October 11, 2021 • 38 mins
This week, our Host Ari ran off to join the cast of “Saturday Night Live,” and left Producer Andy in charge to put together a best-of episode. Please enjoy our interviews with special guest contributors Rick Glassman (The “Take Your Shoes Off” Podcast), Gina Grad (“The Adam Carolla Show”) and Miles Gray (“The Daily Zeitgeist”).
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
This is This is americans Live. I'm producer Andy, filling
in for our host Ari, who is busy on Saturday
Night Live. Yes, you heard that right. He's joined the
cast of Saturday Night Live and I'm totally fine with that. Anyway,
he's left me in charge. This week's episode is gonna
be a little bit different. I think we can all
agree that the best part of This Is American's Live
is me, producer Andy and my ability to sift through
(00:28):
the archives and find footage from the lives of our
guest contributors during the interviews. Well, this week, we're going
to replay three of my favorite interviews from this season
so far. Rick Glassman, Gina grad and Miles Gray. Ike
coincidentally just married one of those guests, and I'll leave
it up to you to guess which one. All right,
let's get into the first interview. Mr Rick Glassman, enjoy
Now you special guests contribute to Pretty Lassman, Eric welcome,
(00:51):
Mischell Welcome. Hi guys, thank you so much for having me,
Thank you for being here. Yeah, this is great, and
congratulations on the studio the set up in the podcast.
I'm really excited for you guys. Over twenty years thank you.
How long have you been listening to the show. I
haven't heard the show before. Um, you sent it to
me a couple of weeks ago, and since then I've
listened to all of them. Election, I didn't send it.
That would be your producers, producer. I'm sorry. UM. If
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this was an improv scene, I would have said, you're
negating me. What do you mean? What do you mean
just correcting me on who sent me the episode? Just
giving you reality? That's what happened. Are you creating a scene? No? No, no,
I'm a little confused because if I'm supposed to be
myself but you have the silly ass voice, it makes me,
It makes me want to like play. But I don't
know if I'm supposed to be authentic because I can
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show you the real Rick, but we would love to
see the real Rick. And you know this is just
the way that I talk. So all right, well, UM,
can we start this part over? You know you don't
have to do it over. So I'm used to actually
being in the host chair and asking the questions and
driving it. So I'd like to sit back and relax
and just watch you guys go and and please bring
me in whatever you want and ask me any questions
(01:55):
if you may have any What are you from Cleveland, Ohio? Oh? Nice? Um?
Is there anything that you missed about I know that
you don't have here in Los Angeles? Could I ask
you an honest question? Is this something that you ask
all your guests? Stuff like what do they miss about
their hometown? I think the first time. Yeah, this is
the first time. He's Actually it's kind of and I'm
going to make myself out to be a bad guy.
It's kind of a surface who care? I mean, yeah,
(02:15):
I miss family, a couple of restaurants, but nothing's gonna
come of that. What is a restaurant that you miss?
I miss walk with Wing? Can you tell us a
little bit about it? It was a Chinese food restaurant. Um,
could you say restaurant on this? Yeah? I think I
think it's nine. It was a Chinese food restaurant that
my grandma shout out to hashtag Grandma Glory Glassman. She
bought me a fifty dollar gifts certificate. For the holidays.
(02:37):
We celebrated Christmas and Hanaker around the same time. So
I say Christmas, but I don't know. End of December
and I went to use it the first week of
January and they closed down. And uh, my grandma spent
fifty dollars on the gift certificate and it closed down.
So I wonder what that Dave was like for you.
I think we have it in the archives. Thanks so
much for this gift kind money. Oh wow, I'm gonna
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buy General Shouse chicken, chicken all mean rice, sexual on
green beans, and some vegetarian pet stickers and the first
week of January. You're very clear and the kind of
items you wanted to get with that. Yeah, I am
somebody who tends to get the same things wherever I go. Say,
I watched the same movies, I eat the same meals,
and I rotate every few weeks. But I get I'm
(03:27):
pretty compulsive with that kind of stuff. What are you
currently eating today this week? Well, I'm working on a
show at the moment where there's catering, so there's different
food all the time. Do you have it in your
writer to have very specific things? And I had. I
have a lot of things I would want to put
in my writer if I ever get to the point
of being able to ask that, but I'm not. I
don't have that kind of leverage. I would want to
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say that if there's any wardrobe that I put on
in my character that I like I could keep, I
would want to get them to tailor my actual clothes.
And I would want to certain food things. I would
want certain food things every day, like like like kind
of kids. I would love to have just gluten free
vegetarian stuff that's like high quality that's not processed. Are
you allergic to gluten? Actually funny that you ask I have?
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Is it funny or is it just really interesting? It's funny, Celia,
that's just interesting. What happened is I have a lot
of joint issues and I had some different surgeries for
these problems. And my girlfriend, who she's real. You don't
ask questions. I have a girlfriend, what's your name? Betty?
And she told me that gluten could be a a
inflammatory food and I got off gluten and so much
(04:34):
of those pains just went away. Let's call your go friend, Betty. Well,
the phone didn't work before, remember when I tried to
play piano, so it probably won't work. Hi, Hi, Betty?
We are you are your boyfriend? Right? Oh? Hey, yeah,
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so she's real. You can hang up? So anyway, she
told me that uh, gluten could make me inflamed, and
I got off at my shoulder in particular, feels so
much better. Yeah, you know you had a podcast or
something you you do like something? Yeah, I have a podcast.
It's called take your Shoes Off. Your Shoes Off. Yeah.
It kind of plays into that obsessive, compulsive mentality that
I was telling you about that about with my food,
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because you can instantly do the same thing over and
over again. Well, just this this need for things to
be an order and control a certain way. Take your
shoes off. I find it's kind of like the gateway
into it. Everyone understands a guy who wants them to
take their shoes off. But that's just the first on
the list of many. Do you feel like maybe you
tearing up that quality a little bit for the show
or do you feel like that, Yeah, I real representation
(05:37):
of who you. I realized I play into it. Sometimes.
It's not never trying to trick like I want people
to I don't want anybody eating over my rugs. I
want them to have a tray. Sometimes I could be
a little bit more aggressive about over the tray. Can
you take us back to one of those nights Ricky's
great aunt talk. You know, you never the tray. I
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don't want that. I don't okay, just eat it over
the tray. See like that kind of stuff. I would
probably end up saying something like, hey, man, if you're
cann eat the hot dog, it's got to be on
a tray. You have very specific chases for your hot dogs,
you know. I'd like to give a shout out to
Woodworking Pelican. That's Woodworking Pelican. He is a woodman from
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Utah and he made me some handmade, beautiful wooden trays. Yeah,
he's actually helping me, uh with some other wood projects
I have, if you know what I mean. Let's just
say some stuff I might use in my house that
I was definitely sextual, not at all. That's Woodworking Pelican.
You could check that out an Instagram. I am dB
(06:39):
Utah Woodworking Hellican. And also, while I'm here, like to
give a shout out to my father's a local area
rush store, Marshall Rugg Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio. We're thirty
years where family baby. And if you want synthetic or
if you want wool, if you want hand stitched, hand back,
hand nodded, if you want hand tufted, there's a lot
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of places you can go to find a rug There's
only so many places you could get one in his family.
That's Marshall. So sorry. Did you purchase add time? No?
I think he used kind of shue learning it. Um.
I believe the rug store belongs to his dad. And
then I guess the good working goal is somebody he's
that he actually really likes. Did he signed any sort
of contract with us company getting something any sort of
(07:22):
cut over his Marshal red Gallery a place. Well, it's
it's a real Northeast Ohio rug store, but it's also
now a it's also a character in the show of
Los Angeles comedian podcast That's so heavy? Does it belong
to your father? Yes, it's interesting you said that. I
remember you told me that you were worried that I
was going to be shoehorning it in. It actually reminds
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me of my entrepreneur grandmother, who's a shoehoreening it in.
I'm Rick Lassman with Marshall rug Gallery of not having floors.
Get news for you? Do you have good news? Already?
Have good news and bad news? I have good news
and good news, said then bad news after those two
pieces of good news, all right, sounds like you've got
(08:04):
a lot more to tell me. Now. The piece of
good news is we've got the floors you need, all right.
Checking piece of good news is these floors is sold
for a Marshal floorg lo reie. But tell you the
bad news, yeah, baby, listening, We're not Marshal flourgal. You guys,
(08:37):
can I tell you something that is fleeting that might
that might be uh, you know, it's not about skill,
It's just the truth. How much I respect and appreciate
what you boys do week after week? Do you find
it difficult to just fabricate these stories from thin air?
To have such concise, hard hitting, repeated material to the
point to where your improv skills have gotten you to
(08:57):
the point of what what's next? Because having a podcast
on I Heart Radio is and I'm not being sarcastic,
look at the big boys, workaholics, guys, look at the
nicky glazers. It's the top of the top, you guys
are there is there a level above this? Now? Is
podcasting the biggest platform for improv? Now? Honestly, do we
want to think? I guess Rick's just really cool what
(09:19):
you guys were able to do. Thank you so much
for being our guests, uh, contributor for this episode. Coming up,
our interview with Gina grad But first, a word from
our sponsors who make this high quality show possible. Stay
with us. Welcome back to This Is Americans Live. I'm
producer Andy filling in for our host Ari, who was
(09:41):
away working on something far more important. I'm playing some
of my favorite guest contributor interviews that we've had during
this first season of this incredible, groundbreaking show. Up next
to lovely Gina grad enjoy Um, welcome, Hi, thank you
for having me, Thank you for being here. So, Gina,
tell us a little bit about yourself. I'm a broadcaster
(10:02):
here in Los Angeles. I work um with the kf I,
which is a very sort of famous AM radio station here.
I work on the Adam Corolla Show, another very famous podcast.
Been there for uh gosh, about six years, and um yeah,
I do a lot of voice over work and a
lot of fun. Can you tell us about the first
time that you ever did radio? Yes, well, the first
(10:24):
time literally I ever did radio. I used to go
on with my dad when I lived in Kansas and
would give the farm report UM on a local radio
station telling the farmers to bring in their tender vegetation
at night. After this interview, I decided to go back
and look up the archive of footage a M four forty. Please,
(10:44):
before we get to the news of the traffic, of
the weather, and the celebrity gospel, let's check in with
the new the newbie, our farm report farm reporter Genus
spant Okay, cold, we got twenty four minutes to fill.
So what else? Yeah, that's the fust on the class rostble,
(11:05):
what rostle? What so? Gina, when you heard your voice
for the first time, did you have any issues with
how you sounded? Yeah? Doesn't everybody you know? You have that,
like you feel like you're more high pitched and you're
talking faster. In fact, when I started in radio in
Los Angeles, UM, almost twenty years ago, I sound very
different than I do now. I have somehow more more
(11:27):
base in my voice, and I'm so grateful for it.
Did you ever take classes? I took voice over classes
for you know, commercial and things like that, but not
to actually, you know, not like in a my fair
lady way. Now. So I went to go visit her
voice over teacher just to kind of get an idea
as to how she was as a student. Yes, she
was very good student. Reminded me of a young me
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before of her region. Why have you heard from her?
Have I heard from her? Yeah? She's on our radio show. Yeah,
she's also very successful radio personality. I don't know if
you've heard. I have not heard. I heard that. You also,
you got married? You found somebody else in that voice
box community. I did. I found a beautiful woman who
also has boys like Hello, I love you, I love you,
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I love you, I love you more, I love you more.
I love you boy. Did you guys have any children?
We had board children, mounting baby boys, do bouncing baby girls? Um, Charles,
I meet any of them, Glad, Steve, they can I
meet them in person? Daddie, daddie, you may have some
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kid and I too. Have you have already had pis?
You have already had our pieces. I'm going to break
my toys. If you don't give me, can you will
all be be polishing yourself because you will be breaking
your old toys. Why would you threaten to be with
breaking your old toys? Go to your room. I hate
the family. I hate that family. Did you even know
(12:58):
that that's what happened to your voice. I had no idea. No,
she always had this really sort of rich voice. Um.
Um so uh sorry, my producer Andy's laughing. Is there
something money? No? No, I'm looking at this meme that
has a tiger addressed as a a cat. I've seen
that one before. So you originally from I'm here, Gina, Like, No,
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I'm from Kansas City. I was born in Oregon, but
I'm from Kansas City. How come you guys moved around
so much? My dad, it was a broadcaster, and you know,
we just moved from market to market, just like you know,
like an army brad almost so it was your dad
like a morning shock jot, no sports announcer. So did
you know any morning shot shot shots? I'm sorry, what
(13:42):
did you know any morning jo Did you know any
morning shot jot shoo shock jocks? Sorry? I did, Um,
there was a couple of kids. I don't know if
maybe if he made it his way out here at
Johnny Dare was a big man cow we had syndicated. Um,
I've met a lot of morning shock jocks and uh yeah,
(14:03):
I kind of fell in love with radio and in
that in that vein um, who is your favorite shock jock?
Shock shock jock? It has to be the king of
all media. If everybody says Howard Stern, you gotta say
Howard Stern. Right. Well, when I say shock jock, I
was thinking more like a shock jock, like a French jacque.
Oh shock jock. Yeah, I see what you're saying. Yes, yeah,
(14:24):
I do have a favorite shock jock. In fact, I
was in the voiceover class with a Frenchman, a dashing Frenchman,
and he wanted to get rid of his French accent
and and have more of an American accent. He thought
he was better at it than he was, but it
was always really fun to listen to him try and
have that American accent. What is it, gentle man, how
(14:45):
do you say it's time to kids? It tires and
lights the fires on the big one hundred thousand wat
Monstar'll say, let's do it. Thank you so much for
bringing that tape in. Absolutely is my pleasure. I've never
heard that before. I mean, it's just how do you
(15:06):
say sixty four degrees and forty five degrees? Za? How
do you say mountains list? Taxi for life? So the
second tape is from the next day. Yeah, I tried
to get as much audio as I could. How do
you say is six fifty four am money? And this
(15:27):
is how do you say? You know? It was really
weird though, because I didn't realize there were so many
differences culturally between Americans and French people. So he would
do like open phones, even though I don't think he
really knew what open phones meant. I don't even know what. Okay,
So open phones is just like, you know, call about anything,
and people would call about things that I guess I
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don't know, Like they'd say things like you know, I'm
a day late in a dollar short, or you know.
They'd use these colloquialisms, and he didn't understand them, but
he had to pretend he did. It was some of
my favorite audio and did late for what. I don't
know what. Color me pink. I just don't even know
what I'm thinking anymore. Color me pink. Request lines are
not yet open, and I believe you mean what's bad.
(16:11):
Let's let's think about blue sky ideas. Yeah, how do
you say what? I can tell you the weather. I
can tell you this. I can tell you the weather
and see, how do you say traffic. Ll me more
about did you, um, did you ever have any issues
with any other um, because I imagine maybe starting out
(16:32):
in radio as a as a female, you may have
had some um run ins with some let's say men
that were not so nice. Yeah, competitive maybe competitive, absolutely,
you know high school, you know, it doesn't even feel
like high school. A lot of radio stations, especially you
know old you know, sort of jock talk stations, feel
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like it felt like middle school. And you might as
well have a locker there instead of your work coppy
because everybody's at each other's throats. A lot of you know,
light misogyny, um, a lot of dusting of sexual harassment,
but you kind of deal with it because you know
that's the business. Would sub's, Hey, good to see you.
(17:15):
I gotta change my pencil quick. Sorry are you so?
What time do you guys? Get off? I can't remember
right now? You got it here or get off? I'll
see the morning starts to six am, and then we're well, well,
when are we adding here? I don't know, It depends
on what time she'sy because we're so in her area.
(17:38):
That's I mean, I get it, that's funny, but you're
joking right, because that otherwise I'd be an hr issue.
And you guys make this real hard on me. I
gotta tell you, we're gonna make any harder on you
later after we follow you. So you had some issues
with kind of this men, that we're being a little
inappropriate in a lot of different ways. Yeah, and you
kind of want to, you know, you don't want to
(17:59):
be a whiner, but you also want to you know,
set some boundaries. So it's it's a delicate dance. Do
you have any plans for your future and radio? Where
do you want to What do you want to do
in the next five years? Oh, that's a great question. Um, well,
you know, I love what I'm doing now and I'd
love to continue doing it. I love working with great hosts,
and uh, I would love to work with another female
(18:20):
co host because you know, I have another show right
now where I work with female and it's a lot
of fun just to not have to do like the
you know, like the gender cliche stuff. So I think
I think I'd like to continue working with more female
co host in the future and do something a little
more you know, maybe relationship based sort of you know,
feelings based, more of a like sort of a love
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line for women, you know, kind of an Oprah vibe
without sound like Welcome Back to Lovers and Love starring
Gina Grad and me. Tricia Thompson, Thank you next, Color,
You've got a little bit of a problem. Yeah, So,
like my boyfriend is, he's just not really it's not.
(19:03):
I feel like he doesn't respond to my text When
I texted him okay, he takes a really long time,
and I just feel like he's seeing somebody else's I
think I think he's teating Color Color. Can I just
say that this is not about you? Um, you know,
I think you're doing everything right. I think that, and
I think Tricia would agree that. You know, when when
you get a text, you expect to prompt response. And
(19:24):
I don't want to be the hardass here, but um,
I think he is cheating on you because I was
looking through his text and I know there's some naked photos,
but he says that there is, sister. Oh boy, it's
still problematic. Yeah, I don't know which one's worse. Why
does I mean, why would he have the naked pictures
of his European Have you ever been to Europe? I
(19:49):
don't really do that listen, Tricia, I just have one question. Listen.
Have you seen this meme with the tiger that's just
like a four kilsbo to catch off another? Not stop
block blocks and stock docks and stop talking and boom
(20:10):
music with us there that pay shout out to a
She Gris actually sued this radio station for sexual harassment.
That's right. She in my former co host settle out
of cards all the conditions that he no longer returned
to the air waves and hurt anyone else a motionally.
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But that's okay. I don't need him never, Tad. Let's
hit the phone lines calling around the air in the
cruel there is no more to the ground. Yeah that's true.
Then there's unfortunate because she is so hot, so hot.
Oh how I watch Ruth. You're gonna get me kicked
off the air. So hot? Please stop, I want to
do things to her. Please stop talking. I will now
(20:55):
lift all of them, the Nancy things I would like
to new their in alpha medical God, please don't drop
the phone line. Let's call. You're on the air till
I never left that I knowed. Then do until I
hear the to grand suite succulent voice. Come on, Coming
up our interview with Miles Gray. But first a word
(21:17):
from our sponsors. Stay with us, Welcome back to This
Is Americans Live. I'm producer Andy filling in for our
host Ari, who has joined the cast of Saturday Night Live,
and I'm definitely not jealous at all. He will be back,
(21:38):
but this week he left it up to me to
re air some of our favorite interviews from our guest contributors.
Up next, Miles Gray, bone eppetite. Miles Gray, thank you
so much for I mean to U show. How long
have you been a listener? Uh? I've since June came out.
We've been around went much longer than that. Oh, I'm sorry.
(21:59):
I then I'm I just I gotta get nervous and
I don't like them to disappoint people. So I just
sort of said a date, What do you when? Do
you think he was when you first studied? We probably
studied when you were a little boy. Uh yeah, yeah,
I would say whatever. The longest time is someone can listen, right, Yeah,
it's great. So so when you were a child, you'd
(22:19):
gather around the radio and listen to this show. That's
what you're trying to tell me. I'm pretty sure. I
learned how to speak English because of this show because
in me Yeah, and a really weird accent growing up,
because I modeled my voice after you. You know, we
actually have in the archives that very first episode from
way back then when you were listen. I would absolutely
(22:41):
love to hear it. Yeah, we have it. Pushing the
button now. Okay, Happy birthday, Miles. Thank you so much
for having me. Um. Do you want to open your
preside Miles, I'd love to, and just to engage in
the feeling of paper crumbling enter my fingers as a
way to celebrate consume our culture. Elish is sounding really good?
(23:02):
Have you been listening to a lot of this is
Americans Live? Because that's the only place where I've heard
such good English, because your English used to be terrible,
but very bad. I'm aware of anything, and thank you
for for adopting me. I've been. It's of course, it
was our pleasure getting me a complex about how I
was speaking English. He saidy to go back to deeper
(23:23):
Okays by doing Myles was listening to the show? Was
the English sounded like back then? Pless? Play high, Miles,
We're your new parents. Whoa shout out to you? My
parents school. Thank you for having me here. That's tough stuff. Um,
this is actually a pretty cool voice where I'm from oriagonably,
(23:45):
so I don't want to have I don't want to
feel like I'm being rejected. It's purely on sonic reasons.
I gotta do something good to say everybody. One to three.
Fuck that's my catch phrase. I learned in English on
my way here. It seems like my ast you learned
English from all kinds of radio show hosts. Who is
(24:06):
the one that you're learning English from? Prior to me,
that was this Dutch DJ from Rotterdam. What was his name?
Just I think Abjorned. Yeah, we have his old air checks,
playing some of his old air checks. That's okay with you? Yeah, sure,
go ahead, thank you, pay you one one two Dutch
Radio Rotterdam. It is your man Jord on the radio.
(24:28):
We're going to be playing some of the sickest d
M jams. After this, we have stuff from afro Jack
and armand van Buren coming your way. But the first
let's check in with giggle part bully. Here we go
one two three, who's the English did you learn? After
(24:48):
you learn from him? And then from Mecau is now
you don't talk like me? Yeah, I it's it's sort
of a hybrid of Fresh Prince of bel Air and
the Sopranos of the next two things. Is that really
shaped how I spoke? You know they actually, um, I
don't know if you guys know this, but they know
tell me produce your name. But there was a pilot
for a Fresh Prince Sopranos hybrid show. Did you know that?
(25:11):
Did you ever see it? Let's hear that about cool?
You should go overhead? You talking about Phil? I'm not
younger Phil, I'm your uncle jee. What the funk? Uncle June?
Why doesn't my dad want me? I like the premise
of it. That started the networks nets way don't do
TV show. Let's watch like look at me? You fuck
(25:33):
a fresh pressure better overhead? We got the trigger guy overhead,
dish fucking Google. He tugged a couple of couple of shows.
He's gotta got a gobbles roach. What you gotta shake
about that? Uncle Phil? Why can't we just get our
own funny? Legally? We gotta rob garbage shrug? He's got
the point? Don't you know that? That was a very
popular TV show when for many seasons. I decided I
(25:55):
wanted to play a segment from the very final episode
of The Fresh Prince of Montclaire of Montclair. Now, oh man,
I'm gonna miss this place? Which miss you? Do? Mind?
Uncle June? Can I get a second by myself? What
I'm getting sentimental? Okay? There was a clip from the
(26:18):
faint episode, and I said, what if there's anything else?
And then I put up the reunion It's this clip
is really good. What can I say you? I missed you, guys.
I tell you guys, but a lot of times she
tell you guys should be. I missed you too. Man.
You know, I'm real sorry that I replaced you, you know,
(26:38):
half way through the first season. You know I didn't.
I shouldn't have done that, replace you with a lighter
skinned Uncle June. And I have a lot of regrets.
But I hope we can. I hope we can. You know,
just just build some bridges if they get back to
where we used to be. You know what, forget about it.
Don't tell me about you up bringing you said you will.
We had a little bit of a conversation prior to recording,
(27:02):
and you tell me that you're from Los Angeles, Yeah,
can you tell me a little bit more about that. Yeah,
I grew up in the San Fernando Valley, which is
like the New Jersey of l A the way people
talk about it. So yeah, I just grew up in
l A my whole life, and I've never left with
the squad here. I didn't have many I didn't I
didn't branch out too much, but you know, I had
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jobs that would take me further afield. But for the
most part, yeah, I just uh, I grew up like
every kid does out here, just on the you know,
on the hot streets. And you have a great podcast,
you have two of them. You have the Daily at Guys. Sure, yeah,
and then you also have Force and tell us a
about that. I mean, if it's it's it's what it
sounds like. It's ninety day fiance and weed, weed cultured.
(27:47):
I'm high talking about it with Sophia Alexandra, another fairly
funny comedian, and yeah, we just talked from our perspective,
as you know, immigrant kids who like trash reality shows.
Do you specific type of strain when it comes to
the type of weed? Yeah, I smoke Indica's mostly Sativa's.
Are they they give me Jodie Foster panic room. Yeah,
sometimes what happened to Teva's? Yeah, that's tivas. I don't
(28:10):
know what it is. I don't know. They just get
they get you two hyped up. Sometimes back in the day,
Sativa's were just fine Sensitiva's get really oh yeah, life,
you know, I think maybe it's life more to think about.
It's probably right. Yeah, most I would be thinking about, like,
oh are they going to catch me stealing another scale
from the science lab? Growing up, I was like, you know,
a little want to be drug dealer type kid growing up,
(28:32):
So I you know, always was had O G. Cush.
That was like the best weed you could always be selling,
and so I always I have a deep love and
connection with O. G. Cush used it so fake acid
just doing that out there, Wow, that's that's that's a
lot of confidence. We actually have him, uh selling fake
acid in our archives. Do you want to do some
of that? We do? This is bag in middle school,
(28:54):
by the way. What's going on? What what do you want?
Do you want some acid? Yeah? I definitely want some athlete.
If I said you some acid, who you hang out
with me? Yeah? There's some little triangles that cut out
a little paper squares and they spread it with raid.
I call it white tornado. Do you have any without raid?
The rate is an acronym for this take it? Okay,
(29:16):
thank you. I'm not really into as into acid culture
as you are. All right, Ari, Ari Ari? What are
you doing? I heard that you're selling kids drugs right now?
I'm selling acid or acid is an acronym for athletic.
In a minute, you're better or something quick brest athletic
cats in diapers exactly? Okay, well, alright, cats and diapers.
(29:44):
You know there's semester. Your grades are do? I really
want you to focus on your grades and maybe a
little lesser turn Turnto the athletic carts and diapers added
this tune into things about me. We thought you were
selling drugs are and we we came to intervene because
you want the best outcome for you, Mr Crandell, and
I we care deeply about your future. Is my future
has already said Frankly, fuck up. Okay, I leave this
(30:07):
school and the high Beach. This guy is so cool,
he's so cool you and it's send me Dalton's School again,
Mr Cranely. He's going he's super cool a watch me
wrap a third flannel around my waist. Oh my god,
sy you want to like, I mean, this is pretty unorthodox,
(30:29):
but yeah, you want to come hang out of my place.
We love your vibe. We love your vibe. They're so cool,
I know, because we're like to leave a chair empty
for me to see if I shill up. Oh that's fine.
I wonder if we just chill out you honestly, I
just made always I know. But you you're you're you're
acting real thirsty. We lost our last drug connect. Hopefully
(30:51):
this young man can come through with the with the
bomb acid. But we're can agree so cool right, well yeah,
obviously around him, it's already weird that like we're lying
about hanging out with a students. So let's just let's play.
Who's at the door, nobody's at the door. Thank you
the breakfast clip song, thank you forgetting at me. Oh sorry,
(31:25):
it's really didn't think you'd show come. We got we
love to see here for you. I just came to
chick out the vibe. I'm not feeling a slap bracelett.
Slap bracelet that takes lab brace There you go here
and have some more. We have we have a flavored
popcorn too. Yeah, you guys something to ask. Yeah, have
any pubs? Do what I told you? I'm sucking at
(31:48):
your hold on, hold on? How about it? How about
about luded me with magic cards? How about my magic
how about my sobriety chip that's kind of like a slammer, right,
fifteen years sober? How about my wedding right, check my wandering.
He's just landed on something important. Motherfucker. The Brady chips
are fucking slop a pound slammhi, which, there you go,
(32:16):
that's the Braddy chip. They're right, they're heavier the longer
you've been in the program. Let me see a fave
you chip. It's plastic. I'm sorry, God, I'm gonna get
all the pugs. Take my turn to your sux dediction chip.
It's like in like a ways. By the way, you're ten,
you're six of braety chip. It's just the busty way
(32:36):
of just saying you can't get any Oh he's so cool.
Oh my god, you heard his stand up shilling. You
really hurt. But also when I have somebody as cool
as him roast me that way, Yeah, that was a
chip in anyways, So back to a guess that was trippy. Man,
(32:57):
that sounds kind of sucked up that your teachers were
like kind of they sound like scumbags, to be honest,
And he's more recorded it anything about that either. Yeah,
they never asked him for permission. They're kind of casting it.
So you do some Crabga classes. Oh yeah. Crabmaga was
a really cool place. Uh you know it. They tell
(33:19):
you it's a self defense thing with a lot of
like former Israeli special Forces guys teaching the class, and
the classes would be super wild. I was there to
like get out my teen anger and directed in somewhere
where like I go punch things that weren't drywall in
my house. It was a good outlet, and it was
like a mixture of like agro teens, old guys who
(33:40):
were trying to like recapture their like virility through like
combat stuff, and then like people who are really interested
in self defense. Um, but like a lot of the
instructors were just like these agro ex soldier dudes who
only taught you, like essentially how to creatively beat people up.
It was never really like you know, self defense stuff
(34:01):
in Westwood, Yeah, exactly right there on Olympic. I have
to confess I recorded you pretty much your whole comical career. Wow,
I just do that. I place microphones. I live with
the city and then sometimes I get jackpots, fish and
play class step. I recorded a bunch of different ones.
(34:22):
There's a Disraeli teacher that I remember the teaching Sam.
That's the class to me, if I can find Sam's class,
not that one, not that one, Sam. Here we go. Yeo, guys,
get in, get in, let's talk. All right, we're gonna
we're gonna do a lot of hard work today. We're
gonna do a lot of different kinds of training today
(34:44):
to make sure that you guys are defending yourself in
a way that is consulctive. You know, you have a question.
There's a good place to reclaim my use. Yeah, but
you can reclaim anything you want. Brand were very We're
to fraid him. Where shouldn't where my follow up? Yeah?
Hold on, hold on. I like this energy. Yeah, this
(35:06):
is how we're going to defend ourselves with intensity. Here's
species ship. He's always telling me he's going to be
using the laundry matter Monday. You're gonna let him say
that to you. Man. I guess Sunday night, and I
say it's Sunday night. And he he looked at his
watches past couple pest my day. He because just morn days.
This is a basical, clear scheduling conflict that we have here.
(35:28):
This is perfect, guys. This is a perfect opportunity to
like really train you, guys and get you in the
mindset of self defense. Right So, you're saying this guy
he's embarrassing you at the laundry Matt. Yeah, he's just
making me feel like ashol, I'm not see and you
have to defend yourself from something like that right here,
How do I do with the course you do? Hold on?
Hold on, man, you're a realist hole right now, we
(35:49):
got this is what you do. You're gonna show up
at the laundry mat and you're gonna defend yourself by
sneaking up behind him and you're gonna take her get
the laundry, Matt. You're gonna put a bunch of cordas
in a sock and so yeah, and you're gonna use this.
You're gonna athletics suck. However you like, could be a dress,
can be a gold toll, whatever you like. Well, I've
got the sucks at low below the ankles, perfect, perfect,
But as long as it can keep some form of
(36:12):
currency and its hard coins, you're going to wrap it
around your hand and you want to come up when
he's not looking at get him in the back of
the head. Self defense at its finest. Is it a
problem the fact that he heard what I'm gonna do
and then wet a week from now. No, because what
you're gonna do is you're gonna pretend that there's no problems,
there's no beef or nothing like that. He's gonna have
his I ever question, how do I defend myself for
(36:36):
him when he's defending himself. I need to stop that.
As a state's evidence. Is there anything you know? I mean,
I do because they record everything that there's the old
man killing each other. Yeah, Sam was, I mean he
obviously he was brought up on charges because he had
that sort of underground elderly fight club that he was running.
I would left. I mean, I'm gonna find an episode
(36:57):
of my recordings where Sam is chaining your fend it
this one. I just want to five people. I think
that's great man. You know that I want to show
you all these things. You're gonna defend yourself. You know,
I'm only ten years old, though, that's okay. You think
I'm sure people talking ship to you that you have
to beat up. That's what self defense is about. It's
about someone's gonna talk ship to you and then you
(37:18):
kill them, like that guy Cabin You what did I do? Well?
You kind of sing all these weird songs joining the
class and it's really descruptive. It's an audition. I'm supposed
to sing songs. I don't get it. How do I
kill him when he doesn't know? Yes, this is great,
this is great. He's launching at me right now. Why
(37:39):
why you do when I thought way you were friend?
In a second, I'm going to punch you. Man. I
don't want to lie. You know that ship is really annoying.
But what you're gonna do to him is what you
want to do is you're gonna set up a fake
audition and you're gonna tell him, hey, I heard you're
really working on your singing, and then you invite him
and it's a set up and you just pounce on
him when he gets then you beat the ship out
of him. It's a self defense, you know, I minute
(38:00):
prezz that day. That was also state's evidence. Yeah, against
you and everybody would happen between you and Kevin. I'm
sure all that's gonna come up later. Everything together. In
the third beat, that's Gray. Thank you so much for
being put in this show. Is it Andy? Does that
(38:21):
mean you wanted to say to me? It's right? Motherfucker wow?
Here for our host Ari, special guest contributors Rick Glassman,
Gina Grad and Miles Gray. I'm producer Andy, and this
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This is This is americans Live. I'm producer Andy, filling
in for our host Ari, who is busy on Saturday
Night Live. Yes, you heard that right. He's joined the
cast of Saturday Night Live and I'm totally fine with that. Anyway,
he's left me in charge. This week's episode is gonna
be a little bit different. I think we can all
agree that the best part of This Is American's Live
is me, producer Andy and my ability to sift through
(00:28):
the archives and find footage from the lives of our
guest contributors during the interviews. Well, this week, we're going
to replay three of my favorite interviews from this season
so far. Rick Glassman, Gina grad and Miles Gray. Ike
coincidentally just married one of those guests, and I'll leave
it up to you to guess which one. All right,
let's get into the first interview. Mr Rick Glassman, enjoy
Now you special guests contribute to Pretty Lassman, Eric welcome,
(00:51):
Mischell Welcome. Hi guys, thank you so much for having me,
Thank you for being here. Yeah, this is great, and
congratulations on the studio the set up in the podcast.
I'm really excited for you guys. Over twenty years thank you.
How long have you been listening to the show. I
haven't heard the show before. Um, you sent it to
me a couple of weeks ago, and since then I've
listened to all of them. Election, I didn't send it.
That would be your producers, producer. I'm sorry. UM. If
(01:13):
this was an improv scene, I would have said, you're
negating me. What do you mean? What do you mean
just correcting me on who sent me the episode? Just
giving you reality? That's what happened. Are you creating a scene? No? No, no,
I'm a little confused because if I'm supposed to be
myself but you have the silly ass voice, it makes me,
It makes me want to like play. But I don't
know if I'm supposed to be authentic because I can
(01:34):
show you the real Rick, but we would love to
see the real Rick. And you know this is just
the way that I talk. So all right, well, UM,
can we start this part over? You know you don't
have to do it over. So I'm used to actually
being in the host chair and asking the questions and
driving it. So I'd like to sit back and relax
and just watch you guys go and and please bring
me in whatever you want and ask me any questions
(01:55):
if you may have any What are you from Cleveland, Ohio? Oh? Nice? Um?
Is there anything that you missed about I know that
you don't have here in Los Angeles? Could I ask
you an honest question? Is this something that you ask
all your guests? Stuff like what do they miss about
their hometown? I think the first time. Yeah, this is
the first time. He's Actually it's kind of and I'm
going to make myself out to be a bad guy.
It's kind of a surface who care? I mean, yeah,
(02:15):
I miss family, a couple of restaurants, but nothing's gonna
come of that. What is a restaurant that you miss?
I miss walk with Wing? Can you tell us a
little bit about it? It was a Chinese food restaurant. Um,
could you say restaurant on this? Yeah? I think I
think it's nine. It was a Chinese food restaurant that
my grandma shout out to hashtag Grandma Glory Glassman. She
bought me a fifty dollar gifts certificate. For the holidays.
(02:37):
We celebrated Christmas and Hanaker around the same time. So
I say Christmas, but I don't know. End of December
and I went to use it the first week of
January and they closed down. And uh, my grandma spent
fifty dollars on the gift certificate and it closed down.
So I wonder what that Dave was like for you.
I think we have it in the archives. Thanks so
much for this gift kind money. Oh wow, I'm gonna
(03:06):
buy General Shouse chicken, chicken all mean rice, sexual on
green beans, and some vegetarian pet stickers and the first
week of January. You're very clear and the kind of
items you wanted to get with that. Yeah, I am
somebody who tends to get the same things wherever I go. Say,
I watched the same movies, I eat the same meals,
and I rotate every few weeks. But I get I'm
(03:27):
pretty compulsive with that kind of stuff. What are you
currently eating today this week? Well, I'm working on a
show at the moment where there's catering, so there's different
food all the time. Do you have it in your
writer to have very specific things? And I had. I
have a lot of things I would want to put
in my writer if I ever get to the point
of being able to ask that, but I'm not. I
don't have that kind of leverage. I would want to
(03:49):
say that if there's any wardrobe that I put on
in my character that I like I could keep, I
would want to get them to tailor my actual clothes.
And I would want to certain food things. I would
want certain food things every day, like like like kind
of kids. I would love to have just gluten free
vegetarian stuff that's like high quality that's not processed. Are
you allergic to gluten? Actually funny that you ask I have?
(04:10):
Is it funny or is it just really interesting? It's funny, Celia,
that's just interesting. What happened is I have a lot
of joint issues and I had some different surgeries for
these problems. And my girlfriend, who she's real. You don't
ask questions. I have a girlfriend, what's your name? Betty?
And she told me that gluten could be a a
inflammatory food and I got off gluten and so much
(04:34):
of those pains just went away. Let's call your go friend, Betty. Well,
the phone didn't work before, remember when I tried to
play piano, so it probably won't work. Hi, Hi, Betty?
We are you are your boyfriend? Right? Oh? Hey, yeah,
(04:56):
so she's real. You can hang up? So anyway, she
told me that uh, gluten could make me inflamed, and
I got off at my shoulder in particular, feels so
much better. Yeah, you know you had a podcast or
something you you do like something? Yeah, I have a podcast.
It's called take your Shoes Off. Your Shoes Off. Yeah.
It kind of plays into that obsessive, compulsive mentality that
I was telling you about that about with my food,
(05:16):
because you can instantly do the same thing over and
over again. Well, just this this need for things to
be an order and control a certain way. Take your
shoes off. I find it's kind of like the gateway
into it. Everyone understands a guy who wants them to
take their shoes off. But that's just the first on
the list of many. Do you feel like maybe you
tearing up that quality a little bit for the show
or do you feel like that, Yeah, I real representation
(05:37):
of who you. I realized I play into it. Sometimes.
It's not never trying to trick like I want people
to I don't want anybody eating over my rugs. I
want them to have a tray. Sometimes I could be
a little bit more aggressive about over the tray. Can
you take us back to one of those nights Ricky's
great aunt talk. You know, you never the tray. I
(05:57):
don't want that. I don't okay, just eat it over
the tray. See like that kind of stuff. I would
probably end up saying something like, hey, man, if you're
cann eat the hot dog, it's got to be on
a tray. You have very specific chases for your hot dogs,
you know. I'd like to give a shout out to
Woodworking Pelican. That's Woodworking Pelican. He is a woodman from
(06:18):
Utah and he made me some handmade, beautiful wooden trays. Yeah,
he's actually helping me, uh with some other wood projects
I have, if you know what I mean. Let's just
say some stuff I might use in my house that
I was definitely sextual, not at all. That's Woodworking Pelican.
You could check that out an Instagram. I am dB
(06:39):
Utah Woodworking Hellican. And also, while I'm here, like to
give a shout out to my father's a local area
rush store, Marshall Rugg Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio. We're thirty
years where family baby. And if you want synthetic or
if you want wool, if you want hand stitched, hand back,
hand nodded, if you want hand tufted, there's a lot
(07:00):
of places you can go to find a rug There's
only so many places you could get one in his family.
That's Marshall. So sorry. Did you purchase add time? No?
I think he used kind of shue learning it. Um.
I believe the rug store belongs to his dad. And
then I guess the good working goal is somebody he's
that he actually really likes. Did he signed any sort
of contract with us company getting something any sort of
(07:22):
cut over his Marshal red Gallery a place. Well, it's
it's a real Northeast Ohio rug store, but it's also
now a it's also a character in the show of
Los Angeles comedian podcast That's so heavy? Does it belong
to your father? Yes, it's interesting you said that. I
remember you told me that you were worried that I
was going to be shoehorning it in. It actually reminds
(07:43):
me of my entrepreneur grandmother, who's a shoehoreening it in.
I'm Rick Lassman with Marshall rug Gallery of not having floors.
Get news for you? Do you have good news? Already?
Have good news and bad news? I have good news
and good news, said then bad news after those two
pieces of good news, all right, sounds like you've got
(08:04):
a lot more to tell me. Now. The piece of
good news is we've got the floors you need, all right.
Checking piece of good news is these floors is sold
for a Marshal floorg lo reie. But tell you the
bad news, yeah, baby, listening, We're not Marshal flourgal. You guys,
(08:37):
can I tell you something that is fleeting that might
that might be uh, you know, it's not about skill,
It's just the truth. How much I respect and appreciate
what you boys do week after week? Do you find
it difficult to just fabricate these stories from thin air?
To have such concise, hard hitting, repeated material to the
point to where your improv skills have gotten you to
(08:57):
the point of what what's next? Because having a podcast
on I Heart Radio is and I'm not being sarcastic,
look at the big boys, workaholics, guys, look at the
nicky glazers. It's the top of the top, you guys
are there is there a level above this? Now? Is
podcasting the biggest platform for improv? Now? Honestly, do we
want to think? I guess Rick's just really cool what
(09:19):
you guys were able to do. Thank you so much
for being our guests, uh, contributor for this episode. Coming up,
our interview with Gina grad But first, a word from
our sponsors who make this high quality show possible. Stay
with us. Welcome back to This Is Americans Live. I'm
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(09:41):
away working on something far more important. I'm playing some
of my favorite guest contributor interviews that we've had during
this first season of this incredible, groundbreaking show. Up next
to lovely Gina grad enjoy Um, welcome, Hi, thank you
for having me, Thank you for being here. So, Gina,
tell us a little bit about yourself. I'm a broadcaster
(10:02):
here in Los Angeles. I work um with the kf I,
which is a very sort of famous AM radio station here.
I work on the Adam Corolla Show, another very famous podcast.
Been there for uh gosh, about six years, and um yeah,
I do a lot of voice over work and a
lot of fun. Can you tell us about the first
time that you ever did radio? Yes, well, the first
(10:24):
time literally I ever did radio. I used to go
on with my dad when I lived in Kansas and
would give the farm report UM on a local radio
station telling the farmers to bring in their tender vegetation
at night. After this interview, I decided to go back
and look up the archive of footage a M four forty. Please,
(10:44):
before we get to the news of the traffic, of
the weather, and the celebrity gospel, let's check in with
the new the newbie, our farm report farm reporter Genus
spant Okay, cold, we got twenty four minutes to fill.
So what else? Yeah, that's the fust on the class rostble,
(11:05):
what rostle? What so? Gina, when you heard your voice
for the first time, did you have any issues with
how you sounded? Yeah? Doesn't everybody you know? You have that,
like you feel like you're more high pitched and you're
talking faster. In fact, when I started in radio in
Los Angeles, UM, almost twenty years ago, I sound very
different than I do now. I have somehow more more
(11:27):
base in my voice, and I'm so grateful for it.
Did you ever take classes? I took voice over classes
for you know, commercial and things like that, but not
to actually, you know, not like in a my fair
lady way. Now. So I went to go visit her
voice over teacher just to kind of get an idea
as to how she was as a student. Yes, she
was very good student. Reminded me of a young me
(11:48):
before of her region. Why have you heard from her?
Have I heard from her? Yeah? She's on our radio show. Yeah,
she's also very successful radio personality. I don't know if
you've heard. I have not heard. I heard that. You also,
you got married? You found somebody else in that voice
box community. I did. I found a beautiful woman who
also has boys like Hello, I love you, I love you,
(12:15):
I love you, I love you more, I love you more.
I love you boy. Did you guys have any children?
We had board children, mounting baby boys, do bouncing baby girls? Um, Charles,
I meet any of them, Glad, Steve, they can I
meet them in person? Daddie, daddie, you may have some
(12:37):
kid and I too. Have you have already had pis?
You have already had our pieces. I'm going to break
my toys. If you don't give me, can you will
all be be polishing yourself because you will be breaking
your old toys. Why would you threaten to be with
breaking your old toys? Go to your room. I hate
the family. I hate that family. Did you even know
(12:58):
that that's what happened to your voice. I had no idea. No,
she always had this really sort of rich voice. Um.
Um so uh sorry, my producer Andy's laughing. Is there
something money? No? No, I'm looking at this meme that
has a tiger addressed as a a cat. I've seen
that one before. So you originally from I'm here, Gina, Like, No,
(13:21):
I'm from Kansas City. I was born in Oregon, but
I'm from Kansas City. How come you guys moved around
so much? My dad, it was a broadcaster, and you know,
we just moved from market to market, just like you know,
like an army brad almost so it was your dad
like a morning shock jot, no sports announcer. So did
you know any morning shot shot shots? I'm sorry, what
(13:42):
did you know any morning jo Did you know any
morning shot jot shoo shock jocks? Sorry? I did, Um,
there was a couple of kids. I don't know if
maybe if he made it his way out here at
Johnny Dare was a big man cow we had syndicated. Um,
I've met a lot of morning shock jocks and uh yeah,
(14:03):
I kind of fell in love with radio and in
that in that vein um, who is your favorite shock jock?
Shock shock jock? It has to be the king of
all media. If everybody says Howard Stern, you gotta say
Howard Stern. Right. Well, when I say shock jock, I
was thinking more like a shock jock, like a French jacque.
Oh shock jock. Yeah, I see what you're saying. Yes, yeah,
(14:24):
I do have a favorite shock jock. In fact, I
was in the voiceover class with a Frenchman, a dashing Frenchman,
and he wanted to get rid of his French accent
and and have more of an American accent. He thought
he was better at it than he was, but it
was always really fun to listen to him try and
have that American accent. What is it, gentle man, how
(14:45):
do you say it's time to kids? It tires and
lights the fires on the big one hundred thousand wat
Monstar'll say, let's do it. Thank you so much for
bringing that tape in. Absolutely is my pleasure. I've never
heard that before. I mean, it's just how do you
(15:06):
say sixty four degrees and forty five degrees? Za? How
do you say mountains list? Taxi for life? So the
second tape is from the next day. Yeah, I tried
to get as much audio as I could. How do
you say is six fifty four am money? And this
(15:27):
is how do you say? You know? It was really
weird though, because I didn't realize there were so many
differences culturally between Americans and French people. So he would
do like open phones, even though I don't think he
really knew what open phones meant. I don't even know what. Okay,
So open phones is just like, you know, call about anything,
and people would call about things that I guess I
(15:48):
don't know, Like they'd say things like you know, I'm
a day late in a dollar short, or you know.
They'd use these colloquialisms, and he didn't understand them, but
he had to pretend he did. It was some of
my favorite audio and did late for what. I don't
know what. Color me pink. I just don't even know
what I'm thinking anymore. Color me pink. Request lines are
not yet open, and I believe you mean what's bad.
(16:11):
Let's let's think about blue sky ideas. Yeah, how do
you say what? I can tell you the weather. I
can tell you this. I can tell you the weather
and see, how do you say traffic. Ll me more
about did you, um, did you ever have any issues
with any other um, because I imagine maybe starting out
(16:32):
in radio as a as a female, you may have
had some um run ins with some let's say men
that were not so nice. Yeah, competitive maybe competitive, absolutely,
you know high school, you know, it doesn't even feel
like high school. A lot of radio stations, especially you
know old you know, sort of jock talk stations, feel
(16:54):
like it felt like middle school. And you might as
well have a locker there instead of your work coppy
because everybody's at each other's throats. A lot of you know,
light misogyny, um, a lot of dusting of sexual harassment,
but you kind of deal with it because you know
that's the business. Would sub's, Hey, good to see you.
(17:15):
I gotta change my pencil quick. Sorry are you so?
What time do you guys? Get off? I can't remember
right now? You got it here or get off? I'll
see the morning starts to six am, and then we're well, well,
when are we adding here? I don't know, It depends
on what time she'sy because we're so in her area.
(17:38):
That's I mean, I get it, that's funny, but you're
joking right, because that otherwise I'd be an hr issue.
And you guys make this real hard on me. I
gotta tell you, we're gonna make any harder on you
later after we follow you. So you had some issues
with kind of this men, that we're being a little
inappropriate in a lot of different ways. Yeah, and you
kind of want to, you know, you don't want to
(17:59):
be a whiner, but you also want to you know,
set some boundaries. So it's it's a delicate dance. Do
you have any plans for your future and radio? Where
do you want to What do you want to do
in the next five years? Oh, that's a great question. Um, well,
you know, I love what I'm doing now and I'd
love to continue doing it. I love working with great hosts,
and uh, I would love to work with another female
(18:20):
co host because you know, I have another show right
now where I work with female and it's a lot
of fun just to not have to do like the
you know, like the gender cliche stuff. So I think
I think I'd like to continue working with more female
co host in the future and do something a little
more you know, maybe relationship based sort of you know,
feelings based, more of a like sort of a love
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line for women, you know, kind of an Oprah vibe
without sound like Welcome Back to Lovers and Love starring
Gina Grad and me. Tricia Thompson, Thank you next, Color,
You've got a little bit of a problem. Yeah, So,
like my boyfriend is, he's just not really it's not.
(19:03):
I feel like he doesn't respond to my text When
I texted him okay, he takes a really long time,
and I just feel like he's seeing somebody else's I
think I think he's teating Color Color. Can I just
say that this is not about you? Um, you know,
I think you're doing everything right. I think that, and
I think Tricia would agree that. You know, when when
you get a text, you expect to prompt response. And
(19:24):
I don't want to be the hardass here, but um,
I think he is cheating on you because I was
looking through his text and I know there's some naked photos,
but he says that there is, sister. Oh boy, it's
still problematic. Yeah, I don't know which one's worse. Why
does I mean, why would he have the naked pictures
of his European Have you ever been to Europe? I
(19:49):
don't really do that listen, Tricia, I just have one question. Listen.
Have you seen this meme with the tiger that's just
like a four kilsbo to catch off another? Not stop
block blocks and stock docks and stop talking and boom
(20:10):
music with us there that pay shout out to a
She Gris actually sued this radio station for sexual harassment.
That's right. She in my former co host settle out
of cards all the conditions that he no longer returned
to the air waves and hurt anyone else a motionally.
(20:34):
But that's okay. I don't need him never, Tad. Let's
hit the phone lines calling around the air in the
cruel there is no more to the ground. Yeah that's true.
Then there's unfortunate because she is so hot, so hot.
Oh how I watch Ruth. You're gonna get me kicked
off the air. So hot? Please stop, I want to
do things to her. Please stop talking. I will now
(20:55):
lift all of them, the Nancy things I would like
to new their in alpha medical God, please don't drop
the phone line. Let's call. You're on the air till
I never left that I knowed. Then do until I
hear the to grand suite succulent voice. Come on, Coming
up our interview with Miles Gray. But first a word
(21:17):
from our sponsors. Stay with us, Welcome back to This
Is Americans Live. I'm producer Andy filling in for our
host Ari, who has joined the cast of Saturday Night Live,
and I'm definitely not jealous at all. He will be back,
(21:38):
but this week he left it up to me to
re air some of our favorite interviews from our guest contributors.
Up next, Miles Gray, bone eppetite. Miles Gray, thank you
so much for I mean to U show. How long
have you been a listener? Uh? I've since June came out.
We've been around went much longer than that. Oh, I'm sorry.
(21:59):
I then I'm I just I gotta get nervous and
I don't like them to disappoint people. So I just
sort of said a date, What do you when? Do
you think he was when you first studied? We probably
studied when you were a little boy. Uh yeah, yeah,
I would say whatever. The longest time is someone can listen, right, Yeah,
it's great. So so when you were a child, you'd
(22:19):
gather around the radio and listen to this show. That's
what you're trying to tell me. I'm pretty sure. I
learned how to speak English because of this show because
in me Yeah, and a really weird accent growing up,
because I modeled my voice after you. You know, we
actually have in the archives that very first episode from
way back then when you were listen. I would absolutely
(22:41):
love to hear it. Yeah, we have it. Pushing the
button now. Okay, Happy birthday, Miles. Thank you so much
for having me. Um. Do you want to open your
preside Miles, I'd love to, and just to engage in
the feeling of paper crumbling enter my fingers as a
way to celebrate consume our culture. Elish is sounding really good?
(23:02):
Have you been listening to a lot of this is
Americans Live? Because that's the only place where I've heard
such good English, because your English used to be terrible,
but very bad. I'm aware of anything, and thank you
for for adopting me. I've been. It's of course, it
was our pleasure getting me a complex about how I
was speaking English. He saidy to go back to deeper
(23:23):
Okays by doing Myles was listening to the show? Was
the English sounded like back then? Pless? Play high, Miles,
We're your new parents. Whoa shout out to you? My
parents school. Thank you for having me here. That's tough stuff. Um,
this is actually a pretty cool voice where I'm from oriagonably,
(23:45):
so I don't want to have I don't want to
feel like I'm being rejected. It's purely on sonic reasons.
I gotta do something good to say everybody. One to three.
Fuck that's my catch phrase. I learned in English on
my way here. It seems like my ast you learned
English from all kinds of radio show hosts. Who is
(24:06):
the one that you're learning English from? Prior to me,
that was this Dutch DJ from Rotterdam. What was his name?
Just I think Abjorned. Yeah, we have his old air checks,
playing some of his old air checks. That's okay with you? Yeah, sure,
go ahead, thank you, pay you one one two Dutch
Radio Rotterdam. It is your man Jord on the radio.
(24:28):
We're going to be playing some of the sickest d
M jams. After this, we have stuff from afro Jack
and armand van Buren coming your way. But the first
let's check in with giggle part bully. Here we go
one two three, who's the English did you learn? After
(24:48):
you learn from him? And then from Mecau is now
you don't talk like me? Yeah, I it's it's sort
of a hybrid of Fresh Prince of bel Air and
the Sopranos of the next two things. Is that really
shaped how I spoke? You know they actually, um, I
don't know if you guys know this, but they know
tell me produce your name. But there was a pilot
for a Fresh Prince Sopranos hybrid show. Did you know that?
(25:11):
Did you ever see it? Let's hear that about cool?
You should go overhead? You talking about Phil? I'm not
younger Phil, I'm your uncle jee. What the funk? Uncle June?
Why doesn't my dad want me? I like the premise
of it. That started the networks nets way don't do
TV show. Let's watch like look at me? You fuck
(25:33):
a fresh pressure better overhead? We got the trigger guy overhead,
dish fucking Google. He tugged a couple of couple of shows.
He's gotta got a gobbles roach. What you gotta shake
about that? Uncle Phil? Why can't we just get our
own funny? Legally? We gotta rob garbage shrug? He's got
the point? Don't you know that? That was a very
popular TV show when for many seasons. I decided I
(25:55):
wanted to play a segment from the very final episode
of The Fresh Prince of Montclaire of Montclair. Now, oh man,
I'm gonna miss this place? Which miss you? Do? Mind?
Uncle June? Can I get a second by myself? What
I'm getting sentimental? Okay? There was a clip from the
(26:18):
faint episode, and I said, what if there's anything else?
And then I put up the reunion It's this clip
is really good. What can I say you? I missed you, guys.
I tell you guys, but a lot of times she
tell you guys should be. I missed you too. Man.
You know, I'm real sorry that I replaced you, you know,
(26:38):
half way through the first season. You know I didn't.
I shouldn't have done that, replace you with a lighter
skinned Uncle June. And I have a lot of regrets.
But I hope we can. I hope we can. You know,
just just build some bridges if they get back to
where we used to be. You know what, forget about it.
Don't tell me about you up bringing you said you will.
We had a little bit of a conversation prior to recording,
(27:02):
and you tell me that you're from Los Angeles, Yeah,
can you tell me a little bit more about that. Yeah,
I grew up in the San Fernando Valley, which is
like the New Jersey of l A the way people
talk about it. So yeah, I just grew up in
l A my whole life, and I've never left with
the squad here. I didn't have many I didn't I
didn't branch out too much, but you know, I had
(27:23):
jobs that would take me further afield. But for the
most part, yeah, I just uh, I grew up like
every kid does out here, just on the you know,
on the hot streets. And you have a great podcast,
you have two of them. You have the Daily at Guys. Sure, yeah,
and then you also have Force and tell us a
about that. I mean, if it's it's it's what it
sounds like. It's ninety day fiance and weed, weed cultured.
(27:47):
I'm high talking about it with Sophia Alexandra, another fairly
funny comedian, and yeah, we just talked from our perspective,
as you know, immigrant kids who like trash reality shows.
Do you specific type of strain when it comes to
the type of weed? Yeah, I smoke Indica's mostly Sativa's.
Are they they give me Jodie Foster panic room. Yeah,
sometimes what happened to Teva's? Yeah, that's tivas. I don't
(28:10):
know what it is. I don't know. They just get
they get you two hyped up. Sometimes back in the day,
Sativa's were just fine Sensitiva's get really oh yeah, life,
you know, I think maybe it's life more to think about.
It's probably right. Yeah, most I would be thinking about, like,
oh are they going to catch me stealing another scale
from the science lab? Growing up, I was like, you know,
a little want to be drug dealer type kid growing up,
(28:32):
So I you know, always was had O G. Cush.
That was like the best weed you could always be selling,
and so I always I have a deep love and
connection with O. G. Cush used it so fake acid
just doing that out there, Wow, that's that's that's a
lot of confidence. We actually have him, uh selling fake
acid in our archives. Do you want to do some
of that? We do? This is bag in middle school,
(28:54):
by the way. What's going on? What what do you want?
Do you want some acid? Yeah? I definitely want some athlete.
If I said you some acid, who you hang out
with me? Yeah? There's some little triangles that cut out
a little paper squares and they spread it with raid.
I call it white tornado. Do you have any without raid?
The rate is an acronym for this take it? Okay,
(29:16):
thank you. I'm not really into as into acid culture
as you are. All right, Ari, Ari Ari? What are
you doing? I heard that you're selling kids drugs right now?
I'm selling acid or acid is an acronym for athletic.
In a minute, you're better or something quick brest athletic
cats in diapers exactly? Okay, well, alright, cats and diapers.
(29:44):
You know there's semester. Your grades are do? I really
want you to focus on your grades and maybe a
little lesser turn Turnto the athletic carts and diapers added
this tune into things about me. We thought you were
selling drugs are and we we came to intervene because
you want the best outcome for you, Mr Crandell, and
I we care deeply about your future. Is my future
has already said Frankly, fuck up. Okay, I leave this
(30:07):
school and the high Beach. This guy is so cool,
he's so cool you and it's send me Dalton's School again,
Mr Cranely. He's going he's super cool a watch me
wrap a third flannel around my waist. Oh my god,
sy you want to like, I mean, this is pretty unorthodox,
(30:29):
but yeah, you want to come hang out of my place.
We love your vibe. We love your vibe. They're so cool,
I know, because we're like to leave a chair empty
for me to see if I shill up. Oh that's fine.
I wonder if we just chill out you honestly, I
just made always I know. But you you're you're you're
acting real thirsty. We lost our last drug connect. Hopefully
(30:51):
this young man can come through with the with the
bomb acid. But we're can agree so cool right, well yeah,
obviously around him, it's already weird that like we're lying
about hanging out with a students. So let's just let's play.
Who's at the door, nobody's at the door. Thank you
the breakfast clip song, thank you forgetting at me. Oh sorry,
(31:25):
it's really didn't think you'd show come. We got we
love to see here for you. I just came to
chick out the vibe. I'm not feeling a slap bracelett.
Slap bracelet that takes lab brace There you go here
and have some more. We have we have a flavored
popcorn too. Yeah, you guys something to ask. Yeah, have
any pubs? Do what I told you? I'm sucking at
(31:48):
your hold on, hold on? How about it? How about
about luded me with magic cards? How about my magic
how about my sobriety chip that's kind of like a slammer, right,
fifteen years sober? How about my wedding right, check my wandering.
He's just landed on something important. Motherfucker. The Brady chips
are fucking slop a pound slammhi, which, there you go,
(32:16):
that's the Braddy chip. They're right, they're heavier the longer
you've been in the program. Let me see a fave
you chip. It's plastic. I'm sorry, God, I'm gonna get
all the pugs. Take my turn to your sux dediction chip.
It's like in like a ways. By the way, you're ten,
you're six of braety chip. It's just the busty way
(32:36):
of just saying you can't get any Oh he's so cool.
Oh my god, you heard his stand up shilling. You
really hurt. But also when I have somebody as cool
as him roast me that way, Yeah, that was a
chip in anyways, So back to a guess that was trippy. Man,
(32:57):
that sounds kind of sucked up that your teachers were
like kind of they sound like scumbags, to be honest,
And he's more recorded it anything about that either. Yeah,
they never asked him for permission. They're kind of casting it.
So you do some Crabga classes. Oh yeah. Crabmaga was
a really cool place. Uh you know it. They tell
(33:19):
you it's a self defense thing with a lot of
like former Israeli special Forces guys teaching the class, and
the classes would be super wild. I was there to
like get out my teen anger and directed in somewhere
where like I go punch things that weren't drywall in
my house. It was a good outlet, and it was
like a mixture of like agro teens, old guys who
(33:40):
were trying to like recapture their like virility through like
combat stuff, and then like people who are really interested
in self defense. Um, but like a lot of the
instructors were just like these agro ex soldier dudes who
only taught you, like essentially how to creatively beat people up.
It was never really like you know, self defense stuff
(34:01):
in Westwood, Yeah, exactly right there on Olympic. I have
to confess I recorded you pretty much your whole comical career. Wow,
I just do that. I place microphones. I live with
the city and then sometimes I get jackpots, fish and
play class step. I recorded a bunch of different ones.
(34:22):
There's a Disraeli teacher that I remember the teaching Sam.
That's the class to me, if I can find Sam's class,
not that one, not that one, Sam. Here we go. Yeo, guys,
get in, get in, let's talk. All right, we're gonna
we're gonna do a lot of hard work today. We're
gonna do a lot of different kinds of training today
(34:44):
to make sure that you guys are defending yourself in
a way that is consulctive. You know, you have a question.
There's a good place to reclaim my use. Yeah, but
you can reclaim anything you want. Brand were very We're
to fraid him. Where shouldn't where my follow up? Yeah?
Hold on, hold on. I like this energy. Yeah, this
(35:06):
is how we're going to defend ourselves with intensity. Here's
species ship. He's always telling me he's going to be
using the laundry matter Monday. You're gonna let him say
that to you. Man. I guess Sunday night, and I
say it's Sunday night. And he he looked at his
watches past couple pest my day. He because just morn days.
This is a basical, clear scheduling conflict that we have here.
(35:28):
This is perfect, guys. This is a perfect opportunity to
like really train you, guys and get you in the
mindset of self defense. Right So, you're saying this guy
he's embarrassing you at the laundry Matt. Yeah, he's just
making me feel like ashol, I'm not see and you
have to defend yourself from something like that right here,
How do I do with the course you do? Hold on?
Hold on, man, you're a realist hole right now, we
(35:49):
got this is what you do. You're gonna show up
at the laundry mat and you're gonna defend yourself by
sneaking up behind him and you're gonna take her get
the laundry, Matt. You're gonna put a bunch of cordas
in a sock and so yeah, and you're gonna use this.
You're gonna athletics suck. However you like, could be a dress,
can be a gold toll, whatever you like. Well, I've
got the sucks at low below the ankles, perfect, perfect,
But as long as it can keep some form of
(36:12):
currency and its hard coins, you're going to wrap it
around your hand and you want to come up when
he's not looking at get him in the back of
the head. Self defense at its finest. Is it a
problem the fact that he heard what I'm gonna do
and then wet a week from now. No, because what
you're gonna do is you're gonna pretend that there's no problems,
there's no beef or nothing like that. He's gonna have
his I ever question, how do I defend myself for
(36:36):
him when he's defending himself. I need to stop that.
As a state's evidence. Is there anything you know? I mean,
I do because they record everything that there's the old
man killing each other. Yeah, Sam was, I mean he
obviously he was brought up on charges because he had
that sort of underground elderly fight club that he was running.
I would left. I mean, I'm gonna find an episode
(36:57):
of my recordings where Sam is chaining your fend it
this one. I just want to five people. I think
that's great man. You know that I want to show
you all these things. You're gonna defend yourself. You know,
I'm only ten years old, though, that's okay. You think
I'm sure people talking ship to you that you have
to beat up. That's what self defense is about. It's
about someone's gonna talk ship to you and then you
(37:18):
kill them, like that guy Cabin You what did I do? Well?
You kind of sing all these weird songs joining the
class and it's really descruptive. It's an audition. I'm supposed
to sing songs. I don't get it. How do I
kill him when he doesn't know? Yes, this is great,
this is great. He's launching at me right now. Why
(37:39):
why you do when I thought way you were friend?
In a second, I'm going to punch you. Man. I
don't want to lie. You know that ship is really annoying.
But what you're gonna do to him is what you
want to do is you're gonna set up a fake
audition and you're gonna tell him, hey, I heard you're
really working on your singing, and then you invite him
and it's a set up and you just pounce on
him when he gets then you beat the ship out
of him. It's a self defense, you know, I minute
(38:00):
prezz that day. That was also state's evidence. Yeah, against
you and everybody would happen between you and Kevin. I'm
sure all that's gonna come up later. Everything together. In
the third beat, that's Gray. Thank you so much for
being put in this show. Is it Andy? Does that
(38:21):
mean you wanted to say to me? It's right? Motherfucker wow?
Here for our host Ari, special guest contributors Rick Glassman,
Gina Grad and Miles Gray. I'm producer Andy, and this
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