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Alphabet Boyse is a new podcast series

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that goes inside undercover investigations. In

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the first season, we're diving into an FBI

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investigation of the twenty twenty protest.

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It involves a cigar smoking mystery man

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who drives silver

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hearse. And inside his hearse, we like a lot

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of guns. But are federal agents catching

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bad guys or creating

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them? He was just waiting for me to set the

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date, the time, and then for sure he was

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trying to get it to happen.

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Listen to Alphabet Boys on the iHeartRadio app.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get podcast.

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Whist up y'all. I'm Guillermo Diaz,

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and I played Hawk on scandal. And I'm

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Katie Loews, AKK A Quinn Perkins,

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and we're the hosts of unpacking the

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toolbox. The Scanlon rewatch podcast

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where we're talking about all the best moments

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of the

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show. With

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guests like Tony Goldwyn who always

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amped up the fire as President Fitzgerald

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Grant. Grab your scandal swag.

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to unpacking the toolbox on the iHeartRadio app

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Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to

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podcasts. Did you

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know Lance Bass is a Russian trained

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astronaut? That he went through

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training in a secret facility outside

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youngest person to go to space? Well,

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I ought to know because I'm

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Lance Bass. And I'm hosting

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a new podcast that tells my crazy story

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and an even crazier story about

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a Russian astronaut who found himself stuck

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to bring him down. With the Soviet

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Union collapsing around him, he

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orbited the earth for three hundred and thirteen

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days that changed the world.

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Listen to the last Soviet on the iHeartRadio

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Hi. I'm Vanessa Bayer, and this is my brother,

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Jonah. We're

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two siblings who love to talk about our childhood

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and nostalgia and how shaped us into the people

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we are today.

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Who are pretty excited for this week's

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episode if I do say so myself.

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Yes. We are so excited for this

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week's episode of our podcast. How did we get

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weird, incredible guests, Wil

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Farrell, the head of big money players

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network with iHeartMedia, legendary

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comedian, actor, This was such

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a fun episode to record. Oh my god.

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We just had so much fun. Will and

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I got to talk about our days at SNL. We

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talked about ScoobyDo

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Doo. We talked about how Monopoly money absolutely

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rocks. Yes. And we also played

2:20

a really fun game with Will called

2:22

Change dot org where we kind of reviewed some

2:24

petitions on change dot

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org. We got Will's take on if he should

2:28

be the new Batman. We

2:29

think if we all

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agreed,

2:30

he should do

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a high against take on, you

2:33

know, other very, very important issues

2:35

facing society today. So it was great

2:37

to have Will kind of weigh in on that stuff.

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He talked about going to school with the guys

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from racing against machine. You know, if you enjoy

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it, we're gonna play teaser

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here. And

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you can

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check out other episodes of the podcast

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which include Weirdle Yankovic, Amy

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Schumer, Taren

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Killam, Lisa Loeb, Jewel.

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Come on. You gotta check it out, please.

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It's just a podcast hanging out with our friends,

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talking about cartoons, talking about

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snacks, talking about all those nostalgic topics

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with just a lot of really talented and hilarious

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people. Check out this clip of this incredible

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podcast this week with Will Farrell. If

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you like this, go over to how did we get weird

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and

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subscribe. We release new episodes every

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single Monday. Check out me and my

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big brother, Jonah, every Monday.

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And how did we get weird on the big money

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players

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network? If you like to have a blast, which

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we know you do and you gotta do. That's

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true.

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So, well, you grew up in Irvine.

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Yes. Irvine, California.

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Irvine, California. Which

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is Southern California. Yes.

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Yes. And there are a lot of But I

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like that you said it just alone as

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if the world would

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know. Do you think most people

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might not know? Yeah. I guess people It's kind of

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a small. Yeah. know? know that some

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people, like, Rage against machines, Actel Roke over

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from there. Was that and it seems like around the same year

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as you was that did you know those guys when you were

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in high

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school?

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So so here's a crazy another crazy

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SNL story.

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Sorry, Jonah. No, please. My first

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year on the show, so ninety five, ninety

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six season. And

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Tim and Zach, who I went to high school, Tim

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Comerford, who was in my class,

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Zach was a year below us. Okay.

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Tim had been playing in bands and the setting the other,

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and then Next, I know they're part

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of this ban that everyone's talking about called

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rage against the machine and we're on the same

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show together. Wow. And

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it was like our it was in that first half

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of the season. So within the first nine

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shows, and we were laughing

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going like, how crazy is this? We're

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on SNL. Used for you guys

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from Irvine. That's

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unbelievable. Very cool. Did you ever

4:33

see Zach's ban before that inside? I'm a music

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journalist. This

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is like, like,

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he had to ban inside out. No. Did you ever saw

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Okay.

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No. But I think Tim was part I

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did watch Tim perform with

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a band called Crystal Pistle. Okay.

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I haven't heard of them, but I'll have to check that out. Yeah.

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Which I believe is reference to a

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penis. I don't

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know.

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I feel like that's maybe something that you

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cooked out. Oh, I'm just kidding. That's now

4:58

molasses out of the conversation. Yeah.

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He was just playing in and I didn't even

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know Zach was into music. Really?

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I just don't remember Zach. As like a skateboarder

5:08

guy and we'd pick up basketball. Yeah.

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And then next I know he's this amazing

5:12

lead singer. And then full

5:14

circle, Tom Morello, has

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become a friend through our kid's school. Wow.

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So

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Oh my gosh. That's crazy. Okay. That's

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incredible. Crazy. Wow.

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Wow. Yeah.

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Well, we are, again,

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like so and so

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you

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guys feeling about the new setup here? Again,

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this is only our second podcast.

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I'm used to

5:34

doing this

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in a room in my house. Yeah.

5:36

Yeah. So this

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is a little more involved, but it feels good.

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For our listeners, they've set up two luxurious

5:42

couches. Yes.

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Yes.

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I'm on more of a love seat. Yeah. You guys

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are on a full couch.

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But of the same

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With some throw pillows, some throws

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-- Yeah. -- we're just

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hanging. So

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we're just hanging. Yeah. Yeah. Super chill.

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I kind of a chill kind of

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kind of, like, friends in a

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Friends in a in a office. Office. Yeah.

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And

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then abandoned

6:03

office. Yes. Yeah. It couches

6:05

in it

6:05

Yeah.

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-- in it.

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And some equipment -- And some recording. -- audio equipment.

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Just just pretend it's not it.

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Know, I don't even see it. Or

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Well, look. Here's

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how it's gonna be. Here's another

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commercial. Every video. No. Keep it going.

6:19

Keep it going. So

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we've

6:21

asked you to bring in a topic today.

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You

6:23

you never I think it'd be several. Yeah.

6:26

And the one that we picked -- Right.

6:28

Is Scooby Doo? Yes.

6:30

Okay. To kinda talk about the kinda riff

6:32

on. Yeah. Okay. So

6:34

-- Okay. -- what is scooby

6:36

doo. I'm about to rhyme here, mean to

6:38

you. You know

6:40

how about Yeah. That was I did

6:42

not see that coming. It's

6:46

thrown me. I

6:49

huge Saturday morning cartoon

6:51

-- Yeah. -- chunky kid. Right.

6:53

And Scooby do I just

6:56

between

6:57

the solving of the mysteries -- Yes. -- which

6:59

were super scary,

7:01

Yes. In

7:02

my brain at that time. And the suspension

7:04

of disbelief every week

7:06

--

7:07

Yes. --

7:07

that maybe they weren't gonna solve it.

7:09

Yeah. But they

7:10

still did. Yeah. But somehow,

7:12

like, I kept coming back for more. And

7:14

just the camaraderie? Yeah.

7:16

Fred's ascot.

7:18

Right. Right.

7:20

He wore an ascot, scarf.

7:22

Yeah. And you liked that. I

7:23

loved his style. Look. Yeah. Think

7:25

I had a crush on Velma

7:26

Velma Velma. Velma. Yes. And

7:29

then just, you know, Shaggy I

7:31

don't know so much about Shaggy was weird to

7:33

me. Yeah. Like, why he was allowed to

7:35

hang around. Yeah. He didn't know. He needed

7:37

to catch up. Skill set was. His best

7:39

friend was a

7:40

dog. Yeah. And but

7:42

but, you know, okay.

7:44

Yeah.

7:44

That's cool of them. They do all the hard

7:46

work.

7:47

Yeah. But,

7:48

yeah, I just love it it was just

7:50

my favorite cartoon. Yeah. Yeah.

7:53

And what was And

7:53

the mystery machine, which was their van,

7:56

they traveled

7:56

around there.

7:57

Right. Right. Right. Right. Which I

7:59

drove a van in high school that

8:01

was similar to the

8:03

mystery machine. My dad had a

8:06

chevy van that I

8:08

would sometimes use as my car to drive

8:10

to high school. Which had you guys won't know

8:12

what this it was a manual transmission, but it's called

8:14

three on a tree. It's just three

8:16

gears. Oh. But it's up here.

8:18

Okay. Because you have a class shift too. You

8:20

got the clutch on that, but you're shifting. He

8:22

just hauled his music equipment

8:24

around. And it was a windowless van.

8:27

This doesn't sound

8:28

good. No.

8:28

But the mystery machine, I don't think, had windows

8:31

either. Was it really cool that when you would

8:33

drive that van to work? Because I remember being in

8:35

high school and kids who had cars like

8:37

that. It was like, we were all like, we gotta get in

8:39

that car.

8:40

It was cool because it was kinda beat

8:42

up

8:42

-- Yeah. --

8:42

and a little bit little bit

8:44

vintage y. I hung out with a group of friends

8:47

who'd like doing weird

8:48

stuff. So --

8:48

Okay. -- we celebrated the nonconformist

8:51

kind of thing. And while all these young

8:54

Irvine Suburban kids had brand new

8:56

cars, I had this beat up -- Yeah. --

8:58

equipment van that became cool. Right.

9:00

Banana yellow,

9:01

bright yellow. Yeah. So there was a kid

9:03

in your grade Jonah who had, like, a big yellow

9:05

truck.

9:06

Yep. Truck. And it was, like, the coolest

9:09

thing. Like, I grew up cutting your moly

9:11

in near Shake

9:12

Shack -- Right. -- and we both did. And

9:16

and there were a lot of kids who had these really nice

9:18

cars, but I feel like that yellow --

9:20

Yeah. -- truck was like I had

9:21

a lot of bumper stickers on my car. Like, is

9:24

covered with banned. We actually would sneak

9:26

bumper stickers on each other's cars.

9:28

Wow. It's a mess. Okay. Like,

9:31

I would come out and there'd just be a US marines

9:33

bumper sticker

9:35

on the back of the other car hydro,

9:37

which was a beat up. V w bug. And

9:39

-- Okay.

9:39

--

9:40

yeah. They got me. So

9:42

we'd have bumped yesterday. Funny. Yeah.

9:44

Jona drove a Jetta

9:46

and it was, like, we would drive in

9:49

to

9:49

school, and he would be like blasting no effects

9:51

and stuff.

9:52

And That's not music. You know, crazy light.

9:54

FELTS, but I felt so cool.

9:56

Believe it or not, I wasn't very punk in

9:59

high school. That's hard to

10:00

believe. Jono. Yeah.

10:02

Jono. And so I'd come in like so studious

10:04

and all my and but

10:05

we'd be blasting like, you know And you

10:07

got little street cred. Yeah. And I feel

10:09

like I guess I'm getting out of my brother's part. I was

10:12

probably sometimes annoyed because we were late, but,

10:14

like, I was I was, like,

10:16

so, like I felt like it was such a cool

10:18

way to show up to school. You

10:20

know, like --

10:21

Yeah. -- whatever. I guess I'm just listening

10:23

to this punk music. I'm

10:25

That but scoop back to Doo.

10:27

ShashMegan

10:28

Music. They always have a music montage. Oh,

10:30

yeah. Because there's a question. Yeah.

10:32

But I always thought that was so cool.

10:34

Yeah.

10:35

Do you remember, like, being a

10:37

kid on Saturday mornings and watching it?

10:39

Or it like, do you have a memory of

10:41

what that I just knew I was, like, early

10:43

riser -- Yeah. -- I would get and there

10:45

was just kind of a lineup between,

10:47

like, scooby Doo, Sigman

10:49

and the Sea Monster -- Okay. --

10:51

and Johnny

10:52

Quest.

10:53

Johnny Quest --

10:53

Yes. -- was a big Saturday morning. Gotcha. --

10:56

here's where I was also a weird My

10:58

younger brother though still wouldn't wake up

11:00

before I

11:00

would. Okay. And I love playing monopoly.

11:03

Okay. By

11:04

myself, because the whole house was

11:07

still sleeping? Yeah. And

11:09

so I would set up the board at play. And

11:11

then when it wasn't my turn, I'd sneak

11:13

into my mom's room and I would

11:15

move her

11:16

piece. I'd set up for two players. Okay.

11:19

I would be, you know, the dog or the I

11:21

guess, the car or the shoe whatever. I'd move

11:23

around the board. And then was the other person

11:25

sorta, I roll for them. They'd land on and so

11:27

I'd go into my mom's or, like, mom. Yes

11:30

or no. On Park Place. So

11:33

she'd be like what? Just say yes

11:35

or no. She's like,

11:37

no. Okay. Which

11:39

means she didn't wanna buy it? Right.

11:42

I do whole rounds of playing around

11:44

this -- Yeah. -- until everyone finally woke

11:46

up.

11:47

Like a patient kid. That's

11:48

okay. Patience. Yeah.

11:50

Yeah. Did you find, like, having that

11:52

money? I we played kind of a lot of monopoly

11:54

in our house. Sure. And I remember just,

11:57

like, the feeling of having a lot of

11:59

that money just truly

12:02

made me feel rich

12:03

and, like, I

12:04

just it

12:04

was hard for me to, like, give up that money.

12:07

I have a money story too. I have too money

12:09

stories. Right? So,

12:10

yes, I can totally identify with that. And I always

12:13

felt like we were running out of five hundred five hundred

12:15

dollar bills. Yeah. There's

12:16

plenty of hundreds, but the five hundreds would

12:18

go through quickly.

12:19

I feel like okay. Maybe there are less -- Yeah.

12:21

-- there was a neighborhood across the

12:23

street from the apartment complex I grew up in

12:25

was damper drugs. And I was

12:27

walking through the toy section one day, you could

12:30

buy refills of monopoly money.

12:32

I never heard of that. Wow.

12:34

Let's just say, it's the only

12:36

time I've ever shoplifted. I took a

12:38

stack of five hundreds. I

12:42

stole fake money, and I put it in my pocket.

12:44

I walked out really stiffly.

12:47

I'm sure if there was a camera. I'd be like the worst

12:49

kid actor in the time of the walk. Very

12:52

I'm just I'm

12:54

walking out of the drugstore. No

12:56

no need to look over here and then I ran

12:58

home and I stole monopoly

13:00

money. To add to our games, we had plenty

13:03

of five hundreds.

13:05

Oh my god. And you still remember

13:07

it. You still, of course,

13:08

I still remember. What a big

13:11

yeah.

13:11

And then I brought I didn't realize

13:13

we're gonna be talking about money, but

13:15

This is the other story? This is the other story.

13:17

I brought my favorite Christmas present that

13:20

I got this from my wife. It's

13:22

a little attache case

13:26

Guess what it's filled with?

13:29

Tiny stacks of money. Everyone

13:33

here in the room,

13:35

that's like ten grand at least.

13:37

She got this right.

13:39

That's such a great Yeah. And

13:41

you keep it on your person and I I just

13:43

thought maybe we'll talk about this today. Maybe

13:46

there's be a good reason for me to show up. You

13:48

knew

13:48

money. You guys? Yeah.

13:49

You knew you're meeting with the mayor's money might come up.

13:52

And then and

13:55

then that relates to S and L. So

13:58

because when I met Lauren, because

14:00

I'd read a story about how

14:02

Adam Sandler did something where

14:04

he just pretended to hump

14:06

a chair or something and was signed

14:08

on the spot.

14:09

Okay. Okay. And

14:10

I remember reading that going, you know what?

14:12

He didn't worry about pleasantries or he just

14:14

was, like, funny right away

14:16

when they sign him and that's the way to do

14:18

it. Yeah. And

14:18

so thought if And I knew I had to

14:20

meet Lauren for my second audition.

14:22

Right. She was a meeting before you. And

14:24

I thought, I'm gonna walk in with a briefcase.

14:27

I'm gonna fill it full of fake

14:30

counterfeit money. And as he's talking

14:32

to me, I'm just gonna go like, Lauren, we

14:34

can all talk. Till the

14:36

cows come home. But we

14:38

all know there's only one thing that really

14:40

talks in its hard gold cash. And I was

14:42

gonna open it up and set it on his desk.

14:45

And then I was gonna like, so I'm gonna walk out of this

14:47

room. And no

14:50

one needs to know. You can take that money or you don't

14:52

have to, whatever. And you

14:54

can decide whether I should be on the show or not.

14:57

So I walked into the room

14:59

and Steve Higgins had just been hired as

15:02

a producer. With a brief With a brief

15:04

What Canadian walks into a room with a briefcase,

15:07

a leather briefcase. It wasn't even a cool

15:09

looking one. And I walk in, I

15:11

can tell the vibe is not for joking

15:13

around. It was super

15:15

serious. And I was like,

15:17

oh my god. I got so freaked

15:19

out. And I never got to my

15:21

bit. So I'm just holding on my briefcase.

15:24

Did he ask you what it was for? Funny

15:26

thing ever. A weird shy,

15:28

quiet. Got it. It's supposed to be funny.

15:31

Like, I'm supposed to be humping

15:33

a chair. My my inspiration was, like, go hump

15:35

a chair. Do something active. And

15:37

I'm just like, uh-huh. Well,

15:40

I was thinking about doing this character, but I wouldn't do

15:42

that. Oh, okay. Finally,

15:45

after twenty minutes, Higgins goes, Nice

15:48

briefcase. I'm like, yeah. Thanks.

15:51

There's like, anything else you wanna ask

15:53

me? I'm like, nope. I walked out and

15:55

he and he never knew. I told him later

15:57

what and he thought it was so

15:59

funny, but I couldn't pull the trigger on the bit.

16:01

So, anyway, Alphabet

16:04

Boyse is a new podcast series that goes

16:06

inside undercover investigations. In

16:08

the first season, we're diving into an FBI

16:10

investigation of the twenty twenty protest.

16:13

It involves a cigar smoking mystery man

16:16

who drives a silver

16:16

hearse. And inside his hearse, we like a lot of

16:19

goods. But our federal agents catching bad

16:21

guys were creating

16:22

them. He was just waiting for me to set the

16:24

date, the time, and then for sure he was

16:26

trying to get it to happen. Listen to

16:28

Alphabet Boys on the iHeartRadio app, Apple

16:30

Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

16:33

Did you know Lance Bass is a Russian

16:35

trained astronaut? That he went

16:37

through training in a secret facility outside

16:40

Moscow, hoping to become the

16:42

youngest person to go to space. Well,

16:45

I ought to know because I'm

16:47

Lance Bass. And I'm hosting a

16:49

new podcast that tells my crazy story

16:51

and an even crazier story about

16:54

a Russian astronaut who found himself stuck

16:56

in space. With no countries

16:58

to bring him down. With the Soviet

17:00

Union collapsing around him, he orbited

17:03

the earth for hundred and thirteen days

17:05

that changed the world. Listen

17:08

to the last Soviet on the iHeartRadio app,

17:11

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you

17:13

get your podcast.

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Fans of the hit TV show scandal

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Yeah. I mean, the shitting that was going on

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