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They never, it's like you, if I don't put in every five times. But in Vietnam, they were always like burning the village. And you can't light a fucking cigar with it. I didn't always work in the jungle of the Mekong River. Because Zippos work when it's nice and moist out, I guess. Really? No. But you know, do you drink? I do. Well, you know, we have my booze over here. Why am I asking? I'm asking. A guy who's got a giant tequila company. That's not the only thing. Can I try your Dasombre? Would you? I feel like we're doing an infomercial. Would you? Can I try it? Step up to the booze refreshing flavor. It is a great little sipping thing. I love it. You always drank tequila? I've been drinking. No, actually, Mezcal. This is Mezcal. And our Mezcal has been. Around now for three and a half years. Mezcal? Yeah. That's what this is. Is it a type of tequila? Actually, it's the other way around. Tequila is a Mezcal. Oh. So. Is it from Mezcalin? No. No. It sounds very much like Mezcal. It does sound like Mezcal. It sounds like they possibly could be the same drug. No. Would you like it with soda? No. No? You just drink it straight? Oh, yeah. Jeez. Is that because you're on the company? Or just because you really like it that way? I like it this way. But if I want to sip something all night, I don't want to drink, I'll put soda in it. Well, I drink it with this. I'm going to give this company a plug because I think they should advertise here. Maybe I think we. That's a soda. I drink this Stevia soda. It's called Zevia. Oh, Zevia. Because. And I can never find it anywhere. I literally take it into a restaurant because it's the only soda that doesn't have sugar or aspartame. So it's carbonated. It's Stevia, which I think is. I'm not sure it's health food, but I think. I know it's better than sugar and aspartame. Well, I mean, so you're saying Stevia, which is that sweetener, right? Cheers, by the way. Nice to see you. I'm so glad you're here. Thank you, bud. You know I'm a big fan of yours. I mean, I'm not just saying that. I have yours. Well, that's probably why we both accepted to do this because, you know. You know, we're almost the exact same age. Do you know that? I'm January 20, 1956. Ah, you're two months. And you are. I'm like a month and a half older. You're March 7th, 56. Mel Gibson, I think, is March 56. Mel Gibson. Mel Gibson, yeah. I think he's. Yeah. Exactly right. Can you imagine if you and Mel had just switched parts your whole career? Why couldn't you have been Braveheart? Why could I not have been Braveheart? You know, with the, "I'm too old for this shit guy." You couldn't have done that. And he could have been on Malcolm in the Middle. And Breaking Bad. And Breaking Bad, yeah. He probably would have. I wouldn't switch with Mel at this point. I don't. You could have been in The Passion of the Christ. Wouldn't you? Oh, yeah. That's a good one. Did you ever see it? I did not see that one. You might be surprised at this, but I even said this publicly. I think it's a terrific movie. I think he's an amazing filmmaker. Apocalypto is a great movie. Yeah. I saw that one. Braveheart is awesome. And look, I'm an atheist, but I get the story. I'm here for the story and the popcorn. As storytelling, it's very compelling. He's. No, he is a very good storyteller. And he was also a very good actor at one time. And I don't know, I mean, personal life, conflagrations. Sugar tits. Remember sugar tits? Oh, boy. Well, he had the loon father. Right? You know about his father. Not too much. I try to stay away. He had like more Catholic than the Pope. You've heard that saying? Oh, okay. Yes. He had the more Catholic than the Pope father. I mean, crazy Catholic. Yeah, that's tough. Who was like. It's almost like, you know, Trumpers who the regular Republicans aren't. That's right. Enough. Yeah. Like these 20 clowns who just held up the speakership with Kevin McCarthy. They go far right. Right. That's Mel Gibson's father with the Catholic church. He was always criticizing the church because they did things like, you know, the mass in English was too liberal for him. Oh, yeah. Or like they used to do the mass with the priest would have his back to the crowd. I was one of the congregants at that time in a fucking church. And even I. I was one of the congregants. a Bible study. and all that stuff but that was by you know your catechism was that yeah catechism was just learning about it's so interesting you mentioned like what you found uh appealing which is sitting and standing my big thing was the collection plate that and the red candles they had these red yeah uh not can't the candles weren't red but they were in this little red thing where you glass the glass right and and you lit them for like dead people right no you did i remember you put a dollar in a you know quarter fifty cent well they're the little slot where you put the money in oh yes yes where they are all the candles and there was a slot with a cash box basically and they would come empty it every now and then that's a good description of a church itself yeah the cash box but you're right lit with a cash i always thought who how did they get that job the guys look like pool skimmers right and they said right they send this little trade that's what fascinated me that it was a basket on the end of a long pole filled with money and it was just filled with money and my father would give me a quarter to put into it oh and one time i remember that god the things you remember but i guess it was traumatic you know i was bored to tears of course as you were yeah and so i had for some reason rolled the quarter up in my shirt so then the basket's there and i'm like i couldn't try to get the quarter out of my shirt i i think that's where my sneaky pete started really when i was so bored i needed to do something and i had a i was given a dollar to put in there in the basket and i would fold it up as kids do i palmed it a couple times i i rattled really yeah rattled the basket and just good for you and i was like there's there's a candy bar and plus wow yeah yeah that takes balls it would have really took balls to take some out now that would have gotten my attention yeah let me can i change yeah it's like put it in yeah yeah it's a i find it fascinating that all those sermons i sat through and i remember my father talking about the sermon like i guess to my mother or something like when we got home because that was the part that he was interested in because it was a guy you know he was obviously still a practicing catholic he did quit at some point but so he cared and he was very often disappointed because he wanted you know um some soaring rhetoric from some wise person because the sermon was is just a speech about something that that the priest or the pastor chooses to speak about yeah so it can be good it can be bad it can be try and um and it's interesting that of course i was a kid but i can't remember one word from one there is nothing that sticks in my mind that that sermon ever reached me no well they were talking over us well they were talking to adults i mean they were talking over us and we it wasn't for us and i remember distinctly thinking why are they doing this to kids i remember they like it was a punishment why are they doing this to to kids this is awful well and it turned me off too i mean it is i mean i think it was richard darkens who called it you know when just bringing a kid up in a religion child abuse because the kid has no choice i mean you're you're just inculcating him in this superstitious voodoo and it's full of bad i mean occasionally the bible stumbles over upon some morality but but it's almost unintentional you know yeah and and pretty obvious do unto others as you would have there's a couple there's a couple of greatest hits but there's a lot of you know i always go i've talked about it on my show i mean slavery for the people who are wanting to cancel thomas jefferson and george washington because they had slaves and everybody else in an era when everyone had slaves who could afford it including people of color in other parts of the world yeah it was a human thing yeah it's not just a white thing yeah okay so um if you're going to cancel jefferson and washington you have to cancel jesus because he never spoke against it it's not in the old god there's a million rules about slavery none of them are don't do it and the reason is because it literally didn't cross their minds no one ever says in either testament what about we just don't do it at all what don't do it at all well who's going to schlep the big stones over to the you know to make the cathedral and make the you know yeah it just it did not enter their minds it just was a way every civilization did it the romans did it the egyptians did it you know slav is a slave comes from the word slavs who were slavic yeah very widely i mean there were slaves every it's just people were like hey if i can make you my bitch i'm gonna do it i'm gonna fucking do it god you know um so where i i just want to hear them answer that question what about your boy jesus the prince of peace yeah because he's got sweet fucketh all to say about this kind of you'd think it'd be kind of a big issue or maybe it would the ten commandments don't you think that should be maybe in the top ten more than like false idols yes yeah yeah well he did come out and he did of course embrace well jesus he didn't he well he didn't come out no he's still closeted um uh that's why they say amen uh man uh he you know i mean uh mary magdalene he was embracing of of her not judgmental of her and and saying yeah oh i'm not saying he wasn't a good guy that's a good thing i'm just saying he it never crossed his mind to condemn slavery yeah they have i'm telling you they had rules about it but it was like some issues if uh a man yeah decapitates your slave you make it you know one of his yeah it was just it was never like but don't do it yeah but let's just junk the whole thing yeah but let's just junk the whole thing yeah but let's just junk the whole thing concept it just never occurred to never occurred because the that talk about being privileged was superior then because mankind advances just the way humans do in increments that's why 200 years ago it's just how people thought there wasn't there was an abolition society in america at the time of the founding of the revolution the founding of the country it had 24 members that's how many people that's it that's it now by 1860 it had changed yeah and most of the world had got rid of slavery before we did we were bringing up the rear um but you know you could gay marriage obama was against it his first term speaking of bringing up the rear um you know yes he was you know but that was a political move that was because he thought that politically but it's still but it reflects too soon of course because it was because it reflected where the people were yeah my point being that people just don't grow up overnight society doesn't and but for god's sakes it's time it's 400 fucking years that we've dealt with this oh and our country still has not taken responsibility or accountability for what for the history of the systemic racism that's in this country what should we do more well i mean for for one thing uh critical race theory i think is essential to be teaching this episode is brought to you by txu energy for the first time ever texans have an energy plan that combines free nights all year with daytime summer savings it's called free nights and cool summer you get free nights every night all year long plus a 25 bonus toward your daytime use all summer it's a first of its kind plan created for how texans actually use energy discover how much more you could save with free nights and cool summer txu energy energy for everything visit txu.com for more information rep number one zero zero zero four hank joined bj's wholesale club the day he became a father of 30 i coach football now coach hank saves up to 25 off grocery store prices 30 pounds of pasta three cases of protein bars 75 sports drinks and that's just pre-game he knows teamwork and bj's knows savings this is your home coach home of the save join for just 20 at bjs.com slash mesquite and save 10 cents per gallon for six months open soon limited time offer new members only bj's home of the save it depends on what you mean by that well i mean i mean teaching how the race trade and and racism is systemic in everything we've done in in government and social uh activities yes it has been i mean it's it's it's embedded in it it's like for example really was, I mean, this is one person's theory, but I think it's the truth. The Second Amendment really has to do with, in a country where you were keeping hostile people in chains, you needed guns to, you know, you needed very loose reins on guns to keep the lid on that. Yeah. So that has a lot to do with why other countries don't have like a Second Amendment the way we do. And we didn't have an organized army. We didn't have an organized militia. So you had to form one quickly and be able to get your arms quickly when we were being attacked. But critical rights can mean, I mean, it's just one of these catch-all terms. If you mean we should honestly teach our past, of course. If you mean more what the 1619 book says, which is that it's just the essence of America and that we are irredeemable, that's just wrong. It's not. I mean, I agree with that. But even teaching our past and being honest and owning up to who we are as a country in the history of. Most schools are doing that. I mean, I'm sure there are ones in Texas that are not. In Florida, they want to do away with critical race theory. And a lot of other states. It's really not appropriate in schools. So how do you govern that? If you're telling five-year-olds that you're either an oppressor or someone who was oppressed, you're introducing ideas about race that are inappropriate for kids that age who can't understand it. Okay. So common sense would govern that. Common sense is what's lacking in this country. Yeah. You need. That's why. But that is why people wind up passing laws about that. And yes, you're right. Very often the laws go too far. But it's not coming out. It's not coming from nothing. It's coming from things that have started in colleges and very far left woke thinking that many people feel is not appropriate in schools. I mean, the same thing with gender stuff. Can they just be kids for a minute? Right. Okay. And that's. Absolutely. And we have to find that time, that level of maturity when a. When a child can understand that at certain times in this country's history, there was a grave mistreatment of other human beings. I think we get that. Well, no, we don't get it. What do you mean you get it? Really? You think that is not something that is now widely understood and agreed? It's definitely not widely understood. That America has a sorry racist past? It's talked about and whispered, but they don't know it. Whispered? Yes. What, the Jim Crow? The Jim Crow laws? But that's a hundred years ago. So, Emancipation Proclamation in 1865. It was 1965 or in 1964 when the Civil Rights Act was passed by LBJ. But this is 2023. It took a hundred years is my point. Can we live in the year we're living in? You don't think. Of course you live in the year you're living in. Okay. Well, the year we're living in is not. You're going to drive me to drink. I tell you it's not. We're living in America. Yes, that I think most right-thinking people would agree was deplorable in so many ways. No, I'm good. You're good? It's tasty though. It is good. It's tasty. Very different and I like it. It's a little smoky but not too smoky. So that's because it's mezcal. It's mezcal and not tequila because it's smoked and not steamed. Yeah. Anyway, what were we arguing about? Well, probably the Golden Globes, which you sound like you should be making a. Hello? No, I just think we need to live in the year we're living in and acknowledging progress is not saying the past isn't horrible or that we're done and there's no more work to be done. It's just being realistic about where we are today. And where we are today is nothing like the times you're describing, as bad as they were. Oh, say. So you're. I mean, this is, I think, a problem with a lot of the left. Yeah. They seem to be obsessed on the past. The past is important. It's not the only thing. Then teach it. Then teach it like the Holocaust. You want to be able to teach it. Again, I think most places do teach it. There are places. No. There are places that go too far on either side. Can we agree with that? But I bet you most places in America. I mean, again, this is 2023. The people who are doing the teaching are of a generation that is not mostly interested in suppressing the past or being racist. I mean, have you. I disagree with that. Well, then you don't watch a lot of the videos that they themselves post. They themselves. Teachers and educators. Trust me, they're hyper-aware of race. If anything, it is injected too much into everything. But you sound like you're more in the Hollywood woke camp, and I. I'm not saying. It's fine. It doesn't mean we have to. No. It's like. It's a humanistic. It's a humanistic camp. I want. Did you know when you were a child, did you know that segregation was all through. Again, when I was a child was the 60s. Yeah. This is 2023. You keep going back to like how it was. Yeah, but Bill, it's still present. And as if the same people. It is still. Of course. You know what? Racism is always gonna be present in not just white people, but in all people to a certain degree. You can't completely sanctify human nature. It's just what it is. It's tainted. We try to extirpate it as much as we possibly can, but we can't. Certainly, it's a great thing that we've passed most of the laws that you would need. I mean, discrimination is illegal, has been for a very long time. Obviously, it'll always be fought in the courts and so forth. But I mean, as opposed to these errors you're talking about, when it wasn't. Even the law, Jim Crow, yes. Before the Civil Rights Act, yes. But that's a long time ago. And you seem to think that the country in 2023 is populated by seething racists who are unaware of our past and the obligation we have to do better. I do agree that there are people who want to move forward without looking at the past. And when you move forward without looking at the past, you're not looking at the future. You're looking at the past and course-correcting, you're in trouble. Because it can happen again. Well, can't we do both? Can't we be cognizant of the past and move forward and acknowledge the present? Yes, you can. Let me ask you a question. And let me ask you a question. When you look at this guy's hat, "Make America Great Again," what do you think about that? Sweetheart, nobody has made more fun of Donald Trump than I have. I know. I'm just asking you. So you can't get me on like, "I like Donald Trump." I don't like that. I'm not saying that. Okay. I'm not saying that. And I get your point. I've said it myself. Yes, "Make America Great Again." I'm not saying that again. I understand, to a certain number of people, that's a dog whistle about America was better when it was whiter. I get that. Okay. But would you then also accept that there's a large swath of people in his camp and other people like him who have no clue that that's a dog whistle? That they think, "Oh yeah, 'Make America Great Again' is for everyone." But when was it great? Let me ask you this. Let me ask you this. Oh, God. I mean. Make it a big sigh. Come on. No, no. When was it great for African-Americans in this country? When was it great? Well, if you're applying for college now, I would say now. So in our history, now, it's great? I didn't say great. It's never great for anybody fully. Never great for anybody? Well, life is full of problems. So great. Yes. If your life is great, it's great. If your life is great, you're very lucky. Most people would not say, "My life is great." Would you say your life is great? Yes, I would. Yeah. Okay. I mean. I would. Yeah. I mean. And a lot of it has. I'm glad for you. And I've been privileged. Yes. Do you believe in white privilege? I like the word advantage better. Okay. Because advantage is broader. Here's the reason why. When you say advantage. Now, have I had advantages, especially growing up in the United States? Yes, you have. Have you? Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. Okay. Okay. I mean. Have you had advantages, especially growing up in being. Again, we were born in the same year, 1956. If you were born in that year, yes, you were a young person in the 80s. Probably in the 80s, could I have been up for a job at a comedy club when I was working little comedy clubs, and there was a black comedian and they gave it to me instead because they thought I would do better being a white comedian or that they were just maybe had racism in them? I think that probably could have happened, and that was wrong. Again, I didn't do it. I mean, we can't all be. I'm not saying you do it. No, no, no. It's just recognizing that it exists. I don't think I should be even questioned that I'm someone who doesn't recognize that it exists. I have a pretty good record of speaking on the right side of civil rights issues. I just like to be real about where we are, and where we are is not where we were, and some people seem literally reluctant. It seems like they feel like. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know, but the worst I think things are, the better person I am. That's what I get from a lot of the left. You know? things are worse than you do so that's what makes me good and like I just want the reality I just want the truth what is the truth of the situation and again I'm not - I'm not decrying that these changes made I'm applauding it I'm applauding it that it's great that if you're a black kid applying to college yeah you don't have to face discrimination like they used to and very often those colleges and businesses also in America are trying to make up for their sorry past I think I think we're not we're not really far apart I think it's - - I mean yes are there factions that are on both extremes of course but to be to say you're you're a liberal person as I would consider myself I don't I think common sense is is is the law of the land it's what should be I think we are in a much better place than we've ever been before as far as civil rights as far as acceptance and just it's just you know the people who are running the world now are Millennials and Gen Z's they're just they're not I think you're thinking of your generation and they are still in place in some places they're certainly not all racists who are in place but yeah there are you know like I said I don't know if we'll ever get rid of it completely like any human flaw but the people who are running things you know I I just don't think that's their mindset is let's be racist to people of color they don't they don't understand it but they are innately that way innately yeah yeah Lord oh no what have you been reading oh babe you know come on is that white fragility or some bullshit like that's not white for Jill that's the book is that where you're getting that no no but innately like like original sin like like we're we toxically white born races not toxically but you are you recognize your experience and your and what we don't recognize often is is the privilege that you said the advantage okay you have we look at look at Congress look at look look at the makeup of Congress you cannot deny that is older white men are the predominant factor in Congress I don't have the stats in front of me but there's plenty of people in color in Congress and it yes we are moving from a place where it was all white we get it yes but what what direction is it going and I don't and I'd like to see the numbers in Congress certainly in the Democratic Party I bet you they're at least representative percentage-wise I would say so okay yeah less so in the Republican Party but I have to tell you Republicans are doing better and better all the time with people of color I hope so because the woke shit actually doesn't help any black people see to me this is there between liberalism and woke is I'm liberal is about lifting people up woke is it just about self-loathing and hating yourself and scolding everybody and virtue signaling it doesn't actually help anybody lifting people up who have gotten a bad shake in this country who are for some reason downtrodden or have been cheated absolutely I've always been for that but I don't think that's a lot of what's going on and I think there are I just look at the numbers from the last election I mean Trump yes what would you think that he would get even one black or Hispanic vote he got 20% of the male black vote and he did better with Hispanics than he did the first time yeah comes out your rapist then gets respectable numbers in that election from women then four years go by and he does better the people especially immigrants they don't like this unrelenting negativism about this country they're like you know what you should see the fucking River I swam through to get here and I get here and all you people do is shit on your own country and tell me how horrible it is you know what I came from horrible you want to know horrible I'll tell you fucking stories so how can we bridge the chasm that has been created between this divisive world that we live in oh good I thought you're gonna say you and me and I don't know I don't want there to be a chasm between it oh man so you don't mind having a good Irish debate like that yeah good for you oh my god come on like two white guys we don't know should we do this what's the handshake I don't know that was the 1956 handshake by the way I just found out too from 23 and me that that I'm 10% Ashkenazi Jew oh wow so we're my grandmother yeah converted to Catholicism like you're like my mother like your mother didn't you know my mother I used to love my mother telling this story about she was this my parents got married in 1951 now back then that was more outrageous than an interracial marriage is today yes okay so neither family was very happy about it but my mother agreed to take Catholic lessons and she really had the greatest affection to the end of her life about this priest who did it because she said he was cool he understood that this was a charade so he didn't really make he would didn't really see you know she could have gotten some asshole yeah who gave her the hundred questions but this he said they just talked and and and you know for him yeah and when I asked my mother at the beginning of religion list I took her back to that church we used to go to and I don't know why they let us film there but they did and I said like why did you go along with it and she said well I just thought having some structure was better than nothing like that's how they thought in those days was like you just can't have no religion yeah even if it's a bullshit religion I don't believe in that's how they thought in those days but like you just can't have no religion yeah even if it's a bullshit religion I don't believe in believe in that's how they thought in those days like you just can't have no religion yeah even if it's a bullshit religion I don't believe in well a lot of a lot of the teachings were meant just to keep children in line right that to scare children in line and adults right that to scare children in line and adults right that to scare children in line and adults and adults too yes it's like starts and adults and adults too yes it's like starts and adults and adults too yes it's like starts with children and you know yeah but with children and you know yeah but with children and you know yeah but you'll be damned to hell if you don't do you'll be damned to hell if you don't do you'll be damned to hell if you don't do this but so were nursery rhymes all those this but so were nursery rhymes all those this but so were nursery rhymes all those Grimm's fairy tales I mean they were all these Grimm's fairy tales I mean they were all these Grimm's fairy tales I mean they were all kids in the oven and right in them kids in the oven and right in them kids in the oven and right in them right yeah but people were so much rougher right yeah but people were so much rougher right yeah but people were so much rougher you know back then people are just you know back then people are just you know back then people are just pussies now well you and I had an pussies now well you and I had an pussies now well you and I had an upbringing where you could my mom and upbringing where you could my mom and upbringing where you could my mom and dad they didn't know where I was I come dad they didn't know where I was I come dad they didn't know where I was I come home I hop on my bike exactly with my home I hop on my bike exactly with my home I hop on my bike exactly with my friends and I was off there was no friends and I was off there was no friends and I was off there was no um helicopter parent no there was no um um helicopter parent no there was no um um helicopter parent no there was no um what do they call a bulldozer parenting what do they call a bulldozer parenting what do they call a bulldozer parenting you know what that is that's when they you know what that is that's when they you know what that is that's when they push out of the way any objects or push out of the way any objects or push out of the way any objects or impediments it's even worse than impediments it's even worse than impediments it's even worse than helicopter that's terrible yeah I mean helicopter that's terrible yeah I mean helicopter that's terrible yeah I mean there are people who've always done this there are people who've always done this there are people who've always done this I mean yeah we should just call them I mean yeah we should just call them I mean yeah we should just call them spoiled kids you know but now it's spoiled kids you know but now it's spoiled kids you know but now it's gotten to be you know so I mean that's gotten to be you know so I mean that's gotten to be you know so I mean that's the uh who was the lady you probably the uh who was the lady you probably the uh who was the lady you probably worked with her at one point um she got worked with her at one point um she got worked with her at one point um she got her kids into college by her kids into college by her kids into college by oh yes yes I know what 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And no, they were, wow, you were being groomed. Yes. They were grooming your ass, man. They were saying, okay, we're going to make this guy the next star of this show. Oh, boy. And you were her nephew. I didn't even, I did not realize that. Yeah. No, you did too. No, I didn't. They put you in a position. Here's what I remember. Okay, here's what I remember. I did one episode with Roddy McDowell. I remember I was in a hotel room with him all day. Don't make any jokes. I'm not going to say a word. Such a sweet guy. Where I was just like a guest star. Where I was like one of the maybe people who killed somebody in this small town where everyone died every week. Okay. Then, I guess I did well enough, I came back like the next year and did a one-hour episode where she wasn't in it. She just introduced it. That's right. And it was me and Faith Ford. Yep. That's the one I was in. What? Really? I was in that one. Well, you know what? We got to find it. Yeah. I remember reading the script, perhaps not all the way through. Yes. Because I remember they were fitting me for a dress at the end. And I'm like, wait, what? Yeah, I got into a witch's outfit or something. Oh, maybe that was the other one. I don't know. I don't remember that. One of them, they had me in a dress, like a witch's outfit. And I think I was- Did you feel pretty? I felt, hey, I should read the whole script. But the other one was a one-hour. They used to call it an M.O.W.? Yes. Movie of the Week? Yes, remember that? Yeah. So we were hoping it was, we saw it also as a pilot. Yeah. But it was me and her as like, I guess, you know, husband and wife detectives. Okay, so the other actors who were just co-stars, guest stars for the week. Right. We were going, this Bill Maher guy, he's being groomed. Really? Oh, yeah. It was totally that. And you know what? We were going, good luck, man. Yeah. You get a gig. You know, it's when you worked, you, remember in those days, they call, your agent calls you and you're saying yes before the- Oh, of course. Before you hang up the phone. Oh, yeah. He's like, I'll do whatever you want. I'll, you know, what is it you want me to do? Yeah. I'll sit in a hotel room with Roddy McDowell for- Oh, no. I was thrilled to get that part at that point. Roddy fucking McDowell, man. I remember going to auditions for, you know, sitcoms I knew were horrible. And I was once sitting in a room. And do you know the- Do you know the comedian Charles Fleischer? Sure. He was kind of weird looking, very funny guy, but like, he was like a nut. You know, that was his thing. And I remember I walk in and he went, we're rooting for this sitcom. And he went, okay, nuts over here, pricks over here. That's what it was. And did you get up and move? I was going for the prick part. He was out for the nut part, you know? Oh, who framed Roger Rabbit. Yes. That's his claim. That's his claim. That's his claim. That's his claim to fame. And he was brilliant. Yeah, he was. Charles Fleischer. Charles is a good fucking actor, man. I should tell you the time that, you know, remind me of Charles Fleischer and, you know, like, there was a time when I was doing a movie in Toronto that John Ritter was supposed to do. He was supposed to do this movie and said he did a play and it went to Broadway. And I said, and he was- He was still producing this movie I was doing. So I said, I was talking to him every day and I said, well, I'll come to New York. I'll see your play. No, no, no. You don't have to see it. You don't see the play. And I go, no, come on. What are you talking about? Of course, I'm going to come see the play. He said, no, no, really. You don't have to see the play. And I said, well, stop talking that way. He said, well, give me a call when he come in and we'll see. My wife and I fly in, it was during Malcolm in the Middle. We were doing Up Friends. And, uh, remember that. And I said, we're going to go see John. Uh, Ritter and his play dinner party was a, was a Neil Simon play. I vaguely remember that dinner party dinner party. Yeah. And, uh, inevitable name for a play. It's got to happen at least once. So I, she says, oh no, we shouldn't go see that. I go, what? He goes, it got panned by everyone. No one liked this play. And I said, well, I told him I'd come, so we have to go, let's walk down to time square. Let's see where it is. So we walked down to time square and we looked down to, oh, there, there. Let's go down and see the marquee. Let's see the one sheet and whatever. We, we didn't know what time it was. Anyway, we walked down as soon as we approach the doors open. Every it's the end of the play. Oh my God. End of the play. People are throwing down their play bills going. This is a piece of shit. I, this is a horrible, horrible play. And I said, oh, I reached down, I grabbed the play bill and I grabbed my wife's hand and I said, come on, she goes, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. She's not one to be able to fake anything through. And I proudly say she's never faked anything. And so we knock on the, on the stage door. He said, I'm here to see John Ritter, uh, Bryan Cranston come up. Oh, come on up. He's he's surprised. So I come up, he goes, John Ritter. John goes, why, why, why didn't you call? Like, don't tell me about the call. Are you kidding? The call. Why would I call? Yeah. He says, well, what did you think? What did I think? What did I think? Are you really seriously asking what? My God. My God. That's perfect. And talk about funny. Right. He goes, seriously. And I go, are you kidding? Of course. Come here. Give me a hug. I hugged him and I'm like, and, and my wife goes over and talks to his daughter who is in this room. In comes John Lovitz and, um, oh my God, I'm just blanking on his name. Uh, uh, um, a comic actor does a droll, droll, uh, um, no, we'll think of it. They come in, they're taking over and, and he says, Brian liked it. And I went. Oh, are you kidding? Liked it. This, this play. And they're going, really? You're like, you're going to, oh my God. Are you kidding? Come on. Let's have a drink. To this day. So Lovitz had seen the play? Lovitz went into the play. And did he say anything to betray your lie? No, he was shocked. He was a little shell shocked to look at it. And, uh, oh my God. I can't think of his name. He's such a. He's such a great comedian. First you take money out of the collection plate, then you lie your way. Is this a review? Backstage. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just saying, I'm getting a fuller picture of you Brian. You're getting the full picture. That's it. You know. It is. You get to know somebody in increments, you know. And I see you kissing Angela Lansbury's ass in order to get a job. Well, look at, but look at how it came out. I mean the, you know, the irony as we fast forward in this movie of our lives is that you are the award-winning famous, you know, critically lauded, universally loved A-list actor. And here I am lonely in my little club random all by myself smoking my blunts. No. In your cave. We both went exactly where we should have gone. Yes. I was not an actor. An actor is the opposite of what I do. It could never work. A comedian. Believe me, I saw your work. Comedians can be. It was the opposite. I don't know what you do. Was I terrible in that? It just wasn't you. Yeah. It just wasn't you. Well, that's what acting is. You're not you. You're not you. No. I wasn't some guy who found a John Doe body. I remember that, I did not, to this day I don't understand that script. It was so convoluted. Yeah. Yeah. And. Pretty confusing. Yeah. And like, no, I'm very fortunate that I wasn't cast as. Yeah. Yeah. I wasn't cast as the office creep on Bringing Up Chunky because I could have done 10 years on a show and then have never been able to have the credibility to do what I really do. No. Bringing Up Chunky 2, Chunky 3, Chunky. Well, I mean. It would have been a whole series. The residuals would have been. Would have been fantastic. Amazing. But no, but you. I met you over 20 years ago on Politically Incorrect. Oh, that too. Yeah. I remember that. Fantastic. And groundbreaking. Well. And I'm not, and I'm not here to kiss your ass. But it was fucking great. But if you want to. No, it was great. Yeah. It was great. Well, I hope you don't think it was better than the show I do now. Because most of us who worked on both think it was a giant step up to go to HBO and do the show we do now. Well, because you had more freedom. It's just more adult. It is. You know, Politically Incorrect was a, I always say it, a planned train. Yeah. Yeah. It was a planned train wreck. It was four people who should never have been together in the same room. Right. And were, you know, and that's what we, and that's fun. You know, it's like, hey, this is a democracy. Everybody gets to vote. Why can't Bob Dole and Carrot Top have a debate? You know, I mean, but it wasn't, you know. And that was what was so brilliant about it. Is that now an alternate? Yeah. But for me, it was, it's not nearly the work I've done on real time. No. It just isn't. It isn't. It's just different. It's a different world. Yeah. Yeah. anyway I remember you went shortly after after politically correct ended I remember being on one of the shows near the end and I remember if correct me if I'm wrong but I remember you hinting like I'm going somewhere else oh really yeah on the air or no no oh no oh sorry about you no no it was after yeah I was I'm going somewhere dramatic aside yeah I was like Park I'm going I think you use semaphores yeah and I got I got the message well I loved the last six months of politically incorrect even though we were cancelled even though we were at one critic called us dead show walking because we were still on yeah for like nine months after 9-11 and it freed us to like do much closer to the show I'm doing now yeah it freed us to like we because you know why the country was like in this somber mood so it wasn't appropriate to have you know like like you know dumb asses and sitcom twerks so I did a much more adult show yeah with like a panel of people who like actually could speak instead of just yeah verbal it's it's been so amazing to watch this oh it really is I can't believe you know we're first of all we're both so lucky that we're still working yeah you know this is a business that puts people out to pasture you know whereas you know I mean you've never been busier right that's been really busy yeah but it's see you look just I think we both look no one is fooled that we're Chris Hemsworth but like you look generically still like late middle-aged but middle-aged you don't look old you know it's so it's not like you can play part I look Hollywood middle-aged well you look you could play parts we're like your looks are not distracting you're not we're not you're not no oh my we're not confused that you're the guy who's gonna it's gonna be you know getting looks are not distracted right I love that that's true right yeah I look in the mirror and I go I don't get 67 that's not a bad yeah that's right okay come on right it's a it's where it's as good as you can do yeah and you have all this acting experience and like popularity built up from your past roles so you're like you're in the killing field now no really yeah this is it's good it's a good time and I feel like almost the same thing for me like good time yeah built up enough credibility I've been around and you can still look at me you're not I'm not repulsed you're not doing it I don't recoil right exactly you're not doing it for the reason of looking at us hey let me ask you this what is there a bathroom around I mean it's like is do we do that like this can you hold it for like five minutes and I'll just let you go oh I mean unless you want to like I really got a go then come here should I go yeah then we'll come yeah I could God I feel that that really humanized you it did it caught me that choice you made in the scene to go to the bathroom I feel like we don't see that in enough movies and I'm liking you know these super spies they do everything they run off buildings they shoot a hundred people without getting shot but they never have to go to the better have to pee really they never have to pee I feel like if you do shit if you did a superhero movie and I'm sure you wouldn't that would be a good to have a really vulnerable like maybe a superhero but you're a logical and a superhero who wears the pens who's always leaks always leaks he's always at the urologist's office but you would not do a movie like that you have you been offered are you like could you be like the villain and dr. shit fuck yeah I would consider really well I would because they're oh then they're gonna they're gonna hear that and they're gonna do it because you're exactly you're like I said killing field for you you're exactly at the perfect time to play like a super bad villain and because of who you are built this up to you'll get you know a bank load of a truckload of money well yes absolutely you won't be the star that'll be Liam Hemsworth but you'll be you know but they need you to I would do it and it'll be the fun part of the picture that's what I'll say let cuz you always do I'm it's the fun part of the movie yes and why would I say no to that because the you wouldn't why aren't they offering it because they need like someone who's the bad guy to be of like equal credibility but on that different level yeah you know not even he's not okay I'm not Liam Hemsworth I'm done you said that like four or five times now fuck you but you're gonna see me my youth I wasn't I did on Murder She Wrote and everybody was saying what did you play on that I don't remember it fucking now you know it's it's these I don't know I remember that honestly don't remember the shit I used to do I do remember an actor on that named David Huddleston yes he was he was the sheriff yeah and he did that shit for a long time and yeah I remember one day he was complaining I think he played Santa Claus yeah there was a move he would be a good Santa Claus and I yes and I did a Matlock where I was a Santa you did a Matlock of course oh my god don't ever didn't you don't know I was with the same age Matlock was on oh yeah I guess in your 20s I don't know when Matlock was on I was like I feel like I was a million miles from doing anything real in show business yeah no I did that I did I met my my wife in a show called Airwolf do you remember that yes copter with the guy Jan wasn't that Jan Michael Vincent yeah did not end well for him it did not you see how lucky we are Bryan Cranston yes I mean here we are you know we got our hair we got our hair some of it not everyone that was ever there you know our careers are peaking in our late 20s 60s look at that I mean it could go it could have gone a lot worse white privilege on display you know oh you know speaking of that you know what what one I love the one you did with Kevin Hart oh yeah that is thank you oh wow we're doing a sequel to that by the way when he is encouraged by the right director to just be an actor yeah fantastic he is terrific he does not need to just do what you know look there's no shame in getting famous by being very popular doing a telling jokes yeah well he's also a good comedian great but I'm saying in movies he had that one kind of thing he did where he was a little over the top but it was funny and yeah it's a comedy let's come here let's live okay but when he is encouraged the right way you know where it's not appropriate and - he was I was so horrific it was it's called the upside yeah the upside the upside and he I I went to lunch with him I wanted to find out if he was ready for this if he was like if he got this I said to him at lunch I said you know this is this is really not a comedy I mean this is really a character piece are you are you ready for that he goes I know exactly what it is right and it's exactly what I need for my career right and he was he was entirely correct right and I said I need this movie rests on your shoulders you have to drive every scene sure and he did yeah he did he did and well I mean that's a bit over but it was a fairly equal two-man show it was two people who are locked together yeah because I've been a movie you're in a wheelchair he was such a whirling derby he carried the show yeah I mean so we're doing a sequel to it oh wow yeah you get up okay for those of you who don't who haven't seen the upside I play a quadriplegic in a chair and that's why this bastard said do you get up you know I got shit for that what I got a lot of shit for that for what oh this is gonna set him off oh I am not a a um oh because you're not in a wheelchair yes well we'll fix that yeah I am uh I am an able-bodied actor playing a disabled act Sean Penn had the great line about that he said uh it's getting to the point where you can only play Hamlet if you're a prince from Denmark yeah I mean yeah it's called acting you know it's almost the whole point that you are doing something that you are not right um I can't even I can't even and again you know not to get back to woke goes too far but you notice it when it enters your own life don't you like that yes it it was noticeable to me I I was pretty surprised that I got some blow back to it and um I thought So there's a good point that disabled actors are not given an opportunity. It's a kind of a catch 22 that that, you know, it's like, do you have the cachet to be able to carry a film? It has to make sense if, you know, if you're playing Jim Thorpe, you've got to be able to run. We lost all common sense. Yes. Should should there be the thought given to, hey, you know, this part could be. And by the way, it's not like I've never seen anybody in a wheelchair in a movie. Pretty much anyone who ever works a computer is in a wheelchair in every movie I've ever seen. OK, so. But yes, are there other doctors and lawyers? Yeah, they they could. And where it's appropriate without like taking you out of the story. Great. We would have missed some great performances. But this Daniel Day-Lewis, my left foot. Al Pacino, Incentive Woman. Oh, there is a lot. Oh, yes. It's not even worth considering. It's so silly. I think I'm just saying it's perspective. You can only have the perspective of a 66 year old white male. That's all you can have. All of us can only have our own perspective. Exactly. It doesn't mean I can't. I'm not a sentient being. No, I can't. See, you can understand, but you cannot really know what it feels like to live in that skin. Nobody can. Except them. If you had said that again in the era we were born, like somebody did a book on it in the 50s called Black Like Me, where he put on blackface basically so he could see what it was like in the 1950s to walk around. It would be just you would. That's why that book resonated. Yes, it would be a shock. And in the 1960s, during the riots in Watts and in Detroit and Chicago and elsewhere, I remember asking my mother, why are these black people so angry? Why are they so angry? I couldn't understand. Why are they throwing rocks and bottles? Because they lived in the 1960s. Yeah. But surveys now show that black people, especially young black people, are way more optimistic about their future in America than whites. I hope so. Whites are actually the only ethnicity that has a bias against themselves. Yes, they're the only group that, this comes from the far left, I think, they just, the only group who doesn't want to be with their own kind of people. Every other ethnic group, or at least is okay with them. Yeah. Wow. There is a weird kind of white self-loathing that does go on in America. It's kind of a kink. It's kind of like wanting some dominatrix to dig a high heel into your neck to a certain degree. Let's not disparage that kind of activity. That could be very engaging and exciting. Yeah, you could put that on your judge show. My judge show. Why? Why? Why? You sounded a little bit like walking there. Why? Why? Do you do any impressions? I do impressions of impressions. Everybody does. Kevin Pollack, you know. Oh, that's good. Yeah. Kevin, Kevin. You do Kevin Pollack's, yeah. I do Kevin Pollack's walking, you know. Right. I can do, I know exactly what you mean. I can do somebody's, somebody. Oh, this is perfect. I can't remember. You can do some impression. I can't remember. Who is it? Who I can do? What's the impression I can do? Somebody. But yes, but that happens a lot with impressions. There was a guy, you probably remember this because we're the same age, Will Jordan. Yeah. Okay. He was the guy who first did Ed Sullivan. And then everybody else was kind of like, yes. Doing Ed. Yeah. Doing, yeah. Will Jordan. Everybody was doing Will Jordan's Ed Sullivan. Yeah. You know, mailmen were doing it. Yeah. You know, it was not a, you just had to do. A big shoe. Yeah. Yes. That's right. Yes. Oh, man. See, that was, that was something that made America a easier place. Great again? Oh, God. I can't, I can't even. No, I'm just saying, that's what made America. Go get your Golden Globe. Really. Just, just go up there and, and, and do what they want and do your, engage in your kink. Make them feel guilty about just existing and their privilege because they're at an award. Oh, come on now. Well, I mean, an award show is pretty privilege-y. It is, isn't it? Isn't it? Your life is fine. Why make yourself feel guilty about it? I don't feel guilty about it. You didn't do it. You didn't do Jim Crow. I'm not guilty about it. I know. I'm just accepting that this is the world that we have lived in. Have lived in, yes. Yeah. And, and are, are making great strides and still work to be done. True. And let's, let's try to accurately place ourselves where we are. Yes. Is, is where, what I would say. I like that. But I still think you should go to the, now, wasn't there a show last night? Wasn't that the Golden Globes last night? It was, yeah. Were you there? Were you, no? Not up for anything this year, though, on what you're doing? No. Isn't that surprising? No. Now, weren't the Golden Globes themselves canceled because they were unwoke? They have completely, you know, Jared Carmichael, who hosted the show. Okay. Young, black. I know who he is, sure. Yeah. But he had the temerity and the balls, and I was happy to hear that, that he said, the reason I'm hosting this show tonight is because I'm black. And gay. It's like, here it is. Yeah. And that, and. Well, that's, and that is to get back to our thing about the actor versus the comedian. Yeah. That is why he's a good comedian. That is what comedy does. It is like a divining rod. Yeah. That goes toward the thing. And that is true. It's the truth. That everybody, that everybody either is thinking or recognizes when they hear it. Totally get that. Or phrases it better than they have. Yes. But it's the, it's the elephant in the room. And you're right. Good for him. That's what's so beautiful about that. Yeah. Yes. I mean, a lot of America is trying pretty hard in the last few years to, to make up for the sorry past. Can I ask you a question? In your work. Did you ever pull up because, pull up from the joke because you thought it was not going to be received well? No. No? Well, I mean, pull up from the joke. The only, I mean, I guess I could do that in the monologue because that's just really a bullet point here or there. So I'm really saying it as, but I don't remember doing it there. The editorial I do at the end is, you know, I worked hard on that all week, getting every word exactly. Exactly the way I want it. So I'm never going to pull up on that. You work really hard. No. I mean. You do. Yeah. I mean, I mean, I, I'm, I'm pulling up is not, it's not the way I create a bond with my audience. No. You know. Even if they don't agree with me. I think most people will look at your show and go, oh my God, he's just winging it. He's just having a great time. That's what, that's what it should look like. That's exactly right. That's fantastic. If you think. Yeah. That's the, that's the skill. Part of the skill. Is to, you know, I think the Italians call it sprezzatura, like to make something difficult look easy. And, you know, hopefully, yes. I mean, I'm old school with showbiz. It's like, like I'm there for them. Like I don't ask the audience, like if I have a problem, you don't hear about it. My mother died. You don't even hear about it. You know, some people do that. It's fine. On talk shows, I'm not knocking it. It's just not me. Like I am there for you. So like, if I don't feel good, that's my issue to work out before the show and to make the show just fly by and glide by. And yes, make serious things still say, still stay buoyant and funny at times. And so that it's not, you know, a trip to the dentist to find out what happened in the world that week, you know? So, you know, I'm there for them. I will do what it takes to get to that. Good point. I've never seen your show, your Vegas show. Come with me to Vegas some weekend. I will. And how long is it? Like just guys? Yeah. Would your wife let you do like just a guy? Yeah. Really? Oh, absolutely. Even if it was me? I've been married for 33 years. I know, but I'm known as a bad influence. No. You're not going to. Your influence is not going to. I'm just saying. Be prepared to have your picture taken. At the Spearmint Rhino at 2 a.m. It's Vegas. It's great. Okay. So you would do that? Oh, yeah. You'd go to the Spearmint Rhino with me? I totally would. Oh, this is so going to happen. Let's do it. Let's do it now. I totally would go. I go to Vegas. That's me. The Lisa Marie is fueled up and ready to go. I'm telling. I've got the peanut butter and banana sandwiches on ice. we are how long is your show when you when you do vegas different than any other city okay so you go to 70 minutes 70 minutes why because like normally i would do 90 or maybe a little more uh but in vegas they always want to uh keep the show short because any minute you're in the show room you're not in the casino losing the house right so you want a little more no i have strict limits no really seriously it's important at our age you know you just cannot i mean it's one of the saddest things in my life is that i have to be very careful and circumspect about how i drink not that it's going to kill me over tonight but like come on we're just not playing with the house money anymore you know i i always say about health and you look great you look like you're in really good health i mean you're no liam hebsworth i thought one more time for the road but but here's how i look back on my decades and how i handled myself there's a saying in sports whatever the defense will give you in other words like if they're playing against the run you throw the pass if they're throwing against the pass you know we took what the defense would give us i feel like that's what i did with my body when my body in my 20s and 30s would allow me to have 30 drinks a week i did it yeah i smoked cigarettes you know i mean i just did stupid things but my body didn't revolt enough to make me stop you know i still could function you know when you're when you're 30 you can drink have eight drinks at night and you know pass out or whatever falsely pretty easily and you're at work the next day yeah i couldn't that is inconceivable at this point i mean i'm impressed with you like throwing these back because that would knock me on my ass not that i'd be so drunk i would just be sick for like till tomorrow oh no well purity i don't smoke but i i do yeah i do like i do like the drink but i sip no i think i don't i think it's just your you probably have a very strong constitution i do are you irish i am so me too yeah irish and jewish me too yeah yeah i mean i have more jew in me than you i'm more jew than you is what you're saying but it's it's not a competition otherwise we are not only are we gonna excuse me not only are you are you and i gonna go to vegas and to the jedi bar i know but i feel okay i really want to see your show you can i want to see the show no i know you're coming with me on the plane it's gonna we're gonna you're gonna be gone a total of 30 hours okay you can see the show twice we'll go i will do that friday late afternoon we'll we'll have friday night after the show we'll we'll have brunch a leisurely i've done this before trust me let's do it we'll have a leisurely brunch on saturday it'll be awesome and then do whatever in the afternoon do the second show on saturday night and get right back here you'll be in your bed saturday night at midnight great your wife will hardly know you're gone she'll probably like it she'll say raul is that you yeah let's do it no i can't wait but beyond that i do think we should do some sort of uh reboot of the uh bing crosby bob hope road pictures i think i'd be a good bing i mean a good bob hope and i think you could do big crosby so you think you're bob and i'm bing oh yeah i'm the comedian i'm the comedian oh yeah you know yeah and i can play that you know cowardly schmuck you know that he bob hope for a guy he was so beloved his his character was a shyster and in his personal life he was just known to be a huge huge brick oh my god graydon carter tells a great story i read it like in somewhere probably vanity fair his magazine but he was uh at staying at bob's house in palm springs this is i don't know 25 years ago or something and um i don't know i guess he was doing a story on him or something you know he was a well-known editor but you know he became a much bigger i think this is before the vanity fair oscar party right but he was still graydon carter or maybe it was after but i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know it must have been because he was a sort of a celebrity himself so whatever reason he was staying in bob's house in palm springs and he goes and then we put him to bed you know whatever and you know he says he's about to turn out the light he said it was 11 o'clock at night and he hears this padding outside the door and then a little faint knock he opens the door it's bob bob says hey uh but i want to tell you why are we going to town and pick up some girls and then graydon wrote he was 80 at the time unbelievable but i want to tell you yeah i was going to town pick up some girls pick up some girls i mean and of course married connie francis ladies and gentlemen connie france and that's what you guys are fighting for yeah oh it's eight o'clock it's eight o'clock all right i'll let you go good time bro i'm telling you that was fun you don't mind going on from here to here and then back i love that about somebody when they can bounce from we're very serious and then we're laughing and then we're serious and that right it's rare it's it's it's fun how it should be i rem i admire the respect i the out of you this is an iu really really do um you you are you have over the decades been the voice of reason oh i hope i never miss your show oh great uh i never see it so how can i miss it you don't watch your show no that's milton burl's old one i never miss your show i never see it see i was serious you were you were yeah yeah well that's why we should go pick up some girls yeah 80. you gotta love that gotta love it anyway we're doing good thank you man all right let's have a good year it's the beginning of a new one new year my birthday's in uh nine days i'll get to 67 a little bit my friend i know but look at us we could play in a perhaps not the ingenue but uh in a band of some sort i'm not saying i could do kate hudson's part in almost famous but i think but i'd try to get a 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