Well, another misguided gray whale has turned up in Santa Monica Bay recently.

It was chased all the way through the L.A. River and right ultimately into O.J. Simpson's driveway.

Well, you have reminded me that the head writer job here at the Larry Sanders show is open.

Please send all resumes to my producer Artie, and no sense of humor is required.

This is the Extra Hot Grape Podcast, episode 592 for the week of December 8, 2025.

I am secret sassy reader David T. Cole, and I'm here with Woman from Nantucket, Sarah D. Bunting.

I don't get it. Enemy of powerful women, Tara Arellano. This is the joke that's going to take down Oprah. Furious at Callista Flockhart, David J. Roth. Have a cheeseburger. Lesbian shopping at Home Depot, Jeff Drake. I can only go to the bathroom during commercial. And chickety china, stephen folk get off my lawn welcome to extra hot great for another week we're here with our one of our favorite exercises we do

every year the mulland Dash pre-tape.

And we're here with a panel of luminaries who tried to dumb themselves down to pass for Jim Mullen.

Dave, we've already told the story of Mullen Dash in previous years, but why don't you recap it for our new listeners.

Jim Mullen's hot sheet was part of the opening barrage of

Entertainment Weekly and all those little, little tiny article that you get. And it was 10 things,

I believe, each week. And he would say what it is, set up his own punchline and then deliver the

punchline. And they're terrible. You really have to know that Jim Mullen is a particular type of

doughy white guy. And when we play this game, which is a version of Baldur Dash, where Tara reads out

the subject and the setup, and we all have to come up with our own punchlines in order to fool

everybody else into thinking that we are Mullen. This is a game that started at the television

without pity sort of writer conventions that we had in Vegas. I think Steve Falk was there at the

genesis of the game. He definitely was. And it caught on and it is a very sobering exercise when you

do it well because you become mullin and that's a dangerous place to be.

It is.

So winning is winning, but also sometimes it's a very introspective moment.

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