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Hey, oh, it is I Jeff Dwoskin your host of classic conversations and your guide through this bonus episode of crossing the streams. What is crossing the streams? Great question. It is here to answer the universal question you just finished binge watching something you need to binge watch something else will judge you binge watch. Well, we got your back on our YouTube channel. We have over 103 hours of binge watching suggestions just awaiting you. We have a live show every Wednesday at 9:30pm. Eastern time. You don't have time to commit to a live show or 103 hours of binge watching suggestions on YouTube. Well, we got the next best thing for you these bonus episodes feed three segments from three different live shows right into your heirs. That's right, we just pulled a few live segments and boom, here they are. Today's bonus episode we have segments from Live episode 3898 and 100. are talking heist action as snack V chef, this one's chock full of goodness, we're gonna kick things off with action. And Rozner take it away. Let's talk action. Rozner wants to Yeah, rollback. Yeah, or classic?

Howard Rosner 1:43

Yeah. So you know, it's funny. I was just watching rewatching a couple weeks ago, I bought it years ago, the whole series on iTunes. So I've got it on my Apple TV. I love it. It's great. And then it just resonated today because I saw that Jay Mohr announced that he's engaged to Jeanie buss. Hmm, yeah. Owner now of the Lakers.

Bob Phillips 2:06

He finally found a permanent Good Good for him.

Howard Rosner 2:09

Yeah, well, now he can be David the whole NBA. Yeah, she confirmed Michael Jackson for a long time. Yeah, if you've never saw the show, it was 99 2000 or 9899 was on Fox. There were only 13 episodes of the show that canceled it due to ratings, even though it was critically acclaimed in one writing award. So this show was created by Chris Thompson, who amongst other things, who's from Detroit was from Detroit, by the way passed away a few years back. I think he amongst other things, created Bosom Buddies. He was a producer on Laverne and Shirley and wrote some episodes he did. What was the show he did with he did the show with Tanya Leone. And what's her name? Who's the mom on? The Charlie Sheen Jon Cryer show I can't remember the name of the show that they did together. Anyways.

Jeff Dwoskin 2:59

Brian blind No, no,

Howard Rosner 3:00

no not fly by flight Naked Truth. It was naked truth. Yeah, they ran a gossip of National Enquirer. The gist of the show was J Moore was the star and he is Peter dragon who's like the biggest action movie producer. In Hollywood. Basically, the show was basically in a reverent spoof on Hollywood kind of biting spoof on Hollywood not as slapstick II, as it was kind of making fun of a lot of a lot of things about Hollywood, and really, in a lot of ways, kind of ahead of its time. So he's the executive producer, his movie that was supposed to be his big one that was going to set up his next one. Tanks. He's Michael Bay, for lack of a better thing. It totally tanks and then the only movie they have left that he finds out that he's optioned. His assistant was supposed to buy a script from Adam Raskin and finds out that they bought in from Adam Rifkin, who's a soap opera writer who's never done anything big and he ends up having to try and produce that movie. He ends up picking up a hooker before the premiere of the movie in the first episode, who used to work in Hollywood ends up becoming his kind of girlfriend and working with them. She's fantastic Buddy Hackett plays his uncle Lonnie, who's his head of security it'll show for put there's again it's it's a lot of sarcastic and smartass commentary about Hollywood every trope of Hollywood at the time is kind of touched on honestly and truly it's a show that would do great. Now, if you could download 1012 episodes of season at a time on Netflix or HBO max or any of those series. I think it would be fantastic especially because some of the language was bleeped, but it would do great nowadays. It's available on all the regulars you can pay for it on iTunes. You can find it on Amazon Prime, probably episodes available on YouTube if you look it's a Really funny show and you know, there's a lot of good cameos, the big stars of the time, all kind of making fun of themselves. So I recommend it pick it up. Jay Mohr, it should have been Jay Moore's big, big big hit got canceled because of ratings. But critics they want to screen Writers Guild Award and nominated for some others. It's really, really fine. Jeff, I think you've watched it back in the day.

Jeff Dwoskin 5:23

I remember the show was really, really great. It was something they had had been on HBO would have been on for a year.

Bob Phillips 5:29

Yeah, that's gonna be Jay Moore's epitaph cancelled because of ratings. That guy just so funny. I love the guy. I love a stand up, but they just can't. For what now? 25 years they've been trying to find a place for him and they just can't you know, he was great in the Suicide Kings, one of the first movies I saw him in, and then I don't know why he's getting Scotty is so good in that.

Howard Rosner 5:54

It was He was married to Nicky Cox for a while. And you know, he's just done some really funny stuff. He's just never made it. One of the one of those guys, it's just, uh, well, I'd say he's marrying the owner of the Lakers. I'd say he made it.

Bob Phillips 6:13

You're right, Fred. He's made it. Yeah,

Zack Wiseman 6:15

he also did Paulie. That was a pretty fun movie.

Bob Phillips 6:21

Was that was that his

Zack Wiseman 6:23

Dunston checks in? Kind of yeah, he was a parakeet. It was pretty good.

Jeff Dwoskin 6:31

All right, Howard. Rosner and action and a little J more chat for you can never have enough J more in your life. Am I right. All right. Up next is snack V. Chef was Zach Wiseman. frequent guests of the show some nobodies check him out. He's got tons of great podcasts. But here's snack V. Chef, take it away, Zach. Let's kick things off with snack. Let's, let's take it right here. Right to the Zack Meister hems Yeah. All right. All right. Let

Zack Wiseman 7:02

me tell you about this guy's snack versus chef. Have you ever looked at a Pringle? And thought, how the hell do you make that? Well, I tell you, somebody crafted a whole show around this thing. What happens you have eight very talented chefs. And they have a vending machine that tells them what they have to make. Once this vending machine spits out some random bit of snack food, they have roughly one hour to use different kinds of ingredients to just try to make the best interpretation of say a flaming hot Cheeto or a Pringle. Or I think they do flame out, you know, a couple times. Either way, it is nonstop snack making these people use different kinds of starches to figure out how to get the hyperbolic paraboloid which is what a Pringles called. And you learn that if you watch snack, the shocking thing about the show is it has four hosts. And you might say to yourself, that sounds like too many. You're right. It is there are four hosts, I don't know why they're on here. There's two that are kind of food people and then are two that are comedians. But one is a comedian. Her name is Megan Stalter. Probably one of the most bang and Instagram pages I've ever seen. She is hot on Instagram. But she's also stars and the show hacks that I think you guys talked about before. She has a lot of different Emmy nominations for the show a phenomenal comedian, great actor. She's up and coming. The problem is that she's up against another comedian named Harry Kondabolu. I think that's how you say his name. He's Indian comedian. He's done a couple of sitcoms, nothing great. But the problem is those two, they just clash constantly trying to be the funny are the two and then there's two judges that are both foodies. So they're constantly fighting over which one knows more about food. And then the other two are fighting over which one would be funnier problem is actually the anti problem is that these contestants are so lovable. You follow these people because they're just regular people and they're trying hard to figure out how do you curve a Pringle properly? Do you put it in a taco press? Or do you make your own great and jam into a deep fryer? Who knows? But I can tell you I have Instagrammed message three of the finalists and they have all three responded to me. Oh, wow. I love them all. And the first one to respond to me. I'm in a relationship massive. Yep. So but either way, it is a very tight, cool show. It's very similar to like, is this cake where it's consumable, but throw away content. Once you watch it, you're not going to want to rewatch it. But it is cute. It is heartwarming. And you do fall in love with these contestants. And you do wonder why there's too many judges, but oh no. Snake versus food. Yeah, it's cool.

Jeff Dwoskin 9:18

Snake. Snake, spy. It sounds. It sounds like what you're saying is that maybe the British Bake Off? Is having kind of an impact guy Curtis? Well, Max, I don't know the podcast. I don't know

Zack Wiseman 9:36

what the Great British Bake Off actually has a side show called The Great pottery flame off or something and it has the same exact structure. Everything's the same except they're just making pottery, but that's not I'm talking about.

Jeff Dwoskin 9:46

What I'm talking about is they have two comedians they've got Oh, two giant works

Zack Wiseman 9:53

on British Bake Off for some reason. It just does not work here. And there's so many Pringles jokes you can make.

Tony Berardo 9:58

So Zachary, thank you. you're playing against each other. You know, that's always nice. Yeah. So Zach, are the comedians like the hosts? Are they? Is it improperly? Or is it is it doesn't seem scripted,

Zack Wiseman 10:09

it is improperly and you can tell because it's boring. Because they're just like for people just watching the go, I don't know how to make a Cheeto. And then your friends like, how do you make a Cheeto? And then they're like, I like dust and you're like, Okay, I don't know what you guys are talking about. Let me see these contestants again. But I do know how to make a Cheeto and sprinkle right now, and I'm very happy about that. And are they different contestants every

Jess Paul 10:29

time are they going through it? Like oh, no,

Zack Wiseman 10:32

kick off. Yeah, they get kicked off it goes down to a final two and then they get to make whatever they want. One of the coolest snack foods I saw is they get to like a free rein they get to make their own like packaging and their own snack if you could make a snack would abate and one person made like sushi snacks where you would open up and it was all like, you know dried salmon skin or like weird fish flavored nori. So it like was like eating a sushi plate all once. Somebody tried to a pasta dish as a snack. So it's it's interesting what they're trying to do with it. And I'm excited to see season two, although season one was kind of boring, but still considerable.

Jess Paul 11:06

I I do like that kind of content where I need only half my brain to consume. Yeah, yeah. Okay, so

Jeff Dwoskin 11:13

snack versus Jeff. So is it one of those things where it's like, everyone's like, you know, it's me. And it's like, oh, Oreo is the white on the inside or the outside? I can't remember. I've never seen an Oreo. I only heard people talking about it. And then Jess is like, oh, no, I can't get these cookies to be the same size. And then Tony's I owe the cream. I just I had to start over and at the end. They're all perfect.

Zack Wiseman 11:34

You had me until the end? Yeah. Yeah. There's always one person like, I've never had a Cheeto. I don't know what to do with this. One person's like, what's dust I people talk about. And at the end, they're not perfect.

Jess Paul 11:45

Okay, you know what, at the end, of course, there's a winner and a loser.

Zack Wiseman 11:49

There's winners, and there's losers. And it's the friendships you make along the way, which is the real snack food if you get down to it. And we're Instagram. That was so cheesy. It was fantastic. Thank you.

Jeff Dwoskin 12:01

That was amazing.

Zack Wiseman 12:02

I got that one of my meet Q boss. Doesn't matter was in here as the friends you make along the way.

Jess Paul 12:08

How many contestants does it start with Zack? I think it's eight. Wow. Okay, that kind of journey.

Zack Wiseman 12:13

Yeah, it's pretty solid. Yeah, you'll learn some stuff. Gotcha.

Jeff Dwoskin 12:18

Sounds amazing. Sounds amazing. I'm

Bob Phillips 12:20

gonna watch it. i You sold me? Yes.

Jess Paul 12:24

Yeah. It's like something with snacks in it. For sure.

Zack Wiseman 12:26

It's cool. Yeah. Because like, you know, I'm a chef and like watching chop. It's like, oh, what would I do with these baskets? But if someone's like, exact make a Cheeto up, like, I have no idea what to do. And that's kind of interesting, right?

Jess Paul 12:37

We're just certain things that can only be made in a factory. Like,

Jeff Dwoskin 12:41

right. When did Zach become a chef?

Zack Wiseman 12:43

I was a chef for 12 years. I owned multiple restaurants for many years.

Jeff Dwoskin 12:49

Exactly. peeling back the

Zack Wiseman 12:50

44. Yeah, I own six restaurants in Delaware and Maryland, and a grocery store. He's

Jess Paul 12:55

got so many lives. He's like, That's what I want to want to be exactly

Jeff Dwoskin 12:58

like I gotta get inside Zach's headline these days. All right, that was Zach Wiseman. Check him out at some nobodies. He's got tons of great podcasts for you to enjoy. Our last segment for this episode is heist all the way from Live episode 38. Ron libbets going to take us through his love of hice and this particular show, take it away, Ron, let's talk about heist. This is not money heist, but this asks what would you say are the score of a lifetime? The person who the only person you know that can answer this question is,

Ron Lippitt 13:33

is Baron the Baron von lipopeptide? Yeah, so at the risk of typecasting myself Bob the suit. This is now the third review of heist driven movies shows rather all on Netflix curiously, so I know I'm big on the whole apple tv plus thing but But Netflix seems to have cornered the heist industry. So you may recall as Jeff pointed out, money heist is one of my favorite Netflix shows fantastic, you know, Spanish show if you guys are into the subtitles thing, love that. But that's that's a fictional account. I also reviewed this as a robbery, which was about the art heist of the Boston, one of the biggest art museums in the world, which was in Boston, and how that all went down. This is the next version heist, which is a pure documentary with interwoven with kind of dramatic reenactments. So it's the real story, but then overlaid with dramatic reenactment, which I will just say on a sidebar. Curiously, it's the only dramatic reenactment show I've ever seen with nudity and violence, usually with you know, dramatic reenactments. They're usually for all audiences, but this one not so much. Anyway, this is the retelling of three different real heists that happened and one of which our you'll love to know is actually the the Lufthansa heist featured in Goodfellas made me it made me write it so that they talk about that one another, I suppose about a, an armored car robbery that happened in the 90s that at the time was the single largest heist in American history. And then there was the third robbery of a poppy van something bourbon, which is the most expensive bourbon one of the most sought after the Happy Family and cool thank you so much. I didn't I should have written that down pappy Van Winkle. So Someone robbed like hundreds of bottles of their most expensive vintage and took a number of tasks and barrels of this stuff and at the time it was the single biggest non monetary robbery in the in the United States. And here's what's interesting about this documentary the telly so that each robbery is featured in to two episodes. First episode is the lead up to the actual heist. So how they planned it and the going into details about how the actual Heisman down and then the second episode is how everything unravels and this thing invariably goes to shit and they all end up getting caught right so and this is true for all three of these of these heists and here's what I have scientifically discovered that I'm going to share with you guys now and that is three completely different ice different strategies, completely different things that they're trying to accomplish with it, but they all unravel for exactly the same reason. And would you guys like to know what that reason is? Great. Bone Doctor Strange. Doctor Strange. Yes. No, it's It's the same reason it's that they asked someone to be part of the heist, who said Oh, fuck, no, I'm not doing that. And then the high school and then they arrest them out, right? That's our reward comes up, are they they are angry at the people, whatever it is all three heists were sent down the tubes by a third party person who wasn't involved with ice who said, you know, when the police offered a reward, they said, you know, you have to go anywhere, dude, I can tell you exactly who did the ice and how they did it. It's that guy. And the whole thing goes down, right. And it's an amazing thing. So what I find hilarious about the show, and I highly recommend it. By the way, it's very entertaining. What I love about this is how methodical and well scripted and well designed these heists really are like right down to the to the smallest of detail about how they're going to pull off this heist. But none of these people think through what you're going to do once they've accomplished the ice, like our like, where's the money going to go? How are they dividing it? What are they going to do after the fact? How are they going to separate? And oh, by the way, what am I going to do about this person that we asked to be part of the life that knows about the eyes that we're not going to take care of one way or one way or another? Right? So meat truck, it's just a funny thing. And it's all true. It's all it's all true. And it just amazes me how super smart heights can go down the tubes for always the dumbest of reasons. So that is essentially my entire review of is that it's it is like I said it's six episodes, too, for each of the three hosts. They are 45 minutes long. It's on Netflix,

Howard Rosner 18:03

do the interview the people who were involved in getting the heist the people that are involved. Get some good insight. That's pretty cool. So

Jeff Dwoskin 18:10

the lesson though is don't ask anyone. Sure. And if you're gonna not have them in or if they bail last second you kill them. That's it, you kill

Ron Lippitt 18:21

them or you do something completely different. The other is, you know, he just

Howard Rosner 18:25

found Ron he was so frozen solid. Two days.

Ron Lippitt 18:31

Yeah, just do it. Just listen, if you're planning a heist I'm not suggesting you do but if you are planning is just just do it yourself. Don't tell anybody make it happen on your own.

Howard Rosner 18:39

I can never hear the word heist without thinking of the Dane Cook routines and yeah, we just need that one guy who wasn't.

Ron Lippitt 18:46

He's cool. He's cool. I promise you. That's cool, but he's not cool.

Howard Rosner 18:50

I just need one more second. They rerouted me into Friendster

Ron Lippitt 18:55

but check it out you guys I think you'll I think you'll enjoy the show. It's it's a good ride. It's what's nice about is you only have to watch the episodes that you want to watch. Right? It's not continuation of any kind. So it's just check it out at your leisure and enjoy it.

Jeff Dwoskin 19:10

All right. Thank you, Ron. That was Heiss from Episode 38. We covered snag V chef from Live episode 98 and action from Live episode 100. Lots of great binge watching suggestions for you to start binging. So go jump on the couch, grab the remote, cross your own streams, and I'll see you next time.

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