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what's going on ladies and gentlemen here we are at the crossroads of life Hey it is the end of an era some would say no one says but I'm gonna say this is the final four or four episode thank you so much for tuning in this September 29 2017 I'm joined by a fluorophore all-star and a couple people in the studio thank you for being here and Russ yeah thanks for everyone for being here Russ Rustica as always co-host Jill Schlesinger is in the studio for a round of applause for Steve sphere Guttenberg and one of the originals back with us for the last episode mr. Wilson tang how are you great joke like for Jews in an Asian nobody used to be two Jews in an aid to age did you do a podcast studio this food is all getting sent to that that's right I want this dryer is a doggy bag and the manager so this is gonna be a weird one there's no other way to put it this is a fast and loose kind of episode I don't have that much of a plan it's tough to encapsulate yeah I know right why start now let's do a toast all right thank you to everyone who's been a part of this very over-the-top very long and annoying thank-you list at the end though really before you guys can all check out your old credits hmm to the fans as well of course to the fairness to the fan the number one what you read ever I went on but it would be authentic Beacon wine on the Upper West oh yeah that's right so I just wanted to kind of run through some stuff I want to talk to Wilson first because Wilson we haven't seen you in so long wasn't like a stranger things thing where you were in the upside down for a while is like in the Oh a yeah it's just like trying to warp myself back here okay you made it yeah well done so what have you been up to what are you currently doing how many kids do you have do kids get married I got married holy smokes where's your ring I didn't see no wedding ring on there he took it up here just you know but ya know I have a very it's weird cuz I get out cuz I wanted to do something new yeah just you know we it was so much fun doing the 404 and I just wanted to do something new with my life and what was super ironic about it was like I you know I balanced from a couple of agencies and I landed at this company called Freeman and lo and behold will produce all the shows that you guys are all ready yet so so like yes yeah just when you get a second come on Reb you back here yeah but it's been a lot of fun I lead a digital studio so what we do is we have a bunch of artists a bunch of producers and developers and we come up with really cool ways to use technology so argument a reality virtual reality I've heard of that yeah that's awesome it's very cool very fittings I would say yeah yeah it's married life I want aa great good answer yeah yeah I'm probably had a couple calls after this but no life's great Dianna is she's a casting producer or director at any networks well still have part of the family in the media business but it's nice to kind of get away from the grind yeah is this a grind no oh so Wilson tell me about you know like you're kind of like first memories and and all that junk and what you know I I don't want to put you on a spot and make you like you know pour out your your crying's but well it comes to you you know to be frank I don't never in my wildest imagination imagination thought that the show was going to do ten years because it was always like well you're telling me when we first started it was like you know it was kind of substitute subterfuge like we were just like you know what let's just put a couple mics in that really hot closet the computer and then we started piling in way way too much equipment and I think anyway yeah was daily and I think the the most shocking thing was I remember one day somebody finally pulled some numbers for us they're like yeah eighty thousand people are listening to you and I was like wait what cuz we were honestly and hopefully I can do this we were we were just dicking around yeah we have a choice of Richard Inc there's Richard shooting yeah it's a lot of that ya know for sure like it was definitely a rad and kind of like weird ride and I mean ten years ago like obviously podcasting was you know predates that but I don't think it was something that like we thought had likes at all like oh let's get away doing this for channel who gets credit for the name oh I think it might have been me but I don't really enjoy taking credit for like they are the original original name was the dude cast playing cuz that's the name but like that five I've ever heard well you know Otto in 2007 it was still bad yeah but in 2007 like you probably could have gotten away with that for like nine months Wow yeah I know hey man we're chewers children yeah and I remember when we started doing in you started getting popular and then finally like the you know the powers that be upstairs like recognized it and they're like coming up to us and they said you know you picked the worst possible SEO name yeah it's from the planet right we're like thank you we know we know that yes so what else from the beginning and or you you know is that really a video yeah you know that was that was when we started having to wear makeup and you loved that talked about me you know you're here Instagram like those cameras they were like for 20 P like well right so that was a thing first we added cameras into that shitty pocket yeah yeah I love that yeah that makes one of us and and then we went into the first version of the story were in right now which was like a night and day kind of hangover just realize like oh that's what we look like that's not shiny that's all that's not about so so yeah no yeah I remember every day like we would come and do the show we were in that closet with like no air and the lights would be on and it was just a struggle just like to breathe in there yeah one day would be like 85 Radio it's in between there and and mess up your settings and and it was hot in there like we should forget that yeah I was here you were here you had like a supercomputer underneath the desk yeah that's right it had like a nuclear accelerator on it does explain on Steve and Jill you guys were among the first guests that we ever had on the Pro what what are your first memories of that if you want to share that with our listeners yeah I wanna I know I know you guys combined I've done probably 200 episode how did you even like get like because obviously like you know you were working in the same sphere boys behave but but like how did you guys approach one another just came up yeah but I don't remember I think what were you doing at the time you mean that second no I mean what were you doing work-wise and that's fine when you it's funny to say now I have a blog yeah and my blog started slightly before the 404 so I was working really hard on getting that gaudy ophelia right yeah so then you know so I was here a lot and I was doing more stuff so that's why but indeed we used to go out to lunch a lot right we've got so much and I feel like what was happening was like I was maybe editing some of your like speed you were you know it was nice FIRREA no no no you had an evolved after that just yeah I just remember you know we talk at lunch and be like I think you make sense on here let's let's do that I just couldn't believe the energy and the chemistry of it all oh that's when we decided my fate was that I would always bring you a list of things to talk about because I didn't want to be part of this but the thing is that you guys I always thought didn't have any preparation and yet it just happened anyway right no is it we used to prepare for this year and a half we had a run down all right what about what about you Jill I think that Wilson asked me a financial question was because we were are my office was on the same row as you guys when CBS Interactive launched MoneyWatch right and I was brought in to help be part of that launch team and Wilson as always the financially curious Wilson would ask me some financial questions and then I think you sent me you know what it would be if I have these questions maybe our listeners do why did you come in and be on the show and it was was definitely there was like in the midst of the Great Recession yes it was all of us were essentially like we had you on the show but all of us were essentially trying to figure out okay if the world falls apart like how much money do we need me be stashed away yeah exactly it was so I think I started working in 2009 so as soon after I started here and and then I went on the show one time and I made a joke that I said oh my god I'm so old I could be your mother and you said not really my mother more like my cool aunt right like my younger sister at which point Jeff started the hashtag aunt Jill right and which has stuck a little bit it has and then I just did I fell in love with every iteration all the hosts all the the topics all the fun questions we would field and I I always you know I'm always here for you Jeff def I know this yeah and we'll send even though you never talked to me and for anyone out there you know it's it's like a gift to be able to be able to talk in this way it's very with you guys and be able to talk about things you care about but mostly it's just an absolute best experience so much fun to be here I think that means a lot thank you very much what did you be honest though what did you think of us in the very beginning where you're like I know I got off and I I got off the air the first time by the way by the way this is the first time you guys have ever it was almost like a odd camaraderie I didn't realize start our own I didn't realize well you know that she was jealous fear yeah I've got a strange paradox game over here minded so I got off the air and Jack otter walked into my office and he was like well how was that I'm like you know what it was absolutely awesome I loved it in fact it totally reminded me of like old school talk radio yeah and when I was an investment advisor million years ago I used to go on these talk shows and there's just tons of time to fill and it's relaxed and you could really get into a topic and in personalities come out and that's that was the it was obvious I actually also went home and I said to Jackie I don't don't take offense I'm like these kids are incredibly talented and I said kids because you guys are so young but I said these kids are incredibly talented and so she always knew that she calls you the four oh four boys and forever boys we will be indeed little boy that's very cool I am Russ yeah yourself were one of the very first guests I went back and I looked and you were I think in the 60s episode pretty early very early on yeah we had just met actually I think it was Dan Ackerman in the studio introduced us thank you for doing that Dan it was some sort of party for Dan Aykroyd it was a it was a Dan Ackerman Tetris party he was there organizing and I remember you know like pitching the idea to you to come on yeah yeah well we had just met right and you were like hey you should come on this show I was like okay sure you yeah I could see it in your face well I didn't know I don't want to do this well because I didn't understand that it was already a developed thing it sounded like a limo but still 60 up sure pretty pretty far in and I remember coming on Randall was still on the show and it was it really went great at the first time and then the second time I showed up and Jeff didn't show up for about an hour and a half there were a lot of like there were a lot of moments we cover it up during the show because we were still trying to figure out exactly how so it would be professional and not a part of our now thanks for it's like I don't think Jeff knew to put this on the calendar right so I obviously you know very nice and in the in the shows career and I think what had happened was I was very bad and probably still and bad at planning things pretty good oh thanks generally that's nice of you to lie eyelashes and I think I was like at a meeting with like seeing a game yeah then and I and I just remember being like Oh Russell understand oh my god I was bad don't oh roommate don't make that face in meet you what happened I just hung out in that video it was bad and it was better an episode where like it was like you and Justin who like famously didn't play any video games yeah and like nothing did yeah yeah that's what I like it when he would pipe in because it would be some like weird like the one game you play otherwise it'd be like actual boy right it's funny because I remember that but I should say something that the fact that I continued coming back for many many times after right poor judgment on your van it really was I just did not think that through but I really honestly did always have a great time when I was on that was never like a bummer show that I did and even when it required assisting your lack of presence more than happy to come and and do the show with you guys because it really was a blast yeah right I appreciate oh yeah we do one other thing is that early on of course I love the fact that Justin could get me printers the reason why you came on the show cuz you'd spend half the time talking about what drivers are installed so we had a great trade a financial advice for tech support it was a great choice okay and then he would be like buy this printer ink we're just treating services it was Barnes most professional right so yeah I mean I guess you know the thing for me and and the thing when we announced that we were ending and you know this has been something that we kind of want to do for a while I started getting a lot of you know people on Twitter emailing the the show asking hey this is how can I listen to everything Oh where's the library right the box says how we gonna monetize that right well no we we don't have a way just yet some okay so so I have a couple things there on our subreddit someone at one point at around episode 1200 don't worry what are you sure you know that cuz I hold a reddit thing I don't do it somebody at one point wrote a script that essentially sniffed out every mp3 that we ever upload how consistent is that naming structure it's pretty consistent that's good I feel safe for like maybe a hundred or so episodes out of 1,700 fine so they are they're all on the Internet but what I kind of and this is sort of like an open call for a little bit of help because for posterity for this show to kind of live on and be archived we need a little bit of wrangling to go on we need a little bit of you know organization and curation and I'm definitely willing to you know do do my part and help out but if anyone has a kind of ideas as to how we can maybe automate the process a little bit I reached out to the person who originally wrote the script that's if that all the mp3 files but there's got to be a way to do it there's no like auto download the motor now or to like you know have an i or an idea of how to do it better and more efficiently I'm sure we can you know make like a torrent of it somewhere I just have it and good to go Jill how do we do it let me tell you exactly what I would do Joey do you have an idea you know I would talk to a guy and see net and find out whether you could do it Yeah right and then we should have somebody on the Internet right has someone seen it fabulous podcast do we do we have a sense of like if you strung them all together how long it would be that's that's easy that's pretty easy math what's our what number show is this this the final one this one is seventeen fifteen seventeen fifteen and they're mostly well between saying I have two it I'd say like first thousand were an hour really yeah okay and then we kind of went like actually no that's wrong we were doing like a half hour right yeah but there are some that were an hour that was that's the thing like we never really stuck to any kind of time so I gotta go we gotta go do this other thing right it would depend on like what we had going on that day um Joey you're here grab that mic I want to talk to you for a for a second because you came on the show a bunch tell us - are you getting him in the mic there Brian - what uh I I do wanna mention Joey's literally sitting next to three super nintendo class they have their own seat on the couch here I don't want to put you on the spot but dude what do you what do you have any like outstanding memories of the shuttle acts of a couple and a lot of them seem to stem from Justin who I wish was here today yeah one and it stands out really vividly especially when you guys are talking about you being in my a for a show was there was a time Justin tried to do a show by himself it was like 20 minutes of dead air oh my God he's bombing I got Julie jump to do it another one another one was how you'd always bake me I think I think San Francisco hates me because just would always plug in some sex related topic cuz you know it would just send my radar I would just send me over the top and that's probably why I haven't been on the show since so my apologies the SM allowed Justin to bait me that reminds me I think the scariest moment we had was it was a CES I think we were waiting for Eliza Dushku and I think it was Wayne Brady okay and we and they were supposed to come in at like a very specific time and you know unsurprising that they were late yeah and so we had prepared a show like pre their arrival that was supposed to last 45 minutes and I remember Chris Parker in the background being like just to see Eliza yeah yeah just to see the life of douche kun we're sitting there like oh my god so Jeff how's uh how's the I want to count to a thousand look at the dictionary dancing this thing by the time she gets here man I'm glad you brought up CSCS was always like a wacky Danny DeVito yeah sorry I asked you what was your favorite star interview was it Danny DeVito the other thing was like a whirlwind sort of like uh how this I I don't this is crazy cuz we didn't we didn't know we were getting him until like 24 hours before we uh we only had found that he was gonna be in Las Vegas maybe two days prior and I remember I spent the entire day working with his like management to make sure he would come by and of course he was like ninety five minutes late also but that's fine it's Danny DeVito he's earned the right to be that late but yeah that was a that was lotta fun obviously I remember that was the one dude and I've never really talked about this a lot but that was the one dude that I was just like oh I can't handle this like I like him too much like I'm sorry I was yeah like and I had you know I've met a lot my fair share of celebrities and I always really was like very level-headed but the second he walked in I just started sweating I started you remember you were so identify oh my God he's in the room like he's got a whole entourage like everyone's just like yeah it is Danny we're walking around with and I just remember and the bet the best was Justin kept telling me he's like dude you're sweating why are you sweating so much I'm like I don't know it's just it's Danny DeVito you're writing a lot of my father's to like you and he's from an inn he's a Jersey so he's like start talking I'm just like oh man it really is you are just like my dad and he's like I remind you of EJ is it good clean this up I wasn't getting dizzy but I was like freaking out so so this is crazy so we get up there and I've I'm already like blur I've lost my mind just freaking out that I'm about to interview Danny DeVito and we get on stage and Justin's like cool as a cucumber you this was f you weren't there I remember I think I was in this one yeah yeah so justin is is up there and and Danny DeVito's behind the the backstage and Justin I are talking I'm introducing and I'm taking way too long to do it I should just be like get him out again there and if you do is yelling at me saying why don't you put a new shirt on Jeff the one you're wearing [Laughter] right now I couldn't handle it and yeah you listen to it now have you listened to it since I've never listened really I listen to it maybe like right after just to make sure it sounded clean and made sense like you know see if we had to edit it or anything but holy I'd lost it that was the one dude where I was just like nope that's it that's where I draw the line can't do that anymore yeah I thought you were close that way with a Tony Hawk no I think I think went like those guys like the action sports you guys like Tony Hawk and Shaun White like those dudes are just laid-back yes California guys who just want to like chill out there onto ours definitely wasn't yeah they were there a little you really don't call them the fly yeah yeah it's like a megyn kelly moment yeah but yeah you know we you know we obviously haven't had like we were at one point we were sort of like part of like the junket tour you know we would have people come in and we developed good relationships with with entertainment PR and they would be like oh you should totally have you know this guy this guy who's your favorite celebrity guest that we had the first one I remember was Jonathan Coulton yeah he kind of liked and he wrote a lot of like jingles for us that yeah yeah well one of some of it was stock stuff but Arielle Nunez who produced the show for many years was responsible for some of the happened the first time I came in and heard that music I totally insulted him did you you don't remember okay so I come on I'm like what's with this music like in my typical way like you're like oh you literally were like giving me the hammer I'm just like are you okay okay what's wrong no I love it I told well covered yeah uh do you like who can you think of any other slippery that really stood after you for me like having Marc Maron a couple times yeah I remember Michael Showalter Wayne Brady and honestly Wayne Brady came back to New York to Adam at CES and he was in New York yeah I remember him talking about how we could buy illicit drugs from the cabbies and CES right he's like he's like you guys need know and actually I got to go back to Eliza Dushku that that memory was burned in my head that's understandable she was a very pleasant yeah I know you interviewed Marc Maron yeah it's Weiss so and and when was that the last time we had him was maybe 14 2028 the first time he gave me a lot of like that's not like what am i what am I doing here yeah unusual Marc Marc Marc Maron being Marc Maron and then the second time he like you know obviously remember me and I was like oh we talked a lot about music which you super into before the show and and he he was definitely more well behaved and were you surprised that he has are are you surprised that he has become as big as he has become am I surprised I think he's surprised no I'm asking you know did you sense like wow this dude's on the precipice of yeah 14 he hadn't read the president no so no but but still he had definitely you know made his way I think you know and I used to listen to show all the time and definitely at the time when he when he was on and I would ask him like oh you know did you expect this sort of pop and he's very much aware that like he kind of struck at the right time when podcasting became this invaluable medium but it's he was the right guy oh well condition bright and fine for that gig totally one of my favorite hosts guess we ever had was Reggie Watts that was amazing yeah Reggie Watts did a whole like he brought like all these bizarre instruments or we know we had found a really bizarre like micro piano we started like you know freestyling on and that was that's a cool that was it yeah that's for sure and that was before the whole James Corden thank you what about interviewing your boss like when land zone came on you have like the boss of the whole you know business year net that that would be very freaky yeah yeah I mean you know I think like I don't know I gotta give it to us and like Wilson put that together do you remember like that was I said I'm healing I think he had just become CBS I president for like a like two months or something like that and we're just like yeah why don't you come on the show and then well I was like wait a minute we we really should have thought this one out before why just never being like oh you're gonna talk to him right cuz I don't know what the hell it's like learning on the air really like amber I was like you have to do cuz I'm not jeopardizing anything I married already I like the fact that we're able to dick around an hour and not have to do anything else you better not screw that up for us and now is Wilson sweat woman I know yeah I remember bringing in the the Perry air yeah yeah yeah this is the Jim lands on green room in fact you paid for it they had a title for the door that's you remember I came on the show right after I had been on the air with Katie Couric talk about that and Justin made like that funny like hard thing because I said I was in love with Katie Couric right you and you did answer I loved her go to this day yeah of course I mean we remember but you know it's funny like when you talk about like getting really nervous it and you know sometimes random people make me nervous so bizarre surprising yeah that's that's what I think is always interesting that someone walks in the studio or that like someone walks in the studio and there's instant rapport and then you're not like you're nervous in the moment and then like oh I feel great like I think it's so awesome that Danny DeVito's like yes I'm like your father but you did a great job you said yeah I appreciate that so yeah there's a lot of like stuff I want to do I want to read some emails from listeners obviously being a very important part of the show we'll get to that I'm serious about the posterity thing help us out if if anyone has any ideas these alternate you know yeah I want to hear because I know you always prepare for this yeah there is a sheet yes I sheet of scroll yeah this is office okay so when you have those get-togethers with your fans oh look appearances as the three of you yeah what was that like to actually meet them the people who are out there list it felt this is such a funny over hold you I thought this is so funny everyone's coming by and showing us that they bought a Super NES Jeremy Tommen is now login zero that's the best day ever got a gyro end as an advice does they come with games or it's all built in so back to your question Steve the meetups we had what three or four meetups you had three for meetups and they were actually surprisingly well produced so yes and well attended and I will say this there it was way more of a turnout than I ever in a million years would have imagined a because we never understood our audience early on in terms of size and and breach and when we've said oh let's invite people in New York which is you know yeah it's a huge city but like how many listeners could we have in New York and we would I remember there was one there was one event the the Delancey one where we had to turn people away oh yeah yeah I know at the the Cena problem story there was there was that that was the one on Mulberry yeah yeah and also we do there's a couple burgers it was always very you know to meet the people say oh yeah this thing is I mean that was the most surprising part so like doing podcast you expect your audience to be worldwide right and then you know we're like oh look it'll be nice we get a big a dozen or two people and then like a hundred people would show up yeah and some of them would tell us like yeah we drove up from like Florida or you know Philadelphia to come and say yeah like we're not good yeah I remember this one gal never forgot his name was Marcus he and his wife drove from Toronto oh my gosh and I was just like that is just unbelievable man and I felt like I needed to just spend the entire time with him because I was just like you earned it like I'm forever great truth be told he was a drug actually I think that was that would probably be like the most meaningful part because you know for the most part the show clearly hasn't changed that much really all that beard yeah we just walked in a room talked about anything for about an hour and a half yeah but the messages that we would get from people were always like I feel like you guys are my friends because this is exactly and that yeah that meant so much for sure to hear that little bit of any children named Jeff no but I remember we see what a Comic Con where we used to go to comic-con and we would we would have events I remember there was one time at that restaurant Lou and Mickey's remember the restaurant Oh what was his name oh he's gonna he's gonna hear this is gonna be so mad it was like a band or what oh he brought his daughter and his daughter was wearing a four-four t-shirt because we like made like a makeshift DIY t-shirt with the stickers that was like a really touching kind of thing just seeing like people you know you just meet people and you meet their families and I'm like oh show such a big part of my life I still have like a box of stickers and a couple of posters that fans made like that like we and we didn't push them it'd just be like one day would be sitting there and we don't get mail from somebody unknown just to the floor for really it's either anthrax or in some short yeah shake it should we look Justin see if it first made a plaque yes no I have one of those like dear aunt Jill on it and it's in my office we've got the 404 Rebel Alliance helmet in the back behind Wilson's head there right the wood plaques there's the two SNES box arts that that someone did first well a while ago just really awesome start a fan question yeah what's up so did you over there in the tie-dye really eat all that crap is it eating like peanut weird sandwiches and stuffing his face oh like that that's the card like everybody won't wonders like what is the know Justin used to eat that kind of shitty food everything all the time Garrity I'm like you have to stop going out for lunch you grounded him you totally grounded for life you're not going out for lunch Justin stop it boy bring your lunch bring your life oh and the fry daddy yeah that guy never gained a pound 7,000 calories a day not a inch of fat on the guy don't know anything about it what Justin know me yeah you know anything about not gaining weight don't you totally foreign all right I think we can shift into like some interaction stuff I wanted to read some stuff but let's first go to some voicemails let's play few voicemails from people who have taken the time we got a bunch I appreciate it so much that people took the time to send us a message I'm just gonna play I took I highlighted about four here Oh mark let's say ladies and gentlemen take the chance to say hello how are you mark yeah there's a wireless mic over there if you want to tell you in a second there before we play these voicemails you have that yeah I have that one oh that's awesome I feel terrible but I'm not yeah I want to say very gentleman named Joe and Connor but that could be wrong and I'm sorry that's been many years so thank you so mark yeah tell us why this was the best part of your time here at CNN short-lived in three I hate to put you on the spot but you you know in the early days you were on all I just always remember being super unprepared it's okay pretty I was doing I was filling in for Natalie on a show one time and like right in the middle of the show Justin pulls up a freeze-frame of me on camera and I guess like my nips were popped out two giant red air you made Ben Fox Ruben very at the end of one show and you were like so mark tell us the story the way I'm doing it right now yeah yeah and I don't remember what I talked about but I think it was like the weekend before I was in Fire Island and I talked to someone that was on a cruise with Chaz Bono and I guess like from what he said she's a big gamer and that was like my story came and when we needed you most just like you always never did yes thanks for being a part of this thing and thanks to Ben studio here thanks Ben for BLR help us out in the last few months of this show we really appreciate it yeah be hi hi yes I don't know pressure you have to say or just I'm also completely unprepared it's just been fun to listen to you guys this is like I was coming on later on you know like this thing has been going on for like ten years and this is pretty amazing to like I mean like I don't I don't think we've ever yeah Benna know like some of these stories are pretty incredible to me it's just like you know Jeff for us and I just get into the room and you know completely unprepared just like shoot the for a couple like for an hour yeah and I got to miss a weekly news meeting yeah you know just hearing some of this stuff that you guys actually like had fan events and like fan art and different stuff like that it's just like new to me and it's kind of cool to hear about so this is quite quite a education about the four oh four yeah this is totally the crash course definitely well thank you seriously Ben for helping us out the last few months it's been a pleasure having you it's been a pleasure of mine as well excellent thank you for that I gotta say that the one person I we remissed not to give a shout out to is Miss Caroline McCarthy absolutely because I'm positive it weren't for her we wouldn't be doing yeah she's in my notes here you come you blew it you blew it you but no but you're right uh it's definitely important to mention her separately before the van there she she basically told us you should do a podcast and literally I've ever owned the story correctly we were all sitting around Randall's desk and for 45 minutes we were just making fun of whatever Facebook was doing at the time in Caroline I think was diligently working on a story and she was an actual it was actually doing the job like I'm not she should be like I'm gonna go on to do better things let me do my work right now shut up but yeah you should start a podcast yeah yeah I know so she looks over at us cuz she's like yeah you guys have a good chemistry you should just start recording this yeah that's really what how it started didn't even know yeah you know but give her credit like she's definitely on the right direction we should recognize something okay let's do a few voicemail things because we have to do that because you know the listeners of the show are what you know gave us material for all those years and continue to do so for the vast majority of the show so let's just go through four then I've highlighted here we're gonna play right now thank you and the forest full team this is poll from Melbourne Australia just ringing to say hi and thanks for all the great shows I thought of listening about five years ago I was about finished up and straightaway knew that 404 was more my style of texture great over the years with you and all the other sorry arrests forget that Jim Denari oh I was in flavor to every episode I did appreciate you keeping your share going as long as you got all these videos are so many years and I want you to have the child it's hard how to keep it around on the same page but I I know I speak for all the listeners out there that we appreciate the shows there always been great really enjoyed well you get like Jo and Shannon see and I think you and Russ and then Fox Rubin most most recently have been a great combination and it's finally I say my baby we understood it's probably one of Explorer for me to judge John Hodgman now the great podcast close enough to my favorite podcasts coming together all the best to everyone to the future and good to you from the Royals again soon thanks all right now it's very touching I'm so much for that all right this next one's a little short and sweet here we go hey yo this is a California from you lie thanks for everything just wanted to leave you with this little throwback this was the show where we all sing like so we remember putting Jonathan Coulton handful of other like jingles like built into the board and I have to ask like at one point you just took my laugh and built it into the board yeah yeah so it was when you left you know there we got our single royalty check from notes a chicks in the mail I remember when you you know when we found out you definitely were you know leaving I remember someone made it for us remember Jay Jamie Lewis oh yeah yeah very big part of our program thank you to him an amazing voice amazing talent amazing audio engineer he you know for the for for nothing in return just you know the the opportunity to be a part of the whole thing would send us amazingly produced audio bites yeah and I believe he put together your laugh for us and was like well Wilson's gone but here's his laugh and there it is in the flesh once again so thanks to Jamie for sure yeah all right that's right about John Hodgman that he brought that up that was another great episode here's the next one hey guys it's your buddy new hampshire from lorenzo just calling to thank you guys for years and years of entertainment you were one of the few podcasts that I couldn't system we listened to was always entertained made me laugh I'm gonna miss all the gang of characters that would come on the show from Justin and Wilson I mean Natalie every minutes everybody brought something amazing to the show so thanks a lot guys for years of entertainment which is go on but hey everything good has to come to an end so wish you the best bye oh thank you very much I like that everyone is still honoring the strange weird like you know name your state before your name I you know we've talked about it before but like I still honestly don't remember the like how they like I don't you know we we knew how it evolved but we don't know why it happened and I think maybe it might have been someone like accidentally dang it you're swapping and be like no no that's fine we'll go with that but yeah they get any messages from sasnett Saskatoon no we didn't know what that was a town we didn't actually believe we actually yeah we were obsessed with the Canadian with Canada in general but Saskatoon always like boo you know befuddled us so shout out to Saskatoon ah here's the last voicemail we'll play hey for for guys and gals this is mama and the guy from Trinidad classic with the very last guy damn I'm gonna miss it I'm gonna miss all the four or four things from the guys Rondo Jeff Justin Wilson Arielle jams Bridget I am Russ to the four four things Tina Schwartz thanks audio draft the crazy guy from the tail that time hang that tune there's been a great run it was great to be a part of the community that you guys created it was great to see you grow develop and be the awesome podcast and the best podcast ever MC mmm thanks mmm enira there was a great hero and I wish you guys and everyone all the best and all your future endeavors but I miss you guys and of course if you have an imprint of that any one of you you can just let me know you'll be treated like royalty anyhow Oliver later and Marlon has talked about someone who's been there since the start I mean that guy's episode zero it's so great though yeah that's that's super touching him you know Marlon was definitely someone who who wrote in and called in very very often kept us level-headed and kept us bad he was sort of like always that guardian you know that that that guidance you know that that moral compass a little bit so a big shout-out tomorrow and thank you so much for all that I appreciate it all right what do you say we get the we got to do some emails right let's talk to the people I see that you've printed out I did do it we got a ton of interaction once we announced the show was ending so a big thank you and a big shout out to everyone who sent in a note who tweeted who called in a voicemail I couldn't we couldn't do 40 minutes of voice all those 404 Twitter followers - at Jalan money one-time transfers and I'll give you the wire number obviously it's been a humbling experience having everyone reach out because you know we do the show Russ right we've been sharing for a couple years it's very through the motions kind of thing and I think when we finally announced it it took me a little bit by surprise that there were so many people speaking up and saying hey you know it's kind of like this one-way street but like we love that you guys have been doing this thing yeah so it definitely reminds us of why we started the show why we continued to do the show I do have a question are you are you gonna cry I'm not gonna cry okay maybe I'll cry Marina thank you okay you know a little emotional here of course my father is texting right I'll see in this weekend okay here a few emails I first want to shout out a will from nodding him I won't read his email but he shared a very touching and emotional story with with us you had anything to do with being the sheriff of Nottingham's no that's the let's not let's not conclude this without a rather also thank you will for your touching story that meant a lot that was the closest I came to crying thanks to prime for sending in another old school of 404 listener for sending in an email and all those kinds words here's an email from Nick W I won't say his last name but Nick works at CBS really and he's a 4/4 listener and has been for for quite some time I want to send a thank you for all the time and effort you've spent making the four four happen the four four is one of a small number of weekly shows that I look forward to listening to I get bummed out if my phone hasn't automatically downloaded the show from my drive home on Fridays we're pretty similar in age he goes on to talk about his career and I an eight or nine years ago I was able to watch four oh four episodes and play hours of video games each night which I'm sure Nick you and I both missed very much now I'm lucky to listen to the weekly episodes within a week after they go out and I haven't gamed regularly since the Xbox one came out the show has helped me stay current on things I enjoy from time from a time when the responsibilities of life wasn't so heavy the show will be missed please send my thanks and appreciation Jill to the other guys who have been involved all along Justin Wilson and Russ PS go see the total eclipse in 2024 he's gonna figure out a way for all of us to see that in New York thank you so much Nick then so much for from hearing from you really appreciate that shout out to Nick next we've got Mike Marilyn from Mike here I hope you haven't lost I hope I haven't lost you all because of the subject in this email I wanted to write and say a couple of things I first stumbled across your show in the summer of 2010 the daily format of your shows back then helped me with my daily commute that's the best thing all the commuters who really reported this and being in golf with your stories might have made me miss a train stop or two once or 404 times I was a daily listener up until 2012 where life got in the way and I stopped listening everyone's got that kind of story where like they have kids you get married you do you know life happens the particulars owed if I remember vaguely was the one where one of the listeners called up to talk about using Google glass to watch porn on his Retina display it didn't make any sense but I thought it was funny although the lady sitting next to me didn't appreciate my sudden burst of laughter since then I went without my daily dose of the four four four four years thankfully my podcast client kept downloading the episodes in four years down the road I decided to drive around the u.s. that gave me a chance to binge listen to all the episodes and boy was that a doozy the changes of the cast through four years absorbed in a three-week period was bittersweet that scene through four years and three weeks man first off I want to say congratulations to you and your wife on the birth of your side that's so fine thank you very much he's two and a half almost I would like to pass that congratulations to Arielle as well on his marriage and I know him a couple years late but better late than never secondly I want to I would like to thank you I have tears rolling up in my eyes as I'm writing this because I feel as if this is one big family that is breaking apart that's not true we're just having a separation don't worry daddy balloons right mommy and daddy's dying look the dog very sick we have to put him down okay he's been limping for years it's upsetting everybody Minds me of the the I think one of the most common messages we would get from fans were oh my god you made me look like an idiot I've been sitting in this meeting or working at my cubicle or traveling to work and I'm the guy like laughing in the corner and everybody thinks is like what the hell is going on yeah those are always the best if just that it just just makes you feel happy yeah what's that no you keep looking at me like I'm gonna rupture but I this is such an emotional I know don't cry ever such a sweet letter the hours of entertainment that you guys brought us over the years is just staggering Mike now you're really I know but this is a show that we things are going wrong because this is it baby I'm pretty sure there's no other pockets out there where you can find tech news sleep advice hiking survival tips financial advice TV show tips and music recommendations all in one I truly hope you guys can sit back and appreciate what you have made for your listeners as much as we do I hope the farewell episode is great I think it's going okay much love to Jeff just an Arielle where is he by the way Russ Shannon and Jill Steve the sleep doctor we got to mention the sleep doctor dr. Michael Bruce and everyone else I've had a pleasure of listening to over the years PS the number of jobs our beloved audio philia has never ceased to amaze me how old is that guy you disclose that early I'm not gonna have him go through that again thank you so much I do like the fact that he said hiking survival tips when in fact that was the worst possible secret of a worst race that could ever be communicated I when when I first ran into him after that incident I'm like hey how are you he's like don't ask yeah so at first I thought it was gonna be something dopey I'm like oh my god you actually almost died I mean it was a Dobby oh series of bad choice yes yes I think so I think it's definitely worth mentioning that that is the most popular show ever in the history of 404 Justin's almost a shortened the word Justin just basically talked about for 45 minutes about he almost died a thousand times and like when I say the most popular it's like by like thirty thousand down it's like out of control because that every now and then that show will have like a new Renaissance where people discover it and it's it's just a show that I remember you get to bleep this stuff out afterwards [Laughter] Justin explaining what had happened to him he looked like he had come right in from the swamp and I'm like what happened branches in his hair yeah it was crazy he was like wearing twigs and I'm just like - you look terrible what happened he started telling likes you shut your mouth yeah he would go right in this pocket and you explained tears know what and he told the story so well it's unbelievable and then he came into work John were you were you his boss back then when that happened when Justin almost died that happened exactly like not on company not CBS Interactive and no liability I'm scarily like completely uninformed about all that honestly I had a few did listen to that episode [Laughter] I've ratcheted up all the the past eight hundred episodes and I knew a cross-country road trip so I can just there you go I have two questions for you guys oh I mean coming up for a name for this oh where did you are here earlier you run just cut me no mark and it was like working I was just the dude cast yeah yeah thank you for that painful reminder then when you said you gonna cut this out but there was like a whole like that was there break before like before like it was effective like had to be pg-rated yeah oh that's a good point we've got bought by CBS yeah but we I don't know whenever can tell so I was like stop saying that word it wasn't like that I think what happened was it was just something we kind of decided internally like hey it seems like more people are listening says maybe we don't say MRF or every the den of indecency I think indecency maybe that would be the dance studio because Justin in particular danced on that line every I remember the reach-around I will say like the is the first time I've seen Wilson since I think I mean yeah but the the Wilson laugh track very much missed for this show absolutely well maybe you can just repurpose that for something else somewhere yeah rerecord fortunately that thingy signed as he walked out the door we have the rights that everything every time you live you owe us money I mean watching some CBS sitcom in else it'll be like my voice yeah that's actually what young Sheldon is mister Moonves is listening we have we have some lawsuits to find but so I want to ask you real quick Jon what when when this first started happening I know you were a little weary and maybe not super stoked about it nobody I would just say this is general advice to the world and I think it's it's been borne out no one should do a daily podcast remember full-time job full stop yeah nobody should do daily podcast if they purportedly have a real job right not doing the daily podcast right agreed but that would be hired yes all wait a minute I have a question hang on a second no you guys you guys left and I I said that out loud though you just right there wait a second so when I was definitely wearing a shirt do we well thank you for agreeing to let me work I appreciate that I just had my ten-year yeah congratulations Thanks what'd you get for that you know we're gonna give you CBS all access for free with the commercial limited I I mean I have no idea who the other candidate was but I felt like we called you back for like a second interview which it took a really long time and for you know 25 year-old Jeff was didn't handle it too well I lost about 20 pounds there was a great day much like Justin surviving his near-death experience in it a happy ending worked out all that matters no but thank you for giving us that long leash early on really you know it was cool that you uh were cool with that well very smart on you to go straight to the VP in charge of the whole thing so John is is correct that was that Larkin or not was Larkin is Oakley so well look now that's definitely what happened but I almost but to be clear though I don't think it was I think it was a little piece of advice that you gave to where you were like you should probably talk to him deceive because I think you're like cuz I'm sure should not take you let's Molly do anything like the other amazing thing was I said it's insane to do a daily pikas there were two that it was it was sort of like the morning show and then on the East Coast the afternoon show right cause like you guys and it kind of bled into buzz out loud right and for a while they were like we should just have like a six-hour live blog or oh yeah yeah which that's now called cbsn but I remember we took over vo Elle's podcast feed and we got simultaneously like the best emails ever and the worst feature yeah there was nothing in the middle it was like what are you doing and it was like oh this is like what the funny thing about that is two months ago or something we did a one-off podcast for Minority Report yes and Jeff it was just Scott me and Jeff and Jeff was kind enough to let us just pop it in the 404 feet because I think it worked out then you even like not there that week right it was perfect um and and it was like I got like the five very supported tweets I was like this is great the the key the key is I think one reason that was well-received is like PS they got Jeff so all was well but what when you I think when you take over other people's feeds that it can definitely be something yes this oh yeah your any further I'm totally going for it yeah pop it right into jail on money okay can we do that why not I don't know most students here write better off smoke I know so we got to get through this thanks to everyone who's hanging out with us live if you want to hear some more emails I told people that I would I would read them on air the ones that I select this so I feel bad if I don't but thanks for those words John I appreciate that I mean seriously it's been a great run congratulations to you Jeff Wilson welcome back Justin we love you wherever you are glad you're so lovely in from the wilderness Russ thanks for standing by how long it's been that you've been on its come on only two years but probably like a year and a half I want to say yeah that sounds right yeah when against our desvarieux when was your first appearance on the show it's hosting or as a guest a guest yeah we were saying it was like what episode 60s do something really yeah quite might even be earlier but whiter I was the first year that we were doing it for sure well I'll put the mic down and probably to sneak out in a couple minutes but well done good thank you thank you appreciate it all right this next email is from Rob who's a flying donkey he wants to tell us if from the old chat room that we used there's a live chat room yep many years that always was like are these guys gonna start right just refresh yeah seriously I wanted to send my thanks to appreciation for everything you've done with the 404 podcast I listened I started listening sometime in o8 and there was just an instant connection I'm the same age as you guys so I think it left even more of an impression because I could relate to all of you I felt like we were growing up and progressing through our lives and careers together for some reason I vividly remember the show where you talked about buying your engagement ring with a lot of cash and the show where you did a recap of your wedding it was almost like hey my friend Jeff just proposed to his girlfriend and the friends I've got married over the weekend I can say honestly for the longest time when it was you Justin and Wilson sorry Ross you got you guys were the highlight of my workday time that means a lot Robert appreciate it I know that sounds sappy but it's the truth listening and watching you guys over was better than any book TV show movie or game Wow goes on to flatter us even more than we probably deserve so thank you so much Rob really appreciate it and thank you so much to everyone in our subreddit there's a couple thousand subscribers on in there so we appreciate everyone who's chimed in started a thread interacted that really means a lot this is from Joe I'd said to he dear Jeff and Russ it said to hear your ending the show but I'm glad that you have been a part of my life and daily weekly routine for the last six to seven years you guys along with Justin I as Arielle Wilson and all of your wonderful guests have been great to hear day-in day-out this show was the first show I ever called in to and subsequently I called into aunt Jill show once upon a time as well I even have the resister urge to say Florida from Joe when calling in on other podcasts thanks for bringing the news and commentary on daily life to your audience for as long as you have this show is the first show I think of when asked for podcast recommendations and I'm sorry I gotta stop doing that now see you guys around good luck and good luck to you Joe thank you so much for writing in all right this is the final part okay hold on I got to get ready to cry we have to say our thank you if there's anyone you have to thank well I do I do want to request I have a spot right here for you but you want to do an hour there no it's fine I ever I have a request before we get into final thank you okay Steve what is the weirdest that you brought on that piece of paper I feel like it's fitting we need to see at least one weird-ass thing that's on that piece of paper you mean today yeah every time you'd be on I just kept I want to also show the camera your ridiculous chicken scratch yeah that needs to be seen by other people I've seen it what do you got in there [Laughter] what is that no there's no books in said yeah okay yeah but it's just your Fisher cream-of-the-crop thought they're on there well you know the one where I was going to talk about how I could save the world oh okay all right you know I cuz it was a thing it was someone who was doing some kind of podcast on the Brooklyn promenade okay and they had a thing like a podium with a microphone and they made say you can just tell the world you know what's happening like speaker's corner and Linda sure okay so I got up and I said you know I think I have a way to save the world you know for future generations okay and it wasn't I told this story on the show then I was in this videos I showed you the video because rice on somebody's prairie and I said what has to happen is over the next let's say 100 to 200 years you you asked sure no I want to eat this is vet great way to go out the human race needs to get a lot smaller oh so then yeah hi oh you mean shorter shorter that you met I thought your about yeah I was like that's bad houses could be smaller cars could be small try everything okay a lot smaller appetites so if our human was not man wasn't six feet well if he was three feet tall right way like sixty pounds when I become all hobbits right a long way to go on this they stolen from me they saw me on that I'm not sure there's a better way to go out with one of the exaction shirts and everything thanks for it clearly thank you so much Jill and Steve you guys definitely look forward to every time I was on it was the highlight of my day or my week I appreciate that I mean that means I always exceeded my expectation oh I wanted to do it all the time I thought it was going to be the southern guests or the southern anchor I was Jeff like you know I will say you never bug me I put I once put an episode up on Facebook and somebody at CBS because I said this is the most fun ever that I have and it's really supposedly work and somebody who is an anchor at CBS not that one said to me what do you mean what about coming on our show and I'm like oh yeah you're good too can only be a couple people yeah Wow thanks Joe appreciate that all right here come the thank yous got to do this it's I know it's tough to do thank you for like it's like the warranty or the APR financing no these are heartfelt I'm not trying to like downplay their obviously we have to thank Randall Bennett and Wilson Tang the original hosts helping launch the show and putting the amazing amount of time and effort into this entire endeavor Caroline McCarthy like you said for being you know that first glue unfortunately he couldn't be here today but a big thank you and shout out to Justin you who stepped in very early if you remember episode 100 and being an incredibly unique and hilarious voice all those years and for getting lost in the woods Arielle Nunez who unfortunately couldn't be here today either for producing the show for so many years who assured the show into the age of video he was the guy that really helped us do that successfully he had a very balanced voice on the program and that we desperately need at the time when it was just me and will said me and Justin and for compiling a composing original music for the show and obviously he continues to be a great supporter and friend to the scenic video team Bridgette Sally Richard gems we didn't even get to say hi big shout out to Richard you have a gem for us now or now did you save one for the last no that's fine that's fine - Richard - Marc Lesya MTI if you remember from the early days of the show for all their support of course - is also close to the show Ben Fox Ruben who guessed it many times Scott Steiners here have been on the program a bunch of times joey Kaminsky's here todd Pendlebury is here thank you for joining us today ty and for the entire edit team who gave us such a long leisurely on and supported and believed in what we were doing CNET we have to thank as a whole for taking a chance on a thing called a podcast giving us the freedom to have our little experiment Steven page at CBS radio who was a big supporter of ours in the beginning helped us get on the first time I was on the radio was with Steven page that was a weird experience that was super we the first time somebody was like wait a minute you're that guy that does the voice in the news I mean he had us on huge markets in the country that was super important and that was a big process recording that every day and he really molded us into like being actual radio people we got I think Natalie Morris who was a big part of the program early on as well Marc Larkin who actually gave us the official greenlight gave us the first degree still your boss Jill what Jill how are you today who gave us in did he not Wilson he gave us invaluable advice from the get-go a big thanks to Lindsay turn Tyne as well for all the years of support to bonny Gannon honey Bonnie Gannon oversaw the show for years and years and years and years she was our really our biggest fan right she's my that's like a rabbi to the show like she kind of guy yeah my favorite thing about Bonnie would be like after a show you know we'd have a great time then I get back to my office and then we call from Bonnie and she's like that was great you can't say that yes that was so funny if you ever say that again I'll fire no she really was her biggest fan and like you said she used to call us up after the shows she loved us and she made us feel important yep right and that's really what was what was encouraging so thank you for all that guidance and support to Blake Stevenson who Capote provided tons of endless creative support including every logo the show has ever had he had designed so thanks to Blake to every single person who ever listened to the show told their friends about us who called in wrote an email participated in contests tweeted thank you very much who else is here Sarah too always able to take celebrity photographs with us thank you so much Sarah for being there for us to all the originals in the early days of the chat room you were the daily glue where they not Wilson they held it all together and they actually did provide somewhat of a moral compass I'm not sure you guys should maybe talk about that and thank you to Russ thanks for coming in here when the show was just about to go under thank you for helping rescue it and thanks for being such a dependable friend I really appreciate that thank you for taking the time to come in every week even though you don't work here no one's paying for me it's not serious thank you and thank you to everyone who lets you be here and the fact that you you know could make it work every week and I couldn't be happier that you're the one who closed it out with me I appreciate it in that I'm gonna get if you have anything to say you covered everything I couldn't possibly do a better job apart from thanking you thank you to hug oh hi for the audio I want to personally thank my family my mom my dad my brother John his wife Malorie for their endless support and feedback and words of encouragement making me feel like I was doing a good job to my wife Stacy for being my biggest fan I thank her first that's okay when you guy get your awards friend thank you to her being the show's biggest fan and the neverending love and support for the 10 years we've been doing this and I guess that's how you say thank you for Thank You Dylan of course thank you I'll say Thank You Dylan even though he's too young but later on he'll hear it and I'll be like oh you did a thing one time if you want to stay in touch with anyone here please do everyone's on Twitter make sure you do that russ has there's a lot of content follow Russ subscribe to Jill's show on iTunes wherever you get your podcasts it's called better off right right yes yes best guest ever Jeff mr. Steve sphere Guttenberg please follow Steve on Twitter and follow your audio field like blog you have a podcast as well you're doing now pixels and bits pixels and bits NASA standard vision make sure you subscribe that and you're also doing stuff on YouTube now we're gonna get you an actual channel that people research that'll be great thank you to Wilson follow Wilson on Twitter as well yeah right what is it and thank you once again to everyone that'll do it for us until we meet again there's so much for everyone to hanging out in the studio for this live send-off yeah oh so bad I didn't call out Brian builder personally do you record that I'm gonna put that in at the end