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Hello, good evening, everybody.
It's Keith Coogan and my friend Gus here.
Good evening.
How are you out there in the world, in Los Angeles?
Happy holidays.
Merry Christmas.
Happy holidays.
Happy Mary Kwanzaa.
Happy Hanukkah.
No order of preference.
Everybody, the Protestants, the Catholics alike, everybody come together.
Make sure you throw Merry Christmas in there.
Otherwise, you're going to get the war on Christmas thing going.
No, the PC backlash.
If you're like, you know, happy holidays, they're like, it's Merry Christmas, goddammit.
Yeah, no, that's a Fox News story.
You heathen.
That is a manufactured...
Burn little children's bodies.
They find, yeah, they find the three...
Three examples of where somebody didn't say Christmas and then they play it on a 24-hour cycle.
And then they say there was a war on far and away the most popular holiday in the world.
They're bought out there pandering to the Muslims.
All of them.
I heard that they pulled, a lot of advertisers pulled advertising from all American Muslim.
Yes, yes.
Which I only saw some clips of.
I did not see the whole show.
It was another banal show about, you know, getting your nails done.
And preparing for weddings.
I did see the clip of the man that was heading, spearheading the actual boycott.
And his problem with it was it didn't show Muslim extremists.
And he didn't want people to think that there weren't a higher percentage of Muslim extremists.
Oh, it didn't show them in a bad enough light.
Yes, that was his problem.
Which is, it seems like a ridiculous argument to me, but...
That might be interesting.
But unfortunately, I saw clips of the show.
And it just looked like bridezillas.
It meets, you know, any typical Kardashian show.
Yes, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Kardashian with one of the, a headdress thing.
What's that called?
But they follow, I think, four or five different individuals.
Different families, different kids.
I'm sure.
Like, I was surprised that that guy actually got Lowe's and a couple of other companies to bail out of that.
Dozens and dozens.
I heard like 30-something companies overall had pulled their ads.
And for...
For whatever their reasons were.
Oh, they said it wasn't what we'd expected.
They had pitched the show a different way to us.
The name of the show is All American Muslims, isn't it?
And your explanation was, well, it seemed like a bunch of all American Muslims.
You're like, well, yeah.
How else did they pitch the show?
I don't...
And I don't know the years.
And the people celebrate New Year's at a different time.
Some people in April.
Some people, I don't know when Ramadan is.
But everybody bless.
And God, Buddha, everybody, hope you have a very, very good holiday season.
This would be our last show of the year as we go into the holiday season.
Next Saturday will be Christmas Eve.
I hope everybody has a great holiday.
Great, great Christmas Eve.
And then the following Saturday is also New Year's Eve.
And we're not going to do a radio show New Year's Eve.
There's got to be some sort of crazy spotlight event here in Los Angeles to attend.
Right, Gus?
I'm sure.
Chances of you being sober on New Year's Eve are almost zero.
I wouldn't drive.
I totally recommend everybody cab it or walk if you can.
Spend nights, do pajama parties.
But do not drink and drive by any stretch of the imagination.
New Year's Eve.
Buzz driving is drunk driving.
That's a fine moment right there.
New Year's Eve to me is the...
I learned it from you, Dad.
I learned it from you.
That is the holiday.
That is the holiday that is usually the biggest letdown to me.
At least at this age a little different.
New Year's Eve.
New Year's.
New Year's Eve.
Because it's everybody is assuming they're going to go out and have the largest party that they've had in at least the last 364 days.
In which case, everybody gets overcharged to be crowded into a place.
And I mean, there are some good New Year's Eve stories.
Don't get me wrong.
But generally, not my favorite holiday.
It's the would you ever pay for one of these random...
Like downtown New Year's Eve parties that they throw.
They're like, oh, it's $130.
And this, you know, Black Eyed Peas will be playing.
Well, they're everywhere.
But would you ever go to some strange event?
A club downtown or a street party?
Pay with strangers?
We have done that.
We've gone to the party in Manhattan and some bar where it was all you can drink once you paid an obscene amount of money.
We had done when I was in San Diego at one point.
We thought it was a good idea to go on a boat.
Which was not...
I'm on a boat.
Oh, it was not a great idea.
You're on a boat, drunk.
If you don't love the crowd you're with, well, you know what?
That's the crowd.
You're on a boat.
And you're trapped.
Yeah, that's...
You don't jump to another boat.
That's it.
You're there for the next few hours and then happy New Year.
No boat crawling.
No.
Going from boat to boat.
It was bad.
So let me ask you.
Did you end up seeing the sitter?
You took a huge left turn there.
I did.
I didn't...
I did.
Well, I mean, last time we were here, you were saying...
You were going to see it.
And I'm curious if you ended up seeing it.
No.
I couldn't see the sitter.
And, you know, the box office was a little thin.
And I don't want to, you know, encourage or discourage anybody from seeing the sitter.
But I didn't.
I just heard the reviews were, you know, meh.
And it was, you know, a thing for adults.
So I didn't get to see it.
I'm so sorry.
But I did get to do a little interview for...
That's what I was going to ask.
Now, you were interviewed about it.
Did they...
Did you fake it?
Or did you...
Did you tell them you didn't see it?
No, I totally told them right off the top.
And...
Did you tell them for anyone to try to make a sitter movie without Coogan is ridiculous?
Yeah.
That was just appalling.
No, they were very good.
They moved right off of it onto...
We covered it, a paragraph or two.
And it's New York Magazine Online.
It was a great article.
I really appreciate Patricia spending some time with me.
We talked a lot about the other babysitting movies that I was involved in.
The Adventures of Babysitting.
And the Don't Come Home, The Babysitter's Dead.
The successful ones, you're saying?
Yes.
In adjusted gross dollars, the sitter will have to make $75 million at the American box office to equal The Adventures of Babysitting.
So I'm holding out.
We're watching.
Maybe they'll do a wider release.
That is some fine, fine cinema math you threw at us.
I totally did math on one of those...
What do you call it?
You know, calculators of cost of living calculators from 1987 till now.
Noah, can you get the phone?
I figured that out.
I'm a total, total geek.
This is the trailer for The Sitter.
Noah, please get the phone.
Mom, the phone's ringing.
Do you hear it?
Have you started looking for a job yet?
Sorry.
What about babysitting?
Babysitting sucks.
Adult men don't babysit things.
You're wonderful with children.
That's right.
Who wants to see a movie about an adult man babysitting kids?
Noah.
Mrs. Padula.
Uh-huh.
Good to see you.
Oh, my gosh.
Oh, my gosh.
Get over here.
Obligatory press shot.
Bring him for a hug, babe.
What are we doing?
So, it just didn't appeal to either of the kids, and I don't know, of a babysitting movie being, you know, tough enough for the super bad crowd.
It kind of split its little audience there.
That's, well, yeah, no, that's tough.
Although, we'll see.
I mean, I think it was number two at the box office from what I saw, although I don't know what it took in.
I totally hope I don't sound like, totally bitter or anything, because I'm not.
Oh, no, no.
There's no doubt you do a little bit.
I'm glad that, you know, anyone would make a babysitting movie, kind of, sort of, in any linkage.
I'm totally honored, and, you know, it's very, very cool that people are thinking about those other babysitting movies back in the day.
So, I'm totally, that's really cool.
So, I'm not bitter about it, and I wish it all, you know, good luck.
That being said.
But all the movies, all the movies this year have been, you know, interesting, either like remakes.
Well, did you see, I have here a list, since we were talking about the last show of the year.
By the way, everybody at home, Gus is really good with the paperwork, aggregating notes.
As long as it's three pages or less, I'm on top of it.
This is like a color thing.
It's very nice, Gus.
Thank you.
Thank you for your work.
The printer, the printer helps.
And I noticed there were numbers in.
I use that interweb you crazy kids are talking about.
The inner tubes just come zapping along.
The top, top movies.
So, 2011.
Have you seen the similarity in the top 10 grossing movies of 2011?
I have with kind of exceptions.
Well, Harry Potter 8 did the most business.
Warner Brothers films, $378 million at the box office.
8, that's the eighth in a series.
And then every other movie, Transformers 3, Twilight Part 4, Hangover 2, Pirates 4, Fast Five.
Cars 2, all of them are sequels.
Is Fast Five the Vin Diesel thing?
Yes.
I wouldn't see that movie if Vin Diesel was performing it live in my kitchen.
Yeah.
Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, it's completely morphed into a spoof of itself.
It actually is kind of fun.
Noisy and loud and exactly what you expect.
You're not into that?
You don't like the big, bangy action movies?
It depends.
I'm not into Vin Diesel driving that much, no.
I enjoy action movies.
I saw Thor and Captain America and the next one, Rise of the Apes.
I saw 8, 9, and 10 on that list.
Yep.
And Thor, Captain America, all part of the Marvel thing.
Rise of the Apes remake or reboot.
All top 10.
Now, Thor and Captain America are different, but all that top 10 are either remakes or already had a built-in franchise of some sort.
Top 10, all 10 movies were either some sort of remake or in a world that's already been, developed for people.
Yeah.
And a lot of the franchises were bigger than the stars.
A few like Pirates, apparently built around Johnny Depp and some great risks he took.
The others, collaborative efforts for the Hangover cast.
No huge stars before that.
Bradley Cooper was just kind of breaking at the time.
Just breaking out, yes.
But Twilight as well, kind of unknown to everybody before.
Transformers.
Yeah.
Transformers, Shia LaBeouf, though very...
I saw, unfortunately, I saw Transformers 3 as well.
Why unfortunately?
It was great.
Yeah.
Here's the thing.
It made so much money that I know when I say unfortunately, I'm in the minority on that.
But I don't know.
Watching, first of all, I didn't see the first two.
The woman in this third one was worth seeing it by herself.
That, enough said right there.
She was phenomenal.
But basically...
Basically, I was just, let me know when the two cartoons are done fighting each other.
That's my thing.
That brought out the eight-year-old boy in me.
That was the...
Were you a Transformers kid?
Did you have any Transformers?
No, I was not a Transformers guy.
I didn't see the first two.
Outside of occasional clips of Megan Fox on the internet, I hadn't seen any of the first two.
And the third one.
I mean, it was...
The effects were phenomenal.
The effects were phenomenal.
I'm just not a Transformers guy.
Okay.
But you saw it.
Did you see it in 3D?
No, I saw it.
No, I saw it because my buddy had it on Netflix.
You think that's part of why the box office...
Nobody else wanted to watch it.
Sorry.
I think that's why the box office is really big for a lot of these movies because it's 3D.
Oh, that's a good question.
Well, was Harry Potter 8 in 3D?
I think so.
I don't think they called it Harry Potter 8.
I'm sure it was Harry Potter in the old age home or something.
How old is he now?
I think the Bridesmaids was in 3D.
Everything was...
That's probably a good thing it was not in 3D.
That was a great movie.
That was very funny.
Super 8.
You know what?
I realized I looked down this list to show a little bit of my geekiness.
Super 8, Cowboys and Aliens, Battle Los Angeles.
I saw all of those.
All alien movies.
I went and I dragged people to see them.
Well, Cowboys and Aliens I saw not in the theater.
But Super 8, I saw early.
I was looking forward to it.
And my friends haven't spoken to me since that I brought.
Do you believe in the...
Benevolent, friendly, roughly our size or smaller, here to share like cures for cancer and be nice and turn, you know, lead into gold aliens?
Or do you believe in the absolutely pit of your nightmares, scary...
So you're not asking me if I believe in aliens.
You're asking me if I believe they're friendly or they're angry.
Yeah, choices, which is good for you, Wednesday or Thursday?
What's best?
Well...
Do you believe in aliens?
I think if they exist and they're able to travel here, then we are pets to them.
That is what I think.
We made it up to the moon, played some golf.
We did, and then we got the hell back.
They're going to think they're so aloof.
Look at them.
They're like, we're just playing games.
They're obviously much more aware, so they stay away from us.
They're standing behind there waiting for us to come back saying, do you mind if we play through?
We've been waiting here since 1969.
Can you please, sorry, Battle Los Angeles?
Did you see that?
Yeah, I love that.
I love that they were just raising Santa Monica.
That actually pleased me.
That's always fun.
That's always fun.
When you're looking at places that you live near that the special effects are all over.
But what surprised me is there was an old story, an old UFO story about, that was actually called Battle of Los Angeles during World War II, I believe, where all the lights went out in Los Angeles and it was something seen over the shore.
And the military fired for multiple hours at whatever was flying above and then claimed it was some sort of balloon or something and that was it.
Did they hit Gardena?
Well, you would assume if it was a balloon of some sort, it wouldn't have taken them 500 rounds and two hours to shoot down.
Wasn't everyone just really paranoid and really high wired tight?
If you actually, if you look up real Battle of Los Angeles and that little, that little interweb that you got going right there in front of you, you will see probably somewhere in there, not the movie, but the clip, you will see the real story.
You will see the photo from the front page of, I don't know if it was the LA Times or whatever the paper was then.
Sure.
All of the searchlights beaming up.
Right.
And tell me if it does not look like there is something at least there.
I don't know what it is and it easily could have been awesome.
It's Santa Claus.
He's got reindeer.
Look, he's bringing us gifts.
Well.
It's Santa Claus.
That's as long as you don't take their guns.
No, that's a very good UFO.
It's got the classic shape, a little top thingy on there.
And they're all shooting at it.
That's well, and that's what I was saying.
So if you're going to tie, if you're going to name a movie after some sort of UFO story, old UFOlogy story, you would assume they would tie those two in together.
And they never, I mean, it was never mentioned.
Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox dismissed the event as a false alarm due to, due to jittery nerves.
Jittery nerves.
But two hours.
When this failed to satisfy the press and the public, the Army responded with a definitive answer that the craft and the battle were real.
Dun, dun, dun.
Yeah.
No, they're confirming.
They don't know what it was, though.
They don't know what it was.
And I'm not claiming I know what it was.
I'm just saying.
These explanations have been offered from Japanese plays to German craft launch from secret bases in Mexico.
And you would assume they would have at least tied the movie into that event if you're going to make a UFO movie and name it after an event.
It was very much like Independence Day and a big, you know, mothership and smaller ships.
I loved Independence Day.
Loved it.
Bill Pullman will not go quietly into that good night.
I love that movie.
Did you see District 9?
District 9?
That was also a good movie.
Oh, that's fantastic.
That's how you do science fiction.
That was a very good movie.
I enjoyed that.
That's, you like your science fiction.
So do you, so you kind of skirted the alien issue.
What about UFOs?
Do you believe?
Do you believe in UFOs?
I do, yes.
Why the infrequency of sightings?
And why by, you know, I mean, rural and, you know, forest areas, why not show up at a city and go, hi?
Well, I mean, I don't want to get into this too long because I, you know, I, you know, I don't want to freak anybody out to begin with.
But for me, first of all, I never believed in any of it.
I never believed in any of it until I moved here.
And then I had a roommate when I first moved to L.A.
who believed in everything.
Everything.
Every conspiracy you've ever heard of, he is 100% sure is true.
And so I ended up watching a bunch of UFO shows with him.
And now, I mean, fact is, is, you know, the stealth fighter for how many decades was a UFO until we knew there was a stealth fighter?
So I assume almost all sightings.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is going to look absolutely like magic.
And things that aren't even sufficiently advanced, but you just don't get a good angle on.
I mean, I think almost all of them.
The stealth drone.
The little drone.
We have over there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm, exactly.
That's a perfect example.
You look at that.
Looks like a UFO.
I don't, yes.
I didn't know what the hell that meant for a second.
But yes, I'm with you now.
Yeah.
And so.
For those out there born, you know, after 1986 or so, that was a reference to Father Guido Sarducci on Saturday Night Live.
An UFO.
Thank you.
Back to Gus.
I assume most cases are not, are not actual.
I think they're all.
Most of them are explainable.
But there, after seeing so many shows, there are a handful of cases that if you actually do some research on or have looked up or done any, any looking into that are reported by pilots, by military people, by policemen.
Jimmy Carter reported seeing one at one point in time before he was in the office.
There's all sorts of, all sorts of credit.
You know, so.
Did they bring that up?
Jimmy in the field.
Did they discredit him before the election?
Did they bring that up?
No, I think it was way before the election.
Oh, okay.
But, and somebody may probably did at some point.
But, I mean, there's Jimmy in the field, you know, in Kansas somewhere, might have seen a UFO.
But how the hell do I know?
But if I have three policemen and the military respond, then, you know, that's slightly more credible.
Or if a pilot, you know, comes out and they end up grounding him, but he still tells his story, you know, he's not gaining anything.
He's not writing a book.
There are certain cases where you go.
That's.
That's hard to explain away.
And if only one of those cases is real, then, you know, probably more than one of those cases is real.
I want to admit to the audience, the crowd out there, by the way, if anyone is near a phone or listening and we're live right now, for those that are listening live, the toll-free number to call in is 1-800-893-9562.
That number again is 1-800-893.
1-800-893-9562.
No toll for the charge.
I would love for somebody to call in.
There's a gift right there for Christmas.
I would love for someone to call in and actually agree with that.
What do you do with a $15 Starbucks card?
That's like a latte and a.
Half a muffin.
You can get half a muffin with that.
You're fine.
You're fine with that.
Do they actually do that?
Like cut it and leave the other half in the case in case somebody else is like a halfer?
So you also have a.
Would you like the other half, sir?
Wait.
Did they bite it?
Did you cut it?
I did.
Did you see any of these other movies that you.
Well, you know what?
I did see there was one other alien movie I kind of saw.
It was the Green Lantern I saw.
And that.
There's probably a reason I forgot to mention it in the first place.
Yeah.
The movies I thought were mad.
And that's why, you know, I'm kind of looking forward to next year.
I hope there's a lot of great movies.
The Avengers.
I'm looking forward to The Avengers.
Is that coming?
That.
Oh, I saw a movie this week.
Oh, no.
Avengers looks great.
There's great trailers at the end of Thor.
They have a great two minute clip on your Thor DVD for those.
And I was never a superhero guy, but they did a very good job after the first Iron Man, which I thought was the best of all of those.
Well, in the last Batman movie was fantastic.
But the last Iron, the first Iron Man, they did a great job of building in whatever was going to be next and setting people up.
And and it's this.
The only reason I went and saw.
Thor or Captain America.
I've never read a comic book in my life, but they they have hooked me.
They have done a good job.
You were made to be ruled.
In the end, the Avengers trailer.
It will be every man for himself.
You've got Iron Man.
Hulk.
Thor.
Black Widow.
Which is Scarlett Johansson, by the way.
Yeah.
More appealing if you say Scarlett Johansson and Black Widow.
Unbelievable.
It looks just fantastic.
That's going to be.
Is that coming out on this?
Let's say May 4th.
So big, big summer release.
Yeah, I am looking forward to that.
They have definitely hooked me on that.
So, OK, I saw a movie, Gus, and I got everyone out there.
Put your kids away.
They may not get too graphic, but I saw a movie called Shame.
OK.
With Michael Fassbinder.
I don't know if you're familiar with him from.
No.
You're not familiar with him.
He was an X-Men first class.
Oh, I've seen.
Inglorious Bastards.
Another great film called Hunger.
He plays a sexual addict.
And this was a great screening on the 20th Century Fox lot.
Yes.
For those of us into the industry, if you've been on one guest appearance on a sitcom, you're forever in just so you know.
You're instantly rich and you get invited to all these great screenings with fabulous people.
This was like a screening for sex addicts.
It was the movie was basically take after take of the lead actor having sex, going to work, going home, having sex.
Endless.
And I think they're pushing it for Oscar.
Look for it.
Him.
He's a great actor.
I hate to be this guy with this being my first question, but how was the nudity handled?
Right away they show more of his frontal nudity and not even having sex, just like waking up and get around, going to get ready to go to work.
And then of course there's plenty of simulated sex.
Plenty.
But it's pretty tasteful.
It's not.
I mean, you're kind of like, am I watching pornography?
And no.
I find nine out of 10 times when I ask myself that question.
I'm like, I'm not watching porn.
I'm not even gonna ask myself that question.
The answer is yes.
But not necessarily in that occasion, I guess.
I mean, I kind of, right, if you're fascinated, it looked like, there was another movie came out years ago by David Cronenberg called Crash.
And it was about people that got off on car accidents and like bodies being mangled and scarred on seeing other people's car accidents.
Yeah.
And the pain and the recuperation and the pins and the pills, everything about like a car wreck was erotic to them.
And the movie was an absolute gross out.
sounds gross and shame was like after that you just wanted to go home and take a shower it's good it was effective very well made movie highly recommended for you know people that love good kind of like art movies I would put it definitely strongly in the art category and not a family thing but that is totally on the other end of the Avengers coming out May 4th 2012 brought to you by Marvel that we're going to tie them together Heath somebody called from Marvel could you not mention us with this sex addiction movie please don't do that you've got Thor come on it's almost time actually we may have missed it already when do all the Rudolphs and Frosties and all those things come on TV they played the Charlie Brown Christmas at least on Hulu they've broken that I'm sure a few are peeling out they've got Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Frosty the Snowman who else is now there's multiple Rudolphs are there not yeah because I know there's one with the Heatmiser there's one with the Heatmiser and the Baby New Year you know I love them the Heatmiser and the Baby New Year is that the one where they get stuck on the ice flow I think so and there's the baby who keeps the Baby New Year who keeps taking his hat off and his big ears pop out and then he feels bad and everyone laughs and he takes off do they have to find the old New Year before they can get the Baby New Year in or something no no no I think I think old New Year's gone old New Year's is like Hollywood once you get past that first age they throw you away no he has to take that little hourglass and hand it to the little baby doesn't he no and then he gets one year you go from baby to an adult yeah yeah yeah yeah old man with the beard and baby new year you're the cutest thing in the world get a job kid wow that's fast yes yeah well you know it's a tough time by summer you have your midlife crisis you're like driving your red sports car but now there were multiple first of all as far as I know Burl Ives is a snowman that's first of all second of all there is I mean there has to be multiple because I don't think the first Rudolph had the heat miser had that whole thing I think the episode we're talking about was a different episode no first Rudolph had the elf that wanted to be a dentist Conan the one that looks like Conan O'Brien and also it had the silver and gold and the and he was trying to get the abominable balsamica and he was trying to get what the abominable snowman because the snowman was just angry and everything because he had a toothache I thought that was great I remember and for years I didn't know why I remembered this but I remembered Bumble bounce I remember that do you remember that from the end yes yes that was nobody likes a Charlie in the box that is nice welcome to the island of misfit toys that is disturbing but very well done thank you disturbing I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry decent chance of maybe getting Gary Coleman as a brother.
I thought that could happen as well.
I thought, I was a little kid and I'm like, oh, those things are both cute.
I want him as a brother.
I want him as a pet.
Sold.
I got neither.
Did they introduce the song and that special at the same time?
Or is the song something, the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer song, was that something kind of new that came along with the animated special?
That's a good question.
I would assume it came with the animated special, but you're...
I mean, you knew that as a kid, right?
I'm a little Jewish kid.
Why would I know that?
I have no idea.
Well, I totally apologize.
I'm sorry if I've stepped on your...
War on Hanukkah.
The way you express your kind of thing at the end of the year, that's okay.
And for everybody out there, honestly, we all know it's been a tough couple of years ever since, what was it?
They're screaming now that it's Obama's fault.
Is that right?
Michelle Bachman is saying, oh, it's all Obama's fault.
It could have been Bush's, it could have been anybody's fault.
Where it's everybody's fault.
Let's get over that.
Did you see?
Did you see the debate?
No.
Oh, my goodness.
I didn't.
There was too many.
I saw the one before, but I didn't see this debate.
Oh, you mean you saw number 26 or whatever it was.
Totally.
And isn't the caucus on the 3rd?
First of all...
January 3rd?
I like to say caucus.
That's right off the bat.
Caucus, caucus, caucus.
But, well, I mean, I watch the debate, which I watch most of the debate.
I mean, after a while, they become kind of like Snoopy's, Charlie Brown's teacher, and you can't really...
Shoot Novocaine into my... ...brain.
Oh, my God.
I mean, how boring.
Well, I did say more.
Honestly, they'll show a clip on, like, YouTube.
It'll be, like, front page, big headlines of, you know, Gingrich just lays into Romney or, you know, attack from so-and-so, and I'll put on the clip.
And it's the most robotic, barely kind of threatening political language I've ever seen.
They're the Weasley, Weasley weasels I've ever seen.
There is an outside chance.
You're right.
But there is an outside chance.
There is an outside chance Rick Perry leans over and punches Mitt Romney in the face.
Outside of that, outside of that, nobody else is going to do it.
Do some of them have bad, like, the camera isn't on me anymore faces, but the camera will catch them, and they think they're off camera, and they'll, like, drop their smile?
Well, Michelle Bachman has the spotlights in my face at all times look, but there was a moment where she got annoyed because Mitt kind of told her she didn't have her.
He kind of brushed her off and said, well, she doesn't always have her facts straight, and kind of brushed her off.
And she got annoyed and started screaming, I'm a serious candidate.
Anything wrong in that particular debate, or is he just talking about past, like, Paul Revere?
No, no, no.
She was, since he's the frontrunner, he and his pet head are now the frontrunner.
And so...
What did you just say?
He and his pet head?
Have you seen that thing?
He looks like Megamind.
It's insane.
It is insane.
But, and I think, and here's the thing is I always thought you can get a big head as an expression, but as he became the frontrunner, that thing has inflated.
It is bizarre.
But because he is in the lead right now, Bachman was going after him.
And he answered the first one, and he always has that, you know, you're an idiot for challenging me look on his face.
And then she went back and tried to challenge him again, and he kind of smiled, and you can see him looking around while she was talking, like, is this woman for real?
Are you kidding me?
And then when he spoke, he went, well, Ms. Bachman doesn't always have her facts straight.
Or Congressman Bachman doesn't always have her facts straight.
And then when it was her turn to respond, she took it.
Didn't say it was sexist, but, you know, it sounds like she took it.
I think that's bullshit.
I think the men have said just as rough, weird questions to other men.
Don't just take any sort of offhand question or defense like that as being sexist.
No, I think he brushed her off because she's an idiot, not because she's a woman.
Why, because he said Ms. Bachman?
No, because he rolled his eyes and said you don't have your, I mean, he did brush her off, but not because she's a woman.
Well, she hasn't had her facts straight, and that's, you know, I'm sure you're going to get defensive and get hot-headed about that.
Well, I don't know.
I don't know.
Well, that's the thing is, yes, he did brush her off, but not for that reason, I don't believe.
But she ended up, you know, declaring, I am a serious candidate for the president of the United States.
But if you're in debate 27 or whatever it is, and you have to scream that out, I'm not sure you are.
No, I give it to her for hanging in there all these debates this whole time.
You know, everyone there, it's an endurance race.
It's like Survivor.
Who can hang out the longest until you, like, well, you take your top off or something?
Or some peanut butter?
Well, it's like Survivor, except everybody gets paid.
That's the one difference between this and Survivor.
Millions of dollars go into the campaign.
But, excuse me, oh, you know what?
We've been yapping for a little while.
Everybody, thank you so much for letting us run off there on the debate.
Honestly, Gus, don't tune in because I haven't seen anything so, you know, crazy.
I really want some crazy news from them.
They've got to be scandalous.
The press.
It gives them a lot of attention because a lot of what happens in Washington moves really slow.
So this early election stuff.
You have a 24-hour news cycle to finish.
Oh, boy, you know, let's have a new plan.
Let's have, you know, something exciting.
And there's been very charismatic Republicans in the past.
I mean, Ronald Reagan, there's people around the country that would dig his ass up right now if they could.
But here's the thing.
If Reagan was here right now, who they all pray to, most of what he would do would be far left of what they're talking about.
Right now, he would not.
You know, he's Obama is as much of a Republican at this point as as Reagan is almost.
I mean, it's ridiculous.
They've moved so far right.
And this is going back a little bit.
But I mean, ever since Bush was running the first time, W was running the first time.
There seemed to be now whether you're Republican or Democrat, that's a different argument.
But there was when the two sides obviously go against each other.
They start trying to come up.
They start trying to come up with dirt and ways to frame their opponent.
And instead of saying, wow, Gore is smarter, but boring.
They went with he's an elitist and our guy you'd rather have a beer with.
So what they did was they they kind of embrace stupidity and said, if you're smart, you're an elitist.
You can't you can't relate with people.
And that is now biting them in the ass.
That is now biting them in the ass.
They now have to cater to the right with people who don't necessarily know what they're talking about.
Not everyone on the right, I'm saying.
But they have to go far right to beget.
The nominee to then try to move to the center to get the general election, which if Newt Gingrich is your option, that's that's not a good sign.
Washington is Hollywood for ugly people.
That is.
And Hollywood is high school with money.
Let's say, hey, you want to take a break?
Get something to drink here.
I'm a little parched.
I'm famine.
The winds have been sweeping through the hills as we head into these holiday seasons.
I'm very, very fit.
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And otherwise we can move on from that.
Although the last question I will have anything close to politic related is the drone that went down in Iran.
Do we not have a self-destruct button on that?
Every letter that Inspector Gadget has ever had has self-destructed.
Yet the drone, the top drone we have, we're like, well, oh, you guys got it?
It glided down gently?
Okay.
Well, sorry, that's our kite drone.
The official word from the State Department through their various great press releases, it looks like it could be a fake.
I don't know.
It was something else.
It's a mock-up.
They're pretending like they have it.
They just kind of sidestepped it.
You know, I totally think they would.
They'd be packed with explosives.
They'd throw something and take it out.
You know, it's tough.
But you know what?
You got caught.
Exactly.
I was sneaking into your backyard.
I like that they asked for it.
I was looking for it back.
I was sneaking in and I left my sneakers.
So sorry.
Hey, while I was trying to rob you.
Why did I get them like my initials on my sneakers?
That was a really bad move.
While I was trying to rob you, I dropped my wallet.
Can I have it back, please?
Yeah, don't apply for a job and then rob the place and leave an application.
I can't believe we can't blow it up.
End of the year, we are wrapping up.
We had, I want to talk about the most fascinating people.
Oh, yes.
Everybody is fascinated.
My fascinating people, whether they're stars, whether they're sports figures, some sort of a personality, an achievement.
These people, I do have the list, Barbara, Barbara Walters list.
And I do wonder whether this list is the this year's most fascinating people or if they're the most fascinating people she can get to interview.
But it is a good list.
It is definitely a good list.
We have Eric Stonestreet and Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
I think they have them.
They're listed as one person for some reason.
They do.
They list them together.
They're the same sex couple on Modern Family.
Great performances.
And also now, you know, I think through all the interviews, it has been apparent that one is straight and one is gay.
And here's the, you know, the hook for the whole thing is that the one that appears more flamboyant on the show, the one more easily.
I think that's the one that's more easily recognizable by those scared, straight men that are afraid they're going to get turned in 3.2 seconds if you sneak up on them.
I didn't know he was gay.
That just surprised me that I don't like that.
That was kind of sneaking in.
You were stealthing in there.
Caught yourself.
So I think that's kind of the story is that he's, you know, when he said he had growing up, he suffered from fattyism.
There was weightism and that because of his weight, he was picked on.
You say fattyism?
Fattyism.
Is that a real term?
Absolutely not.
Oh, okay.
I meant like weightism.
Weightism.
So you used the derogatory term in the title for I had to deal with this bad thing.
Yes.
Oh, well, you know what?
I understand what you're talking about.
Thank you.
Thank you for simplifying it for myself.
That was actually well done.
No, they're fascinating and great success to the show and all sorts of awards and a hysterically funny show.
And one of those only shows that I absolutely die for to watch every week when it's on.
I'm like, oh, this is such a great show.
Simon Cowell is on the list.
That's.
I mean, I don't know why he's.
For the Botox work or for the shows that he keeps producing, abandoning and producing.
He's just trying to get out of the Paula Abdul contract.
So he created the X Factor.
And then he's in another Paula Abdul contract.
That's the same show, different spelling.
This one has more X in it.
She's not on that show, is she?
Yes.
On X Factor?
The X Factor.
He couldn't run from her?
He had to take Paula Abdul with him.
The X Factor has two thirds of the original judges from American Idol.
Somebody didn't want to pay somebody else.
But Simon Cowell.
Simon Cowell has made himself very successful for being a douche.
I mean, just, you know, he may be a great guy in person, but for a guy who comes with the I am going to.
You know he can't like everyone.
Look, everyone that you don't, you know, pass or get a job.
Every time you try out for something and you don't get it or, you know, you do with pilot and it doesn't go.
You feel that kind of rejection.
Everyone who turns down your show is a douche.
No, not necessarily.
It depends how they do it.
You never get exactly why I didn't get this kid picked up for, you know, another 13 episodes.
You're douches.
God damn it.
But well, yes.
Anyway, and that's, you know, that's part of the power.
But depends how it's done.
Oh, how about the one.
I mean, he made a career out of that as opposed to say Donald Trump who inherited his money and just happens to be a douche.
We love British people to be douches to us.
Like Gordon Ramsay.
And so we love that accent.
You know you, you're doing it wrong.
No, I think it just sounds cool.
You put up with it more because you're not sure what the hell he's saying.
Little bit too much fluff there.
Derek Jeter makes the list.
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure.
He's, you know, I got nothing bad to say about Jeter other than the fact that he's the Yankee.
Yeah, the Yankee, prominent American.
They say, you know, he grew up in a mixed race household and he had his own struggles with that.
Well, he's been nothing but class for a guy who's been in the media spotlight in a town that loves that.
I love it in a town that loves to tear you down if they have a reason.
That's tough for the class.
Kobe Bryant.
I want to talk about class.
Unfortunately, Kobe Bryant.
Kobe Bryant comes to mind.
Tried to hang in there to a marriage.
Just, you know, heard news.
What is it?
Today?
Yesterday?
Yes, the divorce.
He's getting a divorce.
Vanessa, you are now a 75 millionaire.
No prenup.
He didn't have a prenup?
No.
And he's worth 150 million.
They thought he was worth like 400 million, but everything, property, stocks, all of his cash, 150 mil.
She gets half.
She gets the house.
She gets the kids.
She gets half the kids?
I think half the kids.
We're going to saw him right in half.
Well, you're going to go the long way or you got to go- Would you give a bunch more money and say no support?
Or would you give, try to negotiate for like, let me give you like 50 mil and I'll give you some support every month?
He set the bar kind of high because when he got caught cheating, he bought her a ring that had a diamond the size of my head.
It adjusted the gravity around it.
The tides were affected by this damn thing.
That ring actually had- Was it pink too?
Was it this gaudy like pink ring?
That ring had a moon.
So that was the first problem.
But now you turn around and say, well, I'm going to go to the bathroom.
Well, that's what cheating costs.
Well, how much do I want to keep the kids in the house going to cost?
You're never going to live that down.
No.
You don't take out the trash one night and your wife's going to be like, remember that time when that fucking knee surgeon, bitch nurse that you fucked in Colorado, you goddamn douche.
You'll never live that down, Gus, ever.
How do you move on with the marriage?
We knew at home, I think, honestly, and Kobe, big fan because LA, love the Lakers.
I think Kobe's great.
I think he's a great team player.
Makes the wins, goddamn it.
Love Kobe.
Pay him whatever he wants.
He does make the wins.
I don't know about the other person.
No, great, fun player to watch.
Yes.
One of the best of all time.
Yes.
Yeah.
I love me some Kobe, but that was absolutely questionable.
We always look down on politicians or actors that betray their wives and those vows.
And Kobe, it was like, yeah, you got caught with your pants down.
Literally, yes.
Totally.
And how did that wash out?
Was that a settlement?
Yes.
Was it a settlement?
Was it a deal?
I believe eventually it was a settlement, I think is what it was.
Oh, okay.
Allegedly.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't think there was any doubt that they were together.
I think the doubt seems to be of- How much?
Yes, exactly.
How much- What you want for this?
How much when he was supposed to stop.
And I would never minimize something that serious because if he was 100% guilty, then, or if he's, forget 100%, if he's guilty, then you want him to pay with the worst possible punishment.
Yeah.
And the other thing is, his wife at the time is thinking that's that house in Monaco, and one of those cars.
Yes.
Well, first you stick around for a few years.
It's a fucking country club membership.
If you stick around for a few years, that's another $35 million.
Oh.
Yeah, I heard if you put in like 10 years, you get more.
No?
If you put in more years or whatever, the judges look differently on that, the longer you're with someone, the more kids you have, all that bears in view.
I know.
To be honest, I think, to be honest with you, I think a prenup, I think prenups should be mandatory.
I don't think, I think prenups should be, now, I think obviously there should be penalties for something along the lines of-.
infidelity or things like that but to me uh i think there should be some sort of some sort of formula for we have x amount of money and we've lived together for x amount so we split this much but things people had before they got married should be theirs after they get married whether you signed a piece of paper for that or not so to make people have to have that awkward conversation seems strange to me i think it makes people take a good like california a lot of beautiful people running around hey you see how like actors always like oh they're doing a movie with so and so and all of a sudden they're together and like it's only 50 percent of the i mean yeah the whole country is only shooting about jennifer aniston and brad pitt uh and all of a sudden along comes angelina jolie and we're like we know yes sir mr and mrs smith it's like we absolutely know he's gonna cheat holly cheated he's a cheater yes but hollywood is not a great example for relationships at all and i mean somebody makes it like four years like oh they had a good run that's like four full seasons 72 days for the kardashians that's great that's a faux marriage he's a fraud she's a fraud they're all fraud and yet they made the list for uh for barbara walters they are the whole kardashians the whole kardashian i don't know if that includes uh the woman who was posing as bruce jenner now i don't know if bruce jenner has you know had an accident i think he was driving one of his race cars broke his nose uh and replaced it with a female face he replaced it with it's very small button nose and then his kind of lesbian kind of soccer coach haircut uh but that worked the jackson brown mom pants you know the whole thing uh overall he looks like a holistic healer and he's like he is very he doesn't for a decathlete decathlete maybe expended all of his testosterone back in the 80s but uh he it just seems like he's morphing into a you know is there's andropause is that what it's called when a man menopause for women and an andropause for men your hormones slow down you might just be blending words together right now i totally didn't take i have no idea i will make yes wow sounds scientific i know that's i mean that to me i mean but i don't have a problem with the with the you know and that that's not that uncommon especially in this town especially for celebrities we have a caller no we do not we might have a call hello is there a new jersey a caller from new jersey hi hi good night uh good evening how are you it's keith and gus what's your name hello hey keith and guys this is uh angela hi angela happy holidays love hearing from you from jersey what's going on is it cold is it wet is it dry is it windy what's going on all those things thanks for calling i just wanted to tell you that i'm a fan and um i want to talk about this list that you're talking about here oh the uh barbara walter list yes what um you guys were asking why simon cowell is a star yeah what's you know so are you a simon cowell fan you know i'll tell you why he's got man boobs he had plastic he had plastic surgery on his face but like a droopy eye thing i didn't see the mammectomy that went down does he have man boobs he's got man boobs are you sure you are you sure you're not getting he and paula confused no i'm talking about simon he wears a tight v-neck that's not good you're either a v-neck man or you're not a v-neck man i am not i am a crew neck person all the way you may be a wife beater but that's different v-neck is just wrong apparently as a man the v-neck can work the cleavage is what our caller is telling us which is nice yeah you know some of us women are into that sort of thing you're into man boobs god bless new jersey all right well i just wanted to tell you guys that and uh keep up the good work here i'm listening thank you very much thanks for tuning in and listening and calling have a good night oh that's sweet that is that is nice that is uh talking calling in to talk about man boobs this is why he's a success hold on let me put man boobs under the uh pro column for simon cowell let me write that down real quick we had we had douche in the negative column we have man boobs she said summer into that that is nice put v-necks in the pro v-necks is nice yes v-necks is nice uh herman cain also made the list herman of most fascinating people barbara walters yeah yes although i feel like i feel like she would have waited about 15 more minutes he would have been gone he's already is that's what i'm saying i think you're right because he can't really flash in the pan boom up quickly rose in the the original the polls were great originally for him on the republican side uh they were like whoa he's looking great all this attention this heat too much heat it the little the vigel whatever you want to use that creates that heat yes that's yeah that's too many restaurant association something else with the v got in trouble we're bringing you down well that's that's the strange thing first of all i don't the strange thing about him is i don't think he ever actually thought he had a chance at what i don't think he ever planned on winning the republican nominee i thought was he just acting like papa john the whole time i think he figured you know i'll get you a pizza there don't worry about it i can sell some books i'm gonna sell some books and i'm gonna go out there and i'm gonna be charismatic and i think he was doing that and then unfortunately for him they start asking questions and once you get that much publicity and you're that much not new you're that much not mitt romney to the point where they like you people start asking questions and it turns out that there's 12 people in america that you may not have sexually harassed and that is that is a hard i mean you have to assume if you did anything and maybe he did not which is why he did not assume it but you have to assume if you have those skeletons in your closet it's going to come out if you're running for president uh who was the guy with the uh the pretty boy democrat for the previous uh time with the hair he was the guy with the uh the pretty boy edwards oh oh my god fire was right they were tracking him he was uh totally bashing them like oh that's just slanderous and mud you're just attacking because i'm doing well and they're like no you've got a hidden woman and a kid coming or there i at the time was she pregnant i think she was yes a baby on the way they're like we found they had a scandal in the oven we've got money you've given this woman like hundreds of thousands like three hundred thousand dollars or something like that bought a house or i heard a bunch of different stuff this is all a lot of money all alleged if i'm wrong my memory once again shot through like swiss cheese the 90s everybody the 90s let's just take a break and remember you know it's still 1987 let's go through a club right now i got a little backpack on join us what you need what you need join us back here it's 4 15 in the morning where's the after party dude i thought this was the after party we haven't even started yet man it's only tuesday join us the 90s were great almost 2000 12 my man you could go to like oakland and there'd be an after party rave in some warehouse in the back of some street uh are you uh are you going anywhere for the holidays uh no no plans immediately got some uh believe it or not working uh meetings coming up this coming week uh don't really have uh plans maybe try to get out between christmas and new year's but uh and always in so you know it's beautiful by the way christmas and i don't want to make anybody upset and if you're listening to this after christmas which is very possible this will be our last show of the year until we come back uh on the first saturday of uh 2012 um we uh it's 80 degrees on christmas day you can always call it it's shorts weather uh you'll see gus you will see it'll be 80 degrees on christmas day i i will see but i will i will not be here so i will see actually i believe and the best thing about uh la on christmas guys yes it's empty that's everyone goes back home they go back east whatever finally a good time to drive in l.a that is nice you can go see movies you can go shopping you can like walk around go to restaurants whatever you wanted to do or fantasize about doing in l.a it's literally like in your mind if you're a sociopath or like a psychopath like i am you picture going out and about and you don't see people in your you like walking around because you're like i don't want to talk to people uh but then i'm also a very social animal and you know put me in front of like eight people and it's over and you know i'm not a social animal i'm doing a show yes yeah i'm a dancing monkey look at the dancing monkey i have seen do it say the babysitter line dude i don't i'm okay i'm usually the guy in the back that throws morpheus uh morpheus we were we went to uh new york uh just traveled speaking of travel we went to new york just me and uh my my lovely girl janet 15 years together love her uh we went to new york she works with uh a man who was getting married uh to another man that could shock people it could not 51 of people pulled in the united states support gay marriage they got married at the first gay marriage at the waldorf astoria in the history i know there's been a few years since new york legalized gay marriage good for them many many men and women uh have been and you were there you went to this civic not went to this wedding huge fun starlight ballroom gorgeous uh wedding uh absolutely beautiful very very uh loving horribly trashy musician musician musician Oh, that's great.
The Love Shack by the B-52s.
That is great.
Classic wedding music.
The B-52s might have actually been the band.
That's possible.
Oh, that's totally.
They were the house band for the Waldorf Astoria at the Boozer Lounge downstairs.
That is great.
That is great.
It was a really, really fun wedding.
Were the parents of the groom and groom there?
The grooms?
Yeah, sure.
Sure, the groomsmen.
Usually when I say the groomsmen, I don't mean the two grooms, but yes.
No, no, no.
The happy couple had, I know that the grooms had their family there totally.
Oh, fantastic.
I just know some older generations cannot necessarily be that accepting all the time.
That's why I was asking.
No, completely.
And that's, you know, absolutely great thing about this country is it moves really fast and acceptance.
You know, so many families, you know, there's more acceptance.
People come out more.
There's the whole It Gets Better campaign.
Kids come out to their family and all of a sudden Aunt Betty's like, well, that's, I knew.
And now that's, we love you.
And we always, we knew.
We knew.
We just knew.
Yes.
We always knew.
Aunt Betty knew for quite some time.
They may have always known, but you know, in the old days, the old people just zip it.
Just put it, stuff it down, eat something.
Old days.
Drink something, smoke something.
You want to go back to the Republican debate that we were talking about?
The old days are, yes, half the country are still living in the old days.
Oh, they are.
I still don't believe that 50% of the people are represented by the Republican.
I mean, it's been so rough and the jobs and the what, where, who, who, and who this obstructionist, the biggest, here's, honestly, Gus, it's so frustrating.
This is for a much longer conversation, but here is one of my biggest problems with, with politics in general now.
And this is not going on one side or the other.
This is, the problem is, is doing the right thing is so much less important than beating the other side.
That's it.
That's it right now.
That is the biggest problem.
Now, that doesn't mean one side's always right and the other side's always wrong or vice versa.
But with 24-hour news cycles and with certainly with certain channels dedicated more towards one side than the other.
Rah!
Gingrich pushes them back 15 yards.
Rah!
Obama counters.
It's a ground war.
Oh my God, it's third and four.
It really is.
They've turned it into a sports spectacular.
It is.
It is.
No matter what the other side does, it's bad.
No matter what they do, it's bad.
That is.
And for both sides.
And unfortunately, you can't, you can't, they don't want the other side to succeed, which is when I was younger, I used to not think that was the case.
It's a rough economy.
And honestly, Gus, they're like, there's no plan really going to work.
They can't really emphasize their plan because they're like, I'm run the numbers and how are you going to pay for this?
No, just say the other side sucks.
Yeah.
Just say the other side.
Rah, rah.
You know, get them.
And you hope that all of the, you know, party line ticket people just vote their whole ticket.
Yeah.
That's what.
You know, they've always done.
I know personally people that have flipped from Republican to Democrat, change their vote.
They'd actually, and they're going to be voting for Obama in 2012.
Really?
Yeah.
And it's because of economic pressures.
That's a surprise.
And they like the way that he's handling it and they don't like what happened and how we got here.
And he doesn't think that it's a good idea to hand the baton back to the right, right now.
That's my biggest problem is, is the other side had control.
When we got into this and we were in a horrible position now, whether or not Obama's doing a great job or not to wait like two years and then say, Oh, well, we're not out of it.
It's his fault.
Now is ridiculous and unfair.
Now, the argument on what he's doing is more detailed and a longer conversation, but to take an unrealistic period of time to turn around a, a spiraling economy and then say, well, okay, it's now your fault.
You have to own it is ridiculous.
Especially when you fought.
You fought him on everything he wanted to do to try to fix it.
So that's what seems weird to me.
The other side wins the election.
You fight him on everything and then say, Oh, look, your policies didn't work.
That's bullshit to me.
Can't affect any of the policies.
You can't do anything.
You can't move forward.
You can't, uh, the American jobs act a great idea.
Built roads.
Okay.
How many bridges have to fall down?
Uh, schools, dumb kids running around.
How are they going to get jobs?
Uh, we got to do all that.
We got to spend money on the first emergency.
We got to spend money on the first emergency responders.
More disasters.
We've had this year.
There was the tsunami in Japan, uh, earthquakes, uh, tornadoes, Joplin.
Uh, everything's been stepping up.
We're moving to the end of the world.
December 21st, 2012.
Everybody knows it.
Mark your calendars.
Oh yeah.
So you don't really have to fix any problems.
The world's going to end shortly.
Let's all really have a good time and party.
That's like just a year away and the world is going to change or end as we know it.
And maybe we'll all be more enlightened.
Maybe things will be better.
Uh, but we have next year to get through and there's going to, you think things are going fast now?
Next year.
Hitting quick.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
We do have one more year.
Oh, that's right.
It's not this year.
You thought the end of the world was right now?
I thought we were coming up on it.
How long have you thought that?
Like for months?
No, no.
For the last like 35 to 40 seconds.
Oh, okay.
That's better.
No, no.
I thought I was thinking, oh, okay, wait, I don't have to clean up.
I'm fine.
But no, I got a year.
No.
And unfortunately this year was tough with everything.
I mean, uh, you know, we had the shooting in Arizona of, uh, Gabrielle Giffords.
Yeah.
Uh, we had a Steve Jobs passing away.
Um, we had, uh, uh, the loss of the Navy Steel, uh, SEAL Team Six after the hunt down of Osama bin Laden, uh, tragedy there, uh, tsunami.
Some of those members, yes.
In Japan.
Absolutely.
Um, you know, there was a lot of rough things that happened this year.
Casey Anthony is apparently allowed to possibly kill her baby.
That's, that's possible.
Allegedly.
Allegedly.
Allegedly.
Did I not say allegedly?
Man.
Maybe I thought it.
I might've thought it.
Stuff people are like, oh, thank God.
Nobody's going to put that mother to death.
And I'm like, you know, there's big possibility from all, I've watched the trial totally religiously every day.
I would like call in late.
Uh, I'd be like, I can't make this meeting.
Uh, I got to push it back.
Cause the trial would be just too juicy.
Does Nancy Grace know you by name?
I saw Nancy Grace in person.
Very good, good mom jeans.
She's got the jean jacket over the jean this and some sort of like burnt orange.
Tank top.
That was perfect.
That was her skin.
Yeah.
And she looked great.
She was doing dancing with the stars, uh, and running through, uh, uh, ran into her out and about shopping and stuff.
Uh, Nancy Grace is fantastic.
Uh, you know, Hey, she's very hardworking.
She produces, uh, she keeps doing these shows.
I have great respect for anybody that does something daily like that.
Before, uh, before we end up, uh, finishing the show for the year, by the way, I do want to give out a, uh, a shout out to Mary Tyler Moore for the, uh, lifetime achievement award.
She's about to get.
And the only real reason I'm doing that is because I believe Mary Tyler Moore is the hottest black and white woman of all time.
The hottest.
Any photograph with the black and white Mary Tyler Moore?
Obviously, obviously the Dick Van Dyke show, which I loved, but way before my time, but, but Nick at night, back in the day, I used to watch the hell out of it.
And I mean, other than, I mean, I understand the times have changed, but that helmet of hair that she had, other than that, there was, there was a, uh, I mean, there was a point years later where I would watch the Mary Tyler Moore show.
And I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, Tyler Moore show, and I actually got up to turn the color off and see how it looked in black and white.
Phenomenal.
Do you think she's hot, but in black and white?
Still.
Still.
In color as well, but the hottest black and white woman of all time.
That is my opinion.
She has nice legs.
I will absolutely admit that.
She does.
Rocking it.
She's able to get her lifetime achievement award for 2012.
Good physical comedian with Dick Van Dyke.
I love that show.
One of the greatest.
A show about writing for the show of shows, or your show of shows.
About writing for television.
Dick Van Dyke was a crack pressure writer.
Such a funny show.
Groundbreaking sitcom for TV.
I think this really does bring us to the end of the show.
I want to do a special message.
I don't know if there's anything else you want to say, Gus, or talk about.
Everybody have a happy holidays.
A safe new year.
We will talk to you in a couple of weeks.
For those, if it's tough financially, or there's trouble with jobs, or trouble with homes, or this person had to...
It's tough going through school, or whatever it is out there.
I have a message for everybody, especially for next year and 2012.
At the end of this year, consider Christmas not this commercial thing.
It's tough to buy.
I know everyone's got to keep the economy going.
Fight Al-Qaeda.
Wasn't that like a W line?
But this year, let's harvest all those relationships, all those people that we've been through this together with.
And those friends and families, that support circle that's around you.
And really, I mean this sincerely, have a very, very happy holidays.
And not a politically correct one, but a happy, holy days.
Because they are holy, and we're making it through another year.
Spinning around on this rock all together.
Thank you for all the support.
Thanks for calling in from New Jersey.
And I leave you tonight, in honor of the spirit of the holidays, a little Christmas tune, the 12 Guitars of Christmas, by my friend Jeff Fiorentino at jfrocks.com.
Enjoy our interlude music as we go this evening.
And thanks again for your ears and your time.
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