Hello, everyone, and welcome to Everything Iconic with me, Danny Pellegrino.

I'm here with Dan Bukitinsky, one of the producers and stars of my all-time favorite show. Listeners know that I talk about the comeback all the time. Dan, how are you? I'm good. I'm so good. Thanks for having me. I'm so honored and so excited to talk to you. Truly, more than any other piece of media, in the history of media, like the comeback is to me

the greatest piece of art that's ever been made.

Wow. Well art that's ever been made.

Wow. Well, that's high praise.

And I was nervous about season three because season two kind of wrapped up so perfectly.

Yes. As were we. I mean, you know, season two, we didn't end season two with this notion

that there'd be a third season, just like season one ended with where we thought we were going to

make a season two, a very different season two. What was the season two that was originally planned?

Like if you guys did get, do you remember if you did tell? I don't remember.

It was, gosh, that's a really good question.

There was a lot of talk about where we would go from there.

We end season one with her leaving Leno, having thought that she was the laughing stock, having

thought that the comeback had really ruined Valerie.

And in fact, it became a, you know, at the time, there wasn't a lot of social media.

So there was no such thing as sort of a viral moment.

But in fact, that that Jay Leno was, for all intents and purposes, a viral moment for Valerie.

And she steps outside and she's signing autographs.

And so we were going to pick up with how Rumen Board is impacted.

And then, of course, how much resentment from Pauly G would have happened as a result of that.

How much more power Valerie and leverage Valerie would have as a result of that. How much more power Valerie and leverage Valerie would have

as a result of that Jay Leno moment?

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