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The Barone Boys break down the two-part Season 2 finale of Everybody Loves Raymond, "The Wedding." Not much else happens.
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[00:00:04] Speaker A: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to today's special event. We are joined out here by outside of Dunk this doughnut with your three special friends. First, give a warm welcome to man whose last name changes way too much, mr. Adam Rudy.
And next, the man whose name last name has literally never changed even once. And if you think it did, then we're going to come find you and put you in a mentally it's Mike F.
Hey, everybody.
[00:00:45] Speaker B: What's up, guys?
Oh, my God. You were right, Adam. That guy that guy looks really good. Oh, my God.
[00:00:54] Speaker A: Hey, enough for the man of the hour.
Coming out now is your future mayor a man humbler than the humblest man who ever lived. He is not introducing himself right now. His name is Alex Shearer. Here he comes.
Hey, I just happened to find this microphone. Oh, my God.
Kisses.
[00:01:21] Speaker B: And you know what? I must say it is such an honor to be up here with, of course, Adam, but in a particular way, it's an honor to be up here with the next mayor of Alex Shear.
[00:01:35] Speaker C: Have some rocks.
[00:01:37] Speaker A: Have some rocks. Here comes some rocks.
[00:01:39] Speaker B: Oh, my God. Oh, wow. Look at those rocks.
[00:01:41] Speaker A: Those are very only the sharpest rocks from my supporters. That's right.
[00:01:47] Speaker B: All right, well, we're up here on top of the winner parked in front of Dunk this donut for you everybody today, here on election day, we're here to rock this Lindbrook vote. Let me hear you one more time.
[00:02:02] Speaker C: That's right. Voters only in the Lindbrook town square. That's right. We are here in front of everyone's favorite business. Am I right? Dunk this donut. Give it up for Reggie Amen.
[00:02:15] Speaker B: Reggie.
[00:02:16] Speaker A: There he is. Still working.
[00:02:19] Speaker C: Still working. And of course, all the other businesses here on limbrook town square coming out to show their support. Alex's banners and colors, as you can all see, are draped around every building from men's only massage to men's only fans to what? Men's only fans to men's only fans.
Everyone is coming out for Alex. Alex is the small business candidate. Are we right, everybody? Come on, give it up for Alex.
[00:02:47] Speaker A: Absolutely.
You're going to get your statue.
[00:02:52] Speaker C: As you can see behind us, the IBM building is showing a projected image of Alex twerking like he's never twerked before because Alex is the big business candidate too. Right, everybody?
[00:03:05] Speaker A: Yeah. I can't believe I got onto the.
[00:03:11] Speaker B: Oil on you.
[00:03:13] Speaker A: I can't believe I got onto the irritable bowel.
[00:03:16] Speaker C: Let's give it up.
Yeah. Sorry. I misspoke the IBS building because Alex is the big business candidate.
[00:03:26] Speaker B: All right, well, we're going to do here today what we do every single week except instead of inside the winner regal, we're going to do it up top. We are here to get you pumped up for the people. We're here to get you guys pumped up to vote by doing a live recording of your favorite podcast. Everybody Loves everybody Loves Raymond right here.
[00:03:47] Speaker A: Speaking of which, guys, I do think we have to bring it up. This is the finale of season two. Can you believe it?
[00:03:54] Speaker C: That's right, season two finale. Election season finale. It's almost like it was all supposed to happen this way, but it was it.
Nobody could have planned this. But aren't we grateful because Alex is the Ray Romano candidate, right, everybody? I mean, come on, give it up for Ray.
So what we're going to be doing, it is 01:00 P.m. On a Tuesday. So of course, it's time for a live podcast recording here in public, outside, with all I can count, thousands. Thousands of people have turned out for this, right?
[00:04:34] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:04:35] Speaker A: Sounds bigger than I expected.
[00:04:37] Speaker C: Look at all that. Well, what do you guys say?
You've all got your they're not lawn chairs, but they are the little stadium folding seats that you can buy for when you're sitting on bleachers. We got Alex branded, whatever the fuck those are called for all of you, look under your feet. That's right.
[00:04:56] Speaker B: Cushions.
[00:04:57] Speaker C: Your cushions. Cushions.
[00:04:59] Speaker B: Alex brandon cushions.
[00:05:00] Speaker C: That's right. Well, I'm talking about the ones that have the little back. But could we not afford those?
[00:05:07] Speaker A: No, no, we why? You know why? Because I'm the candidate of support. I'm supporting.
[00:05:12] Speaker C: That's right, you're supporting them. Literally, they're supporting you. Look under your feet, everybody. You are standing on an Alex branded cushion. Go ahead and sit down on that. And we are going to be Alex branded cushion. We're going to be breaking down season two, episode 24 and 25 of the wedding. That's right. Strap in, folks, because you're going to be sitting on the grass there for about 3 hours of going to be a long one. Everybody Loves Raymond. It's called the wedding. But first, this is no ordinary episode. Okay? We've got some special guests here, some of our favorite people. You know them if you've been following the campaign, you love them. Our good friends, our best supporters. You've seen them at our rallies before.
Mike, you want to introduce our first special guest that we're going to be talking to today. Who is it?
[00:06:05] Speaker B: I would love to. Which one are we doing?
[00:06:09] Speaker A: Mike, you forgot. Oh, my God.
This is why I fired you ten times.
[00:06:15] Speaker B: All right, listen, I did a ton of work for this campaign and don't you forget it.
[00:06:19] Speaker C: Yeah, give it up for Mike. Everybody.
[00:06:24] Speaker B: Just introduce the first guest. That's about right. Our first guest is you guys know him, he's been popular since your childhood. And today he's got the honor of being the next mayor of Limbrook's running mate. Let's hear it for the one, the only, santa Claus.
[00:06:42] Speaker C: Santa.
Santa. Everybody. Give it up for Santa. There he is.
Big, happy, jolly, rosy, obviously big belt buckle. Oh, my God.
[00:07:00] Speaker A: Santa, give me a hug.
[00:07:01] Speaker C: Hey, Santa.
[00:07:02] Speaker B: How's it going?
[00:07:03] Speaker C: You want a water?
[00:07:04] Speaker B: Adorable.
[00:07:05] Speaker A: Do you have any milk.
[00:07:06] Speaker B: That is Santa.
[00:07:07] Speaker C: Look at him.
[00:07:08] Speaker B: I can't believe we got him in this busy season of April.
[00:07:11] Speaker C: Yes, Santa, it's a big day. Here is one of those tiny, like, airplane bottles of water, except I went and filled it with straight perfect in one.
[00:07:23] Speaker B: Oh my God.
[00:07:24] Speaker C: Some lucky woman in the front row got that crushed tiny bottle.
[00:07:28] Speaker A: When you have to visit so many homes in one night, you get used to it.
[00:07:31] Speaker C: That's some election day magic right there. So, Santa, I have one question for you. I mean, obviously we got to talk about rocking the vote, getting people out to those polls right over there. But first, speaking of polls, Santa, how'd you meet Ray?
[00:07:51] Speaker A: I like what you did there, Adam. Thanks, but yeah. No. How'd you meet Ray? Well, it all began when I delivered presents to him as a boy.
[00:08:02] Speaker C: Oh, Santa's opening up his sack right now and taking out wow, it's a package. And it's got a little tag on it that says Raymond.
[00:08:12] Speaker A: Yes, what Ray asked for in all those years ago was to have a smaller nose, but I could not give that.
Secondly, what he asked for was nice burn, Santa. No, no, that's legitimately.
[00:08:26] Speaker C: What he asked mean, everyone, I think we all are on the same page. That that was a sick burn regardless of the truth of it or thought.
[00:08:34] Speaker A: I thought it was pretty it was pretty slick.
[00:08:37] Speaker C: Santa, santa, you should be the new roastmaster general. You want us to call Comedy Central for you?
[00:08:43] Speaker A: Is that a real position?
[00:08:45] Speaker C: Yeah, it's currently filled by Jeffrey Ross. Yeah.
[00:08:48] Speaker A: Oh, I guess I'll take that. All right.
[00:08:51] Speaker C: Anyway, we talk about that. Here's our card. By the way, Mike and Alex, I took a part time job with Paramount Networks. So I'm doing a little bit of like a R for Comedy Central now.
[00:09:03] Speaker A: Totally.
Whatever.
[00:09:06] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:09:06] Speaker C: All right, well, you know, we don't know exactly how this is going to go today, so it's just sort of my fallback position only.
[00:09:13] Speaker B: Confidence only.
[00:09:14] Speaker C: Yes, of course. Oh, shit. I was talking about I thought this microphone was not plugged in. Yeah.
[00:09:18] Speaker A: Anyway, Santa, you were meeting Ray, right? Well, he asked for a couple of, you know, classic, classic could give. It doesn't fit in a sack. I couldn't give him one of the reindeers. I need those to fly home. So what? I ended up giving him a couple of things. Firstly, of course, stress pole. Yeah, it didn't help. I gave him another stressful.
Secondly, I gave him copies of famous sitcoms from his time.
Thirdly, can you not think of any? Shut up.
[00:09:56] Speaker C: No specific examples there, Santa, or just.
[00:10:00] Speaker B: General seasons of random sitcoms.
[00:10:02] Speaker A: You know, when you've been doing this for thousands of years, the years all kind of blend together.
[00:10:06] Speaker C: I forget what actual a one disc collection of AfterMASH or what.
[00:10:12] Speaker A: Sure, fuck it.
[00:10:14] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:10:15] Speaker B: Oh, my God. Tennis is fuck. Holy shit.
[00:10:17] Speaker C: Oh Santa, you are going to kill on Comedy Central. This is going to be great.
[00:10:21] Speaker A: No Santa. Fucks. The reason there is no Santa Jr. Is because Santa is also impotent.
[00:10:27] Speaker C: Anyway, did you get the sniff, sniff, sniff?
[00:10:30] Speaker A: Not voluntarily. Mrs. Claus is very.
[00:10:40] Speaker C: One and done kind of thing. I hope she's not messing around on, you know that's a one and done kind of fetish.
[00:10:45] Speaker A: That's kind of where the elves came from. We wanted know fill a hole in our lives. I was talking with Ray throughout the years. I found he was a pretty funny guy. He's awkward. So he was able to kind of use comedy as a way to kind of compensate for his awkwardness. It's something that my running mates does understand very well. Yeah, that's true, Santa, I do understand that pretty I suggested, you know Ray, you're pretty good. Maybe you should tell these jokes professionally. And I believe that was the best gift I could have given Ray.
[00:11:16] Speaker C: Wow.
[00:11:16] Speaker A: Because after that it became comedy.
[00:11:20] Speaker C: As you've been talking, you've been unwrapping this package that says Raymond on it and it's empty because the real present was the advice and the gift of laughter. Yes, the gift of laughter.
[00:11:33] Speaker B: Oh wow. Honestly, I am deeply impressed. Yes, I'm deeply impressed.
[00:11:37] Speaker C: What a storyteller, right folks? Santa.
[00:11:39] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:11:41] Speaker B: Give it up for Santa.
Who would have thunken that if it wasn't for Santa Claus himself, we would not have Ray to enjoy on the TV show here tonight.
[00:11:53] Speaker A: It was also easier than the pony, right?
[00:11:56] Speaker C: Doesn't fit in the sack.
[00:11:58] Speaker A: Yeah, it doesn't fit in the sack.
[00:12:00] Speaker C: Of course, Santa. Yeah. Well, Santa, I guess one of the other questions we like to ask our guests is what shows did you used to watch growing up?
[00:12:10] Speaker A: Oh, growing up. Well, you may not believe this, but when I was a boy, we didn't have these old cable boxes you were talking about.
[00:12:18] Speaker C: Oh, you cut the cord. Your family cut the cord.
[00:12:21] Speaker A: There was no cord to cut.
[00:12:23] Speaker C: What?
[00:12:25] Speaker A: Yes. There were no television. No, nothing like that. We had to make our own entertainment like real people.
We threw rucks at animals. I felt bad and eventually one of the injured reindeer I healed up and that was one of my first reindeer. He thanked me by taking me for a flight around town. It was amazing.
That's where I kind of turned my life around after that because most of my childhood youth was spent working with animals in a more malicious way. I was on a bad path. You were luckily. Luckily? Classic serial killer warning sign without sitcoms. This is what happens to people like Sabata.
I threw coal at all the naughty people around town in order to stop them from doing bad things. And that became the entertainment in town. For a while I did it every night until I recognized that that was not manageable. So I dedicated it to once a year.
And I decided on the year that my godchild was born, the day of my godchild's birth, unimportant.
[00:13:38] Speaker C: Is Jesus's godfather?
No, somebody else famous who was born on December?
[00:13:45] Speaker A: No, his name was Jonathan. He's not important.
[00:13:48] Speaker C: Oh, when was this? What year was he born?
[00:13:53] Speaker A: Zero.
[00:13:56] Speaker C: Same time.
[00:13:58] Speaker A: Where was well, he was born? I don't know, like, you know, those little shacks that usually animals live in? Well, that was taken, babels.
[00:14:10] Speaker C: Or is there another word for that, Mike?
[00:14:12] Speaker B: I think a manger.
[00:14:13] Speaker C: Is that what you're going yeah, well, that was taken by Jonathan was not born in the manger.
[00:14:20] Speaker A: Right. So we had an all natural birth in the middle of the forest. Jonathan was a beautiful young boy.
[00:14:29] Speaker C: So Jonathan's mother laid down in a clearing and did you know a lot about this? Did you deliver this baby?
[00:14:39] Speaker A: Well, yes, I know a lot about delivering reindeer children.
[00:14:42] Speaker C: Jonathan was a reindeer?
[00:14:44] Speaker A: I'm sorry, did I not make this clear? I'm sorry. Santa, what the hell are you talking about?
[00:14:51] Speaker B: This was a full on the lamb situation.
Is that what we're dealing with?
[00:14:55] Speaker A: Well, I was so close with the reindeer that flew me around town as a child, I decided to adopt, quote unquote, the child of the reindeer.
[00:15:03] Speaker B: Santa, did you fuck a reindeer?
[00:15:05] Speaker A: No, santa does not fuck reindeer.
[00:15:07] Speaker C: He's a god child.
So who was the not that mike, this might be traumatic for you, but who was the father? Mike was just on Moripovich.
[00:15:16] Speaker A: There was no father.
[00:15:18] Speaker C: There was no father?
[00:15:20] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:15:20] Speaker C: Reindeers reproduce asexually.
[00:15:23] Speaker A: No, I believe it was an act.
[00:15:25] Speaker C: Of God, an immaculate conception.
[00:15:30] Speaker B: Adam, I think we might want to end this line of questioning. It sounds to me like Santa fucked the reindeer. No, he doesn't want anybody to know.
[00:15:37] Speaker C: I'm believing Santa 100%. Santa was present and delivered at the immaculate birth of a reindeer who was born on the same day as Jesus.
[00:15:49] Speaker A: Who is named Jonathan, and for which.
[00:15:51] Speaker C: He decided to celebrate Christmas on December 25.
[00:15:55] Speaker A: Yeah, come on, mike, didn't you know Santa was a virgin for like 1000 years?
[00:15:59] Speaker C: No, Santa santa was a yeah, Santa was a virt. Santa, were you sorry, I know this is a hard left turn. Were you a virgin before you met Mrs. Claus?
[00:16:09] Speaker B: Is this Howard Stern? What are we doing here?
[00:16:12] Speaker A: So, yes, I like Raymond. It's a good show.
Vote for Alex.
[00:16:17] Speaker C: That sounds like we got the answer there. Okay, santa, everybody.
[00:16:21] Speaker A: Yes, thank you.
[00:16:23] Speaker C: We know exactly what happened.
[00:16:25] Speaker A: Have some Christmas cheer.
[00:16:28] Speaker C: Okay. Wow, what a journey. Santa, you went from throwing rocks at animals to throwing coal at people. All right, what's next?
[00:16:37] Speaker B: There we go.
[00:16:38] Speaker A: Santa's going to get a dunk this donut.
[00:16:40] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:16:41] Speaker A: And then help run this town upon the election.
[00:16:45] Speaker C: Yes. We didn't talk about your policy platforms at all, or what you want to do in office, but we unfortunately don't have time. We've got other guests to get to. So Santa is going into the Dunk. This. Give it up for Santa, everybody.
[00:17:01] Speaker A: Thank you, Santa.
[00:17:02] Speaker C: Reggie, that donut's on us. And only give him well, actually, Santa is the only one. Santa's the only one who's allowed to get more than one donut.
[00:17:10] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:17:11] Speaker B: That is Santa Claus.
[00:17:12] Speaker A: That is Kent.
[00:17:13] Speaker B: Want more? You can make Christmas.
[00:17:16] Speaker C: Yeah. Deliver an immaculately conceived reindeer if you want more.
[00:17:21] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:17:22] Speaker C: Okay, so we've got another guest here we're going to talk to about season two, episode 24 24.
We are going to be talking to Mike. Who's next on the list?
[00:17:36] Speaker B: The next one on the oh, okay. Here we have the immortal super soldier that we all know from the butcher shop down the street from the local limbrook butcher shop. He's lived many lives. He's fought in many wars. And he's here today not to talk about his historical perspective, but to talk about the most important historical event that he is witness to the election of the next mayor of Glenbrook, alex Shearer. Everybody, please welcome to the stage Doug.
[00:18:08] Speaker A: It's Doug.
[00:18:10] Speaker C: I can't believe it's.
[00:18:11] Speaker B: Doug.
[00:18:12] Speaker A: Hi, Doug.
Hey, Doug.
[00:18:16] Speaker C: Get him out of here. Get him out of here. Just please remove him from the primary.
[00:18:20] Speaker A: Doug fucked my father.
[00:18:23] Speaker C: He can stay. The guy who Doug fucked, he can stay. Doug.
Hi, Doug.
[00:18:33] Speaker A: Doug, how the hell are you?
[00:18:34] Speaker C: How the hell are you, Doug? Sorry.
[00:18:36] Speaker D: I'm alive.
[00:18:37] Speaker C: Sorry.
[00:18:38] Speaker D: I'm alive. I'm alive.
[00:18:40] Speaker C: Wow, what a beautiful accent, Doug. Where are you from?
[00:18:45] Speaker D: Somewhere in Eastern Europe?
[00:18:51] Speaker C: No, I guess it's been so long.
[00:18:55] Speaker A: You've been all over the world, it's hard to remember where you came from.
[00:18:58] Speaker D: I guess many years, many changing regimes. Okay, somewhere in that song.
[00:19:05] Speaker C: Okay, so somewhere in Europe. Eastern Europe. And I'm sure the borders I mean, you are, no offense, you look great for your age, but you are a very old man. I'm sure the borders have changed. The country that you were born in probably hasn't existed for thousands of years. Am I right?
[00:19:23] Speaker D: It has not. Not since the fall of the Zantium.
[00:19:27] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:19:27] Speaker A: So, Doug, I got to ask.
[00:19:29] Speaker C: Yeah. We have one question.
[00:19:30] Speaker A: Mike's been talking us up, and I think it's something we all like to know.
What's your favorite war?
[00:19:38] Speaker D: My favorite war? That's a great question. They were all so fun.
[00:19:44] Speaker C: They were all great time. Do you play a lot of pranks on set?
[00:19:51] Speaker D: Let me tell you, back in back, we used to play all kinds of pranks all over the place in the trenches. It was a great time. But I think my favorite wars that I fought in, the emu war, which in Australia, which of course I fought for the emus.
[00:20:07] Speaker C: That's why you famously have been on some would call the wrong side of many of the wars that you fought, or at least the one that.
[00:20:19] Speaker A: The winners, right?
[00:20:21] Speaker D: Yeah, that one I will agree.
[00:20:23] Speaker C: Yeah. It's not a winners or losers thing. It's a value judgment of, like exactly.
[00:20:28] Speaker D: I disagree. I disagree with a lot of people all the time, especially that guy's death. That guy that pissed me off.
[00:20:34] Speaker A: Anyway? How'd you meet Ray?
[00:20:37] Speaker D: Well, it's very funny. You will ask. I was fighting in Korea at the time.
[00:20:41] Speaker C: Wrong side.
[00:20:44] Speaker A: He was just fighting in.
[00:20:47] Speaker C: I. And I don't mean to step on your story, but I did hear from Mike that you stood in the center of the DMZ and shot in both directions. Right.
[00:20:57] Speaker A: Agent of chaos, this man.
[00:20:58] Speaker D: I could not make up my mind, so I wanted to keep it as even as possible. I fought for everybody. I fought everybody.
[00:21:05] Speaker C: So you were in Korea?
[00:21:07] Speaker D: I was in Korea. And as I was running up and down the DMZ with machine guns in both hands, just running up and down as I ran about, some guy dropped a portable television camcorder on the floor. And as I picked it up, I noticed that there was something called a sitcom showing there. And I watched it and I laughed a lot. And I did not fight that day because I was so thoroughly entertained and yeah.
[00:21:40] Speaker C: What show was this?
[00:21:42] Speaker D: I thought it was clear. This was Everybody Loves Rainbow.
[00:21:45] Speaker C: You were running down the middle of the DMZ shooting in both directions in 1997.
[00:21:56] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:21:59] Speaker C: I don't know if that I just got bored. I don't know if you could say you were in the Korean War then.
[00:22:07] Speaker D: I said I was fighting in Korea.
[00:22:09] Speaker C: I didn't say I was in the Korean you got me. Yeah, accurate. So you saw somebody dropped a camcorder that had a was it like a footage of somebody's TV showing Everybody Loves Raymond?
[00:22:23] Speaker D: Yeah, it kind of looked that way. It kind of looked like kind of looks like someone with one of those crank machines pointed at their own television set. So that was the kind of quality that we were looking at. But listen, the Raymond I want to.
[00:22:40] Speaker C: Know more about this. Was this a Zapruder? Like, who was filming their TV showing Everybody Loves Raymond with an old timey, like, 1890s hand crank camera?
[00:22:55] Speaker D: That's a great question. I wish I could ask the man, but he is no longer with us.
[00:23:00] Speaker C: He was in South Korea that day.
He was somewhere were you, like, in a ravine or something? And he was, like, up there gesturing to you, hey, can you throw that camcorder back up here? And then you did what you do best.
[00:23:19] Speaker D: That sounds pretty familiar. Actually.
He was in a crow's nest. I don't actually think that I heard that guy. I heard a lot of people. I don't think I heard that guy. I think I picked it up. I think I laughed and he said, hey, that's mine. And then as he was looking at it, he fell over the crow's nest.
[00:23:37] Speaker C: And unfortunately, it could not apropos of nothing.
[00:23:40] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:23:41] Speaker C: Sure.
[00:23:42] Speaker D: He really wanted his camcorder back.
[00:23:44] Speaker A: What do you so you like Ray?
[00:23:48] Speaker D: I love Ray. Ray's a great guy. I love Ray.
[00:23:51] Speaker C: And, Doug, I know you're the second many hundreds of years old person that we've talked to you today, but what did you watch growing up?
[00:24:03] Speaker D: I just think when I was growing up, like I said, it was a very long time ago.
There was this one roaming show of this guy that would juggle he would juggle things that were on fire, and he was a great show. I really loved it quite a lot. Unfortunately, people in my village thought he was a witch, and we burned him at the stake. But it was a good time while he was there. That was one that I remember quite well.
[00:24:30] Speaker A: That's good surprise that someone who joggers fire isn't more flame retardant.
[00:24:35] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. That is a good point. You'd think he'd be ready?
[00:24:38] Speaker A: It's kind of a beautiful irony.
[00:24:40] Speaker C: It's very someone wrote it sounds like.
[00:24:43] Speaker D: He was bad at his job. Turns out he was not a witch, because if he was a witch, he would not have burned. But, you know, when some lose him.
[00:24:49] Speaker A: Mike, you've been very quiet. Is there anything you want to ask Doug?
[00:24:53] Speaker B: I'm just in awe that this man has graced us with his presence. First of all, I just got to just listen, doug, I love that you're here, and I got to say, which of Alex's policies is it that really.
[00:25:09] Speaker A: Why don't the two of you just talk for a little while?
[00:25:11] Speaker C: Yeah. You guys have an established relationship, right? Because and we haven't touched on this, but of course, everybody knows if they've been following the campaign, that Doug does pay Mike to have Mike ride around on his back as part of a sort of dominatro arrangement.
We would hate to interrupt people in the audience by applause. Who's a dominatro client of Mike's.
[00:25:44] Speaker B: I'm trying to figure this out because I really didn't want this to affect the campaign. I kind of wanted to keep things separately.
[00:25:50] Speaker D: Oh, no, mike, you should really advertise more. You really should. It is a great business opportunity.
[00:25:55] Speaker B: It really doug, listen.
Well, I don't know what there is to say about this, because, like, to I'm trying to keep this on the DL. I don't want to embarrass anybody.
[00:26:10] Speaker C: Just as a reminder, we are speaking into a public address system that is turned all the way up and is going I think they're listening to it. I got some texts from some of our friends in Rockville Center telling us to turn it down so pretty much everyone can hear this.
[00:26:28] Speaker A: They heard that.
[00:26:29] Speaker B: Okay, thank you for reminding about that. Let's keep it on the DL.
[00:26:33] Speaker C: Then.
[00:26:33] Speaker B: Let's not make it super explicit.
[00:26:35] Speaker A: You know.
[00:26:40] Speaker D: He plays my butt like a fizzle. Oh, my God.
[00:26:43] Speaker C: How? Like with a bow.
[00:26:45] Speaker B: All right, Doug. Doug, you don't need to go into that much detail.
[00:26:48] Speaker C: I've heard of the devil going down to Georgia, but the devil going down on Doug.
[00:26:54] Speaker A: Does he strum or what?
[00:26:57] Speaker D: If I had.
[00:26:57] Speaker C: Yeah. Is it pizzicato?
[00:27:00] Speaker D: I will say I would drop it all over the DMV. That's all I'm saying. It would change a lot of mindset.
[00:27:07] Speaker C: Wow. All right, Doug, what are you watching now?
[00:27:12] Speaker D: I'm really into succession, actually.
[00:27:14] Speaker C: It's quite a running theme of guests.
[00:27:20] Speaker D: Lots of good twists and turns in the recent episode yeah.
[00:27:25] Speaker C: Of the five guests who've said that they watch succession, I don't think any of us watch it. So there's going to be no follow up questions from us. Thank you, Doug. Doug, I just want to hear one last question.
We all know that when you did that consulting work that you did on Saving Private Ryan, where you obviously consulted for the wrong side, you played a legendary prank on Tom Hanks on set. That just that story is so great. I heard you tell it on Marin. That is such a great story. Can you just tell it for the audience here? I think that'll be absolutely amazing. Absolutely.
[00:28:05] Speaker D: So, you see, actually, Tom was the one that started it.
I was running my own business, and I opened my locker, and then there came a pie out of the sky and it smacked me.
[00:28:18] Speaker C: What are the mechanics of funny?
You opened your locker and a pie fell out of the sky?
[00:28:25] Speaker D: Yeah, no, it felt like it was a big locker, and then they had pie on the top shelf, and then I opened it up and it bited me in the face. And I was like, oh, that's a good joke. That's a good joke. So in retaliation, I went to his locker and I blew up his leg. It was clean off. Just well, listen, it's saving private riot. Everybody has to know what it's like to lose a body part. That's one of the things that Spielberg really emphasized. But, yeah, it was a great game for us.
[00:28:52] Speaker C: So when we see Tom Hanks now, that is a prosthetic.
[00:28:58] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:28:58] Speaker D: Yes, that's true. And it's a great prosthetic leg. It's very impressive.
[00:29:04] Speaker C: Well, sort of a downer to go out on, but that's Doug, everybody.
You Mutilated, America's favorite actor.
All right, we have another guest to get to. Doug.
[00:29:24] Speaker D: All right, goodbye.
[00:29:25] Speaker C: No, you can stay if you want, if you feel like you want to talk for but if you want to go into the dunk this, you can.
[00:29:33] Speaker D: I would love a dunk this. Donut reggie owes me one from last time, actually.
And I also want to find that guy that cursed me out as I was coming.
[00:29:43] Speaker C: Okay, well, great.
[00:29:45] Speaker A: Good luck. Have fun. Hopefully that guy was voting for dicky.
[00:29:48] Speaker D: Yeah, that's minus one on everybody.
[00:29:52] Speaker C: All right, Doug. Everybody give it up for Doug. Wow, what a guide.
[00:29:58] Speaker B: Mike, I was very uncomfortable during that entire conversation.
[00:30:02] Speaker A: I wasn't I learned a lot.
[00:30:04] Speaker C: Sort of your world's colliding, isn't it, of the dominatro business and the podcast campaign.
[00:30:11] Speaker B: I didn't really want that to be a crossover that we had. But you know what? We have one more guest for you guys today. You know her. You love her. Her popularity overall has skyrocketed since the second debate since the second debate between Tyrone Dickey and Alex Shearer earlier this month. You all know her. You all love her. Her name is Dorothy Henderson. Come on up.
Yes.
[00:30:35] Speaker C: Alex, you need to stay away from my wife. Alex. Michael, I'm talking to you. Alex, you stay away from my wife. That's right. Hello, Mike. Hello, Adam. Hello. Oh, michael Henderson, DDS.
[00:30:51] Speaker B: Nice to see Mr. Henderson.
[00:30:53] Speaker C: Doctor. He's a great doctor of dental surgery.
[00:30:58] Speaker B: Okay, well but typically doctors associate with someone that has an MD. I don't know.
[00:31:02] Speaker C: That is literal bullshit, okay? There's all kinds of doctors. What about PhDs? Mike? I'm sorry. I'm coming in hot.
[00:31:09] Speaker B: Pretty hard dick, I was going to say I will say that I think that typically it's associated specifically with a medical guess.
[00:31:19] Speaker C: I am a doctor of dental surgery. Mike, what are you a doctor of? I know what Alex is a doctor.
[00:31:26] Speaker B: I'm not a doctor.
[00:31:27] Speaker C: Alex is a doctor of fucking my wife.
[00:31:32] Speaker A: Look, Mr. Henderson, I don't know I don't care how many pretty huge dicks you have.
[00:31:43] Speaker C: I don't actually have a DDS.
[00:31:47] Speaker B: We were aware. Yeah.
[00:31:49] Speaker C: Which, of course, I have to think.
[00:31:51] Speaker A: Of a funny thing for that now.
[00:31:53] Speaker C: Well, it's double dick syndrome.
[00:31:56] Speaker A: Oh, my God. You're double barreled?
[00:31:59] Speaker C: Well, sort of.
When I was 15, they pretzeled, so now I basically have one. But yes, from birth to 15, I was double barreled. And did that influence my decision to go into dentistry? Because I wanted to have a different reason for the DDS that they were always putting after my name. Yes, but that's not what we're here to talk about. Here to talk about you fucking my wife. I got the invitation that you sent actually inviting her to come on this, and I said, I fucking knew it, because that message that you wrote in there gave the whole thing away.
[00:32:40] Speaker A: Is that not her in the car over there?
[00:32:42] Speaker C: That is her in the car over there. I told her to come along so she could watch this confrontation.
[00:32:48] Speaker B: We want to talk to her specifically. We invited Dorothy.
[00:32:52] Speaker C: All right.
[00:32:53] Speaker B: On the pod.
[00:32:53] Speaker C: Dorothy, honey.
[00:32:55] Speaker A: It could be weird to see her face.
[00:32:56] Speaker C: Honey, come get out of the car. Come up here.
She's on my side, by the way. She knows that it's over between the two of you.
[00:33:06] Speaker B: She knows this is a consensual relationship. I mean, listen, first of all, I need to specify this because we are again doing a campaign event for Alex to get him elected the next mayor of Lindbrook. And, yeah, you're kind. Of harshing the vibes here, dude.
[00:33:24] Speaker A: Yeah, I really harshen my mellows.
[00:33:25] Speaker D: Hey, Alex.
[00:33:27] Speaker C: How's it going, honey? Hello.
[00:33:30] Speaker A: Nice to see nice to see you.
[00:33:31] Speaker C: Looking good.
[00:33:32] Speaker A: Feeling good.
[00:33:34] Speaker B: I'm going to be honest.
[00:33:35] Speaker C: I like those thighs.
[00:33:37] Speaker A: It's just for you, babe.
[00:33:38] Speaker C: Thanks.
What? So far?
We had an agreement in the car. We said it's over. You're coming back to me. You love me, remember?
Winking at Alex.
[00:33:57] Speaker B: Yeah, this got very steamy. I will say.
[00:34:03] Speaker C: It'S like this. Everywhere she goes yeah.
[00:34:07] Speaker A: Mike, you have to understand, this is not just like, a me thing. This is just like any other human being in the vicinity. Like, Dorothy knows what she likes. And who am I to stand in her way?
[00:34:18] Speaker C: You can stand in my way anytime, sugar.
[00:34:21] Speaker A: Yeah. I think the only one in town who has not fucked Dorothy is Michael Henderson.
[00:34:28] Speaker C: Look what are you doing? I have fucked my wife.
I heard Mike talking on the podcast about how it's good to want to screw your wife. So I decided, after four years of marriage, that, yes, we would try it. I was finally ready to lose. I had lost virginity in one of my barrels.
But I decided that it was time to lose the virginity in the other. So, yes, I did consummate my I have fucked my wife, Mr. Henderson.
[00:35:01] Speaker A: You want my advice, Henderson?
If you want my advice, Samaraj ain't working. Get a divorce. Get your two peni surgically separated. Become a porn star. Change your name to Double Dick Dan.
[00:35:15] Speaker C: DDD.
[00:35:17] Speaker A: Yeah, triple D, but with two DS.
You'll be the most famous person in the world overnight. Dorothy will be begging for you.
[00:35:28] Speaker C: You know, I'm doing a thing for Paramount Networks now. So if you want to do, I don't know, Showtime After Dark, we could get something going here. I mean, here's my card. I don't want to be a porn star. I want to have a stable and successful marriage with my wife.
[00:35:45] Speaker A: Well, that's not happening.
[00:35:47] Speaker C: Who happens to be no offense, dear, but throwing it all over town. And I didn't agree to this open marriage thing.
Oh, my God.
[00:35:59] Speaker A: That guy brought a baseball glove.
[00:36:01] Speaker C: Which of those wide receivers are you again?
[00:36:05] Speaker A: Dorothy, I think you're the wide receiver.
[00:36:07] Speaker C: Oh, Alice.
[00:36:08] Speaker B: Jesus Christ.
[00:36:09] Speaker C: Hey, Alice, I want to go back to the our Uber X is waiting over there. If you want to I'll be there all day. I mean, I told him to keep the meter running.
[00:36:20] Speaker A: Maybe later. Maybe keep it running.
[00:36:26] Speaker C: Yeah, go ahead.
[00:36:28] Speaker B: I just want to reemphasize that this is a political event. And again, I don't give a fuck.
[00:36:34] Speaker C: I'm trying to save my marriage.
[00:36:36] Speaker A: Look, Mr. Henderson, the last time my.
[00:36:40] Speaker C: Masculinity has been so severely challenged, I'm doing what every fragile man does, which is create a big, aggressive scene in public rather than talking to my wife.
[00:36:52] Speaker A: Mr. Henderson. Mr. Henderson, I want to say let me clear something up, mr. Henderson. Doc, it's sorry. Mr. Henderson, the last time you confronted me, my numbers exploded and it only helped me. And now look, the same thing's happening again.
[00:37:10] Speaker C: That's true. More people have shown up. I've noticed. And of course, they're all filming me. I'm going to be the guy who doesn't want people to fuck his wife or his wife to fuck other people.
I fuck that guy, too. The guy who said World star.
Yeah.
[00:37:26] Speaker A: I like that guy.
[00:37:27] Speaker B: Love you, Dorothy.
[00:37:29] Speaker C: Love you, too, sugar.
[00:37:30] Speaker A: Have you considered an open relationship?
[00:37:33] Speaker C: I have not. My wife dude considered?
[00:37:36] Speaker A: You're basically in one. You may as well give it a try.
[00:37:39] Speaker C: Look, are any of you guys justices of the piece or like judges or something?
[00:37:48] Speaker A: Actually, Adam's a judge.
[00:37:49] Speaker B: Deborah yeah, Adam is our judge.
[00:37:53] Speaker C: Michael, if you want to just do we do a little thing. It's called Judge Deborah. We usually do it in the Baroness Zonus, but I guess it's a special day, so we may as well do it here.
What do y'all say we do a Judge Deborah right here?
Okay, so we're just going to listen to the theme song.
I cannot believe that this is what my life has become.
I'm standing on top of an RV in front of 6000 people as you're playing this jingle.
[00:38:28] Speaker A: Just go to couples therapy, man.
[00:38:31] Speaker C: Honestly, at this point, I just want to get divorced.
A quick divorce here.
[00:38:38] Speaker A: All right, judge divorce.
[00:38:39] Speaker C: Okay. Judge deborah. So, Alex, I'm going to have you arguing for I think it's probably most fair that you argue for getting divorced. So you're going to be arguing on behalf of Michael and Dorothy. What position are you taking here? Do you want to get divorced?
[00:38:58] Speaker A: There's a lot of positions she wants to take.
[00:39:01] Speaker C: I mean, really, it makes no difference to me. So, yeah, sure, let's get divorced. Okay. So, Mike, you're going to be arguing for getting divorced for is this really.
[00:39:11] Speaker B: Needs a judge here? Could we just gavel and say that the marriage is void and then.
[00:39:18] Speaker C: I.
[00:39:18] Speaker B: Don'T know, go about her business?
[00:39:19] Speaker C: Wait, before you hit that gavel oh, my God. Mrs. Henderson.
[00:39:25] Speaker A: It's the OG.
[00:39:26] Speaker C: It's the matriarch of the Henderson family.
[00:39:28] Speaker B: Oh, my God.
[00:39:30] Speaker C: Before you hit that gavel do we.
[00:39:34] Speaker B: Have any security as to who gets.
[00:39:36] Speaker C: On top of this winner? Doug was supposed to be security, but he's in the Dunk.
[00:39:40] Speaker B: This doug, get your donut and get back.
[00:39:42] Speaker C: He and Santa are talking over they're sharing coffee. It looks like they're really getting into it on an emotional level. I just wanted to say I'd like a divorce from my son.
He's a real two dicked asshole, and I don't want him to be a Henderson anymore.
[00:40:02] Speaker A: Wow. Well, you have that kind of power.
[00:40:05] Speaker C: Yeah, I guess. I don't know. Does Judge Deborah do, like, disownment or emancipate minors? I guess if we she sure does. Now, do you have the bylaws, Mike.
[00:40:17] Speaker B: Yeah, it says here, right in the bylaws of Judge Deborah hold on. Yeah, it's right here. Okay. Yeah. Section 23, clause 14, subsection A. Santa.
[00:40:26] Speaker C: Picked his head up, judged when he heard you say that.
[00:40:31] Speaker B: Subsection A reads, judge Deborah can do whatever the fuck she wants.
[00:40:36] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:40:37] Speaker B: Sounds like you're in the clear.
[00:40:38] Speaker C: Okay, so we're adjourning on the divorce. I rule in favor of divorce. So play the theme song again, and we're just going to let this theme song lead into the second theme song. Okay, so, Mike, you're going to be arguing for Mike Henderson that he shouldn't be disowned from his family because he's a two dicked asshole. And Alex is going to be arguing for the fact that he's a two dicked asshole who should be disowned from his family.
[00:41:04] Speaker B: We're doing a lot of snap judgments. Is everybody in the crowd still with us?
[00:41:08] Speaker C: Are we going to everybody in the crowd is glued to their stools right now. Or cushions. They're very invested in the outcome of these cases.
[00:41:16] Speaker A: Thought we were going to talk about Raymond.
[00:41:18] Speaker C: We got to get to it. But we got a lot of interfamily drama to deal with first. This is a real August Osage County situation up here.
[00:41:27] Speaker A: This is a whole season kind of coming together here, you could say, know, the season of spring.
[00:41:34] Speaker C: So, Mike, opening statement on behalf of Mike Henderson, please.
[00:41:40] Speaker B: Yeah. This isn't how this works. This is a grandma. This is her son, her grandson.
[00:41:46] Speaker C: I'm pretty sure there's mother and son.
[00:41:50] Speaker B: Okay, well, Mrs. Henderson can't just step and say he's not the son anymore.
[00:41:55] Speaker C: But I can maury Povich. Yes, hello.
[00:42:00] Speaker A: What is what I sound like I'm not doing my TV voice right now.
[00:42:05] Speaker C: So I understand if you wave in the back. Can't recognize me, but I am Maury Povich, and I'm going to invoke the Maury Clause and supersede Judge Deborah's judgment on this. Big fan, by the way. Oh, thanks, Maury. Mike, good to see you again.
How's the fathers working out?
[00:42:24] Speaker B: They chased me down the street with several deadly weapons, and I haven't seen them since.
[00:42:28] Speaker C: That's typical. Alex, you've got my vote.
[00:42:32] Speaker A: I knew I did.
[00:42:36] Speaker C: But I did. Michael Henderson DDS. I got the results.
Mrs. Henderson.
You are not the mother. Oh, she's doing the dance.
[00:42:49] Speaker A: She's doing the dance.
[00:42:50] Speaker C: Henderson's doing the dance.
[00:42:52] Speaker A: She broke a hip.
[00:42:53] Speaker C: Camera beam.
[00:42:56] Speaker B: Get the cameras.
[00:42:57] Speaker A: Get there he goes.
[00:42:59] Speaker C: Oh, Mike. This is going to shoot him.
[00:43:01] Speaker A: Throw the rocks.
[00:43:03] Speaker B: Oh, my God. Yeah.
[00:43:04] Speaker C: Santa and Doug came out of dunk this, and they're throwing rocks at Michael Henderson. Wow.
[00:43:09] Speaker A: I was looking for a new dentist anyway.
[00:43:11] Speaker C: Okay, excellent. Wow, he's going to need a dentist after that one. Well, I guess none of our guests could stick around. It looks like they're all chasing where did go? Alex, is that lectern that you're standing behind? That's not.
[00:43:31] Speaker A: I don't hang on.
It appears that it was once hollow, but is no longer hollow.
[00:43:38] Speaker C: Yep, she knocked back. We all heard she knocked back.
[00:43:41] Speaker A: Well, here, hang on.
Let's have a crowd surf there.
[00:43:47] Speaker C: Wow, Dorothy Henderson.
[00:43:49] Speaker A: She's better off with she's for the People.
[00:43:52] Speaker C: She's for the people. She's crowd surfing. The lectern is face down.
[00:43:56] Speaker A: My bribe to you.
[00:43:58] Speaker C: All of the people in the crowd are leaning back, crotch up, as the Lectern crowd surfs across the crowd.
[00:44:08] Speaker A: Did I mention I support swimming's rights?
[00:44:10] Speaker C: Swimming's rights?
[00:44:11] Speaker A: I'm going to say that one more time. Did I mention I support women's rights?
[00:44:15] Speaker C: Okay, so it looks like all of our guests had to go.
[00:44:18] Speaker B: Absolutely.
Turns out this is absolutely the Howard Stern Show.
[00:44:23] Speaker C: Jesus Christ.
[00:44:24] Speaker B: All right, cool.
[00:44:25] Speaker C: So it looks like all our guests had to go, so I guess it's just the three of us. We are going to be breaking down season two, episode 24 of Everybody Loves Raymond the Wedding. 24 and 25. Parts one and two are going to come back with part one right after this. You all understand, of course, here in the crowd, we need to take a break to plug the Baroda sonus. So we will.
[00:44:45] Speaker A: Don't go anywhere after this.
[00:45:00] Speaker B: Hungry Deborah.
[00:45:05] Speaker C: Dictionary of Cultural Literacy. Mike, give me a page one to 600, please.
[00:45:10] Speaker B: 598.
[00:45:12] Speaker C: Okay, 598. Alex, give me a number one through ten.
[00:45:17] Speaker A: Nine.
[00:45:19] Speaker C: Laser guided weapons weapon systems that use the information from a laser pointed at a target to guide the payload to the targets.
[00:45:30] Speaker B: Tension. Passengers of the cabin, this is your captain speaking.
[00:45:34] Speaker C: Oh, that's us. We're passengers of the cabin. Oh, my God.
[00:45:38] Speaker B: If you would please fasten your seatbelts now. Okay, we are approaching. We are about an hour and a half away from our destination of Limbrook, Long Island. However, I want to do a barrel roll, so we really love it.
[00:45:54] Speaker C: Oh, shit. It's Sully again.
Alex, remember last time we were on one of Sully's flights and we got goose?
[00:46:01] Speaker A: Good old Sully. I mean, I still kick every goose.
[00:46:05] Speaker C: I think, you know, if we make it through this and Sully doesn't fuck this up like he fucks everything else up, you should tell him, because I think he'd be happy about that.
[00:46:14] Speaker A: Well, you know what, Adam, it's times like these when I always make sure know, since that incident, I always make sure to bring my little laser pointer just in case we see any other geese, because this laser tension passengers to.
[00:46:30] Speaker B: The cabin, there seems to be we're going to cancel that order for a barrel roll. We approached another seven four seven and it looks like they're challenging us to a race.
[00:46:39] Speaker C: Does anybody have Sully?
[00:46:44] Speaker B: Does anybody have access to a laser pointer? I need to distract this man.
[00:46:49] Speaker C: Alex, I guess this is your moment.
[00:46:53] Speaker A: Here's your pointer, sir.
[00:46:55] Speaker B: Okay, yeah, this is no problem. I'm the guy that did the miracle on the Hudson. Could you just shine right directly at that guy. And as you do, I'm going to go full throttle ahead.
[00:47:04] Speaker C: All right?
[00:47:04] Speaker A: You're asking me to do this?
[00:47:06] Speaker C: Sully, I know I'm just the copilot here, but do you really think that we should be doing this right now?
Don't get me wrong, I was really excited when I got assigned to you, but I was afraid this sort of thing would happen.
[00:47:19] Speaker B: Dwight, listen, you've been flying for, what, two years?
[00:47:24] Speaker C: Actually, 35.
[00:47:26] Speaker B: Okay, great.
Has Tom Hanks ever played you in a movie?
[00:47:30] Speaker C: Has Tom plane ever Hanks me in a movie?
[00:47:33] Speaker B: Shut the fuck up.
[00:47:35] Speaker A: I'm shooting the plane. Ready?
[00:47:39] Speaker B: Whoa.
[00:47:39] Speaker A: Holdsy okay, Mr. Sully, I should have mentioned I was gonna, but I thought you'd say no then. The laser is connected to a satellite that fires a bigger laser at whatever it points to.
[00:47:53] Speaker B: How did you get that through TSA?
[00:47:56] Speaker A: It's very easy. The laser itself is nothing special. Here. Watch. I'll show you.
[00:48:00] Speaker B: Oh, no.
[00:48:07] Speaker A: Another story came through tonight. Two commercial flights have apparently exploded in the sky for no apparent reason.
[00:48:16] Speaker C: Don yes, we're getting updates as they come in, and we'll share them with you as we hear them, but apparently these two planes were engaged in some sort of race.
[00:48:28] Speaker A: Don, I am getting word I am getting word from our man in the field that apparently no one on either flights had a confirmed subscription or sorry, confirmed payment for the Barona sonus. Is that right? Dave?
[00:48:45] Speaker C: We got a satellite delay on dave? Oh, no. Classic NewsTime satellite delay.
[00:48:51] Speaker A: Dave, you there?
[00:48:51] Speaker C: Dave?
[00:48:52] Speaker A: Oh, God. He was on the.
[00:48:56] Speaker B: Here.
[00:48:56] Speaker C: I'm sorry, dave, was that a satellite delay, or were you busy listening to the Baronus Zonus again? That's been a problem with you.
[00:49:05] Speaker B: I am constantly listening to the Baronus Zonus.
[00:49:08] Speaker C: Okay, so no satellite delay, then. Confirmed, because he responded right away.
[00:49:13] Speaker B: That's correct.
[00:49:14] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:49:14] Speaker B: I cannot stop listening to the melodious sound of the Baron boys voices.
[00:49:19] Speaker C: And now, just what is the Baronus Zonus again? I know you've been talking about it every day at News Lunch, but what is it?
[00:49:28] Speaker B: Yes, at News Lunch, apparently, I will say it's offensive to me a little bit, to be honest with you, that I talk about it all the time. I listen to you talk about your wife and kids, I care about your Hobies. And yet, no love for the Baroon boys. Well, just another heartbreaking disappointment after heartbreaking disappointment.
[00:49:57] Speaker C: So, what is the Baronus tell us.
[00:50:00] Speaker A: About the Baronus Zonus. The plane crash? Can wait.
[00:50:03] Speaker B: The plane crash, of course, can wait. These people were denied the joy life that is brought by a payment to the Baronus Zonus. We all know the fantastic podcast Everybody Loves, Everybody Loves Raymond. Of course.
[00:50:20] Speaker C: Of course.
[00:50:22] Speaker B: And it's one of the best podcasts ever. As you know, I listen to it on repeat after it comes out, while.
[00:50:28] Speaker C: You'Re supposed to be broadcasting. Reporting live from the scene yes, you famously have one AirPod in and then one earpiece that you can hear us in.
[00:50:37] Speaker B: That's correct.
But however, I can't miss my dose of the Baron boys. Now, that being said, I wanted more of the Baron boys, and thankfully they created some bonus content just for people like me. I went on to postfund.org donate. I paid a one time payment of any amount that I chose.
I of course chose the $100 because I'm a true fan. But I could choose any payment I wanted as low as one dollars.
[00:51:09] Speaker C: News brag tisk.
[00:51:11] Speaker B: Listen.
Any payment and I got lifetime access to all of their bonus content.
Monthly new episodes. Judge Deborah's Scruples. Everything that my heart could possibly desire was on.
[00:51:26] Speaker C: And I am getting word that the Baronus Zonus this is from the people in the booth. They're saying that on the Baronus Zonus on postfund.org donate, and this is real. You can now donate.
The new minimum donation is $0.50, not one dollars.
[00:51:45] Speaker A: Holy crap. Less money for the boys, more entertainment for me.
[00:51:50] Speaker C: That's right. If you donate fifty cents, I am hearing from the accounting department that if you donate fifty cents, the barome boys will see about eighteen cents out of that. But you can donate as little as fifty cents to the Baronus Zonus.
[00:52:07] Speaker B: And yet, even with that entry bar so low, these poor people, these tragic, tragic victims of Sully's latest attempt at heroism, will never enjoy that fun.
[00:52:24] Speaker C: And we cut to heaven.
[00:52:26] Speaker A: Hello.
[00:52:26] Speaker C: Yes, if I could have everyone's attention over here, I'm St. Peter. I'm going to be walking you through orientation here. So what we do is everyone gets the white robes, everybody gets a harp, the whole shot.
[00:52:40] Speaker A: I heard something about 72 virgins.
[00:52:43] Speaker C: Actually, you're going to get about 72 episodes of or sorry, seven to two episodes of this podcast called the Baronus Zonus.
So everyone's got a zoom right there and you'll just listen to that for eternity. Don't worry, they come out with a new one every month.
[00:53:01] Speaker A: This is something a virgin would listen to. I'm here for it.
[00:53:09] Speaker B: Right there.
[00:53:11] Speaker C: Wow, the most slow.
[00:53:13] Speaker A: Someone just got real world offended from that. Someone out there just got real life offended.
[00:53:22] Speaker C: Yeah, we did have a really glossed over.
[00:53:26] Speaker A: Yeah, but that one crossed the line.
[00:53:28] Speaker B: Deeply implied that Sully Sullenberger just murders people in his spare time.
[00:53:35] Speaker A: Keep this all.
[00:53:37] Speaker C: Sully doesn't give a fuck.
Okay, we're back, everybody. Thank you all for, I mean, no time at all, of course, passed for you all here in the room, but we appreciate you sticking around. Nonetheless.
We are going to be talking about this is Everybody Loves, Everybody Loves Raymond, of course. And we are going to be talking about the season two, two part finale. Season two, episodes 24 and 25. We're talking about the wedding. I'm Adam. That's Mike F. And of course, hello. The man of the hour, alex Shearer Mayoral Kennedy and I've been seeing people hello. Seeing people go to the polling booths and coming back. So thank you all for getting that vote in. Let's rock the vote today, everybody. Let's get those returns in.
[00:54:29] Speaker A: Rock the vote.
[00:54:30] Speaker C: All right.
[00:54:31] Speaker B: Rock it.
[00:54:31] Speaker A: All right.
[00:54:32] Speaker B: In the meantime, so just as a reminder, the way this is going to go is we are going to break down this episode. We are going to get all the way through the first part of this and then we're going to have a watch party. We're going to watch all the way through the second part of this two part episode and then we are going to talk about in that meantime, you guys are going to vote and then we'll come back here and then we'll.
[00:54:53] Speaker C: Talk about the last. That's right.
[00:54:54] Speaker B: Don't forget to vote.
[00:54:55] Speaker C: That projection onto the IBS building of Alex twerking harder than he's ever twerked in his life is going to be replaced with, look, the aspect ratio is going to be way off, but it will be season two, episode 25 of Everybody Loves Raymond the Wedding, part two. But first, we've all already watched. You all got the email. We sent you an email that had the two was from Alex and it says, I really need this right now. It was one of the classic political fundraising emails.
[00:55:27] Speaker A: We sent all of you our Peacock login information so you could watch the episode.
[00:55:33] Speaker C: There are hundreds profiles on our Peacock account right now and they all use iced tea as their profile image. But thank you all for watching the episode beforehand. We're going to let's talk about it. Talk about it now. We're going to go scene by scene. First, let's talk about our overall impressions of the episode. I think because it's election day, we got to go with the man of the hour first. Alex, what was your overall impression?
[00:56:00] Speaker A: Thanks for letting me go first, Adam.
I liked it. Like I said, I have not watched the second part yet. So got some hopefulness coming forward. Definitely looking forward to the other half. But I thought this was a pretty strong opening. Really felt like a scene setter. Like it was really kind of gearing us up for the grand thing. I liked Ray's arc. I did think it was kind of relatable where he was concerned that the glitz and glamour about marriage overshadowed him or overshadowed kind of Deborah's true thoughts and emotions about him and his concerns about her not actually loving him, just loving the idea of getting married. That's actually a concern that I've had in relationships, not about marriage, just about being together with someone.
So it was cool to see that and I honestly related to it a lot.
[00:56:54] Speaker C: Awesome.
How do we feel about that overall impression? Everybody all right? Yeah. Woo. They are all in agreement. Mike, I have a feeling this is going to get more of a tepid response but Mike, what was your overall impression of the episode?
[00:57:09] Speaker B: I mean, it was good. It was a good episode. So I especially liked it because I thought at first my first thought was that, okay, reviewing this in the way that it was not intended to be watched.
[00:57:21] Speaker A: Right.
[00:57:21] Speaker B: Like we watched the first half, we paused and then we're going to watch the second part in the watch party, as we mentioned earlier.
So I was like, okay, I'm not going to get the full story. And with that in mind, I thought it was a good I thought it was good. It was a good first half.
It did not feel like a full length of Everybody Loves Raymond. It didn't feel like as much ground was covered. When we were in the final scene with the parents, I checked because I was like, how are they going to keep going with this for another 15 minutes? And then I saw, oh, there's only two minutes left in the episode. So I thought they did a good job with pacing. It was very natural. It was very, very good. That being said, I do have a quad. I looked up the air dates and the air date for season two episode 24 and the air date for season two, episode 25 are not the same day.
[00:58:06] Speaker C: Wow.
[00:58:06] Speaker B: They aired a week apart.
[00:58:07] Speaker C: That's fucked.
[00:58:09] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:58:10] Speaker B: Yeah, it was not a good setup. It really wasn't. I really think this would be benefit if there's anybody in this crowd or listening to the live recording that has not watched the episode. I think the better way to view this stuff is to go straight through from 24 all the way through to 25 and finish the whole thing. Because it's not even a cliffhanger. It's not even like a full thing and then a cliffhanger at the end. It really just feels like it's chopped off in the middle. It feels like a place for a commercial break less, more than it does an entire week long hiatus. So with that in mind, not a huge fan of it, but overall, I thought it was good episode, good flashback to the beginning. I liked it. Just wish it was the hour long special I thought it was. How about you, Adam? What do you think?
[00:59:00] Speaker C: That is so interesting, Mike. Right now I've got the Lenovo out and in front of me. So hopefully this doesn't fuck up the recording. But I am looking up if I can find what May 11, 1998 the CBS schedule was and why on earth they couldn't bump whatever was supposed to go.
[00:59:26] Speaker A: They might have just wanted it to be separate.
[00:59:29] Speaker B: Yeah, right. As Adam mentioned, this episode, season two, episode 24 came out on May 11, 1998. The next episode came out May 18, so it came out a full week later.
[00:59:45] Speaker C: I found this shockingly quickly. Thanks to TV Tango, the ultimate TV database. Your link to all TV. All things TV. Yes. Nice round of applause for TV Tango on May 11, 1998. CBS at 08:00 p.m showed cosby.
This is the short lived Cosby follow up series. Not a spin off of The Cosby Show. No, this is Cosby 1996, followed by at 830, Everybody Loves Raymond, the Wedding, part one of two, and then a movie, a TV movie called Only Love part Two. So this is part two of a TV movie that aired from Sunday, May 10 to Monday, May 11. Two nights. It's 4 hours long and it's based on the novel by Eric Siegel. A married neurosurgeon finds himself in emotional conflict when his former fiance, now dying of a brain tumor, seeks his medical help while trying a new treatment on her. He is transported back 15 years earlier to Africa where they first fell in love. So this was also a flashback thing.
Interesting.
[01:00:58] Speaker B: Okay. I don't care about a time traveling doctor trying to save his wife from a disease. I want to know what happened in Raymond and moderately interesting wedding.
[01:01:11] Speaker C: I bet the reason this was maybe just poor scheduling because they had part one the prior night. They can't exactly well, apparently they can, because Raymond did. They can't exactly split it across multiple weeks. I say.
[01:01:27] Speaker B: Well, I also want to say talk about poor planning. Why aren't you airing the season finale of one of the most popular sitcoms of the day on a Monday night?
[01:01:38] Speaker C: What are you doing?
[01:01:39] Speaker B: That doesn't make any sense.
[01:01:40] Speaker C: Because they did.
[01:01:41] Speaker A: People are the most depressed when they need Ray the most.
[01:01:44] Speaker C: We found out about season one was in a really bad time slot, but then it got successful, so they moved it. So I don't know if this is a good time slot, actually, but yeah, it's kind of Monday 8830. Monday prime time.
[01:01:59] Speaker B: But it's Monday.
[01:01:59] Speaker C: Yeah, I don't know. It's people, I think. So Saturday prime time is bad because it's the weekend. Friday is bad because everybody's out. I don't know, man. I would not have feels weird. I would have had some communication there of, hey, we're trying to do a two part season finale. You think we could do a back to back? Since apparently this is not like monday at Nine is not a regular standing thing if you can plop Only Love in there. But I am thrilled at how quickly we were able to find that. Anyway, thanks for that.
[01:02:34] Speaker B: The internet, man. This is great. Yeah. So, yeah, outside of that, I thought it was a fine episode. That's my big objection.
[01:02:41] Speaker C: Okay.
[01:02:41] Speaker A: Adam, did you give your impressions yet?
[01:02:43] Speaker C: No, I didn't. I was telling me I got lost in TV Tango. I enjoyed this. I like the framing, the flashback. I like that we're setting up. Hopefully it'll pay off. Well, the conflict of Rey's Pessimism, the self doubt that we've seen time and time again, has been rearing its head his entire life. And even what is supposed to be a really great thing. It's like when we talked to Steve Scroven and he told us the story of recovering pessimist, the greatest thing that could happen to Ray of he's going to get married to Deborah. He immediately thinks of the negative of what if she only said yes because she felt pressured.
I think that's a really strong premise. I'm glad we have a lot of runway to go with it. And I liked all the performances like Marie and Frank. That scene really strong. Robert really strong in his two scenes, and Warren and Lois are really I felt like, a really dynamic and strong performance from Robert Culp as Warren, this time more so than in previous episodes. I feel like he really got to be kind of weird and heightened in this at know, one scene that we've seen him in so far. So I think it's funny. It is weird to split it in half. So hopefully a lot of our plot concerns will get resolved once we watch part two.
So that's my overall impression. But, folks, what do you say we start going scene by scene? I know you love when we go scene by scene in exhaustive detail. Who's ready?
[01:04:25] Speaker A: We're never stopping this.
[01:04:29] Speaker C: We start with our cold open. Ray's putting on some formal wear in his and Deborah's bedroom. Deborah comes in and tries to get him to hurry up. He's got to get ready for this wedding that they're going to.
His pants are messed up. She fixes them and says, here's the problem. You've got no rear end. You're like gumby. Who in the crowd? Show or I guess by applause. Who knows who Gumby is? Okay, most people. That one guy right there. There's one young, sweet, naive child right here.
He looks like a little orphan boy from, like, Les Mis or something. He's UN. I thought he meant gumbo. Innocent New Orleans Cajun boy right here.
[01:05:15] Speaker A: Hey, sir, can I have gumbo?
[01:05:19] Speaker B: We have a singular donut. We have a Singular Donut for you at Dunk this donut? Do you want a Singular donut?
[01:05:25] Speaker C: Oh, Dunk this, by the way.
[01:05:27] Speaker A: Oh, my God, it kicked Mike in the shin.
[01:05:29] Speaker C: Wait, kid.
[01:05:31] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. I'm sorry. All right.
[01:05:35] Speaker C: You should have told him about Dunk. This is collaboration with Zadarans. How they're doing the Jumbalaya donut? Unfortunately, that kid is gone. But we may as well explain that Gumby is a stop motion, clay animated character, american cultural icon, TV, movies, parodies, tributes, merchandising. You see him on a fair amount of T shirts. The only fun fact I want to tell you about Gumby I don't want to go too deep is that Gumby is currently owned by the Fox Corporation. Not 20th Century Fox, not Disney Fox, but Fox News Fox. So he's in the gnarled hands of Rupert Murdoch right now. And hey, who knows what Gumby gumby is going to be showing up. On Fox Nation? I think so. Booze from the audience.
[01:06:21] Speaker A: Dude could be fucking advocating for the NRA.
[01:06:24] Speaker B: Yeah, he's replacing the Tucker Carlson slot, actually, in a couple of weeks.
[01:06:28] Speaker C: Gumby Carlson.
[01:06:29] Speaker B: I would actually watch that. I'm not going to lie.
[01:06:32] Speaker C: I think it would be fun. Like Gumby telling you why January 6 was fine.
[01:06:38] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly.
[01:06:40] Speaker C: By the way, I know you all love Alex very much. We don't want any of that shit here. We're not doing it January 6, and we're putting our foot down on that. Wow. Real respectful applause. People really respect us for laying that line in the sand there. Thank you, everyone.
[01:06:56] Speaker A: Yeah. Win or lose, we respect everyone involved.
[01:06:59] Speaker C: That's right. We're all going to good game at the end of this, regardless of the outcome. I know that Tyrone feels the same way for Mr. Henderson. Well, yeah, he is. Who knows where he is right now, but I don't think he's going to be in the line doing the high fives, doing the good game anyway.
Deborah says he's got no ass, but Ray says as a couple, we average a normal size. That's the end of that scene.
[01:07:24] Speaker B: I thought that was an okay line. It was very boomer humor.
[01:07:28] Speaker A: It was very much like, you have a big button. I like it.
[01:07:33] Speaker C: Okay.
[01:07:33] Speaker B: I don't even know if it was the implied I like it. I think at this stage in fashion and stuff like that, that was supposed to be shameful. Not so much today, but I think it was one of those I think it came across as a calling your wife that thing, which I'm not a fan of, but, hey, it's a zinger.
[01:07:53] Speaker A: That's a good point.
[01:07:53] Speaker B: Mike thought it was all right.
[01:07:59] Speaker C: It felt incredibly tepid as far as these cold opens go. Some of them are like really strong little joke scenes that hit really well. And this was just like we're talking about weddings and Maria's putting his clothes on.
[01:08:15] Speaker A: It's a good scene setter.
[01:08:17] Speaker C: Yeah. Especially because after the anti gravity opening, which hopefully we're seeing for the last time, we cut immediately back to this scene. Deborah's fixing Ray's bow tie, his cufflinks. She says, how did you ever get ready for our wedding? And Ray says, Mommy. Yeah. In kind of a weird way, I.
[01:08:38] Speaker B: Forget the annotation, but I think he literally just responded with the yes, he.
[01:08:42] Speaker C: Did, or something like that. I was trying to remember his cadence when he said it.
She forgot about the fact deborah forgot about the fact that he was 30 and still living at home. Ray, of course, corrects her 29.
They sort of gloss over that. Ray says, he's not dancing at this thing. He says, When I dance, people think I'm looking for my keys. He does a little demonstration, but Deborah wants to.
[01:09:09] Speaker B: He'S and she's very flirty. And she says the line, you can look for my keys. And that does not get Ray interested, which is weird to me that disdain for dancing does not trump his desire for good old sex.
[01:09:24] Speaker A: We found a line.
[01:09:26] Speaker C: He turns down good old sex twice in this half episode.
We'll see.
So not on Ray's, I guess they're ten years apart, so who knows? But Deborah wants to dance. She says, I like to dance. Ray doesn't like to dance.
Ray says, Then why'd you marry me? Long pause. Well, she says, I'm thinking. And to illustrate that thinking, we go to a flashback. We cut to ten years earlier. Marie and Frank's living room. Ray walks in nervous.
Great little silent scene for Ray. He sits on the plastic couch. He practices proposing, looks at the way the ring looks in the light, turns on the lamp, tilts the lamp shade to catch the light better, gets on his knee, practices the reveal, switches his knee, does a little different reveal a little more flourishy. And then I love his little fake out that he does where he points at something behind where Deborah's going to be and then reveals the ring doorbell.
[01:10:30] Speaker B: I found this moment of him practicing kind of endearing. I will say, just zooming out. I understand it's because they had a small budget.
[01:10:37] Speaker C: Blah, blah, blah.
[01:10:40] Speaker B: What the hell are you doing proposing at your mom's house? I get it, it's where you live.
[01:10:45] Speaker A: But it's a real ray.
[01:10:47] Speaker C: It is a real Ray move, for sure. It's so lazy. But once we I was just going.
[01:10:53] Speaker B: To say this is a separate note, but I really did enjoy the bit with the plastic covers still on the couch. I thought that was it's. Always there, but only sometimes they play it up, and for some reason it.
[01:11:04] Speaker C: Got me this time, the way he crinkles onto it. It's very funny.
[01:11:08] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:11:08] Speaker C: And then tries to be smooth with his arm around the invisible Deborah doorbell. He thinks it's Deborah, obviously, but it's Andy and Kevin. They sort of storm in to the room and go straight to the kitchen. They're digging through the fridge. Kevin takes out a jar of peanut butter and starts eating it with a spoon. There's some jello in there. What's the deal with the jello?
Andy asks if Ray wants to go to the track. He knows a horse trainer, which Kevin says doesn't mean they're going to win. I thought it was very sweet, delivery from Andy, but we can feed him after.
[01:11:49] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:11:50] Speaker C: Ray tells them that Deborah's coming over and he'd been basically trying to kick them out. Kevin says she's hot. You know Ray's like, yeah, she's really hot.
And then Andy says, yeah, the guys at work think and then Ray cuts them off. Andy asks if Ray told her that he got promoted to columnist at Newsday. He hasn't told her yet, and we're going to find out why.
And then they keep badgering him, and Ray yells that he's going to ask her to marry him tonight because of the new know this is a momentous occasion in Ray's life. Now he's gonna tack on another momentous occasion. Kevin says what's she gonna say? Ray says she's gonna say, why are Kevin and Andy here? You got to go. Kevin says to Andy or Andy says to Kevin, where are we going to go? No. Kevin says to Andy, where are we going to go? Again, another the characterization of these guys as man children is really strong and really nice.
I thought they did a great rhythm to their entrance, like, very, very bouncy line after line after line after line.
[01:13:07] Speaker B: Yes. I also will say I found it very amusing how familiar they are with the house that they barely greet Ray and just immediately go to Marie's Food.
[01:13:18] Speaker C: And help just I'm sorry.
[01:13:21] Speaker B: Hold on. This is nowhere near the point, but I just got to say it. Who the hell just eats peanut butter with a spoon? There's a lot of things that I will accept of just digging in and going at it. A full jar of peanut butter is not on the list.
[01:13:35] Speaker A: Oh, my God. Mike, you're right. Yeah, that was nowhere near the point.
[01:13:41] Speaker C: Oh, big laugh in the crowd.
They love when Mike gets burned.
[01:13:48] Speaker A: That's why they're here.
[01:13:49] Speaker B: That's fine. You go with something. You got to get some dipping in there. You can't just go with the spoon. That's gross. Because if I'm making a PB and J the next day, if I'm making a PB and J the next day, I got to deal with some of your spoon spit.
[01:14:01] Speaker C: It's basically a double dip.
[01:14:04] Speaker B: It is a double dip. Absolutely. And that's acceptable if you have your own bowl. Yeah.
[01:14:08] Speaker C: Your personal jar.
[01:14:10] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't know why you'd have your own bowl of peanut butter, but this isn't yours. This isn't even your house. Get out of here, Kevin.
[01:14:17] Speaker C: That's nasty. I hate that you've convinced me.
Deborah arrives. She's brought carrots instead of potato chips and sort of body shames Ray, or gives him some body dysmorphia, at least, because, I mean, she calls him fatty pokes at his stomach. Ray has never struck me as somebody of any particular size, so hopefully this didn't screw him up for life for the next ten years anyway.
[01:14:47] Speaker B: He seems to be more concerned with the way his nose looks than the.
[01:14:51] Speaker C: Way his oh, yeah. Don't get me wrong. Ray has body dysmorphia for sure, but not particularly regarded. Yeah.
She gives him a VHS of she gives him a VHS tape. They cross into the living room. Ray says, no, you're supposed to get one of your romantic movies. But instead, she got him Planet of the Apes, because Ray calls it a classic. It's got monkeys riding horses. I didn't actually I took for granted that everyone knows what Planet of the Apes is. It's a movie where apes take over the planet, and everyone's nodding. Everybody here knows planet and that they ride horses. Yep. Big fans of Planet of the Apes.
[01:15:32] Speaker B: Both the originals and the remakes.
[01:15:34] Speaker A: The new ones, they're not really remakes prequels. Yeah, the new ones are amazing.
[01:15:39] Speaker C: Yeah. This town is huge fans of particularly the later.
In fact, that's why we have that bakery that only does one type of bread. That's called Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which has been getting some fierce competition from Baguette about it. I have to say, this town, a lot of bread conflict.
A lot of bread war has been emerging.
[01:16:04] Speaker B: The yeast fields of limbrook.
[01:16:06] Speaker C: The what?
[01:16:07] Speaker A: The great yeast fields of yeah, you.
[01:16:10] Speaker C: Go five minutes outside of Limbrook, it's basically all yeast.
[01:16:14] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:16:14] Speaker B: That's why we have so many bread places, because they all make it local.
[01:16:17] Speaker C: Yes. It's a real farmed bread place situation. Yeah.
[01:16:22] Speaker B: I can't believe no one in the campaign has brought that up. That seems like a very big demographic.
[01:16:27] Speaker C: Well, because it's sort of taken for granted. It's like bread will always be there, yeast will always be there.
Yeast for years. That's what we say around here.
[01:16:37] Speaker A: Yeah, for sure. It's the yeast they can do.
[01:16:40] Speaker C: But anyway, that's good. What happens next? Can we throw that up on the IBS building?
It's the yeast underneath the underneath the twerking well, I don't know if we want to imply that.
Can we put up that on the top?
Okay, so Alex Twerking put it's the yeast we can do. And then in smaller letters in parentheses, we don't mean yeast infection. Alex is clean.
[01:17:09] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:17:10] Speaker B: Perfect.
[01:17:10] Speaker C: We got okay, good, good. Actually, you know what? Hold on. Let me do a quick text. Okay, we got them. The yeast infection medicine people have agreed to sponsor our projection onto the IBS building.
So throw that up there.
Reeling in the Yeast, which is a Steely Dan licensed yeast infection medication. Reeling in the yeast.
[01:17:38] Speaker B: So, anyway, they go to watch, and Raymond's disappointed that the mood is not going to be set by yes, this.
[01:17:44] Speaker C: Throws his whole plan off, but he tries to pivot. He says, no, we don't have to watch it. We'll just sit here and eat some carrot sticks and talk. And Ray or Deborah sort of takes a beat and looks kind of funnily at Ray. Ray, I told you I'm not having sex on your mom's plastic couch. So Marie was right, when she, in the previous episode, was suspicious of Ray having sex with Deborah in her kitchen. Apparently, Ray was not shy about asking Deborah to have sex all over the Barone house.
[01:18:17] Speaker B: I guess so. Which is a very comfortable thing to do, and I do not understand.
[01:18:22] Speaker C: No. Yeah. Confine that to your private quarters.
[01:18:25] Speaker A: Absolutely.
[01:18:26] Speaker C: But that means that the likelihood of Marie having walked in on Know, which we sort of thought was unlikely in the past, now I can see how that would absolutely have happened. I can imagine sort of an American Pie scenario with Ray where somebody's walking in on him frequently with his dick.
[01:18:47] Speaker B: In the Lasagna.
[01:18:50] Speaker C: Eggplant Parm eggplant farm.
[01:18:53] Speaker B: There we go.
[01:18:54] Speaker A: There we go.
[01:18:56] Speaker C: Okay, so Ray says, no, I want a carrot, that's all. But Deborah's. Deborah's. This is where Ray turns down good old sex the second time. Deborah says, okay, we'll go to your room. Ray says, no, no, I mean, no, for now. Yes, in a few minutes. And then he goes and takes the early edition of tomorrow's newsday. He sits Deborah down, says he wants to show her something. Takes the early edition of tomorrow's Newsday out of the piano bench. Odd place to hide it, I thought, but I guess if you're going to hide it anywhere, where are you going to hide it? Why hide it at all? It's not on the front page. It's in the middle.
[01:19:31] Speaker A: It's a newspaper. It's not like she's going to see it and be like, holy shit, the newspaper.
[01:19:35] Speaker C: What is that doing here?
Deborah says, what happened? Did you do something illegal? Ray does kind of cute thing. No, there's this new column. I want you to read it. This guy's a really good writer, even though he's a little weird looking. Look. And he shows her the picture, and Deborah is just immediately thrilled for him. Kisses know, so happy that Ray's a columnist now.
And then as they're kissing, Frank bursts in, and what an entrance. He yells whoops. Sorry. You two finishing up or just starting?
Great. Frank line. He's back to get his driving glasses. He says, I would have kept going, but your mother thinks I hit a deer.
So body count for Frank? Two, maybe? Two, yeah.
Deborah shows Frank the column and he says, Holy crap, he wants to read this. Ray's sort of trying to usher him out, but he says, it's not every day my son amounts to something.
[01:20:39] Speaker A: I think he said, One of my sons, implying that Robert also does not amount to anything.
[01:20:44] Speaker C: Double burn.
[01:20:45] Speaker A: Yeah, good one.
[01:20:46] Speaker C: Ray says, but Ma's waiting. And Frank says she's fine. I cracked a window. And he starts to read the column out loud. It's about the first time that Frank took Ray to a baseball game and about the connection that they had on the ride home. There's a line in there that's like, I always had trouble connecting with my father. To which Frank takes know, I didn't connect with you.
[01:21:12] Speaker B: Can we pause for a second? Because I did. Okay, so there is a reference in here to Bobby Mercer.
[01:21:19] Speaker C: Oh.
[01:21:19] Speaker B: And I got so excited because this is the first time in a long time that we've had sports talk here. Okay. Let's talk about Bobby Mercer. Bobby Mercer was a pretty good not amazing, but pretty good baseball player for the New York Yankees, san Francisco Giants, and Chicago Cubs between the years of 1965 and 1983. He's a really interesting guy, actually. He did not make the hall of Fame, but he was very good. He played with the Yankees for most of his career. He started in his first game was at the age of 19. He took two years off in 67 and 68 because he did because he took two years off for military service and then came back and played with the Yankees until 1975, which he when he went to the Giants, then he went to the Cubs, and he came back to the Yankees in 1979. Now, here's where I went super deep. There is a reference in here. He says, I remember this game. This is the first game because Bobby Mercer hit a walk off home run. And I was like, oh, let me see if I can find out how many walk off home runs that Bobby Mercer had.
[01:22:26] Speaker C: Did you go to TV Tango for that information?
[01:22:28] Speaker B: I go to Baseball Reference for that information.
[01:22:32] Speaker C: What a boring website name.
[01:22:37] Speaker B: No irony, no character. Here it is. Bookmarked on my home screen. I love baseball stats, but I figured.
[01:22:44] Speaker C: Okay, Ray, we don't do characters on this show.
[01:22:46] Speaker B: Ray had to be a kid. Ray had to be a kid. So he had to play this game had to be between 1965 and 1974, the first stint that Bobby Mercer had with the Yankees in those years, bobby Mercer had exactly one walk off home.
[01:23:04] Speaker C: Wow.
[01:23:04] Speaker B: This game, the first game that Ray Barone went to was August 5, 1969, yankees versus the California Angels. The Yankees did not score at all. The only runs that were scored were off of Bobby Mercer's. Bottom of the 9th inning, two out, two runners on home run to left center field, where he hit 8th. And the Yankees won that game three to two, exclusively off of that home run.
[01:23:29] Speaker C: So wow. Cool.
[01:23:31] Speaker B: There you go. Wow.
[01:23:32] Speaker A: I'm honestly impressed that that math checks out. There's definitely someone who loved sports on the writing team.
[01:23:39] Speaker C: That's incredible.
[01:23:40] Speaker B: Yeah, well, because the next walk off home run that Mercer hit with the Yankees was not until 1981, and at that time, raised in his late teens right. By our math, or, like, mid teens somewhere in that zone. So that wouldn't make sense. So it's got to be the game in August 5, 1969.
[01:24:01] Speaker C: That's incredible.
[01:24:02] Speaker A: Wow.
[01:24:02] Speaker C: The best research that you've done ever in this you know what?
[01:24:09] Speaker A: You know what? You're rehired. Wow.
[01:24:12] Speaker B: Yeah, baby.
[01:24:14] Speaker C: Wow. That's great.
[01:24:16] Speaker A: Good work.
[01:24:18] Speaker C: Did you check the Raymond Wiki to see if that tracks with Ray's purported birth date?
[01:24:24] Speaker B: I did not. I did not actually track.
[01:24:26] Speaker A: You are.
[01:24:29] Speaker B: Let me let me do it right now. Ray Barone h let me Google this right now. Ray Barone was born in 1959. According to the Wiki, it works, which means that he would have been ten years old at the time of this game.
[01:24:42] Speaker C: So, yeah, this does he say in the article how old he was.
Does anybody? I don't remember either. Alex?
[01:24:52] Speaker B: I don't think he did.
I think he just says his first baseball game.
[01:24:58] Speaker A: I feel like I would have remembered.
[01:24:59] Speaker C: Yeah, we would have. So it all tracks completely. That's incredible. Didn't connect with his father until he was ten years old.
Fascinating. Great job, Mike. That explains a lot of appreciative applause coming in now. That's awesome.
[01:25:16] Speaker B: All right, thank you, everybody. Thank you. Thank you very much.
[01:25:18] Speaker C: The sports guy. Everybody.
All right. Big fans of that segment. That happens once every 15 episodes.
Frank's reading the column, and then Marie enters, and just her entrance line is, frank, I'm in the car.
Well delivered. Much better than I just delivered it. She gets a big laugh from that. But Deborah tells Marie that Ray's a columnist now, and Marie is thrilled, of course, and she slaps Frank and says, I told you he was smart. Ray keeps trying to get the paper back from Frank, who keeps reading at volume. I'm hoping sports will bring me closer to someone else in my life. Oh, he has a funny line, he says. Ray tries to get him to stop reading. Frank turns to him and says, I'm trying to connect with you.
I'm hoping will bring me closer to someone else in my life. The person who will be sitting next to me reading, oh, sorry, I should read it like Frank did. I'm hoping sports will bring me closer to someone else in my life. The person who will be sitting next to me reading this, deborah, will you marry me?
[01:26:31] Speaker A: Hilarious.
[01:26:32] Speaker C: Ray says, for that last part, like.
[01:26:35] Speaker B: A dead silence, ray says to everyone.
[01:26:37] Speaker C: Else, for that last part, he was supposed to be down on one knee.
[01:26:41] Speaker A: That sucks, because that was actually a really cute plan.
[01:26:44] Speaker C: It really was.
[01:26:45] Speaker B: It was pretty good.
[01:26:46] Speaker C: In classic Raymond fashion, though, it completely.
[01:26:49] Speaker A: Gets all screwed up again. It all goes back to the parents house. Yeah, just don't do it there.
[01:26:55] Speaker C: Why do it there. Why do it in go to Deborah's. Yeah. Go to Connecticut.
Robert and his mustache enter as Marie is joyously hugging Deborah, and he says, what's going on? I feel like we're getting a recurring bit of Robert in flashbacks, having different ridiculous hairstyles. Marie tells Robert that Ray proposed and Robert says and Marie says and oh. And then she looks at Deborah and Deborah says, yes, and they all cheer. Robert, in a very forced way, says, congratulations to you both, and he sort of walks behind the couch. And Marie says, and Raymond got his own column today. And Frank says, and his picture in the paper. Robert just walks off, defeated, waving a handkerchief as if to surrender.
[01:27:49] Speaker A: See, this was the point when he was defeated. Every time we've seen him since this point, canonically, he's just already been like, he's already been done.
[01:27:58] Speaker C: Is Robert still married? At this point? He must be, right? Because wasn't he divorced?
[01:28:04] Speaker A: I think he was a year out of the divorce. Yeah.
[01:28:07] Speaker C: So he's either not met Joanne yet or he hasn't gotten divorced or he's still married.
[01:28:14] Speaker A: Moved in.
[01:28:15] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:28:16] Speaker B: I think it's clear to me that he's still living at home with Ray and his parents because he is eating breakfast with them the next day. If you're married, that wouldn't make any sense at all.
[01:28:27] Speaker A: So he hasn't maybe they're dating his.
[01:28:29] Speaker C: Wife yet or hasn't married.
[01:28:31] Speaker A: They might be dating.
[01:28:33] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:28:33] Speaker C: Okay. Glad we worked that out. But we do cut to the next morning. Barone Kitchen. Robert eating cereal. Ray comes in. Robert tells him he read his you know, I was there too, and he gins the cereal.
Anyway, congratulations on the column and the engagement.
And he's know resentful until Ray asks him to be his best man. Robert says me. Well, that would be an honor. Ray says, Good, because you're definitely in the running and you can just see Robert collapse until Ray says, no, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. You're in that's a very nice, like, brotherly moment there. Yeah, a lot of wholesomeness here they talk about how crazy last night was. I can't believe you proposed to her in front of all of them. Ray realizes that maybe she felt pressured to say yes since he put it in the paper and read it in front of the whole family.
And he says, I am a jackass.
Which such a weird detail to include robert saying, I think the accent goes on the jack.
[01:29:41] Speaker A: The jack, jack, you know?
[01:29:44] Speaker B: Only that wasn't even a funny line. It was just a weird line. The only explanation that I could come up with is during the writing, one of the writers said it like that. And they were like, we have to shame you forever.
[01:29:56] Speaker A: I bet it was written jack ass with ass in all capitals. And then he got asked for it.
[01:30:03] Speaker C: I bet he wrote it down. The line was written correctly in the first at the table read for this episode. And then Ray said it that way because Ray has never said the word before out loud in his life.
And then they had to revise it because he was not able they brought in multiple dialect coaches. He was not able to learn how to say it properly. So they had to have Robert say that to justify he learned how to.
[01:30:33] Speaker A: Act, but he never learned how to swear.
[01:30:35] Speaker C: Maybe he's only read it. Maybe I'm Ray Romano and this is Jackass.
[01:30:45] Speaker A: That goes in the hotline.
[01:30:47] Speaker B: That's a great line.
[01:30:48] Speaker C: He says, I'm like one of those losers at the ball game that rents a Blimp. Marry me, Hilda. Hilda says no. She gets beer thrown on her.
And Ray says to Robert, she's hot, right? Like, why would Deborah say yes to me? She's hot, right? And Robert says, oh, yeah. The guys at the precinct calling back. Andy's joke from before.
[01:31:08] Speaker B: Yeah. There's a lot of objectification of Deborah in those two lines, and I'm not sure I'd love it's.
[01:31:13] Speaker C: Very OD that the people at Robert's work talk about how hot his brother's wife is or girlfriend. Or girlfriend at that, which the scenario in which Deborah would have come by the precinct, so Ray would have had to come visit Robert and Deborah would have had to have been with him seems unlikely. So maybe Robert's like showing them they it seems unlikely that they would have met Deborah unless they all went to, like, a police event.
[01:31:47] Speaker A: Or think, here's what I'm betting. Robert his girlfriend at the time, if he was dating her, and then Ray and Deborah went to some kind of event and they got a picture taken, the four of them. Then he went to the precinct to show off his girlfriend, and everyone thought Raymond's girlfriend was way hotter.
[01:32:07] Speaker C: That's very funny. I hope it was. That that's excellent justification. Ray starts to spiral, says, Why she why would she say yes to me? Self doubt starts to appear about his appearance. He turns in profile, says, look at my nose, I'm a flamingo.
But Robert brings up all the affection she shows him. She always greets him lovingly, and she's always touching his hair and his hand. He says, you know why she wants to marry you? Because she loves you. That's why she said yes. Very like, sincere, straight delivery. Really sincere beat. And Ray says maybe. And then he runs out. Robert says, Where are you going? He says, to give her another chance to say no.
Classic Ray self sabotage in this moment. I thought this was a great scene of brotherly Connection. Yes, but also some prime Rey neuroses.
We cut to Deborah's apartment, which is the same set as their apartment in the season one finale.
[01:33:16] Speaker B: Yes, that's right. So the implication is that she moved in. That he moved in with her.
[01:33:21] Speaker C: Yeah, which is smart. He really timed all of his big life changes for the same moment, all at once. I'm getting a new job, I'm getting engaged, and I'm moving in. Good for him.
Deborah lets him in. They go to the kitchen. Deborah takes out what I think is like a one liter bottle, but in a weird squash dimension of Canada Dry. So we know that they've been drinking Canada Dry for at least ten years continuously.
[01:33:53] Speaker B: That's so funny to me. When did Canada drive first come out? Okay, well, plus, we can research this, but were they in the original people?
[01:34:03] Speaker C: Were they in the original people? What do you mean?
[01:34:06] Speaker B: You know what I mean.
[01:34:06] Speaker C: Was Canada Dry the original people?
[01:34:09] Speaker B: No, were like they part of, like did it go back as far as the was this a 60s or 70s drink? Was Raymond one of the original fans of Canada Dry?
[01:34:20] Speaker C: Canada Dry debuted for over 100 years. Canada Dry has been known mainly for its ginger ale.
[01:34:29] Speaker B: Yeah, it came out in 1907.
[01:34:30] Speaker A: Oh, I see.
[01:34:32] Speaker C: 19. Four.
Where'd you see?
[01:34:34] Speaker A: Doesn't matter.
[01:34:35] Speaker C: Seven.
[01:34:36] Speaker B: It was around when Ray was born, early 20th century.
[01:34:40] Speaker C: All right.
Canada dry. He asks her if she felt pressured to say yes. Do you really want to marry me? He asks as he takes the ring out for apparently the first time and shows it to her.
How did that party, by the way, break up last night where he asked her to marry her?
[01:35:00] Speaker B: Forgot to give her the engagement ring?
[01:35:02] Speaker C: She said yes. Everyone was thrilled. And then he just didn't give her the ring. Deborah loves the ring. She says she's like over the moon excited. And Ray says, Is that for me or the ring?
And Deborah's like yes. Yes, of course I'll marry you. But he takes the ring back. He says, do you really want to marry me? Deborah says yes. He says think. Take your time. Long pause. Ray turns to profile to show her the flamingo to remind him self sabotage himself. Do you really want to marry me? She says yes. Ray, I want to marry you. Then he gives her the ring. They're all good.
[01:35:41] Speaker A: I like that. She says, I got the ring.
Deborah planting that little bit of doubt.
[01:35:47] Speaker C: In Ray, deborah shows him her wedding plans. I've been planning it since I was twelve.
But Ray says, you didn't meet me until you were 22. And she says, you were the last piece of the puzzle. Race says something to the effect of, am I one of those pieces that you have to jam in? Deborah goes off on like a whole wedding planning thing. Like, it's going to be like this. These are the bridesmaids dresses. Ray says, oh, those would be great for jogging at night or something.
Presumably they're like a dayglow color.
[01:36:19] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm guessing they're very bright. I think that that was what the joke? Yeah.
[01:36:23] Speaker C: But Ray cuts off the wedding planning. He says, So this is all about the wedding. Deborah's very excited about the wedding. Would you still want to marry me even if we had a small wedding? And Deborah says, of course. And Ray, she says, of course, honey. And Ray's like, oh, good. And then very meekly says, And I'm still like his anxiety is both troubling to see, but also kind of endearing. It's desperation to be liked and for it not to be conditional on things that are outside of his control.
[01:37:02] Speaker B: I thought it was okay.
[01:37:03] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
But we know it comes from a troubled place.
[01:37:09] Speaker B: Yes, true. Yes.
[01:37:12] Speaker C: Then we hear the doorbell. This is doorbell number two of the episode. Hopefully we'll get some more in part two. Deborah's parents arrive. Warren and Lois are back. Warren says, hello there, son in law. And Ray says hello there, you you.
[01:37:30] Speaker A: That was funny.
[01:37:31] Speaker C: That was very funny. This is what I'm talking about. Warren has like, an. Extra jolt in this episode compared to some of his previous appearances, I think makes sense, though.
[01:37:41] Speaker A: This is a couple of years earlier.
[01:37:43] Speaker C: True. He's a younger man. You wouldn't know it to look at him. Looks exactly the same. But Warren says on the way over was he sort of says it playfully on the way over here, I was reading my favorite sports columnist that Mike Lupika really can write. Playful punch of Ray's arm.
[01:38:02] Speaker B: Ha ha.
[01:38:03] Speaker C: Mike, this is sort of your domain.
[01:38:06] Speaker B: Mike Lupica is just one of the most famous lupica.
Lupica. Thanks.
He's still alive. I don't know if he's still writing, but he was a National News columnist. He's written a lot of books, a lot of baseball books.
Yeah, he's specifically a baseball writer, though.
And yeah, I mean, he's very popular. I believe he wrote for, I want to say the Daily News. He definitely has appearances on ESPN, too.
ESPN as channel ESPN, too? Yeah, no, he does ESPN and ESPN eight FIO show, and that's about it.
But, yeah, no, he's just, like I said, just one of the most famous sports columnists of all time. Also, am I the only one that got annoyed by the way that Warren and Deborah and I don't think the mom said it, but Lois I don't think she said it, but every time the word was said this episode, they said columnist, and that annoyed me.
[01:39:13] Speaker C: Columnist. As opposed to how do you say it?
[01:39:16] Speaker B: Columnist.
[01:39:17] Speaker C: Columnist.
[01:39:18] Speaker B: That's how I always said it. Columnist.
[01:39:20] Speaker A: No, columnist.
[01:39:21] Speaker B: The N is silent.
[01:39:22] Speaker C: The M is silent when you the M is silent when you say column, but the N is not silent when you say columnist.
[01:39:33] Speaker B: Why would that be the case? The columnist is the person that writes the column. Why would we pronounce the N? It's the IST that works, not the N. No, I think that they're pronouncing it wrong.
[01:39:43] Speaker C: Well, it's too many syllables. I guess it's a difference in pronunciation. Regionally or just Mike's an idiot, or no, I mean, I've always said columnist because I think if the IST follows the N, that's building on the sound of the N, not the sound of.
[01:40:03] Speaker A: The M. I've always said columnist because I know how to speak English.
[01:40:07] Speaker C: I'm trying to be nice to him. Come on.
[01:40:11] Speaker B: If you say columnist I know this is not about the episode anymore, and I don't care if you say columnist. There's an extra syllable that you add in, and I don't know, it doesn't work.
[01:40:24] Speaker C: Of all the hills that you've died on, this is the least convincing one.
[01:40:31] Speaker B: I will die on any hill. I want to make that clear. There is no hill small enough for me to perish upon, and this is just the latest one.
[01:40:42] Speaker A: I know, Mike.
[01:40:42] Speaker C: Yeah, we know that about you.
Lois says, I've never really been a sports fan, but now go sports.
[01:40:51] Speaker A: Classic.
[01:40:52] Speaker C: Classic.
[01:40:53] Speaker A: Not sports person.
[01:40:54] Speaker C: Non sports person. Joke. Trope tired sports ball game. Like, whatever.
[01:41:02] Speaker B: Got to watch the sports ball.
[01:41:04] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, there's things to make fun of sports about.
[01:41:10] Speaker B: No, there are disagree.
No, you're absolutely right. But they're fun. Screw it.
[01:41:18] Speaker C: Yeah, but just reducing the entire noun of sports to like, nothing is boring. Not that it's never been funny, but it's like, whatever.
Warren checked and the country club is only available June 3 or the 17th.
Lois asks if it's the big room, and Warren as if this was the stupidest question of all time, big room. It is the big room. It's big band, big shrimp. Deborah says, okay, so 200, 250 tops. And this is where it all kind of gets away from Ray. Ray is shocked. He says, I had like 20 in mind. And they laugh in his face. And he says, okay, well, 20 each, so 40. They laugh in his face. Deborah says, 40 people is like a barbecue. And Ray says, okay, so you do care about the wedding. And she says, well, come on, I've been planning this since I was twelve. And Ray says, you knew 200 people when you were twelve?
Pretty funny. I certainly it's pretty good. How many people do you know ballpark?
[01:42:24] Speaker A: Right now?
[01:42:25] Speaker C: Yeah, right now, five.
[01:42:29] Speaker B: I know the 6000 great limbrookian citizens that are here with me today. Am I right, everybody?
[01:42:35] Speaker A: I mean, I don't know them as people.
[01:42:38] Speaker B: You're trying to get them to vote for you, Alex?
[01:42:41] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[01:42:42] Speaker B: In your bachelor party. What are you talking about?
[01:42:45] Speaker C: This is Alex's bachelor party.
[01:42:47] Speaker B: Are you engaged, Alex?
[01:42:49] Speaker A: I'm engaged to this beautiful town.
[01:42:53] Speaker C: Wow. So this is the bachelor party before the wedding night. That is the election. Wow.
[01:43:00] Speaker A: Yes, we found the connection.
[01:43:07] Speaker C: Maybe I do know 200 people. Not 200 people I would want to invite to a wedding. Maybe I know 100 people.
[01:43:14] Speaker A: Well, yeah, right, because it's you and your significant other. You split it down the middle.
[01:43:19] Speaker C: Oh, that's right. If I know 100 people, all those hundred people will come and all hundred people that she knows will come, and together we'll have 200. Makes perfect sense. Can you imagine the sides of the aisle? Deborah's side having 195 people and Ray having three? Andy, Kevin, Marie, Frank and Robert.
[01:43:47] Speaker B: That's it. Yeah, that's funny.
I wonder if we'll see it next time, because obviously you will get Ray's extended family. Uncle Mel will be screaming that he's not gay.
[01:43:58] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:43:58] Speaker B: OOH, maybe we'll see, Gus, maybe we'll see.
[01:44:01] Speaker A: I was just thinking that. Maybe we'll see Gus.
[01:44:03] Speaker C: That'll be a nice nod to the day ones and be like, hey, I'm gus looks at camera. Hope I don't die in ten years. And then we'll all be like, or sorry, I hope I don't die in nine years. And then those of us who know will be like, no, that's Gus, he's going to die in nine years. I hope nobody makes my funeral all about themselves.
[01:44:28] Speaker A: Ray, I want you to write my eulogy. That's what he tells him at the wedding.
[01:44:33] Speaker C: I hope so. We don't know. We'll have to see. I feel like we'll definitely see the wedding, but I don't know. We're going to see. There maybe some old guest stars will come back. Maybe like Ed Cotch will show up. Like a big New York athletic celebrity. Who knows?
[01:44:50] Speaker B: Oh, I would love it. I would love for just who was big in the would love for Just.
[01:44:56] Speaker C: Magic Johnson.
[01:44:57] Speaker B: Oh, my God. Could you imagine Magic Johnson just appearing? That would be great.
[01:45:01] Speaker C: That would be magic.
[01:45:02] Speaker B: OJ comes by.
[01:45:05] Speaker C: Lois went to a wedding where they released Doves and tells Deborah that they're putting fish bowls in the centerpieces now. Like with fish in them. Yes, of course. They pick the 17 June as Warren is dialing the phone. Good choice, because the chocolateier isn't available until then.
Ralph, it's Warren big room, the 17th. This is, I assume, a follow up to an earlier conversation about the big room. All of this is happening around Ray and he's not really involved in any of it. He says, I'm invited. Right? And then that's the end. That's the end of the part one. That is the end of part one. To be continued comes on the screen.
[01:45:51] Speaker A: Is Ray invited to the wedding? We'll find out next week.
[01:45:55] Speaker B: This is the first time that we've had a to be continued on Everybody Loves Raymond.
[01:46:00] Speaker C: Debbie not just a to be continued.
[01:46:02] Speaker B: But yeah, we get a trailer for the next episode as the hot close.
[01:46:06] Speaker C: But we see a couple of clips from the episode to come, right? Yep.
[01:46:12] Speaker B: We see Ray and Deborah clearly at like, a pre cana or some wedding preparation with the priest, and Deborah getting pissed and saying that Ray looks like a moron. And it seems like Ray's going to embarrass himself in front of the Catholic Church. And then we see. This is the real dramatic moment. The real dramatic attempted cliffhanger is Robert and I believe a couple other people that we know are waiting on the altar and they're looking at each other.
[01:46:39] Speaker A: And they say, Hairs, Ray.
[01:46:41] Speaker C: Right.
[01:46:41] Speaker A: So maybe they did a good job.
[01:46:44] Speaker C: With that little next time on of Setting the Tension Making You Want to Come Back exactly seven days later to see part two of this episode.
[01:46:54] Speaker B: Do you guys that's the thing.
[01:46:56] Speaker A: Do you guys think they're going to get married?
[01:46:57] Speaker C: I don't know, man. I guess we got to watch to find out. Hey, who is ready? That's. Season Two episode 24 the Wedding Part One Who here in Limbrook town Square on election day, is ready for us to project onto the reeling in the Yeast official IBS building projection of Alex Twerking. Harder than he's ever twerked in his life. Season Two episode 25 of Everybody Loves Raymond the Wedding, Part Two Roll it. Wait, do you guys hear don't roll it. Wait, do you guys hear that?
[01:47:35] Speaker B: Guys, whoever's got the music, can you.
[01:47:37] Speaker C: Please we have the permit. We got to hear the turn. You're not supposed to play any music in here.
[01:47:44] Speaker A: Yeah, what's going on?
[01:47:45] Speaker C: Oh, my God. Something just ran over the tent that we had set up over there with the concession.
[01:47:50] Speaker B: Oh, my God. Is that? Oh, my God. It's Tyrone Dickey.
[01:47:55] Speaker C: He's driving his range. Tyrone Ver. The four X Four vehicle that he got to copy us, honestly.
[01:48:02] Speaker B: Yeah, he's copying us a lot recently. This is a problem.
[01:48:05] Speaker C: What is he doing, people? Wait. He's pulling to a stop directly across from us doing his podcast.
Oh, my God. Yeah, she microphones on top of it. Tyrone, what are you doing?
[01:48:18] Speaker B: Get out of it.
[01:48:19] Speaker C: He's not even looking at us. He's getting on top of the roof of the range Tyrone Burr, and oh, my God, I can make out what he's playing now. Is that the Fresh Prince theme song?
[01:48:31] Speaker B: Oh, no, I think I hear the Full House theme song.
[01:48:35] Speaker C: No, no, wait, my eyes are getting weird. That's the King of Queens theme song.
[01:48:40] Speaker B: It's all of them.
[01:48:41] Speaker C: The degrasse friends degrasse.
If he's playing all those theme songs on top of each other, that can only mean one thing. He's doing that podcast that he started.
[01:48:53] Speaker B: What was the name of that podcast?
[01:48:54] Speaker A: It was long and annoying.
[01:48:56] Speaker C: Oh, he's unfurling the banner above his podcast or above the range tyronberg. Everybody loves the fresh king of friends. The Next Generation. Full House edition.
[01:49:08] Speaker B: Oh, God.
[01:49:09] Speaker C: Oh, my God. Everyone's getting out of the Tyrone Ver it's of course Schwimmer, of course Clown Car, regular co host of that show, his running mate David Schwimmer, who betrayed us, stole testosterone from us.
[01:49:24] Speaker B: Holy shit. He's got Dave. Coolier.
[01:49:27] Speaker C: Oh, my God. And he's doing cut it out. No, stop turning towards he's drawing them in with the cutting it out. Stop turning towards them. Turn back towards us.
[01:49:35] Speaker B: This is terrible.
[01:49:35] Speaker C: Wait, is that Drake? Aubrey Graham. And he brought the wheelchair, too. He's unfolding the wheelchair on top of the range Tyrone or no, he's famously he's doing Jimmy character. Oh, my God. Will Smith.
[01:49:51] Speaker B: No, we're not we're not talking about your wife. Yeah, her name is out of my fucking mouth. I promise you.
[01:49:57] Speaker C: They're starting they're doing okay. And he's introduced well, he's reading an ad.
Is he doing audible? What's he doing? I don't know.
[01:50:06] Speaker A: Starting with the ad. That's not classy.
[01:50:08] Speaker C: Oh, my God. He's introduced Reginald Vel Johnson. This is a Family Matters episode of Everybody Loves the Fresh King of Friends. The Next Generation. Full House Edition that is a stacked lineup, guys.
[01:50:19] Speaker A: We may not be able to compete with this.
[01:50:21] Speaker C: I don't know. I mean, can we do Santa? Can we get Doug?
[01:50:24] Speaker B: We got to turn this around. Play the episode.
[01:50:26] Speaker C: Yeah, we got to get we are not talking about your wife.
I swear we're not my wife.
[01:50:34] Speaker B: We'll stay there. Stay down there.
[01:50:36] Speaker C: Oh my God. Wait, he's winding up. I think he's going to slap is he going to try to super slap us across the square?
[01:50:43] Speaker B: No way. He can't reach.
[01:50:44] Speaker C: Oh no.
Oh my God.
That was fucking crazy, guys.
[01:50:53] Speaker B: Whoa.
[01:50:54] Speaker C: Is everybody okay?
[01:50:56] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm good.
[01:50:57] Speaker A: My cheeks are numb.
[01:50:58] Speaker C: Yeah. Both sets numb.
[01:51:01] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh my that was what I was saying.
[01:51:04] Speaker C: Comfortably uncomfortably numb. Which is unfortunately when Will Smith super slapped the winnerego across Limbrook town square, sending us and 6000 spectators flying through the streets, knocking the winnarego over several times.
Unfortunately, the debris did kill the local Pink Floyd cover band, uncomfortably Numb.
[01:51:31] Speaker B: Yeah, that really was unfortunate. They already cast their votes though. So we're good.
[01:51:36] Speaker A: We're fine.
[01:51:37] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:51:38] Speaker A: So so we're just here in the winnerego. We parked on top of where are.
[01:51:42] Speaker C: Is we mentioned it a couple weeks ago. This is the newly christened Jonah Hill, which is a town park here in Limbrook, named of course, after Limbrook's favorite actor, who has nothing to do with the town at all. We are in the winnerego safely on top of Jonah Hill.
[01:52:03] Speaker A: I have the TV playing in the corner on silent.
[01:52:06] Speaker C: Just that's right.
[01:52:07] Speaker A: So we can see the poll numbers as they come in. So far about 20% of the votes are in. Looking good so far. Feeling okay?
[01:52:15] Speaker C: Yeah, they just said that 20% are in. They're not tracking the results or anything. No one's reporting results. Just in.
[01:52:22] Speaker B: No, they're just saying that 20% people.
[01:52:25] Speaker A: Have yeah, there's a little bar going across the screen.
[01:52:29] Speaker B: 20%, that's right. Well, I was happy that 20% votes received.
It's pretty intense. In spite of the fact that we did get slapped into super slapped into Jonah Hill, I was still very impressed we were able to have enough of a crowd to still justify the watch party for the second part of the Everybody Loves Rainbow.
[01:52:54] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:52:54] Speaker B: Finale.
[01:52:55] Speaker C: About 55 people who were on the ground attending the rally, they got super slapped up here as well. But luckily there were about 35 Toyota Corollas parked in here with teenagers making out, so they all came out and watched along with us. And of course, this episode is pretty steamy, so they all went back in those Corollas.
So yeah. Good turnout for the watch party.
Everyone's gone now. It's just us parked up here overlooking beautiful Limbrook skyline and just kind of.
[01:53:34] Speaker A: Waiting because after tonight, everything changes one way or the other.
[01:53:38] Speaker C: That's true.
[01:53:39] Speaker A: Our whole worlds are like, we're surrounded by this election and so many other wild antics and it's all just about to change once again.
[01:53:48] Speaker C: Yeah. The whole plot is about to end, isn't?
[01:53:51] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh, speaking of.
[01:53:56] Speaker C: Booted, we're booted up the Lenovo's recording.
I think we lost some of the audio of us tumbling around inside the winnerego. That's probably for the best.
[01:54:06] Speaker B: I said there was some embarrassing moment there.
[01:54:08] Speaker A: I fell face first into Mike's open butt cheeks.
[01:54:12] Speaker B: That's correct. That's correct. And I did not make an appropriate sound at that right.
[01:54:16] Speaker C: Because Mike was in here. He had gone inside. Maybe you can't hear it on the part one of this episode. Maybe that didn't play. But Mike did climb inside and he was in the middle of changing into his Ray Romano bodysuit that he was going to wear to hype the crowd up for part two.
[01:54:37] Speaker A: So it's like a Mickey Mouse costume, but it's Ray Romano.
[01:54:40] Speaker C: He had taken off his politician white button down with the sleeves rolled up in jeans and was fully nude. And then as we climbed inside, as we were being super slapped, so Alex fell into the back. And I, of course, was not involved in this at all. But I did get a great view because I was know what you would call if you were seating somebody at the restaurant? You would say that. That's taint side.
You look mad. I got a great view.
[01:55:12] Speaker A: Should we not be sharing this with the Internet?
[01:55:15] Speaker B: I'm going to be honest with you. I really, in that moment, said this is awful for everybody involved.
I'm glad that we as bros, as people, we know that there are certain things that don't get spoken outside of this room. It can go without saying this happened. We move on. It doesn't affect our friendship. And you guys decide. The first time to bring up this moment movement was while we are broadcasting to the largest audience we ever had atop Jonah Hill waiting the results of Alex's mayoral race.
[01:55:52] Speaker A: To be fair, Mike, I've always wanted to say the phrase fell face first into someone's open butt cheek.
[01:55:58] Speaker C: And now he can without lying. I'm glad this was a great experience.
[01:56:02] Speaker A: Unfortunately, Alex oh, no, it was awful.
[01:56:05] Speaker C: The audio of that and it was an incredibly oral experience is lost. Although maybe there was like a tape recorder in the corner in the Baron zones.
[01:56:23] Speaker A: We may as well just go to OnlyFans at that point.
[01:56:26] Speaker C: Yeah, that's Baroli fans content for sure.
[01:56:29] Speaker B: New business idea, guys.
[01:56:31] Speaker C: Start with that. End with that.
[01:56:34] Speaker B: End with know I got slapped by Will Smith, too, of course. But this all happened shortly thereafter.
Yeah, he went nuts for a while. Uh, that was intense.
[01:56:49] Speaker C: Well, he thought we were talking about his wife, and we weren't at all. I think maybe he could did we say anything? Maybe because we were talking about the wedding and maybe we said the word wife at some point and he heard it over the loudspeaker, and that sent him into one of his classic rages.
And I don't know. Well, what I'm really upset about is, you know, Alex's only opponent in this race really pulling up in the range, tyrone Ver, and doing his own podcast, his podcast that he only started to compete with ours.
[01:57:30] Speaker A: He figured out what works in this town and I do applaud this town.
[01:57:34] Speaker C: Loves sitcom recap podcast. It's true.
[01:57:38] Speaker A: Well you got the whole town listening at this point.
[01:57:40] Speaker C: He stole Pastrami's idea of the big tent too of the rotunda of sitcom greats he had everybody loves the Fresh King of Friends, the Next Generation, Full House edition. That was our idea. I didn't tell you guys this but we were going to pivot to doing all sitcoms recap podcast if Alex won or sorry if Pastrami won.
[01:58:03] Speaker A: Yeah, but you know what, we'll stay with El E LR no matter what obviously. Because if I don't win I'm going to be unemployed. So I need this.
[01:58:13] Speaker C: Yeah, you need that Baron.
[01:58:15] Speaker A: I need my cut of the $0.18 guys, I really do.
[01:58:20] Speaker C: Yeah, did you hear that news report about how you can donate less than one dollars now but no less than $0.50? So the new minimum on the Baronus.
[01:58:31] Speaker A: Zonus guys, look, it's already at 30%. I want to be done with our discussion by the time it's over.
[01:58:38] Speaker B: Do you think we're 100% right? And we are, just to be clear, live broadcasting, we don't have the 6000 people anymore, but we are live broadcasting from Jonah Hill and all of you people out there that we cannot see because like I said, we're now inside the winnerego. That's right, all of you people out there that stood for the Watch party, very excited for you to break this down live with us.
[01:59:04] Speaker C: And speaking of breaking, we hope that know St. Raymond's is moving pretty quickly getting people triaged and in. So yeah, thoughts and prayers are with everyone. A lot of broken bones today but hopefully no broken hearts. As know, hopefully ascends once in is all the way in we'll find out exactly who people voted for and I have a feeling Alex, that it's going to go our way.
[01:59:34] Speaker A: Well I do want to, I want to thank everyone who is listening from all over the world for sending in their ballots. They don't count but we appreciate it.
[01:59:45] Speaker C: Yep, we've hung them up on the, what the fuck do you call that? The cork board here in the Winner rego and we looked at them we.
[01:59:52] Speaker A: Love even the one star ballots that voted for.
[02:00:00] Speaker C: The town should not have included the review section on the ballot. That's harsh. Yeah, people really are editorializing in this.
[02:00:09] Speaker B: Yeah, I was not a fan of how you used my parchment paper to make this cork board and pin all these votes up there. I was a little upset about that.
[02:00:22] Speaker A: Well we are just sitting there, we.
[02:00:24] Speaker C: Are out of money, like we should say, organizing the event that we were just super slapped out of did sort of drain the old are out of.
[02:00:36] Speaker A: We are out of our tower funds, we are out of everything we have. If I don't win this race, the three of us are kind of screwed.
[02:00:43] Speaker C: I have my part time job with Paramount Networks to fall back on, but I don't know what you guys are going to do. I really don't.
[02:00:50] Speaker A: I guess I'll just go back to my mansion and fuck off.
[02:00:54] Speaker B: That's right, you have a mansion.
[02:00:55] Speaker C: Mike will go visit his dad in Canada. Yeah, I'm sure. I guess we'll have to do the podcast over Zoom, which would be crazy.
[02:01:03] Speaker B: That would be zoom.
[02:01:05] Speaker A: Podcasts are the actual worst. I would never do a Zoom podcast, ever.
[02:01:09] Speaker C: Never. That's why we're here in the winnergo. And as always, we are going to be breaking down the second part of the wedding. This is look, we wanted to do this projected onto the IBS building, but now we're just going to have to do it the old fashioned way. We're talking about season two, episode 25, which is the part two of the wedding, which we already covered part one of. We left off with Deborah and her parents planning the wedding and all of this happening around Rey, and we saw a little next time on Everybody Loves Raymond the Cold open. This episode is previously on previously on that was weird.
[02:01:52] Speaker A: That made me feel uncomfortable. I didn't know how to feel about that. That was new.
[02:01:57] Speaker B: I was kind of here for it. Because, guys, this entire time we've been talking about our primary complaint about Everybody Loves Raymond is that it doesn't have continuity. This is expressly week to week continuity. This is incredible.
[02:02:12] Speaker A: This is like insanely continuous. And obviously that's because it was a part one and part two. And it's also why we're doing both parts in one episode, because we, as a podcast, don't like continuity. We hate it.
[02:02:26] Speaker C: That's right. We do not spend any time thinking about continuity. Really? Once we realized that Raymond doesn't do it, we were like, forget about it.
[02:02:34] Speaker A: Now we may have to. I don't know.
[02:02:37] Speaker C: The recap was really tight. I was struck by how effective it was.
[02:02:46] Speaker A: I feel like we could have just watched that and then done the same episode.
[02:02:50] Speaker C: It made me feel like our recaps are maybe not as efficient.
[02:02:57] Speaker A: Yeah, we got the whole fucking episode.
[02:03:01] Speaker C: It was literally, Why did you marry me? And then Marie saying, Ray just proposed to Deborah, and then Deborah saying, oh, boy, we're going to plan the wedding. I'll be fine with a small wedding. And Ray saying, 200 guests, and then Warren and Lois say something, and then Ray's like, am I even invited? And that's the whole thing. And we spent.
[02:03:22] Speaker A: It made perfect sense.
[02:03:24] Speaker B: And I will say, though, you're right. I was very impressed by how quickly they hit on literally every single beat of that episode. My first act is mayor made me realize how much fluff is in every episode of Everybody Loves Raymond and how much more fluff is in Everybody Loves Everybody Loves Raymond.
[02:03:46] Speaker A: But that's I don't know if I would call it fluff for the show. The TV show, not our podcast. We have some fluff.
It's just a show.
It is dedicated to comedy, and in order to have comedy, you have to set a premise and then kind of just bounce off that premise for a while.
[02:04:03] Speaker C: The thing about fluff is, if you picture a stuffed animal, if it doesn't have any fluff, it's just a flabby piece of fabric, isn't it? So you do want fluff. Fluff adds dimension. This is turning into a really great metaphor. Fluff adds dimension. Like, wow.
[02:04:20] Speaker A: It is.
[02:04:21] Speaker C: We need to see the fluff to know that. Marie is this overbearing? Like, we didn't get to see the detail in the recap about, like, jumping the gun on did Deborah actually say yes or anything? Or we didn't get to see Frank reading the what?
[02:04:38] Speaker B: We didn't get to see Raymond Stride being insecure either. That's true.
[02:04:41] Speaker C: Yeah, exactly.
[02:04:42] Speaker A: It did bring me up to speed. After taking an hour from not watching the episode and kind of getting distracted with all the shit we just did with talking and stuff, it kind of brought me back into that mood. Forgot all about being slapped and really could just invest myself back into this world.
[02:05:00] Speaker C: For one brief moment, you forgot about being slapped. And we all are working on our specials that we're going to do about being slapped chris Rock style.
[02:05:09] Speaker B: Now, did we go right from the recap into a commercial? I kind of forget.
[02:05:14] Speaker C: I don't really know because no, I think it just jumped right in.
Look, I'll be honest with you guys. I've been watching these episodes for, like, 52 weeks now, and I was fucking tired of the ads. So sometime this season, I bumped up so I don't even see the ads anymore.
[02:05:36] Speaker A: Adam no way.
[02:05:38] Speaker C: That's right. And I'm not sharing it with you guys, by the way.
[02:05:43] Speaker B: People wouldn't ask.
[02:05:44] Speaker A: Yeah, you wouldn't say, Ray boy. Mike, don't say that.
[02:05:50] Speaker C: Yeah, so, I don't know, for me, it just looked like it went black and then we started the episode. But maybe you guys had an ad break in there. Do you usually get an ad break after the cold open?
[02:06:01] Speaker A: That's that Corona Zonus money coming in.
[02:06:06] Speaker B: It's typically cold open theme, then ad break, but obviously we didn't get a theme song here.
[02:06:15] Speaker C: Yeah, it would be really quick. It'd be, like, 30 seconds.
[02:06:17] Speaker B: Why are we saying wait, hold on a second. What are you talking about? Adam we watched this episode together on screen. We got the ad break at the same time. I don't know why.
[02:06:27] Speaker C: You're finished it a little earlier than you guys.
[02:06:30] Speaker A: We watched this one on cable.
[02:06:32] Speaker C: I had my phone on underneath the little table that turns into a bed that we have here in the Winnarego.
[02:06:41] Speaker A: By the end, like, 20 minutes into it, you were, like, at the end, and then you would hear everyone else laughing at a joke that you heard, like, six minutes ago.
[02:06:49] Speaker C: Yeah, it was really hard to split my attention, but I just cannot stand hearing about Discovy for Prep again.
[02:06:57] Speaker A: Are you prepared to talk about this episode?
I feel like that's a distraction.
[02:07:03] Speaker C: No.
Look, a couple things.
I'm ready to talk about the episode. And just so you know, discovie for Prep, I've heard that commercial enough. I can recite it.
Discovy is for all you kings, this queen, and you royals in between. And actions are words speak loud, but actions speak louder. These are lines from the very dramatic Discovie for Prep commercial. So I feel like I've put my time in. I deserve to watch this episode at, like, 1.5 times as fast as you guys do.
[02:07:44] Speaker B: Alex, have you ever received the Discovie for Prep commercial?
[02:07:48] Speaker A: No. What is that?
[02:07:49] Speaker C: Why am I being targeted with the Discovie for Prep commercial? It says something about you. I don't have HIV.
[02:07:59] Speaker B: I don't the algorithm knows something you don't.
[02:08:02] Speaker C: I guess somehow I clicked on something that the algorithm's like, maybe it's because I watched Angels in America. The algorithm is like, that's it. This guy.
[02:08:11] Speaker B: That's it.
[02:08:12] Speaker C: This guy's got.
[02:08:15] Speaker B: This guy's got at least a passing interest in AIDS. That's something.
[02:08:18] Speaker C: I see so many prep commercials. It is true.
Now that we're talking about it. Different types of prep HIV medication at a certain point in the past year. I did not know that. If you get to and stay undetectable, then the level of virus is so low that it can't be transmitted through sex. But now, if you ask me what it means, if the level of virus is so low that it can't be detected by a lab test, I'll tell you. That means it can't be transmitted through sex in a second.
[02:09:00] Speaker B: That's so funny. Meanwhile, I keep getting getting maybe maybe it really is very targeted, because I keep getting ads on Peacock about the teams that are facing off in the Peacock streaming baseball game every week, how the Phillies are hosting the brewers coming up.
[02:09:19] Speaker C: Watch peacock only get one game.
[02:09:21] Speaker B: A, there's. Talk about obsession. I could tell you so much about the way that baseball does contracts with streaming services versus cable and how it's super fucked for all fans, but we don't have time for that.
[02:09:36] Speaker C: We got Raymond to I just want to be clear, talking about obsession, I'm not obsessed with discovie for prep.
[02:09:44] Speaker B: You could have fooled me.
[02:09:46] Speaker C: I just have seen the ad so many times across different streaming services.
[02:09:52] Speaker B: You recited the ad word for word, Adam.
[02:09:55] Speaker C: I just get that it's all these different guys, and one guy's like a poet, and he's like, words speak loud, but actions speak louder. And there's a point where he's sitting, turned around on a chair, and he's, like, drumming on it.
[02:10:08] Speaker B: I'm just saying, I still fuck up the cars for kids. Dingle. So there's a difference.
[02:10:15] Speaker A: I just get that. Commercial that says, are you tired of virgins listening to your podcast?
[02:10:22] Speaker C: I do get that commercial as well. Low budget, like whiteboard commercial.
[02:10:27] Speaker A: Yeah.
[02:10:29] Speaker C: Well, if you're a fan of Discovie for Prep, write into [email protected].
[02:10:39] Speaker A: Send it to us. We'll talk about you anonymously.
[02:10:42] Speaker C: That is a new sentence right there.
So let's talk about okay. Yeah. So whether or not you saw the Discovie for Prep commercial, we move on to the first scene of the episode. We cut to the church where Father Hub Lee, who's Deborah's Priest, who's played by Charles Derning. Charles Derning's bio starts with World War II veteran dance instructor and diversely talented stage and screen actor. This dude fucks. This dude is awesome.
[02:11:10] Speaker B: No, he's a priest. What are you talking about?
[02:11:11] Speaker C: This dude no. Charles Derning.
[02:11:14] Speaker A: No, the actor.
[02:11:15] Speaker B: Mike, I hope the priest doesn't fuck.
[02:11:18] Speaker C: Well, who fucks with the Lord?
Charles Derning has 218 credits 1953 to his death in 2012. Best known for the Muppet movie Dog Day Afternoon and oh Brother, Where Art Thou, Alex? You like the muppets?
[02:11:36] Speaker A: I love you.
[02:11:37] Speaker C: Recognize him from the Muppet movie?
[02:11:39] Speaker A: I'd have to look again because I haven't actually seen the OG muppet movie in a long time.
[02:11:45] Speaker C: Oh, okay.
[02:11:47] Speaker A: Well, we'll do it's been a couple years, dude. I want to talk about, like they like Kermit the Frog makes Ray Romano jokes now and again, and I'm here for them. And Ray Romano, I'm sure, has made a Kermit the Frog joker, too. They are they sound very similar.
[02:12:04] Speaker C: Kermit and Ray Romano are like the Rock and Kevin Hart, like soulmates.
[02:12:11] Speaker A: If we can't get Ray Romano on for the finale, which know one of our end goals, I want to get Kermit the Frog.
[02:12:18] Speaker C: I think we can swing that. I honestly do think there's probably someone.
[02:12:23] Speaker A: Who can do a really good impression.
[02:12:25] Speaker C: Or did do Kermit the Frog, but doesn't no longer that we can get.
[02:12:29] Speaker A: Well, there's only been three Kermit voices in history. One of them is Jim Henson. I don't think we're going to talk to him. And the other got kicked away from Disney for something on disagreeing with their tactics or something. He didn't do anything wrong. He just spoke out against the company. And then there's the guy that they currently have who I don't love his voice yet.
[02:12:52] Speaker C: Okay. We should do a Muppets baroness. We should do everybody loves Everybody Loves.
[02:12:57] Speaker A: I would love that. I would love that.
[02:12:59] Speaker C: So you leave the muppets. We'll just talk about the Muppets. That's honestly a lateral move because like we said, they are soulmates. But anyway, that's Charles Derning.
So this scene is basically the priest is asking Deborah why she wants to marry Ray. Likes Deborah's answer. Doesn't like Ray's answer. I love his passive aggressive. He loves.
[02:13:24] Speaker A: What did she say again?
[02:13:26] Speaker C: She said.
[02:13:31] Speaker B: It felt very cookie cutter. It was kind of like she says.
[02:13:34] Speaker C: Ray's the kindest man she's ever met. And he has got a wonderful sense of humor. Lie.
[02:13:42] Speaker B: Lie.
[02:13:43] Speaker C: Well, Ray says don't lie.
[02:13:44] Speaker B: A lot of things I don't think I would say.
[02:13:46] Speaker A: Ray saying, like, so timidly, like, don't lie.
[02:13:50] Speaker C: Lie.
[02:13:51] Speaker A: That one got me.
[02:13:53] Speaker C: Deborah saying, I'm not lying. And then Father Hudley leaning over and saying, are you lying, Deborah? I thought that was really I thought he was really, really funny in this scene.
[02:14:03] Speaker B: He was good.
[02:14:04] Speaker C: He was Great Dane. For Ray at immediately not liking him is so funny.
[02:14:09] Speaker B: Oh, I gotta ask, how does Deborah know this guy?
[02:14:13] Speaker C: I don't know. Do we think is this a mike? You'll know better than me. This is a Catholic priest.
[02:14:22] Speaker B: Yes, this is clearly a Catholic priest.
[02:14:25] Speaker C: Well, I don't know what gives it away. The giant crucifix.
[02:14:31] Speaker B: The giant crucifix is one thing. The white collar is another thing. And also it's mentioned that Deborah is Catholic.
I will say, actually, now that I'm thinking about this well, later on in episodes, they go to Our Lady of Faith, which is a Catholic church, and they make a big deal about that thing. But now that I'm thinking about it, I was noticing that in the middle of the wedding, I was, huh. This doesn't really look like a Catholic church, but we'll talk about that when we get there.
[02:14:58] Speaker C: It's a different church from Gus. From I wish I was Gus.
[02:15:03] Speaker B: Yeah.
[02:15:03] Speaker C: I always thought that Deborah was like a Connecticut like Wasp.
[02:15:09] Speaker B: Maybe that's the case, actually.
[02:15:11] Speaker C: But maybe I'm just conflating, you know, Protestantism.
[02:15:17] Speaker B: That's interesting.
[02:15:17] Speaker C: I'm going to look up yeah. I would assume that Father Hubley is Deborah's priest, somehow not her childhood priest. Unless this wedding is taking place, we never really find out where they are. Is the wedding taking place in Connecticut? Because he says warren says that they're having it at the country club. And if they live in Connecticut, we would assume that their country club is in Connecticut, right?
[02:15:43] Speaker A: Yeah, I guess so. Maybe they went out. Yeah.
[02:15:45] Speaker C: Now that you mentioned that would explain yeah, Father Hub.
[02:15:49] Speaker A: That actually would explain a lot.
[02:15:50] Speaker C: Deborah's family priest for their yeah, she's.
[02:15:54] Speaker A: Probably been going to him her whole life.
[02:15:57] Speaker C: Yeah. He seems to really like her. Not so much with Ray. I loved his response. Deborah's saying that Ray's got a great sense of humor after Ray's joke about the crucifix. This is nice. And Priest saying, I'm thinking of getting a larger one. And Ray saying, So that one goes up in the huh. And then him just getting completely stonewalled.
I really love that concept in that joke.
[02:16:25] Speaker B: I do, too.
[02:16:26] Speaker A: Yes.
[02:16:27] Speaker C: That is such a strong this whole.
[02:16:28] Speaker A: Scene was very strong.
It set the whole latter half and it addressed the concerns of the previous episode. Actually connected them very well, I think.
[02:16:38] Speaker C: Yeah. It followed on from it very well.
And I like that it was a bit of a time jump because we're seeing I assume this is shortly before the wedding, and then we jump right to the wedding rather than we don't need to linger in the post proposal phase any longer.
I thought that helped. It felt really fast. Maybe just watching it in two parts and already having the because we have.
[02:17:07] Speaker A: Kind of like four big scenes. This one the before wedding, the wedding, and then the post wedding. And that's really it.
[02:17:13] Speaker C: Yeah, they talk about children. They haven't really talked about it. The father is like, Ray, you got to do some soul searching before you enter into a marriage. I got to go.
I've got oh, good, a funeral. Thought that was really funny.
[02:17:34] Speaker A: Charming. Charming. Very charming.
[02:17:37] Speaker C: And Ray doesn't want to do that soul searching. So he pushes back a little bit on having that discussion. But Deborah claps back big time. Says, Ray's just scared of having to make the commitment and move out of his mom's house. She's not having it. You got cold feet, get some socks.
Also great.
[02:17:58] Speaker A: I love that I'm going to use that in my personal life. I like how they elaborated it on it later.
I love that saying so much.
[02:18:08] Speaker C: Yeah.
[02:18:09] Speaker A: I've never heard it before. Well, I guess I have because I've seen this episode, but it's been a long time.
[02:18:14] Speaker B: The audience also loved that line. They were like applauding and everything. It was great.
[02:18:18] Speaker C: Yeah.
[02:18:19] Speaker A: One of the writers woke up in a cold sweat one night, was like, cold feet sucks. If you have cold feet, they get some socks.
[02:18:27] Speaker C: That's it. It is such a great it's like.
[02:18:30] Speaker B: Bringing all the bacon.
[02:18:32] Speaker C: It's like a folksy idiom.
It's like some Mark Twain shit. It's really great writing.
Do you think the reaction from the audience was so big? Do you think they bust in like the sock people? Like the American Sock Makers Association.
[02:18:49] Speaker A: They're like professionally, they're cheering.
[02:18:52] Speaker B: Not because of Deborah. They're cheering because they heard the mention of their.
[02:18:59] Speaker A: Um, socks to be you.
[02:19:01] Speaker C: It does sound like it would be a good line for the end of a sock commercial of like, we see a guy who basically we see the plot of this episode, a guy who's nervous about getting married, and then somebody gives him some socks. And instead of the socks being a symbol like they are for Rey in this episode, they're literally socks. And now he has the confidence to walk down the aisle, and we see him walking down the aisle at sock level, and he's, like, stopping and twisting his ankle and hiking up his pants so everyone can see. And then he gets to the altar. And then we hear the vo. You got cold feet, get some socks.
[02:19:39] Speaker A: Socks for your feet.
[02:19:41] Speaker C: Socks.com.
[02:19:43] Speaker B: Socks.com. Socks. Yeah.
[02:19:46] Speaker A: Quick, buy the domain to Socks.com.
[02:19:49] Speaker C: Oh, that is definitely taken, my friend.
[02:19:53] Speaker B: There's also a place called the awesome Socks Club, which actually is a really cool service.
[02:19:57] Speaker C: I highly recommend is this an ad?
[02:19:59] Speaker B: And then mood. This is not an ad. This is hashtag not an ad. But they mail really cool socks to your house monthly. Think Fruit of the Month club, but for socks, it's kind of dope.
[02:20:09] Speaker C: Sock of the month. Fruit of the month.
[02:20:11] Speaker A: More socks, Ray. More socks keep coming.
[02:20:18] Speaker B: They're like, independently designed by artists and all the money goes to charity. It's cool. Yeah.
[02:20:23] Speaker C: You know what? Why don't you today or tomorrow, work on getting us a sponsorship? Or I will cut this.
[02:20:34] Speaker B: Green and see what he no.
[02:20:37] Speaker C: Yeah, great. What's the website? Socks. Yeah, I have no idea.
Yeah, no, I love that line.
We cut to the guests filing into the wedding. Uncle Mel is back. Right. Awesome.
[02:20:52] Speaker B: I really deeply love that this had no bearing on the plot.
[02:20:56] Speaker C: Didn't one of you call this that? Uncle Mel was going to come back, I'm sure.
[02:21:01] Speaker B: I feel like we did.
[02:21:02] Speaker C: Yeah. I forget who did it's hard. You know, we're all mixed up because of the super slap. But yeah, I think one of you did call that we were going to see Uncle Nell in this. And of course, because he's like the most exciting member of the extended Barone family at this point.
[02:21:15] Speaker A: He is, actually. Really is, yeah.
[02:21:18] Speaker C: He introduces Ray I love him coming up to Ray being like, you look like a bus toilet. And then introduces him to Lewis, his business partner.
[02:21:30] Speaker A: Business partner.
[02:21:31] Speaker B: His business partner.
[02:21:32] Speaker C: And then Lewis gets the line, we're not gay. Do you guys know who this is?
[02:21:39] Speaker B: No. Tell us.
[02:21:40] Speaker C: This is Ray's real father, Albert Romano.
[02:21:43] Speaker A: Oh, wow. And he's not gay.
[02:21:45] Speaker C: He's not guess oh, that's disappointing. This is the only time he'll show up as Lewis. But he does show up again as Frank's friend Albert.
[02:21:55] Speaker A: His one line was, we're not gay.
[02:21:58] Speaker C: If the show had gotten canceled, that would have been the only line that he had on his son's program. But no, he comes back, I think, five episodes in season seven through nine.
[02:22:09] Speaker B: How do you think that conversation went? Hey, dad, do you want to come on my show and assert your heterosexuality and leave without comment?
[02:22:17] Speaker C: I like to think that Al wanted to be he was like, oh, Mel's going to be in this episode. How funny would it be if I was his partner and I got to say we're not gay? I would hope that he wanted to do it.
[02:22:31] Speaker A: I mean, I think the insinuation here was that they were a real business, but only in the front type of.
[02:22:36] Speaker C: Group pair business in the front. But when they go off to the conference, it's all party. It's all party in the back.
Yeah. I thought it was just a really strong appearance by Uncle Mel.
[02:22:50] Speaker A: Definitely it was.
[02:22:51] Speaker B: No, just I thought it was great. I thought it was good.
[02:22:53] Speaker C: Uncle Mel and for not actor, he delivered the line really well, we're not gay deadpanning it. And Ray being like, okay, great.
Go on inside then.
[02:23:08] Speaker B: Good to know.
I do like how we can see him in the background and he has a very prominent seat on the raised side of the aisle. He's like front and center.
[02:23:21] Speaker C: He is.
[02:23:22] Speaker A: Well, and knowing that it's his dad that actually kind of makes it feel a little sweet. It's actually kind of like yeah, it's an acting, but it's still nice.
[02:23:32] Speaker C: Well, yeah, Ray's, we'll get to it in the next scene. But this is a family affair for Ray. Just like somewhere in know we'll talk about on the Barona Zonus, but there's a little crossover here.
We'll talk about but the next scene is Ray in the priest's office with the crucifix.
He had to get a bigger one.
[02:23:55] Speaker B: It's called the rectory, but that's okay.
[02:23:58] Speaker C: How do you know that there is a rectory that's separate from this area, which is the office?
[02:24:06] Speaker B: I guess that's a good point.
[02:24:08] Speaker C: Where administrative tasks get done. Maybe this is where the accounting happens.
[02:24:15] Speaker B: The priest doesn't do the accounting.
[02:24:17] Speaker A: I thought the rectory is funerals to attend is what tells you where to go in a mall.
[02:24:24] Speaker C: The rectory?
Yeah. You know the rectory. What is the place where the priest lives?
[02:24:35] Speaker B: That's his house. Hold on.
[02:24:38] Speaker C: Yeah.
[02:24:38] Speaker B: What am I thinking of?
[02:24:39] Speaker C: I thought that was what directory was.
[02:24:44] Speaker B: Yeah, but no, there's a fancy name for it. Especially if it's in a church. There's a fancy name for it.
[02:24:49] Speaker A: Ray is in the office.
[02:24:50] Speaker C: Go consult your Catholic encyclopedia.
[02:24:54] Speaker B: It's not the sacristy because that's where the body and blood are done. And that wasn't present here.
[02:25:00] Speaker C: Body and blood are done. You mean the morgue?
[02:25:04] Speaker B: No, I'm talking about the bread and the wine of the host.
[02:25:08] Speaker C: No need to get a tally.
[02:25:10] Speaker A: Now I see I have this fun vision in my mind where they're at the morgue under the church and there's just the the bread and wine is like, who killed him?
[02:25:25] Speaker B: Rectory still feels right. But I'm not going to die on that hill anymore because now I'm doubting myself.
[02:25:30] Speaker C: I thought you'll die on any hill, Mike.
[02:25:33] Speaker B: Yeah, except when I doubt myself. And this is that time when I'm doubting myself.
[02:25:39] Speaker C: Anyway, this scene so Ray's in the office.
I loved the family coming in and know Marie first, then Frank, then Robert, then Warren and Lois, too.
Yeah. Just a funny how each of them are dealing with Rey having cold feet. I thought was really classic archetypal for this show.
[02:26:04] Speaker B: What are our thoughts on Frank's solution to his lyrics?
[02:26:09] Speaker C: I think.
[02:26:10] Speaker A: Stupid Jack daniel.
[02:26:11] Speaker C: It's incredibly destructive.
[02:26:14] Speaker A: Horrendous completely ignoring the whole be a man thing. It's like, dude, this is like his wedding day. There are going to be pictures. This is going to be one of the most documented days of his life. Don't get him drunk.
[02:26:29] Speaker C: Yeah.
[02:26:29] Speaker B: I mean, it was clear that Frank did not intend for him to get actually drunk because of how uh oh he was know, ray walks out clearly intoxicated, but at the same, like, I don't just to be clear, I'm not saying it's a good thing. I'm just saying I could understand the idea of take a sip to cool the nerves. But then obviously, it seems like Ray ended up chugging the whole bottle. He didn't, but he acts like he did different kind of thing.
[02:26:59] Speaker C: Yeah. I don't know if that liquid courage thing I don't know if that is a healthy thing to perpetuate to be 100%.
[02:27:11] Speaker B: It's clearly not loosen up a little.
I think that there was clearly a difference between what Frank was trying to do and what Ray clearly kind of did. And I was just, like, still uncomfy for me. But I just wanted to discuss to see what our thoughts are.
[02:27:30] Speaker C: I think Frank had good intentions. I mean, that's the way guys did it in his generation, right? That's where that trope comes from. Of it is 50s guys who were like, got to loosen up a little before you do the big thing.
But, I mean yeah. And especially in a church. I thought it was very classic uncouth Frank.
[02:27:56] Speaker B: I liked the longing look at the cross as he picks up the Jack Daniel.
[02:28:01] Speaker C: I don't know if that was longing. I thought it was, like, intimidating, lingering.
[02:28:06] Speaker B: Lingering look. Yeah.
[02:28:08] Speaker C: That's where, hey, man, I don't want to get married. I want to be on that cross.
[02:28:15] Speaker B: Hey, y'all, listen. Hey, he's got the right idea. That's all I'm saying.
[02:28:19] Speaker C: It did kind of look like he was deciding between going out the door and going up on the cross.
I loved Frank's line, though, of because Ray is like, I want to see Deborah. And Frank, of course, is like, no, you can't see the bride before the wedding. If I had seen your mother before, I'd be having this conversation on a beach in Jamaica with my son Ruiz.
[02:28:43] Speaker A: I do like that. I feel like Frank's thought about that a lot.
[02:28:47] Speaker B: Yeah. So specifically, too specific to not have someone in mind.
[02:28:51] Speaker C: It's got my son Roy energy. I just thought it was a great one, too, from Frank just coming in and being a hurricane.
[02:28:59] Speaker B: I also just deeply I'm backing up a bit. But I loved the interaction of Frank and Marie going at it with each other, arguing, screaming at each other, just vitriol. He closes the door behind her, just goes, So you're getting married. Oh, that's just so casual.
[02:29:18] Speaker C: I liked Marie saying, don't sit next to me in there.
I didn't like Frank saying, there's no room next to you, but I get the joke.
I also thought it was really funny, Marie, of basically trying very gently to tell Ray that he's ugly.
[02:29:36] Speaker B: Gently. That was pretty.
[02:29:39] Speaker A: She sobbed and said, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry I made you this way.
[02:29:46] Speaker C: I had my father.
It's gentle for Marie, though. And then Robert, of course, coming in still with his mustache.
We don't know yet at what point he shaved the mustache, but it was not in the time between the proposal and the wedding, that's for sure. No, he just kept it tight, wanting to run his toast by Ray. And Ray saying not now. Classic, like, shut down robert response of, sure, fine.
[02:30:17] Speaker A: Yeah, I loved his toast. I did. Yeah, we'll talk about that was I thought they were going to fuck with him a little bit more. And I'm actually happy that they gave him kind of like just a complete speech.
[02:30:32] Speaker C: Yeah, really good. Yeah, great speech. And in this scene, the other thing that happens is Warren and Lois coming to deliver the socks. Yeah, I thought that was really I mean, we see at the end how Ray felt about it. I thought it was funny of Deborah to do. I didn't she mentioned it's a threat. That scene doesn't necessarily sell the like, oh, this is a cute thing and not a mocking thing. But when they talk about it at the like, you really see how that is how it played to Rey and how that know the catalyst for what's about to sure, sure, yeah.
Also liked Robert leaving awkwardly, being like Deborah's, some girl see out there.
Okay.
[02:31:21] Speaker A: Just kind of a weird backing out of the door. Just perfect for Robert.
[02:31:26] Speaker C: And then yeah, we see Ray standing in front of the Jack Daniels, looks at the door, looks at the crucifix, and we fade to the wedding bridesmaids slowly walking down the aisle. None of whom are credited and none of whom I recognize. Like, we didn't see, like not Janice, Bernie, and what is her name in this show? Maggie Wheeler. Oh, Bernie.
[02:31:49] Speaker B: Lisa.
[02:31:51] Speaker C: I don't think so. Lisa. I think it starts with an L. Maggie.
[02:31:54] Speaker B: Linda Search.
[02:31:55] Speaker C: Linda. Thank you. Yeah. So she's not there. Amy's not there. So it's not like any of Deborah's friends that we've seen before.
[02:32:03] Speaker A: Maybe she might have met them after this.
[02:32:06] Speaker C: Yeah. Well, Bernie's there, though. Bernie.
[02:32:09] Speaker A: Maybe Bernie wasn't married.
[02:32:10] Speaker C: Is in the wedding party. Andy and Kevin are ushers. Then we got some real randos in.
[02:32:17] Speaker B: Got I picked up on this. I don't know how deep you guys get into the later seasons. I know Alex has seen this cousin Gerard is in the background.
[02:32:27] Speaker C: I saw that he's credited and I didn't notice him, but I saw that he was credited on IMDb. Raymond Wiki does not seem to be aware of that, though. And I'm certainly not going to edit the Raymond Wiki, but we get on that.
[02:32:47] Speaker B: We are the people that would.
[02:32:48] Speaker A: Yeah, that's like kind of our wheelhouse, I guess.
[02:32:53] Speaker B: Yeah.
[02:32:53] Speaker A: I think there's again, we're not going to do it.
[02:32:57] Speaker C: You think we'll ever make the Raymond Wiki?
[02:33:01] Speaker B: No.
[02:33:02] Speaker A: Okay. New end goal.
[02:33:04] Speaker B: New end goal. New successful podcast is if everybody loves Everybody Loves Raymond makes it as the longest running podcast.
[02:33:12] Speaker C: Everybody Loves everybody Loves Raymond is a podcast. That sucks.
[02:33:18] Speaker A: Everyone hates.
[02:33:22] Speaker C: Cousin. Gerard is credited. Fred Stoller is credited, although his first official appearance isn't until the episode that's entitled Cousin Gerard, which might be season three, four somewhere in there.
[02:33:38] Speaker B: It's coming up.
[02:33:39] Speaker A: Something to look forward.
[02:33:41] Speaker C: Yeah. So Gerard's going to be in seven episodes, but he's in properly introduced until season four, episode seven, which is entitled Cousin Gerard. So we are unfortunately not going to be talking about Fred Stoller for six months.
That's fine.
[02:33:58] Speaker A: Well, we'll see you later, Fred.
[02:33:59] Speaker C: Yes, it is. We'll do a deep dive on him then, but yeah, he's in there. Who else is? I'll call out. So the first thing we see in this scene is a groomsman who we've never seen before in the show, asking, Where's Ray?
And of course, we remember that from the next time on Everybody Loves Raymond. That was the big line.
This is Michael Duddy, who was on the show's production staff for season two.
I'm assuming that somebody dropped out or they were just like, we can't find anyone for this part. Duddy, you go do it.
[02:34:39] Speaker A: I wish they got the guy who played Leo.
[02:34:42] Speaker C: Oh, my God, that would have been incredible. When I saw that it was somebody that wasn't like Kevin or Andy or Bernie, I was like, Is that no, it's not. That would have paid off so well for us and no one else.
[02:35:00] Speaker B: Yeah.
[02:35:02] Speaker C: And then, of course, we get Ray entering visibly drunk. Question mark. But if he is drunk, he's a very jubilant drunk.
[02:35:14] Speaker B: He reminded me of someone being more high than drunk. Honestly.
[02:35:19] Speaker C: He was kind of manic is what I would describe him as of just like bouncing off the walls.
[02:35:25] Speaker A: I would we've we've seen it. We know the just I think it's so funny that the explanation for this was just, this is what Ray is legit. Like, when he's actually happy.
And then we proceed to never see.
[02:35:41] Speaker C: Him like this again.
Yeah.
[02:35:43] Speaker B: I don't know. He's loopy. He's not all there, but drunk people slur their words. He doesn't do that. He's on the ball. I don't know, maybe I'm nitpicking this idea, but that was my thing, is, like, he doesn't seem drunk to me.
[02:35:59] Speaker C: Yeah. I guess the thinking is, like, let's show him in a mode that we've never shown him before so that people will assume that he's drunk so that we get the payoff at the end.
[02:36:13] Speaker A: I think there were signs because the whole time I was just thinking like, oh, just wait until she smells his breath.
[02:36:20] Speaker C: Yeah, that's true. That would have given it away for sure. Deborah entering down the aisle and Ray running towards her.
This is what made it feel like more of like a manic thing, because wouldn't you think, like, a drunk person would just sort of stand there and sway and smile and be sort of know out of it.
But he runs down the aisle, he swoons over, he hugs everyone.
He says hi to Kevin and Andy who are ushers, and walks her down the aisle for them. He'll take it from there. I thought that was cute.
Now, knowing that he wasn't drunk, I thought it was very sweet that he was so happy and excited to get married that he was like, I can't wait, I've got to walk her down the aisle myself.
[02:37:14] Speaker A: I legit. Did kind of cringe at this when I thought he was drunk.
This is going to look back poorly. Like, no, dude's, just a big sweetie, you cringe.
[02:37:27] Speaker B: Yeah, no, it's still yeah, no, you don't. Because here's the thing. The thing is there's so much planning that goes into every single part of the wedding and forget about that. Like, a dad will grow up thinking about, oh, well, one day I'm going.
[02:37:43] Speaker C: To walk down my daughter down.
[02:37:46] Speaker A: Shut up, dad, you're 16.
[02:37:51] Speaker B: Finally, it's a big moment for father and daughter. I'm going to kick your asses. Both of you.
[02:37:58] Speaker C: Just imagining child dreaming about the day that he walks his child down the aisle is hilarious.
Not when he gets married. When he is a father and walks his daughter down the aisle. Yeah.
[02:38:14] Speaker A: Hey, can we hurry this up? I want to get married so I can walk my daughter down the aisle.
[02:38:18] Speaker B: You guys get what I'm trying to say here? It's a big moment for father, mother, daughter, everybody involved. And Ray was just like, I'll take it from here. And he also has kind of taken this moment away from Deborah, too. This is her big reveal. This is one of the moments.
[02:38:37] Speaker C: That's a good point, actually.
[02:38:39] Speaker B: He was just like, I got to get here.
[02:38:41] Speaker C: She doesn't get her moment of walking down the aisle together or by herself and being like the center of attention, which clearly she wanted, like a traditional wedding where that happens, but I think she rolls with it really well.
Maybe she's just in shock, but she sort of yes. Anne's Rey throughout this know, he's just being silly. Yeah. I don't think, you know, as far as the planning, like, this is all happening within the plan. It's not like anything's getting ruined by this. It's more like the symbolic thing like you're saying of the mother and the father roles being usurp, Deborah's spotlight being taken from her by Ray. I think that's a good point. I think that's a good point. So when they get up to the altar and Rey is still exhibiting these symptoms of mania, priest is like, dearly beloved. And Ray's like, hi.
And then I like the line of Ray cutting him off, being like, look at her and father being like, she is beautiful. And he's like, she's engaged.
[02:40:02] Speaker A: Very good.
[02:40:03] Speaker C: Very funny.
[02:40:04] Speaker A: Good job, Ray.
[02:40:06] Speaker C: The swinging, making the crowd laugh.
[02:40:09] Speaker A: People are enjoying.
[02:40:10] Speaker C: It really funny. I think I am not a huge fan of the traditional wedding. I would rather see something a little more loose like this.
I know you're very invested in ceremony. Mike and the austereness.
[02:40:30] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm with Adam on this one, Mike. Sorry.
[02:40:35] Speaker B: Okay.
[02:40:35] Speaker C: You've been saying that you want, like, a church wedding apropos of nothing, you've been like, yeah, I want a church wedding where it's just me and the priest and the weding married to each other. Getting married. Two witnesses, austere, no clapping, no kiss, just I do, I do. Shake hands, turn around, walk away.
[02:41:01] Speaker A: Babe, you know how I feel about postmarital kissing.
[02:41:05] Speaker C: I'm saving myself for death.
[02:41:10] Speaker B: I love that, too.
[02:41:12] Speaker C: So one of his, like, Ray's being like, all bouncy, and the priest says he goes off script. He feels compelled to say that Rey underwhelmed him at first, which obviously we all saw clearly, very clearly.
But him being so joyous, he's embodying. He's the personification of the wedding spirit, which I thought it was the so the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost, and the wedding spirit. Mike, are those the four?
[02:41:42] Speaker B: Yeah, those are the main four. Yeah, that's right.
[02:41:45] Speaker C: The last guy doesn't get.
[02:41:51] Speaker B: Only comes out he's like the Ghost of Christmas Past. He only comes out every once in a while.
[02:41:54] Speaker C: Right.
So it's the Father, Son, Holy Ghost, wedding spirit, ghost of Christmas present, past, future Santa. So we're at Eight Tooth Fairy easter Bunny, the Guardians from the rise of the Guardians.
[02:42:14] Speaker B: Yeah, that's it. Yeah, sure, why not?
[02:42:16] Speaker C: And then if we're opening it up to the Guardians, obviously we've got to get the Gahula verse in there. The Owls of Gahul.
Well, like I said, that's another 20 or 30. And these are all the personifications of God?
[02:42:31] Speaker B: Yeah, like I said, this is clearly a Protestant wedding, so I don't know what's going on there.
[02:42:37] Speaker A: Anyway.
[02:42:38] Speaker C: Wow. You didn't like that joke at all? You were like, yeah, sure, whatever.
[02:42:45] Speaker A: Let's move on.
[02:42:48] Speaker C: Don't bring the Owls of Gahul into my religion.
[02:42:52] Speaker B: No, they stay separate.
[02:42:55] Speaker C: You didn't even give me anything for the Gahuliverse.
[02:43:00] Speaker B: I don't even know what movie those guys are from, to be honest.
[02:43:03] Speaker C: It's from a movie called I think it's called the Guardians. The Owls of Gahul. And it's an animated don't.
[02:43:13] Speaker B: Wasn't the Guardians the one where, like, Jack Frost and Easter Bunny and Santa all team up?
[02:43:17] Speaker C: That's how I got there.
[02:43:17] Speaker B: And then on top of that, they.
[02:43:19] Speaker C: Have a very well, that's rise of the Guardians.
This is the Guardians. The Owls of Gahul.
[02:43:26] Speaker B: Is this the same universe?
[02:43:28] Speaker C: No, completely unrelated. It's like a friends with benefits, no strings attached situation where they came out at about the same time.
[02:43:36] Speaker B: Gotcha. Because I was going to say it would be really interesting if they built up this whole thing of, like, these mythical creatures of fantasy and folklore all come together to save the world and. On top of that, we just have.
[02:43:48] Speaker C: Really extensive owl war owl mythology.
So in my personal library of knowledge, it's not alphabetized, it goes Rise of the Guardians, Guardians, the Owls of Gahul, duskovi for Prep, and everything else besides that is pretty much I've forgotten.
Anyway, so one of Ray's things is he's like, is it too late to do the own vows thing? Takes the ring from the flower girl. Takes the rings. And that is Ray's real life daughter Allie Alexandra Romana.
[02:44:29] Speaker B: Wait. That was really Allie.
[02:44:31] Speaker A: Yeah, that was IRL Allie.
[02:44:34] Speaker C: And here's the tie in is Ray's movie somewhere in Queens. She is an associate producer.
[02:44:41] Speaker A: Oh, that's fantastic. That is nice.
[02:44:44] Speaker C: That movie's a real family affair. We won't talk about it now, but his sons are involved in it and it's a whole thing.
[02:44:50] Speaker A: I can't wait to see it.
[02:44:52] Speaker C: Can't wait to see it and talk about it on the April Baronus episode.
There we go.
[02:44:58] Speaker A: Donate, can't wait for you to listen to it by paying us money.
Give us money.
[02:45:05] Speaker C: Alex, don't worry, I think you're going to win. I don't think you're going to need the Baronus money anymore.
[02:45:10] Speaker A: Oh, thank goodness. Never mind. Guys, don't pay us well.
[02:45:15] Speaker B: 70% reporting.
[02:45:17] Speaker C: Whoa, 70% in.
[02:45:19] Speaker A: Let's hurry.
[02:45:20] Speaker C: Wow, we really didn't check in on that for a while. It's been a while. We haven't checked in on it. So 70% in, 30% out. Yeah, let's wrap this up so that we can celebrate or cry.
[02:45:36] Speaker B: I love the impromptu vows. Not like as actual vows, but I thought they were very the. I'm sorry, I'm an idiot. Help me to do better. And Deborah, just no confession of love or anything like that.
[02:45:53] Speaker C: Just I wish he says, I'm sorry for being such a jerk. I promise not to be one anymore if you'll help me.
[02:46:02] Speaker A: Which fair.
That's a realistic promise.
[02:46:07] Speaker C: It is. It really does encapsulate a lot of what being in a relationship is about is learning how to be a better partner as you go through the relationship with somebody and you spend more time with.
Mean it's in Ray speak, but it is a really nice sentiment. I'm sorry for being such a jerk. I promise not to be one anymore if you'll help me. I will. And then the priest says, what God has joined, men cannot divide. Ray says, let them try. And Deborah Smooch. Yeah.
[02:46:41] Speaker A: God knows they try.
[02:46:45] Speaker B: Now that I'm thinking now that I'm thinking about this and we know the twist is just Raymond's happy, it's really funny to me that everybody in his family was equally baffled. Like Maurice has never been going on. He's never been happy, never been like.
[02:47:01] Speaker C: This, never been happy, never will be this happy again. This is Ray's peak, what they call him positive psychology. The happiness set point.
[02:47:12] Speaker A: Fun fact, this is it and it will be it forever.
[02:47:16] Speaker C: That's it.
And then we see. So everybody cheers, everybody's happy. Great. We cut to the reception where Frank is sidling up to Ray like, hinting at you put on quite a show up there.
[02:47:31] Speaker A: You drank a lot of alcohol. Hint, hint, nudge nudge.
[02:47:34] Speaker C: I'll be at the bar getting cute.
And then Deborah realizing or assuming that what Frank is saying is that he was drunk.
And then I loved Ray showing her the bottle as he's trying to explain, no, I didn't drink it. And her being like, you want me to be drunk too so we can be two drunk, married idiots?
Very funny.
[02:47:59] Speaker B: Her I like, her freak out here. It's very realistic. And then I also love when Ray finally confesses and it's like, no, you don't see, the seal isn't broken. I haven't shrunk it. I was just super happy. You made me laugh and I can't wait for the life with you. And her just panic as she realizes this is you happy.
[02:48:17] Speaker C: Yeah.
[02:48:17] Speaker B: This is you just and then Ray just like, don't get used to it.
[02:48:22] Speaker A: The subversion here is so good because up until he showed her the bottle, I did get and again, I didn't remember this episode. I was so sure that he was just plastered the whole time and he was just trying to I thought it was going to be like, yeah, I made a mistake, but my love for you is real type thing. Nope. I love that they went this direction with it. And Ray actually didn't mess up at all. He did a great job. He was just know his usual idiot self who was just happy.
[02:48:51] Speaker C: It was a great twist.
[02:48:53] Speaker A: It was a great twist.
[02:48:54] Speaker C: Totally subverted the I don't know how they would have wrapped it up in any kind of satisfying way if Ray was actually drunk.
But yeah, I do love Deborah's reaction of pleasant, befuddled men of so that was you out there and then yeah. Ray talking about how the socks made him think about how much he loves her. I was really distracted this whole time because the background music was a solo piano piece and there was an accordion player standing in the background not doing anything, was like, is accordion about to start on the track? And we're about to see him counting himself in and then he's dropping some it turns into like a zydeco.
Yeah, I was really distracted by the accordion player, but that's just me. There were a lot of extras in this, but no one stood out to me as much as this accordion player who not the last dance, the first dance in the last dance is this guy standing off to the side holding his accordion while Michael Jordan is playing basketball. No.
[02:50:08] Speaker B: Yeah, actually, it's a very famous part of the documentary that no one really 100% understood, but it was there if.
[02:50:14] Speaker C: You know, you know, he walked from here over to the Bulls game the same day and didn't have time to change out of his, correct?
[02:50:23] Speaker B: That's correct. Scotty Pippen says that he's the reason that the Bulls lost that year, actually.
[02:50:31] Speaker A: At least that's according to the Wikipedia.
So what happens?
[02:50:37] Speaker C: Oh, wow. It just went up to 75%.
[02:50:40] Speaker A: Oh God.
[02:50:44] Speaker C: Yeah. But during the first dance I don't remember if this guy's playing or not. Anyway, Robert giving his toast was the other thing in this scene. Even though there were times that he was the favorite and that he always got everything he wanted, I have never felt that more than I do today.
I love the laugh that he gets with that.
[02:51:05] Speaker B: And then Robert is just like smiling, pleased with it. I didn't expect it to go that mean.
[02:51:12] Speaker A: It's just funny to me because I was expecting him to have a look on it where it was like that wasn't a joke.
Yeah, it was and I liked it.
[02:51:22] Speaker C: Yeah, I know. Success will probably move them far, far away from us. Oh, I meant to call back or call out in the because this is like a classic flashback.
[02:51:35] Speaker A: A lot of fun.
[02:51:38] Speaker C: They'll never invent a way for people to talk to each other over wires across the country. Like one of those classic flashback lines. There's one when Frank is talking to Ray of he asks what Warren's name is and says he doesn't like him. But you don't marry the parents. Once you get married, the parents aren't in your life so much. So that's another one of the great little classic painful.
They're fine, but I don't know if they've ever been funny.
[02:52:09] Speaker A: I don't know.
[02:52:09] Speaker C: I like them riding in a carriage without a horse. No one's going to ever do that. I think maybe there's a weighted. I think in this episode, actually they do it as well as it can be done. It's just my personal preference to not generally be a fan of these.
[02:52:27] Speaker B: I was okay with it for the.
[02:52:28] Speaker A: Most part, but yeah, it's fine.
[02:52:30] Speaker C: They don't overdo it. I think if this was like way later in the show, I feel like Friends has had flashback episodes where it's like painful how much foreshadowing there is.
But yeah, this is fine.
Also Marie reacting to that line of but we'll always find a way to be together. And Marie weeping. I know we will. To Mr. And Mrs. Raymond Barone.
Maybe the funniest joke in this episode is know, doing the chin and everyone else doing it is the great pausing for a second and then being like.
[02:53:12] Speaker B: Okay, I also want to just call out, why the hell was the priest there? He married them.
[02:53:17] Speaker A: He's done the personal friend.
[02:53:19] Speaker C: Yeah, he is a family friend. And maybe Ray won him over and he was like, I'm not going to go to that reception. That guy's a piece of shit. And then being like, oh, the wedding spirit.
[02:53:29] Speaker B: Could you imagine? Just like he invited himself over there. He wasn't invited in the first place. He was just like, this guy rules.
[02:53:34] Speaker C: That's the twist party's. Like that's. The second twist is the Jack Daniels that Frank gave to Ray. That was actually Father Hubley's. Jack Daniels. Father Hubbley is a drunk. He's just there for the free family friend.
[02:53:53] Speaker B: After that, we have the cross arm sip from Ray and Deborah. I thought that was very nice, too.
[02:54:00] Speaker A: Perfect.
[02:54:00] Speaker C: Have I mentioned there's some weird things about my family? And then they kiss and freeze frame.
[02:54:05] Speaker B: Yeah. And then we go to the this ending sequence actually made me go AW for the first time, I think, ever. The hot clothes where they start with the slow dance and it's kind of adorable. And then it flashes forward to the entire family slow dancing in the bedroom.
[02:54:24] Speaker C: The kids draped over them.
[02:54:26] Speaker B: That was really cute.
[02:54:27] Speaker A: That was adorable.
[02:54:29] Speaker C: And shot. That shot really well, too. Of we're close on Ray and Deborah ten years ago. We fade into the same framing in the present and then zooming out to show the kids draped over them. Like Deborah's holding one of the twins, allie's hugging her, and then one of the twins is grasping Ray's ankle. Like just a funny way to represent all this around them has changed, but they still are the same people that they were.
[02:55:04] Speaker A: It reminds me that they have a lot of bullshit, and the struggles they go through are real, but they got.
[02:55:11] Speaker C: A good core, strong foundation.
[02:55:16] Speaker B: This was a great episode. Great finale to the season. Ten out of ten episode.
[02:55:21] Speaker C: Ten out of ten episode.
[02:55:23] Speaker B: As far as race performance, on the other hand, I don't know if I'd give that all the way a ten.
[02:55:27] Speaker C: Let's find out by going to our classic barometer for the last time this season, we're looking 90% our scale.
[02:55:36] Speaker B: Oh, my God. 90.
[02:55:37] Speaker C: 90 in 90 in Dang. We're looking at our scale from one to ten on which we raise performance as a husband, period.
In this episode, or in these episodes, I should say, one being the bad men of television history. Walter White. Don Draper. Mike, give me another one.
Bad.
[02:56:01] Speaker B: The Joker.
[02:56:04] Speaker A: Horrible dad.
[02:56:05] Speaker B: He's not a good dad.
[02:56:07] Speaker C: Yes.
And ten being the great sitcom dabs of all time. Uncle Phil. Danny Tanner. Carl Winslow. Well, you know what? I'm going to strike Carl Winslow from this list because Reginald Vel Johnson was a guest on Tyrone Dickey's competing podcast. Everybody Loves.
[02:56:28] Speaker B: Carl.
[02:56:30] Speaker C: So he's struck So we need to replace him. Alex, who are we going to replace him with as one of the great TV dads?
[02:56:37] Speaker A: Well, who's a person? Let's start there.
[02:56:41] Speaker B: Uncle Iroh from Avatar the legend.
[02:56:43] Speaker A: Hey, that's a great one, Uncle Iroh.
[02:56:45] Speaker C: All right, we'll do that then.
[02:56:49] Speaker B: Adam is not here for any of our geek references. Yeah, anything in the geek realm of pop culture. He's just absolutely not. I love it.
[02:56:57] Speaker C: I like discovie for prep. I am not a fan of Avatar.
My favorite genre of TV is prep commercials, so forgive me.
Okay, sure. So now we've got two uncles on the barometer. That's exciting. So, Mike, where is you were about to say it before I cut you off. Where is Ray? Coming in for you.
[02:57:22] Speaker B: This episode, Socks for Stupid, it's very stupid. I don't know if I'm going to stick with that, actually. I don't know. I think he did good for the most part. There were a lot of moments that were infantile and weird, like in the proposal part of things. Very weird that he chose to propose at his house. And also, not entirely his fault that things went sideways, but also, I feel like he could have done a better job in some degree.
But yeah, I mean, I'm not going to knock him based on his insecurity, though. I think that to a certain degree, you kind of got to I hate to use this phrase, but at a certain point you got to just kind of man up and just kind of scarf that down to be there for your future wife. And I feel like the insecurity got in the way sometime, specifically during the Pre Cana with the priest.
[02:58:19] Speaker C: Yeah. I meant to ask you this before. What does that mean? Pre Cana?
[02:58:24] Speaker B: Precana?
[02:58:24] Speaker C: Yeah. Is that the braveheart thing where the king gets to have sex with the bride?
[02:58:30] Speaker B: Yeah.
[02:58:31] Speaker A: We must determine if she's worthy.
[02:58:33] Speaker B: That's the one.
[02:58:34] Speaker C: No, what is.
[02:58:37] Speaker B: So I think that there's actually a good possibility that Deborah is some kind of Protestant, in which case this goes out the window. But in the Catholic faith, the Pre Cana is basically the way that the church gets couples ready for marriage, hence the name precana, hence the wedding at Cana, which is where the water into wine thing happened.
But, yeah, yes, it's about the spiritual part of things and getting people ready for that, but it's also making sure that no one is going into marriage completely unaware. There's a list of, like, eight big topics that they need to discuss.
Sure, some of them are religious in nature, but some of them are also just like, what are you doing with your finances? Are kids in your future?
How's this going to affect your career? Like, that kind of thing. So it's the idea of that typically it's a six month process of multiple weekly meetings. Six months?
Yeah, there are like eight hour crash courses. But yeah, I mean, the driving thing.
[02:59:45] Speaker C: When you get your driver's license, they show you video.
[02:59:52] Speaker B: Exactly. The marriage and you exactly.
But yeah. So that's what pre k is. It would never would be the 40 seconds that Father Hubbly with Ray and Deborah.
But that's kind of the idea. They do do it online now since there's a lot of that kind of capabilities, too.
[03:00:15] Speaker C: Well, keep in mind that Father Hubbly is a drunk, so maybe he's not doing everything by the possible. You know, now that you're talking about, I there's a similar thing in the Church of England called the that's it.
That's it.
[03:00:32] Speaker B: That's a good one.
[03:00:33] Speaker C: So what score would you give Ray?
[03:00:36] Speaker B: I'm going to stick with the six, because, like I said, just there's some shit you don't do.
[03:00:41] Speaker C: Some shit you don't do. Alex. Where's Ray? Coming in for you?
[03:00:46] Speaker A: I thought Ray was great this episode.
I like that he proposed in I mean, I didn't mind that he proposed in the house to counteract Mike's thing, because at this point in his life, or Deborah's life, she was not aware of the dumpster fire that is the Barone family. And being with them is a treat, as we've seen in previous flashbacks, where she's not around them the whole time. Being in the house is not like it's someplace special at this point for her.
And it was where Ray was living, so he could catch her off guard with it, too. So it was like kind of a strategy thing as well. Kind of just like an everyday type of thing, not expecting anything crazy. Then, of course, his family ruins it. So that was the one thing that kind of screwed up on. He was insecure. He was Ray classic, but he didn't let anything stop him from doing what he knew was right. He was his good old happy self on that altar. No alcohol required. If he did drink, the score would be a lot lower. But based on everything that I saw, I want to give him a seven and a half.
[03:01:56] Speaker B: Okay. There we go.
What about you?
[03:01:59] Speaker C: Can I tell you, my immediate reaction to this, not thinking about it at all, was that Ray should get a ten for this episode. I don't think that anymore.
I think I really bought into the last three minutes of the episode of Ray being really nice and I didn't need to drink.
[03:02:21] Speaker B: Those were ten out of ten behavior. You're right.
[03:02:23] Speaker A: Yeah.
[03:02:23] Speaker C: Three minutes. Yeah.
Of him being like, oh, look, I didn't even drink it. And then the freeze frame and the fade to the dancing, all of that really worked. I thought the highs in this episode were very high for Ray. I thought the proposal idea, although it was not executed perfectly, was really sweet.
The lows, I guess the biggest low is insecurity, is par for the course for Ray. So I feel like that would happen in any situation. But the low of you pointing out that his excitement and running down the aisle to walk Deborah up, it was great for him, reflected well on him and his excitement, but maybe was not what Deborah wanted in that moment had repercussions for other people.
Does kind of knock him a little bit for me. I still want to give him a high score, though, because I do feel like he, on the whole, does come across well in this episode. I'm going to give him an 8.5.
[03:03:36] Speaker B: All right, I thought about it. You guys are right. I just wanted to get my stupid socks joke in. I'm going to boost him to a seven.
[03:03:42] Speaker C: I knew it.
[03:03:42] Speaker B: Still the lowest, but I'm going to bump him down a bit.
[03:03:45] Speaker A: Mike staying negative, but reasonably, reasonably negatively negative.
[03:03:49] Speaker C: The Mike F. That could be your podcast.
[03:03:52] Speaker B: Hey, there you go. That puts him at a 7.7 for this episode.
[03:03:58] Speaker C: 7.7. Nice.
[03:04:01] Speaker A: Lucky ending. The season off. Good.
[03:04:04] Speaker C: Ray. I don't know where that falls in terms of everything, but that's really good.
[03:04:10] Speaker B: That's pretty solid.
[03:04:11] Speaker A: Yeah, I will say good job, guys.
[03:04:13] Speaker B: You know what? And look at that. Just in time. We're at 98% reporting. Look at that. We're almost there, guys.
[03:04:19] Speaker C: 98.
[03:04:20] Speaker B: Time to get Alex's answer.
[03:04:21] Speaker C: Oh, wait. Yeah. 98 in. Hey, turn it up. Let's hear what they're saying.
[03:04:27] Speaker A: Hang on.
[03:04:28] Speaker C: Now we're ready to reveal the score. Not the score. What are they called, Diane? The scores.
Who wins the results. Yes. Thank you. We're ready to reveal they've started counting the votes. We're ready to reveal the results. So far, we've got 98% in. We've got Alex Shearer with 50% of and we've got Tyrone Dickey represented by the green bar here with 50% of the vote. Well, now, this is interesting. These 2% of votes that are yet to be counted, that are yet to come in, are going to decide this. At this point, we're neck and neck. Let's go down to Dave.
[03:05:15] Speaker A: I thought we were going to go into overtime.
[03:05:17] Speaker C: Let's go down to Dave in front of limbrook town hall right now, where he's going to be letting us know what's going on down there. Dave, can you hear me?
[03:05:29] Speaker B: Yes, Doug, I certainly can.
This is Dave here standing in front of the town hall. It is all coming down to this. It's all coming down to the swing votes here in limbrook town hall. That's right, the swing vote.
[03:05:45] Speaker C: The swing vote, you say, Dave? So all of limbrook's swing acts and it looks like chopper six, can you identify chopper six? Who is still in line to vote of the swing vote? Who is up there?
[03:06:01] Speaker A: Looks like we got Kenny Richards on trombone. We got Jason mendozionas on trumpet.
We got Kyle on clarinet. That's my cousin.
[03:06:18] Speaker B: Hey, Kyle.
[03:06:19] Speaker C: Chopper six's cousin Kyle is in line to vote.
[03:06:23] Speaker A: He's on drugs, but he's cool. We got Penny Smith. No relation to Donna Smith.
[03:06:30] Speaker B: They both play the ukulele.
[03:06:32] Speaker A: I don't know why they're in the jazz band. And then we've got like, I don't know, 20 more, but I don't know them.
[03:06:39] Speaker B: But yes, I've seen they're all in. And they have cast their votes. And they're exiting the polls now. The pollsters are diving into the box, pulling them out and very quickly tallying up the votes and what's this? They're ready to announce a winner. The white smoke is coming out of the town hall in limbrook. We have a new mayor.
[03:07:01] Speaker A: Oh, they just don't tell us.
[03:07:03] Speaker B: They just don't tell them. We're waiting on them.
They're holding up a sign. They draped it down.
[03:07:09] Speaker A: Oh, it's like a gender reveal party.
[03:07:10] Speaker B: It's.
[03:07:11] Speaker A: Blue for Alex, pink for Tyrone.
[03:07:13] Speaker C: They're rolling out the cannon right now. They're going to do a gender reveal style. This is how it's traditionally done. Oh.
[03:07:20] Speaker A: Place your bets, people.
[03:07:21] Speaker C: And the fuse is lit. And it's blue confetti coming out. That means Alex shear is the new mayor of limbrook. With 51% of the vote, we can now report that Alex Shear alex turned out oh, my God. I can't believe it.
[03:07:40] Speaker A: We did it.
[03:07:42] Speaker C: Run this world.
[03:07:45] Speaker A: We run this world.
[03:07:46] Speaker C: You got to give your victories. Okay, so you got to go do.
[03:07:49] Speaker B: A victory speech right now.
[03:07:51] Speaker C: Let's go drive downtown and people can gather and it'll be like the energy people are probably great.
[03:07:57] Speaker A: I already turned off the emergency brake. We are rolling down this hill.
[03:08:01] Speaker C: Okay. So I'm going to be mainly steering now.
Okay, Mike, where should I put it? Where's a good place? Coming down from Jonah Hill.
[03:08:11] Speaker B: Yeah, just park it on the corner of catalpa and Broadway. Right over there?
[03:08:14] Speaker C: Yeah.
[03:08:15] Speaker A: All right. I'm going up top.
[03:08:16] Speaker C: Okay. So yeah, open the moon roof, Alex. Just climb up. Have we've had the mics? We super glued them to the roof before we started the big event, so they should be good to go. Hop on up there, Mike. Let's hop on up there with them. Hey, everybody, people are starting to get come on. Come over.
[03:08:35] Speaker B: Wow, there are a lot of people are very excited today. Look at that.
[03:08:39] Speaker C: Yeah.
[03:08:41] Speaker B: Look at this.
[03:08:42] Speaker C: Okay, now we need give him an introduction, Mike.
[03:08:47] Speaker B: Ladies and gentlemen, one and all, limberkians of all ages, I introduce to you the campaign has finally paid off. The leader, your leader, the one that's going to bring Raymond back to Lindbrook. Here he is, the corner of Broadway and catalpa, alex Shearer.
[03:09:09] Speaker A: Oh, my goodness. Look at all these amazing people that have come out and support in order to congratulate us on all of our hard work. Not just myself, but my colleagues here and so many others that were behind the scenes that if I were to name, we'd be here all night as well as all of you showing your support. Without you, we wouldn't be here right now. And huge thanks to the swing bands.
I knew I love jazz for a reason. I'm going to be listening to them for now and forever. But now is where the real work begins. I swear to you, I will not rest until Raymond Barone gets the respite that he.
[03:10:01] Speaker C: Can. What are they doing?
Look, we're all really excited, but no need for fire. We've actually got fireworks set up. We went out to paramus. We've got fireworks set up. No need.
[03:10:12] Speaker A: We said no fire the impractical.
[03:10:15] Speaker B: Guys, I don't know why we're playing the French rebellion songs. That's not appropriate here.
We don't need that.
I'm not crazy, right? That's les miz.
[03:10:27] Speaker C: Yeah.
Look, we have T shirts for everyone, so you don't need to dress up like the cast of Les Miz. We've got T shirts and whatever you're erecting back there. What is that, Mike? Is that like a.
[03:10:44] Speaker A: Arrow? An arrow just pierced the recreational vehicle. But instead of an arrowhead, it's just a little Eiffel Tower.
[03:10:51] Speaker C: It's one of those little cheap Eiffel Towers that they sell outside of the Eiffel Tower.
[03:10:56] Speaker A: Oh, God, here comes another one. Look out.
[03:10:58] Speaker C: Well, look at are those steamrollers coming down the street?
[03:11:05] Speaker A: It's not my political enemies.
[03:11:08] Speaker B: Okay. All right, we got to go, guys.
[03:11:10] Speaker C: Wait, we got to go.
[03:11:12] Speaker A: You mean you got to go, bitch?
[03:11:14] Speaker C: Oh, my God. Wait, do you guys see down the street? Are those are some big, blurry figures. And as they're coming into focus are those those are some big guys.
Those are very those are very big guys.
[03:11:29] Speaker B: It's the testosterone.
[03:11:31] Speaker C: Oh, no. Oh, yeah. They're all wearing their Tyrone T shirts. Those are definitely testosterone.
[03:11:37] Speaker A: I suggest we get back.
[03:11:39] Speaker C: Yeah, let's just get back. Hey, Great.
[03:11:44] Speaker B: Is leading the testosterone. He is fat and shorter. Oh, my God. Let's get in.
[03:11:50] Speaker A: A greater future awaits us all. Goodbye. Good night.
[03:11:52] Speaker C: We got to move.
[03:11:53] Speaker B: New mayor.
[03:11:53] Speaker A: Let's move.
[03:11:54] Speaker C: Okay. Yeah. Thank you, everyone. Yes. We're going to get him to a safe location. Do the Secret Service earpiece thing. Okay.
The car is not starting right now, so this is fine. But it looks like I'm looking in the rear view. Yeah, that is macron. He's back there. I did read an article in the Health Journal, the Limbrook Health Journal, that if you combine testosterone, Tyrone, with baguettes, it actually turns you into Napoleon. So it looks like he's short and big, and he's very large. He is trying to remove his hand from being tucked inside of his jacket, Napoleon style, but it is not coming out.
[03:12:37] Speaker B: So he is very time.
[03:12:39] Speaker C: He's frustrated, and that's going to make him even more dangerous. But I think everything's going to be fine. I'm just going to lock the doors.
Can we move? Yeah.
[03:12:48] Speaker A: Should I close this window? Yeah, close the but it'll get so stuffy. Oh, my God.
[03:12:55] Speaker C: Those little Eiffel Towers are really being thrown in here very quickly. So throw that oh, shit. Frisbee. Frisbee. Frisbee. Frisbee. A lot of Frisbees coming through. Can you please try to get that window closed? Alex, is it stuck or what?
[03:13:08] Speaker A: Oh, wait, I'm sorry. I was wrong. The window isn't open. It's just broken.
[03:13:13] Speaker C: Oh, shit. Okay, well, it looks like the car is not moving. Well, the car is not starting.
Do you want to put it in neutral and maybe it'll roll? Okay, the testosterone is mike, a lot of your friends from the Flat Earth Club are hammering on the side of the car right now and these windows are not very strong.
[03:13:37] Speaker B: We don't need to do this. You don't need to do this.
[03:13:39] Speaker C: Dylan looks pissed.
[03:13:41] Speaker B: He's very upset. He's very angry.
[03:13:43] Speaker C: Okay. And I think maybe we need some help here. So if this is it, it looks like all of our supporters have fled the scene, which is fine, we still like them, but I think this might be honestly it guys, I think our mistakes are coming back to get us in a big way.
[03:14:05] Speaker A: What are you talking about? I'm sure they just want to talk. Look, if you just look out the window, you're going to see oh, shit.
[03:14:11] Speaker C: Alex just got.
[03:14:14] Speaker B: Is this is not good. This is the very best.
[03:14:17] Speaker C: Alex got hit with a non, which is a flat the. When these guys got together, this was a fucking disaster. Oh, my God.
I honestly think that all might be lost, guys. And if this is it and they breach the winarego, then let me just say it's been a pleasure serving with you all.
[03:14:39] Speaker B: It's been an honor.
[03:14:40] Speaker C: It's been an honor. And we've been an honor.
[03:14:42] Speaker A: The show's cancelled forever.
[03:14:45] Speaker C: I guess there's only one last thing to say, right, Mike?
Everybody loves wait, do you hear that?
Are those jingle bells?
[03:14:57] Speaker B: I hear some jingle bells.
[03:14:59] Speaker C: Are those jingle bells laid over on top of moving out Anthony's songs? Wait, look out.
[03:15:05] Speaker A: The moonroof is it my running mate?
[03:15:07] Speaker C: It's Santa's sleigh. Santa Sleigh's. And Billy. What's driving Billy Joel? No.
Wave your up. Billy. Down here, Billy. Down here.
[03:15:18] Speaker B: Billy, come on.
[03:15:19] Speaker A: We need you to bail us out twice in a row.
[03:15:22] Speaker C: Wait, has this button always been here?
I don't remember seeing this before we went to Billy's garage. Let me open up the little glass thing and press it and oh, my God, the Santa Clay is locking in on top of the winnerego. What? I didn't know. Are we lifting off the ground?
[03:15:43] Speaker A: Oh, my God, look at the window.
[03:15:45] Speaker B: There's robboat boat.
[03:15:46] Speaker C: Roan coming over the hill like, oh, my God. Rob boat. Boat. Roan just leapt out of Fonzie style. Wait, is that fonzie water skiing off the back of Rob boat boat row. Oh, no, we got the bombs. Henry Winkler, he's flying over to us. He's locking in place on the side. We're pretty high above the ground right now. He's locking in place on the sides of the Winnarego like wings.
[03:16:10] Speaker A: Wow, what a visual spectacle for the eyes. Oh, my God.
[03:16:15] Speaker B: Holy shit. The winnarego's been voltron.
[03:16:18] Speaker C: Wait, look down there. Are those rarely referenced but loom large in my mind? Those telephone booths with wheels on the bottom of them from the fact that Limbrook is the most London of any place outside of London, that Billy and I invented.
[03:16:36] Speaker B: The whole show?
[03:16:37] Speaker C: Oh, my they're flying up to meet us and they're locking in where the wheels used to be. As. Like rocket boosters. I think you're right, Mike. I think we're voltroning.
[03:16:47] Speaker B: Let's go.
[03:16:48] Speaker C: The steering wheel is transformed into, like, a rocket ship control panel. And, well, I've never flown one of these before, but let's see how we go.
I think we can maybe triumphantly sign off. Now, we don't know what's going to happen to limbrook, but we know that we won. And, hey, we're out of here, right?
[03:17:09] Speaker B: Let's put them down.
[03:17:10] Speaker A: Everybody love Raymond.
[03:17:16] Speaker C: Alex, grab on.
[03:17:20] Speaker B: There's a pile of French people reaching in, world War Z style. And they got Alex.
[03:17:25] Speaker C: They took him out the testers. World war. Z'd. Alex out of the winnergo Voltron.
The Voltron.
[03:17:34] Speaker A: I'm screaming and falling.
Oh, God.
What?
Oh, what?
Where'd everyone go? Oh, it's so beautiful here. It's like a little world just for me.
[03:17:57] Speaker C: Is this heaven?
[03:17:58] Speaker A: Am I dead? AW, I just became mayor.
Oh, well, I guess I'll just hang out in heaven forever. It's nice here. The podcast will be fine without me.
[03:18:11] Speaker C: What? Time to make the donuts. Who said? Hang on.
[03:18:17] Speaker A: Oh, my God. Look over there.
[03:18:19] Speaker C: Hey, Alex.
[03:18:21] Speaker A: Who are you?
[03:18:22] Speaker C: You want a donut?
Are you I just made a fresh batch. Wow. You want one? You want a glazed Boston cream? Thank you. Here, take a dozen. You know, I've been watching you.
[03:18:34] Speaker A: No way.
[03:18:35] Speaker C: You want me to turn this water into coffee real quick?
If you can.
[03:18:41] Speaker A: Here you go.
[03:18:42] Speaker C: Thanks.
[03:18:43] Speaker A: I don't drink coffee, but I'll turn.
[03:18:45] Speaker C: It back into water.
[03:18:46] Speaker A: Oh, sweet. I love it here.
So can we be, like, roommates or something?
[03:18:52] Speaker C: Well, actually, Alex, I wanted to tell you, I've been watching you, and I just saw you die. Just now?
[03:18:59] Speaker A: Yeah, that sucked.
[03:19:00] Speaker C: I gotta say, I don't think it's your time, man. I think you still got a lot of donuts left to make on Earth. You know what I mean?
[03:19:09] Speaker A: I've never made a donut. Oh, my God. I've never made a donut. I got to make some donuts, man.
[03:19:14] Speaker C: The donuts are more of a metaphor, actually.
[03:19:18] Speaker A: I should make some donuts.
[03:19:20] Speaker C: Well, don't get too hung up on the donuts. I mean, that's my thing. You should really focus on this, like, Ray Romano thing that you got going. This everybody loves everybody loves Raymond.
[03:19:31] Speaker A: So you're saying that I can't be dead because I got to get busy making donuts instead of eating them?
[03:19:40] Speaker C: Yeah, and to be clear, like, the donuts are a metaphor for doing the podcast where you recap each episode of Everybody Loves Raymond? Because I think that look, I'll be honest. I've seen a lot of greats come through here. Mother Teresa, Brother Teresa, et cetera. And you other Teresa. Other Teresa's caputo. But she just visits.
Lost my train of thought there. Sorry.
[03:20:07] Speaker A: That was funny, Teresa.
[03:20:08] Speaker C: Yeah, I do some stand up.
[03:20:11] Speaker A: You want to come on the show?
[03:20:14] Speaker C: Maybe. We'll see. I'm pretty busy.
[03:20:16] Speaker A: Am I dreaming right now?
[03:20:18] Speaker C: No, you're real. You're dead. Okay?
[03:20:20] Speaker A: No, I'm just checking.
[03:20:22] Speaker C: You are dead. Yeah, but I think I got to send you back.
[03:20:27] Speaker A: You know, that's fine. I think you've given me an idea on how to make this show even more special.
[03:20:34] Speaker C: Okay. But if that idea involves Donuts, I'm going to strongly recommend against it because.
[03:20:40] Speaker A: I have two ideas on how I can make this show more special.
[03:20:45] Speaker C: Okay, I'm going to send you back because it's important work, what you're doing. People have got to know what happened in each episode of Everybody Loves Raymond. Will you promise me? Well will you promise me if I send you back and I get back to making my donuts and you get back to making yours, that you're going to do me proud?
[03:21:08] Speaker A: Yes, God, I promise.
[03:21:12] Speaker C: You're really laying it all out there about my whole deal. I'm trying to do the donuts thing. I'm trying to get away from that.
[03:21:18] Speaker A: Isn't guy who makes donuts. It's an acronym for God.
[03:21:25] Speaker C: That's right. The g from guy. The O from who and the D from Donuts.
You figured it out.
You figured it out.
[03:21:35] Speaker A: Oh, wow. I solved the puzzle.
[03:21:37] Speaker C: That's why you're special. That's why you're going back.
[03:21:40] Speaker A: How do I go back? Well, is this going to hurt?
[03:21:43] Speaker C: It's not going to hurt me, but it'll be over quick, I promise. Are you ready?
I don't know if I oh, my God. I can't believe he just got World Wars. Wait. Why did the microwave turn on?
[03:21:58] Speaker B: What?
[03:21:59] Speaker C: Mike open? What? Did you have one of your things in the microwave? One of your lean cuisine.
[03:22:06] Speaker B: I didn't make popcorn today. Or Lean Cuisine. No, I didn't. Let's see. Did something in here. Oh, my God. Alex.
[03:22:12] Speaker C: Alex.
[03:22:13] Speaker B: Alex. Where'd you get these donuts?
[03:22:16] Speaker C: Alex.
[03:22:16] Speaker A: No time to explain. Grab me the hose.
[03:22:20] Speaker C: You're crawling out of the microwave covered in donuts.
[03:22:23] Speaker A: Here, take these. They're from God. We have a lot of work to do. We can stop this.
[03:22:28] Speaker C: This is I have so many questions. Where did this hose come from?
[03:22:32] Speaker A: Don't worry about it.
[03:22:33] Speaker C: Here's the tiny hammer. Break the glass. Okay, here's the hose. Unwinding the hose.
[03:22:38] Speaker A: You take this end and go up to the roof. Adam, help me unscrew this bottle.
[03:22:43] Speaker C: A bottle of Canada Dry. Wait. Canada Dry? Estrogen.
[03:22:50] Speaker A: It's the only thing that can stop the testosterone.
[03:22:53] Speaker C: Get this. Did you get this out of the microwave?
[03:22:55] Speaker A: Where did I've actually always had it. I've been experimenting with testosterone for women and a malfunction resulted in this formula which I believe can neutralize all of the negative toxic masculinity that has plagued limbrook.
[03:23:10] Speaker C: Does it work? Have you tested it at all?
[03:23:13] Speaker A: Not at all.
[03:23:13] Speaker C: Let's test it now. I guess that's the only way to find out. Mike?
[03:23:17] Speaker A: Mike, can you hear me?
[03:23:18] Speaker B: So I really think The Stranger is your best album, to be honest with you.
[03:23:21] Speaker A: You need to put your thumb over half of the hose. Put your thumb over half of the hose.
[03:23:27] Speaker C: Yeah, do the hose so that it may thing.
[03:23:29] Speaker A: Yeah, make it like a ginger rain.
[03:23:33] Speaker B: Okay, sure.
So you were serious about those backstage?
[03:23:36] Speaker C: Mike, I'm turning on the hose.
[03:23:39] Speaker B: Okay, got it.
[03:23:40] Speaker A: Okay.
[03:23:41] Speaker C: Look at him. He's flying through the air. The pressure is so high. He's one of those car lot like wavy arm guys up there with the hose.
[03:23:49] Speaker A: I'd say I hope he is okay, but I literally just died. It was fun by the know, not the dying part, but the look.
[03:23:56] Speaker C: It's all raining down on limbrook. Limbrook is being doused in estragengerale, and it's neutralizing them. People are putting out the fires.
[03:24:07] Speaker A: They're calming down.
[03:24:10] Speaker C: They're not doing a great job of it, but they're trying to put windows back together that they broke, like, piece by piece. I mean, the sentiment's nice, but it's not very effective. And they're shaking hands with each other. And look, all their muscles are shrinking and getting to a reasonable size.
[03:24:26] Speaker A: It seems like it's helped everyone in limbrook except for Tyrone Dickey. I think it just dissolved his toupee.
[03:24:33] Speaker C: Well, I mean, he wasn't really fooling anyone.
[03:24:36] Speaker A: No, but it was a look. I liked it.
[03:24:39] Speaker C: It was cool. Mullet, toupee is not something that a lot of people can pull off.
[03:24:43] Speaker A: Oh, the hose is empty. Mike's now dangling off the side of the roof.
[03:24:46] Speaker C: Okay, well, let's pull him.
[03:24:50] Speaker A: Oh, the window's closed. I can't.
It's broken, remember?
[03:24:55] Speaker C: Yeah, that's good.
Okay, let's wheel them in.
I guess the story has a happy ending, right?
[03:25:04] Speaker A: We did it. And now we can begin to mike you did it. Alex no. Mike I did it.
[03:25:12] Speaker B: Saved liberty. Yeah, that's what I said.
[03:25:16] Speaker A: I said just from a bird's eye view, it looks like your friends, quote unquote, got real busy with destroying a lot of limbrook. I think the first couple of months of my in office are going to be pretty busy, but I wouldn't want it any other way than with you guys by my side while we also talk about Raymond.
[03:25:40] Speaker C: Wow.
[03:25:41] Speaker B: Excellent.
[03:25:42] Speaker C: Are you offering us positions in your government, Alex?
[03:25:45] Speaker A: If you'll have me. I've now realized, coming back from the dead, that there's nothing more important in my life than our podcast. Because if we do this correctly, we will make donuts, metaphorical donuts, but we'll be all the sweeter for it.
[03:26:03] Speaker B: Wow, that's awesome. I'm glad it took your second resurrection to realize that.
[03:26:08] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm going for double digits because I'll get, like, a little platinum card if I do.
[03:26:12] Speaker C: Well, we've got seven more seasons.
[03:26:15] Speaker A: I only got to die twice in one of them.
[03:26:17] Speaker C: That's true.
Well, let's let everyone cool down. And technically, you're not mayor until Inauguration Day, and that's still a couple of weeks away. What do you guys think? Jamaica?
[03:26:30] Speaker A: Yeah, I was going to say we're still attached to Santa and hey, Santa.
[03:26:37] Speaker C: Billy jamaica, I think they said. Yeah, they said yeah.
Oh, okay. All right. Billy's got a lot of suggestions, but we'll figure it out. Mike, get Ruiz on the phone. Jamaica, here we that was this was quite an adventure.
[03:26:58] Speaker B: Until next season. Thank you all so much for listening to us.
[03:27:03] Speaker C: I can't believe the Lenovo stayed plugged in that whole time. It is also dangling out of the recreational from the back. Yeah, we did get that stronger cord.
[03:27:15] Speaker A: We may need a couple weeks, guys.
[03:27:17] Speaker B: Well, until season three, don't forget everybody.
[03:27:22] Speaker C: Loves Raymond and Jamaica.
[03:27:27] Speaker B: Here we go.
[03:27:32] Speaker C: Jamaica, I wanna.
