What Does Bryan Cranston Know About the LA Dodgers & Agave?

Summary

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Funny You Ask with Ike Barinholtz

Episode: “What Does Bryan Cranston Know About the LA Dodgers & Agave?"

Date: May 20, 2026
Guest: Bryan Cranston
Host: Ike Barinholtz

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Episode Overview

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.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Opening Banter and Quick Wit (02:11 – 05:15)

• Impressions & Energy: The episode kicks off with fast-paced, warm ribbing as Ike and Bryan do impressions, riff on hot dog eating contests (Joey Chestnut style), and poke fun at each other’s nicknames.
• Bryan’s Nickname:
  • Bryan: "When I was a kid, I was Red. Red because I had red hair." (06:50)
  • Ike: "The kid and reds are nicknames that are tough to maintain as you get older." (07:56)
• Giving Each Other Nicknames:
  • Bryan dubs Ike “Sparky:”
    • Bryan: “You’re a spark plug of the show.” (09:09)
  • Ike appoints Bryan “Mr. Bryan Cranston:” “It’s like, cool. NBC. NBC.” (10:10)

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The LA Dodgers: History, Nostalgia, and Ballpark Life (10:11 – 24:51)

• Childhood Dodgers Memories:

  • Cranston recalls his first Dodgers game as a five-year-old at the LA Coliseum, the only thing he remembered being the player "Wally Moon." (10:43 – 11:18)
  • The story behind his production company name—Moonshot Entertainment—derives from Wally “Moonshot” hits. (12:45)

• Vin Scully’s Influence:

  • Bryan: "By listening to Vin Scully... for those three hours, it was a way to feel like everything’s okay. It was a wonderfully needed distraction." (14:27)
  • Ike and Bryan praise other classic announcers and share stories about Harry Caray’s notorious drunkenness. (15:01 – 16:41)

• Ballpark Food Rituals:

  • Cranston’s Dodgers order: bratwurst "with everything," classic Dodger Dog with just mustard, and ballpark beers.
    • Bryan: "You gotta have a brat and a Dodger dog... always tempted to go with the chili, but it gets messy." (19:53 – 20:21)
    • Ike’s iconically American order: “Helmet nachos, fully loaded... two at least... probably two Estrellas, beers, big beers…maybe a soft serve.” (21:03 – 21:35)
  • The absurd hot dog-eating challenge is discussed, with laughter over the prospect of eating one every inning.

• All-Time Favorite Dodgers:

  • Cranston picks Sandy Koufax—"Beautiful, beautiful man…short career, really. 10 years." (22:26 – 22:45)
  • Ike quizzes Bryan on team lore: home run leaders (Duke Snider: “Four.” (23:20); LA HR leader: Eric Karros).

• On Being a Pitcher:

  • Bryan talks about pitching in adult baseball, the stress, and anticipates his upcoming shoulder replacement: “I’m going to auction off my old shoulder… to help defray some of the cost.” (24:26 – 24:58)
  • Joke about ‘Rookie of the Year’ scenario post-surgery.

• Baseball Manager Uniform Bit:

  • Ike: “It’s so funny that baseball managers have to wear uniforms… Imagine if basketball coaches had to wear short shorts.” (26:02 – 26:07)
  • Extended riff imagining NBA coaches in athletic gear.

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Classic Player Pranks & Stories (26:27 – 30:16)

• The Don Drysdale / Ken Boyer Prank War:
  • Ike tells an elaborate, escalating prank involving faked crime and Frank Sinatra’s help: “Any prank that involves someone digging your death hole is terrible.” (28:15)
  • Both share their dislike of mean-spirited or labor-creating “pranks,” especially for production assistants.

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Trivia Trades: Aztec Capitals & Agave Lore (30:16 – 41:30)

• History Quiz:

  • Cranston asks Ike: "When Hernán Cortés arrived in Mexico in 1519, this Aztec capital was built on an island…name the city." (30:46)
    • Ike: "Tenochletan." [Tenochtitlán] (31:01)
  • Discussion about the Mexican flag—its eagle, cactus, and snake imagery.

• Agave Science:

  • Ike: “Agave is a genus of monocots... what is its common name in Mexico?”
    • Bryan: "Maguey." (39:23 – 39:28)
  • One-bloom-per-lifetime ("death bloom") explained:
    • Bryan: “That plant is no longer viable... It’s the mother, because the bloom…(brings) thousands of seeds.” (39:59 – 40:29)
    • Explanation of bats and bees pollinating the maguey.

• Dos Hombres Mezcal:

  • Bryan on co-founding with Aaron Paul: "I said, ‘That’s really a terrible idea...’ And so we did." (42:42)
  • Story about sending a bottle to actor Paul Mescal.

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Breaking Bad, American Theater & Signature Drinks (41:41 – 50:25)

• Breaking Bad Knowledge Drop:

  • Cranston explains the meaning of "Breaking Bad" and the specifically Southern roots of the phrase. (42:04)
  • Ike: “You feel so bad... you’re like, yeah, I could spend the next six years watching you murder hundreds of people.” (47:19)
  • Quick audit of Walter White’s "body count" turns into dark banter.

• Signature Cocktails for Cranston Characters:

  • Ike: "Hal from Malcolm in the Middle?" Bryan: "Sarsaparilla." (48:51)
  • “Walter White?” Bryan: "Pappy [Van Winkle], neat." (49:19)
  • “Dalton Trumbo?” Bryan: "Old Fashioned." (49:28)
  • “LBJ?” Bryan: "Cuddy, with a touch of water." (49:43)
  • “Man who yells in Argo?” Bryan: "Gin and tonic." (50:06)

• Celebrity Tequila Brawls:

  • Joke scenario fighting George Clooney/Randy Gerber (Casamigos) or taking on The Rock (Teremana): "I’d send Aaron Paul in..." (51:07 – 51:21)
  • Playful trash talk and plotting.

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Lightning Trivia Battles: Cars, Workweeks, and American Theater (52:09 – 65:41)

• Trivia Back-and-Forth:
  • Lamborghini started as tractor manufacturer (53:00); rivalry with Ferrari.
  • Henry Ford and 40-hour workweek (54:53 – 54:57); Model T as the middle-class game-changer (55:12)
  • Quick-hitting theater knowledge: O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night setting (Monte Cristo Cottage), “Moon for the Misbegotten,” the impact of seeing Hair, and how Hair’s nudity and energy inspired Bryan’s acting dreams.

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Passion for Theater and Theatrical Dreams (57:01 – 66:20)

• First Plays Seen:

  • Bryan: Hair on Broadway in 1977 (“This is the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen... I gotta be an actor." (57:45 – 57:52)
  • Bryan’s theater epiphany: “Do something I’m falling in love with, and hopefully become good at…” (58:21 – 59:38)

• Dream Productions:

  • Cranston yearns to play the devil in a serious, scary Damn Yankees revival, “never seen a production treat the devil character with respect…we’re dealing with the fucking devil.” (65:49 – 65:57)
  • Ike jokes: “I would do the Elephant Man... with actual elephants. I haven’t read the play...” (66:20 – 66:41)
  • Both riff on one-person shows and dream productions with unlimited budgets.

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Lighting Round — Speed Trivia Showdown (74:37 – 80:38)

• Format: 90 seconds each, rapid-fire, answer or pass. Correct/incorrect called immediately.

• Sample Questions:

  • Dodgers ace nicknamed "El Toro?" Bryan: “Valenzuela." (75:20)
  • Tequila made from which agave? "Blue agave." (75:38)
  • 1980s most expensive movie prop? "Full scale Spanish galleon for Pirates." (71:39 – 72:12)
  • Sam Shepard play about brothers? Answer: True West.
  • Mark Rylance & Katherine Hahn 2008 Broadway farce? Boeing Boeing
  • Sandy Koufax career no-hitters? Four.

• General Knowledge Side:

  • Who wrote “Hallelujah”? Leonard Cohen.
  • Athlete: MLB All-Star & NFL Pro Bowler? Bo Jackson.
  • Greek philosopher in a barrel? Diogenes.
  • Famous dog basketball movie? “Golden Retriever” in Air Bud.

• Total: Both did extremely well, with inch-for-inch speed and plenty of laughter.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• 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)

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Segment Timestamps

• Dodgers & Childhood Nostalgia: 10:11 – 14:27
• Ballpark Foods: 19:35 – 22:17
• Classic Dodgers Trivia: 22:26 – 24:51
• Player Prank Wars: 26:27 – 29:00
• Aztec/Mexico Trivia: 30:46 – 32:31
• Agave Knowledge & Dos Hombres Story: 38:40 – 43:12
• Breaking Bad & Showbiz Satire: 41:41 – 47:19
• Cocktail/Celebrity Quiz: 48:51 – 50:25
• American Theater & First Shows: 55:28 – 60:48
• Lighting Rounds: 74:37 – 80:38
• Closing Prizes & Mezcal Talk: 80:53 – End

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Episode Tone & Dynamic

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.

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Useful Recap for Non-Listeners

• Expect banter and laughter, but also real info on everything from Dodgers history to foundational facts about agave and mezcal.
• Bryan Cranston reveals personal stories (family, childhood, career pivots) as often as baseball stats.
• Cranston’s penchant for knowledge, theater, and spirits entrepreneurship is on full display, always with a comedic touch courtesy of Ike.
• The episode goes deep on the art of the trivia question itself—how much joy the right answer brings, and why not knowing is sometimes more fun.
• Best enjoyed as a journey with frequent rabbit holes, guaranteeing at least three things you didn’t know before.

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Transcript

[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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[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.