Orson Bean

So Dyer comes out with everything, a movie called, uh, 40 deuce American drama film directed by Paul Morrissey.

Um, who was part of the Andy Warhol scene, starred Orson Bean.

Orson Bean was like super, was old.

You remember him? He's in Being John Malkovich.

The weird thing about Orson Bean, he lived, he was born in 1928, died in 2020.

His third wife he married in 1993 was Allie Mills, who was the mom on The Wonder Years.

He was born in 28.

quo folks.

Orson Bean played his Archie Bunker father.

Yeah.

Really funny.

And one of the greatest people I've ever met in my life.

I've heard.

Orson Bean, if you ever met him or know him or...

God, truly a beautiful man.

It...

This is like when Orson Bean wrote a book about his orgone accumulator.

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Orson Bean.

You know who he is, right?

No, I don't.

Okay.

So Orson Bean.

Well, yeah, we have so much to talk about.

I don't even know where to start, but I do wanna start at the end, not the beginning, at the end, but you and I met through various circumstances and I got to know, obviously, your amazing husband, Orson Bean.

And so let's work backwards.

First of all, Orson Bean, just to set the stage for those of you who are under the age of 60 or whatever, Orson was like everybody's favorite late night talk show guest.

And he hosted The Tonight Show 300 times, too.

And he hosted, too.

amazing.

He was in such good health.

Yeah.

Orson Bean.

Orson Bean.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Orson Bean was funny.

Peggy Cass.

He was funny, yeah.