Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Hey, folks, everybody Loves, everybody Loves Raymond is just around the corner. But first, I want to invite you to go to Postfund.org Slash Raymond and check out our brand new barometer form, where you can now submit your own rating and reasoning for Ray's performance in the remaining season three episodes. That's right. We want to hear how you think Ray did as a husband, father, son, brother, etc. In each episode on our patented scale from one to ten, we'll be adding those scores to each episode's final average moving forward. And we'll be reading a few listener rationales on the show each week. Exciting. So go to postfund.org, Raymond. Go to the barometer and make your voice heard. Now let's find out what those wacky Barone boys got up to this week.
[00:01:06] Speaker B: Hit those pirouettes, Stella. You got it? All right. It's okay. Pick yourself up. Try again next time. It's, uh you got it. You got it. No problem.
[00:01:15] Speaker A: Oh, God. Mike, her ankle. Are you you're really pushing them very hard. Stella's ankle looks like that's not a.
[00:01:22] Speaker B: Normal angle hitting all 720 degrees.
Yeah, I am aware it's an obtuse angle. Obtuse ankle. Okay.
It's not good. It's not healthy. But we got yeah, I need them to get all 720 degrees of that.
[00:01:41] Speaker A: Spin if they really I know.
[00:01:43] Speaker B: Listen.
[00:01:44] Speaker A: Yes?
[00:01:45] Speaker B: Brad Garrett's coming tonight.
[00:01:47] Speaker A: What?
[00:01:47] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:01:48] Speaker A: Brad really?
[00:01:49] Speaker B: Carrot is coming?
[00:01:50] Speaker A: Wait, armstrong to the Robert dance recital? You're saying Brad Garrett or Brad Carrot? Because there is that Brad Carrot man who wears the bunny suit and the police officer's uniform over it. Oh, what's up, Alex?
[00:02:02] Speaker C: I brought the carrots and an extra microphone for our good good.
[00:02:08] Speaker A: So that leads me to believe that it's Brad Carrot, not Brad Garrett.
[00:02:15] Speaker C: That's what you texted me.
[00:02:16] Speaker A: What's? On the paper that you taped onto the seat.
[00:02:19] Speaker B: On the seat I put Brad Garrett. And now I had forgotten about the existence of Brad Garrett. I should have remembered he did my nephew's Easter party.
[00:02:28] Speaker C: But this is a grocery list. You texted me, bread, carrots. I forgot the bread. I'm sorry.
[00:02:35] Speaker A: You're making.
[00:02:39] Speaker B: Point is? The point is, yes. Brad Garrett, the man who plays Robert, he's coming to the dance for sale tonight.
[00:02:46] Speaker A: You got this confirmed through his representation?
[00:02:49] Speaker B: I got this confirmed through his representation.
[00:02:51] Speaker A: Okay. Have you heard from Brad Garrett?
[00:02:55] Speaker B: I did not text Brad Carrot. Okay? Like I said, he threw the party for my nephew. It did not go well. My nephew cried the entire time. I'm not messing with that guy ever again.
[00:03:06] Speaker A: Okay, want to know more about that? I don't think we have time, but fine.
[00:03:11] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:03:11] Speaker A: Brad Garrett, according to you, is coming to the Limbrook Christian Men's Center to watch our Robert Barone dance recital.
[00:03:19] Speaker B: Correct.
[00:03:20] Speaker A: Okay, that's the stakes.
[00:03:22] Speaker B: And Stella can't get past 480 degrees on her Pirouette, and it's ruining the show.
[00:03:31] Speaker A: Ruining the show? Really? Stella is an understudy. I don't know if they usually have those in dance recitals, but we did. We have a whole B team, so I don't think you need to be pushing her as hard. And I think it's a little counterproductive that she has now broken her ankle back and forth trying to do this spin.
[00:03:51] Speaker B: Yeah, you're right.
[00:03:52] Speaker A: I mean, maybe you should focus more on Joel is all.
[00:03:55] Speaker B: You know, Joel is never done anything wrong. Joel's never done anything wrong in his entire life.
[00:04:01] Speaker A: I don't know. I mean, he is here on parole. This is a work release for him.
[00:04:08] Speaker B: Yeah, but he can hit the spin. He can hit the spin. He's got the robot down.
You watch him. Every time he is about to bust open a new move, he taps his chin. The man is perfect. The man is flawless.
[00:04:24] Speaker A: That's not even from the episode. That is inspired.
[00:04:27] Speaker B: No, he's doing Robert better than Robert. Joel is the king. I cannot emphasize this.
[00:04:36] Speaker A: The the vehicular manslaughter just doesn't register for you. Then everyone makes mistakes. Okay. What's up, Alex?
[00:04:46] Speaker C: I got everything.
[00:04:48] Speaker B: Good.
[00:04:48] Speaker C: We're all set to record everybody loves everybody Loves Raymond We're just waiting on one more person.
Do we have an ETA?
[00:04:59] Speaker A: I don't know. I mean, I said 02:00 because this is a matinee. I said 02:00.
[00:05:06] Speaker B: This is a matinee show, so I don't know.
[00:05:08] Speaker A: I mean, maybe security is giving our guests a hard time.
[00:05:13] Speaker B: Listen, ma'am, I don't know what to tell you. You can't bring this in. You can't do it.
[00:05:18] Speaker D: Listen, I got the list from my friend. It said bread and carrots. I just saw another guy walk in here with some bread and carrots, and you're giving me a hard time about the bread and carrots? I don't understand why you're giving we've read the list, literally.
I just need you to see the contact information of who I got this list from and the address to this.
[00:05:38] Speaker A: Place to bring the bread and the them. We don't know a D.
Unfortunately, we can't. We don't know who that is. Now we know Mike G.
Are you a friend of Mike G's?
[00:05:53] Speaker D: Who is Mike G? I've never met the man. I know Mikey D. Mikey D and I, we go way back. He asked me for some bread and carrots. I'm doing this man a favor. He told me to meet him at the studio, that there's a recital going on or something to come around the back because he doesn't want me to see the guy, the guy that's from the show and everything. Because I don't understand. I'm just here doing what I was told to do and that's bring bread and carrots, and I swear to God, I saw another man walk in here Alex, with some bread and some oh, you know Alex.
[00:06:26] Speaker A: You know the.
[00:06:31] Speaker B: Way.
[00:06:31] Speaker A: Come on in.
[00:06:32] Speaker B: This lady knows the mayor, and she didn't bring that up. What's going on?
[00:06:36] Speaker A: Who the fuck is Mike D?
[00:06:38] Speaker B: I don't know these fucking guys. There's too many of them.
[00:06:41] Speaker A: These fucking guys. Indeed. Screech.
[00:06:44] Speaker D: I brought the bread and who is doing the security outside? But I just wanted you to know, I told them I knew you, Mike, and they said that they don't know who you are. Mike G.
[00:07:04] Speaker B: It's been it's been a while. Yeah, I'm Mike G now. Mike D has long since been gone. I should have told you to update your yeah.
[00:07:14] Speaker D: I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to offend you in front of your people for your hey, hey.
[00:07:21] Speaker B: I'm not offended. It's more of a legal issue. I think know there are many people out for the head of I'm more I'm not offended. I'm kind of just scared for that getting back to the wrong people.
[00:07:35] Speaker A: Mike, why don't you update your contact information in Val's phone with your full last name?
[00:07:41] Speaker B: Yep. Mike jamaica. That's to me. I'll take that. Yeah. There we yeah. Here you go. With a G.
Yeah. G for Jamaica.
[00:07:49] Speaker D: G for Jamaica. I love it.
[00:07:52] Speaker B: It's been so long since you've been on. It's so good to have you back.
[00:07:56] Speaker D: It's been forever.
Why did I bring you bread and carrots to the studio?
[00:08:03] Speaker B: I don't know.
I sent you the wrong listen, we're making vegetable croutons.
[00:08:10] Speaker A: I'm looking now in my email and yeah, you were on the thread, and you reply alled, everyone with your grocery list and your email signature. By the way, your email signature is.
[00:08:23] Speaker B: A little my email signature?
[00:08:24] Speaker A: I mean, it's aggressive.
It's aggressive.
[00:08:27] Speaker B: It's fine.
[00:08:28] Speaker A: What's the me? Well, big, bold follow me on X. Triple underline X.
[00:08:35] Speaker B: Everybody tries to follow me on Instagram or on Twitter. Twitter isn't a thing anymore. You got to follow me on yeah.
[00:08:41] Speaker A: Okay, calm down, calm down.
[00:08:43] Speaker B: Listen, I don't know what the problem is.
[00:08:45] Speaker A: You're big on X, right? You got paid.
[00:08:52] Speaker B: I want everybody to know.
[00:08:53] Speaker A: But Val, thank you so much for coming back.
Thank you for coming out here. I know we had originally invited you to the Limbrook Town Hall where our offices are, and Alex being the mayor and all, it's just sort of hard to organize these things when we have to go off site. But thank you for coming out to backstage at the Dance.
[00:09:15] Speaker D: No problem.
[00:09:16] Speaker A: Thank you.
[00:09:17] Speaker D: You know, I'm a patron of the arts. I love the arts, and I also love to do groceries. So, honestly, that was the best way to get me out here.
[00:09:25] Speaker A: This is the Valerie Blaine Theater here at the Limbrook Christian Men's Center because you are quite the patron of the mean. In fact, you paid for these. Really, you're quite the philanthropist.
[00:09:39] Speaker D: It's not about the giving the microphones. It's about what can you do with the microphone? So, really, it's all you. It's all you.
[00:09:47] Speaker A: I did notice that you did want us to the gift of the microphones and the theater was pretty clearly tied into have me back on Everybody Loves Everybody Loves Raymond, which we would have done anyway.
[00:10:01] Speaker B: Would we?
[00:10:02] Speaker A: I would have. I mean, I'm more inclined to do it now because there might be more microphones in the future. Alex, you know, we burn through a lot of microphones.
[00:10:12] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:10:14] Speaker D: Every six weeks, I get a letter that says, another one fell into a river, another one fell into a lake. Somebody ate one, I don't know.
[00:10:21] Speaker A: Sending me these and that's just Mike.
[00:10:24] Speaker C: Yeah. About last week, while I was gone, a ravenous typhoon of nacho cheese and non alcoholic beer got drenched on all of our microphones.
[00:10:39] Speaker A: Yeah, that was weird. I don't know how that happened. I think that was nothing.
[00:10:47] Speaker B: Happened.
[00:10:48] Speaker A: Nobody died.
Haas is fine, but, yeah, we're good. Do you want to just alex introduce the show. Introduce Val. Ask her the question. Of course.
[00:11:02] Speaker C: What's the question?
[00:11:03] Speaker A: Have you kept up with every guest?
[00:11:06] Speaker B: We talked about this.
[00:11:07] Speaker A: Yeah. We got to know where people stand with Raymond so we know what level to come. Like, whether we should come in hot defending Raymond, whether we should shit on Raymond more than like what do you think?
[00:11:17] Speaker C: Okay, that's didn't have we haven't had a guest in a while, and the last time we had a guest, I was a little preoccupied. Welcome back to Everybody Loves everybody Loves Raymond. I am your host, Alex, the mayor of Limbrook, and I'm here with, as usual, with my friends Mike and Adam.
[00:11:34] Speaker A: Hello.
[00:11:36] Speaker B: And we're all choreographers. Shut up. Robert Barone dance recital. I'm sorry. I just wanted to okay.
[00:11:42] Speaker A: Yes. We are the choreographers for the Robert Barone dance recital. You're very mad at us. You signed the paper. You said this. Thank you. This week, you put me in charge of plies and put Mike in charge of pirouettes and other people in charge of other dance terms. It's a real team effort.
[00:12:03] Speaker C: We are also joined here by an amazing guest who has brought us microphones. Guest, introduce yourself.
[00:12:10] Speaker D: Hi, I'm Val.
[00:12:13] Speaker C: That's Val. She's our friend.
[00:12:16] Speaker D: Yes.
[00:12:17] Speaker A: Val, you're an improviser, right?
[00:12:20] Speaker D: I'm an improviser. I write a little bit, but not a lot. And I'm mostly a librarian.
[00:12:27] Speaker A: Mostly a librarian. And we are looking for because we did rebuild the Lynbrook Library after 15 years of it being I mean, if.
[00:12:36] Speaker D: I'm being honest, the reason that I'm here is I saw the job opening, and I personally now know the mayor.
[00:12:43] Speaker A: Yeah, well, you do. We are holding, I believe, our next job. Mike, is your next job.
Next, yeah. We do a little bit of overlap between this week's job and next week's job, which is going to be like HR.
We still have to close out the choreographer thing. So they're going to be like more auditions. You will have to dance, but at the end, you will get the job. As a librarian, I shouldn't say you will get the job. You may get the job as the librarian. Depending on how well you there's a pretty good chance dance and library.
[00:13:15] Speaker C: Val, have you been keeping up with Ray since the last time we all got together?
[00:13:21] Speaker D: I'll be honest, I have not. Ray. I think it was the first season that I had watched a couple of episodes of and then never watched again. And I'm back here and the children have grown. Can you believe that?
[00:13:36] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:13:37] Speaker B: Weird how time passes.
[00:13:42] Speaker A: They were in the one scene you would have seen them much younger. They were babies two years younger. Yeah. And now the twins, I believe, have hair.
[00:13:53] Speaker B: They're not right.
[00:13:56] Speaker D: They were having a children's table. I was shocked.
[00:14:00] Speaker A: Feeding themselves.
No lines. But they were there.
[00:14:04] Speaker C: We're getting there.
[00:14:06] Speaker A: We haven't really had an episode focused on the kids in a while.
They've just been in the background for.
[00:14:13] Speaker D: Most of these those kids get paid to sit in the background. And I love it.
[00:14:17] Speaker C: That's the dream. They even got a fun little shout out. Michael and Jeffrey did, at least in the actual episode, which was one of the funniest jokes in the whole episode.
[00:14:25] Speaker A: Alex, did you mention which episode we're covering today?
[00:14:28] Speaker C: It's called Robert's date.
And oh, boy, is this an episode that happened? Robert undergoes a radical change when he starts hanging out with his partner and her friends again. I almost read that. As racial instead of radical.
[00:14:46] Speaker A: Well, which, you know yeah, that is the thing.
This is, I think, the first episode we've seen where Everybody Loves Raymond tries to tackle race and it is exactly as successful as you would think it would be.
[00:15:03] Speaker C: But we'll talk about a lot to unpack here. Yes, and we will.
[00:15:08] Speaker A: But virtually, we need to unpack some of these goods that Val has sent ahead. As a patron of the arts, I.
[00:15:15] Speaker D: Believe I'm empty handed.
[00:15:17] Speaker A: Yes. Thank you. So we've got this big box and yes, plenty of dance wear for all varieties of dance, obviously, salsa, which was good for the performers to unique calories to burn. So salsa chips and then, like, tango gowns.
[00:15:36] Speaker D: So they're character shoes in there.
[00:15:39] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:15:39] Speaker D: Character ballet slippers.
[00:15:42] Speaker A: Thank you.
[00:15:43] Speaker D: I also packed in some tights for all the kids.
What else did I yeah, and we.
[00:15:49] Speaker A: Should we told you that this is in all ages, so birth to it's sort of like a very interesting cradle to grave sort of thing, because we have very young people, children, you might call them, as young know, when he was competing with Ray. And this is sort of the narrative of the thing is young Robert competing with Ray? Ray is sort of the villain of the piece. And then he grows up, is cop robert adult man, gets divorced. That's a big scene. And then it ends know, this wasn't in Everybody Loves Raymond, but it ends with his death, which is going to be quite the spectacle. I mean, thank you for sending ahead, the special effects, because those are going to pay off.
[00:16:34] Speaker D: I just got a rant, like, with the list that said that X amount of microphones had been lost within X amount of time. There was also a shorter list under there. Not really a shorter list. I should say a longer list under there describing the needs of this event. And I just went ahead and I said, of course, give the guys whatever they need.
[00:16:54] Speaker A: Thank you.
[00:16:54] Speaker D: They're geniuses. They're going to work. They're going to do it.
[00:16:57] Speaker C: Thank you for lying for us.
[00:16:58] Speaker A: Thank you.
[00:16:59] Speaker B: Hello.
[00:17:00] Speaker D: As a patron of the art, what's up?
[00:17:02] Speaker B: Excuse me. Sorry, everybody. I don't mean to interrupt. It's me, Joel.
[00:17:07] Speaker A: Oh, Joel.
[00:17:08] Speaker B: Yeah. Hi, Mike.
[00:17:09] Speaker A: Big Coquette ish blush and giggling behind his.
[00:17:14] Speaker B: Joel. Mike, I will say that I can't work under these conditions. This is too much. This is too much.
[00:17:24] Speaker A: What's wrong, Joel?
[00:17:25] Speaker B: I can't make this happen.
Listen, there's a three month old baby.
He can't even stick a disco point. This is insane. How am I supposed to work under these conditions?
I can't get this. Joel, you left me in charge. Little baby Kira, and yet she won't listen to me.
[00:17:50] Speaker D: I can't deal with it now, I don't want to stick my foot where it doesn't belong, but I have a certain way of speaking with that's what.
[00:17:56] Speaker B: She does all the time. That's the.
[00:18:00] Speaker D: Just if you would let me have a moment with yes, please.
[00:18:04] Speaker A: Please. We'll go over here and work on the curtain.
[00:18:08] Speaker B: Alex, someone probably should also drive Stella.
[00:18:11] Speaker A: To the no, I can call somebody. We'll see.
[00:18:16] Speaker C: Yeah, ghostbusters, maybe.
[00:18:18] Speaker A: Yes, I will. Well, Ray Parker, Jr. At least let me get on the phone with Ray Parker, Jr. Yeah, all right.
[00:18:25] Speaker C: We'll do that off screen.
[00:18:27] Speaker D: Joel?
That is your name, Joel?
[00:18:29] Speaker A: Yes?
[00:18:30] Speaker B: Yes, that's right.
[00:18:31] Speaker D: Joel, honey, tell me how old you are.
[00:18:35] Speaker B: I'm 43.
[00:18:36] Speaker D: 43. Joel, you love to dance, right?
[00:18:41] Speaker B: Things I've ever known.
[00:18:42] Speaker D: You love to perform.
[00:18:45] Speaker B: Love it more than anything.
[00:18:46] Speaker D: The limelight, the lights, people. Joel, Joel, Joel, Joel, Joel.
[00:18:53] Speaker B: You get it. You get it? Yes. Thank you.
[00:18:57] Speaker D: Tell me what's bothering you about Kira.
[00:19:00] Speaker B: She doesn't understand it yet. She doesn't follow instructions.
[00:19:05] Speaker D: How old is Kira?
[00:19:07] Speaker B: She's three months old.
[00:19:09] Speaker D: Now, that's the age where young professionals really begin to grow their roots. And it's up to you, Joel, standing here in your big, masculine, I'm a dancer, I'm a performer energy.
You are responsible for showing young Kira what it takes to be a dancer. You need to push her. You need to tell her that she can do this. Broken ankle or not, the show must go on.
[00:19:35] Speaker B: Kira, you're right. You're absolutely don't. If I don't stand in Kira's way or if I don't help Kira no.
[00:19:46] Speaker D: You can stand in her way, foreshadow her that these assholes out here aren't going to take what she's giving them. She has to do more. She has to push herself. But also remember, come from a place of love. Don't come from a place of hate.
[00:20:04] Speaker B: Of course. The only thing I know is love. The only thing I know is dance and love. That's all I got. That's all I got.
[00:20:09] Speaker D: Dance and love. Now go be joel.
[00:20:16] Speaker B: You are incredible. I'm going to dedicate my next solo work to you.
[00:20:20] Speaker D: Thank you, Val.
[00:20:21] Speaker A: Right, marie.
[00:20:24] Speaker D: Julie. Goodbye.
[00:20:25] Speaker B: Oh, Marie. All right, let's go see Joel take off. Sprinting towards the stroller Val did.
[00:20:33] Speaker C: Where'd Joel go? Is he on his way back to Australia?
[00:20:37] Speaker D: Joel should be, if Kira hasn't gone yet. Looking for Kira to give talk a.
[00:20:44] Speaker A: Little thank you for solve that problem just like that.
[00:20:48] Speaker D: Yeah, I did tell him that my name is Marie just in case he is shit and dedicates his next work to me.
[00:20:55] Speaker A: Well, that works for us because, I mean, we do have to get through the rest of the family, so Marie doesn't really matter the quality. It's more of like just a stay on theme kind of thing. Ray Parker Jr. By the way, cannot come and help Stella. He's being sued by Huey Lewis. So lot of attention there.
Good job, Alex.
So I think I'll just drive her to the hospital. Why don't you guys get started? St. Raymond's right? You think with our insurance? Yeah, because we've been going there a lot. I'm worried we're coming up against our oh, yeah.
[00:21:30] Speaker C: Here, take the punch.
[00:21:31] Speaker A: Oh, good, good.
[00:21:32] Speaker C: We're only a few away from our.
[00:21:33] Speaker A: Sandwich, so that means we're one step closer to that foot long.
[00:21:37] Speaker B: Yeah. There you go.
[00:21:38] Speaker A: All right, I'm going to go. Good luck. Get started talking about the episode because I really do not want this to be a very long episode. Don't want all the crazy stuff to happen. We got to get this recital, got to make it successful. Brad Garrett is coming. Maybe. Okay, I'll be right back.
[00:21:54] Speaker B: The one time that we don't have.
[00:21:56] Speaker A: Anything happening, I'm gone. Goodbye.
[00:21:58] Speaker C: Goodbye, Adam.
[00:21:59] Speaker D: Bye.
[00:22:00] Speaker C: I don't want to talk about this episode, guys.
[00:22:03] Speaker B: But we have mean I guess my question overall is was there any good part of the.
[00:22:14] Speaker C: When I liked when Judy's friends said to Robert, got your cuffs. Thought that was very funny.
[00:22:21] Speaker B: Oh, yes, sirsa. Sarisa was funny. I do agree with that.
[00:22:25] Speaker C: She was flirting with Robert.
I respected that. But aside from that, I kind of liked Robert's dancing. I thought it was kind of stupid in a fun way. I liked the line, we're Italian. Robert whack means something else to us.
[00:22:43] Speaker B: I will say that generally the beginning of this episode was also pretty tame and pretty funny. I was going to ask Val, have you ever been in Robert's shoes where you just are in such a rut that you don't know what to do.
[00:22:57] Speaker D: With yourself constantly and always?
[00:23:00] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:23:01] Speaker D: There are just very relatable where you're not doing it you're in the funk.
[00:23:08] Speaker B: Very relatable. I found that to be very relatable. I actually thought it was kind of adorable that Robert got to the point where he was just so excited to be with his family and with his nephews and stuff like that, that he was just like, no, I can't possibly go out. I can't possibly go out on a date.
I have Mike and Jeff to worry about. I thought that was very funny.
[00:23:31] Speaker C: Definitely the best job of the episode, mike and Jeff.
[00:23:35] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:23:36] Speaker C: Staying at the beginning of the episode, I feel like Robert and Judy's chemistry was really strong. Just like when Robert is just like himself. I feel like that you do see like six years of friendship there, but like, work friendship, if that makes sense.
[00:23:56] Speaker B: Kind of like the two of us.
[00:23:58] Speaker D: That part might have been the highlight of the episode for me, I won't lie.
[00:24:01] Speaker B: Oh, absolutely.
[00:24:02] Speaker D: You could turn that episode off, right? She clocked him in the first 5 seconds by saying, you don't have friends, you have nephews. And that was hilarious.
[00:24:11] Speaker B: That was great. She owned it was over from then on in.
[00:24:14] Speaker C: It made me realize that Robert really doesn't have any.
[00:24:23] Speaker B: He's got champsky. He's kind of got Judy, who I think he basically loses over the course of this episode. And that's more or less it from what I remember.
[00:24:32] Speaker C: I think they are still like partners and remain friends in future episodes, which is nice, but I can't be too sure.
[00:24:41] Speaker A: Excuse me, are you talking about the episode of Everybody Loves Raymond?
[00:24:47] Speaker C: Oh, look, a British man.
[00:24:48] Speaker B: Yes, we are.
[00:24:49] Speaker A: Yes, I'm British by way of Italy and Russia. I'm very cosmopolitan. You can't really place my accent. I've heard it before. My name is Nikolai. I'm one of the just I really wanted to tell you some things that I knew about this episode. If you could indulge me. I know it's not my place, I know I'm B team, but granted. Thank you. Granted, of course.
[00:25:14] Speaker B: No, tell us.
[00:25:15] Speaker A: And Nikolai is looking at Mike very seductively.
[00:25:22] Speaker B: Well, I just nikolai, my eyes are up.
[00:25:27] Speaker A: I just I've seen how you are with Joel and I well, it's stupid. Never mind. So Judy mentions that Robert was dating a woman and I believe she's referring to Leanne, the woman from season three, episode twelve, the toaster that Robert went skiing with. Just wanted to drop that fact and make sure that we covered it. Or you covered it. Sorry, I don't mean to overstep.
[00:25:53] Speaker B: You're a big fan of the show, aren't you, Nikolai?
[00:25:57] Speaker A: I am.
[00:25:57] Speaker B: Do you like Just for the dance? Did you come in here just for the dance or are you a regular resident of Lynbrook?
[00:26:06] Speaker A: I do live in limbrook. After many years of traveling the globe, dancing with the Bolshey others, I settled in limbrook just because well, I'm going to Hofstra University. I'm getting my Master's in Fine Arts and I mean, do you like that? Is that cool? Do you think? Mike?
[00:26:28] Speaker B: I think that's pretty okay. I think that's pretty awesome. You seem very informed.
[00:26:35] Speaker A: I'm pretty informed, yeah. I listen to the show all the time. Listen to Everybody Loves Everybody Loves Raymond every week.
[00:26:43] Speaker C: Oh, he's starstruck.
[00:26:45] Speaker A: I'm a member. I even subscribe to the I just I'm just a huge fan. I hope it's not too it's great.
[00:26:56] Speaker B: It's great to talk to had I don't know, I've never met someone that's such a big fan of our work before.
[00:27:07] Speaker A: It's just such a great show. It's so short.
[00:27:10] Speaker B: Oh, brilliant. Brilliant. You see, Joel comes back over the shoulder just like oh, Marie. Marie, you were absolutely right. She's doing wonderfully. And I just oh. Hello.
[00:27:23] Speaker A: Hi, Joel.
[00:27:23] Speaker B: Who is this?
[00:27:25] Speaker A: Joel, it's me, Nikolai. I'm your understudy.
[00:27:28] Speaker B: Oh, Nikolai. That's right. It's a pleasure to see you.
I didn't see you standing over there.
[00:27:37] Speaker A: Most people don't see me standing there.
[00:27:40] Speaker B: They're missing out.
I'm sorry. I just wanted to say that Kia is doing wonderfully. His confidence has skyrocketed. It's just excellent.
[00:27:51] Speaker D: What did I tell you, Joel? All you have to do is be Joel.
[00:27:57] Speaker A: Live in Joel big eye roll.
[00:28:03] Speaker B: You're absolutely right. I never should have doubted you. She's actually taken to commend.
She's now leading the other three year olds in her she's leading three year olds in the dance. She's become quite the general herself. I just think such a rewarding experience.
[00:28:21] Speaker D: I love to see the little ones really step into their own and figure out who they are as performers. Quite young. And, you know, over there we've got another budding choreographer. Look at her co kick, flips pointed toes.
[00:28:37] Speaker B: It's quite crazy that she could do that before she could walk.
It's really quite excellent.
[00:28:46] Speaker A: Everybody Loves Joel.
Typical.
I mean, get a load of this guy, right, Mike?
Right?
He's such a loser. Right, Mike?
[00:28:59] Speaker B: I don't know about all that. He seems to be doing a pretty damn good job, if you ask me. But that's just me.
[00:29:09] Speaker A: And these guys, by the way, are standing in a literal love triangle, just to point that out.
[00:29:14] Speaker C: Hey, who painted this love triangle on the floor?
[00:29:17] Speaker A: Oh, that's awesome. We need that for the dance, for the big number where we all neuter. Shemsky.
[00:29:24] Speaker C: Why'd you paint it backstage?
[00:29:27] Speaker A: To set up it's on the floor. I don't have time to explain this to you. Very busy.
[00:29:33] Speaker D: You must leave the art.
[00:29:35] Speaker A: Sorry.
[00:29:35] Speaker C: Here, let me step out of the love triangle. It's getting a little crowded standing between the three of you.
[00:29:41] Speaker B: It seems to be a lot I don't know about all that. So you're painter too, nikolai that's quite impressive.
[00:29:50] Speaker A: I know it's not clear, but that wasn't me. I know that my accent is very muddled.
That was Klaus.
Well, he's sort of my we're sort of an item, but not really. I'm trying to get out of that. I'm looking for somebody a little know, a man with a podcast.
[00:30:14] Speaker D: Did somebody say a man with a podcast?
[00:30:18] Speaker A: Oh, who's this now? They introduced themselves. Oh, James. Hello, James.
[00:30:22] Speaker D: Did you meet James? James? Yes, I'm part of the C team. I heard there was a man with a podcast here, and, you know, I've been dying to start a love relationship with a man and a podcast.
[00:30:33] Speaker A: Oh, James is quite interesting. I'm feeling a little torn between James wait, sorry. James, do you have a podcast?
[00:30:42] Speaker D: I'm looking to start one, be in one, be married to a man who has one. Proximity to a podcast is really important.
[00:31:03] Speaker C: Oh, well, hang on. If anyone's going to get with anyone, you're going to get with Mike.
[00:31:09] Speaker A: Okay? What?
[00:31:10] Speaker C: We're making this happen.
[00:31:12] Speaker A: Okay, maybe james, hold on. I don't mike, you can so maybe James and Joel should get together.
Klaus, come over here and make this a square. Thank you, Klaus. Quick paint.
[00:31:28] Speaker B: I got to say, I don't need a podcast in my life. I just need a dancer. I need someone that knows how to dance, because that's all I've there are.
[00:31:38] Speaker C: Too many horny dancers back here. Where'd the rest of my crew go?
[00:31:42] Speaker A: I only have eyes for Mike. I know Mike is right here. I only have eyes for Mike.
[00:31:46] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm here. Joel's here. James is here. Val's over there somewhere. Yeah.
[00:31:52] Speaker D: I'm just watching this happen. I really find it very interesting that this is all occurring backstage. While the show may or may not be going on. When's the show supposed to start?
[00:32:02] Speaker B: About 45 minutes. We're good. We got time.
[00:32:05] Speaker A: I love this.
[00:32:06] Speaker B: Then might as well make this productive.
How about everybody go around and say one thing they thought about this episode of Everybody Loves Raymond?
[00:32:15] Speaker A: Okay. Mike, james?
[00:32:17] Speaker B: Well, Mike.
[00:32:18] Speaker A: Mike, you go first. Mike, go first because Mike always has the best opinions on the episodes.
[00:32:23] Speaker B: Everybody loves.
I don't know about that.
[00:32:26] Speaker C: Don't believe him, Mike. He's just going to agree with whatever you say.
[00:32:30] Speaker B: All right, well, listen, it's sometimes nice to have a hype man around here, as opposed to you and Adam.
This is a nice change every once in a while.
I will say, there were some moments in this episode that made me cringe quite a bit. There were a lot of those moments, actually. This was an uncomfortable watch, I think I got to say.
Am I the only one?
[00:32:57] Speaker A: No, I agree with you, Mike, for sure. Mike, what something that made you cringe?
[00:33:04] Speaker B: I will say the first scene that was questionable was just straight up when Robert and Judy were leaving the house.
And that whole bit where they just did a whole bit of Frank and Marie being deeply uncomfortable with even the passing possibility that maybe Robert was going on a date with a black woman. That whole conversation, yes. Me, no.
[00:33:31] Speaker A: Like, I was not. So the way. That they approached it. Sorry for speaking out of turn. I just have to say it, and I hope Mike finds this impressive that I'm speaking my mind.
Now.
[00:33:45] Speaker B: We've I find it impressive.
[00:33:48] Speaker A: Whatever. Now, we've seen in the past that Marie does this overcorrecting thing. We saw it at Bloomingdale's with the Jewish woman and her saying shalom, but with did I did find the line kind of funny. I would love to know how long this has been going on so I could be happy the whole time. Ray saying, even though she's black. Right. And Marie raising her eyebrows and going, Is she black? Very. I mean, classic Marie for sure. Troubling undertones, for sure. And then Frank just the whole time, mouth agape looking I don't even know how to describe what Frank looked like. I even watched this scene twice, and I couldn't really put into words. I don't know. James, what do you think?
[00:34:40] Speaker D: Well, I have to agree with all of the men who have a podcast. It was very uncomfortable to watch. And I didn't like the subtle racist undertones involved in this scene either. I'm a very thoughtful man, too.
[00:34:53] Speaker A: I don't know, Alex. I might be leaning so far. James, he is okay. He's like Mike, but he's just more attractive.
[00:35:02] Speaker B: It's hard to argue. James is a beautiful man. I will say the thing that really got me more than anything else, even besides just like Frank and Murray being uncomfortable, was just that it was just implied that just like, yeah, this is normal. This is just how it goes. It was like it wasn't like an explanation to it or anything. It was just kind of just like I don't know. The audience started laughing immediately when Robert and Judy left, and it took me until they started talking to realize, like, oh, we're supposed to immediately understand that they don't. Like, I just I don't know, something about that didn't sit right, that we were just supposed to pick up on that implication.
[00:35:48] Speaker A: Yeah, and I don't think we've seen Marie and Frank be, well, frank but I don't think we've seen Marie be like, well and it's difficult because there have been very few black people on the show ever.
[00:35:59] Speaker B: True.
[00:36:00] Speaker A: And no offense, Mike, I know you love this show. I don't want to make this is not a criticism of you. We just haven't no, I understand. Marie and Frank interact with non white people for the most part, and every know Frank brings up Korea, and that's always loaded. And again, this is not a criticism of you, Mike. You're very handsome.
[00:36:22] Speaker B: I understand that. I am very handsome, and I appreciate that, Nikolai, but you've established yourself as the real expert on you and now race. Yeah, exactly. I got a bow to you.
[00:36:35] Speaker A: Oh, I wish. Anyway, Alex, did you have any thoughts?
[00:36:40] Speaker C: Not much that hasn't already been said. This whole idea is just like it's built on a bunch of stereotypes and just overall deeply uncomfortable. There are definitely parts of this episode that I thought were good parts that were pretty far away from the main issues.
Liked. I think Rey himself was fine in the episode.
I don't think he did anything terribly wrong.
And I loved the talk he gave to Robert at the end because it stopped being really know Robert, I think. Let's move forward.
[00:37:27] Speaker A: Yeah. My only thing with Ray in this scene is that he doesn't really like he gently teases Marie and Frank for being racist, basically, and doesn't push any harder on that. I mean, maybe he has tried in the past. I don't know.
[00:37:42] Speaker D: I think it's kind of funny that Raymond is now the voice of reason.
[00:37:50] Speaker A: Raisin.
[00:37:51] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:37:52] Speaker A: That he no, I was offering you I saw you had some carrots. I was offering you some sunmaids.
[00:37:58] Speaker D: Oh, my goodness. Thank you. That's honest. You're so thoughtful. And we just need a charcuterie board. Crafties isn't here. And I was kind of sad about that. I won't.
[00:38:08] Speaker A: You know, that's just me. Mike, were you impressed?
[00:38:12] Speaker B: Sure. Yeah, that's fine.
[00:38:13] Speaker A: I wasn't even looking. Sorry. Go on.
[00:38:15] Speaker B: Well, I was impressed.
[00:38:17] Speaker D: Well, there was a raisin. I also have raisins. That's besides the point.
[00:38:22] Speaker A: Interesting.
[00:38:23] Speaker D: Anyway, I'll take a raven. Here. Have raisins. James.
[00:38:28] Speaker A: Oh, wow. That's a whole basket. And you are dressed I don't know if this is part of this or you just haven't changed into your costume yet. You are dressed like the Sunmaid lady.
[00:38:39] Speaker D: Well, this is my side job. After the dancing, I go to the SUNMADE factory and then I get dressed and then I go out and I hand out raisins to people on the tour.
To people on the tour. People inside of the auditorium, in the concession stand, in the movie theater, in the mall. Sometimes I walk around the mall and I hand out raisins just to get the word out about raisins. I don't think enough people know about raisins. Yes. I have a variety of raisins for you to pick from.
[00:39:17] Speaker A: Wow. Would you mind? Seductively. I know this is more of a grapes thing. Seductively dangling those raisins into my mouth.
[00:39:26] Speaker D: I can make waterfalls.
[00:39:29] Speaker A: Oh, make it rain. Rains.
[00:39:32] Speaker D: Yeah, I'll make it rains in on you.
[00:39:36] Speaker A: Okay. I'm fully sorry, Mike. I'm fully to James now.
[00:39:41] Speaker B: That's fine with me.
[00:39:43] Speaker C: I don't blame him.
[00:39:45] Speaker D: Should we get out of here and.
[00:39:46] Speaker A: Make in the I'm pretty old man, so I'm in the end of the show. I'm in act three. So I think let's get out of here. When are you in the show? Because you're kind of a young, like, live tall.
[00:40:01] Speaker D: I'm at the beginning, which is why I'm going to be out of the costume soon and then go back into the raisin costume for intermission.
[00:40:09] Speaker A: Meet me in the broom closet at the start of act two. Deal.
[00:40:15] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:40:16] Speaker A: I'm going to go get ready for that.
[00:40:18] Speaker D: Me too. Goodbye.
[00:40:19] Speaker A: So long. Fuck you, Mike. Goodbye.
[00:40:22] Speaker B: Okay, this is getting very horny. It's actually getting pretty close to showtime. I really hope that Adam was able to get to the hospital in time with Stella.
[00:40:33] Speaker A: Please let me in. Look, we're here on behalf of Mike G. This is Stella. She broke her ankle. She's got an obtuse ankle. No, Mike G. Mike Jamaica. He's the choreographer.
[00:40:47] Speaker B: I don't know about that.
[00:40:48] Speaker A: All right, let me try the other one. So, do you know France?
[00:40:53] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:40:54] Speaker A: Okay, good. I only had to go down one. I didn't even have to go to microphone.
[00:40:57] Speaker B: Yeah, no, that's right. I remember mycicle France. That guy owes me money.
[00:41:02] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm sure he does. He owes me money, too. But can we please get her into the I don't know, ICU, maybe?
[00:41:11] Speaker B: Who is this?
[00:41:12] Speaker A: This is Stella. She's a dancer in the Robert Barone dance recital.
[00:41:17] Speaker B: Hey, Stella. Stella. Stella.
Hey, don't cry. It's bad for the ankle.
[00:41:26] Speaker A: It's rough.
[00:41:30] Speaker D: I don't know why we had to walk five blocks, but it was too many blocks. Broken ankle?
[00:41:36] Speaker B: You can't walk on the broken ankle. That doesn't sound like a broken ankle. That sounds pretty okay.
[00:41:42] Speaker A: She can't walk on the broken ankle. And that sounds okay to you? What's your deal? Who are you?
Introduce yourself.
[00:41:53] Speaker B: I'm dr. Steve.
[00:42:00] Speaker A: You're out here in a black t.
[00:42:02] Speaker B: Shirt with your arms what are you talking about?
[00:42:04] Speaker A: In the emergency bay where the ambulances come in. You're out here in a black t shirt with your arms crossed and a clipboard. I thought you were a bouncer.
[00:42:13] Speaker B: I'm having a smoke. What do you want from me?
[00:42:16] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, that doesn't burn your armpit? You've got your cigarette down there. See the smoke coming out?
[00:42:23] Speaker B: No, not anymore. After I did, I had to do a few operations on myself, but I took out all the nerve endings in that armpit.
[00:42:29] Speaker A: Big biohacker, are you?
You got, like, NFC chip in your wrist so you can open doors and shit.
[00:42:38] Speaker B: Oh, that's a good idea. I never even thought of that.
[00:42:42] Speaker A: You.
[00:42:42] Speaker B: I like you.
[00:42:43] Speaker A: I like you, too. Dr. Steve, can we please come into.
[00:42:46] Speaker B: The oh, yeah, I guess so. Come on in.
[00:42:50] Speaker A: Thank you.
[00:42:50] Speaker B: Stella, how'd you break your ankle there?
[00:42:53] Speaker D: Well, I was trying to do like, three spins in a row as a pirouette, and that guy just got yelling at me in a bro because, I don't know, too much stress on my ankle or something.
[00:43:08] Speaker B: Yeah, I hear you. That sucks. I got to say, you can't do more than two spins in a row. There's so many young ladies out there that make this mistake all the friggin time. You can't go for a thread. It just don't work.
[00:43:24] Speaker A: I've seen video evidence that you can do three spins in a row. I've seen Brad on the popular television program Everybody Loves Raymond.
[00:43:33] Speaker B: It's got to be CGI. Can't be reelect.
[00:43:37] Speaker A: I mean, it was Jurassic Park. It could have been CGI.
[00:43:40] Speaker B: It could have been CGI. Yeah. Listen, jurassic park changed everything.
[00:43:44] Speaker A: Hold on. Let me send. I'm just going to cold DM. Phil Rosenthal. Was that CGI. He'll know what I'm talking about. Send. All right, we'll see if he answers.
I didn't realize I had that turned on.
[00:43:57] Speaker B: I'm telling you, I'll put money. Hey, I'll bet you $4,000 okay. That that was CGI right there.
[00:44:05] Speaker A: And I'll bet you $4,000 that it wasn't.
We have a deal?
[00:44:10] Speaker B: Great.
[00:44:10] Speaker A: Okay. Can we get her into surgery? Yeah. Putting it there.
[00:44:14] Speaker B: Lily needs surgery for she broke the ankle. We're not going to change out the ankle. You want to change out the ankle?
[00:44:19] Speaker A: I thought that would be something you'd be interested in, like putting in, like, a robotic ankle for her.
[00:44:25] Speaker B: Oh, I could do that. That actually sounds really cool. Hey, Stella. What? Do you want your new ankle?
[00:44:30] Speaker D: Well, it would be really nice if we could make it more like a ballerina's foot.
Just like a permanent ballerina foot.
[00:44:40] Speaker A: If you could also, Dr. Steve, maybe put in some sort of pivot on it so that she know three spins will be nothing and she can go in.
[00:44:52] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Hold on. It's not your ankle we're getting this I'm sorry ankle that we're getting here.
[00:44:57] Speaker D: I think we should roll out a whiteboard and say all the possibilities that I could have with a new ankle, and I'll check off what I want and what I don't want. But first, can I get, like, pain meds so that I don't keep feeling this pain of a broken foot for.
[00:45:14] Speaker A: Sure in the hospital?
[00:45:17] Speaker B: No, it's fine. I took out the fire alarm just so I could do that.
[00:45:21] Speaker A: Took out the fire alarm?
[00:45:23] Speaker B: Yeah. I got to get in my sinkies. What do you want from need? I need a hard batch of opioids. I need heroin. I need methamphetamines. I need all that crap real quick.
[00:45:40] Speaker A: Place to try.
[00:45:41] Speaker C: I have that all in my back pocket.
[00:45:43] Speaker B: Yeah. Can we also get the Tylenol for Stella?
[00:45:45] Speaker C: Oh, I got to go inside for that one.
[00:45:48] Speaker A: Dr. Steve, now that you've unfurled your arms, you have so many track marks. Are you okay?
[00:45:55] Speaker B: I'm doing great. I don't know what you're talking about.
This is Tuesday, baby. Come on.
[00:46:00] Speaker A: Yeah, this place has gone downhill, I got to say. Maybe it's our fault for coming in here so often, but God oh, you're regulus. Yeah. Look, here's my punch card, and I believe we're entitled to two in this case, right, Stella?
[00:46:13] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:46:14] Speaker A: All right.
[00:46:14] Speaker B: You got punched twice. Who punched you twice?
[00:46:16] Speaker A: Mike f your friend.
[00:46:18] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. That's a guy that owes me money. That's right. Okay.
[00:46:21] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, I'm sure you've punched him once or twice. Most people.
[00:46:24] Speaker B: Oh, I'm going to punch him a lot.
And now that I know that he.
[00:46:28] Speaker A: Punches, can I modify our bet.
[00:46:31] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:46:32] Speaker A: Which I don't actually remember what it was at this particular moment.
[00:46:35] Speaker B: Oh was robert Kerning CGI. Yeah.
[00:46:39] Speaker A: If it wasn't CGI, you just got to let it go with Mike. Clean slate.
[00:46:46] Speaker B: Clean Slate.
[00:46:47] Speaker A: Yeah. It's a liability for me to have somebody who wants to kill him out and know active Vendetta. He's got enough of those.
Clean slate. Deal. And then if it was CGI, point blank to the head deal.
[00:47:14] Speaker B: Yeah, you got it. That's great. Yeah. No, I like that. That's a good shit. That's a good shit.
Deal. All right, Stella, so we got many different options for you on your new ankle.
We can make it pink. We could make it spin a lot. We could give you rocket boosters. What do you want? We can make anything happen.
[00:47:36] Speaker C: Let's put in a cup holder. I'm the nurse again.
[00:47:39] Speaker A: Smart.
[00:47:39] Speaker B: Oh, thank you, Jenny. Yeah, we could do cup holders. You want a cup holder? Yeah.
[00:47:43] Speaker D: Can we make it bluetooth so that I can listen to music on it, too?
[00:47:48] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. No question about it. But we do have to choose. Do you want to do Apple Music or Spotify?
[00:47:56] Speaker D: So, I'm on the family plan for Apple Music right now, but I've been waiting to do the transition over into Spotify. If I can get my playlists onto Spotify before surgery, we can go.
[00:48:10] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. No, we can do that. That's no problem.
[00:48:13] Speaker A: I can work on that. And, you know, the good news is, by the way, whichever one you go with, everybody Loves, Everybody Loves Raymond is on Apple podcasts and Spotify, and, in fact, all major podcast platforms. So just putting that out there. Nurse, let's go.
[00:48:27] Speaker B: If you want, we could do two ankles. The other ankle is perfectly fine, but we could get rid of that. Put the other one in. So we could get Apple Music and Spotify. One on the left, one on the right. You want to do that?
[00:48:38] Speaker D: There are limitless options here. Yeah, I think I'm going to go Pandora on this.
[00:48:45] Speaker B: That's a good old school. Hey, what do you think of that, Jenny? This lady that wants to go old.
[00:48:52] Speaker C: School here, I don't like it.
[00:48:54] Speaker B: Jenny, be nice to the lady.
She's got two punch cuts. Come on here.
[00:49:01] Speaker C: Oh, shit. Sorry. She lifts up her armpit and presses a little button and, like, some cola dispenses here.
[00:49:11] Speaker A: This hospital is fucked.
[00:49:14] Speaker D: The cola.
[00:49:16] Speaker B: Raymond, baby. 20 minutes. 20 minutes. We go on in 20 minutes.
[00:49:21] Speaker D: Are you excited? Are you pumped? Do you have everything you need?
[00:49:25] Speaker B: And kind of terrified? I left several carrots and several slices of bread on Brad Garrett's seat, and he is not here, and that makes me very nervous.
[00:49:33] Speaker C: Did you position the carrot so that it's, like, pointing straight up with the two breads on the either side to make sure that it stays in the upward position?
[00:49:42] Speaker B: That's a good idea. That way he makes that's a good way to make sure that he sees the carrot before he sits down. Right?
[00:49:49] Speaker C: Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
[00:49:52] Speaker B: Yeah, we can do that. We can do that.
[00:49:54] Speaker A: Knock, knock.
[00:49:56] Speaker C: Who are you?
[00:49:57] Speaker A: Hi. I'm keep this on the down low.
I'm Brad Garrett's manager.
[00:50:04] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. You're the one who controls Brad Garrett's future?
[00:50:09] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, it's a partnership, 10%, but yeah, I'm his manager. My name is that's pretty cool. My name is Ryan, and I just wanted to come and make sure that are you the organizers? Are you the organizers of the event? Is security all locked?
Yeah, I guess it's kind of a binary question, sir. Are you the organizer of the event or are you not?
[00:50:36] Speaker B: He's the organizer.
[00:50:37] Speaker C: I'm the organizer. Hello.
[00:50:40] Speaker A: Please introduce yourself.
[00:50:43] Speaker C: No, I don't like your attitude, man.
[00:50:46] Speaker A: Hey, this is how it is in Hollywood, baby. You gotta be prepared to come in hot.
[00:50:52] Speaker D: This is how it is in Hollywood. You might want to get oh, Val.
[00:50:55] Speaker A: So good to see hi, how are you?
[00:50:58] Speaker C: I'll just step aside.
[00:50:59] Speaker A: I haven't seen you since the Golden Globes. You are looking fantastic, by the way, as always.
[00:51:05] Speaker D: Thank you.
[00:51:05] Speaker A: You have swan dress. Yes, of course.
[00:51:09] Speaker D: How's everybody?
[00:51:11] Speaker A: The kids are good. Sarah's in junior year at Ostra. She's getting her Bachelor's of Fine Arts. And you know, Michael is going to Sarah Lawrence for fire science.
[00:51:25] Speaker D: Fire science?
[00:51:26] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:51:29] Speaker B: Lawrence Alum. That's great. That's awesome. Oh.
[00:51:31] Speaker A: Did you go to Sarah Lawrence?
[00:51:33] Speaker B: Yeah. Back in the 80s. Yeah.
[00:51:35] Speaker A: All right.
[00:51:35] Speaker B: Fighting Sarah's.
[00:51:36] Speaker D: Well, you know what they say. There's always something weird with the water. The new kids are getting everything. US old people don't get anything at all.
[00:51:44] Speaker A: Of course, these new young kids.
[00:51:47] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:51:47] Speaker A: You know, it's hard being an aging manager in the business with these new young hotshots coming out, but Brad's always been very good to me. So my question, how is security at this building? Is it safe for him to enter?
[00:52:02] Speaker B: Oh, Screech does a great job. He's got his buddy Josephite over there, too. He's great. Yeah, I did notice.
[00:52:12] Speaker A: This is kind of a religious institute.
This is all, like run of the know, centrist kind of no feathers being ruffled kind of religious is not because Brad doesn't necessarily want to be associated with some sort of fringe movement.
[00:52:31] Speaker B: Well, this is the young Christian men's center.
[00:52:33] Speaker A: The young Christian men's center. Oh, did I get the wrong place? We were supposed to go to the Christian Men's center.
[00:52:40] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, this is the right spot.
[00:52:46] Speaker A: Mayor Alex cut outside to see a group of young men, all with hula hoops being kept outside by Screech, who is telling them that they are not allowed to come in, even though they have their recital booked at the same time.
[00:53:03] Speaker B: No, you can't do it. No, not at all. I can't make this happen.
[00:53:08] Speaker A: But we're hoping for Jesus, sir.
[00:53:11] Speaker D: We're hoping for the Lord.
[00:53:13] Speaker B: Hey, listen, I don't know what to tell you. We got a Robert we're raising money.
[00:53:17] Speaker A: To go on a mission to Mars.
[00:53:21] Speaker D: Yeah. We're going to go to Mars and we're going to build houses.
[00:53:23] Speaker A: We're going to build houses for Christians on Mars.
[00:53:28] Speaker B: There's no Christians on Mars.
[00:53:32] Speaker D: They don't have any houses.
[00:53:34] Speaker A: Who are you going to without houses? Guild of Dreams rules, sir. If we build it, they will come.
[00:53:41] Speaker B: I don't know how they're going to get there because not everybody has spaceships.
[00:53:47] Speaker D: That's our project.
But primarily we're raising money to get the houses up so that we can then get the spaceship to then move everybody that's Christian to Mars. We can live on Mars and have a Christian Mars.
[00:54:00] Speaker A: Christian Mars is going to be a theocratic global state where only Christians can come and we can leave this damned world behind.
[00:54:09] Speaker B: I feel like you're skipping some steps. You're putting money in the houses. You're not worried about the spaceships. I feel like the spaceships are the hardest part.
[00:54:17] Speaker A: Charge of this.
[00:54:19] Speaker D: We're here to raise the money.
[00:54:21] Speaker A: We have been told a specific mission statement that we are repeating to you.
[00:54:27] Speaker B: Okay, that's great. I can't let you in.
[00:54:29] Speaker A: Do you want to speak to our chaperone?
[00:54:32] Speaker B: I would love to speak to your chaperone.
[00:54:35] Speaker C: Hello, I'm their chaperone.
[00:54:36] Speaker A: Mr. Rick, this guy wants to speak. He doesn't believe that we're going to send Christians to Mars.
[00:54:42] Speaker C: No, that's the One large step for Jesus project.
[00:54:48] Speaker A: And it's not like one small step for Jesus or one giant leap for Jesus.
[00:54:53] Speaker C: No, it's one large step.
[00:54:56] Speaker D: One large step for Jesus.
[00:54:57] Speaker A: Because the giant leap is Jupiter.
[00:54:59] Speaker C: Yeah, that's phase two, I got to say.
[00:55:03] Speaker B: Listen, you're putting this stuff in. You can't come in. We got a Robert Barone, obviously, we got a Robert Barone issue here. We got a Robert Barone dance recital. We can't have you can come with us.
I can come with you tomorrow. I don't know if I want to go to Mars.
[00:55:24] Speaker D: Have you heard that?
[00:55:25] Speaker A: Do you believe in the light and love of Jesus Christ?
[00:55:29] Speaker B: Come on.
[00:55:29] Speaker C: I feel like there's plenty of room on the cruiser ship. We got to go.
[00:55:34] Speaker D: Amen. What's your name?
[00:55:36] Speaker A: And that's not to be confused with the because we're also raising money for a company that does Christian sea voyages, the cruises, ships. This is just a singular.
[00:55:49] Speaker B: Your name is your travel vessel. You think we're starting with the name Deadly Object?
[00:55:56] Speaker D: I think we have great ideas and that it's time to take Christianity interplanetary.
[00:56:02] Speaker A: Look, we're a small group that's just the three of us, and we have deeply held ideals.
[00:56:08] Speaker B: All right, listen.
[00:56:21] Speaker A: So the security pretty tight or no.
[00:56:25] Speaker B: Yeah, no. Screech doesn't let anything go by. It's great. It's awesome.
[00:56:29] Speaker A: All right, I will radio to Control and have them fly him in. Helipad structurally sound or is there one typically where we go, there's a helipad?
[00:56:43] Speaker B: We could put one up there.
[00:56:44] Speaker C: There's one on the roof. There's just the roof.
[00:56:47] Speaker A: That'll do.
[00:56:49] Speaker B: We could just paint a big H on it.
[00:56:51] Speaker D: What's his name? What's? The guy that did the triangle on the ground. He's really good.
[00:56:57] Speaker B: Oh, Klaus.
[00:56:57] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:56:58] Speaker D: Go get Klaus.
[00:56:59] Speaker B: Klaus.
[00:56:59] Speaker D: Tell him to draw target.
[00:57:00] Speaker C: Klaus, make an H on the roof.
[00:57:02] Speaker A: Hello. Make an H on the roof. Yeah, I can do that. I can paint any shape on the ground.
Hello, sir. I'm Klaus. Nice to meet you. Hello, Klaus. You're a painter? Yes. I'm trying to get into the game. It's very difficult, the art world. It's hard when you don't have representation.
Well, I'm always looking for new clients, val these young hotshots, they're coming in, scooping up all the good.
Almost.
I almost got Warhol near the end of his life when he was really desperate. Yeah, but unfortunately, he passed, apparently.
[00:57:38] Speaker D: Hey, well, you need to grab a hold on to Klaus. He came in here, there was a love triangle going on, unbeknownst to any of us. Drew the love triangle down, even got some paint on some people. And then it became a square instantaneous. A square on the ground.
[00:57:53] Speaker A: Triangle to square. I've never heard of something all right, Klaus, I'm going to come up to the roof with you, and we'll see how you do on this H. And that this might be the beginning of a good friendship here between you and I.
[00:58:05] Speaker B: We got to get ready. We got to make this happen.
This is becoming real. This is becoming Brad.
This is getting to be mike, what.
[00:58:16] Speaker C: Are you talking about? We still have, like, another 2 hours before the show begins. See? Look. 20 zero on the big countdown clock.
[00:58:25] Speaker B: Yeah, I think that's two minutes, sir. Oh, my God. Get everyone ready into position.
[00:58:32] Speaker A: Oh, my God. Everybody, places. Places, everybody. Let's go.
[00:58:35] Speaker D: Thank you. Fine.
[00:58:36] Speaker A: Thank you.
[00:58:38] Speaker C: Don't forget Clay.
[00:58:41] Speaker A: Oh, my God. I can't believe this is actually happening. James, can you believe this?
[00:58:45] Speaker D: This is crazy. I can't believe I think you're going I can't believe that I'm going to be young.
[00:58:50] Speaker A: Raymond, you are going to be so good. I cannot wait to see you. I will be watching on some monitors in the back.
[00:58:57] Speaker D: Do you think? This button up shirt and these regular jeans with this regular belt and boots? Reeds. Teen rob.
[00:59:06] Speaker A: It looks so authentic. It looks even more authentic than any of the flashback episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond that we've seen where they're supposedly in the 70s. This is the 70s. You look amazing. Thank you. I look forward to taking it off of you later in the broom closet.
[00:59:24] Speaker D: Oh, the broom closet. I can't wait.
[00:59:28] Speaker A: And then you can help me put on my old Robert makeup.
[00:59:32] Speaker D: Oh, you're going to look so handsome as old Robert.
[00:59:35] Speaker A: I hope so.
[00:59:37] Speaker B: Here's me, everybody.
[00:59:38] Speaker A: Hello, Joel.
[00:59:39] Speaker B: Me Joel.
[00:59:40] Speaker A: Hello, Joel. We don't have a ton of time. Joel, what do you I just I.
[00:59:46] Speaker B: Just want to just listen. If there's anything I can do, Nicole, to make you realize that I'm the one for you, I think I can make that work.
[00:59:53] Speaker D: I can do on hold on. I didn't know that my man was the center of so much debate. Nikolai jinx.
[01:00:03] Speaker B: You took him away from me to begin with, and now you're playing dumb. You don't know.
[01:00:09] Speaker D: I'm so smart. I knew this was going to happen, and that's why I'm going back to Mike.
[01:00:14] Speaker A: What?
[01:00:15] Speaker B: You wouldn't.
[01:00:17] Speaker D: I would. He'll eat my raisins.
[01:00:23] Speaker B: Maybe.
You go ahead. You go back to Mike. You tell him all that you've done. I'm sure that he will appreciate all your life.
[01:00:30] Speaker D: This is your last chance to keep me in the broom closet with you.
Who's it going to be? Me or Joel?
[01:00:40] Speaker B: I am the star. Come on.
[01:00:42] Speaker A: Well, I am your understudy, Joel.
[01:00:44] Speaker B: I'm regular Robert.
[01:00:46] Speaker A: I am your understudy for regular Robert. I am starring as old Robert, but I could get double the stage time. Joel, I'll choose you if you step down from the role. And James, if he doesn't do that, I will choose you by default.
[01:01:04] Speaker D: I have feelings about this decision, but I will wait to see what Joel's response is.
[01:01:09] Speaker A: Joel, it's now all in your very.
[01:01:11] Speaker B: I feel like kira will be very upset if I decide to step down after all of the pep talks that I gave her.
[01:01:19] Speaker A: 1 minute.
[01:01:19] Speaker B: Become quick.
[01:01:20] Speaker D: Thank you.
[01:01:24] Speaker B: Kira will have to wait. I will drop everything. You're now regular Robert.
[01:01:29] Speaker A: And, Joel, you're now meeting me in the broom closet in act two.
[01:01:35] Speaker B: Hell, yeah.
[01:01:39] Speaker A: James runs into Mike's arms.
[01:01:45] Speaker B: That's okay. Come here.
[01:01:48] Speaker D: I don't think I can go on as young Robert any longer than this. The show is about to start in 54 seconds.
[01:01:57] Speaker B: Yeah, I was going to say I kind of need you right now. We don't have a lot of time to play around with here.
[01:02:02] Speaker D: Could you well, Joel and Nikolai have gotten together.
[01:02:09] Speaker B: Joel's gotten with Nikolai?
Yeah.
That's great for them.
[01:02:18] Speaker D: It's horrible. What are you talking about?
[01:02:20] Speaker B: It's the worst thing that could have.
[01:02:21] Speaker D: Ever happened to me personally. Me.
[01:02:24] Speaker B: I understand. I understand. James.
[01:02:27] Speaker A: Hey, everybody, listen.
[01:02:28] Speaker B: Hey.
[01:02:30] Speaker A: Oh, 30 seconds. This is exciting.
Hey, guys. I'm back from the hospital. Mike, did you know I just got a text from Joel that he thinks it would be really the most attractive thing I had had? This this is weird. This is a conversation I was having with him. He said the most attractive thing to him is somebody performing in a dance recital as young Robert barone. I don't know. I just thought it was funny to me. I hated it. So I just thought I would bring that up to you, because I don't know.
[01:03:01] Speaker B: I can do it. I can dance.
Let's go. Let's let's make this magic happen. As the timer ticks to zero, curtain pulls back. The baby kira is on the stage, and a small army of toddlers is behind her. And the show begins.
[01:03:24] Speaker A: It's important that we come up here and greet Brad. I think that's him. I think that's his helicopter. Oh, my God.
[01:03:30] Speaker D: I'm so finally going to meet the guy. This is amazing.
[01:03:33] Speaker A: Do you think we should bring up the I mean, we got to talk about know at some point.
Robert walking into that, know, bouncing by Fred Mosby playing and meeting Judy's friends, just so awkward.
[01:03:54] Speaker D: Well, do you think it's triggering that he can hear the music of the recital?
[01:03:58] Speaker A: Which, of course, is it starts off with Fred mosby bouncing. So that might be he might just.
[01:04:05] Speaker B: Be that in real life. Brad Garrett has mentioned that he considers this to be one of his favorite everybody loves Raymond episodes.
[01:04:17] Speaker A: Really? That's interesting.
[01:04:19] Speaker B: Yeah, that's interesting.
[01:04:22] Speaker A: Well, I don't know how I feel about that. Maybe he just likes that he got to dance.
I don't know.
[01:04:29] Speaker B: I don't know.
He said that in 2005, so we have a lot of episodes to flash back on. He listed this as, like, one of the best.
[01:04:38] Speaker D: Well, in 2005, I guess you could have said anything and it would have been fine.
[01:04:43] Speaker A: That's true.
[01:04:43] Speaker D: Television.
[01:04:44] Speaker A: The Bush era. Second Bush. Bush had just gotten reelected.
[01:04:48] Speaker D: Bush two. Even Bushier.
[01:04:50] Speaker A: Bush two part two. Even Bushier.
[01:04:53] Speaker C: More bush.
[01:04:54] Speaker A: More bush.
[01:04:56] Speaker D: To George.
[01:04:58] Speaker C: To Bush.
[01:04:59] Speaker A: To George. To Bush. And Bush. George W. Bush. Tokyo drift, obviously.
[01:05:05] Speaker D: And Bush to you and to all of.
[01:05:11] Speaker A: You. You know, it's interesting about that club scene because we met two guest stars. We always like to give a little brief rundown of the guest stars. We met two Judy's friends.
We never got the actual name of the first one. Judy calls him boo as, like, an affectionate thing. And then Robert calls him boo thinking that's his name, but we never get his actual name. He's actually credited as man number one. That's Keevey Rogers. He is a stand up who has been on the tonight show with leno, of course. Mike big fan, def jam. Def comedy jam, last comic standing. He's in a few sitcoms. And also Mike, interesting, was on the west wing. I know you're a fan. He played paramedic number six. Do you remember paramedic number six?
[01:05:59] Speaker B: Iconic role. Can't forget him.
[01:06:01] Speaker A: This episode where there were six paramedics. What was going on?
[01:06:06] Speaker B: Probably, if I had to take a guess, it's probably the episode where the president got shot.
[01:06:10] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, I remember that. Spoilers.
[01:06:12] Speaker B: Yeah, spoilers for the west wing.
[01:06:15] Speaker A: That was the first time I learned about the 25th amendment.
[01:06:19] Speaker B: Or it might be the episode where might be the episode where they got Zoe back after she was kidnapped by those terrorists. The beginning.
[01:06:28] Speaker A: I remember that, too. Yeah, there were a lot of paramedics in 15 years, maybe. No, that. Doesn't make any sense. I haven't seen this show in like ten years for sure, but I do vaguely remember that. And he was in Romeo and Michelle's high school reunion as well.
And I'm going to draw connections to previous guest stars. Kristen Bauer, who played Lisa in season one, episode 15. The car was also in Rome. How can you forget her high school reunion? His IMDb says he's done 15 USO tours, loves the troops. Good for him.
I sent him an Instagram DM about an hour and a half ago and he has not responded. I just wanted to see if he had anything to say about this.
[01:07:14] Speaker B: If he responds before this episode is done being published, his response will go here, and if that's blank, then they never replied.
[01:07:25] Speaker A: Then he never replied. The other one is Judy's friend, Sirisa, who's played by Shelley Robertson. She wants to fuck Robert, not Shelly Robertson. Sorry, Theresa does. Shelly Robertson is another one of our classic been on one of everything type of guest stars. Plays a cop a lot. She's on every CSI and NCIS variation as different characters. Again. The West Wing. Mike she was Ronnie Burke's mother. Brenda Burke. Does that mean anything to you?
[01:07:55] Speaker B: No, but I have a feeling if I Google it, it probably will.
[01:07:58] Speaker A: Okay, do that later. And she was also on the newsroom, so she's in the Sorkin verse.
[01:08:03] Speaker B: Oh, I love the newsroom.
[01:08:04] Speaker A: I don't remember what she was credit. She might have just been credited as like, woman or something in that.
[01:08:09] Speaker B: Right?
[01:08:10] Speaker A: Do you remember?
[01:08:12] Speaker B: No, I don't remember that in particular.
[01:08:15] Speaker A: Her most recent role was four episodes of Bel Air, the dramatic reboot of The Fresh Prince. That's on Peacock Connection. She was in the short lived TV show based on Anthony Bourdain's book Kitchen Confidential that starred Bradley Cooper. So was Iqbal Theba, who played Ray's Doctor in season two, episode five, golf.
That's my new thing I'm going to be doing. Going to be connecting because these people overlap a lot. I've noticed.
[01:08:43] Speaker C: I wonder if they all get coffee once a year.
[01:08:46] Speaker A: I bet they do.
[01:08:48] Speaker B: They got it, right? They got it.
[01:08:49] Speaker A: Raymond Survivors Support Group.
But yeah, those are the guest stars. Any thoughts, concerns, questions, comments?
[01:09:00] Speaker B: I thought that the guest stars were I liked Sarisa, even though she only had three lines. I thought that she was funny. I thought she delivered it great.
[01:09:06] Speaker C: Yeah, I liked her too.
[01:09:08] Speaker A: You bring your handcuffs.
I love seeing people want to get with Robert for See because he's such a low status character, but he is.
[01:09:22] Speaker C: Like a really tall, well built person, so it's like, it makes sense. But just where he loses probably almost everyone. Is his horrible lack of confidence and self worth.
[01:09:37] Speaker A: Yeah. Too hard on himself, for sure.
[01:09:40] Speaker B: Until he's also been circling in this helicopter for a very long time.
[01:09:45] Speaker A: What's going on?
Sorry. Is that that's his yeah.
[01:09:53] Speaker B: What's his what's his name? Val. You know him?
[01:09:54] Speaker D: That's Ryan. Oh, yes. Ryan.
[01:09:57] Speaker A: Excuse me. Ryan. What's going on? Why is he circling?
I don't know. I'm trying to get in touch with the pilot. It sounds like there's some trouble going on up there. I don't quite know what it is, but apparently they flew through a flock of geese a little while back.
[01:10:16] Speaker B: Sully, hit it.
[01:10:19] Speaker A: Oh, wait, you know Sully? Sully's, our helicopter pilot. He used to fly planes when he retired.
[01:10:26] Speaker B: You'd be shocked at how often Sully appears on this podcast.
[01:10:31] Speaker A: Well, I didn't know that.
[01:10:32] Speaker B: Pretty frequent.
[01:10:33] Speaker A: This is a podcast?
[01:10:34] Speaker B: Pretty frequent.
Oh, yeah. Welcome.
[01:10:37] Speaker C: We've got the Limbrook River just across the.
[01:10:42] Speaker A: You call that's a river? I thought that was, like, a pipe.
[01:10:45] Speaker C: That was it's actually just a water.
[01:10:47] Speaker B: Fountain, but no, it's just a brook. But calling it the Limbrook Brook would be a little redundant.
[01:10:53] Speaker A: So we call it the I guess that makes sense. Yeah.
I guess I'll just tell Sully. Do what you do best, man, and take it to the Lynbrook.
Sully. Come in, Sully.
[01:11:04] Speaker D: Sully.
[01:11:05] Speaker B: I'm going down.
[01:11:06] Speaker A: Sully, hold on. Let's talk through it just a little bit. Let's make a sully miracle.
[01:11:11] Speaker C: There he goes.
[01:11:14] Speaker A: Sully, the helicopter does appear to be functioning.
[01:11:20] Speaker C: And there it goes. Okay, well, it landed.
[01:11:25] Speaker A: That'll be fine, I'm sure. But has the show started? Because I'll go get him. We'll leave if it's already started. We don't need to stay for this. I was told it would be half an hour with a luncheon afterwards. Like a sort of cocktail like celebration. Yeah, I believe we were supposed to receive some sort of award.
[01:11:46] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, the Limerick Medal of I.
[01:11:49] Speaker D: Mean, I came here with a speech, ready to announce the awards, post the show at the Valerie Blaine Center for Art.
You remember Vbfa, right?
[01:12:04] Speaker A: It just says Vbfa seven, catalpa Limbrook New York on the invitation, so I wasn't sure where exactly that oh, but that was you.
[01:12:13] Speaker D: It was me.
[01:12:14] Speaker A: You are so impressive. One of these days you'll let me represent you.
[01:12:18] Speaker D: One day, one day, one day. But, you know, I got the so of course.
[01:12:24] Speaker A: By the way, is she single? I know there's been a little I've been testing the waters a little bit.
We've hung out a couple of times.
[01:12:34] Speaker D: I know that she's single. I've seen you around.
[01:12:36] Speaker A: She's still single.
[01:12:38] Speaker D: She's still single. She's still rocking that lifestyle. She's putting her work first. You know this.
[01:12:48] Speaker A: See, Alex, she's not going to let me be your manager, but if she's got a mama jer, maybe she needs a stepdadager, too. I'm just trying to get in because Val is big business.
[01:13:00] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:13:00] Speaker A: Are you okay with me confiding in you like I know?
[01:13:05] Speaker C: Not really, but, you know, who else are you going to confide in?
Some other person you just met?
[01:13:11] Speaker A: Probably not. Sully's not picking up the radio for.
[01:13:14] Speaker C: Sure, so yeah, better just be me.
[01:13:17] Speaker A: But you feel where I'm going. I made what? Sully, is that you? Come in.
[01:13:24] Speaker C: I made it sounds like he made.
[01:13:25] Speaker A: What happened to your voice?
Miracle two swallowed a rock.
[01:13:30] Speaker C: Swallowed a rock.
[01:13:33] Speaker A: Miracle, too. I don't know. That seemed like a pretty soft landing to me.
[01:13:38] Speaker D: Sully, are you always trying to recreate miracles?
[01:13:41] Speaker A: This is like the fifth miracle, too.
[01:13:44] Speaker D: Do you represent him?
[01:13:45] Speaker A: I do. And that's why it's so hard to fire him, because he does get work.
[01:13:50] Speaker B: Call tom Hanks. We're doing a sequel.
[01:13:53] Speaker A: He has blocked me, but I will try. I'll try to go around him.
[01:13:59] Speaker D: I think it's really innovative of you to represent Sully himself and not Tom.
[01:14:06] Speaker A: Yeah, well, I've tried, believe me. But Tom is doing his own thing. But I have sent that man so many typewriters on it is I just can't do it anymore. But I tell him. I do. Yep, Sully, no problem. No problem.
[01:14:22] Speaker B: We're going to do that typewriter, right?
[01:14:25] Speaker A: Yes.
I'll take one out of the storage.
[01:14:28] Speaker B: Send them another.
[01:14:30] Speaker A: For sure.
[01:14:31] Speaker B: Another.
[01:14:32] Speaker A: I will take it out of your public storage. Yes.
[01:14:36] Speaker B: Miracle two, baby.
[01:14:37] Speaker A: Okay. Why don't you go get a Baskin Robbins, Sully?
[01:14:41] Speaker B: All right?
[01:14:42] Speaker A: And get me a cup.
[01:14:46] Speaker B: Yeah. You got Rocky Road?
[01:14:48] Speaker A: You know it.
[01:14:51] Speaker B: All right, babe. Have a go.
[01:14:53] Speaker A: Okay. Bye, now.
[01:14:55] Speaker B: Jolly Hillbuger.
[01:14:57] Speaker A: Goodbye.
[01:14:58] Speaker D: Some clients just need the company.
[01:15:00] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:15:01] Speaker D: Somebody else to talk to.
[01:15:02] Speaker A: I'm just trying to give know he needs to get enough for relax, you know, take it easy. Spend time with the is Brad Garrett.
[01:15:15] Speaker B: Also in the plane crash that just happened? Oh, he's probably fine.
[01:15:19] Speaker A: That was a soft. Sully likes to exaggerate.
Look, Brad's not coming. Sorry for the inconvenience. If you give me the trophy, I will bring it to him. But yeah, that's just would you like.
[01:15:35] Speaker B: Some bread and carrots?
[01:15:38] Speaker A: I am on the bread and carrots diet.
[01:15:41] Speaker B: I mean, I'm also on the bread and carrots diet, so, you know, I got to make it happen. Yeah.
[01:15:45] Speaker A: So you do have long hair and nails.
[01:15:48] Speaker B: That's the move. That's the result.
[01:15:50] Speaker C: You can see in the dark?
[01:15:51] Speaker B: Yeah, that was all we had for the lunch. So I guess we'll just give that.
[01:15:55] Speaker A: To you right now. Sounds good to me.
So, what are you guys talking about as we come down the stairs?
[01:16:03] Speaker B: We're talking about Brad Garrett's favorite episode, actually, season three, episode 15, Robert's Date.
[01:16:09] Speaker A: Yeah, I love that one. That one's great. Nothing wrong.
Well, I just can you tell me?
[01:16:19] Speaker B: I want you on the record telling me what specifically is not wrong about that episode.
[01:16:24] Speaker A: I am a huge fan. In fact, I'm a collector. I have VHS tapes of every instance of what TVTropes.com calls pretty fly for a white guy. It is a trope in television where you have a character, a white character, who acts non white. Stereotypically. So I have a huge collection of all of those. And this episode is a crown jewel of this trope. And so, as a collector of this trope, I love it.
I put it in a glass case. It's in my hallway, I suppose.
[01:17:00] Speaker B: It is indeed a stellar example of the trope, gonna be honest with you. Still left for some very uncomfortable moments. Oh.
[01:17:07] Speaker A: I mean, with the premise, I think it's shit as far as an episode goes, like, quality wise.
[01:17:15] Speaker D: But as a collector, Brian just likes to collect. He likes to keep the little VHS. I've been over to the house, and he's been like, do you want to see more episodes of white people trying to do collect people things? And I say, Ryan, we've talked about this. We can have this conversation a million times. And the points will always be the same. The white people should really watch it and maybe not do this trope on television all the time. Thank you for showing me all of the examples of how they have.
[01:17:44] Speaker A: I'm sorry if it felt like that was, like, punitive towards you. Like I was trying to teach you a lesson. Like, this is what you I just.
[01:17:51] Speaker D: Think that you're really excited about how many different television shows have done this trope, and then you want to show me all the episodes, and I get it, and I'm here for you, but I can only fit for so many 30 minutes episodes.
[01:18:05] Speaker A: We need to learn from history. It's the same. I'm like one of those totally normal guys who collects Nazi shit. Like, that's fine. This is fine. Everything's fine. Normal and fine.
[01:18:20] Speaker C: Yeah, that seems fine.
[01:18:22] Speaker A: But I think that's the intention is that they're trying to exaggerate how Robert is going through this identity crisis, and he's just latching onto something and doing this sort of very shallow impression just because he's insecure and strange and weird.
I don't think that reads as well as they intended it to.
[01:18:47] Speaker B: I don't disagree with that entirely.
[01:18:49] Speaker D: I personally feel of all of the television that I have seen that does this trope, this was one of the you're supposed to laugh. Like you said, you're supposed to laugh at Robert and not at black people.
So that's better than laughing at black people.
[01:19:11] Speaker A: Yeah, I think so. I think so.
[01:19:14] Speaker B: It is.
[01:19:15] Speaker A: Had that conversation many times with the members of The Offspring, and they've all agreed. That's how I got started with it. I managed the 1990s band The Offspring. They all feel the same way.
[01:19:27] Speaker B: The Offspring have hard and fast opinions on this episode.
[01:19:30] Speaker A: The Offspring are very committed to broadening their horizons. They recognize that many of them grew up in privileged environments, and they don't fully reckon with the impact of systemic white supremacy on their day to day lives. The Offspring are very sensitive to that. I mean, just listen to smash every track on that self esteem. Come out and play.
Pretty fly for a white guy. Obviously, they speak through their music to the impacts of the generational trauma of racism in this country. The offspring are allies.
[01:20:16] Speaker D: Ryan, I always feel like you take on these project people and you try and better them. When are you going to take a break and just relax and go on vacation?
[01:20:27] Speaker A: One know, that's a good point. I probably should. It's not my place to fix everybody. And I've been in my seven wives and one husband have all said this to me. They've all said, you try to fix people. And I say, fuck you.
And maybe I should just say, you're right.
[01:20:49] Speaker D: When are you going to fix Ryan?
[01:20:55] Speaker A: That is so no one has ever asked me that question.
[01:20:58] Speaker D: It's always, Ryan, Ryan, Ryan, I need you. I need you. I need you. Not Ryan. What do you need?
[01:21:03] Speaker A: You know what? You're right.
You're right. Let me take out my radio.
Sully.
Sully.
[01:21:13] Speaker B: Are you sully to me?
[01:21:16] Speaker A: Look, I need to make some changes.
I'm dropping you as a client.
[01:21:21] Speaker D: Well, if he's at the Baskin Robbins.
[01:21:23] Speaker A: Getting you back in well actually, never mind. Sorry. Come here with that cup of rocky road. Come to the Christian Men's Center with that cup of rocky road. I have to tell you something.
[01:21:35] Speaker B: You got it.
[01:21:35] Speaker A: Okay. Wait. Sully, give Brad the radio.
Brad, are you there?
[01:21:42] Speaker B: Brad?
[01:21:43] Speaker A: Brad.
[01:21:43] Speaker B: This is Brad.
[01:21:44] Speaker A: It's Ryan.
[01:21:46] Speaker B: Hey, Ryan.
[01:21:49] Speaker A: I know it's been 25 years, but I need to drop you as a client. I'm making some changes.
[01:21:56] Speaker B: What?
[01:21:57] Speaker A: I need to drop you as a client. I'm making some changes. I need to manage.
The only person I need to manage right now is me.
[01:22:09] Speaker B: That seems really mature, but we just got renewed for a new season of Till Death. They're bringing it back.
They're bringing it back.
You don't want any of that.
[01:22:25] Speaker A: I know that TaiwanA Cable Originals is bringing back Till Death, but I've got.
[01:22:35] Speaker B: You don't want any of that money.
[01:22:37] Speaker A: I have that. Look, I mean, come on, Brad. You and I both know that the papers have been signed. I'm getting my 10%. But I'm giving up my associate producer credit on the show. I'm moving to maybe limbrook. I've always wanted to get my Doctorate of Fine Arts and Poetry at Hofstra, so I think I'm going to just stay here.
I'm sorry it has to be this yo.
[01:23:04] Speaker B: You gotta do what you gotta do.
[01:23:06] Speaker A: I'll always love you, Brad.
[01:23:09] Speaker B: Everybody loves ride.
[01:23:12] Speaker A: Okay. Goodbye.
Thank you for that.
[01:23:17] Speaker B: Sully runs up with the ice cream. Sullenberger.
[01:23:21] Speaker A: Oh, Sully.
Thank you for giving me that.
Sully, you got to stop running up with your arms outstretched like an airplane.
It's just you lost a lot of rocky road when you did that.
[01:23:38] Speaker B: Yeah, sure. But.
[01:23:41] Speaker A: Listen, I needed to tell you something.
I'm going to need to let you go as a client.
I'm going to need to drop you as a client.
[01:23:51] Speaker B: What about miracle two?
[01:23:53] Speaker A: Sully, I got to tell you, I don't think Miracle Two is ever going to happen.
It was a once in a lifetime thing.
You can't keep flying into flocks of geese trying to get Miracle Two to happen.
[01:24:08] Speaker B: I've done that so many times.
[01:24:09] Speaker A: I know, Sully. I know. And it doesn't always end without a loss of life, is the yeah, so.
[01:24:19] Speaker B: But eventually it will. It'll get in the movie.
[01:24:22] Speaker A: Sully, I'm afraid I'm just going to have to drop you, and I will call the authorities because you've killed a lot of people.
[01:24:33] Speaker B: They'll never catch me. And Sully runs away with his arms.
[01:24:36] Speaker A: Outstretched like a plane, and he does get air. He takes off.
[01:24:41] Speaker C: And then he hits a goose.
[01:24:45] Speaker A: It's a goose in midair and falls into the brook.
Fuck. Well, thank you guys for that.
[01:24:53] Speaker D: At least he's more dense than the group.
[01:24:56] Speaker A: That's true.
[01:24:57] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:24:58] Speaker C: Oh, he's dense.
[01:25:00] Speaker A: Thank you for that.
I appreciate it. I'm going to go to Lynbrook. Thank you.
[01:25:09] Speaker B: I've got to register the town.
[01:25:11] Speaker A: I've got to go register at Hofstra.
[01:25:14] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, that's right.
[01:25:15] Speaker A: Yeah. What were you about to say? You were welcoming me to the town.
[01:25:19] Speaker B: I was welcoming you to the town. Just so you know, there's required viewing of an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond every single week. Just be aware of that.
[01:25:26] Speaker A: That's going to be a little traumatic for me. I just ended a 25 year manager client relationship with one of the stars of that show.
[01:25:33] Speaker B: But consider that to be a standing trigger warning.
[01:25:36] Speaker A: Okay, well, viewer discretion advised.
[01:25:39] Speaker B: There we go.
[01:25:40] Speaker A: Ryan, what did we all think of the scene at the restaurant, which to me looked very similar to the nemo's set?
[01:25:49] Speaker C: It was nemo's.
[01:25:50] Speaker A: They redressed.
[01:25:52] Speaker B: That was exactly what I was going to bring up, is that they just reskinned nemo's. And that was I will I will say it was a weird scene, but I did kind of like the moment where Ray shouted out, she doesn't want to go out with you because you're black to Robert. And everybody stopped and turned. I knew it was coming, but it did give me a moment of like, haha. I see what they were that got chuckled out of same, but, yeah, that was a positive. I did like the character choice of just Robert and Judy just being like, I have this uncomfortable conversation. Ray, yeah, you're up.
[01:26:37] Speaker A: I like that. Robert getting up. Ray and Judy being alone at the table. Ray lifting up the napkin on top of the hey, biscuits. 123455 biscuits. Very good. Like Ray. Awkward, mannerism thing.
I like Judy laughing out loud, laughing and laughing at Ray, telling her that Robert doesn't want to be her boyfriend.
[01:27:00] Speaker D: I know that Rob was all three of them were in the restaurant, and they're like, oh, why'd you bring your brother?
He's never had soul food.
And that's all I remember.
[01:27:14] Speaker A: Yeah, I noticed. By the way, in this restaurant, the same mustache guy from the club who was the first one to take notice of Robert, he's standing right next to Robert and he starts hyping him up. That guy walked in after Judy left. So clearly double cast for the restaurant and the club.
[01:27:36] Speaker D: Well, how big is the town?
[01:27:39] Speaker A: Lynbrook I don't know, Mike. How many people live in Lynbrook?
[01:27:44] Speaker B: 20,000.
[01:27:45] Speaker A: 20,000.
[01:27:45] Speaker D: And the number is only going up as we're doing all this recruiting.
[01:27:49] Speaker A: That's true, but people are leaving and some people without explanation are yeah, but.
[01:27:56] Speaker B: We get money, so that's okay.
[01:27:59] Speaker A: What did you think of group? What did you think of Judy wanting to talk to Robert about him getting to be a little too ethnic? And the word choice of ethnic? I don't know.
[01:28:11] Speaker C: I don't like that word choice.
[01:28:12] Speaker D: Hard conversation to have with your friends when they're doing something that's a part of your culture that may be inappropriate for them to do. I've never had to have this conversation with somebody, and I hope never to have to have this conversation with somebody.
[01:28:29] Speaker A: But the word choice ethnic, yeah, that's Ray's word. To be fair, I think also recognizing Judy doesn't necessarily know how Ray is going to react to it. So I think it is a positive thing that he helps her out there and they're on the same page. I feel like this scene is kind of the as much as it can be, like the saving grace of the episode, at least we know as the audience now explicitly that nobody likes Robert doing this, whereas if this scene wasn't there, it would just be like, oh, that's Robert acting black, and that's what acting black is.
We it's good that Judy's perspective as written by a white person is represented here, at least in some.
[01:29:20] Speaker B: Just I don't know. Like I said, I could not tell if they wanted the scene to be cringe comedy or not, or if they were actually yeah, I don't know. I'm not a fan of cringe comedy as a whole, but that's what I got the sense of what they were going for. It felt like they were just trying to make this as awkward as humanly possible, which fair, but also I going to say steer. I'd prefer for if they had, I don't know, chosen made a different choice with this episode as a whole.
[01:29:54] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't think this is the show to tackle anything remotely complicated. This is a simple.
[01:30:03] Speaker B: I wouldn't say that they do tackle issues of class in various different ways, and they do a pretty good job in doing that. They can do it.
I don't know. In my personal opinion, I think they missed the ball on this one.
[01:30:19] Speaker D: Well, do we think they were actively trying to give us an after school special or they were just trying to make a funny joke that also happened to be racist in the year, whatever.
[01:30:27] Speaker A: The year was 90s.
[01:30:32] Speaker B: In reality, I think it's probably closer to the second option. I would like to give the benefit of the doubt, but I think it's definitely close to the second option.
[01:30:41] Speaker A: Alex, thoughts?
[01:30:46] Speaker C: Agreed.
And overall, this has been an awful experience for me.
Just I hate being serious about this kind of stuff. I just want to go back to making silly jokes.
[01:31:01] Speaker A: Okay, well, luckily we're finally at the bottom of this staircase.
[01:31:05] Speaker D: I didn't realize how staircase?
[01:31:07] Speaker C: Holy shit.
[01:31:08] Speaker B: This is a tall building.
[01:31:10] Speaker A: But look, we're at the bottom now.
Looks like we're getting on to old Robert, act three. So this is going to be good. And this is the one, right, that has lines, right? This is the part where it turns into more of a play than a dance recital.
[01:31:26] Speaker B: Yeah. I also just realized that I totally missed my entire role as young Robert as James asked me to step in.
[01:31:33] Speaker D: For okay, I think James realized that you weren't going on and he just started throwing raisins at the crowd and that seemed to have worked there's satiate.
[01:31:42] Speaker B: There you go.
[01:31:42] Speaker D: A few people stepped out. Yeah, a few people stepped out due to this year. It felt like an emotional piece of art that was separate from this work. A young man throwing raisins and crying. Yeah, but everybody else seemed to have been intrigued. I don't know, I haven't seen a lot of people exit the building. A lot more people exit the building.
[01:32:02] Speaker A: We'll just tell people it's a Canada dry situation. Like, it's know, we had to tie it in somehow. Ray actually went and got a ginger ale. This episode, which hasn't happened in a while, but let's make sure. Okay, lights are good. Okay, act three is starting. And remember, this is the one that has nikolai, you're up. Okay, it's starting. Okay.
Raymond.
Raymond, I need you.
[01:32:32] Speaker B: Robert. Raymond.
Robert.
[01:32:36] Speaker A: I know I am at the end of my life.
[01:32:40] Speaker B: Oh no.
[01:32:42] Speaker A: Dad, is Uncle Robert going to be okay?
[01:32:45] Speaker B: I don't know, Michael. It's not good.
[01:32:48] Speaker A: I'm Jeffrey.
[01:32:49] Speaker C: You blind fuck.
[01:32:51] Speaker B: I'm sorry, Mike. I'm sorry.
You I'm sorry.
[01:32:54] Speaker C: I'm just kidding, dad. Raymond, I'm Allie.
[01:33:00] Speaker B: They get really explicit as they get older.
[01:33:02] Speaker A: My God, it's really yeah, this is I think this part was written by David Chase, who did the a little there might be just a little bit of Sopranos influence on this.
[01:33:15] Speaker C: It might cut to black before we figure out everything.
[01:33:17] Speaker A: Ray, I needed to tell you before I died.
[01:33:22] Speaker B: What do you want, Ray?
[01:33:24] Speaker A: I've been a member of the mafia the whole time. Oh, yeah? So it's pretty explicit. Okay.
[01:33:31] Speaker B: Oh, Robert. We hear don't stop believing start to fade in slowly as it goes on.
[01:33:39] Speaker A: I know I'm dying from pancreatic cancer, but just there might be a chance that somebody takes me out. A lot of people wanted to whack me for a long time, Robert.
[01:33:54] Speaker B: I don't know.
[01:33:55] Speaker A: I know what that means now.
[01:33:56] Speaker B: Yeah. I'm proud of you. I don't know about all that, but Debra oh, good.
[01:34:03] Speaker A: Deborah's here. Deborah. Deborah, where are you?
[01:34:06] Speaker B: Deborah walks in and shoots Robert in the head and fades to black.
[01:34:13] Speaker A: Wow.
That was powerful birdman shit right there. Wow. Okay, big applause.
[01:34:23] Speaker D: I feel like I watch. Let's take this conversation to the green room.
[01:34:26] Speaker A: It's just a little yeah. They're all coming out now to do their bows. The we we made sure those were.
[01:34:37] Speaker B: I don't know. Nikolai hasn't stood up yet.
[01:34:41] Speaker A: Is this commitment to the bit? Well, let's go in the green room. It'll be fine.
[01:34:46] Speaker B: Yeah, let's go in the field.
[01:34:47] Speaker D: I feel like I learned a lot in those last scenes that I would never have gotten if it weren't for your amazing work here and the talents that you have.
[01:34:59] Speaker B: Very kind to you.
[01:35:01] Speaker A: I think we really made something special here.
[01:35:04] Speaker D: You sure did. You sure did.
[01:35:07] Speaker B: Anyway, that was intense. I think the only thing we got left to do is wrap this up. Right? We got to go to that barometer.
[01:35:17] Speaker A: Yeah, I think we do got to go to well, hold on. Is there anything else, as we always say, is there anything else that we didn't talk about that we wanted to bring up?
Just to mention the hot close of this episode is just more of Robert's dance sequence, and I noticed Heavy the Robot. Yeah, pretty good. Heavy Michael Jackson influence. I thought he did a lot of, like, popping. No, he he's but I can see where his influence was coming from.
[01:35:50] Speaker B: I saw a little bit of the.
[01:35:52] Speaker C: Urge to resist crotchel grabbing.
[01:35:54] Speaker A: Yes. That would have been interesting, though.
[01:35:57] Speaker B: Crotchel.
[01:35:58] Speaker D: I did write down crotch region.
[01:36:01] Speaker A: Yeah. Having to do with the qualities of the crotch mike.
[01:36:05] Speaker B: Right.
[01:36:05] Speaker A: I did write down a couple of Robert's dance moves, and I know we mapped this all out Mike, for the show, but just we had to say I wrote down Leg Stomp.
Leg Stomp barbell, move into a 720 degree spin, and then just some Michael Jackson an interesting I don't know what genre of dance you would call it. It's just quintessentially, Robert. It's how Robert would dance.
[01:36:39] Speaker D: If I had to label it, I guess it would be Freestyle Rob.
[01:36:43] Speaker A: Freestyle Rob.
Exactly.
[01:36:46] Speaker B: That's the new name for the play.
[01:36:48] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Well, when we take it on tour, that's what we should do it under.
[01:36:52] Speaker D: Yeah. Right now it's just going as Rob Untitled or Rob undefined. I can't remember which one you're using.
[01:36:57] Speaker A: Yeah. Rob NA. Rob not applicable.
Robert becoming the center of a dance circle as people yell, Go, Robert, it's your birthday, and then just, yikes.
This feels like rapping grandma. Kind of like it feels so lazy, and I hate just I got to point that out, but that's it. And that's where the mustache guy starts hyping him up. Good to see that guy again in the later scene. Anything else you guys wanted to bring?
[01:37:35] Speaker B: I think I hit on everything that I wanted to say. I wanted to definitely talk about how nemo's was recycled, but other than that, I think we got it.
[01:37:43] Speaker A: I'm sorry. I have one more question. Ray is a 40 regular suit size. What suit size are you?
[01:37:48] Speaker B: I'm 40 husky.
I'm 40 h. I'm 40 h. Not 40 h. Yeah. Is that I'm a big boy.
[01:37:56] Speaker A: I wasn't familiar I thought husky was, and I hope it's been phased out. I don't know what the status of husky is.
[01:38:07] Speaker B: I don't know.
It's either husky or it's something else. Some other word that I wish I knew.
[01:38:17] Speaker A: I believe I'm a 36 R. I'm a small man. Alex, any idea?
[01:38:24] Speaker C: Literally no clue. I'm tall and I'm pretty average build. Maybe a little on the lanky side.
[01:38:31] Speaker A: Val, do you know your suit size?
[01:38:34] Speaker B: He's a 42 L for lanky.
[01:38:37] Speaker D: For long and lanky. I think I'm like, let's see, probably like a 36 tall.
[01:38:48] Speaker A: So you think we could share a suit, but you would be taller? Like, my suit would be shorter on you?
[01:38:55] Speaker D: Yeah, the wrists on your suit will probably reach my elbows.
[01:38:59] Speaker A: Okay, that makes sense.
Okay, so that's what will be good because the rack of who needs to buy a suit when we have coat check. So let's just go through, get our outfits for the lunch afterwards. While we do that, let's turn our attention to the classic barometer. Now, that's our scale from one to ten, on which we rate Ray's performance as a husband, brother, son, father, soul food restaurant patron, with ten being the great dads of television history, your Bob Sack, your Danny Tanners, your Carl Winslow's, your Uncle Phil's, and one being the bad men of television history, walter White, Don Draper. Let's throw Robert Barone in this episode into that.
[01:39:50] Speaker B: All right. All right.
[01:39:51] Speaker A: Well, but we're not rating Robert's performance. We're rating Ray's performance.
[01:39:55] Speaker B: Oh, that's right. Yeah. It's going to be kind of hard to grade Ray, actually, on this one.
[01:39:59] Speaker D: Actually, I have a point to bring up. Let's also acknowledge that once they were done with Judy's addressing Judy's concern and dislike of Robert's behavior, that they then stayed at the soul food restaurant. Even though Ray felt it felt like he didn't want to be there, he was like, OK, we're done. Let's leave. We're here, we might as well eat. And he's, yeah, yeah, I guess we might as well eat. I don't think he was very excited to eat some soul food.
[01:40:33] Speaker A: I think so, too.
Well, the alternative being eating Deborah's food at home, which has been well established at this point as being bad, I think is what they were going for there. When Ray was like, let's go home. And then Robert was like, no, let's just eat here. And he was like, yeah, better than eating at home, or whatever he said.
But. Also, I do think that you're right that Ray is also not a natural at being in spaces where he is not.
[01:41:07] Speaker D: Yes, but let's also acknowledge that there were three white people at a table behind them.
[01:41:13] Speaker A: Saw that. Yep. Blonde white woman immediately behind Ray. Anyone can eat soul food. I'll say it.
[01:41:21] Speaker D: Yeah, say it with your chest.
[01:41:23] Speaker B: It is the official stance.
[01:41:26] Speaker A: The official stance everybody loves everybody loves Raymond, if I may be so bold, is that everybody can eat soul food.
Should we put that on a T shirt or are we getting into dangerous territory?
[01:41:38] Speaker B: I don't think we should put that on a T shirt.
[01:41:40] Speaker D: I think it's to endorse eating soul food. I don't think we should monetize eating soul food.
[01:41:46] Speaker A: I think you're right. Okay.
All right.
[01:41:50] Speaker B: I'm a grandpa or whatever.
[01:41:54] Speaker D: Give your manuscript to Ryan.
[01:41:58] Speaker A: He's looking for something new to really don't think anyone's going to want. Adam's down home soul food kitchen cookbook. Really?
[01:42:07] Speaker B: I think that we'll sell that and all of the proceeds from that will go to a soul food restaurant. Meaning that the next time we get together, we'll order takeout from a soul food restaurant with those profits.
[01:42:19] Speaker A: Okay, yeah, fine. Trash. Oh, I forgot to ask. Also, Mike, give me an example of a good dad.
[01:42:28] Speaker B: Oh, a good dad.
Mr. SpongeBob SquarePants is dad. Sure.
[01:42:35] Speaker A: Mr. SquarePants. Good. Alex? Bad dad. And you may pass to Val.
[01:42:41] Speaker B: Let's get the guest.
[01:42:42] Speaker C: Yeah, I have a good one, but I want to save it for next time because I only have one.
[01:42:46] Speaker A: Yes. Pasta val. A bad dad. Who would be a one on this scale?
[01:42:51] Speaker D: A bad dad.
[01:42:55] Speaker A: From television. Not necessarily life.
[01:42:59] Speaker B: Not necessarily sitcoms.
[01:43:01] Speaker D: Necessarily from life. Okay, a bad dad. I've been watching My Big Fat Greek Wedding in preparation to watch the third My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
[01:43:14] Speaker A: Yeah, I wouldn't say that.
[01:43:15] Speaker D: A couple of weeks ago, dad, it's so far so good. I'm not mad at it. Yeah, it's giving me Mama Mia vibes where I'm here for the fun.
[01:43:23] Speaker A: I think that's what they're going for.
[01:43:25] Speaker D: Good. I'm glad. No share. Disappointing.
[01:43:28] Speaker A: They got Joey Barone, though. Kind of the share in it.
[01:43:32] Speaker D: He's already in it.
[01:43:34] Speaker A: He's kind of the share of whatever he is.
[01:43:39] Speaker D: Of my big, fat Greek wedding.
[01:43:41] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:43:43] Speaker D: I wouldn't say that. The dad from My Big Fat Greek Wedding is an awful dad, but he sure is a rude one that doesn't know when to stop talking.
[01:43:53] Speaker A: Okay, I'll take it because did you know that there was The Big Fat Greek Wedding TV show, the short lived spin off of the movie? So I assume the dad showed up in that. So that would be a bad TV dad. Nailed it.
[01:44:08] Speaker D: Nailed it.
[01:44:09] Speaker A: Okay, we did it. So let me just pull out my barometer glasses.
[01:44:20] Speaker B: I hear some ambulances outside. I'm going to go multiple ambulance. Hold on.
[01:44:24] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, that's multiple.
[01:44:25] Speaker B: I hear several ambulances. Yeah. Okay. I'll be back.
[01:44:28] Speaker A: Go check that out. Okay, so barometer all set here. We've got the abacus out, we've got the pens and screech. Let them in. Hello. Come on.
[01:44:40] Speaker B: Hey, how's it going, guys?
[01:44:42] Speaker A: Hey, Dr. Steve.
[01:44:44] Speaker B: Hey, what's going on? Hey.
[01:44:45] Speaker A: How's Stella?
[01:44:46] Speaker B: What's going on, guys?
[01:44:47] Speaker A: Is she out of surgery?
[01:44:48] Speaker B: Nah.
[01:44:49] Speaker A: No.
What happened?
[01:44:52] Speaker B: Nah.
[01:44:52] Speaker A: What happened?
[01:44:53] Speaker B: Nah, I left I left Nurse Jenny to take care of that. I heard there's apparently some big you know, she's doing fine. Let's be know the rocket boost does take a while to put in. She wanted microwave option.
[01:45:08] Speaker A: Microwave?
[01:45:09] Speaker B: Yeah, she wanted a lot of different crap. It's great. She's going to be cyborg, Stella. She's doing the best dance on this side of the Mississippi. It's going to be awesome. But at the same time, they just got a call. Apparently some guy got shot in the head on stage, birdman style. I don't know.
[01:45:27] Speaker A: Anyway yeah, it's interesting that they called you.
[01:45:34] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:45:35] Speaker A: The thinking you're going to like, I'm.
[01:45:38] Speaker B: A doctor, I'm a surgeon, I'm dual skulls, I'm duos gulf.
[01:45:41] Speaker A: And yet here you are.
Don't worry, that's part of the show. We think. So it's probably fine, but you can check after. I wanted to ask you look, we can't normally Mike would help out with this. I mean, we have enough people. We need at least three because our guest Val's here have you met?
[01:46:02] Speaker B: Yeah, no, everyone knows the greatest.
[01:46:05] Speaker A: Oh, because you donated that wing to the I donated.
[01:46:10] Speaker D: You know, when they do this Christmas specials and the hospital shows, they'll be like, oh, it's Christmas in the Er or whatever. Yeah. I have a large sum of money to making the hospital the B wing of the hospital look nice during the holidays.
[01:46:24] Speaker B: That's very don't you forget it. We appreciate you, Val. We really do.
It's called the B Wing. It stands for the Blaine wing. You know what?
[01:46:37] Speaker A: I'm glad you clarified that. It's like on a hospital show, like Your Grace Anatomy or something. Because I was thinking that I had missed some sort of annual holiday special that was filmed from St. Jude's or something, or like Michael Buble would come out.
[01:46:54] Speaker D: But we did get Vanessa Williams once to come in and do a little song for the kids.
[01:47:00] Speaker B: That's so doctor, we did a special, got to meet Dr. Mccotty. It was a good anatomy. Yeah.
[01:47:11] Speaker A: Is that really one of them? I know. There's Mcstimy. McDreamy Mccotty, that seems.
[01:47:19] Speaker B: Anyway, yeah, I'll just tell you, he's an attractive man. I don't know what to tell you. I'm a doctor.
[01:47:25] Speaker A: I can tell these things from my medical opinion.
Attractive.
[01:47:29] Speaker D: If there's one thing I know about Dr. Steve, is that every time we get together, if there's any men in the perimeter, we do not oh, my God.
[01:47:39] Speaker B: You got to do it. You got to do a hot or not.
[01:47:41] Speaker A: There are men in this perimeter. Why don't we? And let's bring some of the other guys in. Joel. Is Joel around? I know he's big on this sort of thing. Nikolai, I think, is still part of the show. James. James. Hey, let's get Joel and James in here.
[01:48:00] Speaker B: Hey, guys, look at this.
What are we saying here?
[01:48:07] Speaker D: This guy over here talking about Nikolai, joel? Or are we talking about James? Because James is crying really hard.
[01:48:17] Speaker B: James, you'll get.
[01:48:24] Speaker A: It'S? Part of the show. We think.
[01:48:29] Speaker D: It'S just so hard when your ex boyfriend, who was dating your boyfriend and then was with another man at the same time that you were fighting over and pining and everything, and they just ended up, like, killing him on stage, I think, or something.
[01:48:44] Speaker A: The show, we think it's okay.
[01:48:47] Speaker B: I got to say, I'm okay with this arrangement.
The show must go on. I'll step on stages.
Listen, we got parasite too. I'm done with Nikolai. He's good for me.
[01:49:02] Speaker D: Who's going to be old Rob in the Night show?
[01:49:06] Speaker A: I guess it's got to be Joel. Or wait, hold on. Let me check the hierarchy. So if someone on B team is incapacitated, then C team steps up. So, James, I guess it's you.
[01:49:22] Speaker D: I think I can do this. In memory of my one love legalized.
[01:49:28] Speaker A: I will be old James or Robert.
[01:49:32] Speaker D: Old Robert. I'm sorry. Old Robert. I will be old Robert.
[01:49:38] Speaker B: Hey, Val, look at this guy. He's got his confidence back. I got to bump him up from a knot to a hot. I gotta say, this guy James is.
[01:49:46] Speaker D: Really pulling up on the hot meter. A guy that has confidence to do something immediately after a loved one's death all the way up.
[01:49:54] Speaker A: Maybe we think forget about it.
[01:49:56] Speaker B: Hey, James, you want a legend?
[01:49:59] Speaker D: Yes, please.
[01:50:03] Speaker A: They did that sexy thing where Dr. Steve uses his cigarette to light James's cigarette. I think there might be something happening here. Who knew that one?
[01:50:16] Speaker B: I just didn't want to dig my light out of my briefcase.
[01:50:20] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. It is a nice briefcase.
[01:50:22] Speaker A: A briefcase full of light.
[01:50:26] Speaker B: What else do I need? I'm on a house call.
[01:50:29] Speaker D: Well, the only thing I like more than a man with a podcast is a man with lighters.
[01:50:35] Speaker A: Wow.
[01:50:35] Speaker B: Hey, yo. That's amazing.
[01:50:37] Speaker A: Hey, Dr. Steve, do you have a podcast? You're the reason that Spotify started doing those COVID-19 misinformation badges, right?
[01:50:47] Speaker B: I was the pioneer of that. Yeah. Call me the Joe Robin podcast.
[01:50:51] Speaker A: I'll call you the Joe Robin.
[01:50:55] Speaker B: I'm sorry, I misspoke there. I'm the Joe Robo podcast because I do all the know. I get on there, I talk about all the new shit I can do, and I get people coming in and they know I want some metal in me. And I say, we can make that happen.
[01:51:12] Speaker A: I mean, that begs the question, james, do you want some metal in you?
[01:51:16] Speaker B: Do you want some metal in you?
[01:51:17] Speaker D: I'm always here for a good.
[01:51:22] Speaker B: To make. We're going to make it great. We're going to give you a new eye. They can see lasers and all this crap. It's going to be awesome.
[01:51:30] Speaker A: I was doing more of an innuendo, but sure.
[01:51:34] Speaker B: No, I can bone you, too. That's great. That's got to be a good time.
[01:51:39] Speaker A: Wow. Okay, they are going leaving right out the door. Going to the broom closet. Joel, I guess. Val, do the hot or not.
[01:51:50] Speaker B: On, hold on. I got to do a barometer. I got to do the barometer. I'll do the barometer. Mostly because I forget how Joel sounds like. I mean, I don't know.
You gotta have to wait a jace okay.
[01:52:02] Speaker A: Okay. So, yeah, we got to do the barometer. Dr. Steve, you're welcome to stay around for that. I think if our guests would like to go first or last, up to you.
Whether you want to lead off with your rating for Ray for this episode or you want to hear how we've been doing it lately and then throw your hat in the ring. Up to you.
[01:52:23] Speaker D: I can go first. Why not?
[01:52:26] Speaker A: Great.
[01:52:27] Speaker D: I think I'll give him on a scale of one to ten, one being bad dad, ten being great dad, I would give him well, he wasn't really a father this episode. More of a brother. So on the brother scale, he didn't abandon his brother when his brother needed help thinking that he needed to break up with somebody. So we're going to give him six. Feel like he's done better.
[01:52:50] Speaker A: All right. Pretty good. Pretty good.
Alex, why don't you go next?
[01:52:57] Speaker C: As for a father, there was that one scene where he was with Deborah being like, oh, wow, we're just going to be barone, and then completely forgetting his kids are literally behind him. Which I thought was funny, but yeah, not the best dad moment.
Aside from that, I kind of agree with Val. I like that Ray did not abandon his brother. And although this episode is quite a lot of issues here, ray himself is pretty fine, even if he does it in a jokey manner. He does confront his parents just a little bit on their blatant kind of racist upbringing of how they're not okay with Robert going on a quote unquote date with a black person, which I thought was good, I think obviously could have gone further, but also it's a comedy. I understand that they're not going to have a 20 minutes discussion about that kind of stuff in 1990. Whatever.
No, I'm right there with you. Maybe a little higher. I'm going to give them like a six and a half.
[01:54:11] Speaker A: All right. Six and a half for me.
Yeah. Ray really it's interesting because Robert was trash in this episode, but Ray really did a pretty good job. He tried to have sex with Deborah great husband move right there. But also referred to oh, you're a fan of that. Dr. Steve, you think it's screw your wife?
[01:54:37] Speaker B: I think it's a great thing to screw your wife.
[01:54:39] Speaker A: Okay, so good there referring to his children as furniture, kind of I like Deborah's line about that not great son. I mean, he did sort of push back on his parents and then as a brother. Yeah. I mean, he really was there for Robert and sort of tried to steer him in the right direction. So, yeah, I think I'm kind of with both of you. I'm going to give him a six as well. Dr. Steve, now that you've seen how we do it, how are you feeling?
[01:55:14] Speaker B: All right. I got the sense of this. I got the sense of this. And I got to say, you guys are all shit at this. You guys all suck.
[01:55:20] Speaker A: Come on.
[01:55:21] Speaker B: What the hell are you talking about? The only good thing he did only good thing he did this entire episode is that he tried to screw his wife, which I'm not even giving him nothing for, okay? That's all he did. Really did nothing. He sucked. What are we talking about?
You got to tell your brother to man up, okay? That's all I'm saying. He goes to the brother, comes in and says, hey, I need your help here. You tell him no, you shove off.
You be a man about it. You go and deal with it yourself, okay?
Here's what you should have done. Robert comes in, says, I ain't got the courage to go tell this woman that I ain't into it. Here's what you should do. You should say, hey, Robert, I understand. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to go into your chest. I'm going to put you in a new robo hot. That gives you courage, okay? You get a little adrenaline bump going, you turn him cyborg, and cyborg fixes everything, okay? He didn't do that. He just sat there awkwardly while Robert made a nasty himself, and then he blew up his business. What the hell are you doing? You've got to let Robert be the one to talk, okay? That's it.
Ray sucks. He can die in a hole, and I hope he never comes into my hospital because I'll leave him bleeding out in the so I'm giving him a one. I'm giving him a one. Yeah.
[01:56:40] Speaker A: Dr. Steve you're giving Ray a one because he didn't tear out Robert's heart and replace it with a robot heart?
[01:56:48] Speaker B: Absolutely. That's what you do in that situation. It's not what I do with my brother. That's what you're doing.
[01:56:52] Speaker A: All the brothers, that's what you did to your brother?
[01:56:56] Speaker B: That's what I would do to my brother if I had one.
[01:56:58] Speaker A: Oh, you don't have a brother?
[01:57:00] Speaker B: Not anymore.
[01:57:02] Speaker A: What happened?
[01:57:03] Speaker D: Right?
[01:57:04] Speaker B: Yeah, he was the first one I tried to turn to a robot. That little contraption, he needed courage, and I tried to be a good brother.
[01:57:14] Speaker A: He just didn't live okay, so body count two.
[01:57:18] Speaker B: Oh, it's way higher.
[01:57:19] Speaker A: Mike is not here, Dr. Steve.
I know you do a little math on the side. What is the average of six? 6.5 and one.
[01:57:30] Speaker B: Let's see. You got to carry that one. You got to do the six plus the six.
[01:57:37] Speaker A: Maybe you should install a calculator into your body.
[01:57:42] Speaker B: A set up.
4.9.
[01:57:46] Speaker A: Okay, you know that actually sounds right to me. Weirdly enough, that sounds pretty spot on.
[01:57:55] Speaker B: All right, that's enough. All right. Anyway, I'm going to go bing.
[01:57:59] Speaker A: You're going to go bing the broom.
[01:58:00] Speaker B: Classic. You go bing, james I'm going to go bada. I'm going to go boom. I'm going to go meet up with James.
[01:58:05] Speaker C: It's usually like a bonk when you have something more substantial, but I guess if you're just like pinky for representation, it's more of a bing.
[01:58:14] Speaker A: Dr. Steve, why wouldn't you address your bing situation if you're doing all these modifications? I mean, telescoping something maybe like retractable arms. Why not really pimp your bing?
[01:58:30] Speaker B: Are you telling me there's something wrong with my bing?
[01:58:33] Speaker A: I'm not telling you there's anything wrong with it. I'm just saying if you're into modifications.
[01:58:37] Speaker D: Yeah, fix your bing your body to get the bigger boom.
[01:58:41] Speaker B: Listen, I'll tell you there ain't no problem down there at all. There ain't no problem down there. And even if there was, I wouldn't address it because that's scary.
[01:58:49] Speaker D: Scary.
[01:58:50] Speaker B: That's scary. That's scary. I can't you don't want to take those risks. Okay, well, I ain't risking none.
[01:58:56] Speaker A: We'll have to hear James's review after you bing him.
[01:59:00] Speaker B: All right. Bada bing, bada boom. To the bada boom closet. Goodbye everybody.
[01:59:05] Speaker D: Goodbye.
[01:59:06] Speaker A: Bye Dr. Steve. Okay.
[01:59:08] Speaker C: I love that guy.
[01:59:09] Speaker A: He's great.
There he is. What was up with those ambulances nickel?
[01:59:17] Speaker B: I didn't what?
Make it?
[01:59:20] Speaker A: That wasn't our fault, right?
Listen, figure out how it wasn't our fault.
[01:59:31] Speaker B: I don't know. Who let Alec Baldwin in?
[01:59:38] Speaker D: Screech, you have to talk to the security around here because it's not tight enough.
He let Alec Baldwin sometimes it's too.
[01:59:50] Speaker A: I but that's not our fault. We're fine, right?
[01:59:55] Speaker B: Yeah, I did see Screech hula hooping vigorously outside with some children.
[02:00:03] Speaker A: Maybe trying about Mars cross planetary.
[02:00:06] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. I wasn't sure.
Anyway, I think we do need to let him go.
[02:00:12] Speaker A: Yeah, I think he's fired for sure. Or at least we'll reassign him to a different job next week. We'll see.
Okay, so 4.9 on the barometer. That sounds good. But you know guys, I was thinking maybe there's somebody out there who doesn't agree with that. Could you imagine such a situation?
[02:00:30] Speaker C: Yes. I can think of a lot of situations where people don't agree or appreciate us.
[02:00:35] Speaker B: Yeah, 4.9 seems really low. I mean, man, Dr. Steve must have really screwed that one up.
[02:00:41] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't know. We get some people just there are a lot of what I've learned during this season is that there are a lot of people who have different perspectives on the episodes than we do. In fact, I was on a call with Will and Belinda Bates from the Will and Belinda Bates Foundation who funds the barometer. We haven't mentioned them in a while, but they were know. We should maybe ask the listeners moving forward if they want to send in their barometer scores and we'll take an average of them, and maybe if they send in their justification, read it on the show and give them a shout out. I mean, I think that's a good idea, don't you guys?
[02:01:21] Speaker B: I'm in for that. That sounds like a great I to who am I to argue with Will and Belinda Bates?
[02:01:28] Speaker A: Well, no one really. They've made it very clear that the funding is conditional on this. So I think what the listeners should do if they want to send in their barometer score, they should go to Slash Raymond, and there will be a form on the website to send us your barometer score and reasoning for the rest of the episodes this season. So postfund.org Slash Raymond, go give us your barometer, we may read yours on the show, we may read someone else's, but we will start incorporating the listeners ratings into the average final barometer score. Call to action complete. Now, is there anything else we want to address before we thank our guest and give our classic sign off?
[02:02:13] Speaker B: I think we're all set.
[02:02:14] Speaker A: All right. Awesome. Val, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for coming out. Thank you, Val, to the center.
Thank you for bringing your perspective. And thank you, of course, for the microphones and all of the money.
[02:02:28] Speaker B: How can the good people find you?
[02:02:31] Speaker D: The good people of the Internet can find me on Instagram at underscore Val, period. The letter O, the number five. Otherwise you can mail me a card. Good luck.
[02:02:46] Speaker A: You just got to guess. Go through all the addresses. It might be on Katalpa. I don't know.
[02:02:53] Speaker B: Hard to know.
[02:02:54] Speaker D: Most find me at the Christian Men's Center of Lynbrook in My.
[02:03:03] Speaker A: Yes. Well, you've decided to do sort of a phantom thing.
[02:03:07] Speaker D: Well, yeah, the theater is brand new and there's no ghost to haunt it, so I'm going to be working on that as a long term.
[02:03:14] Speaker A: There might be one ghost to haunt it. I think maybe. We're not sure yet.
Somebody might have died on stage in the theater.
[02:03:24] Speaker D: Oh, my God. This is a perfect opportunity. Okay, so if you're looking for me tonight exactly. Tonight I will be doing a seance, trying to convince Nikolai to stick around and have some unfinished business.
[02:03:39] Speaker A: Oh, speaking of unfinished business sorry, off topic, the second song that played in the club was Fantastic Voyage by Coolio. Okay, so thank you so much, Val.
We will put your Instagram in the description as well so people don't have to remember how to spell it. But thank you so much and we hope you'll come back, and you're always welcome here on Everybody loves. Everybody Loves Raymond. But until then, Alex, I believe there's only one last thing to say.
[02:04:09] Speaker C: You're right. It's our classic sign off.
And I believe it goes a little bit something like this when we have a guest. It started with the guest.
[02:04:19] Speaker D: Everybody loves Raven and we love you.
[02:04:24] Speaker B: Kisses. Hey, how about some juice? What?
