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Testing, testing, testing, testing, testing, testing.
Hot? is it hot?
One, two.
Okay, wait, so wait, I got it. I got a really quick game. It's called quick. It's called quick, quick, quick. Okay, I'm gonna say quick, quick, quick, and I'm gonna say name three, something, right?
Okay, okay. So for you, so quick, quick, quick, name three brands of soap.
dove ivory and.
Okay, so quick, quick, quick. name name three problems with dental problems. go name three dental problems.
Oh, you've got a cavity and you've got a punch in the mouth.
Okay, what about you? quick, quick, quick, three, great.
Quick, the birds, the dinosaurs. Okay, Oh.
Listen, let's just forget this. Let's just get down to what we came here to do the last show.
Oh man here. Yes,
Look at this.
You guys, it's our last.
This guy owns a place. already. see ya, this guy owns a place. He's looking to bust some heads. Yeah,
We're gonna this is it?
Um, we're. we're so excited that you guys wasted your money to come here tonight. a lot of money.
Yeah, right. We're gonna try to put full dollar value in it. Yeah, We've got a pretty good guest. Not, not great. Not great.
Pretty good.
Yeah,
Oh, we've been on. we've been on the road for the last couple weeks and we went all over the country. We started in DC and then we went to Boston and we went to New York and Chicago and Madison, Wisconsin.
we.
We had an incredible special appearance by by my sister Tracy.
And I think that Tracy got a warmer reception than we did. yeah, sure, anyway, thank you for coming here, listen.
We're gonna sit down the show. you get there. It's your guest? Yeah, I don't care.
Oh boy, oh, yeah, you haven't sat in the center since.
Since Conan, right? Oh, wow. Yeah, all the way back to Boston. Yeah. Thank you.
This is a great interview, by the way. Thank you.
That's a great question. I wasn't expecting it out of you.
Sorry, just to just before I green.
Oh, What's your favorite color? So I know they know they know. All right, so wait, I, I, I, You know people so nice to come backstage and they say nice things all through this whole tour. sometimes I do think I have a little bit of face blindness, of undiagnosed face blindness, because sometimes I really truly don't recognize people and I make an ass out of myself. and So a quick story.
I was remodeling my house and I came outside. Thank you. Thank you. Oh.
It doesn't get any gayer than remodeling your house. and So the and I walk outside and this woman's walking down the sidewalk and she says, she goes I love what you did with the house. I would love to see the inside of it sometime and I'm like, who are you? I was like, okay, Like what am I supposed to do? and and the, she, the conversation kind went on.
it was feeling very awkward and I go, I'm sorry. Do we know each other? She goes, it's Giulio, your next-door neighbor of 20 years. Yeah, and then I, and then the worst comeback you could ever come up with, I go. Did you change your hair?
You look so that's gayer. That's.
Oh, and another one, this is why I think I have it, because another one. during will and grace, remember Tracy Lord's, the porn star.
Sure. No.
Okay, did I say sure you did really quickly. I said it pretty fast. yeah, I was a little fast. Are we still rolling? Can we go?
so she. she Ventured into, you know, talking parts and acting, you know, like she talked quite a bit. So she, you know, I, I don't, I didn't know. So she became. she came on as a guest star and will and grace and I'm such an idiot.
She sat down. I literally said, oh my god. I loved you in the hand that rocks the cradle. I thought she was Rebecca de Mornay.
And She looked at me like excuse me and all, I didn't even say anything. I'm like, I'm gonna be right back, Get some water, and I just cuz somebody's like that's not Rebecca de Mornay.
What else? what are you happy to be done with the tour? both of you? Yeah. Well, I'm happy and sad, huh?
I'm happy and sad. What's the happy part? The happy part is that of the happy part is the you get to rest for a second.
Cuz, he's going. Oh, he's, Sean is about to go on the road for seven months to go do a play like tomorrow. And he's been doing all of this for his final week. Yeah, before yeah.
Thank you, thank you.
Anybody here? see promises?
No, that's very nice of you to say. it's called goodnight Oscar. It opens at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and then Broadway after that. So, but That's nice to say no. I'm happy because I feel like it was a success.
I had a great time with you guys. I feel very happy that we did it, But sad because it'll be gone. Yeah, it could have really been a shit show, right?
We didn't. we didn't know what. we still don't know what the hell we're doing and would To think that people would be in, engaged and entertained for a half hour or full hour with us talking Is is stunning and we might be blowing it right now. We're doing so good up to here. I know it went really black out.
Did you black out for a second? I'm still out. Yeah, But I I think I think we may have pulled it off without, without a real stinker.
I have one more embarrassing face blindness story. Yeah, of course. So I. I went double back. I went.
I went to the premiere of screening of transparent. Remember that TV show? Sure, Sure, and it was the first. it was the it was before was on TV. It was a special event.
You could watch two of the first two episodes like oh my god, I walk up to What's his name? Jay Duplass. Jay Duplass is an amazing actor, right? Sure, and I walk up to him like oh my god, you were so great, You were so amazing. And and he's like, uh, I'm like, no.
No, you, that was. it's such an incredible show. I can't believe nobody's ever tackled this subject. I just went on and on and on and I was like, you're so great, and it's got him. My husband grabs my arm and I was like, oh, okay.
Well, I'll see you later. He's like, okay, He goes. that's Molly Shannon's husband, Fritz.
And I was like, oh, and I know Fritz very well, so yeah. And and then I, and then I was like, do I say something to Molly and Fritz, or do I not? Oh my god, it's gonna be so embarrassed, because every time I see her, then it's gonna be in the back of it. You know what? I'm gonna email her.
I was like, oh my god, Molly, I can't believe. I thought Fritz was Jay Duplass and she emailed back. She's like we cannot stop laughing on the car ride home.
It was pretty bad. we're getting old. we're getting old and the brain starts to go. you guys are, I don't have any. yeah, You still play you still?
You play, you'll play like 35 to 30, right? You really do. I Don't make the rules, dude.
You have no socks on or do you have those weird sort of hide This, the socks that that just hide in the bottom of the shoe like oh, no, seems. Yeah.
Right, no, prove it to me right now. Okay. Oh, oh, oh.
So cuz, those are not a good look, those little things, Isn't that? what when, when a woman goes to try on shoes at a shoe store, high heels?
They've got those little things in there. I'm into dude. Well, it looks like. I feel it looks like a high.
But they have those little like temporary socks for everybody and it's not a good look for men.
Yeah, they got to go without socks. or put, who likes the no socks. Look anybody.
That was like 20 people. Good for you. I can't pull that off. Good for you. It's just, it's a.
yeah, it's a very unique look.
Let's look. It looks like a pump, feels like sneaker. Um, I.
Don't know the reference.
It was a commercial where women are playing basketball on their high heels.
It was some. it was some shoe company, I don't know. we have a lot of fun.
We have a lot of fun together. We have a lot of fun with you guys, knowing that you guys are having fun with us.
That's true story. Thanks for listening to our garbage.
Truly, we really mean it when we say we can't believe it, We're truly humbled and that you want to, in you know, Get involved with us and and laugh and at all the stupid shit we talked about, Because that's what we do all the time And we're really happy to be back here with you guys, with our family and friends, a lot of whom are here tonight. Yeah, and so we wanted yeah, and we wanted to do a show back here in our hometown. We wanted to do a show that really was representative of how great we feel and how grateful we are for you guys and for Our friends. So, with that in mind, our guest tonight is someone that we all Hold dear to our hearts and we love very much. He's just the funniest.
He's such a good friend of ours. We just love him to death. and these got for the first time. We all know who the guest is, because we're at the end of the tour and we've invited our really good friend, our Pal, the hilarious, the kind, the generous, the amazing. Mr.
Jimmy Kimmel.
I'll sleep. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, oh, hey, now.
Thanks, Jimmy Kimmel, I appreciate it.
Hi guys, you know, I mean this guy. this guy knows how to do it. we got, we got it.
We got to get some point. I feel like that. I mean that was a really nice intro, I am. don't think I don't appreciate it. I do appreciate it, but it did feel a little bit Like when, like somebody's inviting their cousin to your house.
You're like, oh, he's such a great guy.
Don't be an asshole. the truth is is that We mean it. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, we love you and you're just.
I love you guys, too.
And I have to say this is very exciting for me, because I've never seen Jason up this late And, by the way, if it's a point during the podcast, he just gets up and leaves. don't be surprised. Yeah, yeah, yeah, every single time scale makes no bones about it too, right?
He'll just get up and leave and he and Amanda will often come to dinner, or whatever. We all know, in separate cars. Yeah, so that he's got an. he's got an escape. pod night.
He lies. He's also a liar.
Yeah, sure. He lied to me last night, but it's funny that this is the big surprise. I saw you guys last night. I'm gonna see you again tomorrow, Another day. great merch, by the way, oh so great.
It's all right. What, what, which mall kiosk did you get?
I Have to say I made fun of the hats, but I didn't know Zazzle was making motel keychains. I.
Don't listen. we keychains, by the way, get it. Guess whose idea the key?
Yeah, they were Hang on a second. I may have said, now it's coming back. I'm here said key fob. That's like a mo.
We're like I have a Toyota Highlander. I need a.
I'm gonna destroy my marriage and cheat on my wife key fob. Like what is that? Wait, wait, what's happening?
There's a key fob for the audience. a key fob is decorative. so last night, yeah, Jason, I left before.
I pulled abatement. So I missed you. I gotta be, sir. I was sick.
Honestly, I was surprised that you guys weren't there and I thought wow, This is really shitty of Jimmy and Molly not to be here. He took off before even I was tired. We came late.
It was. it was, it was a dinner back. So did you wait?
But, Jason, when you were, I was walking in and then, moments later, you were leaving.
I heard you were there.
You said and correct me if I misunderstood this, because I was trying to figure this out with my wife You said I said you're leaving, obviously, and you said yeah, I said, is Amanda your wife going with you? and you said, yeah, we rode together and Then you left and then about 45 minutes later. There was Amanda.
Jason said she's like. no, we came in separate cars. I don't remember saying that. I'm not saying that I didn't.
Stage of the gummy.
That was deep into the gummies.
No, I just I don't know what I'm saying when I'm leaving, because I'm just trying to get the hell out of there. Yeah, but and and not and not. be like the dick that's saying goodbye and reckon the, reckon the thing.
I learned that from you, though. By the way, what time did you get there last night late? I got, sorry, guys.
We'll be right with you. Yeah.
Jimmy, I got. oh, you have mugs too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Buy all this so you want? so, Jimmy, you were one of you were on our show quite early on, not as early as you should have been, Which was a big bone of contention, but, as I explained, when you were on this show Yeah, the three of us, nobody knew who to add, and it became one of those like well, when are we gonna? Well, who's gonna have Jimmy? right? So it was quite late, but you were on early and you were an early.
It's called being taken for granted. Yes. Yeah.
We can always get. Jimmy. Let's take a swing at something. Yeah, but you.
You were an early listener and you were somebody who had a lot of notes I did. Yeah, This this interview of you're out here tonight. We are interviewing you, but we really want to know what you think about our podcast. Yeah, how we know. so it's kind of about us.
Well, I will be happy to share my notes and I, first of all, I love the pocket. Honestly, no kidding around, I love listening to it. It's great because I I have to say I don't think you need guests. I don't think that. thank you.
Thank you, mean, be here. Thank you.
Actually, good night everybody I.
Love hearing you guys bust each other's balls. I love hearing the stories. I love, oh, I love when you guys Pretend to use the products in the commercials.
I.
Love that, so.
You know.
Wait,
I know Will's designing his own couch at home.
Yeah, of course, with all for him. don't be a dick.
Did you know they make mattresses now, yeah.
It's so crazy right? They're so comfortable. Which one do? which one do I have? I've got the organic hemp Stuff with hay or something in it.
You fly with your daughter over the fake chicken McNuggets. Yeah,
Did I say that? Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Listen, the checks are clearing you guys.
Do you, Jimmy, I know what the truth. sorry, go ahead. Oh, yeah. No, I was gonna ask a real question.
Well, I just wanted, just just before we finish the commercial thing, It should be noted that we actually do, legit you, I'm not trying to buy back for the ad. for the ad, I'm really not, but we weirdly legitimately do use three quarters of them. I think it's fair. Yeah, we won't say which ones we do. Of course you do.
that would be more she do. Thank you.
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Hey, they like our ad reads let me go through the rest of the show, and this is not something we have planned, But I do have some thoughts on it. Okay, one of my favorite moments in the show is right at the beginning. one of you introduces his guest and the guest is Sometimes fantastic and sometimes they're usually pretty good. You know, they're at least usually pretty good, sometimes not so great. But there is a moment where the person who brought the guest is all on board and the other two are Decided.
there's two things going through the other two's mind, which is number one, if the guest is interesting. Oh, oh, oh. What were they in? What am I gonna say to this person? And then the other one is trying to mask your disappointment.
So there's always, like a moment of
Attention. and there's also, if you listen carefully, there's a Google search going on. Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, sure, you know, what are you gonna do? Yeah, well, you will have the formula. What is it? formula 41, formula one, just for just one, just one. Yeah, and.
Daniel Ricardo.
Yeah,
Yeah, and I, I, I was like, oh, oh my god, Daniel Ricardo. oh he races cars.
Yeah,
The word car was right in his name the whole time.
so I Also believe that that there's more that can be done, and I know you guys are all very busy, But I think I would love to see a segment at the end of the show where you just take you read emails from your Listeners. Yes,
Right, done. Yeah, done. We talked about that. No.
But have you met people.
These are good people here, I mean, look at this. these people know these people are good Good save. Well, I think that was a good save. Is this? I remember you guys started this podcast, You're talking about it, and the big thing was most of the discussion was Bateman complaining about having to pay an editor to do this, and he's like, you know, we got.
we're doing this on our own. You know, we're funding this whole thing and I'm thinking what? what are they funding? zoom is free.
Microphones are four hundred dollars. Yeah, and how much could you be paying the editor? I mean.
I will say you brought you brought up a very good point, The, the, the fellas that make this thing fly. Yeah, you should thank right now who are here tonight. You're tonight, Rob, arm yard.
Bennett Barbeco and Michael Grant Terry.
We're.
Can't see him. You can't see him. They're here, though. They're here somewhere.
Without them. We'd have nothing. Yeah, I like that. We're like put the house on something. I say fuck you.
Yes.
And we will be right back.
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But what about a podcast of your own? are you sick of talking to people? no, I don't need a podcast, but
This is enough. Don't you like a show where you can talk to people, though, and interview them?
It would be fun. it would be nice to you know, what I really like to do is to plug people's projects.
That's my now.
Serious when you were a kid. when you were a kid, you're like god, I could get the plug.
I wish you know what I wish. I could tell I know there's no such thing as a Netflix yet.
But if there is one one day, would you, would you? Would you guest host this? Oh?
This is the best. This is my favorite part of the show. Yeah, the very, the longest questions in the world.
But not just the longest questions in the world, But also they're multiple choice.
And.
Sometimes they're answered within the question. Yeah, absolutely.
And the multiple choices are not a, B, C and D. They are just a and B.
But what if?
Could we?
what about if I Hosted your show for a week while you did this for a week? then he did your show for a week. You did this like. would you do this for three weeks and we took turns? 100% of course, right?
Are you sick of this already? nothing, nothing would make me happier than hosting your show for a week. I, you, I to me. you have the best job in the world. Oh, we'll get you a week right now.
If you'll commit to it, I think I.
Why don't we do smart list month?
Yeah, right, I would. I just you just look like you're always having so much fun really.
Look at this face. Does this look like I'm having fun?
Is he not like so comfortable up? Yeah, and it's nice to like sit there in bed late at night. You just kind of rock us to sleep and we're out.
There's.
And I would take it as a. I would feel very touched if I didn't know for a fact, that you are sound asleep.
945 every night. I got one of those Tebow's. You're right. He is a liar. Yeah, he's a liar.
And yeah, we should have known this from when you were a child actor. We really should have known it.
Now, now you've been doing it for so you've been doing your show for so long and obviously, talking about Bateman or no, you and and I've heard rumors that you're gonna be done in a year. I've heard other rumors that you're gonna do for seven more years. Like what, how, what are you feeling?
How are you feeling right here right now?
You know, it is funny how interested people in on like when I'm gonna leave already.
No, because we hope, we hope you never leave.
Yeah, that's what people say, But I think it's like like if we were at just a party right now. You guys kept asking me when I was gonna leave, right?
It would be weird, yeah.
And I feel like that all the time now.
Is it something you want to do forever? What forever your your show? Would you? would you do it for another for the same amount of time? You've been doing it?
I I want to.
Die, I want to die on stage.
On stage you want to die on live TV, wouldn't that be the best? I mean the ratings would be tremendous, the show.
I mean the show itself is pre-taped, right? So what does abc do if I die during the show? do they air? do they run that night? Yeah, of course.
Sure, and as anyone they want to see that. Yeah, they tease the hell out of it. Wait, wait, how are you dying?
um.
Massive um heart attack. sure. Yeah, your chest just explodes at the desk. Yeah, right, Yeah, I think that if you can do it during sweeps, it'd be fantastic. Oh, that would be great.
Yeah at the end of sweeps. Yeah, for sure. Yeah.
Well, what do they do?
I mean I should probably like set this up like a will, where I tell them What my wishes are right, as if I were to die on the show. I once had a an overdose of advil on the show where my head I know it sounds ridiculous, but it's possible. What's that look like? It looks like a pumpkin head. It looks like your head expands.
Why were you taking it? Because it's delicious. Have you had an advil? They're like m&ms, you know. There's a sweetness to them.
Yes, and they have a magic power that makes you forget how many you've already taken. Yeah.
Did you really have a bad reaction to it?
I had a very bad reaction and the show was live at the time, And so I I started losing my voice kind of I might be having it now.
I started losing my voice.
And then my head started to swell up and by the end of the show, my head was really big. Come on, and I was introducing rick springfield. This was some time ago.
and.
I've been on a long time now that I think of it, and um, tracy doesn't even need to fill in on this, right?
She's got it. Exactly. I did it and then I went directly to senior sinai, to the hospital, to the er. Yeah, and they were like, what what did you do on us? You saw sean there.
Yeah, by the way, I, we did. I have seen sean at the er. Have you really? Yes?
Yeah, this is no.
You didn't know that. No. Yeah.
I. I took a friend of mine. I took a friend of mine, too.
Exactly. Sometimes we get, we have a little double date. We go to the er with our.
Friends, the cafeteria is delicious, but, uh, yeah, I was like sitting in a corner with my friend who was sick, and you were standing up there and I was Like jimmy and you're like sean. we're like what's going on? You're like, oh, I gotta go, I'm getting called in for your your warm-up guy.
Yeah, my god, my warm-up guy was having a panic attack and thought he was having a heart attack, So I had to take him to. so you took advil and you had a friend there who was a famous person. We shouldn't mention who. it was. Yeah, and they were like you will anyway.
They paid a lot of good money, sean.
This. this person was, was, was staying with me and and and I took her to the er because she was having a diverticulitis.
Yeah, right, right. Yummy. I had a chat with the nurse and I got you guys in. Yes, you did. You know what the thing great thing is true?
um, the nurse Cut. let you cut ahead of some people who were very were bleeding.
and.
I just you know what I did a big fan.
I looked at the room. I sized it up. I saw these bleeding guys. I was like, what are they gonna really contribute to society?
It's thursday night at one o'clock in the morning. I mean they're bleeding. They were probably up to no good.
Let's get, let's get this. Yeah, this situation. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Sean. How well do you know your way around?
Like the back of my hand. you do Yeah, because I get here, we go. I get, uh afib, right? So, you know, an atrial fibrillation is right where your heart goes, like this
Yeah, it's actually I don't know what it goes like this, and so I i'm like norm from cheers. I just go in there like, hey, sean, come on right in, and uh, and I, they put propofol in, which is fantastic. And then they choke, they knock my heart back and I go home, and it happens all the time. They do that. Yeah, they do that.
Yeah, one time I did, it happened in new york and they put me out and I don't think they gave me Enough, and i'm not kidding. I. they went to conk and I and I woke up and I go. this is amazing.
Yeah, I thought it was. I thought it was the most incredible feeling in that moment. sean, do you have a nickname, Sean? no, what would my nickname be?
Well, because I feel like I just came up with a great nickname for sean. Is it, is it paddles? It's paddles.
It's paddles.
I mean, come on, do they say clear like? I don't know, i'm out.
I'm out, but I did have a set of paddles at home. No, no, but I did say I maybe said this on the podcast. I don't know, but I I, You know, so I, uh, Yeah, so I um, but the last time I went. this is fascinating. forgive me if I already told you this.
I went in there And this is unbelievable. never happened to me before. i'm there and my heart is pounding and uh, I go on, I'm, i'm getting ready to go under and the doctor says okay. It's going into your veins. now I was like, oh, my god, and I start shaking, which is a whole other story, because I have a side effect.
So i'm going like this. I could be paddle shakes or something. And so he's like, just try to relax. I was like, okay, and then the nurse goes, did you feel it? and I go.
what she goes? The procedure. i'm like what she goes. Yeah, well, you already did it. I'm like, what are you talking about?
I like transport. I time traveled. it was like 20 minutes. It was, and i've never experienced that. it sounds fantastic.
that's paddles for you.
Hugging paddles classic paddles. Yeah.
I was trying to work on a joke like the first time bateman got laid that she was either like what had already happened. You know what? I mean? Like I.
but i'm not. I'm, not doing that.
Bateman getting late. I I just want to say this Jason bateman might be the most interesting person. I know. Yeah, i'm not joking, because first of all And you think my wife would disagree with that you hear little bits and pieces of the tales of the old days which I was not around to witness, but it's like, you know, it's like you did play teen wolf and it's like there was a.
two, two also also also.
Teen wolf like yeah, it was t double o wasn't two. It was also.
In a way, you are teen wolf, because, on, you know, you appear to be normal. and then there's this other guy. Who's this raging maniac, right?
right.
Yes, right. You never, you never met the maniac. I did meet the maniac, but I didn't know the maniac. The maniac may have been doing something illegal backstage. Um on, oh, you did meet the man.
Yeah, I met the maniac. Yeah, I just didn't know why the maniac was the maniac. You understand what i'm saying? I think so. We got paddles and maybe coke wolf will be the character, Will be the character from now on.
But that aside, I mean that's a whole thing just right there, but oh.
I remember that I was there that night too. Andy dick. Were you there that night? Yeah?
Wait a second. Yeah,
With you, dude.
Wait, are you being serious on my kid's life? Yeah, we went there together. Sure. We did, we must.
We must dig up that clip. I know of your interview on the show that night and watch it together And perhaps do it on the podcast so others can enjoy as well. It reminds me of the other time.
I think we've already told us on the podcast, but yeah.
So I did we talk about the first time that I met jason and he said, uh, no second, We were doing the rest of development. He's like man. I wish we just this is when he was still partying. He's like, I wish we just partied together once now, because you don't party. I wish we just part, because will it shut it down?
I was still a year. It would have been awesome. We partied, I go, we did.
And he's like What are you talking about? I'm like like five years ago. We went out, We had a big night and you were with a friend of a friend and he'd done this show. We had a big night and I remember he was so cool because we went to this bar. we got all hammered and then he like Not cool, but he got in his car And he sped away and I was like this guy's a badass, you know He doesn't give a shit.
He had a candle on his dashboard.
So he had a lit candle on his fucking desk, yeah, wait a minute. what wait, I know. ask any questions. You want to go ahead? Why?
Yeah, why?
Why did you light a candle on your dashboard? Oh, were your headlights out?
I don't know.
I don't know there was. I was driving a vehicle that had a dashboard that had a little cutout on top of it That just screamed, put a regal candle on me.
And.
That's incredible. That was just my roadie candle a fucking idiot, and I would light that thing And it would be blazing on my dashboard While i'm driving when I shouldn't, by the way, that the cops can see this dick's got a candle. I gotta pull. It's so stupid Every night.
And, by the way, instead of mugs, instead of keychains, maybe dashboard candles, that's the smartest.
There you go, that's great sell a lot of those. you're right, that's a great idea, so, um.
Even the drug is drugs aside. sure, whenever I mention Some weird, random celebrity to jason. It's become like a game that I don't know, that he knows i'm playing. It's like a baitman roulette he has a great story about.
Everybody all the time and actually right before the show, We were upstairs and somebody mentioned that jason right now, just because he's look, he's so handsome. We love him and.
And with with his, with his haircut right now he's about to get a cut that he looks like christie mcnichols, so right, We said. And so, of course, the obvious question is, as we're all laughing, is oh, by the way, hey, bayman, do Do you know christie mcnichol? That's a legitimate question. He did it, but he admitted that he had a huge crush on her. Yeah, and then as and then he had a dream about him.
to get this, he had a dream about her, And then he went jogging with his dad that morning after his dream, and he let his dad go ahead, because as he was jogging, He was weeping.
It's like sixth grade, yeah, because I had it bad crying anyway, I don't know. so now I grow my hair out like her, so.
You went jogging with your dad, yeah.
I was right. I love. that's your takeaway instead of the crime. Yeah.
I don't know. I'm trying to imagine myself jogging with my dad and i'm not seeing, by the way, me too. Yeah. Yeah.
Wait.
Your dad. yeah, your dad did go jogging. he just went in a straight line.
Still jogging, still running, still running away, and I can't catch up to him.
So, uh, so anyways, so he's got all these random people. so I wrote down some names And I just figured I'd throw some by you. Oh, he's great, You didn't know any of them.
Mr. T.
I, I, I knew him pretty good.
Wait a minute, lay it out. I don't know that you did.
He knew him pretty good. my, uh, No one knows him pretty good. I mean what not great, not great.
Well, my my first place. my head goes to child adult. why hanging out?
My, uh, my mom, Became friends with.
Mrs. T.
She was really good. She was tight with mrs. T. Sure. Go ahead.
My, uh, my mother became friends with some personal trainer. she met on a plane, she was a flight attendant and he was mr T's trainer, and then mr T and I met, and then we rekindled when he was guesting on different strokes, which I was filming next door to, And that was sort of fantastic, you know, so that's that qualifies, you know, I, I once I once saw mr.
T, uh the the. I was getting on a plane in new york to come here years ago and there was like a Jam up at the front door and it was because mr. T and flavor flavor were, uh, talking in the aisle really loudly. It was an incredible. Yeah.
It was incredible. You probably want to know what time it was.
Well.
He, he pitied. yeah, he pitied the fool who didn't know what time it was. go ahead. All right, bill, cosby.
Be careful.
Pass. No, um, I knew him only from uh, when he was, uh, starting the cosby show, We were in new york doing all the up front sales for stuff. Yeah, I was on a show. I was on nbc, cosby shows, nbc. We were at the same table together and we talked and we had a good time.
These are boring stories.
Yeah, I don't, I don't have any dirt. I didn't say they're good stories. I said he knows these people.
Oh, okay. Wait, so did you? did you know him for a long time, or no? No, no, okay.
One conversation, one table, a professional event. Okay, next question.
What about oj?
Simpson specifically.
um.
No, uh, but we were. I was at that, uh, buffalo bills game That where he was on the sideline doing the reporting with the what he was wearing, the shoes that they zoomed in on. Uh, and I was there, uh, because I was buddies with jim kelly at the time and he was playing quarterback.
With jim kelly.
Yeah, that there's a good story there, but we don't have time.
Ronald reagan, you ever meet ronald reagan? I did not. Oh, okay. I was gonna go wild. I know.
All right, janet jackson.
Oh, yeah, I went to school with janet jackson.
Are you serious?
We went, we went to, we went to. we're on the universal lot close.
I went. I went to this, uh, this this poor excuse for a school called valley professional school, where, um, Where kids who are trying to make it in business and show business go because it's only from 8 to 12, So you can go do auditions after 12. and it was like in a mini mall deep in the north valley. And she went to school there. I was some ice skaters went there, Um, and that was just before the following year.
I went to a school called heartlight, where real diamond school. turn on your heart.
And this school had nothing to do with janet jackson, but it's a good story. this school was very progressive, such that, Uh, there were city days and country days. in the country days. You went to this dude's house in calabasas.
I had the greatest parents in the world, you guys. So you go to this dude's house to the monday, wednesday, friday, out in calabasas and you do some school. He's only like six kids in the whole school and on city days You get onto this bus, a full school bus, that the back half was converted into school desks And the front half are regular seats, because you would go and you'd visit all the cultural sites in los angeles. But because we're in calabasas and the traffic is so bad, You can do schoolwork in the back of the bus. on the way to these fucking things.
I think we paid my parents, paid My mom. they didn't, I paid for.
this
Shitty experimental school that wasn't accredited. And so I look, this is why i'm so stupid. listen to the schools I go to.
Wow, so did you and janet hang out like were you friends or we were pretty friendly? That's nice.
She's great. Like if you were to call her now, she would, we'd have funny stories about valley professional school.
Yeah, when was the last time you spoke to janet jackson? It was sixth grade.
No way, really? I think so.
Sean and I did a uh, I did an episode of will and grace with sean and I played one of her back her background dancers. No, but sean and I, sean and I, had a dance-off. yeah, how'd that go? Let's go. No god.
No.
Let's go, I I don't remember it. Sean has five, six, seven, eight.
Yeah,
But you know what that was. that was right after nipple gate, right and uh, and so that was nice of her to come on, because she was, you know, it wasn't um, the best time for her.
We'll be right back.
And now back to the show.
Lucille ball. Oh, did you meet lucy? I did not. Oh, um, I did I. how old do you think I am?
And then i'm not suggesting you were in school, bus school together.
Um school, Never met lucy. I never, never met lucy. All right, one more. Yeah, hulk hogan.
Never, never, wow. Never. Well, you've disappointed everyone. Sorry.
Let me just toss in the same area, lou ferrigno.
Yes,
I, uh, I have a story about lou ferrigno. when you're done. I played, uh, uh, the the dodgers, the greatest baseball team in the history of sports.
Wait a minute, why would they be the greatest baseball team in the history of sports?
Wouldn't it be? they'd just be the greatest team. I haven't had a great education, jimmy. Oh, all right. So, uh, the dodgers have this great, uh celebrity baseball game every year and I was lucky enough to play in it one year and I Somehow closed my eyes and put the bat on the ball and hit a gapper into right center field.
Lou ferrigno was playing right field and it I hit it right past the sprinting lou ferrigno. It hit the wall. I hit it off. Tony danza, by the way.
And uh and lou and lou threw a seed back into the infield. there was a play at the plate. I got an inside the park home run at dodger stadium. It's pretty good.
Wow,
Wow, but that's a legit lou ferrigno story. Yeah,
You're telling me, you hit a line drive into right field and managed to get all the way home and there were no errors committed.
No, lou had real skills. Now, uh, jonathan silverman may have overthrown the home plate, but, uh, Did we give you that hat and that, uh, motel keychain?
I don't know if he gave it to me. It was sitting in a pile in the room in the prison cell. you had me in.
before.
I came out here. Oh, everyone's so like they can't see you. if they they see you, they cannot see you. but meanwhile, Back to the critiquing of the podcast. Okay.
Yeah, there's this big mystery of who the guest is going to be, and you know It's like oh, there's so much mystery. meanwhile, when we're listening, the name's right there on the phone. I know, but it's, But it's only a mystery to you guys, it's not a mystery to us, but that's kind of the fun.
There's no mystery for us. Okay. Oh, there's no mystery for them for us. Yeah, right. Yeah, right for the listener, right?
Oh, yeah, for the people listening. There's nothing, but for you guys. Yeah.
All right. There's a real rush, a really good point. Okay. Okay, except on tour. It's something that we.
I thought about that. But what do you want us if we can just take the name off? Do you guys want us to take the name off so you don't know? No, no, no, no, fight it out, fight it guys.
No, wait, but it was, it was, it was a. it was an idea, Uh, born of laziness and will, and I were trying to remember whose idea it was. You're saying it's yours. I can't remember who it was, but it was basically like. It was yours.
Uh, who, uh, who? because we didn't want to do any prep. You know, we're just like look, just like. if I don't know who it is, Then i'm gonna ask really organic questions in real time. Yeah, thinking them through organic is a great word, right?
What does it mean? I hear it all the time.
No, wait a minute. You didn't learn that at a stoplight.
You guys, hey guys, we got. this is a long light, so
In world war ii.
You guys. you guys vacation a lot together or not a lot, but sometimes you guys vacation. Do you have any kind of crazy jason bateman stories from vacation? crazy, I mean he all he does.
A lot of fire. What about some funny stories about this guy?
I'm normal. He's pretty normal. Well, I mean, yeah, I mean there are certain things that I mean. it's interesting That you can be so tan.
in.
in december, On february in england, in england, under an umbrella, And then you say you're not using any kind of a tanning cream And to prove it and this is the best thing he makes us look at his feet. You know what I feel like. right now We're gonna find some weird sex thing up about you that you, like you're really into, like showing women your feet, or something Like yeah, and like we'll go. Oh, yeah, He used to do that with the tanning thing and then, even when we did the smartless podcast at the orpheum, He took off his shoe and he quickly showed his foot to everyone.
He can't stop. I legitimately don't do anything weird and and i'm probably very sort of boring in that way And yes, you show the feet because people who get spray tan and I know some people who've had it done Oh, i'm not gonna say justin theroux on the stage.
Why would I?
Why would I? Then he's gonna get to hear about it. He's gonna be mad. So i'm just like not gonna say it. not on the show.
And you can see streaks. Yeah, like like full giuliani. He's gonna say you'll never catch justin theroux in the rain.
You'll never see a photo of him, Can't do it.
But i've gotten to the point now where people say you're tan and I just say thank you. Oh, but I have like a real farmer's tan. now, it's like it's like a golf. Oh, yeah, you're a real farmer. I know.
Yeah, like a, like a gentleman farmer.
I was thinking of. what was I thinking about? you said, uh, one of your stories, that's Rick springfield. Yeah, um, Did I tell you guys, did I tell the story on the show about? about?
Made me think of bruce springsteen. I tell you about meeting bruce springsteen. No, everybody confused. Yeah.
Even made a song about it.
So one. this is years ago. I was, I was, uh, in new york At the uh at barney's on like a wednesday, this old clothing store on the upper east side of new york, At like 11 o'clock on a wednesday. There was nobody up there and I see bruce springsteen in there. Oh, yeah, clothes shopping, and he's not obviously gonna try stuff on in the in the change room.
He's just got like a pile on the counter. But he's just gonna take it all home with him and then, I guess, send back whatever he doesn't like or doesn't fit, Or whatever, right? so Legitimately just the two of us. so he puts it on there and then there's a guy working at the at the counter and sees and and uh, bruce springsteen says, hey, uh, can I just uh, I just want to put this on my account. That's a great bruce springsteen.
Thanks, man. Thank you.
Um, if I close my eyes, it's like i'm at the store with you. he says uh.
And the guy goes. and the guy goes, no problem, and he grabs the phone and he and he goes no, no, and he goes. Um, I have got rick springfield here.
no.
true true story, and I was Just behind springsteen. as this happens, and he goes to which springfield he wanted and bruce, to his credit, springsteen goes. It's bruce springsteen, And the guy's like I mean bruce springsteen and then hangs up. and then he was and he kind of laughed. he turned to me And he just said my kids would love it.
It's fine. The guy was so fucking mortified, but wow. Yeah, Got all the clothes for free. It was a great moment, Great moment, that's pretty good. Yeah, and that's what closed barney's.
That shut it down. that story closed, barney's, yeah.
Um, now you're having us over tomorrow for, uh, super bowl. Very nice. Yeah. Thank you. Um, you used to have a lot of super or football gatherings every weekend.
Why did that stop? Did molly get pissed off?
No, no, uh, actually my cousin sal, who is who kind of organized the whole thing, Took mercy on me because I was spending the whole day, saturday, preparing for the sunday.
Meaning you cook because jimmy, because I cook everything. most incredible cooks.
And then sunday would be me feeding those animals, right? And um, this went on for like 11 years and finally he's like this is enough. This is too much.
So you like cooking for that many people, don't you like maybe taking a break and having somebody cook for you?
Like. do you always do that? Oh, yes. Sometimes I go to restaurants even.
What do we? what do we? what do we got tomorrow, what are you cooking up tomorrow? tomorrow, uh, smoked pastrami.
smoked chicken wings. uh, my mother's making a vegan chili. the greatest mother. i'm making a uh, A big sandwich that has grilled zucchini and melted cheese and arugula on it, uh.
Ribs, can we do part of that with no zucchini? Yeah, can you take the zucchini off?
Just if I can make a request. Yeah, no problem. Just on a quarter of it. Yeah, now is half of that marinating right now? Like, did you prep today?
I grilled the zucchini today. Yeah, okay, You toss it out. I learned.
Wait, but why? where? what? who makes it what I've never even heard of a mad you are. why are you so mad?
Because of a zucchini sandwich, you know why because he's hungry. he needs, he needs popcorn.
What he's hungry. who's ever heard of a zucchini sandwich? That's terrible.
But you know how look look he gets, so he hasn't had anything to eat for like 45 minutes. Yeah,
My blood sugar's dropping. First of all, we gotta get him some food. great, because I made it for you, Number one, because you eat like a princess. Yeah.
I I'm gonna have. i'm gonna. i'm gonna go outside my comfort zone. I'm gonna get you some popcorn. No, I had a bunch of.
i'm not gonna crap for a week. Let's get some popcorn. Can we get some popcorn?
Can we get some popcorn? Maybe some popcorn? Thanks, man. Thank you. Oh, this is great.
Thanks so much. Just bring it right over here. Thank you. That's a good friend of ours.
Hold on. Who's that? Wait, wait.
Go this way
Looking a little snacky jb And will. yeah, he's looking snacky. give me your shoes right now. Oh my god. Oh my god.
You want my shoes? I can know, because then i'll have to be. then i'll be a shoeless. Yeah, no streaks.
Yeah, but there's zero tan on those feet. zero tan on the feet.
Okay. Yeah, I don't know.
All right.
I thought I heard that laugh backstage.
Jen, would you grab me a sparkling water, please?
By the way, it's so funny because it was very nice and you guys, uh, plotted when I came out, when these guys came out, and it felt like real enthusiasm and it definitely made me feel good. And then jennifer aniston comes out. You're like, oh, I'll wear a bunch of fucking slugs.
I know.
The best, the best. Um, there you go, buddy. All right, so i'm gonna go outside my comfort zone. tomorrow. I'm gonna have ribs.
Yeah, i'm gonna have what else. what else is, you're gonna have any of these things?
Let's be honest. You're gonna sit there and pretend to be eating. No. No, I, so you can imagine, to be fair.
What about last night? I mean I was just a shit pig last night. I put, I put everything in me last night.
I yeah.
If you're, if you're, If you're videoing this illegally, please put that just that clip on the internet. I put everything in me last night.
Thank you, thank you in advance and then follow it with. do I have to be? yeah?
Hey, you want to know what. yeah, this is true. We told some other people before to be Since december, this is not a joke has gone up 40.. Yeah, it's true.
It's true, but what's 40 on to be like eight people? Um, who's gonna win the game tomorrow, jimmy, um, well, I don't know, uh, Wait, wait, do you know who's? do you know who's playing tomorrow? Of course. I know who's playing who?
Well, the bangles and the ramps. All right, good, or, as everyone says all the time, The bangles and the ramps, as if suzanna hoffs in the game. Yeah. Yeah, Are taking on matt stafford, and I mean it's, it's ridiculous. bangles and jaguars, Those are the two things that just make every hair on my body stand up when i'm watching football.
I want to get back to baitman's eating for one second. Yeah.
And that is the title of his new book jason baitman, eating for one second.
When we're on the road. the food, shame, was off the charts already, oh, Constantly gauging. What are you having? What are you eating? What?
I'm not gonna have that now. It's way too late with the. it was crazy.
Yeah, right. Yeah, and then and then I get nightmares if I have it too late.
You eat too late. you did the demons come.
He's the king of like. hey, i'm gonna order some dessert. i'm not eating any dessert. three, two, one. what do you got there?
Yeah,
You started. I finish it, just use that term. he said he was doing the ordering for the room service. We, we all, stayed in the same room on tour every city. It was such a mistake and.
And every, every night. and so jason's ordering dinner one night and he's taking the order from all of us, and then he goes, He's got the person on the line, and then he goes and turns to shut and goes. What do you want? shit, pig? And the person, like imagine, is like what the fuck is going on.
And i'm like, I said i'll have the spare ribs and he goes. Yeah, the pig will have some spare ribs.
It's all good, it is all good fun.
See, you couldn't resist the popcorn. No, I love it so much.
Skinny pop, the best popcorn in the world. No, it's a camera. Where's the camera? Not a sponsor?
Um speaking of fun, jimmy. It's been so fun having you. Thank you for jimmy.
No,
no i'm.
Fine. I'd like to watch the rest. I know. show We. uh, we love you.
We thank you. You're the best. Wow. Thanks. I know, you know what?
I appreciate it.
I appreciate all of you for coming here tonight and
I also want to make one more comment about the show. Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead. Thank you. Jen.
You guys realize you can't do the rest without shoes. go ahead, jimmy.
Yeah, no, I love the show. i'm glad that I feel like um, it's so exciting to see all these people Come to see you guys do this, which really came out of just a very private conversation between the three of you and then, uh, sometimes really good and sometimes not so good guests and Um, and it is. i'm so happy for you. And I hope you guys are appreciative Of this, of the magic that this is, because it is a magical thing. These people are here And to hear the way, the dismissive way, you talk about them off the air, it's just.
What. I just find it offensive, I know me too, and I tell them all the time I find it very offensive. i'm with you.
But these are the best.
Yeah, these are the best. They're the best. Yeah.
Uh, thank you, buddy. Thanks guys. Thank you for having me. Thank you everybody.
Keep it going.
Uh.
Well, nice going, really nice going, right. we just wanted to. it was so fun having, Uh, somebody who's important to us, out here for the last night. You guys are here, the last show of the tour. Yes.
Thank you.
Thank you for being here. I've. i've said it to jimmy's face on on his show. I I said all the time that he's one of the kindest he really is everything you think he is. He's one of the kindest, most generous people in the business.
I we all love and something.
You should know, he said, If any of our guests dropped out on this tour all over the country over this last week, week and a half, He says I will get on a plane and I will fly there and I will sit there. I swear to god, true story.
and uh.
Yeah, he jokes around a lot, but he does. he does really have. he's just got such a squishy sort of center, And he's always the first. yeah, he really does. He's like the guy who will just always offer to help or do what it's amazing on top of being.
Incredibly hilarious and just and a gorgeous hard candy shell on the outside. Yeah.
Yeah, back to food. So
Yeah, you've got to get that looked at, um, Uh, but anyway, so, thank you guys so much. I mean, it's just been incredible. I'm not, no.
I feel sean thinking right now. There's a fucking smoke coming out of his ears trying to work on.
You know what? He's trying to do. No, he's.
Um,
I just wish, you know, I just wish we could have spent more time with jen, you know, but Because it's so nice to to be here.
Get out here, get out here.
Come on, yeah,
I don't want to do this.
Just say, just say hi. Hi everybody. And thank you for coming. Hi. Hi everybody.
Thank you for coming.
and if you were.
Okay, I think this has been really a lovely, Lovely evening and I wish I could just come up with something, something sort of like.
Something to say simple, something like like what say at the end of something. Oh, you like, like goodbye.
Please
Thank you so much. Thank you, la. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you.
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