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Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to Armchair Expert early and ad-free right now. Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. Or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert. I'm Dan Shepard. I'm joined by Lily Padman.
Hi.
I am fucking so excited to bring this episode to everybody. This was... What an episode.
It was incredible.
Oh, my God. Yeah. Oh, my God. If you haven't watched this doc or read this book, you must do it. Have you finished the doc? Not yet. You haven't. I'm so jealous. I know.
I'm so excited to start it, especially after this podcast. And I was like, oh, my God. First of all, I love him. Yeah.
And and he's so fucking likable.
Yeah.
Yeah. Charlie Sheen is an award-winning actor. Two and a Half Men, Platoon, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Wall Street, Spin City. He has a new memoir out called The Book of Sheen, as well as the docuseries on Netflix, a.k.a. Charlie Sheen. All of it's great. And this episode is outrageous.
Please enjoy Charlie Sheen.
We were just discussing string cheese.
String cheese. Did you get one? Were you offered one?
I was offered one and it turned into a thing.
Oh, what was the thing?
I said that'll be the last time, first and last time that I'm offered string cheese.
Maybe all year. That's a good prediction. We're in September. And Christmas and string cheese aren't natural bedmates. I've never seen the spread and there was like a platter of string cheese, right?
There should be.
Oh my God. ABR, we're always recording. My shirt even. See that? Yes.
It stands for always be recording. I see.
Okay. Okay. You know what it's a play on, obviously. You're a cinephile. ABR, always be recording. Okay. Where do you think we got that?
Oh, I was going to say the CIA. That's a good guess.
Always be closing, remember? ABC, always be closing.
Okay, for sure. I remember that. So it's just a play on that. That's all. They didn't say that in Glengarry.
No, they didn't say it. They didn't say ABR, no.
They said always be closing.
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Got it. Okay, cool.
First, I want to start with, I haven't seen you in a bazillion years.
Oh my gosh, right?
Yes, and I want to say, if memory serves, it was... When you lived in a neighborhood, I knew a guy who lived in your neighborhood, was sober, who hosted a meeting.
Okay.
We'll leave him out of it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But I went to his meeting at his house, and I do believe I met you there once or twice, and then maybe another house meeting once or twice, but it's been decades.
Was this person in the house that my brother used to live in with Paula Abdul? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Across from Shaquille. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's exciting. But there was the other meeting.
In Bel Air? In Bel Air.
Thank you.
So that's Tom Hanson, who's my best friend.
Okay.
He would host that.
Is it still going on?
No, during COVID it went away. Then it went to Zoom. Okay. And then another friend kind of started hosting it in a smaller configuration. I got you. But regardless, can I tell you, the funniest thing is I kind of met you at this meeting and I somehow was aware of which house yours was in that neighborhood. Okay. And I remember there was a period where you stopped coming to the meeting. And I just remember on Tuesday nights as I would drive by your house en route to this meeting, I'm like, I doubt that guy's coming. What's happening in that house? And then I would drive out and I would just be like, I wonder what's happening in there because he wasn't.
No one ever came and knocked and was like, come on over.
The only knocks that I would get occasionally were guys carrying badges. Sure.
Investigating cars that had been. How about that?
How about that thing? Wow. Yeah, I need more info on that. I do too. And literally to this day, everyone still thinks I was a part of it.
It's a bit of an insurance fraud. Based on like. I know, you had plenty of money.
You know what I'm saying? And I loved the car.
Yes, so Monica hasn't seen the doc nor has she read the book.
On purpose because I need to act as the audience.
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