Redford. Today, whatever you're doing, drop whatever you're doing, except for listening to this. But including your pants. Yes, pants on the ground. Pants on the ground. Everybody has those pants on the ground.

Drop your drawers and listen to the sting. Just listen to it. Yeah. Here's what you do. Take your pants and underwear off. This kind of thing drives me nuts. Face away from the television.

And then watch the sting and leave your door unlocked. Wait, what drives you nuts? Tight butts? Why? I don't like when they put the name of a different star under the picture.

No, that's mad. Why would you do that? Because it's contractually obligate who's going to be left to right. Right, but then why don't they just have the picture be like that? But then it's like maybe the story

doesn't make sense for the picture. Like that's three separate pictures than they didn't pose for that. But it's just like annoying that it's the wrong person. We should have done that with freedom. I forget what I was watching recently that talked about the contractual things on a poster. It was television.

Oh, it was a TV. I was watching a TV. That's right. Yes. Yeah, one of those TVs that I put up. That billing stuff is fascinating to me. Yeah. It's so funny.

Because it does feel when you start talking about it, it's like, this is dumb. Well, isn't one of the original stories? Doesn't it tie back to Leverin and Shirley or something? Yeah, we were talking about Laverna and Shirley. That's right. Yes. And they solved it by. Because they decided to do, they kind of like put same time, different locations on the screen.

Before Laverne and Shirley, they did that on the towering inferno. So Steve McQueen and I think Paul Newman was Paul Newman? And then they would do left. So they would do like low left, but upper right, but the same time. So it's like left to right is better than upper and down, you know, better than lower. Yeah, yeah. We talked about this on this show, I think. probably we've talked about everything who cares the fact that she and I both remember this well I know it from I know it from a friend of mine who made a video about this whoa um so that's how I know that really impressed Scott yeah he made a video that's so cool yes so Penny Marshall was bottom left and Cindy Williams was top right and that's how they equaled them out because they both had top bill it's the towering inferno stratagem

It was perfect and it worked just right. It was perfect because, yes, we read left to right. But if something's up there down at the bottom and something's up there at the top, maybe you read the top first. You leave it up to the individual viewer. And the end of the day, we both know they're equal. Do you remember when Cindy Williams left that show and they put her in a full body cast or something like that to disguise that she was gone?

It was a contractual dispute maybe? But it wasn't her. Oh, I know it wasn't her. I'm saying that she was in her, the character of, Shirley was in this show but they put her in a full full body cast in order to say like Oh she's still here

Yeah sure She's just right here In this body cast That makes her look like a mummy Oh they covered her head Yeah It's wild that that show continued I know

Why because it was so good After one episode No that that's one of half of your title leaves Yeah Yeah This is not like Valerie's family It would be like Breaking left

And they still did Breaking Bad right yeah which one is breaking oh i always think it's walter white i thought jesse was always breaking things because you would notice any scene he was in he would bump into something and you'd hear crash but he's also bad i thought he was a little bad and walter white broke up his marriage yeah that's true he was also bad yeah it's a good point so bad maybe they had like a thing like that or they both had both a little bit breaking a little bit bad oh you know who else have the same billing Shelly Long and Ted Danson in cheers. Doom, ba da da da doom doong, shoggi-d-d-da-da-da-da-da-ba.

Speaking of Breaking Bad. Yeah. Now, a week or so ago, I went out to the theater with my good lady wife and our wonderful friends, Scott and Kulap. Oh, that's right. I thought you were talking about a different theater experience. I thought it might be going another way as well. We had dinner after the theater. Dinner after the theater.

Yes, because it was an earlier show. It was a Sunday evening performance and Curtin was 6.30, which is tough because we here, because of Emmy, are used to eating at approximately 615 or so. So it was really one of these things of like, well, I guess. But you guys had packed bottles for yourselves. Yes. And so you had those during the place. And also we had giant Dagwood sandwiches that we were eating while we were watching.

That's right. Bottles and Dagwood sandwiches. And so we went to dinner afterwards and we realized we're on Vine Street. were right near. I looked around and I said, I think this is near where Bob Odenkirk star is. Wow. And Paul knows this because he was invited to the ceremony.

I was there at the ceremony. Wow. And we walked up the street and there it was. And my wife always wants to take a picture all the time. Yeah. And said, we should get a picture. And so.

So we all gathered around. We all gathered around. Took a picture with the star. And by the way, the other issue was we had, the minute we had walked outside, we had called an Uber to go back home. Yes.

And it arrived within 30, 45 seconds. It was there. It was there. And so, and Janie's like, let's get a picture, y'all. And so. I don't care for it.

I don't care for you. You might be a redneck. Better stop. And so she's, she wants to get a picture and we're saying, okay, one, but we got a hurry. We got a hurry.

And our star rating is in peril. And so we all gathered. gather around Bob's star. We take this selfie. We're laughing the whole time. We only take one. We don't check it or anything. We get into the car.

We zoom off. And then we check the picture later. And we hadn't framed it with Bob Star in it at all, but it caught the... Perfect. Perfect framing of Brian Cranston Star. Wow. All of us gathered around. Our favorite guy, Brian Cranston.

That's amazing. Yeah. Very nice, man. That's amazing. And did you text that to Bob? No. And what year did Bob get his start? What if I did that?

But a year ago. It was 2021 or 2. So just one year ago. It just happened. Well, that's very nice you were invited. It was very nice. It was very kind. Bob said to me,

I wouldn't be here without you. Yeah. And I was like, that's weird. He said, I knew that you of all people would appreciate every aspect of this. Like the, like how it's kind of dumb, but it's also like an honor. Yeah. And it's a crazy showbiz thing. But that was a very fun day.

And I got to meet Carol Burnett. Carol McNett, who was one of the people who sort of made a speech about him or something. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's so cool. That's amazing. I was so nervous to talk to her.

Yeah. And I chickened out. I kept saying, like, go, go ask, go ask for a picture. Pull her earloat. And then it was fucking Ray Sehorn, like made it happen. Oh, really? Because Carol was about to leave. And she's like, Carol, Carol, come here for a second.

So I got a picture, which was very nice. Oh, I love when I've done that for people and people have done that for me as well. It helps you out. I got to meet John Carlo Esposito and we talked about merrily, we roll along. Oh, because he was in the original cast of that. Oh, I didn't know that. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I remember when Brent Spiner was on my TV show. He played data. He played, yes. But he was also in Sunday in the Park of George in the original cast. Real? I didn't know that. Yeah. And we were talking about that for a bit.

And he told me a story about how Kelsey Grammer, who was in it, left the show or something because he had an audition. I can't remember exactly what the story was. But, like, it was basically him getting... I'm going to be on Miami Vice. No, he got on Frazier. Or no, I didn't know. Cheers. Cheers. He got that role on Cheers. He got on Frasier and they said, let's do, let's do, let's step you up on cheers. And then we'll roll right into Frazier. But that's so fun. I did, I did that for our script supervisor on the Bang Bang TV show when Karen Gillen was on. She's a huge Doctor Who fan, was freaking out. And then Karen, like, they called rap on her and the script supervisor wasn't there. And so she was like on her way out to her car. And the script supervised, like, oh, no, I didn't get a picture.

And I, like, ran out. I was like, Karen, Karen, you need a picture. Stop! Stop your fucking car! Emergency! Emergency! Close the gate! Why don't you take emergency? Lock my gate! But, yeah, other people have done that for me where it's like, this person wants to talk to you.

You got to help people out. I think I was, well, yeah, I'll tell you that off, Mike. But it's a lot of fun. Quite personal. Show business. Quite personal, I suppose. Quite personal, I suppose. I suppose it's quite personal.

It's quite interesting to think about who. It's really fascinating when you think about it. Do you have a picture with anyone, Lauren, that you? I have many, you know. With anyone, famous or no. I have many, many pictures. The one I've told before, but that comes to mind is when I chased Betty White down when she was driving away from hot in Cleveland at the end of the sheet.

And she was running away from you. She was. And my picture is with her buckled in and me being into the car. But I'm glad I have it. That's so great. I know, I don't know why I didn't ask her when I was standing around. She's just a nice old lady. Yeah, I know.

But it's hard. I don't want to be annoying. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. What a wonderful tribute to Golden Girls on the Emmys recently, by the way. It was beautiful. Thank you for being a friend. Never mentioned any of the stars or the creator or anything.

Nope. Just saying this. Hey, what do we like about the show? The song. The end. I would always turn it off right after. Let's get Riba and half of Little Big Town. I love watching.

Let's not have four women. Oh, no. I love watching That wouldn't make any sense You're right But I'd love to watch Reba's mouth Oh my God I love to watch Reba's mouth

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and we're back we're back Lauren before we get into this next segment would you please read the next the else in countries yeah we'll talk about which ones we've been to and if we were what did we think I hope she says Libya this inspired by our Swedish friend Latvia no Lebanon no lessotho no I thought we already did Laos I thought we already did Laos We did. She was after that. Oh, got it. Liberia.

No, but I do about a Liberian girl. That's right. No. Lichtenstein. No. Lithuania, no, but my homeland. That's right. Luxembourg.

No. Madagascar. No. Malawi. No. Malaysia. No. Maldives.

No. Mali. No. Malta. No. Marshall Islands. No. Mauritania.

No. Mooresha. No. Mexico. Yes. Yes. Yes. Many time. Maybe 10 times. I've only been once for work, and it was for a few, I was there for like 10 days. You overthrew the government, right?

The work was actually a movie called Opening Night, the musical, and it took place in New York on Broadway, and we shot it in Mexico City. Oh, they have buildings there. It was all indoors. I do have buildings there, and it was all indoors. I was there for pretty much 24 hours and really enjoyed myself. Would love to go back sometime. I would love to go back. just went for about a week. It was great. I've been there several times and it's wonderful. I love the people. Micronesia. No. Moldova. No. Monaco. No. Mongolia. No. Montenegro. No. Morocco. No. No. No. Nozambi. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. I hear there's no point to it anymore. I love. I love. I love We and I love sex work.

Yeah. Performing. I really enjoy it there. And that will move on. New Zealand. No. Yes. Oh, I want to go.

I've been there. It's wonderful. I was invited. I got to see Hobbiton and everything. Oh, wow. It's not good to go. Nicaragua. No.

Niger. No. Nigeria. No. North Korea. No. North Macedonia. No.

Norway. No. Oman. No. Pakistan. No. No. Palau.

No. Palestine State. No. Panama. No. Papua New Guinea. No. Paraguay.

No, Peru, no, Philippines, no, Poland, no, Portugal, no, Kotter, no, no, Romania, no, Russia, no, Rwanda, no, no, St. Kittsen, no, no, no, St. Lucia, no, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, no, no, Samoa, no, no, San Marino, no, no, San Marino, no, no, Saoamano, no, South Arabia, no, Saudi Arabia, no, no, South Arabia, no, Saudi, no, South Korea, no, South Korea, no, South Sudan, no, No. I want to. Me too. I want to. Sri Lanka. No. Sudan. No. Suriname. No.

Sweden. Yes. I have been to Sweden. Whoa. And wasn't our caller from Sweden? Yeah. What do you think? I loved it. I went there in the dead of winter right around New Year's Eve when I was filming in London. I went there for a little trip. Fun. And it was really fun. It was the coldest in the world. And I would love to go there in the summer because I hear it's absolutely amazing.

I've been to IKEA. I think I get it. Yeah. That makes sense. No. Switzerland. No. Syria. No.

Tajikistan. No. No. No. No. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Yes. That's where I was across the Nican river. I was in Thailand. I was in Thailand. Timor-Lest. No. No. Tunga.

No. Trinidad. No. Tunisia. No. Turkey. No. Turkmenistan.

No. Tuvalu. No. Uganda. No. No. United Emirates. No.

United Kingdom. Yes. Yes. Yes. And I love it every time. United States of America. Uruguay, no, Uzbekistan, Venetau.

No. Uzbekistan? I went back in time. Uzbekistan? Uzbekistan. Are you Uzbekistan? Vanuatu. No.

Vanuatu. I'm sorry. No. Venezuela. No. Vietnam. No. Yemen.

No. Zambia. No. Zimbaboy. No. So we went to like eight, maybe, total? Maybe.

Maybe. If that. Canada, United States, Mexico, Costa Rica, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, France, and England, but those are one. I've been to... No, that's the United Kingdom. I know, I'm saying it's called one.

But there's still a different country. Thailand. But they didn't list them like that on that list. Okay, Lauren. I've been to 12, actually. Okay, great. Shut up. You shut up!

Now guess what it's time for? well it's time for a threacher that's right and we all know what this is so why even bother explaining it are you sure well maybe there's one person doesn't know if there's a game that we like to play also known as unbastero now this one we're going to play it gets very heated between us when we play this because we're all competitive people we're all competitive people with so much to give So much. Thank you. This is called The Great Debate. It was submitted by Stephen with a pH.

And... What did you have a pH in? D? I got a pH in D. I got a pH in D. Now, one of us is a moderator. The other two are debaters. We all choose a word.

The moderator, we all reveal our words, and we have to debate which... The debaters debate whose word was closer to the moderators, and then the moderator says who won. Okay. Sounds great. So let's all write down our words. And by the way, it doesn't have to be a word necessarily.

It could be a thing like Bugs Bunny or Mount Rushmore, I believe. So everyone write down your word. Where are we writing this down? Or just in the notes app? Yeah, that's why I just think of a word. Just to prove that you're not changing your word. I mean, do we not trust each other at this point? I don't trust you to not change your word.

I know you're going to change it. The person who brought up, oh, where are we writing this out? Yeah, ask an answer. Okay. I was going to do that. Okay. So the first word. Oh, by the way, we have to decide who's the moderator out of this.

Me. Okay, you're the moderator. Okay. Okay. Let's all reveal our words. Paul? Combination. Mine is temperature.

And mine is popsicle. Now, let me show you something. Okay. I showed my word. You guys just said your words. Thank you. Okay. I'm showing it.

Thank you. I'm also showing you this. What do you think of that? Oh. I think I have something for you here. I flipped him off. It was so fucking cool. He did flip me off.

It was pretty cool. All right, Paul, do you want to go first? Yes. Now, Lauren is the moderator. Your word is popsicle. Is that correct? Yes. Combination.

When I think of a popsicle, I think of it as a combination of many things. things. It's a combination of water and solid. It's a combination of flavor and texture. It is a combination of summertime and fun. You cannot have a popsicle without having many, many combinations of things. In fact, water must combine with cold in order to form a popsicle. Popsicle. Otherwise, you have nothing. You have nothing. What a stick, which must combine with the frozen ice in order to become the popsicle. And time. I wasn't timing, but I'm just assuming that's time. Okay. You should time me. I get a minute. Like I had. Yeah. You got a minute. You got over a minute, I would say. I think you're crazy. Okay. Tell me when to start. Start. I hit lap. Just kidding. I'm just kidding.

Okay. Look, when you think of a popsicle, the first thing that pops in your mind is they're cold. They're in the freezer. When I think of popsicle, I immediately think of my freezer. They're cold. Otherwise, it's juice. I think that that is the primary thing we think about when we think about popsicles is how cold they are. And that is the temperature.

My word was temperature. And, you know, all other foods, you're like, oh, ham. You don't think, oh, that's warm or that's luptical. quorum. Popsicle, you think, oh, that cold thing. So that, that's one of the few foods that immediately the temperature is one of the first things that pops in your mind. And, uh, I would respectfully say that that is why my word is closest to your word. 30 more seconds. 30. That's, come on. You've hit it to 46. That was even with the lap fake out. All right. 15 seconds each to rebut. This guy is always fucking talking about.

What if you have a hot tamale? The first thing you think of is hot. This is not unique to popsicles. What I'm saying makes sense. Combination. Stop. I'm done. 15 seconds.

You? Look, I know what I'm talking about. And what I'm talking about is how my word is the closest to popsicle. Popsicle temperature, they go hand in hand. A lot like you and your sweetheart, walking down. the street eating popsicles. Popsicles. Sounds like a combination to me.

Hmm. I have to think about this. Yeah. I'm gonna fucking bury you. The winner is Scott. Hell yeah. That's outrageous. Temperature is simply closer to popsicle.

In your mind. Yes. And the debate convinced you of that. And the, and, or at least it didn't dissuade you from that. Yeah, the debate didn't ruin that. I feel like your mind was made up and this is a sham. It was mine to lose, but I didn't lose. It might have been.

All right. All right. Now I will be the moderator and you guys will be the debaters. We'll all write down a word or a thing. Okay. I've written down mine. Lauren is in. Lauren is locked.

Paul is locked. Paul, what is your word? Excess. Excess. Lauren, what is your word? Bed sheets. The moderator's word is Ronald Reagan. Excess and bed sheets.

Lauren, you go first. I have a minute on the clock. I will do the minute. Oh, okay. No, you should be focusing on this debate. Yeah, that's true. I'll do the minute. Okay.

Ronald Reagan. I didn't hit lap. One of the presidents we've had. And every single president sleeps in a bed with bed sheets. Not a single one. didn't do that. Maybe Abraham Lincoln. But Ronald Reagan really, really connected with his bed.

He would get tucked in every night. He would toss and turn and have a nightmare about something presidential he had to deal with. He probably watched the day after. He would watch the day after or wash the day after. Watch. It was a mini-suits. His sheets would be washed the day after.

Right. He was someone who, at the end of the day, said, when can I crawl into my bed? He was known for that. So I think when I think of bed sheets, I think of Ronald Reagan. And when I think of Ronald Reagan, I think of bed sheets because being tucked in as the president is one of the most important things to the day. Time.

That's all I wanted to say. All right, Paul, I'd like to hear from you. Don't hit time yet. Do you think the president gets new sheets every day or do you think? I'd like to think so. Right? They don't just make the bed for a couple days and then Washington. I think they get rid of the bed sheets so they don't hang themselves.

Okay. I'm going to press one minute and go. When I think of Ronald Reagan, the word excess certainly comes to mind. An excess of an overreach of power, leading us to the terrible situation we're in today. The modern GOP was enabled by Ronald Reagan. an excess of jingoistic attitudes towards our country, an excess of misguided power doing things in the public's name, secret, making deals,

and excess of ambition in making a deal with Iran to release the hostages only after Jimmy Carter left office. This man has caused an excess of homelessness. He turned out all these people. Oh, you're just going to stop in the middle of the sentence? That's what I had to do. I don't want to give an excess of argument. Okay, wonderful.

As Ronald Reagan would have done. Lauren, you get 15 seconds to rebut, and I can time you starting now. Nothing he said made any sense. When you think of Ronald Reagan, you think of bed sheets. You get into bed. When you go to bed at night, you think about who else liked doing this? Ronald Reagan. The bed sheet was designed based on his body type.

He wanted it fitted over the mattress and wanted to... Okay, time. And Paul, 15 seconds, to you? We absolutely don't know for a fact that every single president has slept in a bed with bed sheets. We just don't know that. That's conjecture. There's no way we can prove that. Most of the presidents are dead.

most of them time she was well this is a tough one I mean Lauren is right that Abraham Lincoln slept in the buff without bed sheets

a bear mattress just a bear mattress and a bear man Paul I have to say your your word kind of lent itself a little more

towards Ronald Reagan when you think of it and yet you were able to accurately and succinct come up with evidence to support your claim. Lauren, I don't think that when you lie down in bed, you think Ronald Reagan also did this. So, Paul, I'm going to have to give it to you.

Damn it. Thank you. All right. Now, Paul, you're the moderator and Lauren and I are going to debate. Let us all come up with our word. Let us all come up with our word. All right, I'm locked in. Lauren, do you do the, you do the, what do you call that, the swipe method of texting?

Yeah, it's called the swipe method. Cheney does that too. I do it. That's great. Okay. Paul, are you in? Yes. All right.

Lauren, what is your word? Joan Rivers. My word is Pictionary. My word is cartwheels. Oh, okay. And I believe I start. Scott, you start. Let's put 60 seconds on the clock.

I can do it if you like. I did it. Go. You did it. Okay. The word that you're thinking of is cartwheel. When I think of cartwheeling, I think of being young, I think of playing games. I think of recess.

I think of having fun. And what is more fun than playing Pictionary? Pictionary is a game that we all love to play. It makes me think of downtime. It makes me think of. A summer's day where you're having friends over, when you were young, maybe you would be doing cartwheels. When you're a little older, you're like, hey, let's break out the Pictionary. But it's the same kind of summery, fun feeling where you're getting together with people

and you're just trying to prove what the human mind can accomplish, what the human body can accomplish. I mean, trying a really great picture in Pictionary is akin to doing a fantastic cartwheel, the first time you've ever done it on the hot summer grass. That's what I think of when I think of a Pictionary. And I think they're both great words and they can coexist. All right. Lauren, you have one minute and your time starts now. Only one person exemplifies the feeling of a cartwheel. And that person was Joan Rivers. She brought laughs, surprises, just unexpected perspectives and zingers

that much like a cartwheel could dance through a room, light it up, and change the alchemy around her. Cartwheels also have the ability to give us, you know, a lot of times women do them. And we'll think about women's bodies. And with Joan Rivers, you know, she was someone who was very interested in the female body and beauty.

Cartwheels exemplified that as well. We can only... Time. You can finish your thought. No, I can't. Okay. All right. Scott, you have 15 seconds for a rebuttal.

Go. I would say, how many? times has a cartwheel been drawn in a game of Pictionary, probably hundreds of thousands? How many times has Joan Rivers ever said the word cartwheel? Zero. I think you can comb through her jokes. She has never said the word cartwheel. And yet Pictionary... Time. Do you want to finish that thought? Pictionary and cartwheel are almost exactly the same. Lauren, 15 seconds on the clock. Cartwheels are active. Joan Rivers was active. Pictionary is a board game. Joan Rivers, moved through the world like a cartwheel.

She was always bringing a bag of tricks, and people never knew what they were going to get. Time. Very interesting. Very interesting. Good points made by both of you. Thank you. I will say I don't know that even Pictionary itself in its commercials

would say, what's more fun in the dictionary? Nothing. They should. Shouldn't they? I mean, it's bad marketing for them. think in good conscience they would do you think they'd be sued um picturenery as a game uh games do feel similar to cartwheels laura makes an interesting point about women doing cartwheels i would say of all the cartwheels i've ever seen in my entire life probably 99 percent of them

were done by women well check this out it was upsetting you fell right in your ass that was embarrassing I'm sorry Joan Rivers provoking a sense of wild fun in a way that a cartwheel does that speaks to me a lot of your arguments

were nonsense but they did make me think of better arguments for your case as I was listening to them Scott the recess argument very strong games cartwheels

not a game but an outdoor activity, a childlike outdoor activity. Guys give me a lot to think about. And ultimately, I believe you're both wrong. What? Yeah.

I don't know that was possible. Yeah, I didn't either until I heard what you had to say. Really? So neither of us was even close. Not even close. Wow. That's crazy. You guys both got a point and I got none. Okay, Lauren.

Thank you. We're all tied. Great game. Great game, guys. That was a lot of fun. Great stuff. Paul, you have some tour dates. You're going to be with the thrilling adventure hour in England.

Yes, we're going to be in Brooklyn, the Bell House. And then the following we go to London. November 1st, we're in London at the Leicester Square Theater. And that's next week. And that is next week. So please come out and see us if it's not sold out already. But I'm really looking forward to it. And then at the end of next month, you and Amy Mann and Ted Leo and some other

wonderful people. Josh Gondelman, Nellie Mackay. We're going out on the road with a holiday show that is sure to entertain you, no matter what you believe in, happens after we die. Wow. And I'll do my thing. I'm just doing my thing. I'm just doing Lauren. You're just a working mom who has two jobs of love. All right. See you next week. Bye. Spider-Man. Is the ultimate dish pizza or tacos? Smash Boom Best will help settle those debates and so many more. Every episode, we take two cool things, smash them together, and we see which one is best. Debaters use facts, jokes, stories, and more to argue for their side, and it's all judged by a teenager. Because who is better at judging than a teen? It's fun. It's

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