Episode 20 – Celebrity Golf and Tear Jerkers with Paul Gilmartin
Paul and Annabelle
Show notes by Darryl Asher (09/04/15)
Paul Gilmartin
Always double down!
A proud member of the Handheld Comedy Network
Just south of movie star, just north of dicey
Gorgeous 81.2 degrees, 27.7 Celsius
Mike is skeptical about the Celsius conversion
You remember Childhood Banking Situations? Good show.
A very special episode: Overdraft
Every four episodes, there’s a guest, and Paul Gilmartin is here; first guest, and first repeat guest
Paul is the host of the long running Dinner and a Movie, starting 12th season!
A clip from the Janet Varney era:
Annabelle Gurwitch was the first co-host for seven years
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Huge problems with Annabelle Gurwitch at the beginning, but now friends
Paul and Annabelle were sent to counseling by the producers
Paul doesn’t want to give details, but it was pretty bad
Dinner and a Movie features recipes with terrible puns based on movies
Steamroller co-host plus Paul’s pompousness assholeness = chemistry
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Paul has been married 18 years
Paul talks about playing fetch with his dog in the back yard while he spokes a cigar
Jimmy: What are you a Kennedy?
Three years sober but does crystal meth count?
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Paul’s dumbest drunk stunt: trying the Singin’ in the Rain wall-backflip. He put his leg through the wall.
16 year old Paul was 4′ 10″ and 85 pounds, nicknamed “Mouse”
Be careful what you say about a friend’s sister when drunk
Matt clarifies that he had one beer when he was 18 and fell asleep
Paul’s hockey related injuries and fights
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Paul is more famous than some of the people on the “celebrity” hockey team
Jimmy doesn’t think he can win any fight
Jimmy has been taking kick-boxing training
Jimmy was a “celebrity” the Nissan Open Celebrity Golf Tournament
Jimmy tried to get Paul to caddy, but got Mike Siegel instead
Mike wasn’t happy
Jimmy overhears the other players talk about his lack of being a celebrity
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Jimmy jokes with Martin Sheen on the golf course, but doesn’t get the joke
Jimmy was a disappointment as a celebrity and a golfer
Paul has done 15 or 20 celebrity golf tournaments
Jimmy and Matt might just fight
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NFL Great Franco Harris asked for a picture with Paul
Rudy, the movie
Jimmy’s imitation of the whole Rudy movie: “I’m gonna do it dad! I’m gonna do it bartender! I’m gonna do it sister!”
Spoiler: he does it!
Jimmy did that bit in South Bend, Indiana, and Rudy was in the crowd
South Bend doesn’t like Rudy
Jimmy won’t do the Rudy golf tournament. “I’m not gonna do it dad!”
Sean Astin played Rudy and was in Lord of the Rings, of course
Jimmy cries at all feel-good endings
Paul gets angry if he feels manipulated
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Brian’s Song was the tear-jerker movie when Jimmy was a kid
Something for Joey, Mike’s tear-jerker
Most overwrought sports movie?
Paul: Remember the Titans due to manipulating music
Paul liked Titanic
Jimmy wants to know: what movie does Matt cry at?
Matt doesn’t cry at movies often, but cried at Malcolm X in high school
Jimmy cries at every movie. Did not cry at World Trade Center, but choked up at the written epilogue
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Paul cried the most at a commercial; a kid picking a puppy up from a pound, and the kid has prosthetic legs
Jimmy cried at Jimmy Smits’ death in NYPD blue
Mike cried at Almost Famous due to nostalgia
Mike didn’t like Elizabethtown; Paul thinks it was hokey
(Awww man… I really like Elizabethtown, not than anyone cares)
Any Jimmy weeper: In Country with Bruce Willis, but not until the end
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Jimmy has been to the Viet Nam wall in person to see Paul Boyev’s dad’s name
Todd Beamer’s widow’s book (9/11 Let’s Roll guy)
Paul tells a story about someone who died on 9/11; reaction is not good
Matt’s dad always cried at Chariots of Fire, so did Jimmy’s mom, but he doesn’t get why
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Paul recommends Lorenzo’s Oil for bawling like a baby
Mike cried at Boyz in the Hood
Jimmy used to hang out with Cuba Gooding, Jr. but couldn’t enjoy it because of that
Jimmy liked United 93, but not World Trade Center
Mike says he needs to get his wife something for the 9/11 anniversary
Matt cried at Without Limits, the Prefontaine movie
Mike talks about The Lonliest Runner, a Michael Landon movie about a bed-wetting kid who became a runner
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Paul’s plugs: back yard, home, not on the road
Paul’s doing his Richard Martin character at Borders
Paul does some poetry when he goes out, but is kind of tired of doing it
His poem Tim is about a die-hard Packer fan
Other poems: Undignified Ways to Die; Bad Pickup Lines
Paul has gotten five fan letters from “weird countries” in the last week
Jimmy explains the autographer seeking emails from collectors
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Paul thinks the fan letters were a Never Not Funny set-up
Next time, we need to be ready with bad emails
Oonnnnn podcast!
