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Um we've got some questions uh for Mary about Stepbrothers at the very least. I'm very excited about that. And again, there's you at 844-204 Rich Nomadadal. That's coming up in about 18 minutes' time.
So Um Last we checked in on the Cincinnati Bengals. A guy named Joe was quarterbacking. His name was Flacco. And they lost to the New York Jets, giving the Jets their first win of the season. And when I say giving, that was part of it.
Jets earned it. But the Bengals gave it away. And they go off on their buy. And they're coming out of their buy at three and six. And the bottom line is this.
They can't play defense. I mean, just straight offense. Nor do sometimes they have the ability to protect any quarterback named Joe or Jake. And Under the construct of the way things are working. If you can't play defense.
And it doesn't matter how many points your quarterback name Joe puts up. And if you have trouble protecting that guy named Joe, and there's one guy named Joe who's a 40-year-old, who might just be a one-and-done with your team, most likely. Or You got a Joe. who you are paying a gajillion dollars to to the point where If you're the owner of the Bengals, you take your dad's name off the stadium and you put pay cores on it because you got to pay Joe. Why do you bring him back?
Why? Because it's the National Football League and you want to win football games, number one. Number two. To quote the great Jim Morris Sr. The season It's not over.
As he once upon a time famously said about a saint season about nine years ago.
Okay. And it would get very upset when people are like, why keep playing when you're one and four? Because the season is not over. Season is not over. Over.
And I understand as well, there's another Jim Mora line about making the playoffs that would maybe be appropriate for this as well, but you don't have to find that, Mike. Playoffs? Oh, you found it. Wow. And you're coming off of your bye and you're visiting Pittsburgh, PA.
Where the Steelers right now are reeling. After this, again, why I'm like Matt LaFleur, hot seat. All right, just wait a week. Because Two games ago, the Steelers were the. What's the phrase that Bruce Dickinson once said on Saturday Night Live?
Cock of the walk.
Okay? Cock of the walk, baby. You know what I mean? The Bruce Dickinson. The Bruce Dickinson puts his pants on one leg at a time, except when he does it, he may go play the records.
Gotta have more cowbell, baby. I don't even know what that means. Just wait a minute and it'll change. Because the Steelers are now down in the dumps. And if Flacco wins this game, they're four and six, and things are looking up.
Especially because guess who had his 21-day window? For being able to practice and being able to be activated, opened up yesterday. That would be one. Joe Borrow. Who took to the podium?
This is how I know he's coming back, guys. I mean, number one, they open his practice window now. Number two. Because Glazer says it's going to happen. And number three.
They made them available. To speak to the media. And he won thousand percent. came across As a guy, who doesn't like what's been happening. One million percent wants to fix it.
and is one billion percent coming back. for Thanksgiving. Which is not. That is not. Not week 13.
And he's coming back to go to Baltimore. and stop the Ravens from Taking this division as everybody's expecting to happen. He's coming back to make sure none of that happens. And the Bengals are going to make the playoffs. This is exactly what I got when I watched him.
At the podium. Yeah, we'll see how these next couple weeks go. Um. You know, there's a lot that goes into it. Like you said, there's a lot of variables that you have to consider and Um we're just gonna See how these next couple weeks go, see how it feels.
Let's say the team does do well. Is there a timeline of what you feel like as soon as you would be available? We have 21 days to figure that out. Um Could be early, could be late in that window. You know, we're still we're still pretty early post-surgery for this injury, so We have A couple of weeks of practice to to figure that out and see where it goes.
He's come back. Oh, he's playing. There's a one point in the press conference where he was saying. What about Thanksgiving? And he paused mini nose.
We'll see. Mm-hmm. We'll see. I have missed Joe Burrow this football season. Me too.
So have the Bengals.
So have Cincinnati.
So is all of us.
So has anybody who obviously had him in. in their uh in their fantasy league. You better send those refunds. One of the greatest he's won. I mean, Thanksgiving night, Bengals at Ravens.
And if the Bengals can beat the Pittsburgh Steelers and sweep them, Woof. That would be beyond massive. And then after that, home for New England. Two big games that are Absolutely difficult for them to win. And then that's and then here comes a Thanksgiving.
And if he comes back for Thanksgiving, and then it's at Buffalo and home for Baltimore. Even if they split these games and they're four and seven going into that. Burrow playing these games. And those last three at Miami, home for Arizona, home for Cleveland. Kinda looks good.
Okay. But playoffs, I don't know. That's where you're kind of like Jim Moore there, but the season is not over. That was my sense of Joe Burrow. Good luck.
I want to see him. Oh, yeah. You know who wants to see him? And BC. Oh yeah.
Oh yeah. Okay. So with Ted Danson. Yeah. Mr.
Must C T V or the original Must C T V. In the other room. In our green room getting ready to come out with Mary Steenberg and it's going to be a great conversation. Um You know Coming into this National Basketball Association season of 2025 through 2026. You could guess, right?
It's anybody's guess. West is better than the East. That's kind of a given, right? Kind of a given. Victor Wembanyama must see, got to see him coming in.
He's an alien, bro. Right, right, right, right. But I think if I had told you coming into the season The least surprising headline. Would be The Mavericks fire Nico Harrison as their general manager. Yeah, what took so long?
What took so long? They needed to see, I guess, a little bit of what this season would look like. And then it didn't help that Anthony Davis. His best availabil his best Ability. Still isn't?
And We knew Kyrie wasn't coming back and Till later in the season. The fact that Clay Thompson has just been... Falling off a cliff? He's in love right now, so. And then you just knew when Lucas showed up.
Like Somebody who's twice his age in Los Angeles with a new lease on life. New lease on life. Lisa on life. Showing up all skinny. You know?
Dating someone younger? Yeah. Is he? I'm just saying the Lakers are someone new and younger for him than the Mavericks are. Gotcha.
And he has just been absolutely balling out. And it appears Anybody who knows and watches Mavericks basketball and the early throws and has been at these games. It's a constant drumbeat from the fan base. And apparently, the owner. Has been constantly battling.
With fans who come up. to him and basically say What the hell? Did you do? And the fans wanted a scalp, and as you know. Jed York once famously said in charge of the 49ers, I'm the owner, can't fire me.
Sounds like Jerry Jones. You know, honestly, you can't fire the owner. And the owner had to basically. I imagine Nico Harrison did not go rogue and just trade Luca out from under the ownership's nose. The owner basically had to say, We're not paying Luca the Super Max.
We don't believe in his long-term viability here, whether it's his training or his opinion of the Roster, or it's his work ethic, or blah, blah, blah. Get him out of here. And it's going to be the ultimate pocket listing. You know? Selling Sunset?
Speaking of people who live here in Los Angeles and might look younger than they really are, listen. Hey!
So, Rich, you're saying that the owner didn't just. wake up in the middle of the night like most people, like me and O'Shea, and then find out that Yeah. Luca was traded. That's right. That's right.
And then you have Dirk Nowitzki in his new. Police on life as a pundit. For Amazon, just tell it like it is. Yeah, not for long. He's about to be the GM.
You think so? I've seen that name thrown out already. You really think so? Could be the Coke. Because that'd be a way, what, to tell Mavericks fans there's a guy from where we're in front?
That'd be a way to cool the temperature. Would it? It sure would, yeah, yeah. Because you trust in his ability to build a team? The most beloved player in franchise history, a statue outside.
Yeah, that's a way to calm things down. A little bit. Because the season's off to not a great start, although Cooper flag looks really good. You're just kind of waiting to get healthy. and maybe see what this team can do.
Well, I mean, bring back your beloved son?
Somebody had to order the code red on Luca. That's why I call him the fall guy. He didn't make that call.
Well, here he may not have made the call.
Okay. Patrick Dumont had to say, go ahead and trade him. But no one had to start the conversation. But how? I understand that.
It's not. As much the fact that he was traded. That needs to land on Nico's lap. It's the matter in which. The conversation was endeavored.
I know you want to keep it under wraps. But how do you not basically flat out say if it's time to trade Luka Doncich? Why are you keeping it a secret to everybody? Right. Because you know.
It's going to create such a massive seismic. Event in your fan base and in your town. That you might as well just open it up to everybody and. Deal with the lengthy, what, week-long period. that it would take to trade him.
Two-week-long period it would take to trade him. Three-week-long period, if you want to even go that way, survive that drumbeat from the fan base, going, What are you doing? and open it up and get a massive Massive haul for him. Massive. More than what you got.
That's the problem. You didn't get that much in return because you decided to keep it quiet. Because if you're not going to pay him, if you've made the decision, he's no longer our guy. Then you just Go for it. But instead, no, it's just like we've decided he's no longer our guy.
We're just going to call the Lakers. Of all people. And we're going to send him to the Lakers. All teams, man. Ricks, they do that every generation.
For way less than what Desmond Bain would get? Oh, my gosh. What did Bain get? Like four first rounds? I'm just saying, way less than what McCall, you know, what Bridges would get?
You know what I mean? Like, that's the problem. Of course it didn't help that Davis got hurt and then Kyrie blew his knee out. But even Cooper flag landing in the lap, that doesn't get ascribed to the general manager just for being lucky. But it's unlucky.
The other stuff that happened, and part of that comes from the residue of his design and how to trade Luca. Like I think that's the ultimate. That gets laid at his feet. Did the owner tell him this is the manner in which you're going to do it?
Okay, we've decided to trade Luca. You must keep it quiet, and you must only involve one team, and that team must be the Lakers. Really? That's the weird part about it from the beginning. But it doesn't help that Luca keeps balling out and he's winning.
without LeBron. Luca's averaging 37, 9, and 9. Is that good? Yeah. 379 and 9.
When he showed up like that on the cover of Men's Health, you knew it was coming. And then you knew that This would eventually be a headline this year. Nico Harrison. No longer. in the employ of the Dallas Mavericks because at the end of the day, It's It's on him.
And in terms of the analogy about whether you can fire the owner or not. In that very town. Fans were upset that Micah got traded, young guy, to a different spot, also to a spotlight of all teams, the Green Bay Packers, right? Maca. The problem is the general manager is not going to get fired there.
Yeah. 'Cause he's also the owner. That part. And a client. I don't know, I went all size spurling on you there, but Yeah.
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Whose idea was it for you to join the cast this year, Mary? I don't know. It was Mike and Morgan. Yeah, probably Mike and Morgan.
Okay. And they wrote a character that everybody describes as. Pretty wacky and eccentric. And then, as soon as I turn my back, they go. It's extremely.
Exactly like her. And I'm like, really? I think I'm acting.
Okay. Yes. You have an Oscar at home. Yeah. That's not me.
One of the descriptions is I tell my friend that she is. I I do You know. Take a boat across the street. I wait for the signal, and she does cartwheels right into the middle of traffic. And that's kind of her character.
Yeah. And a little bit like my wife. Nice.
So that worked out. Did your agent drive a hard bargain, or you just said yes right away? I think it was pretty obvious I wanted to hear it. And it was just every day was funny. The scripts are so funny, but also, like you say, it's so touching.
And It's about So such deep things in his case. You have a second chance at our age. Right, because you play a widower trying to find a place in the world without your wife. Yeah, and is that all over for you? And do you dare?
And then the fact that somebody new is so different than the life you've created. And would they fit in with your kids? And, you know, people deal with this stuff, but a lot of times we're so focused on writing just the young stories of life. And there is that in there too. But like they neglect some of the things that happen to you as you get older.
And it's beautiful. It really is a beautiful show. And it's interesting, the first. Episode, the first scene of the first episode, Ted, you're a young man toasting your wife at a wedding, and it's like shot like it's on a VHS tape, right? And it looked like you from body heat, you know, like that, like, yeah.
Was that like an part makeup, part wig, part CG? They went all in so that it was supposedly, oh. That my baggage as an actor comes in handy sometimes because people know that image of me from Cheers or. But he but that period, and then to cut, dissolve into This Ted. Is a real, you get to experience a passage of time viscerally.
Right, especially since then they pull out and then you're in bed by yourself. Obviously, the other side of the bed is unmade, and it gave an idea of what your character's journey was about to be. It's a great show, and everybody again should check it out. A Man on the Inside premieres November 20th in terms of a second season exclusively on Netflix. Catch up on season one, whenever you wish.
On Netflix. There's so many things I want to talk to you guys about because you've been in so many amazing movies and television shows. And the way that we normally cover all the ground is through a segment called Celebrity True or False. We've seen it.
Okay, good. Good to know. I've got two for each of you and then one collectively for you. And some of them might, we might go a little bit off script, if you will, right there. It's just become a competition, by the way.
Had no idea. This is the first ever competitive version of Celebrity True or False. Hit it, please. Uh Celebrity, true or false. You can't handle the truth.
All right, that's our production value right there. Interestingly enough, though, I will go off script right here because I just heard Jack Nicholson's voice. Is it true you got your first ever role? In the movies, Mary, by running into Jack Nicholson on a movie lot and he ran into you and wanted you to be in Going South. Is that a true story for your career?
Okay. I don't think I'd be sitting here without him. Without Jack Nicholson? Yeah, I don't. But I was in a comedy improv show at the Manhattan Theater Club.
Chris Guest, who directed Some money waiting for Gothman and offshore. Bastion show. He his mother was a casting director. She uh and a woman named Mary Buck saw me in that comedy improv show and sent me to this big casting director who's casting a lot of movies. She said, I would love to have you in for this movie called Going South, but it's mostly going to be models or well-known actresses, and you don't really fit into that category.
And so I was almost out the door, and I turned around and said, I'm just going to go sit out there and give you a chance to think about that for a minute in case you want me to read. This was so not me. This was like somebody telling me what to do from up there because I had never been that pushy. And so I went out and sat down and I went, why were you so pushy? That's the most important person you've ever met in the.
Almost seven years you've been a waitress in New York studying acting and acting for no money. Go apologize. And then while I'm composing my apology, I see two feet and a voice says, Are you waiting to see me? And I think That sounded like Jack Nicholson, who I as far as I knew was in Los Angeles. And and I said, no.
And he goes, why not? And I said, I look up, and indeed it is he. And I said, because I don't have a script. He got a script, handed it to me, said, you have 10 minutes tomorrow. I came back.
No kidding. Yeah, I came back. I started reading. He started canceling appointments or rearranging things. I kept standing up saying, Thank you, you know.
And he goes, no, no, let's read one more. His pizza came. I stood up to leave. He goes, sit down, eat the pizza, keep reading. We read the entire thing twice.
And somehow I got to go to Hollywood for a screen test. And somehow, by a miracle, even though all the other testing people were huge stars. Uh I got it. Wow. Yeah.
Did he have nice shoes? Yes, he had nice shoes. He had Jack Nicholson shoes. Yeah, he was, you know, he was my mentor, and he couldn't have been a better guy to me. He was great.
About that, okay. I'm glad I asked. All right. First one for you, Ted. True or false, you auditioned for your role of Sam Malone in Cheers with Shelly Galong, but had no idea you'd gotten the role when you left.
At all. Yeah, that was a big process. We we there were three couples that got paired up. three Sam Malones, three Diane Chambers, and I got Paired up, thank God, with Shelley, because Shelley was I think of all the cast members, she was the one that came out of the chute just spot on.
So, yeah, I got to audition with her, and I do believe that's one of the big reasons I got the part. But you had no idea when you left that you had gotten the role? You had no idea? No, you didn't. In fact, you waited for two or three weeks while they made up their minds.
No kidding. Do you remember who the other Sam and Diane's were? Were there any of them? Yeah, a tight end from the Rams. Was it Fred Dreyer?
Fred Dreyer. Very good. Yeah, and I think Julie Duffy, and then Fred Dreyer. You were going up against a tight end from the Los Angeles Rams. That's what he was going to be a tight end.
And then when I got up, they went, let's make him a picture. Maybe a picture. Maybe an alcoholic relief pitcher. They looked at you, you're a more alcoholic relief pitcher than Los Angeles Rams tight end. Wow, no kidding.
And is it true that down the road that you and Shelly Long, they had you. You shoot an actual scene where your characters got married in front of a live studio audience to hide the fact she was leaving the show? Is that a true scene? Gosh, I wonder. I think we did do several versions.
I don't remember if we actually got married in one of the, but there were, it wasn't just the foolie audience or whatever. It was also, they didn't quite know where they wanted to go with it. What was it like being on that set when it was just beginning to just take off and must-see television on must-see television? I don't think any of us had done TV, or not many of us had done TV before, or anything before.
So. I think we were spoiled. We just thought, oh, this is what happens when you do television. It was very rock and roll. You were hired to play.
An idiot in a bar surrounded by other idiots, and you were kind of in that idiot period of your life.
So it was just a dream come true. Yeah, just look at that photograph that's right there. Obviously, that was. You spoke to. Woody Harrelson, our biggest idiot.
Yes, indeed. Yes, indeed. As a matter of fact, I do believe I have a question for you on that front coming up later in the celebrity True or False.
Next up, true or false, Mary. Yeah. You had never seen Will Farrell in his elf costume or even seen a mock-up of it. Until the day he walked onto the set to film the syrup on spaghetti scene. That is absolutely true.
And it is also true that.
Well, I have a giggling problem. I get very tickled, and I have a lot of trouble reining it in. And that day, it was just. It was brutal because we're all used to that image now. We've all seen it.
You would even know it in silhouette, you know. I just couldn't get over it. It was so brilliant. He was so funny. And Um He was just, I loved every second of it.
And then. A few months after we rapped, because we'd really had a great time together, he called and he said, You played my stepmom, and now would you be. Would it offend you if I asked you to play my actual mom in a movie called Stepbrothers and I said. Let me look up how much our age difference is.
So I did, and I'm like, well, I would have had to have had you at 11, but I would be offended if you ask anyone else. I will definitely play your mom again, you know?
So there's some follow-up questions. Yes, and we've got a stepbrother's one later on in this segment here as well. But two follow-up questions on that. First of all, did you know he was going to pour syrup on the spaghetti or that was completely ad-lived? Did you know that was coming when he walks in in his elf costume?
Was that just totally off the cuff? I don't think I did know. And then it got passed around, so we all ended up eating it.
So I have tasted that. It's not bad. It's not, it's, I mean, I've tasted worse in my life. And it's also great because kids always ask me, that's the one biggest question: is did you really eat that spaghetti with maple syrup?
So the answer is, yes, you did. Yes. With James Kahn? Like, that's true. Yes, I don't know.
I don't know if James actually, you know, chowed down on it, but I had some. All right. So then the second final question is: you were more offended by the potential age difference than the subject matter of stepbrothers? Is that what you're saying to me? I love.
No, stepbrothers is my kind of. People think I'm a certain way or whatever, but I I you know, I've been surrounded by men in my life by, you know. All their grossness and like all their she's trying not to say fart humor. Yeah, all of that is totally what makes me laugh. It's interesting, Ted, you mentioned that because I do have a celebrity true or false for you.
We're going to go from the back pocket right here, Ted Danson, celebrity true or false, true or false. Ted, you and Leslie Nielsen got kicked off of planes and once asked to leave a restaurant because of Leslie Nielsen's famous fart machine. True. The plain part, true. I didn't know that.
That's amazing. It was back when they would say to celebrities, you want to board first, and Leslie said yes.
So we were in the first seats as people came through, every third person. He would do this little handheld. It was this wh what was it? It was like some sort of hand held little bellows thing that he could have in his hand and control it and do all sorts of different things. Every third person in It offended.
And they came and asked him, Mr. Neil, please don't. Please stop. He wouldn't literally he would not stop. What were you doing on a plane with Leslie Nielsen?
Do you remember the circumstance? He was coaching me how to use TX.
So they were offended by him with the prank, not because they thought he was actually letting off a meeting or something. It made them think that the person behind them in line thought I might have been them.
So it was it put people on the spot. Oh, how wonderful. Why did I miss that? You had no idea. This is news to you.
I did. I didn't know that. But I worked with Dudley Moore, and he was very fond of that thing. Oh, he did that too? Yeah.
Dudley Moore did it too. Oh, totally. Oh, totally. Oh, my God. All right.
So then here's another one, Ted. You once played hookie from Tape and Cures to go on John Ratzenberger's new boat and got caught in weather sailing to Catalina with. Woody. Woody Harrelson. I think you better tell the whole story.
Yes, and we had a little buzz going even before we got on the boat. That's odd with Woody. I couldn't tell you that. No, it was like, it was hooky. It was a free pass.
You could do anything. You're on a boat. And he said, Have you ever had mushrooms? And I said, No. And I thought, whoa, this is the day to do it.
And we hadn't had breakfast, so part of me was hungry.
So way more than should have. And then we hit the tail end of bad weather coming up out of Mexico. And it was one of these kind of moments. Who was on the boat? Uh John Ratzenberg, George went, Kelsey, Kelsey was asleep down below.
Yes. And me and Woody.
So like most of cheers was on this one. Everybody except Rhea and Shelly. Rhea was pissed. She was pissed about not getting invited. Even after she found out there was some bad weather and everything like that?
Yeah, I don't think it was. It wasn't horrible weather. It was just very roly-pitchy kind of thing, yes.
Okay. All right. I've never heard that story. Mushroom part? Yeah.
Well, yeah, okay. And so that actually went down.
Okay. Speaking of Catalina.
Okay. and wine mixers. Let's get into this right here, Mary. And this kind of dovetails into what I asked before and what you said before. True or false?
In Step Brothers, they had to use a shot of you laughing during the sleepwalking scene because there were no takes of you not laughing. That is correct. I asked him when I saw the movie, I asked Adam McKay. Why did you use the take where you can see? I'm starting to laugh.
Yes. He goes, Mary. There are no takes without you laughing. There's nothing. We dug in there, tried to find one.
Yeah. Just look at that right there. It just makes you laugh to be there. It was amazing. And Richard Jenkins, who was really my partner in crime, because it was our job.
To sort of sell that these two idiots had parents that you know, had them live with them and and And Richard was just magnificent in that part. He was so much fun. Yeah, we had Richard on this show a few years ago, and he said that Adam McKay came up to him before the Catalino wine mixer. Moment. And say, just tell him about Find Your Inner Dinosaur.
Yes. And he did it, thinking there's no way this is making the movie. Yes. And it made the movie. It totally made the movie.
It was wonderful. Did you have a moment like that with you? Oh, well. I mean, I was watching. Watching his hands go up into this little gyrannosaurus bricks.
Right. But they would shout to you to say the filthiest things. Yeah, they loved it. Because they thought it'd be funny.
Well, Adam McKay would, who laughed so loudly during every take that they kept moving him farther and farther away from the set. Because he was blowing the taste. Yeah, he was like messing with their sound. But he was so far away, they finally had to give him like a bullhorn to scream instructions. And all my instructions were just to say more and more obscene things.
And there was like a whole group of people. This is a scene out in the front yard when they're fighting. And I won't say Disney what I said, but it was all, you know, it was all obscenity, which then you'd hear Adam McCabe roaring, laughing from like half a block away. It was a crazy experience, but it was one of the most fun times of my life. I was about to say, like, what was the crazier scene, the sleepwalker, the dinner scene?
The dinner scene where the screaming and the yelling, you know, Adam Scott basically saying he may have rubbed the story and the evening. You know, it's classic. The whole thing is absolute classic. And I just found myself. Watching it with Age inappropriate young kids of mine.
And I thought to myself, what am I doing right now? Why am I doing this? Yes. Well, I can tell you, you're not alone. It's crazy.
People don't watch it two or three times. When you ask them, it'll be, oh, we watch it every year. I've seen it 47 times or, yes, and I've watched it with my six-year-old. And I'm like, really? That's embarrassing.
It's not good. Yeah. But it's great. It's outstanding. Terrific.
All right. I've got one more for you, but I need to take a break. And if you don't mind, we'll just hang out for another few more minutes here. Thank you so much. Ted Danson, Mary Steenbergen here on The Rich Eisen Show in advance of season two of A Man on the Inside, which again premieres November 20th exclusively on Netflix.
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Here on The Rich Isand Show, Ted Danson and Mary Steenbergen here. Would you repeat for our radio audience what you just said about who blows the most takes in the middle? Yes, we talked earlier about Mary barely getting through a scene and Stepbrothers without ruining it by laughing. The only other person I've ever met who is worse than Mary is Larry David on Curb, ruined take after take by laughing over and over again, huh?
Sometimes at himself.
Okay. That I understand.
Well, I guess that's my last true or false for celebrity, true or false for both of you. True or false, some of your friends actually thought you split up after your fictional versions divorced on curb. Is that true? Yes. Yeah, we said, somebody wrote, said, say it isn't true.
Somebody we'd seen like two months before. I mean, someone that should know better. And I said, yes, it's true. And we decided a good, graceful way to introduce that to everyone is to do it on curb. What do you think?
You know, it was like. But that is true, huh? That's how powerful I think television is. But I have to say, even as the actors, I was miffed. I was kinda upset.
That he did that to put you in that position as characters on the show. Which I think tickled him.
Well, maybe you should have, maybe, Ted, you should have given him the sandwich. You know what I mean? If you only swapped sandwiches with him when he asked. Yeah. I can't get enough of it.
I miss that show. I absolutely miss that show. What is your favorite both of you, if you wish, favorite scenes, favorite episodes of Curb that you did? Whatever. Isn't there one where he goes to the ballpark with his hooker, right?
His father and a hooker.
Well, he picks up the hooker so he could use the HOV lane to get there. That's right. Let's not forget the reason why he did that. Yeah, I know. I mean, you know, if you've ever been trying to get to Dodger Stadium, you know, I know getting that diamond lane is very important.
Yeah. And we, God, Barney's isn't even there anymore, but we did one of the first ones I did was at Barney's where. First year, yeah, where he. He said to Cheryl, you know, I Woo-oo. Should we hang out with those guys?
And then he said, You know, I could I can take or leave Chad, but I I'd like to hang out with Mary, but would you be jealous? And she's like, I don't care And so then he keeps popping up when I'm shopping and things like that. Which one of you met Larry in real life first? Yeah, friends at the same time. My my my story about that was He invited us all of this group of about six or seven friends, and we'd known him from the summer before.
And he said, Come, I just did shot the pilot for something, Curb. And he took us up into the attic because the reception in this little summer house was the only place there. It was hot, I'll give you that. But half of the group fell asleep. And I sat there, I won't throw you under the bus, but I thought we both went, Oh boy, oof.
Don't know about this show, but let's be sweet and supportive.
So we said. If you ever need us to play ourselves, be our pleasure, but only out of trying to be sweet. Truthfully, I will say in my case, changed my career. Being on curb. You think so?
Yeah, because it rejuvenated my. I kind of felt like I'd stayed at the half-hour comedy party too long by then. And it just you just show up and you would giggle and it was effortless and it just made me happy. to be around comedy again. No kidding.
That's pretty amazing. Certainly with since What's right and what's wrong in the world, and who's the arbiter of it than Larry David, which is awesome and problematic at this time. You don't want to go out to dinner with him in real life. Oh, my God. We went out to dinner with him, Martha's Vineyard.
None of us had been to this restaurant, and it was. It's one of the few really stuffy restaurants there, sort of took itself seriously. And he we're sitting where we're facing everybody, and he's got his back to everybody. And he comes in late and he sits down, and then he just starts telling these stories. In a booing voice.
And you're just watching behind him everyone, and you're watching a couple of people are laughing.
Some people were very offended by that last story, you know, and the language and all this. One person is like paying it, getting up, leaving. And then he finally realizes maybe he's offended some people. And he goes, This is a terrible restaurant for Jews. And I'm like, What are you even talking about?
We're probably the only two people in here who aren't Jewish. I mean, he was, he's nuts. He'll stay into anything. And that will be that incident will be in next week's episode. Oh, if only.
In the meantime, everybody enjoy A Man on the Inside season two with Ted Danson, Mary Steener, Steve Mergen, Max Greenfield, Gary Cole, who's also terrific. Check it out amongst many on Netflix season two. That wraps it up for the radio side of The Rich Eisen Show back on. Disney Plus in a second to wrap the show. Thanks for listening to the Rich Eisen Show Podcast.
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