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86. Frasier: The Innkeepers · Notable Nostalgia

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I'm not bisexual, but like in regards to like my dairy products, I
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might be. So that's that's okay. What would even be the term?
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Are you by Darius? Yeah, I'm Ali, I'm Andy, I'm Jeff,
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and I'm Ria And this is notable nostalgia. What's up nostalgia nerds?
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Welcome back to our very first episode we're recording. Since our win at the
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awards show, we've been talking about pretty impressive if you ask me, I
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agree with that. Yeah. So before we start anything that, I want
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to ask everybody, how has your lives changed since we won this award?
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Jeff, you go first? Pretty much? I feel like I'm Taylor Swift.
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Like when I go to sport games, they they connect me to different
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football players now and I just can't go anywhere. And I have a lunch
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date with Sophia Turners. I'm really into that now, pretty Taylor Swift?
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Yeah I get that. Yeah, Ria, what about you? Oh?
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I don't know, I thought. I mean, I feel like my relationship
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with Kyle Ayers is really blossomed. Yes, yes, that's a good one
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then, Ali, Oh boy, I'm just even more egotistical than I've ever
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been. Yeah. The paparazzi is getting a little old. But I get
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it though, because we're essentially Egot winners. We just have to get the
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Emmy, the Grammy, the Oscar and the Tony. But we already got
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the Community Choice Awards. So pretty exciting there. Okay, but I just
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you know, we once, I had to, I had to bring that
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up. Yeah, it was pretty fun. It was a fun event too.
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But we have something even more fun today. We have this very special
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guest that you have probably heard before on our past episode First Contact, Star
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Trek Movie. We have Andrea. How you doing. I'm so happy to
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be back and talking Frazier like, oh my god, I'm I'm so excited.
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Yeah, I'm excited too. Yeah, because during the episode you brought
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up how much of a big Fraser fan you were, and we are too,
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so we were like, heck, yeah, this is like a match
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made in heaven. I know. It was so fun to get to talk
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first Contact with you guys. Yeah, and then off Mike, we were
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talking about other shows sort of at that same time, and we both brought
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up Frasier at the same time, and it was one of those moments you
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know when you make friends with someone and you're like, I love fill in
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the blank and they both go, you too, me too, you to
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me too? Oh my gosh, like it was so fun. It was
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great for sure. So before we get started, though, I do think
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Jeff has because last time you and Cherise did one together, a familiarizing lightning
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round. Lightning round. Maybe that was so fun last time? Yeah,
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and I didn't. I didn't really remember. I don't prep anything really for
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these. So some of these questions might be the same, but who knows,
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they might not be. So you just get to know yet again,
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questions, what's what's what's your friend's name that you did the podcast with es
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Chres? Yeah, all right, clear your head, let's get to it.
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Lightning round number one. What's your least favorite thing about Chrees. I'm
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joking, I'm joking, I am joking. I'm just getting just kidding.
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Okay. By the way, said that you kind of like cropped, Yeah,
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you were like, she against your hand kind of like spilled the tea,
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And I'm like, I got nothing. I'm not here to cause drama,
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but if there is drama, let me know because I'm here for it.
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Because I was like, okay, I might have asked this last time,
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but we'll see favorite spice Girl, baby baby. I don't know why
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that's that's a good answer. She's my my second or third favorite. I
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think them ranked my least favorites. Ginger. I love Ginger, but she
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left, so fuck her, and then uh, but she came back,
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so unfuck her. And then Posh left, so fuck her. But she
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might be coming back, so unfunck her soon. Okay, Yeah, biggest
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an asterisk, Yeah, biggest fear. Two of them. I gotta tell
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we're getting deep right away. One. I'm a surfer and I've been absolutely
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worked by some really big ways before and I've nearly drowned and it is really
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really terrifying. Yeah. And then also because I'm a scientist, like this
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is something so nerdy to be afraid of, but it's very real, like
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radiation poisoning. That shit is really scary. It's like terrifying. Is that
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like involved in the ocean? No, no, no, it's not involved
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in the ocean. It's just another fear, like and if you're even remotely
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interested in like Chernobyl and all that that happened there, Like the HBO did
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a five part mini series called Chernobyl and it's terrifying. It's but it's so
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well done. I think they want a ton of awards. But I tell
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you, Ever since then, I was like, Okay, radiation. You
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can't see it, you can't smell it, you can't taste it, but
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it's there. And I'm like, ooh, I don't like. I don't
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like that at all. There's too many things that are that way, yeah,
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right, that you that you can't see in touch and smell and hear.
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And I'm like, I don't know about that. The only thing I
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know about re is that Jesse you know, Jesse McCarthy is why does that
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sound? Son? He's like a pop star that like that. He was
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briefly in a Lori lachlan vehicle on the CW. Okay, like here's his
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song, don't on another pretty face. I don't want just anyone hold on
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my list, Ill on you and your beautiful anyways? Right now? I
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remember? Yeah, so he did a horror movie where they go to like
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that Russia place or whatever Ukraine wherever it is. Yeah you have Russia place?
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Yeah yeah? Yeah, wait is it not Russia? Is it in
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Russia or Ukraine? It was so when when cher Nobles Reactor four exploded,
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We're we're talking so much Fraser right now. When Reactor for exploded, it
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was in what is now Ukraine, but it was part of like the ussr
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in nineteen eighty six. Okay, gotcha, it wasn't that Russia place.
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Yeah, I know, I'm pro Ukraine, but same Okay. Favorite classic
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Disney movie. I don't know how far back you have to go to be
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considered classic, but The Lion King was like amazing. It came out when
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I was in like fourth grade, and I freaking loved it. Have you
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seen the rebas It was like the remake of it. No, I just
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I just watched it ago. Have you watched Is it good? It's okay?
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What like the night before that, I just watched The Beauty and the
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Beast one and I fucking loved that one. So I'm like, I'm gonna
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watch all the live actions be or Lion King was okay, But I don't
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know. I was like twenty minutes and The Beauty and the Beast and I
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texted some of my friends, I'm like, this is really fucking good.
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The I don't know what what the artistic terminology is, but the Beyonce album
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that goes kind of connected with the live action Lion King. It's like I
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used to not love Dustiny's Child because I was like, no, they're taking
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Spice Girl thunder away. But then I uh, when Lemonade came out,
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I was like, Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna be a part of the
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beehive if I am so so hold on. What you're saying then is that
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you were like fuck them, and then when they decided to be part of
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the Beehive, you were like, unfuck them. Yeah. Yeah, there's
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a lot of that going on to you. I was so hardcore into Spice
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Girls and I still am and I'm still discovering like really underground, underground,
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underground Spice Girl songs. Anyways, long story short, undergrad Spice Girls.
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Yeah, I didn't know that you were going to be on tonight, and
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I get so intimidated by like, uh, smart people. Oh I'm not
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that smart, don't worry. Is your home pretending to be one for the
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listeners that are listening, we can see you in your home? Is that
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how clean? You're indecorative? Your home? Actually is? This is?
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This is my guest room? Yes, this is my guest room. You
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don't have any messy parts to your home. Oh I do the rest of
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the guest room that you can't. If I don't under around, you'd be
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like Jesus girl, Okay, because I'm like that. But I was like,
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I'm gonna be on a podcast. Shit. Yeah. On a scale
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of one to ten, how excited are you for the new song of in
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Sync and a possible tour with all five original Instinct members? I mean I
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was never like that big into them. I was like a punk rock kid
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growing up. But being in my forties now means I don't have to apologize
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for shit. So I will get my cardigans out and I will go to
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the reunion tour. Will I'm gonna go if the tickets are yeah, I'm
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gonna bring my Walker. I'm gonna bring my ben Gate. I can bring
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all the shit I need to bring. It's gonna be fun, for sure.
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Those are Those are the only questions, Like I need to come up
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with more questions of get to know yas because the other questions deal with your
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yogurt and stuff again, so I'm not gonna get into that with you.
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People are okay, but I will say I will say, since you asked
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the yogurt versus pudding question, Shreisa and I have brought it up like twenty
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times. I love it. She's like, I can't believe you would choose
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yogurt over pudding, and I'm like, I can't believe you would choose putting
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over a Greek yo girt with a Natella in it and like granola sprinkled on
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top. It's delicious, as I'm saying, and that you can live in
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both worlds. I think, like, I don't know if I'm I'm not
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bisexual, but like in regards to like my dairy products, I might be.
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So that's that's it. Okay, what would even be the termin I'm
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trying to think right now? Are you by Darius? Oh? The good
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ones? Yeah? I don't think we're gonna be able top that. H
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I was trying to think of one too. You are a genius. I
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love that. All right, Well, I'm glad that we got to get
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to know Yea again that those are so fun. And then before we start
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going in and I have some facts, but I did want to know,
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so, Andrew, when did you first start watching Fraser? Do you watch
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it when it first came out or did you get into it later on?
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Oh, I got into it later on. I want to say ten or
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fifteen years ago. Actually I went back to school to get my marine biodegree
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and I went back at twenty eight, so I felt like way behind the
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game. And my mom was very very cool where she was like, look,
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you're gonna be a full time student again. You're worrying about like paying
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rent and keeping a job and doing a degree. She's like, you can
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just move back in with me if you want while you like go back to
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school and like get your degree, which was awesome in a lot of ways.
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But one of the ways was like we would actually watch Frazier together before
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going to bed, and it was really fun. And my mom is an
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immigrant from Columbia and so she can never say Niles's name right, and so
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she would always be like easied Niles or easy Miles. And so I decided,
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being a smart ass, that I'd suck with her. So I'd be
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like, Mom, it's Niles, and she'd be like, oh, okay,
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okay, and then he would do something funny. She's like, I
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love Niles, and I was like, mom, it's Miles. Get it.
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Right, and she was like, oh okay, and so then for
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years she knows now it's Niles, but she's like, you're such an ass
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road I let you live with me for free. But yeah, So we
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started watching Fraser together and I really loved it. And at the time that
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it was actually like on TV, it came on immediately following the Golden Girls,
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which is another show I'm like super in love with. Oh my god.
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So now if I watch Golden Girls or Fraser, I will watch one
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episode of Golden Girls and then I follow it with an episode of Fraser.
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So it still feels like that same SoundBite you get of like outro music of
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Golden Girls, intro music of Fraser. It feels like super super nostalgic.
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Here's a little a little inside not inside thing, but a little teaser that
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we're gonna have a Thanksgiving episode. And I wrote a Golden Girls script for
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our Thanksgiving episode that we're all gonna act out, which is gonna be a
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lot of fun. So I'm looking forward to that one. But I'm so
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jealous. It's gonna be pretty dope. I can't wait. But Ria,
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I feel like, is this something that you're allowed to watch? Growing up.
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I never watched Fraser growing up. Oh okay. Was it just because
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you weren't like allowed to or just not like a big fan of it or
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not, you know what? Was like? So we didn't have what channel?
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Was it ONBC? Yeah? Okay, so like we didn't watch really
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anything, but like I watched an hour or two of news at night and
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then like and then didn't matter. That was it? That was it?
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Like, okay, did we grow up in the same household because that was
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all we were allowed to watch as kids? Was like, you're gonna watch
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international news with us and then you're going to bed, And I was like
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this is not fun at all, I know, right? Yeah? Yeah,
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So I never watched any like sitcoms, like I never want, you
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know, we didn't watch Home Improvement like any of the big ones. We
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just didn't. So we're this so we're the same person. Yeah, but
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we were really on top of our current events, though, weren't we girls,
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Like you knew all about the Middle Eastern Conflict in fourth grade? Like
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we knew all about it, right, Like we could go into school debating
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the pros and cons oft like moving the Social Security age up or down.
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But like everything else. I was like, I don't know anything else you're
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referencing. If it doesn't in the sixty minutes, isn't covering it. I
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don't know what this is about little kids like I'll be the web pow wanga.
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You're like, all right, Ali, what about you though growing up
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big fan? Or did you get into it later or what? Yeah,
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I got into it later. I just I did watch Seinfeld growing up,
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and I really liked Seinfeld, and I know my mom liked Racher. But
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for some reason, I was just like, this seems too highbrow or like,
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you know, I think I just poop pooed it. I was just
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like, this isn't for me. And then I watched it later I was
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like, this is one of the best series that's existing. Yeah, I
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know, I think maybe it's a little bit because of vocabulary. There's some
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stuff that like when I was a kid, I probably didn't get, but
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it always came on like after the Simpsons and after shows I really liked.
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So when I was a kid, every time my mom was watching it,
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it make me feel sad when I heard that music, the opening music,
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because I knew all my shows are done, so I was like, oh,
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right, I know it's super sad, Jeff, what about you?
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Though, Yeah, I didn't really watch it too much. I thought,
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what did I say my notes or I didn't really take good notes because I
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was stunned when I wrote this. But I loved it rewatching it. I
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think I told you the other day, I caught myself watching a few extra
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episodes, so but my dad really liked it. I just thought it was
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too fucking gay with growing up, like I thought. I thought it was
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too gay, like in a homosexual way because I didn't know, but I
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didn't know. I don't know, I don't know. I didn't really didn't
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dig it. I liked the dog and I loved uh. I did love
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bb new Worth like I love all it. I grew up watching Cheers and
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Cheers is like a comfort show. But I didn't really care yeah for Fraser
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too much. But now I'm like, he's awesome. He kind of reminds
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me of like what was I gonna say? Oh, I feel like Fraser
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is like acts like a bottom but looks like a top, if you know
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what I mean. I never heard it put in those terms at all,
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and I know I completely agree. The minute you said I was like mm
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hmm, yeah, that tracks totally tracks. Yeah, Fraser. Fraser was
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one of those shows that was really proudly itself, like it was very much
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like an elitist snobby but yet also kind of like bumbling, because as cultured
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and like nuanced as Fraser and Niles are, they still fuck up in the
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most basic, dumb ass, idiotic ways right where you're like, everybody would
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have known that this was going to fail. Accept you, right, and
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but like, but I feel like the writers of Fraser were really proudly just
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like Fraser, right where they were like, this show is not for kids.
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It's super unapologetic about it. We're gonna throw around, you know,
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very cultured terms. We're gonna talk about opus one wine, We're gonna make
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jokes about Freudian slips like ki, I'm not gonna get this, and some
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adults are not gonna get it either. But if you're just above that cutoff
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and you do get it, you feel really really smart for getting those jokes,
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and it feels like really comforting in that way. We're like, I
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know what that meant, I'm smart. Ish Simpson's had a few of those
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too, like oh sure, the ones that I got like way later in
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life. Yeah, yeah, my god, Simpsons is a whole other animal.
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Like it's a show that appealed to kids and adults, and the jokes
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were written in such a layered way that like kids took it one way and
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thought it was funny, and adults knew there was another level to it,
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and that like it's brilliant, Like there is really nothing better than being stoned
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on a Saturday night and watching Simpsons, Like it's just riotously funny. That's
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like me every night. But yeah, most of their writers are all were
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like Harvard Grade. I mean, they're all geniuses, So it makes sense.
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Didn't didn't George W. Bush go to Harvard? No, I think
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you did. I don't think you did. I don't know. I don't
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think that. I don't think too much of Like like I'm a community college
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dropout, but I'm also an award winning host of a podcast. That's right.
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That's true though, is great show or whatever? Last Amy, it
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seems like every episode they get into some kind of like there's like a big
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miscommunication or fiasco that occurs. Yeah, and that stress out And that's one
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of the reasons why I like Fraser so much. I was gonna talk about
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it later, but I love the writing in Fraser because I think they the
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writers do it really well to where they kind of start and they give little
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bits of jokes all the way, and then at the end it's always it
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comes tumbling down, so all the little jokes that they had, it keeps
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like rising and then boom, a explosion of funny and I just love it
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so much. Oh George W. Bush went to Yale. Yeah, and
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I think you had like a c average. He looks good in Gene so
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whatever war crimes aside, all right, Yeah, he fills out some wranglers.
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Yeah, Oh that's funny. Before we get started, though, does
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anybody have anything they would like to talk about, like Fraser wise or anything.
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I did some research on it, but nothing too crazy. I wanted
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to mention that Andrea's probably has the record for the fact this return of a
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guest. Oh yeah, that is really cool. Yeah, I guess we
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did record like a month or two ago. Yeah, yeah, we really
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did. It was it was like quick, yeah cool. Yeah. I
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felt I had to strike while the iron was hot, otherwise you were gonna
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forget who I was. And I'm like, no, no, I really
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want to talk Fraser for you guys. No, we adore you, Like
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I already after our last episode, I changed my emergency contact to you.
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But it's this link to the zoom. Yeah, it's really confusing. It
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makes you feel any better just to be there for you, Jeff, I
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will like never turn off this like zoom meeting and just you could just see
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me cut. It's like the Truman Show, but like I know you're there.
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Yeah, like that, thank you. We can get stone and watch
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the Simpsons together. Yeah, I mean my my thoughts just Fraser wise on
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this is like season two is still really really early Fraser. I call it
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like the Burgundy years. Everything is like very dark and very burgundy. Even
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like the suits that Fraser wear. Niles is definitely more formal. I'd say,
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like he wears lots of like black suits or like dark gray with pinstrip.
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All the Frasers are like fucking merlow and pine green, and I'm like,
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buddy, these are not this is not the look. And then I'm
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really glad that like they kind of modernized him a little bit. This is
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I think when we do we still have like slightly mullet Frasers. Yeah,
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yeah, yeah for sure. Do you think I was so glad when they
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cut that? Oh my god. Do they make like gay jokes in the
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show. Not really. There's some episodes where they get confused for being gay.
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Oh but like but to me, but then again, I'm not gay,
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so I can't even talk about it. But it didn't seem like they
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ever made any like real like derogatory that's gay, Joe, you know what
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I mean, just kind of like that's like what they call like low hanging
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fruit, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean there
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was. There was the whole thing with like Gil Chesterton later mentioning that he
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was married, and they're like, you're married, yeah, to a to
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a woman, right, and like his wife, Deb is a Sarah Lawrence
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graduate and the owner of the top Auto body shop in Seattle, And so
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everybody's like, oh okay, But that was kind of like the main one
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that I can recall. There weren't like that many. He's actually my least
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favorite character, Gil, and then Dog is my second least favorite, but
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Bulldog. Yeah, but that Guilt. There's a later episode where they have
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to go to the sexual harassment than Gilt gives us a little monologue and he
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goes from the bottom of my heart. I apologize my wondering eye over the
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years those whom I'm mentally undressed, and you know who you are. All
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I can say, and it's a poor defense, is that I was a
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product of the faultless machismo of my times. Thank you, Gil. But
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knew this. Gil isn't about to stop loving the ladies, Thank you,
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Gil. I think they like to be called women. Now do they ever
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so fucking good that I can't stand him? Annoys me? Well, you
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know the actor who actually played Bulldog, he's gay in real life, and
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he played like the ultra like ultra hetero like cat calling ass grabbing mail that
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was like so prevalent in the nineties. And then when I discovered that the
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actor who portrays him is gay, I was like, oh my god,
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that is like even better, that's even better. Fraser went on for eleven
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years. They won a total of one hundred and twelve awards, with thirty
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seven Emmys, which means they averaged ten point one eight awards each year.
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That's fucking nuts. Three point three emmys each year that's what they average.
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But you know what's really crazy is there's one thing they didn't win the Community
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Choice Award for the Lamba Valley. That's right, that was us. Yeah,
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we got Frazer. We're a little bit better than Fraser. But this
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is season two, episode twenty three, premiere in May sixteenth, nineteen ninety
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five, about two years ago. I was a drunk and I was on
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Facebook and I was on some Frase, some Fraser Facebook group, and he's
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reading a newspaper in one episode and then so I looked up that newspaper just
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to see if it was a real one. It was like four days before
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the episode premiered. Wow, and it's a real paper. So I was
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like that turnaround time for them recording to actually putting it out was like super
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fast. So that's crazy. Yeah, maybe it was a week. I
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can't remember, but it was really short and I was like that, like's
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that's crazy. So this particular episode was directed by James Burrows. And if
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I ever started a TV show, definitely going to hire this guy because he
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directed some of the best shows you know on TV Cheers, Taxi, Night
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Court, Wings, Will and Grace, News Radio, Friends, Two and
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a Half Man, Big Bang Theory, a lot more. He didn't direct
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every episode, but he was a director on all those shows. So,
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but has he won that award that you guys just won. Hey, that's
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true, he has not, Oh shit, he has. Wow, He's
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directed like our entire childhood. Yeah, exactly, Yeah and yeah crazy.
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I also wanted to mention Christopher Lloyd. He's a producer of Frasier and so
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I love Golden Girls. And he started as a writer. I'm not sure
23:10
if he started as a writer, but he was a writer on Golden Girls.
23:11
He worked on Wings. He's also a producer of Modern Family and this
23:15
show, and I love all four of those shows. He was married to
23:18
Arlene Sorkin, who just passed away unfortunately. And so she when I picture
23:23
Harley Quinn when I in my head, like when I'm reading comic book,
23:26
it's her voice because she used to be on a soap opera and she dressed
23:32
as a jester and she met she knew Paul Deini when they were younger,
23:36
and she told him about this. So when Pauldini, the guy who kind
23:38
of created the Batman animated series, made Harley Quinn, he did it for
23:44
Arlene Sorkin and got her to do the voice. So I don't know,
23:47
it's pretty cool but super sad. Christoph Lloyd's wife just passed away, and
23:49
thanks to him, like I laughed, I've been you know, he's given
23:52
me thousands of hours of laughting laughing laughter. Yeah, I feel like we
23:56
owe so much these people who write these like fun lines and maybe in their
24:03
mind, which I'm only imagining, like it's a line, it's gonna get
24:07
a couple laughs and you move on and you write the next line. But
24:10
because of the magic of syndication, that one line or number of lines these
24:15
people have written have given us laughs like thousands and thousands and thousands of times.
24:19
Like it's really it's the kind of thing that like it's just a pop
24:25
culture phenomenon, Like you can drop a quote for the most part of Frasier
24:30
and nine times out of ten somebody will know what you're talking about and they'll
24:33
like laugh and respond back. Yeah, it's like a community of laughing laughing.
24:37
Why do you seem laughing laughter and laughing? Like there's just one joke
24:41
that I just heard on a Modern Family. He goes because he's getting older
24:44
than Grandpa and he's like, god, I guess that much. I bench
24:47
she goes, I don't know five hundred. He goes five hundred. I'm
24:49
not a forklift. But anyways, so since I heard that three weeks ago,
24:52
I've laughed by myself randomly like six or seven times. So just I
24:56
don't know, it's great because I love that shit, you know. All
25:00
right, So before we start the actual recap, does anybody have anything I'll
25:07
cut this out of nobody's anything to say, I'll just start the recap,
25:10
but anything before we start. No, I was just reading about Frasier.
25:12
I shouldn't research before I did it. But yeah, that Christopher Lloyd.
25:21
But he's not the actor. No. I thought it was the actor originally
25:25
too. So there's I hate that when people are have the same name as
25:30
me. There's like a comedian that's me. Yeah, like that dude that
25:33
married Britney Spears And I was like, is he the one who was on
25:34
Seinfeld? No, God damn it. There's a famous not famous person.
25:38
He's probably like a loser. But there's a comedian that has the same name
25:41
as me. But he's like, you know, puts more effort into like
25:45
doing things than me. And I don't like that. So we all said
25:52
a strongly worded email later. Nothing like waking up hating someone who's accomplished more
25:56
than you. So one time I met somebody with the same name is me,
26:00
and we both signed a piece of paper for one another. So I
26:04
thought that was cool. Why because I wanted his autograph and then he wanted
26:10
to Okay, well listen when you say why, you said it with such
26:14
conviction. I was like, yeah, you're right. But at the same
26:15
time, I was going, why not. Yeah right, Like, somebody
26:21
with the same name as you, what would you do? Yeah? Sign
26:22
it. I want to see how your signature compares to mine, because our
26:26
signatures are like our fingerprints are so unique. That's that's crazy. And I
26:30
always thought that, like having my name is what held me back in life,
26:33
But then when I see people with my name doing something with their life,
26:36
I'm like, well, fuck, I don't have that excuse anymore.
26:38
It's because if it wasn't for them, you'd be one step higher. True,
26:44
but there's probably another Jeff Keller that's doing worse than you. I hope,
26:45
so oh no, because you imagine if you're the worst, Oh my
26:51
god, if I'm the worst Jeff, Oh my god, wow, jelightful,
26:56
how you lightful to be at the birth of a new folk, like
27:02
if you ever met a Jeff that was like successful, Like come on,
27:07
Jeff Bezos. Oh yeah, I never met him, but he has a
27:11
failed marriage. Why Okay, anyways, not my fault, that my fault.
27:17
Trail of destruction continues. Oh my gosh, that's funny. So no,
27:21
I don't have all right. Well, so here is the synopsis.
27:32
After the brothers hear that Seattle's oldest restaurant is closing its doors, they decided
27:36
to buy it and become this. I had to go to Google because I
27:41
could not say this word restaurateurs, rests restaurant tours. There's no there's no
27:48
n is it. It's not restaurant tour. That's what threw me off.
27:52
It's like rack and tour but without the end kind of but restaurateurs. Yeah,
27:56
and it threw me off. I couldn't say it without the end.
27:59
Uh. But they become restaurateurs and opening night becomes a real blast. Uh.
28:04
I like to sit next to you, gets and stuff. Uh.
28:10
This got an eight point nine rating on IMDb, so pretty highly rated.
28:15
So here is Andy's recap. Interior daytime KBBL Radio station. We start this
28:22
episode with Fraser and Roz listening to Gil Chesterton talk about a restaurant named or
28:26
Chenie's that will be closing down Vetti Vetty soon. Gil isn't too upset with
28:32
the restaurant closing down, and we find out it's because they no longer camp
28:34
the check. Fraser, on the other hand, is upset. He talks
28:37
about how it used to be his favorite restaurant. I love when okay,
28:41
I love when Fraser asks. I love when Fraser asks Roz if she's ever
28:45
been there, and she says, are you kidding me? My dates are
28:48
normally make out, takeout home. Before Letterman, I looked it up.
28:52
Okay, I don't remember this note because I did so long ago. I
28:53
looked it up. Let's assume she went out the night before. And since
28:56
this episode was released on May sixteenth, nineteen ninety one, that means the
29:00
night before David Letterman had Elton John on. So that was probably very up.
29:07
That's like a really cool six degrees of separation that nobody needed or ask
29:11
for. But yeah, like there it is. That was kind of neat
29:14
and then if that was probably a very highly watched episode for CBS. David
29:18
Letterman was the first talk show host to let Nor mc donald on, and
29:22
I love Norm McDonald. So just then now was walking into the studio with
29:26
a book, not just any book, Steinbeck first Edition of Katie the Virgin
29:32
Knock knock. It's not really a good time for visit. Show starts in
29:34
two minutes, just enough time to show you the John Steinbeck first edition.
29:38
I bought up the rare book fair Saint Katie the Virgin in like new condition.
29:41
Yes, she'd have to be, wouldn't. Right now, that book
29:45
is selling between three thousand and three point eight thousand dollars. That's not very
29:51
much like I feel like he made it sound like it was, you know,
29:56
this insanely like prized possession. But that's not very much. Well see,
30:00
I was actually thinking about that too, because now with the Internet,
30:04
I wonder if stuff's like harder to find, like if it's more expensive,
30:07
because back in the nineties, people wanted this stuff, but it was hard
30:11
for them to find it. So I wonder if people were like, oh,
30:15
I can sell this for cheaper because there's less people looking for it,
30:18
or would they jack up the price because there's less because now, you know,
30:22
like trying to go to a concert, so fucking hard because like they
30:25
sell out instantly. So yeah, yeah, I don't know. Fraser tells
30:30
Niles at a famous night spot in Seattle's closing, and Nile's responds. Nile's
30:33
response is ros You're moving hilarious. Yeah, Roz grabs his book and licks
30:41
it, which will surely decrease the value of the book Niles and Fraser's.
30:45
Niles and Fraser reminisced about the restaurant, and Fraser suggests they go to the
30:48
restaurant one last time. Childhood memory is so vivid, wearing paper hats,
30:53
singing happy Birthday, sending back the veil prints orlof thirty seconds Rangier, thank
31:02
you Niles. Tonight, let's go to Orsini's one Gloria's farewell dinner. Why
31:07
not. I'll make the reservations. We'll take Dad and Deafnie. Great.
31:11
A pretty good opening scene here. I think all the people that are going
31:15
to be in the episode for the main part, you get a good little
31:17
glimpse of them. You get kind of Niles who he is. Frasier,
31:19
I think everybody's great. Yeah, I do, I do. I do
31:26
actually love this intro where Gil Chesterton is giving his restaurant review and says that
31:33
Mickey's Good Time Tavern is only marginal marginally preferable to hunger. Like such a
31:40
great line for a critic, like to get it's like Jesus Christ. And
31:47
then I love when Niles is lamenting like that Orsines is closing and he's like,
31:49
oh, it's part of crane history. Grandpapa took me there for my
31:53
eighth birthday and let me practice sending back the vial Prince orlav and I as
31:59
a food. I was like, that sounds really cool, but like I
32:01
don't even know what that is, because it's probably like a dish that's like,
32:05
you know, like baked Alaska. It's just like not made anymore.
32:07
So I actually looked it up. So this Prince Orlov was a favorite of
32:13
the Empress Catherine the Great of Russia, and he helped her like overthrow and
32:17
murder her husband. So I was like, damn. So yeah, So
32:23
for some years he was virtually co ruler with Catherine the Great of like Russia.
32:30
His repeated infidelities led to his fall from power. So anyway, they
32:37
have a veal dish named after him. He helped kill her husband, yes,
32:44
and then he decided to cheat on her. Yep, not a smart
32:49
move, right, Like it's like when it's it's like when people cheated and
32:57
met their partner that way and then they think their partner's never gonna cheat,
33:00
and you're like, honey, this is how you met oh you know Chloe
33:05
Kardashian. Yeah, yeah, where it's like, honey, this is why
33:09
are you surprised that this is happening to you? So this veal dish is
33:14
so freaking complicated. You need like roast veal and an onion soup, boase
33:19
sauce which I've never freaking heard of, and like a bechamel sauce with cheese
33:23
and a mushroom. So I always like, Okay, no wonder this dish
33:25
isn't even made anymore. It's like one of those things that you have to
33:29
spend like three days to make one plate of food. Nobody has time for
33:32
that have fucking sucked. You just wake up at like four am to start
33:36
like I don't know bacon onions, I don't know onion sauce. Yeah,
33:42
and I just learned what the different like how they make cream and how they
33:45
make butter. Now that blew my fucking mind. Yeah, Like that's a
33:49
long process for Butter. Yeah, no, bueno, Ali Ria, What
33:52
do you think about the opening segment? I I it's it's fine, right,
33:58
Like there's nothing like too crazy happening or anything, and setting up the
34:01
premise. Okay. The only thing that stood out to me that was kind
34:05
of like weird was Roz makes that gay joke about Gil and then Frayfri gives
34:10
her this like weird, oh you kind of look that was like very like
34:16
over the top, and I kind of stood out as like, this is
34:20
a little much notice that look or not. I didn't know. I do.
34:27
I love Roz. I love Roz and agree she's just like fuck you,
34:31
you eladist piece of shit. I'm just gonna lick your book and suck
34:37
it. Yeah. No, I think she's one of the funniest people there.
34:40
And I think every and she did. This is another thing Ry like
34:46
Fraser so much. It's one of the rare shows where the very beginning they
34:52
basically have their cast and there's like there's like really no tweaks, like they
34:55
fucking knocked out of the park at the very beginning. I feel like,
34:59
yeah, yeah, yeah, there were no cast introductions like midway through the
35:04
season. You know what I mean to be, Like, we've got to
35:06
shake things up. Now suddenly we've adopted a kid. Wait, what like,
35:12
now you've just thrown everything into the swirl. Yeah, So we'll start
35:15
with the next scene here, and now we are at or Cheni's. Unfortunately,
35:17
it's not what it used to be. It's old and beaten down.
35:22
Once they are seated, they see an old waiter. The cool thing about
35:24
him is he doesn't write anything down when taking an order. They call him
35:28
over and he promptly rushes over. I say over a lot, promptly rushes
35:31
over to them to offer them their checks. Waw, but none of my
35:37
notes. They tell the waiter they need menus. While looking over the menu,
35:42
Daphne brings up the fact that Americans are always in a rush to tear
35:45
down old buildings and that this building isn't so bad. Niles agrees and starts
35:49
bringing up all the positives about the place. Fraser Niles are getting excited when
35:53
discussing how to turn this restaurant around and decide to give it a go.
35:58
Martin tries to talk them out of it. They don't listen and get more
36:00
and more excited about the possibility of owning their own restaurant. We are Americans,
36:07
always in such an almighty rush to tear things down at home. We
36:10
treasure our antiquities, but you people just can't wait to bring in the bulldozers.
36:15
You know, I'm in trying to agree with Daphne, trying to contain
36:17
my amazement. It will be crime to lose a landmark like this. I
36:22
mean, look at it. It's well built, good structure, does have
36:27
good bones. It's in a very good location, excellent location. Martin tells
36:31
them a warning tale about one location that had a dozen different owners in like
36:35
ten years or twenty years, all with pretty bad names. The Crane Boys
36:39
take that as a lesson and picking the person Meatball had just pretty good.
36:45
You know exactly what you're Yeah, the Crane Boys take that as a lesson
36:50
and picking the perfect name. Fraser comes up with the name Lafres oh Ru.
36:53
I don't know, I probably said that wrong, which means the Happy
36:57
Brothers, which Nils likes because he thinks it'll keep away the riff raff.
37:00
I've got it, I've got it. Maybe brothers brilliant, it's homie or
37:09
just hard enough to pronounce to intimidate the riff raft. Yes, by the
37:13
way, the rapper riffwaf By the way, the rapper riff Raff will be
37:17
in Salem in November, and I will definitely be there because I fucking love
37:21
Riffraff. Uh. And then one of my favor there is a rapper named
37:24
riff Rack. I'm just going to do my best, Niles and just look
37:30
amused and elite at the same time. Let me see here, And then
37:37
one of my favorite moments in the entire series comes up. Fraser says,
37:40
let's make this place very very exclusive, no sign up front, no advertisements,
37:45
and an unlisted phone number. Marni exclaims, Hi, well, don't
37:49
stop there. Maybe you could post some guards on the roof. We can
37:51
shoot people as they try to get it. Never mind him, I believe,
37:55
Niles. Do you believe? I believe? And then time dissolves and
37:59
shows their dreams have come true. The restaurant is looking different and packed,
38:01
and the episode is over. They did it. I'm just kidding. That's
38:06
a commercial break. Gradually. So yeah, So, how's everybody feeling about
38:13
this so far? Especially Jeff and Ali or Jeff and uh Rhea, Because
38:16
I feel like you two are the newest to it. So this is your
38:21
first episode, right, jeff I watched it growing up, Yeah, but
38:23
this is my first as a post puberty jeff Ria. Is this your first
38:29
episode then? Oh no, no, I watched. I've watched probably in
38:32
the entire series twice. Now. Oh wow, okay, just says you
38:38
know in my thirties. Yeah, I love I love this and I love
38:45
that I think my I think for me, the thing I love about Fraser
38:52
is like we all want to be that like snob and we all want to
38:57
be like the proper person and whatever, and nothing ever works out like that,
39:01
and so like, I don't know, I just I really appreciate this,
39:06
this whole episode of them just being like, yeah, we know everything,
39:09
and like Tenner reminds me of like tech bros who are just like,
39:14
yeah, I can like open this social media platform or I can do this
39:19
whatever without having any experience in the actual field. There's something I feel like
39:23
about, especially men in privilege who just kind of go about their lives with
39:28
a how hard can this be? Mentality and things like this happen where you're
39:34
like, oh, you now have purchased a very high end restaurant that you
39:37
have no idea how to run? How hard could it be? Like it's
39:40
it's perfect. Yeah, and of course funny Hyjenson sou truly appreciate that,
39:47
just the sheer arrogance of the of the two brothers assuming that this is something
39:52
that they can easily do. And I love that they that Marty. Marty's
39:59
always the realstic one, like more so than ever, he's he's got it
40:02
down. But he makes that comment about you just you want to do this
40:07
just so you can turn away the people you don't like. And then Nile's
40:10
like, like, I hadn't even thought of that, Like so good.
40:14
Yeah, I seriously wrote that quote down because it was so perfect and just
40:19
the delivery of the actors was amazing. Martin says, you see, that's
40:23
what always gets you guys in trouble. You don't think about the hard work
40:27
in the long hours. No do you owning a restaurant. It's just wearing
40:30
fancy clothes, hobnobbing with your friends and turning your enemies away at the door.
40:34
And Niles goes, I hadn't even thought about that, Like it was
40:37
just so flip and excited to like be even more of an elitist, like
40:44
they wanted to have a place with an unlisted phone number, no address listing.
40:47
Like well, I think it really works for the characters too. That's
40:52
why I think the writing is so good in Frasier, because you know,
40:54
based on when you watch the whole series, you kind of realize, like,
40:57
you know, they grew up in high school, the dad basically paid
41:00
for them to go to school. Then Nile was married into money, so
41:04
like, yeah, even though they had to work hard to get through Harvard
41:06
stuff. Don't get me wrong, but I think having basically someone else paid
41:09
for it makes it a lot easier while going to college. I'll assume,
41:13
you know, so, yeah, they worked hard for it, but they
41:15
didn't work, you know, as hard as a lot of other people do.
41:19
Reckon, I reckon, so but I think that kind of adds to
41:22
why they just like, oh, you know, everything else kind of worked
41:23
out for us, so we'll just kind of keep doing what we're doing.
41:25
I guess, you know. So, I don't know I was thinking until
41:28
we fall on our face. Yeah, like growing up, when I watched
41:30
this show, I was like, I don't remember them owning a restaurant,
41:35
So then I was like, oh, this is probably not going to go
41:37
well. Well, that'd be a boring episode two if like it did go
41:40
well, it would have gone well if it wasn't for themselves because they packed
41:45
it good. They had a good chef going on, like they had all
41:46
these things. But then I don't google things like I like that you google
41:52
like the newspapers that Frasier's reading. That's really cool but cool, it's very
42:01
interesting that you have a lot of time. But he's so cool. But
42:07
who's I don't understand Daphanie. So she's the nurse or like a like a
42:10
caregiver of some sort, but she's living the physical therapist. Yeah, she's
42:15
the physical therapist for Martin because Martin had to be retired from the police force
42:20
because he got shot in the hip breaking up a robbery. So they brought
42:22
Daphnie into be like the home health worker, like a live in because he's
42:29
like a fall risk or something or you can't like wipe or something. I
42:32
guess, so, I guess so, But like I feel like they sort
42:36
of lean into the little heavier in early seasons, but like by season three
42:39
or four, like he's out dancing the fucking jig, like you really don't
42:43
need Daphne at all anymore, but you can't get rid of her because Niles
42:45
is in love with her. So it's like, you gotta find reasons to
42:50
keep this character around. Well, there's a part where they talk about how
42:54
uh Martin was on the ground for like hours until he got found because of
42:59
his so that sud Yeah, right, well that was before he moved in
43:02
with Free. He's handsome too, the dad. Yes, Like I think
43:06
he's handsome, old gentleman. But I'm sure he was handsome when he was
43:08
younger too. I looked up a picture of him. He was a total
43:13
stunner. He was gorgeous. There's like a black and white photo on the
43:15
internet from like his early acting days. He was really really handsome. But
43:20
you know, I love I love seeing beautiful older people. I really do,
43:24
because we're such a culture like focused on like youth as beauty. But
43:30
it's like, wow, Okay, yeah, you're beautiful when you're young,
43:32
but like look at you with like, yes, you've got lines and wrinkles
43:36
and gray hair, but like god, I mean it's the George Clooney thing,
43:38
Like, look how fucking good he looked before he married him. All,
43:42
it's like he was already in his what fifties? Yeah, probably,
43:45
like already a silver fox crushing it. I love seeing attractive older people.
43:51
It's it's hopeful for us. All. Yeah, I was going to bring
43:54
this up to everybody too. Let's say, on this episode everything goes smoothly
43:59
and then they kind of pivot the show from you know, them being a
44:02
psychiatrist and radio personality to owning a restaurant. Do you do you think it
44:07
could have worked. I'll let whoever wants to go first first. Oh,
44:15
you're in the restaurant business. How do you feel about that show? Idea?
44:20
No change, like an entire series just for it has nothing to do
44:27
with their background at all. Why even making psychiatrists off their fucking own a
44:30
restaurant? Yeah, plus he just spin it's a spin off of Cheers,
44:35
Like you know they already did so probably you know, like why are we
44:39
going this way? That's a really good point. Is the joke of the
44:43
show, Like one of the jokes of the show that they are both both
44:46
the brothers are a psychiatrists, but then they like don't have their shit together.
44:52
I think it's sort of a long It's like a the over arching or
44:58
overarching I never know w way it's supposed to be pronounced, like theme where
45:01
it's like these guys are shrinks and you think that they would have everything analysted
45:06
and figured out, and they don't. They're just as loose cannons as we
45:08
all are, but with a lot more money. I did want to say
45:15
that with Daphne, the wardrobe department is doing her zero favors this episode.
45:22
Like everything she's worn, like in both scenes that she's in are just hideous.
45:27
What the fuck was that pink dress? Yeah? Or the orient look
45:31
at dinner? Like oh yes. Also, I gotta say, like I
45:37
do like Daphne as a character, I do have some problems with her,
45:38
like how did you not as such a smart woman, like she's always this
45:43
like street smart woman. How did you not know that Niles was falling all
45:46
over the fucking place for you? I'm sorry? Am I not supposed to
45:50
cass? I your yeah, proper, Okay? So but here's what she's
45:57
getting invited out to these dinners. She's she's a nerve that is hired.
46:00
She's their employee. So why is she going out to these fancy restaurants unless
46:05
he's gonna like fall over himself. But if he's gonna do that, maybe
46:07
he needs to stay it or the ablest. I don't know, like it's
46:13
I don't know if it is that inappropriate. I think it's like I feel
46:15
like they've the way that they build her is kind of like she's like part
46:19
of the family. So maybe she knows that Niles is in love with her,
46:22
but she doesn't want like her situation to be jeopardized by her maybe not
46:28
returning the like you know, getting he's married, I think, right,
46:31
So he is married, she is married, Yeah, and she's I think
46:36
she seems she seems pretty clueless to it the entire time, which always bothered
46:39
me because I'm like, Okay, you're supposed to be this like smart woman,
46:43
but like this dude is like clearly all over you, which I think
46:47
they kind of clumsily like wrote in the show. But also it's like this
46:50
was a show from like the nineties as well, So I'm like, okay,
46:52
all right, But I also think too if you if you think about
46:54
it, So she's she's just moving here from another country, kind of like
46:58
a fish out of water. Fraser been gone for you know, decades.
47:01
I think twenty years thirty ors, I'm like, I don't know. And
47:04
then he's coming back to Seattle for the first time, so he probably feels
47:07
kind of lonely. And then Martin two, he's always been the strong,
47:09
independent one, a cop, and now he needs help, so he's kind
47:13
of lonely in a fish out of water too. So I think maybe all
47:15
three of them together, that's why they want to stay together, is because
47:19
they really don't have anybody. And then there is an episode later on when
47:22
Daphne is like about to move out or she moves out or something for a
47:25
little bit. Oh, she's staying at her boyfriend's house for a little bit.
47:29
Martin and Fraser do not. They can't. They need a little buffer
47:32
between them, and that's kind of Daphne. So I do think that's probably
47:36
why, you know, she's always with them, just and she enjoys it
47:38
too. I feel like like that one time she's talking to Martin and she
47:43
goes, you know, I kind of help take care of you. We
47:45
go for walks and everything, and I've always kind of thought of you as
47:47
and he goes, yeah, like my pet, Oh, I love it
47:53
so much, so good. What did you guys? Think of auto the
47:57
waiter. I just thought, why is a person that old still waiting tables?
48:06
You know, that's kind of I hate to say, but it's kind
48:08
of a young person's job because you have to have like a strong, fast
48:12
body to like move all this stuff. But also like the pay is shit.
48:15
It's shit. By this age, he probably doesn't have any retirement or
48:22
any kids around, and now with like it's kind of our future that we're
48:27
gonna have to work at Walmart and stuff because social Security is going to be
48:30
gone and like the world's gonna end, like really soon. There will.
48:35
Was like when I was the second grade, I told him about the Social
48:37
Security fit, but they didn't listen because Morley Safer was talking about that shit
48:43
on sixty Minutes and we were watching. Okay, Yeah, I just I
48:47
felt a little like two Zany for Frasier World, if that makes sense.
48:55
Yeah, he felt like a less is more kind of a person. I
49:00
felt like it was a little too I don't know, maybe too on the
49:02
noes, I guess in a way like it's too I don't know, I
49:06
don't know how to excite it. But that's why I was like, yeah,
49:07
it's okay, I just felt like it was a little too Yeah,
49:09
I guess you're right. Tuesday any two kind of like wild I don't know
49:14
what's his name auto? And then they hire him to be the show for
49:16
like work with auto. Wait, what's the long word for auto? Automan
49:21
Empire, no Auto Automatic, Bismarck Automotive. Then they have him be the
49:28
automotive guy, and they should have had him be a host or like just
49:35
fucking with you. But the only two autos we know of Attoman Empire and
49:38
Autobu Bismark. There isn't even a third one. I'm so lost. But
49:45
like, that's the thing about being like a little bit more of a simpleton,
49:49
is I don't have to stress out about a lot like you being smart.
49:52
I'm assuming that you're really stressed out a lot. I'm assuming I am.
49:59
I don't think it's you was being smart, but I am stressed all
50:01
the time. So I'm not like smart shaming you because like, you're super
50:06
smart and I love that. It's one of the top ten things I love
50:08
about you. Thank you so much? Are you fling those four things about
50:15
me? Are you that friend that like when people have questions about something,
50:17
they reach out to you, Yes, I do, I can, I
50:22
say. I have a friend who reached out to me via text last night
50:25
saying he was watching a quote unquote risque film on his phone in his car
50:31
the other night wall stoned and was concerned his neighbors might hear it from like
50:37
the street, and so he was like, can you answer this question about
50:39
sound waves and how they travel? And I was like, I can,
50:43
actually, I can answer that. And then he told me the rundown of
50:45
the story and I was like, well, I don't even want to answer
50:47
that now, Like the bigger question is why weren't you watching this in your
50:51
house? Yeah? Why were you in your car watching porn? Like,
50:54
there's a lot of questions that are coming on. I would never talk to
50:59
you about my porn habits. I would hope that you would, because I
51:04
know, like the sound does travel this way. Actually keep it on level
51:07
two or below. That's so cool. That's weird. That's weird that he
51:15
watched it in the car. I bet his own house. I was like,
51:19
buddy, go inside your house. I watch that ship a lot like
51:22
semi truck drivers, Like, I bet they watch porn and diddle themselves while
51:27
they're driving long distances maybe well. We returned to them crane boys talking about
51:34
Oh I did that like that show? We followed we had, yeah,
51:38
Dixon Hazard, there you go. All I heard was ha and then I
51:42
got it Digson Hazard. We return with them crane boys talking about opening night.
51:47
Okay, that's like it's most of them I could do, and all
51:51
the compliments they are receiving. Niles tries to Cherry Jubilee and suggests they add
51:54
a tad bit more brandy. Fraezer sticks his finger in to try it,
52:00
which is disgusting. He sticks his finger. Anyways, this is why you
52:05
can't own a restaurant, because you can't do shit like yeah, and needed
52:07
it in front of the whole road. Yeah yeah, but agrees it does
52:14
need more brandy. Now's then adds more brandy. Daphne and Martin are at
52:19
a table and Fraser checks in with them, basically to glow how great the
52:22
restaurant is. Fraser goes back to the Cherry Jubilee and adds it a little
52:27
bit more brandy. We join Oils in the kitchen discussing the food. The
52:31
chef likes to keep live eels until it's time to cook them and now suggests
52:36
a little tweak to the dessert instead of an individual suite fla one large sufle
52:39
the chef, the chef, the chef. The chef agrees. I go
52:45
to the supleys for table nine. Marie, I'm just about to beg zem.
52:50
I know it's not my place to second guess your presentation, but would
52:52
you be a verse to trying something radical? What instead of individuals who take
53:00
one large souple and dish the portions out at the table. People hear the
53:05
nameing Niles train. I wanted to think of big souple as you wish.
53:13
Oh no, here comes Bulldog. He is way too into sports to know
53:15
how to act at a nice restaurant. They give him the table closest to
53:20
the bathroom. Nows adds Brandy to Jubilee. Uh oh. Frazer goes into
53:27
the kitchen and notices the chef is doing one large souflee and tells him to
53:30
change back to single soufles, not knowing Naws had originally asked to change the
53:36
plan for ree. It's not to second guess your creativity, but I thought
53:44
that we agreed that we would serve the souflee in individual cups, but that
53:46
was this to change change on opening night? Oh lord no, no,
53:51
start pouring, man, Frasier adds more brandy. Come on, now,
53:57
this is getting silly. Guys. Nowles enters the kitchen and see the chef
54:00
making one large two fle not knowing Frazer had just instructed him to do it
54:04
differently. The chef is starting to get angry. Oh no, Both the
54:07
waiters have now been hurt by the Crane boys by not going through the correct
54:12
doors and causing a concussion for one guy and a broken nose for the other.
54:15
And actually, in my notes, I go, Ali, do you
54:17
have any crazy kitchen stories that would be funny on the spot? Yeah?
54:23
On the spot? Yeah, yeah, I did have one guy, not
54:27
a customer, who busted his own table and brought dishes back kitchen dish hit
54:32
like unprompted, like just did it himself, and we all like, what
54:36
the fuck are you doing in here? That's super creepy. He got chewed
54:39
out by like eight different people. Do you think he was Do you think
54:45
he was like a super like rich dude who was just trying to show like
54:49
how one with the people he is or some shit, because you're like,
54:52
why would you do why would you come all the way in here. No,
54:54
there's just a breed of people who have zero etiquette in restaurants. And
55:00
like he thought, oh I need a table. This table is dirty.
55:02
I'm going, oh, it wasn't even his Oh it wasn't even his dishes.
55:07
That's even weirder. Yeah, so, but I've had people take food
55:10
off of like like plate sitting in the window, like people have zero etiquette
55:17
sometimes. And but yeah, that guy walked into like through the double doors
55:21
too, that like brought things to the dishpit. Uh. Yeah, so
55:25
that's one interesting sounds like he was being kind of a female like I was
55:29
gonna say a few he was being kind of like a male Karen. He
55:31
was being a Darren. He's like, this table is not available, but
55:37
I want to make it available, So I'm making it available. It's like,
55:39
okay, Darren, like, don't come in here with these dirty dishes.
55:43
He got chewed out pretty bad by just about everybody, for sure,
55:46
with good reason. That's weirdest shit. Yeah. I used to work at
55:51
this coffee shop and one time I wanted to do that is your refrigerator running?
55:54
But so I called because we had this huge, fucking fridge with like
55:58
all the milk or whatever kept in there. And so I looked at the
56:00
company name. It's called like Kings. I can't remember King something. So
56:04
then I go on my lunch and I call my cell phone and my manager
56:07
I answered. So I'm like, hey, this is Bill from King's whatever
56:10
refrigeration grabbing some issues. Can you check deceive your refrigerators running? She goes,
56:16
yeah, give me one second. So she's gone for like two or
56:19
three minutes, and I'm like, oh no, what's going on? She
56:22
goes, sorry, it's really hard. I didn't get underneath it the fine
56:24
it was running, And I go, okay, thanks, and then I
56:29
just hung up because I didn't want to tell her that there was a joke.
56:32
I did all that for no fucking reason. But what if it wasn't
56:36
running, then, like you helped her and had something she should know without
56:38
having to check. Oh I God, I was like, okay, thanks.
56:43
Also, how little do you have to know about refrigerators to like not
56:47
realize that just by like opening it and realizing it, like the motor's running
56:51
and it's cold. Why are you crawling under refrigerators to see if it's still
56:54
running? Oh, that's a problem. That's a problem for me. Good.
57:00
You want to know how we pranked new employees at the pizza place?
57:06
Okay, So when I was when we would train new employees, we would
57:12
be like, you know, forming the dough to make a pizza and then
57:15
accidentally, like I'd rip a piece of the dough. And if you're if
57:21
you're stretching dough, you just put it back together and keep stretching it,
57:22
but rip it and be like oh no, and like make a big scene
57:27
and like what and be like can you go get the dough patch repair kit?
57:31
And and so like if it's an employee has no idea, they're nervous
57:35
freaking out like okay, and then you're like, oh, I can't find
57:37
it and then go yeah, And so we would send them to other pizza
57:45
places. So I worked at like Dominoes and be like, you're you're gonna
57:49
go to the pizza hut and ask them for theirs, and like if they
57:52
knew, then they would send them to another pizza place. That's so good.
57:57
Yeah, it's like a brotherhood of the dough, Like they all know
58:00
the secret code. That's amazing. Yeah, I have a major problem with
58:07
this. Soufle debacle. Yeah, let's get on track. Yeah, I
58:12
listen speaking of restaurants. So this, this soufl problem was a big problem.
58:17
But like, this was really irking me a lot because I love to
58:20
cook and bake. I've made many a soufles. The cooking time between small
58:23
ramikins of soufles and a giant eleven inch deep dish like ramikin of soufle one
58:31
takes like ten times longer to cook than the other. How does this How
58:35
do they think that they're gonna get one giant ass soufle to cook in the
58:39
same time as like the twelve to fourteen minute you know, like little bitty
58:44
soufles. I was like, man, they needed to have like a food
58:47
writer. Come on, I just made banana bread last week, and I
58:51
was like, well, I'm gonna do banana bread cupcakes, and so I
58:52
was like, well, I don't need the whole you know, sixty five
58:54
minutes, and I cooked them in thirty minutes. So I didn't think about
58:59
that though, But if they were going back and forth, that's really gonna
59:00
fuck up everybody's dessert. Whatever. Yeah, and he's also like opening and
59:06
closing the oven a bunch I was like, you're losing all that heat out
59:08
of Europe. And two like we've got in this kitchen. I don't cook
59:13
her baker anything. But last night I was like and all snack. So
59:15
I made some pizza rolls and I put them in the microwave and then I
59:19
dipped them in mustard. I hate everything about what you just said there.
59:22
Why I hate mustard? Would you put mustard on pizza? Thank you good?
59:30
I love mustard on pizza. I love it, But was it like
59:32
yellow mustard? Mustard? Mustard only yellow mustard, only yellow mustard. I
59:38
get the cheapest at Winco, Like that's my jam. Like I love yellow
59:43
mustard. I like a lot of it, and it's good on that close
59:46
up over rhea. I love it on barbecue pizza. I love it on
59:51
regular pizza, like, uh, you know, pepperoni pizza. I don't
59:53
have to hands in your face if I just love it, I don't want
59:57
to I had to do with anything. It sounds bad, but you say
1:00:00
it with such confidence that I'm like, I feel like I know need to
1:00:02
try it. And if you think about like blue cheese dressing or ranch on
1:00:07
pizza sounds terrible, but it's really good. So maybe we're going to revolutionize
1:00:12
the world with these mustard It's really good on like leftover pizza. If you're
1:00:17
like not wanting to heat it up and you just want to eat it cold,
1:00:21
put some mustard on that. It's so good. Okay, Well,
1:00:22
I've just lost all respect for you. So that's that's what did it.
1:00:30
I don't know what happened. Oh, I was wondering, I guess I
1:00:31
wrote down. I wonder if the actor who plays Martin actually has a limp.
1:00:36
No, I think he's British. In real life, he was.
1:00:39
He passed away a few years ago. He was born in Britain but then
1:00:45
immigrated here to the US when he was just a little kid. So his
1:00:49
American accent is actually how he speaks. Oh, I said, it has
1:00:51
a limp. Oh I don't. Oh yeah, but I don't think he
1:00:55
has. He does not have a limp, or he didn't have a limp
1:00:58
in real life. There only was one time on Fraser that he spoke with
1:01:01
a British accent, and it's when he was making fun of Daphne and he
1:01:06
was imitating her and he did the British accent, which I was like,
1:01:08
oh, my gosh to think that this adorable old man could have been speaking
1:01:13
with this with this accent, like it just kind of broke my heart because
1:01:15
American accent is so dumb in comparison, we sound terrible, but there's a
1:01:20
lot of British people that sound stupid, Like who's who's one of them?
1:01:27
Well, first of all, I love that, how I love that you
1:01:30
just had this very random thought like there's lots of dumb sounding Brits And then
1:01:32
you take it right over to Andy to be like, back me up,
1:01:35
like this off the top of your head, just like that, Like,
1:01:39
don't sounding British people go like what, Yeah, I had Russell Brand stuck
1:01:45
in my head. But that's just because it's the fan he is up.
1:01:49
But like everyone should have known that. Everybody should have known that. I
1:01:52
am not surprising anyway. Now, yeah, no, ship, take a
1:01:58
look at the guy, like come on, alrighty. So, after the
1:02:02
two waiters get injured, the bartender offers to take them to the hospital.
1:02:07
Now starts getting nervous at the fact they have no waiters and no bartender.
1:02:10
Fraser says, rule number one to being in a kitchen is to remain calm.
1:02:15
Then instantly starts yelling at the cheffer. That's such a good scene.
1:02:21
Yeah. Rule number one is to stay calm. And then he instantly starts
1:02:23
yelling out the cheffer during one largeyo flate, not knowing Niles had just instructed
1:02:28
him differently. So our name. I'm trying to remain a happy brother.
1:02:31
But do you find it just the Chinese bit discouraging? And suddenly we find
1:02:34
ourselves with neither waiters nor a bartender. First rule of the kitchen, Nile,
1:02:37
remain calm. No, no, no, I told you individual cops
1:02:43
you the chef is fed up and kicks rocks. They promote another chef to
1:02:46
head chef and tells the chef you have to do great. We have two
1:02:50
senators and the head of emigrant immigration. The entire kitchen runs out. So
1:02:55
pretty funny joke in the nineties, but I feel like it doesn't really hit
1:02:59
now, right, Yeah, but then two were it was were they all
1:03:04
French people? Yeah? I assume they were all French? Yeah right,
1:03:10
yeah, I just which like professional kitchens like ninety nine percent run by like
1:03:19
people who are not in any country legally, you know, in like whatever
1:03:22
country that is in is like legally it's it's backbreaking work, which Ali,
1:03:27
I'm sure you could testify to, like, it's really backbreaking work under horrendous
1:03:32
conditions where it's like boiling hot in there. The pay is shit. Like
1:03:37
it's it's pretty standard. I would say, yeah, I think they're I
1:03:45
think like the majority of like kitchen workers today are most likely like Latino m
1:03:52
hm. You know, it was interesting to see that joke placed on like
1:03:55
white people. Yeah, that's why I was like, huh so I was
1:03:59
like, I don't know, yeah, I don't know if that how well
1:04:01
like that that joke really lands even as you mentioned today, maybe, but
1:04:05
like I don't. I mean, I commend them for not taking that uh
1:04:10
yeah right, but but yeah, yeah, I just don't know that much
1:04:15
about like France, but I feel like it's a pretty good place to live,
1:04:17
So it just it would be weird to me that people would want to
1:04:20
I don't know, this is I don't know. I just thought that was
1:04:23
kind of weir is France France the country that has that guy with mccrun macroun
1:04:30
is his name, oh, Emanuel Macron. He was the president of France.
1:04:34
I think he's not any longer. I don't think so. See,
1:04:41
I haven't been forced to watch sixteen minutes in a long time, so I'm
1:04:43
not as up to date. I'm not up to down world events, just
1:04:45
like I just know that he's like a younger guy and he's married to like
1:04:49
an older woman who was like his teacher at one point. That's Sophie.
1:04:53
That's the Trudeau's No, no, no, that's that's the Canadian prime minister
1:04:57
and his wife. I think, no, no, no, they just
1:04:58
got to oh, you're right, you're right, you're right, you're right.
1:05:00
Sorry, my bad, Yeah right, she doesn't know much. She
1:05:03
was his teacher and then not like a Mary Laturno kind of thing, but
1:05:08
like he was of age at least, but there's still that power age.
1:05:11
But like, could you imagine but even like twenty years later bumping into an
1:05:14
old student of yours and you guys start knocking boots, Like, that's just
1:05:16
really fucking weird to me. I'm sorry, I'm a teacher, so I'm
1:05:20
like, oh, like the thought of that, I'm like, uh uh,
1:05:24
that's probably how Share was, like when Shares kids brought their you know,
1:05:28
classmates over because she always what's her line? Like, I only date
1:05:30
man in their twenties. Share Do you want to hear my impersonation of Share?
1:05:34
I do this every time it gets brought up. Ready world, Wow,
1:05:41
it's fucking great. I love Sharing. She's still great. World's okayist
1:05:45
impersonation? Uh he is still president? Right. Yeah. By the way,
1:05:51
this scene, just to me indicates like the ignorance that the writers have
1:05:58
about the restaurant business because it's a French restaurant and all the cooks are French,
1:06:01
and I'm like, yeah, that's not how that works in the real
1:06:04
world at all, Like, yeah, not even close. It was such
1:06:10
a like cartoonish way. Yeah, you know, it's an Indian restaurant,
1:06:14
so it's all Indian people cooking the food. It's like, no, that's
1:06:15
not how that works. I made Indian food last night. Actually, what
1:06:18
you make buttered chicken? It was pretty buttered chicken. Buttered chicken. I've
1:06:24
perfected it. I can make it so fast and so good and it's perfect
1:06:27
every time. Though. Does butter have a taste? I don't. I
1:06:30
don't like butter. I don't like the top when it gets to the top
1:06:31
of the roof of your mouth. Yeah, I don't like it. Butter
1:06:34
on popcorn is good, though, I don't like pop I'm just seeing I'm
1:06:38
just seeing so much face palm, like Rian Alley's side. Oh, we
1:06:44
can't see them. We can't see them. Yeah, for forty five minutes
1:06:49
straight, you know, and it's wildly entertaining. Thank you for like being
1:06:55
the gate like the what's the what's it called? Like the person? Oh
1:06:59
yeah, yeah, I'm happy to be that person. Yeah. We just
1:07:02
did a full house episode and it got so fucking chaotic. When Ali doesn't
1:07:06
run these yeah crazy, it's hard to run these Yeah. Okay, okay,
1:07:12
here we go, let's get back on check. Here. Uh,
1:07:14
the entire kitchen runs out. Now they have no staff to help other than
1:07:17
the absent minded waiter that is the head of valet. Fraser then promotes Niles
1:07:23
to head chef and recruits Daphnie and Martin to help run this place. Yay.
1:07:27
Roz happens to walk in right with right then, and Fraser blackmails her
1:07:30
to help with the restaurant. By the way, her boyfriend, I love
1:07:33
him. I love his voice. He's like in a bunch of cartoons.
1:07:35
I just I love him this night what oh yeah, yeah, he's so
1:07:42
great and everything I see him, and I think he's hilarious. He's he's
1:07:45
amazing in so many things. Like he was in the Drew Carey Show,
1:07:50
which I remember him from that I think right, and then I if I
1:07:54
remember correctly, he was also on VEEP, and Veep is a much more
1:07:58
current show, so he's a lot older, and he is a somewhat terrifying
1:08:01
character. He's like a very politically savvy mover and shaker and he gets like
1:08:06
under people's skin and kind of fucks with them a lot, like to you
1:08:11
know, like leverage himself into a better position politically. And he's really really
1:08:15
good. He's a great character. I totally forgot he was in this episode.
1:08:19
He was awesome. But god, world's worst date by the way,
1:08:24
Yeah, d like the yeah, like the minute. Roles is like,
1:08:29
honey, I'm so sorry, Like Fraser isn't a bind I gotta help him
1:08:31
out, you don't mind, And he's like, no problem, listen,
1:08:33
can I just get like a menu and some bread and butter. It's like,
1:08:36
dude, I love it. And there will be no second date because
1:08:43
he just probably got done with the Beverly Hills movie with Ernest. He probably
1:08:47
should have asked if he could help. Right, he should have done,
1:08:50
thank you. Yeah, I don't think Martin has a liquor license. Big
1:08:54
fines if they get caught. This night is becoming a disaster. Maybe they
1:08:58
should just close down. Wait Chester, Gil Chesterton walks in with his crew,
1:09:02
which I would name. Oh, it's actually a pretty good one Hell's
1:09:06
Angel hair pasta Hell's Angels, and yeah, Angel, it was a nice
1:09:14
before and after. You just got another face palm. By the way,
1:09:16
I'm just gonna like keeping the form like call me like Debbie the Eye in
1:09:19
the sky with the traffic apart. I'm just gonna keep telling you every time
1:09:23
you get a face palm. Can they see us? I don't know that.
1:09:27
I everybody was just running this. Oh my gosh. I'm just over
1:09:35
here stirring ship up, having a great time, having a great time.
1:09:41
Feel free to cut all of my ramblings out. I love it. The
1:09:45
whole crew. They are all food critics. Now. They can't close down
1:09:48
or they will get a batter view and ultimately fail. Why don't you just
1:09:51
level with them, tell them what happened. People are more understanding than you
1:09:56
think. Maybe you're right, Maybe honest, he is the best polis.
1:10:02
Everyone. Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen, I would just like to say
1:10:11
good evening, praisea p h oh. The staff is starting to feel the
1:10:17
pressure and starts arguing. Fraser walks in and tells everyone to relax and stay
1:10:20
calm. It's not like they're it's not like they're doing anything they haven't already
1:10:25
done in their own home. Quick Niles, kill five yells. You won't
1:10:28
sing here, Queen of the wait, she says, love you know extra
1:10:30
gruthfully hold the capus and then you go back out on the phone side of
1:10:34
the door. You want to trade places with me? Mary Poppins, be
1:10:38
my guess. Oh darn you, who's that tonge with her? All right,
1:10:45
stop it, Quip. I'm not being asked to do anything that none
1:10:51
of us hasn't done before in our own kitchens, in our own home.
1:10:54
Now, quick niles, kill five eals. That's so fucking funny to me.
1:11:03
Ros informs them that the mayor requested the cherry. Do you believe?
1:11:06
And now I was just having trouble killing the eels when Daphne comes up and
1:11:10
grabs one out of the tank and hits it on the counter like a hammer
1:11:14
fucking great, those heels coming. I'm just putting them. No killing the
1:11:24
oken shake. Uh and and it's not a real eel, so nobody actually
1:11:35
gets hurt or no eels get hurt. But I don't like eels. That
1:11:38
girl, what good represents not? Maybe this is inappropriate that what good representation
1:11:43
in Hollywood are eels? Like what's them? And jets them from Little Mermaid?
1:11:46
That's it. I was just gonna say, that's the only one,
1:11:48
right, you know, like spineless henchmen. Yeah, so yeah, you'll
1:11:54
I was trying to think of something. Uh, maybe there's something. You
1:11:57
know. It's so fun the way it happens, so funny to me as
1:12:00
the audience is laughing at that. We wait a few seconds and then a
1:12:03
large explosion happens outside of the kitchen and smoke comes billowing. A second goes
1:12:09
by, and Roz comes in like a Looney Tunes character. What's that big
1:12:20
blue flash? Cherry's everywhere? That was just an explosion. Perfect. That's
1:12:30
why I was talking about how they just like they slowly give a little bit
1:12:32
of jokes, and then at one point near the end of the episode,
1:12:34
they just bam, bam bam, just constant jokes for a few minutes,
1:12:38
and I fucking love that. The big blue flame sets off the fire alarm
1:12:42
and the entire restaurant is soaking what it's chaos? What else could go wrong?
1:12:45
Bam, the waiter is now the waiter that is now head of the
1:12:49
valet drives his car right through the wall to end the night. The restaurant
1:12:54
is a mess, and the crane boys are sitting next to each other sad.
1:12:57
But we get a sexy frasier, wet bald skull itt, Look,
1:13:00
you're nice. Martin takes this moment to make one last joke at the boy's
1:13:04
expense and asks a caller if they want smoke damages or non smoke damages.
1:13:14
How much firepower do you suppose it's necessary to embed a cherry in an acoustic
1:13:16
ceiling tile. There's a little question we should have asked ourselves before we entered
1:13:24
the exciting world of food service. And no seals are starting to stink Dad
1:13:32
for an hower. You've been circling us like a shark. Why don't you
1:13:35
just give us your little speech and get on with it. Thank Come on,
1:13:39
I know you guys, you're gonna punish yourselves enough without me chiming in,
1:13:44
thanks, appreciate it. I'm your dad. Whoh ivy brother's restaurant table
1:13:54
for two? No problem smoke damage to non smoke damage. No, we
1:14:05
good tell people he died in the explosion because they used to be smoking or
1:14:14
non smoking sections of restaurants. I think I meant to say damaged. Ye.
1:14:18
Yeah, if they want smoke damaged or not smoking damaged. Then the
1:14:23
ending is bulldog with a shirt unbuttoned. But I didn't understand that because is
1:14:27
this the next day? Did he come back or did he wait there?
1:14:30
Why is his shirt? No? I think he and his date were in
1:14:32
the enchanted grotto the entire time this kerfuffle was going down, so like they
1:14:38
missed it all and clearly they've just been back there having sex or whatever.
1:14:41
So like he kind of wanders up with no shirt on and like lipstick marks
1:14:45
all over him, that mixes a whole bunch of leftover wines to make a
1:14:48
big glass and sticks a flower in his pants and like goes back over and
1:14:51
I was like, oh my god, Like everything about that cut, that
1:14:56
post, like that credit scene was just so disgusting. But that's how we
1:15:00
end the episode. No, but I mean, I mean, overall,
1:15:08
how does everybody feel about the ending segment? I love it. I love
1:15:15
this episode. It does spiral into nonsense more than I would say a lot
1:15:23
of the other Fraser episodes spiral into like there's a lot of like spiraling into
1:15:26
nonsense for Fraser Niles, but this is one of the most like outrageous nonsense.
1:15:31
Right. It's like Niles is trying to kill five eels. Daphne grabs
1:15:34
it and smash smashes like an eel's head on the table, killing it,
1:15:38
but it's like a spring loaded one, so it kind of springs back up,
1:15:41
which I think is just like such a euphemism for like Nile's having a
1:15:43
boner for her the whole time, and like all this stuff, like it's
1:15:45
pretty funny. Just some of the like elitist things they say are hilarious,
1:15:51
Like when they're at Orsini's at the beginning, like picturing buying the place,
1:15:56
they're like, well, who would we get as a chef? And they're
1:15:58
like Niles said something like I know the chef at Emilios is very unhappy,
1:16:02
and Niles is, like everybody knows that the man's Schoojeli is a cry for
1:16:06
help. It's such a like ridiculously niche thing. Yeah, to be so
1:16:13
sure about how unhappy a chef is restaurant, Yeah, I happen to know
1:16:19
the chef at Emilios is very unhappy. Where everyone knows that the man's skungeli
1:16:24
is a cry for help. I do. I do really love also like
1:16:28
one final thought and then I'll stop hogging the mic. I love how Frasier
1:16:32
and I was like, never stop trying to be a member of the club,
1:16:34
like just whatever, this elite club they always want to be in,
1:16:38
like that other episode where they're trying to get into the day Spa that's like
1:16:41
super elite and invite only God, I forgot what it's called lap, which
1:16:46
is hilarious because it's the portagehn like if you put it all together. So
1:16:51
the writers alway was making jokes about that or like they're trying to get into
1:16:54
the Empire Club or they're always like trying to get into the exclusive club.
1:16:58
And I think for them owning a restaurant that rivals like you know, whatever
1:17:04
the top restaurant is in Seattle at the time, Like that's like their dream.
1:17:08
It's not the restaurant they just want to be members of the club.
1:17:11
That's a great point, Like, yeah, I think that goes back to
1:17:14
how great the writing is because some of the episodes they talk about when they're
1:17:16
children, and you know, they were never included, they got picked on.
1:17:19
So I think to them, they want to be top tiers so people
1:17:23
will finally respect them because they're still going through some childhood dramas. So do
1:17:27
they ever do like flashbacks to when they were kids. Yeah, a few
1:17:30
times. That's funny, pretty good. They had the funny The Crane Boys
1:17:36
Mysteries, such a good episode when they find that skull and they make that
1:17:40
fucking elaborate idea. Yeah it's so it's not a real skull and it was
1:17:44
like a plastic skull they found under a house. But yeah, they they
1:17:48
do like they in that flashback episode, which is so flip and funny.
1:17:53
Fraser and Niles are food critics of the cafeteria food from the school that they
1:17:58
go to. Yah, and is like banging a dinner roll on the table
1:18:01
and he goes, this is the hardest role since Hamlet, Like I just
1:18:05
love like an eight year old a kid that would show up to like school
1:18:13
with like Blazer with like elbow patches on it and stuff. I do want
1:18:18
to say that I totally agree with Andrea that this episode feels a little out
1:18:23
of place. Like I was really excited to review this one because I remember
1:18:26
liking this episode in the past and also working in the restaurant industry. But
1:18:31
it does feel like far too comical and like zany for any standard Fraser episode,
1:18:40
Like you know, the Ros's hair, Yeah, for sure, car
1:18:44
going through the building was just like, this is too much. But I
1:18:48
do think I think they should have done. I think they could have accomplished
1:18:53
the same thing if they'd focus more on their characters and like, let's get
1:18:57
some scenes where Ros is actually taking orders out of tape and like being rude
1:19:00
to guests, you know, and then like Marty like doesn't know how to
1:19:04
actually make fancy cocktails, so he just makes like, you know, man,
1:19:11
there there could have been so much better like opportunities to like make things
1:19:15
go wrong in a high society restaurant with like average Joe running. It would
1:19:20
have been hysterically funny. And I just, yeah, I feel like it
1:19:25
just was far too over the top. And then like the contrast of two,
1:19:30
just like let's do this thing to immediately doing the thing too. I
1:19:34
think that was a bit of a disservice, Like let's see the challenges of
1:19:38
like hiring cooks or choosing the menu, and like there, I mean there's
1:19:44
comedy in Niles and arguing over what they should serve, right, like there's
1:19:48
it. Just like there was a lot of missed opportunities after rewatching it,
1:19:53
because I also have rewatched this like three different times now because we've postponed this,
1:20:00
so it's easier to nitpick it when you've watched it several times. And
1:20:02
like, man, I just feel like there was some missed opportunities and I
1:20:05
don't understand the choices to go like too far with it. That's kind of
1:20:11
how it felt really cartoony, especially when Roz the hair is all crazy and
1:20:15
the car. It literally feels like a Looney Tunes cartoon. But that idea
1:20:18
of Martin not being able to make drinks, like okay, I get to
1:20:21
have out a vodka on the rocks. Actually, can I get like a
1:20:25
martini? I'll get your vock on the rocks, pal Like right there,
1:20:27
that's a good little funny joke known that he doesn't know how to make it.
1:20:30
It's so true. Yeah, that's it, And it's so true to
1:20:32
Martin too. Yeah, the way you said, it's like, I feel
1:20:35
like I have seen that moment in my mind that you just created right now.
1:20:41
Yeah, and like and you're so and you're so right, Ellie.
1:20:44
Like Frasier and Niles argue over literally everything and anything, So they could be
1:20:48
arguing over the design of the restaurant, the menu, the chef's selection,
1:20:54
and like the staff selection, like you know, there could have been so
1:20:58
much of that, and it would have been really funny if they would have
1:21:00
just kept arguing and then to a point where it's like the restaurant falls apart
1:21:03
before it even begins kind of thing, and that could have been the end
1:21:05
of the episode. But yeah, I think you're right. They did.
1:21:10
They did take it in a really silly direction. It's still a fun episode,
1:21:15
but it is so much sillier than others. I don't often rewatch this
1:21:18
one because there are just others that I think are a lot better, but
1:21:23
it's still pretty funny. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't
1:21:29
know. I just yeah, I agree. I think that I would have
1:21:32
much preferred the restaurant never opening, just just mayhem previous like them realizing like,
1:21:42
oh shit, this is too much work, Like we didn't. We
1:21:45
don't want this kind of work. We just wanted you won't. We just
1:21:48
wanted to turn our enemies away. I thought, oh, I didn't go.
1:21:54
I thought it was funny episode. I thought it was good. That's
1:21:57
all I have to add to What would you rate it? I would rate
1:22:00
it out of five stars. I would do onlike the funniest thing ever,
1:22:09
sure, like maybe like two stars, but I don't want to give it
1:22:13
fifty percent, so I'm gonna do change it to ten out of ten stars.
1:22:16
I would do seven stars. Okay, all right, Yeah, I
1:22:21
this is after rewatching it as much as I have, Like it's on a
1:22:25
scale as much as I have, Yeah, on a scale of frasier.
1:22:29
I think this is as a middling an episode as you can probably get.
1:22:31
So probably a five out of ten, Yeah, probably, I would say
1:22:35
a six six out of ten. I'm a teacher, so I'm gonna give
1:22:40
it a B minus. I don't know how many stars or points that is.
1:22:45
Yeah, Like I feel like it's a B minus. Like it's pretty
1:22:47
solid and could have been a lot more clever in a lot of ways.
1:22:54
They really did sort of go for that low hanging fruit and just make it
1:22:56
like I think zany one of you said Zany was like the perfect word.
1:22:59
They just made it get really ridiculous. I don't know how, but some
1:23:01
of those some of those quotes are great. Though. I don't know how
1:23:04
often she shows up, but it would have been so cool if the lift
1:23:06
showed up. I heard about your restaurant. Oh my god, can you
1:23:12
imagine that would have seen? That would have been such a cool curveball to
1:23:15
get, like all of the critics, showing up was a was a cool
1:23:17
curveball. But like Lilis, showing up like that just ratchets up, like
1:23:21
the competitive nature between these ex spouses where it's like I can't let you see
1:23:27
me fail. So this has got to be really good. Yeah, that
1:23:30
would have been That's actually a great idea. I originally had this rated at
1:23:33
a nine out of nine out of ten, but actually I, oh,
1:23:39
actually, after listening to Ali, I love it. It's so true,
1:23:45
and now I can only think about all these missed opportunity jokes that they could
1:23:48
have had. So I'm actually gonna bring it down to an eight out of
1:23:50
ten. I still love this episode though, but I'm giving eight out of
1:23:55
ten when it comes to just TV shows in general. I think it's a
1:23:58
great everyone had a shining moment. I think Fraser and Niles throughout both have
1:24:00
great lines, really funny. Ro's with the explosions pretty good, Daphne hitting
1:24:04
the eel, and Martin with the guard shooting people. I think they all
1:24:08
had one good heavy line for all of them. So I think it's a
1:24:11
good way to like bring everybody out guard shooting people. Martin was like,
1:24:14
why stop there? Why not have a guard on the top that who can
1:24:16
shoot people? That's so fucking funny to me. Yeah, you want to
1:24:20
say that. I think my favorite line is that. And I don't know
1:24:24
it word for word, but when they're it's it's after all the chaos and
1:24:27
they're lamenting over how the night's gone, and Niles says something about like knowing
1:24:32
the trajectory of like a cherry pit getting embedded in the in this pile or
1:24:38
and and and Fraser goes, that's something we should have learned before, you
1:24:42
know. Yeah, he says something like how much firepower does it take to
1:24:46
embed a cherry in the acoustic ceiling? Tile. Yeah, because they'ren't even
1:24:53
like, yeah, that's fucking great. I will say one very slapsticky moment
1:24:58
that I do love. I just a door. This like micro scene is
1:25:01
when Fraser cut me. Fraser like they put out the wrong order and this
1:25:06
woman's like, I heard her veal marsala. This is veal parmesan or whatever,
1:25:11
and he's like, oh, you're right, and he takes it back
1:25:13
and they throw the chicken cut it at Daphne who's washing dishes, and she
1:25:16
takes the spray head and just washes the chicken down, throws it back on
1:25:19
the plate. They throw some sauce on top, and then Fraser with his
1:25:24
bear yeah he'l be fucking hands, grabs a handful of zucchini and dumps it
1:25:28
on the plate and then off it gos like that is a very funny And
1:25:31
I've thought about it so many times, Like how many takes did that take
1:25:34
for the for the actors to like land the ketch correctly wash the chicken and
1:25:39
then land like the ketch off of the chicken like on the plate, you
1:25:43
know, with all the stuff on it. Yeah, it was so well
1:25:45
done. Yeah, very smooth for sure. These people did not like it
1:25:49
as much as we all did, though, So this one is from Gina
1:25:53
Reno. They gave it to a ten. Was there a writer strike?
1:25:56
Uugh? I hate or I dreads? Wow? What to put it?
1:26:00
There's no hate in this ugh. I dread sitcoms that play this card.
1:26:02
I'm guessing the writers are on strike. And everyone who was at Kelsey Grammar's
1:26:05
on a bender and came up with this very predictable, unfunny episode. Damn,
1:26:10
damn called out his drinking problem. This person really did not like this.
1:26:14
They dug from that all right, what's their name against? Uh,
1:26:17
Gina Reno? I wonder if it's Janet Reno. Yeah, Gina Reno.
1:26:24
I hope you have no skeletons in your closet that somebody's gonna like pick at
1:26:28
at some point later to make a really cutting and still terrifyingly accurate. Yeah
1:26:33
right, you know point. And then this person was there's also another g
1:26:36
which I wonder if it's just them again. But gen nine oh one,
1:26:40
another money no Object episode. So the brothers decide on a whim to purchase
1:26:44
one of their favorite restaurants. As you do, spend a small or probably
1:26:48
large fortune, renovating it and guess what ends in failure. However the last
1:26:54
we hear or however that's the last we hear of it, and Ley for
1:27:00
I don't know, I can't. Yeah, their restaurant is never mentioned again.
1:27:02
Time and time again, episodes revolve around money being not an obstacle to
1:27:06
the Twu Crane Bros. And invariably this sentence is weird. Well anyways,
1:27:14
basically says like they just pull out their checkbook every episode. I think there
1:27:19
was some discussion on Reddit a while back as to like how much money does
1:27:24
Fraser make as a radio DJ, and I think they ended up like there
1:27:29
was like this rampant debate on the Fraser sub thread, which I'm a part
1:27:31
of, or like the Fraser community, and it's just if you ever feel
1:27:35
like your love of Fraser is waning, hop on there and it'll like revive
1:27:39
it for you. But they did sort of end up debating and it came
1:27:42
out to like something like eight hundred thousand dollars a year to be a radio
1:27:45
shrink. So it's like, yeah, it's you're a celebrity, but not
1:27:48
like a a star, like an a level celebrity, but you're still like
1:27:53
a B or C grade celebrity but still making almost a million bucks a year.
1:27:58
Like yeah, I get that criticism though, and it's but that's just
1:28:02
how like a lot of ninety sitcoms were like you you do a plot and
1:28:06
you have to forget it because this a show that was binged, Like we
1:28:10
watch shows today, so it doesn't need continuity. Yeah, it's episodic,
1:28:15
h and so but yeah, I do understand that like this this this unreasonable
1:28:20
amount of money, but I mean it's established that, like Niles is married
1:28:24
into money and like yeah, you know for Fraser the celebrity, so it's
1:28:29
not too but I mean opening a restaurant is like a million dollar project.
1:28:33
So so I looked it up. So psychiatrists around that area on averages making
1:28:40
about one hundred and fifty thousand a year back in like ninety two or ninety
1:28:42
three when this episode came out, which is, you know, good money,
1:28:44
especially back then, but it seems like Niles was really established and so
1:28:48
I think he probably made more than that. And then there's an episode of
1:28:51
The Critic where he says he makes two hundred thousand dollars a year for being
1:28:55
on TV, and he gets punched in the face. So I'm assuming Fraser
1:28:59
gets at least one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year, because why would
1:29:03
you go less to what you could be making as a psychiatrist, right,
1:29:06
So I think they both make a couple hundred thousand dollars a year, and
1:29:10
then now's you know, he married into money, and then they both don't.
1:29:15
I mean, they're probably too old to be paying off their student loans
1:29:17
at this point, assuming they graduate like twenty two or twenty three, so
1:29:20
they didn't, you know, because their parents paid for it. And then
1:29:24
three people living in that house with Frasier. I don't know if Daphane doesn't
1:29:29
pay anything, I don't know if the dad doesn't pay anything, but they
1:29:30
might kick in, I don't know. So I just feel like if both
1:29:33
of them probably make pretty good money, so I don't know, I don't.
1:29:38
I don't want my strength to go to maybe making that much money.
1:29:44
I never thought about it. So when I'm bitching about my life or whatever,
1:29:46
they're just like counting their hundreds on the table, Yeah, doing cocaine
1:29:49
coffee. I wouldn't say that's how it is nowadays, what with insurance and
1:29:55
everything. But like before all insurance companies and kopays and all that crap.
1:30:00
Yeah, they were. They really really were my last my last drink.
1:30:03
I see a different one now. But he went like this. You can't
1:30:06
see me because this is like a podcast, but you can see me.
1:30:09
He did this. He took off his glasses and did like a face palm,
1:30:13
like rubble face white. Yeah, did he like wrap at the beard?
1:30:16
Yeah? He was just like he was just exhausted by me. And
1:30:21
so I found a different one who looks like trace. Were you telling him?
1:30:25
I mean, that's a whole other Yeah. But I was like,
1:30:29
oh my gosh. I loved his honesty with me, and he you know,
1:30:32
he was very like, you know, real but Jesuise like ouch.
1:30:36
Yeah. So I would say, in that round, you won, you
1:30:42
won a therapist. Yeah. People that work a Dollar Tree, I don't
1:30:45
have to deal with that ship they do. Actually, when I go to
1:30:48
Dollar Tree and stuff or like Target, I'm always like, do you judge
1:30:51
people on what they buy? And I yeah, I asked him, like
1:30:55
what they like? What's the weirdest stuff that people buy here? You know
1:30:58
that kind of asually talkative to people too. Target show I'm like, dude,
1:31:00
they don't fucking care. Let's just go, and he goes. Well,
1:31:01
they asked if I found everything. I had to let him know.
1:31:03
I'm like, they don't care, man, Oh my god. I do
1:31:05
have a story about that. There's a dollar tree not far from where I
1:31:11
live. And I love decorating for the holidays, and I'm very crafty,
1:31:14
so I always like make a lot of stuff myself, and one I do
1:31:16
a different theme for Halloween every year, and one theme was like creepy doll
1:31:19
theme because I find dolls to be super effing creepy. So I bought a
1:31:24
bunch of dolls from like dollar store, and the lady was like, you're
1:31:27
buying so many dolls. I was like, yeah, I'm gonna like rip
1:31:29
their heads off and like put them in the oven and stretch them out and
1:31:30
stuff and like put him in creepy positions so that way, like for creepy
1:31:33
doll, like haunted house, that's what they're gonna look like. And she
1:31:36
was like, oh, that's a cool idea. So I did it.
1:31:39
It was a success. A lot of people were freaked out. It was
1:31:41
fun Halloween. The next year, I went back buying a bunch of stuff,
1:31:44
and somebody in line in front of me was like, what's the weirdest
1:31:46
thing you've ever seen? It was probably you saying what's the weirdest thing anybody's
1:31:50
ever bought? And this woman goes This little lady came in and was buying
1:31:54
a bunch of dolls and ripping off their heads and and she was like retelling
1:31:59
the whole store. And I was like, uh, that was me and
1:32:02
that was for Halloween. Okay, I'm not, but I was like there
1:32:09
when she was telling the story about me, I was like, ooh,
1:32:12
person, I think I scared that lady. Love that that was the past.
1:32:16
It's time to recast. We'll start with Martin. I'll go first.
1:32:31
So for Marty, I went with Andre Braher, who is the the captain
1:32:39
on Brooklyn ninety nine. Oh yeah, who's very funny in that role.
1:32:44
Oh my god. Perfect. And I originally wanted to do Bill None who
1:32:47
but who's passed away from Sister Act and Sirens. But I've decided to make
1:32:55
the Cranes a black family. And I love Andre Broh's who has such amazing
1:33:00
range and in like Brooklyn nine nine, he sort of is this character who
1:33:03
is very Frasier esque and like high class and all and very intelligent, and
1:33:09
I think it'd be very fun to see him reverse that role o. Sure
1:33:14
nice mm hmm all right. Uh. For Marty, I went with Keith
1:33:20
David. I also made this family black and I because the Lord knows we
1:33:29
need it. So I love Keith David. Great choice. I think he
1:33:32
would just be great and just bring a level of like I don't know,
1:33:36
just that voice in him saying yeah, I just oh perfect. So yeah,
1:33:43
he's in mass effect as a Anderson Captain Anderson. That's my favorite game
1:33:46
of all time, Andrew, what about you? Uh? I picked Brian
1:33:55
Cranston. I feel like I feel like he could bring crotchety but like warm,
1:34:03
Like I do love Martin's character growth through the entire series. Like in
1:34:08
the pilot episode he's like mister grouchy Dad who's just like mad at the world
1:34:13
and wears those oversized sweater vests. And I'm one super glad they got rid
1:34:16
of the sweater vests for him. But he becomes such a like warm character.
1:34:21
And I think Brian Cranston can be really silly and ridiculous, but I
1:34:26
feel like he could also bring some gravitas and like some warm That's a great
1:34:30
one because he was a comedic actor, so he can do both and like
1:34:32
breaking bads on my shows. Yeah, that's great, great one I did
1:34:36
George de Kay, oh, oh my god, everybody stopped giving suggestions.
1:34:44
That's the one I did mine as this is actually going to be a drama
1:34:50
show. Okay, so it's not gonna be a comedy. So I'm gonna
1:34:54
have Liam Niese and his Martin real hell ye, crazy badass for this one.
1:35:00
But he can still be a cop, but a real hard cop.
1:35:01
And I'm not disable with Flachlan, not Flachlins like you. But he pees
1:35:05
himself apparently a lot. Yeah look it up, Google it, Yeah a
1:35:12
lot. And he doesn't he just looks startled by it. You know,
1:35:16
an episode where Martin is getting his newspaper stolen and he's like sleeping by the
1:35:20
door trying to figure out who's stealing his newspaper. I feel like Liam Neeson
1:35:24
would be like listen here, punk, yeah, I'm coming for you whatever,
1:35:27
like you get real murdery, real fast, like yeah, yeah,
1:35:31
all right, who's next Daphne? All right? So for Daphne, I
1:35:38
went with Eve Houston, who is Bono's daughter, and she's done drama,
1:35:45
she's done comedy, and I thought she was very funny in Bad Sisters,
1:35:49
which is a Newish series. But she's cute and she's funny, and I
1:35:55
think she would do a great job. And she's Irish, so we're getting
1:35:57
out of out of English and into that into Irish chair. That's Australian.
1:36:05
Yeah, and that was a spot on accent to it was not. I
1:36:15
was like feeling good. Oh all right, Rhea, I too went with
1:36:19
Irish, and I chose May Higgins. Did you do yours together? No?
1:36:26
Actually, yeah, that's what's weird. But I think I love May
1:36:30
Higgins so much. She is a regular on Weight Wait Don't tell me,
1:36:33
Yes, and that she was in a movie called Extraordinary Life or something like
1:36:40
that, and yeah, but she is just hilarious and I think she would
1:36:43
just play this to a t. I think maybe higgins voice is like insanely
1:36:47
sexy, like every time listen to Wait Wait don't tell me she's on,
1:36:49
like I look forward to it. She's fucking great. Yeah, great choice.
1:36:54
I love Weight Weight on tell me me too? Oh my gosh,
1:37:00
I guess I'll go. I chose for Daphne, I chose another brit Phoebe
1:37:04
waller Bridge, who was in Flea Bag. Yeah. I think that she
1:37:10
could bring like a nice fresh perspective to the role and like she's got this
1:37:14
quirky humor in Flea Bag, So I feel like it would translate well.
1:37:19
By the way, this retro reboot or reload or whatever you call it,
1:37:23
this is such a great game because I'm like, oh my god, these
1:37:25
are hard, but then when you land on someone, You're like, oh,
1:37:29
I think they could. Yeah, this is such a great game.
1:37:30
Yeah. So sidebar, so George de Kay and my version would be would
1:37:35
be he'd be playing the role as gay sure. Yeah. And then oh
1:37:41
for Daphne, my all time favorite Jennifer Cooler. Yeah, so it'd be
1:37:46
like a like a bitchy queen versus the bitchy Queen and I love that.
1:37:49
Yeah, those two together. I went with this, you know, the
1:37:55
drama kind of action thing. So I got Charlie's there on for Daphne kick
1:38:00
a lot of ass. So maybe, like I don't know, maybe she's
1:38:02
actually an undercover agent need to be you know, or something. I don't
1:38:05
know. Mini Cooper really fast, Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah,
1:38:10
and you know, I think she's fucking great. Next we have Niles.
1:38:16
Your brain works andy, all right. So for Niles, I went with
1:38:21
William Jackson Harper, who plays Cheaty on The Good Place, you know,
1:38:29
not too far of a stretch from his character there. Loved him in that
1:38:31
role. Would love to see him take on the Niles character. I think
1:38:35
he would be I think he'd be perfect. I too chose William Jackson Harper.
1:38:41
Oh weird, Yeah, yeah, I just think immediately that's who I
1:38:45
thought of when I thought of Niles. If you renew your Weddy Vols,
1:38:49
you guys should mention that together forever. Yeah, were both shows. It
1:38:56
was a little touch and go at the beginning, but like once we both
1:38:59
agreed on that. That's funny. I chose David Tennant, who was on
1:39:08
Doctor Who. He's got this very like quirky, neurotic, uh like way
1:39:15
about him. He's really versatile and his comedic timing is pretty freaking fantastic.
1:39:20
I think he would I think he would play like the neurosis of Niles really
1:39:25
well. I can see that. Yeah, he's great. That's a great
1:39:29
pick. I adore him. Okay, so I did a bonus one just
1:39:34
because I know the all five of us would agree on it. So recasting
1:39:38
the role of Eddie would be Gus gas Yeah, the dog on Instagram.
1:39:45
I think he'd be perfect for the role. He's a dog, so why
1:39:47
not and he works for free Okay, So for Niles, I chose Kate
1:39:51
McKinnon. Oh there we go, I love Oh my god. Yes,
1:39:57
So I'm choosing only gay people and Jenner, who's like, like if all
1:40:02
the gay people like, like how the Power Rangers, Like, yeah,
1:40:08
they formed Gus Gus is by, He's by. Yeah, that's for Nile's.
1:40:18
This is kind of the comedic point to where I think, because if
1:40:21
it's too drama and too much death, you need some comedy. And believe
1:40:25
me, there'll be a lot of death in my fraseryboot Tyberrell, he plays
1:40:30
Phil from Modern Family. I think it'd be kind of fun because the other
1:40:34
person I chose, I feel like they look a lot alike. But I
1:40:36
also think Tyberrell that he should also play wallaig if they would do a live
1:40:41
action Mario movie, because he looks just like Wall. It's like that's putting
1:40:45
on some on some out there in the universe to make sense. So thanks
1:40:50
for I feel all right now Frasier, all right, Jeff, I have
1:41:01
a suggestion for your Fraser, so after you say yours and yeah, if
1:41:05
it's this who I was thinking, but uh so, uh for my Fraser,
1:41:12
I went with Da V Diggs, who famously in Hamilton. Oh yeah,
1:41:20
Jefferson, he was a he had a he had a really he was
1:41:24
really funny on breaka Will Schmid and some oh yea and uh yeah, I
1:41:33
think he and he's done like the I've seen him do the higher class character
1:41:38
before and he's like for sure a leading man in in this industry now,
1:41:44
so I think he'd be a great person to take on Fraser. Nice.
1:41:48
The only song, such a strong pick. The only song I don't like
1:41:53
in all of Hamilton is the what did I miss? That he does?
1:41:55
But I love him as a character though, but what did I miss?
1:41:58
I don't like that song at all. That's the only song I it.
1:42:00
I listened to Hamilton probably once a week two. I feel like you're so
1:42:03
well rounded and like cultured, But then like the ship I send you on
1:42:06
social media, so like like degrading to like how like here's a here's a
1:42:14
video of a squirrel's nutsack like two slaps of a fence. He's over here
1:42:18
singing the Hamilton theme song over I really miss reading your view that, Okay,
1:42:28
uh Ria, who did you have for Fraser? For Fraser, I
1:42:31
went with Idris Elba anything. He's gonna be fucking great. Yeah. I've
1:42:39
seen him play that back character and I think he would just be excellent and
1:42:44
so over the top. He's so fine too. Yeah, yeah, he's
1:42:47
really cool. Like as I just watched or listen to interview with him,
1:42:50
he like he used to be like a kickboxer. Then he was like a
1:42:54
DJ, and he goes, I just do things I want to try,
1:42:55
and I'm like, that's so fucking cool, Like you know, he's awesome.
1:42:58
Oh yeah, he's just amazing. Dude is out here absolutely living the
1:43:01
dream. He would be an incredible Fraser, and he would also be an
1:43:06
incredible cam Winston too, and he'd have like you know that like fight with
1:43:11
each other all the time, Like, oh, that's so great, my
1:43:15
Fraser. I just went purely for like sophistication and dry wit, and I
1:43:18
went with Hugh Lourie, who played House doctor House just really he's British,
1:43:26
but does American accent so well, Like you would never know he's British if
1:43:30
you didn't already know that. And he's just I don't know. The character
1:43:33
he plays on House is basically Fraser plus more. Benzo's just more angry in
1:43:39
general, like clearly some sort of prescription drug abuse problem, and that's Fraser.
1:43:45
If you put those together, you get House. That was like my
1:43:47
pick for that. My pick for Fraser is Sarah Paulson. Fantastic. Yeah,
1:43:57
I just love her. She lesbian and she has a lisp. But
1:43:59
my guy like that, Well, who did you who did you think for
1:44:01
gay lesbian? Uh? You're talking about who? I thought, Yeah,
1:44:06
I would pick that, I should pick for Fraser. You're going I thought
1:44:10
maybe Stanley Tucci. Oh, oh my god, he's not gay though he's
1:44:15
married to uh what's her face's name from Ally. Didn't know you're gonna do
1:44:19
that until just now. Oh you're like, come on all Emily, I
1:44:26
know you're throwing people you're talking about, and I thought you're talking about for
1:44:30
Fraser. Emily Blunt's sister is married Toucci. I don't know, Okay,
1:44:35
she's a nobody, like she's a nobody like her sister's Emily fucking Blunt.
1:44:40
Oh, I would Felicity. Her name is Felicity Blunt. I just googled.
1:44:44
Okay, you just have to google it. She's a nobody, but
1:44:46
I would choose Emma. Sarah Polson just got recasted like halfway through like Darren
1:44:49
on Bewitched. She's now played by Emily Blunt, because she's amazing. Yeah,
1:44:57
yeah, but no, I just think it'd be so fun to have
1:45:00
two like pretentious kind of lesbians doing their like lesbian stuff, and then having
1:45:05
Jennifer Coolidge over here, Gus Gas over there, and then having like an
1:45:10
over the top, like elderly gay guy like I cannot wait to be George
1:45:13
de k someday. Yeah, he's amazing. Yeah, oh my, I
1:45:18
would watch the shit out of that Fraser. I really would be really really
1:45:23
would. Just the only thing I was thinking about doing instead of George Decay
1:45:27
was doing like how they did Carrie Fisher and the Star Wars after she died,
1:45:32
and just having him come back as AI. But I think that's frowned
1:45:35
upon, right, You just have the hologram Tupac. Yeah, all right,
1:45:41
I got David Harbor for Fraser. He was in Violent Night, but
1:45:45
I feel like him and Tyberrell look a lot alike. But since David Harbor's
1:45:48
bigger, I think he could be more like the Fraser type. And he
1:45:50
can be kind of comedic too, but he can also kick a lot of
1:45:54
ass. Like if anybody hasn't seen Violent Night yet, that is now a
1:45:58
staple in my Christmas movie. It was so freaking good. I loved it.
1:46:01
But that's the only thing I know for him. I've never watched that
1:46:03
show. He's on Stranger Things. I never watched it. Oh, David
1:46:09
Harper is He's such a great cranky five o'clock shadow sheriff. He's He's a
1:46:16
great character. I could see him being he's married to Lily Allen. Did
1:46:21
you know that? I don't know who that is, the singer that Lily
1:46:25
Allen. She just kind of like, uh, Amy Winehou is just not
1:46:29
dead. That's perfect. You can't see you can't see it. But Rhya's
1:46:40
body language look like she was hoping the world was just going to swall over
1:46:45
up when you said that, and even I was like hiding my face,
1:46:48
like, oh I did. I did have an honorable mention, like the
1:46:57
boot for Roz. I would want to throw Mindy Kayling in there. I
1:47:00
think she would be freaking amazing and so sassy and like you know, Fraser
1:47:05
trying to push her around, and I do love that Ros is like the
1:47:09
uncultured, like neophyte of the group. But she holds her own she holds
1:47:13
her whiskey, and she holds her own ground against Fraser and Niles, and
1:47:15
she gives as good as she gets. And she's such a great character.
1:47:19
That's the bitch I'm trying to be in my life. Like I'm in my
1:47:23
forties, I'm divorced, I'm not giving any fucks at all. I want
1:47:26
to be ros Doyle. I love it, I really do. If I
1:47:28
was gonna do a bonus one me back, could cast Stanley Tucci because Stanley
1:47:31
Chucci versus Sarah Pulson would be kind of fun. Or Emily Blant have a
1:47:35
Devil Rest Product reunion. But for him to be cast, it would be
1:47:39
like a casting couch that he would have to like suck some dick before he
1:47:43
gets cast to Provie's gay. Yeah that's funny. Anyways, Uh, well,
1:47:49
that was a fun time. But before we leave, Andrew would like
1:47:54
to promote anything. Oh sure. I am a big sci fi so I
1:48:00
was on the first Contact episode. My co host Charisa and I who She
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1:48:09
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1:48:43
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then November twenty fourth through the twenty six I am part of the Haha Harvest
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Festival in Portland, Oregon. It's a three day comedy festival. I'll be
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doing three shows, so check it out. Fucking hey, that's so cool.
1:48:59
That's awesome. We have like a we can have them just straight shows
1:49:00
Oh, that's awesome. I know for sure, I'm at least making one
1:49:03
when you get famous, Can I have some money? You were the first
1:49:08
one to get thrown under the bus. I never even knew. Jeff,
1:49:13
you haven't take care of me. I'm gonna if you don't, I'm gonna
1:49:15
write a tell all books. I'll remember thirty of them doing tail Tale.
1:49:19
It's a storytelling event in Portland, Oregon at Shilling Cider House that month.
1:49:24
So oh, there's a lot going on anyway. Ali j is gay on
1:49:28
Instagram. That's the best way to keep up with everything real. I never
1:49:34
have anything to promote. I'm not cool. I think you're cool. You're
1:49:40
all. You had a burrito earlier, your award winning podcast hosts. Yeah,
1:49:45
you go. You can tell people to listen to this podcast. That's
1:49:49
very meta listening to now. Yeah, I thought you wrote I don't know
1:49:57
what that was. I love how chaotic this show is. This is so
1:50:01
much fun. Yeah. When A's not running it, it's it gets fucking
1:50:04
crazy. It's hard to stay on track, right, I thought. I
1:50:09
thought me and cheris like go off on these crazy tangents, which we do
1:50:12
when we're talking about Star Trek but like you guys puts it a shame,
1:50:15
Like this is so much fun, just trying to keep up with what's going
1:50:18
on. I don't have anything to promote, but I like, if ever
1:50:24
you want a guest on your podcast, we do, Yes, we do.
1:50:28
I would love we always we always love having guests socks fun. I
1:50:31
was, yeah, so me, I was reading about like uh long,
1:50:39
I shouldn't get into it, but I was reading about like the when the
1:50:41
World's gonna end and everything in twenty twenty six. There's a lot of predictions
1:50:45
like from different like uh, people that do that kind of shit, so
1:50:49
like what like wizards, I like, not philosophers, but like, uh,
1:50:58
what's it called, people like Pluto philosophers something like that. So twenty
1:51:04
twenty six is like the new twenty twelve. So like let's get our ducks
1:51:09
in a row and like let's get through it together. Guys. All right,
1:51:11
yeah, and I'm sorry, but when the world does and where are
1:51:14
you planning on going to get with Matt? My question? Where am I
1:51:17
going to do a bunker starship taken us somewhere? Oh? No, I
1:51:23
do, Like I'm okay with all of the religions. Pretty equally just in
1:51:28
case one of them turns out to be all right, yes, that's like
1:51:30
my jam. So you've basically put chips on red and black like like,
1:51:38
what's the what's the casino ball? Yeah, and not to I'm on a
1:51:43
podcast with like that's a bipop. I'm good. I'm inclusive and ship like
1:51:47
yeah, yeah whatever, I'm so problematic and I are like, don't drag
1:51:51
our brown skin. Oh that sounds so bad. Oh my god, oh
1:51:57
my god. Wow that's funny. Hey, I don't have a thing in
1:52:00
the promint right now. Guys, I'm good. That was a lot.
1:52:06
So if you're still listening, thanks so much. Yeah, all right,
1:52:12
well that was fun. We want to thank Andrea so much for being on
1:52:15
the show. Make sure you check out their podcast, the TNG Podcast Show.
1:52:18
It's fucking awesome. Even if you're not a fan of you know,
1:52:23
Star Trek, just those two bantering together is great. So thank you so
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