Pete McMurray Show

Show Open 05.23.26 

🍔🔥 Lisa’s hosting a BBQ this week… huge mistake because nobody ever leaves 
😅 Off last week… Lisa went to Paris 🇫🇷 Pete went to Vegas 🎰 which tells you EVERYTHING about this show 
😂 Plus: Electric Cars vs Gas ⚡️⛽️

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He’s one half of the Farrelly Brothers 🎬😂 Bobby Farrelly joined us 

Bobby talks:

-New movie with the kid from White Lotus 

-Working with legends like Jim Carrey, Cameron Diaz, and even Bret Fav-ruh 🏈 (There’s Something About Mary!)

-The stories are absolutely fantastic 😆🍿

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Gen Z Overthinking LIFE  🤯🥇 70% Admit They Spiral… Replaying Cringe Moments and Rewriting Comebacks They Never Said 

😅🌀 How Did the Other Generations Fare? 📱😂

-Millennials follow close behind, with 63% often overthinking things

-This drops to just 38% for Boomers.

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For Pete’s Sake - Three of the Most Important Stories of the Week

🧟 Thriller is back at #1… apparently zombies never left the charts
🦌 French cops warning about drunk deer on fermented fruit… Bambi’s had a DAY
🎤 An Ozzy and Sharon love story biopic is coming… bats everywhere are nervous

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Americans are Obsessed with Obsession 🤯🥦 Air Frying, Zero Sugar Drinks, and “Proteinmaxxing” 💪🍗… We’ve Officially Turned Everything Into an Obsessive Full Time Job 😂

Food
Working out
Proteinmaxxing (enough)

 

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From The Sopranos Mob Life 🔫🍝 to Dining Out with his Dog Willie 🍽️🐶 Steve Schirripa 
Talks New Book 'WillieBoy Eats the World'

-Sopranos and what it meant

-New book based off of taking his dog Willie to restaurants
-Working on Blue Bloods and the Cast

Follow Steve (and Willie) on Instagram  


 

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Congressman Darin LaHood

-Diplomatic talks with Iran to end the War
-Inspectors have access to every corner of Iran is the most important 
-Are our allies pushing away from us
-"Affordability is still a big issue. As we head into the summer, people are feeling that pinch"
-"Energy prices affect everything: From food, groceries, to going out to dinner, to buying a 12 pack of beer.  All of it is affected by it...we have to bring down affordibility"
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The Nancy Guthrie Mystery 🔍😳 An 84 Year Old Woman Vanishes From Her Arizona Home… and the Questions Still Haven’t Been Answered 🌵

🚨 Host Brian Entin Breaks it All Down 🎙️
-ALL the information came at us at once
-We thought it was solved
-Were the Ransom Notes Real
-Have all the family members been cleared


 

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😂🎤 John Michael Higgins back hosting America Says 📺 on Game Show Network 

-The iconic scene in 'The Break-Up' "This is a feature film, it was an expensive one, it had celebrities and big big stars in it ... there was a lt of people around the table - Ann Margret was at that table! Jennifer Aniston!"

-Six seasons of America Says - he does 5-6 shows a day
-His friendship and working with Katherine O'Hara 
-How he and Katherine didn't speak, they sang to each other


 

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🎓💸 HOW MUCH do you give 2026 grads? 😅📈 Inflation, tough job market… what are we coughing up 💵😬

Grade school
High School
College

What do you give grads this year?  Here's what experts are saying ...
 

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🍿 She made late night TV legendary… now Rhonda Shear brings 'Up All Night' back in a big way 😂📺

-Working with Gilbert
-What was it like being everyone's late night friend
-The movies played back in the day
-Now on Roku

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FX's The Shield star Michael Chiklis joined us to talk:

-Rob Morrow and the backyard band
-Loves the 70's music 
-The arts and the Creative Coalition
-What the National Endowment for the Arts does with these grants and why this is so important to all of us
-Michael Chiklis' character The Shield's Lt. Vic Mackey changed cable television "it was kind of an incredible moment in television history...the rise of the anti-hero...I don't know if you could do the Shield now"

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😂🎤 Show Open 05.09.26

Favorite TV moms (yes, Mrs Brady is in there) 👩‍👧‍👦📺
New food trend alert… soup for breakfast?! 🍲😳 (someone check on us)
A survey says the word of 2026 is “stressful” 😬💥 We are thriving… obviously 😂

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Eve Plumb aka Jan Brady joined us:

-She and her husband Ken have ZOOM cocktails with Chris Knight (Peter Brady) and his wife Cara
-The HGTV Brady Reunion was the biggest ratings HGTV has ever seen
-Her Plumb line
-Her guest appearances on 1960-1970's shows 

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🎤😂 For Pete’s Sake - Three of the Most Important Stories of the Week

The Iran war is making condoms more expensive 😳💸
Dave Grohl keeps his voice alive with beer whiskey and Advil 🍺🥃
Can you be friends with someone you love? Experts say… probably not 😬💔
 

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🚨 Bret Baier was in the room during the assassination attempt on the President… now makes the case we’re still a great country 🇺🇸 in his new book, 'Case for America' 📚 

Bret talks:
-The chaos that night during the WHCD
-Gun violence and the effect on him
-His book 'Case for America' is basically a defense of the American idea
-What are the next steps to united a divided country 
-Is the President showing us by example unifying the country
-What is the Iran endgame 

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Jeff Ross' new Netflix special "Take a Banana for a Ride"

-Who was his band growing up?
-Meeting KISS 
-His favorite comics 
-The Roastmaster General Jeff Ross "I was doing crack & hookers 'til 10 min ago,  what do you think I got a good night's sleep to come on your show for five minutes - NO!"


 

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38% of Americans went “no contact” last year… 👀📵 are we protecting our peace or just ghosting people we owe money to? 😳💬 🎧

Nowadays - young people are more likely than older groups to have gone “no contact” with a loved one in the last year 
(Gen Z 60%, millennials 50%, Gen X 38%, baby boomers 20%)

-Top reason for going “no contact” with someone was because that person was not respectful to them (36%)

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David Koechner played Champ in Anchorman

David Talks:
-Laughing during filming, "We would shoot every scene 3 times as scripted, and then we would improvise...you don't know what one of these brilliant guys are going to say, so you have to hold it together"
-Life Lessons with David Koechner ... and Tire Talk 
-Charna Halpern is the Queen of Comedy
-Adam McKay is the smartest guy he knows 

David is on tour
Go to david-koechner.com for tickets

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😂 Show Open 05.02.26 🎤 

Lisa’s 1888 house still has a little character 🏚️✨ 
JD Vance’s security team deserves a raise 💼💰 
Pete’s Derby pick #5 Right to Party at 30-1 🐎🎉 riding on vibes 😄
 

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NBC's Garret Haake was in the ballroom during shots fired at the White House Correspondents Dinner

-"My first reaction is to try and report this out. I was half squatting under our table shooting video with my iphone"
-The confusion and mayhem that followed
-What jokes did the President have planned
-He sprinted, in a TUX, through the streets of DC to get to the White House Press Conference an hour later
-Former Senator Ben Sasse had a statement on 60 minutes

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💔➡️❤️ Dating after divorce in your 40s & 50s… welcome back 

😅 Effort should match interest 
👀 clarity beats mystery 
🧠 And, if they’re weird early… it’s not getting better  🎧  (time to say 'BUH-Byeeeeeee)


 

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🎤 For Pete’s Sake 😂 - Three of the Most Important Stories of the Week

🎸 Oasis & Metallica named best tours 🔥 fewer fights, more riffs
🧱 California guy swaps $34K of LEGO for dry pasta 🍝 calls it al dente fraud 😳
💸 People are paying thousands to go on reading retreats… 📚 to read… a book 😴

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😴 Morning naps might be a wake up call 😳 Researchers tracked 1,300+ adults 56+ for 19 years and found early day nappers had a 30% higher risk vs afternoon snoozers 📊⏰ So… nap later and live longer? 😅 

 Who’s napping (and how often)

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😵‍💫📊 Your Stress Has a Language… Here Are the 5 Types and What Yours Says About You 😬

The Imploder: This is a “freeze” response to a stressful situation. The imploder may feel hopeless, helpless and paralyzed, Donnelly explained.  I have a buddy that does just that.  He freezes in the moment.  So odd to me, but I get him.  

The Exploder: This is a “fight or flight” response to a stressful situation. This person may have an inflated reaction to a stressful situation; they might get irritable, frustrated or angry, or even leave a situation that they can’t handle, Donnelly said.<...

🎙️ For Pete’s Sake - Three of the Most Important Stories of the Week!

✈️ Tom Cruise is back for Top Gun 3… at this point he’s just refusing to age 😅
🚔  Baby Jessica from the 22-foot well has been arrested 😳
🔮 1 in 5 Americans think they’re psychic… so apparently someone should’ve seen this coming 🤣

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🎸NYT bestselling author Bob Spitz pulls back the curtain in his new book 'The Rolling Stones…The Biography' - wild stories, and the stuff you definitely weren’t supposed to hear 🤫🔥 And yes… he told us a few 👀

-The relationship between Mick and Keith
-They sat around one night talking about the women they were with

-The making of Exile on Main Street - the drugs, the all night partying
-LIVE AID they did not play together - they were there, but not together

 

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😂📱 Chris Leighton posted his kids’ texts on Instagram… now he’s a bestselling author 📚🔥 and somehow his kids STILL think he’s not cool 😎🚫 Parenting is undefeated 🤣

His new book is entitled
"Dad, can you not?"

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🌍😂 70% of Americans say they want more adventure… and the #1 way they’re doing it? Seeing more of the world!

✈️😄 Turns out “zest for life” might just mean booking the trip instead of talking about it 🧳🔥

There are more people visiting France each year than the entire population of the country 🇫🇷

In Iceland, it’s illegal to name your baby something not on an approved list 😳

Tokyo has more Michelin-star restaurants than any other city in the world 🍣

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😄🎥 Comedy queen Judy Greer - from 13 Going on 30 to Arrested Development - has been stealing scenes for years… now she’s trying to survive our show 🎬💫

-She was ready to quit college 
-Ted Danson
-Her new movie 'Mabel' is named after the PLANT in the film
-Lisa is her dopplegangers 

MABEL Movie Trailer 

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🎙️😂 Show Open 04.25.26

📊 The President’s approval rating is in the toilet… and someone just hit the flush 🚽
🤔 The government wants gyms in airports 🏋️‍♂️✈️ (because delays weren’t stressful enough) 🤣
🎸The oldest classic rock bands still touring… and yes, you’re still buying tickets 🎸🥁🎹

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😂🎤 First time on The Late Show & Comedian Joe Dombrowski says, “I think I poo’d my pants” 😳💩 National TV nerves are REAL. His New Special 'Dad on Arrival' 🤣🔥

-He got a tap on the shoulder and "good luck" from a legendary tv personality as he was walking out to go on stage 
-He is a new dad
-His parent moving to Seattle

Joe is so so funny

Watch 'Dad on Arrival' Here 

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🎬😎 “Sloan!” Emmanuelle Chriqui Joins Us… Entourage Stories, Hollywood Life & A Love Like This 💕   
(Plus, Pete Admits He Follows Her on Instagram 😄📱)

-Her Instagram acct
-The new movie "A Love Like This" 
-Entourage 

A Love Like This Trailer 

 

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The 2026 Price of being a PET Parent: $4,272

 Pictured: Lisa's two pooches 

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😂🎙️ The always entertaining Steven Weber from Chicago Med joi
ned us to talk: Chicago accents 🗣️🍕, Cher (because of course) 🎤💃, and his run on Celebrity Jeopardy where things may or may not have gone off the rails 🧠❓🤣

-Playing an arrogant ER doc on Chicago Med
-Does he like doing the crossovers with Med, PD, and Fire
-Which Chicago show has the best Cha-cog-go accent
-He had lunch with the Facebook guy with the glasses
-Celebrity Jeopardy 

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🎬😂 Forget White Lotus… Steve Zahn’s Funniest Role Might Still Be Saving Silverman 😳 But His New Movie with his daughter, Audrey Zahn,  She Dances Could Top It 💃🔥 

-The new movie is a story of their lives when Audrey danced

-Crying on demand
-That slacker Ethan Hawke in the movie
-
 

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🎙️ Show Open 04.18.26 

😂 What if we sent comedian John Mulaney to Iran 🇮🇷 to negotiate peace talks 
🤝 Rock n Roll Hall of Fame 2026 class announced & Lisa is officially tired of all of it 🎸
😤 If you’re a woman needing a friend… just go to the bathroom at your favorite restaurant 🚻💄

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🎙️😂 David Archuleta reflects on his American Idol run and says, “It was everyone’s way of connecting at that time… I was kind of like the channel for people to connect” 🎤📺💫 From runner up to his new book Devout: Losing My Faith to Find Myself 📖

-His run on Idol
-The pressure from his father and his Mormon religion
-Dealing with his sexuality 

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For Pete’s Sake 🎙️ Three of the Most Important Stories of the Week!

Mick Fleetwood says “I do” AGAIN for a 5th time at 78 💍 
Americans hit peak AI burnout 🤖😵 
Jean Smart goes straight from set to triple bypass like a boss ❤️‍🩹🎬

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Ryan Nobles Breaks Down Why the Iran War Won't Be Wrapping Up Quickly Like Everyone Hopes 🎙️

-No clear timeline
-Why this war won't be wrapped up quickly 

-Will other countries in the region get involved
-The market, gas prices, the economy
-AG Pam Bondi getting the axe
-Did we actually fix the TSA problem

 

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