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Rob Reiner Was Delicious w/ Laura Greenfield · The Delicious Culture with Jon Francois

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All right, delishies, grab a plate and feast
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on the delicious culture. I am your host, John
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Francois. Uh, we're having quite a meal this
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week. The, the tragic death of Rob and Michelle
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Reiner. And I wanted a moment to like reflect
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on their legacy. And I thought who better to
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do this with than a big fan. of, uh, both of
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them, especially Rob Reiner, my good friend,
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Laura Greenfield from my home state of Connecticut,
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who I've known since 2013. It's like 12 going
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on years. I know. How can that be? Yeah. We've
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done public access television. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah. So that's where we left off kind of. Right.
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I was in college and now I'm 34. Can you believe
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it? Unbelievable. I know. Yeah. So Laura and
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I have done public access TV. We've done community
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radio together over the course of our 13 year
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friendship. And yeah, she, she loves Rob Reiner
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as do I, but I know that you specifically, you
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grew up with him as he was at the peak of his
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career. So I feel like. more to say than I do
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about his legacy and his highlights. First off,
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to get it out of the way, I think the latest
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that we know, I think his son Nick was just,
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he made his court appearance. Oh, did he? Okay.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, so Nick has been charged
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with murder. It looks like the LAPD is basically
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saying that the son Nick killed Rob and, um,
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and Michelle. So that's pretty much confirmed.
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Yeah, I know. I know. So deep breath. I know,
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I know, I know. There's a lot that can be said.
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But what I will say, a lot has been said about
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Rob. Have you heard much about what Michelle
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Reiner brought to the table? This encouraged
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me to do kind of a deep dive into who she was
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in relation to herself and in relation to her
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relationship with Rob. I'm not much help there.
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I don't know. I remember when he was married
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to Penny Marshall. Yeah. Yeah. And then had their
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daughter and I thought that was, and I remember
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Penny Marshall when she was on The Odd Couple.
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Yeah. Was it Laverne and Shirley? Before that,
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that came before Laverne and Shirley. She was
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Myrna, I think what her name was. She was the
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secretary, Oscar's secretary. Got it. Nothing
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like that. But she was on there before. Laverne
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Shirley came out. Yeah. And I know that sort
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of the trajectory of Rob's love life from his
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relationship with Penny Marshall, and then he
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got divorced from her and then he was single
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for like 10 years. I know that sort of formed
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the basis of one of his most known movies that
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he directed when Harry met Sally. I love that
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movie. I know it's the great and probably the
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greatest rom -rom -com ever. I'm always like,
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I'm a scroller. I wish I weren't, but I'm a TV
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scroller because there's nothing there. So I
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keep... thinking the more I go, something will
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appear. And they're really big into showing a
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lot of 80s movies, the same ones, of course,
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repeatedly, basically the same or whatever channels
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that we're getting. We're getting the Breakfast
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Club ad nauseam and plenty that are absolutely
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wonderful, whatever movies, but we're seeing
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them constantly. And what happened? I know when
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Aramis Alley has been on TV and things like that.
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And I thought, I wonder now if they're going
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to start throwing some of these things out there,
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but it seemed, you know, it's just kind of the
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same. Like we're stuck in this one particular
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era of like movies and whatnot. And like, we
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just kind of bypassed the nineties, I guess,
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and went on to Marvel. Yeah, I know. It's quite
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the job. Quite the job. So that's another story.
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Yeah. But I remember, what's his name? What's
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his name? But I was going to call him Reiner
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from All in the Family, too. I was a kid growing
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up on that. Yeah, in the seventies. And I can
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remember the whole... No, Archie meeting him.
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And even as a kid, I may not have understood
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everything you're talking about, but it was like
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anybody can get what's going on in the conflict
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with these two. I loved him because he had the
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tie -dye t -shirt. That was good with me. So
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yeah. I would think because all in the family,
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like you had Archie Bunker, the conservative
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father. You had his son -in -law played by Rob
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Reiner, who was the sort of the hippie -dippy
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anti -Vietnam War person. Yeah. And Rob represented.
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Yeah. And they just clashed. They couldn't see
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anything. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And that was
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sort of, God, I would arguably say that that
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was that that was sort of a precursor to the
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political discourse that we just have now, where
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it's like liberal versus conservative and how
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can we debate our points and get fiery with each
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other and then somehow kill each other at the
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end of the day? That's what makes me think of
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and the difference in the times. Ninety five.
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was an American president. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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yeah. And the I can't believe I almost used the
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word discourse. I don't use that ever. That's
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a terrible thing. You said it. It's such an academic
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word. It's OK. I just don't normally. But anyway,
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and what they're talking about and how to be
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the president and it was so 90s, it was very
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in that time, very reflective of Clinton and
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hope and Obama coming up and very positive and
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getting over the weapons of mass destruction
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that hadn't been there at all anyway. And this
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positive thing. And then it was just like, we
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just kind of, what happened since then? And what
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are we talking about now? And I don't want to
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talk about it. It's so stupid. I know, I know,
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I know. The American president. But he did so
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in a way that was, you know, you can relate.
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He put it in a story where, yeah, it's goofy
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and it's funny and it's, you know, but it was
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clever. To me, that's just clever and it's a
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nice way to make something. And then he does
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the good men, you know, one good man. Yeah, a
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few good men. So Big Dib, now he's talking almost
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over 10 years later and that kind of environment
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and whatnot. So I like that he was, he did different
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things. He felt a lot and he said what he meant,
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but he wasn't out there screaming and yelling.
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He did so quietly. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. So
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let's kind of backtrack and let's maybe give
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context to, for example, like when Harry met
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Sally, I know that, like I said, Rob had his
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relationship with Penny Marshall. He broke up
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with her and then had that divorce. And I know
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that the original ending of when Harry met Sally
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was going to be like Harry and Sally, like they
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never got together. They would meet like years
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later and meet. and never see each other again
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after that, because Rob thought that, okay, you
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fall in love and then you just don't. You break
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up and then that was it. But then Michelle came
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into his life and that relationship blossoms
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and she was the one that encouraged him to change
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the ending to that where they have the happy
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ending, where they go from best friends to lovers
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forever. The beginning of your knife to start
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right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The beginning. Yeah,
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yeah, yeah. The thing about when you... When
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you figure out you want to spend the rest of
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your life with somebody, you want the rest of
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your life to start right now. So many. My former
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husband, that was one that we watched any number
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of times and we had with any kind of movies,
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we'd have movie references and something would
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come up or whatever and we'd quote something
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from whatever it was. It is like movie reference,
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what movie blah, blah, blah. Um, and he was good
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for that, you know, he was he was Yeah, so and
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uh, have you seen the norah effron movie mixed
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nuts because I know michelle was in that Oh,
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really? Yeah. She was yeah i'm finding out like
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she she was so she was a well -known photographer,
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uh, she I didn't know she was an actress. I didn't
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know that so Probably like had a small part in
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a film. I don't think she was like a real legit
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Yeah, no, she collaborated with Rob on a few
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films I know she did some photography work on
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the movie misery with Kathy Bates. Oh, I can't
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watch that Oh, is it too terrible? Oh, I'm just
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too sensitive. No, it's really good. They would
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just freak me out I mean, all I know is gonna
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crack him on the knees with a hammer. I can't
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I can't even I can't Un -experience that yeah
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Yeah, yeah. It was just too much for me. We don't
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have to expand on this too much, but Sally was
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responsible for the cover picture of The Art
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of the Deal, a book which was kind of spearheaded
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by our current commander -in -chief. Oh, yeah,
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yeah, yeah. I don't remember if I made this up
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or not, but I could have sworn back in the day
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when my uncle was writing all of these heavy
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hitter ghost written books. that Trump asked
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him, and I think he said, no. Oh, really? Yeah.
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I don't know if that's true or not, but now I'm
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telling the whole world, but I don't know. I
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haven't mentioned it. It's okay. I could be totally
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making it up. It just seems like something from
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my way prior life that I seem to remember something.
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Right. Right. So Michelle had a hand in producing.
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the Albert Brooks documentary on HBO Max, which
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I highly recommend you see if you have HBO Max.
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I don't. Because Albert Brooks, I don't know
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if you know him and Rob, they were high school
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best friends and Rob directed that documentary
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and yeah, and Albert, um, also the brother of
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Bob Einstein, the late Bob Einstein, who was
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Super Dave, Super Dave Osborne. Oh yeah. Yeah,
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yeah, yeah. Um, but yeah, no, Albert Brooks,
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I mean, obviously he was just a wonderful, he
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still is alive. He's a wonderful search comedian.
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Broadcast news. Yeah, broadcast news. Yep. Yep.
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He used to do the short films for SNL back in
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the first season. Yeah, he did a really funny
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short video where it's like, oh, here's how you
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can become a clown in clown school or some shit
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like that. I highly recommend it. It's a great
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satirical video. Michelle Reiner also produced
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Spinal Tap 2. Did you see the Spinal Tap or Spinal
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Tap 2? I can't even believe I haven't seen Spinal
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Tap, which is... Kind of crazy. But no, it's
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like, I feel, I mean, I know of it. I know the
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three guys. I know, you know, I see it around.
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I just never saw the whole thing. I don't know
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why. It was one of those. So what's funny is
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that there are two particular Rob Reiner movies
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that were shown in my classes back in high school.
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And I think it was just one of those like dates.
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Yeah. It was just one of those days off where
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the teacher didn't want to do anything and they
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were like, Oh, here's a movie. Yeah, yeah, here's
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a movie where we could just watch on a day off
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or maybe you can learn something from it. And
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I remember my 21st century history class, they
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showed us, this is Spinal Tap, which pretty much
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launched the mockumentary format. Right, right,
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right. Yeah, satirical documentary of this British
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pop rock band. And then a science class, and
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this was probably unrelated to science. I think
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the teacher, it was just like the end of the
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semester and he wanted a day off. He showed us
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the Princess Bride, which... I wasn't into Princess
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Bride wasn't my cup of tea, but I'll go hard
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any day. I didn't expect it to be. And I was
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surprised that I did. I liked it. And then I
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went to watch it another time and I was like,
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no, once was enough. Yeah. Fantasy is not my
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cup of tea. But just because, you know, Billy
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Crystal is so funny doing the thing. Yeah. And
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I'll watch. I'll watch the things. I'll tape
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things, even if they're commercials or whatever,
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just so I can fast forward and see the parts
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I want. Right. Reasonable enough, reasonable
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enough. I know that Michelle Reiner also helped
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produce, there was a Christian nationalism documentary
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that Rob did like two years ago called God in
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Country. And I heard, The podcast interview he
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did where he promoted that on Armchair. Yeah.
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Yeah. So I know, I know Michelle helped him produce
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that. Um, and then there's much that can be said
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about the political activism that they did together.
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I mean, they essentially founded the American
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foundation for equal rights, which, uh, was sort
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of foundational and eventually like leading into
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marriage quality being a law of the land and
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the Supreme court. So, yeah, I just, I don't
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know. I just want to give that brief shout out
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to Michelle because I know a lot can be said
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about Rob and what he's doing. It's all valid.
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But Michelle also contributed to both his legacy
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and to her own. So yeah, there's that. He doesn't
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succeed like that if this marriage thing isn't
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working. So something has to be okay. That's
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my feeling. A man is nothing without his woman
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says. No, I didn't say that. I'm saying if you
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know, if you're all stressed out and it's not,
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you know, maybe some people like to work under
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chaos. I don't know. I think I used to, but not
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anymore. I'm just too tired. That's enough. I
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just, peace. Peace is my goal. Yeah. So let's
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talk a little bit about All in the Family because
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I remember watching a few episodes back in, I
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don't know, high school. And it's one of those
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shows that will be talked about forever because
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of course, Norman Lear... was wonderful in saying,
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all right, let's take this tried and true format
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of the sitcom and let's use it to expose what's
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actually going on in America. The 70s, much like
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the 60s, were a pretty tense time. We had a Vietnam
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War going on. We had women's rights. Just take
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your pick. A lot of the stuff that's relevant
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today, we're especially relevant. Equal rights
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was a bad thing. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah, cuz I know the right amendment that did
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not get passed It was attempted back in the 70s
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because they were afraid This is this is what
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they were saying at the time was because then
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you'd have to use the same bathrooms and we can't
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have that boy Yeah, this has been the biggest
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fear of democracy and equality in our countries
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who's gonna use what bathroom? Yeah. Yeah, but
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Yeah. Talk to me a little bit about like your
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personal experience growing up, watching all
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in the family. Cause it was my God. I think the
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either one of the early episodes or the first
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episode kind of opens with Archie reading a newspaper
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item about all these Vietnam war protesters.
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And he's saying they should all be shot dead.
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And then, you know, meatheads. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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Meathead is like, well, this is an illegal and
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immoral war. So I understand them protesting.
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It's just this back and forth where it's like,
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oh, wow. And it was loud. It was just loud. It
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just kept rising and rising. So for you growing
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up in the 70s, did you enjoy that? Were you overwhelmed
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by that? What was your reaction to watching that
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as you were growing up? I don't know. I don't
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remember what it was. It's something in that
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exact era when this is on TV. That's going on
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because I would be in the kitchen with my mom
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and we had a radio in there and we're listening
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to it. I guess the news came on and about war
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or something like that. And I asked her a question
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or something, and I think she said something
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about Vietnam. And I said, well, I just hope
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I'm not alive during a war time and not knowing
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this was going on at that time. But then I would
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see, because we don't have the visual. It's like
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really hard for anybody that has grown up post
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2000 or anything to imagine that. We have one
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TV in the house and it has three channels and
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two independent channels. And you have to get
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up and change that channel. Nobody has a remote,
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nobody has a cable. The only cable was in Florida
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and it got the weather channel. And that was
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the bad end. And it sounds like this is completely
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ancient time, but it didn't feel like it. You
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know, everything was in color. We had everything.
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We had big wheels. We had a lot, but it's, it's,
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I just knew, I don't know if I knew exactly what
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they were talking about. I just knew this, this,
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this just is. I didn't know if it was hatred
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or just anger or just both or what was going
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on, but it was just always this men blowing up,
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women trying to calm down, calm down. And everything
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that came from the whole Sammy Davis kisses him
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on the cheek was those kinds of moments. That's
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just it. That was just like history. Yeah, Sammy
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Davis kissing Archie Butler on the cheek. Yeah,
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black man kissing a white man on the cheek. Incredible.
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just to get them and you're all rooting at the
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time, even as a kid, I'm going, I'm clapping
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and laughing and knowing that was somehow a good
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thing. Yeah. But it was, it was sad. And then
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it got carried and get like the Arthur came from
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all in the family. And then Mod was one of the
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spin -offs. I just recently saw an episode about
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bipolar and her talking about that. I didn't
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know who knew. I didn't know, but again, that's
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what you're talking about. Cause I was watching
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that too. Yeah. Norman Lear shows did not shy
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at all. Yeah. And as it pertains to Rob, he obviously
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had a lot of the same issues, but in this softer,
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gentler way. With the movies that he subsequently
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directed. Yeah, it wasn't even a face screen
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kind of thing. I just think he, I don't know.
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Yeah. You take a movie like Stand By Me, for
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example, that really deals with a certain coming
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of age and the difficulties of, you know, emotions
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and growing up as a child and the relationship
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that you have with your parents and stuff like
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that, something like that. Obviously when Harry
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met Sally, there's, you know, the trajectory
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of, you know, getting to know this member of
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the opposite sex and then you become best friends
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and... romance and this and that. And the American
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president, I mean, the scandal, the tensions
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that can come from running the Oval Office. That
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was a precursor to the West Wing, pretty much,
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because I know Aaron Sorkin wrote that script
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that Rob Reiner directed. Oh, right, right. Yeah,
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yeah, yeah. Yeah, you're right. A few good men.
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I mean, you can't handle the truth. Every time
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it comes on, I watch it. And there it is. I'll
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stop every time and just tune into wherever it's
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at, because it's so good. Yeah, listening to
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everything and the lyrics of the dialogue and
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just the courtroom itself and the wood and the
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shots on it. And it's just so, so amazingly put
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together. And it's like, I just feel it and I
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hate how it sounds all old, but they're not making
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them like that or not. Not that kind of an interesting
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thought kind of people aren't driving cars off
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of buildings movie. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's.
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And he did both those kinds of those sweet romantic
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comedies and then he died in, you know, that
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style. And I like, you know, maybe he did both
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equally as well. Yeah. And I think when he was,
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when Rob, Rob Reiner was in all of the family,
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I think especially as the show got big and was
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number one for like five years, 40 million people
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watching at night, there was this perception
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that, oh crap, I'm going to be boxed in as an
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actor. And I remember him talking in interviews
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about like how for the longest time he wanted
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to be a director to be able to have that chance.
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And then I think it wasn't until 1984 that he
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started directing with this as Spinal Tap. Yeah,
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I don't remember seeing him in anything after.
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on the family, other than spots in his own movies.
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Yeah. He was committed to the vision of being
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behind the scenes and directing. I mean, I can
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see that. I can imagine. Yeah. It's actually,
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he wanted to be like his dad, Carl Reiner, in
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the sense of like, all right, I want to be sensual
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in the behind the scenes creative process of
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it all. As Carl Reiner created the Dick Van Dyke
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show, he was part of the legendary Your Show
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of Shows with Sid Caesar, which was, I think,
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the first of its kind in terms of satirical sketch
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comedy. Yeah. Right, right. Um, yeah, yeah. There's
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a heartwarming thing where Rob told his dad that
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he wants to change his name and his dad is like,
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Oh crap. Okay. I guess you want to change your
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last name. And Rob was like, no, I want to change
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my name to Carl, which is his dad's first name.
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So he really, really committed to. observing
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his dad writing, directing, like really being
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a part of the creative process of television
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and film and wanting to be like that. And that
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is in stark contrast to what was going on with
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his son, Nick Reiner, who seems to, it seems
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like someone who's struggling with an identity
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crisis. was trying to figure out himself under
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the big shadow of his dad. And then I can't imagine.
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I don't know what that's like. Yeah. Yeah. I
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mean, yeah, obviously much has been said about
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his drug addiction and his homelessness. So who
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knows what? Well, no matter what, I mean, there's
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just, you know, that's just too sad. It is one
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thing to hate your parents. It's another thing
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to eat. It's another thing to murder them, Laura.
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Yeah. But even stabbing versus a gun. I mean,
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you'd have to stand back and it's not as up close
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and personal. I mean, that's some, gotta be some
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rage or whatever taking over. And that's just
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was that, I don't know. I can't help think that,
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but that's just, I don't know. All we know is
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what bits of information we get from the news.
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So to me, it sounds like Rob and Michelle were...
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Very loving parents, like any parent, like they
20:57
see that their son is struggling and they want
20:59
to do all that they can to get him help. You
21:03
know, with parents that are very protective,
21:06
that can sometimes be to a fault. Sometimes you
21:08
just kind of got to let go and say, all right,
21:10
your, your kid has all the tools, they're grown.
21:13
And, and if they can't help themselves, then
21:16
there's not much you can do. So I think there
21:18
was that. It seems like they're. Yeah. Yeah.
21:23
Like for example, simplify, but really there's,
21:26
you know, so a deck. So this keeps getting talked
21:29
about in articles, but a decade ago, uh, Rob
21:32
directed a movie that I think Nick Reiner wrote.
21:35
It was like a semi autobiographical film about
21:39
his struggles. And all you have to do is just
21:41
see an interviews. that Rob and Nick did promoting
21:44
the movie together that there seems to be this
21:47
sort of tense disconnect. Like Rob, like he's,
21:51
he's just his usual charismatic personality.
21:53
He'll say like, Oh, this is what we learned.
21:55
And, and I feel like I better understand my son
21:58
and the process of this movie. And I can kind
22:01
of tell. by the way Nick is saying it, I can
22:05
imagine the kid shrinking away. Yeah. Because
22:09
he's larger than life and he's handling his questions
22:12
as he always has. Yeah. And this is for me, this
22:15
is what I learned and whatever as opposed to
22:18
kind of turning it to him, which it really should
22:20
be. Give him a shot. Let him try. Like Nick,
22:25
like Nick is telling his story, but it's obviously
22:27
under like the large presence of like interrupts
22:30
like me. I understand. And then I have to catch
22:34
myself. Sometimes I got, oops, I'm sorry. Yeah.
22:37
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so yeah, it's just, it's,
22:41
it's a very conflicting. It as with most parent
22:45
and child relationships, it's, it could be very
22:48
complicated when it comes to. the parent and
22:51
the child not hearing each other out, the child
22:53
especially struggling at things that the parent
22:56
wants to understand and solve, but maybe cannot.
22:59
Yeah. You can't fix them. Yeah. Yeah. Um, and,
23:03
and did you hear about like, um, I think the
23:07
night before the murder, Rob, Michelle and Nick
23:10
were at Conan O 'Brien's holiday party. I'm,
23:13
I look, and maybe you don't know this much about
23:15
Conan, but he's already had a terrible past year
23:18
already, because I think at the end of 2024,
23:22
going into 2025, both his parents died within
23:24
a week of each other, within a week. And then
23:27
his house was one of the many that got affected
23:29
by the Los Angeles fires earlier this year. So
23:33
I can only imagine like Rob and Nick, they're
23:36
arguing very loudly at this party. And of course,
23:39
Rob is like leaving cause Nick is just being
23:41
weird around people and you know, privacy and
23:44
Nick is just like staring at them and all that
23:46
stuff. you, they all leave. And then the next
23:51
day you read in the paper that like, oh crap,
23:53
like Robin Scheller no more. And Nick is allegedly
23:56
responsible for it. I was also thinking about
23:59
Conan in that respect. Cause it's like, shit,
24:00
like it's not, it's already enough that you've
24:03
had the year that you've had. It's kind of over
24:06
the top. Yeah. It's, it's a lot. It's a lot.
24:09
But, um, have you rewatched anything of Rob Reiner's
24:12
anything he directed ever since the news came
24:14
out? No, I have. I'm trying to think. I have.
24:18
at least a couple of things on DVR. I have the
24:21
president, the American president, and yeah,
24:24
and a few good men, at least, I think. And I
24:27
do. And even if it's not on, I do watch it again
24:30
and again. I try not to. But I haven't I I've
24:34
been scrolling and I haven't seen anything coming
24:37
on yet, which is surprising me. What isn't, which
24:40
is almost a little overkill is on YouTube, which
24:43
I love. I spent tons of time there. I learn all
24:45
kinds of quick little five -minute things about
24:48
whatever. I'm very careful about what I click,
24:50
because I don't want to get 7 ,500 new things
24:53
on the one thing I was interested in for $30.
24:55
You will regardless, Laura. Exactly. I know.
24:59
Before I do, I think hard. As you're scrolling,
25:04
you have the three in a row, and I feel like
25:06
it's a slot machine, because everywhere I'm looking
25:08
and everything is something of Rob Reiner, Rob
25:11
and Michelle. Of course. And I get it, but it's
25:15
like overkill much. I mean, you know, just because
25:20
there's a part and it's like, I, if we can take
25:23
something from it and learn from an intensely
25:26
horrible, tragic situation, which it is, it's
25:30
a tragedy. I mean, the kids got whatever is wrong
25:32
with them for whatever reason. That's the bottom
25:34
line. For whatever reason, it wasn't able to
25:38
be healed, contained, modified, managed, whatever,
25:41
and this is what happened. The only thing that
25:44
we can hope to get is to prevent it again, can
25:48
we? Nobody knows. I feel insulted after a while.
25:51
Not insulted, but after a while, it's just like,
25:54
Jesus, leave it alone. Don't try and dissect.
25:57
Every single, okay, in 30 minutes before, and
26:00
this happened in this year, and this happened
26:02
in this year. Yeah, the detail minute by minute
26:03
of what happened. The people really shouldn't
26:06
need to know all that much. It's personal. As
26:09
a fan, of course, you're interested and you want
26:11
to know and whatever, but it's just kind of,
26:14
and there's been so much. There's been so much
26:16
all year anyway. That's a lot. Honestly, I just
26:19
prefer to see a little more prayer than my nosiness.
26:22
Hey, I mean - That's me. What I will say, the
26:26
positive coverage we've seen, I mean, the amount
26:28
of people that have left flowers on Rob's Hollywood
26:30
Walk of Fame. Yeah, I mean, that's nice. Of course.
26:34
Yeah, yeah. And look, maybe it might be overkill.
26:37
I wouldn't mind if, say, Turner Classic Movies
26:40
did, like, a day of all Rob Reiner moments. Yeah,
26:43
that's appropriate. And they kind of did that
26:46
when Robert Redford, who I'm, like, still lost
26:50
without. Oh shoot, it was something about that
26:54
woman I'm saying? I don't remember. No, it's
26:57
okay. I want, I want when Harry met Sally, I
27:00
want misery. I wanted to get to a point where
27:02
- Yeah, I really want when Harry met Sally again.
27:04
Come on, bring it out. Yeah, I watched that back
27:06
in college and this was already like well after
27:09
the movie had came out. I think at that point,
27:11
the movie was like 20 years old and - Came out
27:14
in 88, I think. No, no, 98? Are you kidding me?
27:17
No, it came out in - 80 89 okay well i said 88
27:20
that was close no no you said okay you said 98
27:22
and then you said 88 i said 88 okay no no you
27:25
first said 98 and then you said 88 i remember
27:27
i i heard you okay well it was i misspoke that's
27:31
not what i meant it's okay it's okay i know i
27:33
know what you mean yeah we could have another
27:34
lesson on the movies of 98 if you want but that'd
27:37
be our next story But no, no, I mean, I think,
27:40
I just, for someone like me back in college,
27:44
and how I was when I was younger, I was sort
27:47
of - No, I know where you were back in college.
27:48
I would say for as long as I can remember, I
27:52
was always like in love with the idea of being
27:54
loved. I was sort of a romantic at heart. Sometimes
27:56
to an unhealthy fault. You know that. So when
28:02
Harry Met Sally was just like right up my alley
28:04
when it happened, because I always wanted that
28:06
like, oh my God, we started off as best friends
28:08
that can talk about anything and then we became
28:10
lovers. In reality, it doesn't always work out
28:14
that way and that's fine. I met my wife on a
28:17
dating app and here we are five, six years later,
28:19
it's great. But when Harry Met Sally, I just
28:22
watched that for the first time back in college
28:23
and I just remember being like, oh, that's going
28:26
to be my woman's story. We had it on VHS Yeah,
28:34
I want their dream partner to loudly fake an
28:38
orgasm in a restaurant and then have some old
28:40
lady say I'll have what she's having Afterwards
28:42
like who wouldn't want that and the old lady
28:44
was his mother. Yeah. Yeah Estelle Ryder Yeah,
28:47
Carl's wife Carl's wife. Absolutely. Oh my god
28:51
Yeah, and then they brought that back for the
28:54
Super Bowl. They brought what back that that
28:57
That scene in the commercial, they had a commercial
29:00
with Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal this year during
29:03
the Super Bowl was a thing on, it was for Manny's,
29:06
Hellman Manny's, I think. Yeah. Did you know
29:09
they both weren't the first choice for those
29:11
roles? I think maybe it was, I think like Tom
29:14
Hanks was considered for it, which makes sense
29:16
because I know Tom Hanks did like a string of
29:18
romantic comedies in the 90s with Meg Ryan. Including
29:21
when Sleepless in Seattle, which Rob Reiner appeared
29:24
in. Yes. And I always picture that, the scene
29:27
with the two of them walking down the street
29:28
and they're talking about their butts. Rob Reiner
29:33
says, how's mine? And he goes, all right, I guess.
29:36
That's so funny. Speaking of butts, I know that
29:39
there was plenty shown in The Wolf of Wall Street,
29:41
which Rob Reiner also appeared in, to connect
29:44
that together. I started to watch that and I
29:47
couldn't take it. I'm like, how long? Is this
29:48
going to go on for four hours? I can't do it.
29:50
Well, Laura, it's Martin Scorsese. Four Hours
29:53
is probably considered a short movie. That's
29:56
true. Uh, but yes. Yeah. A lot of nudity, a lot
30:00
of cocaine and four hours of that is Wolf of
30:03
Wall Street. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Right. Right.
30:06
It's a good movie. I recommend it. But if you
30:07
don't have a three or four hours to spare, I
30:09
understand you're not. Yeah. It's just not good.
30:11
Well, I won't make it. I can't even watch it.
30:13
I mean, I don't watch anything. I know this kind
30:16
of thing has hurt my attention span in a huge
30:18
way. I didn't have the grade to begin with, but
30:20
now because everything gets shorter and shorter
30:22
and shorter, if I don't see it in like minutes,
30:24
well, what's your point? Get out. What is it?
30:27
Yeah. Yeah. Our movie is amazing for me anymore.
30:31
But now everything is like three hours and more.
30:34
They just kind of keep making them longer. Wait,
30:36
wait, wait. Okay. Okay. You know what? I don't
30:38
know how familiar you are with streaming services,
30:40
but a lot of stuff is like 90 minutes now. If
30:44
you, if you look at the streamers. Well, yeah,
30:46
that's the streamer thing, but that's a financial
30:47
thing and that's another story. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
30:51
Yeah. Every now and then you'll, you'll get the
30:52
two or two plus hour movie, but like. I'm seeing
30:56
a lot of 90 minute movies these days. Anyway,
30:58
uh, can we go back to tushies for a second? Go
31:01
right ahead. No, I forgot about it. No, we had.
31:08
Oh, Rob Reiner grabbed Mary Tyler Moore's butt.
31:12
Have you heard that story? Oh, so this was a
31:15
story that he often told. So, um, Yeah. Yeah.
31:19
Yeah. Yeah. So Rob was a teenager when his dad,
31:22
Carl was like producing the Dick Van Dyke show
31:24
and you got to imagine like when the hormones
31:26
are bubbling as a 14 year old, you see, you see
31:28
like a 25 year old Mary Tyler Moore and Capri
31:30
pants and you're in the Tushy. Yeah. Yeah. So
31:33
Rob had a moment, which is, which now obviously
31:36
doesn't hold up where he grabbed Mary Tyler Moore's
31:39
Tushy. Of course, Mary Tyler Moore was unpleasantly
31:42
surprised. She reports that to Carl. Carl is
31:45
telling Rob like, Hey, don't do that again. And
31:48
then I think like years later for like a Dick
31:49
Van Dyke reunion special, Rob and Mary were amusingly
31:52
talking about that situation. And I guess, I
31:56
guess out of a joke, like Rob grabbed Mary's
31:58
tush again as they were much older. And Mary
32:01
is said in response jokingly, Oh Rob, which is
32:05
like a reference to her character with Dick Van
32:08
Dyke on the Dick Van Dyke show. Hey, Dick Van
32:13
Dyke is a hundred years old. I know that's really
32:16
cool. I'm so glad. I was a little concerned because
32:19
they, because last year they were making a big
32:21
deal out of it. And you make this big huge deal
32:23
when he's 99. I'm sorry. I just don't want you
32:26
to jinx it, please. Yeah. Um, so someone asked
32:30
him like, what role would he like to play? And
32:33
I don't think it's out of reason. He wants to
32:35
play Scrooge. I know. I think I can absolutely
32:39
see that. I saw that too. Yeah. And that's the
32:42
easiest thing to qualify for. Just be an old
32:44
man and stop smiling so much. Yeah. Can you call
32:48
Dick Van Dyke and have him come on the podcast
32:50
so we can interview him? If I could, I would.
32:54
Cause what I, cause I want to live till a hundred.
32:56
So there's that. And also you want to live to
33:02
be over a hundred. Is that what you said? I had
33:04
an aunt, I had a great aunt that lived to be
33:06
a hundred. Oh, like, like she died at a hundred
33:09
or does she go over a hundred? I think she went
33:11
over. I'm pretty sure she made like to 101 or
33:14
maybe two tops. I was in Florida at the time,
33:16
but I came up here for her hundredth birthday.
33:19
And the stories that I always hear from these
33:21
people that turn 100. What's your secret? Oh,
33:23
I had, I had a glass of wine and raw butter every
33:26
day. Yeah. Barbecue and yeah. Yeah. It's always
33:32
like the weirdest fucking, I had raw eggs and
33:34
a piece of chocolate every day. No, she worked.
33:40
This is my thing. She and between my grandmother.
33:43
I don't know. The legend has it, and she was
33:45
short of the minute. She was a short little lady.
33:47
Legend has it she never got married. She was
33:48
a model in New York at 411 or something. I don't
33:52
know. Well, they were shorter then. But by the
33:56
time I know her, of course, she's old. But she
34:00
had a maternity store that she ran. I used to
34:04
walk to it all the time and go. hang out there
34:06
and, and she would give me clothes, which of
34:08
course was ridiculous because they're maternity
34:10
clothes and they're huge. And I'm a little, little
34:12
child, but I love to watch her help the people.
34:15
And she wouldn't, she had a bulletin board with
34:17
pictures of the babies and the mommies and all
34:19
these people. And then come back and give her
34:21
cookies and whatever. It was awesome. And I just
34:24
think that that kept her going forever. I don't
34:26
know. I don't know how old she was when she stopped,
34:28
but I know. She kept it going a long time. I
34:32
don't know. Maybe in close to 90. I don't know
34:34
for sure. I think like when I see people like...
34:38
Love what she was doing, you know, so. Yeah,
34:40
yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, those kind of people,
34:43
you know, people like Dick Van Dyke who lives
34:45
that long. My main thing, especially like seeing
34:48
like the exuberant spirit that he has in his
34:50
personality, I always get a little bit morbid
34:52
in my head because I think, wow, like literally
34:54
all of your peers are... gone. Like you, you're
34:58
one of the few of your generation left standing.
35:01
And I know you have, you have younger family
35:03
members. I get that, but I don't know. I just
35:06
always wonder if there's sort of a sense of melancholy,
35:10
a sense of like deep reflection when you're living
35:12
that long. And then you see all the people that
35:15
you came up with or worked with or whatever,
35:17
just gone. Like, I guess that's just what I wonder
35:21
when. I've had these things. I'm not at that
35:27
age, but I am seeing the people that I grew up
35:31
adoring, whether in movies or music or this or
35:34
whatever, a lot of them are going back, it seems.
35:39
The other half are still 80 years old and they're
35:41
touring, so I can't figure out exactly how, but
35:43
that's probably amazing and awesome. Clapton
35:47
might really be God, I'm just kidding. 80 Ringo's
35:51
out there 80. There's just like that whole thing.
35:54
You know people that you wouldn't think would
35:55
have lasted Yeah, he's rich. You're talking about
35:59
Paul McCartney still around list all of us. Um
36:02
But I just think the only thing I can get is
36:05
that it just is the spirit and you have to find
36:07
it You have to find you can't it can't just be
36:10
he's got it because he has everything and so
36:13
he's so happy They make it and just it doesn't
36:15
mean having everything. It means how many of
36:17
a lot of the really The ones that the Centurions,
36:21
they're very poor. They're not rich people that
36:24
live to be these ages. They live on very low
36:27
means and they know how it is to be okay with
36:30
all that and to get by. That's kind of how I
36:33
see it. And saying Dick Van Dyke, you know, why
36:35
does he make it? I mean, who makes people smile
36:37
more? And while he's, you know, while he misses
36:40
people, he may miss people and friends. He has
36:42
this, this is what it looks like to be in a wonderful
36:45
relationship with his wife and this huge family.
36:47
Yeah. You know, you can't go there. You have
36:50
to look back with gratitude. And it's a, it's
36:53
a, it's a Dr. Seuss paraphrase, which is the,
36:57
you know, don't be, don't be sad because it's
37:00
over, be happy because it happened, but it's
37:03
really true. It really, you have to be, I mean,
37:06
every cliche after that. Do you think Rob Reiner
37:08
would have lived until a hundred had he not gone
37:11
out the way he did? I don't know. How old was
37:14
he? He was like 78. A long time away. I mean,
37:20
my first instinct is why not? As far as the spirit
37:24
and if he's happy and you're positive and you're
37:26
going that way, that's great. It doesn't mean
37:28
life isn't hard and that whatever, but you keep
37:31
going, get up every day. I don't see why not,
37:34
but it seems like more people are doing it, but
37:37
it's hard for me to imagine. I've seen it done.
37:42
And even my aunt, to be honest, said a hundred
37:43
wasn't really, you didn't really want to see
37:45
it. It was kind of a sad hundred. Now he's, he's
37:48
more of a, I can still move and I can move around
37:51
and it wasn't. And there are, that's a different
37:53
story. I don't want to be here just to be here.
37:55
T -47 is when Rob Reiner would have been 100.
37:59
Yeah. I w I think I would have been 56 years
38:01
old by the time he's 100. Just to give you perspective.
38:05
Wow. I just thought you brought up Mary Tyler
38:07
Moore's show. I just saw the, I just saw the.
38:09
The last episode the other day. I just happened
38:12
to catch it as I'm whatever With the whole and
38:15
it was like the end and and I'll miss you most
38:18
of all scarecrow. Yeah Also, also a wonderful
38:22
watch for my college days. I watched the entire
38:24
series. Did you? Yeah, yeah, yeah He's I wanted
38:27
that hair. I wanted to flip that hair. My mom
38:30
put those paint Rollers in my head. Yeah, sleep
38:33
on him at her Yeah, well, so she she had her
38:36
bit particular style and sense of humor at the
38:38
big bad night show to the Mary Tyler Moore show
38:40
with all of her hairstyles and Be fitting of
38:43
that time wearing the capris those on dick Van
38:47
Dyke That was like a moment in history fashion
38:50
history or on TV at that time I hate to be morbid
38:54
again. Sometimes when I think of the Mary Tyler
38:57
Moore show and the cast and everything like that,
38:59
it's just like, Oh God, nobody from that cast
39:01
is alive now, but he's gone. I know. I do. It's
39:05
just weird to think about because like, I know
39:07
it makes sense. It's 50 years ago, but at the
39:09
time it was black and white TV. So put that in
39:12
reference. That was even before color. Well,
39:14
Dick Van Dyke was black and white. Mary Tyler
39:16
Moore was color. Yeah. That was, but if Van Dyke
39:19
was, was black and white where that's all start.
39:21
So that's just bizarre. But no, no, I mean, I
39:28
think from the Dick Van Dyke show cast, Dick
39:29
is the only one that's still alive from that
39:31
entire group. The one that I was feeling sad
39:33
for was, was Mel Brooks, because he's like the
39:36
last one of his crew. I forgot. Yeah. I think
39:38
he just turned on 102. Yeah. Yeah. And, uh, no,
39:42
because he had a very close friendship with Rob's
39:44
dad, Carl. Right. The Carl Reiner. I remember,
39:47
cause, um, Jerry Seinfeld, when he did the Comedians
39:51
in Cars Getting Coffee show and he had his guest
39:53
on Mel Brooks, he visited the apartment of Mel
39:56
Brooks where him and Carl had a ritual of watching
39:58
Jeopardy and their later years together. Like
40:00
they were really close friends. Oh yeah. Same
40:02
thing with Mel. It's like Carl passed away like
40:05
five years ago. And I just wonder like who's
40:08
Mel's Jeopardy friend now. You should be the
40:10
Jeopardy friend. Oh, I'm the worst. I should
40:12
be his Jeopardy friend. Yeah. I could be the
40:16
Jewish Jeopardy friend. Yeah. That knows nothing.
40:19
What's that? No, no, I was just going to say
40:21
Judd Apatow is producing a Mel Brooks documentary.
40:23
So that's going to be awesome to see. Oh, cool.
40:26
Yeah. I mean, there was already one produced,
40:28
but Judd is going to do a different one, I guess.
40:32
That's cool. He was married to Anne Bancroft.
40:37
And at first, on the outside, looking in, you
40:40
know, I mean, I just think of hers. She is just,
40:42
you know, reeks of glamour and this and that,
40:46
the sleekness. And it's like, look at this couple.
40:50
How cool is that? I just love to see how they
40:52
are together, just as they get along, because
40:55
they just seem all, which who knows whether they
40:57
really are or not. I just, just by looks, which
41:00
means nothing, but I just, it's just one of those
41:03
just, what is it like with them? Having coffee
41:06
in the morning. Yeah. I, you know, what do you
41:09
talk about with that? What do you talk about?
41:11
What, what, what, what are his, what are his
41:13
days like back then with Anne Bancroft? What
41:15
are his days like these days? It's definitely
41:17
worth it. You don't survive that long without
41:19
having a strategy conscious or not, but have
41:22
some kind of way of being that keeps you going.
41:24
I mean, I think you have to have some kind of
41:26
purpose, no matter how big or small, whether
41:28
it's just to get up in the morning and put your
41:30
feet on the floor. Raw cookie dough dipped in
41:32
whiskey with a little butter on the side. That's
41:36
how you live until 120. Well, this was great
41:40
reminiscing about Rob Reiner and a million other
41:43
things in Rob Reiner universe. There is no way
41:46
for me to stay on track here. No, no, no, no,
41:48
no. It's me too. I mean, it goes both ways. The
41:53
association. Yeah. Once we talk, it's like jazz
41:58
in the 50s. We're like, I don't know, take your
42:03
pick. Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Dizzy, Gilepsy,
42:05
all the jazz greats. We're just poop, poop, poop,
42:08
poop, poop, poop without the hard drugs. Oh,
42:14
God. Anywho, well, this was great. We got to,
42:16
we got to do this again, Laura. Yeah, this was
42:18
really fun. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe next time on when
42:22
it's, when it's, there's not a murder involved.
42:24
So it's not so sad. Yeah. Yeah. It's weird. It's
42:29
weird, but you've become my old celebrity death
42:32
friend, which means that anytime an old celebrity
42:35
dies, I'm like, Oh, let me text Laura like to
42:38
commiserate about this because you're the only
42:40
friend that I know that I could commiserate with
42:41
about this. Well, you'll have this on top of
42:47
my old soul, a pretty death threat. Yeah. Like,
42:49
if you think about it, any time I've reached
42:50
out to you, it's like, oh, Laura, Bob Barker
42:52
has died. Oh, Laura, Bob Newhart has died. Oh,
42:55
Laura, Robert Redford has died. What is so stupid?
42:59
I do this. I mean, I have, well, my life is one
43:01
big monologue, but because when there's nobody
43:03
here and I just come home from work, I do my
43:06
dead best. And when these things happen, and
43:09
it's just like, you know, like when referring,
43:11
I'm like, nobody's gonna understand how I feel
43:14
about this. This isn't just like, oh, this is
43:16
just like, it is, it's all kinds of things mixed
43:19
up together. It's not just anybody. It's not
43:22
just, and it's not like I know them. It's not
43:24
like I even look at his work on a daily basis.
43:29
It doesn't matter. I'm just knowing that. He's
43:31
off this planet. How that makes me feel because
43:34
of what he does for the planet and why I care
43:37
so much. And you're right. And I'm just like,
43:39
I know I have been sitting around. Who can I
43:42
call? Who can I call? Good. I said, I feel bad.
43:44
Sorry. I should have, but now from now on you're
43:45
going to be my deaf friend. Yeah. Yeah. Sure.
43:47
Sure. But, but we'll. Oh my gosh. Oh yeah. And
43:55
then Anthony Geary. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Luke
43:58
from general hospital. on top, talk about where
44:01
you, we, I spent classes to get home to not miss
44:04
the first 15 minutes of, of at that time. One
44:09
jail TV can't no, no recording, no nothing, whatever
44:12
you had to get there. Yeah. And the, and the
44:15
Anthony death was like kind of stuck right under
44:18
the shadow of the Rob and Michelle death for
44:20
a little bit, but then like, a couple of days
44:23
later, he got more attention that he deserved.
44:26
Yeah. Yeah. I've never watched general hospital
44:30
or the storyline, but, um, yeah, I started just
44:34
because of course, TV guy being home from school,
44:37
like in junior high. And then when there's nothing
44:39
on TV, it's like cereal. What's a cereal? That's
44:42
what they call them. Cereals. And I tried this,
44:45
I tried it and then on the hospital and what
44:47
is this? And so I just start watching and then,
44:49
you know, blah, blah, 30 years later, I've stopped,
44:54
but those ice princess days, those were the,
44:56
those. Yeah, elizabeth taylor made a cameo Okay.
45:05
And the world stopped. It felt that way. It wasn't
45:08
just like just the kids. And it was people in
45:10
offices and this, it just felt like the world
45:12
stopped at three o 'clock. Yeah. When Luke and
45:14
Laura got married. And yeah. And I missed it.
45:16
I was working with them. Wait, didn't their relationship
45:19
start when he - But that was all kinds of, yeah,
45:21
that was very, well - Controversial? Very controversial.
45:25
Yes, it was. Some of us had a problem with that.
45:28
Understandably? There were a lot of letters.
45:30
Yeah. Yeah. He came to town, he was a mobster.
45:33
He came to town to work for Frank Smith, the
45:35
big mobster. And then he opens this disco and
45:41
then Laura comes to work at the disco, which
45:45
was so silly. When you think about it, yeah.
45:48
The whole thing was, and she looks like she's
45:50
like nine. She's very young and he's older. I
45:55
don't know how much, but pretty much inappropriately
45:57
older at that time. And that was the whole, yeah,
46:01
and then just go, and it was just like. All right,
46:03
well, I got to give, I don't know if there's
46:06
a catalog of like all the 9 ,000 episodes of
46:08
General Hospital on a streaming service, but.
46:11
Probably. Yeah. I don't know. It was forever,
46:14
and then I'd come and go. And then it's like,
46:18
and you know how horrible and stupid, you always
46:20
know what's horrible and stupid, but it was fun,
46:22
at least it was kind of, and then it just got
46:24
so. Oh my gosh, or I changed, it's totally possible.
46:28
And I will, from time to time, just check in
46:30
and go, who's there? Who's still there? And who
46:32
is this? Well, didn't Anthony leave the show
46:35
and come back as Luke's look -alike cousin or
46:37
some shit like that? Briefly, yeah. That wasn't,
46:40
yeah. But he would come and go. which I wrote
46:44
in for the character, which worked with his character.
46:47
He was that kind of guy anyway, so. And then
46:48
he kind of like stayed at a certain point consistently
46:51
up until like 2015. 2015 is when he left the
46:54
show. Yeah, I don't remember when. Yeah, by that
46:56
point, I'm kind of... Yeah, you checked out.
46:58
You're like, fuck this. This is, this is sometimes
47:00
it was just like, you know, you just watch something
47:02
for nostalgia sake and it's fun. It's like, no,
47:05
I can't even, this isn't even fun for that. This
47:08
is not fun. Yeah. Yeah. Well, great times were
47:11
had talking about, no, no, you're fine. You're
47:13
fine. Hi, for you listening, find the delicious
47:15
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47:31
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tick tock at John François presents Laura since
47:37
you are my fabulous guest. What do you want to
47:40
promote? Do you want to promote how fish oil
47:42
can make you live until a hundred and two? Yeah,
47:45
I know Dr. Demento used to be a radio guy on
47:54
Saturday night Way back when he was totally goofy
47:58
blah blah blah, and there was I don't know where
47:59
it came from but there Fish heads fish heads
48:04
roly -poly fish So that made me go to the fish
48:11
head yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah made no sense at all.
48:14
It's just that free association thing. Okay,
48:16
so I Don't really have anything. Oh, yes, I would
48:20
like to promote really do you want to promote
48:22
peace on her? He's damn it Please. Peace. Yeah.
48:26
Be the peace. I love that. It's just all, I'm
48:28
really tired of all the cliches and the kindness
48:30
and blah, blah, blah. I'm tired of every damn
48:32
cliche. Peace. Just one word. Peace. Take a breath.
48:35
Love, peace, and fish oil. Put that on a bumper
48:41
sticker. That's the new one. That's awesome.
48:43
I know. Yeah, that would be great. All right.
48:45
Yeah. So Laura's promoting peace. I promote it
48:47
as well because we don't have enough of it. I'm
48:50
trying to come up with something to promote.
48:52
No, no, no. You're good. You're good. I think
48:54
that peace is what you do. And also, may I say
49:02
peace and compassion to yourself if you are really
49:05
stressed. And you use McDonald's as relief from
49:09
your stress. That's what happened to me today.
49:12
So it happens. Yeah. Yeah. I had that kind of
49:15
day where it's like, Oh my God. If it's getting
49:18
to you, fine. Quiet. Go home. Fine. Balance it.
49:23
Why the hell has my TV been on all this time?
49:26
That's okay. That's a dumbass. I was watching
49:28
the football. USF is on. Oh, cool. We're winning
49:32
so far. I can't believe my school was on TV.
49:34
It's great. But quiet in the car, quiet in the
49:37
car with your three cheeseburgers, your small
49:39
fries, your six nuggets, and your Coke. Feed
49:43
yourself with something opposite. If you're out
49:47
there, and I'm in retail, so I know of what I
49:50
speak, when there's loud noises and loud people
49:53
and bright lights and all of that kind of thing.
49:56
I know little about people with sensory blah,
49:59
blah, blahs because I don't even know what it's
50:01
called, but I know what I feel. I come home and
50:04
I may turn on the TV, but I don't turn the sound
50:06
on forever. I really just find something else.
50:08
Find some music, feed yourself something to take
50:13
yourself down. Don't just try and rethink it
50:17
all the time. I shouldn't feel this way. Blah,
50:19
blah, blah. Give yourself, give your heart some
50:22
art. There you go. And with that note, this is
50:25
a saying that I... Have been saying every episode
50:27
or that my former co -host used to say every
50:29
episode because we're called the delicious culture
50:31
We want to let deliciousness ring With that too
50:40
with fish oil and peace