And the Hi, this is Gilbert Godford's amazing colossal podcast with my co-host Frank Santo Padre.

Our guest this week is a man of many talents and someone we've been trying to rope into doing this since the

podcast began way back in the late 1950s. He's an actor, writer, producer, author, TV host, professional poker player and one of the most influential

and accomplished stand-up comedians of his generation.

As an actor you've seen him in films like Fast Spray,

nobody's perfect, the grand as well as the series Police Story, Murder She wrote, Bo Jack Horsman,

and on stages all over the country in Groucho, a show based on the life of his comedy hero.

If you happen to be anywhere appearances on dozens of classic television shows,

you saw his memorable guest appearances on dozens of classic television shows, including the Merve-Griffin show, the Mike Douglas show,

the Sunny and Chair show, Donnie and Marie, Dinaina the Dean Martin show

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson a show he also guest hosted on 18 occasions but of course he'll forever be loved and remembered by

millions as the creator and star of one of the most popular situation comedies of the 1970s, welcome back hotter.

This man would go on to become one of the world's most successful competitive poker players and the co-host of the long-running

series High Stakes poker. And he long running series high stakes poker and he recently penned a very funny article

for Emmy magazine and the TV Academy about his well documented appearance on ABC's Battle of the Network Stars and

his showdown and later reunion with the late Robert Conrad.

Frank and I are thrilled to welcome to the show one of our favorite performers and Rachontours and the only guests out of nearly 400 who've come to the show with anecdotes about David Fry, London Lee, Jack Ruby,

and Gold of my year.

Mistakata!

Gabe Kaplan!

Hey, what an intro! What an intro. I gave. You mean, there's not a lot of people at new London Lee, Jack Ruby, and Gold in my ear.

Yeah, we almost had Jack Ruby on this show.

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