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Speaker 5 (01:01):
Oh there we are, good afternoon, greetings, welcome, salutations.

Speaker 12 (01:06):
And all that.

Speaker 5 (01:09):
Rob. Can I be so bold as to call today
a momentous occasion? Momentous? Indeed, is there a word bigger?
I mean probably gargantuan gargana like, no, that's not that
feels twenty would be because let's be honest, you know
what I'm really today is my sixteenth anniversary at WMMS.

(01:31):
The some of the sixteenth two thousand and nine this
program premiered to a very very angry and resistant audience.
The show that I replaced was a very popular show,
and so the people in this audience were very displeased.
I think that there were people who I'll still hear from,
people who were like, you know, day one listeners. I

(01:53):
came on and they were like, Okay, I'm down with this.
You know, maybe they weren't huge fans of the last show,
but it's just the nature of how we do things.

Speaker 13 (02:00):
Now.

Speaker 5 (02:02):
Did I think that I would be here for this long? Absolutely?

Speaker 13 (02:05):
Not.

Speaker 5 (02:05):
Am I fortunate that I have been? Absolutely? But what
are we really celebrating, Rob. We're celebrating me not getting fired.
In the radio biz, that's what we're celebrating every time
that you are fortunate. And again I do like to
tell people who still don't like me. I do like

(02:27):
to tell people this is not a charity organization, right,
I wouldn't be here if I wasn't successful for the company. However,
it is a celebration of not getting fired. I was
talking to our big boss this morning, Keith Hotchkiss. I
came in this morning and there were maybe a couple
of people out there in the suite. I was here
run eight thirty and there was like one or two

(02:50):
salespeople and Hotchkiss was in his office and he came
up to me and he's like, hey, excited about today?
I said yeah, and he was just like, can you believe?
You know? Because when I got the call from my
agent at the time that WMMS in Cleveland wanted to
talk to me, I was all ears because I had
been off the air for about a year and a half.
I was doing radio sales in Chicago, but I had

(03:12):
been off the air for about a year and a half,
and so I was very much unsure if my broadcasting
career was over. I was like, well, I might just
be a sales guy for the rest of my career.
Obviously that's not where my heart lay. But I was like,
if this is what it is, this is what it
is fine. And I had precisely two offers on the table.

(03:32):
One was to host a show for I think it
was the Playboy Radio channel at Sirius Satellite Radio, except
they don't pay anything and getting the curse is not
worth it. But when he called int WMS and Cleveland
wants to talk to you. I'd never been to Cleveland before.
I had been through one time to speak on one

(03:52):
of those broadcasting panels. But that's like a quick in
and out right I was coming from I don't remember.
I think I was still on in Pittsburgh actually, So
it was just a quick jog up the turnpike at
that time. But I had never really been to Cleveland.
And so, but everybody in our business knows WMMS. Everyone.
You don't have to know Cleveland.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
You don't have to.

Speaker 5 (04:11):
If you're in radio, you know what WMMS is. And
so I said, yeah, absolutely, I like to talk to
these guys. But anyway, Hotchkiss was like, isn't it crazy.
It's like sixteen years ago. Hotchkiss and Beau Matthews, who
people might remember. He was the program director here who
hired me. Two or three program directors ago, by the way,
and he was the one who hired me. And it

(04:33):
was me and Keith Hodgkiss and Beau Matthews. They took
me to Morton's rob right down the street here.

Speaker 14 (04:40):
Right.

Speaker 5 (04:40):
We were still in independence back then, and then I
had to have a separate thing. I had to be
properly vetted by people, and so I had to I
think it was me down to me and one other guy.
That's how these jobs always happened. It's down to you
and one other guy, and one of you gets the
gig and I had to go to another like dinner

(05:00):
slash drinks thing with the person who was our general
manager at the time, a guy named Gary Minzer, who
I'm very grateful to as well, because obviously he had
to sign off on the whole thing, but I think
he deferred to the to Bo Matthews and Keith Hodgkiss,
and so there are very very few people who are
still here the amount of time that I have been here,

(05:21):
obviously the RMG crew, but I'm talking about like management types.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
And things like that.

Speaker 5 (05:24):
What was Hotchkiss the sales manager? He was, Yeah, I
believe he was the general sales manager, and then he
went off for a while. Because we were kind of
chuckling about that too. You forget that people have gone
and come back, right right. He was a market manager
in Charlotte for a few years and so he left.
Our friend Curtis, the Kurt Man out there in sales.
He left for a few years, came back. You know,

(05:45):
the heavy hitters here on the sales management side, they
have come back. They would leave for a while. Your
boy was here the whole time, Rob and through a
multiple multiple iterations of this program. And now, of course
we have Jess on the show, and this would be
the Allen Kuxha version three point zero four point zero
something like that. And so sixteen years ago today, it

(06:10):
was me and Chocolate Charlie by the way, because obviously
when you go into a new market and new radio station,
people are crapping themselves because they're really worried that the show.
So they wanted some connection to Rover's show, which was
already a very popular show. He had come back from Chicago,
I think about a year before I left Chicago, and

(06:34):
so it was me and Chocolate Charlie, and I think
that they had said to him, hey, there's this new
guy coming in. This is an opportunity for you to
have a bigger platform, right in kind of doing his
own thing or whatever. And we did the first show
together and then he was like, no, I think I
want to stay with RMG. That was the right decision
for both of us. I think he's hilarious. I think

(06:55):
he's an unbelievably creative guy and a really talented dude.
But I think that was the right decision for my
show and for him. But that very first show, which
is somewhere, I don't know if it's on YouTube or
what it is, but people will hit me up every
so often and be like, I got that for show
you and Charlie. I'm like, Jesus, I haven't listened to that.
But anyway, sixteen years ago today I started at WMMS,

(07:19):
And if you had asked me, do you think you'll
be there for sixteen years? I would have said absolutely not.
Just by the way, and this show got pretty successful
pretty quickly. I'm not tooting my own horn. I'm just
talking about the data. I'm just talking about the degree
to which this audience gratefully took to the show. And

(07:39):
so we were kind of off and running from the jump.
But there's no guarantees of anything, and the business changes
so much, and the radio station changes a lot, and
there's all these comings and goings. Now, Rob, I might
be gone tomorrow, right who knows.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
Let's hope not.

Speaker 5 (07:55):
Well, no, I will be because we'll be on vacation,
all right. But I mean I'm I'm under contract for
the next couple of years, but you never know what
will happen. What could happen. So ultimately all of that,
I'm grateful to the audience, and I'm celebrating not getting fired.
Rum celebrated, not celebrated not being fired.

Speaker 15 (08:18):
Right.

Speaker 5 (08:19):
Who could have thought? Because there were my My agent
would call me. You know, there were calls that I
would get every so often. There were about two years
into my tenure here he called and said, Hey, so
and so wants to talk to you about coming back
home to Chicago. Uh, to work at a radio station
that I actually technically began as an intern. They wanted
me to do mornings. Ironically, I would have been replacing Maxwell,

(08:44):
and I was like, what am I going to spend
my whole career replacing this guy?

Speaker 3 (08:47):
Chasing?

Speaker 5 (08:48):
Yeah, I replace him in Pittsburgh, replace him here. I'm like,
I didn't even meet the guy until like a year
and a half ago. He happened to be here doing
something for he's doing doing a commercial or something using
his voice for a commercial that we're running, and he
was like hey, and I was like, oh, hey, man,
what's up. I've never met the guy and spoke for
a couple of minutes, and you know, but my agent

(09:10):
at the time, I go, no, I got it. I
really do have like a good thing building here in Cleveland,
and I'm like, I just you know, now, I'm gonna
stay put here. And then a few years later he's like, heyres,
there was a station in San Diego, the one I
need to do mornings, and I would have to tell
people I go. You know, this is not like Cod
and O'Brien switching networks, right, this is not like him
going from NBC to do his own thing on TBS.

(09:33):
I'm like with radio, when you move, you start all
over random, you start from the ground up. They don't
know who you are. Now, if you have a pretty
good skill set, and I do, you can get that
ball rolling a lot more quickly than you used to
be able to. You can really get things up and running.
But you are still contingent. It's it's all contingent on

(09:55):
that audience digging what you do. And so to have
been here, you know, it's very simple what I tell people,
I go. They have continued to make it worth my
while to stay here, and so it's as simple as that.
And again it's WMMS man. I mean, it's bigger than
all of us. Yeah, who know, I mean people might
not know who the hell I was if I was

(10:16):
on some other radio station. So that does a lot
of heavy lifting. But you know, we do a pretty
good job.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
Rob.

Speaker 5 (10:25):
People seem to like the whole thing we're doing, all right,
man doing In the immortal words of one Kenneth Loggins,
I'm all right, don't nobody worry about me. I got
you a little something to celebrate with. Oh but plug
I had my eye on.

Speaker 16 (10:43):
That was for you.

Speaker 5 (10:45):
Oh no, it's dishwashers sound if it's been road tested.
I'm not worried about that.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
I thought it was for me.

Speaker 13 (10:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (10:53):
No, I got us a nice bottle of a Voove.
Yeah you've got well that comes right out of Rob's
ride by the way. Yeah, and so I do appreciate
that he does have a quarterly bottle of Voove Clacoa
in his rider. Yeah, and so I'm appreciative that you
would take your Q four bottle of Bubbly and bring.

Speaker 9 (11:16):
It in for me.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
Just my monthly bottle of I changed that in the
last monthly.

Speaker 5 (11:21):
Wow, you get a dozen magnums a year.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
Yeah, jeez.

Speaker 5 (11:25):
Yeah, I mean look, I'm just trying to get my celsius.
They stop getting solid.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
Well, that's what I'm worried about. I threw the I
threw the bottle in the fridge. I'm like, oh, is
that thing gonna be there after? Man? And I also
brought in I told you about those Italian treats, those torony's.

Speaker 5 (11:38):
See this, Oh yeah, you ever had these? Not that
I can recall.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
We're talking about nut liking nugat, and that's what made
me say, I gotta bring those in for rell. Oh
if I said that, lemon, orange and vanilla, all right,
soft nugat with almonds. These have been on every Christmas
table in my family for I don't know, really forever.

Speaker 5 (11:59):
This and specifically I didn't know that the I didn't
know that the Italians were so newgat forward. Oh well
it's this. It's this particular treat right here. Okay, Florentine torony.
So I figured, wait, doesn't quarantine mean spinach? No, it's
not spinach nugat?

Speaker 14 (12:16):
Is it it is?

Speaker 5 (12:17):
Can I respectfully decline, No, No, you're gonna You're gonna
like it spinach nugat to celebrate. If I'm squeezing salads
into my mouth, I'll eat me some spinach nugat. I
ain't too proud the Alan Cox Show on one.

Speaker 17 (12:39):
If I had a baby, I'd name it Alan Cox
wrapping in a blanket and give it up for adoption
in one of those countries where you can't drink the water.
What I think of you, Alan Cox.

Speaker 5 (13:16):
It is funny that people telling me kind of texting me,
you know, congrats or whatever. But my favorite are the
ones where people realize how old they are now, right
in context of how long I've been here. Our friend Leslie,
she goes jesus, I was nineteen at Kent State and

(13:36):
now I'm thirty five. I mean, I'm terrible at math,
but that's not right. Yeah, I pretty much figure out
that spot on. Yeah, I was thirty eight when I
moved here. How about that now, Rob, I'm forty one
years old. Time makes fools of us all three years. Congratulations, Hey,
thanks time flies. I will say there is a woman

(14:00):
who was a fan of mine in Pittsburgh, so going
way back, and she used to send me cards to
the radio station. This woman still sends cards.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
Again.

Speaker 5 (14:11):
I don't know what kind of flow chart she's got,
because it's not like she and I ever had some deep,
dark conversation or deep probing conversation. I'm embarrassed to say.
I don't remember if I ever met her in real life,
but this woman still sends emails for my kids' birthdays
for oh yeah, I don't know what I mean. She
couldn't be nicer, but wow, she's got some kind of

(14:34):
calendar boy. For a long time, twenty plus years, she's
been hitting me up and sending cards and the whole bit.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
I sit with you every day and had to put
it in a reminder to remember to wish you a
happy birthday.

Speaker 5 (14:46):
This is what I'm saying. And I don't even care
if people wish me Hi. Now, I understand, but I
didn't want to.

Speaker 3 (14:51):
Come in that day.

Speaker 8 (14:51):
Are you doing?

Speaker 5 (14:52):
Oh what's going on? Don't ever sweat that? Trust me. Well,
you know certain days. So we go to break and
Rob's like, oh, I brought in somebody these Italian these
toroni's right, and they're individually boxed and you open up
the big it looks like a cigar box. They're individually boxed.
NU goods Now, somebody asks a great question. I don't

(15:13):
know why I can't talk today, but I'm just giving
you fair warning. For whatever reason, I tongue tied to
you change the font on the script. I think that's
what yes, you got of that? You know, I was
using uh, what'd you say? Queer? That was the one
that Marco Rubio forced everybody to change. You can't use

(15:36):
calibri anymore. We're all mixed up. Yes, I'm an aptose
man and he made me switch to wing things, so
it's really difficult to follow along. Nevertheless, Rob goes, hey,
these Tortoni's or whatever they are. Gina Tortelli was what
was real pearlman's name on sheers? Uh, Carla Tortelli. These

(15:56):
are good and they're individually boxed. Now who are the
people on these boxes? Are these well, they have their
name prominent Italians. There must be Julia vern and then
there's Ferrante of course, and Tysher Yeah rightlita E Gonzaga whatever,
So anyway to include you know, Jess is back in

(16:17):
studio g and boy, once you open the box, they
are individually wrapped. By the way, are they different flavors?
Somebody on the text did ask a probing question, Rob,
do Italians say nugat or no?

Speaker 3 (16:28):
God a nugat? Oh? You know what, I don't know
what they say in like people who speak Italian's homes.

Speaker 5 (16:34):
But oh, these are like almond. I see what they are.
These are kind of like zero bars.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
Which flavored you go with?

Speaker 5 (16:40):
Oh I just opened one up. Look at the bottom
of the box. Oh, this would be lemon. So you
got lemon, you got orange, and you got vanilla. I
think lemon is a great flavor for any song. Oh,
it is so good for this kind of thing, now
a cup.

Speaker 3 (16:53):
I remember a couple of weeks or maybe months ago,
you mentioned you weren't a new gut guy, and I said,
that's what brought up this conversation was Greek Christmas. This
is the only brand to buy too if you're If
you pick up any of their boxes, it doesn't look
like that doesn't say lt farantine on it.

Speaker 5 (17:07):
Is it safe to assume you have to go to
like an Italian Dell or something.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
To get these? I get them online, But yeah, yeah,
you get them at a usually Italian bakeries will have them.

Speaker 5 (17:14):
You're not gonna get them at a wal Mart. That's
what I'm saying. I mean, you might I never look
for him there, but probably not. I mean, this is delicious.
It tastes like laffy taffy with rocks in it. But
it's rocks, you know, they're called nuts, right mm hm. Anyway,
Rob wants to include Jess because she's back in studio.
G goes to take her some and what did she
say to you? These are French?

Speaker 18 (17:32):
Right?

Speaker 19 (17:32):
Oh? Man?

Speaker 3 (17:34):
He said, no, Well she goes, no, she goes. You
said these were French? I said, I said nothing of
the short.

Speaker 5 (17:38):
We just got done with five minutes talking about how
these Italian candies that his grandmother or whatever. Heck, Jes goes,
these are French.

Speaker 3 (17:45):
French?

Speaker 5 (17:45):
Right, you said these are French?

Speaker 13 (17:47):
Right?

Speaker 3 (17:47):
No, no, no, I didn't.

Speaker 5 (17:50):
They taste like they're wrapped in some kind of like
thin paper. Was there something I was supposed to peel off?

Speaker 3 (17:54):
Nope, that's it. That's supposed to be on there, right, Yeah,
it's just that's just the the the the external nature
of the nugat pretty good, right.

Speaker 5 (18:06):
H Wait do you taste it with a little uh
French move? Clicko, yeah Rob French. Yes, Rob was kind
enough to He was kind enough to remove one of
the bottles from the rider. His contract with iHeart requires

(18:26):
a magnum of vove clicko. They didn't give me a magnium.
This time just on his bottle mal budget cuts on
his desk the first of every month. Oh look at that.
Now it's a party. I just can't have any though,
you're not. That's why I want to feel left out,
trying to have a good time not ruined my life.

(18:48):
You can understood. You can double down on the nuggests.
We'll get you more of that. You know, nothing is
the perfect. Nothing replaces champagne rob better than yeah, nugat,
water and nugat beautifully together. Well wishes from our friend
mailman Mike. May your candy canes be thoroughly licked, your

(19:09):
jingle bells be tickled until they ring. I got you
a surprise to why why? Oh I don't know.

Speaker 3 (19:17):
You didn't have to do that.

Speaker 5 (19:18):
Oops, she read about tricycles. She came in prepared today.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
Oh she did.

Speaker 5 (19:23):
Oh that's awesome. It's a surprise, I think so. Cheers,
cheers salu to the next six day.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
Yes you know what that is. You throw chin down
on the back side of a salute means one hundred years.

Speaker 5 (19:39):
Oh yeah, chin to you chin don all right? May
you live one hundred years? Oh yeah, what if Tony
Soprano was cheersing with us Christ.

Speaker 3 (19:50):
This nugatwen tasty they gotta go with then, Oh, it's
all whose birthday do we celebrate at Christmas?

Speaker 5 (19:57):
Heyesus Jesus Christ.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
Hit me a second, yeah, hey SEUs, hey Zeus right,
he's He's birthday matter with you.

Speaker 14 (20:07):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (20:07):
When Keith Hotchkiss and I were talking this morning about
our accidental longevity, he said that he had a mentor
many years ago, and it's kind of trite and it's simple,
but it does make sense. He was like, you'll have
some longevity if you remember to be the aspirin and
not the headache.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
Is that what he said?

Speaker 5 (20:26):
Yeah, somebody told him that, And he's like, it's simple
and it's trite, but it does It can serve you
well because so many people are a pain in the ass,
you know what I mean? True now, I am a
pain in the ass in my personal life, but professionally, Rob,
I am the aspirin all day long. Put in the
ass and aspirin. Did you see the photo I posted

(20:48):
this morning of the parking garage when I pulled in.
I pulled in, so they're putting new machines in our
parking garage. I think this is when they switch over
to like they're gonna start scanning people's life. Is that correct?
I don't know, man, because I didn't see that anyway
I pulled I used it when I posted the See

(21:09):
I'm so dumb that I get my card out and
then I wonder why it doesn't work, not even paying
attention to the fact that the gate is up. So anyway,
somebody had hand written and then taped a piece of
paper to the parking machine. When you pull in, that
just says go. And of course I posted picture and
make fun of it. But I'm like, but you're the idiot.

(21:31):
You're the one who tried to swipe your card when
the goddamn gate was up. I'm the dope, Rob hoisted
with my own petard. I was just my card finally worked.
Was it up when you came in?

Speaker 19 (21:43):
No?

Speaker 3 (21:43):
Oh your card? Yeah you had to.

Speaker 5 (21:47):
Swiped in. I just looked for the same area or
general area where we used to swipe. Yeah, okay. The
guy's like, yeah, it's working now.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
Sorry.

Speaker 5 (21:57):
Well yeah, when I pulled in again, I didn't even
look ahead of me and I and you know, I
am still getting used to being back in my own car, Rob,
so I'm lower to the ground. Now, whereas before when
I was driving that rental for three weeks, I was
in a Durango, so I was a little higher up
and so I had to lean down to scan my
car rob And now now it's like a lateral thing,

(22:17):
the one eye level. It's fine, very.

Speaker 16 (22:22):
It really was.

Speaker 3 (22:25):
It was different.

Speaker 5 (22:26):
And so then I come in and again I don't
mean for this to be mundane, but like two things
happened in quick succession that that kind of cracked me up.
One was I was a moron and wasn't even paying
attention that the gate was up, and so I'm saying that,
and the thing says, go, So I get in. I
pull in my car and there is like a little
hallway that walks you from the parking garage to the

(22:49):
body of our building and then down a long hallway
here into the iHeart suite. One of the ladies on
the cleaning crew was directly on the other side of
the door. To get into this building, not into our suite.
To get into this building from the parking garage, you
gotta scan your card. Again, it's a magnetic door. She
was right against the door with her back to the door,

(23:13):
and she's vacuuming or something. Right, she's on the cleaning crew,
so she's doing her job. I Ope, she's got earbuds in.
Oh no, so she's not gonna hear me. Not only that,
she was far enough away from the door where she
didn't even know the doors being opened. So I, in
an attempt to not startle her, I opened the door.
She had her earbuds on her back. I lightly put

(23:34):
my hand on her back so she would know I
was there. She went through the roof. Oh yeah, she
went through. I mean she started laughing. I mean, she
recognizes me and knows what. She went through the goddamn ceiling.
When I did that, I was like, oh my god,
just feel a hand on your back. Well, there was

(23:55):
no way around that, you know what I mean, Like
I was gonna I mean, you got your hella. Yeah,
I mean she had her earbuds in and she's whatever,
That's fine. I just didn't want what am I gonna
kick the back of her heel with my shoe? But
you know how like I'm trying to get in here.

Speaker 3 (24:11):
Once you get into the garage, like the doors are
kind of yucky and stuff, so I try not to
like touch much. So yesterday. I'm walking into the building
from when we park, you know what I mean. So
the door swings open to the to the stairs. Yes,
I used my foot and I pushed kind of hard
smacked a dog a dog dogs because you couldn't see

(24:31):
it through the wind obviously, I mean, it's yeah, it's
a closed door, and I just hear and I and
I was like, oh, And I looked and I saw
a dog. And two people are like, oh my god,
I'm so sorry. But I didn't address them. I addressed
the dog. I'm like, I'm so sorry, puppy. And they're like, oh,
he's fine, he's fine, it's no big deal. Like, how
do you know he's fine.

Speaker 5 (24:48):
Tell you maybe he takes a lot of hits. Maybe
he's already touched in the head. And you know, well,
it definitely didn't hit him in the head. It was
more I could see because it was like his his
rear end, like he was kind of making the turn. Oh,
got him in the butt, that's okay. But still I
still smacked him pretty good. Oh they're padded. He's a
big labod Go boy. Yeah, no big deal. God, there,

(25:09):
I don't know the name of the account and there's
probably a lot of them, but there's a one that
I follow on Instagram that's just people getting scared, right,
like their coworkers are pranking them and scaring them. So
it's just somebody walking down the hall and then someone
around the corner goes bah, and just people's natural reaction
to that. It's a primal, natural reaction of fears. People

(25:32):
make these weird faces. Some people scream bloody murder. There's
one where a guy who looks like he's important. He's
wearing a suit, he looks like a branch manager or something,
and somebody's filming him and somebody asks him to take
out the garbage, and so he walks over and goes
to grab the plastic like drum liner that looks like
the garbage, but there's a coworker in there and he

(25:55):
grabs it. She jumps out. This guy craps his pants,
falls backwards. I mean, you know, everybody ends up laughing
in the whole thing. They're good natured about it, but
god damn is that funny to me?

Speaker 3 (26:05):
Oh I don't like getting scared, well, I don't. I
hate that. I don't like.

Speaker 5 (26:08):
Frank humor, but watching because they're good natured about it.
I guess you kind of have to be. Some people
will get angry, but those aren't the people that are
included in this montage. Just people. Because it's like co workers,
I have to assume it's people who like know the
other person really well and would feel comfortable doing that
to them. I would never do that to anybody ever,
but it's so funny to me. I don't even go

(26:30):
to hunted houses. Well, I don't mind that. I don't
go just because I think they're kind of it's not
for me, But I don't mind that. But I don't
like surprises. Don't like that. Don't like a surprise. People
have known me well enough to have never once girlfriends, friends, wives,
Not one person has ever thrown me a surprise party
because they know better. But watching other people get scared

(26:55):
momentarily is funny to me.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
I told you I had some ideas for today, and
I'm like, it's not the guy I want to know.
It's just not what I want to do, not the
guy I want to surprise.

Speaker 5 (27:04):
No, you chose wisely. Listen, I'll bob and weave. But
it's like, you know, ideally that ain't for me. You
see it coming if I walked into a room and
it is that pride. First of all, good luck filling
a room with people who want to go to a surprise.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
Party for me, Just put a smile on your face.

Speaker 5 (27:21):
I don't have a lot of friends, so you'd really
you'd have your work cut out for you trying to
come up with that guest list. But also I wouldn't
care for it. Wouldn't care for it. I also follow
a lot of fitness influencers rob because I try to
keep myself in shape, exercise daily, lift a lot. But
they all kind of have various permutations of the same thing. Right,

(27:46):
there's a lot of goes. You got four thousand grams
of protein and O or that kind of stuff. That's nonsense,
but you know what I mean. But there's some people
who kind of focus on sleep hygiene. You've heard the
term sleep hygiene, Yes, how you can set yourself up
for success when you're sleeping. I try to get good sleep.
I never do. I'm not a good sleeper. But there

(28:08):
are things you can do to set yourself up, and
they're like get off your phone an hour and a
half before bed. Good luck for anybody. Blackout curtains that
kind of stuff some people will take. I mean, if
you take something before you go to bed, that's kind
of a short cut.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
That's fine.

Speaker 5 (28:23):
But the one that makes me laugh is first thing
in the morning, get thirty minutes of sunlight. It's really
good for I'm like, bro, I live in Ohio. All right,
we don't get thirty minutes of sun a week this
whole winter. You're not gonna get thirty minutes. No, if
you live in San Diego, you go, yeah, you throw
the curtains open. It's like a detergent commercial. But I'm like,
thirty minutes of morning sunlight. Yeah, that would be great.

(28:43):
I would love to do that. Just take a d supplement,
you'd be all right, it's I mean, I do that,
But there's nothing like sunlight.

Speaker 3 (28:50):
Man, No, I agree, I mean, I'm I'll tell you
what I've found works to help sleep. To lose almost
forty pounds. That what a tremendous this way to get
yourself some sleep. But how did you do that? Well, Alan,
I've been working with the good people at mentality Health
mentality health dot.

Speaker 5 (29:09):
Com, slash radio. Are you serious?

Speaker 14 (29:11):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (29:11):
I am serious.

Speaker 5 (29:12):
So if you they put in mentalityhealth dot com Slash Radio. Yeah,
it would be like, hey, I'm Rob, is there a
picture of you? And now before and after? No, it'll
ask you some questions and you get your answer a
little lit so one of them, do you want to
look vaguely like the coach of the Cleveland Browns.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
If you lost a significant amount of well, no was it?
He didn't say significant? What was it? A good amount
of weight? There you go, if you lost some weight.

Speaker 5 (29:35):
Like a good amount of weight already is our own
Robinward Anthony is probably gonna last in Cleveland longer than
Kevin stefanskis. Yeah, but he was here before me, so well,
I still have some work to do if I'm gonna
stick around. All things being equal, Yes, I would love
to be getting that thirty minutes of morning sun. But
here in the Buckeye State, it's not to be.

Speaker 3 (29:54):
The sun was out this morning, for I know it was.
I went outside shoveled some snow. Yeah, today was a
great more. We're supposed to have a nic day coming up.
I'd be like fifty or something like that in two
days that Thursday.

Speaker 5 (30:03):
And like that, yup, I'll be in Toronto, or it'll
probably be twelve degrees.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
That's right, you're traveling.

Speaker 20 (30:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (30:09):
See, I I don't even know what I'm gonna do
with myself the first couple of days.

Speaker 5 (30:14):
When we get back from Canada, I don't either. I mean, well,
it's right into Christmas and I got a nine year old,
so there's a lot of that. My daughter keeps asking
me every night when I put her in bed, are
you excited about Christmas? And it's like, I don't want
to be a dick, but you know, she knows who
her dad is. I'm like, honey, I'm excited for you. Right,
that's a good dodge, that's a great answer. I'm excited
for you. I said, I'm a cause she's like, why

(30:35):
don't you have She's kind of half joking, She's like,
why don't you have summers off? I go because I'm
an adult, and the only adults who have summers off
usually are school teachers. So I'm like, adults work all
the time, all year long. I'm like, I'm really fortunate
that I have a lot of vacation at work and
I'm able to take you know, a couple of weeks

(30:57):
at the end of the year around Christmas. But I said,
most people aren't that lucky? They worked their ass off
all the time. But I'm like, I'm excited for you
for Christmas. Right, I couldn't give a fat frog's ass
about Christmas, but I'm excited for you. I don't have
to be excited. And she seemed to be okay with

(31:17):
that answer. Seemed to be okay with that answer, A
solid answer. Yeah, people are reminding me. I forget about this.
We did have a short lived social media series called
Scarica when our own Erica Lauren is on the program
and Bill Squire would hide to run corners. He would
hide to run corners and scare her jump out or whatever,
and she, oh god, it was so good. Maybe that's

(31:39):
what got me into it. Maybe I remember Scarica and
I have some maybe some sentimental attachment to that.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (31:50):
I don't think that we could reproduce that with Jess.
There's fewer corners in this place, frankly, and secondly, she
doesn't strike me as a gal who gets easily right
right if the corner, I went blah, I get to
see you going eh, And well, I guess no, I
am you are what I'm scared all the time. Oh

(32:11):
you are really Yeah, why because you're a woman in America? No,
thank you, thank you, Rob Show, the media, thank you.
I'm an ally thank you. No, I just I don't
know if it's like if I least expect it, Well,
that is the best time. That is the best time
to surprise someone when they least expect it, when they

(32:32):
most expect it. That's the least fun time to scare somebody.

Speaker 6 (32:35):
Like you ever driving in your car and then you
look over and there's someone standing outside your window?

Speaker 5 (32:41):
What that's never happened when I'm driving somebody's running alongside
my car. Oh wait, I guess you're parked.

Speaker 6 (32:47):
Yeah, you're sitting in your car, just mining your own
and you look over and there's someone standing staring at
you and it doesn't know.

Speaker 5 (32:57):
Anywise. Again, she's a chick, she's a girl in a America.
You're dealing with things we aren't. You'll be parked in
your car and somebody standing how far away, like at
the window, at the windows? Well, what purpose?

Speaker 6 (33:08):
Well, sometimes it's to say hi. Sometimes it was my neighbor.
These are people, you know, the neighbor. Well, he wasn't creepy,
he was just troubled.

Speaker 5 (33:16):
And but these are people you know.

Speaker 6 (33:18):
No, Well, one time in Chicago is uh in a
what was I a Dunkin Donuts line? And then this
homeless woman with no pants on. I didn't it's a
whole other my window and started pounding on the road,
but I didn't see her.

Speaker 5 (33:32):
That's like a daily equipment. You get somebody donald duck
in it up to you. You know, they got half
a turtle head poking out and they want It's not
like I was expecting it. So yeah, it was true
if you're living in Chicago, Jess and you don't expect
pantsless homeless people.

Speaker 6 (33:48):
Oh, I got chased down the street by a homeless
guy before because I was holding a cigarette and he
wanted it.

Speaker 5 (33:54):
It was great. She stuck her in her coin slot
Rob and said, come.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
Get in there.

Speaker 5 (34:00):
Some of this. Yeah, I think there's one puff left.

Speaker 20 (34:06):
The Allen Cox Show on one hundred point seven call
the Alan Cox Show.

Speaker 5 (34:14):
Girls, this is your opportunity right here. A nice boy,
let me tell you that two six one.

Speaker 10 (34:20):
Double o seven or three four eight one double oh seven?

Speaker 5 (34:46):
W Yes? Too many texted asking me, I just has

(35:26):
nice feet. No, they're playing off our friend Mary Santora.
That question selling pictures of her feet. I went quick
with it, man, I got there, you have it, I
do her and drunk sue. How does one get a bunyon?
Was that a postpartum development or no?

Speaker 6 (35:46):
I used to actually get foot surgery on my really,
I found out I was pregnant.

Speaker 5 (35:51):
Which foot is this?

Speaker 20 (35:52):
My right?

Speaker 5 (35:53):
Is this on the inside or the outside of the foot?
I don't what.

Speaker 3 (35:59):
It's like?

Speaker 21 (35:59):
Sorry?

Speaker 8 (36:00):
Sorry?

Speaker 5 (36:00):
Which side of your foot?

Speaker 3 (36:02):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (36:02):
Like you're inside art your big toe? Is this from wearing?
Is it from wearing?

Speaker 3 (36:09):
Wait?

Speaker 5 (36:09):
On top on the knuckle, but on top? Yeah, on
the top of your toe? Oh really? I thought bunions
were like on the side of the foot. Well, yeah,
below the big toe usually right like on the side there.
I'll show it to you. Oh okay, I'm okay. Description
is good. Yeah, come on, I'm drinking voove clicko back
here a couple away and yet not far enough with

(36:32):
that yourself and the amoral words of the Georgia satellites. Hey, listen,
how about is it from like were you a dancer?
Is it wearing sage shoes? As it wearing uncomfortable heels? Well,
I've always had it pretty sure, but it got worse
over the years. It's genetic. Bunions are genetics.

Speaker 6 (36:51):
Yeah, but then also like yeah, I wear five and
shields on stage and run around and tight shoes and.

Speaker 5 (36:56):
I need footwear. I don't think I knew bunyons were genetic.
Mm hmm. I wonder if the guys in Kiss have bunions.
Rob they probably do, right, Like every guy I remember
the first time I dated a girl who was a dancer.
Every guy thinks it's gonna be great to date a dancer.
I'm talking about like a class like a ballet dancer

(37:18):
or something. You know, they think it's gonna be great
because they have this stereotypical idea in their mind that
she's gonna be all flexible and she's good blah blah blah.
If you've ever seen a girl's feet who has danced
for a long time, right in those point shoes mangled,
dance mangled. Remember Eddie Murphy and Boomerang worried about the
hammer toes.

Speaker 3 (37:36):
It's like that get the toes like like they're just
doing like they're crossing their fingers, like these toes all
over the place when up from doing ballet for some
whole lengths are all weird.

Speaker 18 (37:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (37:47):
Yeah, I was so pumped to get my surgery and
I was I was so close. Now what did they do?
Just shave it off?

Speaker 6 (37:54):
What they were Well, mine was gonna be minimally invasive.
They like do two like cuts in your foot and
they take a saw and the shoving.

Speaker 5 (38:01):
Your evasive off.

Speaker 3 (38:04):
Yeah, and then imagine what the invasive version, the maximally invasive.

Speaker 5 (38:09):
We'll use a we use a minimally invasive saw. Oh cool,
Oh glad to hear that. Just go ahead and cut
a huge chunk of the bone out. It's very minimally
just shave it off. I would like my colonoscopy to
be minimally invasive, but there's really fundamentally no way around
a lot of those to box you can check. I
want the invasive versions, please extra invasive, please, I want

(38:32):
to remember it. Yeah, no, what is it? What is
that called anesthesia? Yeah? You are a delight. Okay, So
is this septic? Well that's what they could use those? Yeah,
use that too. Is there is that on the docket

(38:53):
for twenty twenty six or it's very much on the
back burner.

Speaker 7 (38:55):
Now.

Speaker 5 (38:56):
I know you've got a lot of things going on.
You're very busy. Well, I don't know me eventually down
the line, just the one foot Yeah, really is it painful?
Oh yeah all the time. What was the deal back
in the day, rob come pound w I know that
was for wards warts.

Speaker 13 (39:12):
Like.

Speaker 5 (39:12):
My great grandma had really bad bunions.

Speaker 6 (39:14):
And then I swear this is real and no one
believes me, but one of our activities as her great grandchildren,
she would make us pound her bunions.

Speaker 5 (39:21):
Oh no, I believe it. My grandmother, my grandmother had
bunions too, and she was always trying to get me
to like help with her bunions. Yeah, we had pound
them like little hammers, little tiny baby fists. Yeah, it's
so gross, my departed grandmother. No bunyon bunyan's grandma bunyons

(39:43):
two completely different things. Grandma pound my bunyon. So I
had that on VHS.

Speaker 3 (39:49):
I'm going to be doing this my whole break, going
to be a thrice daily pounding my bunion. Grandma?

Speaker 5 (39:57):
What would you call people who wouldn't pound your bunions?
All right, grandma, gods must really hurt. Bunyans are often hereditary,
but you inherit. Foot structures like flat feet loose ligaments
or abnormal bone alignment. I'm playing abnormal bone alignment on
two Hours to Midnight Rob. Of course I'm lying. Because

(40:18):
we're on hiatus through the holidays. I will be playing
genetic bunyans though when we return.

Speaker 3 (40:23):
Can't wait.

Speaker 5 (40:24):
That's a request for Stephen Canton. Yeah, so bunyans. Wow, Yeah,
I know those from my grandmother. I know those from
when drunk Sue calls. Didn't she just call us about
her bunions. She's got all kinds of stuff wrong with
that foot. I think bunyans are the are the least
of her problems.

Speaker 3 (40:43):
It does seem like foot issues are the See we
were talking about skin things being the big problem according
to all the medicine commercials here yesterday, autoimmune stuff. But
now I'm thinking foot might be the number one issue
of listeners. In the Allan Cox Show, it's Stripper Scott
with his foothole.

Speaker 5 (41:01):
Well soon, I mean, stripper Scott has every box checked.
He's got that fun what's it called an ulcer the foot?

Speaker 14 (41:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (41:09):
Something?

Speaker 3 (41:10):
Yeah, es with the bunyon It's just like a big
foot issue. Drunk Sue has like twelve things wrong with
her feet.

Speaker 5 (41:16):
Yeah, and there are two unsuspecting Russian escorts who saw
a drunks uh stripper Scott's leaky feet.

Speaker 3 (41:24):
Well, it was hitting six with men. They turned around
a nicey leaky foot.

Speaker 5 (41:29):
I say, what is these leaky foot? Why is bed
that's supposed to be wet for this.

Speaker 3 (41:35):
That you have six with men with leaky foot?

Speaker 7 (41:37):
Two?

Speaker 5 (41:39):
When I say spray it on my on my backside,
not what I mean. I don't mean leaky foot. Keep
being the leaky foot, please, I expect something else. Why
is a liquid so voluminous?

Speaker 3 (41:52):
Now we are Eskimo's sisters.

Speaker 5 (41:53):
On top of being sister sisters, this is fantastic news.
You know, a Bunyon is genetically or medically called a
hallis valgas, which is rad Hallas valgas Hallas hallix h
a l l ux valgus v a l g us Martha. Yes,
it was one of the characters in Game of Thrones, probably,

(42:16):
although I didn't watch that show. Same here, Now there's
a show I should watch. When people talk about, oh,
watch a show, watch a show, I should watch Game
of Thrones. I heard it ended so poorly that it
ruined everything for everyone that watched it. Yeah, but those
are people who had a very parasocial relationship with that show.
It's still a television show, and I whatever, it's fine

(42:36):
if you're going to rewatch something. We re watched The Sopranos.
I already did that. Oh did you my well, two
Christmases ago on vacation because my wife, she's ten years
behind me, she had never seen it, and I watched
it first run and I was like, wow, this is
a nineties show. It is it's still so good. It's
so good. Yeah. So yeah, we watched The Sopranos. I've
watched it like five times. I was gonna say we
could absolutely watch it again, but she almost bailed when

(42:58):
he took the gun out of the fish, I think
episode two. She's like, give me a break. I was like, no,
it gets better, Halex Valgas, is what our little Jessica
Ann Hutchinson has? Left foot?

Speaker 3 (43:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (43:11):
Right foot? Hey foot, straw foot? Okay, right foot this time?
Foot this time?

Speaker 15 (43:20):
Now?

Speaker 5 (43:21):
The left foot has phantom pain from when I broke it.
Oh that sounds scary. Yeah, it's spooky, all right?

Speaker 3 (43:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (43:31):
Oh god, what was that song you were just singing?
Cuid shuffle right, No, it's the it's the chachas slide slide.
I'm embarrassed because I used to work with that guy
when I hosted at Chicago Sky Games before he came
to Cleveland. I was the arena host for the w
NBA of Chicago Slide Chicago Sky and that guy is

(43:52):
from Chicago, and they would have the guy, mister C
the slide man.

Speaker 7 (43:57):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (43:57):
They would have him on the floor doing the cha
cha slide. All of the people could come down from
the stands and it was all females in that crowd.
It's probably gotten more diverse now in WNBA is on
their glow up, But in two thousand and seven and eight,

(44:18):
I mean it was adult lesbians and it was junior
high and high school female basketball players, and so they
everybody would come down on the floor and do the chop.
I had to be on the floor, rob doing the
cha chaw slide.

Speaker 3 (44:32):
Would you do it? I had to No, you don't
have to do anything.

Speaker 5 (44:36):
Well, I'm a goer. I mean they were paying me
to be the arena host. So I would bring mister C,
the Cha Chaw slide man down and he would you
would cha cha slide? I would cha cha slide. This
is the greatest information I've ever read.

Speaker 3 (44:51):
Put two stops.

Speaker 5 (44:55):
I mean, the whole video is shot in and around
the city of Chicago, so it's you know, everybody.

Speaker 3 (45:02):
Real smooth. I want this video.

Speaker 5 (45:07):
There is no video of me doing the Cha Chaws
slide at a Chicago Sky game. There might be I
had them all scrubbed from the Internet. No, there might be,
but I wouldn't have no clue the streisan, the fame.
I would have no idea.

Speaker 3 (45:28):
Where it was.

Speaker 19 (45:29):
Alan.

Speaker 5 (45:29):
Game of Thrones sucks in all caps. Don't waste your time.
Too many good shows out there exactly the same thing. Okay,
finger out, Roberto, don't watch Game of Thrones. The last
two seasons are dookie, Wow.

Speaker 3 (45:45):
Alan.

Speaker 5 (45:45):
My bunyon was so bad that I had to get
a plate in six screws and now my foot is deformed.
Why all that to shave off some bone?

Speaker 3 (45:54):
Keep? Oh God for you?

Speaker 5 (45:57):
Yeah, keep the bunion.

Speaker 3 (45:59):
And the good news is the was deformed before that. So,
I mean, it's kind of a this is how you
freak people out?

Speaker 5 (46:06):
Is what could go wrong?

Speaker 19 (46:07):
Right?

Speaker 5 (46:07):
I had my vasectomy a couple of years ago, a
done by our own doctor, Ryan Bergland. Right, I was
in good hands literally and figuratively. I had two nurses
rob one of them training. I had two nurses, and
they have to tell you listen, obviously, with any surgical procedure,
there are things that could go wrong. Now I trusted

(46:28):
him implicitly, it's at the top of his game. I
was not worried, but in the back of your brain,
you like, because we would hear calls from people, we
would do is it red right?

Speaker 8 (46:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (46:37):
I had one and my nutsack swelled up like you
know Penny Wise's balloon, and I'm like, what don't want that?

Speaker 3 (46:44):
Remember I had the overstitch. Yeah, my old Italian doctor
gave me the the city put in a little too
much stitch. When he went back to look, yeah, oh yeah,
I put it too much stitch. Like, oh, that's that's great,
It's gonna be fine. The doll you had the really
old guy. He was old dude, Yeah he was. He
was definitely. I guarantee you he is long retired.

Speaker 11 (47:03):
Now.

Speaker 3 (47:04):
I put it too many stitch because it was really tight,
you know, like every time i'd move, I felt like
something was going to tear. So I called the doctor
to get checked out and they're like, yeah, you can
come in.

Speaker 5 (47:14):
That's fine.

Speaker 3 (47:15):
I came in and he he grabs one of those
chairs like there's a stool, but I don't know why
he didn't use them with the wheels, and he pulls
it over and so it's like he has like a
little spelunker helmet light on and he crouches down. He
take it down to you, Pence, and I did, and
he looks and he moves some things around. He pokes

(47:35):
at the hole the little you know, stitches, and he goes, oh,
that's my fault.

Speaker 5 (47:39):
I put it too much a stitch. I said, okay, and.

Speaker 3 (47:43):
He goes, could you give me one fewer? He goes,
you want to be fine? He dissolves. He you gonna
be good. You're gonna be good. Yeah, I said, okay, doctor,
thank you. Oh yeah, that guy man From the second
I knew I wanted that got to be my doctor.
From the the millisecond I met him. He walked in,
I mean maybe five five old kind of shuffles over. Okay,

(48:04):
here's the how these procedures are going to go.

Speaker 5 (48:06):
He was snipping sacks in the old country.

Speaker 3 (48:08):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever you could find that was
sharp is what he was using when he first started
doing it, you know what I mean. And he's just like,
I'm going to use this a rubber band to put
around a your penis and I'm going to banana clip
it up to your shoes.

Speaker 5 (48:21):
He was like, doing you like a horse. Sure he
wasn't a veterinarian.

Speaker 3 (48:24):
He's telling me he's gonna keep it out of the way.
I'm going to keep your penis out of the way
of the I mean, Berglan did not do any of them.

Speaker 5 (48:31):
I'm like, I don't, I don't. I don't know who
you think you're talking to.

Speaker 3 (48:33):
But you're not gonna have to worry about a rubber
band on anything come surgery day, because that thing's gonna
take care of itself.

Speaker 18 (48:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (48:40):
And he did the procedure. He's doing you like a horse.
Well if the shoe and if the shoe fits. Yeah.
But he it was the greatest thing ever that surgery
day that the smoke you know, comes up when they
cauterize the thing. Yeah, And he looks at me and
he goes, it's okay, you know, on five and I'm like, yeah,

(49:01):
I kind of hoping I wasn't do you know, on fire.
I love the only the only part that bummed me
out about that whole procedure. At the end, you got
to sign that paper and it says you're being discharged.

Speaker 5 (49:11):
Everything was fine, blah blah blah blah.

Speaker 3 (49:13):
This procedure has rendered you sterile, right, And there was
that little bit of me that I was like, that sucks.

Speaker 5 (49:20):
I just left a piece of myself in that room.
I'm so happy.

Speaker 3 (49:23):
Oh I was too. I mean, because you can what's
the goalies pull to You're great everything, yes, but there's
still that party. You're like, No, I'm not a man anymore.

Speaker 5 (49:33):
I'm not an NFL player. I don't need thirteen kids. Like, yeah,
hey Karen, Hi, Karen, what'd you do that for?

Speaker 8 (49:43):
Caen?

Speaker 3 (49:45):
Karen? How could you do that? Karen? Karen?

Speaker 5 (49:48):
All right, yes, hello, Karen.

Speaker 22 (49:50):
I love the soprano.

Speaker 3 (49:51):
That's one of my favorites. Fellows.

Speaker 5 (49:53):
Yeah, that's all right. We are saying, listen, the same universe,
right right.

Speaker 2 (49:58):
So I just had that surgery on my foot last
Wednesday for the actually I had bone spurs and.

Speaker 5 (50:06):
Yeah, like the like the president whatever, yeah, president bone spurs. Yeah,
well but those are very painful. Yes, oh my godness,
were fake a bone spurs?

Speaker 3 (50:19):
Right?

Speaker 16 (50:19):
Oh?

Speaker 22 (50:19):
It's a oh my gosh.

Speaker 5 (50:21):
They got real hot and the.

Speaker 14 (50:23):
Skin was turned brief feet red and you couldn't walk
on it.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
I was careful, but the surgery was awesome, and I
went Monday for her to take the bandages off. I
go next Monday to get the stitches out.

Speaker 14 (50:36):
But probably the best thing I ever did.

Speaker 5 (50:38):
So your two thumbs up, ten out of ten. Absolutely okay.

Speaker 14 (50:43):
I would encourage anybody that has this to get it done.

Speaker 3 (50:46):
You know, you said it right.

Speaker 2 (50:47):
Hey, look mine was Hayle's rigid iss, which is uh
oh halex.

Speaker 5 (50:53):
Yeah, okay, Well there you go, Jess. Exhibit A is
Karen is living her best life on the other side
of this bunyan procedure.

Speaker 3 (51:01):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
And they said, which I thought was kind of was
kind of gross because I thought when you hear.

Speaker 5 (51:08):
Gout, I think that it being dirty. But I had
gout in my in.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
My foot also in my toe, and it was like
like crystallized in my foot.

Speaker 5 (51:17):
And she said that was the main source of my pain,
was the goy. Well, gout is just a buildup of
uric acid, right, so like kidney stones and things like that.
So it's yeah, okay, so you're you're on the mend
and you're happy you did it.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
Oh my gosh, yeah, I got to get the other
foot done.

Speaker 5 (51:33):
But yeah, if if we see, is this hereditary for
you or what?

Speaker 2 (51:40):
I don't think anybody in my family ever had but
but but I heard it was hereditary. But I don't
believe anybody in my family had any problems.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
Like, how do you get it?

Speaker 5 (51:50):
If anybody sees Karen skipping up and down Euclid Avenue,
it's because she's living her best life post Bunyan surgery.
Oh it's spur. Oh, it's bone spur.

Speaker 3 (52:00):
Like what's like the NBA team.

Speaker 5 (52:01):
I mean, I'm sure that there are bone sperms. Rob
that would be very, very painful for the young ladies
who are receiving that. Okay, thank you, Karen. I appreciate
the input there.

Speaker 6 (52:12):
I have a question, all right, what's the difference between
hereditary and genetic?

Speaker 5 (52:17):
Is it the same thing?

Speaker 23 (52:18):
It is?

Speaker 5 (52:19):
Yes? I think they're just yes. If that is a hereditary,
it's passed down through other members of your family, and
genetic is probably more directly scientific than hereditary. Okay, but yeah,
you're talking about shades of difference there, right, Sure, I'm
sure that one of our scientists in our listening audience

(52:44):
will let us know there is a different I mean
I know that. I mean genetics would be like a
course of study, but hereditary relatively the same thing, right,
passing your traits.

Speaker 3 (53:00):
I'm just happy I now know the difference between a
bone spur and a bone sperm, because I thought those
were the same.

Speaker 5 (53:05):
I thought it was sperm all these years. No, not sperm, Rob.

Speaker 3 (53:10):
I wondered why that was an issue for people. I
was like, how does that get done to your foot?

Speaker 10 (53:13):
No?

Speaker 3 (53:14):
Makes sense?

Speaker 5 (53:15):
Yeah, well listen, once we have those vasectomies, rob, our
body just absorbs it, right, every I do have it
in the That's how it gets into your foot.

Speaker 3 (53:24):
Makes sense?

Speaker 5 (53:25):
Yeah, it makes so much sense. This is where the
science part of the show comes.

Speaker 3 (53:30):
Door back into the body distributes itself elsewhere. You know,
sperm and the bones, bone sperms. Kling Jack, thank you
the urling Cock Show.

Speaker 9 (53:44):
On one.

Speaker 11 (53:50):
One OF's most pressing questions, what do I like about
helling Cock, finally answered.

Speaker 3 (54:00):
Al right, I don't like much about you.

Speaker 5 (54:01):
Cee Allen Cockshaw and.

Speaker 8 (54:03):
One ms.

Speaker 5 (54:18):
Text me three five Alan Jess can pound my bunions
any day. Well, golly, that's got to make it feel good.
Five dollars as an accomplished woman, right, five dollars. There
it is, guys, leave the bunyon, take the canoli. Somebody said,
Never in my life would I have thought that the

(54:39):
phrase pound my bunions would turn me on.

Speaker 3 (54:42):
But here we are.

Speaker 5 (54:43):
Well, your brain tells you what you like, right, You
never really know? Rob got me a butt plug for
my sixteenth anniversary here today at WMMS.

Speaker 3 (54:51):
Yeah, I apologize.

Speaker 5 (54:52):
I didn't know that was yours man, little did I know?
It's okay, It's all right. Eh, Hey your Ollier's. They
are playing tomorrow night, back to back games against the
Chicago Bowls at the United Center.

Speaker 3 (55:07):
Tomorrow night.

Speaker 5 (55:07):
It's an eight o'clock tip, and then they are back
here at home on Friday night, seven thirty start at
the Rocket Arena, Bulls Calves on your FM home for
Cleveland Cavaliers basketball one hundred point seven WMMS.

Speaker 3 (55:20):
How'd you like that?

Speaker 5 (55:21):
Just a straight read? That's a straight one night, straight read. Yeah, well,
you really are having a hard time with this script, Rob.
The script is just the bones of the show. And
then we can kind of go off in whatever direction
we want.

Speaker 3 (55:34):
Man.

Speaker 5 (55:34):
Okay, by the way, I feel like I should have
another one of these nugats.

Speaker 3 (55:39):
They're good, Man.

Speaker 5 (55:39):
Which can you going for next?

Speaker 20 (55:40):
Well?

Speaker 5 (55:40):
I had the lemon. Yeah, I've got an orange and
a vanilla. Vanilla is my favorite. Well, I feel like
I want to save the orange for last, so I'll
try the vanilla. Rob brought in these Italian nugots. What
is it called Portillo's or something or yes, Portillo's Il Florentine, right, yeah,
la law Florentine and then Toroni Toroni. Now what does

(56:03):
that mean? Is it? These are almond nugats? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (56:08):
Yeah, it's different flavored.

Speaker 5 (56:10):
Gotcha, but nugat really good almondod right, oh you eat
them all. I didn't try the orange one yet. What
are the what are the range of flavors? Is there
a pistachio in there, like something that would lend itself
to pistasia?

Speaker 3 (56:25):
Not in that, but that's very good. If someone was
making it at home, you would absolutely see excuse me,
a pistachio version. There's a I've never seen it for sale,
but I had an aunt that used to make this,
and yeah it had She would put all different kinds
of nuts and stuff into it.

Speaker 5 (56:43):
Are are the people on the little boxes like famous
Italians through history or a good question? I don't.

Speaker 3 (56:49):
I never never looked all these years, it's been the
same people on the boxes. So I know what what
flavors what based on the person.

Speaker 5 (56:56):
But now your mom, your mom is Portuguese correct Italian
fifty fifty? Oh she has well? Were there were their
Portuguese candies when you.

Speaker 3 (57:04):
Were a kid. What I can think of this was
the woman on Christmas Day would bring these out. This
would be would be boxes of this stuff. What do
you think of the vanilla.

Speaker 5 (57:15):
Tastes like vanilla does? Are you more of a citrus
guy when it comes to this kind of thing?

Speaker 13 (57:21):
I am?

Speaker 5 (57:23):
So you like the broader experience. The lemon was great.
I saved the orange for last, That's my favorite. I
didn't realize that the opposite end of the box gives
the flavor. In Italian it does vanilla, and then in
Italian it's vanilla. Nope, Vanidia. There you go Vaniglia. Huh, Vanilia?
And then for last, I've saved orange arancio, which is

(57:47):
very similar to Spanish I believe, isn't. It's Naranja. Isn't
that orange in Spanish? M M, all right, well I'll
save that, all right. Ages.

Speaker 18 (57:57):
Hey boys, it's Becky from Wayne County.

Speaker 5 (58:00):
Becky from Wayne County. Now Rob leads all of her
messages addressing Jess. Girl power not us. Right, we have
so quickly taken a back seat. Maybe that's why it's
supposed to be perfect. Maybe the Robin Jess Show is
not far behind. Maybe that's sixteen years at today. Right,

(58:22):
I'll be relegated to Studio G guest starring Alan Jess
Robb show. You want to talk about?

Speaker 3 (58:29):
Uh to Rony? Is this Allen?

Speaker 5 (58:31):
No, it's not Allen. Didn't you used to be shut up?
What are you wanna talking about?

Speaker 3 (58:37):
More likely than not, it'll be Hey Allen Cox Show,
it's Rob. Yeah, I'm answering phones again.

Speaker 5 (58:43):
Yeah, with all of your expertise earlier in the program.

Speaker 18 (58:48):
Hey Jess, Hey boys, it's Becky from Wayne County. I
just wanted to say a big thank you to you
all for this year and all the hard work I
know you put into the show, helping us forget our
cree the lives for a minute and helping us forget
lyrics to songs like poly jolly Christmas. I couldn't even
tell you the real lyrics and Jess love you. I

(59:11):
know you're just started, but you're so so adorable. And
some of us forget things like that raisins are dried grapes.

Speaker 5 (59:17):
Oh shut up, Becky. Becky is trolling me right there
on the good for you. One time I said, how
come nobody's ever dehydrated grapes? And boy, people won't let
me forget it. They will not let me forget it's
a good question. We were talking about dehydrated fruit many
many years ago, and I was like, oh, they got
apples and they got this, and how comes nobody? How

(59:39):
come nobody's ever dehydrate grapes? And my wife goes, you
mean raisins? I go, oh, right right, I was thinking,
like a little slices of them.

Speaker 3 (59:46):
You should have just see.

Speaker 5 (59:47):
You could have fixed that quick though. No, well not
in the moment. I wasn't quick enough.

Speaker 3 (59:51):
Of course, you could have been like, yeah, I know
about raisins. I meant, uh, different grapes.

Speaker 5 (59:58):
Oh oh come, we're not peeling them and dehydrating the
skins for tannin Jerseys.

Speaker 3 (01:00:05):
I wanted something different. See, of course, Raisins. Duh, Yeah,
like I did no Raisins, But in that moment I didn't.

Speaker 5 (01:00:12):
This when you lie and Tannin jerky is nothing that
anybody is going to be excited about.

Speaker 3 (01:00:17):
Wine drinkers. Maybe those guys who love gigantic, big wines
full of Tannin's.

Speaker 5 (01:00:22):
I guess, so, Biff, you know who called us again?
Gene Simmons.

Speaker 3 (01:00:27):
Oh good.

Speaker 5 (01:00:28):
Gene Simmons of Kiss will check in with us occasionally,
and I gotta tell you, I feel like I've noticed
a little bit of a pattern. It's when he will
come under some scrutiny publicly, right, he's a Trump guy.
He was just feted with his bandmates for the Kennedy
Center Honors, and then somebody on the red carpet asked

(01:00:49):
him like a political question and he reverted to who cares?
That's standard Gene Simmons.

Speaker 8 (01:00:54):
Yes.

Speaker 5 (01:00:54):
And so I've noted is that when he he always
hits us up. I have to assume to kind of
change the narrative as it were, you know, like trumble,
do anything to get people to stop talking about the
fact that he's a pedophile. Gene Simmons will hit us
up when publicly he's going through a little bit of stuff. Now,
I have no problem with that. Always happy to hear

(01:01:16):
from him, but his audio is always so bad, right, No,
it's the bluetooth in the well. He's told us he's
like rocking, like an iPhone four or something.

Speaker 14 (01:01:25):
Jane Simmons, kiss of myself.

Speaker 5 (01:01:29):
We're talking about me the other day being asked.

Speaker 14 (01:01:32):
About Trump, and that's true. I'm at a lovely event
with a lovely religious woman. Why would I want to
talk about such things?

Speaker 16 (01:01:42):
And the rob it's not a twenty fourteen on the pilot.

Speaker 14 (01:01:45):
It's the twenty twelve on the pilot.

Speaker 5 (01:01:47):
And I've got my iPhone eight here with the blue tooth,
which is why it sounds a little s Yeah again,
I don't so you were right. I mixed up the year.
We're really splitting hairs though. If it's a twenty twelve
on the pilot and I said iPhone four and he's
got an iPhone eight iPhone eight in a twenty twelve

(01:02:07):
Honda pilot. This is a guy who has spent his
entire adult life as a famous recording artist, but he
can't figure out how to not have subpar audio in
his car. And I wonder if he valeted that twenty
twelve Honda pilot at the Kennedy Center honors him walked,

(01:02:28):
I'm not paying to park, I'm walking the three miles
to the Kennedy Center reward three miles. I wonder what
color his car is. Hopefully next time he checks in,
he'll tell us that you just got to be on brand. Right, Well,
I figured it would be different colored panels, those Honda pilots.
I thought maybe like the door would be like moss green,
and like the rest of the car would be like

(01:02:50):
a Kelly green. Right, Okay, all one color, all black,
all right. Giant light up kiss on both sides. Giant
light up kiss on both sides. Brian been calling a lot.

Speaker 14 (01:03:04):
I love it.

Speaker 5 (01:03:06):
You're gonna know this song, Richie.

Speaker 24 (01:03:10):
Don't lose that number. It's surely when you want. If
you lose it, I'll send it by le W.

Speaker 5 (01:03:23):
I mean not the words doo doom, but as a massive,
massive steely Dan fan, I appreciate what he's doing there. That's,
of course, nineteen seventy four off the Pretzel Logic album
not one of my favorites of theirs. I'm a much
bigger fan of the Royal Scam as an album, but

(01:03:44):
uh nevertheless, it's Steely Dan and so it's a dynamite
record and uh Rickatt is that number. Big hit off
of that album. He doesn't do much with it other
than mangle the lyrics. I mean he went a skew
slightly mm hm.

Speaker 14 (01:04:00):
He made it.

Speaker 5 (01:04:01):
It's very brian.

Speaker 24 (01:04:02):
Esque, Richie, don't lose that number. It's the only one
you want. If you lose it, I'll send it by that.

Speaker 5 (01:04:22):
That's Jeff Skunk Baxter, right. He left Seely Dan, joined
the Doobie Brothers and he is currently You know the
story about Jeff Skunk Baxter. He's a missile defense consultant.
Oh yeah, gets into the rock hall the Doobies just
a few years ago. They were part of that COVID class,
so everybody was like in their living room on zoom.

(01:04:43):
But Jeff Skunk Baxter, who was with Seely Dan and
the Doobie Brothers and uh yeah, his he transitioned into
a very important role. Smart guy. He's a defense consultant
and he would advised Congress on missile defense some of that,

(01:05:03):
but we cared about that stuff. Some of the best
facial hair in rock and roll. He's got that Walrus mustache,
but it's wide in it, like yeah, like it covers
his mouth like it. Yeah, really cool. Looks like Chumley
from the old Tennessee Tuxedo cartoons. Yeah, that's a nice
contemporary reference to the kids the Tennessee. Oh yes, I've

(01:05:31):
been here at WMMS for sixteen years, but I'm one
hundred and six years old, and that's got to count
for something. Wait till we break out the mister Magoo
jokes in their script today. That would be more current.
At least Leslie Nielsen did a movie. It was terrible, sure,
but uh no Tennessee tuxedo references for the kids. Brian's
been on a Steely Dan kick lately.

Speaker 7 (01:05:53):
I don't need gor turdy work no more. I don't
know your dirty work.

Speaker 3 (01:06:02):
Oh yeah, yeah, he heard that more than Ricky. Don't
lose that number the lyrics. Yeah, but you know he's
having fun with it. Dirty work is in the song,
So he did get that part right, He sure did.
He don't lose that dirty work. That's one of my
favorites right there. That maybe of all the Steely dance songs,
that one's towards the top For me, it is my
least favorite Steely Dan song, Dirty Work. People love Dirty Work.

(01:06:24):
The Replicants did a wild cover of in the early nineties.
The guys from Failure put a super group together with
some guys from Tool.

Speaker 14 (01:06:32):
But it is.

Speaker 5 (01:06:33):
It's in the sopranos, right, that's when he passes out
at the wheel and gets into a car crash. He's
singing dirty Work. Part of why I love it so much? Right,
I don't care for it.

Speaker 3 (01:06:43):
I'm a food to do your dirty work?

Speaker 5 (01:06:46):
Oh yay, Yeah, I don't want do your dirty what?

Speaker 14 (01:06:51):
No more?

Speaker 5 (01:06:52):
Well, but it was one of the few songs that
might be why I don't like it. It's one of
the few songs not sung by Donald Fagan. They had
a guy named David Palmer who because Donald Fagan was like,
I don't want to sing. We're a studio band, I'm
not a singer. And they had a guy named David
Palmer who was there singer. He was a singer for
Steely Dan. But and so he sang Dirty Work. So
it was like the only big hit they had with
somebody other than Donald Fagan. But it's probably the song

(01:07:17):
that's gotten the most legs over the years, right, Is
that considered a ballad in pop culture? Dirty Work?

Speaker 18 (01:07:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:07:23):
Yes, Dirty Work is a ballad? No, I mean it's yeah, No, No,
you a conflict? What Jess is pitting us against each other?

Speaker 3 (01:07:37):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (01:07:37):
Do you like it?

Speaker 5 (01:07:39):
It's okay? I like the Vanilla Okay, Yeah, not a
ballad per se. It's just a it's just so good.
I can't believe you don't like this song. It's not
a bad song. It's just there's a hundred songs of
theirs are like way more than Dirty Work. Name one.
Any fool will type up Jess Kids, Charlemagne. Oh yeah,

(01:08:02):
you're a Sealy Dan fan. Name three songs, Ricky, don't
lose that number? Dirty Work, yuh duh. I like any
fool could say that. I like Third World Man. I
like Gaucho. That's a hot take love Gaucho. Nothing wrong
with that song, they ripped it off. But I like
Glamour profession I like FM.

Speaker 21 (01:08:24):
Get up.

Speaker 3 (01:08:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:08:25):
What I found about my Sealy Dan fandom is and
I'm not trying to be I'm not trying to be
what's the word I'm looking for. I'm not trying to
be contrarian. But their biggest songs are just happened to
be the songs I like the least right, like reeling
in the years and do It Again and you know, pissed.

Speaker 3 (01:08:46):
Beat out of them on the radio, Like yeah, maybe
it just kind of suck when you hear them that
many times. There's a million songs I don't like anymore
because of that reason, but like they're still good. I
love Deacon Blues, I mean Blues.

Speaker 5 (01:09:00):
Home at Last is probably my favorite song of theirs
with Bernard pretty party on the drums, but again, dirty work,
very very It's been covered a million times, so it's
clearly a song of Theirs that people identify within love
right resonate with you done did it. It's kind of
a lyrical cousin to Lion Eyes by the Eagles, and

(01:09:23):
those are two bands that famously hated each other. Any who.
Brian's take on that song is unparalleled.

Speaker 7 (01:09:34):
Your dirty work no more. I don't want your dirty work?

Speaker 14 (01:09:42):
Oh yeah, thank you, Brian.

Speaker 3 (01:09:46):
Hey Allen, what up?

Speaker 21 (01:09:47):
Jess?

Speaker 5 (01:09:48):
Rob? Happy holidays, guys, I hope you enjoy your break.

Speaker 3 (01:09:51):
Stay safe.

Speaker 25 (01:09:52):
I'm curious if there's any dish you're looking forward to
over the holidays. Every New Year's I make my grandma's capusta,
a bunch of sour krout shad pork cabasas do tomatoes.

Speaker 3 (01:10:02):
It's like slavic dreno.

Speaker 25 (01:10:04):
My family starts off the year with clean guts and no,
Alan don't cop out and say like, I'm gonna have
half a frosted pop tart.

Speaker 5 (01:10:10):
What do you guys really look forward cotton Ballston, She's
son of a bitch. Half a frosted pop tart to
eat pop tart? Second off half one? How is that
a cop out? My wife is one hundred and ten
percent Polish, but like my grandmother was German. We had capusta,
just sour kraut with like bacon in it or something.
But I'm not a sour crawt guy. I don't care

(01:10:30):
for that. But capusta is if you gotta eat something,
it ain't bad. I gotta make all the perogi. Still,
I'm gonna say, yeah, my wife makes stuff like my
her dad and stepmom come for Christmas, so she makes
stuff for them. But again, I always feel like kind
of a dick because like that food everybody else is eating,
it's not for me. It's like, oh, I made a
sausage and egg casserole or something. I'm like, it's not

(01:10:52):
for me. It's just not like I want to you know,
I want to be like a cool guy. But like, no,
there's no dish that I'm looking forward to over the holiday.
Oh I am, it's yeah, but you're making them. Yeah,
but still I'm at the mercy of what's being made,
Like we go have dinner somewhere on Christmas Eve, but
you know, there's no When I was a kid and
my grandma would make stuff, but again, it was like

(01:11:13):
a lot of like you know, my mom's side of
the family is German, so it was like a lot
of like dumplings and butter. And I'm like, it's not no,
I don't care. I don't want progi. I know I'm
in the minority on that, but anyway, cotton balls some
I'm a bitch. Half a pop tart, half a pop tart,
frosted baby. I don't eat pop tarts.

Speaker 3 (01:11:32):
They are good.

Speaker 5 (01:11:33):
And by the way, how is that holiday fair, cotton balls?
How is that like a dish that people are looking
forward to?

Speaker 3 (01:11:39):
I knocked back a pop tart like three months ago,
is first one I've hadn't I don't even know how much.
Oh God year, I mee that a pop tart.

Speaker 5 (01:11:47):
I didn't have my first pop tart until like five
years ago. Okay, I don't know. I've never had I've
never had one cook I've only had the Mara package.

Speaker 3 (01:11:57):
You gotta cook them.

Speaker 5 (01:11:58):
They got to be steaming, like burn your fingers hot
and take. I think the only ones that are ever
in my house are the brown sugar.

Speaker 3 (01:12:05):
Stas my kids out. Okay, I won't touch those. If
I see like a strawberry hanging around, blueberry, oh I might,
I might dive in on it.

Speaker 5 (01:12:12):
I think blueberry is the one I had. Blueberry. I
didn't hate it, but I'm like, this is not something.
This would not be a go to for me. I
would not like eat a pop tart. I'm not normally
a pop tart eater myself. Yeah, showed that one the Allen.

Speaker 3 (01:12:26):
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Speaker 5 (01:12:54):
As far as people messing with seely Dan Go. I
still got to give advantage Kevin Gates over our own Brian.
Even though he didn't do this, another guy did. But
whatever that guy heard. Actor Peter Billingsley back in the
shows a couple of years ago, right around Thanksgiving that

(01:13:15):
he joined us. He was coming through. Of course, he
was Ralphie in a Christmas Story back in the day,
and so he was doing like a Christmas Story live.
I think that one might have been at Playhouse Square.
He's back on the road and doing it again at
the Canton Palace Theater on Sunday night, and we'll have
him on the phone round five point thirty this afternoon.
But he is going to be showing the film and

(01:13:39):
going to be doing like a Q and A all
that kind of fun stuff. If you go to Peter
Billingsley Tour dot com, all the details will be there.
But this Sunday night, seven o'clock show at the Canton
Palace Theater, they're calling it an Evening with Peter Billingsley
and a Christmas Story. Interesting and he's only doing a
handful of dates. They show the film, they do a

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Q and A with him, a lot of behind the
scenes stuff. They'll show some rare photos. So again, if
you are way into a Christmas story, and obviously that's
like the Alpha in Northeast Ohio, then we'll talk to
Peter and catch up with him. But the show is
Sunday night down in Canton. Peterbillingsley tour dot com for

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the details. De Rock and Elpaso and Alan, I love you,
but you're on your own on this one. Home Alone
is a Christmas movie? I was joking about that, kidding.
Although somebody did do an article on the fourteen films
that are most argued over is it a Christmas movie?

(01:14:44):
We had this conversation last week. I wouldn't say that
it rose to the level of an argument, because hey, listen, man,
we're all just hanging out. But Rob and I are
on opposite sides of the Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?

Speaker 3 (01:15:00):
I say yes?

Speaker 5 (01:15:01):
He says, Alan, you utter moron. I believe that was
Oh no, just said you're wrong. The fourteen films at
the center of the is it actually a Christmas movie
debate every Harry Potter film. No, I assume they count
that as one. All fourteen films feature elements of Christmas,

(01:15:22):
or they take place over Christmas, or they make mention
of Christmas, or they have Christmas scenes, and so the
thought is the least a person who wrote this article
is you cannot deny that those are Christmas films.

Speaker 3 (01:15:33):
No, No, if you have to ask, it's not a
Christmas movie period. If there's a debate about it, it's not.

Speaker 5 (01:15:41):
So you mean the movie has to be about Christmas.

Speaker 3 (01:15:45):
The theme of the film should make you go, oh god,
this is a Christmas movie. Well, like I heard someone
the other day asking about the hell was the other
one the ref no Dennis Leary Edward Scissorhands seeing Edward
Scissorhands Christmas movie. I'm like, no, it's not.

Speaker 5 (01:16:05):
Well it's set at Christmas. Yeah, Christmas lights. I think
Tim Burton had a particular affinity for Christmas rob because,
as you know, I also consider Batman Returns to be
a Christmas film, right, he'd be wrong. I don't know
about that. Yeah, okay, of course you remember the Batman

(01:16:25):
Returns theme song done by the great Danny Elfman. Oh

(01:16:49):
it's classy, isn't that it is? I think that Batman
Returns is a Christmas film, except it's not. My heard
takes place on Christmas Eve. They are decorated Christmas trees
and there are Santa hats and Okay, but it's it's
just when the movie takes place. What about Gremlins?

Speaker 3 (01:17:13):
Yeah, even that, No, you can make an argument for it,
but it's probably the closest.

Speaker 5 (01:17:17):
Gremlins is probably the one that I was getting the
most texts about last week from the listeners. When we
were talking about is it or isn't it? Now, I'm
gonna throw you a wild pitch.

Speaker 3 (01:17:29):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 5 (01:17:32):
First Blood is a Christmas movie. The first, the first
and best Rambo film is before Rambo became like ramb,
before it became a franchise and got all ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (01:17:43):
What is there a Is there a Christmas tree or
a play or something happening? Si?

Speaker 5 (01:17:47):
I mean there are Christmas trees and ornaments everywhere rob
Christmas film?

Speaker 3 (01:17:55):
All right, all right? Gotcha?

Speaker 5 (01:17:57):
First Blood with Sylvester Stallone is a Christmas movie. No,
it's not. Now my all time Christmas film. And this
party I was attending on Saturday night, we got into
a bit of a conversation about this and my friend's wife,
she and I agreed that the best Christmas film is
and it's again not a wild pitch scrooged By with

(01:18:18):
Phil Murray, but absolutely one hundred percent a Christmas movie.
But I said, my two favorite Christmas movies are Scrooged
and Trading Places. See and I'll even give you Trading Places.
Why though, just because of the waves. It's not about Christmas,
but it's very much. It has that vibe. But it

(01:18:39):
has just as many Christmas references and set decorations as
Gremlins or die Hard or Batman Returns or Eyes Wide Shut.

Speaker 21 (01:18:50):
Uh huh?

Speaker 5 (01:18:52):
Where Nicole Kimmen and Tom Cruise pretended to be sexually
attracted to each other? How many times is Santa sat
to make a cameo?

Speaker 3 (01:19:01):
We should say? In Diehard?

Speaker 5 (01:19:02):
How many times saying the show up? I mean he
puts a Santa hat on the dead terrorist?

Speaker 13 (01:19:07):
Ho ho ho?

Speaker 5 (01:19:08):
Now I have a machine?

Speaker 3 (01:19:09):
Okay, good? Great? How about in uh Trading Places, numerous
Santas all over the place, the whole Salmon.

Speaker 5 (01:19:16):
And the Jackets dresses up as Santa. He pulls it
at a Christmas party? All right, I got one. Paul Blart,
mall come not, that's a Thanksgiving movie. No, it's a
bad movie.

Speaker 6 (01:19:28):
Ahead, Okay. Besides the name. Okay, Nightmare Before Christmas? Is
it a Halloween movie or a Christmas movie? Well, that's
the number one debate, right, yeah, And it's and I
don't I.

Speaker 5 (01:19:40):
Mean Christmas is in the Titlesmas. Yeah, well ignore the name.
Ignore it's just that it's called Jack Skellington's Adventures. Ignore
the name night Member around Christmas. There's like Christmas music
in it. It's a Christmas movie. Okay, but that this

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is Halloween. Isn't that one of the biggest songs?

Speaker 13 (01:20:04):
Right?

Speaker 3 (01:20:06):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:20:07):
I mean I would ask those people who have turned
the Night Member Before Christmas into their entire identity. Well,
I've never seen the movie, so I have no opinion.
Pardon wa never saw that, never seen the film. Nope
yet Paul, So there's a shot that Paul Blart Mall
Coop could get shot out of that number one spot.
Oh no, I mean surely you've seen other films and

(01:20:27):
you were like, is this movie better or worse than
Paul Blart? Mall?

Speaker 3 (01:20:31):
Can you imagine if that's your bar Paul Blart? Like
everything you see after that, You're like, no, it's not
as good as Paul Blart.

Speaker 5 (01:20:39):
Malcom everything you see just not as good right Schindler's List.
She's like, it's not as funny, it's not as funny.

Speaker 3 (01:20:47):
It's not as funny. It's just like, you know, I'm
just not feeling that. I said, I watched Paul Fiction.
I'm like, it's fine.

Speaker 5 (01:20:53):
Is Lethal Weapon a Christmas movie? He mentions Christmas?

Speaker 3 (01:20:57):
But no, no, it's not.

Speaker 13 (01:21:01):
No.

Speaker 5 (01:21:01):
I mean they play Christmas music. The first scene of
the movie is them taking a guy down while they're
shopping for Christmas trees.

Speaker 3 (01:21:08):
Okay, it's like anything else. Like I said before, if
you have to ask yourself, is this a Christmas movie?
I don't have to ask myself. I have ask you.

Speaker 5 (01:21:17):
You know, if you I know the answer. But why
is it on the debate list? Because people can't make
up their own minds? Because people want Christmas movie. People
want are desperate to be led around by the nose.

Speaker 3 (01:21:30):
A movie that takes place over the holidays does not
necessarily make it a Christmas movie. I look, I Diehard
is one of my favorite movies. Lethal Weapon. I love
that movie. My brother and I will send each other
quotes constantly. I will always do that I'm too old
for this show. I'm getting too old for this shrimp

(01:21:52):
all the time, yeah, all the time. But it's not
a Christmas movie.

Speaker 5 (01:21:59):
I like that movie so much, Rob that I rigged
a bomb to my toilet. Yeah, I had friends and
needed to get me off before it. Let me rephrase that,
my friends didn't need to get me off. There's only
one way to stop this bomb. Still got that butt plug.

Speaker 3 (01:22:14):
As you can.

Speaker 5 (01:22:15):
That's not the toilet handle. Here's what they have in
this article, The Nightmare before Christmas. Yeah, this is my
water closet. They say, the night Member before Christmas. If
you think it's a Halloween movie and on a Christmas movie,
you need to get your eyes checked, is what they

(01:22:36):
title alone. Dang yeah uh now again this is not
this is just one person's opinion who wrote this, but
his entire mission is to spread Christmas cheer. I mean,
Santa is in the movie. It's in the name of
the movie. So you could, uh you know, somebody put

(01:22:58):
eyes wide shut on a list of being a Christmas
Well yeah, yeah, right on. Well because there was Christmas
trees in the background, Maybe didn't Tom Cruise paint his
sack like ornaments in that film? You guys want to
carry Christmas eyes wide shut. One of the best final

(01:23:19):
scenes in a film of all time.

Speaker 3 (01:23:20):
I don't recall.

Speaker 5 (01:23:22):
You'll see it on social media because it makes the rounds.
That clip of her saying there's something very important that
we need to do. There's this long dramatic pause and
he says what she says, f uh because they were
getting back in they were rediscovering each other.

Speaker 3 (01:23:37):
Rob. I just remember all the weird orgy scenes and stuff.
I saw that movie one time, twenty something thirty years ago.

Speaker 18 (01:23:44):
How long.

Speaker 5 (01:23:46):
So twenty six years ago I saw it. I mean,
just because it's an orgy scene doesn't make it weird.

Speaker 3 (01:23:52):
It's all weird the whole movie.

Speaker 5 (01:23:54):
And harlequin masks.

Speaker 3 (01:23:56):
The masks, Yeah, that wasn't for me.

Speaker 5 (01:23:58):
That was a weird You've never on to a party
where everybody's walking around Donald Duck and It and the
harlequin masks, you know, not recently. On Man, you're a
man of the world, not recently, you're a citizen of
the planet from New England. That didn't. Hey, Joe, Yeah,
what's up.

Speaker 14 (01:24:17):
I was calling in and say, you guys forgot one
of the most important Christmas movies Man, Friday after next.

Speaker 5 (01:24:23):
I never saw any of the Friday movies never, you know,
like anytime somebody goes by Felicia, I go ha ha,
because I know what it's from. But I never saw
any of those movies. Was Friday After Next to one
with Mike EPs?

Speaker 14 (01:24:37):
Ah? Yeah, Friday Next has Mike Epps and Terry.

Speaker 3 (01:24:40):
Crews and I mean even but but so I'll say
that that that leans toward the Christmas side of things,
because even the movie poster was in green and red,
like they went for a Christmas vibe around that movie.
For sure. Okay, I mean again they get beat up
by cyn No and no disrespect if it's one of

(01:25:02):
your favorites, but by far the worst of the Friday movies.

Speaker 5 (01:25:05):
Oh that's the third one. I was thinking it was
the second one.

Speaker 3 (01:25:07):
Yeah. No, there's some funny scenes in that movie because
it's I mean, it's ice Cube and it's Mike Epps.
It's funny.

Speaker 5 (01:25:15):
Oh du Next Friday would have been the second one,
and John Witherspoon comes out with some gems like he
does every other one Witherspoon. But yeah, Friday After Next.

Speaker 3 (01:25:22):
Was not a good movie.

Speaker 16 (01:25:25):
Way it was the greatest.

Speaker 5 (01:25:27):
The issue is not whether I was good. The issue is,
of course, is it a Christmas move? I would give
it a stoner Christmas thumbs up. Yes, yes, m's so
good make you want to snack you o, mam. I
haven't seen any of those ice Cube wrote them, so
maybe that's got something to do with dude, Thank you, Joe.

Speaker 3 (01:25:45):
I appreciate its. Friday is so good, like so so good,
and then Next Friday was okay. The Friday after next
Noble and it all went away.

Speaker 5 (01:25:56):
Kat Williams was in it. When ice Cube wrote that movie,
he wanted to call it Black Friday, the first one.
I'm making that up, but it makes sense. I'm surprised. Well,
he didn't want to do it. Somebody pitched it to him.
Good name for it, didn't want to do it. No,
I haven't seen any of those the alan those are
all Christmas movies. And Eddie Vetterer's hat is cool.

Speaker 3 (01:26:20):
Signed. Someone who just wants to piss Rob off, wants
to get raging Rob. Now you're not going to get
raging Robbins. The last show of the year got champagne flowing.
There's no pissed off today mos crying. Yeah, you get happiness.

Speaker 5 (01:26:37):
Rob's got one hundred and twenty minutes left with you maniacs,
and then it's just can I forget about all of you?

Speaker 7 (01:26:44):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:26:45):
For two weeks. For two full weeks, I will, I will,
I will sleep, and if I want to, I might
stay in my jams. My my, my, my sweats.

Speaker 5 (01:26:55):
I was gonna say, l Bean slippers, my ll Bean slippers.
You don't have pajamas. I do have pajamas, but I
don't wear them often.

Speaker 3 (01:27:05):
I have, but I did for a while.

Speaker 5 (01:27:07):
I went through a pajama phase, Like I thought I
was going to be a pajama guy. But now are
these the kind? Is Jerry Seinfeld many years ago, he
was a very young man, had a running joke about
how why are pajamas made to look like little suits?
They have lapels and there's a pocket. Yes, you know
that's exactly what I had. I had, You had like
the set. Really? Yeah, I thought I thought I was
going to be a pajama guy.

Speaker 8 (01:27:27):
You had like.

Speaker 5 (01:27:27):
Cotton pajamas I did with a lapel. Were they monogrammed?

Speaker 10 (01:27:32):
No? No?

Speaker 5 (01:27:33):
And you'd put them on matching shirt and pants. I
would come home cap no. I love Lucy right like
Dick Van Dike and the Dick Van Dyke Show.

Speaker 3 (01:27:44):
That's exactly what it was. I would come home from work,
I would go upstairs. I would retire to my lair layer.
I would train change my wardrobe, and I would come
downstairs in my ll beans and my pajamas.

Speaker 5 (01:27:56):
And you'd feel wonderful. You'd mister Rogers into your pjs.
Now I'm mister Rogers into sweats in my same ll beans.

Speaker 3 (01:28:05):
So when I get home, the first thing I do,
I kicked the shoes off outside because not bringing any
of the downtown into my home.

Speaker 5 (01:28:13):
So any of the downtown I understand.

Speaker 3 (01:28:16):
That stays out there, stays right, that's right, stays on
the porch. I greet the family, Hello family. I greet
the dogs. I say hello dogs. I go upstairs. Do
they place a drink in your hand? Automatic not at
that moment. I will occasionally text it. I will say
Melissa Martini and there will be one waiting when I

(01:28:37):
get to the home.

Speaker 5 (01:28:38):
Do you have a smoking jacket that goes over the pajamas?

Speaker 3 (01:28:45):
Okay?

Speaker 5 (01:28:45):
What about a robe? What about a fancy robe?

Speaker 10 (01:28:48):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:28:48):
No rope, no rope. If I get cold beyond the pajamas,
if I were to still wear them. I would throw
a hoodie on beyond, but.

Speaker 5 (01:28:56):
A hoodie over your pajamas. What color are the pajamas? Well,
they had different ones. Oh you have more than one set.
Oh yeah, there's still my drawer. I still have them.

Speaker 3 (01:29:05):
There's a red pair, there's a green pair, there's a
blue pair. Like I bought like five or six pairs
of pajamas. Wow, well, I thought I was gonna be
a pajama guy.

Speaker 5 (01:29:13):
But why wouldn't you buy one pair and then just
see if you're a pajama do I don't. I don't
dip my toes into things. I thought I might be
a tracksuit guy because a buddy of mine had like
a bunch of different colors of the Adidas tracksuits and
you just bought one, and I thought that might yeah,
and he rocked them. And I bought a black Adidas tracksuit.
That's why you didn't like it, And I thought, maybe

(01:29:33):
I'm a tracksuit guy and I and I wore it
to work actually one time, and then I wore it
another time and I go, I'm not a tracksuit guy.

Speaker 3 (01:29:42):
But it was because you only had one and it
was only black, Like you couldn't go, hey, you know
what I'm going green today with the shell toes. No
you did, you didn't have the option.

Speaker 5 (01:29:50):
I'm not a tracksuit guy, so it hangs in my
closet primarily unworn.

Speaker 3 (01:29:56):
But when you decide that you're gonna go is run
DMC for Halloween. You got yourself covered, You're good to go.
Or if you're gonna pull the Christopher from the Sopranos
Halloween costume, you're good. You're Golden Rob.

Speaker 5 (01:30:08):
If you know me at all, you know that when
it comes to Christmas wrappers or Halloween rappers, I only
go as Big Daddy Kane, thank you very much. Oh yeah,
excuse me, many the Louis Vuitton kangle hat, not the
ll ll No. If I'm going to be one of
the Juice Crew Rob, I'm wearing some goddamn Adidas track suit. Anyway,

(01:30:29):
turns out I'm not a tracksuit guy. I am a
pajama you're not a pajama guy. I thought I was
going to be a pipe guy. I wanted to start
smoking pipe alright, man, write that down four us. I
thought for sure I could do it. Didn't work, went
and bought all the stuff, realized I don't like that

(01:30:50):
at all my mother's husband passed away. Huge cigar smoker.

Speaker 3 (01:30:57):
Huge had a collection of cigars like you would not believe,
one hundred dollars cigars, mac and udos more. He was
huge into like the giant like he was when there's
the Officionados and then there's this guy he was, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:31:14):
Did lung He didn't suffer from lung cancer. No, No,
no lung issues no, like you know, mouth cancer or
any of that kind of stuff. Nothing like that at
Parkinson's really is would sadly got them. Yeah, but uh,
I couldn't stand cigars.

Speaker 3 (01:31:29):
My mother's like, I'm gonna send you all of these cigars,
and I'm like, oh, they're gonna be wasted on me.

Speaker 5 (01:31:34):
So she said it to my brother. My brother's like,
what am I going to do? I don't smoke cigars.

Speaker 3 (01:31:38):
I should have thought of that before I spent all
the money on buying a pipe and buying all the
things to be a pipe smoker. But again I don't.
I don't dip my toe in something. If I want
to do it, I go buy the stuff to do it.
Like my next thing, I'm gonna teach myself to fly fish.
I'm never gonna do it right, I'm gonna go buy
the waiters. I'm gonna go buy everything. I'm never gonna
do it.

Speaker 5 (01:31:58):
Talking to someone the other day about fishing, and I said,
I've gone fishing precisely twice. My dad took me out
on a lake in southern central Illinois when I was
a kid, sat in a lake and fished, and then
I went fly fishing one time. When I lived in
La you could fly You could fish in the Alley River. Yeah,
Santa Monica, you could do it. And I was like,

(01:32:19):
maybe I would get into this, but it's so gear intensive. Yeah,
I'll go by. He was like, no, everything.

Speaker 3 (01:32:25):
I will spend a ridiculous amount of money on gear
and I'll never use it. I know me, I know
exactly how this is going to go. I've bought all
this stuff to camp. No, No, it's somebody else's stuff.
It's gross near waiters. Go buy my own waiters and
I'll sell them because they don't.

Speaker 9 (01:32:39):
We use it.

Speaker 3 (01:32:39):
Yeah, it was like I thought it was going to
be a camper. I thought I was I was gonna go,
huh camping.

Speaker 5 (01:32:46):
We will, Well, why don't you dip your toe into
these hobbies first before you go full till.

Speaker 3 (01:32:51):
Body and all the gear. Spent thousands, tens and those
stupid little green stoves.

Speaker 5 (01:32:57):
Rob bought a five hundred thousand dollars and then.

Speaker 3 (01:33:00):
I did not do that, which is exactly what I
should have done, because my idea of roughing it's staying
at a hotel without a bar. But I ended up
buying all this camping craft. I went once I got
lime disease, and I gave everything to my brother, gave
it all, like you want this sucks? Sucked. This is
the worst experience of my life. Sleep outside was like crazy.
I like camping perfectly. Go to hotels right there, man,
sleep in a tent.

Speaker 5 (01:33:22):
Andrew out in Creston, Alan, get a robe monogrammed with Monrobe,
but Monroe Monrobe.

Speaker 3 (01:33:34):
I like that a lot. Oh that's great. Spent last
year and only on New York twenty three twenty four
at Wagner College. I thet his freshman at sophomore years
at Monroe College. You ever watched the show Ted Night
on ABC Too Close for Comfort? And he would come
into the room and address his daughters and then the
guy I live with him Monroe Monro. Yeah, I don't know, man,

(01:33:58):
I do want to learn to fly fish, though I
don't want to like use anybody else's stuff. So my
a buddy of mine is a fly fisherman, so he
told me he would teach me.

Speaker 5 (01:34:04):
What I found is it's so hard to get the
hook on a fly because they're moving, and every time
they light, it's just so difficult makes sense, and the
eating is terrible. You can't even taste of the catch
the while they're hunger covered in crap. Yep The Ellen
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(01:35:27):
me and Corey Roddick and Pat Butler. We will be
back live on Saturday, January the tenth. Today our last
live show of twenty twenty five here on this program.
Also my sixteenth anniversary here at WMMS. Rob kind enough
to bring in some bubbly Thank you, hell bubbly, Hello,

(01:35:50):
oh bubble. Elena just put on the YouTube feed of
the show for the first time in a long time,
and I thought Rob was talking to the elder, the
Amish woman who lives across the street from me. You
see what they're doing wrong, You see you son of
a bitch.

Speaker 3 (01:36:09):
That's good.

Speaker 5 (01:36:11):
They give no quarter. Respect.

Speaker 3 (01:36:14):
Should say that.

Speaker 5 (01:36:15):
My daughter has taken the same respect. Now when I'll
tell her something, she'll go respect. I'm like, all right,
we should what you say it with the L E G.
Accent respect disrespect I'm like, all right, good, that is
a good word to have in your vocabulary. Hey John,

(01:36:38):
Hey John, how are you?

Speaker 14 (01:36:40):
Thank you sir, I'm all right. I had a question
for Rob John. I was having having trouble following, uh,
your your your the way you refer to your mother's husband.

Speaker 3 (01:36:57):
As if you were Jesus.

Speaker 5 (01:36:59):
I refer to my mother's husband.

Speaker 14 (01:37:01):
How so, John, Well, it was he emanically conceived. He
was his mother's husband, but not his stepfather is or
you know, you know, I don't understand the reference my
mother's husband. Were you disassociated with him?

Speaker 5 (01:37:19):
No, it sounds like I was mom the semantic argument, John,
it's I'm the I just thought it was.

Speaker 14 (01:37:28):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:37:28):
I was just going to say, I'm a forty seven
year old man. To call him my stepfather just feels weird.
So I just say my mother's husband.

Speaker 14 (01:37:35):
Okay. I just didn't know, you know, it just uh
it sounds like you're disconnected. I mean, I'm sorry that
for the loss. You know, you said he just passed away.
I think, yeah, okay, sorry for that, but yeah, no,
I was just I just found a strange way to
refer to, uh, someone that was in your family, you know.

(01:37:58):
To me, it's like that's how I would Jesus the
same By my mother's husband.

Speaker 5 (01:38:04):
Jesus has made up.

Speaker 3 (01:38:05):
I am very Jesus John.

Speaker 21 (01:38:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:38:07):
Well no, but also you didn't. Did you spend a
lot of time with a guy like did I?

Speaker 21 (01:38:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:38:12):
I mean yeah, it's pretty significant amount we got along fantastic.
I love the guy, for sure, But I'm also again,
it's odd when your mother remarries when you're in your
forties and I'm like, like, my stepdaddy wants to take
me to the pop park, Like what am I don't know?
I just it felt weird. So I always called him
just I mean, he was John. I never called him
Dad or anything. I have Dad, and it's a little different.

(01:38:34):
It's one generation removed.

Speaker 5 (01:38:36):
But my grandmother got remarried when I was a senior
in high school, and I called him Jim.

Speaker 3 (01:38:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:38:44):
I didn't call him grandpa. No, And my grandfather had
been dead for a long time by then. I didn't
call he was because literally, my grandmother at that point,
it's just companionship, right, She's like, Okay, my grandfather was
thirteen years older than my grandmother. So my grandfather died
when I was eight, my mom was twenty nine. She

(01:39:04):
was very tight, and obviously when you're a kid, you
don't really know the layout. But when I got older,
I was like, oh my god. My mom lost her
dad at twenty nine. Right, My grandpa was seventy seven,
so he was an old dad, but he was thirteen
years older than my grandmother. When my grandmother got remarried,
she married a guy who was ten years younger, thinking well,

(01:39:25):
surely he'll outlive me. Nope, outlived him too. But he
was the next door neighbor and she was friends with him.
His wife was dying of cancer, so she already knew
the guy. So my grandmother remarried the hell of a guy,
nice guy, but he worked in the printing business back
in the day, and so he got misothelioma. Oh Jesus,

(01:39:47):
so he died young ish. I mean again, he was
ten years younger than my grandma. She outlived two husbands,
one thirteen years her senior, one a decade her junior,
and then she died JESHI of one hundred and three.

Speaker 3 (01:40:00):
Well, we called him Jim, Yeah, I called I called
my mom. I called my step daddy John. But that's
I mean again, that's not what he would have wanted.
He wouldn't Yeah, it would have been weird, Like it's weird.

Speaker 5 (01:40:15):
What's up, Dad?

Speaker 3 (01:40:16):
Yeah, I have it.

Speaker 5 (01:40:17):
He's like, Rob, you're forty, it's okay. You know you're
not eleven, and you know we're talking all that stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:40:23):
I do have a dad. Today would have been my
dad's seventy fourth birthday. Oh really yeah, uh huh, the
sixteenth of December nineteen fifty one. Mazl Eddie.

Speaker 5 (01:40:32):
He's been gone a minute. Yeah, he died in twenty ten.
Your deaest name was Eddie Eddie, Eddie Eddie.

Speaker 3 (01:40:39):
What a great name. That's where Edward R Edward that's
my middle name, R Edward Anthony Eddie R Eddie Anthony Eddie.
All right, that's a man's name. Those man, those those
type of names are gone. Man, they were so good.
Eddie Gary man's name. Well, I bet they'll come back, John.

Speaker 5 (01:40:59):
Everything is cyclical, right, Like I like my name, but
my mom went with really common names for my siblings, right,
Alan is not a crazy name, but it's not like
it's not horribly common. But my siblings are David James
and Annie, my brother's and my sister. And so I'm

(01:41:19):
kind of like, well, I'm I'm glad I got what
I got I.

Speaker 3 (01:41:22):
Got the good one.

Speaker 4 (01:41:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:41:24):
My brother's my brother is a junior. He's he's Edward
as well. So he's Edward John Junior Eddie j R.
We call him EJ right to this, except like now
now he's my brother's a big wig in a construction company.

Speaker 5 (01:41:37):
So now he's ed ed And I can't do that.
I see him like J. He's like Jesus, come on, Pete.
But doesn't your mom call you Robbie? Oh yeah, I'm
Robbie Robbie. Oh yeah, always, I'm never. I'll never Robbie, Robbie.
I can't call you rob No.

Speaker 3 (01:41:52):
It's Weird's like me calling my stepdad stepdad, daddy, daddy.

Speaker 28 (01:41:56):
Yeah, no, John, Hello, Island missus? Clem Fundango, Yes, I
can hear you, Clem Fandango is yes Islando?

Speaker 5 (01:42:11):
Yes, yes, Clem Fandango, I can hear you. Hello, Son
up a bitch? Hey, Kyle, Allen, Kyle, how are you?

Speaker 14 (01:42:24):
I'm good?

Speaker 5 (01:42:25):
How are you hanging in man?

Speaker 12 (01:42:28):
Good?

Speaker 10 (01:42:28):
Hey?

Speaker 14 (01:42:28):
I just wanted to issue a happy anniversary.

Speaker 2 (01:42:32):
We are forever in twined because your anniversary is my birthday.

Speaker 5 (01:42:37):
Oh congratulator, Kyle? Is it a big dirty thirty.

Speaker 14 (01:42:42):
I wish, I wish, but oh hey, hold on, hold
on one second, Alan.

Speaker 3 (01:42:46):
Sorry, oh sorry, Allen, I got I'm gonna call my
other phone because two phones.

Speaker 5 (01:42:53):
Yeah, yeah, plug, he's got one for the plug and
one for the load. Rob, he's got bitches and he's
running flake on the side. Thank you, Kyle, Happy birthday.
Now I want the OG one, I want the original.

Speaker 7 (01:43:11):
There we go.

Speaker 5 (01:43:15):
Kevin Gates gave me twenty dollars at this show at
Jacob's Pavilion. Rob, please come to my show. I'll pay
you guys, and I should have gotten more after having
to sit through a Lonzo ball and his brother is
one of the opening acts. Oh stop, I'm sure it
was fantasastic.

Speaker 3 (01:43:33):
Give me great.

Speaker 5 (01:43:35):
One for the plug and one for the load. Yeah,
he plug his girls, one for the bitches, and then
the load because he's running drugs on one phone and
he's running ladies. We're not running lady. You got ladies
coming in. That's a guy who in real life banged
his cousin before he knew, but then once he did,
didn't care, didn't care. He goes, we've already been naked.

(01:43:57):
What the hell are we going to do now? And
he's right. Of course, he's right, he's not what once
you find out you stop? What a third cousin?

Speaker 3 (01:44:07):
Still?

Speaker 5 (01:44:08):
Is it a third cousin? I'm pretty sure. I don't
think so. I think it's a connection than that. But
wouldn't you know that? How else did you not know that?
He goes, oh, that's your that's your cousin.

Speaker 3 (01:44:17):
You find out that, cuz yeah, yeah, no, I think
you find out and you're like, I'm out.

Speaker 5 (01:44:21):
If I had if I had a third cousin that
I slept with and I found out who was my
third cousin? What am I staying away from? We've all
we've just right, We've just been inside each other's bodies,
like am I trying to impress?

Speaker 3 (01:44:38):
But what if, like then it gets closer and your
feelings developing things, then you got to have a weird wedding.
It's a nice day for a weird wedding. That's why
I've got the two phones rong, one for the plug,
one for the load. Got it right.

Speaker 5 (01:44:56):
I'm not somebody who leaves a great deal of a
chance line pumping, I'm ring ring ranging. That other version
is so much better, Dan want so much better? Pretty good,
So much too that the other one feels foreign line jumping.

(01:45:19):
I'm ringing right and ringing hey, Ricardo, Ele Warrett, how
are you brother?

Speaker 14 (01:45:30):
Good?

Speaker 3 (01:45:31):
Good good?

Speaker 14 (01:45:31):
A little bit under the weather.

Speaker 22 (01:45:32):
So I'm going to try this one.

Speaker 3 (01:45:37):
And find me yeah just a little sexier. Yeah, if
you will.

Speaker 22 (01:45:48):
No, guys, just you know, touching base. Thank you, thank
you for an all year of a wasted time on
a horrible show.

Speaker 5 (01:45:56):
Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 14 (01:45:59):
So so Yeah, hopefully you guys.

Speaker 22 (01:46:02):
Behave be careful driving out there. And uh, I just
wasn't gain touching base, bro.

Speaker 5 (01:46:08):
What are you doing for Christel better? Ricardo?

Speaker 14 (01:46:11):
Uh, just staying a family.

Speaker 3 (01:46:14):
I have a suggestion for you.

Speaker 22 (01:46:15):
You're talking a rub about uh eggnog more on the
whiskey side, you could get a hold of the Puerto
Rican version, or if you already had it.

Speaker 3 (01:46:29):
But it's rum I have what's it called coquito, but yeah,
my my buddy's girlfriend used to make it. It's fantastic.

Speaker 22 (01:46:40):
Yes, okay, you're recommended, but if you've had it before
it it's always a nice option. Is a little bit different.

Speaker 3 (01:46:45):
I grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts man very very heavy
Puerto Rican community.

Speaker 5 (01:46:49):
Yes, oh, is that true. Oh yeah, I didn't know
that huge yeah wow, yeah.

Speaker 22 (01:46:54):
Yeah, I was surprised when I still or.

Speaker 5 (01:46:57):
Did they all get shipped off from you know, the
dumb he doesn't know that they're American citizens?

Speaker 3 (01:47:01):
Still very very much Puerto Rican. Yeah, my my best
friend growing up was Puerto Rican. His mother used to
make it.

Speaker 22 (01:47:08):
Awesome awesome. Well, anyway, I don't want to waste your time.
You guys, love love the show. Thank you for thank you,
Riccardo blessings and uh you know, there you.

Speaker 18 (01:47:18):
Go, thank you.

Speaker 21 (01:47:24):
That's the guy.

Speaker 3 (01:47:24):
Is the guy I'll aspire to be like. He's just
always so nice? Yeah right, Like, why aren't I like that?
That was wrong in my brain that I can't be
a nice guy like that? Wow?

Speaker 5 (01:47:40):
Jaded jagaws? How is that my phone?

Speaker 3 (01:47:51):
Good point?

Speaker 5 (01:47:52):
Hey Debbie? Hey, Hi, what's up Debbie? Can I call you?

Speaker 3 (01:47:57):
Debbie?

Speaker 18 (01:47:58):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:47:59):
Yes, you can, please do.

Speaker 2 (01:48:01):
I am a longtime listener, but the first time caller.
I gotta say, I love listening.

Speaker 3 (01:48:08):
To you guys talk.

Speaker 5 (01:48:10):
Well, I'll tell you what, Debbie, I love listening to
you talk when you tell me how awesome I am
so yeah, and I love Rob's voice too. Of course
is el Reddler dell Klit that's what we call him
around here. So yeah, and I love you for loving

(01:48:34):
my voice.

Speaker 3 (01:48:35):
Debbie.

Speaker 21 (01:48:36):
Oh awesome game my day.

Speaker 5 (01:48:40):
Today's my birthday too, Happy birthday, big dirty thirty.

Speaker 7 (01:48:46):
No, I am.

Speaker 5 (01:48:50):
You're what what are you really? Are you sixty seven
years old?

Speaker 19 (01:48:55):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (01:48:56):
Even six seven?

Speaker 4 (01:48:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:48:58):
Okay, well listen to shamee Debbie. Uh you sound easily
five or six years younger. So congratulations.

Speaker 1 (01:49:07):
Oh well, thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:49:09):
And I'm going to miss you guys so bad when
you're on Christmas break.

Speaker 14 (01:49:13):
You deserve it, you truly deserve it. But I'm not
it's going to be the same until you guys are
back into you.

Speaker 5 (01:49:19):
Well, I will be filling your holiday season with sub
par clips of this program. And uh, you know that's
a little bit of that's a little bit of security
for me. So that the management listens, they go, Jesus,
we got to get these guys back on live and
I come back to the friendly confidence.

Speaker 3 (01:49:40):
All right.

Speaker 5 (01:49:41):
Listen, Debbie, thank you so much, Happy birthday. Enjoy your holiday. Okay,
thank you, thank you, Debb.

Speaker 3 (01:49:47):
This is what these gods.

Speaker 5 (01:49:50):
No, that's why I call them some of them shows
best is way too optimistic. Uh, but trust and believe
over the break, it's gonna be a cornicopia of amazingness.
Uh not, least of which recent developments on the show.
The most recent developments on the show. Jess confused by tricycles, wondering,

(01:50:16):
I don't know what she loves, Steven Tyler, she got
all kinds of stuff going on. I'm so glad I
could make the best time. We're gonna discuss plaque, Yes,
plaxariasins what you just thought was a tooth condition. Hey,
drunk Sue, we were just talking about you.

Speaker 3 (01:50:39):
Hey baby, how's it going.

Speaker 5 (01:50:41):
We were just talking about you because somebody else Jess
has bunions, and somebody else called earlier and I said,
all I know about bunions is what my grandmother had.
And what drunk Sue divulged to us, Oh yeah, I got.

Speaker 29 (01:50:54):
I got flat feet, bunions, the hammer.

Speaker 5 (01:50:57):
Cow she has got. She checks all the boxes, Rob,
She drunk Sue checks all the boxes. Somebody sent me
a somebody all of her toes are running away from
all the other ones, Rob. Somebody sent me a photo.

Speaker 28 (01:51:14):
That popped up.

Speaker 5 (01:51:16):
Yeah, somebody sent me a photo that popped up in
their social media like memories or whatever. And it was
from the Alan Cox Show tenth anniversary broadcast right before
COVID hit. It would have been Christmas in nineteen and
it was me and pound Cake and Bill and Mary
and drunk Sue was there. Was it Slim and Chubbies
and Strongsville and drunk Sue was there. And oh yeah,
I tried to get every y. I tried to get

(01:51:36):
everybody to come. I wanted Dick to come. I tried
to get Rick to come. Nobody wanted to come, which
I respect, I want to keep it professional. Well, but
he goes everywhere, Yeah he does. But drunk Sue. Drunk
Sue came and I had met her before at an appearance,
but drunk Sue was kind enough to come. And the

(01:51:58):
the throwback photo that this person had sent me was
a like a show picture with drunk Sue in the middle.
Rob and Boy looking at this woman, you would never
know that she had any uh pedal infirmities. You wouldn't
know that she had any bunions or hammered heels. I
don't think I did pee dole. Rob would not penal

(01:52:21):
pe dole infirmities. You'd never know that her I did
back then. Oh so these are bunions that developed in
the last five years. Probably, Yeah, all right, well even better.

Speaker 29 (01:52:38):
Okay, Tell if somebody was on the chat and they
said I have curdy feet or nice feet or something
like that, and I texted, I texted back, I answered,
I go, you are blessed.

Speaker 5 (01:52:52):
Hey, listen, I have gorgeous feet. Every time I get
a pedicure of the lady goes your feet are so nice,
and I go, yeah, and that's only partially because of you.
You want to talk about genetics. My feet for a
man drunk sue are gorgeous.

Speaker 3 (01:53:05):
I got okay, man feet I don't have like a
buddy of mine has, like he could walk through coal
like a gross weirds. Yeah, catalysts and stuff. Yeah, I'm
my feet are perfectly fine for for a dude's foot.

Speaker 29 (01:53:20):
Why don't you Why don't you get together with Mary
and make some uh.

Speaker 3 (01:53:27):
If there's if there's a market, I will start posting
foot picks tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (01:53:30):
I could care less. Well, somebody wants to buy them all.
But that's always been my contention is if you shave
your toes, if you're a guy and your hairy or whatever,
if you have good looking feet. You could sell pictures
and they would be none the wiser. You paint your
toenails and you shave your toes, you're gonna get some people.
You're gonna get some takers who think you're a check.

(01:53:51):
So you're saying I should I should shave my toes.
That's what if they're hairy. I don't have hairy toes.

Speaker 3 (01:53:58):
Rob.

Speaker 5 (01:53:59):
All I gotta do is pay my nails, and I'm golden.

Speaker 29 (01:54:02):
Yeah, you're a stuffy. I worked a lot my whole life,
like on concrete and.

Speaker 5 (01:54:07):
You know well, Sue, but you weren't doing it barefoot.
I mean, I do use my feet. It's my primary
mode of getting around, is.

Speaker 3 (01:54:15):
What I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (01:54:17):
Too.

Speaker 3 (01:54:19):
Stopping around.

Speaker 5 (01:54:21):
Sue has no Sue has no floor in her car.
She just gets going, runs to start her car. Yeah,
comes home every night to a giant tyrannosaurs rib on
the roof.

Speaker 8 (01:54:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:54:36):
Four thick callouses on those feet.

Speaker 5 (01:54:38):
Wow, no pads, You're no disrespect You are right, Sue.
You were out there. You earned all of her sure
pedal infirmities.

Speaker 22 (01:54:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:54:47):
Yeah, I worked hard for him. How are you otherwise?
Do you have big We spend so much time on
your feet. You have big plans for the holidays, No,
not really, just gonna go to hit some how.

Speaker 3 (01:55:01):
Yep, kind of chill.

Speaker 29 (01:55:02):
We got our treat bomb came out here in the
living room and you said, every single knickknack we have
boxed them all up. One downstairs started bringing up Christmas
stuff and got the tree up and got the lights out.

Speaker 5 (01:55:15):
Oh good, okay, So so it's very uh the festive
decorations are up.

Speaker 3 (01:55:21):
Yeah, so you all your you set all your nickknacks. Sue,
what do you guys collect?

Speaker 29 (01:55:27):
Eagles, the band, football stuff, weird animals.

Speaker 5 (01:55:33):
Eagles and weird animals. Okay, so like bald eagles, like
American bald eagles.

Speaker 2 (01:55:38):
Oh yeah, I got a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:55:40):
So then wow. Right, so like on different things, like
one one of it it's like on a on a stick,
and then another one it's sort of like flying.

Speaker 29 (01:55:48):
Over a lake, like on an edge of a nest.
Or they're on a like on a rock getting ready
to take off.

Speaker 5 (01:55:54):
Or okay, all right, very patriotic. You know, the opposite
of a bald eagle is a buzzard. The mullets. I
have a mess the buzzard. Everybody, all right, listen, Sue,
Uh enjoy your holiday. Okay, oh you too, thank you.

(01:56:14):
Bye drunk Sue, Bye, Sue.

Speaker 4 (01:56:16):
Gotta take a break, Sue, Sou, Sue, Sue, she is
a trip. So yeah, Sue, Okay, yeah, yep, yep, yep,
thank you, Sue.

Speaker 5 (01:56:37):
I've got to take a break. Three five, one nine two.
You want to send me a text? Our YouTube channel
you can watch. It's just a guy with a beard
talking to an old Amish woman. Apparently you can listen
on the iHeartRadio Earn Car.

Speaker 20 (01:56:52):
Show on one hundred points, the Earlyn Cock Show on
one hundred points ms.

Speaker 10 (01:57:04):
WMMS Cleveland call the Alan Stocks Show.

Speaker 5 (01:57:08):
Thanks for turning me on and allowing me to spend
this time. I hope I can turn you one two.

Speaker 10 (01:57:16):
One six seven eight one double oh seven or one
four eighty one double oh seven.

Speaker 2 (01:57:40):
Oh.

Speaker 5 (01:57:40):
The Cavaliers back in action tomorrow night, not tonight, but
back to back against the Polls. So tomorrow night, eight
o'clock live from the United Center, seven thirty is your
pregame here at MMS. And then they'll take Thursday off
and then back here at home on Friday night for
a thirty tip off against the Bulls. So at seven

(01:58:03):
o'clock pregame there.

Speaker 3 (01:58:06):
And then then what.

Speaker 5 (01:58:09):
Will they do if they stick around right? Play the
Hornets on Monday, They'll play the Pelicans on Tuesday. They
will play the Knicks in New York on Christmas Day.
That's a noon tip off on w MMS. So all
of your Cavalier's basketball action here on walholder points of

(01:58:32):
a Hubba bus. Yeah, oh boy, thank you, sir. Our friend,
actor Peter Billingsley will join us on the phone around

(01:58:52):
five thirty. He was on the show a couple of
years ago for kind of the same thing. You know
him as Ralphie from a Christmas Story, and so a
couple of years ago he doing that at Playhouse Square,
and he is doing it at the Canton Palace Theater
this Sunday, an evening with Peter Billingsley. If you go
to Peter Billingsley tour dot com get the details there.
If you are somebody who is have an affinity for

(01:59:15):
a Christmas story no shortage of people along those lines
in Northeast Ohio, then you might want to be there.
They're going to show the film, do a Q and
a a lot of behind the scenes stories and rare
photos and audience questions, and so for people who really
really love a Christmas story should go to the show.
So we'll talk to Pete around five thirty. Did you

(01:59:38):
watch Jeopardy last night?

Speaker 3 (01:59:39):
I did not.

Speaker 5 (01:59:41):
They had a category in double Jeopardy rock and Roll
Hall of Famers, and I really will I was only
thinking one thing, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer of
sixteen hundred, the first.

Speaker 3 (01:59:53):
Ever inductee in nineteen eighty six.

Speaker 5 (01:59:55):
He then led an all star band through his nineteen
fifty six classic Rollover Betho Eugene.

Speaker 3 (02:00:01):
Who is Chuck Berry?

Speaker 5 (02:00:02):
Yes, when he wasn't farting in prostitute schass Urine upon hookers, Yeah,
Chuck Berry. When he wasn't filming women taking a poop
in his restaurant, he was playing roll Over Beethoven, What

(02:00:24):
a beauty? Mm hmm. More celebrity patricide. This is very,
very sad, hot on the heels of the whole Rob
Reiner situation, which is pretty cut and dried, right. There's
no man hunt. No, their son killed them, Rob Reiner

(02:00:46):
and his wife Michelle. More celebrity patricide. A guy who
I was unfamiliar with, but I guess very very well
known in those circles. A guy named Jubilant Skies is
very prominent gospel singer. His son killed him Jesus Yeah,

(02:01:06):
Southern California, thirty one year old Micah Sikes. They changed
the amount of his bail from four million dollars to
no bail. He killed his dad, seventy one year old
Jubilant Sykes by stabbing him to death in his Santa
Monica home. He was declared dead at the scene. They

(02:01:26):
said that his son was not being appropriately medicated for
being a schizophrenic. You know, as more and more information
comes out in this Rob Reiner thing, they're like they
got into an argument at Conan O'Brien's Christmas party the
night before. Yeah, that appears to be the common thing.
And that they brought him along so they could keep

(02:01:48):
an eye on him. Yeah, you know, at every turn
they were really trying to do the best they could
with their son. If you see any of these, you know,
there's no shortage now of family photos, and Nick Reiner
is this dead eyed look and every single one of them. Yeah,
I was gonna say, man, he's the only one of
these that they'll look happy. In his defense, he was

(02:02:08):
dealing with a lot of stuff.

Speaker 3 (02:02:10):
Yeah, you can see that he's he's got all the ingredients,
but they weren't put together properly, like there's it's there's
an issue there for sure.

Speaker 5 (02:02:20):
They was reading a thing that said that Larry David
and Billy Cristel saw their bodies. They were because Rob
Reiner's wife started making calls to people as soon as
she found out what happened, and Billy Crystel and Larry
David were two of Rob Reiner's closest friends.

Speaker 13 (02:02:37):
You know.

Speaker 5 (02:02:37):
I followed Jerry Seinfeld, one of Jess's crushes. I followed
Jerry Seinfeld on social media and his post was like,
Seinfeld would not have existed without Rob Reiner because Rob
Reiner's production company was Castle Rock. And he's like, now
this was you know, if you're a Seinfeld super nerd

(02:02:58):
like I am. You know the story of the green
lighting of that show. You're talking late eighties and I
think they shot four episodes or whatever, but the network
was not exactly high on the hog. For Jerry Seinfeld,
He's like, the show never would have lasted in today's
environment because back then they would give shows time to

(02:03:20):
find their audience and he's like, our audience turned out
to be like affluent people, so we were only kept
on the air because they were running like bmw ads, right,
So he's like, the audience for our show spent money.
But Rob Reiner, he said, was instrumental in making sure
in going to bat for the Seinfeld show for he

(02:03:40):
and Larry David. As Rob Reiner was the head of
Castle Rock. He's like so and a lot of people
said that Jerry O'Connell did like a zoom thing I
think with CBS, and he's like, I owe my life
to Rob Reiner because he cast me in stand by
Me when I was eleven, and he's like, no disrespect
to my parents. I love them. But Rob was like
my dad. He's like my father. So Larry, they're they're

(02:04:05):
they're like these it was night time. So like these
poorly lit pieces of video of Billy Crystal and his
wife leaving that Reiner house and obviously they're inconsolable, right,
Larry David and Billy Christ.

Speaker 3 (02:04:20):
Jesus, they went.

Speaker 5 (02:04:21):
They saw that, like that's guaranteed they saw it that
they reportedly saw Rob Reiner in his God. Now, my
thought is, why would the cops let them anywhere near that,
So I don't know if.

Speaker 3 (02:04:32):
That's they get there before the cops.

Speaker 4 (02:04:34):
Maybe.

Speaker 5 (02:04:34):
I don't know, because they said that Reiner's daughter, who
lived across the street and found their bodies, called them
and they're like they got there not long at because
I think Billy Crystal might have lived up the street.

Speaker 3 (02:04:47):
That's not something you want to see, no, And I mean,
even if I gotta be honest, man, even if I
knew that they were dead inside and I got that call,
I wouldn't go, like, why would you want to go
up there and see that that's your friend?

Speaker 5 (02:04:59):
Like Larry David seen at Reiner's house that night, neighbors
saying that obviously he was very upset leaving that house.
So yeah, but this gospel singer killed by his son.
Our friend Mark Ayner, who is a teacher, right, he
sent us the photo because I also mentioned that there

(02:05:21):
were other celebrities who had died, one of them being
Anthony Geary, who back in the day, we got in
kind of a tangent about soap operas history because Anthony
Geary back in the day was one half of the
Luke and Laura couple. He and Genie Francis were like
super nova stars in the eighties on General Hospital, and
he sent us a photo about like, oh, Anthony Geary

(02:05:46):
played meat Heead's friend Roger on All in the Family
and they were pals in real life. Anthony Geary and
Rob Reiner died on the same day, purely coincidence. Anthony
Geary died of complications of a surgical procedure. Rob Reiner
died under very different circumstances. And they both knew Kevin Bacon,

(02:06:11):
and they both knew Kevin base. Isn't that the thing?
Like six degrees degrees of Kevin Bacon. They both knew
Kevin Bacon was another one. If you follow him, he
posted something He's like, Rob Reiner cast me in a
few good Men. You know, all these people are like,
they're very upset, all these people with stories. James Woods,
who is you know, a big maga guy, you know,

(02:06:35):
like a full on kook sometimes on social media, but
he was on Fox News. He's like, Rob Reiner revived
my career by casting me in Ghosts of Mississippi. Yeah,
he was pissed about the Trump thing he casts. Yeah,
but I want to play this for you because these
guys can't even mention Trump, even under these situations where

(02:06:58):
one of their friends, again diametrically opposite politically but still friends,
showed his friends. He can't even mention Trump, who's over
his own. James Wood, he goes, well, when people start
to say these things about Rob Brian Trump, Trump says
these things about Rob Reiner. Not people. Try finding another

(02:07:20):
person in all of these tributes who has a cross
word about Rob Reiner to say. He can't even say
the guy's name because he's still a magadude even though
Rob Reiner was his friend.

Speaker 19 (02:07:33):
I knew Rob Reiner because at a very very down
point in my career, Rob literally saved my career and
really put me back on track in a way that
was so important and.

Speaker 5 (02:07:47):
Rewarding in my life.

Speaker 19 (02:07:49):
And he really fought for me when the studio didn't
want me in a movie, and we did Ghosts of
Mississippi together and I went from really being basically out
of a job to get an Academy Award nomination. And
I give all the credit to Rob. And when people
say horrible things about Rob right now, I find it.

Speaker 3 (02:08:08):
Quite frankly.

Speaker 5 (02:08:10):
Infuriating, uh and just tasteful. Yeah, so he's obviously upset.
Rob Rhiner was his friend when people he can't even
say Trump, but I wonder if it was implied like
that's as far as he felt. We all know who
he's talking about. But when you say but people, no,
it's not people.

Speaker 3 (02:08:28):
You think about where he is right for him to
say that there, that's still taking a swipe without saying anything,
you know what I mean, Like he's saying a lot
by saying nothing. That network and.

Speaker 5 (02:08:39):
What a great movie. By the way, if you've never
seen Ghosts Misissippi, and he mentions in that interview, he goes,
nobody at the studio wanted me. He goes, I would
at the time. He goes because he played Byron Dealer Beckwith,
who was the white supremacist who killed Medgar Evers. That's
what that movie's about. It's Alec Baldwin, Whoopee Goldberg plays

(02:08:59):
Medgar Ever's wife, and James Woods plays Byron deal A
beck With. And he goes, I was like thirty years
too young to play that guy. He goes, but Rob
Reiner wanted me for it. He's like, nobody at the studio.
Rob Reiner and his producing partner wanted me for that,
and I love James Woods and stuff.

Speaker 3 (02:09:17):
Right, he's great.

Speaker 5 (02:09:18):
But again, he and John Voight are like kind of
the two craziest celebrity maga dudes. But he's like Rob
Reiner gave him my career back, and what a great movie.

Speaker 3 (02:09:31):
I've seen a lot of people online kind of like
speaking out for the first time, people that I've not
seen talk ill of Trump.

Speaker 5 (02:09:40):
It's such an egregious offense. It's such an egregious offense.
And that's saying something in the constellation of rotten human
behavior that Trump regularly exhibits. These are people that are like, look, man,
even if you didn't agree with the guy or you know,
way today, these are like, well, you know what I mean? Yeah, anyway, yeah,

(02:10:07):
James Woods on Fox News Go to Mississippi, a movie,
by the way, I forgot about until he kind of
mentioned it in that thing there, because when I was
watching the interviews, like what movie is he talking about that?
Rob Reiner kind of revived. I was like, oh, right,
because when he said I was about thirty thirty years
too young at that time. This is mid nineties move

(02:10:29):
to play Byron deal Beck with they got it like
an Oscar nomination for Best makeup because they made him
look so legit as Byron deal Beck with. But James
Woods was nominated for Best Supporting Actor. I don't know
who he lost to because I don't think he won.
It was James Woods Edward Norton for Primal Fear. Remember

(02:10:52):
that one, yep where he pretends that he's got Armann
Muellerstall for Shine, William H. Macy and far. That was
the year Cuba Gooding jew your one if he Jimmy Woods. Yeah,
Cuba Gooding Junior won for Jerry Maguire and then he
never did anything. Yeah, that movie was perfectly fine. But

(02:11:13):
Oscar Worthy.

Speaker 21 (02:11:15):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (02:11:16):
Yeah, he won the Academy Award and then did like
Boat Trip where he had to pretend what he they
get on the boat because they pretend they're gay or something.

Speaker 3 (02:11:25):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (02:11:26):
Cuba Gooding Juniors had a tough time, sure has. Then
he tried Radio that didn't work out too well. What
the movie or oh the industry of the movie, remember
the movie?

Speaker 10 (02:11:36):
Right?

Speaker 3 (02:11:36):
Radio?

Speaker 11 (02:11:37):
Well?

Speaker 5 (02:11:37):
What he played it was like a mentally challenging Yeah
was it de Niro? U?

Speaker 23 (02:11:42):
No?

Speaker 5 (02:11:43):
No, No, what's the movie I'm thinking of where there's
like a, Oh, what's the d Niro movie where the
guy I was thinking you were talking about the movie
where didn't Cuba Gooding do a thing with with Denier
where he was the first like black dive or something. Yeah, okay,
hell was that called Men of Honor? Men of Honor? Okay?

(02:12:05):
So Radio is Ry Harris was in Radio the mentally
challenged guy.

Speaker 3 (02:12:09):
Yeah, that's the whole Radio.

Speaker 5 (02:12:12):
Radio came after those other ones.

Speaker 3 (02:12:16):
That's what I mean. That was after Jerry McGuire. I see,
I see it's two thousand and three, and they just
like gave them big teeth and they're like, okay, you
have right mental illness.

Speaker 5 (02:12:26):
But he did that after snow Dogs on boat Trip.
I remember taking my older kids to see snow Dogs
when they were little, because I was like, oh two
uh no, I guess I wouldn't have no, maybe we
watched it later on.

Speaker 3 (02:12:39):
When you watch the movie. Yet, when you watch a
movie like that, like which Radio, and you're like, okay,
I can see what they're going for and what they're
trying to do, what they're trying to go for the
heart strings, you're trying to go for like that Oscar
type performance. Yeah, and it just feels like a comedy.
You know you missed the mark.

Speaker 5 (02:12:56):
I never saw it. Oh was it a true story?
I don't. I don't know, based on the true story
of T. L. Hannah High School football coach Harold Jones.
You go and James Radio Kennedy Okay?

Speaker 3 (02:13:08):
So over the top. As an actor doing a character
like that, it just it's it's not gonna.

Speaker 5 (02:13:14):
Work so hard. Like why is Tom Hanks okay as
Forrest Gump? Because Forrest Gump?

Speaker 27 (02:13:20):
Why?

Speaker 5 (02:13:21):
Why is Dustin Hoffman okay? And rain Man? Why is
Leonardo DiCaprio okay? In What's Eaton? Gilbert Crape? You think
it's the limitations of Cuba Gooding as an actor?

Speaker 3 (02:13:32):
No, okay, I think it's I think it's the movie.
I think it's the way it's written. Like it they
talked about with uh you've seen Tropic Thunder? Oh yeah, okay,
that scene where he says, you ever go full forward? Right?

Speaker 5 (02:13:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:13:44):
The reason he basically lays it all out right then
and there Sean Penn went home empty handed Forrest Gump
belove it looked not right. Yeah, that's that's what it is.

Speaker 5 (02:13:56):
So Cuba Gooding went full You went went full for it,
and Forrest Gump wasn't. He was just he was just
off enough. Well probably what we would refer to in
modern day parlance as autistic, some borist. Gump was definitely
atist on the spectrum functional. You know, he could do everything,

(02:14:16):
did everything, but he was everywhere, that's right. Yeah, he
knew Lyndon Baines Johnson. He was on the phone with
Remember that Rob and Forrest Gump had deleted scene and what.

Speaker 3 (02:14:27):
Was the made me some real two days.

Speaker 21 (02:14:30):
In a row flake things a half inch back in
the ways at least an inch longer, my money and
my knife, everything called out register Now another thing that
crutch down your nuts hanged. It's always a little too
tight because they cut me under there. But see if
you can't leave me about it? An age from the
point of the zepparate and uh round under my back of.

Speaker 5 (02:14:54):
My bung hole, mister president, did Joejo's talk about chibung ho?
You know, got a knif caught you a bung hole
talking about his nuts all the way to back to
his bung ho. If you listen on iHeartRadio, you can
leave us messages there or the talkback button.

Speaker 3 (02:15:14):
My way, what's up? Guys.

Speaker 12 (02:15:16):
Alan, When you mentioned Henry Ford, Jess said, as in
the museum, Please ask Jess if she knows who Henry
Ford actually is.

Speaker 3 (02:15:25):
I am dying to known.

Speaker 5 (02:15:28):
He was the president. Oh god, Jess, I want you
to think about it. I know you're being cheeky. Tell
me you're being cheeky. Have you been to the Henry
Ford you you were telling me about it?

Speaker 3 (02:15:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (02:15:43):
You clear her mind? He need cars?

Speaker 3 (02:15:45):
So you mean the president the president. Ford wasn't the
president of anything but Ford. Is that what you're Is
that what you meant?

Speaker 5 (02:15:56):
Yeah, that's not what she meant that. That's not what
she meant.

Speaker 3 (02:16:00):
And he was the president of Ford Motor Company, right, John,
Henry Ford was an American president.

Speaker 5 (02:16:06):
I take that back. I take it back. After you've
been to the museum many time.

Speaker 3 (02:16:11):
Her favorite place to be, you know, the Henry Ford
Presidential Library.

Speaker 5 (02:16:15):
You know he was also a famous famous anti Semiti.

Speaker 3 (02:16:19):
He's a massive Nazi, as they say, Yeah, he was
a rabbit anti Semite.

Speaker 6 (02:16:24):
Because I remember when me and my friend were driving
to Detroit, we were like, Ford, what's it stand for?

Speaker 3 (02:16:30):
Found on road dead? That's the joke on race Day.
Now he is a direction driver of a Ford rob.

Speaker 5 (02:16:40):
I love my Ford. I grew up in a Ford family. However,
Henry Ford famously loved Hitler, and they loved him.

Speaker 3 (02:16:51):
Boy.

Speaker 5 (02:16:52):
Now, I don't know how he felt about dentists, but
I know he was a rabbit, anti Semite, and you're
an anti dentite. I am not an anti dentist, You're
a rabbit. I don't know how Henry Ford felt about dentists,

(02:17:12):
but I have a feeling if that dentist was Jewish,
he would have had no very very specific. It would
have been like Lawrence Olivier and Marathon Man oh Man,
Alan Forrest Gump was functionally stupid. Well all right, that's uh.

(02:17:33):
That's got to make you feel good. If you're mister
and missus Gump, you're Sally Field functionally stupid. Yeah, I
believe it was. I He was seventy five to eighty
in the movie. All right, listen, I uh wait a minute, Mike,
and Parma raises a good point. Maybe she went to
the gerald Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Did you
go to the gerald Ford I don't know who that is.

(02:17:53):
Never mind, you don't know Gerald Ford, who was an
American president. You've gone to the Henry Ford Museum multiple times?
Thought he was a president? I changed my mind. Well no, no,
let me ask you why have you gone? Why'd you
go once? And then how have you I've never been.

Speaker 6 (02:18:10):
My first time there, I was in I don't know,
second grade. No, I wasn't I was in fifth grade.

Speaker 5 (02:18:16):
Well you went for school, Yeah, they hauled your ass
to the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan. Yeah, when I
was in fifth or sixth grade. And this was for
history class.

Speaker 3 (02:18:25):
I don't know, your enjoyment motive class.

Speaker 5 (02:18:30):
And you enjoyed it so much you went back when
you're older. Yeah, okay, Now I have to did they
bring up the Hitler thing or no? I don't think
they were in the fifth grade. They probably weren't deep
in the Hitler in the fifth grade, but okay, no,
and I just found that out. Now is a designated
Hitler route, designated Hitler excuse me, designated hitter Now it's

(02:18:50):
just a fun place. What's fun about it? The JFK car,
the JFK car, here's this car, and here is an
original copy of the Jewish Peril, the International jew Skurge.
I mean it was a like incontinental.

Speaker 3 (02:19:05):
I believe that he was killed in so it would
make sense that it would be at that particular museum.
But what else is there that would make that a return?

Speaker 6 (02:19:13):
There's a big diner, there's like an eighty scene where
it's like technical or like, how is it?

Speaker 5 (02:19:20):
I think it's because the four test track is right
there too. I think I don't think that's they're a dearborn.
I don't care about that. Wow, how about this? I
don't know. There's just things I send us a message.
I really want to know what she knows who he is.
She's so confidently yep and America. He was a president,

(02:19:42):
the twenty seventh American president.

Speaker 3 (02:19:45):
The Gate.

Speaker 5 (02:19:45):
I love it. I know who my favorite president is.
Barack Obama No oh ah, James Polk, No, George Washington,
James Abram Garfield kill by a disappointed office secret. He's
my second favorite president. First favorite president is Lyndon Baines Johnson.

(02:20:10):
The William Jefferson Clinton. No taft because he got stuck
in a tub. Yeah that's funny.

Speaker 3 (02:20:17):
That's great.

Speaker 5 (02:20:17):
That's your favorite president. Yeah, you got to choose one.
I'll choose that one, okay. William Howard Taft, Yeah from Cincinnati, Ohio.

Speaker 3 (02:20:27):
From there, big fat ass stuck in the bathtub.

Speaker 5 (02:20:29):
That's my favorite president.

Speaker 3 (02:20:31):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 5 (02:20:32):
He was also one of the Chief Justices of the
Supreme Court of the United States. He's the only person
ever to have been chief Justice and the president. So
he's your favorite. How old do you think he actually was.
I thought that that was apocryphal, that he got stuck
in a tub.

Speaker 3 (02:20:48):
Well, by all records, he was a very fat man.
And he's three hundred plus pounds.

Speaker 5 (02:20:52):
Okay, Rob, he was a hundreds or fat. For oh,
I think he was just fat, Like I think, just
certain point, you're just fat. Let's see, he's a nice mustache. Yeah,
but I bet in modern to her point, I bet
in modern terms, this guy would be like a normal
looking dude, you know what I mean. What I'm saying,
tubs were probably smaller than they weren't there. They weren't

(02:21:16):
there to, Yeah, they weren't there to.

Speaker 3 (02:21:18):
His weight exceeded three hundred and fifty pounds at its peak, okay, okay,
but he was six to two oh so he carried
it well.

Speaker 5 (02:21:25):
So he was just a giant human being. He was
quite corpulent, his favorite foods.

Speaker 3 (02:21:30):
You ready for this? Yes, lard steak, coffee with cream
and sugar and possum so gout, Oh possum. Awesome, yeah,
powesome Yeah, William Taff's favorite food. Wow, is there possum?
You got to eat to get up the three hundred
and fifty pounds on a lean meal a lot.

Speaker 5 (02:21:51):
That's a lot of powsome. Yeah, powsome. I'm bringing my
possum and my lawn bucket and eat. I want to
start with possum and and with a big boss steak.
Someone get me out of his goddamn tum.

Speaker 3 (02:22:06):
My fat ass is stuck in this here top again.

Speaker 5 (02:22:11):
All right, So and this will go into Jessice dossier.
Henry Ford President favorite President taft. All right, I've got
to take a break. We're going to talk to Peter
Billingsley around five thirties Ralphie and Christmas story, of course.
But he's doing an evening with Peter Billingsley. I hadn't
been on the show in a couple of years, but
the Canton Palace Theater on Sunday night, they're going to

(02:22:34):
show the film. He's going to do a Q and A.
It's gonna be a good night if you're a fan
of that movie, so we'll chat with him in a
bit three five, one, nine two. If you want to
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In a Cleveland station November's show, a panel appeared on
the window sill with a circle cut out.

Speaker 3 (02:23:50):
Oh what a sight.

Speaker 12 (02:23:52):
The mystery grew in the fading line, snowflakes fallen, whispers grow?

Speaker 3 (02:24:00):
What's behind that? Panels? Glow the glory?

Speaker 16 (02:24:07):
What could it be?

Speaker 5 (02:24:09):
A portal to joy?

Speaker 12 (02:24:11):
Or a mystery jingle bells ring as the stories roll
of Cleveland's own fest.

Speaker 3 (02:24:21):
Glory.

Speaker 5 (02:24:23):
I can't wait to tell Peter Billingsley about the Festive
Glory whole rock. He's gonna be calling live jess by
the way, perfect, It's just so when he goes it's
Peter Billingsley. Have you seen that movie Jess Yeah, I have. Actually,
people are starting to worry about our own Jessica and
Hutchinson by the way on the text.

Speaker 3 (02:24:42):
Oh no, wah, wah, womp womp.

Speaker 5 (02:24:47):
I bet it'll be okay, be just go. Yeah, I
imagine that you will. The other day. Yep, Dave, are
you ready for Christmas vacation? Very exciting. Yeah, in a
few minutes. Peter Billingsley on the phone. He was on
the show a couple of years ago in studio. We
were still in the street side studio, uh, talking about

(02:25:07):
he was doing a Q and A and showing a
Christmas story and I think last time that was a
playhouse square he was Rolthy. Was the only person here
that day that didn't actually get to talk.

Speaker 3 (02:25:17):
To him because he was up his ass. Yeah, so
I just kind of hung back and I figured i'd
catch him at some point get a picture for my
You never got to talk to him, not a word.

Speaker 20 (02:25:27):
No.

Speaker 5 (02:25:27):
Yeah, that's why I was like, oh, you're having him
back on?

Speaker 3 (02:25:30):
Is he coming in?

Speaker 13 (02:25:30):
No?

Speaker 5 (02:25:31):
Okay, yeah, yeah, so he'll be on the phone. Peter
Billingsley and A Christmas Story. This is a very you
only doing a couple of dates, and he'll be at
the Canton Palace Theater. This Sunday night seven o'clock show
showed the film, do a Q and A the whole bit.
So if you're a big fan of A Christmas Story
and there's no shortage of people around here who are

(02:25:53):
Peter Billingsley tour dot com for the details. Somebody did
one another one of those lists of well you might
have seen the map. Actually it wasn't even a list.
They were like the most popular Christmas movies by state.
And I think a lot of people assumed that Ohio
would be a Christmas Story, But I associate a Christmas
Story with Northeast Ohio, Cleveland. Yeah, it's not like the

(02:26:16):
state of Ohio has any kind of allegiance to that film.
But I gotta say I was very surprised that most
of the states said that their most favorite Christmas movie
was National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. I can see that, which, boy,
to me, that movie does not hold up. I remembered
really liking that film. I saw it in high school.

(02:26:38):
You're talking nineteen eighty nine for the third Christmas or
third vacation movies. National Input's Christmas Vacation. Plenty of funny
parts in it, right the late she just died Laura
Dern's mom, Diane Lamb, she was one of the in laws.
There are plenty of funny moments in at Julia Louis
Dreyfus is the neighbor. But holy cow, I saw it

(02:27:04):
a couple of years ago because I was so excited
to watch it again. It does not hold up in
my estimation.

Speaker 3 (02:27:11):
I don't think it every year, and really, oh every
year at least once. It's that's probably my favorite Christmas movie.

Speaker 5 (02:27:17):
Well, I'll tell you what. What made me laugh and
I saw people meming about it later on, is that
in the eighties, the notion of not getting a Christmas
bonus was so onerous that they made an entire movie
about it. Right that, like, at the end of the year,

(02:27:37):
you get this giant Christmas bonus. That was part and
parcel of that film. Of course, the big reveal is
that he didn't, and then you know, it goes completely
off the rails, brings the boss to the house and
the wife in a fur somehow thinks differently than the
husband is getting him into the Christmas spirit. But everybody
remembers like Randy Quaid and Crappers, Full Clark, all that

(02:27:59):
kind of crap, and I get it.

Speaker 3 (02:28:02):
But I was like, wow, this is not funny.

Speaker 5 (02:28:05):
But I guess I'm wrong because it is by far
the most popular Christmas movie. There are states that love
a Christmas story. I just thought that Ohio might be
one of them. North Dakota, Alabama, Alaska. It's very well represented.
I'm looking at this list, like the the state of
Wyoming is the only state to pick Elf as their

(02:28:25):
favorite Christmas movie. Home Alone, some states Gopher Home alone.
Rhode Island went for the holiday.

Speaker 3 (02:28:32):
What the hell is that?

Speaker 5 (02:28:33):
That's Cameron di As. That was when they were trying
to make Jack Black a romantic lead, and I think
they paired him. It's like a two couples that like
book the Wrong Cabin or something or they I think
it's Jude Law Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, and Jack Black.
You know what that tells me.

Speaker 3 (02:28:53):
That tells me they went state to state asking people
did a survey online whatever. They walked into a bar
in Providence and they up to one guy and goes
or one late, what's your favorite Christmas movie? The Holiday? Perfect,
thank you Rhode Island and left because there's seven people
in the state, according to them.

Speaker 5 (02:29:07):
I thought maybe they shot it there.

Speaker 3 (02:29:10):
Maybe, but it's.

Speaker 5 (02:29:10):
Still not going to be anyone's favorite Christmas movie?

Speaker 13 (02:29:13):
Right?

Speaker 5 (02:29:14):
Is the Peanuts on that list? What the Peanuts? The
Peanuts Christmas? No, because that was a TV show. Yeah,
they're talking about like films. Yeah, so I mean there's
only five, max one of them. Oklahoma is the state
that picked the Santa Claus but states pick Home Alone
and A Christmas Story and Christmas Vacation. Those are the

(02:29:35):
main ones.

Speaker 8 (02:29:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:29:37):
The Holiday was filmed in Surrey, England, so it has
nothing to do with Rhode Island, which again tells me weird.
They just sample size two people in Rhode Island. The Holiday, Great,
We're good, move on. Everybody thinks it's part of Massachusetts
or Connecticut. Anyway.

Speaker 5 (02:29:53):
I was surprised that there weren't a lot more states
that went for like The Grinch, the Jim Carrey Grinch. Right,
if you're of a certain generation, that is your Christmas movie.

Speaker 3 (02:30:06):
You know, yeah, my kids loved that one.

Speaker 5 (02:30:08):
If you were born in the early nineties, that's your
Christmas movie. Is the Jim Carrey Grinch? A Christmas story
is obviously well represented on this list. I was just
surprised that the bulk of the states went for Chevy

(02:30:29):
and Christmas Vacation. Now, Rob, I'm even more crestfallen by
the way that not one of these states, when they're
ranking their favorite Christmas movies, not one of them went
for die Hard because it's not a Christmas not one
very simple. Not one of them went for the Return
of Batman, whatever that movie's called.

Speaker 3 (02:30:49):
If only you could ask an expert on Christmas movies
if die Hard is.

Speaker 5 (02:30:55):
A Christmas movie. Listen, just because someone is a star
of a legendary Christmas movie, Rob, doesn't necessarily mean that
they're going to be an expert. You are in Christmas movie, Sorry,
I'm sorry, Have you been in a legendary Christmas movie? No,
I would argue that that person's opinion would matter slightly
more than yours. All right, person you ask you mean

(02:31:18):
like one Peter Billingsley the Star, That's exactly what I mean, Pete.
I'm laying it on pretty thick here, trying to get
to the core of these Christmas movies and what facacta
ideas people have as to what should be celebrated at Christmas.

Speaker 3 (02:31:38):
Yeah, well, I'm gonna jump into this argument.

Speaker 9 (02:31:40):
I might throw a bit of a grenade into you, guys,
because personally, I believe Diehard to Christmas movie.

Speaker 5 (02:31:47):
See you're with me, Rob with respect. He's of this
notion that somehow it's not.

Speaker 3 (02:31:56):
But listen, I will argue with you all day long.
The expert just told me it's a Christmas movie, So
now I have to change my opinion. You don't have
to change anything.

Speaker 5 (02:32:06):
But he's your pigot. Yeah, but I'll tell you.

Speaker 9 (02:32:09):
On this tour, I always ask the audience what they think,
and the place goes nuts with the yes. And I'll
give you one little footnote on this. I did a
podcast on Christmas movies and I had Yon Dubant the
cinematography of Diehard. Yeah, and I said, it's a Christmas movie.
He said no, No, I said, will you give me

(02:32:31):
forty seconds to make my pitch, which I did, and
he started at me and he goes, my gosh, you've
convinced me.

Speaker 5 (02:32:39):
Right, that's the power. Even better than that. Rob yond
Bant was the director of the movie Speed, which is
absolutely not a Christmas.

Speaker 8 (02:32:48):
Movie, perfect not, And I would argue in your favor
it is.

Speaker 9 (02:32:52):
Not a Christmas not at all. There terms or whatever
you think. No, no, it's the low in action movie
and I did. I also produced with Vince and had
a little cameo in the wear PG thirteen Christmas movie
for Christmases.

Speaker 5 (02:33:05):
Right for Christmases.

Speaker 9 (02:33:07):
A couple of these that are kind of popular, and
I am very much in the camp that Diehard is.

Speaker 5 (02:33:14):
For Christmases was a running joke around here for a
long time. Today it's a momentous occasion for yours, truly, Pete,
because today is it's been a couple of years since
you've been on the show, but today is my sixteenth
anniversary at WMMS. And the very first prize I was
given to give away when I got here was for
Christmases on DVD, And so that was an inside joke

(02:33:36):
for a long time cool that if I had a
prize people would go, is it for Christmases on DVD?
And I'd say, no, it's not, but it's you were
in that is it? You know they talk about people
getting type cast for a certain kind of role. Was
there a weird twist for you with that where you
were getting type cast for a certain kind of holiday?

Speaker 9 (02:34:00):
It just kind of worked out that way. The funny
thing about A Christmas Story. When it came out, it
was not a big hit amount an eighty three, and
it kind of you know, back then, movie sort of
went in the theaters and then they kind of drifted off.
It was really before the birth of major cable and
VHS was really kind of a common home player. So

(02:34:20):
slowly but surely this film built up an audience and
it took time, so that was good. I was kind
of had grown out of being a kid at that point,
and my relationship with the film was great because it
wasn't as though something significant happened to me overnight.

Speaker 8 (02:34:36):
You know, you go to bed Friday night.

Speaker 3 (02:34:37):
You wake up and you know you're a huge star.

Speaker 9 (02:34:40):
Overnight took It took a long time, and really I
think that's why fans feel in ownership of this movie
in a good way, because they're really the ones responsible
for it being what it is said today.

Speaker 5 (02:34:51):
I know the movie Christmas Story Christmas is a few
years old, but I could never really get what was
the responds to that. Obviously, it's baked into the cake
that the people who love a Christmas Story are going
to be right there for it. Were there people that
kind of discovered those movies through that through the second.

Speaker 9 (02:35:12):
One, I think to a certain degree. Yeah, I mean,
we were very happy that the response, particularly from the
hardcourt fan base to Christmas Story Christmas was overwhelmingly positive,
and I'm sure they sat with their arms folded for
the first couple of minutes of the movie wondering. But
you know, it really shows itself to be the origin

(02:35:34):
story of Christmas. Story was kind of designed to be
a puzzle piece that fits alongside the first one, But
that was thirty nine years later, and I don't know
that we haven't done the deep dive, but I think it,
if not the August one of the longest sequels ever
in cinema history.

Speaker 5 (02:35:51):
Right, Peter Billingsley and Evening with Peter Billingsley and a
Christmas Story. Of course, he was Ralphie in the original
and he's doing a show on Sunday night at the
Canton Theater. It's a seven o'clock Curtin. If you go
to Peter Billingsley Tour dot com you get the details
on it. But this is what you This is a
version of what you did last time we spoke. I
think I think the last time I might have been

(02:36:12):
down here, Ken Pallas Theater is a beautiful theater. I
don't know if you've ever done anything there before, but
it's a gorgeous theater.

Speaker 10 (02:36:18):
I have not.

Speaker 9 (02:36:20):
Yeah, No, I'm actually excited to get there because the
last time I was in Canton was to go to
the Football Hall Fame during the time that I was
filming A Christmas Story, which we filmed in Cleveland, right,
So I am excited to get down to Canton. And
it's been fun because, as I said, a lot of
folks haven't seen this movie in a theater. They've watched
it mostly in their living rooms. So we screened the

(02:36:41):
movie and fans get a chance to see it with
each other. Comedies play well in a group of people
and you all go after and I and then I
kind of do you know, it's a Q and A
but it's also a little more of a show. I
bring along a lot of personal photos, tell a lot
of stories, break down a lot of themes, and then
I turn it over to the room. We don't pre
take questions. We just let people line up and ask

(02:37:02):
whatever they'd like to ask.

Speaker 5 (02:37:04):
I've hosted a handful of these before. I did one
with Alan Ruck last year for Ferris Bueller, I did one.
I've done a handful of these over the years, and
they're so fun. So the audience had just from I've
been on either side of these kinds of things, and
the audience is so engaged. You know this not only
with the Q and A, but with the film and

(02:37:24):
for Northeast Ohio. I have to think that's something like
a Christmas story with respect to the audience, it's almost
like the Rocky Horror screening or something like there are
people who know this movie inside and out.

Speaker 9 (02:37:36):
Yeah, it's fun because I kind of watched from backstage
when the film's being played and people are mouthing the words,
they're laughing before yeah it's happened. They're anticipating and that's
the fun of the film. And there's still many of
them in one room, so it just plays great and
it definitely gets you into the Christmas spirits for sure.
And it's fun, especially being back in Cleveland because I

(02:37:57):
always refer to Cleveland as being a producer on the movie.
You know, all the lengths that they went to, starting
with leaving all the Christmas lights and downtown up. Now, yeah,
Christmas because we started filming in January and they kept
all the lights up for us in the Cleveland Fire Department.
You know, it didn't snow that year in Cleveland when
we were there, and so most of the snow in

(02:38:18):
those scenes, like on the Parker Street and on top
of the bushes. Is that fire retardant foam that they
were blowing at the time at their houses. Yeah, So
that's all the stuff that's going back deep. So they
were such a great partner in the film.

Speaker 5 (02:38:34):
You've been a prominent if you're not acting, you've been
a prominent producer and director and things like that. You
were part of that show Party of was it Party
of five? Dinner for five? It was dinner Rob. Do
you remember Dinner for five?

Speaker 14 (02:38:47):
If the Wonderful I've seen teen show?

Speaker 3 (02:38:51):
Yes, Yeah, I was Dinner for five for I see, Yes.

Speaker 5 (02:38:55):
Love that show. Do you have people that see you
in public? You know, it's one thing if an actor
is recognized as being a character actor, people might go,
I know your face. I can't place the movie, but
people see you and there's probably a part of their
brain that go, I remember this guy from forty years ago.
Do you get that where they kind of look at
you kind of askew and they go, I know you

(02:39:16):
from something.

Speaker 9 (02:39:19):
I do. But I, honestly, this time of year, get
a lot of Oh, it's you, you know, and they
recognize me right away. Yeah, And they know it's me
from that movie and from other stuff. And we have
a great fan base, so you know, it's now gone
through generations. So I get young people recognizing me. I
get older people, I get middle aged people. It's kind

(02:39:39):
of across the board. But if I'm in the airports
of places where you wind up staring at each other
a lot, it.

Speaker 5 (02:39:44):
Happens, right, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:39:48):
If I'm in somewhere where you can keep it moving,
it's easier.

Speaker 5 (02:39:51):
It's also going to be tough if you discover that
the person has no idea who you are and they're
just staring at you in the airport. Pee just to
be a weird.

Speaker 9 (02:39:59):
Ect and then well, I think the good thing is
now phones helped that because instead of staring at you
for thirty minutes, they go to their phone and then yeah,
and then they're able to figure it out right. And look,
it's been you know, it's been a huge it's been
a huge part.

Speaker 3 (02:40:14):
Of these people's lives.

Speaker 9 (02:40:15):
And I think that's another reason that they you know,
so much of what I'm hearing in these questions from
them is always prefaced with thank you or this movie
is a part of our life where they want to
share the traditions that they now do in their house.
So many people are eating Chinese food on Christmas, even
Christmas Day.

Speaker 5 (02:40:34):
Now, I mean just the just the leg Lamp moved
in their lives from it. Yeah, just the leg Lamp
industrial Complex in Northeast Ohio, you know, just on its own,
is an unbelievable thing that kind of spread out into
even if people, even if people don't know the origins
of it. I mean, you'll see these all over the
country now in people's homes. And evening with Peter Billingsley

(02:40:57):
and a Christmas story. This is Sunday Night. You go
see Pete, go to Peter Billingsley tour dot Com for
the info and the tickets and all that. It's a
seven o'clock curtain on Sunday at the Canton Palace Theater,
which is a beautiful theater and worth the trip. And
he's going to show the film in Q and A
with the audience and all that. And it's a lot
of fun and it's always good to talk to you man.
Enjoy that show. I appreciate your time, appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (02:41:20):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 5 (02:41:21):
Thank you man, Thank you.

Speaker 3 (02:41:22):
And Diehard is a Christmas movie.

Speaker 5 (02:41:24):
Diehard Christmas Robie rob that's where signing off.

Speaker 3 (02:41:27):
Thank you man, Thank you.

Speaker 8 (02:41:29):
Peter.

Speaker 3 (02:41:29):
There's Peter Billingsley. Peter bill toour dot com again. I
know when I'm beat. Peter Billingsley says, it's a Christmas movie.
It's a Christmas movie.

Speaker 5 (02:41:37):
What am I got?

Speaker 3 (02:41:38):
What am I argue with him?

Speaker 5 (02:41:39):
Robbie's on the phone, doesn't matter, he's an ex USh.
You'd be like, screw that guy. It's not all right.
You can't tell a guy who as a child had
to dress up in a bunny costume that he's wrong
about Christmas movies.

Speaker 3 (02:41:56):
You're shooting his own eye out. Yeah, I didn't argue
with that. Yeah, all right, he.

Speaker 5 (02:42:01):
Got to work with Melinda Dylan. Hatcha, Hatcha, that was
the mom, right, Yeah. Remember her in slap Shot. Much
better in that movie, she whipped them out and slash
she did. Yeah, she got those ski slope hooters. They jump, Yeah,
ski slope hooters. Yep. Her torso looked like Despicable Me

(02:42:22):
in profile.

Speaker 3 (02:42:23):
Remember I'll never forget the day I connected those dots.
I was like, oh my god, that's Ralphie's mom.

Speaker 11 (02:42:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:42:28):
In slap Shot, Sweet and Close Encounters of the third kind,
that too, she was married to Richie. It's Ray Cherry
Trenny Fifth.

Speaker 3 (02:42:36):
No, she didn't dump them mountain that, No, she didn't.

Speaker 5 (02:42:38):
He was too busy making mashed potato mountains to look
at her. Yeah, all right, take a break here three five,
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Speaker 5 (02:44:15):
Now we can argue all day long as to what
is and isn't a Christmas movie, But I think we
can all agree that gay Bar by the Electric six
is a Christmas song. Yes, can't we agree on this?
One of our Chicago bureau chiefs, I guess I should

(02:44:36):
put my son down as a Chicago bureau chief now
that he lives there. But one of our other ones
sent me the article that so there's a gay bar
in Chicago called side Track. There's a if you've ever
been to the Boys Town neighborhood, you know where that is.
They are the owners of Sidetrack there in Chicago are

(02:44:58):
trying to make a bid to open up a location
at O'Hare, which would make it the first airport gay bar.
In the United States. How about that. Now, I don't
know why you'd need that, and I imagine that you
would probably have to. They're still business owners, and I

(02:45:22):
imagine they would probably maybe ease off the throttle there
a little bit. But if Sidetrack opens a location out
there at the airport, I'm trying to think of what
the jokes would be, and none of them are really
coming to me. Connecting flight, I don't know, there's nothing

(02:45:48):
good coming to me. And that's probably because why not
so Chicago's O'Hare, which you know, one of the busiest,
you know, historically the busiest airport in the United States.
I don't know that it still is. Usually Atlanta and
o'hargo kind of back and forth for the title of
the most of the busiest airport in the United States.

Speaker 3 (02:46:10):
No hair.

Speaker 5 (02:46:13):
Wmms Rob on social media, thank you, thank you, but
we'll see the first airport gay bar in the United States.
Take that, shun Franshko. I was going to say, if
there's a place to do it, well, speaking of the

(02:46:35):
great city of Chicago, Illinois, Chicago was the very last
I'll get like these email blasts from like history websites
and things, because I'm super Cool, Rob. Chicago was the
last city in the United States to repeal their ugly law.
That was nineteen seventy four. You know, we didn't have

(02:46:57):
the Americans with Disabilities Act until the late eighties early nineties,
but a lot of cities around the country had things
called ugly laws, including Columbus, Ohio, Chicago, Denver, Lincoln, Nebraska, Columbus, Ohio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

(02:47:20):
Cities that had ordinances that made it illegal.

Speaker 3 (02:47:25):
For anyone.

Speaker 5 (02:47:27):
Well the terminology was diseased, maimed, mutilated, or deformed in
any way. They didn't want people who were unsightly or
no fund to look at. They didn't want them out
in public rop who does. So these cities would have
what were called ugly laws, and a lot of those

(02:47:50):
cities got rid of them over the years, but Chicago
was a very last.

Speaker 3 (02:47:53):
One to lose it.

Speaker 5 (02:47:54):
In the seventies nineteen seventy four, as disability rights advt
kids got louder and more prominent. The very last arrest
in Chicago was a homeless man who had been taken
in because he had visible scars, and theeen seventy four

(02:48:15):
the judge said there was no legal definition of ugly
and so the charges were dropped. Chicago was the last
American city to repeal their ugly laws. So if you
were walking around the city of Chicago in nineteen seventy
one seventy two, uh, and were visually unpleasant and there
are a lot of you out there who are they
might have hauled you right in there.

Speaker 3 (02:48:36):
Imagine you're the arresting officer and you just walk in
the beat doing your thing. I imagine twisting your little stick.

Speaker 5 (02:48:43):
Yeah, you're twirling your night stick.

Speaker 3 (02:48:45):
Whirling your night stick. Yeah, no, Charlie, And you see
that guy. Oh, dear Christ, look at that call's face.
Oh Jim, it's nineteen seventy one. I don't give a
damn up against the wall. That man's terrible to look at.

Speaker 5 (02:48:56):
You're coming with me, son, Well, it does feel like
one of those laws that's on the books but not enforced.
But you can't walk a duck on Sundays, those kinds
of things. Hey Joey, Hello, Hello, Joey.

Speaker 8 (02:49:16):
Hey, what's up?

Speaker 3 (02:49:17):
What can I do for you?

Speaker 18 (02:49:21):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (02:49:21):
Well, first time, congratulations on your anniversary. Thank you, Joey
and uh. Rob Diehard is a Christmas movie. Any movie
that has a Christmas theme. Is a Christmas movie, even
though it might not have come out at Christmas, it's

(02:49:43):
Christmas theme.

Speaker 3 (02:49:44):
And then you just piled on Joey. I Peter Billingsley
told me that it was a Christmas to concede. Rob
already got it from on high.

Speaker 1 (02:49:54):
I know I heard, I heard all about it, but uh,
I just had to get had to get it in
there because I mean, anybody can their own opinion.

Speaker 8 (02:50:05):
But Diehard is a Christmas movie.

Speaker 3 (02:50:09):
We've established that, Joey, it's a Christmas movie.

Speaker 5 (02:50:12):
I got you, buddy, I had time to move on. Yeah,
he said it was even I'm not dying.

Speaker 3 (02:50:19):
Okay, then you can call and tell me I'm wrong,
But I said you're right. Peter, I'm with you now.

Speaker 5 (02:50:23):
It's a Christmas movie. You're the expert. You told me,
I'm gonna shut my.

Speaker 3 (02:50:26):
Mouth, okay.

Speaker 8 (02:50:27):
And the night remember before Christmas is a Halloween and
Christmas movie.

Speaker 3 (02:50:35):
Man, this is how we're gonna end a year. All
this is your uh, this is your idea for how
we're gonna wrap it. I told you I was done Friday.

Speaker 5 (02:50:45):
I know you did, and you stuck it out. Well
you on Friday, you said we only have eight more
hours of his crap.

Speaker 3 (02:50:53):
You promised me I wouldn't have to fight for my
right to protect my thoughts on Christmas music for Christmas movies.

Speaker 5 (02:51:01):
And now Rob here I am. We've only got about
ten minutes left in the year. We've gone from eight
hours last week to ten minutes. I did go fast,
and this is how you want to end it arguing
with Joey?

Speaker 3 (02:51:19):
What choice do I have? I conceded Joey Christmas. You're like, Okay, Joey,
I got you. You know you're right, Joey, it's a
Christmas movie. Well let me tell you why it's a
Christmas I already said it was a Christmas movie.

Speaker 5 (02:51:31):
It's like he didn't want to let go of it.
You didn't want to. He had to get his inn.
The expert told me. I don't know, you look like Joey.
But it's a good thing Cleveland doesn't have ugly laws anymore.

Speaker 3 (02:51:43):
I'm just joking with did Joey Merry Christmas? I love you, Pop,
Thank you for listening.

Speaker 5 (02:51:49):
Ethan in Rochester. That's a better way to there. End right,
Ethan in Rochester.

Speaker 13 (02:51:56):
I was just gonna say, you don't have to end
the year with arguing ugly people. You can just talk
to me for thirty seconds. See what we're saying.

Speaker 3 (02:52:03):
You get it.

Speaker 13 (02:52:06):
I just wanted to call you guys and wish you
a happy chinooka and a merry Christmas and a wonderful
new year and everything.

Speaker 5 (02:52:11):
And that's that's about it, and a happy kah to
you too.

Speaker 3 (02:52:15):
Are free.

Speaker 5 (02:52:16):
What will you do over the holidays? Ethan happy buddy?
What trouble will you get into?

Speaker 3 (02:52:23):
Into?

Speaker 5 (02:52:23):
What trouble will you get?

Speaker 13 (02:52:26):
So I'm going to be there this weekend as a
matter of fact, and then I don't know, man, whichever
way the wind blows is where I'm going.

Speaker 3 (02:52:32):
Well, you're coming in for the Bills game, right I am.

Speaker 13 (02:52:36):
Yeah, I'm going to be there Saturday and then uh
DJJC and I are going to the game Sunday.

Speaker 5 (02:52:40):
Nice Bills are in town this weeknd Yeah, yeah, all right,
that's the team to which the Browns will lose.

Speaker 3 (02:52:47):
Yes, okay, I would imagine.

Speaker 13 (02:52:49):
Here's the thing is, here's the things I don't know.
They might bench everybody and stade the players so nobody
gets hurt.

Speaker 3 (02:52:55):
Oh that's true too, right, Like Josh Allen put on
a performance and a half last week, so they may Yeah,
you're right, might just rest everybody going into that playoff run.

Speaker 5 (02:53:04):
He's gotta stay healthy so he can lay the pipe
to that Hailey Steinfeld over the holidays. He has already
done that. She's gonna gonna have a child. Yeah, that
doesn't mean you can't still have sex just because she's pregnant.
How far along is she? You know, rob, A lady
will never be hornier than when she's with child. She's
a wash, you have kids, she's a wash in hormones, right.

Speaker 3 (02:53:24):
Yeah, but then it's like he's gonna want to ride
that nogging No, but then that's where they live, like
that was felt weird where they live?

Speaker 5 (02:53:31):
The baby? Yes, yeah, that's you with some stranger sticking
that's your stuff, thang into your house. Baby's half you. Yeah,
it's still poor thing's dodging. Bullets, stay out of the way,
Bullets listen to this guy. Wow, Jess, how about this?
What I just missed it? It's okay having sex wild pregnant?

Speaker 3 (02:53:51):
Did you do that?

Speaker 5 (02:53:51):
Were you engaging in coitus when you were with child?

Speaker 10 (02:53:54):
Now?

Speaker 5 (02:53:56):
The last person that touched my dog car you're doctor
knocked you up all right, good to know. Well, listen,
I have to imagine I have I have to imagine
that she is being reported to the American Medical Association
to the OHIO.

Speaker 3 (02:54:13):
Would like to hear that story?

Speaker 5 (02:54:16):
Yeah, all right, all right, Ethan, enjoy the game. Thank you, Pal,
Feliz Navidad and uh mazeltov a chat? Hey, what's going on?

Speaker 3 (02:54:29):
How are you?

Speaker 18 (02:54:29):
Pal?

Speaker 5 (02:54:31):
You're on the you're on the mend right. Didn't you
get hurt? Yes?

Speaker 8 (02:54:35):
Yes, I freatured my my ankle.

Speaker 5 (02:54:38):
Fractured delivering stuff.

Speaker 13 (02:54:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:54:43):
This guy, our buddy Chet, he drives for Amazon, and
man Rob fractured his ankle. He's laid up, Holy smoke.

Speaker 3 (02:54:54):
So what will you do?

Speaker 14 (02:54:57):
Well, I'm I'm gonna stay low.

Speaker 5 (02:54:59):
I don't don't have to drive. I don't want to drive, right, Okay.

Speaker 13 (02:55:03):
If this was gonna happen anytime during the year as
a driver, is probably.

Speaker 5 (02:55:08):
The best time for it to happen, right, whoops? Yeah, okay, good.

Speaker 3 (02:55:14):
Right?

Speaker 5 (02:55:15):
Yeah? Will you be cooking it all for Christmas?

Speaker 4 (02:55:17):
Chat?

Speaker 5 (02:55:18):
No, I cook for Thanksgiving? So no Thanksgiving? You guys?
You guys are what mlin right? Am I correct?

Speaker 18 (02:55:25):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (02:55:26):
I actually had a troduct in for Thanksgiving. Oh you're
not having goat stew or anything like that. A turd ducan. Wow,
I've never even had that, a turd ducan, Rob, That's
so delicious. That's a turduh that's stuffed inside a duck
and then it's all and if you cook it, if

(02:55:49):
you cook it hot enough, Rob, it extracts all the moisture.
And yeah, it's a turd stuffed inside the chicken and
then inside but du yeah, something else. Yeah that's my understanding.
Yeah right, okay, Chet, feel better, pal, Happy work, Happy

(02:56:12):
work aniversary, Thank you sir, and happy holidays.

Speaker 3 (02:56:15):
Be safe.

Speaker 5 (02:56:16):
We'll do see happy happy Chanoka take care of all right,
all right, you too happy? Uh huh, there's chat over
a university heights, Adam, Hey, what's up?

Speaker 3 (02:56:33):
Happy?

Speaker 10 (02:56:34):
Hey?

Speaker 16 (02:56:34):
I just wanted to say happy anniversary, thank you, and
I also wanted to say happy Holidays.

Speaker 3 (02:56:43):
I hope you guys have a great New year. Happy
and Rob, Rob.

Speaker 16 (02:56:48):
I I still have to say I'm with you with
it not being a Christmas movie Diehard that is. But
you know what, I've got a deeper relationship that I
with you know, Peter Billings. Uh, then I do with
the Buzzard. So you know, if he says it's the
you know Christmas movie, then I'm sorry. I how to
go with the you know the master there?

Speaker 5 (02:57:07):
That's what I'm saying, right, legend.

Speaker 3 (02:57:09):
Sometimes if there's experts in every field, and if he
tells me it is, I gotta say, Okay, that's Ralph.
How do I argue exactly?

Speaker 16 (02:57:17):
And hey, before I get off, two quick notes. One,
I'm in talks with the Hissy Kits Alan, They're coming
to Cleveland.

Speaker 3 (02:57:24):
I'm making it happen. You're gonna be there for you.

Speaker 5 (02:57:27):
I will absolutely be at that Hissy Kids show.

Speaker 3 (02:57:29):
Adam perfect.

Speaker 16 (02:57:32):
Well, before I go, I need to, you know, make
sure my wife is not burning my dinner because I
hear the smoke detector going.

Speaker 5 (02:57:38):
Off, So burn what about to dinner?

Speaker 3 (02:57:40):
All right? You too?

Speaker 5 (02:57:41):
There's Adam there and Parma who wants to make sure
Rob that his wife is not burning his dinner. Love
That What a way to end twenty twenty five. Well
you know which Adam wid some patriarchal Yeah, he and
his wife for the ones that pork in the bathroom
and Captain.

Speaker 3 (02:58:01):
I know who they are. I know who they are.

Speaker 5 (02:58:05):
Happy holidays, indeed, that's their calling card. Figure out a
way to put that dinner out one way or another. Wow, honey,
is that the smoke alarm going off? Or is that
the I got nothing? Yeah, I got nothing. Oh, I
didn't eat this last nugat.

Speaker 3 (02:58:21):
Oh that's the good one.

Speaker 5 (02:58:22):
Which one is that he liked the orange?

Speaker 3 (02:58:24):
I'm I'm lemon vanilla orange, I like.

Speaker 5 (02:58:27):
I don't know you ate all three years? Uh No,
I put the orange one away. Jess, did you eat
all your nuggats?

Speaker 3 (02:58:32):
I did what I have? Which one?

Speaker 18 (02:58:35):
Did you like?

Speaker 6 (02:58:35):
The cases vanilla? Then it goes orange? And then the
lemon orange is a.

Speaker 3 (02:58:41):
Real good isn't it good? I like I like the
citrus in it because it breaks up the sweet. Yeah,
that's why I like the citrus in them. So I'm
partial to the orange. I love the vanilla. I like
the They're all good.

Speaker 5 (02:58:52):
I'm glad I ate that one last because it was like.

Speaker 6 (02:58:54):
The after mint o. You said you didn't like that
you Oh, I said it was my second favorite. The
lemon one was ere.

Speaker 5 (02:59:04):
These are French, right ron.

Speaker 3 (02:59:05):
They are yees macarons. Yep, you want to take some
home for Christmas? Take the rest of the package. Who yeah,
no thing? Are you sure? Share them with the fam?
No thing? All right? All right, it's so good.

Speaker 5 (02:59:19):
I got a huge package of them.

Speaker 3 (02:59:23):
Yes, that's pretty good.

Speaker 5 (02:59:24):
Thank you Christmas.

Speaker 3 (02:59:26):
What I'm saying you want to take her and you
can take what I brought into work. You can take
that little bit with you. You said you like the orange.

Speaker 5 (02:59:35):
Wait mire Alan Ac Oh, no good, come on, Alam,
he won't take them, Jess, you know you want them
the hell out of here.

Speaker 3 (02:59:43):
What we gotta go?

Speaker 18 (02:59:46):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (02:59:46):
Thank you guys, Thanks for the well wishes. Enjoy your holiday.
Rob Any partying thoughts for twenty twenty five. Oh man,
it's been a great year. Thanks thanks for keeping me around.
It's been a good it's been a good run. A
lot of fun time, good time. Any part where can
people get you over the holidays? Rob w nns Rob
on Instagram. Just any parting thoughts? Yeah, on American presidents

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or anti semites. I'm just so happy that my jar
of jalapenos got opened. I opened the jar of Halloween.
We we did that, didn't we? I opened the jar
of halapenos. He did, just as jalapeno blues.

Speaker 3 (03:00:20):
Are they can resume mmm in the second you open
that thing up to the whole studio smelled like, oh yeah,
halapenjos calapnos. And now I must leave you as the
Brady bunch of on and I find four of those
children incredibly arousing. Get at it.

Speaker 12 (03:00:40):
Be careful of what you say, Be careful in every way,
Be careful of what you do. The Brother is watching you.
Be circumspect and discreet, Stay light on your mental feet.

(03:01:01):
One slip and you know who you're through. Big Brother
is watching you. And with all narratives, remember ovidience paid.
And when you watch that davy screen, remember it works
both ways. You disappear in a wink. Unless you can

(03:01:26):
double think, you'll vanish into the blue. Big Brother is
watching you.