Rich Bates
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81 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 29 May
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Oh, great. Oh, same director, yeah. Same writer-director. Yeah, great. And get to know his work better. I'm not sure that that movie... I don't like Enora, as you know. I've said it on this podcast. No, man. It's on record on this podcast. I'd rather not get back into it, rip that band off. But, dude, I've had a lot of people whose opinions I respect, and you, say to me...
that's so funny uh anyway so a lot of people and me have told the admirable people and me have told you have said that they like the movie and are kind of shocked that i just like it so much some people i know hated it so it is a it is a it's a polarizing movie but it makes me want to see the the his previous work yeah and it makes me want to see it again because we saw that movie in the in the cloud of yeah
of Oscar season whenever it's like oh my god no that dude Trump taking over and like just the worst you're in the bad mood and you're watching that when you've watched the left just scuttle the ship trying to get somebody in office and you're like cool Hollywood I'm not sure this is helping but like you know that should be separate I don't know but like
He was barefoot. So Frank, I got a panic call. He was literally barefoot. Yes, but in his defense, his mom and Frank, they woke up at 5 a.m. and went surfing. So they were down in the beach surfing. So you don't even put shoes in the car. He forgot to put shoes in the car. I wasn't with him. Typically, he wears his surfing outfit or surf gear. Even when you park the car, don't you have to walk to the beach over rocks and stuff? No. You just go down the stairs into the sand. Oh.
So you wouldn't ever need, if you were just going to the beach and back, you wouldn't ever need shoes. Or you might have had slides, but that's not going to cut it at school.
No. So, you know. That is so funny. That's so – well, you tell that story like it's just, you know, like you do. But, like, that is such a – like, that's such a Southern California story. I know it is. Dude, I'm not – at no point am I not like, wow, am I raising the most California kids of all time. Yeah, yeah. Just for people who don't know the geography, Rob and I don't – we do not live at the beach. We are a solid half hour with no traffic from the beach. Oh, if –
It's an hour to the beach. Well, no, five in the morning. Five in the morning, sure. They can get there at 30, 35 minutes. But it's what, 20 miles away? It's a bit. And if there's any traffic, it's an hour. But, man, Frank loves surfing so much, and JC also enjoys it and really loves, obviously, going with her son. So Steve loves surfing, too, but he is not an early riser like that. But Frank likes to get up and go a couple times a week before school.
And then I have two other very giant, tall children who are very blonde. So my point is, everybody looks so Californian. I was saying, I have two very blonde children and then a surfer. So I look like a cliche California house until they pan over and catch a glimpse of the father of the three boys. I hate that movie. Are we in the set of... All in the Family? No, what's the... Oh, God. The Dukes of Hazzard?
And then who's playing you? Oh, I know. Charles Nelson Reilly. The ghost of...
Can you try to explain who he was? He was a very flamboyant, I'm not sure why he was famous, but he was famous in the 70s and 80s, who basically, I think he did a little bit of acting and comedy work, probably in clubs in L.A. and New York, but mainly he was a game show celebrity mainstay. Celebrity contestant, yeah. He was a mainstay on Match Game, Hollywood Squares. Anytime they had celebrities involved in anything,
It would be, the list of celebrities would be, and I can almost be 100% sure that I'm right on this, Fanny Flagg, Paul. We've talked about this too. I know, Charles Nelson Reilly. God, why can't I think of Paul? Who's the guy? Nelson Reilly? No, no, no. Oh, what did he talk like?
Well, there's Brett, somebody named Brett something. Who also had a, I feel like somebody had a- Yes, that's Brett. Yes, what you're doing, the scarf. I'm looking this up now. Yeah, let's look for- Match game celebs. This is fun for our audience who loves just- Oh, come on. Who doesn't love 70s trivia? Brett Summers, known for oversized glasses and biting one-liners.
That's the guy I can't, Paul Lind. Paul Lind, that's who I'm thinking of. I know, I'm going Paul, Paul, Paul Lind. Paul Lind. But Charles Nelson Reilly had the big glasses. And actually, I think at one point, Alec Baldwin imitated him on Inside the Actors Studio. That's funny. But so Charles Nelson Reilly, Richard Dawson, before he was a game show host in his own right. Wow. Betty White.
Other notable regulars, Fanny Flagg, Vicki Lawrence, Nipsey Russell, and of course, MASH super duper star, Gary Berghoff. Man, I miss the 70s. But anyway, Charles Nelson Reilly was just a flamboyantly goofy guy. And Rob, who's, by the way, who is this generation's Charles Nelson Reilly? Those shoes have not been filled.
Totally RuPaul's funny. I don't think of RuPaul as being a comic. Like, these guys are kind of Catskill.
Yeah, it probably is that guy. Man. And then Paul Lind. Rob and I are always shocked. Bowen Yang. I will send Rob random texts throughout the day, just in general, but about celebrities that we grew up with who at the time we both would have sworn were 70 or 80, only to find out they're 47. Oh, God. Like Thurston Howell III. Yeah.
From Gilligan's Island, everyone. Thurston Howell III. Jim Backus was the actor's name. Look it up. Played the dad in... Mr. Howell. Played the dad. Did a lot of dramas. Played the dad in Rebel Without a Cause. Yes. Great actor. And he was...
When he did, he was the oldest member of the cast, meaning like he played an old man, the older man, elder statesman of the cast. He was 50. I would have sworn the man was 70. He was 50. Wilford Brimley in The Natural. How old is Wilford Brimley in The Natural, Robert? 50? Brad Brimley in The Natural. Age? Age.
49 years old when he filmed the 1984 baseball classic. No, no. What about, how about Cocoon? I'm looking at that now, which is about old people who get the chance to live forever. Literally, Jessica Tandy, it is... He turned 50 while making Cocoon.
He was alongside Don Amici, who was 76. Okay. He was 26 years younger. He is, and there's a picture on here to prove it. They show Wilford Brimley at 50, next to a photo of Paul Rudd at 50. And they are not the same 50. That is so funny. Is there any way you can show it to the camera? No. Oh, yeah, I can, I guess. Put my camera here.
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