Casting couch
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Search complete. 26 mentions across 8 episodes found for "Casting couch".
Sep 7, 2026
Cam StewartHOST
Like, I'm going nuts here.
Cam StewartHOST
Uh, still live from the casting couch.
Cam StewartHOST
Great, great look.
Cam StewartHOST
N- nothing in the background.
17 MINS LATER
Cam StewartHOST
... just solo cups and paper plates.
Drew LivingstoneHOST
I don't mind it.
Cam StewartHOST
That's what we get, and the casting couch.
Cam StewartHOST
Come on over to Cam's.
Vic JaggerHOST
You know what? And this might be slightly to the left, but I just saw an interview with Faizon Love and he was talking about men in Hollywood and how, um, you know how they say that men have to do certain things, have to do certain things-
Gary HayesHOST
The casting couch
Vic JaggerHOST
... right, to get these big roles.
Vic JaggerHOST
And of course, he said he's never had to suck a dick or anything, right?
Gary HayesHOST
But they used to have back in a while, back ago.
Gary HayesHOST
But you know, it's a lot of these guys, honey.
Gary HayesHOST
I mean, you know, they do have to do the, um, the casting couch, hon.
Gary HayesHOST
They gotta toss some salad or, honey-
Jay DyerGUEST
Um, Now, maybe that was just a joke.
Jay DyerGUEST
I'm not trying to defame her because she passed away, but I'm just saying that's an example of these types of stories where A-listers are sometimes expected to participate in the casting couch.
Jay DyerGUEST
And we all know about casting couch, so it's surprising that we would find the Epstein stuff doubtful or crazy when we already know Casting Couch exists.
Jay DyerGUEST
In fact, if you read The Godfather, and I didn't realize this until the last time we reviewed it on my channel, we went through the whole novel and did a series of podcasts on it with my friend, quite frankly.
Jay DyerGUEST
There's a whole chapter where when they go to Hollywood and they meet the producer in the book, it actually is explicitly pointing out that the Hollywood producers are PDFs and they want underage kids.
Shaun AttwoodHOST
Would love to get him on the channel.
Shaun AttwoodHOST
But again, you talked about so many different important points there.
Shaun AttwoodHOST
And you've done deep dives on the Epstein apparatus, right? We've talked about the casting couch.
JEHOST
What'd you
WordsHOST
say? What'd you say to me? One last casting couch, I guess.
WordsHOST
Yeah, there's a lot of good stuff.
WordsHOST
What do you want to leave with? Probably who died.
Jennifer LuskHOST
And as one of the most influential figures in Tinseltown, he usually got it.
Jennifer LuskHOST
He was one of the men responsible for instituting the system of Hollywood's casting couch.
Jennifer LuskHOST
which demanded women trade sexual favors with powerful executives for a chance at a movie role.
Jennifer LuskHOST
Although the casting couch cliche predates the Columbia's head's career in Hollywood, Kahn helped entrench the system in the movie industry during four decades in film.
Jennifer LuskHOST
So then there was also Howard Hughes.
Jennifer LuskHOST
He pursued young girls and he did have, like he was with, Katherine Hepburn, like he had consensual relationships with well-known actresses, but they were very toxic.
Jennifer LuskHOST
And then there was Daryl F. Zanuck.
Jennifer LuskHOST
So an October 2017 article by the Daily Beast following the reporting of several sexual abuse cases committed by Harvey Weinstein reported that for an origin to all this ugliness, one must turn to Daryl F. Zanuck, the titan who rose from working as the head of production at Warner Brothers to running 20th Century Fox.
SamHOST
Let's audition your future wife."
GriffeyHOST
Casting couch it, yeah.
SamHOST
Yeah.
GriffeyHOST
Yeah.
SamHOST
Casting couch it.
SamHOST
So he brings in all these women and he goes through them all and he picks, and I forget the-
GriffeyHOST
Ayamé?
SamHOST
It turns out
JEHOST
So words.
JEHOST
Now, I mean, it's been an unbelievable week for the casting couch.
JEHOST
We haven't had a Who's Died this week in a while.
JEHOST
Unbelievable week.
Paul RobertsonHOST
[laughs] I have one still.
Frankie ScorpionGUEST
A casting couch.
Frankie ScorpionGUEST
[laughs]
Kevin McLaughlinHOST
So-
Frankie ScorpionGUEST
I mean, girl, don't worry about it.
Frankie ScorpionGUEST
I'm the one who's running the casting couch.
Frankie ScorpionGUEST
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Kevin McLaughlinHOST
And this is the Riffs and-