Episode Transcript
[00:00:05] Speaker A: Welcome back to everybody loves everybody loves Raymond. Everyone.
We have completed season three of the show, and we are looking forward to season four. This is. This is our famous tradition of the bridge episode in between, and we're very happy to be joined by you. Uh, my name is Mike. What? Am I on now?
[00:00:29] Speaker B: Am I on?
[00:00:29] Speaker A: Am I still on? G. Am I on h?
[00:00:31] Speaker C: Did you make it to h?
[00:00:33] Speaker B: I'm on because you died and went to hell.
[00:00:35] Speaker A: No, that's right. I'm like, hell now. That's right. That's right.
[00:00:38] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:00:39] Speaker A: My name is Mike H. I'm joined by my co hosts, Adam Rudy and Alex Jeer.
[00:00:45] Speaker B: Hello.
[00:00:46] Speaker C: It's been a while. Not only have we not recorded, or rather, not only have we not had an episode in the last few weeks, we also have not seen each other in the last few weeks. So it's nice to get back with you boys.
[00:00:57] Speaker B: It's nice to be back in this liminal space that isn't the fictional show.
[00:01:02] Speaker C: That we do, but there's also not the real life.
[00:01:04] Speaker B: It's not real life.
[00:01:06] Speaker C: We agree to, you know.
[00:01:07] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:01:08] Speaker C: Hide from all of you.
[00:01:08] Speaker A: Yay.
[00:01:09] Speaker B: This is my favorite place to see both of you in this.
[00:01:12] Speaker A: It's very comfortable purgatory, this white void.
[00:01:17] Speaker B: It's wet but cold.
Sort of like the voices in my.
[00:01:22] Speaker C: Head can't find me here.
Kind of like that all. It's kind of like that hallway on. In the. On the way to the principal's office.
[00:01:29] Speaker B: It's.
[00:01:30] Speaker A: You know what it reminds me of? It reminds me of. Remember that episode of SpongeBob where Squidward ends up in the middle of nowhere and he says hello? And the letters of hello stick his face? That's. Yeah.
[00:01:41] Speaker B: And he, like, runs off.
[00:01:43] Speaker C: That's where we are right now, on.
[00:01:45] Speaker B: The other side of the screen. Yeah. Yeah.
[00:01:46] Speaker A: We finished season three, guys. We finished.
[00:01:49] Speaker B: We did. Yay.
[00:01:50] Speaker C: We are a third of the way done with this show.
[00:01:52] Speaker B: It only took us one calendar year, but we did it.
[00:01:56] Speaker A: Well, this is our second anniversary, isn't it?
[00:02:00] Speaker B: That's right.
[00:02:01] Speaker C: We started this show in 2022.
[00:02:04] Speaker A: Yeah. And we appreciate everybody that's listening right now who has stuck with us, or who has clicked on this episode and said, I'll check these guys out. I'm going to warn you, none of our other episodes are kind of like this. You're kind of in for a bit more of a ride if you go to any other episode, but appreciate you listening all the same.
[00:02:23] Speaker C: No, this. This is just for our honeys who, uh, who know us. Our honeys.
[00:02:28] Speaker B: Yeah, that's our. Our fans. So the. Our male identifying fans are the honey. Our grandsons.
[00:02:38] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:02:39] Speaker B: And our, um.
[00:02:40] Speaker A: Feminine.
[00:02:41] Speaker B: Yes, our feminine, feminine identifying fans are honeysuckle.
[00:02:48] Speaker C: I don't like that.
[00:02:49] Speaker B: No. Like, maybe we should.
[00:02:50] Speaker C: I don't like it. I don't like splitting them. Like, can everyone just be a hun?
[00:02:54] Speaker B: Okay. In the. We'll put it in the poll function of this episode on Spotify. Just let us know how many of you feel like grandsons and how many of you feel like honeys and how many of us.
[00:03:06] Speaker A: Or how many of you just feel like Baroness?
[00:03:09] Speaker B: Hmm. Deep. Maybe for the people who aren't grandsons or honeys, we should just briefly explain what the show is, because this is going to be at the top of the feed for a while.
[00:03:21] Speaker A: That's true.
[00:03:22] Speaker C: Well, okay, let's. I mean, it's been a while since we've described the show, so much so that the show has drastically changed since the last time we described what the show is. We're an improv comedy podcast that uses the episodes of the hit sitcom everybody loves Raymond as a jumping off point while simultaneously discussing the events of the episode while going through antics that are inspired by them.
[00:03:47] Speaker A: Yeah, it's kind of like a cross between a long form improv scene and a tv review podcast. That was a very concise way of saying it, Alex, I'm impressed.
[00:03:55] Speaker C: Thanks. And, you know, it's beautiful, because we managed to piss off both the improv fans and the tv rewatch fans.
[00:04:02] Speaker B: That's not true. No one has ever criticized our improv, even when they should have.
[00:04:08] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah.
I.
This season, this last episode was very special to me.
[00:04:14] Speaker B: Do you know why?
[00:04:15] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:04:16] Speaker B: Why?
[00:04:17] Speaker A: Because the first real hate comment we got. Because we've got. We've had people write. Write us feedback that's just like, you know, these guys aren't funny, which is not a hate comment. It's just someone voicing their opinion. The first comment that I read that was someone actively angry at our podcast was the first episode that we did.
We were talking about because there was a mention of how long Ray and Deborah had been dating, and one of us said something to the effect of, I wonder how Ray and Deborah met? And the comment went on like a whole tie.
[00:04:51] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, I remember that.
[00:04:52] Speaker A: One of the lines in it was, these guys don't even know how we're in. Deborah met. Are they even fans? And we didn't know how they met. I had seen the show before. I just totally forgot in the moment. And I still forgot until this episode, this last episode of the season, and we finally got our answer.
[00:05:11] Speaker C: And now, angry commenter, because we know you've been listening, because you've been waiting. Yes, we figured it out.
[00:05:18] Speaker A: You were right. You should have known that probably two years ago when we started. But also, the only.
[00:05:24] Speaker C: Should we tell them? The only reason we picked everybody loves Raymond was for the name of the podcast, and it was Adam's idea.
[00:05:32] Speaker A: This is all Adam's fault. Is the moral of the story?
[00:05:36] Speaker B: Well, no, the only reason.
[00:05:38] Speaker A: The reason we chose this was because Alex and I originally came from Lynbrook, and which is a real town in Long island or on Long island. I'm sorry to all the Billy fans out there.
It's a real town that we actually grew up in. And Adam, I guess, just liked the show. And he was like, haha. We should do it.
[00:06:04] Speaker B: I.
[00:06:05] Speaker C: The idea of us originally being from Limbrook was originally going to be a much bigger deal than it actually ended up being. I don't know why we thought that.
[00:06:13] Speaker A: Was going to be a big thing.
[00:06:15] Speaker B: Interesting.
[00:06:15] Speaker C: It's cool to me. I love Lynbrook. It's a comfortable town.
[00:06:19] Speaker A: It's cool to us because, like, I can describe my hometown to anyone that's like, Lynbrook. Where's that? I can be like, you remember the show everybody loves Raymond, but it's not like they show the streets of Lynbrook. I can't say. Oh, there's.
[00:06:32] Speaker B: They usually show the streets of Queens.
[00:06:34] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. I can't exactly be like, oh, that's. That's Catalpa. There should be a. There should be a Walgreens. There. There's nothing on Catalpa. But.
[00:06:42] Speaker B: But there's everything on Catalpa.
[00:06:45] Speaker A: In the fictional verse of. Of, um, Lynbrook, there is nothing that you need that cannot be found on Catalpa Avenue in real life. There's, like, four ladies and a dog. That's about it.
[00:07:00] Speaker C: You know, it's funny just because, like, I don't know, to be sentimental for a second. Like, we. We have people that listen to us, and I think that's really special.
You know, we're a small show, which means we just love each and every one of you more, you know?
[00:07:17] Speaker B: Yeah, we're a small show. We're doing an incredibly specific thing, and we appreciate anybody who listens. We understand why our audience shrunk when we. From the beginning of the season to the end of the season. But we're hopeful that we can find more people who like what we're trying to do.
[00:07:45] Speaker A: I really don't know if our client base has shrunk. I think we grew in the ones that we care about.
[00:07:51] Speaker B: Yes. That's a good way to put it.
[00:07:53] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:07:53] Speaker B: Our listenership shrunk for a little bit, but it's only going up now. So I think we're fine. We're reaching the people that we want to. Want to reach that we. Yeah. Buy low, sell high. So if you bought stock in this podcast, stick with us, you're going to get that boat. Don't worry.
[00:08:13] Speaker A: You're gonna have to pay those dividends for a little while longer, though.
[00:08:16] Speaker B: And when the shareholders meeting happens, please don't vote us out of the board. We really need this.
[00:08:24] Speaker C: I mean, my wife is gonna kick.
[00:08:26] Speaker A: Me out of the house. Don't do this. Not again.
[00:08:30] Speaker C: You know, like, as we progress. Right. The show has changed, literally so much in the last two years, which might.
[00:08:37] Speaker A: Be why we lose people.
[00:08:39] Speaker C: Yeah. Episode one to episode whatever this one was. This last, 174. We're literally. I think every episode, we're getting closer to a show that the three of us, like, love even more every time.
[00:08:54] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:08:54] Speaker C: And, you know, we're kind of, like. We're almost, like, rebuilding the foundation now and again to create a show that we enjoy doing as much as possible so that we can keep doing this forever. And then we'll, you know, start reaching people that like this stuff. Because, you know, it's the old saying of, uh, do what you love, and the people who love it, too, will find you instead of, you know, trying to be something you're not.
[00:09:18] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:09:18] Speaker C: And so long.
[00:09:20] Speaker B: Hard to fit on a pillow, but it is an old saying. Yeah.
[00:09:23] Speaker C: Those first couple episodes are special, and they were fun, but, like, doing, like, that type of dissection for the next four years sounds like an actual hell yeah.
[00:09:34] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:09:34] Speaker A: That's kind of why we were all improvisers, um, to different degrees, but to some degree, we're all improv comedians, and we just were going nuts in the. In the first season. It was, don't get me wrong, great. We had some very strong moments we.
[00:09:51] Speaker C: Had, but it bled in without us trying.
[00:09:53] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:09:54] Speaker A: We also, I will say, had an in. I think about this all the time. We had an in to make an actually, like, interesting, everybody loves streaming podcast, we interviewed Steve Scroven, who was willing to put us in contact with other writers and producers of everybody loves Raymond. This show could have become, like, an actual interesting deep dive into the show everybody loves Raymond, and instead, we were just, like, now let's blow up the impractical jokers.
[00:10:23] Speaker C: Look, in 17 episodes, we accomplished more than we ever thought we could, and then we were just like, anthony, let's do something else now.
[00:10:32] Speaker B: Yeah, we were following the fun. We're following the funny.
Yeah. We went from having a Zoom call with somebody who has his emmys behind him on his zoom background.
[00:10:45] Speaker A: I got my Lego infinity gauntlet. That's kind of like an emmy. It's golden.
[00:10:49] Speaker B: Uh, kind of. Did you win that, or did you have to make it yourself?
[00:10:54] Speaker A: No, I bought it.
[00:10:55] Speaker B: You bought it assembled?
[00:10:56] Speaker A: No, no, no. I had to assemble it. Okay, so that's kind of like an emmy, right?
[00:11:00] Speaker B: Nobody's making their own emmys.
[00:11:02] Speaker C: There's nothing sadder than buying a Lego that's already assembled.
[00:11:07] Speaker A: I could probably buy. Yeah.
[00:11:11] Speaker B: That'S a very mike h thing to buy a Lego that's already assembled.
[00:11:15] Speaker C: That's what hell is.
[00:11:17] Speaker A: What are we talking about here? Come on.
[00:11:19] Speaker B: No, I think you're right. We did have. We could have done it if we wanted to do that kind of show, and we just don't.
[00:11:28] Speaker C: No, we tried.
[00:11:30] Speaker B: This is why we literally couldn't. You know, we get negative comments about the show saying, essentially, this show is not about everybody loves Raymond. And that doesn't. That's not gonna change our approach to the show, because we're not trying to do an everybody loves Raymond rewatch podcast. We're trying to do an improv podcast and having a lot of fun doing it.
[00:11:56] Speaker A: I was just gonna say Alex was very, very smart in the art for this season. I like that in the small letters at the bottom, you wrote, it's not really about the show. Reference to every Raymond's. It's not really about the kids. It's a great.
[00:12:08] Speaker C: That was Adam's idea.
[00:12:09] Speaker A: Oh, okay. I'm sorry.
[00:12:11] Speaker B: I don't. It was my idea to put it on the art.
[00:12:13] Speaker C: Okay, well, I'll take that much. I'll take that part of your credit.
[00:12:16] Speaker B: Take your credit. You deserve more than Mike, for sure.
[00:12:20] Speaker C: I also gotta start working on the season four artwork.
[00:12:23] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:12:24] Speaker C: Because, I mean, I love the season three artwork. I think it's beautiful. And if we weren't changing the show's name, which is what we'll talk about next.
[00:12:36] Speaker B: What? This is news to me. Oh, my.
[00:12:41] Speaker C: Then I'd say. I would honestly suggest we keep it.
[00:12:44] Speaker B: This is news to us. I'm gonna say it again in case it didn't.
This is news to us.
Is this Joe Rogan?
[00:12:54] Speaker C: This is not my idea.
[00:12:56] Speaker B: That's true. I don't know why I'm pretending it's not my Adam.
[00:13:01] Speaker C: Adam was the one. This is all Adam. And, like, he makes a compelling point, and I actually agree with him on this. I think this is a smart move, but it's not my idea.
[00:13:12] Speaker B: No, but did you guys know that if you put the name of something else in the name of your thing, it makes it impossible? Especially when two of those words. Two of the words that you add are the same as two of the words that are already in the name of the thing that you're putting in the name of your thing. It makes it impossible to search for.
So, this is partially about search engine optimization, as I pitched it to you guys.
And it's also about making clear that the focus of this show is not celebrating the minutiae of everybody loves Raymond, but it's more that it's transformative.
[00:13:55] Speaker C: Raymond is the inspiration.
[00:13:56] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:13:57] Speaker C: And I think the new name echoes that. Well, it's. It eludes to the show and Raymond, but it's also ours, you know?
[00:14:08] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:09] Speaker C: And it's something that I think can live on past the show itself.
[00:14:13] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. I like what I like about. So I guess we can. We'll reveal it then.
[00:14:19] Speaker A: The.
[00:14:20] Speaker B: We're changing the name.
I'm not gonna put in a drumroll.
Maybe one. Maybe a rim shot at the end.
[00:14:30] Speaker C: This is all by means, but they. They also should know this, because in, like, you know, in another two, three weeks, whatever, when the name on Spotify changes, they're not gonna be like, what the hell happened? We should. Yeah, well, we'll tell him.
[00:14:43] Speaker B: Yeah. No, it's important that you know that we are changing the name of the show from everybody loves everybody loves Raymond to the barone zone.
Yep. Rim shot.
[00:14:58] Speaker C: I just heard a bunch of people go, oh, okay, all right, fine. Yeah, I mean, like, it's an obvious choice, right? Like, that was, like, our first bit, and it's kind of stuck with us.
[00:15:08] Speaker B: The handle on all of our social media accounts.
[00:15:12] Speaker C: Yeah, it was kind of like we were planning this from the beginning, but I assure you, none of this was planned.
[00:15:17] Speaker B: What a weird and stupid con to go two years with one name, but knowing the whole time.
People are gonna freak when we switch the name.
[00:15:27] Speaker A: Their minds gonna be blown, man. It's gonna be great, guys. I like the name. I like that it's being a. That it's kind of like starting off a new era of the show. I think it's great, but I'm gonna.
[00:15:43] Speaker B: And we are going on tour.
[00:15:44] Speaker A: We are. We are going on tour to Adam's house and then to Alex's house. And you guys are not allowed to enter my property.
[00:15:56] Speaker B: Yeah, we'll be on the sidewalk. Like Scientology, filming Mike with camcorders outside of his house. Yeah.
[00:16:03] Speaker A: But it makes me think about all of the different kinds of things that we had with the old name. What were your favorite moments? I guess let's focus on season three. Cause that's the one that's most recent. What were your favorite moments from season three?
[00:16:16] Speaker C: Cowboy Kyle.
[00:16:17] Speaker B: I did love cowboy Kyle. I like those first.
[00:16:21] Speaker C: No, no, no. Not cowboy Kyle.
[00:16:23] Speaker B: Sheriff Tony. Sheriff Tony.
[00:16:24] Speaker A: Sheriff Tony. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:16:26] Speaker B: Those first, like, eight episodes of this season are nuts. They're bangers and they're nuts because we were trying this new format where we intersperse. We've never literally explained the format to people, is that we intersperse chunks of episode discussion in an improvised narrative. That's it. That's all that we do.
We're telling the story of making the podcast instead of making the podcast. But those first episodes of this season, when we're figuring that out, are nuts, including Sheriff Tony.
[00:17:04] Speaker A: Sheriff Tony.
[00:17:05] Speaker C: I love the auction scene.
I loved the episodes where we just had, like, a whole. Just like, event that happened from start to finish. The auction. Ping pong.
Our finale, kingfish. I think my favorite episode of the whole series. Of the whole series, actually, I think, was the house party in town.
[00:17:30] Speaker B: Really?
[00:17:31] Speaker C: I loved that episode so much. And I wasn't in it.
[00:17:35] Speaker B: You were in it.
[00:17:36] Speaker C: My characters were in it, yes.
[00:17:39] Speaker B: Oh.
[00:17:39] Speaker C: But, you know, the Alex character was just not in it for basically the whole thing. But it was just so fun for me because I got to be a million different people.
[00:17:48] Speaker B: You're often like the straight man in this show, and I think, well, especially.
[00:17:53] Speaker C: Season three, because I was like the pseudo.
[00:17:55] Speaker B: You're the authority. Yeah, yeah.
[00:17:57] Speaker C: And it was not. It was not comfortable for me. Might I say I'm not used to being a figure of authority or anyone to look up to, you know?
[00:18:05] Speaker B: You're not used to being a stabilizing influence.
[00:18:08] Speaker C: No, I'm usually. I like being a little chaotic.
[00:18:10] Speaker B: It's surprising to me that that is your favorite because that is the longest. I think that's the longest episode of this season. That's like 2 hours and twelve minutes long, which some might say is too long. But I'm glad to know that you like it enough that it flies by.
[00:18:27] Speaker C: For me, it didn't feel like that. It felt like we blasted through that so, so quick.
[00:18:31] Speaker A: I agree. I really.
[00:18:32] Speaker B: That's where we learned that Mike went to Sarah Lawrence College in the eighties.
[00:18:36] Speaker C: Oh, and then I said that joke about forgetting Sarah Lawrence.
[00:18:39] Speaker B: Yes. Forgetting Sarah Lawrence.
[00:18:40] Speaker C: Probably one of my favorite jokes.
[00:18:42] Speaker B: Great.
[00:18:43] Speaker C: Anytime I make Adam laugh, it like, it resonates in my mind. It's like that joke. It was a good one.
[00:18:48] Speaker A: Yeah, that's true. I am like the Jimmy Fallon of the group. I break at anything. Adam is very good at staying. Very stoic until a really good joke crosses. When Adam laughs, it does make me.
[00:18:58] Speaker C: Make me happy.
[00:18:59] Speaker B: Yeah, that's nice. I don't think of you as a Jimmy. Jimmy Fallon pretends to laugh. You're not that encouraging. No threshold.
[00:19:08] Speaker A: I just. I just enjoy things. Yeah, exactly.
[00:19:11] Speaker B: Yeah, you just love life.
[00:19:14] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:19:14] Speaker C: Yeah. But it's good. We need that. Otherwise, like, with the three dudes not laughing, we need one who laughs.
[00:19:21] Speaker B: We need the audience to know that this is supposed to be funny, not just weird. We should.
[00:19:27] Speaker A: We should follow from the big Bang theory, and every 4 seconds, every after every line, we play the laugh track. That way they know you laugh here.
[00:19:35] Speaker B: You know how hard it is to find a good laugh track sound effect for free?
[00:19:41] Speaker C: Very hard.
[00:19:42] Speaker B: It's very difficult.
[00:19:43] Speaker A: You've looked it up.
[00:19:44] Speaker B: I have looked it up because we've needed crowd noise at various times, and it's diff. There's not a lot of good ones out there that does. I did get a free trial, you'll notice. Maybe. Maybe you can pick this up if you're an eagle eared listener. Like, episode 19 of this past season. I got a free trial to this, like, premium sound effects library.
Yeah. Things take off a little bit.
[00:20:12] Speaker A: Excellent.
[00:20:13] Speaker B: There you go.
[00:20:14] Speaker A: That's how you.
[00:20:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:20:15] Speaker A: I will say that Alex in particular, like, he's always been very funny, but this season really came into his own as an improviser.
[00:20:23] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:20:25] Speaker A: The bit with the old lady smoking camels got me like nothing else.
I know it was very recent, but.
[00:20:33] Speaker C: It'S still the two weeks ago.
[00:20:35] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. What was it? The line was like, I'm smoking a cigarette.
[00:20:40] Speaker B: I'm like, oh, yeah.
[00:20:40] Speaker A: Hey, you want a camel? No, I want a cigarette. I don't know why that fucking got me.
[00:20:46] Speaker B: Alex is really good at those, like, vaudeville repartee kind of things.
[00:20:51] Speaker C: I've noticed. I've really been doing those a lot lately, and I love them.
[00:20:55] Speaker B: They're great. That's something that makes me break. I think you probably have noticed that any time you whip out, that's why.
[00:21:02] Speaker C: I keep doing them.
[00:21:03] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:21:05] Speaker A: I also. I think my favorite episode this season was absolutely the one that I was not here for that I couldn't make the recording session for. So you got shot. Oh, you died, and, oh, my God, what a great show. What a great. What was Schneider's character, the hot dog guy?
[00:21:23] Speaker B: Little Mike.
[00:21:24] Speaker A: Little Mike.
[00:21:25] Speaker B: Little Mike.
[00:21:25] Speaker A: That's right.
I forgot about little Mike. Oh, what a great. What a great character. I wish he did not die because little Mike would have been a recurring.
[00:21:35] Speaker B: Character vaporized by God.
You did the next recording before we started. You had to tell me how thrilled you were when I said that God didn't notice that you died.
[00:21:47] Speaker A: That was such a creep line.
[00:21:50] Speaker B: I just like, yeah, that's such a great encapsulation of your character on this show.
[00:21:59] Speaker A: He's tried so hard, and yet God doesn't notice. Oh, what a great line. What a great line. There have been a couple great roasts that we've had to each other. I've roasted you, Adam, so many times on this podcast.
[00:22:15] Speaker B: I appreciate the characterization of me as this sort of NPR liberal, liberal hipster, which is only. I don't listen to NPR. I've said this, I think, on the baroness. I don't listen to npR. I read npr.org dot. So, like, I just want to be clear because it's reading, but then I can see what Simon says at any time. You have to know that's a kind of a deeper npr.org cut.
[00:22:43] Speaker A: How deep are you into the NPR fandom?
[00:22:48] Speaker B: Honestly, not too deep. Like, you know, when you're only reading it, you don't develop sort of the, like, parasocial bond that you do if you're listening to fresh air or, you know, planet money or we had a. There was something in this season where you said, or I said that our listeners love planet money, and so they're intimately familiar with. Wait, wait, don't tell me. Which I found very funny.
[00:23:15] Speaker A: That's a good one.
[00:23:16] Speaker B: So, yeah, I do. I think the characterization of me is very funny as just the kind of.
[00:23:22] Speaker A: Guy that looks like he gentrified Williamsburg. Yeah.
[00:23:25] Speaker B: Single handedly.
[00:23:29] Speaker A: Yeah.
But, yeah, you got me back with that. With that one. So I'm. Alex has weirdly gotten by unscathed.
[00:23:37] Speaker B: There's nothing to criticize Alex about.
[00:23:40] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:23:40] Speaker C: No, I mean, look, I think because I played myself as just such an undeniable douchebag that there wasn't much you guys could do to me that's. That I wasn't already doing to myself.
[00:23:51] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:23:52] Speaker C: Like, season two, you guys got me with, like, the. The sex stuff.
I don't remember the details. I just remember that I had just a g. Yeah, that went away.
Yeah, that's right.
[00:24:07] Speaker B: Well, you were. You're a public figure. You had to keep it a little more down low.
[00:24:12] Speaker C: Absolutely. I do mean down low. I'll never forget that one episode I was absent for, and I went on a walk early in the morning to listen to it, to prepare for the next episode. And then I just got home and I just sat down. I was like, all right, how do I turn this around?
[00:24:28] Speaker B: And I wrote, like, you certainly tried.
[00:24:30] Speaker C: Paragraphs to try and fix it.
[00:24:33] Speaker B: That was funny that season, when you tried to justify. That's what a lot of. If, you know, if you're not familiar with the principles of improv, a lot of it is about justification. And Alex was really trying to justify why we said he was having an origin at the celibacy meeting at the christian men center. Yeah.
[00:24:50] Speaker C: No. Tried to bring in some more context, but no, I really liked the weird turn my guy took. I liked that I had, like, a.
Like, one role to fill for the whole season.
It kind of gave me a little bit of a staple. I liked that you guys, for at least, like, half the season, had weekly jobs.
[00:25:13] Speaker B: Yeah. That kind of dragon.
[00:25:14] Speaker C: That kind of went away.
As, you know, the season rounded out.
[00:25:19] Speaker B: We started, I think, because we started doing things together, and we're not trying to. Because I think the reason we had started that was so that we could have, like, a story, b story, c story. But we kind of just ended up starting to do everything together.
[00:25:35] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:25:36] Speaker C: Which I didn't mind.
[00:25:37] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:37] Speaker A: One thing. I was this. The season where we had the.
There was, like, an Ireland festival in the middle of. In the midwest, and I was left behind for. With dogs or something like that.
I honestly, that would have been the same.
[00:25:54] Speaker B: What you're describing as an Ireland festival is our bloody Sunday themed drag show in Milwaukee. I block out that episode, and you were left behind, and you were not watching a dog. You were waiting behind for a package, and then you were mistaken for a dog named Douglas.
[00:26:15] Speaker A: Yes, that's right. You have a near encyclopedic memory of this show.
[00:26:21] Speaker B: Adam and I. I spend a lot longer with the episodes than you do. You finish, and then you're done, and I spend a couple more hours with them.
[00:26:31] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:31] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:26:32] Speaker A: There you go.
[00:26:33] Speaker B: I would say my favorite. Weirdly enough, despite all of the crazy stuff that we've done, the thing that I keep thinking because I was thinking about, like, what my favorite moment from the season was is something that happened last episode. I don't know why this makes me laugh so much, but I misspoke. I was asking for water, and I misspoke, and I said, we'll take Dasani or awkwafini. And Mike, without missing a beat, it was just like, we got aquafini.
And for some reason, despite all of the other crazy stuff that's happening, very legitimately, very funny stuff, every time I think about that, it's just very funny to me. I don't know.
[00:27:17] Speaker C: All right, canonically, in this universe, now it's awkwafini.
[00:27:20] Speaker B: It has to be awkwafini. Yeah.
[00:27:22] Speaker A: The funniest thing is, I completely forgot that that happened.
[00:27:25] Speaker B: Yeah, no, I forgot that too, very quick, because, like, I'm kind of talking over you correcting myself, but you say that, and I just. I can hear myself laughing at it.
[00:27:38] Speaker C: No. One thing I didn't love this season compared to season two. In season two, we really built up the finale. Like, right from episode one, you knew where it was going to end with this election and this, like, big question that was going to be answered at the end, and that was really fun to toy around with. It felt like each episode, each, like, little thing we were doing was leading somewhere.
[00:28:01] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:28:02] Speaker C: And season three, at least for me, you guys can correct. You guys can tell me that you felt differently, but it felt like the finale kind of just snuck up on us. Yeah. And, like, obviously, like, we knew we wanted to stop the mayoral thing after this season because it's almost like, a tradition at this point. Right. Each season has its own, like, stage that we kind of, like, transfer out of and do something else. And we have our stage for season four set already. We know what we're gonna do. We just haven't. We didn't really set the stage like we did in season two.
[00:28:36] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:28:38] Speaker C: But I think our idea is really good. I just hope so.
[00:28:40] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:28:41] Speaker C: I missed, like, having, like, that big event to talk about. Yeah, something big's coming.
[00:28:46] Speaker B: You know, it's interesting because we. Go ahead, Mike.
[00:28:49] Speaker A: I was just gonna say, if you think about it, this season models the season of everybody loves Raymond a lot more closely.
[00:28:56] Speaker C: It's very.
[00:28:59] Speaker A: Segmented.
[00:29:00] Speaker B: It's all, you know, episodic instead of serialized.
[00:29:04] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:29:04] Speaker C: So I don't know. We'll think about that.
[00:29:06] Speaker A: So we talked about each other's favorite characters this season. What was the favorite character that you played this season? Oh, toot your own.
[00:29:16] Speaker B: You've got, like, James Lipton questions now. You've got, like, you know, like, inside the actor's studio. Do you want to speak to one of our characters?
[00:29:26] Speaker C: No, thanks.
[00:29:27] Speaker A: No. Because I know for sure the voice is changing.
[00:29:30] Speaker B: The accent will switch in the episodes.
[00:29:33] Speaker A: There's no way we're nailing it now. No way in hell.
[00:29:36] Speaker B: Yeah. Let's acknowledge that none of us can sustain an accent for. Actually, Mike, you're pretty good at it. I am. Okay, Alex, I think you change your pitch more than you try to do an accent or, like, your vocal affect, and so you can be more consistent. I will own up to the fact that if you listen to any given episode, I will start a character with one accent and then either completely drop it or change it entirely by the end of the following sentence.
A lot of people who started southern and then ending up like me.
[00:30:12] Speaker A: Yeah, I've noticed that, too. Yeah.
[00:30:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:30:16] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:30:17] Speaker B: My favorite character that I played from this season, it might be Gerald.
[00:30:23] Speaker A: Who's Gerald? Remind me.
[00:30:26] Speaker B: He's accompanied by a group of six men who hoist his giant penis.
[00:30:37] Speaker A: I forgot.
[00:30:38] Speaker B: So that he can walk around. Yeah, he tragically killed his right hand man Juan in the ping pong episode.
Yeah, that's probably the character that sticks out the most for me.
[00:30:53] Speaker A: You know what? That's a good choice. That's a great.
[00:30:56] Speaker C: That's a beautiful one.
[00:30:57] Speaker A: I know. It's a fun one.
[00:30:58] Speaker B: I like how you always forget who he is, and then, like, in the ping pong one, you had no idea who I was talking about. And then when I mentioned the ball bearers, you sort of.
It clicked. You just lost it.
[00:31:10] Speaker C: It was very, uh.
I think I remember the character. I think his name was sad Randy.
[00:31:23] Speaker B: Is that in the house party one?
[00:31:25] Speaker C: Yeah, that was in the house party episode. He was the guy who was always really freaking sad, and anything you. Whenever you said, like, sad Randy, he'd just cry.
[00:31:35] Speaker B: But one of the things that made him sad was his nickname, sad Randy. Yeah.
[00:31:40] Speaker A: Another guy that was a different Randy. Or.
[00:31:43] Speaker B: Yeah, there were many Randy or something.
[00:31:46] Speaker A: There was.
[00:31:47] Speaker C: I think there was hot Randy.
[00:31:49] Speaker B: Mean Randy.
[00:31:51] Speaker C: Oh, wasn't it? I think it was, like, hot Randy, and, like, I think it was ugly Randy.
[00:31:56] Speaker B: No. So there was the one Randy who was bullying sad Randy, and then at the end, the blowing up the town hall, you got to listen back to the episodes. Blowing up the town, uh, turned sad Randy into hot Randy. Sort of like squidward. Another Spongebob touch point. Sort of like squidward getting hit in the face with the door, and then he's hot. Yeah. That's what I was picturing in that scene.
[00:32:21] Speaker C: Yeah. I loved that character. I just.
[00:32:25] Speaker B: That episode, that makes me very happy that you, like, you know, found such joy in it.
[00:32:31] Speaker C: That was a great one. Um, I also, of course, kingfish.
[00:32:35] Speaker B: Kingfish. Yeah. That's what I would have said.
[00:32:36] Speaker A: I. Yeah, kingfish was great.
[00:32:39] Speaker C: I don't know why that specifically is so memorable.
[00:32:43] Speaker B: It just. Because it came out of nowhere, and then he just left to. Nowhere to, I think, his first appearance, he jumped into a glass of water, and I don't remember what happened in the ping pong one.
[00:32:56] Speaker A: I remember the first thing. The only thing I remember about the first instance of kingfish was we were like, we need a character for the baroness, for the.
[00:33:05] Speaker B: I'm sorry, the barometer.
[00:33:07] Speaker A: And, uh, Alex is just like, I'm king fish. And Al. Adam was like, where are. Who are you? Where are you coming from? And Alex refused to answer any questions, any reasonable question. He was just like, so why are you here, king fish? I'm king Fish was the only possible response.
[00:33:28] Speaker C: Yeah, that's, uh, good times.
[00:33:30] Speaker B: That. And, um, pasta man was another character that you had refused to answer any of my questions.
[00:33:38] Speaker C: Oh, my God, I love pasta man. I want to do more of those characters that have no explanation. I love that. Yeah, that's fun. I think whenever. Sometimes, like, in the middle of the show, when, like, you guys are going at it, talking back and forth about something stupid, I'll get distracted and think, pasta man, like, all right, he's coming later.
[00:34:01] Speaker A: An insight into Alex's skull. That's.
[00:34:03] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:34:04] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:34:05] Speaker A: Um, Mike, I think my favorite character. I forget what episode it was, but. Chad.
[00:34:12] Speaker B: Chad buffering.
[00:34:14] Speaker A: Yeah. Chad buffering. Yeah, that's right.
[00:34:16] Speaker B: The son of Ray Berazos.
[00:34:18] Speaker A: Yes. That's. Yeah.
[00:34:19] Speaker B: CEO of Raymazon.
[00:34:21] Speaker A: Yeah. I just really, like.
[00:34:23] Speaker B: We are so funny, and I. Yeah.
[00:34:25] Speaker A: That was a great episode.
[00:34:26] Speaker C: That's a good one.
[00:34:27] Speaker A: Murdered people. Right. And he died at the end.
[00:34:30] Speaker B: He turned everybody into tofu, and then. That's right.
[00:34:32] Speaker A: Yeah, that was my. But, yeah, that was my favorite character to play because of the voice. That was a fun one.
[00:34:37] Speaker B: The. The thing with the characters showing up for the barometer, I think, went for that first half of the season until the ping Pong episode, when we brought a bunch of them back.
And so I don't know. I have to upload the barometer scores to the website, postfun.org barometer, and I don't know how I'm gonna account for those. I'd welcome any ideas? Feel free to shoot it to raymondostfun.org. Like, should I add a fifth column for character scores? Because what wasn't maybe, I mean, it was probably obvious from the ridiculousness of the scores that the characters would give, but those were. We, like, purposefully chose extremes to, like, make it funny. Yeah, make it funny. So that fucked up the average.
[00:35:34] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:35:34] Speaker B: The Bates are going to be so mad at us about that.
[00:35:37] Speaker C: Adam, I'm looking at the first two seasons now, and they are beautiful.
[00:35:41] Speaker B: Yeah. Data wrapper.
[00:35:43] Speaker C: Wow. The lowest score I gave ray was a two. Mike, the lowest score you gave was, I think, a three.
[00:35:50] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:35:51] Speaker C: Oh, no, 2.5. Adam, your lowest score is a one.
[00:35:54] Speaker B: Yeah. You've famously been saving your one.
[00:35:57] Speaker C: Yeah, I have been saving my one, and no one's given him a ten yet.
[00:36:01] Speaker A: Do you know when you're gonna use it?
[00:36:02] Speaker C: No, actually, I'm not entirely sure. But I promise I will use the ten before this show ends when he earns it.
[00:36:12] Speaker A: I will say there is one episode of Raymond really messing up that is like, a huge point of contention that's posted at least once a day on the everybody loves Raymond subreddit.
[00:36:25] Speaker B: You gotta get off that thing.
[00:36:27] Speaker A: No, you can't make me. I argue with people so much. It's great.
[00:36:32] Speaker C: Yeah. That place is not a good place.
[00:36:34] Speaker A: Reddit is a bad place, period.
[00:36:36] Speaker B: They're horny and mad.
[00:36:37] Speaker A: They are.
[00:36:38] Speaker B: They are just in the subreddit. The rest of Reddit is famously fine. So you're good there. Yes.
[00:36:45] Speaker C: Very healthy communities.
[00:36:46] Speaker B: True communities.
That's what we hope to build here, is sort of a healthy community of people who are enjoying going on this journey with us and following our adventures. And we would love to really, really, really would love to hear from anybody who, you know, has been with us maybe since the beginning, maybe, you know, you're new to the show, you know, reach out, get in touch. We are at Barone Zone on Facebook, and we are at Barone dot zone on Instagram and threads. So, you know, if you're feeling like this show has brought you any modicum of joy the way it has us, then please reach out. Let us know, because we love to hear from you.
[00:37:33] Speaker C: Absolutely. I also want to say to end on a positive note that this show has connected us with some wonderful comedians and improv ers from all around the world, mostly Chicago.
[00:37:45] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:37:46] Speaker C: And has helped expand our network. You've heard the post fun sister show. Is it? I guess it's technically just a post fun show, grease, wind, and fire, but they are another improv group and they just started and we are their friends.
[00:38:04] Speaker B: Yeah, that's a great plug for, with grease, wind, and fire. You can find it on any podcast platform. It's just, it's an improv podcast. This is not about a sitcom. So it's a completely different.
[00:38:17] Speaker C: It's not going to piss off a subreddit.
[00:38:19] Speaker A: Yeah, they probably were smarter about that and avoiding the death threats, but, you know, go send them a death threat.
[00:38:26] Speaker B: All right, so, I guess, you know, any final reflections about the episode before we or the. About the season, about the past two years, about the changes that are coming before we sign off here?
[00:38:40] Speaker A: Just like, this has been a fun way to keep the three of us in touch, obviously, but also, it's kind of fun to see, kind of almost be like a documentation of, like, how life has grown and changed since we. Since we began. I don't know. I like it. It's kind of cool.
[00:38:55] Speaker B: Alex, any final thoughts?
[00:38:58] Speaker C: No, I'm having fun, and I'm happy to share this journey with you, too. And I'm looking forward to. To another lovely six seasons of. Of everybody loves raymond, where we will continue to evolve until the 9th season is just gibberish, just like static for 2 hours.
[00:39:21] Speaker B: It'll be one long, high pitched tone for the length will be the same, though we have a lot of trouble keeping it under 2 hours, so.
[00:39:30] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, that's also what we're going to try. We're going to try to shorten this a little bit. Yeah, like hour and a half.
[00:39:36] Speaker B: All right, cool. So we will be back as the barone zone on May 9. That's Thursday, May 9, 2024. So mark your calendars. And, yeah, please, like, get a paper calendar, maybe preferably, like, something sexy. I mean, Mike, you did do well. You. You and Bezos, you did that calendar, right?
[00:40:00] Speaker A: We did the calendar, yeah. It's that he used some very embarrassing pictures that I did not think he was gonna see was gonna use. But I've been proven wrong, so, hey, what do I know?
[00:40:11] Speaker B: I think I will say that may.
I heard that they're going through and ripping it out just because it's you, it violates some sort of law.
[00:40:20] Speaker A: Yep.
Yeah.
[00:40:23] Speaker C: The sexy law. Am I right?
[00:40:27] Speaker B: Yeah. So mark your calendars for May 9. We'll be back with season four of the barone zone. Talking about season four, episode one of everybody loves Raymond. And until then, I guess the last thing to say is our classic sign off, right? Fellas.
[00:40:43] Speaker A: Absolutely. Everybody loves Raymond, and we love.
