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  • folks get seriously, just second.

  • You may not know this, but I have roots in this town.

  • I really do.

  • Uh, I lived in Chicago once back in the summer of 1988.

  • That's right.

  • I was doing tell.

  • True.

  • Okay, one guy's still cheering that year I was doing Go home and listen to Don't worry, be happy.

  • I was doing a stage show with the Victory Gardens Theater called Happy Happy Good Show.

  • I was just a young kid.

  • I had big dreams.

  • Starting out.

  • Here's a quick clip is the only known footage we have of me doing God knows what with the very talented Bob Odenkirk.

  • Okay, it was after that that I left comedy never to return.

  • All right, Well, that summer I lived in an apartment half a block from Wrigley Field.

  • U boat U boat on your own time.

  • Anyway, my roommate, my roommate, was actor Jeff Garland, who you all know from Curb Your Enthusiasm.

  • It's now 18 years later than I thought.

  • It might be fun if Jeff and I went back to Wrigleyville and dropped in on the old apartment.

  • We brought along a camera crew.

  • Here's what happened we used to live here around.

  • So that's the great thing about in New York.

  • I'm just saying you don't know who we are.

  • We want to come in.

  • They just fire a shotgun through the window.

  • Hey, how are you?

  • Good to see you.

  • This is really where it looks the same, but nicer.

  • Eric, Did they tell you when you went to rent the apartment that huge stars have lived here?

  • Jeff Garland.

  • I lived here.

  • Sandy Duncan.

  • Sandy Duncan lived here for a while, but very Ben Marine Riley, Charles Nelson Reilly helped build a place.

  • TV was right here.

  • And there's the cable outlet.

  • What?

  • We got free cable.

  • Anyone hit a home run, you see the ball roll right down the street here.

  • We're putting aside just like to We're We're a jacket, a shirt.

  • But I would take off my pants in my underwear.

  • I still do.

  • Eric, we ask you a question.

  • What is this?

  • The Edgar Meister machine saying, Who are you?

  • That is just much a smeller.

  • Oh, there.

  • God, you want to drink that you're mine.

  • But way meister.

  • A fine product Bucket right here.

  • Strapped on right back.

  • Oh, Yeah.

  • This, uh, this view is pretty incredible.

  • Doesn't it look like this is where the FBI shows up here later?

  • Like I arrested the rifle year way Found a cartridge here in a cartridge here.

  • I don't like to brag, but Jeff and I had a bit of a reputation in Chicago.

  • It's just just guys who couldn't get laid.

  • How are you?

  • Hi, fellas.

  • Good to see you.

  • All right.

  • How exciting that was for them to CS right now Getting on the phone and saying to gay guys here we used to live here.

  • I'm alone in This is Jeff.

  • Hey, there's our old landlord.

  • Here's our road.

  • You wanna come up?

  • Gator meister.

  • Way to work.

  • Come on.

  • Just one quick glass.

  • You know, I got one old south of here.

  • That's where, uh, Daisy and Lucy Burkes lived.

  • That's right.

  • Yeah, on me and the original Three Stooges All live there.

  • Three bunk famous people there, You know as well as hear you have famous people living in your other apartment in the other building.

  • In the other building comes positions daughter and cubs decisions.

  • Theo work that.

  • No security.

  • What other big stars lived here.

  • You used to know, You know, they had here in this room that table reading for the Poseidon Adventure.

  • Yeah, Booth.

  • Once they did, they all sat around with scripts.

  • And they Gene, Hang Hickman and Shelley Winters.

  • They were all and they had to When they got to the part where the boat flips upside down, they flipped the table over for the table.

  • Read They were in here.

  • Yeah.

  • Ernie Banks used to after he had, you know, remember?

  • Yeah.

  • After he would bat, he refused to sit in the dugout with everyone else.

  • He thought he was too good for that way.

  • I feel you know what said Ernie Banks is running over to that apartment.

  • You call that apartment?

  • Yeah.

  • The horsey biscuit died in this room.

  • Seabiscuit.

  • Well, that's that's interesting.

  • They used to have a bridge that went from that apartment to this apartment.

  • Was built just for Seabiscuit.

  • Built 1920.

  • Seabiscuit was born.

  • Another 15 years, this place ready for Sara Lee, Sara Lee and Cyril E.

  • Taking that I discovered in that bathroom you insisted could be used for medical purposes.

  • Your idea?

  • Yeah.

  • You know what I said If you grow that mold, it might inhibit bacterial growth and everyone else.

  • What does that guy know?

  • Resigned in that living room?

  • You know the footage of Nixon saying, I'm stepping down.

  • Have you ever noticed?

  • It's a really tight shot and you think it's the Oval Office, but that's you making an assumption.

  • If they widened out a little bit, you'd see that he resigned in that front room right there.

  • Therefore, anyone.

  • It was just named 900 of them.

  • Way off course.

  • Everybody knows, you know you're about curb your enthusiasm.

  • But this is where things exciting.

  • You're you, you made your directorial debut is just about to start with a movie.

  • What's the movie?

  • The movie is called I Want Someone to Cheese With Larry David.

  • Same old title again.

  • David actually hates the title.

  • You can't end in a proposition.

  • That's him.

  • Yeah, so, uh, it just had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City.

  • A couple get Theo show sold out, sold out, and the movie was filmed here in Chicago.

  • Theo, Uh, actually, it's the first movie that ever found the Millennium Park.

  • Hopefully, it'll get a distributor be out later this year and they're very nice.

  • You know what?

  • Very nice of you to help me out.

  • Nice to see the old place Thio going every a special treat.

  • The Sears Tower justice years clothing will body surf over the crowd as we go to commercial will be right back.

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