September 11, 2023 • 55 mins
Comedian and internet-obsessed content creator Howie Mandel joins The Best Podcast Ever to detail his never-ending FOMO and its connection to his OCD. And how did he ever end up posting a picture of an anus? It’s the guest of our dreams, but a pod of nightmares, with one of the funniest people on the planet!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Oh it goes so hard yow.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Welcome back to the best podcast ever.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I'm Miranda and I'm Raven, and we are here and
this is the only podcast where you can spin a
wheel it lands on a word and we talk about
that word for like forty five minutes.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
It's pretty frickin' awesome. It's kind of stupendous. Actually, wow, stupendous.
That's a large word. I mean, I think it's I
think it is. I think stupidous.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I feel like Barney taught me that word.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
It's stupendous.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
That's not a Barney accent.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
No, it's stupid. That sounded like. That's my the one
thing I know how to say in Russian asta roshna stupenky.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
It means careful the stairs?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Cool? Cool? You know what, I'm.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Gonna use that. I absolutely think you should.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
When was the last time you actually used it in public?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Oh? In public?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
No, I've never used it in public. But I think
it's a great flex. I mean, also, I know that's vidagna.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah yeah, but the spanky thing. That's a flex.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
That's like nobody banky.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Sounds so officials careful. There's only one flight of stance. Okay,
I have a question about stairs because sometimes when I
walk upstairs, I have this weird like image in my
brain of me falling down them?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Do you ever have that?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Like every staircase I walk up and down, I'm like,
don't fall, don't fall, don't fall. I think it was
because of Death Becomes Her the movie.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Oh are you so you have the anxiety of tripping
while you're falling up and falling down?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Like busting my head open.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
No, the only stare anxiety that I have is you
pushing me down them me you you push me down
the stairs.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I wonder why you have that anxiety.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Who would listen. I am not an abusive partner. That
is an anxiety of hers. I don't do that. If
hands get laid on you, they're on your titties and
that's it.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Can we cue the applauds and the laughter. Please? I
think it's been Oh wow, it's moral. Wah wah wah wah.
You know, actually we should talk about titties for a second,
because I don't really have any, and you love them.
I'm sorry, I just feel like I should.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I do love your titties.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
No, no, no, but I don't really have like I have
very You have a handful.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah, they're just right, there's a handful.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Back to the stairs really quickly. You know what else
is extremely traumatizing The staircase. The show, Oh, the show
the stairs. Oh, we got to talk about that.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
The show. The Staircase is crazy. Let's talk about that
on another episode because I could get into it.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I mean, first of all, such a sad story. Absolutely,
but like Tony Kollette and that fall and that that
look is like forever ingrained in my burned into my
frontal cortex.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
For those listening, do you see how many topics we
covered in the last two seconds.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Yeah, that's what you're.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Gonna get here on the best podcast ever, we talk
about random shit. We're gonna be spinning a wheel. Super interactive.
You know, this new generation loves interaction, and we interact
with something that sounds like this and it lands on
a word now, babes.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
It also is really great because this generation, for the
most part, is really into owning their ADHD and their
neurodivergent self. If you go into spicy neurows, yeah, and
if you go into TikTok, it's like all you see
is my ADHD and this is my new fixation. They're
taking it back, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
It's that whole narrative like I'm gonna take it back.
It's my superpower. But that's what this show is all about, and.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
We're taking it back by saying, listen to this conversation
we've just had. So we've basically just had an ADHD conversation.
It's just gone everywhere.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
And every episode you listen to will be having guests
on where they too can flex.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Their neurodivergence self. There it is. I liked that good.
She got that ray of the Princess Bride for some reason.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Oh yeah, I couldn't get through that movie.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Really. Oh god, no, marriage know it? Yeah, I know,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Although that sounds like the mouse in America. Fifel goes
to America, fIF goes West.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
No, you have referenced this week Fifo goes West.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
So we must need to watch, we must need to
watch Fifel Fiffel. I love him anyway. We have noises,
we have sounds, we have a wheel, and we.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Have an amazing guest today. Face.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah, this guest I have adopted in my brain as
my dad, my stage dad. I have watched him my
whole life. You know, a lot of people come to
me and and they say, oh my god, you're my childhood,
but this man is my childhood. I watched him on
a show at like four o'clock in the morning on
Nick at Night, didn't realize he was a comedian, just
(05:10):
wanted his hair. And then when he had his cartoon,
I was like, stuck to the screen.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I love this man. He's pretty cool, I would agree.
And I've gotten to know him a little bit better
now because of you and your connection to him. And
then I learned more about him and I was like, wow,
he is so cool.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
He's so cool. I also want to raid his closet.
But that's a conversation we can have.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Closet is incredible. It's I don't even understand. I'm just like,
that's not fair.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
If this was an interactive with it, he's sick with it.
If this was an interactive conversation like on like Instagram
or tanktok, I'd be like put in the comments who
you think I'm talking about?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
So like, totally, while.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
You're listening to this podcast, who do you think I'm
talking about?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Right?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
He is Jewish, right, he's Jewish right. Yeah, he's a comedian.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
He has some hits.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
He's been in the industry for over thirty years.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
He's very open about his mental health, very open about.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
His mental health. He used to have the sickest curls
and now he has the shiniest top. Yeah, and he
wears glasses. Who are we talking about? Can we guess nope,
that's the wrong button? Can we guess nope? Wrong button?
Can we guess?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Fuck?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Anyway? That is just like pushing things.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Well, I push your buttons, don't I?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
You sure do? Everyone? Visual representation of you pushing my buttons.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Guess who's in the hot seat today? Here on the
Best podcast Ever with Raven and Miranda. That's right, it's
Howie Mandel. I don't know which button to push the button?
How are you?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I'm great?
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I like your setup there. I like those What are those?
Those are like ottomans with backs?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Oh yeah, these are chairs, revolving, revolving.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
You should have seen these fuckers when she atom and
had to like have us bring them into this room.
It was a mess, Howie. It was an absolute mess.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Actually, we did very well. And this is interesting because
Raven has a thing with furniture where she can't sit
on it without the furniture sliding out from under her,
like she can't slid on our couchs. She has battles
and heavy these kind of work for her, but kind
of not. But I tried my best. I have to
val throw everything down for her.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I'm also very short, So if I put my legs.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Out, do you not know how to sit in a chair?
Speaker 4 (07:28):
No, just move forward, move forward and see now you
can touch the plum.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
And then I have to put my rabbit right here.
Where are you sitting right now in a chair? Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Appropriately, I'm in van eyes, I'm in the heart of
porn in my office.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Have you ever driven down the street and then said,
oh my god, I've seen that building before, had to
rack your brain and realize it was from touch my
titties two and three?
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
I do watch. You know I have partaken in the viewership.
You know I'm a viewer. But a lot, not a lot,
of what I watch has exterior shots.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Okay, you don't like the story, you like to get
down to it.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
You like internal No, I have never recognized the building,
and there is nothing in this area that I would
if I was a porn producer that I would go, oh,
we got to get a we got to getet a
shot of this building. Because it's usually that the gardener
shows up, or the pizza guy shows up, or somebody,
or it's the babysitter or that.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
But it's not the warehouse worker.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
No or no.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
It's never like, oh, this will be great for outside
of the warehouse. These are just nondescript building.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Okay, Well, I make sure when I pass by your
building again, I have to make sure I catch up
on my videos to see if I recognize anything. For
you and be like, you're standing next to a famous building.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Well, you know, the truth of the matter is, one
time I did production. I produced a show called which
was a flashmob show for Fox, you know, and on broadcast.
And you know, you always have to rent production space
as far as offices, you know, for the producers and
the writers. And I've got a real good deal on
a building on Lancashim which was the Vivid Building.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
And remember the Vivid Building.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Of course I was a tenant.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
But but but we all know what Vivid.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Well most people don't.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
A lot of kids maybe don't know, but Vivid is
was a is it still around?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I don't know if that building has gone now?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Is it really? Yeah, it's gone.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I passed by and look at it every day, and
it's gone. And I've actually seen a video. I saw
a video once of a Vivid It was a Vivid
production and they were out on a patio and it
was blue awning. Don't ask me why I remember so much,
and I remember it was the vivid awning that I
saw was, Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
What you took away from whatever film you watched that
the awning was I love patio furniture.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Patio furniture and porn is what I.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Hand in hand, hand in hand Raven's two greatest loves
in life, patio furniture and porn.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
But what was funny about it was, you know we
were there doing In fact, patio was part of our
office building we got. We we rented the outdoor space too,
and the indoor space we would have our meetings outside.
Who anyway, And I'm not kidding, but you know, it
takes a village to create a show, and this was
(10:28):
a nice, family friendly, great show with a nice family
friendly team and crew, not unlike what you probably have
on your shows.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Uh and but what was.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
It was really hard for well funny and uncomfortable for
the female staff of our production, you know, producer, directors
and post production people. They would walk just parking and
walking into the lobby of the Vivid building. It was
they had to make it really clear that they were
(11:00):
going to the third floor, not the fourth floor.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Were they going through the back door? Did they go
through the back door too?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I saw that film.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Through the back Door, Volumes one, two, and three.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
If they saw anybody, they would pretend they were talking
to somebody.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
They'd put their phone to their ear.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
They'd go, no, I'm at the office now, I'm going
to do mob down the third floor. They weren't talking
to anybody, but they just wanted to make sure that
they weren't that nobody thought they were the porn stars.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
That's that's kind of them, you know, that's really kind
of them.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Howie.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I just want to say I love you, thank you
so much for showing up for us every time you
come here, always making us laugh. And this sounds like
it's an end, but it's not. I just wanted to
give you your flowers up front because you're you're so present.
We love you, and we're so excited that you are
on the best podcast ever with Raven and Miranda. I
know you're excited, right, and you're so excited.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I am filled.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
I love you and I love you both, and I'm
I'm a fan before and hopefully a friend. I hope
you consider me a friend whatever. Whenever you call, I'll
be there.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Raven considers you a father. She literally is like, Oh,
how is like my dad that I never had that
I always wanted. He's that person. And it's also because
you're so stylish that she's just like, he's the dad
that I could go shopping in his closet and wear
his clothes.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
My daughter does take my stuff my daughter. Somebody will
say to Jackie, who I do? I co host my podcast.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
With do you remember you guys? Prank not Prank called me,
but you guys called me to talk about period blood
and placentas. And I was like, what's going on? And
then I watched the episode on YouTube and I heard
the whole conversation. It made so much more sense. But
I thought it was great. I was very entertained by it.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I was very entertained by it as well. I don't
normally like to watch stuff that I do, but I
did feel comfortable talking to you, and I appreciated you
really trying to push me to say certain things. And
you may ask, Raven, you only met me like a
couple of times, why are you like my dad? And
why are you like a dad in my head? And
it's because your thought process, your kindness, but also your
(13:10):
ambition and your willingness to try new things. Like one
thing that we know about Howie Mendel is that if
there's a new social media, if there's something new, you're
going to try it. You're going to invest in what
you believe in. And those values are so amazing to me,
especially in this industry. Your kind and you talk to me.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I think that Howie is the ultimate yes man. That's
what I really took away from one of the conversations
you and I had, Howie, and I thought it was
so fantastic because you also kind of looped that into
how that's a way in which you balance your mental
health and that you also just stay engaged in life
and you say yes to opportunities and things. And I
love that.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
I have a fear of no.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
You know, oh is spelt N, O, and nothing is
also starts with the letters and oh. So nothing comes
from no or no, get you nothing? But yes, I'm
always afraid, you know, I've got phone moment. I'm afraid
of missing out. I'm afraid of not being there. And
the worst case scenario to say yes is to walk
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away with an experience or a piece of education of
maybe that's a lane that I won't go down again
because I learned something. But nothing bad has come from yes,
and everything that I've missed out on comes from no.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
So while you were telling us this, I had this
weird question come into my head. Has nothing to do
with oh nothing. See how I came up that. Before
we get into the next thing, I just have this question.
Were you were in the seventies? Right? Yeah, yeah, you
were in the seventies.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
You were right, you were around the seventies warribe, Oh
my god.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I'll just ask it seventies or the two thousands? Which one?
Seventies or the two thousands?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Which time time you prefer?
Speaker 4 (14:57):
You for me, I'll tell what the time period is.
And this is how I live, and this is my philosophy.
It's just now, not even yesterday, not even a decade
it's just now, because that's the only thing that's real,
you know, I don't know what, you know, my perception
of what happened in the seventies a lot of fun,
but I don't know if it's real. I don't know
(15:19):
if it's just my take on it. I also don't
know what's going to happen tomorrow. The only thing I
know is now, and the only thing that I have
is now, and the only thing I could celebrate is now.
So I I mean that sounds kind of corny, but
also for my mental health, if I live in the
exact moment and only think about the exact moment, that
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keeps me, you know, present, and it keeps me engaged,
and it keeps me kind of that's the distraction, you know,
because distraction is my is my panacea. I if I
start thinking about the past, then you know, I could
be that that could bring up kind of negative things.
(16:04):
Not that negative things happen in the past, but even like,
oh that was great, and I don't have that anymore. Yeah,
you know, And I find that people, you I don't know,
you know, I'm an old guy, and and uh, I
find that people the normal the normal path of humanity is.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
We start off incredibly curious.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
That's how come where babies can learn languages and learn
things and are so excited about everything because they're excited
about in the moment.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
And then they're curious.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
And we watch TV and we we look at magazines,
and we listen to music, and we go, we want
to find out what everybody's wearing, and we want to
find out what everybody's listening to, and we want to
find out what that we want to talk about, whatever
the trend is in the moment. And then what happens
is we kind of.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Lose that as yeah, we do, we use that fire.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
You become an older person where your curiosity kind of fades,
and then maybe if there's something on somebody's listening to music,
you'll go, that's not music. I'll tell you what music was.
Music was back back then, Well that's not true. That
was music that hit you in the moment.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
The music that's now is now. There's no you can't compare.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
You really can't compare, because it is what's happening now
is not what happened then. It doesn't come you know,
these are the experiences of the people that are making
the music and how they're making the music out. Your
people tell me all the time, like they're not even
using like instruments anymore.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
It's all computer. That's amazing.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
It's amazing that they find out that they can, you know, Charlie,
who can make a song out of a light switch?
Speaker 1 (17:42):
You know?
Speaker 4 (17:42):
And now, but it is wild and creative, and so
I've learned to kind of lean into now, and sometimes
being in now is incredibly confusing. As somebody who's in comedy,
you know, I when I started getting into more digital things,
I would see things that get one hundred million clicks
(18:04):
and then I'd be reading the comments and they go,
the funniest thing I ever saw, the funny this is hysterical.
And I'll be honest with you, I didn't get it.
And I'm and it's it's amazing to me that this
engaged one.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Hundred million people.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
So I sit down with young people in my office
or my kids, and I'll go, tell me why.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
This is success?
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Oh my god, I do see that. I want to
see that. I want to know why this is what
they're responding to when.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I make that up?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Why you chose to do a reaction video to a
prolapsed anus.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Well that was just ignorance. So really was So that
was I'll tell you what it was.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
You know, that was in the midst of COVID, you know,
and people were talking about is this COVID related? That's
I ended up selling T shirts. I have T shirts
at howimandel dot com. Is this COVID related? I saw
this picture.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
I live.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
When I'm not sitting here talking to you or doing
something else, I live online. I'm scrolling through TikTok and
Snapchat and Instagram and I just constantly. It's just because
I have this insatiable fear of missing out, which is
actually a problem, and I needed, I need to be
dedicated for. But I saw this picture in my free
(19:15):
feet of what I thought was kind of a gross
looking wet muffin on the back of somebody's pants interest
and I don't know, I did not know what it was.
And I thought, Okay, I'll post that, make that the background,
I'll green screen it.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
And I goes this COVID my friend Neil bent Over
and this happened? Is this covid?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
And then I go to sleep, and then my son
calls me two hours later and goes, what the dad,
what did you do, and I go, what do you
mean what?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
I he goes, take them TikTok.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
It's trending worldwide on other platforms, on Twitter, on everything.
What the fuck did Howie Mandel do? So I took
it down. I said, I don't know what it is.
He said, it's a pro laps datus. I still at
that point. I never I don't know. I didn't know what.
I didn't know your asket fallout. I did not know
that that was a there.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
I should do more ass It's totally a thing. And
you guys, I'm going to bring it back to kind
of the original conversation that we first had. But that's
something that happens a lot to women after they give birth,
and there are all forms of prolapses. Yeah, but yeah,
your your asshole can fall out, it can do all things.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
So I'm doing something that is trending and it's happening.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
I mean, Howie, have you learned a lot about prolapsed
assholes now? Considering how I do know that?
Speaker 1 (20:29):
See, I know two things. I know that it's a problem.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
I don't understand why there was such hoopla over it.
I mean, it's just it wasn't my picture and it's
funny to read. And to this day, if you go
on my TikTok right now, whenever I post, and I
constantly post, they always go, we will never forget, we
will remember.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
So I'm constantly punished for it. I know what it is.
I didn't know that the people who.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Have experienced this with such a with such verb or
like such a book group, I've offended them.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I don't know what everybody's offended nowadays, knowing everybody's defended
prolapse is.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
I don't know how they identify what you identify as
is with a prolapse.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
But when it looks.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
When it looks like there's a wet muffin hanging out
of you, that is how you know that you've been prolapsed.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
You are also on the Best podcast Ever, which is
a podcast that spins a wheel to have random conversations
about things. We land on a word and we tend
to want to talk about that for a while. So Howie, yeah,
it's hopefully we land on prolapsed asshole.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
I think that would be really great for us.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I know, right, So do you want to play the
game with us, Howie, or do you want to do
the show?
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Yes, I think we should do it now.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
I think we should do it now, right now, right now. Yes,
the word is.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
The word is nightmare, nightmares. So the three of us
are going to sit here and talk about nightmares. Our
worst nightmare.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Is a prolapsed asshole coming out of my ass. That's
my fucking worst nightmare.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
I mean worst, have a prolaps has coming out of
anything else.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
That I have to clean immediately.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Now, Well, that is a nightmare.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
That a nightmare, Like that's a pleasure, oh cup, and
my ass was outside of me, that would Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
But the thing is is people actually people actually go
through that with nightmares. A lot of nightmares don't come true.
We're talking about those moments where you're in bed, you
wake up and you're sweating profusely, Like, have you ever Okay,
I have a question for you, Howie, has your wife
ever had a nightmare and then woke up and hit
you saying that it's your fault. You're like, I didn't
do anything. It was actually in her nightmare.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yes, I've been a yes is the answer to that.
And she had a.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Nightmare that I think what happened was one night she
told me that I think I snuggled too close to
her while she was sleeping, and she had a nightmare
that there was something on her neck, so she just
smashed it away, but in her sleep in it being
me and she said she was sleeping and she said
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it was a nightmare. But then again, living with me
is annoying, and that's just a good that could have
been an excuse.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
I think it was.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
It's just a sucker on you.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
You know, you have a nightmare where you have to
go you have to go to the bathroom really badly,
and you're just looking and and you can't you can't
find it. And then finally, like I dreamt, I was
camping and I went behind the tree and I relieved
myself and then the dream was over and then I
woke up and I had peede yourself.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Yeah, but you know what.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
I've done?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yes, I did. But the upside of that is dreams
can come.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
True, soaken nightmares.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Dreams and nightmares can come true.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Did either of you have nightmares as children? Like were
you or did any of your kids have night terrors?
Have you seen people have night terrors?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (24:15):
I my daughter, one of my daughters. Not Jackie who
hosts how he does stuff with me. My other daughter
had horrible night terrors for years and years. I videotaped
them and took it to a doctor. He told me
their nighttares. I don't know what they are. But we
couldn't wake her up, and she would get out of
bed screaming and running and not remember it was she thirty, no,
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all the way till about five or six years old.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
And did they tell you not to wake her?
Speaker 4 (24:47):
We couldn't wait. Yes, they told us not to wake her,
but or to be really gentle. Yeah, but I've had
I had a lot.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Of nightmares as a kid.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
I was always you know, and maybe it's my mental health,
but I live in you know, also another fuel of mind,
curiosity and fear. So all my nightmares, I had horrible nightmares.
I was always in a scary place.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Any tell us one do you remember.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Any Yeah, my mom, my mom's decapitated head used to
follow me around the house. I used to be afraid
of her when she was when I was a little kid,
you know, at that time, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
You see again, you're bringing back that well, you brought
back the past.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
But in the sixties, in the early sixties, and I
think still before the weekend. Women used to do their
own hair, and she'd have her hair and curlers, have
her hair and curlers. My mom smoked too, so she
smoked and she had curlers. And I remember as a
little kid thinking it's kind of scary looking. I don't
really understand metal shit on her head is. And I
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used to have nightmares of my mom's just her head
floating around.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
The house with a cigarette and curlers chasing.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
I feel like that's something you would see in the
movie Beetlejuice, Like that's such.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
A Beetlejuice character, absolutely, or like Adam's it's the hand,
it's a hand for sure.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Mine, I'd always be in trouble so that that head
was never happy with me.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
You know a lot of times in nightmares, you know,
you can look up what dreams mean, you can look
up you know all those things. And I don't know
what that means for you. I know, bees kind of mean,
you know, cancer sometimes and when you see water it
means clearing out of things. But your mom's decapitated head
rolling around your bedroom. I don't know if dream Dictionary
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would actually help.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Me with that for you, Uh, you google it right
now you're sitting there. Google it, Google it, say, what
does is there any meaning to see a decapitated head
of your mother floating around?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
What does that mean? On it?
Speaker 3 (26:46):
You guys talkin I think that it would have to
be what you were saying though, Howie, that you were
scared of her and that your subjec Why did it just.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Have to be your head? Well, I just her head. See,
maybe there's some meaning to that. No, I just learned
as Raven was talking that bees mean cancer, and I've
never even heard that. I don't know the meanings of dreams.
I've never even looked up or explored what dreams mean.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Yeah, there are significant meanings in certain things, Like I
also know teeth is another one. Losing your teeth. Oh, yeah,
that's a big one. That's a big one that, like
I guess a lot of people have. Well, that's a
nightmare to me.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
So here it wasn't Google it was another thing. But
I have a question for you, Howie, did you feel
disjointed from the feelings that like, did you feel disjointed
from your mother's feelings towards you? Did you feel like
she was mothering you appropriately?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Oh, it's a disconnect good house.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
She was mothering me. I thought I was inappropriate.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
I've always felt like I didn't fit in to the world.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
I felt a different than well, and I think we
all do.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
But I think when you have OCD and depression and
anxiety and things that I wasn't diagnosed with until like
my forties and now I'm in my late sixties.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
You know, was she critical of you?
Speaker 1 (28:07):
No?
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Loving, like incredibly loving. But I would do horrible, horrible things.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
I was horrible, Like what kind of horrible things?
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Well some of it wasn't even my fault. I was
just always alienated. I remember, not horrible things.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
But this is a.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Uh, this doesn't answer that question. But I remember even
from kindergarten, I was alienated. It turned out I didn't
get diagnosed as as colorblind till way later. But they
were had crayons and everybody was making sky and grass
and water, and I she kept saying, put the blue
on top, and I couldn't see the blue, and I
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was coloring the wrong colors.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
And she put me behind the piano. You know, old.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
I still remember it to this day, and my mom
came and visited me, and the teacher told my mom
that I was bad.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
And I wouldn't listen.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
It burnt out that I didn't know how to identify
what a blue crayon look like.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
But and but so I was always from day one.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
I remember, like other people, as soon as I left
the house, I was always in trouble. So I was
always not And then you know, I got thrown out
of three different schools.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
I don't have a ged I lost my homework.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
I wouldn't touch We didn't know that I had OCD
and I had a germophobia.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
I mean I knew it, but they didn't know it.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
So if my shoelace came undone, I didn't want to
touch my shoelace to retie it because it had been
all over the ground, so I would fall off, or
I would step in a mud puddle purposely so that
I didn't I wouldn't touch it, and i'd get in
trouble for rooting my shoes or i'd get my you know,
they'd be mad at me. They go, why didn't you
tie your shoes? And I go, I don't know how
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because I didn't want to say. I didn't want to
touch it because it's dirty. So they go, howie you
do know how.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
No, I don't know how. I don't know how, and
you know, I'd get myself into trouble.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
You know that is sorry, But that literally is a
living nightmare. And I think that.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
That being.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
First of all, undiagnosed for as long as you were,
and for the manifestations of your mental illnesses or your
OCD to start at such a young age, and for
people to not really be aware, that is a living nightmare.
I relate to some of that because I had similar
experiences where people just did not know how to react
to me, and therefore I always felt flawed, wrong and
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bad because I could not keep up with my peers,
and it's nightmares. It's so difficult to figure yourself out.
And even now, still at the age of thirty five,
I have these moments where I'm like, holy shit, that's
why I did those things. And it wasn't because I
was a bad person or a bad kid or whatever.
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It was truly because I was trying to circumnavigate in
the world and figure out a way to cope with
all of the things I was dealing with in my mind.
And I've had to forgive myself for a lot of that.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
I forget, no two people are the same.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
And if you be look to others to kind of emulate,
you know, and wanting, you know, wanting to be like
somebody the reason, you know, especially like somebody like Raven
in show business. You got you got to know that
your fans they want they want to be you, They
want to touch you, they want to know you, they
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want to talk to you, they want to and and
I think that's just a kind of a on steroids
of how humanity is. We look to others to see what,
as we were talking about before, what they're wearing, how
they are. Because you, because you got, we always go
that's the right way to be, that's the way I feel,
and that gives you comfort in yourself. And whether it's
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as exaggerated as having a mental health issue or are
not being to not being able to identify how you
really feel and feeling alienate it we all feel alienated,
and we we find coping skills, and sometimes those coping
skills are to become an introvert. Sometimes those coping skills
are just anger, outward anger and that kind of hides
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your weaknesses inside.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Or it's drug use or you know, self.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Medicating or whatever but all of us just need to
be And I'm talking as an old person again, and
what I've learned late in life is to be open,
you know, about your foibles and your and your weaknesses
and your fears and who you are and why, and
then not only for yourself. Because the first time I
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was open about being, you know, having a mental health
issue and somebody approached me in the street, there was
no better feeling. They go, oh, thank god you mentioned this.
I'm I have that too, and it and it really
made me feel good to And that's what the person
said to me. And they didn't realize that how good
they were making me feel by not being alone in
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whatever I was treading in, you know, in my own
little misery. And what I realize is we need to
be open about and honest and authentic to ourselves and
who we are and our weaknesses and our strengths and
also respect different you know, we don't because we always
think this is the way it's supposed to be and
if it's not that way, fuck you, you know, and
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that's not fun or it's not something to fear. And
that is what is happening in our world right now.
And that's the problem with our world is just disrespect.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
We need to respect.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
Everybody and kind of accept that. Don't accept that they're different.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
You know, you're different. No two people are alike.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
The world that we live in, though, doesn't set us
up for self reflection in a positive way. You know,
they're with industry, with marketing, and with money being made.
It's better to set a standard of nightmare, a living nightmare,
in your everyday life than it is in a dream state.
If everything worked perfectly, we wouldn't need medicine, we wouldn't
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need to give you know, these people our money. And
I think that's one of the things that what you're
saying too that I agree with. You know, even if
I pick up a flower, my brain is going to
be like, yeah, but red is actually sold. A red
flower is actually sold during Valentine's Day, and a yellow
flower is actually sold during this day. So if I
pick up this blue one, no one's told me that
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this is the right flower. And then I create this
narrative of myself and eventually I set up this scary
dynamic in life where then I have to go to
other people who have a quote unquote better life than
me and say, okay, this is how I need to be.
And that's sad and it's true how and there's people
like you, myself and Miranda who are like, no, you
can find your happiness inside of you. But we need
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more people saying that and showing that it's difficult.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Well, I think the thing that is that it hurts
us the most is thinking.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
I think thinking is overrated. I think that we do.
That's why they say ignorance is bliss. It really is.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Ignorance is when you say, I think these amazings, these
amazing beings that have an amazing instinct, you know. And
sometimes if you picked up that blue flower and you
liked it, you should just buy the blue flower and
take it. If you pick up that blue flower and
you start thinking, well, wait, if I have this blue flower,
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maybe that's the wrong flower. Maybe somebody's going to look
at me a certain way. Maybe I should you know what,
So I just won't buy the flower. Now you overthought it, Yeah,
and you know, I think everything I've done in life,
when you say no, you probably say no because you
thought about it. Because everything comes your way. There's no
reason to not unless you think about it and find
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the reason to not, you know.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
And and be who you are, love who you love.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
But that goes into that goes into what you were
saying about living in the now. Right If you're living
in the now, you can't think because you're just accepting
what it is right now. Like right now, I'm having
a good time with you too. Do you have good dreams, Howie?
Speaker 4 (36:12):
Yeah, at this point, I don't have. I don't know
that I'm aware of my dreams anymore. I wish I
did have, Like I don't have bad dreams. I don't
have good dreams. I don't I'm trying to just get
enough sleep.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
It's funny because my wife and I every single morning
were like, did you dream? And sometimes we say yes,
sometimes we say no, And we share dreams in the
morning and whether they're good, bad, anxiety driven or not.
But I love to be able to dream. I love
when my artistic self is heightened because of a dream
or even a day dream that SATs a reverie is
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super amazing. But dreams all around you know, supposedly it's
the subconscious trying to speak to you. It's you regurgitating
something that you weren't able to say out loud in
public during the day helping you for your future. Dreams
are important, So howie, I really hope that you get
your dreams under control so you can have some more roll.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
I just feel like everything and dreaming is the is
the fluidity of thinking, you know, And I don't want
to think.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
I just want to be. I want to do.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
A nightmare for me is to think I can make
everything a nightmare.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Everything can be a nightmare, you know.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
If that's the word that you're working with right now,
there isn't anything that can't be a nightmare. If I
said get in your car and come over here to
meet me, that could be a statement where you can
go okay and not think about it and get in
your car and come over here and talk to me
in person instead of on zoom. The nightmare is, you know,
you have to get into a two ton piece of
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steel that lie at you know, sixty or seventy miles
an hour, surrounded by other two tons pieces of steel
that are either coming at you narrowly missing you. You're
not in control of the That can be just a
trip here can be a nightmare if you overthink it.
And that's sometimes these overthinking locks people up, and you
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know it stops your life and doesn't make you productive.
If you I say come here and you go okay,
and you just show up, then I'm not dreaming. I'm
not scared.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
I just did it and I didn't all the things
that could happen.
Speaker 4 (38:23):
Like right now, you know you feel safe because you're
with somebody you love and you're just doing this. You
can also if you want to overthink it, you could
feel real unsafe in this moment. You can make yourself unsafe.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Yeah, that's because everything ends up at the end of
the day is perception, attitude, and energy. So it's like
anything can be flipped on its head. But did you
know that if you have at least seven to nine
hours of sleep at night, that is the most the
least amount of sleep you need to not have a nightmare?
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Why because you're in less arian.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
What do you mean the amount of nightmare or not?
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Yeah, the depth or the most intensity of your nightmare.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
So there's there's multiple kinds of sleep. There's light sleep,
there's deep sleep, and there's rim sleep. And rim sleep
is where you dream. Deep sleep is the kind of
sleep we want to be in on a regular basis
because that's help for most that's most RESTful. And then
light sleep is what you go through when you're you
just close your eyes and you you can still get
woken up by a whisper.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
It's the recommended amount of sleep is seven to nine
seven to nine hours to have the least intense nightmares.
So if you're somebody who's a nightmare prone, they would
recommend that you try and get at least seven to
nine hours because then it'll dissipate the intensity of your nightmare.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
But but if you have, for instance, because how you
are diagnosed with OCD, correct if you have an OCD
brain or you have a very anxiety driven brain, are
your nightmares slash the overthinking even deeper? Because it when
he's saying this to me, it's like, oh, did you
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find a hack for your diagnosis. I'm not going to
believe my brain. I'm just going to live in the now.
And does rest help.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
You in that When it's time for me to go
to sleep, I don't say, you know, this is my
bedtime or I'm going to go because I need seven
hours and I got to be upset.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
I will not lie down unless I can't stand up anymore.
Speaker 4 (40:22):
So then I fall into a deep sleep because I've
totally exhausted.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
I need to be shot out.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
Yeah, I want I don't want quiet. I don't want
quiet time. I don't want to think. I don't want
my mind to be active.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
So if I do, if.
Speaker 5 (40:37):
I say yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
yes yes, and then pass out and then tomorrow yes yes, yes, yes,
yes yes, that's that's my schedule.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
It kind of helps us though, because the more you
say yes, the more Howie Mandel we get.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
And I were selfish, we're letting you just like treadmill
yourself into the ground. But I know and you know
what I mean. The fact, Yeah, Howie and I had
a conversation kind of about this because I was like,
I love that you're a yes man, and he was like, yeah,
benefited you. That's why I'm talking to you right now
because I said yes.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
And I was, but I love that you said yes
on so many levels. You said yes to Saint Elsewhere,
which was one of the shows that I used to
watch on Nicked Night all the time and like absolutely
loved and still wish that I watched it, but it's
not on YouTube right now. Anyway, You said yes to
so many iconic roles that in, including Bobby's World and
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Grimlins that I'm just like Gizmo.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
That's wild. You did that, Howie.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
Fuck man dude, just childhood realness. But if he wasn't
like this, would we have gotten those moments?
Speaker 4 (41:39):
Well?
Speaker 3 (41:40):
Maybe maybe not. But I have a question, how does
your wife feel or your family members feel about your Yes,
run myself into the ground type energy.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
Mostly positive, but a little bit worrisome.
Speaker 4 (41:57):
You know, listen, my wife, this attitude has worked for
us and me. And the one time I was going
to say no was for deal or no deal, because
in two thousand and five it wasn't. My career was
not in a good place, and I was thinking of
just pivoting and doing other things. I have other things
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that I'm interested in that are outside of show business,
and my entrepreneurial spirit is just as.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Strong as my creative spirit. So I said no. When
they said do you want to do a game show?
Speaker 4 (42:32):
I was leaving the career and they said do you
want to NBC would love you to do a game show, and.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
I said no, No.
Speaker 4 (42:39):
If I'm going to leave my career, I'm not going
to leave as a You know, when your currency is
irony as a stand up comic. You know, the game
show host at that time was kind of not frowned upon.
But it's like movie stars didn't do commercials, people for
comedians did not do did not do game shows. The
last commit game show before that that was Groucho Marx,
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who did You Bet Your Life? You know who was
you know, a bona fide comedian. So I said no.
And then finally, you know, my wife said, you're an idiot,
just you're you're depressed, you're hanging around the house.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
You've got to take this.
Speaker 4 (43:16):
And I said yes to her, and I did it,
and I was totally embarrassed about doing it and flew
away when it was going to air to someplace in
the Caribbean that didn't have TVs, And as it turned out,
it was a positive and it turned around.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
You know.
Speaker 4 (43:32):
The next thing that happened is Jeff Foxworthy got hired
to do Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?
Speaker 1 (43:37):
And Bob Saggatt did Versus one hundred.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
And Megan Markle married a prince and yes.
Speaker 4 (43:43):
And Steve Harvey could say, you're welcome, Howie. But what
I'm saying is that you know, we've been married for
forty three years, and when people ask what makes it
work is that I'm not there a lot because I'm
saying yes to everybody else. And the beauty is, as
much as you love me, we don't spend a lot
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of time together, and that's.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
What makes me more lovable. When you spend time with me, yeah,
I'm less lovable.
Speaker 3 (44:09):
And very quickly, I have to say I saw this
TikTok because, as we mentioned earlier, your social medias are
off the chain, but you had like all your platforms,
but there was one where I think your granddaughter was
trying to put a fake tattoo on your head and
you just had water dripping down your face from the
cotton that she used or the paper towel. Do you
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remember this TikTok? And I just have to say that
that would be one of my biggest nightmares, just having
water just dribble down my face like that. It would
mess up I think it's called water boarding, you're correct,
And it would mess up my eyebrows and I would
need to spooly and it's just a mess.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
We have the next section of the show, Howie are
you ready for it? And then after the session will
let you go, but this section is really important. Also,
on the Best podcast ever, you will be playing a
game with us.
Speaker 3 (45:09):
And it's such a great little segue because he just
talked about game shows and how he's the host of
a game show and he really was the pioneer of
you know, famous people hosting game So let's land game.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
All right. And the fun thing about these games is
that you are going to be playing for a sealed
Are you ready for this ad? A prize black and
decker three position rechargeable screwdriver.
Speaker 3 (45:31):
Wow, you could win this, howie. And here's the I'm
going to tell you something that is sealed. It's fully sealed,
it's clean. Will sanitize it before it sent you if
you win the game. But here's the deal. My wife.
You may not know this about Raven. She likes to hoard.
She likes to accumulate. Okay, okay, a gentle horde, a
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touch of the hord. She likes to accumulate. She likes
to double order. So every gift that you may ever
receive from us will probably be a regift. And this,
in fact, was something that Raven purchased that she never opened,
that we do not need. That is actually in you
winning this game, Howe. You're helping me clear clutter out
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of my house, and I thank you. So win the game.
Speaker 1 (46:17):
That's a win win.
Speaker 2 (46:19):
Yeah, exactly, it's a win win.
Speaker 3 (46:21):
It's a win win. Okay, you ready to play the game?
How game?
Speaker 1 (46:24):
I am all right, So.
Speaker 3 (46:25):
I'm gonna break hold on.
Speaker 2 (46:26):
I gotta get the iPad.
Speaker 3 (46:27):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
So what we're gonna do, Howie, is we're gonna read
you some nightmares and you have to decide if it's
my nightmare or if it's Raven's nightmare. And these are real,
and you have to guess which of us is haunted
by these scenarios.
Speaker 3 (46:41):
These are real?
Speaker 1 (46:41):
Okay, go ahead, go ahead, babes.
Speaker 2 (46:44):
Cool. So the first one's gonna pop up on my
pad real soon.
Speaker 3 (46:47):
And is this Miranda or is this Raven nightmare?
Speaker 2 (46:51):
I'm stuck in a greenhouse. It's a mess and overgrown.
Sitting in the middle on a bench is an old
man and a little boy. They look like broken puppets.
There's also a bar. It's beautiful, and the bartender is
Brad Pitt. He is making a drink and I walk
over to him, only to realize Oprah is behind him
with a camera crew and she is filming a documentary.
Whose nightmare is it Miranda's or Raven's.
Speaker 4 (47:14):
First of all, I don't understand that would be a
nightmare except for the broken puppet bar with Brad Pitt. No, bra,
it's not whoa that's so scary in a greenhouse?
Speaker 2 (47:25):
In a greenhouse?
Speaker 1 (47:30):
Is it? Is it you? Miranda?
Speaker 3 (47:33):
False? Ah, here's the thing. This is what I wanted
to say. You have to think the context clues are.
If it's a nightmare and you think Raven's career Oprah
that you know, like their interactions together, Raven had some
interesting interviews with Oprah, then it might be more toy
why that was a nightmare for her?
Speaker 2 (47:53):
Okay, one down, let's okay, we got to get put
him this thing. Next nightmare is coming up, Next night
is on its way.
Speaker 3 (48:01):
Yep, we're waiting for it. Okay. This nightmare starts with
a yellow landline phone starts ringing, So maybe we're helping,
like interdimensional thing going. I pick it up and a
voice tells me my parents are dead and to come
to this address or my sister will be killed. I
show up and am taken into a room where I'm
told not to be sad. The people I thought were
(48:22):
actually my parents aren't, and I'm going to meet my
real father. The door opens and Donald Trump walks in.
I see my reflection and realize I have his exact
head of hair. Whose nightmare is that mine? Or ravens.
Speaker 1 (48:44):
Raven?
Speaker 2 (48:45):
Oh, sorry, Howie, that's Miranda.
Speaker 3 (48:50):
That was my nightmare.
Speaker 2 (48:51):
That's hardcore. You might be wondering why. I think it's
because of the head of hair.
Speaker 3 (48:55):
It's one hundred percent of the head of hair. I
have such a thing about hair, and like losing hair
and then having his hair. It's a lot like I
have it. Sometimes we have one.
Speaker 1 (49:05):
That was the reason I chose Raven.
Speaker 4 (49:06):
Raven's been doing a lot of things with their hair lately,
so I just thought, you know, she might be thinking
about hair and how things turn out and how they
might look.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
That was why I went to you, Raven.
Speaker 2 (49:15):
I appreciate it, sir, I appreciate that. We'll figure that
one out. We'll still give you the screwdriver if you
get this one. Okay, we have one last one. We'll
have one last one.
Speaker 4 (49:26):
To be honest with you, if I have a hammer,
I would hammer in the morning.
Speaker 1 (49:31):
I would hammer in the evening.
Speaker 2 (49:34):
You want to hammer?
Speaker 3 (49:36):
Would you hammer it supper time?
Speaker 1 (49:38):
Is that part of the song?
Speaker 3 (49:39):
Yeah, hammering in the evening. I can hammer, hammer.
Speaker 2 (49:43):
In the morning and in the afternoon, A hammer in
the evening and under Are you all on that anyway?
Speaker 3 (49:48):
I was seeing the Bagel Bites theme song with hammer anyway?
Speaker 5 (49:52):
Love it?
Speaker 2 (49:52):
Last one, Howie, Last one? I'm in a concrete box.
It's quickly filling up with sand. I'm stuck. Window appears,
but I can't do anything but look out of it.
I guess I die, Miranda, or.
Speaker 4 (50:09):
Or that could be anybody that that sounds like one
we all have being buried alive. I'm gonna go with
you again, raven O. How exciting is that you were
the one that's afraid of being buried alive?
Speaker 2 (50:30):
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 3 (50:31):
I'm so happy because you won this. How you won
this beautiful black and decker. But he said that he
wanted to hammer. Would you like us to buy you
a hammer instead?
Speaker 4 (50:41):
I do need to know I don't I don't build anything.
I've never built. I don't build anything.
Speaker 2 (50:46):
I'm gonna have multiple screwdrivers.
Speaker 1 (50:48):
I shouldn't say that.
Speaker 2 (50:49):
That's probably I'm cutting that out.
Speaker 3 (50:51):
We are going to Well, we could mail this or
we could field trip it to him, and we could
take a tour of the valley since you love all
the porn so much, and you could look.
Speaker 4 (50:59):
At try to identify the exteriors from your favorite porn.
Speaker 2 (51:03):
Done and done. Howie Mandel has been here and graced
us with his amazingness here on the best podcast ever.
We will mail it to you, no worries, Howie. Can
I just wait? Just on the side note, Howie and
I do a show called Funny. You should ask you
doing that anytime soon.
Speaker 4 (51:21):
I don't know with my next I am doing. I
think I'm scheduled for one one more run. I think
in June sometimes.
Speaker 2 (51:28):
Okay, cool, I'm going to try to get on one
with you again, just so I can see you work together.
Speaker 3 (51:34):
Yeah, you can say, Howie, what else do you have
going on these days? Anything that we saw.
Speaker 1 (51:38):
Our podcast, Howie Mandel?
Speaker 3 (51:39):
Does we love?
Speaker 2 (51:40):
Which we love? I was on a g T.
Speaker 1 (51:42):
Season eighteen just started.
Speaker 2 (51:44):
Jesus Christ, you guys are almost as many seasons as
US Simpsons eighteen seasons.
Speaker 4 (51:51):
Eighteen season just started, and it's off to a rocket start.
It's doing really good and I just finished someone, but
there's going to be another.
Speaker 3 (52:00):
But we saw somebody land a helicopter on their taint,
their their Taintalaria, that was for.
Speaker 1 (52:07):
You, not for the taint of heart, not at all, for.
Speaker 2 (52:11):
The taint of heart.
Speaker 3 (52:12):
That's that's some talent. That's only only talent like that
in America.
Speaker 2 (52:16):
Are you really enjoying.
Speaker 1 (52:17):
You imagine if there was a prolapse, would have been.
Speaker 3 (52:20):
A bumpy landing, would have been a rough rack.
Speaker 2 (52:24):
Are you still enjoying that show?
Speaker 1 (52:27):
Yeah? I really am.
Speaker 4 (52:28):
I mean, you never know what you're gonna see. You
don't know who that guy that was landing the helicopter
flew as. As Simon pointed out, he flew all the
way from Japan just to do that one.
Speaker 2 (52:41):
And went home because he did not get the exes.
I mean he did not get the checks at all.
Speaker 1 (52:46):
But for me, he did. I loved it.
Speaker 3 (52:50):
Evation.
Speaker 2 (52:51):
Do you have any fantastic guests coming up on your
podcast that you like? Say, if this show comes out
in a month, is there anybody that anyone cool coming
up on the podcast?
Speaker 4 (52:59):
Fantast guest Howiemandel dot com Go and find out Howie
Mandel does stuff there's gonna be a lot of fantastic guests.
Speaker 3 (53:06):
Thank you. I needed that sentence.
Speaker 2 (53:08):
And tell your tell your daughter we said hello, we
love her.
Speaker 1 (53:12):
Well.
Speaker 3 (53:12):
Yeah, you guys are awesome. This is great. Last question,
Last question.
Speaker 2 (53:16):
Do you have a middle name?
Speaker 1 (53:18):
Michael?
Speaker 2 (53:19):
Howie Michael Mandel. Nice to meet you, sir.
Speaker 3 (53:21):
Come back soon, Howie Michael Mandel.
Speaker 2 (53:23):
And we'll talk to you, sir.
Speaker 1 (53:24):
I will call me back.
Speaker 3 (53:25):
I'll be there by Bye, babes.
Speaker 2 (53:29):
What a show, What a show. It wasn't a nightmare
for me. I was a little scared because, you know,
with how we he is so vocal and he is
very open about what he talks about. And I feel
like I got some new information from him. I do too, actually,
you know, and I feel like knowing the difference between
no and yes, understanding that no gets you nowhere. I
(53:52):
think that's wonderful advice for anyone.
Speaker 3 (53:55):
I totally agree. Howie is a really cool guy. He
always has some thing interesting to say, interesting perspective. I
have to burp. There we go.
Speaker 2 (54:04):
Huh oh, good job, it's I burp too.
Speaker 3 (54:07):
Yeah. Maybe how it brings brings it out. We're channeling
something or someone. But anyway, Yeah, no, I think Howie
is fantastic, and I always am so intrigued in talking
to him and listening to him, and it wasn't so nightmarish.
Speaker 2 (54:19):
It wasn't so nightmarish. And you know, you can prevent
us from having any more nightmares by subscribing and liking
and doing everything that helps us, do you know what
I mean, like, help us come back to you. We'll
be back next week on the Best Podcast Ever with
Raven and Miranda.
Speaker 3 (54:36):
Bye guys.
Speaker 2 (54:42):
The Best Podcast Ever is an iHeart podcast produced and
hosted by Raven Simone and Miranda.
Speaker 3 (54:48):
Executive producers junsan Karp and Amy Siggerman, produced and edited
by Jordan.
Speaker 2 (54:52):
Katz, who also does our music. Executive in charge of production,
Danielle Romo producer Hannah Winkleman.
Speaker 3 (55:00):
Theme song by Penny Siegel and Jordan Keech.
Speaker 2 (55:03):
Follow us on Instagram at the Best Pod Ever, and
send your emails to the Bestpodever at gmail dot com.
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Oh it goes so hard yow.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Welcome back to the best podcast ever.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I'm Miranda and I'm Raven, and we are here and
this is the only podcast where you can spin a
wheel it lands on a word and we talk about
that word for like forty five minutes.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
It's pretty frickin' awesome. It's kind of stupendous. Actually, wow, stupendous.
That's a large word. I mean, I think it's I
think it is. I think stupidous.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I feel like Barney taught me that word.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
It's stupendous.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
That's not a Barney accent.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
No, it's stupid. That sounded like. That's my the one
thing I know how to say in Russian asta roshna stupenky.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
It means careful the stairs?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Cool? Cool? You know what, I'm.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Gonna use that. I absolutely think you should.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
When was the last time you actually used it in public?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Oh? In public?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
No, I've never used it in public. But I think
it's a great flex. I mean, also, I know that's vidagna.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah yeah, but the spanky thing. That's a flex.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
That's like nobody banky.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Sounds so officials careful. There's only one flight of stance. Okay,
I have a question about stairs because sometimes when I
walk upstairs, I have this weird like image in my
brain of me falling down them?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Do you ever have that?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Like every staircase I walk up and down, I'm like,
don't fall, don't fall, don't fall. I think it was
because of Death Becomes Her the movie.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Oh are you so you have the anxiety of tripping
while you're falling up and falling down?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Like busting my head open.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
No, the only stare anxiety that I have is you
pushing me down them me you you push me down
the stairs.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I wonder why you have that anxiety.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Who would listen. I am not an abusive partner. That
is an anxiety of hers. I don't do that. If
hands get laid on you, they're on your titties and
that's it.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Can we cue the applauds and the laughter. Please? I
think it's been Oh wow, it's moral. Wah wah wah wah.
You know, actually we should talk about titties for a second,
because I don't really have any, and you love them.
I'm sorry, I just feel like I should.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I do love your titties.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
No, no, no, but I don't really have like I have
very You have a handful.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah, they're just right, there's a handful.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Back to the stairs really quickly. You know what else
is extremely traumatizing The staircase. The show, Oh, the show
the stairs. Oh, we got to talk about that.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
The show. The Staircase is crazy. Let's talk about that
on another episode because I could get into it.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I mean, first of all, such a sad story. Absolutely,
but like Tony Kollette and that fall and that that
look is like forever ingrained in my burned into my
frontal cortex.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
For those listening, do you see how many topics we
covered in the last two seconds.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Yeah, that's what you're.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Gonna get here on the best podcast ever, we talk
about random shit. We're gonna be spinning a wheel. Super interactive.
You know, this new generation loves interaction, and we interact
with something that sounds like this and it lands on
a word now, babes.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
It also is really great because this generation, for the
most part, is really into owning their ADHD and their
neurodivergent self. If you go into spicy neurows, yeah, and
if you go into TikTok, it's like all you see
is my ADHD and this is my new fixation. They're
taking it back, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
It's that whole narrative like I'm gonna take it back.
It's my superpower. But that's what this show is all about, and.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
We're taking it back by saying, listen to this conversation
we've just had. So we've basically just had an ADHD conversation.
It's just gone everywhere.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
And every episode you listen to will be having guests
on where they too can flex.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Their neurodivergence self. There it is. I liked that good.
She got that ray of the Princess Bride for some reason.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Oh yeah, I couldn't get through that movie.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Really. Oh god, no, marriage know it? Yeah, I know,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Although that sounds like the mouse in America. Fifel goes
to America, fIF goes West.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
No, you have referenced this week Fifo goes West.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
So we must need to watch, we must need to
watch Fifel Fiffel. I love him anyway. We have noises,
we have sounds, we have a wheel, and we.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Have an amazing guest today. Face.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah, this guest I have adopted in my brain as
my dad, my stage dad. I have watched him my
whole life. You know, a lot of people come to
me and and they say, oh my god, you're my childhood,
but this man is my childhood. I watched him on
a show at like four o'clock in the morning on
Nick at Night, didn't realize he was a comedian, just
(05:10):
wanted his hair. And then when he had his cartoon,
I was like, stuck to the screen.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I love this man. He's pretty cool, I would agree.
And I've gotten to know him a little bit better
now because of you and your connection to him. And
then I learned more about him and I was like, wow,
he is so cool.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
He's so cool. I also want to raid his closet.
But that's a conversation we can have.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Closet is incredible. It's I don't even understand. I'm just like,
that's not fair.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
If this was an interactive with it, he's sick with it.
If this was an interactive conversation like on like Instagram
or tanktok, I'd be like put in the comments who
you think I'm talking about?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
So like, totally, while.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
You're listening to this podcast, who do you think I'm
talking about?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Right?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
He is Jewish, right, he's Jewish right. Yeah, he's a comedian.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
He has some hits.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
He's been in the industry for over thirty years.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
He's very open about his mental health, very open about.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
His mental health. He used to have the sickest curls
and now he has the shiniest top. Yeah, and he
wears glasses. Who are we talking about? Can we guess nope,
that's the wrong button? Can we guess nope? Wrong button?
Can we guess?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Fuck?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Anyway? That is just like pushing things.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Well, I push your buttons, don't I?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
You sure do? Everyone? Visual representation of you pushing my buttons.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Guess who's in the hot seat today? Here on the
Best podcast Ever with Raven and Miranda. That's right, it's
Howie Mandel. I don't know which button to push the button?
How are you?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I'm great?
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I like your setup there. I like those What are those?
Those are like ottomans with backs?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Oh yeah, these are chairs, revolving, revolving.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
You should have seen these fuckers when she atom and
had to like have us bring them into this room.
It was a mess, Howie. It was an absolute mess.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Actually, we did very well. And this is interesting because
Raven has a thing with furniture where she can't sit
on it without the furniture sliding out from under her,
like she can't slid on our couchs. She has battles
and heavy these kind of work for her, but kind
of not. But I tried my best. I have to
val throw everything down for her.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I'm also very short, So if I put my legs.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Out, do you not know how to sit in a chair?
Speaker 4 (07:28):
No, just move forward, move forward and see now you
can touch the plum.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
And then I have to put my rabbit right here.
Where are you sitting right now in a chair? Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Appropriately, I'm in van eyes, I'm in the heart of
porn in my office.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Have you ever driven down the street and then said,
oh my god, I've seen that building before, had to
rack your brain and realize it was from touch my
titties two and three?
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
I do watch. You know I have partaken in the viewership.
You know I'm a viewer. But a lot, not a lot,
of what I watch has exterior shots.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Okay, you don't like the story, you like to get
down to it.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
You like internal No, I have never recognized the building,
and there is nothing in this area that I would
if I was a porn producer that I would go, oh,
we got to get a we got to getet a
shot of this building. Because it's usually that the gardener
shows up, or the pizza guy shows up, or somebody,
or it's the babysitter or that.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
But it's not the warehouse worker.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
No or no.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
It's never like, oh, this will be great for outside
of the warehouse. These are just nondescript building.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Okay, Well, I make sure when I pass by your
building again, I have to make sure I catch up
on my videos to see if I recognize anything. For
you and be like, you're standing next to a famous building.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Well, you know, the truth of the matter is, one
time I did production. I produced a show called which
was a flashmob show for Fox, you know, and on broadcast.
And you know, you always have to rent production space
as far as offices, you know, for the producers and
the writers. And I've got a real good deal on
a building on Lancashim which was the Vivid Building.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
And remember the Vivid Building.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Of course I was a tenant.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
But but but we all know what Vivid.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Well most people don't.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
A lot of kids maybe don't know, but Vivid is
was a is it still around?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I don't know if that building has gone now?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Is it really? Yeah, it's gone.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I passed by and look at it every day, and
it's gone. And I've actually seen a video. I saw
a video once of a Vivid It was a Vivid
production and they were out on a patio and it
was blue awning. Don't ask me why I remember so much,
and I remember it was the vivid awning that I
saw was, Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
What you took away from whatever film you watched that
the awning was I love patio furniture.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Patio furniture and porn is what I.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Hand in hand, hand in hand Raven's two greatest loves
in life, patio furniture and porn.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
But what was funny about it was, you know we
were there doing In fact, patio was part of our
office building we got. We we rented the outdoor space too,
and the indoor space we would have our meetings outside.
Who anyway, And I'm not kidding, but you know, it
takes a village to create a show, and this was
(10:28):
a nice, family friendly, great show with a nice family
friendly team and crew, not unlike what you probably have
on your shows.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Uh and but what was.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
It was really hard for well funny and uncomfortable for
the female staff of our production, you know, producer, directors
and post production people. They would walk just parking and
walking into the lobby of the Vivid building. It was
they had to make it really clear that they were
(11:00):
going to the third floor, not the fourth floor.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Were they going through the back door? Did they go
through the back door too?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I saw that film.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Through the back Door, Volumes one, two, and three.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
If they saw anybody, they would pretend they were talking
to somebody.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
They'd put their phone to their ear.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
They'd go, no, I'm at the office now, I'm going
to do mob down the third floor. They weren't talking
to anybody, but they just wanted to make sure that
they weren't that nobody thought they were the porn stars.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
That's that's kind of them, you know, that's really kind
of them.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Howie.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I just want to say I love you, thank you
so much for showing up for us every time you
come here, always making us laugh. And this sounds like
it's an end, but it's not. I just wanted to
give you your flowers up front because you're you're so present.
We love you, and we're so excited that you are
on the best podcast ever with Raven and Miranda. I
know you're excited, right, and you're so excited.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I am filled.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
I love you and I love you both, and I'm
I'm a fan before and hopefully a friend. I hope
you consider me a friend whatever. Whenever you call, I'll
be there.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Raven considers you a father. She literally is like, Oh,
how is like my dad that I never had that
I always wanted. He's that person. And it's also because
you're so stylish that she's just like, he's the dad
that I could go shopping in his closet and wear
his clothes.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
My daughter does take my stuff my daughter. Somebody will
say to Jackie, who I do? I co host my podcast.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
With do you remember you guys? Prank not Prank called me,
but you guys called me to talk about period blood
and placentas. And I was like, what's going on? And
then I watched the episode on YouTube and I heard
the whole conversation. It made so much more sense. But
I thought it was great. I was very entertained by it.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I was very entertained by it as well. I don't
normally like to watch stuff that I do, but I
did feel comfortable talking to you, and I appreciated you
really trying to push me to say certain things. And
you may ask, Raven, you only met me like a
couple of times, why are you like my dad? And
why are you like a dad in my head? And
it's because your thought process, your kindness, but also your
(13:10):
ambition and your willingness to try new things. Like one
thing that we know about Howie Mendel is that if
there's a new social media, if there's something new, you're
going to try it. You're going to invest in what
you believe in. And those values are so amazing to me,
especially in this industry. Your kind and you talk to me.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I think that Howie is the ultimate yes man. That's
what I really took away from one of the conversations
you and I had, Howie, and I thought it was
so fantastic because you also kind of looped that into
how that's a way in which you balance your mental
health and that you also just stay engaged in life
and you say yes to opportunities and things. And I
love that.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
I have a fear of no.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
You know, oh is spelt N, O, and nothing is
also starts with the letters and oh. So nothing comes
from no or no, get you nothing? But yes, I'm
always afraid, you know, I've got phone moment. I'm afraid
of missing out. I'm afraid of not being there. And
the worst case scenario to say yes is to walk
(14:12):
away with an experience or a piece of education of
maybe that's a lane that I won't go down again
because I learned something. But nothing bad has come from yes,
and everything that I've missed out on comes from no.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
So while you were telling us this, I had this
weird question come into my head. Has nothing to do
with oh nothing. See how I came up that. Before
we get into the next thing, I just have this question.
Were you were in the seventies? Right? Yeah, yeah, you
were in the seventies.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
You were right, you were around the seventies warribe, Oh
my god.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I'll just ask it seventies or the two thousands? Which one?
Seventies or the two thousands?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Which time time you prefer?
Speaker 4 (14:57):
You for me, I'll tell what the time period is.
And this is how I live, and this is my philosophy.
It's just now, not even yesterday, not even a decade
it's just now, because that's the only thing that's real,
you know, I don't know what, you know, my perception
of what happened in the seventies a lot of fun,
but I don't know if it's real. I don't know
(15:19):
if it's just my take on it. I also don't
know what's going to happen tomorrow. The only thing I
know is now, and the only thing that I have
is now, and the only thing I could celebrate is now.
So I I mean that sounds kind of corny, but
also for my mental health, if I live in the
exact moment and only think about the exact moment, that
(15:42):
keeps me, you know, present, and it keeps me engaged,
and it keeps me kind of that's the distraction, you know,
because distraction is my is my panacea. I if I
start thinking about the past, then you know, I could
be that that could bring up kind of negative things.
(16:04):
Not that negative things happen in the past, but even like,
oh that was great, and I don't have that anymore. Yeah,
you know, And I find that people, you I don't know,
you know, I'm an old guy, and and uh, I
find that people the normal the normal path of humanity is.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
We start off incredibly curious.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
That's how come where babies can learn languages and learn
things and are so excited about everything because they're excited
about in the moment.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
And then they're curious.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
And we watch TV and we we look at magazines,
and we listen to music, and we go, we want
to find out what everybody's wearing, and we want to
find out what everybody's listening to, and we want to
find out what that we want to talk about, whatever
the trend is in the moment. And then what happens
is we kind of.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Lose that as yeah, we do, we use that fire.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
You become an older person where your curiosity kind of fades,
and then maybe if there's something on somebody's listening to music,
you'll go, that's not music. I'll tell you what music was.
Music was back back then, Well that's not true. That
was music that hit you in the moment.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
The music that's now is now. There's no you can't compare.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
You really can't compare, because it is what's happening now
is not what happened then. It doesn't come you know,
these are the experiences of the people that are making
the music and how they're making the music out. Your
people tell me all the time, like they're not even
using like instruments anymore.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
It's all computer. That's amazing.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
It's amazing that they find out that they can, you know, Charlie,
who can make a song out of a light switch?
Speaker 1 (17:42):
You know?
Speaker 4 (17:42):
And now, but it is wild and creative, and so
I've learned to kind of lean into now, and sometimes
being in now is incredibly confusing. As somebody who's in comedy,
you know, I when I started getting into more digital things,
I would see things that get one hundred million clicks
(18:04):
and then I'd be reading the comments and they go,
the funniest thing I ever saw, the funny this is hysterical.
And I'll be honest with you, I didn't get it.
And I'm and it's it's amazing to me that this
engaged one.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Hundred million people.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
So I sit down with young people in my office
or my kids, and I'll go, tell me why.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
This is success?
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Oh my god, I do see that. I want to
see that. I want to know why this is what
they're responding to when.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I make that up?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Why you chose to do a reaction video to a
prolapsed anus.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Well that was just ignorance. So really was So that
was I'll tell you what it was.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
You know, that was in the midst of COVID, you know,
and people were talking about is this COVID related? That's
I ended up selling T shirts. I have T shirts
at howimandel dot com. Is this COVID related? I saw
this picture.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
I live.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
When I'm not sitting here talking to you or doing
something else, I live online. I'm scrolling through TikTok and
Snapchat and Instagram and I just constantly. It's just because
I have this insatiable fear of missing out, which is
actually a problem, and I needed, I need to be
dedicated for. But I saw this picture in my free
(19:15):
feet of what I thought was kind of a gross
looking wet muffin on the back of somebody's pants interest
and I don't know, I did not know what it was.
And I thought, Okay, I'll post that, make that the background,
I'll green screen it.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
And I goes this COVID my friend Neil bent Over
and this happened? Is this covid?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
And then I go to sleep, and then my son
calls me two hours later and goes, what the dad,
what did you do, and I go, what do you
mean what?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
I he goes, take them TikTok.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
It's trending worldwide on other platforms, on Twitter, on everything.
What the fuck did Howie Mandel do? So I took
it down. I said, I don't know what it is.
He said, it's a pro laps datus. I still at
that point. I never I don't know. I didn't know what.
I didn't know your asket fallout. I did not know
that that was a there.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
I should do more ass It's totally a thing. And
you guys, I'm going to bring it back to kind
of the original conversation that we first had. But that's
something that happens a lot to women after they give birth,
and there are all forms of prolapses. Yeah, but yeah,
your your asshole can fall out, it can do all things.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
So I'm doing something that is trending and it's happening.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
I mean, Howie, have you learned a lot about prolapsed
assholes now? Considering how I do know that?
Speaker 1 (20:29):
See, I know two things. I know that it's a problem.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
I don't understand why there was such hoopla over it.
I mean, it's just it wasn't my picture and it's
funny to read. And to this day, if you go
on my TikTok right now, whenever I post, and I
constantly post, they always go, we will never forget, we
will remember.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
So I'm constantly punished for it. I know what it is.
I didn't know that the people who.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Have experienced this with such a with such verb or
like such a book group, I've offended them.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I don't know what everybody's offended nowadays, knowing everybody's defended
prolapse is.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
I don't know how they identify what you identify as
is with a prolapse.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
But when it looks.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
When it looks like there's a wet muffin hanging out
of you, that is how you know that you've been prolapsed.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
You are also on the Best podcast Ever, which is
a podcast that spins a wheel to have random conversations
about things. We land on a word and we tend
to want to talk about that for a while. So Howie, yeah,
it's hopefully we land on prolapsed asshole.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
I think that would be really great for us.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I know, right, So do you want to play the
game with us, Howie, or do you want to do
the show?
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Yes, I think we should do it now.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
I think we should do it now, right now, right now. Yes,
the word is.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
The word is nightmare, nightmares. So the three of us
are going to sit here and talk about nightmares. Our
worst nightmare.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Is a prolapsed asshole coming out of my ass. That's
my fucking worst nightmare.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
I mean worst, have a prolaps has coming out of
anything else.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
That I have to clean immediately.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Now, Well, that is a nightmare.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
That a nightmare, Like that's a pleasure, oh cup, and
my ass was outside of me, that would Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
But the thing is is people actually people actually go
through that with nightmares. A lot of nightmares don't come true.
We're talking about those moments where you're in bed, you
wake up and you're sweating profusely, Like, have you ever Okay,
I have a question for you, Howie, has your wife
ever had a nightmare and then woke up and hit
you saying that it's your fault. You're like, I didn't
do anything. It was actually in her nightmare.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yes, I've been a yes is the answer to that.
And she had a.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Nightmare that I think what happened was one night she
told me that I think I snuggled too close to
her while she was sleeping, and she had a nightmare
that there was something on her neck, so she just
smashed it away, but in her sleep in it being
me and she said she was sleeping and she said
(23:21):
it was a nightmare. But then again, living with me
is annoying, and that's just a good that could have
been an excuse.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
I think it was.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
It's just a sucker on you.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
You know, you have a nightmare where you have to
go you have to go to the bathroom really badly,
and you're just looking and and you can't you can't
find it. And then finally, like I dreamt, I was
camping and I went behind the tree and I relieved
myself and then the dream was over and then I
woke up and I had peede yourself.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Yeah, but you know what.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
I've done?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yes, I did. But the upside of that is dreams
can come.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
True, soaken nightmares.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Dreams and nightmares can come true.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Did either of you have nightmares as children? Like were
you or did any of your kids have night terrors?
Have you seen people have night terrors?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (24:15):
I my daughter, one of my daughters. Not Jackie who
hosts how he does stuff with me. My other daughter
had horrible night terrors for years and years. I videotaped
them and took it to a doctor. He told me
their nighttares. I don't know what they are. But we
couldn't wake her up, and she would get out of
bed screaming and running and not remember it was she thirty, no,
(24:40):
all the way till about five or six years old.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
And did they tell you not to wake her?
Speaker 4 (24:47):
We couldn't wait. Yes, they told us not to wake her,
but or to be really gentle. Yeah, but I've had
I had a lot.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Of nightmares as a kid.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
I was always you know, and maybe it's my mental health,
but I live in you know, also another fuel of mind,
curiosity and fear. So all my nightmares, I had horrible nightmares.
I was always in a scary place.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Any tell us one do you remember.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Any Yeah, my mom, my mom's decapitated head used to
follow me around the house. I used to be afraid
of her when she was when I was a little kid,
you know, at that time, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
You see again, you're bringing back that well, you brought
back the past.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
But in the sixties, in the early sixties, and I
think still before the weekend. Women used to do their
own hair, and she'd have her hair and curlers, have
her hair and curlers. My mom smoked too, so she
smoked and she had curlers. And I remember as a
little kid thinking it's kind of scary looking. I don't
really understand metal shit on her head is. And I
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used to have nightmares of my mom's just her head
floating around.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
The house with a cigarette and curlers chasing.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
I feel like that's something you would see in the
movie Beetlejuice, Like that's such.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
A Beetlejuice character, absolutely, or like Adam's it's the hand,
it's a hand for sure.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Mine, I'd always be in trouble so that that head
was never happy with me.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
You know a lot of times in nightmares, you know,
you can look up what dreams mean, you can look
up you know all those things. And I don't know
what that means for you. I know, bees kind of mean,
you know, cancer sometimes and when you see water it
means clearing out of things. But your mom's decapitated head
rolling around your bedroom. I don't know if dream Dictionary
(26:33):
would actually help.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Me with that for you, Uh, you google it right
now you're sitting there. Google it, Google it, say, what
does is there any meaning to see a decapitated head
of your mother floating around?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
What does that mean? On it?
Speaker 3 (26:46):
You guys talkin I think that it would have to
be what you were saying though, Howie, that you were
scared of her and that your subjec Why did it just.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Have to be your head? Well, I just her head. See,
maybe there's some meaning to that. No, I just learned
as Raven was talking that bees mean cancer, and I've
never even heard that. I don't know the meanings of dreams.
I've never even looked up or explored what dreams mean.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Yeah, there are significant meanings in certain things, Like I
also know teeth is another one. Losing your teeth. Oh, yeah,
that's a big one. That's a big one that, like
I guess a lot of people have. Well, that's a
nightmare to me.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
So here it wasn't Google it was another thing. But
I have a question for you, Howie, did you feel
disjointed from the feelings that like, did you feel disjointed
from your mother's feelings towards you? Did you feel like
she was mothering you appropriately?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Oh, it's a disconnect good house.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
She was mothering me. I thought I was inappropriate.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
I've always felt like I didn't fit in to the world.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
I felt a different than well, and I think we
all do.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
But I think when you have OCD and depression and
anxiety and things that I wasn't diagnosed with until like
my forties and now I'm in my late sixties.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
You know, was she critical of you?
Speaker 1 (28:07):
No?
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Loving, like incredibly loving. But I would do horrible, horrible things.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
I was horrible, Like what kind of horrible things?
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Well some of it wasn't even my fault. I was
just always alienated. I remember, not horrible things.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
But this is a.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Uh, this doesn't answer that question. But I remember even
from kindergarten, I was alienated. It turned out I didn't
get diagnosed as as colorblind till way later. But they
were had crayons and everybody was making sky and grass
and water, and I she kept saying, put the blue
on top, and I couldn't see the blue, and I
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was coloring the wrong colors.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
And she put me behind the piano. You know, old.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
I still remember it to this day, and my mom
came and visited me, and the teacher told my mom
that I was bad.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
And I wouldn't listen.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
It burnt out that I didn't know how to identify
what a blue crayon look like.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
But and but so I was always from day one.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
I remember, like other people, as soon as I left
the house, I was always in trouble. So I was
always not And then you know, I got thrown out
of three different schools.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
I don't have a ged I lost my homework.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
I wouldn't touch We didn't know that I had OCD
and I had a germophobia.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
I mean I knew it, but they didn't know it.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
So if my shoelace came undone, I didn't want to
touch my shoelace to retie it because it had been
all over the ground, so I would fall off, or
I would step in a mud puddle purposely so that
I didn't I wouldn't touch it, and i'd get in
trouble for rooting my shoes or i'd get my you know,
they'd be mad at me. They go, why didn't you
tie your shoes? And I go, I don't know how
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because I didn't want to say. I didn't want to
touch it because it's dirty. So they go, howie you
do know how.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
No, I don't know how. I don't know how, and
you know, I'd get myself into trouble.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
You know that is sorry, But that literally is a
living nightmare. And I think that.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
That being.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
First of all, undiagnosed for as long as you were,
and for the manifestations of your mental illnesses or your
OCD to start at such a young age, and for
people to not really be aware, that is a living nightmare.
I relate to some of that because I had similar
experiences where people just did not know how to react
to me, and therefore I always felt flawed, wrong and
(30:34):
bad because I could not keep up with my peers,
and it's nightmares. It's so difficult to figure yourself out.
And even now, still at the age of thirty five,
I have these moments where I'm like, holy shit, that's
why I did those things. And it wasn't because I
was a bad person or a bad kid or whatever.
(30:55):
It was truly because I was trying to circumnavigate in
the world and figure out a way to cope with
all of the things I was dealing with in my mind.
And I've had to forgive myself for a lot of that.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
I forget, no two people are the same.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
And if you be look to others to kind of emulate,
you know, and wanting, you know, wanting to be like
somebody the reason, you know, especially like somebody like Raven
in show business. You got you got to know that
your fans they want they want to be you, They
want to touch you, they want to know you, they
(31:33):
want to talk to you, they want to and and
I think that's just a kind of a on steroids
of how humanity is. We look to others to see what,
as we were talking about before, what they're wearing, how
they are. Because you, because you got, we always go
that's the right way to be, that's the way I feel,
and that gives you comfort in yourself. And whether it's
(31:56):
as exaggerated as having a mental health issue or are
not being to not being able to identify how you
really feel and feeling alienate it we all feel alienated,
and we we find coping skills, and sometimes those coping
skills are to become an introvert. Sometimes those coping skills
are just anger, outward anger and that kind of hides
(32:20):
your weaknesses inside.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Or it's drug use or you know, self.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Medicating or whatever but all of us just need to
be And I'm talking as an old person again, and
what I've learned late in life is to be open,
you know, about your foibles and your and your weaknesses
and your fears and who you are and why, and
then not only for yourself. Because the first time I
(32:47):
was open about being, you know, having a mental health
issue and somebody approached me in the street, there was
no better feeling. They go, oh, thank god you mentioned this.
I'm I have that too, and it and it really
made me feel good to And that's what the person
said to me. And they didn't realize that how good
they were making me feel by not being alone in
(33:07):
whatever I was treading in, you know, in my own
little misery. And what I realize is we need to
be open about and honest and authentic to ourselves and
who we are and our weaknesses and our strengths and
also respect different you know, we don't because we always
think this is the way it's supposed to be and
if it's not that way, fuck you, you know, and
(33:29):
that's not fun or it's not something to fear. And
that is what is happening in our world right now.
And that's the problem with our world is just disrespect.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
We need to respect.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
Everybody and kind of accept that. Don't accept that they're different.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
You know, you're different. No two people are alike.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
The world that we live in, though, doesn't set us
up for self reflection in a positive way. You know,
they're with industry, with marketing, and with money being made.
It's better to set a standard of nightmare, a living nightmare,
in your everyday life than it is in a dream state.
If everything worked perfectly, we wouldn't need medicine, we wouldn't
(34:10):
need to give you know, these people our money. And
I think that's one of the things that what you're
saying too that I agree with. You know, even if
I pick up a flower, my brain is going to
be like, yeah, but red is actually sold. A red
flower is actually sold during Valentine's Day, and a yellow
flower is actually sold during this day. So if I
pick up this blue one, no one's told me that
(34:32):
this is the right flower. And then I create this
narrative of myself and eventually I set up this scary
dynamic in life where then I have to go to
other people who have a quote unquote better life than
me and say, okay, this is how I need to be.
And that's sad and it's true how and there's people
like you, myself and Miranda who are like, no, you
can find your happiness inside of you. But we need
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more people saying that and showing that it's difficult.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Well, I think the thing that is that it hurts
us the most is thinking.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
I think thinking is overrated. I think that we do.
That's why they say ignorance is bliss. It really is.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Ignorance is when you say, I think these amazings, these
amazing beings that have an amazing instinct, you know. And
sometimes if you picked up that blue flower and you
liked it, you should just buy the blue flower and
take it. If you pick up that blue flower and
you start thinking, well, wait, if I have this blue flower,
(35:30):
maybe that's the wrong flower. Maybe somebody's going to look
at me a certain way. Maybe I should you know what,
So I just won't buy the flower. Now you overthought it, Yeah,
and you know, I think everything I've done in life,
when you say no, you probably say no because you
thought about it. Because everything comes your way. There's no
reason to not unless you think about it and find
(35:52):
the reason to not, you know.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
And and be who you are, love who you love.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
But that goes into that goes into what you were
saying about living in the now. Right If you're living
in the now, you can't think because you're just accepting
what it is right now. Like right now, I'm having
a good time with you too. Do you have good dreams, Howie?
Speaker 4 (36:12):
Yeah, at this point, I don't have. I don't know
that I'm aware of my dreams anymore. I wish I
did have, Like I don't have bad dreams. I don't
have good dreams. I don't I'm trying to just get
enough sleep.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
It's funny because my wife and I every single morning
were like, did you dream? And sometimes we say yes,
sometimes we say no, And we share dreams in the
morning and whether they're good, bad, anxiety driven or not.
But I love to be able to dream. I love
when my artistic self is heightened because of a dream
or even a day dream that SATs a reverie is
(36:45):
super amazing. But dreams all around you know, supposedly it's
the subconscious trying to speak to you. It's you regurgitating
something that you weren't able to say out loud in
public during the day helping you for your future. Dreams
are important, So howie, I really hope that you get
your dreams under control so you can have some more roll.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
I just feel like everything and dreaming is the is
the fluidity of thinking, you know, And I don't want
to think.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
I just want to be. I want to do.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
A nightmare for me is to think I can make
everything a nightmare.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Everything can be a nightmare, you know.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
If that's the word that you're working with right now,
there isn't anything that can't be a nightmare. If I
said get in your car and come over here to
meet me, that could be a statement where you can
go okay and not think about it and get in
your car and come over here and talk to me
in person instead of on zoom. The nightmare is, you know,
you have to get into a two ton piece of
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steel that lie at you know, sixty or seventy miles
an hour, surrounded by other two tons pieces of steel
that are either coming at you narrowly missing you. You're
not in control of the That can be just a
trip here can be a nightmare if you overthink it.
And that's sometimes these overthinking locks people up, and you
(38:10):
know it stops your life and doesn't make you productive.
If you I say come here and you go okay,
and you just show up, then I'm not dreaming. I'm
not scared.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
I just did it and I didn't all the things
that could happen.
Speaker 4 (38:23):
Like right now, you know you feel safe because you're
with somebody you love and you're just doing this. You
can also if you want to overthink it, you could
feel real unsafe in this moment. You can make yourself unsafe.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Yeah, that's because everything ends up at the end of
the day is perception, attitude, and energy. So it's like
anything can be flipped on its head. But did you
know that if you have at least seven to nine
hours of sleep at night, that is the most the
least amount of sleep you need to not have a nightmare?
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Why because you're in less arian.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
What do you mean the amount of nightmare or not?
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Yeah, the depth or the most intensity of your nightmare.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
So there's there's multiple kinds of sleep. There's light sleep,
there's deep sleep, and there's rim sleep. And rim sleep
is where you dream. Deep sleep is the kind of
sleep we want to be in on a regular basis
because that's help for most that's most RESTful. And then
light sleep is what you go through when you're you
just close your eyes and you you can still get
woken up by a whisper.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
It's the recommended amount of sleep is seven to nine
seven to nine hours to have the least intense nightmares.
So if you're somebody who's a nightmare prone, they would
recommend that you try and get at least seven to
nine hours because then it'll dissipate the intensity of your nightmare.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
But but if you have, for instance, because how you
are diagnosed with OCD, correct if you have an OCD
brain or you have a very anxiety driven brain, are
your nightmares slash the overthinking even deeper? Because it when
he's saying this to me, it's like, oh, did you
(40:03):
find a hack for your diagnosis. I'm not going to
believe my brain. I'm just going to live in the now.
And does rest help.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
You in that When it's time for me to go
to sleep, I don't say, you know, this is my
bedtime or I'm going to go because I need seven
hours and I got to be upset.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
I will not lie down unless I can't stand up anymore.
Speaker 4 (40:22):
So then I fall into a deep sleep because I've
totally exhausted.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
I need to be shot out.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
Yeah, I want I don't want quiet. I don't want
quiet time. I don't want to think. I don't want
my mind to be active.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
So if I do, if.
Speaker 5 (40:37):
I say yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
yes yes, and then pass out and then tomorrow yes yes, yes, yes,
yes yes, that's that's my schedule.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
It kind of helps us though, because the more you
say yes, the more Howie Mandel we get.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
And I were selfish, we're letting you just like treadmill
yourself into the ground. But I know and you know
what I mean. The fact, Yeah, Howie and I had
a conversation kind of about this because I was like,
I love that you're a yes man, and he was like, yeah,
benefited you. That's why I'm talking to you right now
because I said yes.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
And I was, but I love that you said yes
on so many levels. You said yes to Saint Elsewhere,
which was one of the shows that I used to
watch on Nicked Night all the time and like absolutely
loved and still wish that I watched it, but it's
not on YouTube right now. Anyway, You said yes to
so many iconic roles that in, including Bobby's World and
(41:28):
Grimlins that I'm just like Gizmo.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
That's wild. You did that, Howie.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
Fuck man dude, just childhood realness. But if he wasn't
like this, would we have gotten those moments?
Speaker 4 (41:39):
Well?
Speaker 3 (41:40):
Maybe maybe not. But I have a question, how does
your wife feel or your family members feel about your Yes,
run myself into the ground type energy.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
Mostly positive, but a little bit worrisome.
Speaker 4 (41:57):
You know, listen, my wife, this attitude has worked for
us and me. And the one time I was going
to say no was for deal or no deal, because
in two thousand and five it wasn't. My career was
not in a good place, and I was thinking of
just pivoting and doing other things. I have other things
(42:20):
that I'm interested in that are outside of show business,
and my entrepreneurial spirit is just as.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Strong as my creative spirit. So I said no. When
they said do you want to do a game show?
Speaker 4 (42:32):
I was leaving the career and they said do you
want to NBC would love you to do a game show, and.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
I said no, No.
Speaker 4 (42:39):
If I'm going to leave my career, I'm not going
to leave as a You know, when your currency is
irony as a stand up comic. You know, the game
show host at that time was kind of not frowned upon.
But it's like movie stars didn't do commercials, people for
comedians did not do did not do game shows. The
last commit game show before that that was Groucho Marx,
(43:02):
who did You Bet Your Life? You know who was
you know, a bona fide comedian. So I said no.
And then finally, you know, my wife said, you're an idiot,
just you're you're depressed, you're hanging around the house.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
You've got to take this.
Speaker 4 (43:16):
And I said yes to her, and I did it,
and I was totally embarrassed about doing it and flew
away when it was going to air to someplace in
the Caribbean that didn't have TVs, And as it turned out,
it was a positive and it turned around.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
You know.
Speaker 4 (43:32):
The next thing that happened is Jeff Foxworthy got hired
to do Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?
Speaker 1 (43:37):
And Bob Saggatt did Versus one hundred.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
And Megan Markle married a prince and yes.
Speaker 4 (43:43):
And Steve Harvey could say, you're welcome, Howie. But what
I'm saying is that you know, we've been married for
forty three years, and when people ask what makes it
work is that I'm not there a lot because I'm
saying yes to everybody else. And the beauty is, as
much as you love me, we don't spend a lot
(44:03):
of time together, and that's.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
What makes me more lovable. When you spend time with me, yeah,
I'm less lovable.
Speaker 3 (44:09):
And very quickly, I have to say I saw this
TikTok because, as we mentioned earlier, your social medias are
off the chain, but you had like all your platforms,
but there was one where I think your granddaughter was
trying to put a fake tattoo on your head and
you just had water dripping down your face from the
cotton that she used or the paper towel. Do you
(44:29):
remember this TikTok? And I just have to say that
that would be one of my biggest nightmares, just having
water just dribble down my face like that. It would
mess up I think it's called water boarding, you're correct,
And it would mess up my eyebrows and I would
need to spooly and it's just a mess.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
We have the next section of the show, Howie are
you ready for it? And then after the session will
let you go, but this section is really important. Also,
on the Best podcast ever, you will be playing a
game with us.
Speaker 3 (45:09):
And it's such a great little segue because he just
talked about game shows and how he's the host of
a game show and he really was the pioneer of
you know, famous people hosting game So let's land game.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
All right. And the fun thing about these games is
that you are going to be playing for a sealed
Are you ready for this ad? A prize black and
decker three position rechargeable screwdriver.
Speaker 3 (45:31):
Wow, you could win this, howie. And here's the I'm
going to tell you something that is sealed. It's fully sealed,
it's clean. Will sanitize it before it sent you if
you win the game. But here's the deal. My wife.
You may not know this about Raven. She likes to hoard.
She likes to accumulate. Okay, okay, a gentle horde, a
(45:54):
touch of the hord. She likes to accumulate. She likes
to double order. So every gift that you may ever
receive from us will probably be a regift. And this,
in fact, was something that Raven purchased that she never opened,
that we do not need. That is actually in you
winning this game, Howe. You're helping me clear clutter out
(46:15):
of my house, and I thank you. So win the game.
Speaker 1 (46:17):
That's a win win.
Speaker 2 (46:19):
Yeah, exactly, it's a win win.
Speaker 3 (46:21):
It's a win win. Okay, you ready to play the game?
How game?
Speaker 1 (46:24):
I am all right, So.
Speaker 3 (46:25):
I'm gonna break hold on.
Speaker 2 (46:26):
I gotta get the iPad.
Speaker 3 (46:27):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
So what we're gonna do, Howie, is we're gonna read
you some nightmares and you have to decide if it's
my nightmare or if it's Raven's nightmare. And these are real,
and you have to guess which of us is haunted
by these scenarios.
Speaker 3 (46:41):
These are real?
Speaker 1 (46:41):
Okay, go ahead, go ahead, babes.
Speaker 2 (46:44):
Cool. So the first one's gonna pop up on my
pad real soon.
Speaker 3 (46:47):
And is this Miranda or is this Raven nightmare?
Speaker 2 (46:51):
I'm stuck in a greenhouse. It's a mess and overgrown.
Sitting in the middle on a bench is an old
man and a little boy. They look like broken puppets.
There's also a bar. It's beautiful, and the bartender is
Brad Pitt. He is making a drink and I walk
over to him, only to realize Oprah is behind him
with a camera crew and she is filming a documentary.
Whose nightmare is it Miranda's or Raven's.
Speaker 4 (47:14):
First of all, I don't understand that would be a
nightmare except for the broken puppet bar with Brad Pitt. No, bra,
it's not whoa that's so scary in a greenhouse?
Speaker 2 (47:25):
In a greenhouse?
Speaker 1 (47:30):
Is it? Is it you? Miranda?
Speaker 3 (47:33):
False? Ah, here's the thing. This is what I wanted
to say. You have to think the context clues are.
If it's a nightmare and you think Raven's career Oprah
that you know, like their interactions together, Raven had some
interesting interviews with Oprah, then it might be more toy
why that was a nightmare for her?
Speaker 2 (47:53):
Okay, one down, let's okay, we got to get put
him this thing. Next nightmare is coming up, Next night
is on its way.
Speaker 3 (48:01):
Yep, we're waiting for it. Okay. This nightmare starts with
a yellow landline phone starts ringing, So maybe we're helping,
like interdimensional thing going. I pick it up and a
voice tells me my parents are dead and to come
to this address or my sister will be killed. I
show up and am taken into a room where I'm
told not to be sad. The people I thought were
(48:22):
actually my parents aren't, and I'm going to meet my
real father. The door opens and Donald Trump walks in.
I see my reflection and realize I have his exact
head of hair. Whose nightmare is that mine? Or ravens.
Speaker 1 (48:44):
Raven?
Speaker 2 (48:45):
Oh, sorry, Howie, that's Miranda.
Speaker 3 (48:50):
That was my nightmare.
Speaker 2 (48:51):
That's hardcore. You might be wondering why. I think it's
because of the head of hair.
Speaker 3 (48:55):
It's one hundred percent of the head of hair. I
have such a thing about hair, and like losing hair
and then having his hair. It's a lot like I
have it. Sometimes we have one.
Speaker 1 (49:05):
That was the reason I chose Raven.
Speaker 4 (49:06):
Raven's been doing a lot of things with their hair lately,
so I just thought, you know, she might be thinking
about hair and how things turn out and how they
might look.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
That was why I went to you, Raven.
Speaker 2 (49:15):
I appreciate it, sir, I appreciate that. We'll figure that
one out. We'll still give you the screwdriver if you
get this one. Okay, we have one last one. We'll
have one last one.
Speaker 4 (49:26):
To be honest with you, if I have a hammer,
I would hammer in the morning.
Speaker 1 (49:31):
I would hammer in the evening.
Speaker 2 (49:34):
You want to hammer?
Speaker 3 (49:36):
Would you hammer it supper time?
Speaker 1 (49:38):
Is that part of the song?
Speaker 3 (49:39):
Yeah, hammering in the evening. I can hammer, hammer.
Speaker 2 (49:43):
In the morning and in the afternoon, A hammer in
the evening and under Are you all on that anyway?
Speaker 3 (49:48):
I was seeing the Bagel Bites theme song with hammer anyway?
Speaker 5 (49:52):
Love it?
Speaker 2 (49:52):
Last one, Howie, Last one? I'm in a concrete box.
It's quickly filling up with sand. I'm stuck. Window appears,
but I can't do anything but look out of it.
I guess I die, Miranda, or.
Speaker 4 (50:09):
Or that could be anybody that that sounds like one
we all have being buried alive. I'm gonna go with
you again, raven O. How exciting is that you were
the one that's afraid of being buried alive?
Speaker 2 (50:30):
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 3 (50:31):
I'm so happy because you won this. How you won
this beautiful black and decker. But he said that he
wanted to hammer. Would you like us to buy you
a hammer instead?
Speaker 4 (50:41):
I do need to know I don't I don't build anything.
I've never built. I don't build anything.
Speaker 2 (50:46):
I'm gonna have multiple screwdrivers.
Speaker 1 (50:48):
I shouldn't say that.
Speaker 2 (50:49):
That's probably I'm cutting that out.
Speaker 3 (50:51):
We are going to Well, we could mail this or
we could field trip it to him, and we could
take a tour of the valley since you love all
the porn so much, and you could look.
Speaker 4 (50:59):
At try to identify the exteriors from your favorite porn.
Speaker 2 (51:03):
Done and done. Howie Mandel has been here and graced
us with his amazingness here on the best podcast ever.
We will mail it to you, no worries, Howie. Can
I just wait? Just on the side note, Howie and
I do a show called Funny. You should ask you
doing that anytime soon.
Speaker 4 (51:21):
I don't know with my next I am doing. I
think I'm scheduled for one one more run. I think
in June sometimes.
Speaker 2 (51:28):
Okay, cool, I'm going to try to get on one
with you again, just so I can see you work together.
Speaker 3 (51:34):
Yeah, you can say, Howie, what else do you have
going on these days? Anything that we saw.
Speaker 1 (51:38):
Our podcast, Howie Mandel?
Speaker 3 (51:39):
Does we love?
Speaker 2 (51:40):
Which we love? I was on a g T.
Speaker 1 (51:42):
Season eighteen just started.
Speaker 2 (51:44):
Jesus Christ, you guys are almost as many seasons as
US Simpsons eighteen seasons.
Speaker 4 (51:51):
Eighteen season just started, and it's off to a rocket start.
It's doing really good and I just finished someone, but
there's going to be another.
Speaker 3 (52:00):
But we saw somebody land a helicopter on their taint,
their their Taintalaria, that was for.
Speaker 1 (52:07):
You, not for the taint of heart, not at all, for.
Speaker 2 (52:11):
The taint of heart.
Speaker 3 (52:12):
That's that's some talent. That's only only talent like that
in America.
Speaker 2 (52:16):
Are you really enjoying.
Speaker 1 (52:17):
You imagine if there was a prolapse, would have been.
Speaker 3 (52:20):
A bumpy landing, would have been a rough rack.
Speaker 2 (52:24):
Are you still enjoying that show?
Speaker 1 (52:27):
Yeah? I really am.
Speaker 4 (52:28):
I mean, you never know what you're gonna see. You
don't know who that guy that was landing the helicopter
flew as. As Simon pointed out, he flew all the
way from Japan just to do that one.
Speaker 2 (52:41):
And went home because he did not get the exes.
I mean he did not get the checks at all.
Speaker 1 (52:46):
But for me, he did. I loved it.
Speaker 3 (52:50):
Evation.
Speaker 2 (52:51):
Do you have any fantastic guests coming up on your
podcast that you like? Say, if this show comes out
in a month, is there anybody that anyone cool coming
up on the podcast?
Speaker 4 (52:59):
Fantast guest Howiemandel dot com Go and find out Howie
Mandel does stuff there's gonna be a lot of fantastic guests.
Speaker 3 (53:06):
Thank you. I needed that sentence.
Speaker 2 (53:08):
And tell your tell your daughter we said hello, we
love her.
Speaker 1 (53:12):
Well.
Speaker 3 (53:12):
Yeah, you guys are awesome. This is great. Last question,
Last question.
Speaker 2 (53:16):
Do you have a middle name?
Speaker 1 (53:18):
Michael?
Speaker 2 (53:19):
Howie Michael Mandel. Nice to meet you, sir.
Speaker 3 (53:21):
Come back soon, Howie Michael Mandel.
Speaker 2 (53:23):
And we'll talk to you, sir.
Speaker 1 (53:24):
I will call me back.
Speaker 3 (53:25):
I'll be there by Bye, babes.
Speaker 2 (53:29):
What a show, What a show. It wasn't a nightmare
for me. I was a little scared because, you know,
with how we he is so vocal and he is
very open about what he talks about. And I feel
like I got some new information from him. I do too, actually,
you know, and I feel like knowing the difference between
no and yes, understanding that no gets you nowhere. I
(53:52):
think that's wonderful advice for anyone.
Speaker 3 (53:55):
I totally agree. Howie is a really cool guy. He
always has some thing interesting to say, interesting perspective. I
have to burp. There we go.
Speaker 2 (54:04):
Huh oh, good job, it's I burp too.
Speaker 3 (54:07):
Yeah. Maybe how it brings brings it out. We're channeling
something or someone. But anyway, Yeah, no, I think Howie
is fantastic, and I always am so intrigued in talking
to him and listening to him, and it wasn't so nightmarish.
Speaker 2 (54:19):
It wasn't so nightmarish. And you know, you can prevent
us from having any more nightmares by subscribing and liking
and doing everything that helps us, do you know what
I mean, like, help us come back to you. We'll
be back next week on the Best Podcast Ever with
Raven and Miranda.
Speaker 3 (54:36):
Bye guys.
Speaker 2 (54:42):
The Best Podcast Ever is an iHeart podcast produced and
hosted by Raven Simone and Miranda.
Speaker 3 (54:48):
Executive producers junsan Karp and Amy Siggerman, produced and edited
by Jordan.
Speaker 2 (54:52):
Katz, who also does our music. Executive in charge of production,
Danielle Romo producer Hannah Winkleman.
Speaker 3 (55:00):
Theme song by Penny Siegel and Jordan Keech.
Speaker 2 (55:03):
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send your emails to the Bestpodever at gmail dot com.
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