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Bryan Cranston
By the way, is that your impression of me?
Ike Barinholtz
That's part of it.
Bryan Cranston
That's part of it.
Ike Barinholtz
I got a little bit of a. It's either you or Clint Eastwood. I can't figure it out.
Bryan Cranston
Or Brie Lancaster. Or Brie Lancaster.
Ike Barinholtz
Look at that. Isn't that cute? He's kissing her on strikes and she's kissing him with the balls.
Bryan Cranston
Like Joey Chestnut starting to jam down the hot dog bun.
Ike Barinholtz
You get 100 hot dogs, you dunk the bun in the water.
Bryan Cranston
God, there's Brian Cranston.
Ike Barinholtz
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Ike Barinholtz
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Bryan Cranston
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Ike Barinholtz
The best actors are the ones who make you feel something when you watch them. And the man sitting next to me has made me feel many things. Uneasy, uncomfortable, frightened for my safety. Worried that he is going to steal from me or physically assault me.
Bryan Cranston
I thought we were talking about my work.
Ike Barinholtz
This is you personally?
Bryan Cranston
Yes.
Ike Barinholtz
He is one of my favorite actors of all time. And he's won too many awards to mention. And more importantly, he knows a little bit about the Los Angeles Dodgers. Yeah, Agave and American theater. Bryan Cranston, welcome to Funny you ask.
Bryan Cranston
Thank you. Ike, how are you, bud?
Ike Barinholtz
We're on the hit show the Studio. It's won a lot of awards.
Bryan Cranston
Yes.
Ike Barinholtz
We've been spending a lot of time together this last week. I can't get into spoilers. Let's just say this man is in very good physical shape.
Bryan Cranston
I tell people, I say, in the second season of the Studio, I will either up my street cred considerably or. Or destroy my career
Ike Barinholtz
in between. Do you ever have to give back an Olivier Award? Has anyone ever done that before?
Bryan Cranston
Yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
Yeah. We just came off of a week of shooting True Nights, which is wild. Coming home at 7am as the world is waking up, you're tough. Laying in bed, questioning your decisions that
Bryan Cranston
have led you to this point. It is kind of bizarre. And, you know, if you have any kind of dialogue to run, it's like you could feel slipping away at 5, 5:30, 6 o' clock in the morning. You're going, oh, my God, my brain feels like jello.
Ike Barinholtz
Yeah. Well, it's just the notion of someone coming up to you at, like, 4:36am and being like, do you want a cup of French onion soup from Crafty? You're like.
Bryan Cranston
And you're seriously considering it?
Ike Barinholtz
Yeah, maybe I do. Yeah. Maybe some cheese toast and soup will help how I feel. Right. But we made it through it. We got our sleep. We're caught up.
Bryan Cranston
And by the way, no complaints here. Oh, my God, it's like, how lucky are we to be on this show?
Ike Barinholtz
It's the greatest. It's the most fun. We were sitting up in a room with me and you and Katherine Hahn and Seth Rogen and Madonna and a bunch of prosthetics, and I'm gonna leave it at that.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
And Chase, Jason wonders who's gonna be in your seat very soon.
Bryan Cranston
Oh, is that right?
Ike Barinholtz
Okay. Okay, here's how this is gonna work. I'm gonna ask you a question about one of the topics. I'm gonna ask you maybe a bonus question. We'll talk for a bit, we'll kibitz, and then I might even ask you another question about the same topic. And then you will ask me a question from a totally random stack of questions that you have in front of you that I've never seen. We'll repeat that a couple times, and then we will do the speed round. Are you ready for the speed round at the end?
Bryan Cranston
Oh, okay.
Ike Barinholtz
We're not going into that.
Bryan Cranston
We're not going speed round.
Ike Barinholtz
We're not going Coming up later on. But first things first, my friend. I'm going to ask you a question about your beloved Los Angeles Dodgers.
Bryan Cranston
Yes. Okay.
Ike Barinholtz
Are you ready?
Bryan Cranston
I think so. I hope so.
Ike Barinholtz
Here we go. The Dodgers have had multiple managers who are hall of Famers. Which of them managed the most games? And I'm going to give you a hint. It is not Tommy Lasorda.
Bryan Cranston
No, It's Walter Alston.
Ike Barinholtz
Boom. Bryan Cranston is on the board. Didn't even need the hint. Didn't even need that.
Bryan Cranston
No, I didn't need the hint.
Ike Barinholtz
Okay, here's your bonus question.
Bryan Cranston
Okay.
Ike Barinholtz
Walter Alston had two nicknames. Name either one.
Bryan Cranston
Oh, okay. Well, here. I might need the hint for this one. His nickname, Walt Holt. Oh, okay. I don't remember, but maybe one was
Ike Barinholtz
a John Wayne movie and one was a character I think Burt Reynolds played.
Bryan Cranston
Oh, both movie names. Both.
Ike Barinholtz
Both movie names. Also. Also one is not just Burt Reynolds. One is also a famous bear.
Bryan Cranston
Who's.
Ike Barinholtz
Who's Smokey? Yes, Smokey. You got it, Brian. It's on the board.
Bryan Cranston
Two points that you got. That's. It Got pretty easy.
Ike Barinholtz
We start off easy. It's going to get much harder. Don't worry. Do you have a nickname? Do you have any nicknames?
Bryan Cranston
When. When I was a kid, I was red. Red because I had red hair.
Ike Barinholtz
Yeah.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah, that was pretty much like I. When I first started working in. In this business, I was 23 years old, and so a kid a lot. Wow. Like with. With anybody? With Dick Van Dyke. With.
Ike Barinholtz
You work with Dick Van Dyke?
Bryan Cranston
Jim. Jim Garner. Yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
Wait, what did you work with? What did you work with both those guys?
Bryan Cranston
Jim Garner. I did a Rockford Files.
Ike Barinholtz
Oh, my God. What was your character on Rockford Files?
Bryan Cranston
He was a. If I remember correctly, he was. He was kind of a ne' er do. Well, he's kind of a.
Ike Barinholtz
Like a punk.
Bryan Cranston
Not. Not a bad guy, but just a, you know, guy.
Ike Barinholtz
Wayward youth. Yeah.
Bryan Cranston
Wayward doing were borderline, you know, ethical, and you're trying to get away with stuff. And. And then Jim Rockford puts him in his place.
Ike Barinholtz
You're a punk. You know, change your life around, kid.
Bryan Cranston
But he would say he's like, well, I think. I think that line's better if the kid says it, you know, and it's like, I was scared.
Ike Barinholtz
The kid's really good. Both. The kid in reds are nicknames that are tough to maintain as you get older. Your hair no longer becomes red. Your hair gets. Starts to get grayer and then also, like, it's funny, the notion of, like, older man. Like, there's the kid.
Bryan Cranston
Exactly. Not that. But it was like. Like red Shand. Shandinks. Red Hour back.
Ike Barinholtz
Red Skeleton.
Bryan Cranston
Red Skeleton.
Ike Barinholtz
Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Bryan Cranston
There's some reds. Red buttons.
Ike Barinholtz
Red Buttons. Legitimately, one of the funnier men of all time. I. My name is. My nickname, like, my real name is Isaac, but people just started calling me Ike, so I don't have. I mean, I have like, online. People call me Creep. Creepy guy.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
El Creepo.
Bryan Cranston
El Crebo. But instead of Ike, they'll call you Ick.
Ike Barinholtz
That's a tough one. Ick. Blaring holds. Always blaring on and on. Let's give each other anyone who loves you online.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah, Anyone.
Ike Barinholtz
My mom posts sometimes. She'll be like, great show. I'm proud of you. That's kind of nice.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
Let's give each other a nickname real quick. Little individual nicknames that you and I can use with each other.
Bryan Cranston
I would call you Sparky.
Ike Barinholtz
Ooh, I like that. Yeah, Because I got like, Sparky energy.
Bryan Cranston
You do. You're a spark plug of the show.
Ike Barinholtz
Someone described me one time as a human Labrador. And at first I was like, fuck you. Like what? I'm a fat idiot who licks his own balls.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah. And cute, but a little smelly.
Ike Barinholtz
But then you think about it, you're like, oh, yeah. The Lab is like the best dog. It's so fun.
Bryan Cranston
Loyal.
Ike Barinholtz
Loyal. I'm very food motivated. Yeah.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah, you are.
Ike Barinholtz
You know what I mean? Like, I recently don't go to the bathroom in the house. I've learned I've become house broken.
Bryan Cranston
Does Erica pick up after you?
Ike Barinholtz
Erica does. She has a little pooper scooper for me.
Bryan Cranston
She walks around in the back. That's love.
Ike Barinholtz
I'm supposed to shit on the side of the house. And sometimes I'll just go in the backyard. Cause it's my house. And she'll come out and she'll be like, what are you doing? No.
Bryan Cranston
Bad hits you on the nose with a hit.
Ike Barinholtz
She'll push my face into my own shit and be like, no. My nickname for you is going to be Mr. Bryan Cranston.
Bryan Cranston
Oh, is that right?
Ike Barinholtz
Yeah, that way. I just.
Bryan Cranston
There it is.
Ike Barinholtz
It's like, cool.
Bryan Cranston
NBC.
Ike Barinholtz
NBC. NBC, NBC. You're a tried and true Angeleno.
Bryan Cranston
I am. I was born and raised here.
Ike Barinholtz
As LA as a taco cart, as LA as someone smoking a joint in their car on the 405, as Los Angeles, as a wealthy man murdering his spouse and Getting away with it.
Bryan Cranston
Yes.
Ike Barinholtz
That's how LA you are, my friend. What was your first Dodgers game? Do you remember?
Bryan Cranston
Yeah. First ever Dodger game. I was 5 years old. My father took my brother and I. He's a little older than me. He was seven or eight and I was five. And we went to the LA Coliseum.
Ike Barinholtz
Okay.
Bryan Cranston
Because the Dodgers moved out for the first season was 1958.
Ike Barinholtz
Yep.
Bryan Cranston
So they're here. 58, 59. In 1962, Dodger Stadium opened.
Ike Barinholtz
That's when they finished removing all the negative people out of there.
Bryan Cranston
I don't care if it's your house, get the fuck out. We need baseball to play.
Ike Barinholtz
We need more bathrooms.
Bryan Cranston
That's right. And so up until 1961 through 61, they played at the LA Coliseum. And we went when I was five years old. And I don't remember the game. I don't remember much of it. I was a kid, baby. And the only thing I do remember is the name of one player. And it was the first time I ever heard the name of a person that was also the name of something else. And that's why I remembered it. Cause I thought, oh, you can do that. And his name was Wally Moon. And I thought, like the moon. His name's like the moon. I was like, oh, I didn't. I thought you had this. Because Bryan Cranston is not. There's no object. And so it was like, oh. And so I remember the name Wally Moon. And Vin Scully, who was the famed Dodger announcer even back then, would talk about Wally Moon, a left handed hitter. Chip shotting balls that are pitched on the outside to him up and over left field fence, which was actually netting similar to the Green Monster in Boston. It was like 44ft high. And he would learn to chip shot it up and over for a home run. And Vin Scully dubbed them Moonshots.
Ike Barinholtz
That's where it comes from.
Bryan Cranston
And so he saw an obstacle and figured out how to deal with the obstacle and how to succeed around it. So that's why I called my production company Moonshot.
Ike Barinholtz
Oh, my God.
Bryan Cranston
Moonshot Entertainment.
Ike Barinholtz
Oh my God. Now I know whenever I get legal notices from you guys, the cease and
Bryan Cranston
desist and those things.
Ike Barinholtz
Okay. I remember when I first moved here and I first watched a Dodgers game on TV and I was so blown away by Vin Scully.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
The fact that he did it by himself. The fact that he was so. He's got to be the greatest announcer of all time, man. I really like. I don't. I don't know, like I loved Harry Carey and Steve, but, like, dude, that. That is. That is incredible. But Vince Gully did.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah. Now I'm biased because I'm a Dodger fan and he was our Dodger announcer, but you talk to anybody and they say he was the best.
Ike Barinholtz
I remember my wife and I were watching his last game as an announcer, and he. Because he's a true old school announcer, where he never seemed. He never really seemed to deviate into anything other than, like, baseball and the mechanics of the game, what was going on, stuff with the players. But it was all, like, very. It was just very, like, straight up about baseball. And then. And as he was signing off, he just went incredibly hardcore Christian. He was like, oh, did he? And I want to thank everyone. In the light of Christ, bathing in the joy of his hands and Mother Mary and the bloody Jesus on the cross, we love you so much. And it was just like, I loved at the very end, he was so.
Bryan Cranston
By the way, bloody Jesus is rounding third at the moment. He's gonna.
Ike Barinholtz
And he's gone. He's good, but it was awesome. He was really one of the best.
Bryan Cranston
Loved the guy so much.
Ike Barinholtz
Amazing.
Bryan Cranston
You know, during a. I had a challenging childhood. My father left the family when I was 11. My mother drank a lot, and so I didn't have a lot of parental oversight and control. And it was kind of. It was definitely fragmented. And so by listening to Vin Scully, at least for those three hours, it was a way to feel like everything's okay right now and it's okay and you're gonna. It was a wonderfully needed distraction.
Ike Barinholtz
That is beautiful. I'm glad you did not grow up a Cubs fan, because if you had Harry Carey instead of Vin Scully, you would be a full blown alcoholic right now.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah, exactly.
Ike Barinholtz
He was. I loved Harry Carey, but, oh, my God, he would be, like, so drunk by, like, the fourth inning. I remember when Sammy Sosa's first season on the Cubs and he hit three home runs in a game. And on the third one, Harry was just screaming under the mic and he probably had had a dozen beers, and he goes, oh, my God. Ernastica. The streets of Chicago and dancing in the streets of Puerto Rico, and Steve Stone's like, yes. And the Dominican Republic, which is where he's from. He was a pisser, man. He was so funny. There's a famous story of, like, they showed. Cause they would just, like, you know, cut to the stands and just have Harry freestyle about what he was seeing, you know, and one time he saw a couple just Making out. And he goes, look at that. Isn't that cute? He's kissing her on strikes and she's kissing him with the balls. It's like in 1988, you were like, yeah, yeah, quick story.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
So Rhino was my guy, right? Ryno was my guy. And I actually got to meet him one time and I coached my daughter's basketball team and, you know, eight year old girl's basketball team. And there was a girl on her team and really great player. And she came up to me one day and she's like, do you want to see a picture of my grandpa? And she showed me a picture of Rhino pointing to a picture of me. And this is about a year after he passed. And I just started crying, which is not cool for a basketball coach to start, like crying in front of a kid.
Bryan Cranston
There's no crying in basketball.
Ike Barinholtz
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Ike Barinholtz
But yeah, his son has this adorable girl and now has a new little baby girl named Ryan.
Bryan Cranston
Oh, that's great.
Ike Barinholtz
He was. He was my cup.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
Yeah. Because I grew up. I grew up exactly one mile away from Wrigley Field. And you would just see those guys. Like, I would go to the. They all loved the ihop, and there was an IHOP right by my school. And I would go in and just
Bryan Cranston
be like, who showed up today?
Ike Barinholtz
Sha' on Dunston. Hey, man, how you doing? I love going to Dodger games.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
I love ballpark food. Let me ask you this question. You're going to the Dodgers game.
Bryan Cranston
Okay.
Ike Barinholtz
You're with your boys. You're with me. Stephen Weber, Spencer.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
You were two guys.
Bryan Cranston
My boys. Yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
What. What is everything you're eating at that Dodgers game and drinking. What are you doing?
Bryan Cranston
I. You gotta have a brat. I have a brat and a Dodger dog.
Ike Barinholtz
Okay.
Bryan Cranston
I have a Dodger dog.
Ike Barinholtz
Sausages.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah. With just a little line of mustard through it.
Ike Barinholtz
Yep.
Bryan Cranston
Maybe some. Maybe some onions on top. But the bride. I put everything on. I put onions. Yeah. Sauerkraut on it. The mustard get in there. And I'm always tempted to go with the chili, but I don't know, it gets messy and it's like I maybe have a little side cup of chili.
Ike Barinholtz
Okay. Maybe dunk. Maybe dunk. Dunkarino. Dogarino. What are you drinking?
Bryan Cranston
Like Joey Chestnut, starting to jam down the hot dog bun.
Ike Barinholtz
You get 100 hot dogs, you dunk the bun in the water.
Bryan Cranston
God, there's Bryan Cranston.
Ike Barinholtz
There's Dodgers fan Bryan Cranston eating 40 hot dogs. Dogs.
Bryan Cranston
But there's that. There's that challenge I heard about. You eat one hot dog every inning. Every inning. Hot dog and a beer every inning. You gotta. You Gotta maintain.
Ike Barinholtz
And they will drive you to Cedar Sinai.
Bryan Cranston
So, I mean, if chestnut can eat 60, whatever, 70 hot dogs, could you eat? You. You have an amazing appetite.
Ike Barinholtz
Let me tell you my Dodgers order, okay? And this is non negotiable. I have the helmet nachos fully loaded. The helmet nachos are one of the greatest inventions. It's like America's going through a rough time right now. We got a lot of flaws.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
But we have helmet nachos. I brought a friend of mine to a baseball game. He's Russian, he's never been to a sports game before. And I just handed him a helmet full of fully loaded nachos. And he goes, what is this? And I go, that's America. I'm having that.
Bryan Cranston
Now. Wait on the nachos. Do you put jalapeno?
Ike Barinholtz
Oh, yeah, I've got jalapenos, a ton of cheese sauce. I get the sour cream, the salt, fully loaded. Maybe I'll throw a little carne asada on there. I go crazy. I also have a Dodger dog with mustard and onion. I have peanuts. Bag of peanuts. Yeah, I have two at least. Probably two Estrellas, beers, big beers, maybe a soft serve. The next morning, my bathroom sounds like just like a forklift dropping a bunch of metal beams just.
Bryan Cranston
And then always hearing you.
Ike Barinholtz
All time favorite Dodger, Sandy Koufax. Ah, beautiful, beautiful man.
Bryan Cranston
I've met him a few times. Stays in great shape. He's 90 now.
Ike Barinholtz
Yeah, he's 90. Yeah, he's up there.
Bryan Cranston
But he's just an amazing short career, really. 10 years.
Ike Barinholtz
Amazing that you picked him being a famous anti Semite such as yourself. There's a joke. It's fucking satire. Everyone, chill. This man is a friend. He's an ally. I have a bonus question for you. This man is the old dodgy Dodgers all time home run leader.
Bryan Cranston
Is that Dodger? Los Angeles Dodger.
Ike Barinholtz
I think this is more Brooklyn, but maybe a little bit of LA too.
Bryan Cranston
Duke Snyder.
Ike Barinholtz
Duke Snyder is the correct answer for a bonus. What number did Duke Snyder wear?
Bryan Cranston
Four.
Ike Barinholtz
Oh, my God. Brian Christie.
Bryan Cranston
I think the. And the all time LA Dodger home run leader is kind of surprising. Most people will not guess that. No, no, but good guess. But really a good guess.
Ike Barinholtz
No. Oh, oh, I don't know.
Bryan Cranston
Eric Karos.
Ike Barinholtz
Eric Karos, sure he was. He blasted him. Yeah, he's Greek.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah, I believe.
Ike Barinholtz
Eric Karos, my friend. Don't worry. Come. Index, index.
Bryan Cranston
What do you want? Humus. I hit the dick of humus on the Dodger, though.
Ike Barinholtz
Give this man a dormitoris while hit is probably from like Al habra or something. A thick Greek accent. You can play one position on the Dodgers. This is in your fantasy world. What are you doing?
Bryan Cranston
I'm pitching.
Ike Barinholtz
You're pitching? Yeah. That's the most pressure.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah. I pitched a little bit in adult baseball leagues and I enjoyed it. It, I, I enjoyed.
Ike Barinholtz
It's so fun.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah, it's fun. The stress, the, like the, the personal competition you have with yourself. It's like you talk to yourself and I, I, I enjoyed it. And I'm getting shoulder replacement surgery soon.
Ike Barinholtz
And this podcast is sponsored by your shoulder, your new shoulder company. So we don't know the name of the company yet, but we'll figure that out. We'll work it in so we can
Bryan Cranston
get a little bit of a box. I'm gonna auction off my old shoulder. Wow. I'm gonna sell it off off to help defray some of the cost.
Ike Barinholtz
Oh, my God. You know what's going to happen? We're going to have a rookie of the year situation. You're going to get your shoulder replaced.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
You ever seen the movie Rookie of the year?
Bryan Cranston
Oh, yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
You're going to be in the stands of the Dodgers and a foul ball is going to come back to you and you're going to throw it all the way from center field to home plate and you are going to be playing for the Dodgers.
Bryan Cranston
Dave Roberts is going to go, hey,
Ike Barinholtz
I got bad news. It ain't Dave Roberts. It's going to be Gary Busey.
Bryan Cranston
And in the role of Dave Roberts, the manager of the Dodgers, Gary Busey. Yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
I want you to pitch the inside of this guy. You'll excuse me. I'm gonna go harass a hair and makeup woman. I would, as much as I would love to be a hard drinking RBI machine third baseman, as I get older, I'm like, oh, I wanna be a baseball manager. It's so fun. It's so cool. Baseball. First of all, they wear the uniforms, which is hilarious. Can you imagine if basketball coaches wear the shorts? It's so funny that bas like, no, no. You're going to put on the same clothes that the, the professional athletes are going to put.
Bryan Cranston
That would be funny.
Ike Barinholtz
Very funny.
Bryan Cranston
Through the years with the short shorts, little Lakers back in the 80s.
Ike Barinholtz
Imagine like Tom Thibodeau wearing short shorts
Bryan Cranston
and then you see it and you go, you know what? That's okay. Don't do that. Don't, don't wear that.
Ike Barinholtz
No, no, no, we're done with that.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah, we're done.
Ike Barinholtz
I I, I, I, I. I knew you were going to say Sandy. I I When I asked you, your favorite player, I was thinking it was either going to be Koufax or Drysdale, because I couldn't see you being a big Drysdale guy.
Bryan Cranston
I love Drysdale.
Ike Barinholtz
To me, the epitome of cool. Did you ever hear the story about him and Ken Boyer's pranks with each other? Did you ever hear this?
Bryan Cranston
No.
Ike Barinholtz
So this is a story that I think Bob uecker told Norm MacDonald, who in turn told Howard Stern. But Don Drysdale and Ken Boyer would always prank each other. The team would always prank each other back then. And they were going to. The Dodgers were going to Atlanta to play the Braves. And Drysdale was telling the guys, he's excited because this lady that he's been shacking up with is there. And Ken Boyer's brother played for the Braves. And so.
Bryan Cranston
Cleat.
Ike Barinholtz
Cleat, right? So they're in the locker room, and, like, these two, like, good old boy sheriff's deputies come in and, like, take Drysdale. And they're like, listen, this woman you're gonna go see, she's underage, and you're gonna go to jail. And Drysdale's like, no, she's not. She's freaking out. And they all start laughing, and they're like, you guys got, you know, you got pranked by Ken Boyer. And Drysdale's furious. And so Drysdale enlists the help of his friend Frank Sinatra. And one night, Ken Boyer is at Dodger Stadium, and he's getting into his car, and two guys put a bag over his head and throw him into a truck. They drive him 90 miles to the desert.
Bryan Cranston
This is serious shit.
Ike Barinholtz
They have his hands tied behind his back.
Bryan Cranston
Oh, my God.
Ike Barinholtz
And they start digging a hole, and the whole time they're like, we know you took the money from Peterson, and we want that fucking money. The whole time. I'm a baseball player. And finally they pull the hood off and they have a gun at his head, and they go, hey, don't fucking prank Don Drysdale no more.
Bryan Cranston
Oh, my God. That is some serious shit. God, can you imagine having a prank,
Ike Barinholtz
Any prank that involves someone digging your death hole is terrible. I'm not a fan of pranks. And if someone did that to me, I don't know. It's one thing if you're like, I put three Splendas in your coffee. And I'm like, I guess that's a terrible prank. I would just be like, what the fuck?
Bryan Cranston
Why'd you do that?
Ike Barinholtz
Why'd you do that? But, I mean, most pranks that you would play on set that are very innocuous. This is. This is very, very bad.
Bryan Cranston
So any kind of prank you're against any kind of.
Ike Barinholtz
Yes.
Bryan Cranston
Really?
Ike Barinholtz
I really don't like them. I really like.
Bryan Cranston
Because they're mean spirited usually, or because
Ike Barinholtz
I just feel like they are a waste of time. I'm like, in a professional setting, they're a waste of time and emotional energy. In a professional setting, like, on a show like, you would always read like, oh, man, Clooney. Clooney would put 10,000 ping pong balls in Matt Damon's trailer. And you're like, okay, that is funny. But then you're like, it's just like some PA has to now clean up like a thousand tennis balls. And then like, the. You know, the director's probably like, where the fuck are they? And they're like, they're doing a prank with tennis and it's. Whatever.
Bryan Cranston
So let me just say don't go out to your car until I get a chance to go out first and just straighten things up.
Ike Barinholtz
My car out there?
Bryan Cranston
Yep.
Ike Barinholtz
The Lincoln Navigator?
Bryan Cranston
Yep.
Ike Barinholtz
Okay. Okay.
Bryan Cranston
Just let me. Give me 20 minutes.
Ike Barinholtz
Okay. I hope there's no permanent damage done because I am doing a Lyft Uber pickup at the airport right after this.
Bryan Cranston
Is a fish smell permanent damage or is that it?
Ike Barinholtz
Depends on the fish.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
I don't mind a little cotty smell.
Bryan Cranston
A little cotty smell?
Ike Barinholtz
A salmon smell.
Bryan Cranston
I'm out.
Ike Barinholtz
Fricking forget it. Bryan Cranston, I want you to do me a favor. I want you to pick one of those cards right there. Now you're going to ask me a question, right? I've never seen these before.
Bryan Cranston
I know, and I've. Because I've seen your show before.
Ike Barinholtz
You've seen the show.
Bryan Cranston
I've seen this.
Ike Barinholtz
We got a viewer.
Bryan Cranston
We have.
Ike Barinholtz
Can I thank you, by the way, for wearing a blazer. Oh, my God.
Bryan Cranston
Well, I wanted to spiff that up.
Ike Barinholtz
Yeah. Seriously.
Bryan Cranston
I mean, you have such a nice set already, and I just wanted to just kind of fit in.
Ike Barinholtz
Oh, it's nice. We had Adam Pally on last week. He looked like shit. Shots fired.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah, shots fired.
Ike Barinholtz
Again, I've never seen this. This question. It was curated by Annabella producer. So. So lay it on me.
Bryan Cranston
When Hernan Cortez arrived In Mexico in 1519, this Aztec capital was built on an island in the middle of a lake and was an engineering marvel. Name the city.
Ike Barinholtz
It's gotta be Tenochletan. Boom.
Bryan Cranston
You are so good.
Ike Barinholtz
Come on. Come on, man.
Bryan Cranston
That's good. Bonus question.
Ike Barinholtz
Yes, please.
Bryan Cranston
Bonus question. According to Aztec legend, they were told to build tenochite. What do you say?
Ike Barinholtz
Tenocheleta.
Bryan Cranston
Tenocheletan. Where they spotted a specific omen now depicted on Mexico's flag. What was the omen?
Ike Barinholtz
It's a bird, right? Isn't it a bird? Is it an eagle, but more specific?
Bryan Cranston
Yeah, yeah, an eagle.
Ike Barinholtz
An eagle.
Bryan Cranston
An eagle.
Ike Barinholtz
Yeah. Perched on a br. Olive. Perched on a mountain.
Bryan Cranston
What kind of.
Ike Barinholtz
Perched on a volcano.
Bryan Cranston
What kind of vegetation would be in Mexico?
Ike Barinholtz
Perched perched on some fraking corn. Purged on some.
Bryan Cranston
Or a cactus.
Ike Barinholtz
Perched on a cactus. Perhaps eating. There's a lot going on in this
Bryan Cranston
forest, but think of the flowers, flag.
Ike Barinholtz
It's. It's an eagle on a cactus, and it is eating.
Bryan Cranston
Yes.
Ike Barinholtz
Just some chips.
Bryan Cranston
Nachos. The. The helmet. Nachos. Exactly right.
Ike Barinholtz
It's an eagle on a cactus, and it's eating a snake.
Bryan Cranston
Yes.
Ike Barinholtz
Really? Yeah. Wow.
Bryan Cranston
That's in the middle of their flag.
Ike Barinholtz
I've never, like, looked. I. I could identify the flag from far away, but I've never looked at what it's doing. That's a badass flag.
Bryan Cranston
That's a badass flag.
Ike Barinholtz
Our flag is fucking. Got to step it up. We need, like, an animal on there eating something.
Bryan Cranston
Like a puma or something like puma with teeth bearing.
Ike Barinholtz
Or like, an American flag now would be, like, on fire. Would probably be like one of those, like, fucking, like, inbred triple X pit bulls. You know, the ones that are, like, look insane. And it would be wearing, like.
Bryan Cranston
No, but the image has to be aspirational.
Ike Barinholtz
What do we want to become to be? We would want it to be, oh, like a wolf. Like, yeah, jumping. Jumping over, like a. Like, from one cliff to another, and it has, like, a big old fish in its mouth.
Bryan Cranston
Or. Why don't we just take the. The cliche? We'll have Fonzie on a motorcycle. Jumping Shark.
Ike Barinholtz
Shark. If we're being real right now, like, someone ran for president and they were like, here are my three things. Yeah, we're gonna have healthcare in this country. Everyone's gonna have healthcare. Two, we're gonna invest $2 trillion and we're gonna have the American Homes act, where people are gonna be able to buy homes. Three, we're putting Fonzie on the American flag.
Bryan Cranston
Yes.
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Bryan Cranston
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Ike Barinholtz
This summer, it's time to put that angry ball of fire on mute.
Bryan Cranston
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Ike Barinholtz
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Bryan Cranston
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Ike Barinholtz
Engineered for whatever that person. You're winning 45 out of 50 states.
Bryan Cranston
Excuse me, would you go back to number three again?
Ike Barinholtz
Henry Winkler calls. Are you sure this is the right to do.
Bryan Cranston
I don't know.
Ike Barinholtz
I appreciate you being a fan of mine, but I. On the flag. I don't know. He's a wonderful man.
Bryan Cranston
He's a Henry. Really, really lovely.
Ike Barinholtz
Really, really wonderful man. Wow.
Bryan Cranston
Good one.
Ike Barinholtz
I'm really excited. I got that. I'm obsessed with. With Cortez meeting Montezuma. It really is like the moment the America's changed forever. It's an incredible moment. I think there would be an amazing prestige HBO miniseries that could be made about this. And I obviously couldn't play Cortez or Montezuma.
Bryan Cranston
No.
Ike Barinholtz
But maybe there's like some white asshole who's like, I'll tell you where they are.
Bryan Cranston
Hey, since you are a history buff. And so when Cortez met Montezuma, was there some aggression there? And did Montezuma truly have. Have his revenge?
Ike Barinholtz
So I believe at first it was. There was no. It was very more like reverence, like Montezuma. And these guys were like, oh, my God, these guys. Gods. Like, who are these guys? Kind of pretty quickly, Cortez's men basically was like, we're gonna kill you guys. But then the night Montezuma died, Cortez had the worst diarrhea he's ever had. So he did finally comes from. Yeah, that's where.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah, yeah. I knew that was somewhere in the annals or the anal.
Ike Barinholtz
I think it's the anals of Mexican history. Like. Like, you know, like in Game of Thrones, you have your own s Sigil and your own flag. Like, what is the Cranston flag?
Bryan Cranston
Okay, so I. I joke with my wife a lot. Her last name Is Dearden a deer in a den? In a den, I guess.
Ike Barinholtz
Yeah.
Bryan Cranston
And my cranston is the crane with claws with, you know, on a. And I said. I really told her. I said, what if we have this triptych? What if we commission an artist to make it to have both of our crests in it and we can have a crane with its talons just sunk into the deer and the deer just like. The deer is bloody and just like. And she. I don't know. She didn't find that.
Ike Barinholtz
She didn't like that. No, no, no.
Bryan Cranston
I don't know why she didn't go for that.
Ike Barinholtz
I think it's amazing. And you should just go ahead and we actually have a gift for you. Bring out the triptych. Triptych is a very good sigil. That's a very good. Yeah. Baron holds family flag. Is. It's just. It's just a guy on a couch. It's a guy on a couch watching tv. Oh, and maybe it is a triptych. Maybe it's like a three panel thing and there's a guy on a couch watching tv. There is a guy over ordering appetizers at a restaurant. And there is a guy, all men.
Bryan Cranston
So it's like.
Ike Barinholtz
But we'll make the last one.
Bryan Cranston
Society, which is.
Ike Barinholtz
We'll make the last one a lady. We'll make the last one. There's a man, a woman and a baby. So it's. It's kind of man, woman and youth and the baby's watching tv. The man, the woman is over ordering apps and the man is asking someone where the bathroom is. That's basically the Baron Holtz family.
Bryan Cranston
The three most important things to the
Ike Barinholtz
Baron Holt family in my life. Right here, we're going to put a little graphic of what that might look like right here.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
If our engineers, if our guys can
Bryan Cranston
get that together, hopefully they did that.
Ike Barinholtz
Brian Cranston, I'm going to ask you a question right now, and it's appropriate that the last question was about cactuses because I'm going to ask you about agave.
Bryan Cranston
Oh, agave.
Ike Barinholtz
Agave is a genius of monocots. A succulent type plant that gives us the sweetening, sweetening agent we all know and love. What is the common name for agave in Mexico?
Bryan Cranston
The common name for agave.
Ike Barinholtz
Another name for agave. I have a hint available.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
Sounds kind of like the name of the thing that turns into a gremlin. Have you seen the movie Gremlins? Well, in the beginning, 40 years ago, this Is a.
Bryan Cranston
But this is a M. Starts with
Ike Barinholtz
an M. I never heard this.
Bryan Cranston
This. It. What is it? I don't think I have magu. Oh, mague.
Ike Barinholtz
Mag.
Bryan Cranston
It's mague.
Ike Barinholtz
So then it's exactly what the name of the thing is in gremlins. Yeah, it's a mague. It's a mague. Your bonus question is agave plants flower how many times in their entire lifetime?
Bryan Cranston
Well, that's a trick question. Because if. If. Because if. If you leave them alone, they'll flower. They'll flower. But if you. You harvest them, they won't, obviously. So how many will they do in their entire life harvest it? Oh, they can't.
Ike Barinholtz
So you. Once and it's called. Sometimes it's called the death bloom.
Bryan Cranston
It's fucking amazing because that plant is no longer. That plant is no longer viable useful for anything.
Ike Barinholtz
It's like you. It's just like, here, enjoy. Enjoy your freaking alcohol. I'm done.
Bryan Cranston
I'm done.
Ike Barinholtz
Thanks.
Bryan Cranston
And that plant can't be used in the process of making mesco.
Ike Barinholtz
No, it's very exploitative.
Bryan Cranston
But what it does do, it's the mother. Because the bloom from that are thousands of seeds in that big bulbous bloom.
Ike Barinholtz
Say bulbous bloom.
Bryan Cranston
Bulbous bloom. Really good. And so what happens is they take that off. So they allow the stalks to grow maybe one per acre. And then they take the seeds from the that because it's been fertilized by the bats and the bees cross pollinating
Ike Barinholtz
bats and the bees fertilizing together.
Bryan Cranston
Well, not together, but individually.
Ike Barinholtz
Individually. So like the bee will fertilize and then a little later on the bat
Bryan Cranston
will come on some of this drop poop and eat. Eat the fruit and drop you guano.
Ike Barinholtz
Yeah, bat poop is called guano.
Bryan Cranston
That's right, yeah. Maguey. Maguey guano.
Ike Barinholtz
Maguey guano. Now you, I asked you for your categories and one of your categories was agave, of course. Because you are the founder of an incredible mezcal and now tequila company called Dos Hombres. Yeah, I was not a Mezcal guy and you made me a Mezcal guy. And this is a company that you started with Aaron Paul. Who is that? How did you guys meet?
Bryan Cranston
Aaron Paul is an actor, you know, you may know him from the show Breaking Bad.
Ike Barinholtz
Now what is explained to those who don't know what is Breaking Bad? I'm not a TV guy.
Bryan Cranston
Not a TV guy.
Ike Barinholtz
So I'm just gonna throw that out there.
Bryan Cranston
But even though it's in Your family
Ike Barinholtz
crest, even though it's in my family crest, But I'm watching mostly documentaries.
Bryan Cranston
Interesting. Trying to raise your game.
Ike Barinholtz
Erudite type of. Yes, I see that. Breaking Bad. It sounds like it is a show about the process of Michael Jackson writing his third album. Is that what it's about?
Bryan Cranston
It's actually reminiscent of you in the bathroom. After all that food at Dodger State is Breaking Bad. It's like, ike, should I call an ambulance? Breaking. I didn't even know what the term Breaking Bad meant when we first started shooting that show. And then I realized it's a Southern colloquial term in general use. Ooh. We broke bad last night, you know. Oh, really? What happened? Well, we did this. Got into a little bit too much schnapps or whatever. Got into a little bit of trouble.
Ike Barinholtz
Schnapps, meth. It's all good.
Bryan Cranston
It's all the same.
Ike Barinholtz
It's all good.
Bryan Cranston
And so Aaron and I, three years after the end of Breaking Bad, we thought, God, why don't we just don't see each other very much anymore after seven years of really seeing each other, and we're very, very good friends. So he said, why don't we start a Mezcal company? And I said, ooh, that's really a terrible idea. And so we did.
Ike Barinholtz
Have you ever considered bringing in Paul Mescal, the actor, to this? It just feels like a natural. Kind of seems natural.
Bryan Cranston
I actually sent a bottle of our Mezcal to Mezcal.
Ike Barinholtz
He's like, I'm sober.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah, I know.
Ike Barinholtz
He's not. He's.
Bryan Cranston
I don't know.
Ike Barinholtz
Or Irish. Yeah, definitely not sober, so.
Bryan Cranston
Well, they. They get sober when they. When they die.
Ike Barinholtz
Yeah, everyone gets sober when they die. I remember when we were in Las Vegas and we were shooting a studio, and we were shooting in the casino floor, and it was a little late, and we were a little punchy, and our good friend Pete Hike came over to us and said, hey, if we were able to maybe rustle up a couple cocktails for you guys, would you guys maybe want to have a little cocktail? And that's a good P height. I was like, yeah, I would love a Negroni. And you go, it's like your radar popped up, and you go, have you ever had a Mezcal Negroni before? And I said, no. And you turn to Pete and you go. Go to the center bar. They have Dos Hombres and get three Dos Hom Negronis.
Bryan Cranston
And did I order them like that? I bossed him around.
Ike Barinholtz
You Were. It was very cool, though. Okay, so 20 minutes later, Pete comes back and he had like. Because we didn't want to have like actual, you know, booze cups while we're acting, he had like Cheesecake Factory to go coffee cups. And he goes, there's your Negroni. And I take a sip of it and you're watching me. And I go, oh. And you go, how good is it that I go, it's incredible. And you said, you'll never go back to having a non mescal Negroni ever again. And Pete goes, oh, they didn't have Dos Hombres. That's just a play. Negroni. And you go,
Bryan Cranston
By the way, is that your impression of me?
Ike Barinholtz
That's part of it.
Bryan Cranston
Part of it.
Ike Barinholtz
Got a little bit of a. It's either you or Clint Eastwood. I can't figure it out.
Bryan Cranston
Or Berl Lancaster or Bur La.
Ike Barinholtz
I got a great Bur Lancaster story. I'll tell you when we wrap. But I don't think I can say it publicly because I think it's slanderous. Is your goal to be the Walter White of Agave based liquors?
Bryan Cranston
Yeah, he's in the empire business. And so we take our work ethic that I think is essential if you want to be successful in any business. You gotta take it into this. And sometimes I'll get. I've had two calls from two celebrities I won't mention. I'll tell you after. After we do this, saying, what do you think? Should I get into this? And I. And I said, do you want to work hard? And do you. Do you want to spend time away from your family? Do you want to build a business? And there's like, oh, shit, no. I thought you. No, no. I said, it'll go down in flames if you don't get behind it and start working. But you gotta have the right juice. And we. And Dos Hombres, we found the right tequila and we found the right mezcal, and it had to meet our standards or else. I just don't want to do it. If I can't get passionate about something, I'm out.
Ike Barinholtz
I am the one who ferments. Oh, is agave fermented? Is Mezcal fermented?
Bryan Cranston
It is.
Ike Barinholtz
Okay, so that would work.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
I've told you this before. I was a huge fan of. Of Breaking Bad and Breaking Bad. Did I think one of the smartest things ever in a show, which is in the pilot or I think the pilot. Walter White is broke and he's dying and he has to take on another job at the car wash. Yeah. And there's a scene where he's selling things in like the. He's working the counter, right? And there's a scene where a bunch of his high school students come and the manager says, hey, go wash the cars. And you see that it's the students, and you're like, you told me I wouldn't have to wash the cars. And he has to go do it. And one of the students are like, is that you, Mr. White? And it is so brilliant. It's such amazing writing and acting. Because you feel so bad for this man. You feel such an empathy for what he is going through that you're like, yeah, I could spend the next six years watching you murder hundreds of people.
Bryan Cranston
Well, you know, maybe not that many,
Ike Barinholtz
but directly or indirectly?
Bryan Cranston
Indirectly.
Ike Barinholtz
Indirectly.
Bryan Cranston
Indirectly.
Ike Barinholtz
I mean, if you think about the overdose deaths and stuff, you're in the thousands. You're basically a mass murderer.
Bryan Cranston
Thank you very much.
Ike Barinholtz
But personally, I'm guessing you probably capped off like, at least 25 guys. At least.
Bryan Cranston
I don't.
Ike Barinholtz
Oh, no. More, More. Wait, okay, hold on, hold on. Okay. Obviously the end. You got about 12 meth Nazis gone.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
The Montage, season three. Dust yourself off. You're killing all of Mike's guys in jail. That's another baker's dozen. You know what I mean? Like, you're near 40.
Bryan Cranston
Careful, it'll be 41.
Ike Barinholtz
Brian, you're my friend, okay?
Bryan Cranston
I would do it swiftly.
Ike Barinholtz
Thank you. Yeah. Don't stretch it out. Don't stretch it out. Treat me like you did with Lydia. Lydia? No, no, not Lydia. Lydia was the one where it was like, slow death over five years.
Bryan Cranston
Very painful.
Ike Barinholtz
Yeah. I want to be like meth Nazi number four. Like 150 cal. 50 cal? Boom. Right to the side of the head. Shit my pants. Done. Okay, there are some drinks that are synonymous with legendary characters. Right? The dude, White Russian.
Bryan Cranston
White Russian, Yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
James Bond martini.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
I'm gonna name some of your characters that you've played, and I want you to tell me what cocktail they would drink. Are you ready? Okay. Hal from Malcolm in the Middle.
Bryan Cranston
Sarsaparilla.
Ike Barinholtz
I. I was gonna say non alcoholic beer that still gets him drunk somehow.
Bryan Cranston
Woo.
Ike Barinholtz
This one's gonna five Heineken zeros, baby. Tim Watley from Seinfeld.
Bryan Cranston
I would say he's a, like a slow gin fizz. Ooh.
Ike Barinholtz
It's a very appropriately, like, annoying drink
Bryan Cranston
because he's kind of a. Yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
Walter White.
Bryan Cranston
He's drinking Pappy just The good.
Ike Barinholtz
The good Pappy. Neat. Dalton Trumbo is a real guy.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah. And a real drinker. Yep. I think he was a. Maybe a bourbon guy. I would say maybe an old Fashioned.
Ike Barinholtz
An Old Fashioned guy.
Bryan Cranston
Yep.
Ike Barinholtz
Lbj.
Bryan Cranston
Well, he's Cuddy.
Ike Barinholtz
Cuddy.
Bryan Cranston
He drank water. Maybe drink cutting Cuddy with maybe a little water. Touch a little water in there.
Ike Barinholtz
My last one. The guy from Argo. The man who yells in Argo.
Bryan Cranston
The CIA guy. Yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
The man who yells at Chris Messina in Argo. God damn it. We don't have that kind of time.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah, I forget what his name was, too. I think he's probably a gin and tonic.
Ike Barinholtz
Yeah, that was a very 70s.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah. Kind of. Yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
One more question about Mezcal. Ready?
Bryan Cranston
Okay.
Ike Barinholtz
Mezcal's made from harvesting what part of the agave plant?
Bryan Cranston
Pina.
Ike Barinholtz
You just knocked out the second question and the bonus. I was gonna ask you what's it called in Spanish. You said the pina. I would have also accepted the Nina and the Santa Maria. That is very, very good. That is very impressive. You have an alcohol brand. You are a celebrity. You have to physically fight other celebrities to own. Own a tequila company. Are you ready?
Bryan Cranston
I guess.
Ike Barinholtz
Great. Who wins, you or the Casamigos?
Bryan Cranston
Guys of Aaron, Paul and I.
Ike Barinholtz
Yes. Physically fight George Clooney and Randy Gerber.
Bryan Cranston
Well, I'm older than everyone, but Paul's
Ike Barinholtz
younger than all of you. Yes.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
I think you guys are washing him.
Bryan Cranston
He's. He's sneaky.
Ike Barinholtz
Bye. Bye. George, what about you and Teramana? Who's Taramana?
Bryan Cranston
Oh, that's the. That's Dwayne. Dwayne Johnson.
Ike Barinholtz
Dwayne Johnson. Okay, think about this.
Bryan Cranston
I would. I would send Aaron Paul in and just.
Ike Barinholtz
There's two of you, though. I think you're taking him. He's a strong guy.
Bryan Cranston
We'd have to be very tricky with him.
Ike Barinholtz
Well, yeah, like, you're talking to him. You're like, dwayne, let me ask you a question. I got an idea for a movie that then Paul or Aaron just comes up and just like, I would say,
Bryan Cranston
yeah, Dwayne, is that your neck?
Ike Barinholtz
Oh, my brother, don't do this.
Bryan Cranston
Did you drop your necklace and then crush him over the head?
Ike Barinholtz
Brother, you. Aaron, this ain't cool, brother.
Bryan Cranston
And then he'd give me this, you
Ike Barinholtz
know, and then as he's going out, he's like, let me tell you what I was cooking.
Bryan Cranston
Chicken.
Ike Barinholtz
Oh, that's what he was cooking.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
Brian Cranston, I want you to ask me question number Two.
Bryan Cranston
Yes, I will.
Ike Barinholtz
Here we go. I'm feeling good. Because I'm one for one.
Bryan Cranston
You are. I picked up a couple because I can kind of sift through.
Ike Barinholtz
And since you don't know, it's not in a specific order that I've memorized. I don't know why you would imply that.
Bryan Cranston
Lamborghini was founded in 1948, but not as a sports car brand. What vehicle did they originally make?
Ike Barinholtz
It's gotta be motorcycles.
Bryan Cranston
It's gotta be.
Ike Barinholtz
I mean, what else would it be? Fire trucks?
Bryan Cranston
Well, you want a hint?
Ike Barinholtz
Yeah.
Bryan Cranston
Still four wheels.
Ike Barinholtz
Oh, four wheels. Okay.
Bryan Cranston
But not all the same size.
Ike Barinholtz
Ambulance.
Bryan Cranston
A tractor. Tractors. Okay, well, the answer was tractors. No, you are. You are wrong. Budweiser breath.
Ike Barinholtz
Okay, you dropped this Carson impression one night in Italy when I was on like my fifth drink and I had tears in my eyes. It's really good.
Bryan Cranston
It's fun.
Ike Barinholtz
Tractor is a Lamborghini tractor. That's so stupid.
Bryan Cranston
I know.
Ike Barinholtz
You have a chance to. Okay, let me redeem myself.
Bryan Cranston
Here you go. Bonus question. What other famous car brand has Lamborghini been in a rivalry with since 1963?
Ike Barinholtz
Nissan. No, I'm joking. It's gotta be Ferrari.
Bryan Cranston
Ferrari. Yeah. Ferrari.
Ike Barinholtz
I want to make a biopic instead of Ford Vs. Ferrari about the guy who made the Lamborghini. And he's a farmer? Apparently.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
What the. That's ridiculous.
Bryan Cranston
So you're bitter when you get something.
Ike Barinholtz
I get really mad. I do. I do. I do. And I drive home and I'm like, God damn it. But it's fine. It's good. It's good that I'm losing.
Bryan Cranston
Do you want me to ask you another one?
Ike Barinholtz
Let's have fun. It's fun.
Bryan Cranston
Before labor laws standardize work hours, most Americans work six days a week or more. Question. Which American industrialist helped make the switch to a five day, 40 hour work week by changing his factory schedules in the early 1900s? Wow.
Ike Barinholtz
A. A like a nice corporate overlord.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
Okay.
Bryan Cranston
Who would it be?
Ike Barinholtz
Well, so it's early 1900s. Yes. You know, you're. You're, you're. You're looking at your Rockefellers. You're looking at your. Who was the guy that. Carnegie. I'm gonna see Carnegie.
Bryan Cranston
I will give you a hint. Yes, it's a person that I am. I work with his company.
Ike Barinholtz
Wait, what?
Bryan Cranston
I work with this person's company. And very proud of it. What car did I drive in the lot today?
Ike Barinholtz
A pink Miata.
Bryan Cranston
Yes, but beside that.
Ike Barinholtz
4 Ford.
Bryan Cranston
Yes, it was Henry Ford. Henry Ford.
Ike Barinholtz
Really? Henry Ford.
Bryan Cranston
Henry ford started the five day, 40 hour work week before it was six days and as many hours as they so chewed.
Ike Barinholtz
Wow.
Bryan Cranston
You wanna, you wanna follow up question? It's also about Ford.
Ike Barinholtz
Okay.
Bryan Cranston
What iconic Ford car produced from 1908 to 1927 made cars more affordable for the middle class?
Ike Barinholtz
That's gotta be the most Model T baby.
Bryan Cranston
Boom, Boom, boom, boom. There it is.
Ike Barinholtz
I want to ask you a question now, Brian.
Bryan Cranston
Okay, how about that?
Ike Barinholtz
And I'm going to ask you a question about American theater.
Bryan Cranston
Oh.
Ike Barinholtz
Or as some call it, theater. There are several plays that could claim to be the greatest American play. One being Eugene oneills Long Journey and Long Day's Journey into Night. What is the setting for this play?
Bryan Cranston
Bar.
Ike Barinholtz
Can you say the name? I'm looking for the name.
Bryan Cranston
Oh, the name.
Ike Barinholtz
It all takes place.
Bryan Cranston
Ah.
Ike Barinholtz
And I have a hint.
Bryan Cranston
It's the guy's name.
Ike Barinholtz
It's three words.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
Blank, blank, blank. First part is the name of a real delicious sandwich.
Bryan Cranston
Oh. The French Dip Cafe.
Ike Barinholtz
The Corned Beef Hotel. Welcome to Reubenville. The answer.
Bryan Cranston
Do you know it? No.
Ike Barinholtz
Monte Cristo Cottage. I didn't know that either. Here's a bonus. There was a sequel to this play. What was the sequel to? Long Day's Journey Into Tonight?
Bryan Cranston
A short afternoon.
Ike Barinholtz
It's, it's, it's, it's the, the.
Bryan Cranston
The.
Ike Barinholtz
The. A celestial object is in the title.
Bryan Cranston
Moon for the misbegotten.
Ike Barinholtz
Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. My friend, you are a real theater actor.
Bryan Cranston
I love theater.
Ike Barinholtz
What's the first play you ever saw? Do you remember?
Bryan Cranston
Yeah, what was it? Well, first professional play.
Ike Barinholtz
Yeah, first professional play.
Bryan Cranston
In 1977, the year I was born. I was in New York traveling around on my motorcycle and they did a revised or it could have been extended, but I saw hair right. In 1977. My friend Peter Gallagher was in that play.
Ike Barinholtz
He was in the original cast of Hair.
Bryan Cranston
I don't know if it was the original at that point, but at that point he was in, he was in there. And okay, so I'm 20 years old, like 21, and I'm a New York play. We kind of get a ticket for $16 or something like that. And I watch and there are naked
Ike Barinholtz
people, there's bush on the stage.
Bryan Cranston
And I thought, oh my God, this is the most amazing thing I've ever seen.
Ike Barinholtz
I gotta be an actor.
Bryan Cranston
I gotta be an actor.
Ike Barinholtz
Oh my God, you're just staring at boobs and you're like, I gotta be an actor.
Bryan Cranston
Look at Those guys, they're around.
Ike Barinholtz
Boobs. Boobs.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah. So I saw hair and it made a big impact on me. It really did. It was like, yeah, wow.
Ike Barinholtz
But it is also an amazing show
Bryan Cranston
with amazing, amazing score.
Ike Barinholtz
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And that was it. You were just like, I'm in now.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah, kind of. Well, kind of. It was that and coupled with. I had an epiphany when I was traveling on a motorcycle and it was rain. I was on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia at the time and it was raining, raining, raining. This is 76, 77. There's, you know, you're working with wet maps and trying to figure out exactly where you are. You don't know exactly where you are. The next town could be 50 miles or 5 miles. So it's pouring rain pulled off. I don't know. I'm going to wait out the rain. Five days later, the rain stopped and I was able to leave. But during those five days when I was stuck marooned on a cement slab picnic area, you know, with just, you know, four posts and a roof and that's it. And doing push ups, just trying to get past the thing your mind is going. And I was reading a book of plays and it was at that point, it was like, God, without this book, man, I would be going crazy. But I was able to read through all these plays and I thought, thought, well, maybe that's what I should do. I should do something that really I'm falling in love with and hopefully become good at as opposed to doing something that I was good at but not in love with.
Ike Barinholtz
I just like the idea of you doing your first play after you saw Hair and you're like, when do we get naked?
Bryan Cranston
Yeah, when are the girls naked?
Ike Barinholtz
This is the Merchant of Venice. What are you talking about? Yeah, you switch on stage. Totally new.
Bryan Cranston
There's naked Virginia.
Ike Barinholtz
Why is Benvolio fucking? His dick is out. What's happening over there? The first show I ever saw, real show was Guys and Dolls with your friend Peter Gallagher, Scott Masterson and Nathan Lane and Faith Prince. It blew my mind. And I said to myself, one day I will be doing a song on Broadway and that will never happen. Cause I have the shittiest voice of all time.
Bryan Cranston
But you can train. You can train.
Ike Barinholtz
You can train. I can cheat my way.
Bryan Cranston
I don't consider myself a singer either, but that's one of my goals too, is do a Broadway show.
Ike Barinholtz
Shade with. Should we sing Fugue for Tinhorns right now and start it off?
Bryan Cranston
Yeah, we could. Yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
Got My horse right here.
Bryan Cranston
His name is Paul Revere, and I
Ike Barinholtz
don't know the rest of the lyrics.
Bryan Cranston
There's a fella says that if the weather's clear, can do this guy says
Ike Barinholtz
the horse can do.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah. This no can do. Can do this fella says the horse can do. Can do.
Ike Barinholtz
Can do that would just clip that moment. That was beautiful. That was beautiful. Yeah.
Bryan Cranston
You'd have to pay a royalty of that.
Ike Barinholtz
You played Lyndon Johnson in all the way. I would kill to have seen that if I wrote a version of that. But it's Trump. Will you play? Doesn't let me pitch it to you. It's not Trump now. It's like Trump in like 2012 when he would just watch Extra and then make a video where he's like, well, that's not interesting. Then they're making it all girl. Ghostbusters horrib. It would be a lot of that.
Bryan Cranston
That's good. That's pretty good Trump.
Ike Barinholtz
Thank you. Bryan Cranston, very nasty guy.
Bryan Cranston
Very nasty.
Ike Barinholtz
Big Lib. He's a demo rat. Fucking idiot.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah. I don't know if. I don't know if I'd want to get into. When you think of playing someone, you have to then get into that skin every day. Every single day. And I think I would feel dirty.
Ike Barinholtz
Yeah, it would feel bad.
Bryan Cranston
It would be hard to.
Ike Barinholtz
Especially right now. Like you would if you did a play right now, like, of Donald Trump, like Cash Patel would, like, come to your house, be like, you're under arrest. Can't make fun of the president. Who is the greatest American theater actor you've ever seen.
Bryan Cranston
Mmm. Boy, there's so many. I would say Philip Seymour Hoffman might be there. He had the.
Ike Barinholtz
The.
Bryan Cranston
The ease and the depth, like Spencer Tracy in movies. And yet mesmerizing to watch.
Ike Barinholtz
He's our most goed actor. I think he's incredible. I kind of become friends with his kid, who's a great actor too. Yeah, he. It's really good. There's. There sometimes he'll, like in a scene, he'll do something and you go, oh, my God. Oh, my God.
Bryan Cranston
Just like, you did it.
Ike Barinholtz
Hell. But he is a. Cooper's a great actor. Jeez Louise. Yeah. I was thinking when I was writing these questions, I was thinking about theater and I was like, you know what play really just had, like, shitty luck was the play that Lincoln saw when he died. Oh, ready? Bonus question right now. Can you name that play at one time?
Bryan Cranston
I. I can't. I can't pull it out.
Ike Barinholtz
Fy ass. Name for a play.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah. I can't. It was a weird.
Ike Barinholtz
It sounds like a sitcom on ABC in the 90s.
Bryan Cranston
I know what it is.
Ike Barinholtz
What is it?
Bryan Cranston
Maguey.
Ike Barinholtz
Maguey. Mr. President, we're gonna take you to see Maguey tonight. Oh, I've heard good things about Maguey. It's called Our American Cousin.
Bryan Cranston
Our American Cousin.
Ike Barinholtz
It just sucks, though. Imagine it's like 1864 and you're a playwright and you've struck out. Out on multiple plays. And finally you write this dumbass play and people are like, we're gonna put it up and the President's gonna come see it.
Bryan Cranston
Yes.
Ike Barinholtz
And then some bitch ass failson Southern fried pussy shows up.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
And caps the president. Failed actor. So many of the problems in this world are from failed actors.
Bryan Cranston
Are from failed actors.
Ike Barinholtz
Caps the President. And now no one cares about your political play anymore. Like, you can't. Like in 1867, the playwright couldn't be like, should we try it again? Should we try another production? People like, no.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah. They associate. You killed the President.
Ike Barinholtz
Yes. I think it's the worst thing that happened that night is that that play just got completely.
Bryan Cranston
By far the worst thing that happened that night.
Ike Barinholtz
If you could put on a production of any play, money's no object. Anything you want, what would you do?
Bryan Cranston
Well, I've. I've wanted to do. There's a. I've wanted to do Damn Yankees for a while and I think they're doing it actually soon on Broadway. And I was in discussions with the possibility of doing it, but I saw it differently than I. Than these producers saw it and the estate. So I went a different way and that's okay.
Ike Barinholtz
You were doing Darn Yankees.
Bryan Cranston
Darn.
Ike Barinholtz
A little bit saucy.
Bryan Cranston
They're doing Darn Yankees.
Ike Barinholtz
The darn Mets.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah. And so we were in discussions for a while. We were getting kind of deep in it and then it just kind of. For me and my sensibility, it just kind of stalled out and it didn't go where I felt it could have gone to update it from the 1950s and really make it vibrant. And plus the character in Damn Yankees that I would have played is the devil.
Ike Barinholtz
Yes.
Bryan Cranston
And I've never seen a production of Damn Yankees. Treat the devil character with respect.
Ike Barinholtz
It's always a little zany, zany foppish.
Bryan Cranston
Darn you.
Ike Barinholtz
Yeah, yeah.
Bryan Cranston
It's like, no, we're dealing with the fucking devil.
Ike Barinholtz
The devil? Yes.
Bryan Cranston
I mean, this omnipotent force. And I thought it should have scared people as well as figure out, oh, my God, The. The protagonist is never gonna succeed against this guy, and it helps the play anyway. You know, it. It is what it is. It's what I wanted to do for many, many years, but, you know, didn't. Didn't work out.
Ike Barinholtz
I would do. If money's no object, I would do the Elephant man, but I would have real elephants. I haven't read the play, but I can imagine there's obviously elephants.
Bryan Cranston
You did.
Ike Barinholtz
You.
Bryan Cranston
You're gonna do the Elephant Man Man.
Ike Barinholtz
But I. I know that most plays don't have the budget to have a bunch of elephants come out. And I'm just like, if I could do any play and money's no object, I'm going to do the Elephant Man. But there will be actual elephants.
Bryan Cranston
So where does the man come in? It's just the elephant, then.
Ike Barinholtz
Well, I'd be the guy. I assume. It's a play about a guy who kind of hangs out with elephants and talks to them and stuff. I should basically just do the circus, maybe.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah, that's called a circus.
Ike Barinholtz
No, I would do A Few Good Men, but I would play every part. Like the.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah, like the. The. They're doing solo shows like that a
Ike Barinholtz
lot now, where you're just running, like, from point to point on the stage.
Bryan Cranston
You're just.
Ike Barinholtz
I want answers. You want the truth? I want the truth. You can't handle the truth. Getting winded just doing that.
Bryan Cranston
Just in the little bit that I've seen.
Ike Barinholtz
It's good, though, right?
Bryan Cranston
You should not do this.
Ike Barinholtz
Objection, your honor. Who are you, Kevin Bacon? What? Like, I think I'm combining the movie with quiz.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
All right, I'm gonna ask you another.
Bryan Cranston
I saw Bradley Cooper do Elephant Man. He was.
Ike Barinholtz
I heard it was incredible.
Bryan Cranston
It was fantastic.
Ike Barinholtz
It was incredible.
Bryan Cranston
He was really fantastic.
Ike Barinholtz
To make that guy not hot is.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
Come on, Tony. Give him a Tony.
Bryan Cranston
But he messed up his body every night because he's all I remember.
Ike Barinholtz
Yeah, look like me after a few hours on a flight. I don't know what character that is. Here's another question about American theater. The 1986 film About Last Night, starring Rob Lowe and Demi Moore, was an adaptation of a 1974 David Mamet play called what?
Bryan Cranston
It wasn't called what?
Ike Barinholtz
That's what I have here.
Bryan Cranston
Oh, Boom boom Room.
Ike Barinholtz
No. I'll give you a hint. Mamet's hometown, which is also mine, is in the name.
Bryan Cranston
Oh, yeah, yeah. It's Sexual perversity in Chicago. Boom, boom, boom, Boom, boom.
Ike Barinholtz
Brian Cranston with another point, I have an impossible bonus question. And if you get this one right, you get 100 points. No one's ever gotten more than like 13.
Bryan Cranston
You get 100 points. And can I redeem them for something?
Ike Barinholtz
The points are redeemable at any local Ralph's. Okay, who was in the og Stage version version of this play which I believe took. Which I believe was in Vermont
Bryan Cranston
of. Oh, the play. Sexual Perversity in Chicago.
Ike Barinholtz
The first time they did the play, One of the actors, very young at the time.
Bryan Cranston
Was it Newman?
Ike Barinholtz
William H. Macy.
Bryan Cranston
William H. Macy.
Ike Barinholtz
And same rules. If you get this right, I'm gonna give you 100 points. Mamet wrote the play.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
Who co wrote. Wrote the screenplay. Oh, this is crazy. He won't get this. This is insane. This is like. I'll say local Chicago, second city favorite who went on to star in some. A franchise.
Bryan Cranston
I will say Carrot Top.
Ike Barinholtz
Carrot Top was not at Second City.
Bryan Cranston
Okay.
Ike Barinholtz
Tim Kazarinski.
Bryan Cranston
Oh, Tim, sure.
Ike Barinholtz
Timmy. Tim.
Bryan Cranston
Tim. Tim.
Ike Barinholtz
Do you like mammoth? Do you like mammoth?
Bryan Cranston
Do I like mammoth?
Ike Barinholtz
I'm asking you if you like.
Bryan Cranston
You like mammoth?
Ike Barinholtz
I like mammoth. We both like mammoth. Li Di.
Bryan Cranston
Die.
Ike Barinholtz
I just wanted to do that with him.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah, yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
He's pretty. He's pretty great.
Bryan Cranston
You know, seems like a.
Ike Barinholtz
Like in real life. Maybe a crazy person a little bit, but like I love a little bit.
Bryan Cranston
He. You know, I used to coach baseball. I used to coach his. His nephew. Nephew in Little League.
Ike Barinholtz
And I've worked with both of his daughters and they're so cool. And I like. I just think he's a great writer. Even like mid Mammoth is better than most other stuff.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah. Like Speed the Plow.
Ike Barinholtz
Speed the Plow.
Bryan Cranston
You should call it Speed the Play because it was like 80 minutes or something.
Ike Barinholtz
Speed the Play.
Bryan Cranston
They were at Joe Allen sipping while everyone else was at their intermission.
Ike Barinholtz
Brian, will you ask me one more. One more question and then we're gonna do our speed round.
Bryan Cranston
Oh my gosh. Okay. Speed round. Let me get my glasses and. Pick a question.
Ike Barinholtz
Pick a question here. I think this is my third question.
Bryan Cranston
Okay. What film prop is widely cited as the most expensive ever made for a film costing $8 million?
Ike Barinholtz
A prop.
Bryan Cranston
A prop in the 19. What is the most. What film prop is widely cited as the most ever expensive. $8 million in the 1980s?
Ike Barinholtz
8 million.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
Is it Star Wars?
Bryan Cranston
No.
Ike Barinholtz
Is it Indiana Jones?
Bryan Cranston
No. Can I show you?
Ike Barinholtz
Give me a hint. Yeah.
Bryan Cranston
It actually floats still today.
Ike Barinholtz
What, the submarine from Dashbot? No, no, it's still. Oh, oh, oh, I know what it is. I know what it is. It's the pirate ship from Goonies.
Bryan Cranston
No, fuck.
Ike Barinholtz
What is it?
Bryan Cranston
Full scale replica of a Spanish galleon for Neptune.
Ike Barinholtz
Never even heard of this movie.
Bryan Cranston
Well, I don't know if Nep. I think maybe Neptune is the name of the. Of the Spanish galleon. Maybe the name of the ship is called Neptune, but it didn't say what movie Here, bonus question. Name the 1986 movie starring Walter Matthau that featured the galleon.
Ike Barinholtz
Oh, I know what it is. It's pirates. It is a Roman Polanski film. Pirates.
Bryan Cranston
That's exactly right.
Ike Barinholtz
That's really funny that Walter Matthaus is like, I'm playing a pirate in my knife. I have to go find Davy Jones.
Bryan Cranston
I'm playing a pirate, Felix.
Ike Barinholtz
Well, that sounds great. I love that Oscar. Wow, wow, wow, wow. Not one of Roman Polanski's best. No, not the worst thing he's ever
Bryan Cranston
done, but it is by far the worst thing Roman Polanski has ever done.
Ike Barinholtz
Pirates.
Bryan Cranston
Making that film. Pirates. I think that's 100% accuracy.
Ike Barinholtz
They made that movie that just. The ship cost 8 million and it's still floating. The fuck is going on here?
Bryan Cranston
Is that. God, that's in the 80s. It's like, okay, it's gonna cost us.
Ike Barinholtz
Okay.
Bryan Cranston
Yes, yes, yes.
Ike Barinholtz
That is when literally everyone involved in the production, from the base camp PA to the accountant, is coked out of their mind.
Bryan Cranston
Coked out of their mind.
Ike Barinholtz
Most of the movies in the 80s were made. And you're not. I know you're not a cocaine guy. You've told me. You famously have never done it.
Bryan Cranston
No.
Ike Barinholtz
What was it like in the 80s when everyone is just like, yeah, man. Oh, my God, have you seen Soul Man? Fucking hilarious.
Bryan Cranston
I went on an audition at Fox once back in the late 80s. This is 80, maybe not so late. It would have been 84, something like that. And for some reason, the callbacks for this movie, and I don't even remember the name of the movie, but the callbacks for this movie was on a Saturday, I guess they were starting quickly and it was like there were about 12 guys of different. I think three guys for this role and three for that and three for the. You know. And so we go in and read and there was coke residue on the coffee table, clear to see. I mean, it wasn't like the lines, but you could see the. See, not a razor blade, but whatever they use. And it's like credit card. And there was definitely a straw there. And it Was like, wow. And the guy's, okay, okay, great. Love you. Love you. Let me just say, I love it.
Ike Barinholtz
Love it.
Bryan Cranston
And he's, like, flying. And I'm going, now is he even gonna remember me? You know, I don't know. But anyway, I was a little. I was a little freaked out by that, and I never. I didn't get the roll.
Ike Barinholtz
Bryan Cranston, you've done very well, but it's not over yet because we now have the speed round. Wow. Speed round. Bryan Cranston, here's how the speed round is going to work. I'm going to ask you a bunch of questions. You are going to answer as many as you can in 90 seconds. If you don't know the answer, just say pass. If you know it, I will say correct. If you get it right. If you get it wrong, I will say incorrect. But don't. My one piece of advice is don't waste a lot of time if you don't know it, just say pass. Are you ready for the speed round? And that's the show. Here we go. Oh, and then for the ones that I get wrong, you can just kind of keep them on your lap.
Bryan Cranston
And we're not alternating.
Ike Barinholtz
We're not alternating. I'm going to go do all mine, and then you're going to go. Here we go. Bryan Cranston, start the clock. Making his debut for The Dodgers in 1980, this superstar was nicknamed El Tor Valenzuela. Yes. Tequila is primarily made from this type of agave.
Bryan Cranston
Blue agave.
Ike Barinholtz
Yes. This is the name of the deceased Lohman brother and death of a salesman Willie. No. This second baseman was a Dodgers team captain from 1973 to 1981.
Bryan Cranston
Lopes.
Ike Barinholtz
Yes. What variety of mezcal comes from Sonora?
Bryan Cranston
Toba.
Ike Barinholtz
No. Who originally originated the part of Troy Maxson in August Wilson's Fences?
Bryan Cranston
James Earl Jones.
Ike Barinholtz
Yes. In 2000, a Dodger tied the franchise record for home runs in a season, only for another player to break it the following season. Name either player.
Bryan Cranston
Sean Green.
Ike Barinholtz
Yes. What fizzy and fermented drink is made from agua meal, AKA agave SAP?
Bryan Cranston
Oh, I forget.
Ike Barinholtz
This farce originally written in French, had a Broadway Revival in 2008 starring Mark Rylance and our friend Katherine Hahn.
Bryan Cranston
I've passed.
Ike Barinholtz
What required stamp verifies a spirit has met the Mexican government standards. No. How many career no hitters did Sandy Koufax pitch? Four. Yes. This is. Is this Sam Shepard play deals with sibling rivalry between brothers Austin and Lee.
Bryan Cranston
Oh, God.
Ike Barinholtz
You got a lot more than you Got wrong. You were trying at the end. The Sam Shepard play that deals with sibling rivalry. True West.
Bryan Cranston
Truest. Yeah.
Ike Barinholtz
Starring Phil Hoffman and John C. Reilly. At one point you said R. Stamp. It's an nom Stamp. Norma Aficion mexicano. Katherine Hahn, Our friend and Mark Rylance. We're in Boing, boing, boing, boing, boing, boing. Fizzy and fermented drink made from aguamile AKA Salp is polque or polque. A variety of mezcal from Sonora is bacanora. And you said Willy Lohman. The deceased brother is Ben Bowman. But the rest of them you got right. Bryan Cranston. Here we go. This is what it's all about.
Bryan Cranston
Okay. What religious movement began with. With Martin Luther's 95 thesis in 1517?
Ike Barinholtz
Lutheranism or Protestantism?
Bryan Cranston
Right. What's the 1992 Disney film that features a whole new world?
Ike Barinholtz
Aladdin.
Bryan Cranston
Right. Who wrote Hallelujah, later to be famous by Jeff Buckley's cover.
Ike Barinholtz
It's the guy, the Jewish guy. I can't remember. Pass. Who? What friends?
Bryan Cranston
French general crowned himself emperor in 1804. What Italian city is built roughly on a 118 small island?
Ike Barinholtz
Ah, Venezia.
Bryan Cranston
What is on 109? What? 1969 Miles Davis double album is credited with launching jazz fusion.
Ike Barinholtz
Miles Davis. I'm cool. Nope.
Bryan Cranston
What ancient civilization built Macau Pichu in Hamas. Sorry. In the 15th century.
Ike Barinholtz
The Incas. Yep.
Bryan Cranston
What Brazilian soccer legend won three FIFA tournaments? Pele. What instrument does the was Yo Yo Ma play?
Ike Barinholtz
Cello.
Bryan Cranston
What famous dance style originated in Argentina?
Ike Barinholtz
The macarena.
Bryan Cranston
What's a 1968 sci fi feature? Hal. In 19.
Ike Barinholtz
2001 Space Odyssey.
Bryan Cranston
Yep. What sport as the athlete was an MLB all star and NFL Pro bowler.
Ike Barinholtz
Bo Jackson.
Bryan Cranston
Bo Jackson. Right. What yellow spice gives curry? Yes. Oh, man. You crushed it, baby.
Ike Barinholtz
This was the best I've done on the show.
Bryan Cranston
Is it really?
Ike Barinholtz
Yeah, by far. I'm so happy right now.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah. So can I say that I think the questions were a little easier?
Ike Barinholtz
Please? Give me a couple more. Give me three more and I'll give you three more.
Bryan Cranston
Okay. What Greek philosopher famously lived in a barrel to embody cynicism?
Ike Barinholtz
Archimedes. Nope, I got one wrong.
Bryan Cranston
What dog breed plays basketball in 1997? Air Bud.
Ike Barinholtz
He's a golden retriever.
Bryan Cranston
Right. What British indie group released Dog Days are Over?
Ike Barinholtz
Florence in the Machine.
Bryan Cranston
Yep.
Ike Barinholtz
This hall of Fame Dodgers manager from 1976 to 1996 was famous for bleeding dodger blue. Also, what's the Spanish word for the skilled Farmers who harvest agave plants. Mescaleros or jimadors.
Bryan Cranston
Oh, jibradors. We did pretty well. So. The ones you got wrong.
Ike Barinholtz
Yeah, What'd I get wrong?
Bryan Cranston
Davis double album is called Bitches Brew.
Ike Barinholtz
Wow.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah. That's a tough one.
Ike Barinholtz
Really cool.
Bryan Cranston
Hallelujah. You know this? Leonard Cohen.
Ike Barinholtz
Leonard Cohen?
Bryan Cranston
Yeah. Famous dance. I'm surprised you didn't get this one. The tango. Tango.
Ike Barinholtz
The tango.
Bryan Cranston
Argentina.
Ike Barinholtz
Do it. From what I've heard, it wasn't the Macarena.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah, really. Okay. Diogenes. Greek philosopher balls.
Ike Barinholtz
So I got some wrong. I got some wrong. Just to be clear.
Bryan Cranston
You did.
Ike Barinholtz
The most important thing is no one leaves empty handed. We do have a. A gift for you because you've. You've won. Or it was a tie. Or maybe I won. Who knows? Who cares? Yeah, it's not about. About that. This is what it's about. It's about this. Brian.
Bryan Cranston
Oh, wow.
Ike Barinholtz
Yeah. Let's see what we got here.
Bryan Cranston
Fantastic.
Ike Barinholtz
Let's see what we got.
Bryan Cranston
Wow. It's like a. Ooh, it's a very comfy kind of throw. Oh, it's a. Oh, it's soft. It's an LA Insignia Dodge Dodgers robe. Dodgers robe.
Ike Barinholtz
You can get out of the shower, put that on and watch the game. You're totally nude underneath it. You. You feel the softness rubbing against your. Your clean ass. It's a really nice bathrobe.
Bryan Cranston
That is really nice.
Ike Barinholtz
This is not. This just is available on stands right now. So I'm.
Bryan Cranston
I'm just now available.
Ike Barinholtz
This is very exciting. I'm gonna go home tonight. I'm.
Bryan Cranston
It's.
Ike Barinholtz
What's the best way to drink? This is just normal sipping with like a little bit of lime.
Bryan Cranston
Yeah, you could do. You could do lime or an orange slice. Or if you know what I could
Ike Barinholtz
do, I can go to Ralph's and get one like Sammy Hagar, Cabo Wabo Margarita Mixes.
Bryan Cranston
I would scream. That's blasphemous. Terrible.
Ike Barinholtz
This is a beautiful thing. It's a beautiful gift.
Bryan Cranston
It's great by itself. You could put the. Do tequila in a margarita sp. I make a really good spicy margarita.
Ike Barinholtz
Spicy mark. I'm a spicy mark.
Bryan Cranston
Spicy mark.
Ike Barinholtz
Bryan Cranston, we've learned so much. You are one of our greatest actors and one of this show's best players, and I cannot thank you enough. We have a little tradition on the show where the guests help us clean it up. I'm joking. Bryan Cranston.
Bryan Cranston
Thank you very much.
Ike Barinholtz
Bryan freaking Cranston.
Bryan Cranston
What fun. Thank you. Ike.
Date: May 20, 2026
Guest: Bryan Cranston
Host: Ike Barinholtz
This episode of Funny You Ask delivers the signature blend of offbeat trivia, banter, and deep knowledge the podcast is known for. Ike Barinholtz welcomes Bryan Cranston—one of his favorite actors, a celebrated theater and TV personality, Breaking Bad legend, Dodgers superfan, and now, liquor entrepreneur—to a free-wheeling, witty conversation. The focus zigzags from Los Angeles Dodgers lore to agave plant science, with detours into American theater, TV history, classic ballpark food, and the business of celebrity spirits. Throughout, the duo’s easy rapport and riotous energy make for a densely packed, laugh-out-loud episode.
Childhood Dodgers Memories:
Vin Scully’s Influence:
Ballpark Food Rituals:
All-Time Favorite Dodgers:
On Being a Pitcher:
Baseball Manager Uniform Bit:
History Quiz:
Agave Science:
Dos Hombres Mezcal:
Breaking Bad Knowledge Drop:
Signature Cocktails for Cranston Characters:
Celebrity Tequila Brawls:
First Plays Seen:
Dream Productions:
Format: 90 seconds each, rapid-fire, answer or pass. Correct/incorrect called immediately.
Sample Questions:
General Knowledge Side:
Total: Both did extremely well, with inch-for-inch speed and plenty of laughter.
Bryan Cranston on Vin Scully’s Influence:
"By listening to Vin Scully... it was a way to feel like everything's okay right now... a wonderfully needed distraction." (14:27)
On Breaking Bad's Emotional Pull:
"You feel so bad for this man... you're like, yeah, I could spend the next six years watching you murder hundreds of people." - Ike (47:19)
On Building a Successful Spirits Brand:
"Do you want to work hard? Do you want to spend time away from your family?... It’ll go down in flames if you don’t get behind it and start working." - Bryan (45:12)
On Pranks:
"Any prank that involves someone digging your death hole is terrible." - Ike (28:22)
On Dream Theater Roles:
"I've never seen a production of Damn Yankees treat the devil character with respect…we’re dealing with the fucking devil." - Bryan (65:49 – 65:58)
[After singing part of "Fugue for Tinhorns"]
"That would just clip that moment. That was beautiful. That was beautiful." - Ike (60:48)
This episode is exuberant, fast-talking, and densely packed with pop-culture and historical asides, all in a style that’s sharp yet affable. The friendship and mutual admiration between Ike and Bryan create a lively, supportive trivia competition punctuated by quick detours into showbiz, sports, and the mechanics of ballpark eating.