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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Rick Tittle, powered by the Eighth Side. All right, we
do have the Scalar Brothers back once again. Always great
to have Randy and Jason with us. They'll be in
town here in San Francisco coming up as part of
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Sketch Fest twenty twenty five. On Saturday, February first, they
have two shows. At four o'clock they'll have the Scar
Brothers The Bourne Identity without the E and then at
nine forty five Tag It with the Scar Brothers along
with Arden Marrin, Doug Benson, Robbie Hoffman, and Thomas Lennon.
On the next day matinee show Sunday February second, will
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you accept this rose with their friends as well? But
the first question I have, as I know we talk Redbirds.
Let's start with you, Randy, how's your hot stove going?
With the Cards, I keep.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Getting notifications that Nolan Arnado is gone, and they're like,
we're so excited to make a trade. Meanwhile, people in
Saint Louis are like, why are you excited about that? Like,
don't be excited about trading away the one great player
that we have. And so I think they're going to
make a trade. I don't, you know, we had a
wonderful run. It's like the Cardinals to me, are like
your grandma who's like really old and kind of losing
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it at this point. You're like, we we had a
wonderful run there a few years ago, Like there was
a twenty year run where Grandma was awesome, and now
I'm just like it's now mumbling about things that don't
make sense and just eats apple sauce all day. And
That's where I'm okay with it at this point.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Well, Jason, I kind of feel like the Cardinals are
one of those teams, you know, the best baseball town
in America that rebuilding and even reloading isn't even allowed.
You guys have to go for the playoffs every single year, right,
they absolutely do.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
And I feel like Saint Louis first of all, as
a Saint Louis fan. There's a moment where Saint Louis
fans were saying we're the best fans in baseball. I'm like,
you gotta listen to Walter Payton. Walter Payton said, when
you're good, you tell everyone. When you're great, they tell you.
You walk around and say we're the greatest. So that's
number one. Let's cool out with that. Like you know,
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when just because someone steps off the rubber when you're
on second base, you you know, Saint Louis fans know
you don't call back.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
It's just a guy who stepped off the rug. So
like we know that, but you don't have.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
To make a big deal out of that. So, yes,
Saint Louis fans have high expectations, but it has been
a minute since we've had the kind of team that
rolling into the season we're like, Okay, we've got this.
We haven't had that moment. We don't have the excime.
We have some young player. I think Winn is a
great player. He's someone you can get excited about for
the future. They have some good prospects. Yes, you know,
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I just like the Mason Wynn is, like, I'm not
gonna spell my first name the way you think I should.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I'm gonna throw a why in there. You know.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I know it's not his decision, it was his parents,
But just spell people's names. My daughter was in competitive
gymnastics for like a brief period of time, and I
was like, my wife and I went to a gymnasticis
competition in Palm Springs that she was in, and what
we did was we wrote down every kid's name. So whenever,
like she and I are in a fight, I pull
out the list and I just start reading the name
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and like we just start laughing because these names are ridiculous.
Haitln Rylan, Brayln Breelin, Brylin. Jimberly, Jimberly, Jimberly. It's in Jimberly,
the place you go to do gymnastics.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
That's the place you book your birthday party.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Kimberly.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
We're going over to Jimberly for the next two hours.
This Nancy's gonna hang with the kids for all. That's
what I think about Jimberly. When I see Mason win Berlo,
Why Wimberley very good?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I remember and I'm an Oakland guy, so we're in
a lot of pain over here. But it was about
I don't know, whenever New Bush opened, this guy brought
his girlfriend and she was from Saint Louis and it
was her first A's game, and she just the whole
time goes, this place sucks, this place sucks. This isn't
like New Bush, this isn't like New Bush. And I said, hey,
Washington d C has a New Bush too, and they're like,
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she's like, what, Like she didn't even get the joke.
But I but I'm not lumping her with all Cards fans.
But you guys are spoiled that you know that you're
going to go for it or like Mosilliac or whoever
it is, you're going to run the guy out of town.
So I bring that up because with Oliver marmal, he
tells Tyler O'Neill, oh, you didn't round third fast enough.
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He goes, well, I'm hurt, and he goes, well you're benched. No,
you're traded, And I thought, yikes, that's not going to
end well. But what do you guys think about Oliver marmle.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I think they should have gotten skipped Schumacher I'm I'm
willing to give the guy, I said. I was like,
I'll give the guy a shot and see what he
does this year. And he really didn't do that much.
I they should have had jose Kendo from your beginning.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Guy. We love Joseo Kendo.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
He's number one twice, is the only he's got more
postseason home runs than Ted Williams. You know, we tried
to do a documentary getting Joseo Kendo into the Hall
of Fame, getting the Hall of Fame to recognize the
utility player, and what we wound up doing was getting
a little homemade plaque hung on the utility cli.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I remember he got in a fight with Will Clark
and Candy Maldonado. I remember that Andy Maldana.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
We said he should have come up with his own
candy bar called Ma Maldonado.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Well, the joke out here in San Francisco was, mall
means bad? Does donado mean hitter? Ah?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
That's great, solid, that is fantastic. Well, we always said
that Andres Galarraga should have come up with his own scent,
his own like men's cat nap, a little little nap
to get the ladies a little tipsy. I think that
the Giants are like why the Giants are kind of
like Andy Roddick, like why did we have to come
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up during.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
This period of the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
There was like the twenty ten, twenty twelve two that
was fourteen where it was like the Giants won three
World Series, like we're half a dynasty. But then you
know the idea that like you're god, I got it.
We got to contend with the Dodgers spending. The Dodgers
are like, we're gonna find an incredible player from from
a country that like we should we have an unbelievable
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Dutch player, Like, why so we have the best guy
in Hey, how did you get a player from Iceland? No,
that's a part of America. You've got a cricket player
from Pakistan.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
I don't want to hear damit.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
He's throw up one hundred and twenty an hour. And
like the we're paying eight eight hundred million dollars for
the guy. Giants are like we pulled Brandon Crawford out
of retirement.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
You're like, they got a guy who those one twenty.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
No, we gave Brandon car for enough money to put
enough product in this air to make it clear creasy
for five years. Oh my god, that's all the Giants
had to do, and they got him back on the team.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
It is twenty four to seven. Jerry Curl, There's no doubt.
I remember when I saw you guys in person and
Petaluma several years ago, and you you did the bit
about wanting to go to Ozzie Smith's restaurant. Your dad's
like he's not there, he's not there, and and bringing
the bread later and all that, which was a great
uh story. But my question is who's Is there a
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Mason Wynn restaurant? Is there a gold Schmidt restaurant? Like,
what's the restaurant now? Maason Wynn has a food truck.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
We always said that about Like so in den you
go to Denver and John Elway.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Has a very expensive steakhouse.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I mean we're like, it's very humbly priced, Like I
bought a Porterhouse steak and I'm still paying it off,
Like I bought a three three year arm to pay
that thing off. And then we're like brock Ausweiler has
a had a food truck, a food truck that just
went around.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
No, I mean, Ozzie Smith is the greatest.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
He's Ozzie Smith used to at every Saint Louis home
game when he would come out in the first inning
do a handspring into a backflip. Yep, get injured doing
that now. And he did it every game. That's how
much he gave to the people of Saint Louis. You'll
never see that ever done by anyone ever again.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
And yet, and yet the fastest cardinal ever, Vince Coleman,
got trapped by the less than one mile per hour
automatic tarp. Yeah, I mean it is. He would have
won that.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Seriously, but Vin, there's three play with Vince Coleman when
they won the playoffs or made it into the World Series,
him drunk naming the players. They have go back and
watch that video.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Adust Smith hilarious. But I always had a soft spot
in that team because Willie McGee's from my hometown of Richmond, California,
and I just always and he came to the A's later.
I just loved how humble he was.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
So is Tony RUSSA thinks he's coaching the Ages next
year right.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
In sacrament So I'm gonna ask you as an Oakland
A and Oakland he thinks it's happening in Oak do
you he's asleep and it's at a traffic light, don't
wake them up.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
If when the A's leave and ultimately are gone, do
you still root for that team? Yeah, and I've been
unfortunately I got a round here, but yes, because I
can't switch to a new team.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
It's just like the Raiders when they left. You know,
I'm not going to be I'm not going to be
a French collaborator and go to the games. But I
can't pretend that I'm going to have a new team.
And I wish I had more time. Everybody needs to
see the Scar Brothers. I've just talked sports with them
because I know how great they are at sports. You
remember Cheap Sheets and all those that great shows. But
Saturday February, first part of Sketch Fest, the Bourne Identity
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at four tag it with the Scar Brothers at nine pm,
and then Sunday one pm. Will you accept this? Rose,
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Speaker 1 (11:01):
Well. Coming to town as part of Sketch Fest is
Phil Rosenthal. It's great to have him back on the show.
He's here part of a sketch Fest. He'll be doing
the Naked Lunch pod with David Wilde and Paul Reiser
will be there as well. To be this Saturday at
seven thirty at the Palace of Fine Arts. Phil, Welcome back.
It's been a while. But I don't know if you
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know that venue in that neighborhood. Those are probably both
number one in the whole city. A good gig.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Oh. I played there a couple of years ago and
it was so wonderful. That's a gorgeous space in a
gorgeous place in one of my favorite cities.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Perfect. Now. I have to get to this as a
I'm sure you get this a lot as a huge
Curb fan. The episode where Larry was wearing the Maga hat,
I mean that that was so good And of course
you sat down to eat with him and he didn't
want to eat with you, and you're like, hey, I
gotta get going. That was one of them war member
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the hat, and I.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Got to be honest when we were filming it. This
was a long time ago. It was probably the first
year of Trump's first presidency. I thought, I wonder if
this will even.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Be dated.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Here's And of course I was wrong, because as we know,
it's still not dated.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
It's it's as fresh as today's headlines. Now, yes, that's right.
Uh yeah, for better or for worse? Hopefully better, I
don't know. All right, let's move on, Uh, Naked Lunch
the pod. When I hear that, I that book, of course,
william S. Burrows is such a crazy book that people
try to have a band and the saying you're talking
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out of your ass. There there is in that scene
the guy talks out of his butt in that book.
Now I understand the double untoned of the lunch and
better feed pill. But your thoughts when you named.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
It that.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
We David and I have been friends for about twenty
five years, and we would have these lunches that are
have been really wonderful because we have friends in all
manner of show business. He's got a lot of music friends.
I have a lot of you know, comedy and TV
friends and movie friends. But we'd have these lunches, and
I always thought we should be paping this, and so
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now we are and the naked part refers to the conversation,
and the lunch is actual lunch. We actually eat lunch
while we do the podcast, because I find that, you know,
if you know, somebody feed fill. I try to connect
people over food, or connect with people over food, because
their food is the great connector, I always say and
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then laugh or the cement.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
I wanted to ask you too, because I mean, you
are a New Yorker through and through, and you went
to Hofstras and I always think about it. You know,
the Jets were having a camp and they needed a
guy to throw to and little Wayne Crabett's there, and
then they go, maybe you could play, and then he
ended up being more important than Keishawn Johnson. How proud
of you are of Wayne crabet.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
I guess I'm very proud. You know, we would not
travel in the same circles, right I was in I
was a theater major at Ostra. So these are the
boat down in the hall.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Were you anyone in that that? You know? I know,
every school, like you know Cambridge and the footlights and
the Python people met the Oxford people. Was there sort
of a camaraderie with other theater people in the course.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
Yeah, absolutely, yeah, yeah, and many of us have stayed
friends for a long time. In fact, one of my
best friends in the world is Tom McGowan, who I
went to school with there, and he's a great actor.
He was in when when I started doing writing for sitcoms.
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He was in several of my shows, including Everybody Loves Raymond.
He was a recurring character there and he's been on
Somebody Feed Film a couple of times.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Well, he's like Broadway trained too, right.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
Absolutely, he was a Tony nominated great actor. Just one
of the greatest guys I've ever known in my life.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
So for you, when I think most of us got
to know you in the nineties with Everybody Loves Raymond,
and you have a great I almost feel like it's
a Marcel Mars thing. You have a great face. You
can do a lot of acting without saying all without
saying a word. You know the eyebrows, and you can
look you can look so fragile and sympathetic as well,
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Like is that something that came naturally to you or
how hard did you have to work on all that?
Like nonverbal acting?
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Well, what a let me Tavlin thank you. I have
to say I've either been cursed or blessed with this faith.
I don't know really how it works, but I do
know from what people have told me that you can
tell what I'm thinking without me doing anything. So I've
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never been a good poker player because of that, right,
you can tell what's going on. I don't know that
that's a skill. Maybe it's a skill that actors bring
for years to have, but I've never been able to
do anything.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
But that, all right? Since yeah, no, it does. And
I think a lot of people who didn't see that
show know you from somebody feed fill on Netflix. And
I just wonder when you have a season and then
you hope you get renewed and then you got to
raise the bar and then you got to raise a
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bar again, and what are you going seven eight seven
eight years now with this? Is that like a mouthwatering proposition?
Like we have to outdo their sell yourself or you're like,
because I know Larry David, your friend said when he
was a Seinfeld, he wrote like three episodes and he goes,
I can't write another episode. I'm all out of ideas,
you know, and then it comes to you.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Yeah, well, listen. When I was the writer, right, I
ran Everybody Loves Raymond for nine years, and I realized
as a writer, you can't keep doing the same thing
over and over. But luckily for me as the as
the I guess on screen host of Somebody Feed Phil,
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every time we go somewhere, it's new, so there is
a slight sitcom element to it, meaning I'm the character
that people know and you're gonna watch me in very
very different situations. So I can keep doing this forever
because there's many the countries, let alone cities right in
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the world. So I would like to do this until I.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Died, no doubt. I mean, you should never say.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
That, because that's a fantastic if I died next week.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Yes, Phil Rosenthal died on the air, it's gone viral. Yes,
when when you went to Copenhagen, and my grandfather was
from Denmark, and I've been there several times, and going
to Tivoli Gardens, which you know, Walt Disney got the
idea for for Disney Disneyland at at Tivoli and and
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you know we we would eat Abel Skiver and and
uh these Bolsko scuba and and but you had what
you have a fricadellar? Was it at uh.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
I did fricadella? Yeah? Sure, I love that word.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
It sounds almost naughty, a little laughty. Yeah, no doubt.
Now you also did an episode right here in uh
In in San Francisco, and I and Alice Waters. You
know you're gonna you're gonna pay to get her food.
But what were some of the things, because you know,
normally it's like crab and sourdough, but and maybe anchor
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steam beer. But you went beyond that, didn't you.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Oh yeah, I mean they were spectacular, you guys. It's
just so wonderful. We had to cut things out of
the show that didn't have time. We didn't have time.
There were so many great places.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
You know.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
I love Swan's Oyster. That's fantastic. We we did a
big scene there. I loved, Oh, the Ferry Building and
the Farmer's Market. That's what I did with Alice Waters.
You know that when I go and I'm coming Friday
to stay over just to have an extra day of
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eating because I love it so much, and I stay
right across from the Ferry Building, it's like one stop
shopping for me.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Wow, Yeah, I know what hotel you're talking about. Yeah,
everybody go over there and get your just flat items signed.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Right.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
And then recently in the spring, you were in uh
in Edinburgh and you you tucked into some hagis and
we we've always heard that that's the worst food in
the world, Like you don't know what's going to be
inside a pig? Yes, whatever? You know, carcass? What what was?
What was good? Old true Scottish? Yeah, bladder? I don't know,
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but what wass like?
Speaker 6 (20:47):
I gotta be honest, I've had good and I've not
as good. It really is like life, what you put
into it is what you get out of it. And
I've had some wonderful chefs, especially on that episode, I
had wonderful chefs making the hagis and it was absolutely delicious.
I would imagine if you don't have the best ingredients,
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it's going to be lousy, but they were working with
really good stuff and I have to be honest, it
was completely tasty. I am not afraid of it anymore,
and I would eat it in a second. Again.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Was there a town, a city you into and you
know every one of these is huge and his places
like we all want to go to, like Mara Cash
and Buenos Aires and Soul and Singapore, all these amazing places.
But was there one? And you don't have to tell
me the name, but was there one? While the whole
time you were there you were like, this place is
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a dump.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
No, Because we do our research right, We scope it
out before we get there, so we know, at the
very least there's going to be good food, and there's
going to be more than that, because I don't just
want the show to be about the food. There has
to be some being culturally interesting, architecturally interesting, a nice
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parity that we could, you know, shine a light on,
so there's a little bit more. I'm trying to just
get you to travel, and I'm only using food in
my stupid sense of humor to get you to travel.
So we know going in it's going to be great. Now,
some cities are more difficult to navigate than others, and
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I think it's fair to say that Bangkok is spectacular
in terms of food and the you know, the floating
market and all kinds of gorgeous places to stay, but
the traffic only cow. And we don't shy away from
showing you that. We want to show you the real thing. Well,
it's going to be there now. Is it worth going
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to Bangkok even with the trap? Absolutely yes, because you're
going to have the time of your life and you're
going to have the best food, like especially street food,
in the world.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
It's official about it. It's official. Phil Resenthal has just
called Bangkok a dump. Now I'm just kidding. Everybody. Get
to sketch fast this Saturday. Palace of Fine Arts, an
amazing neighborhood, an amazing venue, seven thirty pm. Naked Lunch
with Phil and David Wilde and our former guest by
Paul Reiser Special guests. We'll be there as well. That's right,
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and listen Phil, always great having you on and uh
let's catch up down the road.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
Man, I would love it. Come over Saturday. Love to
see you.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
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do have the Scalar Brothers back once again. Always great
to have Randy and Jason with us. They'll be in
town here in San Francisco coming up as part of
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Sketch Fest twenty twenty five. On Saturday, February first, they
have two shows. At four o'clock they'll have the Scar
Brothers The Bourne Identity without the E and then at
nine forty five Tag It with the Scar Brothers along
with Arden Marrin, Doug Benson, Robbie Hoffman, and Thomas Lennon.
On the next day matinee show Sunday February second, will
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you accept this rose with their friends as well? But
the first question I have, as I know we talk Redbirds.
Let's start with you, Randy, how's your hot stove going?
With the Cards, I keep.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Getting notifications that Nolan Arnado is gone, and they're like,
we're so excited to make a trade. Meanwhile, people in
Saint Louis are like, why are you excited about that? Like,
don't be excited about trading away the one great player
that we have. And so I think they're going to
make a trade. I don't, you know, we had a
wonderful run. It's like the Cardinals to me, are like
your grandma who's like really old and kind of losing
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it at this point. You're like, we we had a
wonderful run there a few years ago, Like there was
a twenty year run where Grandma was awesome, and now
I'm just like it's now mumbling about things that don't
make sense and just eats apple sauce all day. And
That's where I'm okay with it at this point.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Well, Jason, I kind of feel like the Cardinals are
one of those teams, you know, the best baseball town
in America that rebuilding and even reloading isn't even allowed.
You guys have to go for the playoffs every single year, right,
they absolutely do.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
And I feel like Saint Louis first of all, as
a Saint Louis fan. There's a moment where Saint Louis
fans were saying we're the best fans in baseball. I'm like,
you gotta listen to Walter Payton. Walter Payton said, when
you're good, you tell everyone. When you're great, they tell you.
You walk around and say we're the greatest. So that's
number one. Let's cool out with that. Like you know,
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when just because someone steps off the rubber when you're
on second base, you you know, Saint Louis fans know
you don't call back.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
It's just a guy who stepped off the rug. So
like we know that, but you don't have.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
To make a big deal out of that. So, yes,
Saint Louis fans have high expectations, but it has been
a minute since we've had the kind of team that
rolling into the season we're like, Okay, we've got this.
We haven't had that moment. We don't have the excime.
We have some young player. I think Winn is a
great player. He's someone you can get excited about for
the future. They have some good prospects. Yes, you know,
(03:07):
I just like the Mason Wynn is, like, I'm not
gonna spell my first name the way you think I should.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I'm gonna throw a why in there. You know.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I know it's not his decision, it was his parents,
But just spell people's names. My daughter was in competitive
gymnastics for like a brief period of time, and I
was like, my wife and I went to a gymnasticis
competition in Palm Springs that she was in, and what
we did was we wrote down every kid's name. So whenever,
like she and I are in a fight, I pull
out the list and I just start reading the name
(03:36):
and like we just start laughing because these names are ridiculous.
Haitln Rylan, Brayln Breelin, Brylin. Jimberly, Jimberly, Jimberly. It's in Jimberly,
the place you go to do gymnastics.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
That's the place you book your birthday party.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Kimberly.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
We're going over to Jimberly for the next two hours.
This Nancy's gonna hang with the kids for all. That's
what I think about Jimberly. When I see Mason win Berlo,
Why Wimberley very good?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I remember and I'm an Oakland guy, so we're in
a lot of pain over here. But it was about
I don't know, whenever New Bush opened, this guy brought
his girlfriend and she was from Saint Louis and it
was her first A's game, and she just the whole
time goes, this place sucks, this place sucks. This isn't
like New Bush, this isn't like New Bush. And I said, hey,
Washington d C has a New Bush too, and they're like,
(04:23):
she's like, what, Like she didn't even get the joke.
But I but I'm not lumping her with all Cards fans.
But you guys are spoiled that you know that you're
going to go for it or like Mosilliac or whoever
it is, you're going to run the guy out of town.
So I bring that up because with Oliver marmal, he
tells Tyler O'Neill, oh, you didn't round third fast enough.
(04:46):
He goes, well, I'm hurt, and he goes, well you're benched. No,
you're traded, And I thought, yikes, that's not going to
end well. But what do you guys think about Oliver marmle.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I think they should have gotten skipped Schumacher I'm I'm
willing to give the guy, I said. I was like,
I'll give the guy a shot and see what he
does this year. And he really didn't do that much.
I they should have had jose Kendo from your beginning.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Guy. We love Joseo Kendo.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
He's number one twice, is the only he's got more
postseason home runs than Ted Williams. You know, we tried
to do a documentary getting Joseo Kendo into the Hall
of Fame, getting the Hall of Fame to recognize the
utility player, and what we wound up doing was getting
a little homemade plaque hung on the utility cli.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I remember he got in a fight with Will Clark
and Candy Maldonado. I remember that Andy Maldana.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
We said he should have come up with his own
candy bar called Ma Maldonado.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Well, the joke out here in San Francisco was, mall
means bad? Does donado mean hitter? Ah?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
That's great, solid, that is fantastic. Well, we always said
that Andres Galarraga should have come up with his own scent,
his own like men's cat nap, a little little nap
to get the ladies a little tipsy. I think that
the Giants are like why the Giants are kind of
like Andy Roddick, like why did we have to come
(06:01):
up during.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
This period of the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
There was like the twenty ten, twenty twelve two that
was fourteen where it was like the Giants won three
World Series, like we're half a dynasty. But then you
know the idea that like you're god, I got it.
We got to contend with the Dodgers spending. The Dodgers
are like, we're gonna find an incredible player from from
a country that like we should we have an unbelievable
(06:26):
Dutch player, Like, why so we have the best guy
in Hey, how did you get a player from Iceland? No,
that's a part of America. You've got a cricket player
from Pakistan.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
I don't want to hear damit.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
He's throw up one hundred and twenty an hour. And
like the we're paying eight eight hundred million dollars for
the guy. Giants are like we pulled Brandon Crawford out
of retirement.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
You're like, they got a guy who those one twenty.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
No, we gave Brandon car for enough money to put
enough product in this air to make it clear creasy
for five years. Oh my god, that's all the Giants
had to do, and they got him back on the team.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
It is twenty four to seven. Jerry Curl, There's no doubt.
I remember when I saw you guys in person and
Petaluma several years ago, and you you did the bit
about wanting to go to Ozzie Smith's restaurant. Your dad's
like he's not there, he's not there, and and bringing
the bread later and all that, which was a great
uh story. But my question is who's Is there a
(07:22):
Mason Wynn restaurant? Is there a gold Schmidt restaurant? Like,
what's the restaurant now? Maason Wynn has a food truck.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
We always said that about Like so in den you
go to Denver and John Elway.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Has a very expensive steakhouse.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I mean we're like, it's very humbly priced, Like I
bought a Porterhouse steak and I'm still paying it off,
Like I bought a three three year arm to pay
that thing off. And then we're like brock Ausweiler has
a had a food truck, a food truck that just
went around.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
No, I mean, Ozzie Smith is the greatest.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
He's Ozzie Smith used to at every Saint Louis home
game when he would come out in the first inning
do a handspring into a backflip. Yep, get injured doing
that now. And he did it every game. That's how
much he gave to the people of Saint Louis. You'll
never see that ever done by anyone ever again.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
And yet, and yet the fastest cardinal ever, Vince Coleman,
got trapped by the less than one mile per hour
automatic tarp. Yeah, I mean it is. He would have
won that.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Seriously, but Vin, there's three play with Vince Coleman when
they won the playoffs or made it into the World Series,
him drunk naming the players. They have go back and
watch that video.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Adust Smith hilarious. But I always had a soft spot
in that team because Willie McGee's from my hometown of Richmond, California,
and I just always and he came to the A's later.
I just loved how humble he was.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
So is Tony RUSSA thinks he's coaching the Ages next
year right.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
In sacrament So I'm gonna ask you as an Oakland
A and Oakland he thinks it's happening in Oak do
you he's asleep and it's at a traffic light, don't
wake them up.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
If when the A's leave and ultimately are gone, do
you still root for that team? Yeah, and I've been
unfortunately I got a round here, but yes, because I
can't switch to a new team.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
It's just like the Raiders when they left. You know,
I'm not going to be I'm not going to be
a French collaborator and go to the games. But I
can't pretend that I'm going to have a new team.
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Speaker 1 (11:01):
Well. Coming to town as part of Sketch Fest is
Phil Rosenthal. It's great to have him back on the show.
He's here part of a sketch Fest. He'll be doing
the Naked Lunch pod with David Wilde and Paul Reiser
will be there as well. To be this Saturday at
seven thirty at the Palace of Fine Arts. Phil, Welcome back.
It's been a while. But I don't know if you
(11:22):
know that venue in that neighborhood. Those are probably both
number one in the whole city. A good gig.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Oh. I played there a couple of years ago and
it was so wonderful. That's a gorgeous space in a
gorgeous place in one of my favorite cities.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Perfect. Now. I have to get to this as a
I'm sure you get this a lot as a huge
Curb fan. The episode where Larry was wearing the Maga hat,
I mean that that was so good And of course
you sat down to eat with him and he didn't
want to eat with you, and you're like, hey, I
gotta get going. That was one of them war member
(12:01):
the hat, and I.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Got to be honest when we were filming it. This
was a long time ago. It was probably the first
year of Trump's first presidency. I thought, I wonder if
this will even.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Be dated.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Here's And of course I was wrong, because as we know,
it's still not dated.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
It's it's as fresh as today's headlines. Now, yes, that's right.
Uh yeah, for better or for worse? Hopefully better, I
don't know. All right, let's move on, Uh, Naked Lunch
the pod. When I hear that, I that book, of course,
william S. Burrows is such a crazy book that people
try to have a band and the saying you're talking
(12:51):
out of your ass. There there is in that scene
the guy talks out of his butt in that book.
Now I understand the double untoned of the lunch and
better feed pill. But your thoughts when you named.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
It that.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
We David and I have been friends for about twenty
five years, and we would have these lunches that are
have been really wonderful because we have friends in all
manner of show business. He's got a lot of music friends.
I have a lot of you know, comedy and TV
friends and movie friends. But we'd have these lunches, and
I always thought we should be paping this, and so
(13:26):
now we are and the naked part refers to the conversation,
and the lunch is actual lunch. We actually eat lunch
while we do the podcast, because I find that, you know,
if you know, somebody feed fill. I try to connect
people over food, or connect with people over food, because
their food is the great connector, I always say and
(13:47):
then laugh or the cement.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
I wanted to ask you too, because I mean, you
are a New Yorker through and through, and you went
to Hofstras and I always think about it. You know,
the Jets were having a camp and they needed a
guy to throw to and little Wayne Crabett's there, and
then they go, maybe you could play, and then he
ended up being more important than Keishawn Johnson. How proud
of you are of Wayne crabet.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
I guess I'm very proud. You know, we would not
travel in the same circles, right I was in I
was a theater major at Ostra. So these are the
boat down in the hall.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Were you anyone in that that? You know? I know,
every school, like you know Cambridge and the footlights and
the Python people met the Oxford people. Was there sort
of a camaraderie with other theater people in the course.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
Yeah, absolutely, yeah, yeah, and many of us have stayed
friends for a long time. In fact, one of my
best friends in the world is Tom McGowan, who I
went to school with there, and he's a great actor.
He was in when when I started doing writing for sitcoms.
(15:04):
He was in several of my shows, including Everybody Loves Raymond.
He was a recurring character there and he's been on
Somebody Feed Film a couple of times.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Well, he's like Broadway trained too, right.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
Absolutely, he was a Tony nominated great actor. Just one
of the greatest guys I've ever known in my life.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
So for you, when I think most of us got
to know you in the nineties with Everybody Loves Raymond,
and you have a great I almost feel like it's
a Marcel Mars thing. You have a great face. You
can do a lot of acting without saying all without
saying a word. You know the eyebrows, and you can
look you can look so fragile and sympathetic as well,
(15:51):
Like is that something that came naturally to you or
how hard did you have to work on all that?
Like nonverbal acting?
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Well, what a let me Tavlin thank you. I have
to say I've either been cursed or blessed with this faith.
I don't know really how it works, but I do
know from what people have told me that you can
tell what I'm thinking without me doing anything. So I've
(16:24):
never been a good poker player because of that, right,
you can tell what's going on. I don't know that
that's a skill. Maybe it's a skill that actors bring
for years to have, but I've never been able to
do anything.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
But that, all right? Since yeah, no, it does. And
I think a lot of people who didn't see that
show know you from somebody feed fill on Netflix. And
I just wonder when you have a season and then
you hope you get renewed and then you got to
raise the bar and then you got to raise a
(17:00):
bar again, and what are you going seven eight seven
eight years now with this? Is that like a mouthwatering proposition?
Like we have to outdo their sell yourself or you're like,
because I know Larry David, your friend said when he
was a Seinfeld, he wrote like three episodes and he goes,
I can't write another episode. I'm all out of ideas,
you know, and then it comes to you.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Yeah, well, listen. When I was the writer, right, I
ran Everybody Loves Raymond for nine years, and I realized
as a writer, you can't keep doing the same thing
over and over. But luckily for me as the as
the I guess on screen host of Somebody Feed Phil,
(17:41):
every time we go somewhere, it's new, so there is
a slight sitcom element to it, meaning I'm the character
that people know and you're gonna watch me in very
very different situations. So I can keep doing this forever
because there's many the countries, let alone cities right in
(18:05):
the world. So I would like to do this until I.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Died, no doubt. I mean, you should never say.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
That, because that's a fantastic if I died next week.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Yes, Phil Rosenthal died on the air, it's gone viral. Yes,
when when you went to Copenhagen, and my grandfather was
from Denmark, and I've been there several times, and going
to Tivoli Gardens, which you know, Walt Disney got the
idea for for Disney Disneyland at at Tivoli and and
(18:45):
you know we we would eat Abel Skiver and and
uh these Bolsko scuba and and but you had what
you have a fricadellar? Was it at uh.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
I did fricadella? Yeah? Sure, I love that word.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
It sounds almost naughty, a little laughty. Yeah, no doubt.
Now you also did an episode right here in uh
In in San Francisco, and I and Alice Waters. You
know you're gonna you're gonna pay to get her food.
But what were some of the things, because you know,
normally it's like crab and sourdough, but and maybe anchor
(19:23):
steam beer. But you went beyond that, didn't you.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Oh yeah, I mean they were spectacular, you guys. It's
just so wonderful. We had to cut things out of
the show that didn't have time. We didn't have time.
There were so many great places.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
You know.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
I love Swan's Oyster. That's fantastic. We we did a
big scene there. I loved, Oh, the Ferry Building and
the Farmer's Market. That's what I did with Alice Waters.
You know that when I go and I'm coming Friday
to stay over just to have an extra day of
(20:02):
eating because I love it so much, and I stay
right across from the Ferry Building, it's like one stop
shopping for me.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Wow, Yeah, I know what hotel you're talking about. Yeah,
everybody go over there and get your just flat items signed.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Right.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
And then recently in the spring, you were in uh
in Edinburgh and you you tucked into some hagis and
we we've always heard that that's the worst food in
the world, Like you don't know what's going to be
inside a pig? Yes, whatever? You know, carcass? What what was?
What was good? Old true Scottish? Yeah, bladder? I don't know,
(20:44):
but what wass like?
Speaker 6 (20:47):
I gotta be honest, I've had good and I've not
as good. It really is like life, what you put
into it is what you get out of it. And
I've had some wonderful chefs, especially on that episode, I
had wonderful chefs making the hagis and it was absolutely delicious.
I would imagine if you don't have the best ingredients,
(21:09):
it's going to be lousy, but they were working with
really good stuff and I have to be honest, it
was completely tasty. I am not afraid of it anymore,
and I would eat it in a second. Again.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Was there a town, a city you into and you
know every one of these is huge and his places
like we all want to go to, like Mara Cash
and Buenos Aires and Soul and Singapore, all these amazing places.
But was there one? And you don't have to tell
me the name, but was there one? While the whole
time you were there you were like, this place is
(21:42):
a dump.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
No, Because we do our research right, We scope it
out before we get there, so we know, at the
very least there's going to be good food, and there's
going to be more than that, because I don't just
want the show to be about the food. There has
to be some being culturally interesting, architecturally interesting, a nice
(22:05):
parity that we could, you know, shine a light on,
so there's a little bit more. I'm trying to just
get you to travel, and I'm only using food in
my stupid sense of humor to get you to travel.
So we know going in it's going to be great. Now,
some cities are more difficult to navigate than others, and
(22:25):
I think it's fair to say that Bangkok is spectacular
in terms of food and the you know, the floating
market and all kinds of gorgeous places to stay, but
the traffic only cow. And we don't shy away from
showing you that. We want to show you the real thing. Well,
it's going to be there now. Is it worth going
(22:46):
to Bangkok even with the trap? Absolutely yes, because you're
going to have the time of your life and you're
going to have the best food, like especially street food,
in the world.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
It's official about it. It's official. Phil Resenthal has just
called Bangkok a dump. Now I'm just kidding. Everybody. Get
to sketch fast this Saturday. Palace of Fine Arts, an
amazing neighborhood, an amazing venue, seven thirty pm. Naked Lunch
with Phil and David Wilde and our former guest by
Paul Reiser Special guests. We'll be there as well. That's right,
(23:19):
and listen Phil, always great having you on and uh
let's catch up down the road.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
Man, I would love it. Come over Saturday. Love to
see you.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
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